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''Source: 2007 Boy Scout Requirements (33215)''
''Source: 2007 Boy Scout Requirements (33215)''
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Merit badge requirements
- 1. Show that you know first aid for injuries or illnesses that could occur while waterskiing, including hypothermia, heat exhaustion, heatstroke, dehydration, sunburn, contusions, lacerations, blisters, and hyperventilation.
- 2. Do the following:
- a. Identify the conditions that must exist before performing CPR on a person. Explain how such conditions are recognized.
- a. Demonstrate proper technique for performing CPR using a training device approved by your counselor.
- 3. Before doing the following requirements, successfully complete the BSA swimmer test. Jump feetfirst into water over your head in depth. Level off, and swim 75 yards in a strong manner using one or more of the following strokes: sidestroke, breaststroke, trudgen, or crawl; then swim 25 yards using an easy, resting backstroke. The 100 yards must be completed in one swim without stops, and must include at least one sharp turn. After completing the swim, rest by floating.
- 4. Know the Water-Skier's Safety Code. Promise that you will live up to it. Follow it in all water work for this badge. Know the safety precautions that must be used by the boat operator in pulling skiers.
- 5. Show the following water-skier signals to safety observer in boat: skier safe, faster, slower, turns, back to dock, cut motor, skier in water
- 6. In deep water, show you can adjust binders to fit, put on skis, and recover skis that have come off during a fall.
- 7. Make a deepwater start on two skis without help.
- 8. Show you can fall properly to avoid an obstacle. Also, show that you can drop handle and coast to a stop without loss of balance.
- 9. Show you can cross both wakes and return to center of wake without falling. Repeat three times.
- 10. During a demonstration run, lift one ski clear of the water for two seconds. Then do the same with the other ski. Show that you are steady and comfortable on skis at all times.
- 11. Ski on one ski for 30 seconds. Show reasonable control.
Source: 2007 Boy Scout Requirements (33215)
Merit Badge Worksheets can help Scouts organize notes, listen actively, and document their work. Many worksheets also contain links to free, online video instruction.
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UPDATE: 1225 hours
The Swedish Youth Challenge won Race 4 of the Red Bull Youth America's Cup. Skipper Charlie Ekberg and crew were in a great battle with Lucien Cujean's Team Tilt crew from Switzerland, but the Swedes eked out a 5-second victory on the 7.21-nautical mile course.
The standings are quite tight, with the top seven crews all within 3 points of each other. The NZL Sailing Team with Emirates Team New Zealand and the American Youth Sailing Force are tied for the lead with 28 points. Team Tilt holds third with 27 points, followed by the Swedish Youth Challenge, Full Metal Jacket and ROFF Cascais Sailing Team, all with 26 points. France's Next World Energy crew is seventh with 25 points.
Races 5 and 6 are scheduled tomorrow, at 1110 and 1150 PT.
UPDATE: 1145 hours
The ROFF Cascais Sailing Team from Portugal won Race 3 of the Red Bull Youth America's Cup and now holds the overall lead.
Helmsman Bernardo Freitas nailed the start, to the leeward of the pack. ROFF Cascais Sailing Team led at the first mark and all six mark roundings. They completed the 7.21 nautical mile course in 25 minutes, 49 seconds, good for a 28-second victory over Team Tilt from Switzerland.
The American Youth Sailing Force placed third in the race, 37 seconds behind the Portuguese, and New Zealand's Full Metal Jacket placed fourth, 62 seconds off the leaders.
"Today we pushed a little harder on the start. That was our bad point yesterday," said skipper and wing trimmer Antonio Mello. "The start was really good, we got to the reach mark 1st and then we tried to make the race as simple as possible. The fleet is very competitive."
ROFF Cascais Sailing Team leads the standings with 23 points, followed by American Youth Sailing Force, 22 points, Full Metal Jacket Racing, 21 points, and NZL Sailing Team with Emirates Team New Zealand, 20 points.
Race 4 of the eight-race series is scheduled to start at 1150 am PT.
After the first two races, just three points separate first from sixth place at the Red Bull Youth America's Cup.
The two Kiwi teams sit first and third with France's Next World Energy sandwiched in the middle in second place.
With the leaderboard so compressed, a couple of top three finishes in the two races today could allow a team to begin to pull away.
Last night, the International Jury allowed redress for Objective Australia, who were plagued by equipment problems on day one. For race one, the team will be award average points it scores in races two through six. This means their score will keep changing until the end of day three as that average number changes.
Weather – high cloud should keep wind within limit. 16-18 knots, current factor +0.3 flood for race one, -0.3 ebb for race two.
Red Bull Youth America's Cup, race day two
Race 3 – 11:10am
Race 4 – 11:50am
Royal Akarana Yacht Club has seven members
competing in the Red Bull Youth America's Cup:
New Zealand Sailing Team with ETNZ
Peter Burling
Blair Tuke
Full Metal Jacket Racing
Will Tiller
Harry Thurston
Shaun Mason
Stu Dodson
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12/08/2013 – San Francisco (USA CA) – 34th America's Cup – Red Bull Youth America's Cup Boat Handover Day; Full Metal Jacket Racing (NZL)

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Operators will produce beer and distribute it, but it will not be a pub or restaurant. A tasting room and space for retail sales are included in the plans.
New plans for the City Mission, which is seeking to locate at 545 Swan St., will also be reviewed. Plans call for the homeless shelter to move from East Tupper Street to a refrigeration factory on the edge of the Larkin District.
The board will also consider a request from Ellicott Development to install a 14-foot by 36-foot L.E.D. wall sign at 960 Busti Ave., and plans from developer David Pawlik to build a two-story, eight-unit apartment building at 2017 Bailey Ave.
A new two-story medical office building with parking at 501 Seventh St., near Jersey Street, will also be vetted by the board, as will plans for a new one-story house at 728 Linwood Ave.
A retail store with three apartments at 321 Vermont St. is also on the agenda.
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Deborah Birk, 39
Vice president, global marketing and communications, Technology Recovery Group Ltd.
Deborah Birk describes herself as a contributor. That's one reason why, after working as a marketing executive at some of the region's biggest banks, she's now at a small, growing company called Technology Recovery Group Ltd. The company repairs and sells barcode scanners and other inventory management equipment.
Since arriving at Technology Recovery in May, Ms. Birk, 39, has helped the previously quiet Westlake company build a new marketing strategy and has played a role in shaping the growth plan of the company, which employs about 50 people.
"What I'm passionate about is watching a business grow ... and knowing that I contributed," said Ms. Birk, who is the company's vice president of global marketing and communications.
The Strongsville High School graduate had planned to go to law school after earning her bachelor's in communications at Ohio State University. While at OSU, however, she joined the public relations department of the state attorney general's office, where she gained a taste for marketing and PR.
After graduation in 1994 she spent six years at KeyBank. That was the last time she hunted for a job: Afterward, she was recruited to positions at National City, Huntington, Lake Ridge Academy in North Ridgeville and Technology Recovery.
At Huntington, she helped lead a successful effort to increase the bank's visibility in northern Ohio. At the time, Dan Klimas, now the CEO of Lorain National Bank, was regional president for Huntington's operations in northern Ohio. Mr. Klimas said he was impressed by Ms. Birk's "incredible work ethic" and her attention to detail. She also played a big role in starting the Huntington Cleveland Harborfest in 2001, Mr. Klimas said. That was the first time the Tall Ships Challenge came to Cleveland.
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It's Wednesday so it's time for our weekly open discussion, but as it happens this one is hitting on the last day of 2008! Can you believe this year is over already?
And what an incredible year it's been for movies... 2008 was a banner year for superhero movie fans with the likes of The Dark Knight, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Hellboy 2, and yes - even Hancock and Punisher: War Zone.
Other great genre films included Rambo, Cloverfield (do you even remember that opened this year?!), Tropic Thunder, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Kung Fu Panda and more.
Of course we've had our share of not so hot movies this year like The Happening, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Meet Dave, Meet the Spartans, X-Files, etc. Then there those we were looking forward to that left some of us disappointed like Indy 4 and Quantum of Solace.
I think this would be a great place to post your comments regarding your faves and not so favorite movies of this year... Hits, misses, surprises - whatever floats your boat (within our usual guidelines of course).
All of us here at Screen Rant wish you a very Happy New Year and here's hoping that 2009 turns out to be as great a year for movie fans as 2008 was!


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Oracle Corp said it would continue to support Hewlett-Packard Co's Itanium-based servers after it lost a bitter lawsuit in which it had argued that it was not obliged to make new versions of database software compatible with the servers.
Oracle spokeswoman Deborah Hellinger declined comment when asked if the company still intended to appeal the court's ruling. Oracle said on August 1, the day of the ruling, said that it planned to appeal.
The high-stakes dispute between the two companies, which have been partners for the past 30 years and have about 140,000 common customers, came after the former friends became intense rivals following Oracle's purchase of Sun Microsystems.
Oracle's purchase meant that the company was now into the server hardware field, in which it previously partnered with HP.
Oracle had argued that there had been no contract with HP that required it to continue to support HP's servers based on Intel Corp's Itanium chips and that it had made the decision as Itanium was approaching the end of its life.
But Santa Clara Superior Court Judge James Kleinberg ruled that there had been a contract.
Oracle software on HP's Itanium computers will be released about the same time as Oracle software on IBM's Power systems, Oracle said in a statement.
The case in the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Santa Clara is Hewlett-Packard Company v. Oracle Corporation, No. 11-CV-203163.
(Reporting by Aurindom Mukherjee, Sunayan Bhattacharjee in Bangalore; and by Jim Finkle in Boston; Editing by Edwina Gibbs)


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International singing star
This was the beginning of Alice's professional career, and she sang with the variety show for 3 years till she was offered a contract in Ontario, etc. By this time, Alice had taken on the stage name of ALYS ROBI by which she is known to this day.
Alys' life is all the more interesting because she unabashedly shared her emotions through the many situational and mental difficulties that she experienced. Her 1990 autobiography, Un long cri dans la nuit: 5 années à l'asile, describes the horrors of life in a Québec mental institution, St-Michel-Archange, following a nervous breakdown, where she was forced to submit to electric shock therapy, cold ice baths, and, eventually, a lobotomy.
Overcoming the isolation of the mental institution where she lived alone in a small cell and where her father visited her but once in 5 years, she managed to hold onto her sanity despite social deprivation. From 1948 to 1953, she continuously told herself that she was an "international singer" and that she would continue her career despite the fears that grew on her during these 5 years.
Of course, by 1953, when Alice was released from St-Micchel-Archange after a successful lobotomy (which was rare), her father came to see her for the second time, to bring her home. After awhile, she overcame the fear of social contacts, which had been brought on by the isolation experienced at the hospital, and she began accepting singing contracts. She now sings occasionally for local institutions despite her age.
ALYS ROBI's life is an inspiration to us all. If she could survive a mental institution and what it entailed in the 1940's and 50's, we should all be able to overcome our daily difficulties and attain our goals.
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What made you interested in researching millennials and their effect on the retail industry?
I wanted to see for myself what all the hype was about, and find out whether the myths were true. Two of my kids are considered millennials (defined by Accenture as born between 1980 and 2000). I watch them shop and it's quite interesting. They know what they want, even if it is not what everyone else wants—which is very different from my generation (GEN X). Building on my own experiences and taking into consideration millennial interviews that Accenture conducted, I looked at what millennials want to be known for and how we can reach them as they evolve. What makes it most interesting now is that millennials are changing, they are growing up and starting to have families. And now we have GEN Z quickly approaching.
Tell us about GEN Z.
GEN Z includes those born after 2000, and amongst their many names, they have been coined as the "Homeland Generation." The term's origin stems from the period after September 11th when families felt safer at home and the name GEN Z lends itself to the fact that they enjoy spending leisure time at home. These individuals are often at home using multiple screens at once, maybe shopping online on their computer while watching streaming TV and using social media on their smart phone.
What are some of the generational differences you uncovered in your research?
Baby boomers don't like personal shopping. However, millennials are almost twice as likely to think a personal shopper at a store is cool. Boomers are not as willing to share information to get discounts. As millennials begin to move away from their parents, rent goes up, the cost of food goes up, so their expenses are higher. They don't have as much disposable income. They would rather go out with a friend and post the experience on social media than buy something material. GEN Z is even more frugal and focused on saving.
How do the generations differ when it comes to sharing information?
Privacy is a huge difference. Millennials see the exchange of information as a value-add to their life as long as a retailer reciprocates with a monetary award or an experience, like a makeover. They are willing to give their opinion, and they want someone to validate their opinions. They want to be heard and are less likely than boomers to want to remain anonymous. Remember, boomers grew up with just a few modes of communication, so life was more closed off. Now, retailers and companies are in our homes as "living things." We are getting pinged at all angles as the Internet of Things (IoT) starts to become more prevalent.
Are there differences in terms of social interaction, such as receiving product recommendations from friends or others on social networks?
The generations are actually more similar than different in this way. Boomers are adapting to social media. They find it's a neat experience to reconnect with a friend from high school online, especially as boomers become more sedentary. They like this newfound connection to the world, but they are more lurkers than sharers. Millennials are the sharers, and they like dialogue. Almost three times the number of millennials than boomers want feedback from their friends on items they are considering to buy.
Which generation holds the buying power?
Millennials have overtaken the boomers due to sheer numbers. Millennials have $245 trillion* in spending power. Through our research, we predict millennials will spend $1.4 trillion** annually by 2020. Older shoppers are on fixed incomes, they're not working as much and their pockets have been hit by recession. Millennials are just reaching those peak earning years, but how they will choose to spend is unfolding.
What did you find most surprising in your research?
The biggest surprise was the trajectory that GEN Z is taking. They are more entrepreneurial, interested in pursuing their own businesses—they want to be their own bosses. They are more concerned about their future and taking action to protect it such as starting small side businesses while still in school (for example: lawn mowing services, cell phone repairs and creative design). They are saving money their money to have a nest egg versus assuming a job will be obtained right after of graduation. More earning power will ultimately wield them more buying power.
What should retailers do differently to appeal to millennials?
I think it's important to make sure you are giving feedback when feedback is given. Loyalty is tough, so if someone takes time to respond to a survey or give feedback on products or experiences, a business should be driven to acknowledge the customer's contribution and time. Connect the channels—store, online and call center—so that you are cohesively responding to a customer's needs, and you know their story from the beginning. Your goods can be the best in the world, but someone can copy that. If you are going to win customers, it is going to be on service and on personalization. Thank customers and show you've heard them by providing curated content and products based on the feedback they have taken the time to give.
How do you predict the habits or preferences of millennials will change in the future?
We are seeing an increase in millennials as parents. The preferences and mindsets that have made millennials famous will influence new buying decisions for their next stage of life. Hence, we'll see a need for more family restaurants that offer health-conscious and localized choices. We'll see restaurants changing their décor to be more "instagrammable". Convenience will be key. For instance, maybe a millennial can't avoid going to store, but they'd like to shop and pay online, and know the product is waiting for them in store. Therefore, in-store pickup will be a benefit. Digital and physical worlds will increasingly mesh in retail—services will be designed to answer a customer need immediately.
* https://blog.140proof.com/post/89176201729/advertising-to-the-flip-flop-generation-reaching
** https://www.accenture.com/us-en/insight-outlook-who-are-millennial-shoppers-what-do-they-really-want-retail


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The G15 group of developing countries meets in Cairo Monday, one month ahead of the gathering of the world's richest nations, amid calls for a "less unjust" new world order.
Among the leaders arriving in Cairo Sunday was President Marco Maciel of Brazil who said they were looking for a fairer world order of international trade.
"We want an international order less unjust," Maciel told reporters through an interpreter at a luxury hotel. "This is our common ground among the G15. We will discuss globalization and its effects on the developing world."
He said the G15 wants to find a "mechanism of cooperation" between the G15 and the G8 group of wealthy industrialized countries but also wants a means of cooperation among developing countries.
The G8 -- led by the United States, the main European nations and Japan as well as Russia -- is meeting in Japan on July 21st.
Other leaders to arrive Sunday were Presidents Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, Abdurrahman Wahid of Indonesia, Fernando de la Rua of Argentina, Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria, Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal, and Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia.
Malaysia has already proposed the G15 form a ministerial group to represent them at the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva, Egypt's state-run MENA has reported.
The group would stay in contact with international economic forums, coordinate stands on world commerce and promote trade among G-15 states, MENA said.
G15 leaders are expected to discuss ways to draw private investment for small and medium industries, relieve debt and fight cheap imports undermining their domestic industries, delegates said.
"Our local industries can't compete" under the free trade rules imposed by the WTO, O.J. Abuah, a spokesman for Nigerian President Obasanjo, told AFP.
"Our textile industry is virtually moribund because of that," losing much of the domestic market to cheap foreign imports in the last five years, Abuah said.
During a meeting Saturday evening, the G15 foreign ministers drafted a final summit declaration saying "the multilateral trade system should function in a more open, more equitable and more objective way."
The draft statement also stressed the "need to take economic development into consideration as a main dimension in multilateral trade negotiations."
"In the last two years, growth rates in developing countries have varied between six and two percent, and for the first time in ten years, these growth rates were below those recorded in developed countries," the draft said.
"Special interest must be paid to the problems facing developing countries concerning the application of their obligations within the World Trade Organization," it added.
The WTO conference in the US city of Seattle in December stumbled dramatically over differences among the United States, Europe and developing countries over the substance of a new round of trade liberalization.
The G15 is seeking a closer dialogue and cooperation with the G8 in a bid to "reduce the risks of marginalization" under the globalization trend, the draft said.
The G15, regretting "a decrease in development aid" from donor countries, hopes the industrial states will apply a UN recommendation that they set aside seven percent of Gross Domestic Product for such aid, the draft added.
The G15, founded in 1989 to counter the power of the wealthy, industrialized nations, actually groups 17 nations.
They are Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Jamaica, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Venezuela and Zimbabwe. The summit ends Tuesday - CAIRO (AFP)
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Media and the Memory in Wales
This project aims to collect and archive oral testimony relating to the age of television in Wales. It will solicit memories of significant televisual moments in politics and culture. By focusing on four distinct and distinctive geographical and linguistic communities it will seek to provide a spectrum of memories that represent a national collective memory of television in Wales. The Welsh context is particularly pertinent to the project and adds significantly to its potential value since for a variety of political and linguistic reasons, the history of television in Wales has been particularly conflicted. Participation in the project will provide the participating communities with opportunities to share and develop their collective memories.
Culturenet Cymru works in partnership with museums, archives and libraries, as well as schools and community groups, to deliver digital resources that promote the heritage and culture of Wales on the Web.
Culturenet Cymru is a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee, which is
based within The National Library of Wales. Although Culturenet Cymru works
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whole heritage sector in Wales.
The Media and the Memory project is led by the University of Aberystwyth and funded by JISC.
The target audience are people who remember getting TV for the first time and those who were raised with a new TV in their homes.
It will also target those people who are interested in hearing about the history of TV in Wales and how it has shaped modern day events.
Design a logo for the "Media and the Memory in Wales" project,
The logo will be used primarily on the web as well as in printed material such as leaflets. The project website has not yet been designed and so the logo will have a strong influence on the overall look and feel of the website.
'Media and the Memory in Wales' is a bilingual project. 'Y Cof a'r Cyfryngau yng Nghymru' is the Welsh title. Preferably, the logo would include the title in both languages. However, should the designer wish to use one language only, project title should be interchangeable with the second language.
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'waves' [Air waves, not sea/water waves]
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Dim SSam - Voted one of the best Asian Food Trucks in America.
The Fish Box - One of the city's favorite food trucks hits the streets. Try their signature fish sandwich, you won't regret it.
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The Tamale Spaceship - Super good tameles made with great mole and fresh, authentic ingredients. Plus, the servers where crazy masks.
East Side King - Top Chef Paul Qui brings his sophisticated touch to street food. The fried beets are just one of the items Austinites crave.
Gourdoughs - Savory to sweet, this dough is a meal all by itself.
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The Foo Truck - The oh-so-portable Foowich! Plus a BYOB Garden setting.
Zea May's Kitchen - Native American cuisine and culture.
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Guest blog post by Acting Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank
Yesterday, as part of my infrastructure business development trade mission to Brazil, Assistant Secretary Susan Kurland of the U.S. Department of Transportation and I took a tour of the facilities at Embraer -- a Brazilian aircraft manufacturer. Embraer is one example of a Brazilian company making substantial investments in the United States, and employs more than 1,000 U.S. workers to support its U.S. operations in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; Melbourne, Florida; Jacksonville, Florida; Nashville, Tennessee; Mesa, Arizona; and Windsor Locks, Connecticut. At the Commerce Department, one of the core components of our mission is to increase foreign investment in the United States, and Embraer continues to realize the benefits of choosing the U.S. as a place to do business. It was gratifying to hear from Embraer's senior leadership about their plans for further investments in America, because of the United States' strong aviation industry.
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Connecting U.S. companies with opportunities in Latin America is what this trade mission is all about. The 20 U.S. firms that are joining me on this infrastructure business development trade mission to Brazil, Colombia and Panama offer a broad range of products and services that enable them to serve as partners on the ambitious infrastructure modernization projects that all three countries are undertaking. Strengthening the connections between the U.S. private sector and Latin America is a win-win for all parties, and I look forward to the continued progress that will be realized as a result of our trip this week.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 106 diseños de 23 diseñadores freelance.
Gofresh is a catering startup that will sell prepacked sandwiches and salads on supermarket shelves and cater for events with fresh and practical food solutions. It will only market short shelf life items and proudly announces it's freshness and daily hand-made products using mostly local and traditional produce with no preservation gimmicks..
- the logo should grab people's attention among the other food items and the word 'fresh' must stand out. It´s a logo but I want it to look like an independent element like it's a label you'd stick on the box to say freshly made.
- colours should resemble fresh and healthy and edible, like lime or lettuce green, ripe tomato or yellow sunflower, mixed with edible duller colours like brown bread or darker shades of green. A sense of wood or brick could be interesting or the element sunshine because the company operates in the sunny and touristic Algarve.
- this is an idea that appeals to me but it's not maditory: round like a label that says 'fresh' (or maybe a badge or medal?), and the GO is on the outskirts of the inner circle but must be easily understood as the word GO. So G is outside circle, O is middle circle and the inner circle has fresh typed in it. The G could end as an arrow because it's ready-made convenience food.
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Servest are currently recruiting for a Chef Manager to run the colleague restaurant within the Tesco's store in Swansae
As Chef Manager you will be in charge of the smooth running of the unit and leading a small catering team and daily cooking.
You will be responsible for the cleaning and maintenance of the kitchen and facilities to include all aspects of Health and Safety. The unit offers a breakfast, lunch service, night and weekend service (You will have a team of nights and weekend staff, however as manager you will be managing the site). You will need to be happy to get stuck in and work over all aspects including serving customers, cash handling and cleaning of the unit as this is a small team.
Day to day the role involves you cooking and managing the site with the support of a small team of catering assistants. You will also be involved in costing's and finances, audits, ordering and client meetings. We are looking for manager who can plan, cook, organise and monitor the controls on food quality, presentation and service. You will be used to using fresh ingredient to create dishes and the role will also involve you preparing menus and developing recipes.
As the Chef Manager you will report into the Group Operations/ Area Manager. We are looking for candidates with a background of Chef Management within a Business and Industry site- ideally from a unit that offers quality home baked food with a retail twist. You will work five days out of seven, a mixture of shifts as required.
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Servest offer excellent career and development opportunities, as an organisations that's proud of its great people, we believe in the opportunity to recognise and share success, that's why we offer a competitive salary, study support and additional benefits. Servest Group is an expert in facilities management, creating environments which enable people to deliver exceptional experiences to help organisations to be more efficient, effective and sustainable. To find out more please visit our website
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POTTSTOWN - The start of the public's opportunity to offer comment on the proposed closing of Edgewood Elementary School begins at 6 p.m. Thursday with a public hearing to be held in the cafeteria of Pottstown High School.
Called an Act 34 hearing, it is a requirement of Pennsylvania law whenever a school building is to be closed.
However, what is not required, according to school district Solicitor Stephen Kalis, is any kind of informational packet for the public to study beforehand.
Rather, he said, the school board's rationale for its decision to close the building will be offered at the beginning of the hearing, and the public is invited to comment after that.
The public comment period will remain open for 90 days after the hearing is closed, so there will be opportunity to offer official comment after Thursday night.
The decision on the school closing was made Feb. 16, 2012 in connection with the decision to renovate and expand the remaining four elementary schools and to move the fifth grade into the middle school.
At the time, parents wearing red t-shirts protested the decision to close the school.
However, other than a protest outside the subsequent board meeting last March, there has been little further public discussion of the matter.
Thursday night's hearing is being held even though the building will be used for the next school year.
Although the Edgewood student population is to be spread among the other four schools, some will return there as the result of a more recent decision to make use of Edgewood to house the student and staff population of Rupert Elementary School.
Although renovation and expansion work is scheduled to begin this spring at Lincoln, Franklin and Rupert simultaneously, the work at Rupert is more extensive.
In October, the school board voted to move all students and staff out of Rupert for the 2013-14 school year and house them in Edgewood.
The year-long move will allow next year's $5 million construction and renovation project at Rupert to move ahead more swiftly without disturbing the students and teachers, said Damien Spahr, a consultant from Reynolds Construction Management, which is also acting as the district's construction manager for the elementary renovations.
Given that the building will be used for another year, the district has given no reason publicly for why the hearing must be held Thursday, however the building cannot be sold without the hearing being held.
The question raised at the most recent school board meeting was by school board members themselves who asked if the law requires them to attend the hearing.
Kalis told them it does not. Follow Evan Brandt on Twitter @PottstownNews


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Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. is placing a $550 million bet that hotel guests increasingly will use smartphones to choose rooms, check in and even unlock doors.
The company plans to announce this week new technology intended for its 4,200 properties world-wide. Targeting younger travelers, Hilton is aiming to leapfrog competitors that already have rolled out new services like turning mobile phones into room keys.


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Now that we're almost set for the Round of 16 in the FIFA World Cup, it's about time that you get yourself geared up so you can showcase your love of the sport–or at least your love of your favorite team. Here are a few essential World Cup memorabilia to get you on your way!
FIFA scarves are not just an accessory to stay warm, but also stylish banners that strike pride and inspiration in the hearts of thousands. These scarves are actually collectors' items. When the games are all done, many sports fans collect the scarves from various countries and hang them in their houses for cool decorations. They also make for great gifts!
Spice things up a bit with your World Cup pride and try these cool designs you can do to your nails to represent your team. You can choose to do a design for your favorite team, or just show your love of the game and get a Brazilian-inspired look. Here's a short video tutorial for America themed nails. