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December 06, 2011
Webinar: International Travel & Tourism Markets Learn More about Russia
The U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Travel and Tourism Industries (OTTI) and the Commercial Service Travel & Tourism Team will host a webinar on international travel and tourism markets to present one of America's the fastest growing tourism markets, Russia.
Scheduled for 11:30 a.m. Eastern Time (8:30 a.m. Pacific) on Thursday, December 15, this webinar will present data and analysis on Russian inbound tourism to the United States as well as opportunities and strategies to attract Russian travelers.
Travel to the U.S. by Russians is growing at a phenomenal rate. This market intelligence webinar offers an overview of the economy, a profile of the Russian traveler, insight on travel distribution in Russia, as well as specific opportunities for you to promote your travel and tourism products.
Join the Office of Travel and Tourism Industries Senior Analyst Richard Champley, Foreign Commercial Service Officer in Moscow and travel industry veteran Ken Walsh, Commercial Specialist Gulnara Kenzhebulatova and Visit USA chair and General Director of a leading Russian tour operator, America Travel, Margarita Babayan for this important event.
Travel to the U.S. has grown by 38% year-to-date in 2011 and is the 3rd fastest growing U.S. inbound market. Russia is forecast to be the 13th largest market for inbound tourists by 2015. Don't miss this opportunity to understand how you can establish your travel product in this growing and lucrative market.
Click on "Register for this event" at the top of this page for more details on speakers, format, and registration.
Webinar call-in & log-in information will be sent after registration and payment is received.
For questions, please contact Anastasia Xenias, PhD, at 212-809-2685 (firstname.lastname@example.com) or Richard Champley at 202-482-4753 (firstname.lastname@example.com) in the United States, or Ken Walsh in Moscow (firstname.lastname@example.com).
OTTI Background
For more detailed information on the Russian market, please go to: http://tinet.ita.doc.gov/outreachpages/download_data_table/2010_Russia_Market_Profile.pdf
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How will comments made by President Obama in Wednesday's State of the Union impact your portfolio on Thursday, particularly your bank stocks?
Fast Money Executive Producer John Melloy has been all over the President's message and what it means for the financials.
In his blog, Melloy says, what's really got investors worried is that Obama's bank tax plan announced in haste last week is not just talk, but something that will actually pass into law – and as a result restrict growth in the sector.
Although new regulations would need to be passed by Congress, according to Newsweek, they may not encounter too much resistance. That's largely because the GOP can't argue it would hurt small banks. The new tax only would apply to financial institutions with assets over $50 billion.
The move could score points with Main Street but not with Wall Street.

