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This week we have rounded up some of our favourite posts with strategies that individuals can implement in the workplace to help improve their day to day mental health! What strategies are you implementing at work? Pick one that you could try today and see how you feel.
1) Pack and prepare a healthy lunch
Tzabia, the food coach, shared with us the benefits of healthy eating for the healthy mind.
We know that nutrition plays a big role in our daily productivity. Check out these tips from Hardeep on planning your lunchbox, or some healthy meal ideas from our friend Feast with Sophie.
2) Prioritize your tasks
Do you feel like there just aren't enough hours in the work-day to complete everything? Try to focus on prioritizing today and combining tasks to reduce your stress levels. Find out some tips here on how to work smarter, not harder.
3) Get up and get outside!
We know that posture causes overall physical pain in the body and in the brain. Be mindful of your posture and get up every hour and get outside if you can!
4) Put your phone down
Break free from your technology - even if it is just for a few minutes a day.
5) Be a mental health advocate
Take steps in your workplace, home, and community to be an advocate for mental health. Start by being sensitive about your language, and developing a supportive culture.
We know that sharing stories is a helpful tool to reduce stigma and be an advocate for mental health. Consider sharing a story of yours, or reading about someone else's story about mental health.
What strategies will you implement today? Contact us or let us know in the comments below!


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You will be working with the best developers across the South West in one of the most innovative environments. I truly believe this is one of the best opportunities around.
The company already an established development team of around 45 devs within their Bristol office. They look for academically strong developers who have a strong logic solving abilities.
This position is to head up the front end function and lead a small team within the business while still remaining hands on. You will collaborate with other parts of the business throughout the complete software lifecycle. You will also be someone who mentors the more junior members of the team and leads by example.
Technical Skills:
- Strong academic background
- JavaScript
- Experience with a JS Framework: AngularJS/ReactJS etc.
- Agile / Scrum
- Experience leading a team
- Strong logical thinker
If you are interested in applying for this position please send you CV now. You can also call me (Elliott Evans) on 0117 332 8100.
Alternatively if you know of someone who may be a good fit we offer an excellent referral scheme.

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Gabriel Gudding
Ronald Reagan
Where are all the lost and discarded
teddybears gone?
Where did those worn butlers
in the house of
Innocence go?
Are they now cast
low among card games
in some lawless
closet land?
Has something bad befallen
Patched Old Holmes and
Bunny Jake, hapless
beyond the davenport,
far over the
back of the
blank divan?
I tell you
they are playing banjos
and living in messy rooms,
far past the cardigans
beyond the little country band of
hobo flipflops: safe
from those Sandinista
rag dolls. They are living in a
post-Communist state,
They don't mourn for the
death of
JFK or
The flies in their rooms are only
wafted yarn-snarl; outside,
in the pillow-cuffed weather,
a gull doily zings
and dang if that's not a hurly bean-bag
on the ecliptic
being the sun, O
the world is heavy
for beings
who were so long carried,


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From Art Gallery Fabrics: Priory Square is Katy Jones' personal story of her upbringing and life in England. With an edgy palette, a classic crème and navy are set against potent varieties of pinks and emerald blues that jump. A collection layered by scenic surprises and narrated with a British accent.
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2017 Holiday Mini Sessions!
Vacations are over. The kids are back in school and life is slowly returning to normal. But like it or not, the holidays are right around the corner. Which means, it's time to get the family together for pictures! Lucky for you, we have Seasonal Mini Sessions available!
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Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr is a film critic for the New York Times and has contributed to The Best DVDs You've Never Seen Just Missed or Almost Forgotten.
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Recommended by the Leading Film Critics of the New York Times; Edited by Peter Nichols; With an Introduction by A. O. Scott; Stephen Holden, Caryn James, Dave Kehr
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Want to look further than the nearest mega-plex?
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Newborn Photographers Leeds | Newborn Baby photography Studios Leeds
A few weeks before christmas Jess and Paul brought their beautiful brand new baby girl to my Newborn Photography studio in Otley. I photographed their wedding a few years ago and it was so lovely to see them all again along with their little boy Archie who adores his new baby sister. I love photographing newborn babies, the sessions take 2-3 hours to allow for feeding etc but its always so nice and warm in my little studio its a good chance for new parents to sit back and relax while i get those all important shots for them to one day look back on and realise just how tiny they were!! During a newborn photoshoot i use a variety of set ups so there are several varieties of photos to choose from. Here are a selection of my favourites……
Emilia has such a lot of gorgeous hair! She suited every colour wrap i own!!
A perfect little newborn photoshoot.
I always like to get the family involved, sometimes parents are not keen on being in the photographs so i try to include hands, arms etc. Not only is it nice for them to be included i also think its a great way to show just how small they are when compared to Mummy and Daddy's hands etc. I love getting the fine details of their feet, fingers and faces. They truly are amazing.
How alert!! Yes it was time for more food. No crying just beautiful big blue eyes wide awake and looking straight into camera. Hard to believe she is only a few weeks old.
Thankyou for looking! if you would like to book a newborn photoshoot i'd love to hear from you. You can book into my photography studio anytime from your 20 week scan. I only take a few during the summer months so always advise pre-booking where possible. Please get in touch through my contact form.


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The Veile
We turn our eyes to Veile, the sixth shard, home of the Aurumel, whose every waking moment is an embodiment of the Virtue of Vigor.
Here, the idyllic hills and estates overlook placid lagoons and inland seas. With pleasant weather and easy growing seasons, one would think the tall and almost eerily thin Aurumel would live a languid lifestyle. Yet behind the masks that they wear every day, the Aurumel also hide a passion and fervor for life that is most often represented by the great works that they aspire to build. Great bronze monuments, shining gold and silver armor, and fabulous airships, these testaments to toil and honest labor can sometimes take many lifetimes to complete, and those families with the greatest achievements can often grow into dynasties with immense political and social power. Only the machinations of the Penumbral Court can begin to test their generational reach.


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Training and Competency
Your people are your best investment and we've developed this solution with that in mind. Our tools will step you through the process of building your competency inventory, assigning competencies to roles and roles to people, and identifying any gaps to create your training needs analysis. From there, you can be alerted to expiring competencies, schedule and assign people to training activities, run training and competency status reports, and monitor training effectiveness via feedback questionnaires.
Required and optional skills and competencies can be associated with any role in your organisation. Achieved skills and competencies are also maintained for each individual so that gaps can be easily identified between current and required skills.
Know what training courses you need to offer at what interval and at which locations. Automatically notify employees of upcoming training. Follow up on the quality of the training and automatically issue competencies achieved by employees who have attended training.
Set training budgets for each line manager. Compare budget with actual as training courses are conducted. Aggregate line manager's training budgets up the chain of command to know your organisation's total training spend.
Know when your employee's competencies, licenses, and tickets expire. Plan and schedule required assessments, internal or external training courses based on when competencies will be expiring.
Know how much catering, travel, and materials are costing your company for training. Identify external training suppliers who offer better value products and services.
We've included an optional training effectiveness feedback questionnaire to be emailed to participants at the end of each course. Reports and dashboards turn this information into valuable insights on what is working and opportunities for improvement.
You'll have a centralised, easily maintainable inventory of competency attributes such as business process, competency type, mandatory or optional, linked dependencies, and validity period.
You'll know the required skills and competencies for each role within your company.
Receive notifications well in advance of expiring competencies and/or if ongoing scheduled training is required.
Know how much training is going to cost your company each year. Leverage this information to forecast, plan, and budget your future training requirements.
Let our solution automatically notify employees and contractors of expiring competencies as well as when training courses have been scheduled.
Relevant competency and training performance data can be fed into your Sustainability Reporting data structure.


text: Hi all, I have been very busy especially at work as my busy time of the year. However , plenty of travel ahead this year. I have just finished a podcast on my travels and above is the link. You can also get this in the ITunes store. Search for Counting Countries and then you see this podcast . Enjoy


