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Phwoar, Missus! Sexytime for Hollywood
The phrase "Sex Sells" was one that could have been invented for the movie industry, as part of the reason audiences go to watch films is to see attractive people going about their adventures, though it has to be said not everyone uses this as a cue to have sexual fantasies about the performers. However, every so often there happens along a project that is expressly designed to provoke that reaction, and since Hollywood censorship relaxed around the late nineteen-sixties, some films become celebrated - or perhaps "infamous" would be a better description - for aiming to inspire lust in the viewer. Whatever goes on behind the scenes of these efforts can only be guessed at, but since sexual misconduct is an issue, you have to wonder at the compromising positions of the past.
One director who was always upfront about his obsessions with the unclad female form was Russ Meyer, and while he had been including nudity in his lucrative exploitation flicks before his major studio movie
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
, Hollywood seemed to have caught up with him and the Hugh Hefner ideal of placing women on a pedestal to be admired for their looks alone. Oh, sure, Hefner claimed to have high-falutin' notions of social progress, but when it came down to it he was simply Meyer with a mansion, and Russ appeared to be parodying the
lifestyle with what had started out as a sequel to the hit Jacqueline Susann adaptation from 1967,
Valley of the Dolls
. When Susann's concepts were rejected, critic Roger Ebert was hired and concocted what he always claimed to be a parody.
It was certainly a ridiculous film, though not really that much more ridiculous than Susann's plot and how it had been channelled into the campy sixties movie, but with Meyer you had the sexual angle ramped up to his delirious degrees, as was his custom. When you were a kid, you would envisage what films for grown-ups would be like since you were not allowed to watch them: basically they would include nudity, violence and "adult themes" that would go over your head, and overall come across as deeply forbidden and therefore a point of curiosity. When you actually grow up and find most grown-up films are stuff like
Absence of Malice
The King's Speech
then you may ponder if there ever were movies as you envisaged way back then: well,
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
was one of those that perfectly encapsulated all those hopes.
It starred
models and other decorative ladies who were not averse to doffing their togs for the camera, though Meyer said he would have put more sex and nudity into the film if he had been aware it was heading for an X rating (he was aiming for an R), and characters would get up to all sorts of sexual shenanigans before the end credits rolled. Dolly Read, the British model, led the all-girl group The Carrie Nations (named with heavy irony after the anti-booze campaigner), and they would find all sorts of woes such as cheating, drugs, attempted suicide, abortion and finally murder, all depicted in this heady, cartoonish, over the top fashion with acting that demonstrated the cast had not been hired for their thespian abilities. Despite the controversy about its decadence,
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
was a huge hit and things were changing in Hollywood.
Soon, for the seventies anyway, a film for adults wasn't the same without a sex scene or at least nudity in it, and while in Britain that meant the spate of sex comedies like
Confessions of a Window Cleaner
, on the Continent Bernardo Bertolucci's
Last Tango in Paris
in 1972 set new standards in what was allowed on the big screen, short of actual pornography. It had a major star in Marlon Brando to give it wider appeal, and though it's now notorious as a film that wholly embarrassed its starlet Maria Schneider (no, she wasn't raped), it set Europe off on a path of erotica encompassed by Sylvia Kristel in the title role of
in 1974 that became popular with couples, not simply the raincoat brigade. Hollywood were finding it difficult to keep up, and with
Deep Throat
legitimising pornography in 1972, or so they said, porno chic was the in thing.
Blake Edwards cashed in on this in 1979 with
, a comedy that made a superstar of Dudley Moore, for a few years at any rate, where he played a sex-starved man suffering his midlife crisis who sets his goal to seduce the younger, nubile Bo Derek. She was the husband of actor turned director turned serial husband of blonde bombshells John Derek, and when
made her a household name, he was keen to cash in. Which was why, come the eighties, she starred as Jane in a remake of
Tarzan the Ape Man
(1981 to be exact), alongside a slab of beefcake in the title role, by the name of Miles O'Keefe. But nobody was interested in him, they wanted to see Bo in a state of undress, which is what they got, in between scenes of Richard Harris (as her father) yelling at the top of his voice while adventuring in the jungle. Despite being not very good, it was a hit.
Bo could not have been more famous, and John was surely thinking at last, he was onto a winner with this directing lark. Then Cannon, the trashiest purveyors of entertainment trying for respectability around, agreed to finance a work that would go even further than
Tarzan the Ape Man
, and that film was
(which sort of had the leading lady's name in the title). This turned out to be a period-set romp where she played a young lady just out of an exclusive finishing school on a mission to lose her virginity - but the circumstances had to be just right, no quickie for her. Her first port of call, after stripping off at her alma mater for her last act of rebellion, was a sheik who was intended to evoke thoughts of Rudolph Valentino, the great lover of the silent screen, but he ends up falling asleep on her after licking honey off her naked body. It was as if Derek was trying to sabotage his own epic of sensuality - was he really attempting humour?
Bo got a lot of publicity for
, but none of it good as the movie was laughed off the screen by those brave souls who elected to go and see it; it would do better on home video, where it was not so embarrassing to watch in private. Not helping was that her main beau was a bullfighter, which even in the eighties was a profession targeted for criticism by animal rights campaigners, so after she loses the aforementioned virginity to him, it may be more satisfying in a way unintended that he gets gored in the genitals during a performance, leaving him trying to recuperate for the rest of the story. Could the power of Bo's feminine charms resurrect his manhood? Or would the thought of George Kennedy (as the chauffeur) getting it on put paid to that ambition? How about underage nudity courtesy of Olivia D'Abo, very much the Scrappy-Doo of the production? Or the manner in which everyone is struggling with their lines, even the English-speakers?
Besides, in the mid-eighties Bo was becoming old hat, as a new set of American sex symbols for the decade emerged: Madonna, Phoebe Cates, Vanity, Kim Basinger - the latter starring in
9½ Weeks
, which caused a sensation despite being so artfully lit by director Adrian Lyne that it was difficult to make out anything very much in the raunchy scenes. In the nineties, however, there was one film that seemed to take sex in the mainstream about as far as it was possible to go without showing actual hardcore pornography. Step forward the dream (or nightmare) combination of director Paul Verhoeven, writer Joe Eszterhas and star Sharon Stone for
Basic Instinct
. This followed the pattern of many a sexually-themed movie that catches the imagination of the public in that it was an international talking point thanks to how controversial it was, and the more controversial it became, the more the audiences wanted to watch it. It was a huge hit.
Nowadays to be a huge hit it helps to appeal to family audiences (why do you think so many animated efforts become franchises?), but back then, in the early nineties, you could still appeal to an adult audience exclusively and rake in the cash, a phenomenon which has waned over the years, especially when the fact that people like to enjoy pornography in the privacy of their own homes rather than among strangers has dominated the culture.
Basic Instinct
and its tale of detective Michael Douglas investigating the death of a rock star and wondering if bestselling author Sharon Stone has been behind it cleaned up at the cinema, and that was all because of the hype, including a shot of Stone's uncrossed legs, sans underwear, that apparently it was unthinkable not to see twenty feet high on the big screen. It seems ridiculous now, but the promise of such hanky-panky was a real draw, and Verhoeven went as far as he could with the sex scenes.
Of course, if there was any fucking going on, it was the director fucking with the audience's heads, as ever on a Verhoeven work, reminiscent of his previous, Dutch femme fatale effort
The Fourth Man
, but perhaps
Basic Instinct
represented the cresting of a wave, for while it did spawn many imitators, most of them went straight to VHS and starred Shannon Tweed and her blonde bombshell ilk; Stone had been a cult star with a varied career before her big break, but she would never get bigger than she was in 1992. Meanwhile, neo-noirs plonked Madonna as a femme fatale in
Body of Evidence
, and as owner of the most famous breasts on the planet in 1993, you would have thought she would clean up at the box office with the tale of her body being the murder weapon that killed a millionaire, but post-her
book, where anyone interested had seen everything, coupled with the laughably bad quality of the film, meant blockbusting mainstream sex movies' days were numbered.
Or were they? In 2015, where anyone interested in seeing sex on a screen was watching it on their phone in a toilet cubicle at the office or spending their free time surfing porn streaming sites in their bedrooms, all of a sudden there was another movie sensation where sex was the major attraction. E.L. James had made a huge bundle of money by publishing her
fan fiction with changed names in book form, selling it to seemingly exclusively frustrated mothers who would leaf through it over their coffee when the kids were safely in school, but what the unconverted had trouble weighing up was the storyline concentrated on sadomasochism. What had happened to female empowerment? Fair enough, in the sexually-themed movies of the past, it was still the women who mostly disrobed for the camera, Michael Douglas's bottom notwithstanding, but
Fifty Shades of Grey
still felt like a retrograde step, no matter that it was aimed at women who lapped it up.
Let's be clear: not every woman lapped up this phenomenon, there were plenty who decried it and there was a reason used paperbacks of it and its sequels were cluttering up charity shops, but there was no denying there was a massive audience for it. So when the film arrived, it was a big enough hit to ensure every entry in the series was filmed too, with Dakota Johnson as the heroine, and Jamie Dornan as the billionaire lover whose tastes tend towards inflicting violence on women and telling them they should be enjoying it, which Johnson's Anastasia meekly goes along with. To refute the sexism charges, the studio hired a female director, Sam Taylor-Johnson, who notoriously argued with James about being allowed to alter things about the source to make them more cinematic, yet the writer refused to let anything be changed and it all had to be just as she demanded it. This may have been a problem in crafting a quality product.
Comedienne Sarah Millican, for instance, read the book and found it so violent she thought it should have been called Seven Shades of Shit. Nevertheless, some were surprised that it was not completely awful, and that might have been thanks to the director's endeavours to class it up and give its leading lady more agency. But it's really not enough, falling between two stools of salaciousness and supposed empowerment, when the real empowering was the fact that women were gathering their friends to attend a soft porn movie at the cinema, regardless of what the material was like. When Taylor-Johnson seeks the romance in what was basically a tawdry bit of successful filth written to be read one-handed, the results were less than convincing, and by toning down Anastasia's sexual humiliation and emphasising the relationship element, she did not eliminate the admission that sexual fantasies are not realistic.
And if you try and make them so, they simply look horrible, as they do here, no matter the expensive trappings of personal helicopter flights, priceless jewellery and modern artworks adorning the walls, since there was the creep at the heart of it dominating and stalking the girl he has around the place. While here he doesn't get to indulge himself in the violence he has been lusting after till more or less the end of the movie, that he has had it on his mind for the entire two-hour running time certainly doesn't excuse it, and all the wide-eyed "I can change him!" emoting from drippy Anastasia is indicative not of a naughty fantasy, but the excuses for domestic beatings the world over. Apparently this Christian Grey can get away with abusing women because he is rich. Not much of a message, and not much to get off on. As the world has grown simultaneously obsessed with and aghast at sex in all its forms, the sex cinema of the past does not look quaint, and what is supposed to be fun arrives with all sorts of baggage: that word "problematic" looms in almost everything that seeks to tackle the subject for entertainment now. It's getting so a guy (or girl) can't appreciate a Russ Meyer flick anymore, not even ironically, no matter that what people secretly watch online in the twenty-first century is a hundred times more extreme in order to satisfy jaded libidos. Maybe Russ does look quaint after all.
Graeme Clark.
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'Staycation' the holiday of choice for debt conscious Brits
Nearly four in ten (38%) of the British public is trying (or will try) to spend less on their holiday this year. Of those saving money 59% are choosing to holiday at home instead of abroad, according to a recent poll by R3, the insolvency trade body.
While those who have decided to venture to foreign waters, 71% are choosing less expensive accommodation, 66% are choosing a cheaper travel option and 60% are spending less money on eating out and activities once on holiday.
Frances Coulson, R3 President, comments:
"It's unsurprising that people are choosing to stay at home instead of holidaying abroad to cut down on their expenditure, given that we have seen consumers' disposable income become squeezed as a result of inflationary pressures.
"Consumers who are cutting back are already having a significant impact on the economy, as the latest drop in retail sales revealed. The nation deciding to stay at home might provide the much needed boost to the UK economy, particularly in tourist areas and coastal towns where insolvency levels rocketed during the recession."
