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Today we're announcing the first managed solution for WooCommerce stores and it's far more than just installing the plugin onto a WordPress site.
Our focus has always been consistent
For more than twenty years Liquid Web has been serving growing companies and the web professionals that have helped them get online. In that time, we've served customers in over 130 countries, managed more than 500,000 sites, run 5 global data centers and equipped 600 hosting professionals to deliver heroic support.
We have many different product offerings – from dedicated servers to virtual private servers, from cloud solutions to Managed WordPress – but each offering has been designed with the same goal – to help growing companies and the web professionals that serve them.
So what happens when you realize that you need a new and different kind of platform to deliver that kind of value to store owners and the agencies that build eCommerce sites?
You build a new platform. One that's focused on performance.
You can't just install WooCommerce and call it a day
Most hosts say they can host WooCommerce sites. By this, they simply mean that you can install WooCommerce on their WordPress hosting. But an online store isn't a blog. You can't make it fast simply by caching everything. This isn't a WordPress site. It's a WooCommerce store – and that means you need to think about it differently.
Customer may not know, until after they've paid for three years in advance, that many of these hosts offer cheap, shared hosting plans that will quickly buckle under any kind of traffic load.
Some store owners have started looking at hosted platforms
It's no surprise or shock why those same customers, having discovered that their stores performed so poorly, though the problem was WooCommerce. In response, many of them have started looking at hosting platforms.
Today's options aren't simply a variety of self-hosted libraries that only technologists can manage. Customers are looking at Shopify, Squarespace eCommerce, and BigCommerce.
In fact, when these hosted solutions write up head to head comparisons with WooCommerce – the most popular online store platform today – they focus on all the hosting and technology challenges that a store owner would face if they were trying to build a store on their own.
The good news is that store owners don't have to do it on their own.
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When we say we're the Most Helpful Humans in Hosting, we mean it.
Our goal wasn't simply to create a high-performance platform for hosting WooCommerce sites. It was to build a total solution for store owners so that they could compare their options side by side.
A Total Solution for Store Owners
To create a platform that would offer a total solution, we had to add components to WooCommerce that weren't natively there – like leveraging Jilt for their abandoned cart recovery features, and Glew.io for their enterprise-level analytics & reporting.
Ours isn't a fragmented platform where small stores use one platform and enterprises use another. Customers can watch their stores grow as fast as they like without ever feeling a hiccup.
And speaking of scale and performance, like enterprise stores experience, we've invested in changing how WooCommerce stores orders (custom order tables) handle times with high concurrency transactions.
We brought over the image compression from our Managed WordPress product so that media wouldn't slow store performance, and we integrated every store with Algolia to improve store indexing and searches.
The result of this completely new container-based platform with optimizations and integrations is that the stores we've tested on it are loading in under 1 second. And that's the kind of performance every store owner wants.
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It's been 12 months of work – 12 months of engineers, our product team and our partners working together to create the first managed platform dedicated solely to WooCommerce stores.
When Pagely, Zippy Kid, and WP Engine created companies focused on WordPress hosting, I was delighted. It meant I could stop talking to hosting companies that just wanted to sell me more RAM.
Unfortunately, for way too long, store owners have called regular hosts, shared hosts, and even some managed WordPress hosts, and experienced the same frustration of talking to someone who didn't understand that their WooCommerce store needed more than just some RAM.
I'm thrilled to be the first, though I'm sure we won't be the last, to step into the Managed WooCommerce Hosting space with an offering that is more than just the installation of the WooCommerce plugin.
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One of my favorite lunch spots serves healthy Lebanese-American food. I love that they offer healthy and nutritious options on their menu like quinoa, kale, brown rice and fresh veggies. A dish I usually crave is made with well seasoned brown rice, beans, cooked vegetables, and topped with fresh Lebanese Salata. I had a serious craving for it and decided to recreate a version of my own. If you like food with a spicy kick, the mix of flavors is amazing!
Rice & Beans
- 1 Cup Della Basmati Light Brown Rice, uncooked
- 2 Cups Hot Water
- 1 "Chicken" Bouillon Cube (I used Celifibr Gluten Free Vegetarian Chicken Bouillon)
- 3 Cloves Garlic, minced
- 2 Tablespoons Parsley, dried
- 2 teaspoons Cumin
- 1 teaspoon Tumeric
- 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- Pink Himalayan Salt, to taste
- Fresh Ground Black Pepper, to taste
- 1 Carton of Simply Balanced Organic Low Sodium Three Bean Blend (at Target), rinsed
- 1/2 Cup Organic Frozen Peas
- 1 Organic cucumber, chopped
- Campari Tomatoes, deseeded, chopped
- Juice of 1 Lemon
- 1/4 Cup Parsley
- Granulated Garlic
- Pink Himalayan Salt
- Fresh Ground Black Pepper
- Add bouillon cube to 2 cups hot water, mix well, and set aside to dissolve.
- In a large pot, on medium heat, add olive oil and garlic and cook 1-2 minutes.
- Stir in spices and rice and mix well, cooking for 5-7 minutes.
- Add bouillon water and bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat to low, cover and simmer for 25-30 minutes, or until water has absorbed.
- While Rice is cooking, chop cucumbers and tomatoes. Add to a medium bowl, and add lemon juice, parsley, granulated garlic, and salt and pepper to taste.
- When rice is done cooking, add frozen peas, and beans, and stir well. Let cook 5-7 minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Add rice & beans to your bowl and top with fresh salata. Enjoy!
*You can easily add grilled chicken to this dish, as well!

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It's that time again! This was a relatively small comic week. Here are my picks for this week!
Another Castle #1
I've been waiting for this one. I loved Paulina Ganucheau's work on Zodiac Starforce, and she continues her brilliant talent in Another Castle. Princess Misty's kingdom comes under attack from an evil force. She doesn't need a prince to save her to defend her people. The previews for this were bright, vibrant, and looks like a heck of a lot of fun. I'm excited to get in this!
Avengers Standoff Alpha 001: Assault on Pleasant Hill
The spring event for Marvel is officially launching after last month's one-shot. Standoff looks WAY better than Civil War II coming this summer. I wish Marvel would stop tying in their comics with the movies. We don't need another Civil War. The first one was enough. Anyway with Standoff, I'm just incredibly happy Bucky Barnes is back on Earth. While I loved Ales Kot's run of Bucky Barnes: The Winter Soldier, I prefer Bucky when he's interacting with others. He's one of my favorite characters in Marvel. Bring on him being the leader of the Thunderbolts!
Black Widow #1
I hate to admit this, but I didn't get to read the previous run for Black Widow. It was one of the best reviewed Widow comics, but I haven't had the time to get to it. I think the last huge chunk of Widow I read was when she and Bucky were dating in The Winter Soldier run that Ed Brubaker wrote. Needless to say, I'm excited to see how comic superstar Mark Waid takes on our favorite female spy.
Power Rangers #1
I love jumping on the train to Nostalgia Town. Hell, my fifth birthday was Power Ranger themed. I knew issue #0 was going to be good. I don't think anyone knew how GREAT it would be! It's already gotten a third printing, while the 1:100 White Ranger variant has hit $200 on Ebay! I love that they modernized our Rangers much like they've done in the Archie and Jughead reboots. But they leave in just enough 90's cheesiness to remind you this is still Power Rangers. Boom Studios! has really been knocking their titles out of the park in the last year.
Darth Vader #17
Star Wars continues their roll of successful comics since launching last year. We're seeing Vader in an interesting predicament. If you're also following the main Star Wars title, you know his ally Doctor Aphra, the crazy bitch wild card I love to hate, has been captured by the Rebel Alliance. Recently, Aphra uncovered that Padme wasn't pregnant when she died meaning that Luke Skywalker is Vader's son. The problem is the Emperor has men investigating Vader's recent movements. Vader might get caught with his hand in the evil cookie jar.
The only thing I feel is missing from the comics is I wish tiny glances of Anakin would peek through more. Darth Vader #6 had my absolute favorite moment in the Star Wars comics thus far. He found out Luke was his son and flashed back to memories of Padme. It was a gorgeous scene that made me tear up. That could be because I'm a die hard Clone Wars fan. I adored Anakin's tragic down slide over six seasons. I hope we get more moments like that.
Old Man Logan #3
Enter HAWKEYE!
Okay, not HawkGUY meaning Clint Barton (AKA my favorite Avenger). Here we have Katie Kate! She's now tangoing with Old Man Logan. I will say I still haven't read Old Man Logan #2 yet, but that's because I have a huge hatred for the new Hulk. I was hoping Logan would beat the snot out of him. Or kill him. I would have been okay with that too.
Honorable Mentions
A-Force #3– This series doesn't have the same energy of the Secret Wars tie in. It's still been a pretty good read.
Giant Days #12– I'm VERY behind in this comic even though I'm still pulling it. It's a great slice of life comic if you're looking for one.
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Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? For my part I rather wonder both by what accident and in what state of soul or mind the first man did so, touched his mouth to gore and brought his lips to the flesh of a dead creature, he who set forth tables of dead, stale bodies and ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds?
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The Master Gardeners of Smith County are specially trained volunteers who provide horticultural information and help to the citizens of Smith County, working through the Smith County Extension office. After 72 hours of instruction in botany, soil science, entomology, plant pathology, landscape, fruit and vegetable gardening, Master Gardener interns volunteer an equivalent amount of time within a year to further AgriLife Extension's mission of delivering educational programs to the citizens of Smith County. 2019 is the 26th year of the Smith County program, which has been recognized by both the local community and peers in other Master Gardener programs for outstanding programs and community service.
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Capping & Clawback Adjustments to Non-Residential Properties
Tax capping refers to limitations on annual property tax increases for certain commercial, industrial and multi-residential properties. Tax capping was introduced to protect properties from large property tax increases as a result of implementing Current Value Assessment (CVA) in 1998.
- In order to capture the lost revenue from properties that are capped, the City annually calculates a clawback rate that effectively results in withholding part of a property's decrease due to reassessment.
- The Province of Ontario legislated tax capping in 1998 as a temporary tool intended to transition properties to full CVA taxation.
To learn more about the changes to Capping/Clawback, visit Non-residential Property Tax Strategies.


