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The EARN IT Act of the USA—Trust Must Be Earned
Under the pretext of protecting children, the surveillance state is to be expanded in the USA. A new law, the EARN IT Act, forces companies to abolish end-to-end encryption. The means of pressure: Platform providers should henceforth be liable for the content of their users. The law had been put on hold due to the change of government in the United States. Now, the draft has been brought up again.
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What Is the EARN IT Act?
Four senators from the US Senate are leading the bill, which is called the EARN IT Act. The abbreviation stands for Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act. To put it bluntly, the official goal of the EARN IT Act is to remove abusive depictions of children on the internet.
The law was heavily criticized for abolishing end-to-end encryption - an effect that was never officially stated but would have been the only way for companies to implement the law's requirements.
Currently, most IT companies use encryption to protect the content and passwords of their users from unauthorized access. Depending on the level of encryption, even the IT company itself can no longer decrypt the information – in other words, make it readable. Senators Graham, Hawley, Blumenthal and Feinstein want to force companies to eliminate strong encryption and/or build backdoors into their software. They are using the liability law as a lever for this.
The corporate disclaimer should only remain in place, if companies make it technically possible to search all uploaded, stored, or sent files. This way, illegal files can be detected. After all – so the four senators argue – searching through all files is the only way to stop pedophiles who share child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online.
An influential lobby of concerned parents and self-proclaimed child welfare activists has thus set about securing broad support for the EARN IT Act, both online and offline.
Opponents of the law, on the other hand, have a hard time: Those who oppose the EARN IT Act automatically side with pedophiles – at least that's what the supporters of the new law claim.
What Impact Would the EARN IT Act Have?
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act protects Internet platforms from being sued for content that their users upload. This is a legal peculiarity in the USA on which (among other things) the enormous success of US Internet platforms is based.
The EARN IT Act is now intended to further undermine the Communications Decency Act with the help of leverage. Thus, the continuation of the exclusion of liability is to be made subject to conditions. The plan is that companies must earn protection from lawsuits that relate to CSAM.
However, the bill did not say exactly how they must earn this right. In the original version, a commission was planned to be responsible for further development after the adoption of the law - a very controversial aspect of the EARN IT Act.
Patrick Leahy's Amendments and the "Moderator's Dilemma"
After an amendment by Patrick Leahy in the current version of the EARN IT Act, this commission is no longer provided for. Furthermore, the use of end-to-end encryption now explicitly no longer leads to the loss of the disclaimer. Leahy expected to get more support for the law with his proposal.
However, the plan did not work out. Although the amendment was approved by the Justice Committee, there is no reason to feel relieved. The law has now become much more complicated and is causing even more controversy.
On the one hand, the new variant of the EARN IT Act shifts the design of the EARN IT Act from the Disputed Commission to the individual states. And these are known to be very diverse. California, for example, already has very strict data protection regulations with the California Consumer Privacy Act CCPA and thus differs significantly from the other states. The EARN IT Act, for example, reinforces legal diversification in an area which, in practice, knows no borders, since data traffic within the USA has not been regulated to date.
On the other hand, allowing companies to continue using end-to-end encryption without jeopardizing the protection provided by Section 230 could lead to companies encrypting even more than before. This would clearly miss the objective of the law and could lead to even more disagreement amongst members of parliament. However, those who do not encrypt would have to collect much more data on their users to enable prosecution. This would create databases of personal data that would not exist without the EARN IT Act.
The EARN IT Act and the Surveillance State
The EARN IT Act sets the framework for private individuals and law enforcement agencies to sue the platforms directly if crimes against children are prosecuted.
Providers of the Internet platforms understandably want to minimize this risk. Leverage would almost certainly work. It is assumed that the providers will therefore grant the authorities access to user accounts and content.
If this law is passed, it would impact civil rights considerably and would further expand the surveillance state. Various organizations are thus fighting against the EARN IT Act. One well-known group, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), is focusing on proving that the new law violates the First Amendment: Protect our Speech and Security Online
The First Amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
An example: Searching photo databases for facial recognition is a powerful instrument of mass surveillance. End-to-end encryption can protect us all from this feature. Many Internet providers already search uploaded content for abusive images based on known hashes. However, it is not possible to search end-to-end encrypted content for these patterns without weakening the encryption. This is a known problem. The EARN IT Act now requires operators to actively implement weaker encryption.
Mathew Green, cryptographer and professor at John's Hopkins University, summarizes the situation in his statement: "It's the kind of bill you'd come up with if you knew the thing you wanted to do was unconstitutional and highly unpopular, and you basically didn't care.
The crypto-messenger Signal was recently the subject of much media attention. On April 8th, 2020 the company announced that it would withdraw from the US market if the EARN IT Act came into force. It remains to be seen which other companies will position themselves so clearly in the upcoming months.
What Stage in the Legislative Process Are we at?
State: February 2022
The bill has not been further processed since the presidential election of November 2020. Now, the Senate has retrieved the paper and wants to work on its implementation. Internet activists are alarmed and are organizing opposition. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has launched a new information page: Stop the EARN IT Act to Save Our Privacy
Important: The legislative process and the practice of legal interpretation in the USA is different from the German one. US courts act according to the so-called common law. They can influence legislation with their jurisdiction. As a result, the EARN IT Act may already be in effect, although the law has not yet been passed.
Statement of the Boxcryptor Founders Andrea Pfundmeier and Robert Freudenreich
With Boxcryptor we have dedicated ourselves to the effective protection of information. Protecting private information and trade secrets is what motivates us to work on our encryption software every day. Among our customers are journalists, political parties, companies with various business areas, critical infrastructure companies, research institutes, schools, and many private individuals. The ability to encrypt messages and files of all these people and thus protect them from the prying eyes of third parties is a fundamental prerequisite for a free society. Any attempt to restrict freedom of expression must be firmly opposed.