R3's research found nearly a third (30%) of Britains' have chosen not to go on holiday at all, an increase from one in four (25%) people this time last year.
Frances Coulson said:
"People choosing not to have a holiday this year is likely to have grown out of necessity rather than choice. UK households will either simply not have the money to go on holiday as result of cuts to their disposable income or have decided to save their money in preparation for the difficult times ahead. R3's latest personal debt snapshot revealed only a quarter (25%) of consumers believe their financial situation will improve over the next six months.
"The money saved from spending less or not having a holiday at all will provide individuals with a financial 'buffer' in case they fall on hard times."
R3's holiday poll also revealed of those having a holiday this year, 1.8 million people (5%) will be borrowing to pay for it. They will on average borrow £1,581, an increase from £1,130 last year. This will take on average nine months to repay compared to an average of seven months last year. Of those going on holiday, the younger you are, the more likely you are to borrow money to pay for your holiday, with one in ten (10%) 16- 24 year olds borrowing money to pay for a holiday.
Frances Coulson continues:
"For those who have borrowed to pay for their holiday they should be aware of the high interest rates that may be charged. R3 members have seen an increase in the number of financial distressed individuals whose debts include loans."
For further information please contact:
Charlotte Towerton, R3 External Communications Officer
t: 020 7566 4203 m: 07918 161 291 e: email@example.com
Methodology note:
GfK NOP interviewed 1000 adults 16+ in the UK by telephone on 12th – 14th August 2011, and 1001 adults on 16th – 18th July 2010. Data has been weighted to bring it in line with national profiles.
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Manchester is one of the largest and richest cities in the North West of England.
It is home to more international students than any other area, except for London. You are sure to feel comfortable in our thriving, cosmopolitan city which offers endless opportunities in regards to entertainment and leisure. You can go shopping in one of our large, modern shopping malls (The Arndale Centre & Trafford Centre). You can attend a football match, with the opportunity to watch two of the world's greatest football teams, current Premier League champions Manchester City or world renown Manchester United. Or perhaps you would like to indulge in a bit of culture and visit one of our art galleries (The Lowry, Manchester Art Gallery), a museum (Manchester Museum, Museum of Science and Industry, The Urbis) or listen to music at one of our prestigious venues (MEN Arena)?
With our extensive public transport system, exciting … and affordable housing & living standards, you will discover just how perfect Manchester is for your time as a student.
Football lovers will enjoy Manchester as it is home to the current EPL champions, Manchester City and home to richest and most successful club in modern English football history- Manchester United. Bolton is not far away. Liverpool and Everton are also in the North West region- so plenty of football action for football fans. We want Kinnaird students to enjoy studying and living in the Manchester.
Museums and Galleries
Manchester has a wide selection of public museums and art galleries.
Manchester's museums celebrate Manchester's Roman history, rich industrial heritage and its role in the industrial revolution, the textile industry, the Trade Union movement, women's suffrage and football. In the Castlefield district, a reconstructed part of the Roman fort of Mamucium is open to the public in Castlefield. The Museum of Science and Industry, housed in the former Liverpool Road railway station, has a large collection of steam locomotives, industrial machinery and aircraft. The Museum of Transport displays a collection of historic buses and trams. Salford Quays, a short distance from the City Centre in the adjoining borough of Trafford, is home to the Imperial War Museum North. The Manchester Museum opened to the public in the 1880s, has notable Egyptology and natural history collections.
The Municipally-owned Manchester Art Gallery on Mosley Street houses a permanent collection of European painting, and has one of Britain's most significant collections of Pre-Raphaelite paintings.
In the south of the city, The Whitworth Art Gallery displays modern art, sculpture and textiles. Other exhibition spaces and museums in Manchester include the Corner house, the Urbis Centre, the Manchester Costume Gallery at Platt Fields Park, the People's History Museum, and the Manchester United Museum in Old Trafford football stadium and the Manchester Jewish Museum.
Manchester's main pop music venue is the Manchester Evening News Arena, situated next to Victoria station. It seats over 21,000, is the largest arena of its type in Europe, and has been voted International Venue of the Year. In terms of concert goers, it is the busiest indoor arena in the world ahead of Madison Square Garden in New York and the O2 Arena in London, the second and third busiest respectively. Other major venues include the Manchester Apollo and the Manchester Academy. Smaller venues are the Roadhouse, the Night and Day Cafe and the Ruby Lounge.
Manchester has two symphony orchestras, the Hallé Orchestra and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. There is also a chamber orchestra, the Manchester Camerata. In the 1950s, the city was home to the so-called 'Manchester School' of classical composers, which comprised Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies, David Ellis and Alexander Goehr. Manchester is a centre for musical education, with the Royal Northern College of Music and Chetham's School of Music. The main classical venue was the Free Trade Hall on Peter Street, until the opening in 1996 of the 2,500 seat Bridgewater Hall.
The night-time economy of Manchester has expanded significantly since about 1993, with investment from breweries in bars, public houses and clubs, along with active support from the local authorities. The more than 500 licensed premises in the City Centre have a capacity to deal with over 250,000 visitors, with 110–130,000 people visiting on a typical weekend night. The night-time economy has a value of about £100 million pa and supports 12,000 jobs.
What do you really know about the UK? Maybe a lot, maybe not much! Much of what we understand of another culture is from the media, television, radio and the internet. You may have travelled to the UK before for a holiday but living here is a totally new and exciting experience.
Your main priority whilst living in the UK will be your studies! For more information on preparing see Language and study skills.
But what is it like living in the North West and what is important to the British? An impossible question! We are a multi-cultural and multi-faith society. The North West has a slower pace of life, people talk more to each other and it rains a lot!
Performing Arts
Manchester's performing arts scene has come in leaps and bounds in recent years and many people now rate it as second only to London in the UK.
Two of the major theatres, the Palace and Opera House, concentrate on the 'blockbuster' shows, mainly emanating from London, but there are a whole host of smaller theatres putting on some excellent productions. The Royal Exchange is a wonderful 'theatre in the round' and has built up a huge reputation in critical circles. At one time it was somewhat highbrow in output but dwindling audiences forced a reappraisal and it now consistently schedules highly accessible but innovative material.
Smaller theatres such as the Library and the Contact complete an excellent portfolio of quality City Centre venues. A short tram-ride or drive away at Salford Quays is the stunning Lowry complex, which holds three separate theatres of varying sizes. Most productions are short-run and there is, therefore, an ever-changing, something for everybody, appeal about the Lowry. A spectacular, waterside, modern building, which is not just a theatre but a destination in its right. It includes an excellent art gallery displaying, amongst other exhibits. a superb collection of work by the great Salford artist LS Lowry.
Within the Greater Manchester area there are many other theatres, catering for all tastes. List and schedules of Manchester theatres. If you are interested in musical performance, there are many venues covering the entire range from classical through to popular music. The excellent and spectacular Bridgewater Hall houses the world famous Halle Orchestra, but is also the venue for quality music to suit all tastes, including classical, opera, World Music, Blues, Jazz and Folk. The Lowry, Palace and Opera House theatres also stage concerts and ballet alongside their theatrical offerings. The Royal Northern College of Music concentrates mainly on classical, jazz and world music.
Two large venues, the MEN Arena and GMex, are the main outlets for the 'stadium tours' of the top-selling popular artists, but even these can prove too small for some acts who, in summer, may utilise the 76,000 football stadium at Old Trafford, the 25,000 Lancashire Cricket Ground, also at Old Trafford, or the City of Manchester sports stadium at Eastlands. Many smaller venues, including the 2500 seat Manchester Apollo at Ardwick, provide a kaleidoscope of musical output.
Two Premiership football clubs, Manchester City and Manchester United, bear the city's name. Manchester City's home ground, the City of Manchester Stadium, is just outside Manchester City Centre in east Manchester and Manchester United's, Old Trafford, the largest club football ground in the United Kingdom, on the west side two miles from the City Centre.
The city hosted the 2002 Commonwealth Games, and athletics events took place at the City of Manchester Stadium, which is now home to Manchester City and sometimes referred to as Eastlands. Next to Eastlands lies the Manchester Regional Arena, which has been used for British athletics trials and the annual Paralympic World Cup which has been held in Manchester since 2005.
The city also hosts the annual Great Manchester Run which has been hosted since 2003 and has become one of the most popular 10 km runs in the UK. In addition, the city also hosts the annual Great City Games, featuring a 110m sprint track on Deansgate in Manchester City Centre.
Two teams play rugby league in the city, Manchester Rangers, an amateur club playing at Manchester Regional Arena, and Mancunians RL in the South of the city who ground share with Broughton Park Rugby Union F.C. at Hough End, Chorlton. Burnage Rugby Club play in National 3 and are based near Parrs Wood Entertainment Complex.
Manchester has an Olympic-standard swimming pool in the Manchester Aquatics Centre, built for the 2002 Commonwealth Games, which is now part of the University of Manchester. The university runs the University of Manchester Swimming Club at the aquatics centre which was formed in 1885. Old Trafford cricket ground, in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, was originally the home of Manchester Cricket Club, but became the home of Lancashire County Cricket Club in 1864 upon the club's formation. Built in 1856, the ground is on Talbot Road, Stretford. The National Cycling Centre includes a velodrome, BMX Arena and Mountainbike trials and is the home of British Cycling, UCI ProTeam Team Sky and Sky Track Cycling.
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Reading, Recordings and Inspiration
Mastery Recordings
9 Agreements Affirmations (which you can play directly from your phone).
The Breakthrough Book & recordings: www.pathofpeace.org/breakthrough
Mastery - Important Articles
Principles of Mastery (Please read in the 1st week)
Related Books and Recordings (our top recommendations)
Bonds that Make us Free - Terry Warner
How to Get What You Want and Want What You Have - John Gray
The Anatomy of Peace - from "Arbinger"
Crucial Conversations - Joseph Grenny
Hold Me Tight - Sue Johnson
The Big Leap - Gaye Hendrix
Love for No Reason - Marci Shimoff
Rich Dad / Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki
Sending the Right Message - The original "Book" in Google Docs format - This is a very old version of the original notes from about 1990. A lot of good stuff though, especially if you're on a two week vacation and have some time to read. Please note that the book was originally written for singles.
9 Agreements Supplement & other inspiration
The video above includes a story, at about 14 minutes in, where Agreement 3 (Boundaries) (from the employer's point of view) intersects with Agreement 9 (I Cause My World), from the employee's point of view. You will LOVE this.
Pure Inspiration
Below is for your lightsaber when you just need to quickly cut through the darkness- when you are stuck in your story of how the someone you care about has wronged you- when the universe is not cooperating with your will etc. all that kind of insanity- pop in here for some sudden inspiration.
1) This page is to provide resource options for your "inspirational input" in your A-choice routine.
2) There's a lot of LDS stuff on this page. Skip past it to something you're comfortable with if you're not LDS (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints). Better yet, please send me recommendations.
3) There are humor links too. I believe when a sudden light shines on something, or when we suddenly see the insanity of something, that it not only makes us laugh- it releases some of our own stories and insanity. Humor (good clean humor) is a major path to healing the real wounds.
Mastery Theme / Spiritually based
Welcome to Mastery - Leave it all on the field (the field of your life)
Elijah Principle - Fueling up, every day makes a huge difference
Naman (Video) from the LDS church 14 minutes.
The Light of God's Love - Told Sylvester's story. 6.5 minutes.
pure spiritual
Uchtdorf - Of Regrets and Resolutions
Jeffrey Holland - Lord I Believe
Brad Wilcox - His Grace is Sufficient
Craig Cardon - The Savior Wants to Forgive
Look to the Light 10 min. Elder Holland, Christmas message. He will never forsake us. Includes cool excerpts from Joseph Smith movie.
Finishing https://youtu.be/uOiBVElX8XM
Motivational Inspiration
Delightful commercial from a Thai Insurance Company
Moments that Matter Most http://youtu.be/l70e1TfN34w
Why do Dogs Bark? (Brian Regan)
Cake (Jim Gaffigan)
Emergency Room (Brian Regan)
Great Articles (Relates to…)
The Perfect Lie (Mastery)
The Hard Work of Silence (Agreement 2)
The Science of Happiness (Mastery)
Sacred (inspirational input)
Bible Videos (These are off the chart Start at the bottom. They are backwards in chronology)
Bruce McConkie - The Purifying Power of Gethsemane (This one has to be listened to with nothing else going on).