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Last weekend our luxurious Riviera Maya resort, Hacienda Tres Ríos, invited a group of travel bloggers, writers and experts from across the US, to visit the resort, enjoy the activities, relax in the suites and meet with local bloggers.
Kay Walten (LocoGringo) , Cheri Lucas (Trazzler), Craig Zabransky (Stay Adventurous), Chris Gray (Chris Around the World), Rachelle Lucas (Inn the Kitchen), Matt Long (Land Lopers) and Janice Waugh (Solo Traveler) were the travel bloggers invited by the Riviera Maya resort for an unforgettable weekend.
Dinner at the Chef's Table, Green Globe Certification ceremony, tour along the plant nursery and the exclusive Nature Park, the SenseAdventure tour, the temazcal (a challenging experience!), Mexican dinner and a visit to Playa del Carmen were just some of the activities that the distinguished guests enjoyed during their visit.
This is the first bloggers trip we had and we hope to have more in the future. Are you a blogger or a travel writer? Would you like to be invited to Hacienda Tres Ríos Resort? Why should we pick you? Let us know in the comments below!
In the kitchen with Chef Oscar.
During the Green Globe Certification Ceremony.
A whole new experience, the SenseAdventure Tour.
The Tequila Tasting was one of the best experiences.
Take a look at the Travel Bloggers in the Riviera Maya photo album in Flickr!
About the author
I'm Jorge the community manager and destination marketing strategist of Yucatan Holidays. Always on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube among many other social network sites trying to share with the world the amazing natural beauties and rich history of this land of wonders.


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beresford wrote:Those photos are hillarious, thanks for sharing them! If you have any more pictures of the cast interacting with each others like that, I would love to see them:P
And btw, mellow, your new signature is just AWESOME, i love that sun quote, glad I am not the only one who still appreciates her around here!
I love Sun too
Seriously, Jack faces are a legend. Looks like Foxy has a talent in them.
Katieb, you implying that Josh doesn't have a sense of humour?


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Helen Yung Sweet Republic 9160 East Shea Boulevard, Scottsdale 480-248-6979, www.sweetrepublic.com
See also: -- Sweet Republic Makes U.S. News and World Report's List of America's Best Ice Cream -- Tastemaker 88: Jan Wichayanuparp and Helen Yung
This is part one of my interview with Helen Yung, co-owner and ice cream designer/maker at Sweet Republic. Come back Tuesday, when Yung dishes about her favorite Phoenix Chinese restaurants and how to evaluate great ice cream.
You'd never know it to look at her (she's just a wisp of a thing), but Helen Yung is food-obsessed. In fact, she's the classic foodist -- always thinking, reading, and talking about food, taking pictures of it, Facebook posting and Instagramming it, and, of course, putting away massive amounts of it. Where does it all go? That's the mystery. But then, Yung was a certified personal trainer in another life, just as she was an investment banker. She's a chameleon of a woman who, apparently, can do anything she sets her incisive mind to.
She's often portrayed as a career-changer, leaving behind the high-powered world of investment banking to make ice cream. It's a charming story, but the truth is, she was in her early 20s when she walked away from the numbers-crunching corporate grind, so it's more accurate to say she figured out, early on, that investment banking didn't feed her soul -- and food did.
Yung, who grew up in Hong Kong, left home at 15 to attend boarding school at Exeter in New Hampshire, later spending one year of college at Johns Hopkins before transferring to the University of Pennsylvania, where she majored in finance and accounting. She landed a job at Cititgroup, where she worked for three years (the last of which was in London) as an analyst before being promoted to associate. She was back in New York for training when she met Jan Wichayanuparp, who had been working in Bangkok for Citigroup and had also earned a promotion. During their three-month training session, the two spent many evenings over good meals in the city.
Both women were in Manhattan on 9/11, and it rocked their world. Wichayanuparp went back to Bangkok, and Yung was sent to Tokyo (which she fondly remembers as a lovely "boondoggle"), but the two friends stayed in touch, always talking about getting out of the corporate world and into food. When Citigroup went through a rough patch (investment banking is cyclical, Yung explains), the company was looking for people willing to leave with a good severance package. Yung took them up on it, using the money for a three-month basic cuisine/pastry program at Le Cordon Bleu in Australia.
After her program, Yung met up with Wichayanuparp (who was still in the corporate world and completely stressed out) in Hong Kong when SARS hit. Yung had a hard time finding work there because of it (this is where the personal training comes in), and the two eventually packed up and moved to San Francisco, where they stayed about a year and a half, both of them groping around for the next good thing. They had tossed around a number of ideas for business ventures (bakery was one of them), but ice cream shop appealed to them the most. They knew they wanted to be small and focused, and ice cream seemed fun. Plus, as Yung says, "It makes people happy, but it's challenging enough to let me be eclectic and outside-the-box."
Yung worked in the kitchen at the now-defunct Eccolo in Berkeley (owned by Chez Panisse alum Chris Lee) for a while, but when Wichayanuparp's married sister moved to Phoenix and encouraged them to check out the emerging food scene here, the two took her up on it. They liked what they saw and eventually found a cute space in a family-oriented neighborhood on Shea near 92nd Street. Sweet Republic opened in May 2008, and in the nearly five years since then, the shop has earned countless awards and mentions in local and national publications. Wichayanuparp and Yung will open a Sweet Republic at Sky Harbor in September.
Five words to describe you: Curious, rebellious, genuine, confident, happy.
Five words to describe Sweet Republic: Unique, fun, colorful, exciting, unusual.
Favorite food smell: Bread baking in the oven.
Do you read cookbooks, and if so, which ones?: Yes, on everything: sweet, savory, ethnic. I also love reading magazines like Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, Sunset, Saveur, etc. to keep up with the latest trends.
Most overrated ingredient: Foie -- maybe I've just had too much of it in my past life as a high-rolling investment banker.
Most underrated ingredient: Fresh peas in spring.
Trend you like: Vegetables -- not just as a side dish.
Trend you wish would go away: Heavy-handed food with no balance.
You grew up in Hong Kong. What was that like?: Fast-paced, very little personal space, defined by material wealth and it still is -- more than ever. Lots of good restaurants: People love to eat and there's population density, wealth, and sophistication to support it. The whole family would eat dinner at home Monday through Friday, and we'd go out on weekends to eat. It's such a crowded and small place that people travel every chance they get. My parents took me and my younger sister on vacation all over Asia, Europe, and the U.S. every summer.
Favorite thing to eat growing up: Long-boiled Chinese soups -- especially at home. I miss it so much and have only found it at a few restaurants here: New Hong Kong, Asian Hong Kong, Asian Café Express.
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Favorite thing to eat now: Soup (all kinds). Nothing beats a chilled, smooth-as-silk, pureed English pea soup with a hint of mint this time of year.
What was it like to switch from jet-setting investment banker to ice cream shop owner?: It's more like I switched from sitting at a desk all day staring at intangible numbers on a computer screen -- with the occasional travel -- to the very physical job of transforming 50-pound bags of sugar, gallons and gallons of milk and cream into delicious ice cream that you can see, touch, and eat. So much more satisfying!
Enjoy this Chef Salad? Check out Nikki's previous interviews with: Jacques Qualin of J&G Steakhouse Claudio Urciuoli of Noca Claudio Urciuoli of Noca Matt Pool of Matt's Big Breakfast Jared Porter of The Parlor Charleen Badman of FnB Tony Abou-Ganim & Adam Seger Charlotte Voisey of Best American Brands Ambassador Steve Olson of Valley Ho Dough Robson of Gallo Blanco Edward Farrow of The Cafe at MIM Greg LaPrad of Quiessence & Morning Glory Cafe Joshua Johnson of Kai Joshua Johnson of Kai Todd Sicolo of T.Cooks Josh Riesner of Pig & Pickle Lester Gonzalez of Cowboy Ciao M.J. Coe of Federal Pizza Steven "Chops" Smith of Searsucker Aaron Chamberlin of St. Francis Michael Rusconi of Rusconi's American Kitchen Chrysa Robertson of Rancho Pinot Lynn Rossetto of The Splendid Table Cullen Campbell of Crudo DJ Monti Carlo Pete DeRuvo of Davanti Enoteca Chuck Wiley of Cafe ZuZu Justin Beckett of Beckett's Table Bryan Dooley of Bryan's Black Mountain Barbecue Silvana Salcido Esparza of Barrio Cafe Jeff Kraus of Crepe Bar Bernie Kantak of Citizen Public House James Porter of Petite Maison Johnny Chu of SoChu House Neo Asian + Martini Bar Stephen Jones of Blue Hound Kitchen & Cocktails Chris Gross of Christopher's Restaurant and Crush Lounge Chris Curtiss of NoRTH Arcadia Payton Curry of Brat Haus Mark Tarbell of Tarbell's Josh Hebert of Posh Kevin Binkley of Binkley's Restaurant Lori Hashimoto of Hana Japanese Eatery Larry White, Jr. Lo-Lo's Fried Chicken & Waffles


