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We personally engage in your claim from day one. We do more than defend your rights and obtain the settlement you deserve. Our Vancouver personal injury lawyers will help you deal with ICBC, cut through insurance red tape, secure income replacement and disability benefits, and assist with arrangements for the medical care and therapy you need to heal. Our goal is to help you maintain your dignity, while we work hard to understand and ensure the best possible outcome for your future.
Immediate action is critical to your recovery and your claim. Contact us today.
Car accidents and collisions happen everyday. The impact on those involved can be devastating. We move quickly to complete full accident scene investigations and contact witnesses before evidence is lost. We work closely with our injured clients to recover both economic and non-economic damages, to start building their new lives.
Accidents on two wheels can lead to severe injuries, complicated by unique insurance and liability issues. Our lawyers who ride understand these matters from both legal and personal perspectives. In these cases drivers may be unidentified, cyclists uninsured, motorcyclists often blamed. Lost time is potentially lost evidence. Contact us right away so we can begin our full investigation.
The road to recovery from a catastrophic injury can seem overwhelming. Our team of personal injury lawyers is there to give our clients everything they need on their journey to recovery and rehabilitation. Brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, chronic pain, our lawyers have the insights and experience necessary for ensuring you get top quality support for a future with options and the best possible quality of life.
Sometimes the simplest misstep can cause a painful injury. We have the expertise to determine if your slip, trip or fall was caused by someone else's negligence, and to obtain the compensation you deserve.
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You would be well served to understand your rights from the beginning. Our lawyers can help you deal with the bureaucracy of the large insurance companies right from the start.
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- July 21, 2010
- Posted by Mcfarlin Law, in Loan Modification
Loan modification is often the preferred method of foreclosure avoidance for borrowers struggling to make their monthly mortgage payments. When a borrower is faced with loan modification failure, they often wonder what other options are available to them to avoid foreclosure. The good news is that there are several ways to avoid foreclosure if loan modification doesn't work, the bad news is that few borrowers will not be very excited about those options.
A short sale is the sale of a home for less than what is owed on a mortgage contract. The sale will come short of fulfilling loan expectations, hence the name. In order to conduct a short sale, the lender must agree to accept less than the home is worth before the transaction is made. In some circumstances, the lender will pursue the borrower for the remaining debt to cover their original loan obligation, but in many cases, the lender will forgive the borrower's debt and simply cut their losses. Even if a lender forgives the borrower's debt, the borrower should realize that some states will count their forgiven debt as earned income to be taxed. Borrowers should do their research to determine exactly how a short sale will impact them in the future and should not attempt a short sale until they are certain of possible consequences.
A deed in lieu of foreclosure involves the transfer of the deed to the property in question, either to the lender or to a third party investor. Under this type of arrangement, the new land owner will agree to accept a certain amount of "rent" per month that is less than the borrower's current monthly payments and will also agree to allow the borrower to remain in the property for a pre-determined period of time. Basically, this option turns a homeowner into a renter in their own home. Borrowers should also approach this option with caution because nothing stops the investor or lender from pursuing an eviction of the former homeowner from the property. While the eviction must be legal and have merit, the fact that the lender or investor could aggressively pursue it often causes many struggling homeowners to shy away from this option.
Borrowers reading this information may not think that the two options listed above are legitimate ways to avoid foreclosure because in both cases the borrower still has to leave their home. While true that the borrower has to surrender ownership of their home, it is not true that this is exactly the same as foreclosure. Foreclosure is more than the forfeiture of property, it is a mark (many would call it a stain) on a person's credit score that can have dire consequences for borrowers wanting to move past their bad experience and start over again. If a person attempts a short sale or deed in lieu of foreclosure, they may lose ownership of their home, but they also avoid the mark of foreclosure on their credit score. This means that it will be much easier for the borrower to move on from the loss of their home than if a full foreclosure was permitted.

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There are now more than 50 million people in Europe living in a country other than the one in which they were born. Language education, and in particular the learning of the language of the host country, has a major role to play in supporting the integration of young and adult migrants into education systems, the labour market and society at large. This integration in turn helps create a more socially cohesive Europe. The ECML has a number of publications and projects related to migration and language education.
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Integration into education
Countries where there are large numbers of young migrants who have little or no knowledge of the language of the host country face serious challenges in terms of assuring access to quality education. Highly developed competences in the language of the host country are essential if these young people are to integrate well in school and realise their academic potential. However careful consideration must be given to the approaches used in teaching the language of schooling.
Previously it was thought that complete immersion into the new language and abandoning the first language or mother tongue was the best way to do this. Research has shown that the preservation (or learning if they are young children) of the language of origin is important not only in forming an identity but also in the successful acquisition of the language of schooling.
Approaches which foster plurilingualism for all learners, not just for migrants, are a key to successful integration in schools. According to the Council of Europe's Language Policy
Division, "access to literacy in two languages benefits cognitive development. Thus, the language skills of children and adolescents from migrant backgrounds should be fostered by whatever means available, partly as a matter of human rights and partly in order to increase society's linguistic and cultural capital" (Council of Europe - Language Policy Unit 2010).
Activities for raising awareness of the diversity of languages and cultures through inclusive, plurilingual and intercultural approaches are features of good quality education and have a positive impact on society as a whole.
Long-term unemployment and low-status jobs
In spite of efforts to integrate migrants into European labour markets, education systems and other societal structures , migrant and ethnic minority workers in most countries are still over-represented in both low quality employment and long-term unemployment and under-represented in further education and vocational training.
The causes of exclusion are complex and often go beyond the scope of educational intervention. Nevertheless, communicative competence in the language of the host country is essential for inclusion and participation both in the labour market and society at large. To tackle this issue, policies to promote the education and training of young and adult migrants are needed.
Immigration and social cohesion
Migrant communities are frequently isolated from civil society; this is especially the case for stay-at-home spouses whose language skills sometimes are "fossilized" at a very elementary level of communicative skill. Plurilingual approaches to education which include all family members and acknowledge the cultural heritage of migrants help to enable them to participate more fully in social life.
Policies and practice which help the whole of the migrant community – those employed, their children and their families – all rely on developing language competence as a crucial step in social integration.
Research into migrant education has demonstrated that the educational success of migrants is enhanced when their first language is acknowledged and used. Equally, language awareness and bilingual approaches are known to contribute to cognitive development of all children.
The Council of Europe has a website dedicated to the linguistic integration of adult migrants (LIAM). This website provides policy-makers, curriculum developers and all those involved in supporting adult migrants with a wide range of tools to help member states review and improve policy and practice in this field.
A number of projects in present and past ECML programmes have directly addressed the language needs of migrants: Read more
In the workplace
The Language for work project recognises that the task of equipping migrant employees in the workplace requires the cooperation of all the different stakeholders. It is therefore working towards the establishment of a European learning network for languages at work.
A range of resources on the project website will support researchers, learning providers, employers, trade unions and policy-makers to address the specific needs of migrant and ethnic minority employees in learning (including formal, non-formal and informal learning) the language of the host country.
A previous project - Odysseus - analysed the language needs of migrant workers and ways in which language training can be organised at the workplace.
In schools
Migrant children in schools need highly developed competences in the language of schooling, not just in terms of communicative abilities but in terms of academic literacy in specific subject areas. The Language Descriptors project describes the skills needed by 11 to 15 year-olds to study effectively in mathematics and social sciences, and links the descriptors to the levels of the Common European Framework of Reference. The descriptors help teachers of subject areas to set learning targets for migrant learners and to adapt their teaching to their needs.
The Maledive project focuses on support for teachers of the language of schooling, e.g. is German in German-speaking countries whose initial training was based on the assumption that this language was also their pupils' mother tongue but who now find themselves with many pupils for whom this is not the case. It is creating a website with resources to illustrate how plurilingual and intercultural approaches can enrich teaching and learning.
In the community
The aim of the Community project is to develop a "collaborative community approach to migrant education." It explores new ways to enhance young migrants' education by developing links between schools, the home and local partners in education. It describes ways in which this can be achieved through activities which involve local communities and families in the life of the school.
A Moodle platform for teacher trainers offers a wide range of activities for teachers to review their practice as well as practical resources for developing learners' literacy skills by collaborating with parents and the wider community. The platform also shows ways to make effective use of resources such as libraries and arts centres to enhance learning of the language of schooling.
The projects described above are directly concerned with migration and language education. However, many other ECML resources are also relevant, particularly those related to plurilingual education and social cohesion, as well as those related to learning languages in vocational contexts and to language and to social cohesion.
Please note: The ECML does not accept responsibility for any selection of experts which may be made as a result of the details provided in this database.
The resources offer innovative ways to enhance young migrants' education by developing links between schools, the home and local partners in education. This educational joint venture develops the learners' skills in the language of schooling as well as their plurilingual competences.
Available in English and French
Go to the publication page
These resources highlight challenges for young learners in subject classes where the language of instruction is not their first language. The focus is on minimum language standards in history/civics and mathematics for learners aged 12/13 and 15/16. The language descriptors are linked to CEFR levels A2, B1 and B2 and available in six languages.
Language for Work is a European learning network for professionals teaching the language of the host country to migrants and ethnic minorities in work-related contexts. The network helps members share and develop their practice.
Available in English
Go to the publication page
17.10.2019Language courses more beneficial for integration of migrants than tests, suggests new Council of Europe survey
Policies on language and knowledge of society for migrants in Council of Europe member states and the learning opportunities are the focus of the new survey that has been presented at the conference in the Council of Europe on 16 October. The survey was conducted by the Council of Europe in co-operation with the Association of Language Testers in Europe (ALTE) in 2018 and covers 40 countries out of 47 member-states of the organisation.
Read the Council of Europe press release
04.06.2018Just published: "More languages? PlurCur! Research and practice regarding plurilingual whole school curricula"
European language policy aims at fostering plurilingualism in individuals, but how this goal can be attained within schools as institutions has not been part of the education policy discourse. A project at the ECML took up the idea of a plurilingual whole school curriculum, and specific elements of such a curriculum have been implemented and tested at 16 schools in a number of European countries. Some of the elements have been accompanied by research. This volume presents research and reports on practical implementation of plurilingual whole school curricula.
Download the publication:
Target users: decision-makers in the spheres of education policy-making and teacher training, teachers, researchers.
Authors: Elisabeth Allgäuer-Hackl, Kristin Brogan, Ute Henning, Britta Hufeisen, Joachim Schlabach.
Languages: English – German.
Go to the publication website
16.05.2018Calls for proposals for disseminating the Council of Europe toolkit "Language Support for Adult Refugees" and the "Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture"
This call for proposals is launched in the framework of the Council of Europe Project "Linguistic Integration of Adult Migrants". It aims to co-fund national/local projects aimed at disseminating the new Council of Europe toolkit "Language support for adult refugees".
Deadline: 24 May 2018
Dissemination activities of the Council of Europe "Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture"
This call for proposals is launched in the context of the Council of Europe Project "Competences for democratic culture". It aims to co-fund national/local projects aimed at disseminating the new Council of Europe Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture.
Deadline: 4 June 2018