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The eccentrically-named Dwarfs of East Agouza were set up on the floor of a hip, dimly-lit downtown Cairo nightclub called Zigzag in October 2016. As young Egyptians drank beer and hung out, band members Sam Shalabi and Alan Bishop began conjuring up a rhythmic swirl of atonal guitar, feedback, and free jazz saxophone skronk.
The musicians sat facing one another, concentrating, while bandmate Maurice Louca posted up behind a table covered with electronics, laying out heady synth lines and Arabic percussion loops. The intensity grew, the noise groove got louder, and eventually the whole club was in a trance—heads bobbing, people swaying, one person bouncing up and down while holding a beer aloft.
When the band finished, the spell was broken, with only iPhone videos by which to remember the set.
The Dwarfs of East Agouza is the kind of casually brilliant collaboration that comes along rarely. The three members of the group are all veteran musicians, with plenty of other projects and bands under their belts: Bishop is the co-founder of the pioneering experimental group Sun City Girls (who disbanded in 2007) and also of Sublime Frequencies, a record label that specializes in global lo-fi pop and esoterica. Shalabi is a composer, oud player, and guitarist who leads the avant-garde ensemble Land of Kush. Louca, a decade-plus veteran of Cairo's underground music scene, has been touring lately in support of Lekhfa, an album of luminous Arabic rock and street poetry he recorded with fellow Cairo artists Maryam Saleh and Tamer Abu Ghazaleh.
As the Dwarfs, they step away from their normal songwriting roles and let loose with improvised recordings and performances. They never plan ahead and never play the same thing twice. Rather than use improv to flex their egos or show off their skills, they aim to explore intuition, spontaneity, and collaborative energy, pushing boundaries as they compose new material on the spot.
"I think we all try to write songs on the fly," Louca says. "We all come from composing and songwriting backgrounds, so our approach to improvising is trying to write songs—not weirdness for weirdness sake, or chops, or challenging each other, or any of that bullshit. It's really just about trying to compose on your feet."
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The Dwarfs came together four years ago when the three musicians were living in the same apartment building in the Cairo neighborhood of Agouza. (There is actually no "East Agouza"—it's just called Agouza.) Shalabi, who was born in Libya to Egyptian parents, had recently moved to the sprawling Egyptian capital and decided to relocate from his apartment in downtown to get some distance from the violent upheavals taking place in the months following Egypt's 2011 revolution. Bishop, an American with Lebanese heritage, also moved to Cairo in 2011 and eventually found a flat in the same building.
In Louca's home studio, the three of them would smoke cigarettes and take off into their own sonic world. The room didn't have any soundproofing or acoustic treatments, but the neighbors didn't mind, and the landlord loved music. Louca's furry cat Termis would listen in on their sessions as they experimented with odd guitar tunings, acoustic guitar feedback, sax freakouts, warped organ textures, and on-the-fly beatmaking.
"There was no kind of conceptuality of, 'What we want to do?,' or even setting parameters. It was just like, 'Let's meet and play,'" Louca recalls. "And things developed—all of a sudden Alan was playing bass and guitar and doing the feedback stuff, and I'm doing the percussion stuff. Everyone kind of found his own thing."
The band played their first official show under the Dwarfs name at a Sun Ra art exhibit held in Cairo in May 2014; they and some other musicians they'd recruited all donned shiny, silver-and-gold capes in tribute to the Afrofuturist jazz composer's space-traveling Sun Ra Arkestra. Around that same time, the trio also went into the studio to record a series of improvisations that would go onto become their debut album, Bes, a freewheeling free rock odyssey that came out on Nawa Recordings in 2016.
Since then, the band have plowed forward, touring Europe and the Middle East and booking time to record whenever they're all back in Cairo. They've all been busy with other projects, too, and Shalabi now lives in Montreal. But even between long stretches of inactivity, the three musicians have maintained their spark. They make a point to record most of their live performances and rehearsals, and as they've gotten more comfortable playing with each other their sound constantly evolves.
"We're just making up new albums. We're just moving forward," Bishop says. "We'll revisit some of the same areas, perhaps. That's always going to happen, I suppose. It's limited by the instrumentation, and some of the circumstantial, freewheeling ideas that come from all of us. But I think we're combining our communication in such a way now to where we trust each other explicitly, and it really has a life of its own. It's beyond our control now."
Their latest LP, Rats Don't Eat Synthesizers—which came out in April on the label Akuphone in collaboration with Annihaya—was recorded in a single, four-hour session at a Cairo recording studio in 2015. It consists of two long tracks, "Rats Don't Eat Synthesizers" and "Ringa Mask Koshary," which find the band stretching out through captivating expressions of frustration, panic, tension, and release. Like all of their material, nothing was planned ahead. Inspired by free jazz composers like John Coltrane and Cecil Taylor, as well as Arabic maqam scales and the technique for playing the oud, Shalabi utilizes odd guitar tunings and freeform expression to unearth serpentine licks and murky, rhythmic textures. Midway through "Ringa Mask Koshary," the band descends to an almost primal state, Bishop's sax sputtering in response to Shalabi's metallic lurch as Louca piles on the loops to make a clattering polyrhythm.
The album will no doubt sound too aggressive or weird for some listeners, but the band members' intrinsic feel for rhythm carries the music along, and there's purpose to what they're doing. If the legendary Captain Beefheart was known for ordering his Magic Band members to transcribe his crazed ideas to paper, so that they could faithfully recreate them later, the Dwarfs take a more egalitarian approach, working together to forge unique compositions out of the ether.
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"I use a lot of different tunings, but a lot of the tunings, I just come up with on the spot. I'll retune the guitar while we're actually playing, so 99 percent of the time I have no idea what I did," Shalabi says. "I can't recall this tuning that might be, like, a quarter-tone tuning. Or it might be a completely non-tempered tuning, but in a very strange way. I guess if I listen back to what we did and said, 'I really want to recreate that tuning,' then I could. But that's not really what we do. We try to go in there really focused, but open."
In the album notes for Rats Don't Eat Synthesizers, Bishop relates a story of an Egyptian musician who becomes so disillusioned by his career as a musician—sabotaged at every turn by "industry gangsters, corrupt middlemen, and psychic vampires"—that he decides to lock up his priceless studio of vintage synths and hi-fi recording equipment and never return. It's a heartbreaking thought, imagining how someone could be so beaten down that they'd decide to abandon their creative pursuit and lock their tools away, letting it all sit and decay. When you get rid of your creative tools, you're not only killing something inside yourself but also denying the possibility that future generations might pick up where you left off. "Lost is all the music that has never been played on instruments that may or may not remain intact," Bishop writes.
But listening to Rats Don't Eat Synthesizers, I get the impression that the Dwarfs will carry these spontaneous creations with them for years to come. Even in their bleakest moments—even in the darkest screams of their pulsating noise energy—they've found something positive beyond themselves.
"We don't really feel like we have to be purists, because we trust each others' languages and we're able to communicate with each other through that difference," Shalabi says. "So far it's worked. It gets better. It gets easier to do, because we're getting more and more familiar. I think the good shows for us [happen] when it feels like no one knows who's doing what, and it's one group-mind. We just start, and when we finish, it feels like we can't say what each individual has done."


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MS-DOS has turned 30 years old this week. The Microsoft operating system for Intel computers broke the ground for many PC gamers as the operating system to play games on. Microsoft actually didn't create the OS, instead it based it on QDOS, another OS it had purchased from a company named Seattle Computer Products.
Right, so what does MS-DOS have to do with co-op gaming? DOS was the birthplace of big co-op titles like DOOM, DOOM II, HERETIC, and Duke Nukem 3D. Cornerstones of the co-op empire of FPS games. Of course being a gamer in the MS-DOS era wasn't easy - you had to work for it.
For most under the age of 30 they won't remember what it was like to game in the era of the 386. Having 4MB of memory was standard and if you wanted to upgrade to 8MB it would cost hundreds of dollars. You complain now about having to switch discs? Try having to install a game on 12 floppy discs.
You had to know the difference between base memory and extended memory - different games would utilize different types. You'd need to worry about that base 640K, decide where to load HIMEM.SYS or if you wanted EMM386.EXE to run at all. You'd tweak your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files to get things just right. You'd build custom menus to load different configurations based on the game you felt like playing.
Sound? You want sound in your game?
Make sure you find the correct DMA or IRQ and figure out what mode to run your SoundBlaster in. You'd have to reboot your PC 15 times before you finally figure out that your sound card was conflicting with your 14.4 modem. The sound of DOOM's opening guitar riffs never sounded sweeter once you got . Gaming on the PC wasn't just a hobby in the early 90s, it was technical training for a career in IT.
So we tip our phillips head screw drivers to you Microsoft and your DOS operating system. Happy Birthday!


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Our next Home Game is up against the Dragons in a Marvel-inspired battle of EPIC proportions as we transform into Captain America and the St George Illawarra side become Iron Man for Round 21 of the 2014 NRL Premiership.
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Simple and Effective: Dental Veneers
Are you self conscious about your smile? Do chipped, stained, or misshapen teeth keep you from smiling? Dental veneers are one of the simplest, most effective ways to help transform your smile!
At Drs. Rossetti, Myers, & Kondorossy, we want to help each of our patients love their smiles. If you're ready to enjoy your best smile, dental veneers could be the option you're looking for. Simple and designed to look like natural teeth, they are used to treat a variety of dental issues.
What Are Dental Veneers?
Dental veneers are cosmetic dental restorations that cover the front surface of a single tooth or those of multiple teeth.
These thin covers, usually made of porcelain, are adhered to your prepared teeth in order to improve their shape and/or protect them from damage.
Are Dental Veneers Right For Your Smile?
Dental veneers are often the right choice for patients who have:
- Misshapen teeth
- Chipped teeth
- Gap(s) between teeth
- Grey or discolored teeth
Dental veneers are also an ideal cosmetic approach for reviving your smile's youthfulness. Over the years, teeth can become stained, chipped, and damaged - even if you brush, floss, and have regular checkups! Everyday activities like eating and drinking can eventually degrade the enamel of the teeth.
Veneers cover all imperfections of your teeth, creating a perfect smile.
Schedule Your Dental Veneers Consultation With Dr. Rossetti Today!
If you have questions about veneers, tooth pain, or any other services Drs. Rossetti, Myers, & Kondorossy offers, give us a call.
A cosmetic dentistry consultation with Dr. Rossetti at our Richmond dental office is the perfect way to see which solution is the best for your smile.


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Rod Gilchirst follows in Paul Gauguin's footsteps to the Marquesas.
"Remote was what Gauguin wanted. He arrived in Hiva Oa in 1901 on the steamer Croix de Sud, after six days' sailing from Tahiti. He unloaded his canvases and trunks into a native canoe and was rowed ashore. He had conned the Catholic church into believing he'd repent his dissolute ways, so it agreed to sell him a 700-franc piece of beachfront. Here he built his studio out of bamboo and palm fronds, calling it Maison du Jouir, the house of pleasure — which kind of gave the game away. Beside the entrance he carved 'Be amorous and you will be happy'." – from "Gauguin in the Pacific," by Rod Gilchrist, The Times


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Located right at the centre of Aylesbury in Market Square, our office at Market House has just undergone extensive refurbishment to create a fantastic new managed office space for the town.
Our fully serviced office allows you to enjoy total flexibility to grow, downsize or relocate with space ranging from single desks, through to offices for 20 people. A meeting room is available on site and secure fibre internet is provided, with Wi-Fi throughout.
Pricing is fixed and agreed with you, so no hidden costs. We are highly competitive with incentives to help you get established. With a network of offices and business support connections across Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, you will be amazed at the value we can offer you and your business.
Aylesbury has excellent transport links with major transport hubs for rail and bus within 5 minutes walk. Both have mainline connections to major local towns with a fast rail link to London. There is plentiful car parking in and around the town centre with long-term permits available.
Aylesbury is a historic old market town but is growing rapidly into a thriving commercial centre. With great transport links to London it is also an attractive commuter base for those working in the capital. It is the county town of Buckinghamshire and is located approximately 42 miles north-west of London and 17 miles south-east of Buckingham.
Aylesbury Waterside Theatre is a £47 million theatre, showcasing West End musicals, touring musicals, plays, opera, ballet, dance, comedy, children's shows and of course Christmas pantomimes.
A few fun facts about Aylesbury are:
- The famous, cult classic 'A Clockwork Orange' was partly filmed in the town.
- The herald of Aylesbury introduced the death penalty in 1840 for stealing sheep.
- The first recorded tornado in the UK struck Aylesbury in 1950.
- The Television programme 'Midsomer Murders' is largely filmed in & around Aylesbury.
- Aylesbury's heraldic crest displays the Aylesbury duck, which has been bred here since the birth if the Industrial Revolution.
- Aylesbury was the location for David Bowie's first performance as Ziggy Stardust and a commemorative statue to him has just been unveiled in the town centre, about 2 minutes walk from the offices.


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Benefits Of Leisure And Recreation
Although it may not seem so, in reality, Leisure and Recreation is the largest industry in the world. Shopping is another example, and when done with friends, feeds the soul on two levels, the social connection and the need for people to gather things – (especially women gathering shoes!). Some solitary examples of recreational activities include reading a book, or taking a trip to the library.
SET ASIDE ANYWHERE FROM 30 MINUTES TO FOUR HOURS FOR A RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY, PREFERABLY SOMETHING YOU CAN DO TOGETHER THAT INVOLVES PHYSICAL EXERTION, WITHOUT YOUNG CHILDREN OR OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS. Mainly, the two of you should be interested in the chosen recreational activity.
Physical benefits include increased lung capacity from sports participation, plus reducing serum cholesterol and hypertension, increasing bone mass, strengthening the spine, reducing disease, increase in feelings of well being, reduction in stress hormones, improved attitudes and performances, and improved social skills.
Mountain biking is another recreational activity that some people enjoy. Sports activities enhance large motor skill development and social skills. Recreational activities offer a high return on your investment. Taiwan sports recreation is also taken up with more strenuous activities as hiking and mountain climbing.
Taiwan Sports Recreation
Recreation is anything that is stimulating and rejuvenating for an individual. Many friends and their families enjoy getting together for these activities. Other, more group-oriented examples of recreational activities include sports of all kinds – football, hockey, basketball, baseball or if those are too physical for you try golf or swimming.
Below are some of the different recreational activities that people are enjoying. Sports and youth activities offer leadership development for adults and children. Studies confirm that physical activity can aid the learning process in children. Another activity that many enjoy that involves the water is fishing.
Some people do enjoy ice fishing in the Winter as well. Some people enjoy inside activities, such as bowling, weight lifting, boxing, billiards, racquetball, and table tennis. Even inmates in prison are offered recreational activities to occupy their time. There was a sudden growth in Taiwan sports recreation and group activities were and are especially popular.
Why Should I Engage In Outdoor Recreation Activities?
There are many different recreational activities that you can choose and enjoy. I would have to say that my faveorite thing on my list of recreational activities would have to say a good old day at the movie theater. There are many different types of sports that people can enjoy; water sports, ball sports, racket sports, etc. You might also feel a sense of teamwork, depending on what you do. Recreational companionship is so important that I am including this exercise a total of three times, or once a week during this program.
For instance, like a seat-belt children who are under the age of 13 must wear a life jacket at all times. This article is for the people who love to spend their time outdoors, enjoying new adventures in fresh air. Water has also played an important role in Taiwan sports recreation growth, and are the most popular sports activities.
National Forests offer a great variety of activities which many people enjoy. There are many places where you can rent a boat for the day, weekend or even for extended periods of time to enjoy. Examples of passive recreation include enjoying a song, watching aerobics, watching a football match in a stadium or reading.
The Importance Of Recreational Activities For Children
In Taiwan sports recreation has become increasingly popular, hardly surprising when you consider that it was in 2001 that the two-day weekend was first introduced. They include physical as well as mind games. This is the person that decides the proper recreational activities that will be enjoyed by a particular subset of the population; i.e., inmates, senior citizens, the community as a whole. My list of recreational activities is not all physical.
In today's fast-paced and stressful times, indulging in a hobby is a much-needed breath of fresh air. Engaging regularly in various outdoor activities can help you create much stronger bonds with your family and friends. Taiwan sports recreation has also seen a good take up or racquet and bat sports, with tennis, badminton, and table tennis being especially popular.
Different Recreational Activities
More and more people engage in outdoors activities these days, as outdoor sports are becoming very popular. Examples of active recreation include playing ping pong, bicycling, running, brisk walking and playing basketball with friends and relatives. Partying is a recreational activity, and one that (usually) makes us happy and gives us a feeling of social connection.
A day of fresh air and sun, with family and friends is a supreme recreational activity. First off lets start by defining what recreation is. To put it simply it is being able to participate in activities that are fun and enjoyable. Examples of recreational activities in an organized fashion take place in nearly every institution we come across.
Positive lifestyle development – contributing to society, social interaction, development of leaders, being part of organized sports all encourage good lifetime activities.


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The modern workplace is filled with a plethora of appliances for all manner of tasks, and keeping track of them can feel like a full time job in itself. Many companies used barcode labels and stickers for their asset management, which can certainly take the headache out of keeping all your equipment up to scratch.
Asset barcode labels are unique identifiers which differentiate every electrical item which is brought onto your premises. These barcode stickers relate to a software database which records details relating to the product, including the date of its last PAT test. Custom barcode labels can include your company name and logo, or any other information you wish to include. Ordering barcode labels online makes it easy to run such a system. Just let us know which barcode labels you need, and what information should be included.
When used as part of a PAT testing scheme, it is advisable to pair these identification labels with physical PAT test passed and failed stickers, for the safety of your workforce.
In this section, you will find barcode Pat Testing labels, asset tags with barcodes and barcode printing labels for unique labelling. Barcode asset tags can be used on items which do not have a surface suitable for affixing stickers. When labelling such products, simply attach your barcode tags to a flex or another part of the device. We also supply heavy duty barcode labels for equipment which is used in a demanding environment, such as outdoors.
For companies with extensive inventories of electronic equipment, a serial number barcode label system allows scope for categorizing each item numerically. Whether you're implementing a PAT testing scheme or simply trying to keep track of all the company assets, we can print barcode labels which are custom designed to your specification.


