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The history of logistics has been a source of sustenance since age immemorial. It has been a great economic leveler and the very base of free competition. Its absence would have blunted the laws of economics and trade. It is an ideal medium for the deprived as well as for those with abundance. With evolution of logistics and ushering of rapid logistical modes - Trucking as of today is ideally placed for its propensity to move bulk commodities from surplus to deprived destinations thereby acting as a great leveler of prices under conditions of perfect competition. Trucking has the largest market share in the surface transportation segment. The knowledge and operation of transportation like any other skill is to be diligently learnt under a mentor and for this purpose the enrolment to a truck driving school is essential. Numerous truck driving schools exist in the state of South Carolina. A proper conduct of due diligence is utmost essential for selection of an institution as good education is the central core of an ideal trucker. Composure, presence of mind, compassion and patience are the prime essentials of the trucking profession and any dilution of these traits will have a direct bearing on the professional safety and security standards.
The state of South Carolina has its fair share of truck driving schools. The basic education requirement for enrolling is to be possessed by the aspiring driver. The next step in the direction is conducting the required due diligence. The aspirant has to be careful on this count as it will have a lifelong impact on his professional reputation, goodwill and earnings. There are 27 Truck Driving schools in South Carolina with an average student enrolment of 22. There are 7 A+ rated, 3 B rated, 1 B- rated and 1 F rated truck driving schools in South Carolina as per the Better Business Bureau. The curriculum of all the schools are the same and are basically focused to teaching what is essential to pass the written knowledge test for obtaining the South Carolina commercial driver's license (CDL).
South Carolina has its own rules and regulations for granting commercial driver's license (CDL) for operating vehicles in the state. Driving schools which train drivers for obtaining a commercial drivers license in the state of South Carolina are
There are two types of CDL schools in South Carolina
Private Truck Driving Schools - Stand alone institutions which are purely into academics and charge tuition fees at the time of student enrollment.
Company Sponsored Driving Schools (Training Programs) - These are trucking company sponsored schools where the option of deferred paying of fees from futuristic earnings under the school affiliated trucking company is available.
There are 27 CDL schools in South Carolina with either a single or multi locations. There are numerous courses to suit the student's requirements, but at the end of being granted a license the trainee has to serve under a mentor to develop into a full fledged driver.
There are mainly two tuition fees options involved in CDL Schools.
The cost is variable but an indicative figure is as follows:-
Median Tuition Cost - $ 4,130
Median Loan Amount - $ 4,987
Median Scholarship Award- $ 598
South Carolina has plenty of opportunities for as a driver that's in the market for a trucking job. South Carolina as of 2013 had nearly 21,440 truck drivers with a median annual salary of $ 38,910 compared to the National median salary of $ 38,700. The average truck driver's salary in South Carolina is higher compared to other states. This is basically due to more haulage business in the state. The companies in South Carolina offering career opportunities in truck driving are:-
|South Carolina Driving Schools
|South Carolina Defensive Driving Traffic Schools
|South Carolina Truck Driving Schools
|South Carolina Motorcycle Driving Schools
|South Carolina Performance Driving Schools
2022 Herbert St
Carolina Driving Academy
PO Box 967
Norry Georgetown Truck Driver Trg
2050 Highway 501 E
Greenville Tech Truck Driver Trg
506 S Pleasantburg Dr
Williamsburg Tech College
601 ML King Jr Ave
Transport Training
550 Wilson Rd
Calhoun Tech
3250 Saint Matthews Rd NE
Tri-County Tech Truck Driver Trg
PO Box 587
Truck Driver Institute
3425 Lancaster Highway
York Tech Truck Driver Trg
452 S Anderson Rd
C. R. England Inc
289 Access Road
England C R & Sons Truck Driving School
Spartanburg, SC 29306
United States Truck Driving School
145 Dexter Road
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Designer women clothes intention at supplying refined and classic selections of clothes. These garments have become comfy, and are for girls of any age group. For dressing fashionable and designer clothes in girl's love, can be traced back to their youth when their love affair with designer clothing started. It really is as if girls that are automatically determined, quite early in life, that designer clothes will make them joyful. Contrary to popular ideas, designer clothes are practical and wearable. There are several online stores that you get designer clothes and can shop at.
Before, girls clothes was once mainly in pink colour, with beads, bows and frills. Now, the trend for little girls is modeled on clothes designs for women. The most common fashion, for now, is blue jeans, worn with tees that are comfy. Another common fashion that seems quite great for little girls is a tunic top, with boots and leggings. Yet, designs vary based on the newest fashion fads.
Designer ladies clothes are a must have for your little girl. If you need her to stick out amongst her buddies in the bunch, you should purchase her designer ladies clothes. Make your daughter a trendsetter with these designer women clothes that she also will adore. These garments are often designed after the most recent trends on the runway. So your daughter will be the most trendy girl, dressed in the most recent trends.
These garments are made of little girls' bodies and therefore don't need to be refitted. It is going to not seem strange on her growing body, making her feel less uncomfortable. It is possible to discover everything a little girl desires from tops, bottoms, jeans, tees, dresses, skirts for her and also formal wear.