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Investigators believe Kushner has significant information relevant to their inquiry, officials said. That does not mean they suspect him of a crime or intend to charge him.
The FBI's scrutiny of Kushner places the bureau's sprawling counterintelligence and criminal investigation not only on the doorstep of the White House, but on the cusp of the Trump family circle. The Washington Post first reported last week that a senior White House official close to Trump was a "person of interest," but did not name the person. The term "person of interest" has no legal meaning.
The officials said Kushner is in a different category from former Trump aides Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn, who are formally considered subjects of the investigation. Records of both Manafort and Flynn have been demanded by grand jury subpoenas, NBC News has reported.
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Also unclear is what precisely about Kushner's activities has drawn the FBI's interest as it investigates whether Trump associates coordinated with the Russian campaign to interfere in the election. Former FBI Director Robert Mueller is now leading the probe as a special counsel.
Kushner met at least once in December with the Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, and he also met last year with a Russian banker, Sergey Gorkov.
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London: Facebook is expanding its Facebook at Work product into hundreds of more companies, as it tries to challenge enterprise software makers and win subscription revenue from corporate customers.
Facebook at Work looks and feels like the world's largest social network but keeps corporate data private, secure and separate from a user's personal profile. Facebook announced a trial of the network in January, gradually expanding it to 100 partners including drinks company Heineken USA and social media platform Hootsuite. It is now preparing to launch the product more broadly into businesses, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies.
Facebook at Work will be the company's first venture into generating subscription revenue. Facebook currently makes most of its money by selling advertising slots for marketers to target its users, but it will keep corporate clients' data separate and not show ads to business users.
Instead, it will operate a 'freemium' model popular with the latest generations of enterprise software companies such as Slack, Dropbox and Evernote, offering a free basic service but charging for additional services such as integrating with third-party tools, analytics and measures to get employees more engaged.
Julien Cordorniou, director of global platform partnerships at Facebook, said customers wanted to encourage employees to work on Facebook because it was an easy tool to adopt and one that they used in their personal lives.
He added that Facebook was using its expertise in designing mobile apps to make the platform mobile first — enabling even workers without PCs or desk jobs to contribute to work on the site.
"I think they want to bring a new level of collaboration and productivity to the workplace and they want to do it with a new type of enterprise software," he said. "One could say the definition of a good organisation is when news travels fast — I think it was Bill Gates who first said that — and that is what Facebook has been doing for 10 years."
He said when information travelled across an organisation quickly, people could take decisions faster and with access to data they might not have previously had. Heineken USA, Hootsuite and Latin American online retailer Linio have all said they are increasing productivity by using Facebook's groups and news feed features.
Facebook at Work could challenge other enterprise technologies including Slack, the workplace chat app last valued at $2.8 billion (Dh10.3 billion), Google Drive and Microsoft's Office suite and corporate social network Yammer. Although it is currently targeted at boosting internal networking, it could also one day rival LinkedIn, the social network for professionals.
Facebook has set its sights on the whole employed population — which Cordorniou said is about three billion people — more than double the current userbase of 1.49 billion.
Reaching beyond the office
Builders on a UK construction site are using Facebook at Work to snap and post pictures of what they accomplish each day, sending it round the world to other branches of the company in Japan and Germany.
This is just one example of how Facebook at Work plans to reach employees who do not traditionally use computers in their jobs, by using their smartphones to improve communication across companies.
Julien Cordorniou, director of global platform partnerships, said Facebook had been inspired to create the product when it spotted groups of employees adopting the social network as a way to share information with colleagues.
The Silicon Valley company has long used its own site to manage its internal communications and had begun to see others adopt Facebook groups to chat with their teams, for example. In one large airline, every crew on every flight had its own Facebook group, he said.
"This is our response to the existing behaviour of thousands of businesses around the world," Cordorniou said. "We had to build Facebook at Work to make it work for [chief information officers]."


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This question seems to be similar to others, but I'll take a shot anyway. A client recently switched ISPs from TDS to Comcast Business Class. Before the switch, they had 5 static IP addresses assigned. Now they'll have a single dynamic IP address.
The issue is that this internet connection will be shared among two companies, both having (and wanting to keep) their own private subnets. Because TDS was supplying multiple IP addresses to the one location, this allowed me to put each router on the switch. Now, with Comcast, they only get one IP address, meaning there has to be a main router before the subnet routers. Luckily, the cable modem has a built-in router, which I would like to connect to each company's router, and still have DHCP enabled on all accounts.
Question: What do I need to do to the subnet routers to keep them separate from each other, but still allow internet access from the main router. I would love to say "I tried this", and give you links, but everything I find on the internet only mentions daisy-chaining routers with DCHP disabled.


