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Joyce welcomes Jayla Youngblood, winner of the 2018 Sam Miller Award; Gerald Homme, chairman of the Bender Lead On Team: and Ginny Emerson, mother of the late, Sam Miller, to discuss the Bender Lead On Team support group. The Bender Lead On Team assists high school and college students in the areas of setting career goals and championing anti-bullying efforts. The team provides a forum for young people with disabilities to speak out about instances of bullying and to support others who may be involved in similar situations. Gerald will discuss the Bender Lead On Team, his duties as chair, and his personal experience with bullying. In 2012, the Bender Lead on Team established the Sam Miller Award, sponsored by Bender Consulting, to recognize a young leader who embodies the mission of the Bender Lead On Team. Ms. Emerson and Ms. Youngblood will discuss what the Sam Miller Award means to them.
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Fifty Shades Darker trailer released
We're headed back to The Escala.
The first trailer for Fifty Shades Darker, the follow-up to 2015's erotic big screen drama Fifty Shades of Grey, has arrived, and fans are already in a tizzy.
Though the short teaser left much to the imagination, we're already a little clued in on what to expect when Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson return as Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele, respectively, next year.
Here's what we know so far.
1. There's love – and danger
In Darker, which is based on the second book by E.L. James, Anastasia and Christian grapple with how to make their relationship work – and if Mr. Grey can handle "more."
Meanwhile, Ana begins working at Seattle Independent Publishing for the borderline-creepy Jack Hyde while one of Christian's past-girlfriend's begins to stalk her.
Further, she finally meets the mysterious Mrs. Robinson – Elena Lincoln – who is dead-set on destroying her former submissive's new relationship.
2. Some of the new cast have a kinky on-screen past
Kim Basinger's turn as Christian's business partner Elena isn't her first time dealing with risque material on film.
Basinger, now 62, starred in the erotic drama 9½ Weeks in 1986 alongside Mickey Rourke.
The film follows the – you guessed it – 9½-week provocative relationship between a Wall Street honcho and a divorcee. The pair's intense physical interactions increasingly lead to brushes with real-life danger.
3. The other new additions include some A-listers
Basinger isn't the only big star rounding out Darker's expanding cast of characters.
There's a little Teen Wolf crossover with Tyler Hoechlin stepping in as author Boyce Fox. Australian actress Bella Heathcote is also in the cast as the down-and-out former submissive Leila.
The Knick's Eric Johnson stars as Ana's boss Jack, and lovable Brit Hugh Dancy becomes Christian's psychiatrist Dr. John Flynn.
4. Expect some "crazy" good new music
If the trailer is any indication, the Darker soundtrack will include some of 2017's hottest singles.
Much like the Fifty Shades of Grey trailer's backing track, the new teaser features a cover of Beyoncé classic Crazy in Love. This time, the slowed-down version is performed by R&B sensation Miguel.
While no other songs from the upcoming movie's soundtrack have been revealed, it's safe to assume they'll match the assembled tuneage from Christian and Ana's first outing. The Weeknd shot to fame with Earned It, a feature on the album that nabbed him a Best Original song nomination at the Oscars, and Ellie Goulding's Love Me Like You Do helped her snag recognition at the Grammys.
5. There might be more of the "Dornan D"
While Johnson stripped down in Fifty Shades of Grey, Dornan left a little more to the imagination. Audiences noticed – and so did Johnson!
The actress teased that Dornan might show more skin in Darker during a Watch What Happens Live appearance earlier this year, promising, "I'm going to make him get fully naked in the next one."
She joked, "Everybody wants to see the D. The 'Dornan D.' "
Fifty Shades Darker hits cinemas on Feb. 14, 2017.
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The Churnet Valley Railway runs steam and historic diesel trains between Leekbrook Junction and Froghall. It is a remnant of the North Staffordshire Railway, built through the valley in the 1840s. Currently, it has stations at Cheddleton, Consall and Froghall but there are plans to, eventually, extend to Alton, Oakamoor and, especially, Leek which is the nearest large town. It also connects with and sometimes runs on the Cauldon Lowe Branch, up the 1-in-45 incline to Ipstones.
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S160 Class 5197
5197 first came to Britain from the U.S.A. during WWII. Post-war, it was sent to China where it hauled coal until retirement and a return to Britain in 1995. In recognition of the type's war service, it's painted in 1944/45 US Army Transportation Corps colours.
'Large Prairie' 5199
5199 was originally built in Swindon in 1934. Restored in 2003, it was on hire from the Llangollen Railway in 2011.
Stanier 8F 8624
Stanier 8F 8624 was on loan to the C.V.R. in 2010. The red livery was not original: as a freight loco. it would have been black. Since leaving the CVR, it has been repainted in black and renumbered as British Rail 48624.
3F 'Jinty' 47279
47279 was hired from the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway in 2008.
7821 'Ditcheat Manor'
'Ditcheat Manor' is an ex-British Rail engine, built to a Great Western Railway design in 1950, and was on loan to the railway in 2006.
BR Standard 4MT Tank 80098
80098 was built in 1954 and, like many locos of that era, it was retired while still relatively new. It was on long-term loan at the C.V.R. until mid-2008.
Fowler 4F 44422
Back in 1990, 4F 44422 was the first resident steam engine to run on the C.V.R. It came back to the C.V.R. as a full-time resident for the 2009 season but had to be returned to Crewe in August, after developing "excessive knocking noises".
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Diesel (updated 10/18)
The railway has an assortment of historic diesels and occasionally holds diesel galas.
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Diesel Multiple Unit 50455/50517
Class 104 DMUs were a 1950s design, withdrawn from service in the early 1990s.
D1842, a.k.a. 47192, was a C.V.R. resident when this video was taken in 2007. Subsequently, it left the C.V.R. and returned to Crewe, where it was originally built.
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Point St. Charles Shops
Michael Leduc
There are a number of locations and industries in the Montreal region that, by the mention of a word or phrase, convey a special meaning and The Point is one such phrase. On the Island of Montreal, Point St. Charles is that area south of the city's centre that started out as a working class district, established by industry.
Initially, there were a number of small industries in that area, having been set up along the Lachine Canal that opened in 1825. One of the area's largest industries was the railway facility established by the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, after its incorporation in 1852 that became known as Point St. Charles Shops.
It is now over one hundred and fifty years since the shops were established in Point St. Charles. During that time, ownership changed from the Grand Trunk Railway to Canadian National Railways. Also, a number of management changes occurred. The operations of the shops underwent significant technological changes, particularly the evolution from steam locomotives to diesel-electrics. Plus, there are the workers.
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Friday, May 4, 2012
Happy Star Wars Day!
For more Star Wars fun, here is my video which mashes RA roles - especially in Robin Hood with Star Wars stuff. http://phyllysfaves.blogspot.ca/2010/09/after-gold-rush-revisited.html
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Ah - Star Wars! The first three the masterpieces of their time.
Gis in his Tin Woodman armour. CP30 etc. Gisborne pretending be plugged into the wall as a robot....:D
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|Posted: October 30, 2008
Crack-Free AlN Layers on Sapphire With LayTec's EpiCurveR TT
|(Nanowerk News) At the International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors (IWN) in Switzerland on 610 October, Prof. Misaichi Takeuchi of the Ritsumeikan University, Japan, presented in-situ curvature measurements gained with LayTecs EpiCurve®R TT metrology system on AIXTRON 200 RF-S MOCVD reactor. The sensor combines wafer bowing, temperature and growth rate monitoring with spectroscopic reflectance measurements.
|Prof. Takeuchi and his team used the measurement system to develop a new growth method for crack-free thick AlN layers on sapphire and of n-AlGaN on AlN/sapphire in order to optimize AlGaN-based deep UV emitters and high-voltage AlGaN/AlGaN HEMTs.
|For these devices the simplest way to improve the layer quality, i.e. to reduce XRD FWHM values, is to grow thicker layers. At the same time, cracking caused by strain relaxation at critical thickness has to be avoided. To control the strain, Prof. Takeuchi used EpiCurve®R TT to monitor wafer curvature, spectroscopic reflectance (λ=330750 nm) and the real wafer temperature simultaneously. The measurements enabled him to follow the nano-scale surface-morphological evolution and to understand the influence of AlN growth parameters on the critical thickness.
|This work showed that the Al-polar oriented growth had a tendency to enhance wafer bowing and film stress, whereas N-polar growth did not. With this knowledge, Prof. Takeuchi developed a new two-step growth procedure consisting of pre-treatment stages with NH3 or TMAl to control the surface polarity, seed layer growth, annealing and overgrowth stages for generating low-strain Al-polar films.
|Curvature measurements: black curve - 1 step growth TMAl pre-treatment of 0 sec; red curve - 1 step growth TMAl pre-treatment of 150 sec; green curve - 2 step growth, TMAl=0 sec, NH3 during annealing; blue curve - 2 step growth, TMAl=0 sec, without NH3 during annealing.
|The figure above shows the curvature data of samples with the single-step growth with TMAl pre-treatment of 0 sec (including some Npolar grains) and 150 sec (completely Al-polar), and the twostep growth with and without NH3 during annealing of the TMAl = 0 sec seeding layers. The surface polarity of both twostep growth samples have been unified to Al-polar. However, the strain in both samples is effectively reduced compared with the Al-polar sample of TMAl=150 sec. Hence, low-strain AlN films with Al-polar surface have been formed. Furthermore, the research showed that (002) and (102) XRD FWHM values were drastically improved by the two-step growth.
|At the IWN, Prof. Takeuchi also presented the results of growth of AlN layers inserted beneath highly doped AlGaN layers on sapphire. In this case, wafer bowing and cracking are serious problems because highly Si-doped n-AlGaN layers enhance concave bowing. EpiCurve®R TT detected the related doping-induced accumulation of tensile stress. Prof. Takeuchi could directly correlate this effect to ex-situ XRD FWHM values. For further information please contact [email protected]
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UFC 167 | MGM Grand Garden Arena | November 17, 2013
He was billed as champion Georges St-Pierre's toughest challenge yet. Johny Hendricks, aka Happy Beard Guy, is renowned for his powerful left, as well as the wrestling skills that earned him two NCAA wrestling titles. Many were calling for an upset of GSP, the Canadian who has stood atop the UFC's welterweight division since 2006, arguably one of the best fighters in MMA history and without a doubt a fan favorite. After 25 minutes in the octagon, it seemed as though Hendricks had indeed pulled off the upset, but two of the three judges disagreed, setting the table for St-Pierre vs. Hendricks II and another huge fight night for Dana White and company.