Flowery prints and light colored clothing will look on girls that are young. Girls' ensembles should have styles and suitable contours which fit with her body structure. Shades like infant light blue, light yellow, pink, white and lavender appear great on girls. Tops that have cartoon or noodle straps – character prints with a white background look quite adorable on little girls. Capris and short pants with lacy tops and sleeveless will make your girl seem girly and really smart. Stripes, polka dots are designs which are trendy now.
When she's an adult the garments a woman wears in her developing years change her choice in garments. If she knows she looks great, she is going to not feel bad and will automatically acquire her own sense of dressing that'll foster her self-esteem.


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Hello, why is it that every time I start a War we get lvl 17-19 clans with 300-600 wins as opponents but my Clan is only lvl 13 and has only 100 wins.Also why are they always from Vietnam or Korea???? We have a lot of noobs in there, while the opponents seems always to be like professionals?! I mean they triple our maxed out bases like nothing. All I am asking for is fair matchmaking.
Another problem is the warden AI why is he shooting walls when there are no troops in his reach? he can fly over them?! And why is he always prefering to attack normal buildings instead of defense buildings?


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Black Rebel Rifter Club Public => Impressment => Topic started by: Darth Terona on April 30, 2015, 12:54:03 am
R1FTA Manifesto
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Reflect on the cherry blossom as it falls to earth
Riding the current of the life around it narrowly avoiding being caught on the thorns below
Fly your rifter as you would drift as a blossom
-xxMACKxx, R1FTA Vice Prez
Potential new applicants should read and understand this article before applying.
The majority of R1FTA pilots are first and foremost solo pilots who like to gang up on occasion to take on the bigger stuff. We mainly fly frigate hulls and we pride ourselves on this playstyle. Most of our members can fly the heavier gear should the need arise, but at heart we are frigate junkies and this shows on our killboards. Ex-R1FTA director Kaeda Maxwell sums up our corp and alliance ethos in this article from a recent recruitment post:
We have no skillpoint or skillset requirements, all we require is a good attitude and a willingness to cause explosions be it the enemy or yourself.
Things we do in EVE:
- Lowsec solo/small gang PvP
- Nullsec solo/small gang PvP
- Griefing
- General villainy
So you want to PvP, but you don't want to write up a bloody report after every killmail, or be interogated about every goddamn silly loss mail. In fact, it's a bloody video game darnit and you just want to shoot things in the face while listening to music. No need for all this "pro PvP" sillyness.
Well, we may be what you're looking for. You see, we also like shooting things in the face and we don't take ourselves too seriously. We do have two rules, but they're simple ones: you honor agreed upon 1v1s and any ransoms, if you offer them. The sanction for breaking them is real simple, too: we kick you.
As you may have already gathered from these two rules, we're "pirates." I put that in quotation marks because we're really just PvP'ers who, for the most part, don't care about our security status. So what is the Black Rebel Rifter Club all about?
We're all about PvP, but we're a little different from most low/null security PvP corporations in that we're
a lot
less organized and heavily focused on flying solo or in really small gangs (sub five people). And that we generally fly "light equipment:" T1/T2 frigates, destroyers & cruisers without logistics support and often without comms. We have organized proper fleets with comms weekly, sure, but our default modus operandi is flying around solo and then screaming in corp chat for help if you tackle something big (and its tank won't break).
Another thing that's uncommon is that we don't keep track of lossmails like some of the major players do. If you really like flying 2.5 billion ISK Machariels and losing them in really dumb ways, we're cool with that. If you think the Scythe is the best PvP ship ever and you don't ever want to fly anything else, we're cool with that, too. You heard Seleene on that podcast saying, "Maybe you PvP in a Bellicose and lose a lot" and found yourself thinking, "But Seleene, I PvP in a Bellicose and [win/enjoy it] a lot.' Then we might be right for you.
Having said that, we fully believe that you should not be flying battlecruisers at four weeks into the game. They will die horribly as your skills don't match the need for a competent PvP fit. If you want to fly battlecruisers so early in the game then we're probably not really for you. If you fully agree with this sentiment and love your frigates you have found your home!
We're not a corp who care a lot about "efficiency." We're a corp who care about fights and getting in them and having fun, the odds be damned.
So when might we be the corp for you?
- You like PvP.
- You like flying solo or in very small groups.
- You're okay with losing ships.
- You're self-sufficient.
- You like operating by yourself and sometimes taking initiative while being part of a larger social environment.
- You enjoy flying smaller hulls: T1 frigs, inties, assault frigs, electronic attack frigs, bombers, and up to cruisers et all.
- You read Wensley's Rifter Guide and decided that he is now your god and you want to be just like him.
- You're not bothered that half your corp is made up out of (otherwise really nice) people who also grief and scam on occasion (or a lot).
- You enjoy an active forum community.
- You're capable of distinguishing between how somebody acts in game and the real person behind the keyboard.
When are we definitely not the corp for you?
- You hate PvP.
- You like flying in highly organized T2 gangs with recon, logistics, etc.
- You always want to be on comms for any form of PvP.
- You think griefing should be banned from EVE.