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3 April (Part 1) - Scrutinising People again
The last time I went to one of James Hunt's People Scrutiny meetings it
dragged on for more than three and a half hours thanks in part to
the extensive line up of guest speakers. On Wednesday there was little of that and the Agenda
was a mere 45 pages instead of 194 but any hopes I might have for an early night were not realised.
Councillors droned on for nearly three hours and I was struggling to find highlights that might make interesting blog reading. Prospective MPs presumably attend for very different reasons to me. (See Stefano Borella's Tweet below.)
After 80 minutes the five members of the public present had reduced to just me and as the evening progressed the number of councillors heading for the door went from trickle to procession. I had decided to leave at either ten o'clock or the end of Agenda Item 8, whichever came first. Probably the wrong decision but outside the chamber at ten o'clock I exchanged friendly words with a total of five councillors who were variously, stretching their legs, clutching a drink, heading for the toilets, who were wondering how much longer the meeting could possibly go on for.
I don't think it's chairman Hunt's fault. He doesn't permit councillors to be too rambling or do anything other than ask a question but answers can be expansive rather than succinct or precise. The longer they are the more likely it is that they are excuses for failure.
The real problem with scrutiny meetings since the last election can be laid at council leader Teresa O'Neill's door. Reducing the number of committees from seven to three was supposed to reduce the opportunity for scrutiny but meetings go on for twice as long instead.
The younger councillors have been heard complaining that the minds of their elders begin to drift towards cocoa and hot water bottles by nine thirty. It's probably true but given a few more years the younger ones may become a little more sympathetic.
The new police chief put in a brief appearance. He told us that he had been with the British Transport Police but as if to apologise for that assured everyone he had experience in a number of northern cities too. The borough wide dawn raids last Tuesday had resulted in 57 people arrested and charged, and with that he was gone.
My superficial judgment is that Jeff Boothe seemed to be a decent bloke and I know that some who have met him in a one to one situation have been impressed but the same was said of two out of three of his predecessors and all three of them are currently under investigation for covering up Bexley council's criminal activities.
Maybe both Bexley council and the local police have learned the error of their ways and we will never see a repetition of such things. One can hope.
15 minutes into the meeting the first question was thrown into the arena, it came from councillor Alan Downing (Conservative, St. Mary's) who as vice-chairman was paid £750 for sitting down for three hours. He provided cabinet member Philip Read with an excuse to speak about the recent lifting of the Children's Services Improvement Notice issued by the Department for Communities.
Read managed to speak for four minutes without any serious attempt at insulting fellow councillors. There was an oblique reference to Mabel Ogundayo - "it gives the lie to some of the things we have heard from other people" - and he revisited his '60% permanent staff' claim without any attempt to deceive listeners that the figure for social workers was not yet that good.
This was not the Read of old and his message this time was very much in line with what was heard at the Children's Social Care Sub-Committee meeting. The new found honesty from cabinet member Philip Read must be good news for the borough but bad for those who look for entertainment on these pages.
Councillor Mabel Ogundayo (Labour, Thamesmead East) graciously acknowledged the efforts of the staff who had worked for the breakthrough on the path to a fully acceptable service. Peace in our time?
Councillor Brenda Langstead (Labour, North End) was concerned about schools not meeting the needs of SEN children and asked what might be done to encourage the schools. She was told that there was already a team of specialist teachers working on that problem.
Councillor Ross Downing's (Conservative, Cray Meadows) question was answered by cabinet member John Fuller with some impressive statistics including the doubled number of companies offering apprenticeships in the borough.
Soon after all the other members of the public had succumbed to boredom and departed, councillor Sharon Massey (Conservative, Danson Park) livened things up by making a bid for the £8,802 job of chairman. She judged that councillor Chris Beazley (UKIP, St. Michael's) had strayed a little from the straight and narrow and decided he should be stopped in his tracks.
"Don't identify the public by name"
Perhaps councillor Massey should hold her tongue more often.
Councillor Joe Ferreira (Labour, Erith) wondered why Trading Services was carrying out inspections at premises where fireworks are sold now rather than at the obvious time of the year. No answer was forthcoming.
Councillor Langstead was curious about how the Save Old Manor Way Playground petition had managed to worm its way on to the council's website when other equally worthy petitions, she mentioned the Slade Green Communities and Belvedere Splash Park, had not. No one knew the answer to that question either.
Councillor Brenda Langstead was not at all sure that the council would be able to provide the new legal minimums for domiciliary care at the very low fees Bexley council has been prepared to offer care agencies. The Acting Director of Adult Social Care, Tom Brown, chose his words very carefully. He said the council could not pay more than it could afford and if payments were raised to recommended levels it would cost £2 million. (†)
He was however trying to ensure that care workers would no longer be expected to be in four different places at the same time. Mr. Brown hesitantly said he was working in partnership with the home care providers but he sounded like a man who had no confidence in his own words. He will have been put in an impossible position by the cuts to front line service budgets. (†)
Earlier in the discussion of domiciliary care services, councillor Sharon Massey commented that her company, Supreme Home Care, takes "no work from Bexley council intentionally", effectively scotching any rumours to the contrary.
Listening to the meeting a second time, it was surprising to discover it was less tedious than 'in the flesh'. I suspect this may be due to the sound quality, depending on the speaker, in the chamber being so poor that the temptation is to give up listening. The recording turned up reasonably loud is less of a strain on the ear 'oles.
Nevertheless is is still tempting to say that the most interesting observation on April 1st was councillor Seán Newman's decision to abandon Messrs. Gillette and Wilkinson. That and the smashed glass panel just outside the chamber. Who lost their temper with whom?
Note: The two paragraphs suffixed (†) are summaries taken from the webcast as I left 20 minutes before the meeting ended.