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Sean Sweeney's love of reading began in 1988, when he was handed J.R.R. Tolkien's classic The Hobbit, and was given a needed reading boost with John Grisham novels and the Star Wars Expanded Universe in the 1990s. His passion for writing began in 1993, as a sophomore in high school, when he began writing sports for his local newspaper. Born and raised in North Central Massachusetts in 1977, Sweeney has written for several newspapers and radio stations. Since then, Sean has written twenty-eight novels along with a handful of novellas and short stories.
When he is not writing, he enjoys reading, enjoying the Boston Red Sox, New England Revolution, Arsenal F.C., New England Patriots, and the Gold Coast F.C.
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A Portsmouth University graduate, John Keaveney is now working as a freelance Illustrator in London.
A Portsmouth University graduate, John Keaveney is now working as a freelance Illustrator in London.
Lucy Rose Doll is an illustrator and animator (graduate of the University of Portsmouth) based between East Sussex and London creating observational work using a mixture of watercolour, ink and coloured pencil.
Sasha Dale is a traditional animator working in the UK, a graduate of the University of Portsmouth in 2013.
Outside my day job as eCommerce Manager for Tate, I have always had a creative outlet as I studied Art, Design and Media MA at Portsmouth University and Printed Textiles and Decoration BA at Middlesex University.
Daniel Nash is a 27 year old illustrator and graphic designer (former Portsmouth University graduate), he is from Leighton Buzzard (north of London) working part time as well as freelance work.
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The importance of languages
Tourism and hotel management professionals must be able to speak foreign languages in the same way that they are able to effectively carry out management, planning, marketing tasks or have a knowledge of geography or gastronomy and oenology, to mention just a few of the subjects that make up the courses offered at the University School of Tourism and Hotel Management (EUTDH). Now, the School and the UAB are offering organisations and companies in the hotel and catering sector new modules for professionals that combine training in tourism + languages .
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Training in tourism + languages offered by UAB Idiomes and EUTDH in close collaboration ensures that students receive thorough knowledge of their chosen subjects and languages and continual assessment: the classes consist of small gropus, promote progress and personal attention and are based on the use of language in real, daily situations. They are practical and participative, with communication and interactive activities and are centred on the students' needs as tourism and hotel business professionals . UAB Idiomes has great experience of in-company training, tailored to the needs of the companies.
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This pearl white ceramic Christmas tree is 16 inches tall, the tabletop tree is finished in an iridescent mother of pearl. The pearl white ceramic Christmas Tree is decorated with multi color lights and your choice of color star, pick from a clear, red or gold star. This elegant pearl white tree is new but made using a vintage mold from 1986. This white tree is made in my studio located in central Texas, USA.
This pearl white ceramic tree and stand are glazed in an opaque white glaze and mother of pearl overglaze. The base is also finished in the same white glaze and mother of pearl overglaze. This tree is kiln-fired 3 times to achieve the pearlized finish.
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Cricket: India and Pakistan gripped by World Cup clash
More than a billion people are thought to have watched India beat Pakistan by 29 runs in the World Cup cricket semi-final in the Indian city of Mohali.
Both countries largely ground to a halt during the match, which was attended by their respective prime ministers.
It was the first time the two sides had played on each other's soil since the 2008 Mumbai (Bombay) attacks.
The nuclear-armed neighbours' ties hit a low after the attacks, which were blamed on Pakistan-based militants.
India now play Sri Lanka in the final in Mumbai on Saturday and celebrations have erupted around the country.
The BBC's Soutik Biswas in Delhi says the skies are alight with fireworks and it's like a rerun of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights.Cricket diplomacy
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Wednesday's semi was one of most keenly anticipated contests between the countries for years.
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani was invited by his Indian counterpart, Manmohan Singh, in what is being described as "cricket diplomacy".
The two leaders shook hands with both sets of players before sitting down together to watch the game. Midway through, Mr Singh hosted a dinner in honour of his guest.
After the game, they were due to return to their respective capitals, Delhi and Islamabad.
Indian Foreign Secretary Nirumpama Rao hailed what she called "the spirit of Mohali".
"An extremely positive and encouraging spirit... has been generated as a result of today's meeting. I would like to emphasise this is re-engagement between India and Pakistan," she told a news conference during the match.
Beforehand, Mr Gilani had said he hoped his visit would improve ties. "I am going to watch the match. It is too early to expect anything else," he told reporters.
The meeting comes a day after India and Pakistan agreed to let their officials visit each others' countries to investigate the Mumbai attacks.
The breakthrough followed talks between the two sides in Delhi. The attacks killed at least 174 people, nine of whom were the gunmen. One attacker was caught alive and has been sentenced to death.Holiday
The BBC's Sanjoy Majumder in Mohali says that with only half of the stadium's 28,000 tickets open to the public, there were none to be had except on the black market.
Tickets were apparently selling for up to 10 times their original value, our correspondent says. Other reports put the figure much higher.
Pakistan declared a half-day holiday to allow fans to watch the match, while many offices in both countries said they would shut for the occasion.
The BBC's Syed Shoaib Hasan in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city and home of cricket captain and key player Shahid Afridi, says giant screens were set up at various venues across the city.
Before the match, fans hurriedly gathered at shops across the city to stock up on snacks. Everybody seemed to be bedecked in green shirts and cloaks - the colour of the Pakistani flag. Cars were also draped with flags and posters of national team members, our correspondent reports.
"This is a more important event than any other event in Pakistan this year," one fan, Karachi-based fund manager Omar Ehtisham Anwar, told Reuters news agency.
"There is no way I would miss even a second of this match - I will try to not even blink during the game."
In India, many returned home early as well. Giant television screens were installed in markets and restaurants for people to watch the match.
"We do not have any animosity towards the Pakistan team," Indian cricket fan Ravi Ansal told the AFP news agency before play began.
"They are a fine team and if India go on to lose the semi-final, I will cheer for Pakistan in the final."
The match was held amid tight security and authorities imposed a ban on flights over the stadium. Thousands of police and paramilitary forces were deployed around the venue.
"We are leaving nothing to chance. The security will be multi-layered," local police chief GPS Bhullar told reporters.
In February, the two countries agreed to resume peace talks "on all issues". Peace moves were put on hold after the 2008 attacks, although the sides have met a number of times in the past year.
Pakistan's foreign minister will visit India by July to review progress in the dialogue.