- You think rules and protocols are the best thing ever.
- You're easily offended.
What do we offer?
- A social environment.
- Some extremely knowledgeable players that you can bug with questions.
- Lots of people that like to fly small stuff and chat about it.
- A place where you can just PvP without people giving you bullshit about losses or making fun of you for trying something quirky.
- Very active forum community.
- Very low drama.
When might we also be good for you?
You want to get into piracy, but nobody 'good' will take you because you don't have the right amount of SP/skills/experience/whatever. Well R1FTA has a pretty solid reputation in the larger pirate/lowsec community and actively flying with us for 6+ months or so will probably seriously increase your chances of moving on somewhere else in said community. And we don't mind being
like that provided you're honest and upfront about it, because things like that have to go both ways.
What else?
We're actually really quite friendly people, despite our in-game villainous ways. We have people ranging in age from 16 to 65 from across all time zones. We're also always willing to help people with fitting advice or answer questions in corp chat. We try to keep real life views and politics outside of the corp as much as possible our stance on this is something like, "The two subjects you never raise in civilized company are religion and politics." Of course, it sometimes happens, but we try to keep EVE a game and a place of escapism and to check our real life baggage at the login screen as much as possible.
As is to be expected from a heavily solo oriented corporation our members can be found all over New Eden. Simply put, you can base from wherever you want or live the life of a nomad. A number of our members are very active in the larger EVE community. We have bloggers, #tweetfleet aficionado's, and people that participate in community events. We have no "blues" and we don't plan on ever having any, either.
Our public channel in game is "BRRC Pub" where you're welcome to ask any questions if somebody in the know is around.
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Yellowcard Bio:
After more than 3 million albums sold, thousands of miles traveled around the globe, and some dizzying highs and lows, an energized Yellowcard returns with their new album Paper Walls.
Yellowcard emerged from Jacksonville, Florida with a completely infectious and original blend of rock and pop that made them a sure thing to break out of the pack, but even the band could not have imagined how far.
With a string of successful indie releases, a tireless touring schedule and a steamrolling fan base the band made their Capitol Records debut with 2003's Ocean Avenue. The album was a smash, spawning huge hit singles, sold-out tours in the U.S. and abroad, an MTV Video Music Award and has sold over 2.5 million copies worldwide. 2006's gold-certified Lights and Sounds – a more expansive and harder-edged album – was released to rave reviews, showcasing the band's diversity as songwriters.
Drawing from both the universal, buoyant, hook-filled style of Ocean Avenue and the tougher edges of Lights and Sounds, Paper Walls takes it all a step further with an energized, anthemic and forward-looking set of songs. The album was produced by Neal Avron, who produced the band's previous two albums, and also marks the recording debut of guitarist Ryan Mendez, who joined the group during the Lights and Sounds tour.
"If Ocean Avenue was about finding your place in the world and Lights and Sounds is about realizing that you've gotten lost, Paper Walls is about what happens when you find yourself again," Says singer Ryan Key. "Before we started this record, everything in our lives was changing. But after a bit of struggling, I finally found a place where I'm comfortable in my own skin. We know who we are and who we want to be."
"For the first time in a long time we were in our own little world making a record that we were having fun with," Key says. "There was no pressure. There was nobody waiting to see what Yellowcard would do next. This record was a totally positive experience and it reminded us of why started doing this in the first place."
The album title Paper Walls comes from the song of the same name, which begins "Let's burn a hole so we can climb out of these paper walls in this empty house." It's a reference to the barriers that built up between the band members over the years and everyone's desire to tear down the obstacles and heal old scars.
"If you really love each other as much as we do, you want to knock those walls down and get back to the place where you enjoy being with each other and making music together," explains Key. "The song is basically saying let's get back out there and remember why this is important to us, why we love being on stage and why we love making records."
Album-opener "The Takedown" starts with a shot – an indelible guitar hook and ferocious drums charge forth as Yellowcard's trademark mix of airtight vocal harmonies, entwined guitar lines and flourishes of violin crackle with energy. "Fighting" brings together the band's many strengths – tight, melodic, propulsive riffs gather steam before launching into an epic, undeniable chorus. And bruised but beautiful lead single "Light Up the Sky" has an even more massive payoff, its refrain won't leave your head in this lifetime, but allows for some ringing dissonance beneath it all.
But one of the most touching songs on Paper Walls is "Dear Bobbie," a wistful song about the 58-year relationship between Key's grandparents that features recordings of his 87-year-old grandfather reading a love letter to his wife. "The words I wrote to go with it seem to pale in comparison to hearing him speak. It's coming from a man who has been in World War II, traveled the world, and seen and done it all. He's been married and in love with the same woman for 58 years, and you can hear it in his voice," says Key.
The personal investment Key put into "Dear Bobbie" is emblematic of the rest of Paper Walls. Call it a rebirth, a reinvention or even an epiphany, there's no question that the album is a genuine expression of renewal and hope. "At the end of the day, there's a collaborative energy again, that feeling of what Yellowcard was in the beginning when we didn't have the distance that success created," Key says. "We feel like we're the luckiest guys in the world to still be able to do this, and I think that shows."