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Standards of Practice Enforcement
In 2004, the Virginia General Assembly created the VIDC to provide oversight of and support for the attorneys performing court appointed criminal defense work. As part of the new Commission's charge, the General Assembly in § 19.2-163.01 of the Virginia Code directed the Commission to establish standards of practice for indigent defense counsel. The Standards give meaning to the Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel and further the overall goal of zealous and high quality legal representation for each and every client. Specifically, Virginia's Standards of Practice for Indigent Defense Counsel and legislatively mandated under § 19.2-163.01(A)(4).
Court appointed counsel and public defenders must comply with the Standards and Rules of Professional Conduct, which are incorporated by reference. These Standards should not serve as a benchmark for ineffective assistance of counsel claims or attorney discipline hearings. Rather, they should serve as standards of practice for court appointed counsel and public defenders providing indigent defense in Virginia. Failure to comply with these standards can result in the removal of the non-compliant attorney from the list of counsel certified for the court appointed representation of the indigent accused.
Please mail the completed complaint form to:
Standards of Practice Enforcement
Virginia Indigent Defense Commission
1604 Santa Rosa Road, Suite 200
Richmond, VA 23229
Standards of Practice Enforcement Attorney
Alison Powers
Email: email@example.com
Phone: (804) 662-7249, ext. 136
Fax: (804) 662-7359
Standards of Practice Complaint Process
A Complaint Process brochure was developed by the VIDC to inform the general public about the Standards of Practice complaint procedure. The brochure lists and describes the intake and initial evaluation of the complaint and the five (5) steps of the complaint process. The complaint form is downloadable below.


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"There's no frigate like a book to take us lands away." – Emily Dickinson
I've always asserted that getting lost in the pages of a great book while on a duly great trip is in actuality two vacations for the price of one. I mean there I am, relaxing on a sandy beach, working on a stellar tan of which my dermatologist will chastise me for at my next checkup. The mesmerizing sound of waves rolling in the distance has erased any residual stress I carried with me on this R&R trip. I begin reading Tina Fey's hysterically funny yet compellingly veridical Bossypants, and by page 10 I'm on memory lane of my own awkward adolescence, harkening back to vacations my family spent "at Grandma and Grandpa Fletcher's cabin" on the shores of northern Minnesota's Eleventh Crow Wing Lake. Bingo! Two vacations for the price of one!
Naturally, the adventurer in each of us would love to travel, explore, find ourselves wanderlust again and again. But for the greater majority of us our bank accounts, financial obligations and family commitments are a constant reminder that a road trip is just not always possible. Frustrating at the very least! So here is my next best option to packing up and heading out on another trek: A REALLY GOOD BOOK. Yep! Losing myself in the pages of an intoxicating read has been a suitable runner up to the inability for a travel escape on countless occasions. It will surely remain high on the "runner up" list in the future, and I do not mean "runner up" in a negative undertone. I am passionate about reading, literature and story telling and will always believe a good book is a vacation in itself even if I'm parked on the sofa in my own home. So if your commitments have you tied to the dock, grab a book and a good glass of wine and prepare for an instant escape to a far away place.
Perhaps you're vacationing amongst the pages of a fascinating read while enjoying the comfort of your own home. Maybe you're anticipating some stellar page turning while enjoying R&R in exotic lands. Whatever your circumstance, I hope your escape is splendid! In an effort to help you on your journey … wherever it may take you … here are a few of my recent picks:
Life of Pi, by Yann Martel (this fascinating page turner could actually qualify as three-trips-for-the-price of one)
To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee (a masterfully written account of depression-era adolescence, crime and racial inequality in the deep south)
Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides (a Pulitzer Prize winning novel spanning three generations of a Greek family)
Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand (a harrowing yet redemptive biography of boxing champ Louis Zamperini's WWII POW experience)
A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Kite Runner, by Khaleid Hosseini (emotionally gripping fiction depicting Afghan families and their struggles)
The Life & Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, by Bill Bryson (a riotously funny coming-of-age memoir)
Sh*t My Dad Says, by Justin Halpern (see "Thunderbolt" description above)
After Visiting Friends, by Michael Hainey (the chronicle of a father's sudden death and his son's painful and ultimately liberating journey to uncover the truth behind the cover-up)
Good stories are truly meant to be shared, so please feel free to write me with feedback regarding the choices I've listed or offer up your own favorites. This girl is always searching for her next great read!


