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About us
Magyarhangya, also know as CinefilCo and Hungariant is an independent community based film distribution company specialized in European, Asian and South American features and documentaries. Magyarhangya established itself as a successful and respected art house film distributor in Hungary.
Our mission is to navigate through the sea of content with reliable taste and creative preparedness and to connect film with its audience either in cinemas, bars, open-air screenings or through our VOD partners.
Magyarhangya is a key member of Festival Scope's audience development initiative Scope50 and Scope100. The Scope projects set off to rethink the acquisition and release processes of independent European films, to educate and stimulate future audiences, to simplify licensing and to discover slick navigation techniques.
In 2015, Scope100 oversaw a hundred arthouse aficianados discussing 10 films' domestic horizons and vote for one to be subsequently released theatrically. They also become ambassadors for the selected film, Out of Nature in 2015 and Sparrows in 2016. With Creative Europe's support the initiative paves the way between filmmakers and audience towards a legal and sustainable, yet simple and flexible digital content market. CinefilCo develops Scope100 in collaboration with Aerofilms (Czech Republic), Stadtkino (Austria), Imagine (Belgium), Arthaus (Norway), Soda Pictures (UK) and Gutek Film (Poland).


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Taking in more calories than you burn can lead to overweight and obesity because the body stores unused calories as fat. Overweight and obesity can be caused by eating more food than your body can use, drinking too much alcohol and not getting enough exercise. Sometimes, medical problems or treatments can cause weight gain, including an underactive thyroid gland (hypothyroidism) and medicines such as birth control pills, antidepressants and antipsychotics. Other factors that can lead to weight gain include: quitting smoking; stress, anxiety, depression and insomnia; menopause; and pregnancy.
Most bariatricians (doctors who specialize in treating overweight and obesity) use a patient's BMI (Body Mass Index) measurement as an initial screening tool to identify people who may be at increased health risk due to being overweight or obese. (Calculate your BMI.) The following BMI ranges are recommended by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute when classifying overweight and obesity:
Underweight: lower than 18.5
Normal weight: 18.5 to 24.9
Overweight: 25 to 29.9
Obesity (Class 1): 30 to 34.9
Obesity (Class 2): 35 to 39.9
Extreme Obesity (Class 3): greater than 40
Obesity is a life-threatening health condition that should not be ignored. In addition to limiting a person's quality of life, obesity can lead to Type 2 diabetes, cancer (endometrial, breast and colon), heart disease, heart attack, stroke, high blood pressure, liver and gallbladder disease, gynecological problems (abnormal menses and infertility), sleep apnea and arthritis. Even lower levels of excess weight can constitute a health risk, particularly when other disorders such as diabetes, hypertension and heart disease are also present.
Unlike many weight loss centers, which focus primarily on surgery, we offer both non-surgical and surgical treatment options. Our bariatric navigator works with you and your primary care physician to determine a course of treatment (which may or may not include surgery). In some cases, patients have already been under the care of a physician and have fulfilled the steps necessary to undergo bariatric surgery. In those cases, patients will be referred to one of our surgeons for further evaluation.
Considerations: Age, health risk (depending on co-morbidities), amount of weight to lose, lifestyle and eating behaviors
A mutual decision between patient and surgeon is important
Adjustable Gastric Banding: With this type of weight loss surgery, a silicone band is placed around the upper portion of one's stomach. The stomach becomes a small "pouch" that can hold about an ounce of food. A plastic tube that connects to the silicone band runs from the band to just under the skin where a device is located and saline can be added or removed as weight loss progresses. The saline tightens and relaxes the band as needed.
Gastric Sleeve: With this weight loss procedure, about 75 percent of one's stomach is removed and a "sleeve" shape remains. By reducing the size of the stomach, one will feel full from food more quickly and will remain feeling full for several hours. This procedure may also decrease one's appetite which can also assist with weight loss.
Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass: This is a weight loss procedure where one's stomach is condensed to a small "pouch." This reduces the amount of food that can be consumed. The surgeon will then connect the pouch to the small intestine. By doing so, the amount of fat and calories absorbed from foods are reduced. This allows for further weight loss
Remember…surgery is a tool that requires strong commitment to a lifestyle change and a lifetime of follow-up appointments.
Contact us at:
Cass Regional General Surgery Clinic
2820 East Rock Haven Road, Suite 220 (located in Rock Haven Medical Mall)
Harrisonville, Missouri 64701
Phone: (816) 380-2446

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"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever." – Steve Jobs
2007 Regus in Madrid and Prague
My first serious job (after working as an English tutor through high school and doing market studies during my only year of University) was as a receptionist at Regus, a global provider for office space and virtual office services. During the year I spent working in the reception desk I had the privilege of working for organisations like VMware, MySpace, the American Chamber of Commerce in Spain, Red Hat, Vitra, Banca Itaú…
I answered and transferred their phone calls, organised their meetings and distributed their letters, but also patched their connections in our comms room (because I have always been a secret nerd) and organised events for them. I was curious and good with spreadsheets so I got more and more involved in centre management as the months passed and was promoted just nine months after joining the team.
In Regus I had my first experiences with documentation and processes, documenting reception processes (how to use the call management software, what to do when certificate letters were received, how and when to refill the coffee machines or the fridge) and I worked on templates to calculate the orders of snacks, drinks and office supplies or to automate the calculations of the services we would then enter in the billing system Regus had just started developing: Titan.
In November 2008 I was offered to join the new service centre in Prague to manage the backoffice of our locations in central and eastern Europe and Middle East and Africa. With Titan had come the decision to move all centre management tasks to central offices in Prague, Dallas, Mexico DF, and the Philippines to reduce costs and streamline processes. 9 people from different offices, including myself, had the mission of starting this centralisation process with a couple of pilot countries.
I had awesome managers in the Prague office, who allowed me to develop in all the areas I showed any interest in. I worked with people all around the world. The pilot had developed into a plan for a full roll out and more processes were being centralised. I moved from the billing exceptions team into the billing team, collaborated with collections, worked on reports for finance… I continued cooperating in the creation of process documents and coached new members of the teams I worked on. After the first months I was offered to join the team managing change requests and rollout of changes in Titan as a project manager. These days I also had the chance to document, redesign and rollout my first cross-department process.
2012 Berlin: Cobot, coworking and technology
After a short stay back in Spain, I moved to Berlin and took a break from corporate life to become a freelance business developer – all because of a random encounter with Cobot, a software tool to manage coworking spaces. I did marketing, sales, though strategically and spent hours on the phone with clients. While I did work for other clients they were the only one that went for over two years. Cobot was also, without doubt, my most important customer – my team.
Cobot is also how I ended up involved in the coworking movement. I led the global coworking wiki project for a year. I spoke in conferences. I wrote manuals and translated blog posts at deskmag. I curated when you cowork. Once again I counted with the support of my managers, who not only allowed but encouraged me to experiment and learn. This freedom allowed me to learn some software development with Ruby on Rails or to do projects with other companies.
Being based in Berlin, where the tech community gathers, got me into a lot more than just cowoking. I started working with a software development agency I would later on join full time. I worked for a social advertisement company as their development project manager, I organised a fare share of rails girls events to get more women into tech, organised a monthly morning meetup called MRGN and organised the elasticsearch user group. I did public speaking around collaboration, coworking, women in tech, social media, networking… and wrote a lot in this blog. I even started a book (called pizza!) with basic tips on how to start a company with little money for business-owners-to-be.
In these years I met a lot of interesting people in Berlin and, thanks to many conferences and to facebook and specially twitter. Startup founders, coworking space owners, designers, makers, hustlers, ambassadors, investors, journalists… So much inspiration called for a change. I wanted to work on my own ideas. I started Openaire, a software as a service to manage and promote events, and Feelgut, a social media platform for chronic patients and researchers. None of these projects saw the light of the day, but both the business development (and the actual software development!) exercise was fun and helped me learn new things.
Asquera gave me the opportunity to join eHealth Africa as a consultant, doing software to fix african public health issues. After travelling to Liberia to join the Ebola response with our eHealth application Sense Followup and after working in a malnutrition application for use in Nigeria I travelled to Guinea to scope a new project and decided I wanted to have the african experience and do something big from beginning to end. I joined eHealth Africa full time and moved to Guinea shortly after.
Working at eHealth Africa gave me the chance to join, as it happened when I moved to the Regus shared services centre in Prague, a newly created team that worked in a larger distributed organisation. It gave me back the feeling of working directly with the people benefiting from my work and having a first row seat to see how what we offer is used and how we can make it even better. Working with people in remote areas of Guinea and the Democratic republic of Congo that see technology for the first time and seeing them use applications designed by my team, hearing them say 'this will make my life easier' and their smiles when they get the workflows right for the first time can only be defined as priceless.
At eHealth Africa I had the chance to design and rollout software and processes, which I love, but also to design and plan an educational program for developers in Africa: the eHealth Academy. The program was launched with 20 developers just as I left in July 2016.
Into the wild. What next? I am working on a personal project related to chatbots and health, the topic that always makes my heart beat. At the same time I am about to start mentoring startups in an incubation program, and about to start a software development agency with people I really enjoy working with. 2016 is about to end and what 2017 will bring seems very exciting!