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Uncooperative or Hard-to-Find International Spouse? Navigating International Divorce Process with Hague Service Convention Process: Part 2
- by Melody Swilling
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Having your spouse waive service is the easiest way to start the process of an international divorce when your spouse lives somewhere other than the United States. This means that you can simply send your spouse an affidavit and documentation. Your spouse signs off on the waiver, gets it notarized, and you immediately start working on your divorce terms—just like how a divorce works domestically.
Unfortunately, life isn't so simple. Your international spouse may not cooperate with you and even hide, cutting off all communication. In that case, you'll need to rely on the processes dictated by the Hague Service Convention.
What's the Hague Service Convention? Agreed upon in 1965, the treaty facilitates the sharing of legal documents between countries without added diplomatic bureaucracy. However, that unfortunately doesn't necessarily mean the process goes quickly.
Do Your Best to Locate Your Spouse
You will need to make a best effort to locate your spouse in order to actually serve them your papers. If you don't locate your spouse, you may have more difficulty obtaining an child support, child custody, and assets from the court.
Get as much information as possible about your spouse's last known address through your knowledge, your research, help from friends and family, and cooperation with the local authorities located where your spouse lives.
How the Hague Service Convention Process Works
Assuming you've located your spouse and that the country where they live is part of the Hague Service Convention, the most common legal option under the Hague Convention for Service in another country is to work through its central authority to serve your divorce papers. This process assumes you're not able to use alternative methods.
You will:
- File all of your divorce papers as you normally would with your local court, usually in the county where you live.
- Translate your papers into your spouse's country's language, if requested by that country's central authority.
- Fill out the proper United States government paperwork and send your divorce papers to the country's central authority. Your attorney can help you with the exact forms, numbers of copies, and proper process for sending.
- A representative from your spouse's country's central authority will serve the papers to your spouse.
- Once signed by your spouse, those papers return to the United States and you can begin the divorce process.
Obstacles and Roadblocks
Sounds simple, right? It's not. Here are a few obstacles and roadblocks that you need to anticipate.
- It takes a long, long time. It's not unusual for the service to take six months or a year, depending on the country. Bureaucracies often work slowly, and central authorities can take ages compared to even our own judicial system.
- Central authorities often communicate extremely poorly. Did the central authority receive your papers? Where are they in the process? Why aren't they responding to email? It's not unusual to encounter unanswered emails and long periods of silence. You're on that country's central authority's timeframe, and it's often extremely slow.
- Complex logistics may differ from country to country. Each country has its own laws and procedures, which may complicate how you serve your papers. Filing requirements, types of documents, and communication processes may all differ from country to country—and you'll need to work within the parameters of those requirements.
When possible, look for alternate ways to serve your papers. But if you need to work with a country's central authority as part of following the Hague Service Convention, just know that you may need a lot of time and some sunk costs upfront to eventually achieve your goal. Have patience, work with the system—no matter how frustrating— and make sure an attorney helps you through the most difficult challenges. Call us for a consultation if you need an attorney for a case involving the Hague Convention Service.