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While some critics may frown upon our society's addiction to social media, truth be told, there are much worse habits worth kicking to the curb -- like smoking.
Now studies are showing that not only are social media habits far tamer than your pack a day, but they might actually help you quit.
See also: Breaking Beta: Hospital Opens First Internet Addiction Treatment Facility
The Journal of Communication recently published a paper by Joe Phua of the University of Georgia exploring the impact of social media on eager-to-quit smokers. In his study of wellness-based social media sites, Phua found that these online communities served as adequate means of support, helping smokers to not only achieve their goal of quitting but also maintain it.
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Expressing love can improve your health
After giving a talk at a university in Texas, Kory Floyd received an unusual request from an audience member. The young man asked for a prescription for the health booster Floyd had discussed in his presentation.
It was an odd question, given that Floyd isn't a medical doctor; he holds a doctorate in communication. And the treatment the young man wanted a prescription for was no pill or potion – it was kissing!
Floyd is a professor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. He studies the relationship between affectionate communication and physical health. During his talk in Texas, Floyd discussed a study in which he found that kissing can lower cholesterol levels, decrease stress and increase relationship satisfaction.
"This young man was really intrigued by the kissing study. He was going to go home and tell his wife all about it. He said, 'Well, you're a doctor. Write a prescription and say that for my health it's very necessary that I get kissed a whole lot more,'" says Floyd. "I said, 'Well, I'm not that kind of doctor, but I'll write the prescription. See what it does.'"
Kissing isn't the only way to boost your health. Floyd and other researchers have found that communicating our positive feelings for others through words or actions offers a wide range of health benefits. These include lower stress hormones, lower cholesterol, lower blood pressure and a stronger immune system.
Floyd notes that these benefits happen when affection is expressed, not merely felt. And affection can be expressed in many ways, all of which are good for you. You can say "I love you," write a letter, send a text to say "I'm thinking about you," give a hug, kiss, hold hands, snuggle, or even do a favor that shows you care – such as finishing that chore your partner hates.
"One of the things I give as an example of the link between affection and health is the way you feel when you're having a really horrible day, and everything's going wrong. And in the midst of that stressful day, you see somebody that you care about and they put their arms around you and give you a hug," he says. "That hug may not change anything about what's going bad in your day, but it can change everything about the way you feel in that moment. It feels like all of your stress is just melting away."
These benefits of affection apply not just to the person receiving the affection but also to the person giving it. In fact, you can get a health boost from expressing affection even if the receiver doesn't reciprocate.
Much of Floyd's research focuses on the stress response – that "fight or flight" reaction that can save us in times of disaster, but on a chronic level can contribute to heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, depression, digestive disorders and more.
In his lab, Floyd can induce and measure the stress response in his subjects. In one study, he found that writing a letter expressing feelings of affection lowered people's stress levels back to normal faster than simply thinking about a loved one, journaling, meditating or doing nothing.
"That started to get us thinking about whether we would be able to find group differences between people who reported higher amounts of affection in their lives, as opposed to people who don't," says Floyd. "What does this mean for people who have a comparatively high level of affection in their close relationships? Do they also have differences in, say, their ability to react to stressors?"
To find out, Floyd surveyed people to measure the affection levels in their daily lives. [Take the survey for yourself.] Then he brought them into the lab to induce a stress response and measure its intensity.
He found that the highly affectionate people didn't have as strong of a stress response as their less affectionate peers. For example, they didn't produce as much cortisol, and their blood pressures didn't spike as high. Being affectionate seems to offer protection against the effects of stress.
The key may be the hormone oxytocin, often known as "the bonding hormone" because it is released during activities such as sex, childbirth and breastfeeding. It is also released during nonsexual affectionate touch.
"Oxytocin's effects on the body are primarily ones of calming, of warmth. It's very much a feel-good hormone," explains Floyd.
In one study, Floyd and his colleagues showed that people with more affection in their lives release more oxytocin during stress than people with very little affection. This may explain why affectionate people don't get as stressed out as others.
Now, Floyd is moving beyond asking how affection affects the body, and asking why. He is exploring the genetic underpinnings of human affection and asking why some people are naturally more affectionate than others.
"To me, I go back to the very first human relationship that any of us ever has, and that's with our mothers, the person who gives birth to us, who obviously has a vested interest in our survival," he says.
He lists behaviors that a mother uses to protect and nurture her infant: holding, covering, nursing, rocking. Floyd believes these fundamental behaviors morphed into the affectionate behaviors we see in adults, such as hugging.
"These behaviors, at least nonverbally, come out of our most fundamental survival needs," he says. In prehistoric times, before the advent of baby food, mothers even pre-chewed food to give their babies. Floyd says that as gross as that may seem today, it might be the precursor to kissing. Chew on that idea for a while!
"When I think about the ability of an affectionate act to soothe us and ameliorate our stress, I think about it as an example of a survival behavior. So that's my theoretic picture of why affection is something that we do in the first place, where it came from, why we value it, and why we feel like we suffer when we don't get enough," Floyd says.
If we evolved to be affectionate, and it offers so many health benefits, why are some of us less affectionate than others? Certainly, environment plays a role. Research shows that people who are raised in affectionate families are more likely to be affectionate. And there are regional differences in terms of how people choose to express affection. These differences occur over time, as well. Floyd notes how the portrayal of affection on television has evolved drastically over the last few decades.
"What you see men do on TV today – hugging each other, for instance – you never saw Ward Cleaver do that," he notes.
But Floyd wanted to know if there was more than environment involved. Because his earlier research showed a strong link between affection and oxytocin, he decided to look at oxytocin receptor genes. He will be presenting his results at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association in London this June.
He found that variations in one of these genes predicted variation in people's levels of affection. This effect was extremely pronounced in people who had low attachment security.
Attachment security is a person's level of security in personal relationships. People with high attachment security don't worry about abandonment or, conversely, fear that they will lose themselves in their relationships. People with low attachment security, however, feel these fears acutely.
People who have low attachment security and this particular genetic variation were generally less affectionate than people without the variation. They were also less affectionate than highly secure people with the variation.
"And so another way of saying it is that we found a gene-by-environment interaction. There was a genetic effect on the oxytocin receptor gene, but it was modified by people's attachment security, which is an environmental variable," Floyd explains. Although Floyd notes this is only one gene among many that may influence affectionate behavior, he and his team believe the finding helps illustrate the link between genetics and social behavior.
The gene in Floyd's study is also associated with other traits related to affection, such as empathy and altruism. The ASU scientist is currently working with people in careers where the ability to communicate affection and empathy are critical, such as nursing or counseling.
Over the past couple of years, he has worked with medical residents at St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix on developing empathy and empathy communication. The residents practice on a simulated patient – a dummy controlled by a nurse who can talk to the doctor and manipulate vital signs like heart rate. The dummy also wears a video camera on its head, so the doctors can see how they appear to their patients.
"So we sit in a room afterwards and watch the video, and I'll stop the tape at different points and say, 'Look at what you are all doing.' Invariably every one of them is standing at the foot of the patient's bed with their arms crossed and a scowl on their face," he says. "And I say, 'What does this look like from the patient's point of view? How easy would it be for you to not scowl, and stand there with your arms pleasantly folded in front of you?' It's just that they're not aware of their behavior."
The experience makes him wonder about who is most likely to be aware of their behavior naturally, and who is most inclined to learn those skills through training. He wants to find out if there are more effective ways to train doctors, and others, to improve their bedside manner.
Next spring, Floyd is taking a sabbatical at Stanford Medical School to continue his work. This time, he'll genotype medical students to find out what kind of receptor genes they possess. He will connect this information with their natural or learned ability to show empathy to patients and families.
"I'm hoping we'll be able, over time, to help educators better understand the behavioral side of empathy and affection and just showing a patient and their family that you care. Because I know that doctors do care. It just doesn't always dawn on them to display it," he says.
Floyd's work has received attention outside the clinical setting, as well. He was invited to be a consultant on the "Million Moments of Touch" advertising campaign for Nivea, the skin care company, in 2012. He supplied talking points and conducted additional research for the company, which extolled the many benefits of touching.
"Basically getting people to touch more and use their products to make them more touchable," Floyd says.
The company enlisted Dr. Drew, a medical doctor, as their celebrity spokesperson. Floyd recalls feeling amazed when he saw Dr. Drew on a talk show with Joan Rivers discussing the benefits of touch.
"It was this absolutely surreal moment because I realized I had scripted this entire interview. It's wild when you turn on the TV and you see Joan Rivers speaking your words!" he says. "Dr. Drew did a marvelous job. He made it understandable but not dumbed down. I never in a million years would have thought of that as a way to get the message out about the importance of affection, but it did. It was a lot of fun, too!"
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Guide to Fluoride: What You Need to Know
Fluoride is a mineral which strengthens tooth enamel, preventing decay and cavities, and it's something which has become much more widely available via the unique methodology of fluoridated water. Water fluoridation, while not entirely without controversy, is endorsed by almost every major health organization in the world. It's inexpensive, simple and effective.
Here's some important information about fluoride:
- The ADA currently estimates that at least 144 million U.S. residents live in communities with fluoridated public water supplies. Other estimates indicate that as much as 72% of the country drinks fluoridated waters, which would be closer to 225 million.
- Optimal fluoridation levels range from .7 parts per million to 1.2 PPM, depending on climate.
- Water fluoridation began in the United States in 1945 and quickly began to be utilized across the country.
- Drinking bottled water, and using home water filtration systems, may both hinder the maximum effectiveness of fluoridated water.
- Although fluoridated toothpaste is all marked with a warning that swallowing could lead to serious danger, the ADA has said that a child could not absorb enough fluoride from toothpaste to pose any serious health threat.
- However, too much fluoride at a young age may result in enamel fluorosis, and defects in tooth enamel.
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- Circular stainless steel AISI 316L ring, welded using TIG (Tungsten Inert Gas) with an internal diameter of 32mm.
- Barrel finished, smoothed and polished.
- The surface allows for easy insertion of the rope and exerts the minimum damage to the sheath.
- As the pressure is spread over the full 360°, the wear on the ring is almost non-existent.
- Also used to equip improvised abseil stations using cordage and a bolt-chain-carabiner combination.
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- From 2013 the material used in the majority of our anchors is now stainless steel AISI 316L, which offers a higher resistance to marine corrosion than the former AISI 304. To highlight this change each article is stamped with the relevant symbols.
- Attention: There is also a "Marina" version of this anchor which is highly resistant to saline corrosion. To mark the difference between stainless steel AISI 316L and the marina version of the same material, all marine-suitable anchors have been marked with a fish symbol and the initials "INOX".
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The icy conditions around the north-west mean United have been forced to wait to get that dire performance out of their system.
But while Ferguson is still at a loss to explain why his team ended up getting outplayed on home soil by the League One promotion contenders, the United chief is adamant the younger men in his squad were not the ones responsible.
"You can't blame young players," he said.
"The young players were looking for a bit of help in that game and didn't get it.
"It was a bad team performance and I was shocked by it.
"I couldn't believe that after all the preparation we had done for the game and explaining to the players how difficult it was going to be, we turned in a performance like that.
"It was a bad day but I am beyond that now."
Instead, Ferguson will look for instant improvement at Birmingham on Saturday evening.
Not that it will be easy. Ferguson himself was snowed in on Tuesday, when the heavy falls took hold of the north-west.
United's players were given two days off, then spent two days training inside, which is hardly ideal preparation, even though the Reds do have a significant advantage with undersoil heating on one of their outside surfaces making one decent pre-match practice possible.
Yet, even for someone brought up on the banks of the River Clyde, and went on to spend eight years at Aberdeen, it has been an uncomfortable few days for Ferguson.
"The pitch is all right but we are frozen so we are not going," he joked.
"I have never known anything like this. This is Aberdeen weather.
"It has been impossible. Most of the players couldn't get their cars out and Mike Phelan was snowed in in Burnley, although that was not a surprise."
Ironically, the bad weather has come at a time when Owen Hargreaves was finally starting to do some normal training with the reserve team, meaning an end to an 18-month injury nightmare is coming closer.
Rio Ferdinand is two weeks away from a return due to his long-standing back injury, which is roughly the amount of time Nemanja Vidic will be out of action after suffering a nerve problem in his leg prior to last weekend's game.
Ferguson does have Senegal-born front-man Mame Biram Diouf available for the first time after finally linking up from Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's old club Molde.
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There are bugs on how the game textures are placed in the world, but that requires manually editing each texture to fit perfectly in the main game, but asides from small quirks here and there (mostly alienation problems) the texture pack looks excellent. A few textures/overlays that didn't exist in the original pack were either extracted from other HD packs or added from other sources (like Textures.com), so the credits go to them. The rest have a generic overlay applied to them.
Every texture was ported and worked on via batch scripting, I used many programs and developed my own to automatize the most I could. In the end it took my 4 free days, I hope you put this to good use. The porting of transparent textures was done manually.
It should work with other mods, including Sven Co-op, but none of them have been tested. I included a global_detail.txt which you need to copy and rename to every map the mod has.
The reason I wanted to do this is because there are a lot of high definition models in the Half-Life Community, but creators don't seem to understand that no matter how detailed a model look, it will always look horrendous if the map textures are low resolution. Note that I do not blame anyone, the Detailed Textures is a rather obscure feature and it's a shame that it becomes unused. I hope Detailed Textures becomes an standard in Half-Life modding.


