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Hi all! It's been a BUSY summer. I'm finishing up the final book in the Solomon experiments, Reckoning. It'll be out in late summer. I'm also finishing up the editing of the Requiem Series for re-release as well. To bring these two great series to you, I am having a few sales:
As the picture states, Collide, Book #1 in the Solomon Experiments, is #FREE on Amazon until July 19. Now is the perfect time to jump into the series people have called "a fast moving, suspenseful thriller".
Speaking of free books, the re-launch of the Requiem series has begun! You can pick up Broken Wing #FREE on all platforms (Amazon, Barnes and Noble, iTunes) Broken Wing, formally published as Dies Irae, tells the story of of Mikayel and Azzazziel,angelic friends turned mortal enemies. The Requiem series has been called "gritty, dramatic [and] heart-wrenching". Get your copy of the prequel #FREE today.
Summer hasn't only been about writing and releasing new things. I've also used the time to redo my website. It's so clean and pretty now. Here's a quick shot of the home page:
You can check out my webpage at christinefonseca.com
I still need to clean up my blogs and link it all, but yeah - it's coming along.
Finally, I wanted to say thanks to all of you that have been so loyal to me, my writing and this blog. I have some great things in store in the future for all of you. I'll be at Comic Con next week, so I may not be around much. That is, except for daily posts about the con and several FB Live events on my FB page. I hope you enjoy the fun I plan on bringing next week .
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (Mark Price and Ely Portillo/Charlotte Observer) - Two flight attendants, one of them based in Charlotte, have filed federal lawsuits against American Airlines over alleged sexual and gender harassment on Facebook and other social media.
They claim that American Airlines failed to enforce its policies governing social media use by employees, which forbids behavior such as using slurs and other online insults, including on the employees' own accounts. The alleged harassment stems from online forums and Facebook groups where thousands of airline employees interact.
One of the flight attendants, Laura Medlin, is based at Charlotte, American Airlines' second-busiest hub and a major employee base. More than 2,600 American flight attendants work from Charlotte.
The pair of lawsuits were filed in November, in federal court in Pennsylvania. They're both still pending.
American Airlines has denied the allegations and plans to defend itself, according to court filings. A spokesperson couldn't immediately be reached for more information.
Faye Riva Cohen of Philadelphia is the attorney representing Medlin. She said the issue comes down to whether American Airlines will enforce its social media policy.
"Some of the flight attendants, the females, are feeling that they (American Airlines) are not monitoring what it is taking place on social media, which is resulting in abusive-type bullying," said Cohen.
In the lawsuit, Medlin, a flight attendant since 2000, said the online harassment started after she resigned from a union position. A group of male flight attendants based in Philadelphia started harassing her on social media, including Facebook, with insulting names such as "sow," she maintains in the suit.
The other plaintiff, a Pennsylvania-based flight attendant named Melissa Chinery, said she became the target of harassment in 2014, when she announced that she was running for a union position. Like Medlin, Chinery said she was subjected to a harassment campaign by male flight attendants, including names such as "flipper," a synomym for prostitute, as well as "c***," according to the lawsuit. The suit also claims some of her confidential information was posted publicly.
Both women said they reported the harassment to American Airlines' human resources department, which they said didn't take appropriate steps to defend them or stop the abuse. Chinery said she was labeled a "snitch" and subject to retaliation from her coworkers, including unsubstantiated complaints against her. She eventually relocated to a crew base in another city.
"The legal system has not caught up with what is happening on social media, as far as what people can say and can't say, what is appropriate," said Cohen. "Our allegation is, if you have a social media policy, such as American ...why are they not enforcing some of the things that their policy prohibits?"
Said Cohen: "When you have thousands of employees interacting on social media, without any controls being exercised by their employer, that can lead to issues and problems."

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One of the most visible effects of choosing either web or desktop technology is the way the resulting application will appear. Right now there are a couple of development frameworks to take into consideration. These are in no particular order:
- Basic web application
- Netbeans/Eclipse Rich Client
- Swing/SWT application
(This list is Java oriented.)
All of these have advantages and disadvantages. The list above can be divided into two main categories. To no surprise these are Web and Desktop. Anyway, right now I'm working for my employer on a document which ellaborates on these differences. Also I've submitted a proposal to the NL-JUG's upcomming J-Fall to do a talk about this subject for my employer. I hope they'll agree with me that it's an important subject to reflect on a bit.


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Nowadays, there is a distinction of sexy as encompassing more than just sex. To be considered sexy is to be considered desirable, alluring, and intriguing. Individuals have different criteria for what they consider to be sexy, which is often influenced by the representations of sexy that we encounter on a daily basis.
It seemed fair that a Business Insider article wanted to show the drive, creativity, intelligence, and overall coolness that is required to be a scientist as sexy. However, when the article featuring 50 "sexiest" scientists hit the internet, there was a collective side eye from many of my fellow Black women scientists. In the process of attempting to show that smart is sexy, Black women were left out. We were not found at this intersection of being intelligent and alluring. While most Black women whose rebuttals I read were not surprised, they were, to say the least, annoyed – Black women are rarely represented as beautiful or as smart. The many stereotypes associated with Black women are painful and demeaning, and omission – intentional or unintentional – from this list seemed like just another reflection of how deeply those stereotypes impact what we see (or don't see) of ourselves in media.
In response to the article, Kyla McMullen (#BLACKandSTEM PhD) put out the call for Black women scientists to be featured in her own list. And I have to say that, after watching the documentary "Dark Girls – A Look At Colorism And Internalized Racism" this past weekend, I noticed something even more resounding about McMullen's list. The Black women who she featured represent a defiance of the notions of beauty and allure that are common both inside and outside of the Black community. McMullen amassed a broad representation of gorgeous Black women of different tones, features, and shapes whose resumes rival their beauty as the "thing" that makes them sexy.
Read Kyla McMullen's list for yourselves and answer today's #BLACKandSTEM question: How does #BLACKandSTEM redefine sexy?
Don't forget to use the #BLACKandSTEM hashtag!


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Over two million people live streamed NFL's Thursday Night Football on Twitter, compared to 48 million who watched it on TV.
"For the Thursday Night Football game alone, Twitter reached 2.1 million viewers," NFL said in a statement on Friday.
More specifically, an average of 243,000 people were watching the game on Twitter at any given time, while CBS and the NFL network, which broadcast the game, reached an average of 15.4 million.
"The average audience watching Thursday Night Football on Twitter properties was 243,000 with each viewer watching an average of 22 minutes of game action," the statement added.
The 2016 season kickoff of Thursday Night Football between the New York Jets and Buffalo Bills was seen on an average minute audience basis by 15.7 million viewers across all platforms, including CBS Television Network, NFL Network, Twitter, NFL Digital, and CBS Interactive, NFL said.
The numbers also made an impact on Twitter's shares as the company's stock went up more than four per cent on Friday after the first game was live streamed through the social network, CNBC reported.
Thursday's game was the first of 10 games Twitter is set to stream for free over the next three months.


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In one sense, this is a swim I would like to forget. I began and swim and did not complete it. But in another sense, this is a swim where hopefuly some lessons were learned that I can take away. We sometimes learn from our failures even more than our successes. Continue reading »
2012 was the 25th anniversary of the Jim McDonald Lake Swim in Reston, VA. It was my third time to swim. I swam in the 5k (3.1 miles) event on Saturday, May 26th. There were also 1 and 2 mile swims on Sunday. I finished 68th out of 90 swimmers in the wetsuit division of the 3 mile swim with a time of 1 hour and 41 minutes. My pace per mile was 32 minutes and 52 seconds. I was reasonably pleased with my effort, although I had hoped to finish with a pace closer to 30 minutes per mile. It was a nice day to swim, although warmer than you would have preferred. I had planned to do the Sunday swims but due to the water temperature wetsuits were not allowed and I chose to skip. In in 3 swims combined there were nearly 800 swimmers. Jim McDonald is a popular and premier event and ably managed by the Reston Masters Swim Club president Gordon Gerson. Continue reading »
The annual Centennial Lake Swim was held on Sunday, May 13, and 2012 was my first time to participate. It was a calm, cool day and ideal for swimming in a lake. Centennial is not a large lake and this one-mile swim pretty much goes around the lake perimeter, covering most of the lake during the swim. The event was sponsored by the Central Maryland YMCA Masters Swim Team and was well staffed and organized. (http://http://www.cmym.us/) Continue reading »
The State of Maryland is bisected east/west by the Chesapeake Bay and we refer to these sections as the Eastern Shore and the Western Shore. Although I live and work on the Western Shore, the Eastern Shore is a land of great interest and pleasure. The portion of the Eastern Shore that faces the Chesapeake includes a number of tidal rivers such as the Pocomoke, Wicomico, Nanticoke, and Choptank. On 5/5/2012 I joined about 69 swimmers for a 3 mile swim in the Nanticoke as part of the 4th annual Nanticoke River Swim & Triathalon (http://www.nanticokeriverswimandtri.com/). Continue reading »


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Seattle punk act Silent Opposition recently released their debut full-length "The Rhetoric Of Social Change" and we highly recommend you check it out below. The production is solid and the band clearly pulls a lot of influences from 90's punk staples. Think Chuck Ragan singing in a Hellcat Records street punk band and you'll be close to their sound.
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A Toothless Tooth Fairy?Published Date: August 5th, 2011
Category: Weekly Thought
Why isn't there some sort of guidance document or protocol for you to follow when your child loses his first tooth? Specifically in the:
a) Tooth Fairy back-story
b) Monetary transaction expectations
I have to say, we were utterly unprepared for this whole Tooth Fairy thing. Which is a trifle surprising since we have had SIX YEARS to come up with the Tooth Fairy back-story, but maybe we underestimated how difficult it would be to talk about her.
Because, really? The Tooth Fairy? Who came up with this gimmick? She's worse than Grandparent's Day. What child in their right mind is going to believe that some stupid fairy is going to:
a) Know that a child has lost a tooth
b) Care
c) Care enough to give them money for it
My favorite question of G's was:
"Well, what is she going to do with my tooth?"
And my utterly dumb response:
"Maybe she needs them for herself."
G then asked:
"What, like she has no teeth?"
So now our son has a depressing vision of this tired, old toothless fairy that flies around paying children for their teeth so she can then disgustingly insert them into her OWN mouth in order to eat apples or corn.
Therefore I say this: Beware parents of children with a full set of teeth. Your day will come. Please make sure you are ready with appropriate amounts of small bills in your wallet and a better story than mine. Maybe your tooth fairy can be this hip young woman who makes cool jewelry out of children's teeth (although, still a little creepy if you think about it). Or maybe your tooth fairy can grind the teeth into some sort of magic tooth fairy dust that makes bad children good or wide-awake children sleepy.
I don't know. Just something better than a gummy, old woman.
And for those of you wondering what the going rate for a tooth is these days, watch out. Gone are the days of quarters. These children don't understand the economy. They really have no desire to hear a diatribe about fiscal responsibility when they only receive fifty cents. Oh no, they want cold, hard cash.
In the end, our tooth fairy gave G $5 for his first tooth. I guess she really had a big plate of corn to eat that day…
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Shane Snow Shares the Story Behind His Eight-Figure Storytelling Empire Contently
When Contently first sought to woo investors in 2011, it was met with a chilly reception. "Every investor told us content is a terrible business, get out while you can," said Shane Snow, Contently's co-founder and chief creative officer.
Times have certainly changed.
Contently is doing a brisk business licensing software to brands to help them manage content-marketing projects and connecting these companies with freelance writers, for which it takes a 15% fee.
Earlier this year, Contently received a $9 million investment, sparking a hiring spree that's seen the company's staff triple to 75. Revenue has climbed from seven figures in 2013 to eight figures this year, according to Mr. Snow, who declined to provide specific numbers. Customers include American Express, General Electric, GM, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Google and Walmart. Many of the articles on American Express OpenForum, an editorial site geared toward small-business owners, are written by Contently's journalists, Mr. Snow said.
"The energy behind Contently has just built and built and built to the point where they're now one of the companies you think of when you think of content marketing," said Kyle Monson, partner at Knock Twice, an agency that works in the content space.
Competitors have crowded into the market, where companies are expected to spend nearly $2 billion on sponsored content in 2014, according to an eMarketer report. There are shops similar to Contently, including Percolate and NewsCred. Creative agencies, media-buying companies and PR firms have all staked a claim as content creators for brands. And publishers from The New York Times to BuzzFeed have in-house teams that write articles and produce videos for advertisers. Contently has partnered with agencies to pitch brands. And publishers often work with Contently.
To attract writers, Contently builds free tools to help freelancers manage their careers, including a portfolio website to collect and showcase work. "That attracts a lot of great folks, most of whom indicate that they're open to freelance work from us," Mr. Snow said. "So even if we don't have work for them, we know all about them, and we always have the exact right writer available for when a brand comes with a specific need."
The company also pays writers when they submit a first draft. If writers worked with brands directly, they might not get paid for months. Contently doesn't discriminate as to who can access its free portfolio of tools, but it does screen them to ensure only professional journalists are allowed to work with clients.
"The basic standard is: Do you have a rich history writing for publications with high editorial standards?" Mr. Snow said. "Your own blog doesn't cut it."
There is a range of writers and prices from which brands can choose. There are, for instance, best-selling authors and Pulitzer Prize nominees, youngsters fresh out of journalism school and a number of others who work for major publications but freelance on the side. Contently's stable includes about 50,000 writers, according to Mr. Snow.
"It's like a supermarket for writers," said Tomas Kellner, managing editor at GE Reports, GE's content-marketing site. "People like me, who need to scale up their operations, can get access to writers for a specific project."
To find freelancers for brands, Contently mines its trove of data on writers, which includes the topics they write about, how well their stuff performs, where they've written and more. Then Contently makes the introduction.
The bulk of Contently's revenue, however, comes from the
software it licenses to brands. The software, for instance, allows
editors, lawyers and others to review articles before they're
published; it also includes contracts, tax forms and legal
agreements. "We make no profit from the 15% fee for writers," Mr.
Snow said. "The writers become the hook for us to get into these
big companies with our platform."
Mr. Snow, who published his first book, "Smartcuts," last month, is benefitting from content marketing, but he's no booster. He calls bullshit as quickly as he praises quality content from brands.
"Brand journalism is a stupid term," said Mr. Snow. "It's
information entertainment. It's education."
He has also clashed with Contently's business side about which companies to work with and the fee they charge writers. Contently even has a code of ethics, which says that if a brand changes the copy it must remove the byline or get the writer's permission. Actions like this have made journalists more comfortable writing for brands on the side, several writers said.
"Shane really is a journalist, an intellectual and a voice for why quality content marketing is better for everyone in the content-marketing ecosystem," said Eric Paley, partner at Founder Collective, the first seed investor in Contently. "He's raising the quality bar; he's applying journalistic storytelling to this market."


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The Right to Privacy in Colombia - UPR 30 Factsheet
Monday, May 14, 2018
In the lead-up to the 30th session of the Universal Periodic Review which took place on 10 May 2018, Fundación Karisma, a partner organisation in the Privacy International Network, joined a coalition of civil society groups in Colombia to raise more awareness about the country's human rights record.
As part of the joint effort, the coalition produced factsheets on various human rights in the Colombian context, including the right to privacy. It is available in both English and Spanish.


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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Spanish Grammar In Review
This is the book we will be using for Spanish 2 this year. It looks like a great tool for mastering the rules of Spanish grammar and increasing fluency for the kids.
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I did not really discover girls till my mid teens, and it was at this time I discovered something else. I had bad breath. Sometimes bad enough to make people recoil in revulsion, that´s when I decided to visit this family dentist for help.
You can imagine my dismay. 15, insecure, acne starting to take hold, hormones raging, and I had a case of stinky breath. I tried to find the cause.
- Dirty teeth? I cleaned my teeth 3 times a day so i could have teeth like my dentist from Smile Mega, I also flossed, and used mouthwash.
- Nasal infection? If it was there, 4 courses of antibiotics did not kill it.
- Gastric reflux? No, I hardly ever even burped. Stinky Food? I went of garlic for months, it did nothing.
- Bacteria growing on the back of my tongue? I scraped my tongue till it was red, no result.
So I did what any 15 year old would do. I took up smoking. At least then, I could disguise my bad breath under the stink of cigarette smoke. The problem was…. though it did hide the foul smell of my breath… it also seemed to aggravate it so I ended up smoking more and more.
I had at time noticed these small yellow lumps appear in the box of my throat, like little pieces of corn, that's when I decided to look for help from https://dentistinperth.com.au/. I thought they might have something to do with it, as they STUNK when squashed. I even took some to my doctor, but he had no idea what they were, and I gave up.
Somehow I managed the problem, and 15 years later even gave up smoking. I swapped one smell hider, with another. I became a chewing gum addict, I always had a piece in my mouth, and it was never more than 30 minutes old. I ate packets of super strong mints. I got on with my life
Then one day, my wife said to me "I'm sorry, but your breath stinks. I can smell it from across the room. You need to sort it out, or no more kissing action for you." I was mortified. I had no idea that my bad breath was again so obvious. "It's not all the time" I was told, "but today, its real real bad."
That day, I went to the best dentist in launceston, to see id they could tell me something about my mouth, but the day I also had to go to work I had several client meetings which I had to do knowing my breath stunk. Extra strong mints were chewed constantly and I ignore the strange looks at my mint addiction. Then I found an article on Google about tonsoliths. It seemed to explain my problem exactly. A quick trip to the bathroom confirmed yes, I had TONSOLITHS! I was so relieved! Finally, the cause was found and I could do something about it?
Opening my mouth wide and peering into the bathroom mirror, I could see a yellowish whitish lump where my left tonsil was. I tried poking it with my finger, concentrating to get past the gag reflex, but I could not shift it. Then I got my electric toothbrush and gently rubbed it, and it came away. It looked like a dirty, yellow piece of corn, somehow many pieces stuck together like the flex of a mandarin. It STUNK! I looked into my mouth and I could see a gaping hole where my tonsil was. I realized I must have got only the top piece off… so I massaged the tonsil below this hole, and at least twice as much was forced out of the tonsil. If you are looking for the best dentist, then check out this great cosmetic dentist in warren mi for some great service.
I rinsed my mouth, then checked the other side. Nothing had been visible above the surface, but the tonsil itself was full of this same muck. A quick breath test and then out to the wife for the examination. She sniffed gently, looking doubtful… then inhaled deeply right in front of my mouth and to her surprise and my job, announced my bad breath seemed cured. I almost cried with joy.
As it turns out I was not cured however, but as good as. About 6 weeks later, I coughed up a bit of the same yellow muck, and after gently massaging my tonsils… kind of like squeezing the toothpaste out of the end of the tube, thanks to my dentist I found though the tonsoliths were not yet visible at the top of the tonsil crypt, they were forming once again unseen. I massaged them out both sides, and after a quick breath check declared myself fit for public breathing. Now, I check the tonsil crypt ever few weeks to make sure they are not seeding new tonsoliths. A minor nuisance I am happy to have compared with my previous problem of bad breath the tonsoliths caused.
I just wish, the medical community was more aware of them, and was able to diagnose me sooner, I could have saved myself around 100,000 cigarettes! We all go through some embarrassing dental hygiene situations. Don't be afraid to take care of your mouth! Durham Dental will take care of all your personal dental needs. Our private one-on-one suites will have you at ease, and with a gorgeous smile on your face! Visit website here.
Editors Note
My 10 year old niece came home from school crying one day, the kids were calling her "poo breathe". She was treated for a strep throat with antibiotics(unnecessary, she did not have a strep throat) which did nothing to cure the problem. My sister described how sometimes her daughter would gag and spit up something that looked like a combination between corn and sheep's brains…. and it smelled disgusting…
Tonsoliths! I exclaimed. Get her a water pick or massage her tonsils, and her problems will be over. I thought she;'d go for the tonsil pick as I didn't fancy a 10 year old trying to massage her own tonsils….. I pictured a vomiting distressed child…. but my niece having now been told the means to stopping the school taunts went immediately to work. She cut her treasured long fingernails, and massaged large lumps of yellow junk out of her tonsils, rinsed, and repeated over and over till she passed the "sweat breathe" test.
My sister rang her doctor to advise of this cure and he admitted to having no knowledge of the condition of tonsoliths.
Cured. Or at least now manageable. She's had no recurrence, but now knows what to do. Thankyou to the author of this article.


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I've dedicated this month to BEET RECIPES!
I never thought I liked beets. I tried them a few years back and wasn't impressed. It turns out it's all in the way you prepare them. Just like any other vegetable, a great recipe can change your tastebuds!
Before I started gardening, I didn't realize there were so many beet varieties (see here for some options). The two main beets I eat are traditional red beets and the more elusive golden beets. I grow Touchstone golden beets in my garden. They are harder to find in the grocery store and a lot milder in flavor than the red. So if red beets aren't up your alley – give golden beets a chance.
Why eat beets?
Beets are a root that also have edible leaves. The leaves are easy to store and cook down like spinach. They have all the tenderness of spinach but have a little more substance. When storing beets, it's important that you separate the beet leaves and stems, otherwise the leaves will pull moisture away from the beet. They'll keep up to 3 weeks wrapped in plastic in the fridge, the greens for a couple days.
Beets contain pigments called betalains – a phytonutrient which distinguishes them from other red vegetables. Betalains have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory functions in the body with an emphasis on eye tissue and nerve tissue health. The roots are also a great source of folate. The greens actually have more nutritional value than the root itself and are in the same category as spinach – supplying good amounts of iron, protein, phosphorus, zinc and fiber. They are also full of antioxidants – vitamin C, vitamin B6, magnesium, potassium, copper, and manganese.
Now let's get down with da beet recipes!
Unbeetable Recipes
A moist chocolate quick bread starring beets!
Bright, hearty and freezer friendly!
Warm Beets & Greens Salad with Almonds & Goat Cheese
My favorite simple recipe for beets!
Beet, Citrus and Avocado Salad
Super bright and zingy!
Amazingly Beautiful Beet Pizza
A feast of color!
a few others I love from around the web
Barley and Kale Salad with Golden Beets and Feta
Great with any grain-green-cheese combo!
Chocolate Beet Orange Brownies
Dessert with a side of veggies!


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The first Dennemeyer evening lecture with the provocative title "Protectionism? And for whom? SEPs and FRAND enforcement in China" was held on October 6th in the group's Munich office. It focused on the key enforcement activities of competition law in China, with a focus on Standard Essential Patents (SEPs). The lecture was held by Ms. Yuan Li, a student at Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC), who gained work experience in the patent area at Siemens, the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and Goldwind Co., Ltd. She holds an M.Sc. in IP Management from the Huazhong University of Science & Technology in 2013. In her presentation she outlined that businesses active in industries in which intellectual property rights play an important role - especially where SEPs are involved - should expect close scrutiny from Chinese agencies as they continue to develop in this complex area.
The lecture also focused on:
- Compulsory license
- Using injunctive relief
- Determining FRAND royalty rates
- License bundling
The lecture was followed by an excited discussion among the roughly 30 attendees – as well as by cool drinks. Further complementary evening lectures will follow and be announced at www.dennemeyer.com
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Nearly three months ago, we asked for your feedback on all things Brooklyn Boulders Somerville in the most extensive survey we've ever created. This is what happened:
The result is a long term project we are calling Project Switzerland. Our entire team is focused on beautifying those areas of our facility you felt needed it most. Climbing areas, bathrooms, community areas, fitness areas, and more — our team is already at work to bring tangible improvements to each of these areas. More volumes, anyone?
Since then our team been tackling these concerns head-on. We enlisted a team of six member advocates to give us real-time, honest input and feedback while we planned. Our team has been taking no shortcuts, focused as always on delivering the best solutions possible. Every decision we've made has been guided by our collaborations with this amazing crew, and moved forward by consensus.
While you might have already noticed some tangible improvements in our space, the truth is that we are really just getting started. Here's some of the near future goodness you can expect:
1. Climbing
Catch up on a whole bunch of routesetting improvements here. Plus, get ready for new floor seating with way more dedicated cubby storage areas.
2. Collaborative Workspace
Our Collaborative Workspace is moving and expanding. There will be a large, enclosed and quiet collaborative workspace upstairs in what is now our Fitness Room*.
An open area workspace will be built in the area currently occupied by our ellipticals and treadmills. This space will include soft seating and a standup work bar.
3. Fitness
All fitness equipment will be improved and consolidated atop our mezzanine. This includes our treadmills, bikes, ellipticals and entire fitness room. The mezzanine space will be expanding to accommodate the equipment with ease, with new high quality flooring in place.
Our current Team Office* will be converted to a multi-use fitness space for group classes like yoga and Personal Training sessions.
4. Furniture
Get ready for a furniture overhaul. New furniture is soon on its way to the Community Events Space, Collaborative Workspace, Fireplace Lounge, Castle Room and youth areas as well.
5. Bathrooms and Locker Rooms
We are working towards increasing available lockers, seating in our locker rooms, and continuing to create a better bathroom experience, including creating a unisex bathroom for our guests.
6. Lobby
We're working on reducing guest waiting time and increasing check-in efficiency. You deserve a fun and logistically painless experience at Brooklyn Boulders. Our team won't settle for anything less.
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These major improvements are on the way, and we owe it to our community for helping to make this happen. Thank you for being active, caring, and invested at Brooklyn Boulders.
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1st of June 2013 Liz and Graeme joined a growing group of station "foster parents" when they formally adopted Dalmally Station through the Scotrail "Adopt a Station" scheme.
The "Adopt A Station" scheme is aimed at finding community or start-up uses for vacant accommodation at stations across Scotland. The idea is for stations at the heart of their communities and station buildings to be occupied by activities that enhance rail journeys. Stations would also be bright and have tidy gardens and plants.
There are strict but sensible rules governing the use and activities on the working station; and adoptees are particularly encouraged to create vibrant gardens.
Graeme is busy working through the careful renovations of the station and Liz has brought her Felt and fibre business to Dalmally from Ayrshire – check out the HeartfeltbyLiz website for details. Sunny days often mean the Station Platform has craft workshops and activities going on, to amuse the passing travellers on the trains passing through.


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White House officials convey a sense of gloomy doom when they talk about fired FBI Director Jim Comey's public testimony on Thursday. They know his aw-shucks rectitude, combined with real-time written recollections, guarantee riveting testimony. Their hope is that it'll be more atmospherics than substance — how he felt, as opposed to any new facts about what President Trump said or did.
Here's the problem with that hope: Even if Comey didn't have a single new thing to say (unlikely, given his habit of writing memos about his conversations with the president and perhaps his aides), the rat-tat-tat of already-reported, tough-to-explain facts is astounding:


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Yesterday I shared the news that I will be working on a nursery for my soon to arrive niece or nephew! Today I'm here to share with you the plan for the room
The '"theme" for the space is nature! Inspiration comes from all sorts of things when I think of a design direction for a space so when I saw these shower curtains at Target, I thought BINGO!
My sister in law and I love these colors together and I love the stripes paired with the above mid century modern print! My inspiration didn't just stop at the colors of the shower curtains, I plan to make a bed skirt with the stripe curtain and have pillows made with the tree and squirrel printed one! Speaking of fabrics for the space, I haven't gotten my hands on Robert Allens 'Cats Cradle' and I think it will SING in this room!
The nursery will also include a DIY mobile
I found the above DIY mobile on Design Sponge, but I thinks its originally from Spool Sewing (?)
This one is cute too! I need to learn origami first!
Of course the room will include at least one piece of revamped furniture! I'm thinking the changing table. I need to check with my sister first;-)
Love an art wall in a nursery
Sherri and John displayed the cutest pieces of art in their daughter Clara's nursery! And since my new niece or nephew is joining a gang of cousins (no kidding, 8 boys so far) and a big brother, I think it will be so cool to include pictures of them along with pictures of mommy daddy and big brother Chandler!
No nature inspired room would be complete without some type of plant! And I think a HUGE tree behind the crib will be smashing! Don't you think?!
Oh and I plan to bring in some art including this lovely piece designed by Jen Ramos
There is so much more that will be going into this room! And of course I'm going to be journaling the entire process right here for you guys! This is the first time that my sister in law is seeing the plans for the room so please let us know what you think! Am I off to a good start?! Stay tuned for more!


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I�m here to insist once again that not only can you cook it at home, but you can likely cook it better.
�It,� in this case, is pizza, and the impetus for today�s installment was a visit to a highly acclaimed pizza joint in New York, where I was served (for $15, or about four times the cost of the ingredients in a supermarket) a perfectly ordinary, overly poofy, drearily sauced pizza. Granted, the mozzarella was first rate. Big deal.
This followed by a couple of days what has become a not-atypical dinner at my house, where I served a pizza bianca, lightly sprinkled with olive oil, salt and rosemary, and threw together a pie with a tomato sauce based on a slew of onions and a bit of guanciale (only because I happened to have some), along with a sufficient amount of grated Parmesan to make its presence known.
I won�t even get into the money-saving part; people who cook at home for economic reasons already know about that. I will say that my crust tasted better, and my pizza was more properly cooked (yes, that�s a matter of taste, but do you really want to eat a bialy with tomato and cheese, as seems to have become de rigueur?) and better sauced than the one I ate a few days later.
Yours can be, too, and I know that because I�m not really that good at making pizza. In fact, two or three of my close friends do it better, and I know of others.
It�s about three things: some confidence, practice and a food processor. This piece is my attempt to instill you with the first, encourage you to get the second and implore you to use the third, although even that�s not necessary, since there is an alternative: the no-knead method popularized by Jim Lahey. I�ve gone back and forth between the two, but for ease, lack of mess and more-flexible timing, I�ve come to prefer the food processor. Still, make the dough however you like, because you won�t go wrong.
From the beginning, the food processor was justifiably promoted as a tool for making dough. (My longstanding guide for this, by the way, is �The Best Bread Ever,� by my friend Charles Van Over.)
I love it for pizza because you can make the dough in five minutes. Although rushing isn�t ideal, you can start pressing or rolling out the pizza 20 minutes later. (Use the larger amount of yeast if you�re doing this.) Which means, in a pinch, start to finish in an hour.
What is ideal is letting the dough rest for a while in the refrigerator or even freezer, although for best quality not for more than a few days. The advantages of this technique, besides the obvious convenience (make the dough in the morning or up to a few days before, and just let it come to room temperature before proceeding), is that the dough matures, marginally improving its flavor and making it considerably easier to handle.
There are, of course, some fine points, but even here there�s flexibility. Should you roll the dough or pat it out? That�s your call. (If you pat it out, you can leave it thick and dimpled � use your fingertips � and call it focaccia.) Should you use a pizza peel and a stone? Well, yes, and if you preheat the stone for a good half-hour, the crust will crackle even more, but it isn�t essential. I didn�t have a peel for a couple of years (no room) and used a piece of plywood or a flexible cutting board. And if you don�t have a stone, a baking or cookie sheet will do fine; just use a little olive oil to keep the dough from sticking. This will give you a crisper crust, one sort of halfway to fried dough.
A whole-wheat crust? Sure, 50 percent; it won�t be as crisp or have the same �pull,� but it will have a deeper flavor and give you a warm, fuzzy feeling. (You can also integrate herbs, garlic, dried chilies, loads of black pepper, cornmeal, whatever, into the crust; the food processor makes this incredibly easy.) Extra-crisp crust with extra-moist topping? Prebake the crust about halfway, with just a bit of olive oil on top, then add everything else and return to the oven.
Mix the dough by hand? Yes, but you�re increasing your workload or, if you go for the no-knead method, your time. If your food processor isn�t big or powerful enough for the recipe here, halve the recipe or get a new food processor.
Other uses for the dough? Fried pizza or calzone, rolls or bread or even those silly garlic knots. But pizza is the highest and best use.
3 cups all-purpose or bread flour, or more as needed, plus more for kneading
1 teaspoon fast-rising yeast (2 teaspoons if you�re in a hurry)
2 teaspoons salt, plus more for sprinkling
2 tablespoons olive oil, plus more as necessary
Rosemary, optional.
Time: 2 to 3 hours, mostly unattended, or less in a pinch. Yield: 2 pies, 4 to 6 servings.
Put the 3 cups flour, yeast, 2 teaspoons salt and 2 tablespoons of the olive oil in a food processor. Turn the machine on and add 1 cup water through the feed tube. Process until the mixture forms a slightly sticky ball, about 30 seconds. If the mixture is too dry, add more water 1 tablespoon at a time and process for 5 to 10 seconds after each addition. If the mixture refuses to come together, add more flour 1 tablespoon at a time and process until it does.
Rub a little olive oil or sprinkle a little flour onto your hands and shape the dough into a ball; wrap in plastic. Let rest at room temperature until the dough doubles in size, 1 to 2 hours. Or, if time is tight, let it rest at least 20 minutes before proceeding. Or refrigerate for several hours, deflating if necessary if it threatens to burst the plastic. (Or divide in half, wrap each ball in plastic, slip into a plastic bag and freeze.) Let it return to room temperature before proceeding.
Reshape the dough into a ball and cut in half, forming 2 balls. (From here on, use olive oil if you�re cooking on baking sheets, flour if on a pizza stone.) Put them on a lightly floured surface (a pizza peel is ideal), sprinkle with flour and cover with plastic wrap; or brush then with a bit of oil and place on a lightly oiled sheet. Let rest for about 20 minutes, while you heat the oven to 500 degrees.
Press a dough ball into a 1/2-inch-thick flat round, adding flour or oil to the work surface as necessary. Press or roll the dough until it is as thin as you can make it; let it rest a bit if it becomes too elastic. (Patience is your friend here.) You can do two baking sheets at once, or one after another, as you�ll have to if using a peel. If doing the latter, slide the dough from the peel onto the stone.
Sprinkle the pizzas with olive oil (just a little), salt and rosemary. Bake for at least 10 minutes, perhaps rotating once, until the crust is crisp. Serve hot, warm or at room temperature.


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Dell Will Sell You A 5-Year Warranty, Not Actually Honor It
M. bought a five-year Complete Care Warranty from Dell, and this somehow led him to believe that he would receive five years of warranty coverage. Crazy, right? Consumers can be so foolish. But just because the site will sell you a warranty, and documentation on the Dell site says that you have almost a year left on that warranty, that doesn't mean that you actually have that warranty, because the Complete Care warranty that includes things like accidental damage is only an add-on to the regular warranty that has already run out.
Here, let M. explain.
I bought their Complete Care Warranty (includes Accidental Damage) from their website. It was a 5 year warranty (Back in 2009/2008) and I had peace of mind. Everything was great until it was time to exercise the warranty (today). My laptop fell from the table and screen did not work anymore. I checked my Warranty status and it stated: "[356] days remaining on your Complete Care warranty. See the Warranty Tab for details".
[Click to enlarge. This page says 355 because we asked M. for a screencap the following day. -Ed.]
Great, I was still under their Complete Care Warranty so I decided to chat with them. Long story short, Apparently, the Complete Care is just an addon to the base warranty. I bought 5 years thinking I had warranty for 5 years. In reality, it was however long my base warranty was.
The worst part is that they still say I have 356 days of complete care warranty left…even though in reality I have none. They are going to give me a pro-rated refund but now I'm stuck with a broken laptop.
So, I just want to warn everyone out there. Even if on the Warranty status it does you say you have warranty left – that is pretty much a lie.
Good to know, and consider the readership warned. If you want to complain to someone at the top, you can send him a note at firstname.lastname@example.com. We've heard that people get actual responses from Michael Dell's peeps.
Want more consumer news? Visit our parent organization, Consumer Reports, for the latest on scams, recalls, and other consumer issues.


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February 8 - April 16, 2017
A mom... a daughter... three possible dads... and a trip down the aisle you'll never forget!
ABBA's hits tell the hilarious story of a young woman's search for her birth father on a Greek island paradise. After reading her mom's diary from one carefree summer 20 years ago, Sophie secretly invites the three men her mom wrote about to her wedding. Set to the classic songs of ABBA like "Dancing Queen," "Take a Chance on Me" and "SOS," Mamma Mia! is the enchanting and unforgettable tale of love, laughter, family and friendship.
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Around town are a few reminders that Coober Pedy is a mining town. Here are a few of my favorites.
This blower stills runs at least twice each day. Not for mining opals, rather for mining dollars out of tourist pockets. It sits in front of the Old Timers Museum in town. The self guided tour is only $10, but with the brochure you can get in for $8.
Not only do they have broken down cars, but a spaceship in the middle of town. The ship is actually a movie prop from the film Pitch Black, which was shot locally.
Hands down, the best pizza I have had can be found in Coober Pedy at John's Pizza Bar. Located right in the heart of town on Hutchinson Street, this place has your normal pizza toppings, and then it has the "native" selection. I wasn't sure what to think of it, but went for the Coat of Arms Pizza. This pizza boasts Emu, Kangaroo then tops it off with spinach and Camembert Cheese. This pizza will change your life, it's that delicious.
I think rusted equipment is like lawn ornaments in Coober Pedy.
This guy was hanging out near The Big Winch, which sits on top of a great lookout spot over the rest of Coober Pedy.
The highlight of Coober Pedy lies behind Josephine's Gallery. You'll find the gallery near the corner of Seventeen Mile Road and Hutchinson St. The gallery does sell aboriginal art and Opal jewelry at reasonable prices, but the real gems are outback (Pun intended).
There is a couple who run a Kangaroo rehabilitation center which is outside just behind the gallery. Every day at noon and 5:30pm they feed the kangaroo's for a group of tourists to "oohhh and aahhh" over.
They get Kangaroo's from a variety of places. Some have been hit by cars and have facial and body scars to show for it. They also get the Joey's from Aboriginals who hunt the mother kangaroos for their meat. If they happen to have a joey inside, they let the kids play with it. When they see the Joey is looking a bit sickly the elders will offer it to the good people at Josephine's to care for.
And as if it couldn't get and better they let you hold the kangaroo's after they have just been fed. Everyone gets to hold them and it is truly a unique experience. It is also good for the Joey's to be held as much as possible, just like they would if they were still with their mom.
The 5:30pm Kangaroo feeding at Josephine's Gallery is a great way to end the day, right before heading off to John's Pizza for Dinner.
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1. Is the Veterinarian AAHA Accredited?
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2. How long has the business been in operation? Is this a brand new venture or is it an established business?
We have been in business since 1986.
3. Is the animal hospital a national corporation? Are they family owned? How does the animal hospital give back to the community?
American Animal Care Center gives tens of thousands back to local non-profits in the Tri-City areas. We started with humble roots and have been a product of Fremont's success. Community service and giving back are one of the pillars of values at American Animal Care Center. We were awarded small business of the year by the 20th assembly district.
4. Is the animal hospital available when I am? Are they open on weekends? Are they open in evenings? Do they offer early morning drop offs?
American Animal Care Center is open 7 days a week, 365 days a year including weekends and evenings.
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Pets age more rapidly than humans. With the aging process changes occur in the function of the body. Some of these changes can be seen from the outside: weight gain or loss, stiffness, dull haircoat, loss of sight or hearing. Some changes, however, occur internally and can't be discovered without laboratory testing. Unfortunately, by the time symptoms of illness can be seen, in liver or kidney disease for example, organ damage is already in the advanced stages.
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"Time Tested" Is "Old Hat" in DigitalPosted on Thursday, January 30, 2014 at 12:55 PM
A reader's question: Can you give me some time-tested plans for achieving success with my digital edition?
By William Dunkerley
Q. Five years ago, I stuck my neck out and championed the idea of creating a digital replica edition. My business partner went along with this, but only reluctantly. I thought we could really extend our service to readers by going digital. It meant we could add audio and video content and that readers would be able to search back issues. The digital replica would be available in advance of delivery of the print copy. These sounded like real reader benefits to me. Our ad sales department could offer audio and video options to advertisers, as well. At first I thought we could charge print advertisers a premium for being in the digital edition, but that failed to pan out. The advertisers balked, and our production crew balked at the suggestion of removing the advertisers who wouldn't pony up to be there. Given all they'd have to do to remake the layout, it turned out not to be worth it. I also thought we could add several pages of digital-only ads at the end of the book. We could sell them at rates lower than the print edition and possibly bring some new advertisers into the fold.
Well, now it's five years later. We've used audio and video to enrich certain areas of content, but as best we can tell, only about 20 percent of readers use it. Very few advertisers have added audio or video to their ads. And the availability of digital-only ads in the back of the book drew more advertisers out of the print edition than it brought in new ones per my plan.
From a profitability standpoint, the introduction of the digital replica has been a losing game. It's subtracting from profits -- not a lot, but an adventure that was intended to improve profits has done just the opposite. My partner is pressing me to do something about this. I can't just pull the plug on it. Even if only 20 percent of the readers are making good use of it, I'd get howls if I took it away from them. I need a new plan, something that will work. My own experimenting with different ideas hasn't paid off. Can you give me some time-tested techniques for making the digital edition work for us?
A. I wish I could. But things are moving so fast in digital publishing that there really are no "time-tested techniques." Devices are changing. Software is changing. Reader behavior is evolving. What's new today is old tomorrow.
Have you been following the issue of net neutrality? Talk about change? The outcome of that could change things for us big time. At stake is whether the cable companies that deliver the digital content can exact a stake of the profits or revenues that the content providers are getting. The concept is that the content providers that don't pay up would be blocked. Right now the cable companies are thirsting over the major traffic users like Netflix, YouTube, and iTunes. But it's certainly possible that sometime in the future this could filter down to becoming an across-the-board fee for sending commercial content over their networks. With almost 80 percent of cable subscribers under the wings of just four cable companies, the cable guys have a commanding advantage here. We'll cover the net neutrality issue in more detail in the future.
For now, what I suggest you do is stop looking for a magical time-tested solution and start developing a methodology for analyzing new opportunities and taking an experimental approach. You said you had experimented with different ideas. But, and please don't take this the wrong way, what you've described seems more like floundering around than being experimental in a disciplined way.
One thing you might explore is giving readers a chance to opt out of the print edition and get only the digital replica. That would save you money on paper, printing, and postage. But there's also a potential risk: Digital readers may not read your publication as thoroughly as print readers do. In turn, that might make them less responsive to the ads. That means advertisers would see a drop in the effectiveness of their advertising, and that could net you a loss in advertising revenue.
Why not put it to a test? Create some kind of giveaway item for readers. It could even be a short anthology of past articles that would be of value. Place a house ad for the item. Ask readers to call a phone number to get a free copy. Put a different phone number in the print and digital editions. Compare the results. (Note: resist using an email address or anything that can be clicked on to respond. That would create a bias in favor of the digital edition.) This test would compare the relative efficacy of direct response ads.
Another test should involve how well an ad is noticed in print vs. digital. Again, you can use a house ad. Create two versions. They could be about your publication in general, some upcoming content, etc. Give them both strong headlines and succinct, easy-to-remember messages. Then draw a sample from your subscriber list and conduct a survey. Give them a list of ten headlines that include the two actual ones along with eight fictitious heads that have appeared nowhere else. Ask recipients to indicate which headlines they recall seeing. The results will give you a good comparison of how well ads are noticed in print vs. digital.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not suggesting that the above examples represent time-tested ideas that are useful for everyone. They're just to illustrate the kind of disciplined, experimental approach that will help you through the ever-evolving digital maze that we all face.
William Dunkerley is principal of William Dunkerley Publishing Consultants, www.publishinghelp.com.
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