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Meet Jennifer Schiff
Tuesday, June 5th from 4-6
We're having a PARTY for local author Jennifer Schiff and her new release Something Fishy, A Sanibel Island Mystery. Join us for some great conversation and fun, cozy mystery. It makes a great gift!
Tuesday, June 5th from 6-7
If you've read Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney we invite you to join us for book club from 6-7.


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About US
O N E & O T H E R's first collection, spring/summer 2017, was resently launched and second drop is now in stores. The vision is to offer trendy womens wear with high focus on function and durability - a sustainable choice with timeless design. We are dedicated to creating clothes that last longer than one season, and want to offer our customers products they can invest in, that they will enjoy season after season. Our ambition is to continuously develop attractive, trendy products with an international design, promoted by the best fashion basics. We are looking for those of you who are in the market for quality, comfort and a trendy but personal style.


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Inspiration: Lost Generation in Paris
Paris in the 1920's, following the first World War, was plagued with an exodus of expats from many countries. They started planting their feet for two decades of Fun, Love, Vision and Passion. From Paris, a new literary and artistic revolution would sprout from the Cafe's and Clubs. As I mentioned before the term Lost Generation was coined by scion Gertrude Stein who was spiritual and physical epicenter of the Lost Generation in Paris. Her home or salon was graced by some of the most amazing thinkers, artisans and writers of their time.
This circle of young 20-30 somethings saw the end of the first World War and looked to Paris for not only inspiration but to find a rebirth. The likes of the Fitzgerald's, Murphy's and Hemingway's were visionaries and would help usher in the Cafè Society to the late 30's. To name drop, the circle did not discriminate. From artists like Picasso and Braque, writers like T.S. Elliot & Remarque and performance artists like Isadora Duncan and Josephine Baker. Art movements such as Surrealism and Art Deco were born and several movements planted their seeds in Paris during this period. Most notably, Tristan Tzara brought Dada right after WWI. It flourished through the 1920's. From Dada sprung politically inspired demonstrators and performers, voices that powered artists in the second World War and painted targets on their backs.
Some of the haunts for this large crowd were mostly located in Montmartre & Montparnasse. Popular restaurants in Montmartre were Le Trou dans la Mur (Which is now a wine bar) and over in Montparnasse was Closerie des Lilas & The Dingo (where Hemmingway and Fitzgerald first met and started their friendship.) Other notable haunts were Maxim's around the corner from the Place de la Concorde, Lipp's and Harry New York Bar. Sadly this world of greatness on the streets of Paris has not been a popular topic in Film. I would recommend checking out Midnight in Paris. A delicious film but purely fictional, well almost. If I ever had a choice to go back in time to a certain period, Paris in the 20's is certainly on the top of my list. The passion and life that lived during this period is extremely potent.
This time and place was a strong inspiration for the cabaret. One could easily choose the Belle Époque as an obvious choice but this period of Paris still had the Moulin Rouge on top of it's game and the literature, art and fashion from this period is abundant. You can draw so much from this period.


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Flipping bizarre
An interesting little development on one of the story lines from The Hockey Stick Illusion. In Chapter 14, I tell the story of one of Michael Mann's later attempts at creating a hockey stick shaped temperature curve - Mann 2008. This paper is not as well-known as the Hockey Stick itself, of course, but has become fairly notorious because of an oddity in Mann's algorithm. Because of the way it works, the algorithm is unable to detect the orientation of the proxy series in a dataset and in the case of Mann 2008, this failing had some unfortunate consequences, namely that some of the series ended up upside-down, with what would normally have been read as declining temperatures flipped over so that they looked like warming.
This error was picked up extremely quickly by Climate Audit readers, and McIntyre included this point in a formal comment on the paper. The correction didn't, however, prevent an identical error being made in a later paper, Kaufman 2009, which was written by some of the same authors as Mann 2008 (although not the HockeyStickMeister himself).
McIntyre's comment was accepted for publication but received a brief dismissal from Mann et al, who said that his observation was "bizarre".
Now, however, the story has moved on slightly. Kaufman has admitted the error in his paper and has just published a correction (although without mentioning McIntyre). Interestingly though, some of the Scandinavian scientists involved in collecting the original data series have revealed that they have been discussing the problem with Raymond Bradley, an author on both the Mann 2008 and Kaufman 2009 papers. Bradley, it seems, has told Professor Matti Saarnisto that the error was not deliberate, an explanation that the Finn is trying hard to accept.
Well, when Bradley says so to me, I don't doubt even a slightest moment. I hold him in high regard. He is one of the best paleoclimate researchers, and … a frequent visitor in Finland.
Well, absolutely, but with the same error happening again and again, one does start to wonder. Certainly Saarnisto seems troubled.
It has been turned twice upside-down in Science, and now I doubt if it can be a mistake anymore.
It's fair to say that this position is probably widely shared. Lady Bracknell might have something to say about this: "To flip one proxy series may be regarded as a misfortune, Dr Bradley, to flip two...." And in fact the error has been observed no less than three times now. One hates to think what Lady Bracknell would think of that.
But if this isn't bad enough, there's an even sharper sting in the tail. If Bradley, one of Mann's co-authors on the 2008 paper, says the error was inadvertent, how is it that when he and Mann responded to McIntyre's comment on that paper, they described the idea that some of the proxies were upside down as "bizarre"?


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Our two-week journey begins in Jordan exploring the lost city of Petra, viewing the promised land from Mt Nebo and encountering Amman. We will then travel across the Jordan River into Israel and to such places as Jericho, Masada, the Dead Sea, the city of Jerusalem, The Sea of Galilee and to so many more places that we encounter in God's Word. We, along with local expert guides, will help deepen your understanding of the life & ministry of Jesus as we travel in the footsteps of God's people of both the Old and New Testaments. Share in a wonderful experience which will leave you with insights & memories for a lifetime.
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When it comes to inspiring dining and drinking experiences, there are few cities to match London. We've added to this rich tapestry with two outstanding venues – Provisioners restaurant and our Courtroom bar.
The menu at Provisioners reflects its surroundings, combining timeless classics with modern flavours. At the Courtroom bar, you'll find a fantastic selection of delicious cocktails, to be sipped in an atmosphere of wood-panelled heritage.
Prefer your own space? Then get great food and drink delivered straight to your room, 24 hours a day.
A unique restaurant and coffee bar where form follows function. Needless flourishes are left at the door, as classic design helps you clear away everything and focus on the here and now. Dishes influenced by the very best that Europe has to offer, in a space that speaks of the beauty of utility and style.
Provisioners offers decadent breakfasts, lunches to savour and comforting dinners, alongside moreish snacks and our very own Shakedown coffee. Many ingredients are locally sourced, seasonal and all are selected for freshness. It's food that highlights the best of British, nestled next to the very best Mediterranean flavours.Visit Provisioners
Crafted cocktails and a marble-clad sunken bar beneath the judge's original oak canopy – The Dixon's Courtroom bar is a cocktail bar like no other.
This old Magistrates' Courtroom was where petty criminals received their punishment – just take a look at the mugshots on the walls for proof. The original wood panelling remains, and the judge's bench has been transformed into a bar. It's a restoration those faces on the walls would approve of.
As well as cocktails, a wide selection of the world's most revered spirits all vie for your attention. Like the signature Espresso Martini, made with our very own Shakedown Coffee. Brewed just feet from the original jail cells, Shakedown is our own brand of coffee that is selected and roasted by our team of baristas.
Struggling to decide? Our expert bartenders at this unique bar know everything there is to know about mixing you the perfect drink.