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Be careful what you wish for.
Ted Levine
Zoe Caldwell
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Jonathan Glazer
Rating: 6/10
Running Time: 100 minutes
US Certificate: R UK Certificate: 15
In the first few seconds of Birth, a man asks himself the question of what he would do if his missus died, only for a bird to turn up the next day claiming in perfect English, mind – to be her. That one question sums up perfectly what this entire film is about. When reincarnation not only stares us in the face, but turns up in our bathrooms and climbs into the tub with us, do we believe in it? Or should we just concentrate on how a bird is able to hold a spoken conversation with us in the first place?
Its not a situation the majority of us are ever likely to have to deal with but, for Anna (Nicole Kidman), its a scenario which threatens to turn her entire life upside down. Her husband died from a heart-attack ten years ago, and shes spent the best part of that decade trying to move on with her life. Her best chance of doing so appears to be Joseph (Danny Huston), a city gent who, after several years of trying, has finally convinced her to take him as her second hubby.
Of course, poor ol Joe didnt bank on facing some stiff competition from a snot-nosed ten-year-old but thats exactly what happens when young Sean (Cameron Bright) turns up on the couples doorstep claiming to be hubby back from the dead. So, does she choose the fairly normal if slightly nerdy Joseph, or creepy kiddy-wink Sean? Lets face it, only one of them will let her play with his Lego.
While the issue of reincarnation is obviously the films main concern, youll be hard-pushed not to find yourself slightly sidetracked by the uncomfortable blossoming romance between grown woman and child. I couldnt help but feel that if this same story had been told using an adult male and ten-year old-girl, some of the scenes the film puts us through would spark public outrage.
That, however, wasnt my main problem with Birth. The actings good, the directions good, but at the end of it all I just didnt buy the storyline. Everything is wrapped up far too easily at the end, leaving behind a string of plot-holes which make less and less sense the more you think about them. And, for all Ive said in past reviews about Hollywood nowadays being far too obsessed with having to add a twist to every tale, its exactly what this particular film could have done with.
It's Got: Squirrels in the woods. Look out for them.
It Needs: To have concentrated harder on bringing us a conclusion that works, or at least surprises.
Alternatives:Heaven Can Wait
A prime example of how impressive acting and wonderful direction can be wasted on an implausible and slightly-tasteless story.


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Fred parked the Mystery Machine in a parking lot at Venice Beach earlier this afternoon, and the gang hopped out for a Labor Day weekend beach bash they knew they wouldn't get to enjoy because some kooky monster would no doubt put them on a path to solving a mystery.
That didn't happen. The Mystery Machine will stay put.
"So now, like, we're gonna have actually enjoy the weekend we pretended to come here for?" said Shaggy when he discovered there were no monsters, no evil plots and nothing but good times in the forecast. "Like, how am I supposed to lose my marbles if there's no danger for me and Scoob to get into?"
Scooby-Doo shared Shag's sentiments with an, "Arrr-uuuu." Fred, Velma and Daphne said they feared they'd be stuck doing the same dance loop the entire weekend.
"It's bad enough we have to do that same loop for the 30 seconds we do it in each episode of our show," Velma said. "But for the whole weekend? I don't even know how to dance. To make matters worse, our animators don't know how to dance either. This s__t just got real."
Daphne spent the first two hours of the three-day weekend asking beachgoers if they'd noticed any suspicious activity, in hopes she could get something going. Most people just pointed out the dance loop Fred and Velma were doing on the beach for the previous two hours.
"Oh no you didn't," Daphne told one gentleman who laughed at her friends. "This s__t just got really real."
The gang is reportedly a friggin' cartoon. So none of that s__t was ever going to get real. Welcome to the club.
-George Jetson


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Kanguru Introduces Endpoint Protector to Assist Organizations in Protecting Data & Infrastructure
Kanguru Press Release
Millis, MA, USA – April 14, 2016 – Kanguru is pleased to provide organizations with a powerful new cloud-based management service (including a 10-day free no obligation trial), to monitor all types of peripherals, enforce security policies and supervise devices within their organization. Kanguru Endpoint Protector provides tremendous administrative control for IT Administrators to protect sensitive data and its infrastructure. Managers can use this powerful cloud-based service to monitor, report, and enforce security policies for all USB plug-in devices, peripherals, storage devices, web content, communications, mobile devices and even screen captures - all from one convenient cloud-based console.
With the perplexity of security issues brought on by personal devices carried in by staff, USB peripherals, mobile devices and global access to the internet, it's easy for organizations with sensitive information to lose track of data that could lead to a harmful data breach, or become victim of a malware attack. Kanguru Endpoint Protector provides a powerful tool to enforce secure policies, monitor the network, and report violations.
"Organizations will love the convenience of this powerful cloud-based security interface," says Don Brown, President and CEO of Kanguru. "Today's complex BYOD environment makes it a necessity."
Kanguru Endpoint Protector offers highly granular, yet easy-to-deploy options to protect corporate IP and the organization's data infrastructure from being compromised. Endpoint Security can protect from inherent dangers of physically-connected hardware peripherals like computers, printers, webcams, USB storage drives, and even DVD/Blu-ray devices. Endpoint Protection also enables administrators to supervise and protect from insider threats from mobile devices, uploads through web browsers, email attachments, pasteboard copies or even screen capture.
Kanguru Endpoint Protector is available in 3 separate modules, each offering their own comprehensive security options, and can be purchased and used separately or together to form a robust security solution:
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Crazy Rich Asians (PG-13)
While the film attempts to situate identity as its emotional heart, Rachel's sense of self isn't easily shaken. "I'm so Chinese, I'm an economics professor with lactose intolerance," Rachel says when her free-spirited mother (Tan Kheng Hua), worries she's too American for the old money. If Rachel does struggle with her identity, Chu's pacing leaves little room to investigate these nuances. Instead, Wu is tasked with delivering sentimental monologues about her background in a believable way. When Nick's mother Eleanor (Michelle Yeoh) and her mother-in-law (Lisa Lu) try to cast doubt on Rachel, by way of a long-buried family secret, the drama and subsequent fallout feel manufactured.
Rachel's cat-and-mouse game to win Eleanor's respect is the most enjoyable thread of the film. The opulence of the clothes and jewelry begins to take on the quality of an advertisement; of what and for whom is up for debate. But these images are too aware of the ones that have come before it; they're diametrically opposed to stereotypes of Asians laboring or laundering clothes. For all its carnival-like antics, Crazy Rich Asians is all too aware of its own spectacle.


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|Accueil > Stationary time-vertex signal processing
The goal of this paper is to improve learning for multivariate processes whose structure is dependent on some known graph topology. Typically, the graph information is incorporated to the learning process via a smoothness assumption postulating that the values supported on well connected vertices exhibit small variations. We argue that smoothness is not enough. To capture the behavior of complex interconnected systems, such as transportation and biological networks, it is important to train expressive models, being able to reproduce a wide range of graph and temporal behaviors. Motivated by this need, this paper puts forth a novel definition of time-vertex wide-sense stationarity, or joint stationarity for short. We believe that the proposed definition is natural, at it elegantly relates to existing definitions of stationarity in the time and vertex domains. We use joint stationarity to regularize learning and to reduce computational complexity in both estimation and recovery tasks. In particular, we show that for any jointly stationary process: (a) one can learn the covariance structure from O(1) samples, and (b) can solve MMSE recovery problems, such as interpolation, denoising, forecasting, in complexity that is linear to the edges and timesteps. Experiments with three datasets suggest that joint stationarity can yield significant accuracy improvements in the reconstruction effort.