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The Antiques Roadshow comes to Trentham Gardens, near Stoke-on-Trent on Thursday 3 September, 2015.
The doors open at 9.30am and close at 4.30pm. Entry to the show is free and no pre-registration is required. If attending the Antiques Roadshow please park at the main North Entrance.
Some of Britain's leading antiques and fine arts specialists will be on hand to offer free advice and valuations to visitors, who are invited to raid their attics and bring along their family heirlooms, household treasures and car boot bargains for inspection by the experts.
People who would like to bring large or heavy items to the Roadshow should email firstname.lastname@example.com or write to Antiques Roadshow, BBC Broadcasting Centre, Whiteladies Road, Bristol BS8 2LR, as we may be able to help transport them to Trentham Gardens.
Antiques Roadshow presenter Fiona Bruce said: "This will be my 8th year on the Antiques Roadshow and I still feel so lucky to be presenting the programme. Every week is different; a new location and thousands of new visitors. The only constant is the pleasure of the unexpected – we never know what will turn up, from the most fabulous Faberge to the most humble object with a riveting story."
During the last series the Antiques Roadshow unearthed some amazing finds – a portrait by a renowned artist painted on a pillowcase in a POW camp, Star Wars memorabilia valued at £40,000 and a Chinese enamel box bought for 20p and worth over £10,000.
More information on planning your visit can be found at: www.bbc.co.uk/antiquesroadshow


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First, you need to set up your budget. You can do a monthly budget system or a budget for each paycheck. To set up your budget you need to list your income and your expenses. If you aren't sure how much you spend on certain items, such as groceries, each month then check your checking account statement and your credit card statements to see how much you spent last month. This can give you the start of your budget. If you have are self-employed or work on commission it can be even more tricky to set up a budget, but there is a great plan that will help you create a budget for variable income.

Next, you need to make sure that it is helping you reach your financial goals. Are you overspending each month? How much extra are you paying on your debt each month? Can you cut your expenses in order to reach your goals? Does your budget balance? If not you need to find expenses to cut. One easy way to start prioritizing your budget is to list the items which are necessities first, and then list the items that are luxuries. You should cut or reduce the items that are luxuries first and then look at the necessities. It is always a good idea to see if you can reduce the amount of your necessities, but they should come at the beginning of the budget.

Then identify your problem areas. In my family these are eating out too much, and impulse purchases for the kids. For these categories we use an envelope system. This means that we take out the budgeted amount in cash and put them in envelopes. Once we have spent that amount we stop spending. You can even break it down into smaller envelopes and have one for each week for categories such as groceries and entertainment.

Tracking and adjusting your budget are also important factors in making your budget work. If you overspend in one category you have to cut spending in another. It is not difficult to transfer money between categories in your budget. Listing your transaction each day is essential, especially in the beginning. It will only take a few minutes a day, and you can do it less often once you have your spending under control.

After two months you will need to evaluate your budget. Most people do a great job of sticking to their budget the first month, because they are enthusiastic. The second month reality sets in and many people slip. It also gives you a chance to see if you really can manage on the grocery budget or the gas budget that you've given yourself.


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Hudbay Minerals (TSE:HBM) (NYSE:HBM) had its price objective boosted by investment analysts at Eight Capital from C$13.25 to C$13.75 in a research note issued on Friday. Eight Capital's price objective points to a potential upside of 19.88% from the company's current price.
A number of other research analysts have also recently weighed in on HBM. National Bank Financial reissued a "sector perform" rating on shares of Hudbay Minerals in a research note on Wednesday. TD Securities lowered their target price on shares of Hudbay Minerals from C$13.00 to C$12.50 and set an "action list buy" rating for the company in a research note on Monday, October 2nd. BMO Capital Markets lifted their target price on shares of Hudbay Minerals from C$10.50 to C$10.75 and gave the stock a "market perform" rating in a research note on Monday, October 2nd. Scotiabank reaffirmed a "focus stock" rating and issued a C$12.50 target price on shares of Hudbay Minerals in a research note on Thursday, November 2nd. Finally, CIBC reaffirmed an "outperform" rating and issued a C$13.00 target price on shares of Hudbay Minerals in a research note on Tuesday, October 10th. Four equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, five have issued a buy rating and two have issued a strong buy rating to the stock. The company has a consensus rating of "Buy" and an average price target of C$12.28.
Shares of Hudbay Minerals (TSE HBM) traded down C$1.03 on Friday, hitting C$11.47. 4,102,742 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,730,506. Hudbay Minerals has a fifty-two week low of C$6.13 and a fifty-two week high of C$12.65. The stock has a market cap of $3,030.00, a PE ratio of 127.44 and a beta of 2.78.
In related news, insider Gmt Capital Corp acquired 6,700 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Monday, November 20th. The stock was bought at an average cost of C$7.68 per share, with a total value of C$51,456.00.
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About Hudbay Minerals
Hudbay Minerals Inc is a Canada-based mining company. The Company is engaged in the production of copper concentrate, consisting of copper, gold and silver, as well as zinc metal. The Company is focused on the discovery, production and marketing of base and precious metals. The Company has assets in North and South America.
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Sorry, is my rather brilliant PX Luu an 'illegal light' then because it doesn't have side-windows? Sure I use it with a flashing helmet light as well so I am not worried but I wasn't aware of any such law or legal requirement to supplement its 900 lumen with anything else...
Electron are launching a new commuter light that we reckon is going to clean up this autumn and winter.
The Terra has an output of 120 lumens which is enough not only to get you noticed in town but also to light the way on unlit roads and cyclepaths when you're going at a fair old clip. Unlike many high-power lights, the Terra's lamp unit has side windows that ensure you get spotted at junctions and make it road-legal without the need to use a supplementary LED.
The run time is 9hrs on full beam and 18hrs on low power, and the on/off button glows red to warn you when the battery level is down to 15%, giving you plenty of time to get home before you run out of juice.
That little plate on the top of the lamp unit is replaceable so if you flip the bike over to sort out a mechanical and scratch it up, you can always fit a new one. And although we didn't get much time to play with the Terra, adjusting the angle of the beam seemed perfectly simple.
The Terra 2 is a similar set up but with two independently adjustable lamps – one spot and one flood. We guess the looks are always going to be a matter of personal taste but we think both systems have super-cool. styling. We can't wait to try them.
The Terra will retail at £74.99 while the Terra 2 will be £99.99.
Mat has worked for loads of bike magazines over 20+ years, and been editor of 220 Triathlon and Cycling Plus. He's been road.cc technical editor for eight years, testing bikes, fettling the latest kit, and trying out the most up-to-the-minute clothing. We send him off around the world to get all the news from launches and shows too. He has won his category in Ironman UK 70.3 and finished on the podium in both marathons he has run. Mat is a Cambridge graduate who did a post-grad in magazine journalism, and he is a past winner of the Cycling Media Award for Specialist Online Writer.
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cycling light legality or otherwise is a sticky subject and the legislation hasn't caught up with the advances in technology, but yes: side visibility is a basic requirement of the british standard. it's also fairly fundamental to a light's effectiveness about town, so it's good to see light manufacturers (finally) picking up on it in their costlier ranges
If these lights come with some decent cabling, them I'm interested. With my current Electron 10+5 lights, I've had two cables quit on me, requiring elastic bands to force them into a shape that maintained conduction. I wasn't considering Electron again.
What's the recharge mode on these? Any USB options?