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Why do so many of us store one of our most expensive belongings outside where it's exposed to weather and other potential hazards? Probably because we can't fit a car, let alone two or more, in the garage. But there are many benefits to garage parking, making it worthwhile to spend some time getting organized.
Back to Getting Organized
As you're taking down and storing your holiday decorations, it's the perfect time to talk about garage organization. Yes, seriously. It'll make your life easier throughout the year, including next winter when you start your annual search for that acrylic snowman and his wife.
Let's go ahead and start with your holiday decorations. Put them away in bins organized by category – outdoor lights, indoor lights, Christmas ornaments, etc. Okay, now do this with all of your seasonal items. Some of us love color-coding by holiday – red/green for Christmas, orange/black for Halloween, purple/pink for Easter. Or, purchase transparent storage boxes so you can tell what's inside without opening them. Whatever you choose, make sure it's a system that makes sense to you and that you'll remember in six months. Then slap a sticker on the front, explaining what's inside. Don't have a fancy label-maker? Duct tape and a sharpie will work just fine.
A Shelf for Every Elf
If you already have shelves in your garage, organize your storage boxes on them chronologically starting at the beginning of the year and working your way across. If not, you'll want to install some. If you're not handy (or don't want to hire a handyman), you can find shelving kits at your favorite hardware store that you can easily assemble. We know we don't need to tell you this, but be sure to measure your available space before you head for the store. You'll also want to measure the storage containers to make sure they fit on the shelves you choose.
You can probably tell where we're going with this, but the key to organization (of any room) is for everything to have its own place. That way you, and the other members of your family, know where things go when you're done with them. And you (hopefully) won't have items cluttering up your counters because nobody knows where to put them.
Think through how you use your things and create storage spaces accordingly. If you camp, create a camping section for all of your equipment so you can just grab and go. Assuming you don't use this all year long, it doesn't have to be immediately accessible.
Cabinets or metal shelving are great for automotive and painting supplies. We love pegboard for tools for oh so many things. Again, measure your space and then have the hardware store cut the pegboard to fit. It's relatively easy to install and you'll have a blast with the pegboard accessories, that include everything from small containers for nuts and bolts to stronger hooks for your power tools. Again, arrange by category – all your screwdrivers in one place, extension cords in another.
A quick visit to our Pinterest page will give you even more ideas on how to organize your garage and other rooms in your home.
A Bin for When You Can't Even
Place a drop-it bin next to your garage door where you can put things when you don't have time to put them away. But be sure to empty it out every few weeks so it doesn't become a junk drawer.
Do You Really Need It?
By not immediately knowing where things are, many of us end up buying more than we need — items that end up getting tossed into our pile of stuff when we're done with them. When you start compartmentalizing, you'll be able to see what these are.
Look at everything and decide whether or not you really need it. Do you really need those four power saws or that stack of pavers left over from your last project? Probably not. A garage sale is a great way to make some money off your organizational skills. Or, if you're not into garage saling, consider donating to Habitat For Humanity's Restore, a thrift store specializing in household items (also a great place to shop!).
You can also arrange to have a non-profit come to your home and pick up your donations. Just make sure they'll take the category of item you have to donate. And don't make them pick through your junk. If it doesn't work, dispose of it or hire a junk removal service.
Craigslist.org and Freecycle.org are free, convenient ways to find people looking for what you're trying to sell or give away. And DontTrashNevada.org has extensive information on how to properly dispose of hazardous waste and larger items. Do not, we repeat, do not, think of dumping them on public lands. This is not only bad for the environment, it carries a hefty fine.
Chances are good there are items in your garage that do not belong in your garage. Go through them and decide whether they're worth keeping or not. Memories and sentimental boxes can be packaged up well in rodent-resistant containers and then stored in the eaves at the top of your garage or in your attic if you have one. As you look through the other items, decide whether or not you really, truly need to keep them. How many times have you moved that box of knick-knacks without opening it?
Your garage can be a great place for storing your hobby supplies, whether it's yarn or party glasses. Just designate it so they don't get mixed in with everything else. And make sure the items being stored in the garage don't need to be in a temperature-controlled environment (like food items) as our garages are not usually insulated from the Nevada elements like the rest of our houses are.
Keep It Up!
Here's the key to all of this – keep it organized. Put things away as you use them and then make it a point a few times a year to do a thorough organization. Holidays are a great time to do this since you'll be moving boxes around anyway. On your seasonal organizational time, decide again whether or not you really need all this stuff.
Don't have a garage to organize yet? We've got your back. Check out our Home Is Possible family of homebuyer programs. Bonus money, attractive interest rates and/or annual tax savings can help you afford your dream home and your dream garage.


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We have introduced NEW COVID-19 Sign In procedures to ensure we adhere to the requirements of Stage Three COVID Restrictions.
The Indoor Sports Industry COVIDSAFE PLAN (which applies to all Basketball activities) requires us to:
- Maintain Contact tracing information (attendance register) for all participants, officials, spectators and anyone else who attends facilities and the information on this register must be retained for 56 days.
- Contact information must include attendees name, email address, mobile phone number and date/time period of patronage (time in/time out).
- We are required to be capable of handing over a copy of this register to Qld Police or Department of Health officials within 60 minutes of their request for our attendance register.
To ensure we achieve this requirement we have now introduced a new electronic sign-in process to augment our manual sign-in procedures.
All players, officials, spectators and anyone else who enters the stadium for any reason is required to sign in. Our updated Sign In Procedures are as follows:
- ENTRY to the Stadium is ONLY through the ARIADNE ST DOORWAY.
- A Sign In Table is provided at this entry which has a copy of our COVIDSAFE PLAN, a Manual Attendance Register and Signage for Electronic sign-in using a QRCODE.
(A QR code is the abbreviation of Quick Response code, a trademark name
of the most popular type of 2D barcode readable by smartphones).
All persons entering the Stadium ARE TO SIGN IN using either the Manual Attendance Register, or, the QR Code. This includes all players, officials, spectators. Signing in is required for fixtures, training, deliveries, maintenance and entry for administrative purposes.
For people with a smart phone, the QR Code method is the quickest and easiest way of signing in. Signage with the QR Code and instructions on use is displayed at the Sign In Desk.
To use the QR Code just follow these simple instructions:
Alternately, an internet link is provided for anyone who cannot scan the QR Code image.
A copy of this QR Code Signage is provided below.Covid Entry Sign Update
Please help us maintain compliance with our Industry COVIDSAFE Plan by signing in whenever you enter the Stadium. Please be aware that QLD Police and QHEALTH are conducting spot checks of business and sporting associations to ensure adherence to COVIDSAFE PLANS. Failure to provide our attendance Register of ALL attendees within the required 60 minutes may result in a hefty fine and may result in the closure of our stadium for Basketball activities. Please help us to continue playing Basketball in a safe environment.


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Jmol/Visualizing membrane position
From Proteopedia
Here are two ways of visualizing the position of a lipid bilayer membrane around the integral membrane portion of a trans-membrane protein.
a hydrophobic vs. polar color scheme, the protein within the lipid bilayer is seen to have a largely hydrophobic surface. The example used here is 5lil.
Methods: Pseudoatoms
Any protein structure that includes an integral membrane domain can have pseudoatoms added to the PDB file by the Orientations of Proteins in Membranes Server[1]. Structures in the Protein Data Bank are pre-processed; other structures may be uploaded to the server. The server removes hydrogen atoms from the model.
You can download the pseudoatom-enhanced PDB file from the server, and then upload it to Proteopedia for use in a Molecular Scene.
In the case of 5LiL, I had difficulty getting the pseudoatoms to show from a green link (even though they displayed in the SAT). In the PDB file, the pseudoatoms followed a MASTER record. I deleted the MASTER record and all CONECT records, and then I got the scene shown, using Image:5lil opm2.pdb.
The pseudoatoms have residue name DUM (for dummy atoms). This can be used in the SAT to select them. The red pseudoatoms are oxygens, and the blue pseudoatoms are nitrogens. Thus, coloring them by chemical element (CPK) will make them red and blue.
Methods: Translucent Cylinder
Choose boundary residues
First you must choose residues or atoms in the model that are closest to the ends of the desired cylinder. If you wish, you can use a pseudoatom-enhanced model to assist.
Viewing the model in FirstGlance in Jmol, you can use Hydrophobic/Polar (Views tab) to visualize the domain with a hydrophobic surface. Touching or clicking on atoms at the domain boundaries will identify those amino acids. If you wish, you can center a particular residue, then zoom in, and see atomic detail with Vines/Sticks (Views tab).
For 5LiL, I chose thr607 and leu250. These will be used in the example commands below, but you must substitute appropriate amino acids for your model.
5LiL is a homo-dimer of chains A and B. Since I did not specify a chain in the commands below, the position of, for example, thr607 will be the average position of all the atoms in thr607 in both chains. That average position will be at the axis of the rod-shaped molecule. Your molecule may require a different strategy.
Generate the Cylinder
To generate the cylinder in the SAT, click on the button below JSmol Advanced: Open JSmol Console. The command to generate the cylinder will have this form:
draw cyl1 cylinder diameter 100.0 color gray (thr607) (leu250)
Adapt this command to your situation, copy and paste it into the LOWER box of the Console, and click the Run button at the lower-left of the console box.
draw * delete
draw cyl1 color translucent -1
Once you have the desired cylinder in the SAT, save the scene, insert a green link in the wikitext box, and save the page. Then test the green link.
After displaying the cylinder with your new green link, if you then click a different green link, the cylinder may persist, unwanted. To fix this:
Color The Cylinder Ends
Here are the commands to generate a translucent cylinder with a red top and a blue bottom:
draw cyl1 cylinder diameter 100.0 color gray (thr607) (leu250) nofill mesh draw cyl1 color translucent -1 draw ctop circle diameter 100.0 color red (thr607) (leu250) draw ctop color translucent -1 draw cbot circle diameter 100.0 color blue (leu250) (thr607) draw cbot color translucent -1
If you have questions or need more details, don't hesitate to email
Eric Martz thanks Ángel Herráez for help with draw commands, and Gulalai Shah for inspiring discussion.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lomize MA, Pogozheva ID, Joo H, Mosberg HI, Lomize AL. OPM database and PPM web server: resources for positioning of proteins in membranes. Nucleic Acids Res. 2012 Jan;40(Database issue):D370-6. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkr703., Epub 2011 Sep 2. PMID:21890895 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkr703


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'Gotham' Star Morena Baccarin -- I'm Marrying My Co-Star Ben McKenzie
'Gotham' Star Morena Baccarin I'm Marrying My Co-Star Ben McKenzie
"Gotham" star Morena Baccarin -- who is pregnant with co-star Ben McKenzie's baby -- plans to marry him ... TMZ has learned.
Baccarin is in the middle of a nasty divorce with director Austin Chick. According to legal docs obtained by TMZ, Baccarin says she got pregnant with Ben's baby in June, which she claims was after she separated with Chick. The estranged husband begs to differ and says she got pregnant while they were still together.
Chick filed for divorce, and Morena has already planned her next move. In her legal docs, obtained by TMZ, she says, "Today, I am in a new committed relationship. I am planning to re-marry. Also, I am 3 1/2 months pregnant."
Morena's divorce is bitter. As we reported, Chick says he came to their house in June, only to find Ben freshly showered and playing with their 1-year-old son.
And Morena included texts in her docs to show how bad the situation is ... she texted to Chick, "I'd like to be there alone with Julius [their son]. Please Friday all day and night through Sunday morning."
He responded, "I'd like to run Fox Studios and remake The Sound of Music w an entirely black cast of hip hop artist."
She tells the judge, "This entire situation is not funny to me."