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Westbourne Motorsport will field an exciting four car entry in the 2013 Renault UK Clio Cup, which gets underway less than a fortnight from now at Brands Hatch in Kent, with category race-winner James Colburn (Worthing) returning to spearhead the team's title attack.
Joining the 20-year-old at the West Sussex squad, which is led by his father Richard, will be second year Clio Cup competitor Mike Bushell (Tunbridge Wells), championship newcomer Jordan Stilp (Northampton) and Maltese car racing rookie Jacques Mizzi.
Colburn, who enters his fifth consecutive year in the Renault UK Clio Cup this season, had a mixed campaign in 2012 with misfortune blunting his title bid. He did, though, prove his credentials with a dominant double victory during rounds five and six at Thruxton.
He first entered the coveted club of Clio Cup race winners in 2011, his most successful year to date in the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship support category. Concluding that season third overall in the title race, he was actually tied on points with Vice-Champion Aron Smith who has since graduated into the BTCC.
Bushell, who ran with his own team for most of his rookie season in 2012, joined Westbourne for the series finale at Brands Hatch Grand Prix Circuit and made a major impression with a season-best second place – coupled with the fastest lap – during round 16. Although consistently running in the top 10 in his debut year, the 23-year-old really came to the fore after linking-up with Westbourne.
Renault UK Clio Cup debutant Stilp arrives in the high-profile category with two years of experience in cars. The 18-year-old followed up an impressive maiden season in the Ma5da Mk1 Championship in 2011 with a superb run to the Vice-Champion's position in the Ma5da MX5 Cup last year, taking seven wins along the way.
Karting graduate Mizzi, who only became involved with the sport less than five years ago, got his first taste of a Clio Cup car with Westbourne during a test outing at Brands Hatch last October. The 20-year-old, who has enjoyed championship success in his native Malta in the ranks of KF1 karting, has his sights set on a future in touring car racing and is relishing the challenge of the Clio Cup.
"This is a really exciting year for the team", commented Richard Colburn, "We have a great blend of proven podium finishers, with James and Mike together, and two talented newcomers to the series in Jordan and Jacques – both have really impressed me in pre-season testing.
"I feel we really have a chance to challenge for both the driver and team titles in 2013, everybody at Westbourne has worked really hard throughout the winter and we all look forward to the first green lights signalling the season opener at Brands Hatch over the Easter weekend."
With several more drivers set to be officially confirmed for the 2013 Renault UK Clio Cup on Thursday, 21st March, at Silverstone during the championship Media Day, series organisers are confident of an impressively strong grid in terms of both quantity and quality.
The opening two races of the new season will take place over the weekend 30th/31st March at Brands Hatch Indy Circuit in Kent.


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by Kelvin Belfon
"You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with." – Jim Rohn
The people in our lives matter. They either help us reach our destiny or hinder our growth.
I was reminded of this truth in a recent conversation with my wife Camilla. She's currently working on a PhD degree in Religious Studies. With an 8-year old, 5-year old, 2-year olds twins, me and a house to care for, how she accomplishes all she does is a mystery to me.
Camilla's academic workload includes attending classes, writing multiple papers, and sometimes grading and delivering lectures as a teacher assistant. What she's got going on is more than two full-time jobs. She oftentimes turns nights into days; and even that is sometimes not enough.
I have no doubts in my wife's abilities. She's smart and industrious. But as she's stated along the way, the big key to progressing through this PhD is that she surrounds herself with a supportive network.
An even bigger key for her is that she is mindful of "trimming the fat." What I mean is that she often de-clutters relationships that are bad news for her so as to maintain a minimalist community based on mutual respect and faithfulness. Camilla has assembled a diverse team of professors, colleagues and friends to serve as confidants as she pursues her academic goals.
The doctoral attrition rate is 50% (or even higher in some cases) according to the Ph.D. Completion Project. Besides lack of financial aid, students sighted the most critical factors to success in a PhD program is the lack of an encouraging "program environment." In other words, feelings of being isolated and abandoned are overriding causes for at least 50% of PhD candidates dropping out.
What this suggests to me is that education, skills, economic force and family history are all good essential determinators in a person's ability to flourish. But even more essential is getting the right people orbiting your sphere. So, if you want to be successful, you must take this age-old advice seriously– choose your friends wisely.
The people on your power team will serve distinct roles. Some will inspire, motivate and highlight your best. Some make great conversation partners for mutual exchanges of strategies, insights and challenges.
Others will not be so easily impressed with where you are. They'll push you and provide constructive criticism that won't always feel comfortable. You'll have to develop a thick skin and not take yourself so seriously around these folks. You'll have to resist taking offense and judging them when they're being honest. There's a difference between a committed mentor and a toxic relationship.
The right people in your life may only surface during a season of crisis. They may be available infrequently, as a quick lifeline. But because of who they are, you may err if you approach them as your best bud. Keeping a respectful distance and not taking up too much of their time communicates maturity and understanding to these kinds of partners.
They might be older, younger, or reside in another zip code. They may not even be a specialist in your field of interest. What makes them golden is that they have a vital perspective because of their emotional distance from your pursuits.
Analyze your social environment. The people in your world are important. Ask the tough questions, "Is this individual interested in my well-being?" "Does she love me genuinely, without strings attached?" "Is he a liability because of the chaos that seems to be a pattern in his life?"
Troubled and drama prone people are everywhere. They encourage underachievement complacency, imbalance, and unhealthy habits. Some can add unnecessary burden to your already busy life, which can end up hijacking your goals and jeopardizes your personal wholeness.
We need people in our lives. They help us achieve more.
But remember…
Surround yourself with smart and encouraging people. Spend time with people who believe in your dreams. Find people who celebrate your accomplishments but are also honest to lovingly push you to your greatest potential.
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In clustered environment it's very common to terminate SSL at load balancer layer and pass non secure requests to Hybris applications servers.
This brings in some complexities if configuration is not correct.
As hybris servers get http request so in case redirection is required they redirect to same non secure protocol which is then recreated into secure request by rules configured at load balancer layer.
To avoid this unnecessary redirection and other potential session issues you have to configure all application servers to redirect to specific port and name.
Add following attributes to <Connector port="${tomcat.http.port}" in server.xml files of all servers:
proxyPort="443″ proxyName="${proxyName}
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Green Among The Gold
Lyrics By: Rosalind and Steve Barnes
usty plains and iron chains met Erin's sons and daughters
Cast upon a barren land, a far off distant shore.
They dreamed of misty mountains in their home across the water,
They sang of Connemara and the home they'd see no more.
Now limestone walls are all that's left of times of pain and failure,
This country yields the secrets of the beauty that it holds
And the tunes of Erin's isle are now the music of Australia,
For Irish hands have woven strands of green among the gold.
And so beneath the Southern cross
They sang their songs of Ireland,
They sent her sons and daughters there in the hungry days of old,
They played their jigs and reels
Beneath the skies of their new homeland,
For Irish hands have woven strands of green among the gold.
Nowadays when times are hard at home,
Some people take a notion
To start a brand new life upon the far side of the globe,
And now they find their hearts are stranded somewhere in mid-ocean,
Though their days are full of sunshine and their future's full of hope.
Their children sing a broken life of
Shearers and bush rangers,
They learn to play our music and to dance
The steps of old.
Though their hearts are in Australia,
They never will be strangers
To the land they left behind them,
They're the green among the gold.
All lyrics Cop. Con., © 1991 Steve Barnes except "Stardust and Sawdust", © 1991 Derek McAlpine, "Frightened Girl" © 1991 Rosalind Barnes.
- Blarney Stone Pub Tunebook – A collection of tunes played at the Blarney Stone Pub, San Diego, California
- CCE Kingston Irish Regular Session Tunebook
- CCE Kingston Irish Slow Session Tunebook –
- Circle of Fifths – A guide to understanding keys and transposing
- Dick O'Dow's Promotional Poster – Flyer that advertises the Dick O'Dow's Session.
- Dr. Coop's Compiation of Songs Songs and words, traditional and of the Sea
- Green's Tunebook – Green's Collection of tunes
- Green's Tunebook ABC ABC Notation for Green's Tunebook
- Jamrock Tunes – Some of the Basic tunes played by Jamrocks
- Jigs 4 Jugs Facebook page Jigs 4 Jugs official Facebook page, keep up with all the news!
- John Walsh's Sesson Tunes – Learn these tunes if you want to play most tunes at sessions!
- Paul haardy's Tunebook Folk music sessions tunes around Cambridge, England and Redlands, California
- SessioNite Business Cards – Printable business cards that give the site and contact info for SessioNite.com
- Smashing Scottish Session Tunes – Reels Jigs & Strathspeys
- The Music Lover's Treasury Poetry about Music. Lovely.
- Tips Form – Create a custom tips form for fundraising
- Tunes Often Heard – A good working list of tunes often heard in the Detroit area. Especially good for beginners who want to learn tunes that will likely be played at local sessions.
- Tunes Often Heard ABC ABC Notation for Tunes Often Heard