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Equal treatment for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community seemed like a pipe dream in 1996 when the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was passed defining marriage as being between one man and one woman.
But things came full circle in June 2013 when the Supreme Court declared DOMA unconstitutional. With attitudes changing significantly over the past two decades, employers should be aware of five key developments involving LGBT issues that are sure to expand employment law protections.
1. US Supreme Court Strikes Down DOMA
In June 2013, the Supreme Court made history by issuing two decisions favoring same sex marriage proponents. In United States v. Windsor, the Court struck down section 3 of DOMA, which denies federal benefits to same-sex couples, as a violation of the constitutional guarantee of equal protection under the law. As a result of this ruling, married same-sex couples residing in states where same-sex marriages are legal are now eligible for more than 1,000 federal benefits and protections linked to marital status. In states where same sex marriage is recognized, same-sex spouses will be afforded protection under federal laws such as COBRA, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and ERISA.
Meanwhile, in Hollingsworth v. Perry, the Supreme Court ruled that supporters of Proposition 8–a California ballot initiative that banned same-sex marriage–did not have the right to appeal the lower court's order striking down the law. The ruling enables same-sex marriages in California to resume.
2. EEOC Increasing Transgender Protections
Employers should also be aware that in an April 2012 the EEOC held in Macy v. Holder that a transgender employee was permitted to bring a discrimination claim under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act because claims of discrimination based on gender identity, change of sex, sex stereotyping and transgender status were a form of sex discrimination as such claims were based on sex. The EEOC's position could open the doors to greater employment protection for transgender workers.
3. State and Local Protections Also Expanding
Although sexual orientation and gender identity are currently not protected under federal law, many state and local laws prohibit discrimination against employees and job applicants based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity. Further, some states prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity while some states have laws that protect against discrimination based on sexual orientation only.
Also, some states have laws and administrative policies addressing sexual orientation and gender identity in public employment. Additionally, over 200 cities and counties prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. This number continues to grow. What's more, a number of states have passed laws allowing same sex couples to marry or enter into civil unions and providing benefits and leave for same-sex spouses or partners.
4. Presidential Support of LGBT Rights
President Barack Obama's support for gay rights and same-sex marriage has been evident from the start of his presidency. In 2011, Obama signed a law repealing the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. In 2012, he became the first sitting US President to express his support for same-sex marriage. This carried through to his Second Inaugural Address in which he compared the struggle for gay rights and the Stonewall riots to the struggle for civil rights in the Deep South during the 1960s and women's rights at Seneca Falls.
5. Keeping Up With the Changing Times
As a result of the continued progress of LGBT rights in the workplace, prudent employers should take the following steps:
- Implement and enforce a policy prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity;
- Provide training to all employees, supervisors and managers on sexual orientation and gender identity and advise them to avoid using gay slurs and stereotypes intended to cause a hostile work environment;
- Provide same sex spouses or partners with equal benefits when it comes to health benefits, sick time, bereavement leave, FMLA and other leaves of absence. Although state requirements vary widely, this is a best practice;
- Make reasonable accommodations for transgender individuals with respect to dress codes, rest rooms and locker rooms, employee name changes, and managing employee privacy and confidentiality with regard to transitioning employees; and
- Take all discrimination and harassment complaints based on gender identity and sexual orientation seriously and follow up with a thorough investigation and, if needed, disciplinary measures.


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After the party comes the after party, and after the Golden Globes came… Lindsay Lohan in this unusual hooded dress, which makes her look a bit like either:
a) She's in fancy dress as Rihanna
b) Lindsay is the hooded spectre of doom, and her appearance here is some kind of warning to us all. We must re-check the Fashion Bible and find out if there's a passage saying, "When the hooded spectre of Lindsay Lohan shalt appear at the Golden Globes, Crocs and harem pants shall be in fashion forever more!" or some such thing.
While we're doing that, feel free to tell us what you think of Lindsay's outfit here!
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Joyfully Reviewed is thrilled to welcome Author Julia London
and kick off the tour for her upcoming release
Title: Return to Homecoming Ranch (Pine River Trilogy, Book 2)
Author: Julia London
Genre: Women's fiction
Release date: July 22, 2014
Curly-haired Libby Tyler never stops smiling…until her beloved boyfriend suddenly forces her out of their home and away from his adoring kids. When she learns he dumped her for his flighty ex-wife, Libby's sadness turns to fury—and she very publicly smashes his truck with a golf club, earning herself a trip to a mental health center for some "rest."
Handsome, hazel-eyed deputy Sam Winters has been sober for two years. Afraid of backsliding, he lives in the mountains and keeps his distance from people. Yet he never forgot Libby, his former colleague at the sheriff's office whose charm and cheerfulness always warmed his days.
Now Libby's back, ignoring the townspeople's whispers (and her ex's restraining order) while desperately trying to make Homecoming Ranch a successful event destination. She keeps causing trouble for Sam, but he finds her smile more beautiful than ever…and his touch gives her thrills she's never felt. Could these two lost souls mend each other's broken hearts?
Sam Winters has been sober for two years. Sam is the strong silent type keeping to himself trying to protect his sobriety. Before he let alcohol take over his life he was working his way up in the Sheriff's department. Now he is happy to have his small town job as a deputy. Things are usually nice and quiet letting Sam lead a solitary life on the mountain but one woman is determined to try his patience.
Libby Tyler used to be known as a sweet and giving woman. She was always put together nicely and working for local causes. However, everything changed when she took a golf club to her ex's truck. Now, Libby's ex Ryan has a restraining order against her. She is having a lot of trouble staying the required distance from Ryan and his children which brings Deputy Dog, Sam onto her path.
Libby is the most frustrating creature Sam has ever met. While he should agree with the masses that a little more time in the loony bin would do Libby some good Sam can't stop wanting to help her. Homecoming Ranch heats up as Sam attempts to bring Libby back down to earth and Libby attempts to bring Sam out of his shell once again. Will all be well at Homecoming Ranch or will these two do more harm than good?
Julia London's Return to Homecoming Ranch marries contemporary, complex characters with dark humor creating a meaningful and memorable romance. This is my first book in the series and it can be read as a stand-alone. When I read the synopsis I thought it was going to be a funny romance but it didn't take long for me to realize that Return to Homecoming Ranch is a very serious romance.
Sam and Libby are two characters that have been through dark times. Sam is ahead of Libby on the recovery road. He is two years sober while Libby is right in the middle of her trauma. She is in denial at the beginning of the story. Libby doesn't see what is wrong with the way she is thinking. There were times I wanted to shake her so bad. She was frustrating but I understood her. I wanted to punch her ex, wait…that is not severe enough. I may have thought of many different ways to murder him. Every woman has unfortunately come across a man like him before.
Sam made me melt. This is the type of man I hope to one day marry. He has flaws, he acknowledges them and works to improve himself and help others. He is always going the extra mile for people. There are lots of great scenes between Libby and Sam. At first they are filled with humor and sometimes sadness but things heat up swiftly. I really felt like I was on the outside looking in at a couple falling in love. I was right there with them for every moment of their journey. London's excellent prose allows the reader to go on an in depth and up close journey with the characters.
London delivers a homerun with Return to Homecoming Ranch's humor, emotion and characters that leave you wanting more.
Outside, she could hear the voices rise to a crescendo at the opening kick off. She lifted her head, breathed out once more. Dr. Huber was right—deep breathing did help. Libby pitched forward onto her hands and knees, then pushed herself up, down dog style, to standing. She looked at herself in the mirror. There was no sign that she was on the verge of exploding with disappointment and frustration. She sighed, tucked in a stray curl or two, smoothed her top, and with one last deep breath, reached for the bathroom door, unlocking it and pulling it open.
She let out a little squeal of surprise to see Sam standing there, leaning against the wall opposite the door. "What are you doing here?" she demanded.
"Everything okay?"
"Yes. Why?" she asked defensively.
Sam cocked a brow.
"I'm fine," she said adamantly.
"Okay," he said, and pushed away from the wall.
"But wait—I need to know something. Do you think I would do something to torpedo Leo's fundraising just because Gwen is involved?" she blurted, because it suddenly seemed of the utmost importance that Sam not think that, of all people.
"No," he said firmly. "Don't let it get to you, Libby. You know how it is out in the world today—people are more cautious than they used to be."
"So basically, what you're saying, is all of Pine River is worried that I will be the one to pick up a gun and start firing."
He smiled sympathetically. "I wouldn't say all."
Libby blinked.
"I'm teasing you."
"Yeah," she said. "You should look into stand-up comedy."
"Maybe I will," he said, and moved forward. Only inches separated them now. "Are you ready to come watch some football?"
Libby sighed, and before she knew what she was doing, she dropped her forehead to Sam's shoulder. "I don't think I can."
"Sure you can," he murmured.
They stood awkwardly a moment—Libby leaning into Sam, her face in his shirt, her arms at her side. Sam standing stiff and still. But then Libby felt him lift one hand. He put it on the small of her back.
"Don't cry," he said.
She snorted. "I'm not crying. I'm too mad to cry."
Another hand came up and landed on her back. He gave her a strange, but friendly little pat, as if he didn't know what to do with her precisely.
Libby lifted her head. In that close hallway, Sam's eyes looked dark. "Sam—"
"No," he said quickly, cutting her off. "I meant what I said, Libby. No more hand-holding."
"I know. I heard you the first five times you said it." His eyes were the color of turbulent, churning seas.
"Great," he said as his gaze drifted to her mouth. "Then you understand that your problem is not mine."
"Good!" she said, studying his bottom lip, full and wet. A shiver of memory raced down her spine. "You're too bossy, anyway."
"God, don't talk anymore," he said, and lowered his head, his mouth hungrily finding hers.
Please tell us a bit about your latest release.
Return to Homecoming Ranch is the second book in my Homecoming Ranch series, set in fictional Pine River, Colorado. It's about three sisters who never knew each other existed until their deadbeat father died and left them a rundown property.
In this, we meet Libby, a woman who's returning from a bit of a nervous breakdown after the man she assumed she'd marry cheated on her while Libby was raising his children and making a home for them. The blindsiding news that she was out was the last straw in a series of disappointments Libby had suffered, and it's the straw that break the camel's back. Enter Sam, a local deputy who had been on the fast track to sheriff until the bottle got the better of him. He works hard to maintain his sobriety by keeping a respectable distance between himself and life. He doesn't want any drama. But that's something that is increasingly hard to keep at bay when he decides he must help Libby.
They are two wounded souls trying not to be drawn into the whirlwind or emotion that surrounds them. We're not really sure if they will be able to hold tight and become the anchor they both need?
Are you attending any conventions in 2014? If so, what are the top three reasons as to why you like/choose them?
I attended #RT14 and I'm also attending RWA 2014. RT is a great opportunity to meet and visit with fans. They really remind me that I don't live in a vacuum. My job is a solitary one, so it's nice to be reminded at an event like RT that people out there read and enjoy my work. RWA on the other hand is generally more about the business side of the industry. I meet with my publishers and agent, and talk about industry trends. I talk a lot of shop with other authors, too. It's the time of year to get caught up with the world of publishing. And, of course, there is the RITA ceremony and awards which I am looking forward to.
What is your favorite romance genre and what author makes you absolutely swoon?
Historical romance will always be my favorite. I like so many other authors it's hard to single one out! But I adored Connie Brockway before I was ever published and still do.
What is your dream vacation spot?
Mountains. My family has a place in Taos, New Mexico, and it's still my favorite place to get away.
What do you think has been the most important moment or event of your life so far? And why do you feel that way?
Don't call me a wimp, but I can't name one. There have been so many events that have shaped my life and lead me down different paths, starting with the decision to go away to college one thousand years ago.
Is there anything else you would like our readers to know?
Just how much I appreciate them and their love of the romance genre. And how much I appreciate bloggers like you, who help get the word out about great books and authors. Please keep reading!
Boxers or Brief: boxer briefs
Manscape or Not: can go either way
Lights On or Lights Off: can go either way
Summer or Winter: winter
Peanuts or Chocolate: Chocolate
Batman or Superman: batman
The Voice or American Idol: sick of both!
Christmas or Birthday: birthday
Heels or Flats: flats
Talk or Text: text
Action Movie or Comedy: comedy
Facebook or Twitter: Facebook. It takes too much time to figure out how to say everything I want to say in 140 characters or less.
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Julia London is the New York Times and USA Today best selling author of more than a two dozen romantic fiction novels. She is the author of the popular Secrets of Hadley Green historical romance series, as well as the new Cabot Sisters historical series. She is also the author of several contemporary romances, including Homecoming Ranch and Return to Homecoming Ranch.
Julia is the recipient of the RT Bookclub Award for Best Historical Romance and a four time finalist for the prestigious RITA award for excellence in romantic fiction.