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Daniel, servant of the living God! Was your God, whom you serve so faithfully, able to rescue you? (Daniel 6:20).
How many times we find this expression in the Scriptures, and yet it is just this very thing that we are so prone to lose sight of. We know it is written "the living God"; but in our daily life there is scarcely anything we practically so much lose sight of as the fact that God is the living God; that He is now whatever He was three or four thousand years since; that He has the same sovereign power, the same saving love towards those who love and serve Him as ever He had and that He will do for them now what He did for others two, three, four thousand years ago, simply because He is the living God, the unchanging One. Oh, how therefore we should confide in Him, and in our darkest moments never lose sight of the fact that He is still and ever will be the living God!
Be assured, if you walk with Him and look to Him and expect help from Him, He will never fail you. An older brother who has known the Lord for forty-four years, who writes this, says to you for your encouragement that He has never failed him. In the greatest difficulties, in the heaviest trials, in the deepest poverty and necessities, He has never failed me; but because I was enabled by His grace to trust Him He has always appeared for my help. I delight in speaking well of His name.
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The physicians and staff at Illinois Bone & Joint Institute (IBJI) are passionate about helping athletes all over Chicagoland move better and live better. To demonstrate that commitment, IBJI is partnering with the Chicago Tribune on the "TribLocal High School Athlete of the Month" program, which highlights the achievements of young athletes and benefits local schools.
IBJI's Dr. Brian Donahue was interviewed recently on WGN-720 AM Radio by host Pete McMurray, along with star student athlete Morgan Harris of Hersey High School, who was named TribLocal High School Athlete of the Month for April. Dr. Donahue, an orthopedic surgeon at IBJI-Arlington Heights, serves as the orthopedic team physician for Morgan's basketball team. Morgan, who plans to study medicine in college, spoke of her dream to one day travel to Africa to provide medical care to people in underserved communities. Dr. Donahue, who recently returned from his fourth trip to Haiti as a volunteer physician, encouraged Morgan to follow that dream.
IBJI is donating $500 to Hersey's athletic department in recognition of Morgan's achievement. IBJI will continue its sponsorship of the Athlete of the Month program throughout the 2013-2014 school year. Listen to the full interview »


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Shia LaBeouf released after arrest at Broadway's "Cabaret"
Shia LaBeouf has been released after authorities say he was taken out of a New York City theater for being disorderly and yelling obscenities.
The actor, wearing a ripped blue T-shirt, skinny jeans and boots, walked several blocks to a hotel, surrounded by media, after his court appearance Friday. He declined to comment.
A spokesman for the Broadway musical "Cabaret" says LaBeouf was "disruptive during Act 1" and was escorted out of the Studio 54 theater at intermission Thursday night.
Law enforcement sources told the New York Post's Page Six that LaBeouf was slapping people on the behind and in the back of the head and also smoking in the theater. When police approached him, he was reportedly "incoherent" and "very agitated."
TMZ reports that LaBeouf argued with a homeless over a hat prior to the arrest. Photos show LaBeouf chasing the man around on the streets of New York.
The 28-year-old star of the "Transformers" franchise faces charges that include disorderly conduct and criminal trespass. He's due back in court July 24.
LaBeouf's other films include "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," ''Disturbia" and "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps." He does not appear in the latest "Transformers" installment, "Age of Extinction," which hits theaters Friday.
Last year, LaBeouf pulled out of what would have been his Broadway debut in "Orphans," a play starring Alec Baldwin. LaBeouf left the production over what was described as "creative differences" and was replaced by Ben Foster.
In February, the actor participated in a performance-art oddity at a Los Angeles art gallery wearing a bag over his head with the words "I AM NOT FAMOUS ANYMORE" scrawled in black ink across it.
The stunt came days after he posed on the red carpet at the Berlin Film Festival in the same getup. At the same festival, he walked out of a news conference after answering a reporter's question by saying: "When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. Thank you very much." The line was borrowed from a French soccer player who baffled reporters with it in the mid-1990s.
Last year, LaBeouf came under fire for borrowing the storyline and dialogue for his short film "Howard Cantour.com," which closely resembled the 2007 graphic novel "The Death-Ray" by Daniel Clowes. LaBeouf apologized on Twitter in a series of posts that were directly lifted from other famous mea culpas.


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Latest Tide Measurement Suite Launched by C-Nav
US-based C-Nav Solutions launch its latest GNSS Real-time tide measurement package, C-Tides.
The company says that its C-Tides suite combines the exceptional vertical accuracy of C-Nav's GNSS Precise Point Positioning service with the latest advanced ocean and coastal tides models.
C-Tides Online features real-time filters and vessel dynamics, choice of world-wide Mean Sea Surface or regional reference frame models, and tidal prediction for mission planning.
C-Tides Offline utilities include data smoothing and outlier rejection, harmonic analysis, Doodson X0 filter and a LAT option.
Head of Development, Russell Morton announcing the launch commented, "It's been a privilege working with our academic partners to develop what is probably the worlds' most advanced real-time GNSS tide solution."