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Forklift Operators Certificate
To operate a forklift on a work site you must hold as a minimum the Occupational Safety and Health Operator certificate - OSH Operators Certificate.
If you have a current full car licence you may like to enquire about our forklift licence for an F Endorsement.
The Forklift OSH operators certificate requires renewal every 3 years and you must resit the theory and a practical assessment to retain this Certificate. AMS Group offers the refresher course either online with a practical assessment or you can book your Forklift refresher course on any of the course dates for the OSH Operators Certificate, shown on our course schedule.
Course Outcomes
By completing this Forklift OSH Operators Certificate course you will be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge of the safe operation of a forklift
- Perform a pre-operational inspection and start up procedure for a forklift
- Demonstrate practical forklift skills.
- Park and shut down a forklift.
NZQA Unit Standards Included
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1 day.
A drivers licence is not a requirement for this forklift training course, but is recommended.
This course is designed for persons that have some experience using a forklift. If you do not have any experience, you may be able to book lessons with one of our experienced trainers. Please contact us to discuss your options.
Additional Pre-Requisites
- Be 16 years of age or over
- Applicants for whom English is a second language must meet IELTS (or equivalent) Level 5.0 (General Training). Proof of this will be required.
Full Course
Course costs include all learning materials and completion certificate. Costs also include registration of unit standard credits with NZQA.
Refresher Course
You must have proof of a current OSH certificate to qualify for this special rate, see information below. Click here for more details.
Special Notes
The Forklift OSH operators certificate requires renewal every 3 years. This means that the holder of the certificate must resit the theory and a practical assessment. These can be renewed before expiry and up to three months after expiry.
Proof of prior training required if not a returning AMS Group customer. If this cannot be supplied, a full charge will apply. If you sat your Forklift OSH Operators Certificate with AMS Group, and you are not sure of its expiry date, but would like to check, please contact us.
Scheduled Course Locations
Please note that courses are available at a number of AMS Group branch locations, these are listed below. If there are no course locations shown below, courses can be arranged to be delivered at your place of work. Contact us to find out more about our on-site training options available for this course or enquire below.


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Population: 645
Dairy farming and tourism.
Meeniyan, a small country town on the South Gippsland Highway between Leongatha and Foster, lies in the middle of some of the richest dairy land in Victoria, and indeed Australia. The dairy sector is the largest single contributor to the South Gippsland economy, providing direct employment for over 1,200 people and accounting for nearly $313 million of the region's wealth. This is a proud community that relies on its farming community to prosper. The Post Office opened on 16 August 1890, shortly before the railway arrived and the town's economy was built on the weekly farming markets with dairy played an important role - in those days cream was the main produce and the skimmed-milk by-product was used as feed for the growing piggeries. Today, milk tankers criss-cross the area picking up milk and delivering it to processors, and while the smaller factories have disappeared, the larger companies continue to play a vital role in the
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Children and breathing/sleep disorders
Children and breathing/sleep disorders
There are two types of sleep apnoea: Obstructive Sleep Apnoea, which is cause by blockage of the airway and Central Sleep Apnoea, which is neurological condition when the brain doesn't send the correct signals to breathe. A sleep study is required for correct diagnosis.
Sleep apnoea is on the rise in both adults and children and needs to be taken seriously: it can cause severe medical problems, including heart issues such as very high blood pressure, cardiac arrhythmias, stroke and diabetes – as well as increased risk of accidents as a result of the symptoms. But it is now well-recognised and understood, and there are treatment options that can greatly reduce the risks and restore quality of life.
Unlike snoring, where the upper airway becomes partially blocked, in Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA) there is an abnormal relaxation of the muscles and the airway is completely blocked for 10 seconds or more – and breathing stops. This event is called an apnoea.
The brain and body are deprived of oxygen and you wake up several times or even hundreds of times during the night, depending on the severity, depriving the body of the deeper and regenerative states of sleep.
The body is unable to detoxify effectively and poor sleep can be a major factor in weight gain or inability to loose weight.
All sleep apnoea sufferers snore, but not all snorers have sleep apnoea. Many sufferers are not aware they even have the condition, but they (or their partner) may recognise the symptoms:
Anyone can have sleep apnoea, irrespective of their age, gender or body type. However, men have twice the risk compared to women, and older age is also a risk factor. Some other indicators of risk are:
In children the most common causes of sleep apnoea is (as with childhood snoring) enlarged tonsils and adenoids, most often the effect of infection by bacteria and viruses, or blocked noses resulting from untreated allergies and irritants.
Just as in adults, sleep apnoea in children can wreak daytime havoc with sleepiness, memory and cognitive issues – that is, with the child's ability to learn and enjoy school activities. This may result in behavioural problems which are sometimes misdiagnosed as ADHD.
Treatment depends on
It is important that a proper diagnosis is carried out. Our dentists will examine your mouth and airways and assess your symptoms. If sleep apnoea is indicated, you may be referred for a sleep study or to other specialists. Dentistry can be a key part of the solution for sleep apnoea.
As with snoring, life style modifications such as losing weight, quitting cigarettes and reducing alcohol intake can help to improve or eliminate sleep apnoea, but these should be done in conjunction with a correct diagnosis and other treatment as required.
An oral appliance, called a Mandibular Advancement Splint (MAS), repositions the lower jaw and can be very effective for mild to moderate sleep apnoea. More severe cases may need a Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) machine.
If there are untreated allergies causing nasal congestion these need to be dealt with and treated by a naturopath.
Ear Nose and Throat
For issues with enlarged tonsils or adenoids, sinus problems or nasal polyps: naturopaths can treat less serious tonsil matters and ENT (ear, nose and throat) surgeons may recommend prescription drugs or surgery for more serious conditions.
Expansion of the palate (orthodontic treatment)
Where the apnoea is being caused by issues of facial structures – where the jaw, nose and throat are not correctly positioned due to mouth breathing – we can use a Light Wire appliance to expand the space and correct the misalignment.
Where this is dysfunctional breathing you will need to see a breathing specialist to rectify unhealthy breathing habits that contribute to Sleep Apnoea. More about breathing treatment
Nutritional supplements
Although nutritional supplements can't "cure" sleep apnoea, they can reduce its impact. Antioxidants such as Vitamin C and Vitamin E have been shown to be of benefit, taken in the context of a diet that is generally high in fruits and vegetables and low in processed food.
Because we are integrative dentists with specialisation in this area, we can help pinpoint the treatment you or your child needs to help you manage sleep apnoea and regain your quality of life
Call us at Lotus Dental in Sydney on 02 9953 5153 or send us an email to make an appointment. We'll discuss and diagnose the cause of your problem, and identify the most effective treatment approach for you.