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First Responder Wellness Night
November 21, 2018 @ 6:45 pm - 9:00 pm
First Responder Wellness Night
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The Waterloo Region Suicide Prevention Council and Waterloo Fire Rescue and pleased to be partnering to host a First Responder Wellness Night.
This night will include an information fair and two speakers and will focus on how to build and maintain wellness for those working in First Responder roles and their families.
Refreshments will be provided. This event is free to attend, and is open to anyone who identifies as being in a First Responder role (including, but not limited to, fire rescue workers, paramedics, police, emergency room staff, crisis workers, corrections officers, and military personnel / veterans).
When working in professions where the expectation is to be tough and endure through the traumas you see, we hope to spend an evening emphasizing the importance of wellness, connectivity, and accountability as we acknowledge we all have vulnerabilities and talk about how we can work together to promote wellbeing.
Event Schedule:
6:45pm Doors open, information booths & refreshments set up
7:10pm-7:30pm Guest Speaker: Mike Denomme
7:45-8:45pm Guest Speaker: Scott Chisholm
About the Speakers:
Mike Denomme is one of the founders of the KW Legacy Group, and is a strong supporter of the Waterloo Region Suicide Prevention Council. Mike is an accountant by trade, an extrovert by nature, a die-hard sports fan, and a father. Mike draws on his lived experience of depression within his message which focuses on the importance of connectivity and of being accountable to those we care about as we all can experience unexpected times of vulnerability in life.
Scott Chisholm is the founder of Collateral Damage, a charitable organization that uses storytelling to create a proactive dialogue about suicide. Scott is also a survivor of suicide loss, a renowned speaker, and a first responder. Scott has worked as a paramedic and later a fire rescue worker, most recently with Thunder Bay Fire Rescue. Scott shares insights on how to maintain wellness within a role where toughness is valued, and on the need for openness in dialogue around mental health and wellness.


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Smelling of roses: Perfume with no hidden nasties
Your favourite fragrance may smell sweet, but it could be polluting your home.
Many perfumes and scented candles contain petroleum-derived substances – paraffin wax is used to make candles, for example – and there are concerns about the fumes. One laboratory study found paraffin candles could give off chemicals linked to lung cancer and asthma, although only very extensive use could cause health issues.
The alternative? Go organic with fine fragrances that use natural ingredients. Brands such as Prosody London, which launched at Fortnum & Mason on Monday, use essential oils, beeswax and coconut wax, which burn more cleanly.
The Mocha Muscari Eau de Parfum (right, £175, prosodylondon.com) features musky notes of coffee, sandalwood and lavender.
Or try the Apricot Ardour candle (left, £75, prosodylondon.com), inspired by a sunbaked afternoon.


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On our last day, Maree worked on her appliqué border for her version of French Market Medallion
and Maree stitched more stars too.
Heather stitched up some hexagons
GJ was paper piecing too, another centre for her La Passacaglia
is the start of Vintage Stars
Fleur cut and stitched more Steampunk blocks
then put all her blocks so far up on the design wall
Janine had a wonderful array of fabrics to choose from
for another Noughts and Crosses block, making it 4 for the weekend
and she showed us her almost finished Guinevere
much to Maree's relief I cut out squares for Kendall Farm
Even though there were just left overs, lunch still looked and tasted delicious!
And as the previous day's cactus flower waned
it was time to pack up and head home. Such a productive weekend! Thanks to my fellow Sewjourn-ers for a great time!
Tune in tomorrow for The Fashion Shoot!!
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The ability provide retains things in your laptop working easily. Their HyperX FURY DDR4 line of reminiscence is the right stability between pace and affordability and it'll undoubtedly do its part to carry you a really perfect in-game experience with out bottlenecking your different parts. So, in the event you're taking a look at these builds you can guess they'll offer you most efficiency for the budget you have set.
With that being stated, I like to recommend at least 8GB of RAM and if you're planning on doing any video editing, or you wish to setup a RAM disc, then I like to recommend going with either 16GB or 32GB. And, if you aren't planning on overclocking, the i5-6400 (or any of the other locked Intel CPUs talked about above) will allow you to go along with a cheaper H170 (or even H110) motherboard.
We put it through a 200 point inspection to ensure that your PC runs completely the first time you turn it on. One thing that players who're attempting build the greatest gaming desktop potential often ask, is whether or not sooner reminiscence has any effect on in-game efficiency The reply to that question is: not in a big approach (more often than not).
We'd usually recommend a cool GTX 1070 gaming card as a combo, nonetheless given present prohibitive GPU costs, our major pick has gone to a GTX 1060 3GB which should fulfill most whereas protecting the budget affordable. You can run a high-end video card.
Overclocking is utilized by lovers to realize component or system performance that exceeds the producer's said or "official" specification. For gaming, a better frequency of memory than can be necessary for an average laptop person can offer some advantages. The good news is that there are many excessive-finish processor options you've if you happen to're building a top-notch gaming laptop.


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Aluminium everlasting wallet photo card with wording
This gorgeous photo wallet card is a perfect everlasting gift, sized exactly like a credit card it will slot perfectly into a purse or wallet. Much more sturdier than a stanard wallet photo and comes complete with your own text wording underneath. Choose from either brushed silver or brushed gold
Important - Please make sure your photo is a portrait photo (not landscape) please make sure your photo is not a screenshot. If your photo does not fit the card we will crop to make it fit the best way possible, if you are unsure please contact us first. Emoji's can not be printed onto the cards.
Comes with a buff A7 envelope and fits prefectly into a birthday card!
Size 54 x 85 x 0.5mm
Materials - Aluminium with quality inks
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Easy | Servings: 6 | Ready In: 20 minutes | Yield: 5 cups
Colorful, crisp Easter Egg radishes pair with grilled sweet corn for this light summer salad. A simple dressing from fresh lime juice and a kick of chili powder help keep this oil-free side healthy and low-fat. Enjoy this plant-based recipe at your next picnic or enjoy as a gluten-free, vegan lunch over baby spinach.
- 3 ears Sweet Corn
- 5 Easter Egg Radishes
- 2 Scallions, sliced
- 2 tablespoons Cilantro
- 1 Lime, juiced
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to season
How it's Done:
To grill the Corn: Preheat a grill or grill pan over medium-high heat. Shuck the corn and remove the silks, if needed. Grill the corn for 15 minutes, rotating every 5-7 minutes, until golden brown on most of the ears. Remove from the grill and set aside to cool a few minutes. You can prepare the rest of your salad ingredients while the corn cools
To make the Easter Egg Radish Salad: Scrub the radishes and trim off the bottoms. Using a mandolin slicer, hold the small green stem end of one radish and carefully slice the radish. Repeat with remaining radishes.
Slice the scallions and chop the cilantro. In a large bowl, combine the radish slices, scallions, cilantro, and chili powder. Juice the lime into the bowl.
When the corn is cool enough to handle, carefully cut the kernels off of the cobs. Combine the corn kernels with the sliced radish mix. Toss well, and serve.
Yield: 5 cups
Chef Katie's Tips
Too Much Spice? If you're not a fan of spicy or smoky flavor, drop the chili powder. You can substitute with sweet paprika or just omit completely.
Not Corn Season? This recipe celebrates the sweet, delicious flavor of fresh summer corn, during the height of the season. However, you can make it year-round, using frozen corn kernels. For the roasted flavor, roast the kernels in a 425F oven for 8 minutes, until golden brown.
Radish Variations: This salad holds up really well, even after a few days. For more variety, experiment with different radishes. Watermelon radishes, French breakfast radishes, and purple heirloom radishes offer beautiful color. Black radishes add an extra spicy kick.
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Nutrition Facts
Serving size: 1/6 recipe (about 3/4 cup)
Amount Per Serving
Calories 45.57
Calories From Fat (13%) 5.96
% Daily Value
- Total Fat 0.71g 1%
- Saturated Fat 0.16g <1%
- Cholesterol 0mg 0%
- Sodium 9.42mg <1%
- Potassium 167.51mg 5%
- Total Carbohydrates 10.31g 3%
- Fiber 1.57g 6%
- Sugar 3.19g
- Protein 1.75g 4%
- Calcium 8.57mg <1%
- Iron 10.11mg 56%
- Vitamin A 371.21IU 7%
- Vitamin C 0.66mg 1%
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- Salt-Free Chili Powder, 16 Oz
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Will Bruce Rauner Stand Up to Trump's After-School Cuts?
Chicago, IL – For the second year in a row, Donald Trump proposed eliminating a federally funded after-school program, and Bruce Rauner has shown no sign of standing up to Trump's senseless cuts.
Rauner himself has eliminated after school programs in his proposed budgets every year he's been governor, so it's no surprise he's once again cowering to Trump and ignoring the fact that failing to fund 21st Century Community Learning Centers could hurt 1,500 students in Springfield alone.
"Bruce Rauner and Donald Trump are partners in crisis, attempting to slash critical after-school programs that help our students succeed," said Pritzker campaign spokeswoman Jordan Abudayyeh. "Illinoisans deserve a governor who will invest in our children's success, and JB will be that leader for Illinois."


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Call for Volunteers
Help us with the Austin Polish Film Festival!
You'll have an opportunity to gain a valuable work experience and meet amazing people. We're looking for friendly and communicative individuals to work at various stages of the festival production. Don't worry if you don't have any experience – members of our staff will give you all the necessary support and guidance.
Benefits of volunteering at APFF
Being a volunteer at the APFF gives you, among other things, an opportunity to meet interesting filmmakers from Poland and experience and learn the inner workings of preparing and running a large cultural event. Moreover, as a volunteer you get to watch some of the festival screenings after your working hours. After the festival and successfully completing your assignments, each of you can get a certificate or personal references which confirm your volunteer work.
Working 20 or more hours total earns you a free festival pass.
Click here to see a list of typical tasks for which we need volunteers.
If you have any questions, contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com
Application Form
We respect your privacy. Your information will not be shared with anyone.
We have multiple volunteering positions currently and during the festival (November 8-11 & 11). We can definitely utilize any of your skills, passions or hobbies.
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In an attempt to encourage as much business as possible from as many different places as possible, your firm might accept a broad range of currencies and payment methods. However, you might still have overlooked the worth of accepting crytocurrency, a catch-all term for various digital currencies.
You might already consider your business ahead of the curve in what forms of payment it accepts; for example, it might welcome emerging systems of mobile payment like Apple Pay and Google Pay. However, if you have long overlooked cryptocurrency, here are good reasons to start thinking seriously about it.
A rudimentary rundown of cryptocurrency
Your business might already readily take "normal" currencies, like US dollars and UK pounds, on a regular basis. Like those currencies, cryptocurrency can be exchanged for goods or services online. So far, so unremarkable… right? However, cryptocurrency also – befitting its name – utilises various cryptographic principles to secure transactions, CCN explains.
These principles even allow new coins to be created. The cryptocurrency with which you might be most familiar is bitcoin; indeed, when created in 2009, it was the first cryptocurrency. However, hundreds more cryptocurrencies have been introduced since bitcoin was made. The solely digital makeup of cryptocurrency has given it various advantages unavailable with traditional currencies.
A currency that encourages future stability
The value of the standard currency in your hand can fluctuate for various reasons that, in a practical sense, are well beyond your own influence or control. For example, due to centralised banking such as the Federal Reserve System, a government could affect that value through printing fiat money.
However, cryptocurrency, by contrast, is completely decentralised. In other words, no organisations like financial institutions or state bodies stand between the money and the person who owns it. This is possible due to the use of the technology called blockchain; this is the foundation of bitcoin and means that financial transactions can be conducted without a bank, as explained on Entrepreneur.
Whereas a hike in production of a conventional currency can inflate its value, a cryptocurrency will typically see a production drop as time progresses. As a result, the value of cryptocurrency can be less prone to inconvenient fluctuations and so this currency can be more future-proof. This hints that, with increased use of cryptocurrency, your firm can better safeguard its future.
More prompt and hassle-free payment
Despite the digital nature of cryptocurrency, it has many merits in common with traditional cash. For example, there is less need for you to worry about transaction fees that could eat into your takings and, thus, profit margins. With cryptocurrency, you can say goodbye to such fees of 2-3% when dealing with customers using traditional payment methods.
Usually, bitcoin transactions incur fees of only 1% to 0%. Yes, those really are accurate figures – and the reason for such cost-saving is that a bank is not required to verify a transaction and, thus, you would not be obliged to give a cut of the money to a financial institution. Nonetheless, you might have the option of speeding up the transaction by paying a fee that, reassuringly, is extremely small.
On the subject of speed, you can become thoroughly accustomed to it when handling cryptocurrency transactions. Again, due to the absence of any verifying middleman organisation, you don't have to wait as long for the payment to reach you. Furthermore, once a bitcoin transaction has been made, a customer can't contest it if they are disgruntled with your service.
A thoroughly secure form of currency
These days, a lot of emphasis is placed on the security that various methods of payment can provide. For example, you might have noticed how Apple promotes the security of its payment method Apple Pay, where you authenticate a transaction by letting a mobile device's sensor read your fingerprint.
Security concerns are understandable when you are running a business and so often handling money that you would prefer never to lose to theft. However, as cryptocurrency is encrypted, it can be much more difficult to steal than a wallet containing cash, Nasdaq reassures. In fact, the strongest transaction mechanisms available are those using cryptocurrency.
The pseudo-anonymity of cryptocurrency has helped to ensure its security. Indeed, the anonymity of some coins has been further bolstered through additional features – and cryptocurrency also has the benefit of being less vulnerable to seizure at the hands of law enforcement.
If cryptocurrency does let you keep more of your money, you could pour saved money into other projects that could help to protect your corporate security in other ways. You could, for example, take out additional forms of business insurance beyond any that are legally mandatory in your home country anyway. An insurance broker like Be Wiser Business Insurance, which is based in the United Kingdom, can firms find policies that are especially worthwhile financially.
You can significantly broaden your potential market
You are probably already well aware that, by limiting your target market to that of the country where your company is currently based, you can unnecessarily limit your financial takings. The subject of casting your net wide is one we previously touched upon when we highlighted why your business might not want to shy away from accepting a broad variety of payment options.
However, you might still have underestimated just how far your reach could extend if you welcome cryptocurrency payments. Over time, more and more people have been obtaining mobile devices which they have then connected online to let themselves carry out financial transactions. We can expect this trend to continue – and cryptocurrency could, as a result, soon rise further in popularity.
As cryptocurrency is especially intended for use in low cost transactions, many people connecting to the Internet for the first time could come to strongly favour using it when they make payments. Cryptocurrency could, for example, soon especially take hold in the developing world, like mobile phone technology quickly grew in use through that part of the planet in the 1990s and 2000s.


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In the fast-paced and morbidly kitschy game Hit Z Road, you and your fellow players embark on a road trip going south from Chicago along America's famous Route 66 — now infested by zombies. As you travel though a deck of adventure cards rife with dangers, you battle zombie hordes, drive abandoned school buses, scavenge for gas and bullets, and explore a darkened, tainted American countryside full of shambling undead, haunted carnivals, and plumes of toxic gas. Your goal is to stay alive until you reach the safe, sandy beaches of the California coast.
Three different stages of adventure cards create an experience of increasing difficulty and ensure that each playthrough is unique. Each round begins with an auction that determines both player order and which cards you will encounter. Since the resources used for bidding are the same as those used to battle the oncoming zombie hordes, your survival depends as much on your resource management as it does upon winning those bidding wars. The player who either accumulates the most points or survives the longest wins.
Zombies of all types await, with cannibals, anti-personnel mines and radioactive wastes also being among the hazards awaiting the players. Who will survive the zombie onslaught?
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Year: 2016
Players: 1 - 4
Time: 60 minutes
Ages: 12 and up
Weight: 860 grams


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By Angela L. Braden
One of the first history lessons children in American schools learn is the sensational history of the United States of America. While the history of America predates the pilgrims settling in Jamestown, most historians tell the story of America as if it begins with the first group of white men, who traveled from Europe to begin a new and prosperous life on a land that was free and available for exploration and colonization.
That well constructed narrative that is taught in our American schools also explores how these white men desired to live independently from their colonial big brother, who sought to control the political and financial rulings of America from across the pond. Although America benefitted from the initial investments of Britain, the new country desired to be free from the taxation of another country. So, the tension ensued as the younger country became more and more unwilling to be forced to be dependent on another country.
Ironically enough, America was enslaving thousands of Africans, who were being stolen from their homeland and brought to America to work as slaves during the same time they were whining and crying for freedom from Great Britain. And even more ironically, when the two factions decided that bloodshed was worth the price to fight for liberty or continued dependence, a #black man was the first to die, defending America's fight to be liberated from the so called tyranny of Great Britain.
Crispus Attucks, a free person of color, is commonly known as the first casualty in America's effort to free herself from Great Britain. And while American schools teach that Attucks was the first casualty, many of them leave out the fact that he was half Black and half Native American.
It is unclear if Attucks was born a free person of color or if he was a runaway slave. However, one thing is clear is that Attucks died for a country that sought to enslave him and the women, men, and children that shared his African ancestry. Likewise, Attucks died for a country that did everything in their power to pillage his Native American ancestors.
Attucks is a martyr for the American Revolution. But his bloodshed did nothing to free the millions that possessed his heritage. Meanwhile, his death holds major significance for the countless white men and women, who eventually won their freedom from Great Britain. How ironic!


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God has richly provided throughout the ministry's history, especially in the process of acquiring locations.
Over the last 25 years, DTM has seen many changes; like the parable of the mustard seed, it started small and has grown in unexpected ways, all by the work of the Lord.
We have always encouraged the volunteers from each ministry group under the Downtown Ministries umbrella to engage our community personally, individually, intentionally.
"I love God and people and art and Fresh Grounds is all of that together." - Maddie Dangrow, 19
Fresh Grounds' motto, "Caffeine for the Soul," is not only a great catch phrase but is indicative of the unique aroma that is the desire of this couple who have dedicated their lives to the mission field in Greenville.
Each year comes with new challenges, but God continues to provide as His Word is faithfully wrapped and placed into the hands of young people just beginning their adult lives.
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- What is something God has been teaching you through your Bible reading this week?
- How has last week's sermon on friendship been resonating with you throughout this past week? Have you had any specific circumstances when the Lord allowed you to apply a truth from the sermon to your life?
- When were you pressured into making a rash decision and how did it turn out for you? Conversely, when were you tempted to make a rash decision, yet were able to walk away?
- What cultural or family traditions/beliefs have you allowed to impact your decision-making? What decisions have you made that perhaps need to be re-examined in light of Biblical truth?
- How have the experiences of others served to guide you in your life - either keeping you from calamity or guiding you toward God-honoring decisions?
- What decisions are you currently facing that you need to seek wise counsel?


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10th Wave proposal:
Sort of pop-ish:
please note - although these demos use samples of acoustic instruments, in this iteration they are conceived as electronic music (so considerations aren't given for idiomatic writing, humanly-possible speed, etc.). Any arrangements of these pieces for live players would adapt the material appropriately
Today is Sunday
We're from the internet
Bridges and borders
Through-composed ensemble pieces:
Hi ('smile' video piece)
New work - chamber music with quad mono electroacoustic accomp. (1 speaker per player, 'U' arrangement)
Ensemble pieces with improvisation/open structure:
A RAINBOW T-REX (esnemble riffs/driving unison rhythms - improvisation on fragments)
Donnie is out of his element (ensemble hammer blows and live cued audio samples)


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Cases & Commentaries
Discharging Our Responsibility
- Web M&M
Gregg C. Fonarow, MD; September 2007
An elderly man with a history of hypertension, coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure (CHF), and countless hospital admissions for CHF came to the emergency department complaining of shortness of breath and fatigue. The admitting physician discovered that the patient had never received clear education about caring for himself outside the hospital.
Cases & Commentaries
Anticoagulation: Held Too Long
- Web M&M
Andrew S. Dunn, MD; April 2010
An elderly woman with a history of mitral valve replacement with a mechanical prosthesis was admitted to the hospital for evaluation of abdominal pain. Although an order was written to stop her blood thinner and restart it 48 hours after the procedure, the medication was not restarted.
Cases & Commentaries
"Superficial" Report Leads to "Deep" Problem
- Web M&M
Gurpreet Dhaliwal, MD; December 2009
Physicians confuse the terminology on a preliminary radiology report and diagnose a woman with foot and ankle pain as having a low-risk case of superficial vein thrombosis, rather than the more dangerous deep vein thrombosis she actually had.
Cases & Commentaries
Paradoxical Pulse
- Web M&M
Christopher Roy, MD; February 2011
A week after successful pacemaker placement, an elderly man developed chest pain and was admitted to the hospital without having an urgent echocardiogram. Although providers felt that he "looked fine," the patient became acutely hypotensive, developed ventricular tachycardia and pulseless electrical activity, and required emergent resuscitative measures for cardiac tamponade.
Cases & Commentaries
What Happened on Telemetry?
- Spotlight Case
- Web M&M
by Kristin E. Sandau, PhD, RN, and Marjorie Funk, PhD, RN; April 2019
An elderly woman with a history of dementia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hypertension, and congestive heart failure (CHF) was brought to the emergency department and found to meet criteria for sepsis. Due to her CHF, she was admitted to a unit with telemetry monitoring, which at this institution was performed remotely. When the nurse came to check the patient's vital signs several hours later, she found the patient to be unresponsive and apneic, with no palpable pulse. A Code Blue was called, but the patient died. Although the telemetry technician had recognized progressive bradycardia and called the hospital floor several minutes before the code, he was placed on hold because the nurse was busy with another patient. While he was holding, he observed worsening bradycardia, eventually transitioning to asystole, and tried to redial the unit, but no one answered.
Newspaper/Magazine Article
Saving lives: hospitals have signed on to a six-part plan to avoid a multitude of unnecessary deaths.
Comarow A. US News & World Report. July 18, 2005;139:74,76,79.
This article, accompanying the widely read ranking of "America's Best Hospitals," describes the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's 100,000 Lives Campaign. Focusing on the six practices promoted by the campaign, it reviews the progress to date, with a particular focus on two participating hospitals' (Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey and McLeod Regional Medical Center in South Carolina) experiences in implementing the practices.
Journal Article > Study
Weekend versus weekday admission and mortality from myocardial infarction.
Kostis WJ, Demissie K, Marcella SW, Shao YH, Wilson AC, Moreyra AE, for the Myocardial Infarction Data Acquisition System (MIDAS 10) Study Group. N Engl J Med. 2007;356:1099-1109.
The authors examined New Jersey hospital discharge data for acute myocardial infarction and found that patients admitted on the weekend had higher mortality and were less likely to receive invasive treatment.
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Delayed time to defibrillation after in-hospital cardiac arrest.
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Chan PS, Krumholz HM, Nichol G, Nallamothu BK, and American Heart Association National Registry of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Investigators. N Engl J Med. 2008;358:9-17.
Delays in treatment are common and pose a significant threat to patient safety. This study evaluated nearly 7000 patients who experienced a cardiac arrest due to ''shockable'' rhythms, and discovered an alarming rate of delays to defibrillation. Noted in 30% of cases, delays were associated with noncardiac admitting diagnoses, care received in an unmonitored unit, and occurrence after hours or on the weekend. Patients who received delays in treatment were ultimately found to have lower rates of survival after the in-hospital arrest. The study findings raise numerous opportunities for systems improvement, including better training of code teams with simulation methods, and particular attention to such training in teaching institutions. A study in the pediatric literature demonstrated similar delays around resuscitative efforts.
Journal Article > Study
Survival from in-hospital cardiac arrest during nights and weekends.
Peberdy MA, Ornato JP, Larkin GL, et al; for National Registry of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Investigators. JAMA. 2008;299:785-792.
This study discovered that survival rates from in-hospital cardiac arrest are lower during nights and weekends, suggesting a need to further examine existing resuscitative systems during those times.
Journal Article > Study
Rescue me: saving the vulnerable non-ICU patient population.
Bader MK, Neal B, Johnson L, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2009;35:199-205.
A nurse-led rapid response team achieved significant reductions in cardiac arrests and unanticipated ICU transfers at a community hospital.
Journal Article > Commentary
ISMP medication error report analysis.
Cohen MC. Hosp Pharm. 2009;44:374-378.
This monthly selection of medication error reports includes examples of drug name confusion, communication failures, and insulin pen misuse.
Journal Article > Study
Did duty hour reform lead to better outcomes among the highest risk patients?
Volpp KG, Rosen AK, Rosenbaum PR, et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2009;10:1149-1155.
The safety impact of the ACGME trainee work hour restrictions remains controversial due to contrasting findings that have suggested benefit, harm, and no significant impact. This observational study analyzed all Medicare patients admitted to acute care facilities with a predefined set of primary diagnoses to estimate the 30-day mortality among high-severity medical admissions and the failure to rescue in postoperative surgical admissions. Investigators found no significant harm or benefit to patients with higher-severity illness compared with those with lower risk among both the medical and surgical patients. A past AHRQ WebM&M perspective discussed the impact of fatigue and extended shifts among trainees on the incidence of medical errors.
Hospital Performance Report.
Trenton, NJ: New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services; March 2012.
Detailing results of an error reporting initiative in New Jersey, this annual report explains how consumers can use this information and provides tips for safety when obtaining health care. A supplement highlights findings related to patient safety indicators.
Journal Article > Study
A reduction in cardiac arrests and duration of clinical instability after implementation of a paediatric rapid response system.
Hanson CC, Randolph GD, Erickson JA, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2009;18:500-504.
The effect of rapid response systems on clinical outcomes in adult patients remains controversial, but prior studies in children's hospitals have shown a significant benefit. This pediatric study found fewer cardiac arrests after implementing a rapid response team (RRT) consisting of a critical care physician, nurse, and respiratory therapist. Presence of the RRT also resulted in unstable patients being evaluated more promptly; earlier evaluation has been correlated with improved outcomes in prior studies. Though not formally requiring a rapid response system, The Joint Commission does require that all hospitals maintain a system for rapid evaluation of unstable patients as one of the National Patient Safety Goals.
Journal Article > Study
Nurse decision making in the prearrest period.
Gazarian PK, Henneman EA, Chandler GE. Clin Nurs Res. 2010;19:21-37.
This qualitative study explored the cues that nurses use to determine when a patient's clinical condition is worsening, with specific attention to factors influencing nurses' decisions to obtain assistance from the rapid response team or call a "code blue." Rather than relying on specific vital sign abnormalities, nurses relied on a combination of clinical findings (such as altered mental status), help from other experienced nurses, and their prior knowledge of the patient's baseline condition to determine when urgent physician assessment was needed. The study reveals the importance of a positive safety culture in ensuring that frontline staff feel empowered to enlist additional help when necessary.
Journal Article > Study
Critical incidents related to cardiac arrests reported to the Danish Patient Safety Database.
Andersen PO, Maaløe R, Andersen HB. Resuscitation. 2010;81:312-316.
Analysis of incident reports revealed common types of errors in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and identified areas for education and further training.
Journal Article > Commentary
Wise before the event.
Watts G. BMJ. 2010;340:c1378.
In the context of recent news about patient safety efforts, including checklists, this article describes factors that affect adoption of safety initiatives.
Journal Article > Study
Using in situ simulation to improve in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Lighthall GK, Poon T, Harrison TK. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2010;36:209-216.
Journal Article > Commentary
Confusion about epinephrine dosing leading to iatrogenic overdose: a life-threatening problem with a potential solution.
Kanwar M, Irvin CB, Frank JJ, Weber K, Rosman H. Ann Emerg Med. 2010;55:341-344.
This article discusses several cases of errors and near misses due to incorrect dosing of epinephrine and gives examples of potential solutions to the problem. A prior study found that unclear drug labels contributed to medication errors with epinephrine.
Journal Article > Study
Introduction of a rapid response system at a United States Veterans Affairs hospital reduced cardiac arrests.
Lighthall GK, Parast LM, Rapoport L, Wagner TH. Anesth Analg. 2010;111:679-686.
This study demonstrated a 57% reduction in cardiac arrests following implementation of a physician-led rapid response system (RRS). The findings add to the existing literature by showing its potential value in the Veterans Affairs health care system.
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Made in the USA: More Consumers Buying American
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A curious thing is happening among American shoppers. More people are taking a moment to flip over an item or fish for a label and ask, is it "Made in the USA?"
Walmart, the nation's largest retailer, earlier this year announced it will boost sourcing of U.S. products by $50 billion during the next 10 years. General Electricis investing $1 billion through 2014 to revitalize its U.S. appliances business and create more than 1,500 U.S. jobs.
Mom-and-pops are also engineering entire business strategies devoted to locally made goods — everything from toys to housewares. And it's not simply patriotism and desire for perceived safer products which are altering shopping habits.
The recession, and still flat recovery for many Americans, have created a painful realization. All those cheap goods made in China and elsewhere come at a price — lost U.S. manufacturing jobs. A growing pocket of consumers, in fact, are connecting the economic dots between their shopping carts — brimming with foreign-made stuff — and America's future.
They're calculating the trade-offs of paying a little more for locally-made goods."The Great Recession certainly brought that home, and highlighted the fact that so many jobs have been lost," said James Cerruti, senior partner for strategy and research at consulting firm Brandlogic. "People have become aware of that."
"'Made in the USA' is known for one thing, quality," said Robert von Goeben, co-founder of California-based Green Toys. All of their products from teething toys to blocks are made domestically and shipped to 75 countries.


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Part Number: AGGELPAD-PSBrand: AG Industries
We're pleased to say we've finally been able to add these Boomerang Gel Pads to our stocklist for people who suffer from nasal bridge soreness from their masks. They are washable and AG Industries have also recognised the nasal paids needed to come in 2 different sizes which is a bonus to similar products.
These Boomerang Nasal Gel Pads by AG Industries are for people who suffer from nasal bridge discomfort from the masks and they come in 2 different sizes - Petite/Small (1.25" high X 3.40" wide) or Medium/Large (1.40" high X 3.70" wide).
The Boomerang Gel Pads are designed to relieve pressure and skin irritation, and they are washable with mild soap and resuseable. The manufacturer states to replace them every 30 days, but with careful cleaning and sealed storage (in the original container each pad is supplied in) there is every chance these will last a longer.
The pads are made from a propriety USP grade mineral oil, including moisturising essential oils. They are non-toxic, hypoallergenic and contain no latex or silicone.
Whilst trialling these we had a little go at cutting them to make them shorter, and surprisingly this worked well, despite no mention of this from the manufacturer!
The Boomerang Pads are available as one single size in either Petite/Small or Medium/Large, or first time users may want to select the Duo Packs which contain both sizes.
It is very important to lay the Boomerang pad on the nose when in an elevated position before placing the mask on top, to ensure it stays in place.
I realy love this nose pad, use it when i where vision glasses at home and every night on my nose before i put the cpap mask on
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This product did not work at all for me. The pad is far too thick and bulky causing big leaks on both sides of my mask.
Sorry to hear this and we just wish we could find a similar produce that works for everyone for the bridge of the nose, but we won't give up trying to find one!
Really comfortable love the fact its reusable and dose help with those pesky leaks
So pleased to hear the Boomerang pad is working well for you John 👍
I found this gel pad was lacking in adhesion and moved all over the place when I was fitting my NIV mask on. Have yet to find a suitable replacement for the Nasal LiquiGel cushions that are no longer in stock.
Sorry to hear this Brenda. The Liquicell was a fabulous product and we're working hard to find a replacement. Some people do get good results from the Boomerangs though. Try placing it on your nose and laying back before placing your mask on top of it and the mask should keep it in place 🤞🤞
Although it states this is hypoallergenic, as with the mask I also had a reaction.
That's such a shame Beverley, as it's very rare to hear of a reaction. If you've not tried the Silent Night Liners that would be worth a try to act as a barrier between your skin and the mask.
Following daily use nose protectors being unavailable I purchased the Boomerang. It doesn't seem to stay in place during the night and when I wake up, it is normally touching my lower eyelid - it doesn't seem to adhere properly even after just cleaning my face.
Sorry to hear this Helen. The Liquicell was a fabulous product and we're working hard to find a replacement. Some people do get good results from the Boomerangs though. Try placing it on your nose and laying back before placing your mask on top of it and the mask should keep it in place 🤞🤞
I had a similar one of these from the hospital but they couldn't give me another. I'm actually glad now because when I found this one it gave even better results to my poor nose.
3 of 4 people found this review helpful.
Thought I would try this as I was getting a very sore nasal bridge during the period I was on Fragmin following surgery. It did help in that the broken skin healed after a few nights but I really struggled keeping it stuck to my face whilst putting on the mask. I wear glasses, and like to read before turning off the light. It wouldn't stay on with the glasses and by the time I used it even though I had made it wet as instructed before getting in bed it didn't stick very well. Having said that - once it was all in place it stayed all night and di the trick for me.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.
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As an incident expands in complexity, often multiple agencies, departments, and jurisdictions may be integrated into incident management activities both at the command and coordination levels. In a multiagency response, several Public Information Officers (PIOs) may be assigned to the incident, requiring increased coordination. The National Incident Management System (NIMS), based on best practices, recommends that responders establish: The Joint Information System (JIS)-The JIS provides the mechanism to organize, integrate, and coordinate information to ensure timely, accurate, accessible, and consistent messaging across multiple jurisdictions and/or disciplines, including the private sector and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). The Joint Information Center (JIC): The JIC is used to ensure coordination of public information during incidents that involve multiple agencies and/or jurisdictions. The Incident Command/Unified Command may use a JIC to support the gathering, verification, coordination, and dissemination of accurate, accessible, and timely information. The JIC is a central location that facilitates operation of the JIS. This training will: Equip PIOs with the skills needed to establish and operate a JIS/JIC. Impart a working knowledge of operational practices for performing PIO duties within the NIMS multiagency coordination system.
This course is being offered as part of NCEM's Central Branch Training Week. NCEM is providing meal and lodging reimbursement for this offering within the NCOSBM Guidelines. The guidelines and reimbursement forms are located as an attachment for this class.
Students are responsible for their own travel arrangements and will submit reimbursement request forms at the completion of Training Week. NCEM has established a block of rooms at each of the following hotels for your convenience. You may stay anywhere you wish, but keep in mind you will only be reimbursed at the state rate ($71.20 + applicable taxes).
No printed text books will be provided for this class. The electronic version is available as a download in the Documents section of this course offering. You may choose to print the book or download it to your tablet or laptop to bring to class with you. Please call 919-825-2574 if you need assistance.


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Cabrera et al. reported that the surface tension capacity of a solution containing superplasticizers gives a good indication of the effectiveness superplasticizers in controlling the plastic shrinkage. The lower the tension capacity of the solution is, the more effective it is. It is also worth noting that the effectiveness of superplasticizers is strongly influenced by the dosage of superplasticizers.
ASTM C 260, Standard Specification for Air-Entraining Admixtures for Concrete, ASTM International, West Conshohocken, Pa., 2006.
ASTM C 494, Standard Specification for Chemical Admixtures for Concrete, ASTM International, West Conshohocken, Pa., 2006.
A. Kronlof, M. Leivo, P. Sipari, Experiment study on the basic of phenomena of shrinkage and cracking of fresh mortar, Cem. Concr. Res. 25(8) (1995) 1747–1754.
J.G. Cabrera, A.R. Cusens, B.Y. Wang, Effect of superplasticizers on the plastic shrinkage of concrete, Mag. Concr. Res., 44(160) (1992) 149–155.