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The talks will be held at Tongilgak, situated at the Northern side of the truce village of Panmunjeom.
South Korea on Friday initially proposed talks covering a broader agenda, but the North said it wanted to first discuss matters related to its art troupe's performance at the Winter Games.
"We have proposed to the North holding the talks at 10 a.m.," a ministry official said Sunday. "The detailed schedule will likely be finalized today."
|Hyon Song-wol, the leader of the Moranbong Band, who will join the inter-Korean talks on Monday is seen in the photo taken in Beijing in December 2015. (Yonhap)
Monday's talks are expected to be part of a series of talks between the South and North, leading up to and after the Winter Games. It follows the first high-level inter-Korean talks in more than two years on Jan. 9, where the North agreed to send high-ranking officials, athletes, cheerleaders, performing artists, taekwondo demonstration teams and journalists to the sporting event.
On Saturday, Pyongyang offered to send a delegation consisting of four arts officials, headed by Kwon Hyok-bong, the current director of the performing arts bureau at the Culture Ministry and former head of the North's Unhasu Orchestra. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's wife Ri Sol-ju had reportedly performed for the band.
Hyon Song-wol, who is known as the leader of the all-female Moranbong Band, has been also chosen to be part of the delegation.
But a day ahead of the meeting, North Korea notified South Korea of a change to its delegation. Yun Bom-ju, an orchestra director, has been replaced by An Jong-ho, a stage manager, without any explanation by the North, the South's Unification Ministry said Sunday.
The South Korean delegation will be led by Lee Woo-sung, head of the culture and arts policy office at the Culture Ministry, and other members include Korean Symphony Orchestra's CEO Lee Won-choul, its artistic director Chong Chi-yong and Han Jong-wook, who heads an inter-Korean dialogue division under the Unification Ministry's Office of Inter-Korean Dialogue.
As key officials from each nation's top orchestras are to meet face-to-face, the possibility of a joint musical performance at PyeongChang has also been raised by the media here.
Although the upcoming meeting is expected to focus on a narrow agenda, Seoul also called on Pyongyang to swiftly respond to its offer to hold a separate meeting on North Korea's participation in the Olympics. Crucial issues, such as the route the North will take to cross the border, have not been discussed.
|Tongilgak, a North Korean building in Panmunjom. (Yonhap)
The two neighboring countries will have to come up with a plan that does not violate international sanctions imposed on the North. Under its unilateral sanctions, South Korea has banned any ship that visited a port in the North from entering South Korea for one year, which rules out the choice of crossing the maritime border. The United States also blacklisted the North's Air Koryo airline, clashing with the idea of traveling via air.
North Korea has also yet to respond to South Korea's suggestion that the two Koreas jointly march during the opening ceremony, which has become a symbol of inter-Korean harmony through the years. Seoul officials said later that the two were getting closer to an agreement on a joint march.
Meanwhile, the North said the future of inter-Korean relations depends on South Korea's efforts to create a mood of "reconciliation and unification" between the two countries, in an editorial published in its state-run newspaper Rodong Sinmun on Sunday.
Closely following Monday's meeting, separate South-North talks will take place on Jan. 20 at the International Olympics Committee headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland. The meeting organized by the IOC is expected to act as a platform to further fuel North Korea's participation in the Winter Games.
Chang Ung, North Korea's representative to the committee, told a group of reporters Saturday that the IOC is considering the option of creating a joint South-North women's hockey team at the Winter Olympics. Chang was stopping by Beijing's Capital International Airport on his way back to Pyongyang from a visit to the IOC in Switzerland.
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Not much to add really to the bug I've filed here: bug#67099.
I personally can think of some very nasty consequences of applying this on the slaves I manage, and the reason I'm posting the bug is that while I guess this is too late to fix in 5.6 as it's effectively a new feature, I'm sure many sites may bump into this and be somewhat disappointed if they want to use the new GTID feature and have several slaves. Hence, if the fix/feature has to go into MySQL 5.7 then I hope it goes in sooner rather than later. We will see.
Updated: 2013-09-19
I probably should have updated this earlier but it does seem that Oracle have taken these comments on board. See: WL6559. It looks like they plan to do this for 5.7 which is good news. I'm really hoping that we will not have to wait too long for this version as it has other "goodies" which are going to be interesting. Reducing the time of the release cycle will I think allow those of us who appreciate these new features to have access to them sooner.


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text: There are some nice charts/diagrams that show the difference between web 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 and beyond in this presentation. I am not sure if teachers, or even if most technology specialists for that matter can explain the difference.?? I know that I might have a hard time trying to put it in to words.?? The question is, how will the change to web 3.0, particularly the use of small portable computing devices, affect the way teaching and learning happens.http://www.slideshare.net/timbuckteeth/web-30-the-way-forward"


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I´m a photographer from Wismar/ Germany working as a project manager in city development. Since 2016 I have been enjoying taking long exposure fine art photographs, often with a subtle color palette and a minimalist approach to composition and presentation.
You can buy some of my work on posterlounge and eyeem. All images shown on this site can also be bought as a fine art print by filling out the contact form.
Nov. 2018: nd architectural discovery of the year 2018 at the 2018 ND Awards.
Nov. 2018: 1st place winner in the ND Awards Industrial category.
Nov. 2018: 2nd place in the ND Awards fineart landscape category.
Nov. 2017: 2nd place in the ND Awards architecture bridges category.


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A cute mini scotty dog acrylic sewing/craft template
This scotty dog is perfect for applique, drawing around for free motion sewing, papercraft, childrens craft and lots more. It includes a separate star template to make it easy to use separate fabrics.
Size (approx) - 3" wide
It is made from 3mm acrylic, it is highly durable and can be used time and time again!
Size (approx) - 4" wide
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186 pages
For female pop stars, whose star bodies and star performances are undisputedly the objects of a sexualized external gaze, the process of ageing in public poses particular challenges. Taking a broadly feminist perspective, 'Rock On': women, ageing and popular music shifts popular music studies in a new direction. Focussing on British, American and Latina women performers and ageing, the collection investigates the cultural work performed by artists such as Shirley Bassey, Petula Clark, Madonna, Celia Cruz, Grace Jones and Courtney Love. The study crosses generations of performers and audiences enabling an examination of changing socio-historical contexts and an exploration of the relationships at play between performance strategies, star persona and the popular music press. For instance, the strategies employed by Madonna and Grace Jones to engage with the processes and issues related to public ageing are not the same as those employed by Courtney Love or Celia Cruz. The essays in this insightful collection reflect on the ways that artists and fans destabilise both the linear trajectories and the compelling weight of expectations regarding ageing by employing different modalities of resistance through persona re-invention, nostalgia, postmodern intertextuality and even early death as the ultimate denial of age.
'… female performers are often marginalised in music literature and this is especially so of older female performers. Academic work which highlights their lives and experiences is vital.' The F-Word 'Timely and pertinent, the collection successfully opens up a space where the ageing female body traverses musical discourses of identity and subjectivity, always and already marked by gender, sexuality and ethnicity'. Popular Music
Contents: Introduction: women, ageing and popular music, Ros Jennings and Abigail Gardner; Part I 'Renewal, Recycling and Renegotiation': Madonna: like a crone, Lucy O'Brien; It's all just a little bit of history repeating: pop-stars, audiences, performance and ageing - exploring the performance strategies of Shirley Bassey and Petula Clark, Ros Jennings; Long live the Queen!: Celia Cruz's longevity as a counterpoint of tradition and change, Delia Poey; Framing Grace: shock and awe at the ageless black body, Abigail Gardner. Part II 'It's Not Over…': Mom rock? Media representations of 'mothers who rock', Norma Coates; 27 for ever: Kristen Pfaff and the coverage of death as the re-presentation of a gendered musical life, Paula Hearsum; 'I'd stage-dive, but I'm far too elderly': Courtney Love and expectations of femininity and ageing, Catherine Strong; Rebel without a pause: the continuity of controversy in Madonna's contemporary music videos, Paul Watson and Diane Railton; Bibliography; Index.
Popular musicology embraces the field of musicological study that engages with popular forms of music, especially music associated with commerce, entertainment and leisure activities. The Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series aims to present the best research in this field. Authors are concerned with criticism and analysis of the music itself, as well as locating musical practices, values and meanings in cultural context. The focus of the series is on popular music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with a remit to encompass the entirety of the world's popular music.
Critical and analytical tools employed in the study of popular music are being continually developed and refined in the twenty-first century. Perspectives on the transcultural and intercultural uses of popular music have enriched understanding of social context, reception and subject position. Popular genres as distinct as reggae, township, bhangra, and flamenco are features of a shrinking, transnational world. The series recognizes and addresses the emergence of mixed genres and new global fusions, and utilizes a wide range of theoretical models drawn from anthropology, sociology, psychoanalysis, media studies, semiotics, postcolonial studies, feminism, gender studies and queer studies.