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Welcome to the weekend! We're starting it off with new tracks from Loon Lake, Knesset, Jackson Firebird, Collarbones, Mr Little Jeans & Jeremy Neale. Enjoy!
Loon Lake – Cherry Lips
This indie five piece create music from pure interest, stating 'we play music because we find it fun' and they make it fun for everyone else as well. 'Cherry Lips' begins with feet tapping guitar that continues throughout the track and follows on with the inviting lyrics, 'put the cherry on your lips and shake those sexy hips'.
Knesset – Make Like A Parade
The latest single off the Phoenix-based 4-piece's debut LP 'Coming of Age' is one of the strongest tracks on the album. With a strong horn section, drums reminiscent of The National's first record and the smooth vocals of lead singer Evan Fox, 'Make Like A Parade' is a dream made in alt-rock heaven. The single, as well as the album is well worth a listen.
Jackson Firebird – Quan Dang
This is straight up rock composed by these two Mildura locals. With harsh vocals and guitar being the main star, 'Quan Dang' showcases their ability to create raw rock and do it well. This track is off their latest album, Cock Rockin', released on June 8.
Collarbones – Missing
Australia's favorite long-distance band (one member resides in Sydney, the other in Adelaide) is back with a new single. 'Missing' is the first track off of their upcoming second album 'Die Young' which is due in September. Staying true to form, the duo continue to explore the realm of ambient samples and thoughtful lyrics. Their latest effort is bound to impress.
Mr Little Jeans – Runaway (Fools Gold Remix)
A combination of sweet vocals from Monica Birkenes and a simple beat make for a great remix of 'Runaway'. The remix still holds the original melody, sounding like a more toned down dance track dominated by the strong sound of Mr Little Jeans.
Jeremy Neale – Darlin'
Neale takes listeners back to a time where the music world was filled with heartfelt songs of affection. He doesn't hide his emotions in his lyrics, 'my darlin', be mine… and then I'll take you by the hand'. A reinvention of past crooner style, with a jazz vibe by the sax.


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#reverb10 – Beyond Avoidance.
What should you have done this year but didn't because you were too scared, worried, unsure, busy or otherwise deterred from doing? (Bonus: Will you do it?)
(Author: Jake Nickell — @skaw)
I'm a social scientist.
Or, I'm becoming one.
See, I'm a total dork. I absolutely LOVE higher ed. I love being around people who are actively working on exercising their brains, who love to grapple with ideas, who seek to honor and create their life-work and life-learning. And while I've found such people in all parts of my life, the environment of academia sweeps me off my feet (despite its bureaucracy and ivory tower-ness).
I'm currently working on my third degree—a master of social sciences degree. I powered through and completed all of my coursework in two years, taking a full-time graduate load and spending many, many hours in the stacks and in cafes.
I quit my job a year ago so I could focus exclusively on school. But "exclusively on school" became "inclusively of everything but school." I finished up my last graduate course in May, and then my intention was to jump fully into researching and writing my thesis (the thesis being my last project in order to earn my master's). I thought I'd have all the time in the world to read & write—no courses to take, no traditional work hours…just me, some books & journal articles, and my laptop.
But ya know what happened instead?
- I focused on working for myself (both trying to figure out what I wanted to do work-wise, and doing work just so I could pay my bills).
- I was VERY social—I spent time with loved ones and attended & helped plan tons of local events.
- I was in a relationship.
- And, I basically let my thesis hover in the Doesn't This Thing Write Itself? part of my brain.
As it turns out, my thesis didn't write itself.
As summer came to a close and I had piddly work to show for my thesis, I began avoiding my thesis full-out. I should have had so much done. I should have sought out professors for my thesis committee. I should have the calluses on my fingers to prove how much I'd written. But because I hadn't satisfied any of these shoulds, I buried my head in the academic sand.
Totally avoided something that I've always been so passionate about. Weird.
2011 puts me back on the road to becoming a social scientist.
A huge part of my grad school inspiration comes from the brilliant, insanely hard-working, reach-for-the-stars Alex. She writes at The Tao of Grad School, and through knowing her as a friend AND the grad life she writes about, I'm motivated to keep knucklin' and brawlin'.
So. I'm devoting 25-30hrs/week to my thesis. I'm going to gather a fantastic thesis committee. I'm seeking funding to do a bit of research in Toronto. And I really hope to defend in May of 2011. It may be a crazy timeline, but I believe I can do it.
So here's to gettin' my dork on. Again.


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The State Department notified the Chinese government of the sanctions yesterday.
The sanctions bar the eight companies from doing business with the U.S. government and prohibit the latter from issuing export licenses to U.S. companies that seek to sell goods to the sanctioned firms.
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About Tabitha
Figaro and Tabitha's fabulous owner Emily was kind enough to write up bios on the real kitties behind 'Gatos de Noticias' and lend a few photos to the site! (I also saved her captions for the pictures, because they are delightful).
Tabitha's story: Tabitha was found through PetFinder.com and adopted through the Rhode Island Friends of Felines when she was about seven months old, in February of 2013. Her full name is Tabitha Minerva – after Tabitha Twitchit (the lovely mother of Beatrix Potter's unruly Tom Kitten) and Harry Potter's Professor Minerva McGonagall (and because of the little M on her forehead).
Tabitha's personality: Tabitha is super sweet and dainty, but also very expressive, intense, and independent, and has no time for nonsense except on the rare occasions when she unwinds with some catnip. If she gets too stimulated, she'll usually run to her cardboard scratching post in her "office" nook behind the bathroom door and scratch away her feelings.
A typical day for Tabitha: Wake up and stretch when Mom's alarm goes off, wait for her with Figaro while she showers and then almost get stepped on, munch on some nice breakfast kibble, and then she's ready to really start digging into the day's big tasks, like napping in the office chair, napping on the couch, and napping back on the bed.
Likes: Snuggling, moderation, milk at the bottom of cereal bowls, Chobani yogurt, scooping up water to drink with her paw, cardboard scratching posts, rolling around on rugs or carpeting, squeaking, being told she's beautiful, catnip mice
Dislikes: Most men, too much contact or stimuli, admitting that she secretly loves Figaro.