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50 000 USD award for excellence in leadership in agricultural and life sciences universities
The GCHERA World Agriculture Prize will be awarded to an academic/faculty member from a higher education institution working in the disciplines relating to the agricultural and life sciences – including but not limited to agriculture, forestry, natural resources, food, bio -based products, bioenergy, rural development and the environment.
The nominee will demonstrate exceptional and significant achievement in his or her engagement in the mission of higher education institutions relating to the agricultural and life sciences. This impact will most likely be demonstrated in the work of nominee in the development of higher education in the institution(s) in which the nominee has served, in the wider geographical region of the institution(s) and/or globally.
This prize will be awarded in Nanjing Agricultural University in China on 20 October 2013.
Call for nominations – deadline 31 July 2013, 17.00 CET summer time (GMT + 2)
More information on the Call for nominations on www.gchera-wap.org and in this document.


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XP and Saves as Magic-User, d6 HP per level. Same combat options as Fighters, Dwarves, and Elves. Must choose to be either Chaotic OR Lawful.
The Adept
Nazgul by Martawadman
Where others search outwardly for answers, the adept looks within. Through secret rituals, rigorous discipline, mind-altering drugs and intense medication, they walk the wyrding way giving them preternatural abilities and influence on those around them.
The Wyrding Way:
Adepts can channel the wyrd and use it to add an extra die to any ability, save, attack, or damage roll they must make, or can be rolled and added to their AC for a single combat round (from the beginning of their turn to the beginning of their next turn). At first level, this begins as a d4 and goes up by one die-size every four levels. d6 at 4, d8 at 8, d10 at 12, d12 at 16. This can be used on any roll as often as the adept wishes, but every time a 1 appears on either die rolled, their Wyrd goes down one die size. If it is reduced to less than a d4, their will is depleted and they can summon it no further until they've had time to rest and perform the proper meditations (treat the same as a magic-user regaining their spells).
Reaching Out:
No power is without temptation.Though different sects and philosophies will argue as to where originates the wyrd, they can all agree on one thing - it is a power that comes from beyond the adept. The mind is a but a focusing lens, the body an empty vessel. Particularly ambitious (or foolhardy) adepts can attempt to drink deeply of the wyrd -- and at their own peril. On any single roll, the adept may attempt to roll equal to or under their Wisdom on a d20. On a success, they increase their Wyrd die for any checks made that round, including giving them a d4 even after they have spent their powers. If their die is already at d12, the die becomes a d20. However, doing this is not without terrible price. If the Wisdom roll fails roll the die they would have received. The number on the face is temporarily subtracted from their Constitution. If this would adjust their HP, remove any lost hit points from their current HP first. If either their HP would be reduced to zero, or their Constitution would be reduced to zero, the character is slain. If the character survives, their constitution will recover at a rate of one point per day but cannot be restored any other means (including magical).
Wednesday, August 3, 2016
The Adept: Revisited (A Class for Lamentations of the Flame Princess and other Old School Fantasy Games)
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That is excellent flavor and execution of a class. I'm working it into my campaign immediately.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks. Let me know how it played for you!Delete
Alternate power boost: Roll WIS. If WIS or less, they gain nothing. If greater than WIS, they boost the die, but subtract 1 from WIS permanently. When WIS hits 0, they become a berserking NPC murderbeast with a permanent boost of 1 die level. That's sort of a "the Dark Side can make you powerful, but at the cost of your soul" way of doing things.ReplyDeleteReplies
Or else, if the die rolled as a bonus is greater than their new WIS, they become a berserking etc.Delete
I like that quite a bit. I was working on an alternate direction for them as well to fit the kind of "dark side" mechanic of the source material. Some kind of thing where they could reach out for forbidden power, but risk of corruption.Delete
What I haven't quite decided is what form that corruption would take. Mutations table seems just a little too obvious, but I can see it being something like that. The real key would be to set it up in such a way that once they had already begun the corruption, it had the risk of accelerating. In game terms, the benefits should in some way increase so that as the character becomes more corrupt, the -player- has more incentive to take part in their own character's destruction.
That's why I like the bonus happening on the failure of the WIS roll - which becomes more likely as their WIS drops due to gaining bonuses! But there's that clock on it, where the low WIS means that they will eventually leave play. Maybe add something where they increasingly have to rely on it instead of getting normal bonus wyrd dice, but I'm not sure how to make that work. Require a regular WIS roll for normal use, requiring a success to get the regular bonus, and failure dropping the dice type instead of a roll of 1 on the wyrd die? That isn't aesthetically (or game-flow, for that matter, since it requires another roll) ideal, though.Delete


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This game (possibly inspired by More Chilli) is manufactured by Lightning Box and is the second one in the series - it's great fun, with a Mexican theme and when playing in real mode there's also a progressive jackpot on offer. Play for free below. Read our full review below.
Chilli Gold x 2 is a Mexican-themed fest of fun, culture, explosions of colour and a bit of heat thrown in to make it an exciting free pokies game that you won't want to pause for a second.
This pokie is manufactured by Lightning Box, and they have cleverly designed a game with cartoon characters who are on an adventure in Mexico. These cheeky characters don their sombreros and ponchos as they travel through the heat of the desert against the backdrop of flower-adorned cacti and rocks. The fiesta continues to get everyone in the party mood with a rather fitting theme tune that just makes you want to get up and party all night long!
The reel is a vibrant mix of colours. It's not a highly sophisticated game, but nevertheless it's fun to play. Chilli Gold is a progressive pokie with a traditional five-reel layout. There are a massive 40 paylines with double wilds, free spins and even stacked wilds, which of course can soon rack up the dollars. There is a spicy bonus feature too which is worth looking out for!
Chilli Gold x 2 offers plenty of amusement with symbols to match the overall Mexican party theme such as donkeys, maracas and a blue parrot. There are also wild chilli stacks that will substitute for other symbols but can also trigger a free round if they appear at the right place. Winning dollars is what this game is all about, and you can win by just matching two symbols, but ideally you want to match five with the biggest-paying symbol being the Hombre itself.
Line bets can be set at anything between 0.01 to 2 credits, but the total bet will be more than the line bet times 40.
Wild Chillies
The red wild chilli is a wild symbol which substitutes for all the other symbols, but get six or more appearing in reels 2, 3 or 4 and you trigger up to 21 free spins. Whilst this may seem like a hard bonus to trigger, it's not that difficult as often these chillies will appear as a stack in the centre lines. This symbol can also trigger further free rounds within the free spins round too, giving many opportunities for a big win.
Gold Chillies
Here you have the potential to win up to 1000 times your original line bet. If you have one of these gold chillies completing a win, then your payout will be doubled. Not only this, but the chillies are where the rewards can earn you some big bucks, as they also act as the scatter icons too. This is where you can get some bonus free spins and payouts are doubled. You will find the gold chilli wilds stacked on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5.
Stella Jackpot Bonus Game
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Mid-career nurses who have gone back to school for BSN or MSN degrees generally report that they had a positive experience. One focus group study designed to measure nurses' satisfaction with their RN-to-BSN program found many of the participants said they had been transformed—personally and professionally—by education. Yet one factor stands out over and over again in studies that assess nursing perspectives about going back to school. That factor is the online format for learning.
For many nurses, online education allows them to overcome the time barrier as they juggle school, work, and family life. For example, researcher Teresa Leonard surveyed a group of 143 RNs who were enrolled in an RN-to-BSN online degree program in Alabama. Nearly 90 percent of her respondents said that flexible scheduling figured heavily into their choice of a school and 56 percent said the online format was the deciding factor. Leonard wrote:
The majority of the students said that they chose an online program because scheduling is much more flexible than in a traditional program. One student related, "I would not have been able to complete the degree in a traditional setting due to work and family obligations." Said another, "the convenience of 'going to class' when it was good for me made all of the difference in the world." Another said, "Online courses give you more flexibility with your time…Because there is no set time to attend class, I was able to rearrange my time as needed to fit changes in my life."
It's clear that the online learning model decreases stress for students as it erases time and space challenges. It has streamlined the education process by putting the focus on knowledge and eliminating what is no longer necessary—like a long commute to campus, parking problems, and the constraints of the traditional semester schedule. Here's what U.S. News & World Report says in its school rankings issue:
Advances in technology have made online education a rich, visually engaging experience for students. Virtual lectures, multimedia content presentations, and graphic depictions of content make learning online more enjoyable. Email, chat rooms and message boards make it easy to network with fellow students and interact with instructors. And you'll meet like-minded, career-focused people from all over the world, not just individuals from your own home town.
Many nurses are initially reluctant to go back to school because they fear being plunged into a foreign culture—a classroom filled with young nursing students right out of high school, for example, or stern instructors ready to pounce on any error. The good news is, with the current push for nurses to advance their education, large numbers of nurses in their 30s, 40s, and 50s are returning to school—so online programs have evolved to meet the needs of nurses like you. The best of them, including American Sentinel University, use an adult learning model. At the basic level, this means we provide an online orientation session and many resources to assist adult students, such as one-on-one guidance from an advisor, student discussion forums, and a virtual librarian.
But an adult learning model also means that your work experience and existing bedside skills will form the foundation for learning new academic concepts related to nursing—so you won't just be memorizing facts for the test. On an experiential level, you'll be able to immediately relate to your course work and apply it to your current job. And you'll be able to collaborate with other BSN-bound nurses, through group discussions that allow you to share your own thoughts and benefit from the experiences of others. Researchers have found this interaction with students from around the world contributes heavily to nurses' satisfaction with online learning. Teresa Leonard writes:
Students listed the most pleasant aspects of their education to date. Overall, they found the sense of accomplishment rewarding and the exposure to new people, places, and knowledge extremely satisfying. One nurse reported, "[I enjoyed] talking with other students, some from across the world, eight hours away. I enjoyed hearing about what types of practice they were in and the class discussions. I've really enjoyed this semester and looked forward to logging on and seeing what was new for the day."
You're also likely to have an immediate connection with your instructors, since you are all dedicated, experienced nursing professionals with a love of learning. Today's online nursing degree programs are designed to help you develop critical thinking skills, confidence, and expanded career opportunities. With an adult learning model, you'll never feel out of place and you'll be able to see the difference right away, in terms of how you practice nursing and advocate for your patients.