C-Tides is a fully supported C-Nav utility. The results are suitable for combining with other suitably calibrated vertical components to achieve IHO SP44 Order 1 or better.
C-Nav, a division of C & C Technologies, is a leading provider of high level GNSS positioning solutions including the unique C-Nav Precise Point Positioning solutions and range of GNSS receivers, long range Ultra RTK, C-Monitor, C-NaviGatore, C7000 multi-receiver, C-Mariner range of RLGs and INS, P3QC quality package and the acclaimed C-Scape online GNSS/DP suite.


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I mentioned in my last blog that I am a compulsive knitter, and its true. I can't sit and do nothing. I have to knit, although I don't when I'm working on location. Clicking needles tend to upset the sound department. I worked out the other day that I have been knitting for over forty years, this was quite a surprise as I really didn't think it was that long. However, when I think more about this I realise that, yes, I have been knitting that long. I started at a young age. My Grandmother declared that it was impossible to teach me to knit as I was trying to knit left handed when I was about four. Maybe I was then. I used both hands equally at first, perhaps favouring my left for most things, but then I worked out it was a right handed world and gradually used my left hand less and less. A lasting legacy of this is having problems with right and left. This does cause the odd heated moment when I'm navigating. I don't trust satnav, it always looses where we are at vital moments so I always follow on a map and then I can take over at a moments notice. We do get the "no, the other left!" at times, which doesn't go down well with my Husband, the driver in our family. Still, I'm getting off topic, I'll get back to the knitting. Looking around I don't seem to have that much to show for all that hard work. The house isn't full of knitted items, although there are quite a few hidden away. I will admit to having several stashes of yarn about the place, mostly in the loft (or attic if you prefer), a couple of cupboards, and in various bags around the bedroom. So, what have I knitted over all those years? Well I have made a few toys for various young relatives, jumpers for me and my Husband, the odd scarf or two, numerous gloves, but that wouldn't take over forty years to do. I'm guessing this is one of life's mysteries, along with where socks go to when you wash them, and why you can't find something for several days and then when you don't need it any more, there it is, in full view. I suppose I can account for some time due to not being happy with the end product and, after numerous days of knitting, unpicking the whole thing and using the yarn for a completely different project. But none of this accounts for all that knitting.
You may notice on my page that I have added a series of links. I'm new to this blogging lark and to Blogger. I do sometimes write on on a painting site, but that is a much simpler thing and there is not customisation. I'm still finding my way around this one. Some of the links are self explanatory, some less so. The ones to do with knitting are my own website, which has a knitting section, and my Ravelry page, which has a very nice lacy scarf pattern for sale on it, go on, you know you could do with one. Alternatively, knit it as a present for someone for Christmas. The other links relate either to art or to hobbies.
Talking of art, I just got a message to say that one of my pictures has been chosen for the Redbubble front page. Amazing! I don't know what to say, it is a real honour to be chosen (won't do the sales much harm either). So, check out Redbubble and take a look.
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Armagh is small enough to explore on foot.
An historical City where St Patrick built his first stone church in 432AD and where a church has stood ever since. Today that church is Saint Patrick's Church of Ireland Cathedral the seat of the Archbishop & Primate of All Ireland (Church of Ireland). On the neighbouring hill top stands the twin spires of the magnificent 19th century St Patrick's Roman Catholic Cathedral the seat of the Archbishop & Primate of All Ireland (Roman Catholic Church).
This City is known today as the Ecclesiastical Capital of Ireland in other words the home of the heads of the two main churches in Ireland! Pilgrims travel from all over the world to visit this small city with two cathedrals both dedicated to Saint Patrick!
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PHOENIX - Searchers this weekend were scouring the rugged mountains east of Phoenix looking for a missing Denver man.
Thirty-five-year-old Jesse Capen was on a mission to find the fabled Lost Dutchman Gold Mine. That mission was supposed to bring him home weeks ago. There is no sign of him, but his mom isn't giving up hope
"It's a legend," Capen's mother, Cynthia Burnett said.
It's a treasure hunt that could make any adventurer head for these hills. And for Capen, that adventure was as much a lure as the gold fabled to be hidden just below the surface.
"It's gotten a lot of people obsessed, yeah," Burnett said.
Somewhere in the bleak landscape of the Superstition Mountains near Phoenix hides the Lost Dutchman Gold Mine. Real or not -- no one really knows for sure.
Yet, Capen's mom says her son mapped a plan to find it.
"He never really talked about it a lot," she said.
Burnett says her son began his search in late November. He was suppose to be home before Christmas.
'"I knew when he was going and when he was due back but he didn't tell me the detailed information, maybe that was to protect a mother," she said.
And in a landscape that keeps its secrets, there's no sign of Capen anywhere.
"There were no footprints. There was no scent for dogs, which could have easily been washed away by the weather," Burnett said.
But, while this Denver adventurer may be lost, his mom has hope he'll be found.
"A mother can hold out hope for her child until she has a body to cremate or bury, or has scientific evidence through DNA, and until a mother has that she always has hope," she said.
The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office has been organizing searches for Capen since Dec. 20.
That's when hikers found his Jeep, wallet, backpack and cell phone -- along with food and a sleeping bag in a tent nearby.