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Saturday, November 10, 2012
Gibraltar tunnels and guns
Gibraltar - where The Rock inself hides an intricate network of tunnels dug deep inside it for guns dating back to the Napoleonic period plus later eras.
This gun - near the top of The Rock has no marks on the trunnion.
Note: behind the gun on the rock face are what appear to be caves - these are embrasures for the cannon.
The Windsor Gallery was the first tunnel dug into The Rock of Gibraltar. It was constructed by the Corps of Engineers in 1783 after having taken a year to dig. The heavy guns which stood at the embrasures were all hauled up the mountain by hand. The zigzag road up the side of the hill has a series of iron rings in the rock face which were used for hauling.
Downtown Gibraltar - The plaque reads: These four Russian guns were captured in the Crimea 1854-58 were presented to Gibraltar by the British Government in 1858.
Not exactly Rotherham cannons but may be of interest.
Gibraltar - half way up the Rock looking north to the narrow border with Spain (hidden by cloud) only a mile away. WW2 guns point across Algiceras Bay to the coast of Spain.
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A good overview, and some nice memories.
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25 % of the residents in Rotterdam Bloemhof are under the age of 21. The street scene is dominated by playing children and young people hanging around. Close to the installation with the distorting mirrors is a primary school. Children on their way to school remain standing in front of the mirrors. They laugh, make faces or fight against the mirrors.
Initiated by Christine Saalfeld supported by Woonstad Rotterdam and Gemeente Rotterdam.


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Obama to appeal to 'common purpose'
President Barack Obama plans to use a prime-time press conference Tuesday night to appeal to a sense of "common purpose" that could rein in excesses on Wall Street — while also tempering calls in Congress for limits on pay and bonuses that could be seen as punitive.
"We will recover from this recession. But it will take time, it will take patience, and it will take an understanding that when we all work together; when each of us looks beyond our own short-term interests to the wider set of obligations we have to each other—that's when we succeed. That's when we prosper," Obama was to say in his opening statement, according excerpts from his planned remarks released Tuesday afternoon by the White House.
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Obama also intends to press aggressively for his $3.6 trillion budget proposal, which is facing criticism from Republicans as well as conservative Democrats who fear it will irresponsibly drive up the national debt. The president will make the case that the health care, education, and energy plans he has proposed are not wasteful spending but essential investments that will return America to a secure fiscal footing.
"The budget I submitted to Congress will build our economic recovery on a stronger foundation, so that we do not face another crisis like this ten or twenty years from now," Obama will say, according to the excerpts. "We invest in the renewable sources of energy that will lead to new jobs, new businesses, and less dependence on foreign oil. We invest in our schools and our teachers so that our children have the skills they need to compete with any workers in the world. We invest in reform that will bring down the cost of health care for families, businesses, and our government. "
Obama will say that the $787 billion stimulus bill, coupled with plans to limit foreclosures and free up credit, seem to be having an effect. "We are beginning to see signs of progress," he planned to say.
Obama will insist that his budget will constrain the deficit once the stimulus needed to restart the economy takes full effect. "We have made the tough choices necessary to cut our deficit in half by the end of my first term – even under the most pessimistic estimates," he was to say.
In fact, many of the "tough choices" are still to come. So far, in keeping with past practice for new presidents, Obama has submitted only a budget outline, without line-by-line details for most programs. That information is expected in early May. While Obama did propose hiking tax rates back to Clinton-era levels and limiting deductions for upper-income taxpayers, most of the choices to cap or limit spending won't come in the current budget cycle but towards the end of Obama's first term or thereafter.