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I'm so excited for the winter issue of CupcakeMAG, and also for this awesome recipe my friend Casi whipped up! Take it away, Casi…
With winter almost here, it's the perfect time of year to whip up a delicious, warm sip. My favorite right now is this S'more Hot Chocolate recipe that's jam-packed with all the festive flavors we crave this holiday season.
First, this tastes like a real big and fluffy s'more. It will instantly take you back to bonfire nights roasting marshmallows and to sticky fingers and cracker crumbs. Needless to say, this is a total crowd pleaser, and I found myself making it for the past couple of Saturday nights. Second, this recipe is super easy and super quick to whip up which is one of my total favorite things! I mean I don't know about you, but when I'm craving s'mores hot chocolate, chances are I'm craving it right now. SO I especially appreciate that this is one of those quick recipes that you can have ready in a couple of minutes.
Most hot chocolate recipes only ask you to top your chocolate with mini marshmallows, and while this is delicious and something that I actually do, with this one the secret to the extra s'more flavor is fluff. That and adding real chocolate to the mix as opposed to only cocoa powder. The result is this incredibly thick and velvety hot chocolate that's just to die for.
Here's the recipe…
S'mores Hot Chocolate
- 4 Cups milk
- ½ Cup sugar
- ½ Cup cocoa powder
- 1 Cup chocolate chips
- ½ Cup grated chocolate
- ½ Cup marshmallow fluff
- 1 Cup vanilla cookies, crushed
- Drizzle chocolate syrup
- Marshmallows to garnish
- Boil the milk, add the chocolate chips, and half of the grated chocolate.
- Stir until melted.
- Turn off the heat and add the marshmallow fluff. Combine.
- Place one layer of cookies at the bottom of cups.
- Pour the chocolate until ¾ filled.
- Top with the marshmallows, chocolate syrup, and grated chocolate.
- Serve and enjoy.
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The demo kits are designed to give users simple access to the advanced digital features of the 50A NDM2Z-50 point of load DC-DC modules. When mated with CUI's Novum ACE GUI, users can easily test and configure the module to help develop an optimized board-level power system. Providing best-in-class efficiency, the NDM2Z 50A module delivers 91% efficiency at 12 Vdc in to 1.0 Vdc out, 50% load. Input range is 4.5 to 14 Vdc, with a programmable output range of 0.6 to 3.3Vdc. Features include active current sharing, voltage sequencing, voltage tracking, synchronization and phase spreading, programmable soft start and stop, as well as a host of monitoring capabilities. All features are dynamically programmable via PMBus commands or through CUI's simple, easy to use GUI. Delivered in a compact DIP configuration, the DC-DC module is also available in horizontal SMT and vertical SIP versions.
Visit CUI Inc. at www.cui.com
And last month's winners are…
In our previous reader offer, Pico Technology was giving away three PicoScope 2208B 100MHz Mixed Signal deep-memory Oscilloscopes (MSO), worth 859 Euros each, for eeNews Europe's readers to win.
Lucky winners include Mr M. Farrell from Ireland, Mr K. Van de Cloot from Belgium and Mr G. Pisano from Italy. All should be receiving their PicoScope soon.


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Francis Duggan
On Life Choices - Poem by Francis Duggan
Only one can be president and only one can be pope
And for every millionaire many struggle to cope
With the business of living, poor people are not rare
There are billions of them in the big World out there.
For many life is a battle uphill all of the way
The people who do survive from day to day
To stay out of jail for them a remarkable feat
For many the road to prison starts on Poverty Street.
In the refugee camps of the World thirty million mostly war refugees
And in drought ravaged Countries people dying of hunger and disease
We do have life choices some are known to say
Those who look at life in a simplistic way.
To some people life choices only apply
Most born into poverty though hard they try
Will never be wealthy or know of happiness
Their crime to be born at the wrong address.
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A two-year conflict over who runs Augusta emergency medical services calls enters a new phase Thursday.
At a called meeting, the zoning committee of the East Central Georgia EMS Council is expected to reconsider the council's Nov. 15 recommendation by a 10-8 vote to designate the Augusta government as "zone provider" in the EMS zone that spans Augusta-Richmond County.
The council was ordered by J. Patrick O'Neal, director of health protection for the Georgia Department of Public Health, to revisit the decision after Gold Cross EMS, the city's primary ambulance provider since 2006, filed an appeal.
In a letter to council, chairman Gary Pinard, O'Neal said the council's Nov. 15 vote hadn't showed members considered "economy, efficiency and the benefit to public welfare," required by Georgia law, in rendering a decision.
The council decision also showed members weren't taking seriously conflicts of interest, both in deliberations and voting, O'Neal said.
Comprised of approximately 30 members from the 13-county Region 6 health district, the council includes mostly EMS directors and other health and emergency services professionals – several of whom do work for, or have worked for Gold Cross – as well as Augusta Fire Chief Chris James.
Nearly two years ago, the newly promoted Augusta fire chief drew the city commission's attention to the vagueness of the city's self-renewing agreement with Gold Cross, gaining the attention of south Augusta activists and now commission candidates Sammie Sias and Melvin Ivey, who circulated petitions in support of ending a "monopoly" by the Martinez ambulance service.
Around the same time, Gold Cross began a push to win the zone designation, which would include an opportunity to run EMS calls without a contract.
The effort prompted Augusta commissioners to give Gold Cross notice and put the service out for bids, but commissioners changed their minds a few months later, citing a general lack of complaints about the ambulance service.
It did get the city's contract with Gold Cross rewritten, however, to include a local review committee, quarterly performance reporting and other heavily negotiated details.
Gold Cross CEO Vince Brogdon said O'Neal's letter indicates the council should have considered factors other than Augusta's push to retain a contract over the service, which he said may not contribute to "economy, efficiency and the benefit to public welfare."
The city operates, at most, only a couple of its own ambulances, one of the administrative requirements to hold a zone designation.
"How do you run all of Richmond County with one ambulance," Brogdon said.
The firm, represented by former governor Roy Barnes at the appeal in Atlanta, is currently under a three-year contract with Augusta that requires quarterly reporting to the review committee, which has yet to meet, and allows either party to terminate with 90 days' notice.
Brogdon said if Gold Cross wins the zone the firm won't cancel the contract, but regardless, he hopes to end what he sees is a two-year turf battle over the service.
James and Jody Smitherman, the city attorneys assigned to fire and EMS, did not return calls seeking comment.
Neither the zone committee decision nor the council decision are binding. The comm ittee meetsat 10 a.m. today at the East Central Public Health District Building D, 1916 North Leg Road in Augusta.


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by Coleridge, S.T.
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Participants will be trained as Front Desk Receptionist, where they will learn to operate a multi-line business phone, make appointments for White Bird services, provide information and referrals to the public, and triage other calls and walk-ins as needed (including crisis situations).
The training includes: general history of White Bird, presentations from each of the programs that make up the Clinic, a communication workshop, how to access other community resources, developing skills that are helpful for human services providers, and integration into this collective. In addition to the classes, participants will do 3-½ hours/week on-the-job training with a trained receptionist (a total of 6-7 hours/week).
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Lulu happy for Take That reunion
Lulu is thrilled that Robbie Williams has finally reunited with his Take That bandmates.
Newlywed Robbie announced that he will be recording and going on tour with the band in 2011, and Lulu - who had a hit with the chart-toppers with Relight My Fire in 1993 - said she had always thought that he would eventually return.
"It's great - I had a feeling that it would happen at some point, so I'm really happy," she said.
But the Scottish songstress, who is hitting the road with Anastacia and Heather Small on the Here Come The Girls show, said she had "no" plans to team up with the lads again.