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I need an Apple Watch. Badly. I need it because the distance between my wrist and my coat pocket is simply too much, because I need to save that extra second when checking my phone for notifications. I need it because I need one more device to monitor my health.
While I'm at it, I also need an app that saves me a few seconds booking a table, finding the right bar for my Saturday night, and so on. Hell, anything that can save me those precious seconds throughout my hectic day will have my dollar.
The obvious facetiousness aside (I don't need any of those things), I'm growing weary of seeing so many startups without missions. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for creating amazing products. There is, however, an eventual lack of authenticity in the endless strive for greater convenience. These pure-convenience plays face continually diminishing returns.
It is easy to mistake one-off convenience for recurring utility. Entrepreneurs have gotten all too good at tricking themselves – and investors – that their ad hoc gimmick will scale to epic proportions, and keep compounding on its original value. Yet only the most central and important of product functions will see this happen. Along the peripherals, most utility is exhausted almost immediately.
It's well known that the vast majority of startups fail. You can't make them all into winners. You can, however, stress the importance of real, lasting, and growing utility. The more apps I see, and the more pitches I hear for the latest and greatest fad ever to hit the App Store, the more I feel like we need to focus on using technology to help us be better people. Beyond convenience, and beyond mere utility, there lies a realm of innovation wherein products are not actually products at all, but catalysts for social movements. Those same movements can help us become better citizens of humanity.
The job of the entrepreneur in all times before has been to find and capture economic opportunity. Now, however, a higher calling is in order: entrepreneurs need to rise to the challenge of taking the higher-level principles of creating things that bring about positive social change, and finding specific opportunities to execute on opportunities that build toward a greater goal. Building a business still takes as much savvy and boldness as ever, but with the new requirements of relevance to social context and mission-driven offerings. It may be the hardest problem of all, but it will turn out to be the most worth it.


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Florida Defective Tire Tread Attorneys
Tire litigation is a class of product liability claims that seeks to determine responsibility for damages caused by defective vehicular tires. Such liability can rest anywhere throughout the chain of production, distribution, storage, sale or any combination of these areas. While this type of litigation is most common in automobile tires, product liability can extend to all types of tires, including aircraft, farm and industrial use tires.
In recent years a number of major tire manufacturers including Cooper and Firestone have issued recalls in their product lines. Despite these recalls, product defects in tires continue to be a staggering source of injuries. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), over 8,000 crashes every year involve death or serious bodily injury due to faulty tires. Tire tread separation at high speeds can cause blowouts, secondary debris damage and the loss of control of a vehicle, sometimes even resulting in rollovers. Loss of control issues are multiplied in vehicles with a high center of gravity and significant mass, such as semi-trucks and sport utility vehicles.
There are no federal product liability laws. Instead, product liability laws are either model laws adopted by the states or laws which find their origin entirely in a state's legislature. Product liability is generally considered a strict liability offense. Strict liability offenses do not depend on the degree of care exercised by the defendant. When a product is demonstrated to be defective and that defect causes harm, the manufacturer will be liable.
Any defect caused in the product along the supply chain creates liability. This extends to how the tire was designed, how it was manufactured and how it was marketed. Design defects are inherent in the product. They exist before the product is manufactured. While an item may serve its purpose well, it may nevertheless be unreasonably dangerous to use due to a design flaw. Manufacturing defects occur during the construction or production of the item. In this case, only a few out of many products of the same type may be defective. Defects in marketing deal with improper instructions and failures to warn consumers of latent dangers in the product.
Steel-Belted Tire Manufacturing Design Defects
Steel-belted tires are normally considered advantageous because they are durable and resistant to punctures associated with roadways, such as those from unfinished surfaces, debris and potholes. However, a majority of tire tread cases arise out of manufacturing and design defects in these tires. Tire tread separation is an inherent weakness associated with the production of steel-belted tires.
A steel-belted tire is made by alternating layers of soft rubber compound with layers of steel belting over the tire's core. After tread is applied, the tire is subjected to pressurization and heat to cure the assembly and produce a finished tire. The heat and pressure cause chemical reactions that form adhesive polymer chains to hold the layers of a tire together. During the life of the tire, air from inside the tire naturally migrates through the layers of the rubber. The oxygen in that air causes a form of oxidation that breaks down the polymer bonds. That, in turn, breaks down the adhesion between the layers of the tire and results in the tire layers separating.
Another problem inherent with the production of steel-belted tires is that steel does not naturally adhere to rubber. In order to obtain better bonding between the steel and rubber, manufacturers can coat the steel with brass compounds. While this improves the adhesive quality of the rubber to the belting, brass breaks down more quickly than the steel does. Subject to the same oxidative degradation issues that break down polymer bonds, the belting itself breaks down inside the rubber. Breakdown of all these compounds is exacerbated by high heat. The heat necessary to do damage can be caused by normal use but can even be caused by high heat in ambient air, such as in temperatures commonly found in the southern United States.
Tire manufacturers use antioxidant compounds in the belt skim stock and other components of the tire to combat these effects. Manufacturing considerations, such as cost of production, may impact the amount of antioxidant used in a tire. Cost measures can also impact the quality of materials or even result in the failure to use readily available safety technology in making the tire.
The attorneys at Podhurst Orseck understand the issues in tire tread separation. Since our founding nearly four decades ago, we have established a nationally-recognized litigation practice and have handled hundreds of product liability cases throughout the United States. Our team of trial lawyers, paralegals, investigators and experts understands product design, testing and quality control procedures unique to the tire industry. Although we are based in Florida, we serve as national and regional product liability counsel for major clients across the United States.