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3d print
A collection on one off pieces created using 3d software, 3d scanning and 3d printing in resin. Created for 'Makers Using Technology' residency with Design Wales at PDR, Cardiff, Summer 2014. Mouth/face jewellery and object experiments. This body of work is inspired by collections of taxidermy, crystals and bones from The National Museum of Wales. Death and beauty, veiling and the uncanny, the unspoken, the unseen.


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Based on your feedback it seems that the Wye Valley Handicap Stakes was a great success. There was a lot of speculation on the tow path as to who would finish first. Sheridan and Michelle held onto their lead all the way to the tow path. Sheridan who suffered a bad knee injury at Dinedor last year which she thought had ended her running career managed to find a finishing spurt to take first place. Sandrine Gorin continues to put in strong performances finishing 3rd lady overall.
C hris Head shattered his pb to win the men's race. Andrew Blackman put in a great performance to finish second and Mark Killeen madCe significant progress through the field to finish 3rd.
There were many good performances on the night with the majority of runners improving on their Summer 10 k times which is a little surprising as you would think that times would be better in a normal race situation.
There was a 7 min spread between the first and last runner and just 3 min's separated the last 17 runners.
Results are displayed in finishing order, Summer 10k times where available are shown in brackets:
1.Sheridan Butterfield 57.18 (63.03); 2.Michelle Williams 57.23; 3. Chris Head 44.53; 4. Andrew Blackman 45.46; 5. Mark Killeen 42.54;, 6. Paul Kemp 44.03 (45.30); 7. Antony Evans 48.17; 8. Craig Rees 43.46 (44.56) ;9. Steven Flowers 38.49 (39.52); 10. Sam Clark 44.15 ;11. Kevin Artus 41.21 (42.09) ;12.Sandrine Gorin 45.28(45.32); 13. Ralph Lloyd 47.28 ;14. Laura Tootell 44.44 (45.07); 15 Diane Rowlands 53.45 (54.16) ;16 Tristan Edwards 47.53 (47.38); 17 Ward Linney 41.57 (42.16) ;;18 Jan Edwards 49.10 (49.15); 19. Lynne Compton 49.23 (49.50) ;20. Jamie Griffiths 42.25 ;, 21 Nikki Tyler 46.27 (45.37);, 22 Paula Ferris 49.57; 23 Greg Wood 37.11 (36.21)
Photos have been posted on flickr just click the link provided on the web site. I'm not sure I like the new format but you can access the pictures by clicking on Chris Heads photo top left.


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My lovely Nanny passed away last month at the grand age of 95. We had a very close bond as she looked after me from I was very young. My Papa passed away when I was just two and half and Nanny said I was the one who kept her going.
Nanny never learnt to drive and walked everywhere. Of course I had to walk alongside her from I was no age and would often complain! To this day I don't know why I don't have the lovely slim legs that she did!
When I was growing up Nanny would spend every weekend with us and some of my fondest memories are of her, me and Mum watching Pride and Prejudice (the wonderful BBC adaptation) and Dirty Dancing on rotation!
What made my Nanny such a great woman was her quiet and gentle manner. She never spoke ill of anyone and was in no way materialistic. There aren't many people like that anymore.
Nanny and Papa
I was stylish from a young age!
Nanny celebrating her 90th birthday


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BMH Patch and Hat combo - Verde 2.0
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Richard White
Richard is a freelance photographer who lives in Mansfield, Victoria in South Eastern Australia. He is A Fellow of the Australian Institute of Professional Photography (AIPP), a regular judge at their annual convention and a past president of the Victorian Division. In 2003 he won the Landscape division of the Victorian Awards and received an Arts Council grant for overseas study. He is also a regular exhibitor of landscape photography and keynote speaker at photographic conventions.
Richard writes regular articles for Australian and International photographic magazines. Each year he produces a high quality black and white calendar on the High Country of Australia using large and medium format cameras and holds photographic workshops throughout the year under the Art of Photography Workshops program.


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St Catherines
Nicholas Kirk Architects has brought life back to a derelict church building in Woolwich for the Lithuanian Christian Church in London. (LKBL)
The original chapel was built in 1961 to designs by Walters & Kerr Bate to serve the local community working for Siemens and other local factories. The considerable Mass attendance during the first few years fell in the early 1970s when many factories closed and people moved away.
The church became vacant in early 2010 and soon fell into disrepair. The LKBL acquired the church in 2013 and appointed Nicholas Kirk Architects to restore the original church building.
The original building comprised a main church hall facing Woolwich Road with stepped access from the street and a secondary church hall to the rear.
The upgrade includes the provision of additional office space, a new nursery and a large new mezzanine in the main church hall. A state of the art AV system has been installed to allow for large scale musical ensembles and language translation throughout the building.
The building comprises a main church hall with a secondary congration space at the rear. These spaces required extensive structural imporvements and restoration of the external fabric to return it back to its former glory. The conversion of the rear hall to a nursery allows for commercial activities and provides a break out space for children during the weekend services.
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Alongside upgrades to the building fabric, the church required state of the art audio and visual facilities and provide space for congregations of +200 people in the main church hall.
The brief required Nicholas Kirk Architects to find ways that would allow for additional revenue streams to help generate additional income for the church. New office accommodation for the day to day running of the building was also an essential part of the requirement.
The Approach
Our approach was to deliver a sequence of spaces that would allow for increased numbers to the church and create a warm inviting place that would become a beating heart for the Lithuanian Church Community.
We carefully assessed the requirements of the users and engaged closely with the Pastor to develop a spatial programme that would allow for additional numbers and different user groups. Furthermore, we set out a detailed framework that would allow for the services and AV strategy to be integrated into the design and building improvements.
The refurbishment of the church provides a beacon for the Lithuanian Community and ensures it is an accessible and inviting place to visit. The accommodation is split into 3 separate elements:
- The main church refurbishment,
- New nursery facillities
- New office accommodation annexed to the main building.
A new glazed entrance to the side of the building allows for multiple activities to take place and provides orientation for visitors when they arrive to the building. Often, services are upbeat affairs, with live music, singing and worship performed alongside quiet activities taking place elsewhere in the building. The new entrance and building upgrades allows for the separation of these activities, whilst a new ramped access, starting from the street provides a level approach throughout the ground floor.
The conversion of the rear hall to a nursery allows for commercial activities and provides a break out space for children during the weekend services. A new mezzanine extension in the main church allows for increased numbers to attend congregations and provides balcony seating for staged performances at the front the hall.
The procurement was let on a design and build basis, with Nicholas Kirk Architects providing concept design, planning, construction information to the Pastor and his team of builders (the contractor was thePastor's Brother in Law). NKA also provided support during the construction stages, liaising with the other consultants and providing additional details as required by the contractor as the project progressed on site.
The building is about to move into its second phase for additional office accommodation and new recording facilities created for the building. Planning permission has been granted for new extensions to house these activities at the rear of the building and will ensure a range of community uses for the building for many years to come.


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The SC Department of Natural Resources finalized a report on the impact of climate change in the state on November 18, 2011. The report was not published.
In February 2013, The State and other newspapers around South Carolina reported on the existence of the climate change report. The Post and Courier published and article linking to the report on March 3. The P&C article was not consistently available online by March 27, 2013.
Although the SC Department of Natural Resources has promised to release the report at some point, we are offering the final unpublished leaked report here for the use and education of the public.
This is a 104 page document in PDF format.
Climate Change Impacts To Natural Resources In South Carolina
Revised Final Draft – November 18, 2011
[Shelved S.C. DNR climate warming report]
Creators: South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
Bob Perry – Climate Change Impacts – Technical Working Group
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text: Cosmic Bowling is a great time for your youth group to invite their friends to a very non-threatening event. Sometimes it's difficult for a non-churched high school student to work up the courage to walk into a church. They've probably all been to a bowling alley before. If you don't work cosmic bowling into your schedule, you should definitely consider it. We join up with another church nearby and make a big summer night out of it. It's two-fold purpose is to create an opportunity for the youth group to bond and for guests to get a chance to feel more comfortable with us.