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It has been an amazing journey with you all in my life. I was no one before I started my blog (s). I must say that you all have helped me a lot in fulfilling my dream of becoming a writer. Your encouraging words inspired me and helped me to discover the 'me,' who I am today.
My Blog, 'My Still Thoughts In Words' is changing into a new name- 'The Positive Window;' because I am going to reach to 'that window' in your life and open it for you to see the positive in your life.
Thank you for continuing your love and support. I sincerely appreciate your time and interest in my posts and articles. Thank you always for encouraging me to write more and more.
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There have been recent success in research efforts (mostly academic and theory in origin and a few recently progressing into the more exploitative POC) to identify weaknesses that exist in everything from Firewire connections to the magnetic cards used to access secure facilities. These proofs of concepts highlight the necessity of a well deployed control […]
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Hardware attacks threaten integrity and confidentiality
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Intellectual Assets: News items on Espionage & Public Dissimination of Data
February 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Intellectual property for an organization can vary between trade secrets (i.e. the 'secret sauce recipe') and customer specific data. Every organization must classify information appropriately based on their own usage of the data, governing laws, and best practices. Two recent examples caught my attention as examples where data was compromised and the affects. The first […]
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Weak Principle Controls are Cause of Security Breaches
February 4th, 2008 · No Comments
Remediation and corrective action are part of the lessons learned when a negative event (security breach, fraud, etc…) occurs within an organization. It is regarded as best practice to learn from one's own mistakes, and an even better practice to learn from OTHER's mistakes. In either case understanding what controls may address the situation on […]
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CIA: Energy Infrastructure Attacked
January 24th, 2008 · No Comments
In my book, IT Compliance and Controls, I highlight the importance of the energy infrastructure, and the risks that these systems face given their newly interconnectedness. To highlight the relevant points from the book – the energy infrastructures of the world support the medical, HVAC, security, and financial systems of our economies. The loss of […]
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When something is "finished," it's human nature to look back on the journey that led up to the moment of completion. Last night, Hide & Go Seek-A-Saurus by Sheri Roloff went to the printer; and today, we received confirmation that the files are being processed. And so this morning, before I dive into a long to-do list that I've been pushing off during this busy "pre-press" week, I am compelled to sip my coffee and reflect.
The start of the publication of Hide & Go Seek-A-Saurus was the start of KWiL. Early last spring, when I had solidified the decision to found a publishing company (albeit at this point only in my brain), I set out to do what seemed like the obvious first step—find a book to publish.
Reflection # 1: Start With Whom You Know/What You Know
At that point, I wasn't exactly sure what KWiL's niche would be. I knew that publishing to support the #weneeddiversebooks and #ownvoices campaigns was important to me. I also knew that I loved nature writing, and STEM or MAKERS-themed books seemed apropos to the times.
BUT, I also knew Sheri Roloff. We'd met in 2012 through a SCBWI critique group; and during the years that I had been active, I'd had the privilege of reading many of Sheri's stories and of seeing her art.
Sheri and I worked well together. Her feedback on my stories always felt spot on, and she was receptive to mine. She'd suggest something and I'd think, "Of course!" I'd suggest something and she'd say, "Love it!" During that time, Sheri and I also explored ways to partner on projects outside of the group. We thought about creating an early reader series together and/or collaborating on an adult coloring book.
So, yes, I knew Sheri Roloff and her body of work.
The other thing I knew (or at least liked to think I knew) was what kind of picture books kids liked to read "over and over again." In 2013 I created a blog called Picture Book House. In each post, I wrote a short review and longer story about how my kids interacted with the book I was featuring. This story highlighted what it was about the book that made it read-it-again-worthy. "What it was" wasn't always the same, but when I watched my kids experience a book, it also wasn't hard to identify. I became obsessed with these kinds of books. Books that didn't get lost on the shelf; books that we read over and over again—often at breakfast, lunch, even dinner, and always before nap and bed.
These books, I used to love to say, were infiltrating our very souls–helping my kids to understand themselves and the world, and, perhaps most importantly at this age, fall in love with reading. There were Caldecott winners and NOT Caldecott winners, but every book I wrote about received 5 stars on the read-it-again scale.
Fast forward to last spring—again. I KNEW read-it-again-worthy books. And THAT was where I needed to start:
With a read-it-again-worthy book BY Sheri Roloff.
What I've learned between then and now about publishing sometimes causes me to stop and catch my breath (literally, for a second I can get so wound up I can't breath), and I've been asked several times, "Have you done this before?" or "How do you know what to do?" Well, my best answer is this: I read books; I researched online; I talked to people; and, for better or worse, placed a large amount of stock on my gut. I trust it.
More specifically, I worked with an intellectual property attorney to create a publishing agreement; I learned how to negotiate and acquire projects; I learned how to create budgets and do our accounting; I learned about how books are printed and have built relationships with two U.S.—based printers, from whom I've requested bids. None of this is rocket science, and it (budgeting excluded!) felt simpatico with my background in literacy education. The bottom line is this: I am determined for KWiL to succeed, and the only way that will happen is if I figure it all out…with a team (see next Reflection).
Reflection #2: Collaboration is the KEY to Picture Book Perfection
The story of Sheri's I initially thought KWiL would publish is called Run, Cheetah, Run.
But several weeks after Sheri agreed to sign, I was clicking around on her website and saw an illustration I had never seen before: Two dinosaurs—making a pizza.
I called her up. "Do you have a story about these dinosaurs," I asked?
"Well, yes, I do," she answered.
"We need to publish a book about them."
Sheri agreed, and that is how Hide & Go Seek-A-Saurus became KWiL's first book.
During this time, Sheri also set to work designing KWiL's logo. KWiL is a combination of my kids' first names (Katy and Will), with the obvious allusion to quill, and so I had asked Sheri to explore some feathered logo designs. In hindsight—how boring!
Which must have been exactly what Sheri was thinking. She sent back a few feathered options, and this porcupine:
"Of course!" I thought.
Our porcupine (name TBD) was the perfect way to move farther away from the quill cliché, and what a fantastic image for branding a children's book publishing company.
It quickly became clear that Sheri was going to be so much more than an author/illustrator at KWiL. Ever so easily our conversations deepened and extended beyond her book. I'd run acquisition and editorial questions by her. She designed our sell sheets. Early summer, we realized how incredible it would be to have an in-house book designer, and by mid-summer, KWiL was officially at team of two.
By the end of September, with almost 10 projects in the pipeline, we realized what we really needed to be was a team of three. Thus began our courtship of Molly Damon, who, we knew, was the final missing piece to this start up. None of our work would matter if we couldn't sell the books. Molly, we knew, could work wonders in marketing and sales. We discussed over coffee. We analyzed over wine, and thankfully, Molly said, "Yes."
And so back to my second reflection—collaboration is key. The perfect picture book is the result of collaboration between many people in a publishing company. Of course the author, or author/illustrator, is paramount. There would (obviously) be no project without her. BUT, what is perhaps unknown is that every single word, illustration, color choice, design layout—every single everything—in a picture book has been reviewed, discussed, quite possibly edited, over, and over, and over again by a team of people all contributing their unique and important perspective.
Without a tough editor, pushing, pushing, pushing, without an expert in design, tweaking, tweaking, tweaking, without a copyeditor, catching, catching, catching, and without a marketing expert, who has a pulse on the market and an eye for what will sell, a picture book could easily fall short.
We believe, not because I'm trying to be pompous, but because we have to—we've laid it all on the line now—that our hard work has resulted in a perfect picture book: the kind that will leave kids begging, "Read it again!"
Now, we know this doesn't mean that everybody will love it, and that's ok. But what we do believe is that we have created a product of exceptional quality that can legitimately compete in the marketplace, and we got here by working together.
Reflection # 3: Pacing is Paramount
Although there is a long list of specific picture-book making lessons learned from this project, one that, as an editor, stands out most to me is how absolutely ESSENTIAL it is to get pacing right. Picture books are meant to be read aloud, and so every word choice, as well as word placement (top of page, bottom of page) and format (CAPS, italics) also has to be perfect.
To check for pacing, I have to have a hard copy of the book in my hand. Page turns are pivotal and impossible to get a feel for on a screen. So, every time there was a new/updated version of the book, I would print off a black and white copy, fold the papers as they needed to be folded and staple the book together. I would start by reading it in my head, and then always, always read it out loud.
If there was any single word, or any spot where I hesitated—even for a second—something just didn't sound right/feel right/make sense, we went back and addressed it.
The day that we read through and didn't pause once was the day I realized I would be particularly proud of Hide & Go Seek-A-Saurus'spacing.
Which leads me to my final Reflection:
Reflection #4: It's Not Finished Until the Books Are in Hand
There were so many times when we (or at least I) thought, "We're done!" only to catch one more thing. A lot of these "things" were due to the fact that this was our first time through. There won't be so many "things" with our next book, but a motto that drove us was, "It's never too late to get it right." So, even when it would have been easier to say, "Ah, it's fine," we listened to the advice of our BETA readers (THANK YOU, you know who you are), our copyeditors (a special shout out here to my Mom, Sue Nies, former English teacher and grammar guru extraordinaire, who has spent countless hours reading and re-reading this book), or our gut—I just think THIS would work better.
Reflection #4 read as it may, and no, it's not really, really done until the books are in hand, there is a sense of completion when the files go to the printer—which is what happened yesterday, and why I am writing this blog post today.
BONUS Reflection #5: Sheri Roloff
When you spend so much time on a project, it's impossible not to get a bit verklempted when it wraps up, especially when you think about the people you've grown near and dear to during the process.
To be a successful picture book author/illustrator you have to be a creative genius. You also have to have grit. (You want me to change what? Now? I can only imagine Sheri thinking that at least once). You have to have endurance. (It takes hours upon HOURS to illustrate a book).
Sheri has all of these things—the creative genius, the grit, the endurance, and she brings them not just to her books, but to all of KWiL's projects and corporate branding.
Sheri's attention to detail is exquisite, her sense of humor infectious, her commitment to a deadline motivating (even at times, intimidating!)…and did I mention…she sings and plays guitar!?
I could not be luckier to have Sheri as a business partner, or more honored that Hide & Go Seek-A-Saurs is KWiL's first book.
Sheri, cheers to you—and dreams coming true.