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GSK has been the subject of several research analyst reports. BidaskClub raised GlaxoSmithKline from a "strong sell" rating to a "sell" rating in a research note on Friday, August 25th. Argus reaffirmed a "buy" rating and set a $50.00 target price on shares of GlaxoSmithKline in a research note on Thursday, August 31st. Morgan Stanley downgraded GlaxoSmithKline from an "equal weight" rating to an "underweight" rating in a research note on Friday, September 8th. J P Morgan Chase & Co reaffirmed a "neutral" rating on shares of GlaxoSmithKline in a research note on Thursday, September 14th. Finally, Zacks Investment Research raised GlaxoSmithKline from a "hold" rating to a "buy" rating and set a $46.00 target price for the company in a research note on Wednesday, October 18th.
Shares of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) traded up $0.14 during mid-day trading on Monday, hitting $35.31. The stock had a trading volume of 3,844,613 shares, compared to its average volume of 3,526,148. The company has a current ratio of 0.64, a quick ratio of 0.44 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.96. The firm has a market cap of $86,495.23, a P/E ratio of 12.47, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.95 and a beta of 0.98. GlaxoSmithKline has a twelve month low of $34.52 and a twelve month high of $44.53.
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Engine warranties and dealer issues are nothing new to car ownership, but when this owner's Nissan Maxima started flashing warning lights after an engine misfire, she decided to look into whether her problem should be covered by warranty. Here was her issue:

My car questions deals with a misfire on a cylinder. I have a 2000 Nissan Maxima GLE sedan 3.0 liter V-6. It is an automatic and has 37,953 miles on it. I took my car to the dealership yesterday because my "Service Engine Soon" light was on. I was informed, after a $100.00 diagnostic test, that the error code was P1320, the ignition primary code. They tested the system and found a slight misfire on cylinder #4.

They tested the coils and couldn't pinpoint which coil is faulty. They had two suggestions: 1) wait until one fails and replace at that time, or 2) replace all six coils for $675.00 What do I do? If the one coil fails, would this be expensive?

I called Nissan North America because I noticed I do have a 5-year or 60,000 mile warranty on transmission, engine, etc. However the woman couldn't tell me exactly what was covered. Do you think that this problem would be covered under a warranty? The serviceman never mentioned the warranty at all, and this bothers me. Please let me know.

Thanks for your help.
Amy

Nissan includes a warranty book with the Owners Manual. That will explain what is covered and not covered. However, I do believe the ignition coils would be covered.

As for pinpointing which ignition coil is bad, if the misfire is on #4, logically it would be coil #4 that has a problem. The other five coils have nothing to do with #4. For the life of me, I don't understand how a Nissan Technician could not know this.

There is a TSB (Technical Service Bulletin) out on this issue. I would suggest having your dealer look it up and perform the repair procedure. Here is is below:

Nissan Maxima TSB

Classification: EC01-023
Reference: NTB01-059
Date: September 6, 2001

2000-01 Maxima; MIL "On" With DTC P1320 And/Or Spark Knock (Detonation) Due To Ignition Coil(S)

APPLIED VEHICLE:
2000-01 Maxima (A33)

APPLIED VINS:
Vehicles built before:
JN1CA31A31T112164 (w/side air bags)
JN1CA31A31T316031 (w/side air bags)
JN1CA31D911627134 (w/o side air bags)
JN1CA31D91T830089 (w/o side air bags)

APPLIED DATE:
Vehicles built before: March 16, 2001

APPLIED ENGINE #:
Engines built before: VQ30-463753

SERVICE INFORMATION:
If an applied vehicle exhibits one or both of the below symptoms:

MIL "ON" with DTC P1320 stored in the ECM Intermittent spark knock (detonation)

The cause may be one or more of the ignition coils. Refer to the Service Procedure below to resolve the incident, if it should occur.

The following Service Procedure is Recommended

Determine if one or both of the symptoms listed above exists and perform the appropriate procedure(s) listed below.

Procedure For MIL "ON" With DTC P1320 Symptom

Check Self Diagnosis Results (using CONSULT-II) to confirm DTC P1320 (Ignition Signal Primary) is stored in the ECM. NOTE :Single or multiple cylinder misfire codes (P0300 - P0306) may be stored in the ECM with DTC P1320.

Check the ECCS wiring harness for a broken or damaged wire.

If the ECCS harness has a broken or damaged wire that is causing the symptom(s) noted above, repair the harness and verify the incident is resolved.

If the ECCS harness does not have a broken or damaged wire and is NOT causing the symptom(s) listed above, proceed with step 3 below.

Replace ignition coil(s) with the one(s) listed in the Parts Information table, and verify the incident is resolved.

Fuel

Verify the type of gasoline used in the vehicle.

If unleaded regular (non-premium) gasoline is used, advise the customer to use unleaded premium gasoline to eliminate the spark knock (detonation).

If unleaded premium gasoline is used and no other source for the symptom is found, proceed with step 3 below.

You can print this out and take it with you. And don't be afraid to say "And I DO expect this to be covered under the warranty!"


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|Reviews for Got Your Back
| 7kstar chapter 1 . 9/7/2013
Since I read it again, I figured I better review. I enjoyed how you had Jim so upset and then let us all in on the joke. There are so few sentinel and mag 7 crossovers that I know of. I really would enjoy more.
As a writer, my problem is endings. I get the beginning and middle done, but oops the ending seems to escape me. Now I seem to just start the story on my computer and not post, so I can relate to having lots of ideas and not having time to get it done.
Hoping you will find time to add to this verse.
| Tharin chapter 1 . 6/13/2012
A great idea for a crossover, I liked it very much. Of course Maude would have made a move at Jim's father.
| JudyL068 chapter 1 . 9/25/2011
g Just found this xo. Love your premise. I can see Maude roping in William Ellison. Would love to see more. Thanks for sharing.
| Duchess67 chapter 1 . 9/21/2011
Oh wow, that's a tie-in I should have seen coming. I LOVED it and like so many others, I too would like to see a continuation of this series.
Um, AK-47s aren't illegal, last I heard. Making them fully automatic might be, but the guns themselves are legal. *shrugs*
| TerriTrek chapter 1 . 5/7/2011
Thank you for this gem of a story. I really do hope you go on with it. I love crossovers of Mag 7 (my #1 fandom now) with The Sentinel. So many delightful men to play with! I am appreciative that you got the 'voices' of the characters (all of them) right. Poor William Ellison, one of the legion of Maude's victims... sort of. Thank you for taking the time to share your talent.
| ferryboat George chapter 1 . 3/29/2011
Well I hope you get around it, because that was a nice snippet from two of my favorite shows :)
| Cassandra30 chapter 1 . 1/22/2011
This one was really good! I would enjoy a longer version of it as well!
| Aislinn Graves chapter 1 . 12/12/2010
OOO I have to agree, this definitly has potential as a much longer story.
| Teri chapter 1 . 5/7/2010
When you had Jim call Ezra "Fitzgerald", I thought you had the eye color wrong and it was going to turn into a crossover between Sentinel, Mag7, and Without a Trace (VinMartin Fizgerald).
Still I love the concept of Ezra and Jim being family and I do hope you decide to write a longer story based on this idea. Even if you don't thanks for this quick story.
| Redstarred191 chapter 1 . 5/1/2010
Actually, it's Brian Rafe; Rafe is his last name.
I like this story; your way of connecting the two shows is one I haven't seen before. Usually authors cross on Blair's and Josiah's anthropology, Jim's and Vin's ranger backgrounds, or the whole police/ATF investigation overlap- but then you probably know that. Still, I give this one points for original concept; good job.
| quido chapter 1 . 4/26/2010
Just a quick note, the only other name I've seen associated with Rafe is Brian. Rafe is his last name. This was a fun bite.
| LdyGossamer chapter 1 . 4/25/2010
I really liked this story. I could see Maude going after Jim's dad and Jim and Ezra being friends even afterwards. Very nicely done. :)
| Marmie1955 chapter 1 . 4/23/2010
Good story. I read some background on this somewhere when I first discovered fanfic and M7. Very interesting even though what little I know of Sentinel is from ff crossovers. Thank you for sharing.
| sfulton229 chapter 1 . 4/22/2010
Hee! Terrific crossover and great way to get Ezra into the Ellison family. I can so see William as one of Maude's former husbands. Love how well Jim came to the rescue and gave Ezra some great cover. I can see the affection between them and of course Ezra would completely understand about the need for discretion. It would be lovely to get more of this if and when you can; it's a great story by itself and the two fandoms go together so well. Thank you so much for sharing this! Very nice idea and well developed description of just what Ezra has to go thru when he's undercover.
| mystdogs chapter 1 . 4/22/2010
Oh I do hope you decide to carry on with this when you have some free time:)