About 100 people, dogs and helicopters searched for Capen this weekend.
His mom describes him as a gentle giant, about 6-foot, 4-inches tall, and more than 200 pounds.
Capen had been working as a bellhop at a downtown Denver hotel for the last 11 years.
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Marcus Hiles - Wine for Weight Loss
Marcus Hiles Wine edeveloped an interest in wine years ago, and he has certainly indulged his passion. This Texas real estate visionary is a serious collector, and he has a thorough understanding of the benefits that wine can provide. Wine can help to relax you after a long day at work, and experts say that there are some long-term health benefits that can be realized if you are a wine enthusiast like Marcus Hiles.
Obesity is one of the major health problems that we face in the United States. Your appearance may suffer when you are carrying extra weight, and it can be more difficult to get around comfortably. These are negatives, but there can be more serious consequences. Obesity can be the root cause of kidney disease, coronary ailments, strokes, diabetes, and gallbladder diseases.
There are some people who experienced childhood obesity, and it is a problem throughout their lives. However, it is also something that can creep up on you as you get older. If you were to gain three pounds every year from the time you were 25 to the time you reached the age of 40, that would equate to 45 pounds of weight gain. It certainly would not be hard to gain just three pounds over a 12-month period; this is something that has happened to many people as they age.
If you like to have a cocktail or a beer after work, but you are concerned about your weight, wine can be the solution. A wine expert like Marcus Hiles could tell you that there are about 120 calories in a five-ounce glass of wine, and the same glass would contain four grams of carbohydrates. When you digest these numbers, you can see that it would be possible to consume a moderate amount of wine even if you are trying to keep your weight down.
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I'm exhausted and sore! The hubs and I have continued our tradition of not living on the first floor. (I don't think we ever have!) About 900 trips up and down the stairs later, and we finally had our stuff in our new space. We are permanently in the owe column with my sister and brother-in-law as they were the other work-horses this weekend. Another thing we had on our side was the weather. It was absolutely gorgeous – 70 & sunny. I even wore shorts!
It was like getting married all over again as we rediscovered our housewares — old and new. (Our things have been in storage for over a year.) And were were quite fortunate that the previous tenant left behind a few things — particularly an ikea cabinet that we promptly moved into the kitchen because we had more kitchen boxes than any other room and we've had to downsize to a little kitchenette! My sister also took it as a good omen that 8 wine glasses were left behind – I tend to agree. We put them to good use right away.
Now I just have to keep reminding myself that "Rome was not built in a day." I'm anxious to have it completely settled, but it'll take a little time yet – and I really do enjoy the process.


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Saturday, July 16, 2011
Listen for the Mysteries of God by Robert Ricciardelli
God speaks to us great mysteries in a variety of ways. He does so through creation, dreams, visions, and speaking, wisdom, and encouragement to our hearts. Confirm the voice of Wisdom while moving in agreement to His instructions. Accept Providence in what He does and what He may not do in your expectations, and regardless of your understanding, expect His amazing grace to fill in all the gaps along your journey.
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Track Every Coin now has "search" feature implemented. We are really excited about this feature as we think this is one of the most powerful feature and will help our customers to a great extent!
Let me demonstrate how search feature helps us understand our expenditure pattern.
Our "search" feature searches through the description or the category. You can first select the date range where you would like to search, and enter a search string.
For instance, if you want to find out how much you spent on food this month, select the month in our date range selector and hit go, now type 'food' in the search field and hit go. The grid is updated with all items pertaining to food and the total of the grid is shown above it.
For a selected date range, you can perform search multiple times. Search results are cleared by either hitting go on the date range or clearing the search and hitting go.
Let me take another example
In case you want to know how much you spent on grocery last quarter, it is simple – just select the last quarter date range and hit go. Now you search for grocery!
What is really cool is… you can know how much do you spend on; lets say "Pizza" in the whole year!
Just select the current year and search for pizza!
Wow! Just made me realize I really need to cut down on Pizzas!
Finally here is my favorite. We had been on a trip to Srilanka this year. To find out how much we spent on the whole trip, I just had to select current year and search for the key word Srilanka.
A small tip that can come handy is that you may want to keep in mind is to use keywords based on which you would like to fetch the data at a later date. For example, prefixing the name of the place for expenses on the trip like "srilanka"
Next time I take a vacation I know how much I need! 😉
Hope you like the search feature as much as I did!


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Brian Wood
By: Jenessa Connor
Brian Wood describes his intro to CrossFit as a bit of an "ego check." He was 41 at the time and, despite hitting the elliptical machine at the gym and pushing a stroller around Park Slope, felt pretty out of shape during those first few WODs. But the challenge that CrossFit presented turned out to be a good thing. He quickly got hooked on the variety and intensity, and it wasn't long before he started to notice positive changes in his own life.
Read our Q&A with Brian to learn more about his goals, recent PRs and how he makes time to work out amidst deadlines and caring for two kids.
How did you discover CrossFit?