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History of the Heritage Garden
This article was written by Master Gardener Lee McDonald in honor of the 10th Anniversary of the Beaches Museum Heritage Garden.
April 1, 2018 marks the 10th Anniversary of the Heritage Garden in Jacksonville Beach. Located on Beach Blvd at the Beaches Museum & History Park, the garden, a Duval County Extension Demonstration Garden, is maintained by Master Gardener volunteers with the purpose of community education in gardening practices.
On its first anniversary, Jacksonville's mayor designated the garden as one of the city's top greenspace revitalization projects. Soil is critical to successful plantings because, as in much of Florida, our soils are very sandy. In by-gone days, soils here were naturally composted by horses, cows, chickens, and more roaming fauna than we see today. Fallen leaves were returned to landscapes and ash from heating and cooking were turned into the sand and soil. These historical practices made soils more suitable for gardening due to rich natural and scheduled amendments.
Composting remains essential to sustainable gardening. Thus, it is not surprising that the first order of business on April Fool's day in 2008 was to collect composted horse manure from a local farm and plow it into the soil. These soil restoration practices from that initial day have made continued maintenance and development productive at the Heritage Garden.
Mid-20th century, folks discovered that much chemical fertilization could boost turf and gardens around homes. The last seventy years, however, have taught us that practices, including excessive applications and misuse of certain chemicals in herbicides, fertilizers, and pesticides, damage the water table, successful human habitation, and the environment, creating a less sustainable community. As a learning center, the garden's goal is sharing best garden practices. Volunteers show Extension recommended practices, observing how plant choices and gardening methods work to support quality of life in our specific environment.
The 2008 Heritage Garden, envisioned to complement the turn-of-the-twentieth-century Foreman's House, was confined to a space measuring thirty percent less than the 13′ x 18′ space is occupied within two years. Numbering fewer than ten in 2008, MG volunteers now number thirty. Over the past four years, the garden has expanded rapidly; specialized garden areas include the kitchen (vegetable and herb), rose, perennial, butterfly, shade or ginger, and bromeliad gardens as well as specialized plantings of historical native and non-native plants throughout the park. At present, the garden hosts over 240 varieties of plants with new additions every season. It is accessible with paved pathways and ramps meeting ADA standards. Visitors may wander through and observe the garden during museum hours. Tours are available by reservation. School and civic groups regularly schedule visits to tour the garden and museum exhibits.
In 2012, the Heritage Garden was recognized by UF/IFAS Florida Master Gardener Program as one of Florida's most outstanding demonstration gardens. Over the decade, we have faced typical challenges of Florida living, actively engaging in renewal and sustainable practices for both edible and ornamental plant growth. The garden has weathered development and redevelopment with the addition of two newly moved and restored historic buildings which altered the footprint of the garden as well as storms and hurricanes which served as reminders of the history of our community. The French first recorded a hurricane here in 1564; but human habitation here at the mouth of the St. John's spans thousands of years. The Beaches Museum and Heritage Gardens presents the simple, amazing history of the region we call home. The Heritage Garden is a demonstration of practices which will yield a successful home garden on our island today.


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Ekahau and Symbol Team to Location-Enable Passive RFID Tags
Ekahau and Symbol today announced a solution to help organisations more efficiently track the location of inventory and assets with radio frequency identification (RFID). The first implementation of this new application will use Symbol's MC9000 mobile computing RFID reader, which incorporates Ekahau location-enabling software designed to locate where RFID tags are being read.
The RFID location-enabled Symbol mobile computers are aimed at the retail and supply chain markets and can be extended to pharmaceutical, healthcare, government and other industries where there is strong adoption for Electronic Product Code (EPC) RFID.
The Symbol MC9000-G RFID mobile computer integrates Ekahau's location-tracking software which, in conjunction with a computer running the Ekahau Positioning Engine 3.1 (EPE) application, uses existing Wi-Fi networks to show in real-time the location of the devices. The combined solution will enhance the functionality of passive RFID tags by tracking the location of the mobile computer when in use and converting the location information into EPC RFID data in the supply chain. This unique approach marries the benefits of real-time location systems (RTLS) and RFID by extending the tracking capabilities of RTLS to RFID.
"Symbol rugged mobile computers embedded with Ekahau's Wi-Fi-enabled, location-tracking solution are powerful tools for retailers and other companies that rely heavily on passive RFID tags to manage inventory, and can benefit from knowing where those products reside at any given time," said Tuomo Rutanen, vice president of business development at Ekahau. "Staff can reduce the time searching large warehouses or retail facilities, and more quickly find the RFID-tagged items, which allow them to better attend to customers' needs."
"Supply chain management can become much more streamlined with Symbol's new location-enabled RFID mobile computers," said Phil Lazo, vice president and general manager of Symbol RFID infrastructure. "The ability to monitor the location of their RFID-tagged products provide our customers with a distinct advantage over their competitors – from being able to improve their ability to fill orders to cutting costs associated with manual tracking activities."


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New Music from Armstrong
Some of the simplest forms of pop music are the ones that become the most meaningful to us, which is where I'm left after spending some time with this new Armstrong track. It's part of the new album, which features unearthed recordings and B-Sides, and this listen is making the world just a bit brighter today. You'll mostly hear the voice of Julian Pitt lightly draped atop strummed guitar and piano play. If you need a great ballad, or just generally looking for something to make you feel good, then go here. The new LP, Fragments and Curiosities is available now from The Beautiful Music.


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The Gardens Final Stage
The Gardens, Manukau City
This development offers discerning buyers the opportunity to secure a fantastic elevated section in The Gardens final stage. Be one of the privileged few that can say they live in this highly sought after area.
This is an opportunity to secure your site at today's prices and have a little time to plan your build in readiness for titles around the middle of the year. There will be covenants in place to ensure quality in terms of design and building materials.
This final stage gives you the benefit of executive style living at an affordable price where you will be able to enjoy the benefits of the local amenities such as the Decile 10 school, child care facilities, an award winning restaurant, the Botanical Gardens and Totara Park. You can enjoy the endless walking / biking tracks and parks which add to the areas liveability making this a most attractive community.
There are only 50 sections to be sold in this suburban paradise ranging in size from 400m2 to 1100m2 with 11 of these already Sold.
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Darren started his real estate career in 1984 in Australia working for his family company, The Professionals Everton Park in Brisbane. There with his father Keith and brother Brian forged a dynamic business covering all facets of the Real Estate business. Now it is one of the leading Real Estate companies in Brisbane and has been the Number 1 Professionals office in Queensland for the last 16 years and in the Top 5 Nationally. Darren has involved himself in all facets of Real Estate starting in property management, moving into residential sales and management of the sales team and then moving into Projects, later managing a large team handling most major residential developments on the north side of Brisbane. Seeking further Real Estate challenges, Darren moved to a corporate role working as a Business Development Manager for The Professionals Queensland with his major focus to procure developments to sell for the members of the group. These included major developments in Rockhampton, Cairns, Airlie Beach with the major development being for Camalco Australia in Gladstone. The development had 48 townhouses and 242 sections with 48 of these either fronting the golf course or the Pacific Ocean. Darren moved to New Zealand after being offered a position with the then Harvey's Corporation as an area manager for West Auckland, having the responsibility of the day to day running of five offices, Auction calling and procurement of property and developments to sell. Darren now owns the Harvey's Papakura office which has a strong sales team and also a Property Management Division. This office is now well and truly entrenched in the top 5 in the country receiving numerous awards. Darren will be the responsible for the day-to-day management of the development and the projects sales staff.
About Qinghui
Born and educated in Dalian, China, Qinghui came to New Zealand over 17 years ago. She fell in love with the land of long white cloud and soon made New Zealand her second home. She began with a successful career in various customer service and sales roles. She also worked for The Asian New Settlers Service Trust, leading to her most recently held position as Chinese Language School Manager. During this busy time, she managed to earn a graduate diploma in interpreting from Auckland University.
She decided to join the real estate industry citing helping people find their right home as one of her motivations, Qinghui anticipated what she could achieve in both real estate and family life.
Embarking into real estate, Qinghui has quickly established herself as a consistent, hard worker in her field. She is dedicated to helping people buying or selling homes. She assures her clients her full commitment and service as their realtor. Having the ability to speak fluent Chinese, English, and Japanese language enables her to advise clients who are new to New Zealand and can also expose the Papakura region to international markets.
Qing hui has resided in Papakura since 2009. Her loving husband, David Curtin, is a local school teacher. Qinghui and her husband have two lovely children, both born and raised in Papakura.
Qinghui also volunteers at The Citizens Advice Bureau. She has always had a passion for volunteering her time, commitment and enthusiasm towards community organizations. Whether she was contributing her time at the helping at her children's school or, now participating in fundraising events, Qinghui always gets involved.
清辉的有很强的语言交流能力,流利英语国语,并可以用日语进行交流。在就职于Harveys Papakura 之前,清辉曾经是一位优秀的客服经理,有丰富的销售和客服经验。并持有注册口译翻译证书。