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Is there anything better than a new workout outfit?? I mentioned in this post that I'm excited to be able to wear new workout gear. I ended up splurging and buying some new workout pieces to keep me motivated to continue working out. IDK about any of you, but I've noticed that I'm going through workout clothes more often now…View Post


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Saturday, March 05, 2011
East Van Mexican Brunch
Finally there is a place that does Brunch in Vancouver in a Authentic Mexican style. Some people with deep pockets have thrown a heap of interior decorating money into the Old Waldorf Hotel for another kick at the can. The whole place is done-up in this 50s tiki-miami kitch. It's a pretty stylish way to enjoy a heaping plate of chilaquiles or a frosty michelada to make your hangover more bearable. More importantly, the dishes are pretty good and authentic tasting so we don't have to drive 3 hours down to seattle to get Mexican breakfasts anymore.
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The brain is the biggest strength of human existence. However we need to give it the right training to maximum utilise its potential. You can achieve anything you desire with patience, perseverance and optimal brain training.
In order to enable your mind to tackle with day to day tasks with prudence, you need to sharpen the brain abilities. So here are some tips that will help you in enhancing the brain power and evoking the genius in you to rise and shine:
- Be a reader:
What we lack the most in the fast paced life in these days is the moment of quietness and solidarity. We need to unplug ourselves from the external occurrences and live to relax and rewind our spirits. Nothing can give you a healthier break from your routines than a good book. Read something- you do not have to go by the academic journals or popular novels on personalities! Just reading a light hearted comic book if you like it or anything that feasts the appetite of your mind. Let yourself get swayed with the flow of words and the articulation abilities of the writer. You will realise the flow of positive energy running down your nerves when you give some quality time of your day into reading.
- Exercise:
Work out is a stress buster! When you feel stressed, bored and depressed- go out and work out. You will realise the results immediately and your adrenaline push will make you feel happy, revived and energetic after every session. Although work out sessions make us physically tired but they are good like nothing when it comes to mental fitness. A physically active person is usually agile and participative in social culture. When you workout you bring focus on training your core muscles and gaining strength. Therefore, workout and exercise is an important element in brain training.
- Listen to your favourite music:
Music is like a salutation to the soul. The cheerful music can turn a sad person into happy and vice versa. The music has a direct impact on our mind and mood. Therefore, music is inseparable part of brain training. Start your day with spiritual or gentle music to bring positivity and calmness in your mind. A happy and contented mind will radiate its positivity in all the tasks at hand all through the day. Listening to music helps in increasing the retaining power of the mind as well as improves abstract thinking. Students should listen to the classical music especially the Indian Classical music which is considered to be the most powerful music for creating invincible effects.
- Meditation:
How can we miss talking about meditation when we are telling you about brain training activities!
Meditation is to mind what food is to the body. One should inculcate meditation in day to day routine for improving the focus and concentration abilities of the mind. Meditation can open the doors to awakening of sleeping consciousness. It makes you realise the unexplored potential of your mind and creates untapped sources of positive energy. Quietness, stillness, clarity of ideas, and humbleness are some of the common traits one attains through meditation. You find yourself delivering better results at work and relationships when you imbibe these qualities through meditation.


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Hi Jamie,
I have a pretty basic question…WHEN do I use serum? I just got a retinol serum (after reading your post on a regimen for oily skin) but what's the order of use? This whole skincare regimen thing is so confusing!
Hi O!
I know, it definitely can be a little daunting. Here's the general rule of thumb (my oily skincare post is actually in chronological order!):
1- Cleanser
2- Exfoliant (optional)
3- Toner (optional)
4- Serum
5- Eye cream
6- Moisturizer
7- Sunscreen (if you don't use a broad-spectrum SPF moisturizer)
8- Makeup primer
1- Cleanser
2- Serum/treatments
3- Eye Cream
4- Night Cream/moisturizer
You want to go light to heavy, but it also depends on what products you're using. The best tip is to follow the above guideline and also read the directions on your product packaging- they're usually pretty descriptive on how to use.
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September 28, 2018
For Immediate Release
City, Home Depot Rehabilitate Veteran Homes
SAVANNAH, GA (September 28, 2018) — Today City staff and Team Depot volunteers installed new appliances and made other home improvements to the homes of two Savannah veterans.
Starting early this morning, new appliances provided by the Home Depot Foundation arrived at the veteran's homes. Then City staff along with Team Depot workers began replacing old units with new appliances.
By the early afternoon most of the improvements were complete and a large dumpster placed outside the house was filled with waste from hours of installations and replacements.
"He is a veteran and is very deserving of these much needed repairs," said Lending Services Administrator Anita Smith-Dixon.
The City identified local veterans through the Affordable Housing program and applied, linking the veterans to the Home Depot's Celebration of Service program. Staff provided the Home Depot Foundation with the information on cost of improvements and scope of work.
The Home Depot Foundation's Celebration of Service program is an initiative that improves living conditions for veterans.
Organizations and businesses interested in making financial contributions to the Savannah Affordable Housing Fund and/or volunteering may contact Anita Smith-Dixon at 912-651-6926.


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Are we really "obese"? Horrible word.
It used to refer to people who were really fat. I mean, really fat. Pathologically gross, poor devils. These days it means anybody carrying a bit more than a consensus of doctors has defined as healthy.
This would be fine if physicians today confined themselves to their science, which is advice on bodily health, but not all of them do. A messianic few are more excited by the body politic than any body in particular.
Not for them the busy, messy, confusing business of dealing with sick or worried, usually inarticulate, individuals with inconsistent symptoms. They prefer to diagnose society, which they can do from a desk in universities where they deal with statistics that can be made to fit consistent, socially responsible conclusions.
If you wonder why social research never produces unexpected results like real science, so do I. Be that as it may, the researchers share their findings in academic journals and convinced of its importance they march fearlessly out of their faculty into the public domain.
There, something strange happens. They are lionised by the media. Public health campaigns make compelling news because they challenge things we really like, such as sugar, junk food, alcohol. We already knew these were naughty but, goodness, look at the damage on a social scale. The press and public eat up these research findings but, oddly, governments generally don't.
Or at least, governments often don't act on it in the way the public health campaign prescribes. They may give the campaign more finance for public "education" against excessive consumption of the stuff but governments are strangely reluctant to bring their powers of regulation and taxation to bear, especially taxation.
This is strange because there is seldom much genuine public debate about the evils of the sweet, fatty or intoxicating treats in question.
Manufacturers and distributors of them may attempt to question the case against them, or at least the solutions proposed, but their arguments are easily dismissed as vested interest. In fact the more the industry tries to engage in a debate, the more it reinforces the suspicion - strenuously promoted by public health campaigns - that the Government has sold out to the industry's insidious efforts behind the scenes, probably for election donations. Why else, the campaigners ask, would rational people fail to do everything in their power to improve public health?
Well, I can think of a reason but I'm running a risk in advancing it, because health campaigners are so convinced of the righteousness of their cause they can only conclude that anybody who questions it also has a vested interest. I'm constantly surprised how quickly these people, who must be good-natured, public-spirited, socially responsible and intellectually stimulated, play the man, not the ball.
The first thing they do when challenged is to call into question the challenger's motive. If the person works for a think tank that is privately funded it will almost certainly have the relevant industry among its sponsors. Expose that and health professions see no need to address the argument. Their own reliance on grants awarded for research that tends to reinforce an institutional view is, in their view, not the same thing.
My only material interest in this subject is the same as that of everyone in an industry supported by advertising, and that does not stop media giving public health campaigns exhaustive publicity, so I think I may be safe.
The reason governments don't regulate and tax these vices to near extinction, I'd suggest, is that while health is important, it's not all important. Other things are important too, such as the integrity of the tax system. Health professionals may be aghast at that suggestion but tax principles are socially important.
We have a simple, fairly comprehensive tax on consumption that should not be made more variable, complicated and compromised without very good reason. Discouraging sales of fizzy drink or hamburgers is not, to my mind, sufficient reason.
The "obesity epidemic" is not convincing but even if it was, the case for health taxes would not overwhelm all other considerations, like choice, pleasure, personal and parental responsibility and the right of adults to take risks if they wish.
Doctors who deal with individuals understand this. General practitioners have been obliged to apply the findings of obesity research and most of us have probably been told we are above the weight the research says we should be. We might have welcomed this advice as a spur to diet, or ignored it. Doctors know real people have balanced lives with priorities besides health.
Doctors attending to the public health need to realise that too. We listen to them, but when they use terms such as obesity most people take their wisdom with a healthy grain of salt.
Debate on this article is now closed.