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The university recognizes the importance of meaningful faculty participation in its governance and acknowledges its value. Faculty engagement enhances communication, collegiality, and helps both improve the quality of decision-making and ease the way for subsequent implementation. In order to facilitate wide faculty participation, the university will provide opportunities for faculty representation and responsibility commensurate with the faculty's role in the university community generally. In particular, it recognizes that faculty involvement in academic or administrative areas in which they have particular experience and expertise is essential to the vitality and efficient operation of the university as a whole. The faculty, in turn, recognizes its ordinary responsibilities to serve on committees and in posts at the department, college, school and university levels.
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Two Addo Elephant National Park buffalo bulls with near record horn spans are expected to attract breeders and reserve owners from throughout Southern Africa to the annual Absa Kirkwood Wildsfees auction.
The biggest has been nick-named "Bismarck," and has a horn span of 46 inches, while Hercules has one of 45 inches. Both have been captured, and are in a boma at the Addo Elephant National Park, according to auction organiser Johan Swart.
He says new blood and a new date bring a new era to the annual Absa Kirkwood Wildsfees game auction, which is one of the top three wildlife auctions in the country.
For the first 10 years of the Absa Kirkwood Wildsfees, brought to you in association with DSTV in 2012, the auction has been hosted on the Saturday of the festival weekend. This has been moved to the Friday to accommodate out of town bidders – many of whom also want to bring their families to enjoy the many attractions at the Absa Kirkwood Wildsfees, according to auction organiser Johan Swart.
"We have listened to what the industry has told us, and moved the auction a day forward.
"The trend in the industry is to hold auctions on week days.
"This also helps with the movement of the game after it has been bought," he says.
The auction is one of the few in the country where buyers are able to see the majority of the prize animals, which are kept in bomas for the sale.
This year, around 40 disease-free Add Elephant National Park buffalo will go under the hammer of Brandon Leer of Brandon Leer Auction Services. Leer is widely regarded as one of the best livestock auctioneers in the country, and a specialist in game sales. He will be taking over the hammer from Roy Hayes who handled the auctions for the first 10 years.
"Roy helped put the Kirkwood wildlife auction on the map, and the fact that we could attract an auctioneer with the experience of Brandon is a tribute to the solid foundation Roy built," says Swart.
Leer was schooled in the Eastern Cape and grew up in the Port Elizabeth area.
Other well-known auctions in which he has been involved include Madikwe, Thaba Tholo, Piet du Toit, Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, SANParks auctions in Kimberley and Pretoria, the North West Buffalo Auction at Molemane Eye, the Polokwane Municipality auction, and auctions at the Shamwari and Kwandwe game reserves in the Eastern Cape.
The 2012 Absa Kirkwood Wildsfees runs from June 29 to July 1, and offers a wild weekend for the whole family. Entry fees for the festival on Friday and Sunday are R70 for adults and R35 for children; and R100 for adults and R50 for children on Saturday.


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The Saint Philomena Apostolate
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Without God Nothing
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The Saint Philomena Apostolate was founded in 2006 with 3 families and 9 students. Our current membership includes 35 families and 85 students. We join together and share our many and diverse talents, as like-minded families wishing to provide a safe haven for the authentic Catholic faith formation of our children attained through a Classical Catholic Thomistic Curriculla provided within an authentic Catholic environment.
We share the purpose of:
Forming our children within an academically challenging and passionately Catholic context.
Under the guidance and protection of our patroness, St. Philomena, we have always taken comfort in the inspirational phrase that is our motto:
"Sine Deo Nihil"
"Without God Nothing"
Inspired by the notion that homeschooling is a challenging, exhausting, sometimes overwhelming and definitely self sacrificial calling, SPA is dedicated to helping families struggling to meet the rigors of homeschooling from pre-K through high school. SPA is called to assist and encourage homeschooling families to continue in their laudable mission by remaining true to our own:
To assist home schooling families as they provide their children
with an education and formation that is:
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"Sine Deo Nihil"
Without God Nothing
Holding fast to this motto, we follow the call to provide home schooling families with an affordable alternative to the institutional model of Catholic education that is:
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In this 2 day/week program, an academically challenging curriculla that includes ALL the core subjects is tutored by an exceptionally dedicated and talented group.
Students may also participate in our diverse extracurricular programs.
We serve home schooling families in Howard, Montgomery, Anne Arundel, Frederick, Prince Georges and Baltimore Counties.
Parents can design and customize an academic plan for the specific needs of each child and for the family as a whole.
At Saint Philomena, we wish to help and encourage each other on our home schooling journeys. So, each student is welcome to enroll in any class which the parent, who is the primary educator and single authority for the child, feels would be most beneficial in their educational journey.
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9 Fun Things To Do With Your Mummy. Happy Mother's Day!
9 Fun Things To Do With Your Mummy
Mother's day it is! 1 Sunday that should totally be planned around mothers. I am not going to go down deep in writing why mother's day is special and bla bla. I know you already know it. So, straight away jumping to 9 fun things to with your mummy on this mother's day.
And yes, I am not including the mother's day special brunch idea or cook-your-mom's-favorite-dish idea. I know these are the most common things one can do.
So, here the fresh and new list of 9 fun things to do with your mummy:
1) Take your mum for a shopping spree. All moms love shopping. And yes, don't forget to say 'shop whatever your want today'.
2) Plan a unique weekend getaway with your mom. Take her for hiking or camping.
3) Karaoke at home? It's a brilliant idea. Go for it.
4) And what about dance in-house party? Play your mom's favorite old songs (Bachchan's or Helen's songs would do the magic) and dance your heart out with your mom. She will love it.
P.S: This one is my favorite… And it works even more because my mom is a Bachchan fan.
5) Host a game night. If you mom loves to play cards or chess or any other indoor game (maybe Ludo) , then go for it.
6) …you can also plan a movie date night with your mom. Watch some old classics or maybe, some fresh releases. Ask what your mom wants to watch.
7) Forget cooking or making your mom cook. Give your maid a day off. Order food from outside and have fun while playing or watching movie.
8) Do your mom's favorite activity (hobby). Like if your mom loves gardening, spend some time with her in the garden helping her and taking care of her beloved flowers.
9) Dress-up and click pictures. Oh yes! Selfie-session is always fun with mom, especially when you mom is on social media.
Also read:
The Best Things To Do For Your Home
On Creating Living Spaces In A Small House
20 Places To Go On A Summer Vacation In India With Family


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How did you choose your names?
TB: Lila'Angelique has had many names throughout her young life. When she first met Thoth, he named her Pink Angel. A fellow classmate had dubbed her "the pink elephant" because she wore a pink wig every day to theatre school. When she told Thoth, he said "You're not an elephant, you're an angel." Later, she chose Lila'Angelique, thinking it better suited her personality. Lila means "purple" in French and "night" in Arabic. It also means "play" in Hindu philosophy and describes all reality, including the cosmos. Angelique literally means "angel." Her name is a balance between light and dark.
Thoth chose the name when he was twenty-nine. His mentor suggested – as a way to build self-confidence – that he find a deity that most resembled him. He found Hermes. However, because Hermes was not as close to his ancestry as he would have liked, he researched Hermes lineage and discovered Thoth.
What is your relationship?
TB: We are engaged to be married. Our relationship is very unique. It is based on tantra, a method of using sensuality to increase energy. We have an intimate understanding of each other which is necessary for doing what we do. Nothing can be hidden. Much intimacy, but no sex.