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On Sunday, June 3rd, 2018, Volcán de Fuego erupted, a volcano very close to the beautiful colonial town of Antigua and many other nearby communities. It is one of Central America's most active volcanoes and when it erupted it sent ash up to 33,000 feet into the sky. According to BBC News, "at least 192 people are (currently) missing and 75 are dead as a result of the explosion of the Fuego volcano in Guatemala."
According to LiveScience, Guatemala made the list of most hazardous countries with volcanoes (coming in at #6). In one of my recent posts on things to do in Guatemala, I mentioned there are 37 volcanoes in Guatemala, 3 of which are active (Fuego, Pacaya, & Santiaguito). Many travelers go to Guatemala and hiking a volcano makes their list of things to do. I'm writing this piece and sharing these images below because I had built such fond memories exploring Guatemala last October and they need all the help they can get right now.
If you're looking to help, GoFundMe has numerous fundraisers set up to support the Guatemalan Red Cross cover medical expenses, to support the construction efforts to rebuild homes, schools, and basic infrastructures, among other efforts. FastCompany just wrote a piece on how you can help as well with even more ideas. Click through those embedded links to learn more about how you can help, and take a look at the below photos of the devastation if you haven't seen them already (photo credits provided in caption).
"Volcan Fuego": Volcano of Fire
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Many of you are aware of the recent eruption at Volcan Fuego that killed at least 65 people and displaced thousands. We have a crew of volunteers that are delivering food, clean water, medication, clothes, and other consumables to those affected. We opened a gofundme this morning to help with the relief efforts, if you have it in your heart and in your pocket all of us here in Guatemala would appreciate your help! All donations can be made at www.gofundme.com/volcanfuego or via the link in our bio.
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The ash cloud of Guatemala's Volcán de Fuego during the Sunday, June 3rd eruption. Volcán de Fuego is one of Central America's most active volcanos, though usually at low levels. It is located only 25 miles (40.2 km) from Guatemala City, and 10 miles (16 km) west of Antigua. As of the most recent reports, there are 69 dead, hundreds have been injured, and there are active search efforts for missing persons. Volcán de Fuego means "volcano of fire," and its other name, Chi'gag, translates to "where the fire is." Standing at 12,000 ft (3958 m) tall, it is a stratovolcano that dominates the landscape. Its current active period began in 2002. Sunday's eruption is the most powerful one since 1974. The resulting debris and lava flow has created what is known as a lahar, which is a slurry composed of pyroclastic (volcanic) material, rocky debris, and water. It is the lahar which is responsible for much of the deaths and injuries as well as damage to the surrounding areas. ____________________ Featured | @quirrismode Location | Volcán de Fuego, Guatemala #WWTTY | Where Will TOTEM Take You? ____________________ #TOTEMMade #Volcano #Guatemala
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The U.S. successfully test fired a THAAD anti-ballistic missile system on Tuesday from Alaska that intercepted a target missile launched from an Air Force Cargo plane north of Hawaii, Fox news reported. The drill, which was scheduled in June, comes a week after North Korea successfully test-launched an intermediate, not intercontinental as it previously claimed, range ballistic missile capable of hitting Alaska. This was the 14th consecutive successful test of the THAAD, which has had a perfect record on each of the previous 13 intercepts.
The THAAD system, recently deployed in South Korea, is used to intercept short and intermediate-range ballistic missiles. It does not target intercontinental ballistic missiles;
"I couldn't be more proud of the government and contractor team who executed this flight test today," said Missile Defense Agency Director Lt. Gen. Sam Greaves. "This test further demonstrates the capabilities of the THAAD weapon system and its ability to intercept and destroy ballistic missile threats. THAAD continues to protect our citizens, deployed forces and allies from a real and growing threat."
Fox News was told it will be a few hours before imagery and video are released.
Soldiers from the 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade on Kodiak conducted launcher using the same procedures they would use in an actual combat scenario, the statement read. Soldiers operating the equipment were not aware of the actual target launch time.
The latest US show of force comes days after two US B-1 bombers flew to the Korean Peninsula from Guam to conduct a mock bombing run using dummy bombs on Saturday escorted by South Korean and later Japanese fighter jets. North Korea threatened a global nuclear holocaust in retaliation. The US also launched short range surface-to-surface missiles from South Korea hours after the North Korean missile test on July 4.
Last week, both China and Russia urged the US to dismantle the existing THAAD installations in South Korea, over concerns these may shift the regional balance of power.


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CINCINNATI ENQUIRER / SEARCH: 2797 E 122nd St. Cleveland, OH 44120
- 2 beds
- $23,900 price
- 4133276 mls id
- Square Feet: 1,408 sqft
- Year Built: 1920
Seller has multiple offers. See multiple offer form in supplements, all buyers have until 10AM on 9/18/19 to sign the form and submit their highest and best. Good solid 2 family house. Each unit has a living room, dining room, kitchen, 1 bedroom and 1 family room(which could be converted into a 2nd bedroom).Plumbing repairs will be needed to replace items no longer in the house but the potential is there. Up unit has a newer looking kitchen. The seller is selling "as is".
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Courtesy of: ERA Rath Realtors
Office Phone: +14403310900
Listing Agent: Paul KLEINHENZ
Updated: 23rd January, 2020 3:33 PM.
2797 E 122nd St. Cleveland, OH
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How Much Do Celebrities Charge For Autographs?
How much do celebrities charge for autographs and pics? You will be shocked at the amount of money these MILLIONAIRES charge!!
At the Comic-Con event in NYC, these were the prices for some of the stars listed below.
Would you pay THAT MUCH for these celebs?
Sylvester Stallone:
$395 per autograph/$445 for a picture
Stan Lee:
$400 for both a pic and autograph
Sigourney Weaver:
$200 pic/ $185 autograph
William Shatner:
$75 for both