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Like any decent demon Cid spends his nights performing all kind of evil deeds to the peaceful people of Darkestville. Little does he know that his old arch enemy is about to change his life forever.
Live the adventure of Cid, the demon of Darkestville, a laid-back being of pure darkness that will see his evil routine life disrupted by The Romero brothers, a group of demon hunters hired by Dan Teapot, Cid's arch enemy. Follow CId through an epic quest full of danger, intrigue, and ridiculous premises.
The game pays tribute to late 90's point-and-click adventure games, featuring fascinating fairy-tale story and trendy visuals in Tim Burton's style. It delivers more than 7 hours of truly enjoyable gameplay to both old and new generations. Dive into the unforgettable good old-fashioned atmosphere of classic adventure games and meet dozens of funny characters living in this amazing hand-painted world of Darkestville Castle.
• Point-and-click adventure classics in the same vein as Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle
• Lots of Tim Burton-esque gallows humor
• Funny characters and charismatic protagonist
• Dozens of carefully designed levels
• Quirky and trendy visuals
• Numerous puzzles
• Captivating story
• More than 7 hours of exciting gameplay
• Violence, horror and death-free adventure for all ages
• This Game has been awarded with an INDIE PRIZE as the BEST GAME NARRATIVE


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Fox News has a new poll out that shows the government shutdown is a disaster for Republicans. But Jon Scott and Monica Crowley did a masterful job of spinning the results and distracting their viewers' attention away from those results.
First, let's look at the actual poll findings from 952 registered voters with a 3-point margin of error:
President Obama's overall approval ratings have gone up five points in the past month and his disapproval ratings have gone down the same amount. His approval on handling health care has gone up seven points, now at 45%.
A measly 13% approve of Congress overall, with Senator "Shutdown" Ted Cruz and John Boehner weighing in with 22%. It's worth noting that Harry Reid got 21%. But the Tea Party didn't do so well, either, at 33%. All are well behind President Obama.
But here's the clincher, with 81% calling the shutdown a "serious" problem and 67% calling it "definitely a bad thing," the poll asks who is most responsible for the shutdown. (It's worth noting that's what the poll calls it, not the Fox News term "slimdown" nor "partial shutdown.")
Republican leaders, such as John Boehner 25%
Tea Party Republicans, such as Ted Cruz 17
Democratic leaders, such as Harry Reid 8
President Barack Obama 24
(All/Combination) 20
So while I wouldn't call that a rosy scenario for Democrats, there's virtually no good news for the GOP there.
But leave it to the Fox News Channel to find a way to spin it! In a discussion about the poll with Monica Crowley on Happening Now this morning, host Jon Scott didn't say a word about Boehner's or Cruz's approval – or lack thereof.
Crowley announced, "The blame (for the shutdown) seems to be spread evenly between President Obama and Congress." She forgot to mention that that's only true if you consider "Congress" as "Republican leaders, such as John Boehner" and don't include "Tea Party Republicans, such as Ted Cruz." In fact, respondents who blamed Republicans had to choose between one of those two "Republican" choices. So the total number of those who blamed Republicans is really the combination of those two choices, a whopping 42%. Even if you add President Obama's blame with "Democratic leaders, such as Harry Reid," you only get 32%.
Scott went along with the fiction. "That is a tie, for all intents and purposes," he said.
"Yeah, exactly," said Crowley.
I also learned long ago that Monica Crowley is a liar/spinmeister who will say most anything to make the conservative POV look good. And that supposed straight-news guy, Jon Scott, is as biased as they come. That he gets to host a show during FOX's supposed straight-news hours and that he was also the host of FOX News Watch is nothing more than an utter joke.
It looks to me like Fox News is trying to keep a lid on a situation that is badly deteriorating for them, while some of the GOP congresspeople are starting to panic.
According to that FOX poll, the following percentage of FOX respondents have never heard of:
1. John Boehner, 23%
2. Harry Reid: 31%
3. Ted Cruz:: 37%
4: Barack Obama: Negligible
I really think that's all we need to know, eh?


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On the anniversary of our launch one year ago, we are pleased to share a few of the successful innovations that make our classes 'strategic.' This is the first of 3 valuable tips for making Hebrew classes relevant, engaging and memorable.
1) MOTIVATION: Students know what they are signing up to learn... and they want to be there!
Whether the topic is basketball, cooking, sports, shopping, or art, students arrive with an expectation that they will get to do something they enjoy. This intrinsic motivation will encourage them to pay attention to new vocabulary so they can use it to participate.
During the Cooking Module at JJP, students were introduced to the terms water, sugar, lemon and mint at the beginning of our Limonana (mint lemonade) meeting. Next, these ingredients were provided, along with cups and spoons, so students could mix the drink to their taste. The catch? Students had to request every item IN HEBREW!
Check out a clip from our lesson at https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152259378660581&set=vb.374351475962436&type=2&theater
Student Response (journal entries):
"We made Limonana. It felt like heaven because it was a mixture of lemon juice, sugar, water... and mint. Being a person at a counter felt like a real experience in a real shop!"
--5th Grade, Strategic Hebrew Conversation Center II at JJP
"You get to run around and then cook and eat. We learn Hebrew letters, words, verbs, nouns, adjectives, how to order and cook and have fun!"
--4th Grade, Strategic Hebrew Conversation Center I at JJP
|"Today I learned more Hebrew numbers. We all played basketball in rotations. If felt good to be active!"
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No, not to our house. No doggies here thanks....
But mom's brother and sister-in-law and niece got....
A new puppy!! She is a 7 week old Great Pyrenees and super cute. Slowly adjusting to living in the house since she was born on a farm and her parents are working dogs. Boots is afraid of her and Max seems interested (though he may be more interested cause that annoying Boots cat is afraid of her - the enemy of my enemy and all that).
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
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She's gorgeous! She's going to be HUGE. LOL. We hope she settles in quickly and still has lots of room to run and play, as puppies do! :-)ReplyDelete
She is a cute little thing...going to be a pretty one fur sure!ReplyDelete
Wow, thats a BIG puppy! We bet she is really cuddly and lots of fun!ReplyDelete
They grow into VERY big dogs...but so beautiful!!!ReplyDelete
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This year has seen the best first quarter for flotations since the first three months of 2007 but on the surface it seems to me that most of the recent floats have been private equity-backed businesses or entrepreneur-owned companies based in the UK.
So, I asked the number crunchers round at data provider Dealogic to see whether my theory was correct.
It turns out I might be onto something. According to the Dealogic data, 2014 has seen far fewer floats and listings of foreign companies in London than during the previous bumper IPO years of 2006 and 2007.
And Alibaba's recent decision to aim for a multi-billion dollar listing in the US rather than London (despite much wooing from David Cameron) would seem to reinforce the theory that the UK is being snubbed by foreign companies looking for listings.
Alibaba, China's largest e-commerce company, said in June it would list on the New York Stock Exchange with an estimated market value of around $168 billion.
I asked David Buik, the veteran market commentator round at the venerable stockbroker Panmure Gordon, why he thought the London market was beginning to see this trend.
"Other exchanges, such as Singapore and Hong Kong, have become a lot more competitive," said Buik.
He also pointed out that: "We relied heavily on Russian companies coming to London but now there are fewer of them opting to list over here for obvious reasons [such as the West imposing sanctions on Russia following clashes with Ukraine]".
Buik's talk is backed up by data, with Dealogic showing that in 2007 22 companies from the CIS (the former Soviet republic) region listed in London but this year just 1 from the area has decided to float in the UK.
Last year's ENRC debacle and the introduction of the FCA's new regulations for premium listed corporations (i.e FTSE 100 businesses) are also believed to be some of the reasons why big foreign companies have decided against flotations in London and opted for a listings elsewhere.
Indeed, reports suggest that ENRC spent more than £200m on advisers' (lawyers, bankers and non-executive directors) fees just for its London listing and the compliance procedures that came with it.
However, when the company's troubles started a couple of years ago many of these advisers gave up their mandates, leaving the Kazakh group in the lurch.
As a result, the London market's reputation in the CIS region may have been tarnished, according to the Eurasian Review, which argues the City of London "should start to regarding companies coming from emerging markets as partners if it hopes to rebuild its reputation as the world's leading financial center". Here is a link to the Eurasian Review piece on the matter: http://www.eurasiareview.
So, I guess for the moment British investors will have to settle for the likes of Jiasen, a Chinese home products manufacturer, as potential investment opportunities from abroad - the company this week floated on the Alternative Investment Market with a market cap of around £100m!