I had a basic awareness of CrossFit because my brother-in-law has been doing it for a decade or more, but it wasn't anything he and I talked about, and he lives on the west coast. My history with working out as an adult has been pretty pitiful, especially since I was very active as a young person, running track, playing basketball, skating and snowboarding. But every time I made a resolution as an adult to get in shape I'd do it for a little while and quit out of boredom. The last thing I did before starting CrossFit was using the ellipticals at the Y. Really tedious and not very effective.
But CrossFit seemed to be the opposite of tedious and boring, and the more videos I watched the more I was certain this was something I could stick with. Or at least I couldn't credibly claim boredom as a reason to flake out on it. I looked at the websites for CF718 and South Brooklyn and picked the least intimidating one (what my criteria was at the time, I can't remember. Still, good choice!). Tammy did my basics.
What kinds of changes have you noticed since starting CrossFit?
It's interesting the things you learn about your body after doing CrossFit for a while. First, it was incredible how out of shape I was at the start, which was a real ego check since I had convinced myself that pushing my kids in a stroller all over the neighborhood was exercise. Then it was the role food plays in how you feel and perform. Then the weight loss, how your muscles develop (I never had muscles before!) and then how all that changes the real mundane day-to-day things. It's amazing, we all know it's amazing.
How do you make time for working out?
Well, that's the real struggle I face, and I have productive periods of CrossFit time and less productive periods. I'm currently in a less productive one. I work at home, self-employed, and as such am the primary caregiver for my two kids in the sense that I bring them to school, I'm the one who gets called if they're sick, or if it's a holiday or a half day. Anything like that. Not to make it sound like my wife does nothing, but she works in the city, so I'm the go-to guy for anything that happens during the day. And my work is all freelance and deadline-based, so if something comes up and it's due at a certain time, I often have to skip the gym to hit that deadline to cover rent that month.
So ideally I would work out Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 9am. That's the goal, and it's a constant struggle to hit that goal regularly while running a business and with the kids. I know I'm not unique in all of this, but it's the thing I struggle with the most. I try and give myself a break and not beat myself up… to just understand this is my life and I'll do my best, as opposed to feeling guilty and stressed all the time about it.
What's your favorite lift and WOD?
Early on I enjoyed bodyweight exercises the most, and I think part of that was just a fear of the bar. These days I like barbell stuff more, compound lifts that feel massive like thrusters and C+J's. I like EMOMs and ladders, WODS with structure like that, and I love that "Juicy" WOD (20 back squats for time).
What's a recent PR that you're proud of?
Recently I got a 305 deadlift and a 215 front squat which were significant for me, to break the 200 and 300 marks on those.
What's one of your current goals?
Right now my goals are getting my schedule back on track, as well as eating the way I should. Again, working at home can really work against you on the food side of things. Plus since my kids seem to live off a diet of dairy and bread, and there's all kinds of delicious stuff lying around.
At the gym, I like the progress I'm making on heavier and heavier lifts, but would love to get my conditioning back to where it was last summer
What's your Fran time?
Honestly, I have no idea! It's been awhile for me and Fran.
What do you do when you're not at the box?
I work as a writer, so most times I'm sitting at my desk. I take my kids to the Y a lot. In good weather, my daughter and I bike loops around the park. I try and keep them as active as possible, to understand that doing sports or just moving around a lot is normal, to try as much as possible to give them the same sort of childhood I had being outside all the time.


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The low low low prices on micro-stock photographs get a lot of blame for putting working photographers out of business. Whether or not you buy that argument, it's still a shame that even those low prices aren't low enough for some companies to actually pay for the photography they steal from the web. Most stock photo sites and a lot of other photographers put watermarks on the low-res preview images that they make publicly available. The idea being that clients would rather pay for the full-resolution image without a watermark. Putting a photo on your company's website with a watermark over it makes you look incompetent at best.
It's possible that I just wrote this as an excuse to link you to a hilarious product invented for golfers with small bladders: the Uro Club.
If only there was something like this for photographers who have to pee. Oh wait, there already is!


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Lowdown: Disney pretends to do a parody on its own films.
Back when I was a child The Magical World of Disney came to symbolize everything that's magical. I clearly remember how we would all gather at 17:30 in front of the TV to witness the fate of the latest wandering dog, bear, or any other weird animal Disney chose to focus on that week.
With time, however, I grew to despise Disney. The guy himself doesn't seem to have been the world's greatest humanitarian to say the least, and the studio is the emblem of commercialism and shallowness. Other than the Pixar films, everything Disney made since Aladdin reeks of capitalism's worst.
Apparently, that is exactly the starting point of Enchanted, a film that tries to capitalize on the cynicism we viewers have developed towards Disney. We start off in an animated world framed at a 4:3 aspect ratio and we're introduced to Giselle, a Snow White / Cinderella / Sleeping Beauty like oppressed princess that is withheld from her Prince Charming by the evil mother in law sorceress queen. As the couple is finally about to get together, the evil queen throws them separately into the real world - framed at 2.35:1. That is, they're chucked out in the middle of Times Square while totally unaware of the differences between their world and the real one. Those differences are what the film stands on: By mocking the unrealistic nature of the Disney cartoons of yonder it creates numerous laughs.