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Orchard Surgery, 107 Feltham Hill Road, Ashford, Middlesex, TW15 1HHTel: 01784 252027
The surgery is undergoing a list capping exercise to ensure we are still able to provide the very best care for our patients. Over the last two years our list size has increased considerably, and we presently have neither the space nor the resources to accept more patients. This is not a permanent situation, and we will let you know via our website when we will be able to next review the application process.
Click here to see if you live within our Practice Area
Registration forms are available from reception. On application you will be given an appointment with the Practice nurse for a new patient medical. Overseas Visitors: To be able to register with a GP you must be an ordinary resident of the UK of at least 6 months and be able to prove your residency by providing a property/utility bill in your name, a letter from employer or college/university, a passport or home office documents.
Change of Name, Address or Telephone Number
Please inform us immediately of any change of address or telephone number. There have, unfortunately been a few occasions where the Health Authority has written to a patient at an old address because we have not been informed of the new one, and the letters have been returned to them marked 'not known at this address'. This has resulted in the patient being removed from our patient list. This does not happen often but when it does, can cause distress to the patient concerned.
The Royal College of General Practitioners has produced a useful guide for patients about the services on offer at GP Surgeries and how to access them. You can download the guide below.
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Pop Quiz:
If you could only eat one thing for the rest of you life what would it be: sweet and creamy breakfast polenta with milk or (oh my gracious heavens) sweet and creamy fried polenta bars with blackberry meyer lemon jam?
No contest. Fried polenta with blackberry jam every day, all day. Let's do this.
Remember yesterday I told you about Vanilla Brown Sugar Breakfast Polenta? That was just a dirty trick to make you have enough leftover polenta to make the real deal: fried polenta.
A quick heads up: this recipe involves butter and results in an almost French Toast-ish, outta this world breakfast. If you're not ready for that… completely understandable… you might want to sit this one out. I won't judge.
Fried Breakfast Polenta
(Yes! Yes!! Yes!!!)
So here's what you're gonna do:
1. Whip up a batch of Vanilla Brown Sugar Polenta.
2. Have some for breakfast, rub it on your face… do whatever you wanna do with most of it, but just most of it. Continue to simmer the polenta that you aren't going to serve for breakfast. This will help more water evaporate from the polenta and help your bars better stick together when they're cold, sliced and ready for the skillet. I had about 2 cups of cooked, creamy polenta left over after breakfast.
3. Line a loaf pan with plastic wrap. If you're working with more polenta, you might want to use two loaf pans.
4. Spread the cooled polenta into the lined loaf pan and cover by folding over the overhanging flaps of plastic wrap.
5. Place in the fridge to cool and set overnight.
6. Sleep. Yawn. Wake up smiling, thinking about fried polenta.
7. Remove the chilled plastic wrapped polenta from the loaf pan. Unwrap. You should have a thin (about 1 inch tall) brick of cold polenta.
8. Use a big ol' knife to cut the polenta into bars or squares… whatever you like.
9. Melt 2 tablespoons of butter and a splash of vegetable (or grapeseed) oil in a skillet over medium heat.
10. Place 1/2 cup all-purpose flour in a bowl.
11. Dip the cold polenta bars in the flour, coating all sides.
12. Placed dredged polenta in hot, buttered skillet. I managed about 6 or 8 bars at a time in my skillet.
13. Flip and turn the bars as they begin to brown.
14. Brown all sides. Sometimes that means turning the polenta bars on their heads to cook.
15. Once cooked, remove from hot pan onto an oven proof plate. Place in a very low (tops 200 degrees F) oven to stay warm while you cook the rest of the polenta.
16. Serve with maple syrup, fancy jam or powdered sugar.


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A few people have asked me recently what it's like writing a book. I usually tell them to go and read Andy Headworth's eloquent summary of his book writing experience.
And now I also get the "I'd like to write a book someday" statements. My advice to you, unless you LOVE writing, then don't write a book.
Thankfully I love writing and relished the hermit like existence that has been my life for the past six months.
I'm also conscious that only crazy nut jobs write a book in six months!
BUT, if you are a crazy nut job as well, and you LOVE writing, then here is how I did it.
Draft One – one month
I took part in an event called National Novel Writers Month (#Nanowrimo). It's basically an event whereby writers from all around the world spend a whole month writing 50,000 words of a novel or book. It gave me the motivation to just write words, and keep writing words, because I knew I had to have a certain amount of words each day, week and at the end of the month. So, I worked out how many writing days I had that month (taking out weekends and client days) and divided 50,000 by that number. What I ended up with was a target of at least 2,500 words on days I was writing.
Thankfully I wasn't short on content. The idea behind my book was to take all the #NZLEAD tweet chats and conversations and thread them together. So the logical place to start was with the content on www.nzlead.com. I wrote down a list of all the topics we'd covered and roughly grouped them together under headings (e.g. recruitment, learning etc.). I then methodically worked my way through the topics, capturing and writing down notes on refill paper. Yes, that was my method – old school paper and pen. I ended up with piles and piles of paper. I split up my days by handwriting in the morning and typing up all my notes in the afternoon (after my fingers started to cramp from the pen). If a subject sparked a thought, I didn't censor it, I just wrote it all down. If a topic linked to more information, or needed further explanation, I followed the links and wrote down the key points from all of that too.
I reached the 50,000 word mark. I ended up with a whole lot of words of nonsense. Truth be told, I had no idea what I was getting myself in for and naively thought I could write a whole, finished, book in a month.
Lesson one: only crazier nut jobs can write a whole book in one month.
Draft Two to Six – One Month (although this was Xmas so I did take some time off!)
November finished – I had a lot of words. 50,665 to be exact. I started hacking at it. I grouped together themes that were related. I didn't think about it too much. It was more an "oh, this idea is sort of similar to this idea" so I dumped them into the same area. I deleted stuff – duplications, nonsensical ramblings. Towards draft Six I had whittled the whole thing down to about 38,000 words. Each pass through of the document I saved a new version.
Lesson two: be ruthless with cutting. As long as you 'Save As' different versions you can still add stuff back in if you change your mind.
Draft Seven to Nine – Two Months
I had been adding some of my own stories throughout some of the writing process. But this was when I really amped them up. I added detail, I moved them around. By writing my own stories, that personal connection helped me get clear about what I was trying to say in each section of the book. They gave clarity to the key themes and that helped me streamline the content further.
It was about this point that I gave it to Richard Westney to have a look at. His feedback changed the layout of some of the chapters and clarified the theme of the book.
I say this part took me two months but I did start taking chunks of time doing non-book related stuff between edits so that I could go back to it with a fresh perspective.
Lesson Three: Take time off between edits otherwise it all makes sense to you – and making sense doesn't help you edit.
Draft Ten to Thirteen – one month
It was about at this point that I stopped seeing any inconsistencies and the whole thing made sense to me. Which isn't good because I'd looked at it for too long and couldn't really see it anymore.
It was time to pass it on to some more critical eyes.
This is where I enlisted the help of my editor friend Tanja and her trusty sidekick Tamara. Tamara started with editing the whole thing for structure and flow. Tanja then delved into more of the detail and picking up on things didn't make sense. The last edit here was spelling and grammar. I'd worked with Tanja on my masters thesis and she's just awesome. Tamara and Tanja made a brilliant tag team (in case you need someone to edit your book).
Lesson Four: don't edit it yourself, get someone else to do it. For the reasons I gave in lesson three.
Draft Thirteen – Two Months … ish
Lucky draft number thirteen was the one sent to PressGang to do all the final layout for the book. I self-published this book so I didn't / don't have a slick machine to do all this for me and had to foot the bill myself. I ran a pledgeme campaign to cover all the printing costs – with the added benefit of pre-selling about 80 books!
I found PressGang quite good to deal with once we got the timelines pinned down (which took a little bit of doing) – expect about six weeks from almost final draft to print.
Simon Heath did my cover art and I had asked Perry Timms to do my foreword some months prior. So the document I sent to PressGang was pretty much a complete word doc. There was a bit more going back and forth point though. Once they laid out the cover, I had to redo my authors bio. I also picked up things I wanted to tweak – it's amazing what the extra pressure of getting it printed does to your attention to detail.
Lesson Five: Editing actually takes more time than writing a book – just FYI.
I then had to then edit the files that PressGang had developed for the print version into a Kindle version. Thankfully it's really easy to load a book for Kindle (thank you Tim Scott for the pointers). Unfortunately the print publication was in InDesign and transferring the document back to Word was painful and included re-adding the 163 references!
Lesson Six: If you're going to do print and Kindle, get it perfect in word first then have it laid out for print.
And here it is, available for pre-order and ready to launch on the 9th July….
The book is being printed and will be available as a Kindle E-Book. You can pre-order the e-book here.
You can also preorder a hard copy of the book here.
I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it!


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The blog where lululemon fans discuss & feed their addiction. Your resource for photos, reviews, & lulu news since 2008.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Silver Spoon Stripe CRB and Silver Spoon Pique In Stride Jacket
Posted by LuluAddict at 11:03 PM
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I bet the price of the InStride jacket is $118.00, the Define pique was jigher than the rest of them.
- January 13, 2012 at 4:33 AM
- Cari said...
Has anyone tried on the silverspoon stripe CRB? I am wondering if it is see through.
- January 13, 2012 at 8:58 AM
Just saw it in a store on one of the educators and it is def see through
- January 14, 2012 at 2:17 PM
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This just in from HousingLink:
There were 4,935 foreclosures in Minnesota in Q3 of 2011, down 32% from Q3 2010. Q3 2011 marks four consecutive quarters with fewer than 6,000 statewide foreclosures. While this follows four quarters in which the statewide count exceeded that number, the Q3 2011 figure of 4,935 still far exceeds the 1,618 foreclosures averaged in 2005, the first year sheriff sale records were totaled for the state of Minnesota.
Below is a chart from their very detailed report:
While this in no way means we are out of the foreclosure mess, it is another sign that foreclosure activity continues to run well below the peaks of 2010. Fewer sheriff sales today means fewer bank owned (REO) homes for sale 6-9 months from now. Don't get too optimistic though as the Minnesota Home Ownership Center's data shows that pre-foreclosure activity did tick up in the most recent quarter.