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Step-free access
Step Free Access around the Academy (PDF)
Guide for Prospective and Current Academy Students with Disabilities and Specific Learning Difficulties (PDF)
Main Entrance and Main Building
There are six steps to the main entrance, with handrails as well as an access ramp. Alternative step-free access to reception and the Duke's Hall concert venue can be found via the ramped side entrance of the York Gate building. This is approximately 30 metres to the left of the Academy's main entrance.
York Gate Building
York Gate is wheelchair accessible to all floors. The front entrance to the Museum and the Academy Chimes shop has steps. Details of the step-free side entrance are as shown below. The museum's three floors are all accessible via the lift.
Step-free access to both buildings is signposted from the York Gate building front entrance and is to the right (Eastern) side of this building. The ramped entrance has a remote entry system via voice intercom. The main building is accessed by going to the basement level via the main lift and then the platform lift. The narrowest points are 800mm wide and 1200mm deep for the platform lift and 730mm wide for the main lift. There are a number of doors on the route to the main building.
Performance Venues
Most of our performance spaces have semi-flexible seating arrangements, and suitable spaces for wheelchair users can be arranged. Please note that advance notice is very helpful in enabling us to ensure your requirements are met. Please discuss with the Box Office when booking your ticket.
The Duke's Hall is situated off the entrance foyer of the main building. Step-free access is from the York Gate ramped entrance (See further details above).
The David Josefowitz Recital Hall is at basement level of York Gate building. Step-free access is via the ramped entrance to York Gate and the lifts to the basement.
The Concert Room, Recital Room are currently accessed by staircases. Should you require further information please contact the Box Office.
Induction Loop
We have some induction loops, available for our performance venues by advance request from the Box Office. Our box office has a T-Loop system in place when booking tickets in person at the Academy. Should you require an induction loop for a performance, please ask at the box office who will provide you with a portable loop.
Guide or Companion Dogs
Guide and companion dogs are welcome at the Academy. Please let us know when you are booking tickets so that we can offer appropriate seating where your dog can remain with you during the performance.
Accessible WCs
Accessible WCs are located in the basement of the Main building and on floors 1 and 2 of the Museum in York Gate.
Emergency Evacuation
In the event of an evacuation fire marshals are trained to check the refuge points and take appropriate action as necessary to ensure that people are evacuated safely from the building.
The Academy is a London Ambulance Service Accredited Defibrillator site.
Information and Assistance
For further information about access, or to arrange assistance, please contact the Box Office: telephone 020 7873 7300 (Monday–Friday during term-time, 10am–4pm).


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Step 1In a large saute pan heated over medium heat, melt the butter. Add the rosemary and stir until the rosemary is coated.
Step 2Stir in the marshmallows, and continue to stir until the marshmallows melt and mix with the butter, about 5 minutes.
Step 3Stir in the vanilla and salt, then slowly stir in the cereal until it is evenly coated. Remove the pan from the heat.
Step 4Transfer the mixture to a shallow 9-by-13-inch baking pan. Cover the top with parchment paper, pressing down firmly to level off.
Step 5Set the pan aside for at least 1 hour to cool before slicing into squares.

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text: December HR To-Do List 11/14/2016 Now is the time to start preparing for a smooth year-end! You probably have a number of things on your year-end list specific to your company, but here's a start to your To-Do List for the month of December, 2016: Ensure you are in compliance with the new FLSA Overtime Ruling BY DECEMBER 1st! (see our post describing the ruling in more detail here.) Is your holiday party finalized? Prepare or revisit your winter weather policies and be sure employees are aware of them Distribute 401(k)


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The Meditant (Prestige Class) Mark A. Jindra and Scott Brocius
"Chance favors the prepared mind."
A meditant has discovered the wondrous powers that can be released when mind and body become one. While exploring the inner depths of solitude that meditation provides, the meditant finds an inner peace and harmony that few will ever experience or understand. Over time, they become masters of meditation and easily awaken their psychic energy centers to manipulate the psionic forces buried deep within. Meditants possess a strong belief that by preparing their minds, the scales of chance will tip in their favor.
Hit Die: d4.
To qualify as a meditant, a character must meet the following criteria:
Manifesting: Ability to manifest two 3rd-level powers.Concentration: 8 ranks.Feats: Psychic Meditation (four times).Alignment: Any lawful.
Class Skills
The meditant's class skills are Autohypnosis (Wis), Concentration (Con), Diplomacy (Cha), Knowledge (psionics) (Int), Profession (any) (Wis), Psycraft (Int), Sense Motive (Wis), and Stabilize Self (Con).
Skill Points at Each Level: 4+ Int modifier.
Class Features
All of the following are class features of the meditant prestige class.
Armor and Weapon Proficiency: Meditants gain no proficiency in any armor or weapons, though they retain any knowledge gained from former classes.
Power Points*: When they gain a level, meditants gain power points per day as though they gained a level of psion. These power points are added to the character's previous total. Meditants gain bonus power points based on the key ability score for their primary ability. If the character previously could not gain bonus power points for high ability scores (as is the case for psychic warriors), she now chooses a primary discipline and can gain bonus power points based on the related ability score.
Powers Discovered: With the exception of 4th and 9th levels, meditants discover powers per level as though they gained a level of psion. Powers are chosen from the psion power list. Their effective manifester level is increased by one for each level of the prestige class.
Psionic Combat: Psionic attack and defense modes are discovered as though the character were a psychic warrior of the same level as the prestige class. (Characters do not forget previously discovered attack and defense modes.)
Psicrystals: Meditant levels count toward the level of psion for purposes determining psicrystal intelligence and special abilities. Psicrystals are a class ability of psions. You must take at least one level of psion if you wish to encode a psicrystal.
0-Level Powers: Meditant levels count toward the level of psion for purposes determining the number of free manifestations per day or your 0-level powers.
Psychic Meditation: The meditant gains the Psychic Meditation feat and can select a psychic energy center that she has not already previously selected with this feat. If she has taken this feat all seven times, she cannot select any additional psychic energy centers. See "Chance Favors the Prepared Mind" for more information about this feat.
Intense Psychic Meditation: The meditant gains the Intense Psychic Meditation feat and can select a psychic energy center that she has not already previously selected with this feat. If she has taken this feat all seven times, she cannot select any additional psychic energy centers. See "Chance Favors the Prepared Mind" for more information about this feat.
Inner Peace: Through much practice, the meditant has learned how to more quickly bring herself to inner peace and harmony. Meditation time is reduced by 5 minutes at 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 7th levels (minimum of 1 minute).
Prepared Mind (Su): The meditant has mastered control of her psionic attacks. She can add half of her meditant levels as a modifier to the defender's Will save DC for psionic combat. She can use this ability a number of times each day equal to the number listed.
Ethereal Form (Su): The meditant can become ethereal and return back to material existence at will as a standard action. The amount of time she spends as ethereal is unlimited, but she can become ethereal and return to material existence only three times per day. The meditant gains all the benefits and limitations as described on page 76 of the Dungeon Master's Guide.
Inner Harmony (Su): Once the meditant has gained the ability to intensely meditate and activate all seven psychic energy centers (via the Intense Psychic Meditation feat), the duration for the bonuses increases by 4 hours.
The Meditant
Base Attack Bonus
Power Points per day
Powers Discovered
Psychic Meditation, Inner Peace 1
+1 Manifester Level
Psychic Meditation, Prepared Mind 1/day
Psychic Meditation, Inner Peace 2
Intense Psychic Meditation, Prepared Mind 2/day
Intense Psychic Meditation, Inner Peace 3
Intense Psychic Meditation, Prepared Mind 3/day
Intense Psychic Meditation, Inner Peace 4
Intense Psychic Meditation, Prepared Mind 4/day
Intense Psychic Meditation, Ethereal Form
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Plan your exit strategy
When Vanessa Troyer and Chris Farentinos launched MailBoxes4Less.com in 2000, they didn't give much thought to how they'd exit the online mailbox distribution company.
All that changed in 2006. Recognizing the huge growth potential in manufacturing high-end mailboxes for builders and retailers, the Los Angeles couple decided to channel all their efforts into a second business, Architectural Mailboxes. This meant selling the highly profitable MailBoxes4Less.com to free up the necessary funds.
It wasn't a scenario most entrepreneurs envision when they think about exit strategies.
"No one was sick," says Troyer, 45. 'We didn't want to retire. Investors weren't saying 'I'm done.' There was no reason to sell the business."
But sell the couple did, garnering more than $1 million for the venture they'd founded eight years earlier with just $25,000.
It was the right move: Today Architectural Mailboxes continues to grow, with products in every Lowe's store in the nation and more than half of Home Depot's locations. Amazon carries 140 of the company's products. And, Troyer says, the business is on track to grow by 38 percent by the end of 2011.
Hoping to follow in Troyer and Farentinos' footsteps? Experts say the best way to ensure you leave your company when and how you want–with money in hand–is to start plotting your exit strategy now, even if you're still developing the business plan. Sadly, study after study shows that a majority of entrepreneurs have no exit strategy whatsoever in place.
If this sounds familiar, don't fret. You're about to get a crash course in preparing for two of the most common ways to successfully exit a business: turning the reins over to a relative and selling the company.
[Read the rest of this article on Entrepreneur.com.]
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I'm writing ahead of what will be the usual barrage by the pro-badger lobby. I am a dairy farmer from Devon that operates a closed herd (that is for those that don't know - we don't introduce any animals on to the farm) We also have excellent boundary fences and high hedges which very much limits interaction between our stock and that of our neighbours.So this farm had enduring TB problems, regular 60 day tests, cattle reactors slaughtered and finally a badger removal. And that was the end of the story. The badgers repopulating this farm were not diseased, the cattle in Devon are tested annually, and this farm can trade with confidence. Neither is it a 'badger free' zone. The comment concludes:
In the past we suffered badly with TB and had multiple breakdowns over a period of time. This was during a period when MAFF were trapping and culling badgers on infected farms. 80 percent of the badgers trapped on our farm where diagnosed with TB at post mortem, once they had been removed - big surprise, so was our TB problem.
We currently have badgers on the farm and they have been there for a number of years now. I have no doubt that they are free from TB and therefore would have no plans to cull them. "
"Those that live and work in the countryside know that wildlife along with all the other factors has an important role to play in the spread of this terrible disease, and whilst successive ministers have passed rules and regulations that address cattle to cattle transfer, at last we have one with the balls to address the wildlife problem. Congratulations to Jim Paice for a bit of common sense, it's a rare quality in a politician."
We started this site after being in exactly the same position as this Devon dairy farmer, but without the benefit of a badger removal operation. Three of us also had the misfortune to be included in the
The RBCT certainly showed anyone who was listening, how not to cull badgers. And like the tightly targetted clearance described by the Devon farmer, the only driver of culling should be the presence of disease.


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I have found this great article on our library clippings, and I hope wives out there can read this. Wanna score with your husband? Here are some tips on how you can make him feel loved.
1. Appreciate his work. Let him know that you understand the stress he endures at the office.
2. Don't criticize him in public. If you have to disagree with him, do it privately.
3. Do away with habits that annoy him.
4. Stop nagging him about things you want him to change in himself. If someone has to change, let it be you.
5. Be vocal with your gratitude for the things he does for you. Try to keep you "to-do" list for him at a minimum.
6. Give him special attention instead of always focusing on your children's needs.
7. Instead of waiting for him to remember your anniversary, plan a celebration and kidnap him yourself.


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Posts tagged with "Robert A.M. Stern":
Painter Carl Laubin creates meticulous architectural dreamscapes
A fresh look at RAMSA's Upper West Side luxury condos
Thomas Heatherwick unveils High Line towers with bulging window facades
Catching up with Bob Stern on life after Yale
Robert A.M. Stern and Norman Foster talk Yale and martinis at the Glass House
Robert A.M. Stern discusses his first Chicago tower with AN
Robert A.M. Stern took a moment to speak with AN Midwest Editor Matthew Messner about One Bennett Park, Stern's first tower in Chicago. In part thanks to a long, trusting relationship with the developer Related Midwest, Stern's office, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, was tasked with designing both exterior and interiors for the project. Design partner Daniel Lobitz is leading a team to design a tower that Stern hopes will capture some of the glamour of old Chicago.
The Architect's Newspaper: What do you see as some of the advantages of being able to control so much of the design?
Robert A.M. Stern: I think an architect who has a strong sense of design can create almost anything, and certainly should be able to, and should be encouraged to, carry the design ideas into the interior. Certainly the public areas—lobby, elevators, cabs, and public halls—on any floor in a residential building. We have done that in many buildings and for many of our buildings for Related in New York, including the Chatham, the Brompton, the Harrison, Tribeca Park, Tribeca Green, and most recently, 261 Hudson Street. Can you imagine a Mies van der Rohe building, whether his apartments on the Lake Shore or his office buildings, not being designed by Mies on the inside? I can't. If you don't trust an architect to design the inside of the building, why trust them to design the outside of the building?
Are there references or motifs that informed the design of One Bennett Park?
I think precedent is a very important factor in the design of this building, but it's a very important factor in the design of any building we undertake. I would say precedent is not necessarily historic. Precedent also can, and should, incorporate local traditions, local vernaculars of local buildings. This tower is our first tower built in Chicago, and only the second time we have built anything in Chicago. (Except for the bus shelters, and I guess there are 2,200 of them, so that must count for something.) I've been visiting Chicago as an archi-tourist for virtually all my life, so I know the great buildings are especially relevant to our work. Some of those buildings include the Marshall Field and Company Building in the Loop, and the Palmolive Building on North Michigan Avenue. A fantastic body of buildings—not only in Chicago, but all across the Midwest and other places as well—that inspired us as we began to think about how to shape the tower. Too many tall buildings are just extensions from the bottom up to the top. They may be structurally encased, like the John Hancock, but it's fundamentally an extrusion. I prefer—among the modernist buildings in Chicago in relationship to this discussion—what in my mind will always be the Sears Tower; I don't know what it is called this week. It steps up in the most amazing way according to a structural idea of Fazlur Rahman Khan.
What are some of the interior features of One Bennett Park that you feel make it exceptional?
There is a glamour about some of Chicago's interiors, residential and not. For example, the lobbies of the Marshall Field Building are wonderful. So, we wanted to capture some of that Chicago glamour in our lobbies. We have two separate lobbies, one for the rental portion of the building, and another for the condominiums. Each has its own design statement. The condominium lobby, which has wood paneling, is traditional, as wood paneling is traditional, but it's really very stylishly modern as well. There is a visual interest that one associates with buildings of the '20s and '30s, and that is sometimes not associated with the buildings of the late 20th century on the whole. We were looking at a lot of Frances Adler Elkins's work (she was David Adler's sister).
Has there been any particular advantages, or challenges, about building a major project in Chicago?
Nothing out of the ordinary. I think we are perhaps entering into a new territory of elegance and detail, and all of that costs money. I hope Chicagoans are getting ready to dip into their deep pockets for our building. The truth of the matter is the cost of habitation in Chicago is substantially lower than in New York. To get this much quality, and to really break out of a rather "businesses as usual" mode, is a compliment to our clients, Related Midwest, to stick their necks out. I just hope we don't get chopped off.
Robert A.M. Stern says New York 2020 is happening
RAMSA opens in-office gallery
Chicago tops pre-recession tower crane count
Robert A.M. Stern recounts a heated confrontation between Denise Scott Brown and Paul Rudolph
In an interview with Yale School of Architecture's Paprika! magazine, former dean Robert A.M. Stern recounts a 1969 party in which "I had to peel Denise Scott Brown away from fighting with Paul Rudolph in my apartment over the subject of the way Denise and Bob Venturi had treated Rudolph's Crawford Manor." Scott Brown and Venturi had "savaged" the building in Learning From Las Vegas. Stern describes architect Ulrich Franzen telling him: "Bob you better go into the library, Denise is about to kill Paul Rudolph."
Sony Tower will now be turned into offices instead of luxury apartments
Designed by Phillip Johnson in the early 1980s, developer Joseph Chetrit last year hired Robert A. M. Stern to transform 22 floors in the 37-story tower into 96 luxury apartments. Units were set to start at $11 million. In 2015, The Real Deal reported that a $150 million penthouse, complete with a marble staircase and spanning three floors was in the making. Covering floors 33 through 35, the space was previously a corporate boardroom. Additionally, eight floors would be home to a five star hotel under the Oetker Collection. Holding 170 rooms, the hotel was also set to be designed by Stern.
Now, however, it seems such plans have been drastically curtailed.
After purchasing the Sony building for $1.1 billion in 2013, Chetrit this week agreed to sell the tower for $1.4 billion to the Olayan Group and Chelsfield. According to the New York Times, both firms have said that the building will now become an office building.
Sony, then it seems, appears to have cashed in at the right time three years ago when the upper echelons of the real estate market were in high demand. Chetrit's sale is indicative of the market slowdown. The "one percenters" looking for luxury in the city have dropped off the radar of late, as plans for a "superluxury tower" by Central Park South have also been abandoned. Meanwhile, another who had proposed a similar project on York Avenue and East 76th Street is reportedly in bankruptcy court.
"Even breaking even is a win," said luxury condo consultant Nancy Packes speaking of Chetrit's selling of the Sony building adding that "The appetite of that group of investors has dimmed," and the market has gone from "mush to ice."


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"Hokkaido Heritage" - The Concrete Arches of the Ancient Shihorosen Railway. (Kamishihoro Town)
The Taushubetsu Bridge stretches across the dammed Nukabirako River. Every year the bridge is submerged when the dam is opened, and in January the bridge appears again when the dam is closed and the water level drops. This is how the bridge got it's nickname "The Phantom Bridge." In winter, however, it is possible to walk across the frozen river using snowshoes, so there are tours all year to view the bridge.
The Taushubetsu Bridge is part of the ancient Shihorosen railway which was used to connect the Nukabira and Tokachi areas. Along this path many concrete arches were constructed. The Shihorosen line was opened in 1926 and was used primarily for the transport of agricultural crops and wood resource transport. However, in 1987, with the switch to automobile transportation, the line was closed. The line ran along
Otofukekawa Valley which is why so many bridges were required. These bridges were designed to work in harmony with the beauty of Taisetsuzan National Park and the valley itself, fr this reason concrete arches were chosen. Because of the material used, many of these arches remain today.
Although originally all the arches were set to be dismantled after the line was closed, many local residents felt that these bridges had more to offer and began a preservation movement to save them. In all, 34 bridges have been preserved. Since 1999 the community has worked to develope and promote the bridges as a centerpiece of the area. They created the "Higashi Taisetsu Arch Bridge Association" to help in this effort.
In recent years many footpaths, as well as a railcar system, have been developed to accommodate the many visitors who come every year to view the industrial heritage and nature of the area. There are also several hot springs close by, including "Nukabira Onsen," so fans of hot springs will have a great visit as well.
<ひがし大雪アーチ橋友の会> (Higashi Taisetsu Arch Bridge Association)
http://www3.ocn.ne.jp/~arch/index.html (Japanese)
<ひがし大雪自然ガイドセンター> (Higashi Taisetsu Nature Guide Center)
http://www.netbeet.ne.jp/~shizen/ (Japanese)
<ぬかびら源泉郷> (Nukabira Gensenkyou)
http://www.nukabiragensenkyou.com/ (Japanese)
<Hokkaido Heritage>
Website: http://www.hokkaidoisan.org/ (Japanese)
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hokkaidoisan (Japanese)
(Hokkaido Likers Writer - T・H)
(Photographs provided by NPO法人北海道遺産協議会)


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It takes FACTS about 14 business days to process applications once paperwork is received, so the sooner it's submitted, the better. The deadline for applications to be submitted and documents to be uploaded into FACTS is January 5th, 2018.
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Writing Success Stories One Student at a Time
"It is important to me to keep the bar raised," Price said.
"I expect excellence, and even if correction isn't warranted, I try to show
them enough love and compassion that it ignites their desire to try again."
Chandrea Williams
teaches fifth and sixth grade English/Language Arts at the Summit Education Center,
and began working at Duncanville ISD in 2014. As an alternative education
teacher, Williams said she wears several hats to meet the needs of her
students. She uses a 'directing style' of teaching where she promotes students
learning through listening and following directions. She delegates by assigning
tasks requiring students to work on tasks either independently or in groups
while she observes their progress. She also uses a 'discussing style' of
teaching by encouraging students to be critical thinkers, have lively
discussions and respond to challenging questions.
"My most rewarding accomplishment as an educator has been
the ability to see my former students succeed educationally, socially and
spiritually," Williams said. "Seeing students who share with me their
appreciation of life lessons and academic growth makes me know that I'm walking
in my divine purpose of living, educating, empowering and enlightening
tomorrow's leaders in my class is my daily reward!"


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If you're focused on maximizing the performance and availability of your web properties, you probably already know how Dyn is changing the game for our customers with our Internet Performance solutions. But, in case you missed the Internet Performance story, we've recently partnered with Wiley to put together another one of their classic "For Dummies" guides. It illustrates how Internet Performance is helping companies gain better control of their websites and applications, leading to a better experience for end users while reducing costs to the business. In keeping with the other Wiley titles, the book is called Internet Performance for Dummies.
One of key points Internet Performance for Dummies discusses is the under-appreciated aspect of Internet Performance, reachability. Reachability is critical to the end-user experience, yet it often takes a backseat (or no seat) to availability.
A Focus on Availability
Most organizations are keenly aware of the availability of their web properties. They've invested in monitoring tools, such as APM and NPM, that alert them to anything that could cause an outage and have several people dedicated to ensuring the health of their infrastructure. The reason is simple—website outages lead to reduced revenue, damaged brand reputation, and a whole lot of stress for those people responsible for these websites.
With all this focus on availability, you'd think these companies must be deriving all of the revenue and positive reputation possible from the web, right? Unfortunately, probably not.
What is Internet Reachability?
The problem with focusing solely on availability is that you're only accounting for the internal factors that affect your customers' experience with your web properties. The reality is that the Internet consists of many miles of infrastructure that lies between your end users and wherever your websites and applications are hosted. Many routing decisions and network handoffs need to occur before an end user gets to a website at all. So, while your sites may be 100% available, the Internet opens up the possibility for regional disturbances that prevent customers in specific locations from being able to reach them. Whether the problem occurs in the company's data center, within a cloud provider, or within an ISP's network hundreds of miles away, from your end users' perspective, your websites are unavailable.
The question to ask is this—"What would it mean if our customers couldn't reach us from [insert major city here] for one day?" These types of regional outages occur thousands of times per day throughout the world. The ability of your customers to reach your websites and applications, even in the face of these outages, is what we mean when we talk of "Internet reachability".
Ensuring High Internet Reachability
Ensuring high availability requires looking internally to make sure all your infrastructure is up and running and able to respond to requests. Reachability requires looking outside your organization. Similar to the tools that monitor the infrastructure you own and manage, Dyn's Internet Intelligence product provides the tools you need to monitor the Internet itself so that you're aware as soon as a market is unable to reach you online.
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Yep, things are about to get personal.
I've always struggled with eating, with my weight, with knowing when to stop.
Ever since I was a kid I would find ways to eat more food, to sneak it when no-one was watching.
I was always bigger than other kids, even when I wasn't particularly fat. I was taller, broader, but a lot of that used to come from my love for swimming and endless laps up and down the pool, sometimes up to five days a week at my prime.
But, as so many of us sadly do, I gave up that sporting passion. My exercise went down, and my weight shot up.
Going to college, getting a job and having control of my own money was when things really started to get bad – why not buy that mid morning meal and the afternoon chocolate bars? All your skinny friends are eating 'em!
I've had issues with body confidence and self esteem all my life. Being overweight and perpetually single, with clothes at least 3 sizes bigger than all your friends…that makes you feel isolated. Makes you feel worthless. Makes you feel like you're going to end up alone your whole life, and what's the point in even trying when no one is interested in you anyway? That's diet culture talking, of course, but it's voice can be deafening.
All of this emotion, I battled with eating. Stockpiling chocolate and sweets and highly calorific foods, torturing myself every time I entered a supermarket, hiding the wrappers and feeling the ultimate shame and panic when anyone found them.
After years of internalising self hatred and making excessive consumption into a habit and a coping mechanism, I realised what was going on was so much more than greed or a lack of willpower. It's a disorder, a full blown eating disorder. I, Sophie Butcher, have an eating disorder. It feels weird to write it down. I might not have been officially diagnosed or had a doctor actually say those words to me, but I know it's true. I've never been so sure about anything in my life.
Binge Eating Disorder, or BED, is a condition in which a person feels compelled to overeat regularly in the form of binges. And yes, you might be thinking 'that's not a real thing' or 'everyone overindulges from time to time', but this is more than just ordering dessert at a family meal, or munching through a whole bag of Doritos on a hangover. Binge Eating Disorder is the consistent act of buying lots of high calorie, low nutrition food and eating it in one go until you feel sick and bloated – and you do it again and again to cope with emotional or mental issues.
When you binge, you don't even know where you are or who you are. You don't taste anything, it's just the act of putting something in your mouth and forcing it down until your jaw hurts that gives you some kind of twisted comfort – that is until you're finished, which is when you become weighed down with shame and guilt. And then the cycle starts again.
Looking back, I was doing this on almost a daily basis, from when I was about 16 up until a few months ago. That kind of behaviour, it affects you. It changes you from someone who just overeats, to someone who obsesses about food at every waking moment (in a different way to those with a healthy relationship with food say they do), and becomes crippled with depression because that obsession with food has consumed them and blocked out every seemingly positive thing in their life.
I know this is getting kind of heavy, but this is something I've needed to get off my chest for a long while now, and even the act of typing it is making me feel lighter. I feel like it's time to share my story, my truth.
All of this built up over a long period of time and eventually I forced myself to talk to a doctor about it. I also had a blood test which lead to me being diagnosed as pre-diabetic, with my blood sugar levels being very close to full blown Type 2 diabetes. Having diabetes is a long term fear of mine that has caused me real anxiety, and so being told I was on the verge was, well, horrifying.
How could I have done this to my body? How could my brain, a part of me I'd always been so proud of, let this happen to me?
Basically, I don't have diabetes now but if I had kept going on the way I was, it's extremely likely that I would develop it in the future.
This spurred me into action, but slowly. I'm doing better at getting healthier than I have in a long time – I do netball twice a week, go the gym and have been regularly competing in 10k runs this year, but it doesn't feel like enough. I'm praying that when I go back to the doctors, it will be to receive better news.
Learning I was pre-diabetic was a wake up call alright, but was it a big enough one to overcome my eating disorder and mental health demons? I'm not so sure.
It's a weird feeling, living in fear. It doesn't make battling an eating disorder any easier.
All I know is that I'm doing a lot better than I was, most days anyway.
I know I have no choice to get better, to get healthier, but I'm going to focus on taking it one day, one meal, one mouthful at a time.
I'm sharing all of this because I want to raise awareness and recognition of BED, as well as other eating disorders. BED is now recognised as an eating disorder, just like anorexia and bulimia, but seems so much less talked about. I want to share my story as a sufferer of BED to hopefully help anyone out there in the same situation feel less alone.
Expect to see more posts like this on here as I go through my journey to recovery and improving my physical and mental health.
I'm not a mental health or medical professional and can't advise on suffering with depression, pre-diabetes or BED other than my own experiences. If you feel like you have any of these conditions, please go and see your GP.
Be brave, it will help – I promise.
***This post was edited in May 2018 to remove any content that is triggering, fatphobic, weight-stigmatising or related to diet culture, and to try and show my experience with an eating disorder more responsibly. If you've been affected by this post, please contact eating disorder charity Beat for support.***


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Reclaiming Our Airwaves
Derechos Humanos & Wingspan
invite you to:
An Evening with Rory O'Connor
Author of
Shock Jocks:
Hate Speech and Talk Radio
America's 10 Worst Hate Talkers
and the Progressive Alternatives
Saturday, October 11, 2008
7:00 - 9:00 pm
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Tucson, AZ
$15.00 requested donation / $5 for students
If you are unable to attend, a generous donation would be greatly appreciated
Please join us for a lecture and reception with Rory O'Connor, author of the recently published Shock Jocks: Hate Speech & Talk Radio as he discusses the rise of the right wing dominance of America's airways, and alternatives that are available to our communities to reclaim them.
O'Connor is also the co-author of the Nukespeak: The Selling of Nuclear Technology in America, a regular online columnist for AlterNet and MediaChannel, and also writes the popular "Media Is A Plural' blog (www.roryoconnor.org).
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text: It wasn't very long after the first commercially viable automobiles came on the scene that ambitious engineers began to dream of vehicles that could travel not only on land but also in the air, or by water. For nearly a century, talented designers have created unique dual purpose vehicles for land, water and air (in various pairings) for both civil and military applications. Sometimes converted from standard vehicles, sometimes beginning as clean-sheet designs, these machines have met the engineering and economic challenges of dual-mode travel with varying degrees of success. This book describes a fascinating array of these vehicles from the United States and abroad, including flying automobiles, roadable aircraft, amphibious vehicles, hovercraft, road-rail trains, and triphibious inventions.


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In Pictures: Paris on parade for Bastille Day celebrations
French President Emmanual Macron led the July 14 celebrations on the Champs Elysee.
French President Emmanuel Macron led the Bastille Day celebrations as crowds packed the streets of Paris for the annual parade.
This year's event showcased European defence co-operation and flags of the 10 countries of the European Intervention Initiative, a joint military pact created last year, headed Sunday's parade down the Champs Elysees.
The display included more than 4,000 armed forces, 69 planes and 39 helicopters – but the biggest crowd-pleaser was a French soldier rocketing through the air on a flyboard device, the invention of French former jet-skiing champion Franky Zapata.
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John Phelan Motor Company have a workshop and car service centre in Allenwood, Co. Kildare. From car servicing, oil changes, diagnostics, engines and gearboxes our workshop handles it all. Our technicians work on all car types and all work is completed to manufacturers specifications. Dealer principal John Phelan is on site every day to ensure all work is carried out to the highest standards and quality customer service is always our aim.
All makes and models are catered for and we price keenly so as to maintain your custom long term.
A full list of services are detailed below:
- Car servicing
- Car repairs
- Oil changes
- Valeting
- Timing belt changes
- Tyres & wheel balancing
- Battery replacement
- Pre NCT work
- Factory recommended maintenance
- Advanced engine diagnostics
- Electrical/electronic systems
- Emissions test failures
- Steering and suspension systems
- Engine performance and repair
- Brake systems, including ABS
- Safety systems, including airbags
- Heating and air conditioning
- Clutch replacements
Our standard service includes the following 17 point check:
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- Air Filter
- Fuel Filter
- Pollen Filter
- Spark Plugs
- Front Brakes
- Rear Brakes
- Brake Pipes
- Oil Doors
- Washers / Wipers
- Coolant
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Intensive Support Playgroups aim to promote positive outcomes for vulnerable families with young children through the provision of playgroup based strategies. These strategies focus on early childhood development and contribute to increased child safety and wellbeing and to development of parenting knowledge and skills.
The primary focus of the Tangentyere Intensive Support Playgroup is to provide early intervention and prevention strategies for children and families living on Town Camps in Alice Springs.
Playgroup provides, in conjunction with the Community Toy Library, appropriate age/stage development activities that focus on fine and gross motor skills and cognitive development for children up to 6 years of age. It seeks to create a supportive environment that encourages parents and caregivers to have fun and positive interactions with their children whilst enhancing their knowledge and understanding of developmental milestones.
Playgroup has formed solid partnerships with a range of other Tangentyere Family and Youth Services and external government and non government service providers primarily focussed on health, child protection and early childhood development. Of further benefit to the capacity building aspect of the Playgroup is the provision of family support through the Ketye Program.
(Keep our Children and Families Strong)
The Ketye Program commenced in October 2005 with a focus on improving parenting knowledge and skills and overall family wellbeing by addressing some of the gaps in service delivery to vulnerable families. Ketye provides parenting education, information and support to parents, and works with families with children aged 0-7 who are considered vulnerable and/or in crisis.
A significant aspect of the Ketye Program is its link to Tangentyere Intensive Support Playgroup and facilitate access to a broad range of other services and agencies that enhance parents' skills, knowledge and learning. The benefits of this are clearly defined pathways and connections to ongoing education and the capacity for parents to assist and support their children in the transition through day care, pre-school and into the education system.
The overall benefits of Ketye and Playgroup are increased social, health and welfare outcomes for families that contribute to keeping children safe.
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I've recently been watching a few YouTube reviews of WISH.COM hauls, and I'm super intrigued by the platform and how cheap stuff is? Ordered a couple of items from the site. Will share more as I receive them so you guys are aware of the hits and misses. Do share your gems if you've ordered good stuff for amazing prices from Wish too!
Stuff to note when ordering off Wish:
– There are hits and misses, and not all reviews are pegged to the right items (some bug in the website)
– Products take a while to arrive (at least 2.5-3 weeks?)
– Don't take prices at face value. Prices might vary according to product variant (colour) and shipping costs
What was advertised:
Actual price: $2, with shipping.
These were quite the rage sometime back, lauded for being hygienic (easy to wash) and also cuts down on makeup wastage (foundation doesn't get absorbed into the sponge). I usually use my bare fingers for application of my BB cream but for $2 why not right? Plus you get 2 pcs, which really works it out to be $1 a piece.
Actual pics:
Product arrived in individual small ziplock bags
After usage with BB cream
Just rinse with soap and…
Good as new! Tried this with foundation too and vs fingers you definitely get more even coverage. I don't really use sponge applicators so I can't vouch whether this is a better alternative for that but I can see why it's much cleaner and more durable.
What was advertised:
Actual price: $2, with shipping.
Dude just look at the main pic. I was sold. I'm a regular concealer user as I'm plagued by acne scars and bad eye bags, so I thought I'd give this a try for the price point.
Actual pics:
Texture is actually very creamy, buildable and blendable.
Not bad right?
Now I know the colour is not right for my limbs but I have some bruises on my knees so I thought they'd make a prime test bed for coverage:
It's no MAC, but seriously not bad for the price. And I'm not breaking out in hives or anything. So far so good.
3. Stick-on bra
What was advertised:
Actual price: $2.85 with shipping.
But still. $2 for a bra??? You can't even get this price at Bugis street. What arrived was a tiny package as they layered the cups on top of each other. These look great for drop back / backless dresses or tops.
Actual pics:
Inside: the darker bits are the adhesive —
Which is super sticky
And this is the outside.
I would say fair quality for a $2 bra, but zero support for those with bigger boobages. Also annoying that though the adhesive is mega-sticky, we're only given two thin and fragile pieces of plastic to cover them when not in use. Haven't tried this yet to assess long-lastingness of the adhesive; also have no idea how to wash it but I suppose rinse in water and air-dry, as the normal stick-ons work. Will update when I eventually use it!
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Dear family and friends,
Chinese new year is coming to an end. It has been a good fun time being able to celebrate with our Taiwanese members and get to know their family better. Unfortunately, there was too much food and in our district most missionary were sick, either food poison or gastroenteritis. I was one of those that has food poison, but I'm all good now with lots of electrolytes drinks and rest and , of course, the priesthood blessing too.
The weather last week was perfectly nice. Not too hot nor too cold. But it seems like the cold is coming again :(
I've received many more birthday cards this week (some mails were delays giving it was Chinese New YEar holidays last week, so post office was close.) Especially thanks to Sharon and Yi Yi for sending beautiful dress and skirt. Also, the birthday drawings from Firle ward primary. I just feel so grateful and "xin fu".
It has been a busy week with many travel, trains and walks. We have zone training meeting which absolutely inspired. We seems to have the best zone leaders! Next day was interview with President Blickenstaff. Another inspired interview that let me see what a charitable and Christlike leader my mission president is. Then, I went to Tainan for an exchange with Sister Training leader. It was a fun and miracle exchange. I really see how important and powerful a lesson can be when both companions contribute 50-50 to the lesson.
Something that I love from my mission president's letter this week:
"Heavenly help is available to each of us and is just a prayer away."
I know this to be true. I've always thought I trusted the Lord before my mission but what I've realised since being out here is that I didn't trust and rely on him enough. The counsel of prophet Alma becomes more real to me. In Alma 37:37 pointed out " Counsel with the Lord in all thy doings, and he will direct thee for good..." It is true that the Lord would like us to counsel him with all doings, either it be big or small decisions. If I rely on the Lord enough, I will counsel Him in all my doings, because I know that no matter what it is, He will provide me with answers that lead to my benefit. Not saying that we let God control everything for us. We still have our agency to choose if we want to follow the answer we receive.
Sorry no pictures this week. My SD card has virus again so need to be fixed! Urrgg... whoever created the virus needs to repent!
Love you all, and hope you have a great week ahead.
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Fog hangs o'er the hills
As the rain comes pouring down,
Vivifying what once was dead
As winter comes rolling in.
But Winter's freezing breath
Has only just begun to blow,
Huffing and puffing ice and snow,
Swirling them round and round
Till what the rain has resurrected
Is cold and white and dead once more.
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Highs ropes are an outdoors rope course which is designed to aid personal development and team building and cooperation skills. The activity generally consists of various high and low elements which vary from climbing up ropes, swinging on ropes, zip-lining and trapeze. High rope courses are normally constructed in trees utilising their height and strength to support frames in which individuals climb and swing from.
Most high rope courses have variations so that a wide age wide and ability range can take part and enjoy the activities. High rope courses are challenging and test a person's willingness and inclination to take on challenges which they fear and to overcome these.
Many come out with a sense of achievement on completing a high ropes course. All high rope courses have fully trained professionals and high safety standards for all activities and challenges. Although these standards are in place the risk of an injury or accident is still there so making sure you have personal insurance in place before getting on a high ropes course is advised.


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To ship your parcel, it needs to include a visible shipping label for the courier to scan when they pick it up!
Once you have created a shipment, you can find your shipping labels under Manage 'Shipments / To Download'. Please checkbox all the labels you wish to download and then click the download button at the top right corner.
A file containing all of the necessary shipping documents will be downloaded. Just print everything in the file and stick the documents to your package!
Please note: The courier will not accept the same shipping label being used on multiple boxes.
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Skin Lift PDO Threads | HēBē Skin Health
Hebe Skin Health's minimally invasive, non-surgical skin lift. This highly effective treatment involves using tiny surgical threads called Polydioxanone, which are inserted into the skin using a micro-needle. While being inserted, these threads tighten and lift the skin while stimulating the body's natural healing and rejuvenating process. The PDO threads will help contour the face and jawline, decrease facial roundness and improve fine lines and wrinkles.
- Tighten and address loose or saggy skin
- Non-surgical skin lift
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- Less expensive than surgical skin lifts
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Why is this good? Aside from the obvious security and sense of achievement, my son, when initially approached about this, stepped back, breathed and remained present. He appreciated the offer but was also being realistic. Buddhism teaches us to do exactly that...step back, pause, access....BE PRESENT.
Am I a proud father? You bet. Griffin accomplished in six months what I could never dream possible even for myself. But, how he handled the situation made me respect him more and fill my heart with joyous love.
Wisdom teaches me that I am nothing. Love teaches me that I am everything. My life is a balance between the two.


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The north end of San Juan Island received as much as two inches of snow late Thursday night, slowing traffic and sending county snowplows and sanders to the Roche Harbor area, where resort manager Brent Snow reportedly closed steep roads briefly until sand could be applied and roads cleared.
Other areas of San Juan Island saw less snow, and the sheriff's department reported that other islands in the county received only light snow.
Skies were clearing by late morning. Accuweather forecast for Friday Harbor calls for 38 degrees with some sun on Saturday and 43 degrees with mixed snow and rain for Sunday.
In the wake of the massive snow problems in the Atlanta area, Frank Mulcahy, San Juan County Director of Public Works director, wants you to know he's got you covered—even if Friday's flurries don't amount to much more than a minor inconvenience.
Responding early this week to a Journal inquiry, Mulcahy, like the Navy man he used to be, sent the Journal the following rundown of his plans in the event of snow and equipment Public Works has its disposal.
"We are set up for snow and ice response and our operations staff monitors weather forecasts and road conditions closely day and, when conditions warrant, night," Mulcahy said.
Here's Public Works' list of priorities in response to snow, according to Mulcahy:
Priority 1: Routes that carry large volumes of essential traffic for schools, ferry transportation, emergency vehicles, and commerce. Examples include Roche Harbor Road and Beaverton Valley Road.
Priority 2: Routes that carry less traffic than Priority 1 routes, but still serve larger population areas or that may serve as alternate routes to routes that are blocked due to condition or accidents. Examples include Egg Lake Road and Boyce/Wold roads.
Priority 3: All other roads.
Public Works' 'toolbox' of equipment and material to handle even a major snowstorm.
Equipment: For standard storm response, the County has six large hook-lift trucks (two trucks per main island) outfitted with both sanders and snowplows. We also have six 1-ton trucks (two per main island) with plows as well as three small sander attachments. On Shaw Island, there is a 1-ton truck with plow and sander that is sufficient. For larger storms, the county can augment with road graders and loaders as needed.
Material: The county improves traction on icy routes using applied materials on road surfaces, but is selective regarding when and where they are used for cost and environmental reasons. Problem areas like curves, intersections, and steep hills will be routinely treated when ice is a threat. The county uses basic materials like sand and rock salt as warranted. Public Works may pre-treat roads to prevent black ice or to assist with snow plowing based on weather forecasts.
Snow Route Maps can be found on the county website under the heading "Snow Routes" at: http://www.sanjuanco.com/publicworks/maps.aspx.


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The Australian Taxation Office is embarking on an ambitious program to improve GST and PAYG compliance through reporting and data matching. Shared Services SA is leading the implementation of the project for State Government agencies within the Masterpiece SYS1 financial system environment.
Shared Services SA is also supporting agencies utilising the UNIX and SYSH Masterpiece environments.
Government entities are now required to report the grants they make to ABN holders and payments for services provided (with data collection commencing on 1 July 2017).
In summary:
- consultation with agencies has been ongoing, with monthly updates delivered to a variety of stakeholders
- to deliver the required reporting, tailored system solutions have been implemented within Basware and Masterpiece, supported by changes to vendor creation procedures
- it is expected that around 1.2 million transactions will be reviewed by Shared Services SA
- data will be collected and lodged electronically with a 1 July 2017 start date
- Shared Services SA will generate reports for 17 agencies and lodge reports on behalf of 22 agencies
- the first report will be lodged on 28 August 2018.


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UnitedHealth Slips as Profit Match Leaves Investors Wanting
(Bloomberg) -- UnitedHealth Group Inc., the biggest U.S. health insurer, reported third-quarter sales below analysts' expectations while declining to raise its profit projections, driving shares down the most in two years.
Net income rose less than 1 percent to $1.57 billion from a year earlier and the Minnetonka, Minn.-based insurer reported per-share earnings of $1.53, matching the average of 18 analysts' estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Revenue climbed 12 percent to $30.6 billion, UnitedHealth said in a statement today. Analysts had estimated $30.9 billion, on average.
UnitedHealth exceeded analyst expectations in all but one quarter over the last four years, helped by rising enrollment and medical costs that have remained low since the recession ended in 2009. While both trends continued in the third quarter, the company also said profit suffered from a decline in government Medicare payments.
"There were a couple undesirable surprises," wrote Carl McDonald, a New York-based Citigroup analyst, in a note to investors today. "The obvious one is that earnings were in-line with expectations, rather than the big beats we've generally become accustomed to."
UnitedHealth fell 5.1 percent to $71.37 at 4 p.m. New York time, its biggest drop at the close since Oct. 3, 2011. The shares have gained 32 percent this year.
Rivals Decline
The shares of competing U.S. health insurers also dropped, with Humana Inc., the second-biggest Medicare provider after UnitedHealth, decreasing 2.9 percent to $93.85. WellPoint Inc. fell 1.2 percent to $88.59.
UnitedHealth is the first publicly traded health insurer to release results this quarter. Indianapolis-based WellPoint, the second-biggest U.S. health insurer, is due to report on Oct. 23. Humana, based in Louisville, Kentucky, will release results on Nov. 6.
"United didn't have a terrible quarter, by any means," McDonald said. "But we can't forget that these stocks are all trading at or near 52-weeks highs, with valuation multiples above historical norms, so the bar is a lot higher than it's been over the last couple of years."
The company said full earnings excluding some items will be $5.40 to $5.50 a share this year, raising the lower end of the $5.35-to-$5.50 projection it gave in July.
Reimbursements Drag
The insurer expects Medicare reimbursements to be a drag on results next year and sees "limited potential" for driving down medical costs, Chief Executive Officer Stephen Hemsley said on a conference call today. UnitedHealth's initial 2014 forecast will straddle the range it's given for this year, leaving open the possibility that earnings may not grow.
"We are focused on a number of things that we think will drive toward the upper end of that," Hemsley said. "But that execution remains to be seen."
UnitedHealth has limited its presence on the online insurance markets rolled out this year under the U.S. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Instead, it's been buoyed by growth in Medicare, the U.S.-backed program for the elderly, and Medicaid, the government-funded program for low-income Americans. UnitedHealth also paid $4.9 billion last year to acquire Brazil's largest insurer.
Enrollment in the company's medical plans, its main line of business, grew 24 percent to 45.3 million people.
Difficult Comparison
Nonetheless, operating earnings from the insurance business declined. The company cited cuts in Medicare reimbursements and a difficult comparison with last year's third quarter, when low medical costs gave UnitedHealth an "exceptional" boost.
By contrast, earnings swelled 54 percent in the company's Optum division, a smaller but growing unit that manages drug benefit plans and provides consulting services for hospitals and other clients.
While investors may have wanted more, today's results were "robust," said Sheryl Skolnick, an analyst with Stamford, Conn.-based CRT Capital Group.
"For our part, we see this as an extremely strong report with no fundamental problems in the business," she said. The company was "firing on all cylinders."
Earnings in 2012's third quarter were $1.56 billion, or $1.50 a share.
Already the largest private provider of Medicare plans, UnitedHealth said Oct. 15 that it was extending a 15-year-old marketing agreement with AARP, the Washington-based group representing older Americans, through 2020.
Like other carriers, the company has benefited from a slowdown in U.S. medical costs amid the halting economic recovery.
Those expenses "continue to remain at suppressed levels," Sarah James, a Wedbush Securities Inc. analyst in Los Angeles, wrote in a Sept. 30 note to clients. "Low utilization will be a driver of upside across the group."


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Sure, we call you "Career Changers", but lets be honest, you are interested in not only changing your career but changing course in your life, or maybe you just haven't found the right fit yet – something you are passionate about. Maybe this is the year you are finally going to do something about it.
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Fitting for this time of year.
My kids may no longer want to celebrate Halloween, but
Now, it's your turn!
Trying to convince my kids that they're too old for this but I think we have a couple more to do... Love this clean design - the stars are a fun touch!
Love this card Maureen! Fabulous as always.
Love the panel on the right side. I always put it on the left. Perfect stamping and a fabulous layout!
I saw your card on the Casology blog and just wanted to say how much I liked it. I want to use the same layout to use up some of my many many snippets of patterned paper!
I love the garland feel of the star and that you stamped them in gold. Fabulous.
The stars and cute sentiment, wowzers! love!
Love this! That side panel of dp and the string of stars is simply gorgeous!!! Sweet little pumpkin too. Great card. Bev
So lovely! The gold is glam tastic!
And the paper precious!
Very sweet design and love that pumpkin image, Maureen. Love the gold and orange together. :-)
Your stars are so much fun and the card is just adorable.
love this!
Gorgeous! Every detail is perfect!
Maureen, I love this fantastic pumpkin card, great dp to support your image.
Love this gorgeous card!!! Especially the colors!
Adorable, sweet and perfect for the season!
Oh, my...SIGH...this is gorgeous, Maureen! Love, LOVE!
Such an elegant Halloween card. Love it


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Firm Play Place arose up in 2010 as an organizer of brandname events Firm Play Place originated into 2010 year as the promoter of firm parties. Due to stringing of collaboration with our first American partner we start renting of motion car simulators, motion aircraft simulator on wests, tenders also preparations. Due to continuous development we opened a construction department and in a collaboration with an university we constructed first authorial car and airplane motion simulators. Due to development of firm about the professional workshop equipped by the machines of CNC also typists of 3d we could put in an operation the mass products of trainers of perfect quality. Our constructions were projected so, that it was possible to modify it also, that possible repairs were inexpensive and simple to translation without the necessity of contact with us. We provide 24 sentinel technical help over the internet the combined team of viwera also skype.
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Lowdown: A depressed housewife deals with the seemingly imminent loss of her husband.
As our personal Sandra Bullock festival continues, I seem to have received a retrospective answer to the issue I have raised after watching The Proposal: At the time I said that it's about time Bullock moved away from the typical romantic comedy role that had characterized her career for better and for worse. Well, it seemed like she heard me, because in 2007 she took part in a drama called Premonition; and given the way Premonition goes, I can't blame her for going back to the green pastures of silly rom com.
As Premonition starts, we quickly learn a few things about Bullock character's life. She got married to a loving husband, they live in a huge suburban house, they have two kids. Your typical American Dream story, in short. Next she receives a knock on the door and the police tells her that her husband has died in an accident. Then she wakes up the next morning and her husband is beside her, alive and well.
The rest of the film tries to go about providing a solution to this contradiction: is the husband alive or is he dead? As it goes about we learn a few more things about Bullock's life, like her being a disillusioned housewife and her having not much of a life; her relationship with her husband wasn't going too great, either.
As we wait for a satisfying solution to this drama we have to endure a tiring and incredibly self contradicting set of mystical explanations and events, rendering Premonition the equivalent of a medieval torture. Essentially, Premonition is like a M. Night Shyamalan formula film that's done even worse than usual. Spare yourselves and avoid it at all expense.
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In an attempt to find what's going on, Bullock visits her local priest. The guy comes up with books quoting similar events, no doubt in order to render an aroma of authenticity to his upcoming words. He then he sits by Bullock's side and tells her problems such as hers are a result of losing one's faith. The faithless, he goes to say, are like doomed empty vessels.
Got it? Premonition is just another film where those who hold faith in that which can never be proven try to find some sort of a justification for their belief. Try very unsuccessfully, I have to add; if this is what theists/fatalists can come up with then they are stupidly desperate.
Overall: Dear Sandra, you would have been better off doing Miss Congeniality 37 than this Premonition crap. 1 out of 5 stars.


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Zachman's perfect world still eludes enterprise architects
Enterprise architecture (EA) frameworks like The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) and the Zachman Framework offer powerful reference models through which enterprises can build out infrastructures that try to better align business and IT. Obviously every organization has its own approach to architecture, making it something of a relative concept. But does that mean enterprise architecture is arbitrary?
John Zachman himself recently wrote a post in which he seemed to chide much of the IT world for not treating EA as a serious enough discipline. Zachman said EA is relative, but not arbitrary:
This is what is killing Enterprise Architecture… every computer programmer, systems designer, software architect, solutions architect, technology architect, computer operator, PC owner, data architect, database architect, network architect, business analyst, systems analyst, enterprise architect, service architect, object architect, project manager and CIO calls whatever they want to or maybe, whatever they are doing, "Architecture." It is chaos. No wonder we don't have Enterprises that are coherent, integrated, flexible, dynamic, interoperable, reusable, aligned, lean and mean and working.
If building architects and non-IT engineers treated their own disciplines as "arbitrary," Zachman wrote, we would not have skyscrapers and jetliners. Perhaps in an ideal world, EA would always be ruled by common frameworks, information models and the like – but this doesn't seem to be the case. If an airliner crashes, people die. If there is a bug in the enterprise software, some money is lost and it gets patched.
As much as Zachman may dream of a perfect world where enterprise architects all follow a common framework, changing business needs, licensing costs, skill availability, M&A, corporate politics and many other factors make that world but a distant hope.
That is not to say numerous enterprises aren't trying to get behind some of these frameworks. The Open Group released some statistics recently saying that more than 2,000 individuals were certified in TOGAF 9 over the past year and more than 83,000 copies of the framework have been downloaded.
At The Open Group, the evolution of TOGAF toward version 9 has focused on bringing EA from an IT-driven endeavor to one that the business shares. A lot of this has to do with communication, said Gary Doherty, TOGAF product manager at The Open Group.
"By improving the ability of enterprise architects to communicate," said Doherty, "that is improving the ability of enterprise architects to operate across an organization."
Doherty said TOGAF 9 shows faster adoption than the framework's previous versions. He added that it has been most popular in the U.S., U.K., The Netherlands and South Africa.
For architects focused more on the defense industry, there is the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) and Ministry of Defense Architecture Framework (MODAF). Both of these are at the center of a new training program offered by No Magic for learning the Unified Profile for DoDAF and MODAF (UPDM). UPDM is a modeling standard for both of these defense-centered architecture frameworks.
Returning to Zachman, there are indeed a number of great industry standards out there and common frameworks for EA seem to be growing in popularity. Yet it seems common practice for enterprises to refer to these frameworks as reference materials rather than a codified methodology. So do enterprise architects need to follow their framework of choice in blind faith, or are none of these frameworks so polished yet that this would even be viable?


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Women's Mental Health, An Issue of Psychiatric Clinics, Volume 33-2
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This issue reviews psychiatric concerns that are specific to women. Comprehensive and up-to-the-minute articles discuss topics such as PMS/PMDD, Perinatal Disorders, Menopause, Infertility, Female Sexual Dysfunction, Substance Abuse in Women, Gender Differences in ADHD, Fibromyalgia, Migraines in Women, Breast Cancer, Obesity in Women, Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Psychiatric Disorders in Women, Trauma and Violence Issues for Women in the Military, and Caring for the Elderly Female Psychiatric Patient.
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Kia announces 21.3pc increase in sales
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Kia posted year-on-year sales increases in all regions of the world in February with 41.8 per cent in China (38,007 units sold), 35.5 per cent in North America (49,682 units sold), 30.6 per cent in Europe (38,703), 5.0 per cent in general markets (39,472 units sold), and 2.5 per cent in Kia's home market of Korea (40,012 units sold).
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Yom Sport. Also known as Color War. For many, the pinnacle of their camp experience. For our oldest campers at Camp Ramah Darom however, Yom Sport is much more than just a day of healthy competition, cheers, and face paint. Yom Sport is an opportunity for them to hone their leadership skills through various roles.
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Kerem Trip To Israel, January 19-23, 2016
"According to Rabbi Cohen, "One of the earliest goals of Reshet Ramah was to create networks of Ramah leaders for professional growth. Through Kerem, we have, over the last three years, provided an opportunity for 20-something Ramah leaders to form deeper connections ,which has led to professional networking, professional growth, and personal religious development. This […]
Graeme Ossey & Lauren Mendel
Lauren and Graeme both attended Ramah Darom as campers but because they were in different edot, they did not know each other as campers.
Ari Kaiman & Emily Green
We met at a Koach Kallah in Chicago the Winter of 2002. We fell quickly for one another and began a long distance relationship. Working together at Ramah Darom was the perfect way for us to share our new commitment to each other.
Bobby Jacobs & Alana Goldstein Jacobs
Bobby and Alana met at Ramah Darom in the summer of 2008 while working on Tzevet Mayim.
Rabbi Avi Killip's Reflection
When I was growing up, I thought that God lived at Camp Ramah. Ramah was my first experience praying every morning, and later three times a day, and in the quiet moments of the Amidah, I discovered that I could talk to God.
Josh Lerman & Lauren Sadler
Lauren and Josh met in 2000 at Camp Ramah Darom in the North Georgia mountains. Lauren remembers being interested in a goofy, funny, outgoing and charismatic boy that summer. Lauren was too shy to go over and say anything to Josh, yet all of her friends knew she liked him. Two summers went by and […]
Jeremy Schreier's Reflection
It has been five years since my last Ramah summer (when I worked on tzevet at Camp Ramah Darom in 2010), but at the Reshet Ramah event, I quickly felt a strong connection with fellow alumni.
Ari Hausman & Laura Berke
In the beginning of 2012, Laura was in Israel on OTZMA and Ari was finishing his degree at Binghamton. They were both looking for jobs and stumbled upon the American Hebrew Academy where they had an intensive Fellowship program. They both applied, both were offered the job, and both showed up in August of 2012.
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Mr SPEIRS ( Bright ) ( 15:31 ): On Australia Day 2016, Seacliff Beach in the heart of my electorate, became South Australia's first accessible beach.
This was the result of Beach for All, a community movement which saw internet-based crowd funding raise $10,000 to pay for a moveable pathway which extends from the esplanade at Seacliff in front of the Seacliff Hotel across the soft sand towards the water's edge.
The mat which comes in several rolls of interlocking plastic, is the first of its type in Australia. It is now being rolled out at Seacliff during surf lifesaving patrols, 1pm to 5pm on Saturday, Sunday and public holidays until Easter.
Beach for All started as an image on social media. I was tagged in an example of a pathway on a beach overseas and so I took time to investigate it. I immediately felt that this was something we should have in South Australia and it would be even better if it could happen in my electorate. This was a project that would have huge benefits and it needed to be delivered quickly. I approached Surf Life Saving South Australia and Seacliff Surf Life Saving Club to see if they would be willing to be partners in this project. They agreed and it was full steam ahead.
A crowd funding website was established and promoted in the local community. The community caught the vision and were quick to give. Donations rolled in, many from individuals, but others from community groups, service clubs and businesses. In 16 short weeks, this project went from being an image on social media to being a solid surface rolled out across Seacliff beach that Charlie Rowland, a 17-year-old Seacliff Park resident and spinal atrophy sufferer, was able to travel down as our inaugural user.
There is no doubt in my mind that when Charlie travelled down the Beach for All pathway at Seacliff, this was the most impacting moment of my career in parliament. There are a number of significant people who I would like to thank for their involvement in this project: Andrew Chandler, President of Seacliff Surf Life Saving Club and recently named City of Holdfast Bay Australia Day Citizen of the Year, who embraced the project and brought his club along on the journey; Claire Harris, Chief Executive of Surf Life Saving South Australia who saw the vision and cleared any barriers out of the way. Her no-nonsense approach to leadership is a breath of fresh air and the partnership with Surf Life Saving South Australia was phenomenal.
The Rotary Club of Brighton which was wound up in 2015, provided the balance of their funds, a total of $5,000 to Beach for All. Their contribution provided half of the total funds needed and made a huge difference to the project. Special thanks to Alison and Mark Rogers for their commitment to this project. The City of Holdfast Bay which donated $1,000; the Lions Club of Hallett Cove and Districts which donated $500; Jane and James Hall from enerG+ Personal Training who raised $500 through Workout for a Cause with a group of 25 or so people, me included, at Seacliff early one Saturday morning; Susan Craig of Solarsuit Australia who donated 10 percent of her company's December/January net profits; and of course the many people, local residents and those from further afield who made donations, big and small, via our My Cause crowd funding website.
Beach for All has become a social media sensation. My office has received inquiries from all over the world about how we went about making this project a reality. It has changed lives and, having visited the pathway on several occasions, it has been amazing and emotional to watch people visit the beach for the first time in their lives and to feel the salt water lap over their feet.
Seacliff beach may be the first accessible beach in South Australia, but, Deputy Speaker, I am certain it will not be the last. Something good has begun.
Something good has begun.
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March was amazing! We're excited to share that we started a new campus huddle. Los Osos Middle School is now off and running as of this month. This month included our FCA Golf Classic, our family trip to Monterey Bay Aquarium, and Luke Llamas sharing on the north campuses! This is all captured in our awesome highlight video below!
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