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'Green cover' refers to a broad range of strategies to integrate green, permeable and reflective surfaces into cities and towns, which are home to 89 per cent of our population.
Urban surface temperatures can be 10°C to 20°C higher than in the air temperatures because buildings, roads and other hard surfaces absorb and store heat. High temperatures, due to climate change, will further intensify the impacts of urban heat.
Unlike hard surfaces, trees and vegetation (sometimes called green infrastructure) reflect heat, and they cool and clean the air by evapotranspiration. Other benefits are better health and well being for urban-dwellers, more biodiversity and wildlife, and regulation of localised flooding.
Types of urban green cover include bushland, private and community gardens, parks, greenways, habitat corridors, street trees, roof gardens and plant-covered walls, as well as reflective and permeable walls, pavements and other surfaces. Protecting local green spaces, designing eco-friendly buildings and creating urban networks of green space can help to minimise the impacts of urban heat in our cities and towns.
Green cover resources
- The NSW Government has produced Technical Guidelines for Urban Green Cover in NSW to provide practical advice on best practice. The purpose of these guidelines is to increase the resilience of NSW settlements and communities to climate change, specifically to increasing temperatures in urban settings.
- The Green Cover Demonstration Project, by the Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) in collaboration with the NSW Government Architect's Office, showcases leading landscape design principles for urban green cover.
Examples of urban green cover
|Green and cool roofs have surfaces that are vegetated, light coloured or reflective surfaces.
Green walls are vegetated systems grown on the vertical walls of a building.
Thornley Street Rain Garden, Marrickville
|Green streets include shade canopy, mass-planted understoreys, bioswales and median plantings, as well as permeable and reflective surfaces on roads, pavements and car parks.
|Green urban open spaces include canopy trees and shaded areas in parks, amenities and on cycleways and footpaths, as well as bioswales, rain gardens, soft-landscaped detention basins or dechannelisation of concrete culverts.
- RP2005: Urban Micro Climates – by the CRC for Low Carbon Living. A study looking at micro-climates in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.
Networks and related projects
- 202020 vision - A partnership of organisations aiming to increase urban green space by 20 per cent before 2020.
- World Green Infrastructure Network (WGIN) - Promotes the use of green infrastructure in cities.
- Urban Greening Masterclass - A collaboration between 202020 Vision and OEH to run a series of urban-greening masterclasses for council representatives to meet, share knowledge and increase collaboration on urban green cover projects.


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Death of a lion cub
Sad news at Ghoha is that we have recently discovered the death of one of the Ghoha Pride lion cubs. It is not easy for any young animals out there, but lions' mortality rate sits at a high 50%. That is because of the incredible risk they face after birth: hyenas, buffaloes, and other lions are their biggest threats in the wild. One of the Ghoha Pride twins was absent from 2 sightings, and it can therefore be confirmed that it has not survived.


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Award-winning, Los Angeles-based Architecture Firm, Newman Garrison + Partners' latest project is a 245-unit mixed-use development within the Warner Center - a project designed to be a modern-luxe haven, attracting young professionals and millennials.
The Q East is located at 6200 Variel and Erwin Street as part of the master planned community, the Warner Center in Woodland Hills, and will break ground Winter 2017. The inspiration behind the development was to fulfill the vibrant spirit of the Warner Center Specific Plan in which residents can enjoy high-living amenities that include full service concierge, valet parking, resort-style pools, a 5th floor roof deck and outdoor movie theater to accommodate outdoor events. The project boasts over 40,000 sq.ft. of commercial/restaurant space.
"We want to give the residents of the Q more than they can expect. The Q will be the West Valley's most sought after luxury lifestyle," said owner of the project and CEO of California Home Builders, Shawn Evenhaim.
The 7-story project makes a modern statement with its striking exterior corner facade - creating a stunning architectural feature to enhance the outdoor experience. In addition, an 8,800 sf. outdoor public plaza anchors the corner, connecting the restaurant/office users to promote a sense of community. This is just one of the many elements of the project created to attract a younger generation in a highly competitive market. Health and wellness serve as a theme throughout the development - constructing a 7,500/ft full service fitness center with yoga studio featuring state-of-the-art equipment, gourmet teaching kitchen, 2 large outdoor courtyards with resort style pool and amenities. A raised 2-story restaurant with rooftop viewing terrace bar/lounge and dining area overlooks the plaza below.
The project will add to the already booming Warner Center Specific Plan which will also include The Q West (slated to open in 2019), another groundbreaking project between Newman Garrison + Partners and California Home Builders. The Q West combines luxury apartments, restaurants and workspace as part of a modern mixed-use development in a prime location adjacent to the Westfield's Topanga at the Village Shopping Center, featuring premier dining, athletic clubs, and luxury retail.