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Eliot Bronson
Touted by reviewers as possibly "the best singer/songwriter since Bob Dylan," Eliot Bronson has garnered critically acclaimed in the US and abroad. His self-titled album, Eliot Bronson, was produced in analog warmth by Dave Cobb (Jason Isbell, Chris Stapleton, Sturgill Simpson). A refined and reflective album, in the mold of Bob Dylan's Nashville Skyline and Simon and Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water, the album quickly gained critical acclaim.
The ten-song Eliot Bronson is an artistic statement of emotion and experience. Each song features instrumentation that enhances the raw genius of Bronson's compositions and sympathetically accompanies his achingly beautiful vocals.
Dave Cobb, producer of the album, has a recording geek's knowledge of old-school rock and country recording techniques more commonly employed by the Beatles, Rolling Stones, or even George Jones, and he brings that know-how with 21st Century knowledge of modern approaches. Going for feel and vibe over modern perfection, he used a rare Helios mixing console and a tape machine on loan from the Norman Petty Estate (which used to record Buddy Holly in the 1950s).
Eliot Bronson was recorded in one week mostly at Cobb's home studio and mixed the following week. In keeping with the spirit of the album, Saturn 5 Records released it on vinyl as well as CD.
The whole project, produced by Americana superstar recordist Dave Cobb, is wonderful.
Bronson knows how to deliver some fantastically fun music with solid arrangements and clever lyrics. But he can also produce that magic that pulls all of these elements into a brilliant barn burner of a track.
The organic, all-analog recording process that brought Bronson's record to life is immediately evident from its first notes, and permeates each track of Eliot Bronson. His honeyed weary voice, sharp songcraft, and effortless musicianship makes Eliot Bronson a genuine artist to watch.


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WINNING NUMBERS: 2, 4, 23, 38, 46 and Mega Number 23
It was estimated to be a $640 million jackpot on Friday, but according to Maryland Lottery Director Stephen Martino, the revised amount was $656 million.
Illinois' winning ticket was sold in the small town of Red Bud, near St. Louis, and the winner used a quick pick to select the numbers, Illinois Lottery spokesman Mike Lang said.
The Maryland Lottery said it sold a winning ticket at a retail store in Baltimore County, while the Kansas winning ticket was purchased in the northeast part of the state, according to the Kansas Lottery website.
Each of the three winning tickets is worth about $218 million before taxes.
There were 29 tickets in California that hit five out of the six numbers, and those are worth six figures.
One of those tickets was sold at Bluebird Liquor, where people had waited in line for hours to buy a lottery ticket, believing the store to be lucky.
Americans spent nearly $1.5 billion for the chance to hit the jackpot. At mid-day in California, 5 million tickets were sold an hour. For every dollar spent on a Mega Millions ticket, 50 cents goes to the jackpot, 9 cents is kept by the lottery, 6 cents to the seller and 35 cents goes to the state.
In California, schools could get more than $100 million from this jackpot alone.
"We're going to be pretty close to our all-time high as far as what we've given schools in any given year," said Alex Traverso of the California Lottery. That could equal 1,000 more teachers in the classroom.
Lottery officials placed the odds of winning Mega Millions at about 1 in 176 million. The retailer who sold the winning ticket receives a maximum $1-million bonus.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Artists & Curators
Molly A. Chason '17, Gettysburg College
Leah R. Falk '18, Gettysburg College
Shannon N. Gross '17, Gettysburg College
Bailey R. Harper '19, Gettysburg College
Laura G. Waters '19, Gettysburg College
Under the Direction Of:
Yan Sun, Gettysburg College
Gallery Talk Date
November 4, 2016
Exhibit Dates
November 4 - December 9, 2016
Reception Date
November 4, 2016
This exhibit is curated by students under the direction of Professor of Art History Yan Sun for the course Methods of Art History. The student curators will examine the theme of nature and the genre of landscape through art and material culture from Gettysburg College's Special Collections and Fine Arts Collection. The student curators are Molly Chason '17, Leah Falk '18, Shannon Gross '17, Bailey Harper '19, and Laura Waters '19. The exhibit includes works varying in era and style, by artists such as William Mason Brown, George Leo Frankenstein, Kasamatsu Shiro, and Stephen Etnier, amongst others.
Document Type
Landscape, Nature, Material Culture, William Mason Brown, George Leo Frankenstein, Kasamatsu Shiro, Stephen Etnier


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INDIA May 22 : Nation wide protest, by Nambiath Vasudevan
On May 22, in a symbolic protest, a few trade union leaders assembled near the resting place of Mahatma Gandhi in Delhi. Government denied permission for assembly and demonstration. Within minutes they were arrested, taken to police station and later released.
Workers in different parts of the country, observing physical distancing norms, opposed labour law changes, displayed placards, some wearing black ribbons; demonstrations too were held in isolated areas including a 2-hour strike. Social media was effectively used to make workers aware of the high degree of damage caused to them. Unions have vowed to fight back, defend labour rights, protect the past gains and counter capitalist offensive once workers are free from lockdowns conditions.
Trade Union Joint Action Committee, Mumbai, comprising all unions, including NTUI, joined May 22 protest in Mumbai and also in different parts of the country.
Lockdown announced by the Prime Minister on March 24 continues in operation. Factories, shops, establishments and all public transport are standstill. From May 17 a few essential industries including factories with one third of workforce started functioning. In the absence of road and rail transport workers could not report for work.
Small scale industries employ huge workforce. Sudden lockdown, accumulated stocks and impossibility of sales made many business vulnerable. Despite Prime Minister Modi's assurance to workers on March 24 that they would receive wages during the lockdown period and job security would be intact, many workers did not get wages in March and April and millions of jobs are lost.
Reality sector and construction of express highways and metro lines in major cities provided jobs to contract workers and many happened to be unregistered migrants on daily wage basis. Since there were no records of their existence, the hugeness of this section remained a mystery. When the activity came to sudden halt on March 25 workers lost income and no support came from any quarter.
Unsheltered in the cities and towns, no money to buy food, these workers along with families wanted to reach their homes in far away villages. As Modi's government refused to run railway, workers walked more than thousand miles to reach their villages. This exodus continues now even though some train services have been resumed. Hundreds of thousands are on the move.
Taking advantage of Covid-19 and the lockdown, Modi's party, BJP, allowed its state governments in Gujarat, UP, Madhya Pradesh to change labour laws allowing freedom to employers to "Hire and Fire" workers as they wish, employ workers on Fixed Terms basis, extend per day shift working hours from 8 to 12. These and such other anti-labour measures, the states claimed, were needed for a short period ranging three months to three years to make India's economic condition stronger, to provide 'ease of business' to capitalists to choose India as investment destination and more particularly paving way for western and Japanese quitting business in China owing to the new climate of cold war to consider India as their alternative production hub. Modi government was meeting the long standing demand of the capitalists to do away with the existing Indian labour laws.
Thus, Modi government has shown its total disdain to the demands of the trade unions since 1992 for decent wages, abolition of contract labour system, payment of equal pay for equal work, strict implementation of labour laws, better health and safety at work place, compensation in the event of worker's death, better social security, protection of public sector and more nationalisation. 15 nation wide strikes involving millions of workers for the attainment of these demands have been made worthless exercises.
Recently Modi government announced a package intended to rescue business but in the prevailing conditions that too did not make any material difference to the economy. This package provided privatisation of all vital sectors in India.
Trade unions and class conscious workers, while opposing capitalists and their government's offensive, have been demanding introspection within the trade union movement in order to become capable to meet the new challenges. A divided trade union movement would be ineffective to face the class offensive. Looking for avenues towards building genuine unity has become the need.
Nambiath Vasudevan
May 23, 2020


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I read a lot of business press. I find most of it pretty boring.
I picked up a copy of Business 2.0 this week. I was prompted by this highlight article from CBS Marketwatch. I wanted to experience the hipper version of Fortune.
The feature this month is "How to Succeed in 2004". They talked to 18 people about everything from nanotechnology to bridge. I don't feel any smarter after reading these little snippets. I don't know what to do with business advice that is delivered as trivia.
The one article I did enjoy was "The Rise of the Instant Company". I am going to subscribe for a year and see if it is worth the time to find the one good article each month.
Here is what I am looking for:
I want a magazine that makes me smarter.
I want a magazine that will make me think about business a different way.
I want a magazine that will inspire me.
Fast Company used to do that. There was energy and excitement that fueled the magazine. They told stories about interesting people and their companies and you heard about them first in FC. I looked forward to every issue.
With the dot com bust, some say FC has run out of things to talk about. I don't think that is the case. There are always interesting things to write about, but something at FC has changed. All of the articles now are PR pieces for people who are releasing books. It also seems the new editor John Bryne has decided to make FC a magazine that reports about business. The Wal-Mart piece in this month's issue is a good example. Great reporting, not very inspiring. The one place you can still find inspiration is in Seth Godin's monthly column.