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This is an article that originally appeared on my About site, but with the migration to the super-cool new ThoughtCo vertical, some under-performing articles got done away with. However, I was traveling recently and saw a ribbon tree, and it made me want to share this once again.
The history behind the use of ribbon trees is a long and complex one. It's a practice found in a number of different cultures, so I thought it would be interesting to do a little digging and see how they compare in various places around the world. Although it's difficult to tell, at least initially, where this practice may have originated, it looks like it's safe to say that it's something that happens pretty much globally.
Sometimes called wishing trees, other times called rag bushes, these plants are often decorated by strips of cloth by visitors who want to see their wishes fulfilled. In some areas, these trees are located near sacred springs or holy wells, although that doesn't appear to always be the case.
Irish Clotties
At the Hill of Tara, which was the home of the High Kings of Ireland, there is a pair of trees growing side by side. It's not uncommon to see these trees tied with brightly colored pieces of cloth around the Beltane season. The trees – which are hawthorns – are decorated by visitors in early May, and the strips of cloth are known as clotties.
Interestingly, in recent years people have been tying seemingly random bits of detritus – plastic and metal, in particular – to the trees at Tara and the area around the holy well of Kildare. This is a deviation from traditional practice, in which the cloths from a sickbed were tied and hung along with appropriate prayers. As the sickcloths decomposed and biodegraded in the elements, the illness itself was carried away.
There are some belief systems that refer to Ireland's clottie trees as "Fairy Trees," but again, this is not part of traditional Irish legend, and appears to be more of a new age type thing.
Chinese Wishing Trees
In Hong Kong, the Lam Tsuen Wishing Trees are a popular destination for tourists, as well as the locals. These large banyan trees are part of a shrine where visitors can burn joss sticks and ask for their prayers to be answered. In the past, there was a practice of writing one's wish on a piece of paper, tying it to an orange, and tossing it up in the tree. For years, papers hung in the trees, but apparently this became dangerous, because in 2005 a branch fell and caused injuries to several guests.
After that, authorities set up a series of racks on which people can tie their wish papers, in the hopes of allowing the trees a few years of recovery time.
The Hindu Kalpavriksha
In the Hindu religion, the Kalpavriksha is a divine tree that fulfills wishes. This tree of life, or world tree, appears in the Vedic scriptures, and is said to have originated during the churning of the primal waters of the ocean, and was found by Indra, the king of the gods. Indra took the tree home with him and planted it there so he could have it with him at all times. In some Indian villages, individual trees – often fig, coconut or the baobab – are considered Kalpavriksha trees, and are often decorated by residents as a way of asking the gods to grant wishes.
The Walleechu of Argentina
High in the mountains of South America, some indigenous peoples still honor a tree that has been a source of wish fulfillment for many generations. A British missionary wrote the following account:
"Being winter the tree had no leaves, but in their place, numberless threads, by which the various offerings, such as cigars, bread, meat, pieces of cloth, etc., had been suspended. Poor Indians, not having anything better, pull only a thread from their ponchos, and fasten it to the tree. Richer Indians are accustomed to pour spirits and mato into a certain hole, and likewise to smoke upwards, thinking thus to afford all possible gratification to Walleechu."
Appropriate Offerings
If you're lucky enough to see a wishing tree or a rag bush somewhere and want to add to it, make sure that anything you hang on it is in fact biodegradable. Blogger and travel writer Rich Rennicks, over at A Trip To Ireland, points out that many people put in a lot of hours trying to save the rag trees at Tara from the damage done by so many years of inappropriate offerings.
Rich says, "Traditionally, people tied strips of linen or cloth to a rag tree as a symbol of their prayer (long before synthetic substances were invented). Over time, these offerings have been replaced by inappropriate modern items (mass cards, glass jars containing candles, coins embedded into the bark, rosaries, dummies/soothers, etc.) and some complete rubbish added by careless people who either didn't think about their actions or added the first thing they had to hand (nylon string, plastic ribbons, rings, beads, love locks, loom bands, or — strangest of all — socks and underwear–why?). Things that don't naturally and quickly biodegrade or rot away harm the trees by killing limbs, preventing buds forming and leaves opening, or breaking branches. Over time, others add more bad stuff under the mistaken impression that the items already on the tree are acceptable, and the trees start to weaken and die."
He suggest small strips of non-synthetic cloth – draped over branches, and not tied – as an acceptable offering that will eventually biodegrade without causing long term damage. Also, colored paper ribbon like crepe, or origami papers are a great option as well.
Ideally, you'll want to leave the tree intact and healthy for future generations, so if you have a chance to leave anything, consider something non-tangible, like a simple prayer or song describing your wish, cast upon the wind and into the skies.
Image by Jennifer Pickens, licensed through Flickr/Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)


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I went to The Cottage Wellesley last night with group of former co-workers.
The good:
Beautiful Bar, spacious seating, attentive staff, great service.
The appetizers were excellent, Chorizo & Shrimp Quesadillas and Ahi Tuna Nachos.
The mediocre:
The main courses, Rosemary Grilled Shrimp, Sesame Sea Scallops. The food tasted good enough, good not excellent, but the portions were small considering the price.
The bad:
The drinks were simply atrocious. I ordered a manhattan, the bartender couldn't find the bourbon, almost mixed it with dry vermouth (they only had Martini & Rossi) and it was small and watery.
Overall I can't recommend. I wouldn't go back for dinner. Returning for appetizers while sitting in the lounge would be an option if they replaced and/or trained their bar staff. However, if your a beer or wine drinker go for the appetizers.
The Cottage
190 Linden Street, Wellesley, MA 02482
Cottage Wellesley
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Benjamin Woodard (that's me) lives in Connecticut and holds an MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. He is a Senior Editor at Numéro Cinq Magazine, Editor-in-Chief at Atlas and Alice Literary Magazine, and a frequent contributor to Publishers Weekly and Kenyon Review Online. He teaches English at a handful of colleges and universities, is a member of the National Book Critics Circle, and was a 2017 finalist for Smokelong Quarterly's Kathy Fish Fellowship.
Reach him at ben(dot)j(dot)woodard(at)gmail(dot)com, or on Twitter at @woodardwriter.