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Voici une superbe vidéo de Simon Sinek (TED) pour passer un moment très inspirant:
« People don't care about What you do, they care about Why you do. Then the How and What become natural and the What is the proof of your believes »
Commencez donc votre communication par le Pourquoi, expliquez le Comment et enfin le Quoi. Votre audience ne vous suivra pas en raison du Quoi, mais du pourquoi.
[ted id=848 lang=fr]
But why is it important to attract those who believe what you believe? Something called the law of diffusion of innovation, and if you don't know the law, you definitely know the terminology. The first two and a half percent of our population are our innovators. The next 13 and a half percent of our population are our early adopters. The next 34 percent are your early majority, your late majority and your laggards.
We all sit at various places at various times on this scale, but what the law of diffusion of innovation tells us is that if you want mass-market success or mass-market acceptance of an idea, you cannot have it until you achieve this tipping point between 15 and 18 percent market penetration, and then the system tips.


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Two interesting ideas are new to me: my whole family might be on the autistic spectrum, and there might be something uniquely autistic about skateboarding culture.
After spending most of the holiday weekend inside thinking about autism by myself, I went to the skatepark yesterday. The whole outing turned out to be stressful. Why? Sensory overload and social anxiety. From what? Normal parents brought an army of children on scooters, and the parents happily watched them zipping around, monopolizing the mini-ramp and funbox, scooting around the park single-file in a big chain. The adults skating the ledge had to structure their session around not running into the children. The Hare Krishnas thought to come out and chant in a procession around the park, then somebody a stereo. I left and went to a walking trail through a wetland area. I was too agitated for the freeway noise not to bother me, and I passed by half a dozen people. One of them was friendly and asked for directions. I got some Indian food and came home, feeling like I'd gone through battle.
Before the diagnosis, I would've seen all that in terms of the narcissism of American parenting and various bad things about capitalism. I would've been right. I guess I just notice/care more because I'm autistic.
I don't like when the normal people come and mess up my happy place, so I can't just flow and move when and where my body wants to move. I have to wait on oblivious normal people to get out of the way. Oblivious normal people.
In the 1990s, we distinguished between "posers" and Real Skaters. Real Skaters did it for the love. Posers did it for the perceived social benefits. Actually, they kind of sucked at doing it. They did come to the skatepark a lot and sit on the ledges and spit on the ground while talking to their friends. I think those are the people I meet who'll tell me about how they "used to skate." They generally got driver's licenses and girlfriends to distract them from our true First Love.
First of all, normal families bringing their scooter children are failing to pick up on the fact that the norms are different from the playground in the other part of the larger city park we're in. Beer, cigarettes, and weed do in fact belong there. Kids who skate are used to it at home, so you don't have to be especially discreet. Skate videos show our role models puking at parties in between landing the hardest tricks ever. We're addicts and crazy people. This is our stuff. So it's already confusing that normal families are there. They probably don't know that the rules on the sign aren't enforced. The city just needs to say it told us to wear a helmet. Why do they take everything so literally?
My mom was cool enough to take me to the world skateboarding championships in Muenster in 1993. It's amazing everything is on the internet now. The sound is muted for copyright reasons, because we live in the future.
There were little pyramids and stuff outside the venue. At one point I think I was trying a trick a few times, coming at it from a different direction than the group that was already skating it. My probably autistic mother pulled me aside and talked to me about being in the way. I'm shocked at how infrequently I see parents do that nowadays.
So how do you know how to stay out of the way? Well, skateparks are all about invisible lines. You need room to accelerate, approach, decelerate, stop, change direction, fly through the air, etc. A trick is spread across space and time, and it's sometimes aesthetically pleasing to do several tricks in a row, flowing through the park. That's when you're really having a moment. Normal people don't understand that they're making something unskateable when they're standing where you'd need to land and roll away. Or you'd have to be really in control to swerve around them after landing.
It's not entirely antisocial. Groups will spontaneously start to session a certain ledge, bank, etc. There's something like a queue, but people are getting out of breath at their own rates, figuring out what to do next at their own rates, getting distracted at their own rates, so people roughly take turns. We're still kinda weird about turn taking, due to being in our own worlds. Gross cutting in line is unacceptable, though ("snaking").
Trying certain lines becomes rude as a function of crowding. If you feel like carving all around everything on your longboard without doing tricks, you're making lots of things unskateable at the same time. I've seen parents let their group of children go around and around an area in circles. At times, I've realized that most of the park is functionally closed because of social retardation. It's not true that only "posers" or "normal people" are responsible, either.
That said, the only people I've ever seen sit on top of the ledge next to the 4-stair were a guy who sucks and his girlfriend he brought there. They were busy with their phones.
Often, these people fail to take a hint. They don't pick up on the dirty looks people are giving them. They don't see the irritation when someone has to abort their trick to dodge them. They don't get it when someone starts doing tricks near them unnecessarily fast. They don't see me standing there looking right at them until they step aside so I can finally go. I could start a confrontation and directly ask them to move, but are they socially retarded or something? That would be an especially aggressive, unwelcoming way for me to get the point across. I'm not trying to say, "Leave the skatepark." I'm trying to preserve safety-promoting etiquette.
Angry dorks setting a bad example for the children, obviously. Unsuitable as parents.
The scooter parents aren't allowing their children to have what I had before I ever went to a skatepark: unsupervised mentoring from older kids in the neighborhood. Sessions skating a curb with my friends. Homemade ramps and rails in the driveway. They have no concept that their kids should be able to steer before they push them down a ramp the BMXers are also using. There aren't, like, skill levels for playground equipment. It's like the parents can't look at the obstacles and have a sense of the necessary physics. Hm…maybe people need to go really fast to jump across the top of the pyramid your kid is standing on. Especially when it's crowded, skaters will start their approach while the person in front of them is around the point of executing their trick. If they don't land it, they have time to jump out of the way for the person behind them. It's generally assumed that people have this instinct. Kids behave unpredictably, so they can cause accidents when people fall trying to dodge them unexpectedly.
To me, belaboring this stuff seems silly. And yet…I don't understand normal people. On a regular basis, I see child-endangering mindblindness. It's not hyperbole. A grown man at full speed on a skateboard could really injure 5th grader. It's really a burden going out in public and having to make all these accomodations to protect retards from themselves. Maybe they shouldn't breed. Maybe we should eliminate them. Similar logic is applied to us when normals feel safe from the prying eyes of "political correctness." Also not hyperbole.
On that note, here's Michel Foucault talking about subjugated knowledges:
On the other hand, I believe that by subjugated knowledges one should understand something else, something which in a sense is altogether different, namely, a whole set of knowledges that have been disqualified as inadequate to their task or insufficiently elaborated: naive knowledges, located low down on the hierarchy, beneath the required level of cognition or scientificity. I also believe that it is through the re-emergence of these low-ranking knowledges, these unqualified, even directly disqualified knowledges (such as that of the psychiatric patient, of the ill person, of the nurse, of the doctor–parallel and marginal as they are to the knowledge of medicine–that of the delinquent etc.), and which involve what I would call a popular knowledge (le savoir des gens) though it is far from being a general commonsense knowledge, but is on the contrary a particular, local, regional knowledge, a differential knowledge incapable of unanimity and which owes its force only to the harshness with which it is opposed by everything surrounding it–that it is through the re-appearance of this knowledge, of these local popular knowledges, these disqualified knowledges, that criticism performs its work.
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Why, you get this!
"How's that?" you ask. Well I salvaged rough lumber from the kitchen sub-floor of our stone house. The guys were throwing them in the dumpster, and I was throwing them back out. Below is a picture of the dresser that a friend gave me. Johnny pulled it home on the sleigh from across the lake. Now do you understand?
I used the salvaged wood to make a new top for the dresser, and to replace the big chunky pieces that were on the front of the dresser. I wanted to keep the rough look of it.
I bought the new hardware at Hobby Lobby on sale.
I mixed my own chalk paint front leftover paint from my son's room at least ten years ago.
I seriously need a nice corner in the workshop to take my pictures, the background just doesn't do the pieces justice, and neither does the lighting.
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Hallway makeover
The first room you see when you walk into somebody's home, the hallway, is often the last one to be decorated if decorated at all. But the hallway says so much about you and your home. I love walking into an inviting scene something that maybe teases you to what the rest of the interior is going to look like. My hallway had boring bare walls for way to long as I had to wait for the floor to be finished but on Sunday that was finally done so I could start decorating my entry, have a look at how I injected a bit of colour and fun into the space.
As you can see my hallway was rather boring and almost more like a corridor then an entrance. Narrow and running all the way to the back of the house this room could use a bit of colour injection. One of the first things I did when we moved in was painting the front door, but picking a door colour was easier said then done. I really wanted a bright yellow door but Mister Handmade Home wanted something more in keeping with the house. Off to B&Q we went to pick up some Valspar exterior paint and for me to get some colour inspiration and boy do you get inspiration there! The Valspar colour wall is like a dream, every colour you ever could think of has a little card and if you want a colour they don't have they can scan and colour match your specific hue. I could have spend hours just looking at all the different shades but shopping with an inpatient boy I settled for the colour Forever Teal pretty quickly. This teal is a great colour pop but not too in your face and it goes great with the period of our home. Just two coats was enough to cover this previous dark red door into something more fun.
Have a look at the video to see all the other changes I have made in the hallway.
How do you like my 'racing' stripe? I wanted to paint the whole wall but thought that it might be a bit much in such a small and narrow space. I wanted something that would draw you eye to the side and not to the end of the hallway and initially wanted to add geometric shapes to the wall but then thought isn't it more fun to do something with the coat rack and picture ledge and tie it all together. One thing sprung to mind...a stripe! The blue stripe is painted in Valspar's Cerulean sky. I love this colour as it's almost a perfect sunny day sky blue, my favourite colour ever.
The picture ledge is the Mosslanda by Ikea (115cm) and is perfect if you like changing your art work regularly like I do. I'm not a big fan of keep drilling holes in the wall so a picture ledge is a perfect solution. It's great for displaying framed pictures, postcards, trinkets and small plants like this cute tiny succulent. We even put our mail on the ledge. Do you like how the blue stripe follows the top of the ledge?
I also updated my shoe cupboard, in the video you can see how it looked in our previous home. It was painted in a white gloss paint that got very chipped and had metal door pulls. To tie the cupboard into its new space I used the Forever teal and Cerulean sky paint on two of the doors and gave the sides and the top door a fresh coat of white. The handles got replaced with wooden ones for a more rustic look and I made a new top from an old floor board. The wooden top is simply cut to size and glued on, the pine really ties in with the pine doors in my hallway.
Of course the mirror got a lick of True Teal as well :) The shoe cupboard looks a bit more like a console table now it has the textured wooden top and is a great space to keep a bowl for our sunglasses and my lipsticks, a jar of doggy treats and some fresh flowers to liven up the space.
What do you think of my makeover? Are you tempted to add a bit more colour to your hallway? To make a better style flow in between rooms? I'm not completely done in the hallway yet as the stairs are in desperate need of an update, I'm definitely not planning on keeping does awful beige/purple carpets. I'm going to rip up the carpets, sand and paint the stairs and then add a new runner. Not sure if I will go for a seagrass runner one or a kilim look, more on that in a few weeks time!