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Why is it important to learn about China in the age of globalization? How to understand a country and civilization that is often times understudied and misrepresented in the West? How to view its rapid development and recurring controversies in the domains of art, culture, economy and politics? This course examines today's China through the lens of theory and practice, representation and visuality. Students will be introduced to various heated debates and topics such as uneven urban-rural development, social inequality, media censorship, political activism, contemporary Chinese art and fashion. By the end of the semester, students will be expected to develop considerable empirical and critical knowledge about China. Guest speakers and specialists will be invited to present their topics and dialogue with students.
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Campus: New York City (GV)
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Businesses can no longer charge customers for credit or debit card use
January 17 2018
Businesses may no longer charge customers a fee to cover costs incurred for using a credit card or debit card. New regulations came into effect on January 13, implementing the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2), part of EU legislation.
The Federation of Small Businesses has warned that the legislation may adversely affect small businesses. FSB National Chairman Mike Cherry, said: "The proportion of small firms reporting a rise in operating costs is now at a five-year high. Removing their freedom to share the burden of card payment fees will give them yet another outgoing to worry about.
"The interchange fees demanded by card companies are only the start of the costs that small firms incur when they process a card payment. They also have to foot the bill for compliance, set-up, authorisation fees and payment system operating costs. The EU does cap interchange fees, but these caps don't apply across the board. Card providers with a small market share are free to charge considerably more than their bigger competitors."
PSNC has advised that, in practice, "this means that pharmacy businesses will not be allowed to add a surcharge or fee, when customers purchase goods or pay the NHS prescription charge using, for example, a personal credit card. This is despite the additional cost to the pharmacy when accepting such payment methods.
"Contractors will no longer be able to pass on the cost of such credit cards to the customer by way of a surcharge or fee. But, contractors may decide to incorporate such costs into the price of the goods (if appropriate), or decline to accept personal credit cards if they are too costly for the pharmacy to accept."
HM Revenue and Customs announced in December that the legislation meant it would no longer accept personal credit card payments from January 13. "Corporate, business and commercial cards aren't affected by this change. However, customers will have to pay the credit card fee in addition to any tax paid," it said.
Mr Cherry has criticised HMRC for adopting this approach. "It's hypocritical of HMRC to stop accepting personal credit card payments, as they consider them too expensive to process, while small firms are expected to absorb those same costs. Small businesses don't want to pass on card fees to their customers, so it's high time for policymakers and businesses to work together to bring down the charges levied by card providers," he said.
PSD2 has also introduced the concept of 'open banking'. This will mean individuals or businesses can give third-parties, including finance providers, accountants and price comparison sites, access to their current account transaction details.
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"Of course, businesses need to put security first. Small firms need to give careful consideration to the organisations they'd like to grant access to and ensure those third parties have the relevant approvals from the FCA (Financial Conduct Authority]."
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I prepared this recipe on June 11, 2016, as part of a local foods cooking demonstration at the El Paso Downtown Artist and Farmers Market.
The local items are listed in bold and came from the following vendors: Healthy Harvest, Bowie Garden, La Semilla Farm, DWedge Creations, Sunflower Power Sprouts, Barbara's Produce, Loco Tote Jerky, and RMC Farm.
Please note that I did not use measuring cups or spoons, so all of the measurements below are approximate. I always say everything is 'to taste' – do you love carrots? Add more carrots! Do you fancy more pecans – then so be it! Follow your intuition and preferences. You really can't go wrong with these fresh, local foods.
Desert Pad Thai
- 1 yellow squash
- 2 zucchinis
- 3 carrots
- 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 4 hen eggs (optional)
- ½-¾ cup water
- 4 tablespoons Braggs liquid aminos or soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons hoisin sauce
- 2 limes (juice only)
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1-2 tablespoons corn starch
- 1 garlic clove, finely chopped
- 3 chopped leeks
- 3 tablespoons fresh, chopped basil leaves
- 1/8 cup shelled and crushed pecans
- 1-2 tablespoons fresh whole or coarsely cut basil leaves
- 1 chopped leek
- 1/8 cup shelled and crushed pecans
- 2 purple serrano peppers, sliced
- 1 banana pepper, sliced
- 1 cup sunflower sprouts
- 4 limes, cut in fours
Turn the yellow squash and zucchini into noodles ("zoodles") using a spiralizer. Set aside. If you will be using eggs, scramble the eggs in a pan and set aside. Slice the carrots in thin diagonal cuts (or shred them) and sautee them in a large pan or wok with two finely minced garlic cloves over medium heat. After the carrots have softened a big and the garlic is fragrant, add the zoodles to the pan and cover for 3 to 5 minutes. In the meantime, prepare the sauce by mixing the water, Braggs, hoisin sauce, lime juice, honey, and corn starch; once the corn starch is diluted, add to this mixture the chopped basil leaves, chopped leeks and crushed pecans, then set aside. When zoodles have softened a little, pour the sauce over the entire pan of zoodles and carrots and cover for two minutes. Mix with a wooden spoon and fold in the scrambled eggs. Sauce will thicken after a few minutes. Serve hot and sprinkle with the garnish items to taste: fresh basil leaves, leek, crushed pecans, peppers, sunflower sprouts, and a squirt of lime.
Lemon Mint Water
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- 1 bunch mint, coarsely chopped
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- 5-7 lbs ice
Place the lemon at the bottom of a large water dispenser. Add the remaining ingredients, and allow to set for an hour or two. The flavor of this infused water is very subtle and refreshing.
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Larger of the two FR Pikies. Has the leader, nose tie and double hook. Usual light nicks where nose tie enters. A longer line thru paint at belly line tie. No other problems. Call it VG++ or EX-. (Cat. #19076)
A superb example in strong EX condition with the metal leader. Bright and exceptional. (Cat. #19058)
A blended red head. Minute nick where line tie was inserted (as usual). Lightest wear line on left edge of nose (really picky here!). Original metal leader. EX- cond. (Cat. #19059)
Although this color is listed as Perch ,it has a yellow body. This lure is mint on a repo card and a late TTN box in EX condition. (Cat. #18980)
A beautiful example in EX+ condition. You can see a tan line on the belly and under the varnish where the hook was originally inserted. As usual, no legs. You won't find better. (Cat. #18982)
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Remembering Bernie (For the London Cello Society)
Bernard Greenhouse died on 13 May 2011 and left behind thousands of adoring cello students across the globe and a legacy that will stretch far in to the future . I count myself as one of these students although I only began to have lessons with him two years ago but they were two essential years of my cello life.
It's a precious thing indeed to discover a new source of learning and inspiration as an adult (and as a professional), but this is what Bernie found aged 30 in Pablo Casals, and this is what I found in Bernie. I believe he understood exactly what I was looking for when I travelled to his home in Cape Cod in 2009. I was thick in the midst of concerts, practising, some teaching of my own and all the other extraneous jobs that a cellist of today has to manage. I was preparing Bach G major suite and Elgar concerto - two pieces that have been in my repertoire for 20 years already and I felt a bit drained and out of ideas! From the first notes of the G major prelude, with Bernie sitting opposite me quietly and meticulously observing, I understood that our lessons would not be about how in shape I felt but only if what I was 'speaking' on the cello could be understood. All the effects and vanities of modern cello fashion became immediately irrelevant. The only important question was "Are you speaking a word, a sentence, a paragraph and a story?".
Technique was the tool to carve the contours of phrases. Even the word "phrase" when Bernie uttered it took on a deeper meaning - he had been striving for beautiful and meaningful phrases throughout his career and had found a lifetime's joy in the search. The natural affinity that Bernie had with the instrument (and particularly with the Strad that accompanied him for 50 years) was an inspiration. I grew up listening to Bernie's opening solo of the Brahms B major trio Op.8 (his sound being described perfectly by one critic after his debut recital in Carnegie Hall as "the sound of burnished gold") and was thrilled still to hear that same voice from a 92 year old player.
An instrumentalist's sound is a mysterious and perhaps mystical thing, but I think in Bernie's case it came from his natural physical suppleness and perfect 'cello hands' paired with a generosity and open-ness of musical spirit second to none. He encouraged all his students to sing from the heart on their instrument and could demonstrate this purely and directly. His eyesight suffered in his final years so that he could no longer read music but his memory of the repertoire was razor sharp and his passion for the music burned as brightly as ever. Bernie will be missed by all who encountered him - his students, his colleagues and his audience, but remembering Bernie for me is simple - I just have to pick up my cello.


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