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This sounds a bit silly, but I decided to perform my own little skin experiment this semester. In the span of a few weeks, I followed all the tips I'm about to share with you below. My skin looked better than ever, and I felt less of a need to wear makeup. After those weeks, I purposely decided to sleep later, eat late at night, and drink more sugary drinks just to see if it really would have a negative affect on my skin. Oh, it sure did. I'm still recovering from my few weeks of skin debauchery.
To be honest, my skin is far from perfect, so it feels a bit strange to be sharing this kind of advice. I still suffer from pimples and post-acne hyperpigmentation, and sometimes, I don't feel confident enough to leave my room without makeup on. But I and lots of other college folks completely understand. It's all about the effort, and every little thing that you do counts. Here are some skincare tips to know now in college that will help you for the long run:
1. Drink lots of water.
You've heard this time and time again, but drinking water really does make your skin look better. It helps flush out toxins and makes your skin look plump. I find that carrying around my Hydro Flask Insulated Bottle everywhere I go is the best way to stay hydrated. Water can taste really boring to me, so adding a few lemon wedges to my bottle before I leave for classes really helps me drink more.
2. Get 10-15 minutes out in sunlight without sunscreen.
I know girls that can't stand being under the sun, because they're convinced it's bad for their skin. I also know girls that bake underneath the sun for hours to get their tan on. Both aren't good. You don't want vitamin D deficiency, and you definitely don't want premature wrinkles. Getting 10-15 unprotected minutes of sun every day can actually help you get healthy skin!
3. Find skincare/makeup products with SPF.
If you walk or bike between classes in college, you're probably outside for more than 10-15 minutes a day. Enter SPF. Nothing beats a classic sunscreen, but the most convenient way for me to get my SPF fix is by using products that have built-in sun protection. It's also super important to reapply if you're gonna be out all day (music festivals, day parties, sporting events, etc.) As a college gal, I love products that are multi-purpose, because they save me time and counter space. The Supergoop! Defense Refresh Setting Mist SPF 50 above is perfect for SPF reapplication, but it also locks my makeup in place, and controls shine. Also, the rosemary and mint extracts in this smell really good. Just make sure to avoid getting it in your hair!
This right here is the Supergoop! Daily Correct CC Cream SPF 35+. I've shown this before in my everyday makeup favorites, but y'all, this stuff really is amazing. Ever since I discovered it in high school through Birchbox, I can't seem to find a better replacement. It's perfect for busy girls, because it basically combines your skincare and foundation into one step. I use the shade Light-Medium, and it does a wonderful job blurring out imperfections, neutralizing redness, and minimizing inflammation. It's packed with good stuff like essential fatty acids and apple extract to brighten your skin and give you perfect, light everyday coverage with just your fingers. Beware though...this stuff is basically waterproof, so make sure to wash your hands and wipe them with a disposal paper towel, so you don't stain your normal ones.
Unlike the CC Cream, this Supergoop! Shine On Lip Screen SPF 50 was completely new to me when I first received it, but I'm now hooked on this little guy. Most people don't realize their lips also burn in the sun, especially when wearing glossy lip products, because they actually magnify the sun's UV intensity. The idea of old, wrinkly lips makes me shudder, so this product is a great buy for you girls who need sun protection for your lips. This stuff isn't sticky at all, doesn't have a funny taste, and turns any lip shade into a perfect, summery gloss. Again, I'm hooked on it.
4. Get more sleep.
My mom always told me if I love myself, I need to sleep more. Seven or more hours of sleep seems impossible in college, but it can be done if you prioritize it. When you give your body more time to rest, it really does make a huge impact your skin. More on this in an upcoming blog post in my College Survival Guide series!
5. Eat smart snacks.
It's important to use good things for your skin, but it's just as important to put good things into your body. I love snacking, and I definitely get the study munchies. My rule of thumb is to stick to the perimeter of the grocery store and buy things that are perishable, meaning that they'll actually go bad. For something savory, I like veggies and hummus instead of chips, and for something sweet, berries and a few pieces of dark chocolate do the trick. When you eat well, you feel good, and your skin will show it.
6. Take your makeup off ASAP.
If you're coming home from a long day of classes, and you don't plan on leaving afterwards, there's no reason to wait until the end of the night to take off your makeup. If you live in a place like Austin, you understand the end of the spring semester can get really hot. Sweat, germs, and makeup sitting on your skin for a long period of time is sure to clog up your pores and cause acne. I think it's best to just wash it off as soon as you can to avoid future skin mishaps.
Thanks so much for reading, y'all! I hope these tips were helpful. Please let me know down below if you have questions or comments!


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What does your child learn at school each day? Find information about our curriculum subjects here.
Phonics - we base our phonics planning on the Government's Letters and Sounds Document.
Reading Schemes - we use a variety of reading schemes to ensure we support our children to achieve their best. We use Rigby Star, Oxford Reading Tree and Project X.


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my girlfriend's apt. off san bruno avenue the lemon tree in the backyard twists and turns in the wind looking out the bedroom window at it all which will brake first the tree by nature, or the mind by itself?
before the sounds of the City pass through the open apartment window, a bird on the fire escape sings a song, sung before the City was here.
Lay down on futon at 12 in the night; not drunk, yet far from sober. Sleep like snail in shell. Wake at 4 in the morning; toss and turn, dreaming on and off. Rise at 9 in the morning for work; buy hot water for one quarter, add green tea with ginseng. Leaf river channels back to fruity sea.
It was time for dinner, as I walked down Market Street toward a burrito joint off of Sixth. When I crossed Fifth, my eyes made contact with a young, beautiful blonde; she gave me a million-dollar smile, then handed me a red rose, as we walked by each other in the middle of the street. Back on the sidewalk, I looked at the red rose; it was the most beautiful red rose I ever saw. And then I noticed a heart drawn by someone in blue magic marker on the green tissue paper it was wrapped in, and below the heart it said, "Pass it on." So I started looking for girls to pass it on to, but there were only crackheads, bums, and drug dealers in front of the Warfield Theater. On the other side of the street, I saw a young woman coming out of the Pearl Art store, so I handed it to her. Frightened, she jumped back against the store¹s front window and said, "I¹ll pass."
Eating a banana and listening to talk radio; I look out the window to see if it is raining; thoughts of her in the distant city.
Pack my bones, and clean my crooked teeth for the road home alone.Jonathan Hayes is the author of Echoes from the Sarcophagus (3300 Press, 1997), St. Paul Hotel (Ex Nihilo Press, 2000), and self invented (split chapbook with Mark Sonnenfeld, Marymark Press, 2003). Recently published by Can We Have Our Ball Back?, M.A.G., and Transfer; he edits the literary / art magazine Over the Transom. Send us your comments on this article