Eventually but pretty quickly Giselle is saved by a single father lawyer who is totally disenchanted with life and relationships. From that point onwards you can pretty much guess how the film is going to end like, and although I will not explicitly say how it ends I will add that your guess is 100% correct.
There are several critical problems with Enchanted. For a start, it is a musical, with that dreaded implication - more often than not characters just burst into song. How disgusting.
Second, there are some gross inconsistencies all over the place. People don't believe Giselle when she tells her story, but then they go on doing stuff that can only be accepted if they were to actually believe her. We're not supposed to notice these inconsistencies because we know that Giselle is telling the truth about the world she's coming from, but hey - if you were to be told Giselle's story, you wouldn't believe it; why do the people on the screen accept it? Given the context and the overall lightness of the film these inconsistencies are not the world's worst problem, but I was still annoyed because the filmmakers could have easily bypassed the problem altogether.
The problem that is pivotal and does ruin my enchantment with Enchanted is the film's boomerang effect on the Disney message. The film's entire premises is it mocking the old pretentious values of Disney's films; yet it joins in alliance with those very same values long before it quits joking on itself and we viewers lose as we end up with yet another typical Disney film reeking of capitalism's worst.
Worst scene:
Giselle savior's daughter has some quality mother/daughter like time with Giselle. What do they do together? What is the peak aspiration of a teenager that finally gets a worthy mother replacement? Well, lest we forget what Disney stands for, they go shopping.
My partner pointed out that shopping with her mother is nice. I agree: there could definitely be some fun in the process. However, does the fun come from the shopping, or does it come from spending time together? Why don't the film characters as well as real characters spend some proper quality time together instead of opting to waste it on shopping? Is it because they lack the capacity to think up a worthier experience to share?
I'll put it this way: I would much rather go for an aimless walk with my son or with my father and discuss, say, a book or a film we both read. Or at least start with that and see where we end up at. But shopping? No, thanks.
Technical assessment: Say what you say about Disney, they know how to produce a DVD.
Overall: Ideological criticism aside, Enchanted is still a funny film that just scratches the 3 out of 5 stars mark.


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REPOST: Press Release sent on behalf of Wellington Pay Equity Coalition –
Equal Pay activists in Wellington not celebrating new gender pay figures yet
The spokesperson for The Pay Equity Coalition Wellington, Sue O Shea, said today that there was little to celebrate in the latest gender pay gap statistics. "Progress continues to be painfully slow or stalled, whichever measure is used," she said. "We need much faster movement on claims to hit the Government's targets for a country that treats, and pays women fairly."
The Coalition is particularly concerned about the yawning gap still being experienced by wāhine Māori and Pacific women compared with Pākehā men. The gap between Pacific women' average hourly pay compared to Pākehā men is a staggering 31.5% and for wāhine Māori it is 27.8%. The overall average gender pay gap has worsened slightly, going from 13.1% to 13.9%.
"While we welcome the Government's commitment to pay equality, we would like to see a pick up in the pace, and pay particular attention to pay discrimination against Māori and Pacific women" said Ms O'Shea. "At the current rate of reduction in the gender pay gap, the average women's pay will be equal to men's pay in the year 2136 , or one hundred and eighteen years from now."
"As more pay equity claims are settled and other measures to address pay equality are implemented, we expect to see a noticeable narrowing of the overall gender pay gap narrowing. But it requires sustained effort. It requires effort from employers too who have to step up and comply with the law. As we put the agreed equal pay principles into new law this year, we expect employers to stay on top of their requirement to pay women fairly, and engage constructively in the new pay equity and equal pay processes."
For all further comment:
Sue O'Shea, ph: 021 569 277.
The Pay Equity Coalition Wellington includes representatives from the following organisations: National Council of Women (New Zealand) ; Business and Professional Women (New Zealand); Campaign for Equal Value, Equal Pay; Graduate Women New Zealand; YWCA (Aotearoa/New Zealand); National Committee UN Women (Aotearoa/Zealand) ; Zonta; Rural Women New Zealand; Volunteering New Zealand; Hui E; Action Station; New Zealand Council of Trade Unions; E tū; First; New Zealand Educational Institute; New Zealand Nurses Organisation; New Zealand University Students Association; Post Primary Teachers Association; Public Service Association; Tertiary Education Union; and the College of Midwives.


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We previously had posted a blog that CMS had issued a proposed rulemaking regarding an appeals process to be utilized by applicable plans for conditional payment disputes. For background on the rulemaking and to view our prior blog, please click here.
Today, CMS issued a final rule implementing provisions of the Strengthening Medicare and Repaying Taxpayers Act (the SMART ACT), which establishes a right of appeal and formal Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) appeals process for applicable plans, for situations where the Secretary seeks to recover payments from applicable plans. Applicable plans include liability insurance (including self-insurance), no-fault insurance, and workers' compensation laws or plans. The SMART Act further requires that the Medicare beneficiary who received the items and/or services in question be notified of the applicable plan's intent to appeal.
CMS has not yet published the final rule in the Federal Register. Once the final rule is published, we will provide more specific feedback and guidance on the final rule.


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