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This unique iPhone case is pure genius! The versatile IdoStand uses 2 seamlessly integrated arms that make it possible to prop your phone up in portrait or landscape modes at the perfect angle for recording video or Facetiming. Best of all, the design is no bigger than than other cases and, if nothing else, actually compliments the beauty of the iPhone itself!
Designer: Allan Ospina


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§ 25C-12. Sale by artist; consignments.
(a) The disclosure requirements of this Article do not apply to a sale of a print by the artist who produced the print, directly to a purchaser, without the intervention of a wholesale or retail merchant, unless the artist is an art dealer within the definition of G.S. 25C-10(2)a. or unless the artist consigns a print of his own creation.
(b) An artist or art dealer who consigns a print to an art dealer for the purpose of effecting a sale of such print shall have no liability to a purchaser under this Article if such consignor, as to the consignee, has complied with the disclosure requirements of this Article. (1989, c. 464, s. 1.)


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Assorted Brushes Set of 6
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This variety pack includes six different brush sizes that help young artists achieve various painting techniques. Triangular-shaped handles provide better control and brushes that do not roll. Recommended for ages 3 and up.
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Zadar Tops Lists of Best Travel Destinations in 2019
You may have walked the town walls of Dubrovnik, you may have loved the buzz of Zagreb and Split, just as you may have explored the magic of Istrian towns both on the coast and inland. Fabulous as these Croatian gems are, you haven't seen nothing yet until you feel Zadar in all its beauty, in all its colours, in all its glory. Just as many prestigious authorities in travel business have repeatedly indicated and have yet again singled out Zadar as Croatia's most exciting travel destination in 2019:
In fabulous company ...
… of extraordinary destinations throughout the world. After Lonely Planet included Zadar on its list of Top 10 Cities for 2019 among the likes of Copenhagen, Miami and Mexico City, the esteemed New York Times has listed Zadar and the nearby islands as the 11. out of 52 Places to Go in 2019, right after Puerto Rico, Hampi, Santa Barbara, Panama, Munich, Eilat, Setouchi Islands, Aalborg, The Azores, Ontario Ice Caves.
In other words, Zadar has been selected as the first among Mediterranean destinations and is among top 3 European ones.
So… why Zadar?
Is it because it always manages to rise like a phoenix, always more brilliant than before, while cherishing the reminders of the struggles it has endured?
Is it because of its amazing promenade and the soothing sensation you feel as you approach the enchanting light show of the Greetings to the Sun (Sun Salutation) installation, while listening to the mesmerizing sound of the Sea Organ? With the most spectacular sunset as the perfect setting…
Is it because of its buzzing streets stretching from Five Wells and Petar Zoranić squares, along Kalelarga, over People's Square and Forum to Kampo Kastelo historical neighbourhood?
Is it because of its charming cafés and bars inviting you to be blissfully idle even if for just a few moments? How about the restaurants in the proximity to landmarks such as the Land Gate in the Foša port or those hidden in the alleys of once shady neighbourhoods?
Is it because wherever you look, there's a story, a legend, recorded in the historical books or spread by word of mouth, which your hosts gladly share.
Is it because of its fascinating museums which give you so much more than just an air-conditioned place to escape the summer heat?
Is it because it has its very own garden - the green oasis of Ugljan island and is just a short boat ride away from stunning islands of all shapes and sizes many with pure pristine nature?
How to arrive
Simple & easy. There are numerous flights available from various European destinations to Zadar airport, which become more frequent as the top season approaches. Check for the nearest airport and you're just a couple of hours and euros away from Zadar! From €20.
Where to stay
In the heart of it all! Boutique Hostel Forum, as its name suggests, offers you a fabulous place to stay, It's centric, affordable, has rooms with fantastic views and great staff in addition to precisely the right room for you, be it a dorm or a single! From €15.
Zadar is…
Beauty. Magic. History. Present. Buzz. Quiet. Zadar is your top destination for 2019! So what are you waiting for?
As a sweet preview, check out all the exciting Instagram-worthy spots in Zadar and why it's such a great choice for you and your travel companions!


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2019 Annual Congress Presentation Series Available to Members # 8
We hope you have enjoyed reviewing the Annual Congress presentations. We we will continue to post the presentations over the next couple of weeks. The material is included under the Members Only section.
Stay tuned as a new presentation is uploaded each week. Click here to listen to this Presentation.
Title: Annual Update from the FIA and Auto + Medical
Speaker: Paul Trafford, M.D., Member, FIA Medical Commission, England
Speaker Bio:Dr. Trafford is an anesthetist at Wirral University Teaching Hospital in North West England and has been involved in motor sport work for 25 years. He is a member of the Expert Group of the Federation Internationale de L'Automobile (FIA) Medical Commission and a member of the Medical Panel of the United Kingdom Motor Sport Association. He has held many senior positions with events, organizers and teams both in the UK and internationally. Recently, he was appointed as the Medical Advisor to the FIA Institute Medical Advisory Panel.


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Back in issue 147 I suggested that the way the internet was developing showed parallels with a larger human history – that Web 2.0 sites like Facebook and Flickr represent the move from scattered bands of nomadic herdsmen and subsistence farmers into walled cities. During the almost two years that have passed since that column I've had more time to observe the process, and I'm more convinced than ever that the analogy works. These sites are almost like experimental laboratories, where you can watch the gradual emergence of different kinds of ethical behaviour. The membership of most Web 2.0 sites is international, anonymous and freely chosen, and the broad mix of people involved have to grope their way toward decent ways of relating to one another without much guidance from any central authority.
Perhaps a laboratory is not the most appropriate metaphor after all: sometimes I'm more reminded of William Golding's Lord of the Flies, where a bunch of bright kids stranded on a desert island have to organise themselves without the adults.
I still use Flickr most, and the behaviour there is strikingly ethical. If someone had suggested ten years ago that you could create a website where anyone in the world can post their photographs, you'd have cynically prophesied that within months it would be totally colonised by the worldwide porno biz. This didn't happen, and hasn't required a heavy censor's hand either. There is a No Censorship on Flickr campaign but it's neither high profile nor overly acrimonious. Most groups just state No Porn in their rules, and self-police by removing offending pics.
What interests me more is the way certain very human traits, like a tendency to form in-groups and to search for esteem, are flowering on Flickr. A sizable fraction of the millions of Flickr groups now either accept pictures by invitation only, or else give awards in the shape of fancy icons (sometimes animated, sometimes mimicking medals and other real-world awards). The motives are clear and reasonable in both cases: invitation-only guarantees relevancy by excluding pictures too far from the group topic, while awards typically come with an obligation to comment or award two, three or however many other photographs, giving everyone involved more views and comments. Such simple rules work well enough to keep Flickr both popular and excellent, but you can tell that a minority of users chafe under any rules at all, while another minority would love to impose more draconian ones. On some sites like Digg, votes from other users can cause your contribution to be removed, and a similar Delete Me movement developed on Flickr a few years ago but never caught on.
For an example of the dark side running out of control, though, check out Wikipedia. The US novelist Nicholson Baker recently confessed in the New York Review of Books (NYRB) his addiction to editing Wikipedia articles. Baker's is an oddball sensibility, equally capable of three pages to describe a clock ticking or inspired filth like "Vox" and "The Fermata" which soars high above the butcher-shop porn of the internet. His Wiki edits tended toward bovine hormones and fungal diseases of ivy. In the NYRB article Baker explains how Wikipedia continually struggles to repel vandalisation by the retarded frat-boy BRAAAAAP! brigades, but as a result is now ruled by bands of vigilantes who delete all new material without mercy or insight. This is such a strong claim that it needed checking, so I decided to attempt an edit myself. A couple of weeks ago I attended the annual Orwell Prize Awards Ceremony for political writing which is sponsored by The Political Quarterly, a venerable UK magazine for which I write occasional book reviews. Sure enough Wikipedia has an entry for Orwell Awards, but its link for The Political Quarterly was just a stub, so I tried to add a proper entry for the magazine.
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