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AOL Outage in Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
AOL (America Online) is an internet portal as well as an internet service provider. As an ISP, AOL offers dial up internet through its AOL Advantage plans.
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- Tibet
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- The Three Rivers
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- Beauty Is Everywhere
- In That Distant Place
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I Ching: Of The Marsh and The Moon - Take three Chinese musicians schooled in the ancient art of traditional music making. A tradition that evokes images of romance and mystery. Add the futuristic, yet always musical sound of a synthesizer and apply state-of-the-art Chesky sonic technology. The result? I Ching: Of The Marsh and The Moon.
This instrumental recording offers melodies that are at times distressingly beautiful, rhythmically driving and lushly melodic. Featuring Sisi Chen playing the Yangqin (Chinese hammered dulcimer), Tao Chen on Chinese flute and Bao Li on Erhu (two stringed Chinese fiddle) with the synthesizer of Joel Goodman, this is World music meeting New Age.
This is I Ching.
"...the selections...demonstrate deep understanding of oriental composition and how to arrange for the Western ear. Though distinctly Chinese, this work should still appeal to all those who appreciate ambient instrumental compositions with nature sounds and soothing synth. The artists skillfully evoke scenes of foreign shores and a different way of life."
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Every one know that if you are forced by robbers to withdraw money from an ATM, you can secretly alert police by entering your PIN in reverse.
If your PIN is 1111 or 5665 then what Happen??
When your PIN and Reverse of PIN both are Same Then You can't get benefit of this security that means you are not Safe.
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Income to a charity is received as either unrestricted or restricted funds. Unrestricted funds can, as the name suggests, be used by the charity for any purpose that the charity determines, meaning it can spend funds where they are most needed at the time. Restricted funds are limited by the donor for a specific use, and the charity is legally obliged to use those funds according to the restriction stipulated.
All donors who restrict the use of the funds should be advised that ALERT retains 10%* of that donation to be used by the Charity as unrestricted funds.
* calculated as a percentage of the donation (and any Gift Aid claimed on it) before any donation collection expenses (e.g. bank charges) charged to ALERT for receiving that donation.
Why does ALERT do this?
ALERT's costs are of three types, all vital to the proper management of the Charity:
1. Costs of generating income (fundraising)
2. Costs of governance of the charity (meeting our statutory requirements)
3. Costs associated with our charitable activities (our projects).
These costs are funded by income from four sources:
1. Donations and grants (unrestricted and restricted)
2. Sales of merchandise
3. Sales of our educational programmes (internships and facilitated research programmes)
4. Other income (e.g. income from films)
We always seek to raise funds as efficiently as possible; ALERT typically spends 5 cents to raise $1 of donation income, 34 cents to raise $1 of merchandise income and 59 cents to raise $1 of educational programme income; giving an average fundraising efficiency across all income types of 27 cents to raise $1. BBB Wise Giving Alliance and CharityWatch say that charities should spend no more than 35 cents for every $1 they raise.
The net incoming resources to the charity are therefore a mix of donated and commercially generated income, and also a mix of restricted and unrestricted funds. ALERT generally attracts a high proportion of restricted funds.
Typically ALERT spends between 10 and 12% of net incoming resources on governance costs to meet statutory obligations. Research conducted by Giving Evidence and Givewell recommends charities spend an average of 11.5% of their costs on administration. For ALERT, these costs include employing a financial manager, and paying for independent accounts examination and legal fees related to our statutory returns. Governance costs are, as far as possible, met by ALERT's commercially generated, unrestricted income, but sometimes they need to be topped up to pay for these vital functions.
Oftentimes, the restrictions placed upon donations does not include being able to use those funds on salaries, or on project operating expenses (such as insurance for a research vehicle). Yet, without qualified personnel to manage and evaluate projects, or the means to visit the project site to implement our charitable activities, we are unable to effectively progress in meeting our goals.
Our aim should not be to spend as little money on running costs, but to deliver the most effective programmes in support of our responsible development approach. Sometimes that means investing in future fundraising efforts to create increased income, paying for independent professional services to meet statutory obligations, or paying staff to manage and evaluate projects. We are aware that these things may not be what many people want to think their hard-earned money is being used for, but we want to ensure that the Charity is able to effectively function in the best interests of the communities and wildlife that we serve in the long term.
* all figures given are representative of several years of operation and may not apply to a specific year.


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17 Creative Wedding Photo Booth Backdrops
Your wedding photos will stay with you forever – from those picture perfect poses to fun photo booth snaps. Why not stand out from the crowd with a unique backdrop to brighten up every frame?
We've got a selection of fun ideas for how to craft your way to the biggest and brightest backdrops on your big day! Get those props ready and prepare to say cheese…
Fun with Fans
Creating a wall of paper fans is certain to dazzle – whether it's vibrant pastels, as seen in the stunning image above, or a more minimalist approach.
You can pick from our range of paper fans to get you started!
Shop all paper fan decorations »
If you're after a little more creative freedom, why not make your own? This tutorial shows you how to do it with just a little coloured paper, scissors, glue, ribbon and tape.
How to Make Paper Fan Decorations by The Spruce »
An Abundance of Daisies
Getting married in the summer? Whatever the weather, you'll have a sunny day with decorative daisies to brighten the mood!
DIY Paper Daisy Backdrop and Video by The House That Lars Built »
Botanical Vines
For a botanical wedding, vines are a wonderful way to keep things low-key while still adding a charming flourish to every frame. Hang them however you fancy and watch how beautifully the green contrasts with wedding whites.
DIY Vine Wall Backdrop by Ruffled »
Ginger Ray Beautiful Botanics Decorative Vines »
Letter Balloons
Nick + Laura 4eva? Just married? Love is love? Best day ever? Whatever you want to say, blow it up big and celebrate with foil letter balloons.
Choose colours to suit your style and spell out the word or phrase of your choosing. You can even combine the letter balloons with other complementary balloons – either latex or foil – to create a stunning scene.
Floral Lettering
Giant Floral Typography Wall Art DIY by Paper n Stitch Blog »
Have a bloomin' lovely big day with fun florals to fill up your photographs! Just like the balloon letters, it's easy to spell out any words you want.
How to Make a Felt Succulent Letter on the Hobbycraft blog »
How to Make Floral Fillable LOVE Letters on the Hobbycraft blog »
Giant Geo Heart
Prepare for a pretty pop of colour!
Giant Geometric Heart Backdrop by Bespoke Bride »
Geometric Washi Tape
Proving there's nothing washi tape can't do, this modern and minimalist geometric design by B. Loved Blog makes it easy to add colourful accents in the background of your wedding photo booth.
DIY: Geometric Washi Tape Backdrop by B. Loved Blog »
Experiment with shapes, colours and patterns until you're happy with your finished design. You can choose your favourite washi tape wonders from our fantastic range, too!
Oh Hi Honeycomb
The Ultimate Guide on Hanging Party Décor by Oh Happy Day »
Because sometimes more is more.
Honeycomb decorations will add a stunning, textured feature to your decorations – and you can mix and match shades to suit your taste. Why not check out our sublime selection of honeycomb decorations to get you on your way?
Shop all honeycomb decorations »
Floating Confetti
After all, who doesn't love an optical illusion?
DIY Floating Confetti Photobooth by Studio DIY »
Glorious Garlands
The Ginger Ray collection boasts a beautiful array of garlands. Easy to hang and available in a range of shades and styles, this will create an effortless flourish in the background of your best moments.
Choose from tassels, stars, hearts and circles!
Pretty Punch Letters
With the We R Memory Keepers Alphabet Punch Board, you can effortless cut out every letter of the alphabet using a single tool.
Cut into your choice of paper and card to spell out names and messages. Once letters are cut, hang them along string or ribbon for a personalised decoration.
Balloon Bonanza
Create spectacular displays with added dimension with a bunch of balloons! Whether for a statement wall decoration or your wedding photo booth, you can piece together unique shapes, words and colour combos to stand out!
Prepare to fill up that heart!
Giant Ombre Heart Balloon Backdrop by Oh Happy Day »
Balloon Wall Photobooth by Oh Happy Day »
Fringe Fest
A vintage classic. Pick a colour and watch it shimmer!
Shop Ginger Ray fringe backdrops »
Get Your Wreath On
Create a statement wreath wall with an assortment of inspired arrangements – with your choice of floral, botanical and even seasonal wreaths. Mix and match sizes, shapes and embellishments for a fun, foliage-inspired feature.
How to Make a Spring Wreath on the Hobbycraft blog »
Pom Pom Party
Get your pom on by hand-crafting gorgeous garlands to hang in the background of your photo booth. Pastels, brights, monochrome – whatever the style, there's tissue paper ready!
DIY Pom Pom Party Backdrop by B. Loved Blog »
Colourful Canvas
The perfect pattern awaits. With just a sheet of canvas, a little tape and some acrylic paints, you can create stunning mural wall art that's easy to hang in any venue for a transformative photo background.
How-To: No-Sew Wedding Backdrop by A Practical Wedding »
Paper Chains
An oldie but a goodie, paper chains are great fun to make and, thanks to the ombre trend, are back in style. The budget-friendly backdrop will add a pretty burst of personality to any space and you can enjoy picking out the perfect shades of paper for your big party.
Browse our range of colourful paper to start finding inspiration and materials! (Top tip: using a guillotine for this project will make the paper-cutting a breeze.)
Photo above: Floridian Social »
If you've got more great ideas of how to create fantastic wedding backdrops, we'd love to see them! Share them with us – and don't forget to use the hashtag #Hobbycraft.


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pH Formula
pH is a measure of the amount of activity of hydrogen ions (H+) in a solution and thus its alkalinity or acidity. Although a pH value is unitless, it is not a random scale; the number rises from a description grounded on the activity of hydrogen ions in the solution. pH is described as "the negative of the logarithm of the molar hydronium-ion concentration."
pH Formula is arithmetically articulated as
The pH Formula can also be noted as
pH Problems
Solved numerical based on pH are provided under.
Problem 1: Calculate the pH of human arterial blood in which the hydronium ion concentration is 4.0 ×× 10-8M.
The concentration of hydronium ion is 4.0 × 10-8M
Thus, we can make use of the formula,
pH = – log[4.0 × 10-8]
pH = 7.40
As the hydronium ion concentration is provided till two decimal places we can note the pH with two significant figures.
Problem 2: A brand of carbonated beverage has a pH of 3.16. What is the hydronium ion concentration of the beverage?
The concentration of hydronium ion is
[H3O+] = antilog (-pH) = 10-pH
[H3O+] = antilog (-3.16) = 10-3.16


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Media Fill Studies
When a health care product is intended to be sterile and cannot be terminally sterilized, aseptic processing provides an alternative. Media fill Studies are performed to validate the aseptic manufacturing process. Media fill studies should be conducted under worst case conditions including maximum processing and filling times, and should include simulation of all aseptic manufacturing processes, including those using previously sterilised components
There are two distinct situations in which aseptic processing is applied:
- the aseptic preparation and filling of solutions;
- the aseptic handling, transfer and packaging of solid products which cannot be terminally sterilized in their final containers.
Aseptic processing means handling the aseptic filling of product containers and/or devices in a controlled environment, in which the air supply, materials, equipment and personnel are regulated to control microbial and particulate contamination to acceptable levels. This process requires the pre-sterilization of all product parts or components that are in direct contact with the aseptically filled product.
The product is processed in a controlled environment in which microbial and particulate levels are maintained at defined levels and where human intervention is minimized.
We can assist clients in performing Aseptic Process Validation as required in ISO 13408-Aseptic Processing of Healthcare Products. Studies involve evaluating an aseptic process using a microbial growth medium.
These containers are then incubated at temperature between 20°C -35°C for up to 14 days either at one temperature or two different temperatures. If two temperatures are used, media filled containers are incubated at lower temperature for 7 days followed by incubation at higher temperature for another 7 days. Sampling plans and acceptance criteria are contained in ISO 13408.
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Using jRespond with jPanelMenu
jRespond is "a simple way to globally manage JavaScript on responsive websites." It's really straightforward to use, and it makes a world of difference in your JavaScript on responsive sites.
jPanelMenu and jRespond are the perfect couple. Many people want the functionality that jPanelMenu provides, but only at smaller sizes (this page, for example). jRespond is there to help accomplish that task, and it couldn't be easier to do.
Setting It Up
First, get jPanelMenu and jRespond!
For detailed documentation on jRespond, please visit the jRespond Github page. I won't go very in-depth on the ins and outs of jRespond here, but I will at least cover enough to get started using it in conjunction with jPanelMenu.
Start off by setting up jPanelMenu, referring to the documentation for specifics on options and API functions.
var jPM = $.jPanelMenu({
menu: '#menu-selector'
Once jPanelMenu is ready to go, set up jRespond. Refer to the jRespond documentation for detailed instructions on this step. All it takes is an
array of
objects — each
object specifies breakpoint names and sizes (enter and exit widths, in pixels).
var jRes = jRespond([ { label: 'small', enter: 0, exit: 800 },{ label: 'large', enter: 800, exit: 10000 } ]);
Adding Functionality
After your breakpoints have been registered with jRespond, you need to add some functionality hooks to those breakpoints.
This is done by calling
addFunc() (on the saved jRespond instance), and passing in an
object containing the following: the breakpoint (by name) that these actions apply to, a
function to call upon entering that breakpoint, and a
function to call when exiting that breakpoint.
In this example (this page), we want to turn jPanelMenu on, by calling
jPM.on(), when entering the
'small' breakpoint (< 800 pixels), and turn it off, by calling
jPM.off(), when exiting the
'small' breakpoint (> 800 pixels).
jRes.addFunc({ breakpoint: 'small', enter: function() { jPM.on(); }, exit: function() { jPM.off(); } });
That's it! Enjoy your awesomely responsive navigation!
Who Made This Wonderful Little Plugin?
jPanelMenu was created, and is maintained, by Anthony Colangelo.
You can find him (@acolangelo) on Twitter and Github.


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NY DMV Forms
Download your NY DMV forms online now! You can fill out the forms before you come to speed up any wait time you may encounter.
View the complete list of services that we offer in New York State for vehicles. We can help with titles, registrations, and other NY DMV services. You can download and prefill out your forms.
We are truly a one stop shop for all of your NY DMV Tag and titling needs.
We can issue the following transactions at our office without going to the NY DMV
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Massachusetts Newborn Infections Lawyers
Having a child ought to be an exciting time for a family, especially as welcoming a newborn into the family is usually a wonderful experience. However, sometimes doctors or nurses in delivery rooms act negligently or recklessly before, during, or after the delivery, causing the baby harm or injury. Unfortunately, as a result of this, many infants suffer from potentially preventable newborn infections. Depending on the type of infection a newborn has, the repercussions will be varied, with some possibly posing life-threatening health problems.
Common Infections
Depending on the specific behaviors of a doctor or nurse, there are a variety of different infections that could affect a newborn baby. However, some of the more common infections that occur during birth due to a medical professional's negligence include:
- Group B Streptococcus
- Herpes Simplex
- Cytomegalovirus
- Viral Respiratory Infections
- Bacterial Infections
- Toxoplasmosis
Regrettably, these and many other infections can possibly affect a newborn baby, and are much more likely to occur if doctors or nurses involved in the delivery process are not careful and responsible. Should a baby develop an infection soon after birth, he or she may suffer substantially or even face serious complications for the rest of his or her life.
Contact Us
When your baby has been harmed by an infection during the birth process, it is likely that you want justice and restitution for the suffering your baby and family has had to endure. Our legal team at Crowe & Mulvey, LLP is committed to helping families affected by such negligence to recover financial compensation from reckless doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals. Learn more about your options and pursuing this legal action by calling (617) 426-4488 today.


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Lots of talk going on across the Major Spoilers comment sections this week, and for good reason – there were some absolutely amazing stories that hit the site.
- Captain Marvel gets his named changed to Shazam! and people aren't happy about it.
- Major Spoilers got an early look at the new Magic: The Gathering set
- The CW releases casting breakdowns for The Arrow
- The Amazing Spider-Man gets an official synopsis
- Power Rangers hoodies you can buy
- The third season of Critical Hit: A Dungeons and Dragons Podcast comes to an epic conclusion
- The Academy Awards nominees were announced
- Mars Attacks gets the IDW Publishing treatment
- DC announces it will fight hunger
- Go to Hell(boy) summer camp
- Warner Bros. says no to Elfquest movie
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A Phoenix pastor who had devoted his life to helping people with a tarnished past was brutally murdered in his own home on Feb. 27. The killing left many wondering if it could have been the work of one of the people that he had served.
It was a scene out of a movie, two men broke into the pastor's home in a home invasion gone wrong. The suspects struck the roommate with a gun and robbed him, while shooting the pastor during a confrontation.
There has been a big break in the case, one of the suspects was arrested by Phoenix Police, while the second suspect is still at large.
The beloved pastor spent his days in downtown Phoenix, helping those who came from a tough background. While people were wondering if the pastor was killed by one of the people he had helped, his colleagues and people who knew him say they don't recognize the suspect that was arrested.
J. Monroy, 28, was arrested for the pastor's murder; the authorities say that he is one of the two men behind the killing of Pastor J. Moriarty, 53. Monroy is facing charges of armed robbery, murder, burglary, and kidnapping.
Pastor Moriarty dedicated his life to helping those who many believed were beyond help. He helped drug addicts, the homeless, convicts, and sex offenders at the Redeemed Outreach Center, a non-profit organization that goes to the toughest parts of town to help people and take them off of the streets so they can restart their lives.
Pastor J. Savocchio, who is now running the center said that the arrest has brought some relief to Moriarty's family and the community. He said it is helping them with closure.
The investigation is still ongoing: Phoenix Police have released a sketch of the other suspect.
When authorities arrived at the scene, they found Moriarty had been shot and killed, and the suspects had fled the scene.
Monroy was arrested at his residence, they found a wig matching the description of the one worn during the attack and a gold-colored Nissan, which witnesses claim to see driving away from the scene, according to a probable cause statement.
If you are facing criminal charges in the Greater Phoenix Area, contact the Law Offices of Joshua S. Davidson, PLC to work with a former prosecutor who is AV Preeminent® Rated by Martindale-Hubbell®.


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tempt you to buy The Linnet's Wings Spring 2015. Oh go on!
or our Poetry Chapbook which is beautiful and has poems by Kathleen Cassen Mickelson Sarah Marchant Joan Colby richard Luftig Ann Cuthbert James Graham Barry Charman Stan Long Des Dillon RK Biswas Martin Burke Constance Brewer Laurie Kolp Wally Swist Jane Burn Dah Helmer, Máire Morrissey-Cummins Akeith Walters and Ronald E. Shields and other stuff!
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My latest POEM at Bewildering Stories is about a different dead king 🙂 from last time. To me all kings are born equal — to all of us, that is! and I have been writing flash specifically for PP&P some of which may be up soon. Details in a later post.
Lovely visit from my friend, poet Amanda Baker this week and her teenage daughter whom I now call BluRay 😉
Any excuse for home made pizza and cake will do but anyway Ray insists 🙂 and what can one do but make her smile?
The bluebells are out and spring has sprung and (apart from the election results) what's not to like? We voted to be trodden into the dirt again! NB Foxes were not allowed a vote on whether to be ripped to bits by dogs but I doubt they would have been as stupid as the humans and they would have turned out in greater numbers. There you go…
I have been neglecting my blog recently it's true but I am busy writing and editing and doing reclusive things behind the scenes and if you read me and like me please do let me know. It helps!


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It doesn't matter if it's your first event or your five hundredth; planning an event can be overwhelming. There are so many things to do, and so many things to remember. And the hardest part is, many of your "To Do" items can't be done until something else is completed first; but that other "To Do" item might be dependent on something else. It's easy to feel as if you're losing control of your event before it even starts.
That's where a good, solid event planning checklist can come in handy. Although each and every event is different, with a different set of tasks to be completed, having a checklist can help keep you on track and give you peace of mind that you aren't overlooking anything.
However, if you are relatively new to the industry or perhaps just starting out, then chances are you need more than just an event planning checklist to help guide your way. You need more than just a set of "To Do's;" you need a complete understanding of how events work, how they are put together, and what elements are required (and in what order they need to be completed).
Once you understand the foundation of planning special events inside and out, then you will be able to complete your own event planning checklist as you go, instead of relying on someone else's idea of what your event might need. After all, each and every event is its own living, breathing entity; and there is no checklist that will ever be complete enough for you to rely on as your event planning guidelines.
I offer an Event Planning Checklist as a bonus to my online video course. I only offer it as an included bonus to the video course, because I truly believe in the importance of understanding exactly how to plan events and not just following someone else's suggestions.
Here is a sample page from the Checklist, so you can see what it has to offer:
The Checklist is my own personal event planning checklist that I use as a skeleton for every event. Of course, no checklist can be complete for your particular event, since each and every event is different. However, this is a great outline that offers plenty of suggestions and reminders of what you might be forgetting, with customizable pages for you to add in your own "To Do" items in chronological order.
As I mentioned, I offer an online instructional video course that includes over ten hours of video; plus dozens of downloadable documents, including sample contracts, RFPs, and budget grids.
PLUS the Planning Events Course includes numerous additional bonuses, including my own Event Planning Checklist that I use for my own events!
The course walks you through, step-by-step, how to plan any major special event; from the initial concept through to the final billing. I cover topics such as venue selection and site inspections, setting up a budget (including working budget grids that you can use on your own events), what should be included in your contracts, what types of insurance you might need, registration for your event, how to set up your meeting space, how to find, select, and work with vendors and entertainment, the basics of decor, a complete understanding of food & beverage, and how to manage your event on-site.
Unlike the other courses out there, I go beyond conceptual topics and filler material about birthday parties for children, and teach you what you truly need to know in order to build a career as an event planner.
As I always say, if you want to become an event planner, you need to know how to plan events! And it's so much more than just picking out decor and entertainment. This course will catapult you into your dream career more quickly than you ever thought possible; but only if you take the first step and sign up today.
The Planning Events Course includes:
Planning Events Course (click here to read a complete outline)
Event Planning Checklist
Certificate of Completion: As I discuss in the free Into to Event Planning video course, the whole concept of becoming a "certified event planner" is a lie. However, I discovered my students still wanted some reward and proof that they went through my online video course, and so I now offer a Certificate of Completion with the Planning Events Course.
This certificate certifies that you indeed completed the videos and passed the online test (which is offered at the end of the last video). Upon your successful passing of the test, I will mail you a Certificate of Completion (or email it if you live outside the U.S. or Canada) for your files. This also authorizes you to have any potential future employers contact me to ensure that you did, indeed, pass the test.
Please realize that I can not personally vouch for you or act as a reference, as I do not know you in person or know how much you really absorbed from the course. However, this will act as a useful tool to show future employers that you took the time to learn the basics of the event planning industry. Not to mention, the content that you actually learn will open doors and pave the path toward your success!
If you're just getting started, you need so much more than just an event planning checklist to help you with your first events. Even if you've planned a few events, you might not know everything that you're missing out on.
Most other books, eBooks, and online courses teach you the wrong things; or at the very least only teach you part of what you need to know. I include it all; an overview of the event planning industry, why you need to pick a niche, why you shouldn't try to make a living as a party planner or wedding planner, what types of events you should focus on, and the basics of planning nearly any special event or corporate meeting.
If you're serious about starting a career in event planning, you owe it to yourself to invest in your future. Click here to read more about the Planning Events Course and get started on your dream career today!
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text: barry bouwsma wrote: > --- On Fri, 9/12/08, Steven Toth <stoth at hauppauge.com> wrote: > >>> module parameter `default_mode=5' or =6, >>> >> Correct, that tree expects a module option to load the firmware, you >> might want to check this code snippet in the other tree. The other >> detects the delivery system and reloads the firmware on the fly. > > Hey, no fair, I think you're answering questions I'm about > to ask before I can send them! :) > > Oh heck, here's what I wrote a short while ago, just in case... > > =-=#=-=#=-= > > In looking at the S2API code for the Siano chipsets, I had > a question which I couldn't answer by reading the code. > > At present, my card supports DVB-T by default, and I can > load a different firmware to get it to (potentially) support > alternatives, say, DVB-H. > > The answer might be blindingly obvious, but I don't see if > this card has the capability of saying, okay, I can give > you DVB-T, or DVB-H, or DAB, or T-DMB... Right now, I spit > DVB-T. Then an application wanting DVB-H would then be able > to initiate a reload of the firmware, and the device would > reappear as a DVB-H device. > > The ability to do this firmware switch seems to be present > within the driver, but I'm wondering if the S2API, or indeed > the present APIs, can handle a case like this. The delivery system is present in the tuning cache. Demod drivers who need these advanced features can check the required delivery type (c->delivery_system) and decide to load the appropriate firmware to satisfy the users needs. That _should_ work today, but the firmware reload in the siano demod was added late in the evening (thanks mkrufky) so any bugs need to be shaken out of the demod driver. Prior to this we were only testing the isdb-t portion. What's missing now in tune.c is the GET_PROPERTY example code to show what delivery systems and modulations types these new drivers can support. > > I know that `mplayer' will grab the first available device > of the appropriate standard, while my other applications > pick a fixed adapter number (or more correctly, device by > product). But I can see myself wanting to make both DVB-T > and DAB (eventually) use of this one device, without the > bother of reloading the kernel module to switch. > > I did spend the night looking at the old API, and remember > virtually none of it, and the discussion of multifrontend > devices and what they mean has made me wonder about this... Regards, Steve


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OAKLAND – Mike Kickham's stuff looked firm enough. He didn't throw any wild pitches to the screen. He didn't cower or wilt on the mound in his major league debut Tuesday night.
He even got a little crafty, saving his curveball until he faced the A's lineup a second time.
But the pitches piled up on Kickham faster than Lucy in a chocolate factory. And before he could blink behind those black-rimmed glasses, it was over.
The Clark Kent lookalike threw 65 pitches and that barely got him out of the phone booth. He only retired seven of the 15 hitters he faced and the Giants once again chewed through their bullpen in a 6-3 loss in the shadow of Mt. Davis.
Kickham, 24, was ticketed for at least two starts – Tuesday and Sunday at St. Louis -- before the Giants have the flexibility to whittle down to a four-man rotation for a two-week span in June.
But now the club might have to send out Kickham just to get a fresh relief arm, then play Sunday by ear -- possibly handing the ball to Chad Gaudin in a "Johnny Wholestaff" game.
It's just the latest permutation of the question Bruce Bochy and Co. have asked themselves all season: "What are we going to do about this pitching staff?"
Starting pitching report
Kickham (0-1) became just the 10th Giant to make his major league debut as a starting pitcher in 17 years since Brian Sabean ascended to the GM position.
It started well enough, with a 1-2-3 first inning. Kickham threw a 92 mph fastball to Coco Crisp for a called strike, he recorded his first big league strikeout when he fanned Chris Young and he even showed good athleticism covering first base to retire Yoenis Cespedes on a sharp grounder to Brandon Belt.
Kickham's stuff was competitive enough. His fastball topped out at 94 mph, his slider had good, late-breaking action down in the zone and he struck out three of the first six batters he faced.
But Kickham got burned on an inside fastball that Derek Norris cranked for a two-run home run in the second inning.
The left-hander looked tentative to pitch on the inner half the rest of the night, and the A's appeared to catch on the second time through the lineup.
Kickham broke out a diving, 79 mph curveball to get a ground out from Crisp to start the third inning, but he couldn't retire any of the final five batters he faced after that.
Young drew a walk, Cespedes doubled and Giants manager Bruce Bochy made his most important decision of the night. He had Kickham intentionally walk Josh Donaldson to set up the double play (as well as the force at home plate).
Donaldson had struck out in his first at-bat, but he also entered the game hitting .397 against left-handed pitchers.
Perhaps Bochy wanted to learn something about how his young left-hander would handle himself with one out and the bases loaded. Or perhaps the manager simply trusted that a big league pitcher, standing on a big league mound, could throw strikes.
Either way, it wasn't a bad strategy – until it was. Kickham's 2-2 slider to Jed Lowrie was a ball in the dirt and his 3-2 pitch was just a bit too far outside for plate umpire Gerry Davis' liking. Lowrie walked to force in a run. Then Nate Freiman followed with a single, driving Kickham from the game.
It matched Matt Palmer for the shortest start by a Giants pitcher making his debut in the Sabean era.
Kickham allowed four runs (all earned) on four hits and four walks (one intentional) in 2 1/3 innings. He struck out three, allowed a home run and threw 36 of his 65 pitches for strikes.
Bullpen report
Kickham left the bases loaded but George Kontos and Javier Lopez each retired a hitter to strand them as Bochy took the rare step of playing matchups in the third inning.
Then it was Gaudin's turn to grind the pestle, and the pace of game didn't exactly speed up. The right-hander walked in a run of his own in the fifth inning.
After five, Gaudin and Kickham had combined to throw 111 pitches and record just 13 outs between them.
But Gaudin worked a snappy, eight-pitch sixth inning, and as sluggish as they looked, the Giants still had life as they trailed just 5-2.
At the plate
Well, at least the Giants made productive use of the designated hitter. Marco Scutaro singled and doubled – the 14th time in 19 games that he's collected multiple hits.
Other than that, the Giants just haven't come to play in four games at AL ballparks. They are 0-4 in Toronto and Oakland, and the offense wasn't able to rescue another night of shaky pitching.
Hunter Pence hit a two-out, RBI single in the first inning off Jarrod Parker (3-6) but the A's right-hander faced just one more than the minimum over his next four frames. Scutaro doubled in the sixth and scored on Buster Posey's ground out. (Parker entered with a 5.76 ERA, by the way.)
Pence hit a solo homer off Grant Balfour in the ninth.
And that was it. The Giants were held to six hits, and 10 total over two games in the East Bay.
Angel Pagan remains out with a hamstring injury and Pablo Sandoval's bat has the chills. The Giants' leading run producer is in a 2-for-21 funk.
In field
The Giants played error-free. So there's that.
The A's announced 35,067 paid – and the sellout crowd did a good job making the Giants feel like a road team in two games here. Posey was booed solidly in each of his plate appearances.
Up next
The Giants and A's take their Bay Bridge rivalry to AT&T Park for the final two games of this home-and-home series. Tim Lincecum (3-4, 4.75 ERA) ascends the mound Wednesday night against left-hander Tommy Milone (3-5, 5.19). First pitch is scheduled for 7:15 p.m. PDT.
It'll be Barry Zito (3-3, 4.13) in Thursday's series finale against right-hander A.J. Griffin (5-3, 3.84).


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A Nanosatellite to Study Light Pollution
A research and educational institution is developing a program to study and characterize light pollution in the Midwestern United States, centered on Chicago. This program offers an opportunity to make a marked increase in our understanding of the effects of light pollution on our environment and particularly the loss of the night sky. They determined that a nanosatellite mission to capture high-resolution, three-color, night time imagery of the region from orbit would produce valuable data for this study.
Previous attempts to characterize nighttime illumination relied on data products primarily from two instruments, the Operational Line Scanner (OLS) flown since the 1970s, and more recently the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS). Although the data from these instruments were valuable to light pollution researchers, measuring nighttime illumination was not their primary mission. Data provided by these instruments suffered from numerous shortcomings, including a relatively low ground resolution (742m/px), absence of onboard calibration, light saturation in highly populated urban centers resulting from standard operation at a high gain setting, the blooming effect (i.e. overestimation of lit area) due to the coarse spatial resolution, lack of multispectral information, a late overpass time after peak nighttime illumination, and a lack of ground-based calibration. Overcoming these shortcomings was a key goal for this client.
Modular Thinking, Agile Approach
Orbital Transports was selected as the prime systems integrator as we could support all aspects of the client's mission from concept to completion. Our team determined that the mission payload could be hosted on a low-cost modular nanosatellite bus, providing standard command and control, communications, power, and ADCS for the mission. Our modular approach saved the client money and time.
Our engineers designed the imaging system for the mission payload to collect night time imagery of Earth while the nanosatellite is in eclipse. We ensured the imaging system is sensitive enough to detect dim light sources and has enough dynamic range to prevent saturation from all but the very brightest of city centers. We selected hardware that provides sufficiently high ground resolution to distinguish features such as major roads, commercial centers, and residential neighborhoods. We chose an RGB sensor that provides multispectral data, allowing identification of common sources of artificial lighting. Through the resources of our partner network, key capabilities were tested and validated on high altitude balloon missions launched at night.
Our team identified a flight opportunity to launch the nanosatellite from the International Space Station. The ISS orbit allows for varied overpass times at night during periods of peak illumination (astronomical twilight to 10pm). We optimized the mission by using daytime overpasses to transmit image data to the client's ground station.
Mission Realized, Back to Business
Initially, the client was contemplating only the technical aspects of the mission. With the guidance of Orbital Transports, they were able to move forward on a low-cost, time-sensitive launch opportunity, and consider the legal and financial aspects, while lowering their risk. Now they are able to focus on studying the effects of light pollution—while Orbital Transports takes care of the space mission.
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Leila Moinpour, a product designer and a resident at Karkhana, introduced the concept of 'using your hands to think' to our team. In this technique, the learners are provided with a bunch of random stuff (bottles, CDs, duct tapes, cups, paper clips…) and they are given a problem statement that they have to solve in 10 minutes.
Month: April 2015
In one of our Saturday sessions at Karkhana, Sunoj was running a storytelling class. I entered the class with a scary mask and a lengthy black dress. I couldn't see well, I couldn't breathe well and couldn't walk well.
As soon as I entered the class, I started my dialogue: "Yaha chha tero ranga," and while showing my big belly, I yelled "mitho thyo". After saying a few more lines, I introduced myself as "Momasur", the demon who is fond of eating Ranga (buffalo) alive. Roshan, acting as the head of village: Buddhi Bahadur, started negotiating with me about saving village people's Rangas from Momasur. We decided that the villagers will provide me a plate of delicious Momo served with best Achar every day if I returned to cave, which is on the other side of river.
I still have memories of tearing out and collecting blank pages from my old notebooks after every year of school. My mom would teach me and my brother to bind them using thread and needle. They did not particularly look good but were pretty handy for rough work. I wonder why we were hesitant to use them for class. Was it because it looked bad? Or maybe it was the fear of teachers' scolding for not using a proper notebook?
The chain of thoughts ran through my mind as Dipeshwor and Ajay started the mock session for our new class. They named it "Project Zero: Book Binding"- a rather intricate name for a simple class. The idea is to collect resources around you and make a notebook. It has been planned as a warm up class before the actual session takes full flow.9 of us participated in the mock class. We were separated into groups of three and were given different kinds of notebooks to observe. We first listed out their features within our groups. The whole class then discussed some of their unique features and specialities. Nhasala pointed out the use of a button as a locking system in the Nepali paper notebook, while Samana liked the dotted tear marks on each page in the spiral notebook. A lot of interesting features came out in the discussion session.
We went to Shenzhen to attend Maker Faire in April, where we met some representatives from the Singapore Science Center. They were interested in the work we do and our approach to teaching. So they invited us to run a workshop for kids in Singapore. We conducted a making workshop at the Science Center in May 2014.
In the Exploration phase, the kids observed how a Carnival game was made and explored the different mechanisms involved, the materials used and the science behind the games. This phase helps the kids realize how simple the world around them is once they figure out how things are made, just by careful observation.
We then introduced the Karkhana design cycle, TMPI (Think, Make, Play, Improve). We wanted the kids to learn that making is an iterative process.
In the Expression phase, we gave the kids some materials like cardboard, glue, duct tapes and paper to make their carnival games. The kids express their ideas (communicate), they learn to work in a team (collaborate), they solve problems they face in making (think critically) and explore innovative ideas (creativity). Read more
Cooking is one of my hobbies. Rater than cooking let's call it experimentation. I like to try to recipes, which I have never tried before. Today, I wanted to share one of my experiments.
I was inspired to make spaghetti and sausage by this picture.
Photo: http://www.coolfoodideas.com/
I love spaghetti and Sausages, so when I saw the picture above, I wanted to make this dish. So I read some recipes and articles.
Then felt like I was ready to give it a go and went to the grocery store and collected following.


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Ellis: I'm Ellis Boal. I'm an attorney. I live in Charlevoix, Michigan in the northwest Lower Peninsula. And I got interested in the fracking issue last 2010, when I got a letter from the DNR saying that mineral rights under my land might be auctioned off. So that got my attention fairly quickly. I went to a meeting. I found other people who were interested in the fracking issue. I realized how serious it was, not just in Michigan, but in many other states and around the world. I'm an attorney. I'm a labor attorney, historically, but since I moved to Northern Michigan, at the millennium, I've turned my attention towards environmental issues. And I now have a couple of cases in the Michigan Court of Appeals, and I'm very active in a petitioning campaign and in providing information to the public. Our organization is banmichiganfracking.org and letsbanfracking.org. The director is my wife, my dear wife, LuAnne Kozma, who I married last summer.
energy-101.org: People in general, I think, we're going to assume a basic knowledge of it. But from you, what are the hot-button points that are your concerns about fracking?
Ellis: Different people have different hot buttons or which is the primary button for them. For many people the primary button is water quality and water contamination. For me, the primary hot button is global warming and the escape of natural gas, most of which is methane, into the atmosphere, which is a much more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. There are also issues involving earthquakes from associated injection wells. There's the issue of secret chemicals, which are used by the frack companies in doing the fracking process, whether those chemicals should be made public or not.
energy-101.org: We all know that we have things like the EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency. We have the Department of Environmental Quality. Certainly they must be watching and monitoring this situation.
Ellis: The answer to that… I mean there are several answers, but I'll just give you the one that I am most familiar with, because it involves a litigation that I have in the Michigan Court of Appeals right now. There's a rule that Michigan has (it's been on the books for 10 or 15 years) that any well, which is an injection well, the chemicals that are going to be put… And an injection well means a disposal well or storage well or something where you're putting stuff into the ground, rather than taking it out of the ground. And there are rules that say, if you're going to have an injection well, you have to have it permitted. And you have to do a chemical analysis of everything you're putting into the injection well and provide it to the DEQ before they start drilling, not… much less fracking, but even before they start drilling.
And then if you live nearby to the injection well, then you know what's going into the ground 100 yards or 500 yards from where your own water well is, and you can do baseline testing on your own well. And if you already know what to test for, it's going to be cheaper and easier to do that testing. But Michigan does not apply the rules for injection wells onto frack wells. Why would they not do that? If you're injecting millions of gallons, hundreds of thousands of gallons, that should be considered an injection well and therefore these rules should apply, which require disclosure of the chemicals before they start drilling.
But the DEQ won't do it. I asked them why before I started the lawsuit and then continued the lawsuit. They said, "Well, we don't think technically under our rules that a frack well is an injection well."
So I went to a meeting of the American Petroleum Institute in Acme Township last April. And the speaker there was a guy named David Miller, who's the top expert on fracking in the United States. And API standards are quoted frequently in the Michigan Regulations. And this is in a meeting with 100 people there, all in the industry. And they allowed me into the meeting, even though they knew I was a protester. And they allowed me to ask a question. I said, "Is a frack well…" This is a quote now, "…used to inject fluids for the purpose of increasing the ultimate recovery of hydrocarbons?" He said, yes. He didn't hesitate. Well, that's the definition, the Michigan technical definition, of an injection well. And I showed that to the DEQ. Well, they had one of their people there listening. And I said "Ok. And now a frack well is an injection well. Therefore you should apply these rules, and therefore owners who live nearby can do baseline testing and test… " And they said, "No. We're just not going to do it."
So why can't the DEQ be trusted? They won't do the obvious things that are going to protect people. These are not technical words; these are ordinary English words. Courts and Agencies are supposed to apply ordinary English words according to common understandings, not according to some technical understanding that you and I don't know. And so if a well is used to inject fluids for the purpose of increasing ultimate recovery hydrocarbons, then it should be treated as an injection well. There is an exception for that in federal law called a "Halliburton Loophole". You may have heard about that. Your listeners might have heard about that. But this Halliburton Loophole doesn't apply in Michigan. Michigan has its own rules.
energy-101.org: We know there's water used in fracking. That's generally understood. But can you give us some idea of the dimensions or the quantities of water that are involved?
Ellis: Yes. I've done a little figuring getting ready for this interview. Encana has put out projections for the number of wells in the northern Lower Peninsula raging between 500 and 1700 well locations. The average amount of water usage traditionally given by regulators in industry is 5 million gallons of water per well. But we've seen a proposal by Encana just recently of 31 million gallons for each of 3 wells. So one way to look at it is to consider the range between the high and the low. If you multiply 500 wells times 5 million gallons, that comes up to a total of 2.5 billion gallons of water, Michigan water, that will be used just by Encana for the wells it is planning over the next several years. That's the low end, 2.5 billion. The high end, if we multiply 1700 well locations by 31 million gallons per well, that comes out to 52 billion gallons of water. Whether the average turns out to be closer to 2 billion or 52 billion gallons of water, total usage by Encana over the next several years, it's still a huge number and should not be allowed in Michigan's time of drought and low-lake levels.
energy-101.org: One way or another, they're using billions of gallons of water. They must be paying for the water then.
Ellis: Well, when Encana applies for a permit, part of the permit application is to say how many wells they're going to drill to get the water. And these wells we're talking about right now are in Kalkaska County along Sunset Trail in the Au Sable State Forest. And they tell the DEQ, "We're going to have 3 water wells for this 1 frack well," or, "4 water wells for this one frack well". They say how deep they're going to drill it. Typically I've been seeing 151 feet is the depth of the aquifer. And there's no charge for that water in the permit when it's granted.
energy-101.org: In addition to water consumption, what are some of the other issues that you would connect to the fracking system?
Ellis: Well, one of the issues is the chemicals that are used as part of the fracking process. A well is first drilled. And then the drill rig is taken away and different equipment comes in, and then it is fracked. And frack is short for fracture. And the fracturing process comes after the drilling process. And when a well is fractured, they use mostly water. They use a fair amount of sand. And it cannot be just any sand. It has to be a certain type of sand, mined from certain areas of the country. And then they add certain chemicals. Typically 5, 6, 7 different chemicals might be used, but those 5 or 6 chemicals might be chosen out of a universe of 600 chemicals. And many of those chemicals are toxic. Diesel fuel is one that's been used frequently. BTEX has been used. And this one particular chemical (I have a sheet here, what's called a material safety data sheet), this is a chemical used in Encana wells. This is from Superior Well Services. And this particular chemical is called acid inhibitor 2, or AI-2. And in the material safety data sheet, they list 4 ingredients. And the 4th one says, "Chemical name proprietary component. CAS number (which is a number assigned any type of material or chemical) XXX." They're not telling you. They're saying "It's a secret, and we're not going to tell you what it is."
Now, this AI-2 is particularly interesting because it is particularly lethal. It is described elsewhere in this data sheet that it may cause flash fire or explosion. It may be fatal if inhaled. It is fatal if swallowed. Containers of it that you think are empty, may not really be empty. And if you pressurize, cut, weld, or braze or heat it, it can explode and cause injury or death. So watch out for it, because this is one of the frack chemicals that is in wells that we know of in Kalkaska County on Sunset Trail in the Au Sauble State Forest and ultimately onto the roads of Cheboygan County and Kalkaska County; 40,000 gallons of it went there.
Now, we have not analyzed that frack fluid that went onto the roads to see if this AI-2 is actually part of it. The DEQ says that it has analyzed, but how are they going to analyze for a chemical that they don't know what it is? It's a proprietary component. They say, "Well, we know most of the components that are used. And we test it for those that we know of." But they haven't tested it for this proprietary component because they don't know what it is. They say… The DEQ says, "It was a mistake. We should not have allowed that 40,000 gallons to go on the roads and in the private campground. And when we realized it was a mistake, we put a stop to it. And then we went out and tested samples, and we analyzed those samples, and we found out there was nothing unsafe in them." That's what they say.
We're taking a look at those tests ourselves. We don't have conclusive results yet. One of the tests was for radium 226 and 228. There are suggestions, from what we've heard so far, that there are dangerous amounts of radium, but I can't authenticate that yet.
energy-101.org: There could be 2 approaches if we wanted to do a ballot initiative. One could be to regulate it. And one could be to ban it. Why is it that you've gone toward the banning direction?
Ellis: Well, one reason is in the lawsuit I just mentioned, is that they won't follow their own rules about disclosing chemicals in advance for the benefit of nearby land owners. Another example is fragmentation of the forest through pipelines. These 500 or 1700 Encana wells throughout Northern Lower Michigan, throughout the state forests, are going to fragment the forest. There's no regulation that can protect against that. They're putting pipelines in Kirtland Warbler areas. I have 2 clients who are fighting this who have Kirtland's warblers in their backyards. And there's pipelines going right within half a mile of their yards. They weren't even notified. And Encana went to the Public Service Commission and got permission for this, and there was no public notice of that. We had to intervene, and now we're going to get the attention of the Public Service Commission, and we're going to bring to its attention that this is not just 1 well. This is 500 or 1700 wells throughout the area. They have to consider the cumulative impact. The easier way to do it is to just stop it in its tracks from the beginning. Once people understand the problem with these wells and how it's a threat to Pure Michigan, how it's a threat to farmers and tourists and wineries, etc., we can stop it. We have hundreds of people in place ready to start petitioning so we can do it. And we are doing it.
energy-101.org: Why don't you tell us the essence of the ballot proposal we have. What does it say?
Ellis: The language is on our website, letsbanfracking.org. And in essence, what it says, it's very short and readable. You can read it in 2 minutes and understand it, unlike some of the other ballot proposals you may have seen over the last year. It does 3 things.
Number 1, it would ban horizontal fracking, not vertical fracking of the type that's been done for decades in Michigan, but horizontal. And by horizontal we mean substantially horizontal. That's the wording. So if a horizontal bore varies by a degree or so from true level, it's still considered horizontal.
Secondly, it would ban storage of frack waste in the state, whether the waste was produced in the state or out of state, just all frack waste, again, horizontal frack waste.
And the third thing it would do… And by the way, the state of Vermont has banned fracking. The state of New York has had a moratorium for several years. The countries of France and Bulgaria have had bans. Anyway, the third thing that this would do is to change the state's official policy that's been in effect since the 1930's that requires environmental regulators, the DEQ, Department of Environmental Quality, it's called, requires them to foster the industry. That's a quote, "Foster the industry," and to maximize production of gas and oil. I was just startled when I read that. You've heard of special-interest legislation or special-interests being involved in, you know, whispering in the ear of the governor or legislators or the President of the United States. And everybody's against special‑interests having any control over things. We live in a democratic society, and everybody should have the same access. But this statute says that the DEQ is supposed to foster the industry. And it's supposed to maximize production. Maximize production, of course, means maximizing Michigan's contribution to global warming.
We believe global warming and climate change are actionable issues. It's a real threat to Michigan, the United States, and the world. And we have to do our part. And this is the way anybody can do his or her part is… You know, you can only fix the people you have control over. Any activist knows this, that you turn to your own government first before you try to convince some other government. So we have most direct access to the State of Michigan. And so we're asking the State to change this policy, asking the voters of the state to change the policy requiring us to maximize contribution of global warming and fostering the industry, and instead emphasize human health and water in the environment.
You'd think that's what environmental regulators would do anyway, but the way it's written, the specific wording, is that the DEQ is supposed to construe the statute, the whole oil and gas statute. It's called Part 615. Every word, every sentence, every clause, they are supposed to construe it in a way that fosters the industry and maximizes production.
The main thing I would stress to your listeners if you're interested in what we've been discussing, is to go to our website, letsbanfracking.org and sign up into our database to be a volunteer circulator. It's not sufficient if you call us and wish us good luck and send us an email. We need circulators to sign up and do it on the database, which is on our website. And that's the best and most effective way anyone who wants to participate in this process can become involved.
energy-101.org: If I'm vaguely interested or if I start to have questions, what types of information are available on your website?
Ellis: Well, there are all kinds of resources and scientific articles backing up what we say. We have a link to our other education website called banmichiganfracking.org. And that's where you'll find educational material and the groups that support us, clicking on the PayPal button to give money. You can do that. There's a very detailed FAQ section on the committee's website, letsbanfracking.org, which explain all the mechanics of an initiative petition and the meaning of the language and the ins and outs of how that's done and how petitioning is done. I would direct people to the FAQ page.


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Spring is in the air – I can totally feel it! I love to introduce more cheerful & colorful decor into my home as spring approaches – it's the perfect way to reflect my more cheerful attitude as the days get longer & warmer!
Here's what I've been eyeing online lately:
Flight of Fancy Pillow ($29.95 from Joss & Main) // Young House Love Scallop Print Drum Shade Pendant in Coral ($99 from Shades of Light) // Bazaar Dhurrie 5×8 Rug ($279 from West Elm) // She's a Wildflower 11×14 Print ($25 from Etsy Shop The Wheat Field by Katie Daisy) // PB Found Watering Can ($89 from Pottery Barn)
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Thursday, November 1, 2012
The pink streets of West Shore, or is it Westshore?
|West Shore or Westshore?
As I mentioned in my previous post I recently bought a house, it is in Northeast Seminole Heights. Around the same time my work also moved its headquarters from West Tampa to the Westshore area at the end of Cypress Street. So my world and my commute have changed pretty drastically, considering that I had lived in Hyde Park and had an easy 2 mile commute to West Tampa for the past 5 years. I never really spent much time in Westshore or Seminole Heights before this so even though I thought I knew the city pretty well, I'm still finding new and interesting things to investigate.
The first that comes to mind, is the proper spelling of the neighborhood really "Westshore"? even though the street that it is named after is really spelled as two seperate words "West Shore"? Even Google Maps spells it as one word! Could this be as contentious as the whole La Setima / La Septima Seventh Avenue debate?
|Pink streets in Tampa? Corner of Trask and North A
The second thing I hope to look into is the possibility of the existence of pink streets in the Westshore area. While driving through the neighborhood along North A and North B just East of the mall I noticed that many of the curbs and the shoulder of many of the roads and even some of the sidewalks were a faded pink color. The street was probably originally concrete or slab formed. The streets of the are have since been repaved with asphalt, but only about a foot to the curb. The pink curbs and sidewalks are spotty, the area photographed above is probably one of the longer stretches, most areas are patched with regular colored concrete curbs. I immediately thought of the pink streets of St. Petersburg's Pinellas Point neigborhood (shown below).
Originally platted as Hanan Park, the area around Trask and North A and North B streets was developed during the boom of the early 1920s, although the area has changed drastically since then some of the original houses and buildings from the 20s are still standing. Were pink streets a thing back then or was this just a local phenomenon?
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BBC One has unveiled official details of its Christmas and New Year schedule for 2013/14.
On Saturday, December 21, BBC One will air the Strictly Come Dancing final at 6.30pm, followed by the penultimate episode of fantasy drama Atlantis at 7.55pm.
Series two of Last Tango in Halifax drawing to a close at 9pm on Christmas Eve.
Doctor Who's 'The Time of the Doctor' will air on Christmas Day from 7.30pm-8.30pm, preceded by Call the Midwife at 6.15pm and followed by the Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas Special at 9.30pm.
David Jason sitcom revival Still Open All Hours will hit BBC One on Boxing Day (Thursday, December 26) at 7.45pm.
Mrs Brown's Boys New Year Special has been pencilled in for 9.30pm on Monday, December 30
Sherlock kicks off the New Year at 9pm on Wednesday, January 1, while long-running crime drama Silent Witness launches its 17th series at 9pm on Thursday, January 2.


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What is the best career decision that you have made?
Joining the Youth Advocacy and Involvement Office as a Child Advocate. This position gave me the ability to use my counseling skills and my attorney skills to help families with problems in many areas of their lives. I felt like I made a positive difference in their lives.
If you had to do it over again, what would you do differently?
I would have stayed at the NC State Bar rather than moving to the NC Industrial Commission.
How have women helped further your career?
Betty McCain helped me in many ways to find jobs in state government and she mentored me to be the person I am. Carol Spruill helped me with the NC Association of Women Attorneys and the Women's Forum North Carolina to be better connected in the profession.
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Dr Oz: Parasitic Infection From Under-Cooked Meat
Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic infection most commonly contracted from cats in their feces and from raw or under-cooked-meat. The CDC estimate more than 60 million people in the U.S. may have it. In its dormant stage the toxoplasma parasite is considered relatively harmless, but it has been linked to severe birth defects and miscarriage. Now, new research links infection with the parasite with long-term changes in brain chemistry and behavior. The study found that those diagnosed with intermittent explosive disorder where patients can have bouts of extreme, impulsive anger and irrational aggression like road rage, were twice as likely to have been infected with the toxoplasmosis parasite.


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The Stars Askew Cover
The cover for the US version of The Stars Askew seems to have gone out. And here it is, for those interested. And the PR has gone out too. I there are a couple of inaccuracies, and a couple of small spoilers, but if you really want to know what the book is about, here […]Read more +


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Seattle is the technological, cultural, and commercial hub of the American Northwest. Thousands of people fly in to SeaTac airport each day to transact all kinds of business. That makes for a large demand for Seattle limousine services each day. That also opens up an enormous window for mistakes and poor service. Here are a few tips to help you hire a company that will perform as expected, when expected.
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Seattle limousine companies are not limited to limos. Many offer town cars, stretch Hummers, and SUV's. Many offer specialized services for weddings, anniversaries, or other special occasions. Different vehicles fit different occasions, so you will want to check the company's fleet to insure that they have a vehicle that fits your needs. Again, book well in advance to insure that the vehicle you need will be available to you.
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Hiring a Seattle limousine service for the first time can be difficult and nerve wracking. You can avoid a lot of confusion and stress by doing your research and reserving your car well in advance.


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MBAM 2.0 simplifies large-scale Microsoft BitLocker implementations
Ensuring encryption compliance across multiple machines gets easier with MBAM 2.0, which enables enforcement and management of Microsoft BitLocker.
BitLocker encryption can be an effective way to protect sensitive data on a desktop, yet implementing Microsoft BitLocker in the enterprise is no small undertaking. Managing encryption on multiple systems can be a complex process that leaves users intimidated and confused, leading to a variety of problems, management tasks and support calls.
Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM) promises to change all that. The tool simplifies the tasks associated with managing BitLocker on Windows 7 and Windows 8 computers, including Windows To Go clients. It can also help desktop administrators enforce policy compliance and reduce the amount of resources needed to support BitLocker users.
BitLocker is a full disk encryption feature integrated into the Ultimate and Enterprise editions of Windows 7 and the Pro and Enterprise editions of Windows 8, as well as other versions of Windows. BitLocker lets admins encrypt the Windows system volume and any configured data volumes to prevent unauthorized data access.
First released in 2011, MBAM simplified the BitLocker provisioning process and delivered reports on BitLocker client compliance, in general making it easier to manage and monitor those desktops. Even so, the tool was somewhat limited in scope.
To address those limitations, Microsoft released MBAM 2.0, which adds a self-service portal for users and provides improved enforcement capabilities. MBAM 2.0 also takes advantage of new security features in Windows 8 and can now be integrated into System Center Configuration Manager.
More recently, Microsoft released the first MBAM 2.0 service pack, which further streamlines BitLocker provisioning and simplifies management.
MBAM 2.0 is part of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP), a suite of tools to help IT admins manage and control Windows desktop environments. MDOP is available as a subscription for Software Assurance customers. Microsoft provides more information about MDOP and details on how to download the software.
Understanding the MBAM components
You can install MBAM as either a standalone solution or integrated into Configuration Manager 2007 or 2012. Regardless of the installation type, the components that make up the topology are much the same, although the location of some components varies.
At the heart of an MBAM installation is the administration and monitoring server. Here you'll find the Help Desk Portal, an administration and monitoring website where you can perform a number of management tasks.
The server also hosts a self-service portal that lets users retrieve their own recovery keys. In addition, the monitoring Web services run on this server and interface with the client computers.
In a Configuration Manager installation, the hardware compliance features are hosted on a Configuration Manager primary site server, rather than the administration and monitoring server. The primary site server gathers hardware inventory information from the Microsoft BitLocker client computers into an MBAM-specific collection.
In addition, the server contains a configuration baseline for evaluating the compliance status of those computers.
Another important component in the MBAM topology is the database server, a SQL Server instance that contains the recovery and audit databases. The recovery database stores recovery data collected from the MBAM clients, and the audit database stores activity data collected from client computers accessing recovery data.
In a standalone installation, the database server also hosts compliance data about the client computers, along with Reporting Services reports that use the data. In a Configuration Manager installation, the data and reports are integrated into the Configuration Manager environment.
MBAM also includes a management workstation to host the Policy Template, a collection of Group Policy settings used to define the MBAM options that will be applied to the BitLocker clients. The management workstation does not have to be a dedicated computer; it can also be used to access the help desk portal.
Finally, the MBAM topology includes the BitLocker clients themselves. Each client is a Windows desktop configured with an MBAM agent that applies the BitLocker Group Policy settings to the computer and collects recovery and computer information, including the recovery key associated with the encrypted disk drive.
In my next tip, we'll look at deploying and administering MBAM for Windows BitLocker.


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Revitalization Project
In November 2015, City Council directed staff to undertake pilot projects in two neighbourhoods to promote economic revitalization.
The pilot projects aim to build community and organizational capacity within the local business community in economically distressed commercial areas. The City has found that Business Improvement Areas (BIAs) are a successful model for local economic revitalization. By building local capacity and partnerships within these areas, and by providing additional assistance, high-functioning BIAs with stable funding and organizational capacity can be established – which can lead to sustained economic revitalization.
Studies were undertaken in the Rogers Road and Oakwood Village neighbourhoods. The studies looked at area assets (pull factors), liabilities (push factors), who shops and lives in the neighbourhood, the retail and commercial make-up, and opportunities for economic growth.
See staff report for background information on the revitalization project.
Rogers Road
- Rogers Road Community – Video
- Rogers Road Study Area – Economic Scan – October, 2016
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Zayn Malik has once again opened up about his past eating disorder, reiterating that it was all about control.
The pop singer previously spoke of the disorder in his autobiography. Elaborating on the statement in a new interview with The Times, Malik said; "Every area of my life was so regimented and controlled, it was the one area where I could say, 'No, I'm not eating that.'"
"Once I got over the control, the eating just came back into place, super naturally. Not supernaturally! Just really naturally," he continued.
Zayn also went on to explain that it was his mum who helped him recover after the disorder by helping him get "back in touch" with a lot of what he'd lost.
"I came back to the UK and spent some time with my mum and got some TLC," he said, "and she cooked me food and I got back in touch, mentally, with a lot of the things I'd lost."
During the interview, he also revealed that his second album was progressing nicely and he feels that he has grown as a human being since the release of his debut solo work, Mind of Mine.
"They always say the second album is difficult," he said. "But so far I'm really happy with this one."
Zayn Malik shared a snippet of the new music earlier this month, soundtracking a dog gif on his Twitter account.
Malik uploaded a taster of new music to Twitter, along with a GIF of a dog being toyed with a bone that reads "excited". He has promised that there's "more to come".
Malik's producer Malay recently spoke about working with Zayn on a collaboration with famed Indian composer AR Rahman, who did the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack.
Malay said: "I thought it would be fun to have a platform that was maybe a little less pressure for the artist and then me having the challenge and the fun of creating a new sound. The other part of what I'm doing is representing a little bit more of the culture subliminally with Zayn Malik, who I've been working with."
"We're talking about doing a song with him and AR Rahman together and I'm having Zayn in Urdu, it's real similar to Hindi but it's Pakistani language. It's a modern-sounding song, but for him to sing in that language is kind of powerful."
For more information and advice on eating disorders, visit MIND.