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Chris Stirewalt – Sign of things to come? Kasich helps Trump block Cruz
FOX News First: April 11
By Chris Stirewalt
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· Sign of things to come? Kasich helps Trump block Cruz
· Power Play: Trump's wonk
· Huge home state lead for Hillary
· Obama helps Hillary by taking blame on Libya aftermath
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Ted Cruz is all in on the effort to block Donald Trump from winning the Republican nomination. John Kasich isn't.
Over the weekend, Kasich's campaign teamed up with Trump's operation in Michigan to help Trump delegates gobble up convention committee posts that would otherwise have gone to Cruz. While the effects of the Michigan deal may be marginal, it was the best evidence yet that Team Kasich is more comfortable with a Trump nomination than a Cruz one.
The Kasich campaign defended aiding Trump on the grounds that Cruz deserved it as a punishment for trying to scoop up too many delegates. But whether it was bad blood, pique or part of a larger strategy, Kasich's part in any anti-Trump strategy is increasingly in doubt.
From Kasich's point of view, it's understandable. We all know that the Ohio governor doesn't have a path to win outright, or even on the first or second ballots in a contested Republican National Convention in July. But at the moment, Kasich doesn't seem to have much of a path to win many more delegates in the remaining 16 states.
The sweet spot on the calendar for Kasich, a moderate establishmentarian who touts his record of bipartisanship, is the last two weeks of April, when a bevy of liberal Northeastern states hold their primaries.
The plan laid out by Mitt Romney and backed by the #NeverTrump movement is for voters to back the candidate with the best chance to deny Trump on a state-by-state basis, at this point either Cruz or Kasich.
Cruz is keeping up his side with not only primary wins in redder states to the west, but also working the process to Hoover up more delegates as the nitty-gritty of the selection process plays out.
But Kasich's presumed advantage in blue states isn't materializing, according to polls. Fox News polls out Sunday show Kasich getting smoked like a herring in New York and stuffed in the same pierogi as Cruz in Pennsylvania. Nor is there much good news for Kasich in the latest poll from Maryland.
We don't have any clues yet about other purportedly happy hunting grounds for Kasich: Delaware, Connecticut and Rhode Island. And allocation rules in the six late-April states could certainly help Kasich snag some delegates.
Plus, Cruz isn't showing any signs of clearing a path for Kasich in these states (in the same way that Kasich vainly tried to play spoiler in Wisconsin). Cruz seems determined instead to march headfirst into the late-April buzz saw and grab what scant delegates he can in hopes that he can endure until the map improves for him in May and June.
Whether he can improve his lot or not, Kasich, who still trails former candidate Marco Rubio in the delegate hunt, is looking to garner enough delegates to spoil the chances of both Trump and Cruz and force the convention into protracted balloting.
Let's assume Kasich, who has won about 6 percent of the delegates awarded so far, had a great finish and won a quarter of those remaining, he would finish with a little better than 300 delegates bound to him in Cleveland. That's not a building block for a majority, that's an asset to be deployed to make a deal.
While Kasich's campaign believes that the bound delegates for Cruz and Trump will flood to Kasich's side on electability grounds when they are released, bear in mind that Kasich's delegates would be released by that point too. They would all be free agents.
And the electability argument on the third ballot and beyond from Rubio or Carly Fiorina or Mike Pence or Scott Walker or any Republican with a puncher's chance in the fall could be just as valid as the one from Kasich, who, like everyone else, would have no delegates to command anymore. And many of the others will be able to augment an electability argument with the promise of conservatism more stalwart than Kasich's.
In a way, Cruz represents a greater danger than Trump to Kasich's plan. Cruz could get close enough and then rely on some combination of Rubio's support and/or unbound delegates to win on an early ballot. Those are all delegates that Kasich very much needs. Kasich and Cruz are playing the same game, but Cruz is playing it better.
There is one other role available to Kasich: the man who delivers the nomination to Trump. If Trump accepts Kasich as running mate with actual influence over the campaign and Kasich unbinds his delegates, it might be enough to put Trump over the top on the first ballot. Remember also that Kasich and Trump have advisers, Paul Manafort and Charlie Black, who were former business partners and longtime friends.
At least some Kasich backers still believe that despite all evidence to the contrary Trump is a better general election bet than Cruz. Certainly Cruz's hard-nosed conservatism has been an enemy of much longer standing for the GOP establishment than Trump's brand of populism.
That means a strategy that would 1) hurt Cruz the most, 2) leave a long-shot bid open to Kasich and 3) might end up with Trump as the GOP's standard bearer would sound more appealing to Kasich and his backers than anything else currently on offer.
Trump touts charitable giving, but there's a catch – WaPo: "Since the first day of his presidential campaign, Donald Trump has said that he gave more than $102 million to charity in the past five years. To back up that claim, Trump's campaign compiled a list of his contributions — 4,844 of them, filling 93 pages. But, in that massive list, one thing was missing. Not a single one of those donations was actually a personal gift of Trump's own money. Instead, according to a Washington Post analysis, many of the gifts that Trump cited to prove his generosity were free rounds of golf, given away by his courses for charity auctions and raffles."
Power Play: Trump's wonk – Stephen Miller, senior policy advisor to the Trump campaign joins Chris Stirewalt to talk about the GOP frontrunner's broad policy proposals, like building a wall on the border with Mexico, and how they would be implemented. WATCH HERE.
[GOP delegate count: Trump 743; Cruz 545; Kasich 143 (1,237 needed to win)]
How big is University of Kentucky Wildcat basketball in the commonwealth? The leaders of the storied hoops program believe it is so big that it owns the rights to merchandize bearing the name Kentucky, even for moonshine… NYT has the story: "Moonshine packs a punch in this corner of Appalachia, where making hooch is steeped in local lore. But when Colin Fultz, the grandson of a bootlegger, opened a gourmet distillery here last fall, he ran afoul of a spirit even more potent than white lightning: University of Kentucky basketball…Mr. Fultz also tried to trademark his business name: Kentucky Mist Moonshine. And that, sports lovers, is how a moonshine maker wound up suing the University of Kentucky — the basketball behemoth exalted by its 'Big Blue Nation' of fans — in federal court over a fundamental question: Who owns the rights to the name of the state?"
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Real Clear Politics Averages
National GOP nomination: Trump 39 percent; Cruz 32.3 percent; Kasich 20.5 percent
National Dem nomination: Clinton 46.8 percent; Sanders 45.8 percent
General Election: Clinton vs. Trump: Clinton +10.6 points
Generic Congressional Vote: Republicans +0.5
New York may be Sen. Bernie Sanders' native state, but voters seem more inclined to their former senator and Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton over Brooklyn's own Sanders.
The latest Fox News poll in the Empire State shows Clinton ahead by 16 points overall and, more significantly, leads Sanders by 19 points in the New York City region where Sanders has hopes of catching Clinton.
Sanders has staged some stunning comebacks in places like Michigan and Wisconsin, but with a little over a week until New Yorkers head to the polls, that's a lot of ground for him to cover. Plus, while Clinton made an early shift to building a New York firewall, Sanders only opened a campaign office in New York a few weeks ago.
But it's not so much the ground game that will be Clinton's advantage as it is the electorate. Unlike Michigan where Sanders won a huge upset despite projections that he would lose, New York's large minority demographic and Clinton loyalty Upstate are working against the idea that he can pull out another surprise victory.
As for those who hold that states like New York could flip in the general election if Donald Trump were the nominee this poll shows that seems highly unlikely. Both Clinton and Sanders dominate the Republican frontrunner in the general election matchups for the Empire State with Trump trailing by 16 and 19 points, respectively.
Obama helps Hillary by taking blame on Libya aftermath – Bloomberg: "A failure to adequately plan for the aid and governing of Libya after the U.S.-led NATO attacks in 2011 'probably' was his biggest error in office, President Barack Obama said in an interview on 'Fox News Sunday.' Asked by host Chris Wallace about the 'worst mistake' of his soon-to-end White House years, Obama listed the aftermath of the ouster and death of Moammar Qaddafi, even as he defended the intervention. 'Probably failing to plan for the day after,' Obama said in the session, which was taped at the University of Chicago on April 7. He added that intervening in Libya 'was the right thing to do.'"
[Did you miss Mr. Sunday's big exclusive? Well, never fear. You can watch it here.]
California's delegate rules favor Hillary – LAT: "It'll be extremely hard for Sanders to play delegate catch-up in California. Nationally, he trails by around 250 pledged delegates. Plus more than 400 ostensibly unpledged super-delegates tilt toward Clinton. She could clinch the nomination here…Each district's delegate number is based on its past support of Democratic presidential candidates…Clinton and Sanders will divide up the delegates based on their vote totals in each district and statewide. Most delegates, 317, will be awarded by district, and 105 will be allotted statewide. Another 53 will go to party leaders. And there'll be 71 unpledged so-called super-delegates, a group leaning strongly toward Clinton. In fact, much of the system leans Clinton's way."
Bernie lands another superdelegate – AP: "U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan says he plans to support presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at the Democratic National Convention in July. In a statement, Nolan said he has considered a number of factors, including 'the will' of Minnesota caucus attendees and particularly those in the state's 8th congressional district…The congressman is a so-called superdelegate for the Democratic Party."
[Dem delegate count: Clinton 1756; Sanders 1068 (2,383 needed to win)]
CalCoastNews: "What happens when someone receives the wrong package from Amazon, one with several odd items including men's undergarments sprinkled with a cosmetic powder? Roads are closed and the San Luis Obispo County Hazardous Materials team is called in. On Sunday afternoon, a resident on the 300 block of North 11th Street in Grover Beach opened a package that arrived in the mail and called 911. While the recipient was expecting plumbing parts, the package contained men's briefs, hot sauce, ladies stockings and a loose dusting of a white powder. Grover Beach officers arrived, closed North 11th Street from Brighton Avenue to Newport Avenue and called the Five Cities Fire Department, SLO County Hazardous Materials Response Team, SLO County Environmental Health Services and the FBI to the scene. The FBI quickly determined the cosmetic powder posed no threat to public health, according to a press release. Nevertheless, the investigation is ongoing."
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Tuesday, December 29, 2015
I had plenty of amore for Martin.
Miss King speaks of her personal sadness when she "learned Christmas Day 20 years ago that Dean Martin had died of acute respiratory failure at age 78," and likes tons of Dino-holics everywhere speaks fondly of watchin' our most beloved Dino on the small screen, goin' to his big screen flicks and "totally enjoyed his songs."
Susan raises the issue of what liquid refreshment our Dino was imbibin' while performin' and notes that it was often apple juice, referrin' to it bein' 'bout his image. We are thrilled to also point out that Susan points us, through an enclosed link, to our King of Cool's obit shared by the L.A. Times...very very helpful for those of us who want to continue to grow in deeper and deeper knowledge of our one and only Dino.
ilovedinomartin thanks Miss Susan King for reachin' out with this Dino-remembrance on this 20th anniversary of our Dino's departure from our presence. To checks this out in it's original format, simply, per usual, clicks on the tag of this here Dino-message. Dino-growin', DMP
Classic Hollywood: What was Dean Martin really drinking?
By Susan King Contact Reporter
Remembering Dino
Rat Pack fans like myself were saddened when they learned Christmas Day 20 years ago that Dean Martin had died of acute respiratory failure at age 78. Though Frank Sinatra was my favorite Rat Packer, I had plenty of amore for Martin. As a kid I watched his NBC musical-variety series -- remember Ken Lane, the Golddiggers and the Dingaling Sisters? -- went to his films and totally enjoyed his songs.
A few years ago, I chatted with his daughter Deanna Martin, who is also a singer, about her dad. She noted that the whole "Dino" personality was a gimmick.
"When he started to redo his nightclub act, he started at the Sands Hotel and had some writers helping him," she said. "It was like Jack Benny who had the violin thing and made fun about being cheap. Dad was so handsome, so debonair. They just thought, 'We'll put a drink in his hand and a cigarette.' Every man wanted to be him, and every woman wanted to be with him."
The truth of the matter, she said, was her father was swigging apple juice and not liquor when he performed. "He would be home for dinner every night," Martin said. "He would come home, and he and mom would have their one cocktail at the bar. He was kind. He was so different from what everybody thought he was. There was no one who could do Dean Martin better than Dean Martin."
Here is the L.A. Times obit of Martin, which appeared in the paper on Dec. 26, 1995.
6 comments:
- Danny G. said...
"There was no one who could do Dean Martin better than Dean martin." Ain't it the truth!
- Tuesday, December 29, 2015
- dino martin peters said...
Hey pallie, likes Danny-o....the ubber ultimate unendin' truth for Dino-sure! Keeps lovin', keeps sharin' our most beloved Dino!
- Tuesday, December 29, 2015
- Always On Watch said...
Gotta love the Digital Age!
Being able to read that LA Times obituary via a medium other than a yellowed newspaper clipping -- Yes, I do have that clipping, courtesy of my father-in-law, our Dino's respiratory therapist and an inveterate collector of newspaper clippings from the LA Times -- is an appropriate way to mark the 20th anniversary of our Dino's passing.
- Tuesday, December 29, 2015
- dino martin peters said...
Hey pallie, likes Miss AOW...we gotta love your deepest of deep devotion to our Dino! Thanks for sharin' this great story with all us Dino-holics here at ilovedinomartin! Keeps lovin' our most beloved Dino!
- Tuesday, December 29, 2015
- blueiscoool said...
A wonderful insight into the real Dean Martin. Most times the real imagine of a person is different from what you think it is. Thank you my friend for bringing this wonderful blog our way.
Have a nice week.
- Wednesday, December 30, 2015
- dino martin peters said...
Hey pallie, likes Scotty-o, truth be told....our Dino's lifestyle became mucho more congruent with his public persona after he cut his ties with wife numero duo, Miss Jeanne. Keeps lovin', keeps sharin' our most beloved Dino!
- Wednesday, December 30, 2015


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Gazing out of her kitchen window across the rolling hills of the Irish countryside, a young woman with long dark hair and steely blue eyes wraps her arms around her six-year-old boy and takes a deep breath.
"We can't run away any more. I'm too exhausted for that now," she says. "My son needs stability and this is where I'll stand and fight to save my family."
The 33-year-old, who for legal reasons can only be referred to as Mrs W, has spent the past 18 months running. In June 2007 she fled the country with her son after social workers had taken him into care and placed him with several foster families.
Social services maintained that the boy, who has to be known as Boy L to protect his identity, had been in danger of "emotional harm" after witnessing his father's alcoholic rages against his mother, and had to be removed from
her care.
Social workers accept that she presents no danger to her son. One of their many reports states as much, noting: "There is nothing to suggest that Mrs W is anything other than capable of meeting her son's physical needs. All concerns have been based on the volatile and sometimes violent relationship between her and her husband."
Despite this, and Mrs W having now permanently separated from her husband, they have continued to pursue her through the international courts, demanding that she return the child.
She is now preparing to make her case before a judge in Ireland, where she has sought refuge after criss-crossing Europe in a bid to stay one step ahead of the British authorities.
Social workers, overloaded and often working without adequate support, face a difficult task in trying to protect the best interests of a child. But while in some cases – such as that of Baby P – social services appear reluctant to step in and remove a child from violent and abusive parents, sometimes with tragic results, in Boy L's case their zeal threatens to deprive a child of a
loving mother.
It is cases such as this that have persuaded Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, that the secretive family courts where such decisions are frequently made need to be opened up to greater scrutiny. From April, journalists will be able to report on proceedings, while still protecting the privacy of the children involved.
It is a move welcomed by Mrs W, even though the proposed changes come too late to affect her case. Two hours' drive south of Dublin, there is little about the sturdy stone bungalow where Mrs W and her children now live that suggests she is a fugitive from the law.
Two puppies play on the lawn, overlooked by a paddock where neighbours graze their horses. Christmas toys have been cleared away and Boy L is busying himself with a colouring book while his baby brother takes an afternoon nap.
But, for all the impression of domestic tranquillity, their mother remains plagued by the fear that, should the Irish courts decide against her, her son will be taken away, placed under a permanent care order and given away for adoption.
Leafing through a bundle of legal documents and witness statements, Mrs W, a striking and determined young woman, the daughter of a successful Leicestershire businessman and a public sector accountant, tells me what drove her to snatch him away from social services and flee Britain.
"Social services took my son into care in October 2006 because they claimed he was in persistent danger of suffering emotional trauma through seeing my husband's violence towards me," she says. "The violence was not frequent and fortunately L had only seen it on a few occasions when he was very small. As it happens, I was the one who had approached social services asking them to help my husband battle his drinking.
"They should have enforced an exclusion order against him. But instead, by taking L away from me, they caused him far worse emotional trauma than if he'd stayed with me."
A family court initially placed Boy L with his grandmother, Mrs W's mother. But when another judge reviewed the case in November 2006, he granted social services an interim care order, allowing them to place him with a foster family.
Mrs W made the fatal mistake – based on legal advice – of not attending this crucial court hearing, believing it to be only an administrative formality.
Although she had by now left her husband and moved out of her home in Leicestershire to start a new life in Devon, social services argued in court that his visits continued to pose a threat to the emotional welfare of the boy.
At 5pm on the day of the hearing, as Mrs W – unaware of what had taken place in court – was preparing to pick her son up from nursery, she received a call from a social worker informing her he had already been taken into care.
"I was absolutely devastated," she said. "It was legal kidnap. They had just turned up at the nursery to take him without telling me. They even stopped the nursery staff from ringing me to let me know what was going on.
"When I found out, I was in pieces. I thought I would never see him again."
Over the next seven months, Boy L was placed with three foster parents
and moved to three schools. According to his mother, the effect on him was traumatic.
He began wetting his bed and suffering nightmares. On the rare occasions he was allowed to see his mother, he would cling to her, begging to be allowed to go home with her. Their telephone conversations were filled with tears, as he pleaded to be allowed to be with her.
As the weeks passed, she had less contact with him. Visits were cancelled at the last minute by social workers
and on occasion, she says, they failed to turn up with her son at the arranged location.
His fifth birthday marked a particularly low point for her.
She had gone with her mother to meet a social worker in a car park, from where the pair expected to be driven to see the boy at a contact centre. But on arriving, Mrs W was told she was barred from seeing him because approval had only been given to her mother. "I was left on my own in this empty car park. I was in bits," she explains. "L was so upset, asking my mother where I was and why I hadn't been there for his birthday."
Desperate to re-create a stable family environment in the hope of winning the court's favour, Mrs W allowed her husband to move back in with her. It was a brief and, by her own admission, ill-judged reunion. But as a result, Mrs W fell pregnant.
On being told social services
planned to take the new baby into care, Mrs W decided to flee with L. Over the previous weeks she had saved what she could, sold most of her possessions and quit her office job. Obtaining several credit cards, she withdrew enough money to see her through the next few months, running up debts of nearly £30,000.
Knowing that her mother had been granted an unsupervised visit with Boy L, she met the pair at Buckfast Abbey, in Devon. While her mother went to the lavatory, not knowing what her daughter had planned, Mrs W walked out with her son and drove over 150 miles to a port on the south coast, from where they caught the first ferry to France.
"I was petrified," she says. "I knew I only had a few hours before social services could obtain a court order allowing them to issue an all-ports alert for us. I was going into the unknown, but at least my boy was with me, away from the misery of being in foster care."
After a few weeks, moving from hotel to hotel, the family crossed into Spain, where Mrs W gave birth to her baby son.
Social services traced her after she registered the children with the Spanish authorities for medical care and schooling. Although they have no jurisdiction over the baby, the Foreign Office's Child Abduction Unit served Mrs W with papers in August this year, demanding the return of her son.
"L was petrified. He hid his passport, packed his things and said we should run away. He didn't want to go back," she says. "By this point he was going to a Spanish school and had started to settle. His confidence was starting to come back after months of insecurity. Now he was petrified again of being taken from me."
On the run once again, Mrs W and
her children drove across the border into France, where she dumped her £17,000 BMW and flew to Sweden before moving again after a few weeks, this time to a small town in the south-east of Ireland.
Here she settled and began to build her and the boys' life anew, supported in her legal fight by her family and even her estranged husband. Boy L is now happily settled at his local school, where teachers say he is making good progress. Mrs W says that Irish social workers who have examined the case recommend that he be allowed to stay with her.
John Hemming, Lib-Dem MP for Birmingham Yardley, who has long campaigned for greater transparency in the working of the family courts, agrees. He told me: "If social services had the best interest of Boy L at heart, they would let him stay with his mother. She poses no threat to him at all.
"Irish social services say the only unusual thing about him is a dread of social workers. Unfortunately, British social services seem determined to place the law above the interests of the child."
As his mother clears away her file of papers, Boy L bounds into the room with a beaming smile, ready to play. I ask him what he thinks of the idea of a social worker coming to take him back to England.
His face darkens and he gives me the thumbs down. "I don't want to live with a foster family. I want to stay with my mum," he says, as clearly and simply as only a child can.


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Therapeutic Living Centers for the Blind - AFB Directory Profile
General Information
Therapeutic Living Centers for the Blind
7915 Lindley Avenue
Reseda, CA 91335
(818) 708-1740 (Local)
(818) 708-7899 (Fax)
Brief Description
Therapeutic Living Centers for the Blind (TLC) is a not-for-profit agency providing programs and services for individuals who have multiple disabilities, including blindness.
Hours of operation: TLC's residential program provides services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The day program operates between 9 AM-3:30 PM. Afterschool hours are 2:00 PM-6:30 PM and the Saturday program runs from 9:00 AM-5:00 PM.
Clients served on average per year: 175
Number of staff: 130
Geographic area served: TLC provides services for all California residents.
Publications: The "Communique" is available by request and online at www.tlc4blind.org. "New Visions" is available upon request.
Karen Brown, Director, Adult Day Programs, firstname.lastname@example.com
Sandra Fox, Nursing Supervisor, firstname.lastname@example.com
Michelle Jenks, Associate Director, firstname.lastname@example.com
Cyndi McAuley, Executive Director, firstname.lastname@example.com
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- Daily Living Skills/Independent Living Skills Training
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- In-Home Services
- TLC's twelve community homes provide comfortable, friendly and family environments with staff supervision. It is perfect for men and women over the age of 21 who have visual impairments and multiple disabilities and who would like to live with others while receiving ongoing support in many areas of daily living. Homes are immaculately maintained and range from 6 to 12 residents, with most having one roommate each. Living arrangements are determined by many factors such as an individual's level of social activity, independent living capabilities and home capacity. Our residential community homes, supervised by a live-in care provider, and staffed around the clock 24/7, are designed to be long-term living arrangements.
- Recreation Services
- Recreation services are integral to all of TLC's programs and include art, music, swimming, horseback riding, and community-based activities.
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Samsol Decks is the premier deck builder in New York. Since 1983 we have been building outdoor living areas for clients in Staten Island, Brookyln, New Jersey and the surrounding areas. We are committed to providing our customers with quality decking, designs and workmanship. We are always available to take care of all of your construction needs. We will be glad to discuss all of your building ideas, and help you with them.


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The New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE) recently presented its 2014 Connecticut State Merit Award to Fairfield University for its partnership with Bridgeport schools. The organization honored the University's overall institutional commitment to Bridgeport schools and to preparing students for post-graduate access and success.
Fairfield's long-standing and multifaceted partnership with the city schools includes such initiatives as the Community Partners Scholars program, the Bridgeport Tuition Program, Project Excel, and a number of community outreach programs, such as the Connecticut Writing Project-Fairfield, teacher preparation internships, service-learning courses, tutoring, and much more.
"All universities and colleges have a responsibility to serve their neighbors and communities," said University President Jeffrey P. von Arx, S.J. "As a Jesuit and Catholic university, Fairfield has an even more explicit obligation. It is our mission to form men and women who will embrace their obligation to work in the service of their fellow men and women, to engage with the world as it is, and to do their utmost to transform their communities for the better."


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Driving Pikes Peak is a drive that everyone should experience at least once! The highway is a 19-mile drive with several points of interest along the way. We drove up Pikes Peak in June 2014 when our older boys were just about 3 and 19 months. Our first stop was Crystal Lake.
Our oldest made a beeline for the lake and confirmed that the water is indeed mountain water (cold!). Good thing we had a change of clothes with us! Our boys get a big kick out of throwing rocks in any body of water, so that kept them entertained for some time.
We did not make any more stops until the top, and the drive was much more precarious than I had remembered! Erick did a fantastic job driving, and we all enjoyed a treat of donuts at the gift shop. The donuts are their claim to fame. (And they taste much better after hiking the peak! I don't think we will try hiking Pikes Peak with the boys for awhile…). It is extremely cold and windy at the summit so be prepared with jackets and hats.
The 19 mile drive down is beautiful. You need to drive in a lower gear and there are some brake checks along the way! The road does close for weather so be sure to check weather reports before driving up!
Address: 5089 Pikes Peak Highway, Cascade, CO 80809
Price: Varies depending on the number of people. Check their website as their prices fluctuate.
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By Ranjeet Jadhav http://www.mid-day.com/
On the verge of being opened to the public, the Mumbai Metro has run into an unforeseen mega block over the logo to be displayed on the trains and at the stations.
While the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) officials want the logo 'Mumbai Metro logo', Reliance Infrastructure authorities, which holds 76 per cent stake in the Mumbai Metro One Private Limited (MMOPL), say they are still awaiting this new logo design. Earlier, a 'Reliance Metro' logo was stuck on the trains and the stations.
These old logos have not been removed yet. The first phase of the metro rail is slated to opened anytome before the elections.
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Flying on WestJet's low-cost carrier Swoop will come with a price: ancillary fees that will cost travellers about twice what they pay on the mainline carrier, the CEO of the Calgary-based airline said Tuesday.
Gregg Saretsky said he expects non-fare fees on Swoop will be very similar to so-called ultra low-cost carriers in the U.S.
"We're about $19 per guest currently on the mainline operation and I would expect that we should be able to get (double) that on Swoop," he said during a conference call about its third-quarter results.
Watch: WestJet to launch discount carrier
WestJet's fees for services like flight changes, cancellations and checked bags increased 12 per cent in the third quarter to $117 million, or $18.64 per passenger.
Premium economy seat revenues were up 19 per cent in the quarter.
Swoop is set to launch service in June with two 189-seat Boeing 737-800s. The fleet will increase to six planes by September and 10 in the summer of 2019.
Modelled after the relationship between Australia's Qantas Airways and Jetstar Airways Pty Ltd., Swoop will fly mostly to different destinations than WestJet, but may also supplement the larger airline on major city routes, Saretsky added.
"They'll be high-utilization aircraft because they'll turn and burn and they'll have more utilization than WestJet's fleet."
He said Swoop will operate as an independent airline with its own reservation system, operator's certificate and airport check-in counters staffed by its own employees.
"We have been very resolute in wanting to build this at the absolute lowest (cost), so there will not even be connectivity between Swoop and WestJet," he told analysts.
Passengers flying on Swoop from Calgary to Toronto, for example, will have to collect their bags and recheck them for corresponding flights to Sudbury.
Swoop's financial results, however, will be incorporated with those of WestJet.
Unfilled demand
Ed Sims, WestJet's executive vice-president commercial, said there is still significant demand in the Canadian market to stimulate traffic at lower fares, especially using secondary airports like Hamilton, Ont. and Abbotsford, B.C.
Unlike startup competitors like Canada Jetlines Ltd. which is also set to fly next summer, WestJet's existing operations could be used to carry passengers in case of service disruptions.
"Some of these new lower-funded entrants will find it difficult to be able to match and then run the risk of potentially leaving their passengers stranded," he told analysts.
More from HuffPost Canada:
Air Canada has said it will use its low-cost leisure travel subsidiary Rouge to compete on the very low-cost market in Canada.
Meanwhile, WestJet said it expects the new widebody Boeing 787s that will start entering its fleet in January 2019 will help attract more business travellers.
It plans to add lounges at its hubs in Calgary, Toronto and Vancouver and will increase the use of its mobile apps for bookings, check-in and prioritized boarding.
Saretsky said many Canadian corporations are looking for better deals because flying in Canada at the last minute can be expensive.
"So as much as Air Canada might fight back, we have a massive cost advantage and a product specifically designed to accommodate that type of traveller."
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Having high quality images of your products is crucial for any ecommerce store in Singapore today. With clear images of your products, your customers will be able to identify the exact product that they are searching. This helps your customers know more about the product even before needing to contact you. Some products are difficult to describe as your customers might not know the technical terminology or identification of the product. Images help them identify these product much quicker and easier.
Other uses of high quality product photography also include showcasing the design and styling differentiation that your business has. For example, the style of flower arrangements are usually difficult to describe. However, the customer will understand clearly once an image is shown to them. With clear images of your brand's style and design, intended customers will be able to identify what is your brand's trademark look!
Some of our clients asked if they can use the images that they have taken a few years ago or if they can use images that their principal provides. We understand that it is important for businesses in Singapore to save and cut costs as much as we can but having localised, current images is very important for online shoppers in Singapore. This is because with the large variety of shops online, Singaporeans now shop very quickly, spending very little time on pages trying to search for the exact item they are looking for.
In order for businesses to have a higher conversion rate, we normally recommend our clients to take large, sharp and current images of their products so that when their customers see the image, they know that it's the exact product that they are looking for.


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Our business started over 35 years ago, specifically to provide welding services, we may grown over the years and added more services to our portfolio, but welding is still at the core of our business, it is a highly skilled and important production process of a fabrication, or on its own as a standalone service either at our workshops or at customer sites.
At EWL we are proud to only employ skilled individuals to complete our welding, the majority of whom started at EWL as apprentices. Robotic welding has its place in large scale scale batch production, but increasingly robots are de-skilling the welding industry, increase set up costs, and do not provide the versatility skilled people can.
What welding processes do we use?
- Tig
- Mig
- Mig Welder approval BS EN ISO 9606-1
- Spot
- Stud
What materials do we weld?
- Stainless steels
- Carbon steels
- Aluminium
- Titanium
- Monel
Do we weld for the general public?
We generally provide our services to businesses and industrial sites, we do weld for the general public but it can only be done at our workshops, we can not complete work in homes.
EWL are a BOC Industrial gas agent
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On Wednesday 2nd March, our very first Spring Sharing event took place on the Clore Ballroom of the Southbank Centre. The service worked, in partnership with Southwark Schools and the Southbank Centre, to show off some of the very best of our whole class work in primary and secondary schools and also give the first public performance by the Souhwark Youth Orchestra. We had a wonderful time as you can see from these pictures and videos.
On Saturday 5th March, the Southwark Youth Orchestra was back performing at the Southbank for the second time in a week in the Music for Youth festival. We were so proud of the young people who played with such a professional attitude. More on this here.
Last Tuesday our partners at 'Excellence in Southwark' which is managed by ex- Southwark Headteacher Joe Rae and assisted by our own Jo Fitzmaurice, put on their annual 'I gospel' concert, again at the Southbank. 3 secondary and 9 primary schools from across the borough took part in the gospel extravaganza and as usual the young people of Southwark showed everyone present how to do it - singing, dancing and having fun – it was great. Please contact Jo for more chances to get involved with EiS events.
Finally, I want to tell you about our new singing programme lead by Dominic Stichbury. There is news about the two day programme for schools here but additionally, Dominic recently led some training at Cator Street covering, 'Getting your Whole School Singing', 'Singing for the Terrified' and 'Beat Boxing'. About 30 people came to one or more sessions and the feedback was excellent. We had lots of fun and it was particularly great to see a selection of colleagues testing out their beat boxing skills, see below!


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GoldieBlox, Beastie Boys tussle blights cause
This is really too bad. Companies like GoldieBlox - which is building a business around getting girls involved in engineering-related fields via toys - should not be involved in what seems like a very cynical PR campaign.
In case the saga is news to you, the company released a parody of the Beastie Boys song "Girls" but didn't ask permission and leveraged the video as advertising for its products. A big hoopla ensued over whether this amounted to copyright infringement - a very debatable topic that kept reinforcing the name GoldieBlox during the lengthy back and forth online. There were valid arguments in either direction, but only a judge or jury could really provide the answer.
After the video had been viewed a few million times, GoldieBlox abruptly took it down and tried to make nice with a blog post.
When I got in touch with CEO Debbie Sterling, she didn't offer too much more but said, "There was no intention whatsoever for this campaign to be some kind of marketing ploy," she said. "We are actively seeking a peaceful settlement with the Beastie Boys."
But now, unfortunately, we've muddled an important issue. I'll bet if I took away Marissa Mayer, Sheryl Sandberg and Meg Whitman, you'd have to take a minute to come up with a powerful female executive in Silicon Valley. I had coffee with a female developer earlier in the week, and she relayed a story where a guy in a cafe had treated her and a friend like unicorns when he learned they could write code.
We need companies like GoldieBlox. We need the female mind involved in Silicon Valley. The apps and Web services produced are largely spawned from the wants and needs of men and that does not represent the bigger picture. This is one of those topics that has gotten such play it's become trite to bring up - but it shouldn't be. Every effort should be made to get women involved in the science, math and engineering fields.
Sterling could not comment in any detail on the legal haggling between her and the Beastie Boys. But, unfortunately, this does look like a PR ploy. If there were concerns about the legal firepower coming out of the music industry, why wouldn't they have taken the video down when they first heard from the lawyers? Waiting until the video had basically run its PR course on the viral circuit doesn't look good.
And why file a declaratory judgment - as GoldieBlox did - unless you're well aware you're poking the bear? And in this day and age, it seems pretty implausible to parody a famous song and not consider the legal ramifications beforehand.
And here's the other thing: "Girls" is a sexist song. Later in life the Beasties made amends for their chauvinism and homophobia and became one of the most socially active groups in music. But when "License to Ill" came out, they were punks. The statement GoldieBlox said they were making with the video was important.
Only copyright hawks (and ardent Beastie Boys fans) were arguing against GoldieBlox. There are very valid points to be made about Silicon Valley entitlement, but most people - the public who buys toys - would have been happy to support GoldieBlox in an infringement suit (against the dastardly music industry!) for a transformative work that was trying to right a previous wrong. It's not as if this ad was for BP.
And all this is conflicting because we need products that get girls into STEM fields. Instead of reinforcing old stereotypes with pink things this holiday season, we should be buying science-, math- and engineering-related toys for young women, at least to just let them try it out.
When we talked on the phone, Sterling sounded both exhausted and sad. People do make mistakes, and only a very short while ago she was funding the whole idea with a Kickstarter campaign.
"Our intentions are good," Sterling said. "We just really want GoldieBlox to stand for a brand that empowers girls. We want to be good role models."
Caleb Garling is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


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Frances Williams is the Clinical Manager as well as the Patient Educator at Presbyterian Center for Preventive Cardiology in Charlotte NC. She graduated from the Presbyterian School of Nursing in 1976 and worked in Cardiovascular nursing at Presbyterian Hospital for six years. In 1982 she began working in private practice with Dr. Daniel E. Wise, whom she has worked for twenty-one years. During this time she received her BSN from Gardner Webb University in the year 2000 and is currently studying for her masters as an adult nurse practioner and clinical nurse specialist. She is a member of the North Carolina Nursing Association, the Southeast Lipid Association as well as the National Preventive Cardiac Nurses Association.
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Named after the famous stretch of Galveston Seawall built along the beaches of the Gulf Coast, this cocktail goes fruit happy and I'm certainly not complaining! Enjoy!
Mix all ingredients in a shaker with ice and shake a couple of times. Pour into 10-oz plastic cup. Garnish with pineapple/cherry skewer.
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- Malibu Coconut Rum
- Peach Schnapps
- Orange Juice
- Pineapple Juice
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At Spartanburg Day School, there is a difference. Our community provides each student with an unparalleled education. Here, they are known. They feel safe to take risks, own their learning and achieve their personal best. Our students are confident learners who are prepared to meet the challenges of college and of life.
Established in 1957, Spartanburg Day School is a nationally accredited, nonsectarian independent school for students in grades 2K-12.
our mission:
To provide a superior educational experience,
in a community of trust,
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Spartanburg Day School motivates students to contribute meaningfully to society. Students are confident, take risks and hold themselves to the highest standards. They collaborate with others and eagerly go above and beyond to exemplify the ethics of responsibility, compassion and service in their daily lives.
Spartanburg Day School cultivates students' true desire to learn through thoughtful discovery. Teachers nurture innately inquisitive minds in an environment where it is safe to both fail and to succeed. Students experience the freedom to ask questions, to be problem solvers and to take ownership of their learning.


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Robert Holmes creates such an interesting character in Li H'sen Chang. Until we meet Weng-Chiang (if that is his real name), Chang serves as the main villain of this story, but in reality, he is a pitiable creature. His master, Weng-Chiang, is never happy with him or his actions. Chang does his best to find young women, full of fire, to serve Weng-Chiang's cause, but none of the ladies he finds seem to suit Weng-Chiang's purposes.
Chang is constantly demeaned, ignored, and insulted by his master, and yet his desire to serve keeps him coming back to Weng-Chiang's lair to try and make it up to him. Chiang's motives aren't borne of malice to inflict harm on the young women he finds, or to murder those who he might deem dangerous or incompetent. He is merely following the orders that he has been given, no matter how questionable they are. As this story goes along, you almost hope that Weng-Chiang, a talented showman, will see the errors of his ways and throw off the yoke of his Chinese god, because he really deserves better.
I could talk about the rat, but it really is the flaw in the Persian rug in a story that is just so blissful to watch half way through that it really deserves to be longer than six parts.


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Currensee, an investment service that gives investors unique access to the world currency markets, raised $4 million in series C of funding. It will be used for developing collaborative and portfolio management tools for investors, data center expansion and enhancement of current tools.
TxtEagle received funding of $8.5 million. Discover, engage and motivate emerging market consumers by leveraging txteagle's community of 2.1 billion people, proprietary mobile messaging protocols and airtime compensation platform.
Sugar Inc. which has various services all related exclusively to women raised $15 million (hmmm...this is cool ;) ) . The funds will be utilized for brand extensions, acquisitions, and international growth.
The deals site of Turkey GittiGidiyor.com has been acquired by eBay. It has got millions of registered users.
KIT digital, which provides end-to-end high quality video content to any of the screens has acquired ioko. ioko provides managed cloud-based platform solutions for media & entertainment, telecommunications and cable companies worldwide.
Zillow has acquired Postlets. Zillow lets you find rates, agents and search real estate properties. Postlets lets you post property listings on classifieds and share them on social media sites.
Global Crossing, the provider of broadband, voice, data and multimedia communications has merged with Level 3 which are the leading international provider of fiber-based communications services.
nSphere Inc, the online directory for small local business has acquired Peekaboo Mobile. It provides service of mobile coupons which you can redeem directly from your mobile itself. It also lets you share deals and discounts from your area. This merger shows great hope to give best blend of the two, for customers as well as business owners.
Again deals seems to be on the hot seat of investments and acquisitions!!
Beta version of Scoville (goscoville.com) has been launched. You can discover and bookmark your favorite destinations as well as share them.
Gmail now lets you create your own theme including changing the background image. Google has funded Brightsource Energy, which set up huge solar power plants. Google search is now further enhanced with the Reading Level ability. It includes basic, intermediate and advanced options plus shows their respective share in total related content. Another advancement to the sidebar is addition of Dictionary and search meaning of a word without using 'define' (but I'm very much addicted to 'define:'....may be I'll not switch to this Dictionary feature!).
This is not the end of search engine updates. Microsoft released a cool iPad app for Bing.
Flash Builder 4.5 for PHP has been launched by Adobe and Zend Technologies.
Flipboard definitely created buzz this week. Very obvious too. The iPad social magazine has partnered with Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN). The official Oprah curated section will appear now!


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Well come on, who bought one ? Where are your pics and your reports now that you would have owned them for a few kilometres.
Took one for a test ride, yeah it was ok for a de-tuned motor. Rode ok, looked ok, tried to ignore the rainwater tank on the front, just can't ignore the price.


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I will admit this much - up until Wonder Woman, I mostly hated every aspect of the DCU. I hated Man of Steel and its bizarre treatment of Pa Kent and Clark (respectively, for making Pa Kent instilling virtually no moral values into his son and literally telling him he should have let a bus full of kids die, and for making Clark/Superman only mildly interested in helping others), I hated BvS for mostly everything (its bizarre plotting, insanely bad Lex, baffling character motivations), and I almost walked out on Suicide Squad. The one bright spot has been Wonder Woman - but even that wasn't enough to overcome my hesitation over another Snyder-led entry into the DCU canon.
However, as of late, I've been feeling pretty optimistic about the team-up DC picture - here's why:
JUSTICE LEAGUE We can officially announce the running time is confirmed as 01:59:53!#LoseYourselfInFilm @EmpireCinemas @justiceleagueuk
-- Empire Cinemas (@EmpireCinemas) October 23, 2017
JUSTICE LEAGUE We can officially announce the running time is confirmed as 01:59:53!#LoseYourselfInFilm @EmpireCinemas @justiceleagueuk
While this still exists (somewhat) in the realm of speculation, I'm ecstatic over this - apparently, Justice League has around a 2 hour runtime. And while many in the DCU fandom are up in arms over this revelation (to the point of extreme controversy and conspiracy theorizing in certain subreddits), I could not be happier. At some point in the mid-2000s, someone just DECIDED that it was fine for popcorn blockbusters to be 2.5+ hours long slogs. Honestly, I sorta blame Peter Jackson for making his King Kong reboot impossibly long JUST BECAUSE HE COULD, and then others followed suit.
I love superhero movies. I love their mix of silliness and sincerity, their grandiosity and iconography, I love it all. But they do not need to be nearly 3 hours long. The Avengers, Age of Ultron, and (especially) BvS all could have been well-served by some more judicious editing (the fact that there's an EVEN LONGER version of BvS is, frankly, baffling). None of these movies are Gone With The Wind - they don't NEED to be this long. Hell, we've gotten to the point where even Michael Bay feels comfortable with stretching Transformers movies into the near 3-hour territory. It's gone too far, and I'm glad SOMEONE is finally taking a stand.
2 hours is plenty long to tell a fun, rousing superhero story. The folks at Marvel should take note - you could have cut the entirety of Thor's stupid cave freakout and probably a good chunk of Hawkeye's farm life and gotten Age of Ultron to a nice 2 hours, and the audience would have thanked you for it. Well, at least I would have.
Up until Wonder Woman (mostly), the DCU has been hopelessly grim. The fact that a film about the horrors of the first World War is the lightest in tone should probably say it all - these films take themselves FAR too seriously, particularly when they don't have the weight of a Christopher Nolan backing them up. Zack Snyder is an incredibly talented visual filmmaker, but he struggles with subtext and theme - and when he's so, so desperate to make "deconstruction" a primary aspect in his superhero films, it's bound to be sorta a mess.
There's no reason for Superman to be so humorless and doubtful, or for Batman to be THAT nihilistic and violent (Batman is honestly amongst the silliest comic book characters ever - he's a rich guy who dresses up like a bat and punches clowns because he's sad about his parents - HOW DID WE ALLOW SOCIETY TO DECIDE HE SHOULD ALWAYS BE THE GRIMMEST AND GRITTIEST HERO?!), or for everything to be so hopeless and dire (Superman DIES in his second outing?!). It's fine to have those aspects, but the DCU has been so relentlessly focused on JUST THAT that it's been more than a little distracting. Thankfully, Justice League looks to be adding some levity to the (admittedly very silly) premise - Barry Allen is jokin' around, Batman's makin' quips, Aquaman's a cool rad bro now, etc.
It's refreshing! Dark moments seem a lot more impactful when everything else is a little lighter and cheerier - when everything is just non-stop darkness, the grittier moments don't really shine like they should. Marvel figured this out early on, but DC has been so committed to being taken seriously, they forgot to strike any balance between drama and humor.
This cannot be reiterated enough: Wonder Woman was a damn breath of fresh air. From Man of Steel through Suicide Squad, there was a collective delusion in the DCU fandom that critics and audiences alike were engaged in some kind of baroque conspiracy AGAINST DC properties, which was the only possible explanation for their consistently low critical and popular reviews. After all, the only other option was that the films were ill-conceived and poorly-executed, and there was no way that THAT could be the case, right? ...RIGHT?!
Wonder Woman proved them wrong - a brighter color palette, an actually likeable protagonist, and engaging characters set it leagues apart from its DCU brethren (although I do kinda like Batfleck, Alfred, and Harley). And much of the success of Wonder Woman can be attributed to DC Films bringing in Geoff Johns as a creative advisor to the DCU film slate - which had, up until this point, been solely under the guidance of Zack Snyder and a few meddlesome DC executives (who presumably are mostly at fault for all of the things wrong with Suicide Squad).
It was something rather....wondrous (SORRY I AM SO SORRY). The film was straightforward, without the ugly pretense of the preceding films in the DCU canon, and it had clear messages of heroism, sacrifice, and love. It understood how storytelling works and it accomplished it with aplomb - resulting in near-universal praise and SO MUCH MONEY. Justice League is the follow-up to Wonder Woman - and hopefully the lessons that were implemented in that film will also be brought forth here.
What it ultimately comes down to is this: Snyder has a lot of ability as a filmmaker, but he works best when he's collaborating with others who can temper his less ideal instincts - and having Geoff Johns working with him alongside Joss Whedon (and likely with some influence from Patty Jenkins and James Wan, who's handling the upcoming Aquaman solo film) can only spell good things.
I'll be blunt: the DCU Superman sucks. I don't blame Henry Cavill for this, who is a fine and charismatic actor (honestly, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. is great) - it's just that the scripts and direction he's been given seem to have been designed solely to rob him of his natural talents. His Superman is grim and humorless - he doesn't really enjoy saving the lives of others, it's something he does out of obligation. He takes no joy or pleasure in doing good - he just DOES it, all the while plagued with doubts and uncertainties over how others perceive him. And why shouldn't he? His adoptive father told him humanity would reject him for his differences, to the point where he advised him against helping others (and literally prevented his son from saving his own life).
The net result is that Superman is a huge bummer. He barely speaks in BvS (no, seriously, he has literally only 43 lines of dialogue total in a nearly 3 hour film), and when he DOES speak, he's not the boisterous hero that you likely associate him with - he's a dud. When saving astronauts from a launchpad explosion, he looks constipated.
And yet, since his "death" (c'mon - it was his second outing and you SHOWED THE DIRT HOVERING) in BvS, there's been a lot of lip service in the DCU film universe about the "hope" he brought to the world. What hope?! He was introduced to most of society by being party to like fifty 9/11s happening simultaneously in Metropolis - after which he grimly went about saving people without ever cracking a smile. Then a few years later he openly quarreled with a vigilante, was thought to be responsible for bombing the Capitol Building, and then died stabbing a mutant. WHAT ABOUT ANY OF THAT REGISTERS AS A SYMBOL OF HOPE?!
But now they have a chance to start over - an ACTUALLY hopeful Superman! Maybe in his resurrection, Superman will have a new zeal for life - for saving others, for doing good, for fighting for truth, justice, and all of that good stuff.
Well, until Flashpoint that is (note to DC Films: please do not do Flashpoint as the FIRST Flash film).
Holy shit, those Alex Ross posters look AMAZING. And the trailers have been mostly VERY solid - showing a lot of fun action and character interactions without spoiling the story or giving away too much (and the latest one did a great job of indicating Superman's presence without actually showing his resurrection). It's really ALL been pretty stellar so far - and, to my own shock, I'm pretty psyched for Justice League.


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I've Gotta Have Faith
It is, it seems, increasingly difficult in today's media landscape to sustain a television series focused on characters that overtly represent figures drawn from traditional religion. At best, we might expect to see a priest, rabbi, or monk as a tertiary character who appears every now and then to impart advice to the main cast; at worst, we can anticipate seeing these same figures relegated to roles filled by guest cast in a one-off that often attempts to make an explicit point condemning the hypocrisy of religion (or, in a reversal, makes audiences feel guilty for their readiness to judge religion). Add to this the progressively more visible outrage from religious groups about the portrayal of their faith on television and it seems easy to understand why network television, which often strives to appeal to the lowest common denominator in entertainment, tends to stay away from the issue of religion.[1]
Some of this indignation, I would argue, stems from the inability or unwillingness of religious groups to work productively with media in order to create programming that portrays fully-formed characters that embody positive aspects of institutional religion. Without liaisons that understand the constraints and demands of television's economic realities, religion has little hope of convincing producers and network executives to move away from the salacious, defamatory, blasphemous, and lucrative content presently on the air.
And yet, underneath the turmoil, religious displays continue to quietly manifest in a nebulous middle ground labeled by viewers and characters as faith or spirituality according to S. Elizabeth Bird.[2] It seems as though extreme examples of religious expression (or lack thereof) have become targets for attack in television as audiences have become accustomed to religious structures or ideologies that depict a strident belief in a vague, yet ever-present, other power. As a result, discussions of faith have become coded and are not readily apparent until one begins to think deeply about what is being shown on screen.
My favorite example of this process, which relates to Bird's exploration of House, comes in the form of David Fincher's Fight Club.[3] Read simply, the movie seems to advocate for gratuitous violence and wonton destruction but, upon closer inspection, one quickly realizes that although the movie is saturated with violence, it is not about violence. Rather, we can think about Fight Club as a form of communion that allows disaffected and disconnected men to come together in ritual that satiates their desire to feel.[4] Here, in the sacred circle, men feel a profound sense of community and also remember what it means to be alive; the movie ultimately features a respectful discussion of some of religion's central tenets carefully balanced out by the satirical appearance of a pugilistic priest despite not being about religion.
[1] This is certainly not to say those protesting have come to represent the entirety (or even majority) of their faith, but that online tools have made it easier for these groups to find each other and to consolidate power. These same online tools have also renegotiated the distance between audiences and networks, also allowing disgruntled groups to be heard and seen much more effectively.
[2] Bird, S. E. (2009). True Believers nd Atheists Need Not Apply. In D. Winston (Ed.), Small Screen Big Picture: Television and Lived Religion (pp. 17-41). Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press.
[3] Here I focus on the movie for its similarity to televised media, although the original novel by Chuck Palahniuk could evidence similar comparisons and arguments.
[4] The main character is in fact so disconnected from himself that he manifests two entirely different personalities and is so unable to reconcile the two that he ultimately shoots himself in the face in order to kill off his alter ego!


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SzékesfehérvárEarth > Europe > Eastern Europe > Hungary > Székesfehérvár
Székesfehérvár (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈseːkɛʃfɛˈheːrvaːr]) is a town in Hungary, located between Budapest and Lake Balaton.
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West to Veszprém (E66/N8)
Walk to the north side of town, following Palotai ut or Szent Florian Körüt. At the end of the town, there is a roundabout where the only main road towards the north shore of Balaton starts. Use a sign, saying Veszprem. Once you're in the rural areas you can hitch with a thumb everywhere, people there are very likely to pick you up.
Northeast to Budapest Zagreb Balaton (E71/M7)
You have two good choices, check on the map:
- This is better if you go to Balaton, or Zagreb. Take the bus 13, or 13A from the Bus Station the final bus top is Alba Economic zone (Alba ipari zóna). You will see the motorway, and the Shell (petrol station sign). The petrol station is your place.
- Take the bus 12, or 12A from the Bus station the final bus top is Auchan. You will see some traffic board. You can find Your way easily.
I don't recommend the old road "7es ut, Route 7" with its mostly local traffic via the urbanized Velencei to/lake.
Public transport
The Bus ticket Price (on the bus,on the bus station 250Ft) 270Ft (1 euro). If you have time and energy, you can walk...(one hour...maybe one and half) The blackriding is possible, but a little bit complicated. There is just one ticket puncher on the bus...next to the bus driver on the first door. If you can get on not the first door, you are lucky, if there are some people who get off, the driver open the other doors, but if not, you have no choise. The most bus driver ask for your ticket. If you are on the bus, and the controllers are coming...If you speak to the controller in a foreign language (showing that you're a tourist, not an illegal immigrant) they'll just leave you alone.Then they ask your id card, you say you don't have it with you and then they'll just give you a paper to note your name and address, where you can write any fake name. Or even simpler you can give your real passport and they are supposed to send you the bill to your country. It's 100% SURE that they will not. If the situation is too complicated, the best if you get off the next stop, and wait the next bus, or walk.
In the bus station, ther is an internet caffe bar, but it is not free...and not too cheap. Next to the bus stop there is a cafe (Museum cafe), where you can drink somethink and use the internet for free. There are lot of place in the city where you can use free wifi.(main square, bus station, cofes...)


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How to: Link Model Updates using Transactions
When you define an extension to the UML designers in Visual Studio Ultimate, you can group several changes into a single transaction called a linked undo context.
By default, each modification that your code makes to a model can be separately undone by the user. For example, if you define a menu command that swaps the names of two UML classes, a user could invoke the command, and then perform a single undo. This would undo the change to one name, but not the other, leaving your model in an unintended state.
To avoid this, your code can perform a series of changes within a transaction. This makes the changes look like a single change to the user. A subsequent undo command will undo the whole series.
An additional benefit is that your code can undo a partially-complete set of changes by throwing an exception or by aborting the transaction.
To group changes into a single transaction
Ensure your project References include this .NET assembly:
Inside your class, declare an imported property that has type ILinkedUndoContext:
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.Modeling.ExtensionEnablement;
class … {
public ILinkedUndoContext LinkedUndoContext { get; set; }
In a method that modifies the model, enclose your changes in a transaction:
using (ILinkedUndoTransaction transaction =
LinkedUndoContext.BeginTransaction("my updates"))
// code to update model elements or shapes goes here
Notice the following:
You must always include Commit() at the end of the transaction. If a transaction is disposed without being committed, the transaction will be rolled back. That is, the model will be restored to its state at the start of the transaction.
If an exception occurs that is not caught inside the transaction, the transaction will be rolled back. It is a frequent pattern to enclose the using block of the transaction inside a try…catch block.
You can nest transactions.
You can provide any non-blank name to BeginTransaction().
Only the UML Model Store is affected by these transactions. Modeling transactions do not affect: variables, external stores such as files and databases, layer diagrams, sequence diagrams generated from code, and code models.
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.Modeling.ExtensionEnablement;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.Uml.Interfaces;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.Uml.Classes;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.Uml.Extensions;
using System.Linq;
using System.ComponentModel.Composition;
public ILinkedUndoContext LinkedUndoContext { get; set; }
/// <summary>
/// Swap the names of the currently selected elements.
/// </summary>
public void Execute(IMenuCommand command)
var selectedShapes =
if (selectedShapes.Count() < 2) return;
IClassifier firstElement = selectedShapes.First().Element;
IClassifier lastElement = selectedShapes.Last().Element;
string firstName = firstElement.Name;
// Perform changes inside a transaction so that undo
// works as a single change.
using (ILinkedUndoTransaction transaction =
LinkedUndoContext.BeginTransaction("Swap names"))
firstElement.Name = lastElement.Name;
lastElement.Name = firstName;
See Also
How to: Define a Menu Command on a Modeling Diagram


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Digital wallet coming to Geneva High
By early next year, the Geneva School District will have entered a new world in terms of how students pay for lunch. It's just the start of what's likely coming for all of us at some point in terms of how we pay for a lot of things.
Starting at the high school in the fall, and eventually throughout the whole district, students will pay for lunch with PushCoin accounts.
PushCoin is the brainchild of Anna and Slawomir Lisznianski, whose startup company in Geneva has garnered some notice throughout the alternative payments industry.
Without going heavily into the technology details, students basically pay for meals by placing their fingers on a scanner at checkout, which matches students with their previous scans. It automatically links a student's transaction and pulls the payment from a PushCoin account set up by his or her parents.
At the same time, PushCoin sends the parents an email about how much was spent and what was bought, including the calorie count and other nutrition facts.
Ultimately, the district wants this to be a better way to pay than a student fumbling around for cash or using a debit card that runs up extra costs for the schools.
Schools have a problem collecting small amounts of money in cafeterias or at fundraising sales because of associated fees, Slawomir Lisznianski said. Using the digital wallet concept of PushCoin eliminates much of that concern.
"We have eliminated the need for the school district to need vendors for a website (related to lunch payments), or for credit card fees or for point-of-sale vendors," Lisznianski added.
PushCoin will donate the finger-scan hardware and tablets needed for the system.
Anna Lisznianski likes the fact that the PushCoin account can be adjusted to indicate any lower fees or free lunch programs for certain students because no one else in line knows how much or under what other guidelines a student is paying.
A student using a subsidized program can sometimes be a victim of ridicule. "We are hoping it can stop some of that bullying," Anna said.
Mostly, it's the start of a brave new world in how we view money and how we use it to pay for things. It's already possible to pay for things with digital currency, or by tapping phones, wristwatches or bracelets with computer chips against scanners. And we're seeing things like Google Glass, making it possible to pay for stuff with eyeglasses. How many of us will jump into this fray at some point is hard to predict.
But we know students in Geneva are just about there.
Disappearing ball trick: My tales of woe on a golf course are so long and ridiculous, one would have to sit and listen to me ramble on for an hour. No one in his right mind would ever do such a thing.
But I've got another to add to the list after a couple vacation days of golf in Wisconsin.
My ball was sitting on the edge of some thick, tall grass off the fairway and I took a mighty swing -- and hit the ball maybe two or three feet at the most right into thicker grass. And lost my ball. Has anyone, in the long history of this game, ever done that? I didn't think so.
Time to horse around: The Tri-Cities Exchange Club is all about helping prevent child abuse, but its members will turn their attention to horses next weekend.
Club members will help work the ticket booths and perform other tasks at the annual Festival of the Horse and Drum at the Kane County Fairgrounds.
They are picking quite a show at which to help out. Horse lovers will certainly enjoy this event, but it should interest just about anyone who enjoys different cultures, history and an array of colorful costumes.
Back to shuttles: The parking nightmare for the Geneva Metra station began in earnest last Monday as work on adding another level to the commuter parking garage began. With the garage out of the picture for about six months now, commuters who don't have reserved spots in the lot right next to the tracks will scramble to get what is left in the parking area near the government center.
Others can grab shuttles from the First Baptist Church lot at 2300 South St., or the baseball field parking lot east of the Public Works Department at 1800 South St.
Getting shuttled to the Geneva Metra station actually is old hat for commuters who have been taking the train to work for many years.
I am sure many recall that prior to Geneva having a parking garage, and the La Fox and, later, the Elburn stations opening, every commuter in the central Fox Valley area converged on the Geneva station.
It meant that shuttle buses had to be set up at the First Baptist Church.
I wasn't taking the train daily in those days, but on those occasions I did, parking was impossible before the shuttle option was available. It usually meant parking in the nearby neighborhoods and getting a ticket.
Some more tires: Seeing a new commercial building going up has been a fairly rare sight since our rugged recession, so it is easy to forget what is actually going up when you drive by a construction area.
If you go to Costco in St. Charles along Randall Road, you've surely noticed new construction taking place in front of it. That's going to be a new Discount Tire location.
Take that canteen: The summer is getting away from me and I haven't even had watermelon yet. But in tribute to this wonderful berry -- yes, it's a berry -- I'll pass along this cool bit of trivia from the Kane County Farmer paper. Watermelons are about 6 percent sugar and 92 percent water. Because they are a great source of electrolytes, early explorers used watermelons as canteens.


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Back Care
Rub lobelia extract on sore muscles. Lobelia is a strong muscle relaxant.
Prepare a strong comfrey tea and drink to reduce a swollen back.
Take the herbs lobelia or valerian root with cayenne to relax the muscles, to help you rest, to relieve the pain, and to heal the injured area.
Bad Breath
To cover odor, eat parsley, drink peppermint tea, chew cloves, take chlorophyll, or gargle with barberry tea.
Take acidophilus or chew uemboshi plums to improve intestinal flora.
To insure proper digestion, chew food well, and drink water in between meals.
Shampoo with a tea made from yarrow herb to open the pores and encourage hair growth.
Take the herb sage to encourage hair growth.
Eat wakame and hijiki seaweed to prevent balding.
Wakame: Also known as Fucoxanthin. More details here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakame
hijiki : is an uncommon type of edible seaweed commonly found on rocky coastlines. Its two names, which are examples of ateji, mean deer-tail grass and sheep-nest grass respectively. Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijiki
Bed Sores
Apply pure honey, liquid lecithin, or zinc ointment to a clean sore. Dress it with a gauze bandage.
Take the herbs corn silk and ursi to prevent bed wetting.
Eat parsley or chew on cinnamon bark.
Avoid sugary foods, chocolate, meat, fruit, or artificial additives.
Birth Defects
To improve the health of the reproductive system during pregnancy, drink red raspberry tea.
Alfalfa, dandelion, and kelp prevent birth defects by providing a rich source of iron and iodine.
Avoid cigarette smoke, alcohol, sugar, drugs, and caffiene while pregnant.
Bites / Stings
Apply one of the following to bites or stings to reduce pain and swelling: aloe vera gel, garlic oil, baking soda and water, vinegar, honey, plaintain tea, or safflower oil.
Use lemon juice and corn starch or lobelia extract and myrrh to relieve persistant pain and itch.
Pennyroyal tea mixed with a drop of eucalyptus oil can be applied to the skin as an insect repellant.
Dried tomato leaves can keep bugs out of your house when hung by windows.
Taking garlic supplements, or eating garlic will lessen your chances of bug bites
Bladder / Kidney Problems
Take psyllium husk and water daily to cleanse the colon. A colon full of toxins puts pressure on the bladder and leads to infection.
Avoid packaged douches, tight nylons or underwear, or satin underwear.
To cleanse the bladder and kidneys of excess mucus and irritants, take the herbs St.-John's-wort or alfalfa in capsule form. Drink dandelion and peach bark tea.
Take garlic and goldenseal in addition to vitamin C to fight infection.
Take dolomite and water to fight bladder infections.
Eat whole fresh cranberries to cleanse the kidneys.
The herbs blessed thistle and white oak bark work well together in capsules or as teas toward healing infection.
Drink dolomite with water to heal bladder infections.
Grind fresh cranberries in the blender and add to plain yogurt (or soy yogurt) and eat daily.
The herbs buchu and ura ursi rid the bladder of excess mucus, infection, gravel, stones, and retained water.
Bleeding / Hemorrhage
Apply cayenne extract or powder to a small wound to stop the bleeding.
Make a strong tea of one of the following: slippery elm, plantain, white oak bark, comfrey, nettle, or chaparral. Apply the tea directly to the wound to stop bleeding.
Capsules of cayenne, bistort, goldenseal, white oak bark, yarrow, or comfrey can stop internal bleeding.
The herb don quai, in capsule form, can break up blood clots.
Apply vitamin E oil or zinc ointment or aloe vera gel twice daily.
Apply garlic oil to infected blisters.
Blood Pressure
High blood pressure results in part from a sodium-potassium imbalance caused by too much salt consumption. Bananas and whole wheat bread are rich in potassium to balance sodium levels.
Stay away from salt, sugar, dairy products, processed food, and meats.
Take valerian root to relax.
Take dolomite in water.
Ginseng, hyssop, and hawthorn, taken together, regulate high and low blood pressure.


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