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A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw
By Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Current Publisher: Squarefish (Macmillan)
Digital Publisher: Not Available
Reading Level: Ages 9 & Up
Children's Books Finalists That Year:
- Vera and Bill Cleaver for Where the Lilies Bloom
- Edna Mitchell Preston for Pop Corn and Ma Goodness
- William Steig for Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
- Edwin Tunis for The Young United States, 1783-1830
Children's Books Winner That Year: Isaac Bashevis Singer for A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw
Judges That Year: Barbara Bader, Frank Jennings, William Jay Smith
The Year in Literature: Sounder by William H. Armstrong won the Newbery Medal.
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- Singer was a prolific writer of novels, children's books, memoirs, essays, and articles, but he is best known for his short stories. One such story, "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy," was made into the popular film, "Yentl," starring Barbara Streisand.
- Singer won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1974 for A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories. He was also a Fiction Finalist in 1962 for The Spinoza on Market Street and Other Stories, in 1965 for Short Friday, and in 1973 for Enemies, a Love Story. He was a Finalist for Arts & Letters in 1967 for In My Father's Court.
- Singer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978.
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Any Flea market enthusiast who has been to Barcelona will have been to Encants. A beautifully crumbling encampment of old style junk-on-the-ground type traders, alongside the cheap cotton underwear and flimsy kitchenalia sellers. The traders would generally be found hiding underneath a makeshift umbrella, wiping their brows to try and ward off the heat.
There are writings to believe that Encants dates back to the 14th century making it one of Europes oldest markets. The Space itself oozed character and decaying charm, perfectly befitting with the contents strewn onto the bedsheets on the tarmac. Makeshift shelters with tin roofs and awnings, graffiti on weather worn yellow brick and the walk to get there through El Clot was the precursor to entering this run down shanty town of commerce. The traders spotted you (as a tourist) a mile off and shouted ridiculous prices with little room for haggling, perhaps because they didn't really want to sell to you anyway.
Late last year the market was relocated to a shiny purpose built shelter at the busy traffic filled interchange at Glories (just down the road from El Clot). Designed by architect Fermin Vazquez, the reflective canopy aligns the traders within a multi layered terrace, with the junk-on-the-ground traders taking prime position in the centre of the structure.
Why did they move to such a modern construction? Would this kill the beauty of the old market? Would it turn it completely into a tourist trap? Will it change the entire atmosphere of the place?
We went already thinking that we wouldn't like the new arrangement but came away pleasantly confounded. The traders are still the same, the junk is still strewn on the ground and is still rubbish (amazing rubbish!), you still have to hunt and rummage and elbow your way to the best finds, you're still checking over your shoulder to see if your bag is on your back. Yes it does feel different and doesn't have that notion of walking back into another time, and indeed you do kind of look at the contents differently. Shiny things are suddenly slightly more attractive and crappy things a little bit more crap.
But it was still Encants and still one of the best Flea Markets in Europe.


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Monday April 4th 2011: Eve Mayer Orsburn speaks with Sharlyn Lauby about how fully optimized LinkedIn Company Pages can make a serious dent when it comes to planning key recruiting strategies.
Orsburn goes on to share how an employee's personal profile can also contribute to one's LinkedIn Company Page; "90 percent of information in a LinkedIn Company Page comes from employee personal profiles." As such, it only benefits a company to make sure its employees know how to use LinkedIn properly." [Read More...]


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The M-6007-X427FFT and the M-6007-Z427FFT are high-performance Ford racing engines. Ford's Performance division sells both engines under the competition category. Although they have the same displacement capacity, the M6007-Z427FFT is able to produce more power.
While the M-6007-X427FFT produces up to 450 horsepower, the M-6007-Z427FFT is able to produce 535 horsepower. Both engines have a compression ratio of 10.5:1, but the M-6007-Z427FFT produces higher torque: 545 feet per pound compared to the M-6007-X427FFT's 520. These engines feature hydraulic roller camshafts, 4-inch stroke forged steel cranks, 4.125-inch forged pistons and the Boss 351 engine block. The M-6007-X427FFT has one oil pan in the front and the M-6007-Z427FFT has one in the front and one in the rear.


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Carbon Tax Hurting NZ Shipping Operators
February 13, 2017 Taxation in New Zealand
WELLINGTON – Environmental taxes in New Zealand are leaving the burden of the tax on local shipping operators, while ships visiting on the short term are able to skip the levy entirely.
The New Zealand Shipping Federation has recently spoken out against taxation rules, which, it claims, are unfairly putting local shipping operators at a disadvantage.
Currently New Zealand has an Emissions Trading Scheme which sees oil fuel companies buy carbon credits to pass on to clients.
It was claimed that the Emissions Trading Scheme ultimately costs operators as much as NZD 250 000 per ship.
However, foreign ships which visit New Zealand and only make one or two stops are exempt from the tax, despite the fact that they do complete deliveries within the country.
According to the New Zealand Shipping Federation, the differential tax treatment puts local operators at an advantage.
The Federation executive director Annabel Young explained the potential impact of the tax treatment, saying "…in other countries, and internationally, it is accepted the shipping is the most efficient way to move goods or people and, therefore, you don't want to penalise them by imposing carbon charges… it is a direct imposition on our costs and, at some point, it is going to feed through into the cost of moving freight and people by ships."


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Ba?atur Law Office
Ba?atur Law Office was established in 1966 in Turkey by Att. Ege BAGATUR. In 1987, Att. Mehmet Ça?r? BA?ATUR Ph. D. and Att. Jülüde I??l BA?ATUR joined the team. Since then, Ba?atur Law Office has progressed to become one of the leading law firms in Turkey. We are proud to be the third generation attorneys of Ba?atur Law Office.
BAB is committed to excellence and the main target of our culture is to achieve our clients' objectives with the most efficient method within the shortest time possible. The vision of today is the same with the vision of 1966 – to provide clients the legal advice required to achieve their long term objectives with the greatest efficiency both in Turkey and around the world. This vision is achieved with a continuous expansion that allows Ba?atur Law Office to retain its boutique character and standard of service.
BAB provides legal service in various foreign languages to both foreign investors doing business in Turkey and domestic clients in every field of law. Our attorneys provide service in English, German and Italian languages and try to provide the best service in international transactions and legal issues.
Ba?atur Law Office is the first law office in Turkey to participate in National Quality Movement and has received EFQM Certificate as "Recognized for Excellence".
BAB, currently operates in two offices located in Istanbul and Adana. In total, our office includes:
3 Founder Partners
4 Director Attorneys
2 Consultants
2 Consulting Board Member
5 Senior Attorneys
5 Attorneys
5 Trainees


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Presenting transcriptions of analog documents online has become a popular method to provide greater accessibility to records that would otherwise remain offline and within an archive's physical holdings. Some websites even include a digital image of the document linked to the transcription, such as the University of Rochester Rare Books and Special Collection's site, Lincoln and His Circle (http://www.lib.rochester.edu/index.cfm?page=531).
While transcriptions and/or digitized documents are offered online from the same time period as the Vice Admiralty Court of the Province of New York, for example the Founders Early Access Rotunda website (http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/founders/FOEA.html) a site does not exist that deals with Vice Admiralty subject matter. The extent of Vice Admiralty Court records online is confined to a listing in digital finding aids or catalogs from repositories such as the UK National Archives and the Library of Congress.
In preparation for establishing a designer and functionality plan for the New York Vice Admiralty digitization project, the environmental scan extended to include a survey of the digital image viewing software on some sites like Lincoln and His Circle site and the Morgan Library and Museum website. The Morgan site uses the open source software called Zoomify to allow users to zoom in and out on a digitized document, while displaying a smaller document on the page with a red bar highlighting the area of the document the viewer is interacting with. The Lincoln and His Circle site has a similar program, but it seems to be more of a magnifying rectangle that can be moved up or down over the digital document. The New York ViceAdmiralty project will incorporate software similar to the one in use on the Lincoln and His Circle site. Overall, the materials housed at NARA in the Vice Admiralty Court of the Province of New York have not been digitized nor have other British colonial vice admiralty courts as was ascertained from searching on Google, ArchiveGrid, Archive Finder, and Access to Archives.


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All 30 teams in the National Hockey League are participating in the EPA's Food Recovery Challenge to reduce food waste, according to a story in Waste & Recycling News. This challenge asks consumers, organizations and businesses to participate and "use food to feed people, not landfills."
The NHL is teaming up with Rock and Wrap It Up, a non-profit organization that works to distribute leftover food, like that found in concession stands at sports stadiums, to shelters and food banks.
This is great news, as recent EPA numbers say 36 million tons of food waste was generated in the country last year, at the same time that 14.9% of households didn't know where their next meal would come from.
If leftover food is not fit for donation, it can be recycled in controlled conditions, as in Anaerobic Digesters, to produce renewable energy and compost. Food that is sent to landfills produces the powerful Greenhouse Gas Methane, as it breaks rot. Donating leftover food, rather than discarding it, helps to reduce GHG emissions from landfills, and more importantly, feeds those who might otherwise go hungry.
Food is currently the largest component in the waste stream, but it doesn't have to be that way.
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