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silicon valley compound
Set against California's rolling green hills, the home offers a classic example of seamless indoor/ outdoor California living. The interior textiles and architectural materials play off the tones, scale, and textures of each other, creating a particularly potent moment at the threshold of the home. The living areas on that first floor seem to have only the faintest delineation between interior and exterior as the stone used on the facade is brought inside, and notably used at the same scale. Careful control of this material palette allows the scale and play of these textures to shift and shrink as you move through the home, creating an intimacy in the interior rooms of the home where you would want it most.
Architect: Walker Warner Architects
Landscape Architect: Lutsko Associates
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Published on January 1st, 2017 by gavin
Bradwell Delight In New Principal
Bradwell Silver Band is delighted to welcome David Wilson as the new Principal Cornet effective from 1st January 2017. Former Principal Julia Hollis takes over from Adam Chappell in the Soprano seat with Adam moving to join the front row as Assistant Principal to David.
David (Tug) is an extremely experienced musician having started his playing career with Bradwell Silver Band. David spent 6 years with The Band of the Blues and Royals, Household Cavalry and participated in prestigious events such as Trooping the Colour, The Lord Mayors Show and The Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance at The Royal Albert Hall to name just a few.
All of the Wilson family including wife Karen, sons Luke, Jack and Louis play brass instruments having started their careers with Bradwell and all but one are current members of the band. David returns to Bradwell after 12 years as Principal Cornet for Olney Brass (previously Stantonbury Brass).
David told A4B: "I'm looking forward to re-joining the band that I started with many years ago and once again playing for my own local community being a Brad'll boy at heart. It will be great to work with Brian again and form musical partnerships with the new members of the band."
Julia is looking forward to re-visiting the Soprano seat having vacated it two years ago to take up the challenge of Principal Cornet. We thank Julia for her commitment and hard work, and recently leading the Band to place 4th at the LBBA contest in November. Adam, 16, is looking forward to the new challenge and taking advantage of David's experience to further develop his own talents as a solo cornet player.
Musical Director Brian Keech told A4B: "David has been a member of our band or a guest player for over 40 years, so we are therefore so pleased to welcome him back as our Principal Cornet. David is a fantastic player who will add so much quality and leadership to our young band"
David's first challenge will be when the band returns to Stevenage in March to participate in the L&SC Regional Contest.


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Philipp Gehmacher lives and works in Vienna. He studied Contemporary Dance at the London Contemporary Dance School and choreography, Esthetics and Dance Sociology at the Laban Center London.
His works have featured in numerous festivals and venues around the world in countries such as Canada, Belgium, Germany, Slovenia, France, Austria and Czechoslovakia. Gehmacher's interest in gesture, touch and space has led his practise to often consider notions of embodiment and question formal conventions and to work in a range of contexts. Since 2007 he has directed others on stage and collaborated across artforms with artists such as US-American choreographer Meg Stuart and Vladimir Miller, and since 2008 Philipp has presented iterations of the 'Walk + Talk' series - a form of lecture performance, in which choreographers talk about movement while moving – most recently at Dance Umbrella in the UK. Earlier this year he premiered a new stage work 'solo with Jack' at Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz as part of the Festival ImPulsTanz and worked at the Leopold Museum on the installation 'grauraum mit Egon Schiele'. Since 2011 Philipp has also worked in theatre on the project 'Das Erdbeben in Chili' following an invitation by the venue Schauspiel Köln.


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Through the program "Programme Réussir l'Integration" and thanks to the financial support of the Ministère de l'Immigration, de la Divérsité et de l'Inclusion, we offer services to newly arrived immigrant women and their families by providing individual and group activities to facilitate their adaptation and integration into Quebec society. In addition to French and English, these services are also provided in many languages, such as Spanish, Arabic and Creole. Languages may vary from one year to the next according to clientele requirements.
Linguistic Integration Program for Immigrants
In order to help immigrant women integrate into Quebec society and to promote their autonomy, the Centre, in collaboration with the Ministère de l'Immigration, de la Divérsité et de l'Inclusion, offers French courses. They are offered on a part-time basis (12 hours per week) for 11 weeks. The learning of French allows these women to feel less isolated, to create new friendships with other women, to access important information, without the need for interpreters, and to promote their social and economic integration, particularly in the job market.
In the context of immigration it is often useful to accompany the newly arrived women in their search for information, particularly if the women are isolated or cannot communicate in French or English. Counsellors from the Centre guide and refer these women in the areas of their concern, such as immigration, financial security, schools for their children… They also act as interpreters in certain situations.
COFFEE‑MEETINGS to facilitate the integration of newly arrived women
With the aim to promote the sucessfull integration and adaptation of newly arrived women, the coffee meetings helpthese women break their sense of social isolation and obtain vital information regarding their new home. During these coffee meetings, women coming from different countries gather in a friendly space to share and learn.
Here are the next Coffee Meetings : (Available in french only)
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Paul Ryan Weighs in on Romney's Tax Returns
(Bartow, Fla.) -- Paul Ryan thinks the news that Mitt Romney decided to pay more in taxes, and not take as many charitable deductions as he was entitled to, in order to get to a 13 percent tax rate just shows "that the Romneys are extremely generous people."
"They gave away 30 percent of their income to charity so Mitt Romney has always believed to whom much is given, much is required and he is living proof of that and this just shows you how generous the Romneys are as people," Ryan said while visiting a fruit stand in Bartow, Fla. with his mother, Betty Douglas.
According to Romney's 2011 tax returns released Friday, the Romneys donated 29.4% of their income to their church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, as well as the Tyler Charitable Foundation, which donates to a variety of causes including the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and Homes for Our Troops.
Ryan was also asked about comments his friend and Wisconsin governor Scott Walker made earlier Friday saying the GOP vice presidential nominee was not being "utilized" enough by the Romney campaign.
"Oh, he's just a good backer of mine, I feel very good about it," Ryan said. "Look, I'm doing the things I want to do, I was excited to go to AARP today, decided to go the Values Voters Summit, I -- look at what we're doing. We're talking to local people, going around the country, talking to local press, I'm excited about my role and I feel very comfortable with it."
While buying tangerines coincidentally at a place called "Walker's Fruit Stand," he said he feels like he is "absolutely" being utilized enough.
Ryan said he has "come to expect" the unwelcome reception he received earlier Friday when he addressed the AARP.
"Entitlement reform has unfortunately been made very partisan by partisans and so I have gotten that kind of reaction and unfortunately it's what we've come to expect because the politics of reforming entitlements has become very bitter and it's very unfortunate because if we let the politics get the best of us -- these problems are going to get out of our control," Ryan said. "We've got to fix Medicare before it goes bankrupt."
Ryan was booed consistently at his address to the AARP's national convention especially when he pledged to repeal the president's signature health care legislation, also known as Obamacare.
Copyright 2012 ABC News Radio


text: Last night at the Greenwich House School of Music's Uncharted Series (where I am doing a residency through April), guitar legend Marc Ribot and Haitian songstress Emeline Michel paid tribute to Haitian classical guitar icon (and Ribot's mentor) Frantz Casseus in a gorgeous night of music. The evening had the feel of a school recital in the very best sense, not just because it took place in a music school, but because Ribot's concentration was intense--his playing just slightly out of his comfort zone--and the audience was filled with family, friends and supportive listeners. It was the Uncharted Series at its best, a real dedication and commitment to the challenging pursuit of a musical ideal, slightly out of reach but completely within the grasp of masters.


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In contrast to recent write-up subjects, namely, Sierra Nevada's Celebration Ale and Lagunitas Sucks Holiday Ale, Port's Santa's Little Helper is much closer to what you expect out of a Christmas beer: it's dark. It's got a modestly sized mocha colored head. It's also rich and more malt-dominated than hops-dominated. But it's not just a heavy malt affair dressed up in nutmeg, ginger, orange peel, pumpkin spice, and whatever Christmas baking ingredients were lying around the brewery.
As is their nature, Port lays the groundwork for this beer in hops, and there must be a lot of them. I didn't find the IBU for this beer but I'll bet it's north of 70. This is a 10% beer. With that kind of alcohol level going on, there's a lot of room for excess everything. The hops express themselves as a rough, grainy favor with a bit of pine. Massive dark roasted malts largely mask any citrus and resin flavors the hops are lending.
What impressed me most about this beer is how it all hangs together despite threatening to crumble. I ate a piece of flourless chocolate cake the other day with my friend Hilary. We're each taking bites out of this deliciously dark dessert and it's disintegrating under our forks, crumbling into little pieces that can only be salvaged through shoveling them off the plate. Much is the same with how Santa's Little Helper operates. It seems stable enough in the 8 oz. snifter glass they bring you. But it's not.
One moment it threatens runaway sweetness. Then the hops quickly corral it. Suddenly it's headed the other way and threatening to build up too much graininess on your tongue. For a moment you're thinking that you're drinking a black IPA. Molasses-like flavors along with a bit of currants quickly rebalance things. A muddy coffee-grounds flavor dips in and out. Nothing in this beer ever stays stationary. The only constant is the rich creaminess that sustains through the last drop.
Overall it's a grand drinking experience given its dense and diverse flavors. This certainly would have topped my Christmas beers list had I gotten access to it at publishing time.
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Apart from the task of organizing millions of process documents related to ISO through voting, publication, review, and drafting, we have been spreading public awareness on standardizations and standards among the corporate crowd. Also, working with the government authorities like IEC and ITU, we contribute toward the methods and models of standardizations.
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Random Fact: The English Language is a mixture of tongues. It retains some traces of Celtic, but also contains some words from old German, Latin and Old Norse. In addition English also contains a lot of French words. Click Here For Fun Movie Facts
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In my interview in the magazine this week – which subscribers can read here – I talk to Douglas Carswell. There wasn't space to look closely at his views on bank reform, but when I asked him what he would do to make the UK a better place, this came pretty near the top of the list.
So close is it to his heart that he even introduced a bill on the matter back in 2010, which you can see here.
The idea in a nutshell is that when customers visit a bank to deposit money, they should be asked to tick a box to say whether they consider the money to be a loan to the bank (in which case they may lend it out) or an actual deposit (in which case they may not) – ie whether the depositor or the bank retain ownership of the money while it is in the bank.
This, says Carswell, would "organically solve the problem of reserve ratios. "If you run a very sensible bank and it has a good reputation" lots of people would allow you to loan their money out. If you did not they would not.
The result? An incentive for the banks to lend well and a limit on their ability to indulge in fractional reserve banking. Job done. More on this here and in particular here in an interview with Dominic Frisby.
The bill didn't get much support the first time around, but it is worth keeping an eye on the idea – it appears to be gaining support.


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A staple science experiment is the famous Diet Coke + Mentos reaction. Every child loves the impressive geyser created from combining these two ingredients. If you are not familiar with this classic, I highly recommend you try it out or at least watch this video: MythBusters
One problem with conducting this experiment in a classroom is the obvious messy factor. Another issue is having students actively participate instead of just watching an awesome explosion (still highly recommended). My twist on this experiment involves a smaller version of the reaction that is contained inside a balloon! Read on to learn more.
Blow up a balloon using Diet Coke + Mentos Reaction
Students will design their own experiment to determine the effect of one variable in blowing up the balloon.
That's me demonstrating the Balloon + Coke+Mentos experiment!
Materials per team of 2 students
- 2 0.5 Liter of Diet Coke
- 3 Mentos
- 2 Balloons
- Measuring cup (optional)
- Paper towels
- String
- Ruler
Demonstrate procedure to the students:
- Stretch out balloon.
- Open up the Diet Coke and pour out half of the contents.
- Place one Mentos inside the balloon.
- Place balloon securely over the mouth of the bottle. Very important!
- Hold the balloon upright and force the Mentos down into the liquid. The reaction will start and the balloon will expand!
- Keep the balloon upright. Shake it side to side so all the liquid falls back into the bottle.
- Holding the neck of the balloon, pull it off from the bottle without releasing the gas.
- Tie off the balloon.
How does it work?
The basic explanation is that the carbon dioxide gas inside the Diet Coke is being released. Initially water molecules are trapping the carbon dioxide. When the Mentos is dropped in and falls to the bottom it disrupts this water mesh. All the gas is released and literally pushes all the liquid up and out of the bottle. What remains in the balloon is release carbon dioxide gas.
As a class, discuss what variables may effect the size of the balloon. The most influential include: number of Mentos released and amount of coke in the bottle. Now students can create an experiment to determine the effect of their variable. For example, how does the amount of Diet Coke change the balloon diameter?
- Conduct the experiment with only 1/4 of the liquid in the bottle. Keep all other variables the same. Tie off the balloon.
- Repeat the experiment with 3/4 of the liquid. Tie off the balloon.
- Which balloon is bigger? Use a piece of string to measure the diameter of each balloon to compare.
Have fun!


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Note: This FAQ may be edited from time to time to enhance its completeness or accuracy.
1. Why do we need an Administrative Ruling like this at all?
2. How frequent is unsolicited email on MSU's system?
3. The Administrative Ruling says that MSU's email service is not intended as a forum for the expression of personal opinions. If I have an opinion I wish to express, may I use the email service to send a note to a University administrator or governance committee, or a note to an external organization or publication?
This Administrative Ruling is intended to regulate unsolicited email. Unsolicited email is defined in the Administrative Ruling as email received by a person who has not elected to receive the email by having indicated a prior interest and willingness to receive communications from the sender (e.g., having previously sent a communication to the sender to which the sender may be responding; being an acquaintance of the sender; belonging to a set of individuals who have chosen to affiliate and communicate with one another for a particular University purpose).
Committees, organizations, newspapers, and administrators expect to hear from people having concerns or ideas about matters that fall within that individual's or group's domain. Such communications are one-to-one and represent acceptable uses of the MSU email service. It also is acceptable to use MSU email services to communicate with other members of committees, clubs, organizations, work groups, and other sets of individuals who are affiliated for a particular University purpose, if the email is relevant to their business or concerns. For example, students in a class might email one another ideas, opinions, and information from that class regarding the subject area of the class.
When sending an email from an MSU email account to someone outside of the University community, University employees should take great care to explicitly note that the contents of their email are personal and do not represent the University, or, better yet, use a personal email account other than their MSU account. Members of the public seeing "@msu.edu" in the From address will sometimes mistakenly assume that the contents of the note express official institutional views or positions, or may complain that public resources are being used for personal purposes.
4. The Administrative Ruling says that it is not permissible to send email on the same topic to more than 10 other internal users. What if I want to invite my friends to a party and I have more than 10 friends?
This Administrative Ruling is intended to constrain unsolicited email. Your friends would expect to hear from you about this and other topics, so the email would not be "unsolicited."
5. May I use my MSU email account for personal uses like online shopping?
This Administrative Ruling permits incidental personal use of the email system, including emailing family members and online shopping. However, individuals should be aware that online merchants often sell their contact lists to other companies. This can lead to your MSU email account receiving additional spam from commercial entities. Many individuals often choose to open a free personal email account with a commercial service outside of MSU (e.g., Google, Yahoo) for their use in online commerce, just to avoid having their MSU email address get onto too many commercial lists.
This Administrative Ruling does not address other policies and regulations regarding personal use of University resources that may also apply.
6. What does the University's tax-exempt status possibly have to do with my use of MSU email services?
Michigan State University is a tax-exempt organization under Federal and State tax laws. Those laws prohibit tax-exempt organizations such as the University from using their resources for political purposes related to public elections and from use of their resources for private economic profit or gain. Accordingly, this Administrative Ruling would prohibit the use of the University's email service to engage in activities such as advocating for a ballot initiative, distributing materials related to a political campaign for a candidate for elected office, advertising personal services or goods for sale, or operating a private business.
7. In addition to my role(s) at MSU, I am active in a community organization and I often need to send communications on behalf of that organization. May I use my MSU email account for this purpose?
While this Administrative Ruling does not specifically preclude this type of use, it would be best to use a non-MSU email account for communications relating to non-MSU organizations. Members of the public seeing "@msu.edu" in the From address will sometimes mistakenly assume that the contents of the note express official institutional views or positions, or may complain that public resources are being used for personal purposes or to support organizations or causes not directly affiliated with MSU.
8. I am a MSU retiree, and nearly all of my MSU email account use is for personal purposes. Does this Administrative Ruling mean that I can't use my MSU email account anymore?
MSU has had a tradition of providing continuing email service to retirees. Many retirees continue to do work on behalf of the University, and many retired faculty continue to pursue their scholarship, teach, mentor students, or contribute to University programs in other ways. Since the Administrative Ruling permits incidental personal uses of the email system, most retirees will not find that their use of the email system is restricted in any significant way by this Ruling.
9. Why are there so many rules about surveys?
People can experience "survey fatigue" from being asked to participate in too many surveys just like they can experience "spam fatigue" from receiving too much spam email. A few times each year, MSU must conduct surveys for administrative reasons such as complying with a law or participating in a national program or study important to the University as a whole. A certain number of surveys are inevitable and it is important that these are conducted under the best possible conditions for effective participation.
Particular surveys may also interfere with the University's official working relationship with its collective bargaining units, student and faculty academic governance bodies, or other similar types of relationships. Both content and timing can matter in this regard, so the rules work to assure that appropriate reviews of the surveys are conducted by knowledgeable offices.
10. What happens if someone violates this Administrative Ruling?
The University does not actively monitor use of its email services for violations. Administrative actions in response to suspected or alleged violations are triggered by the appropriate administrative office (Network Abuse) becoming aware of a potential violation, usually because an email user who has received unsolicited email makes an inquiry or complains.
When a complaint or inquiry is received, Network Abuse staff will investigate the matter to determine whether the email at issue is acceptable under the Administrative Ruling. If so, the matter is dropped. If the email may not be acceptable under the Administrative Ruling, the individual who sent the email will be notified by Network Abuse staff of the alleged violation and asked for an explanation. This usually results in an educational conversation — the individual may acknowledge that he/she was not familiar with the ruling and will comply with it in the future. At this point, nothing more usually happens.
Repeat or egregious violations are referred by the Network Abuse office to a venue for appropriate disciplinary follow up. In the case of an employee, the referral is made to the employee's immediate supervisor. In the case of a student, the referral is made to the Judicial Affairs Office. In extreme cases, revocation or limitation of email privileges may also result.
11. Can I be disciplined if someone "hijacks" my email account and uses it inappropriately?
Sometimes email is sent in a way to make it appear that it has come from one account when it actually has been sent by another. Computer viruses and other malware are sometimes designed to distribute themselves by intruding into one person's email system and using the address book to send copies of themselves to other computers, sometimes using the intruded account's From address. Other types of computer "hacking" will involve the hacker using someone else's stolen electronic identity. When complaints of inappropriate email use are received by the Network Abuse staff, their investigation includes a determination of the actual source account from which the mail was sent, so that a legitimate user is not held accountable for inappropriate use by someone else.
12. What does "MSU email services" mean? Does this Administrative Ruling apply to unit-level email services?
This Administrative Ruling applies to all internal email services, whether at the University level (e.g., "mail.msu.edu") or at the level of an internal unit (college, division, department, etc.) that supports an email service at that level. The Administrative Ruling permits less restrictive uses of bulk emailing within unit-level domains, at the discretion of the unit. Units also may elect to have more restrictive rules regarding email use within their local domains. Users having accounts in unit-level e-mail services are encouraged to become familiar with the rules pertaining to each such service.
Revised 8 May 2009 – Administrative Ruling


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10 Gadgets and Apps to Keep Your Kids Safe
As every parent knows, it's a dangerous world out there. Whether it's a pedophile lurking in the aisles at Walmart, a cyber bully on Facebook or a case of SIDs that strikes in the crib, your child is in danger at every age.
As a new father, I worry about all the bad things that could happen to my young son both now and when he gets older. As a geek, I look to technology to solve the problem. Here are 10 tech tools I found that can help keep your kids safe.


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From Minions to superheroes, and from to princesses to emojis, Costume SuperCenter offers everything you need to make your costume pop. Here's a breakdown of potential top picks for the latest and greatest costumes for Halloween 2015!
Minion Pirate
While your child's friends will be shouting ba-na-na, he or she will be shouting Ahoy, mateys! with this humorous costume based on the popular characters from Minions. This costume includes a jumpsuit with a Minion pirate applique, goggles and a faux leather belt. Your child will love using this costume as he goes on wacky Halloween adventures with his fellow Minions!
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Belly Baby Stegosaurus
You might as well show off how cuddly your little one can be with this adorable belly baby stegosaurus costume. Your little one will enjoy playing dinosaur as you stomp through the city streets together while trick-or-treating. This cute costume features a soft plush body, hood and shoe covers. If dinosaurs aren't your baby's thing, then there are several other belly baby costumes to choose from!
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Black Widow
Black Widow may not have her own movie yet, but that doesn't mean your little one can't star as one of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s most heralded heroes. This powerful costume features a jumpsuit with attached shoe covers. Pair with a red wig based on the iconic character and she'll channel her inner Natasha Romanoff during her next secret mission!
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Pink Ranger
Show your little girl that she can be a superhero too with this licensed costume based on the Power Rangers: Dino Charge character. This crime-fighting costume includes a jumpsuit, mask, attached belt with a detachable belt buckle and a detachable shoulder piece for her to slip into this powerful outfit easily. She'll rule the streets while trick-or-treating with her Power Ranger friends!
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You'll immediately feel joy the minute you step into this outfit! This licensed costume includes a dress and wig for you to portray the Inside Out emotion easily. Dress up with other characters from the hit Pixar film and create many fantastic core memories at your next Halloween party. Pair with fashionable shoes to complete the look!
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Briar Beauty
Disney isn't the only place where your little princess will find positive female role models. She can also turn to the girls from Ever After High. With this Briar Beauty costume, she can become the next Sleeping Beauty and embody the character as the confident social butterfly she strives to be. This costume includes a beautiful dress and tights.
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He may be small, but that doesn't mean he's not super. This deluxe Ant-Man costume will let your little hero become Scott Lang easily as he saves the city on Halloween night! With the included jumpsuit, mask, belt and attached boot tops, he'll feel like he has superpowers the minute he slips into this awesome outfit. Actual shrinking powers not included.
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Star Wars Costumes
You may not be on the Dark Side but that doesn't mean you can't look awesome in this BRAND NEW Kylo Ren costume. However, if the new Episode VII isn't your thing, there are several other Star Wars costume options that represent the previous six installments of the franchise. The Force is strong this Halloween!
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Winky Face Emoji
You always use these fun symbols while texting, and now it's time to embody them! No emoji will let you embrace your fun, flirty side better than this humorous unisex winky face emoji costume. Gather a group of other cute emojis and share a photo filled with long-lasting memories and emotions!
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As Princess Peach's loyal servant, your little one will want to battle the Koopas all the way to Bowser's castle! This cute costume features a jumpsuit, vest and character headpiece. He can team up with his friends dressed like other Super Mario Bros. characters for a fun Halloween outing!
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Every Halloween, new costume trends become popular. With this list of the hottest looks for 2015, you're guaranteed to be the hit of your trick-or-treating neighborhood. To take a look at costume trends from Halloweens past, check out this awesome infographic!


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The Importance of Play
The Importance of Play - part 3: Rediscovering Play
Playful movement does not need to be complicated. Lay it out in terms of basic movement patterns. Moves that are functional and possible to adapt for all – with challenges that can be scaled to each individual. You can piggy-back carry, focus on animal crawls and movements, or play games such as tag or plank tennis.
Use your imagination to make physical activity more interesting and to increase motivation. For example, if doing a bear crawl, imagine you're crawling under a low-hanging branch covered in thorns and change your body position accordingly. [1] It sounds like child's play, but engaging the brain in this fashion can increase muscle activation and make you work harder. [2]
The full benefits of play are possible when you stop viewing everything as an event with a specific goal in mind. Think of play the way a small child would – it just feels good to be running around, living life in the moment.
Be willing to open up to others with a new, more playful personality. This playful aspect is perhaps the difficult part since society forces us to treat everything so seriously once we pass into adulthood. But even something as simple as sharing a joke with a random stranger, or goofing around with young kids can help you feel more confident about engaging in play with others.
Look for ways to build play into your schedule. Just as you would schedule a daily workout or lunch with friends, you can schedule "play-time." Everybody has different ways to express this concept – "me time" or "personal time" are just two popular options – but it just refers to a block of unstructured time to recharge the mind and body. All the better if this "me time" also includes physical activity.
One thing we understand as parents is that our kids are influenced by what we do or do not do as adults. If we demonstrate movement as being punitive, then our children will see movement and activity as punishing and something to fear. If we are playful and excited about activity, it gives our children an opportunity to enjoy movement too. Play is an essential activity regardless of age. As adults, it is absolutely critical to learn how to play again, it might just help us meet the physical activity guidelines for a start!
By unlocking all the benefits of play, you will feel better, think better and have a more positive outlook on life. At both home and the office, you may even see a boost in your imagination and creativity too.
[1] "Paleo Fitness: Primal Training and Nutrition Program to Get Lean, Strong and Healthy", Darryl Edwards, Ulysses Press, 2013
[2] "Motor Control and Learning", Champaign IL, Human Kinetics, 1999


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Tiles or sheets for new roof.
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Our journey, our history...
Sequel Group of Hospitality Services opened in 2003 with the launch of Sequel Restaurant & Catering in Lawrence park.
After the sale of our Yonge Street location, we expanded the catering operation and opened a 'prepared foods to go' market in a café setting at a Leaside location for 5 successful years.
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from an article originally posted February 6, 2015...
I love the title of Kara's recent post, "Grieve and Get on with It". Before reading it, I admit to being a little shocked—is she going to tell us that when we're grieving, it's fine to cry for a while but then we need to get over it?
My first semester of college, my BFF/roommate and I went ice skating with a group of new friends. It was great on several levels—ice skating is fun, friends are fun, and feeling like we were finally connecting was more than fun. But then Jen took a spill. Hard. She fell forward and landed on her elbows. She put on a brave face, yet once we were back in our room, I could tell she was not okay—while our friends gathered in our living room to hang out, she was lying face-up on her bed, arms crossed over her torso, tears streaming down her cheeks. An ER trip was clearly necessary.
I asked our new friend, Sam, to go with us and help navigate the situation; he kindly said yes and was a stalwart help through the entire ordeal. While Jen was readying herself to come home, after both her arms had been painstakingly put into awkward splints, I commented to Sam how awful it had been to see Jen in such pain. He said, "Meh. I kept wanting to tell her to just get over it."
Almost 20 years later, Jen and our friends and I still joke about that, often telling each other to "just get over it". It's ridiculous because we know we can't just get over it. We can't just get over excruciating pain, we can't just get over cancer, we can't just get over loss. There is no switch. Sometimes we can push through, like Kara talks about, but at some point, we will meet our end. The question is, what will we find there?
When I think about Jen's accident so long ago, I wonder what kind of friend I was. She was a generous, gracious patient. I know I tried to love her well, helping her get dressed and put on makeup and carry her books to class. She was nothing but grace to my clumsy efforts. How did I respond? Was I kind? Did I create a safe place for her to be broken and hurt? Did I encourage her through those weeks of pain and frustration? Or did I serve her with an attitude that said, "I wish you would just get over it!"?
Here Kara talks about the end of her "grieve-and-go" attitude, and what has she found? She has found the love, comfort, and grace of Mickey. Of many people, but what an example Mickey is of unconditional love holding onto hope and joy when hope and joy seem far off.
I often say I want to be just like Mickey when I grow up. But the truth is, I need to be like Mickey now—I need to love well, safeguard hope, extend grace, clean, cook, cuddle, play games, run errands, shuttle kids, pray, massage feet. The list goes on for how I can meet someone in their hurt, like the disabled lady next door or the family behind us wrestling with a recent terminal diagnosis.
Who can you meet at the end of their grieve-and-go attitude? How can you gladly serve someone in your circle who is hurting? How can you provide relief and hope to someone who is struggling to find it?


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Archaeological sites in Thailand will soon be scanned with a 3D laser scanner, starting with Wat Chai Wattanaram temple in Ayutthaya.
US sending 3-D scanners to archaeological sites, starting with Chai Wattanaram temple in Ayutthaya
National News Bureau of Thailand, 21 May 2014
Mr. Anek Sihamat, Director General of the Fine Arts Department, said in a workshop that the United States has sent experts to help with archaeological site preservation, as well as a 3-D laser scanner in order to gather the most accurate data about archaeological sites.
Ayutthaya's Chai Wattanaram temple will be the first site where this equipment will be used to evaluate the area, structure, height and design. Archaeologists from all over the country will be called in to study how this equipment works so 3-D scanners can be used to collect data throughout the country.
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Growing up close to the sea, I spent much of my childhood training to be a dancer, so perhaps that's the motion and energy that still prevails in my work. I still feel a deep connection with water; I love swimming in lakes, rafting or kayaking down fast flowing rivers and watching the immense and steady, comforting heartbeat of the ocean. I love adventures, mountains, flying, hiking and laughing so hard, it hurts.
You can't beat nature for it's daily miracles and drop-dead gorgeous beauty. I like to shine a light of awareness upon certain aspects of it, bringing it to others' attention – for those who want to see it. You know in that quiet, still moment, when you nearly forget to breathe because you've seen something so amazing; I'm constantly striving to capture even just a tiny part of that energy: To hold it briefly and share it with others.