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Fairy Meadow is a lush green plateau, at 3300 m, offering a breath taking view of Majestic Nanga Parbat (The Killer Mountain). Many people have called it the "Heaven on Earth". These lush, green meadows and forests lie at the base of Nanga Parbat at the western edge of the Himaliyan range in Pakistan. Fairy Meadows is a very peaceful and relaxing place to enjoy the mountain atmosphere and hospitality of the local people.
Fairy Meadows is in the heart of exotic Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan, It is located at the base of Nanga Parbat, which, at 8126 m, is the 9th highest mountain in the world and second in Pakistan after K2.
Fairy Meadows has been a source of enchantment since long for back packers, climbers, wildlife researchers, photographers, painters & geologists, besides nature lovers. The pine forests skirting Fairy Meadows are perhaps one of the virgin forests in the north ofPakistan, and are home to a number of species of birds and wildlife. The site overlooks the Raikot Glacier and provides a majestic view of the North Face of Nanga Parbat, commonly known as the Raikot Face.
The area in front of Fairy Meadows Cottages is known as Pari Mahal (FairyPalace), named by the famous Japanese photographer, Fujita Heroki. The Fairy Meadows Cottages are at a distance of eight minutes hike from main village and other tourist resorts with its breath taking natural view of great Nanga Parbat.
Nanga Parbat (also known as the Killer mountain) is the ninth highest mountain on Earth and the second highest in Pakistan. Nanga Parbat is the western anchor of the Himalayas, and is the western most eight-thousander. It lies just south of the Indus River, in the Diamir District of the Gilgit Baltistan of Pakistan.
How to reach?
The first stop near Fairy Meadows is Raikot Bridge. It is located at an altitude of 4595 feet (1400 meters) above sea level and about 540 kilometers (336 miles) from Islamabad (the capital of Pakistan), when coming through Karakoram Highway.
From Raikot Bridge you can hire a local jeep to reach Tatoo Village at an altitude of 9515 feet (2900 meters) above sea level. It will take about half hour of exciting journey to reach Tatoo Village.
Onwards from Tattu route becomes too narrow for a jeep to travel but not very difficult for trekking. After two to three hours of trekking depending on your fitness level, you'll reach Fairy Meadows.
Where to stay?
There are several hotels and tourist lodges are available to facilitate tourists in Fairy Meadows. Most of them of are available at very reasonable prices. A few although are little expensive. Many tourists like to stay in camps on grassy places.
When to visit?
Best time to visit fairy meadows is July-August.
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Youth Development Center hosts our after school program and is one of our Summer Kamp Kzoo sites.
The after school program runs Monday – Thursday from 2:30 -6:30 p.m from mid- September to December and then from January to June and host students from Maple St. Middle and MLK King Westwood Elementary school.
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|A Lovely Year of Finishes!
My Lone Star Quilt top is complete and my February goal has been met!
Pattern: Lone Star from Quilt Smart
Fabrics: 9 colors of New Aged Muslin by Marcus Brothers
Size: 38 inches square
My Lone Star quilt top was made with a clever product called Quilt Smart Printed Interfacing. I'd never heard of the product until last fall when my Dear Friend told me about it. It sounded too good to be true, but after putting this little star together I know that everything she said about it was true.
The foundations are printed on light weight fusible interfacing. All of the fabrics for the star points are cut into rectangles, there are no diamonds with stretchy bias edges. The rectangles are applied one at a time. You align each piece using marks on the panel, stitch on the lines, flip the fabric over, and fuse with the iron. It's very easy and goes surprisingly fast.
For the first half of the Lone Star I used my regular iron. I recently bought a mini iron and used it for the second half. The mini was great for this, but certainly not required.
After all the pieces of the star point are stitched down the interfacing is folded on marked lines between each column and stitched. This forms the diamond shapes. The sections are trimmed to the final shape.
Quilt Smart is a great way to make a Lone Star Quilt! This pattern comes in this small size 38 inch size, as well as a 58 inch size. When I was on the website this morning I noticed a gorgeous broken Lone Star, too. Quilt Smart, click HERE for the website. Quilt Smart is available online and in many quilt shops
My Daughter noted how much I enjoyed making this quilt top, and for my birthday gave me kits for the Mariner's Compass and Mariner's Star. I'm looking forward to playing with these!
Happy Stitching!


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August 28, 2012
NORTHBROOK, IL – In the newly released eighth annual "Allstate America's Best Drivers Report," the city of Sioux Falls, S.D., tops the list of safest driving cities for the fifth time in the history of the report. Boise, Idaho, captures a close second place.
Conversely, the cities identified as having the greatest likelihood of a collision are Washington D.C.; Baltimore, Md.; Providence, R.I.; Hialeah, Fla.; and Glendale, Calif.
The report, based on Allstate Insurance Co. claims data, ranks America's largest cities in terms of car collision frequency to identify which cities have the safest drivers.
According to the report, the average driver in Sioux Falls will experience an auto collision every 13.8 years, which is 27.6 percent less likely than the national average of 10 years. In contrast, the average driver in Washington, D.C., will be in a collision every 4.7 years.
"Allstate's Best Drivers Report was created to boost the country's discussion on safe driving. Each year we hope the report will increase awareness about the importance of being tolerant and attentive behind the wheel," said Mike Roche, senior vice president of claims for Allstate.
Car crash fatalities are at the lowest level they've been since 1949, but still average more than 32,000 every year, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
For the past eight years, Allstate actuaries have conducted an in-depth analysis of company claims data to determine the likelihood drivers in America's 200 largest cities will experience a vehicle collision compared to the national average. Internal property damage reported claims were analyzed over a two-year period (from January 2009 to December 2010) to ensure the findings would not be impacted by external influences such as weather or road construction.
A weighted average of the two-year numbers determined the annual percentages. The report defines an auto crash as any collision resulting in a property damage claim. Allstate's auto policies represent about 10 percent of all U.S. auto policies, making this report a realistic snapshot of what's happening on America's roadways.
The top ten cities are:
City & Overall Ranking of Collision Likelihood Compared to
National Average
1. Sioux Falls, S.D. -- 27.6% less likely (13.8 average yrs. between collisions)
2. Boise, Idaho -- 27.3% less likely (13.8 average yrs. between collisions)
3. Fort Collins, Colo. -- 26.7% less likely (13.6 average yrs. between collisions)
4. Madison, Wis. -- 23.0% less likely (13.0 average yrs. between collisions)
5. Lincoln, Neb. -- 19.3% less likely (12.4 average yrs. between collisions)
6. Huntsville, Ala. -- 19.1% less likely (12.4 average yrs. between collisions)
7. Chandler, Ariz. -- 18.9% less likely (12.3 average yrs. between collisions)
8. Reno, Nev. -- 18.4% less likely (12.3 average yrs. between collisions)
9. Knoxville, Tenn. -- 18.1% less likely (12.2 average yrs. between collisions)
10. Springfield, Mo. -- 17.4% less likely (12.1 average yrs. between collisions)
For the eighth year in a row, motorists in Phoenix topped the list among commuters in American cities with more than 1 million people. Rankings among these cities:
City & Overall Ranking of Collision Likelihood Compared to National Average
53. Phoenix, Ariz. -- 1.6% less likely (10.2 average yrs. between collisions)
124. San Diego, Calif. -- 14.0% more likely (8.8 average yrs. between collisions)
141 San Antonio, Texas -- 20.4% more likely (8.3 average yrs. between collisions)
152. Chicago, Ill. -- 25.9% more likely (7.9 average yrs. between collisions)
153. Houston, Texas -- 25.9% more likely (7.9 average yrs. between collisions)
167. Dallas, Texas -- 32.8% more likely (7.5 average yrs. between collisions)
176. New York, N.Y. -- 41.1% more likely (7.1 average yrs. between collisions)
182. Los Angeles, Calif. -- 48.5% more likely (6.7 average yrs. between collisions)
190. Philadelphia, Pa. -- 64.1% more likely (6.1 average yrs. between collisions)
To access the full report, click here and then download the pdf file from the upper right corner box marked "Related Files."
In reading the Allstate report I observed that Providence, R.I.,is one of the cities with the greatest likelihood of a collision. I wonder how many are staged collisions. Has they been any data showing how many were staged(fraud). Being a retired police officer I bet the percentage is high.I enjoyed reading this article, keep up the good work.
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On Saturday police found children's skeletons and clothing at Haut de la Garenne in Jersey, which was previously a children's home. Until now, the chief minister has insisted there was no foul play. This has been an ongoing investigation since 2006.
Forensic teams and search dogs indicated six other locations of interest and they are now seeking more evidence. It's alleged child abuse has been concealed in the area for many years and the trail could lead right to the top of Jersey's citizens.
140 victims and witnesses have been questioned. Former Jersey Health Minister Mr. Syvret suspects that there was a "culture of cover-up and concealment" of child abuse on the island. The bodies discovered date back to the 1960s.


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BMC Racing Team's Greg Van Avermaet enjoyed a career-best third-place finish at Paris-Roubaix Sunday while earning back-to-back podium placings in cycling's two cobblestone classic monument races.
Van Avermaet was part of a group of seven sprinting it out in the Roubaix velodrome at the end of the 253.5-kilometer race. Also third last week at Ronde van Vlaanderen, Van Avermaet was not able to follow a surge by race winner John Degenkolb (Team Giant-Alpecin) coming out of the last turn. Czech Republic national road champion Zdenek Stybar (Etixx-Quick Step) held off Van Avermaet's late charge to take runner-up honors.
"You always want to win the race, but I knew it would be pretty hard against Degenkolb," Van Avermaet said. "He is strong in these kinds of races and he was pretty strong when he came to us. He did a few good pulls and I was a little bit empty at the end. It was hard to come to the finish. I felt a little bit of energy going away in the last five kilometers and had to put out the maximum to get on the podium.
With only two of 27 cobblestones sectors and 12 kilometers to go, Van Avermaet and his BMC granfondo GFX followed an attack by Yves Lampaert (Etixx-Quick Step) and the pair quickly gained 20 seconds. But coming out of the penultimate cobblestone sector, Degenkolb had bridged the gap. The trio was then joined by four others as they exited the final section of pavé within sight of the velodrome.
"I never really had a great feeling today," Van Avemaet said. "Last week, I was feeling good at Flanders. Today, I had to fight against myself on the cobbles. I think I did a good attack with Yves Lampaert in the end. But we could not hold off Degenkolb and Stybar and the others. In the end it was hard to beat them in the sprint."
Van Avermaet's finish bettered his fourth-place result at this race in 2013. It was his fifth third-place finish of the season to go along with a runner-up result at Strade Bianche and a victory in March on Stage 3 of Tirreno-Adriatico.
Manuel Quinziato was the BMC Racing Team's next best finisher in 34th, 2:55 back. Daniel Oss, who was eighth at Gent-Wevelgem, 10th at E3 Harelbeke and 11th last week at Ronde van Vlaanderen, took a tumble into a ditch with about 53 kilometers to go. He was able to continue and finished 67th.
"Quinziato was doing a great job of protecting the team by following several attacks," BMC Racing Team Sport Director Valeria Piva said. "We had a bit of bad luck with Oss because he was also strong and we planned to have him in the final. But Roubaix is a race like this. We can be happy for the podium. Greg was obviously in top shape, so it is too bad he was not able to win one of the monuments."


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My friend emailed me a picture the other day and when I saw it I cried. It was a picture of one of my sons and I at my son Jake's wedding. When I looked at it I could still feel my son's arms around me. This is my son who is stationed in Japan and I hadn't seen in two years. I don't even care that my face is looking pretty old, I just absolutely love it. It's the wedding of one of my children and emotions were high. I've shot at least 30 weddings but have never been the Mother of the Groom.
When I first started shooting weddings, I dreamed of being the most successful wedding photographer in the world. I mean if you're going to do something you might as well be the best right? I've always tried to capture the emotion of a wedding day because I knew that's what couples wanted but slowly my focus started to change. I started to look at Pinterest, which I still love by the way, but I started looking at it in the wrong way. I started imagining all these perfect shots I HAD to get. I started to look at wedding blogs and thought if only every wedding had that many details or that amazing venue. If you're the best photographer in the world you have to learn how to crawl on the ground or climb up a tree. You have to shoot through something or spin your camera to get some cool light effects. I was no longer shooting for the couple but I was shooting for what I would show everyone else on Facebook. Emotion started not to be as amazing at getting THE COOL shot. I've got to get an amazing shot, I've got an award to win! Now let's face it I'm not all that creative so the pressure was starting to get to me. Every time I posted a picture on Facebook I stopped thinking about if my client would like it and started caring more if other photographers liked it. Now don't get me wrong, I love other photographers and I appreciate how much support they've given me on my fan page, but really, my job is not to please them it's to please the amazing couples who have entrusted me to their most special day of all! When it comes down to it clients don't really care if the shot has awesome bokeh or glorious sun flare. What they care about is an image that actually captures an emotion where you can just feel yourself right there in the moment. My job isn't to win an award when I'm shooting a wedding, it's not for my fans on Facebook to be amazed at and tell me how great I am. Although that does make me feel pretty dang good. 😉 My job, which I knew starting out but somehow lost, is to make a whole entire family look back on their day and remember exactly how they felt at that exact moment for the rest of their lives. If I can do that than I'm the most successful wedding photographer in the world.
Now this is an amazing picture. This is me and my son Justin who I miss dearly now that's he's back in Japan. This was taken by my amazing friend Jenn Morrow who knows just how to capture emotion. 🙂
Thank you for reading my ramblings! 🙂


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Exam: WBTET (WB Teachers Eligibility Test)
Qualification: Minimum 50% marks at Graduation or Master Degree level of examination.
Selection Process: Written test & RLST examination.
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Last Date: 08-02-2014
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The West Bengal School Service Commission Act, 1997 (West Bengal Act IV 1997) enacted by Notification No. 936-L dated 1.4.1997 came into force with effect from 01.11.1997 for the purpose of recruitment of Assistant Teacher and Headmaster/ Headmistress in recognized Non-Government aided Schools in West Bengal and presently the recruitment processes are guided by the West Bengal School Service Commission (Selection of Persons for Appointment to the Post of Teacher) Rules, 2007. The State Government later on decided that the Non-Teaching Staff in the posts of Librarian, Clerk and Group-D Staff including Laboratory Attendant, Peon, Night Guard, Matron in recognized Non-Government aided Schools in West Bengal should also be recruited through School Service Commission.


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Android apps that make you money
There are currently a number of Android Applications currently on the Google Play Store where a user can earn money by carrying out various tasks. The number of apps in this category is regularly added to the Play Store and are consistently gaining popularity. The potential for earning money on these sort of apps is small, however at the end of the year will account for extra money earned. For some of the apps they pay via Paypal for others they pay with vouchers for stores such as amazon.
Market Research app by The Nielsen
Firstly however I'm going to alert you to an app produced by the marketing research company The Nielsen. The Nielsen are global leaders in their industry and are one of the best known marketing research firms. On their site you can find an app you can download to you smartphone. Its an app you do not even open. Essentially the app monitors your usage such as your time using calls an browsing the internet and how frequently you send text messaging. At the end of each year The Nielsen will pay you $5 for pretty much doing what you usually do. $5 is a minuscule amount however its something extra at the end of the year that gets paid into your PayPal account.
Google Play apps
Apps that can be downloaded from the Play store include Junowallet. Junowallet will give you vouchers to spend on the likes of Amazon or Tesco in exchange for clicking on ads watching videos, and downloading apps. It takes time to reach the threshold to claim your reward however bit by bit you will get there.
Earn Money V.4 is a similar site rewarding you for activities on ads, videos, downloading apps and signing up for offers. Unlike Junowallet, Earn Money V.4 will payout using PayPal. I downloaded this app myself but it didn't work. I did several activities such as download apps and click on ads. To this day I have never been rewarded.
There are several rewards apps on the play market such as Tapporo Mintcoins and free gift cards. All of which work in a similar manner to Junowallet and Earn Money v.4. A key tip to use if one was to use one of these rewards app is to get a network of friends together to use referral codes which you will boost you towards your payout threshold.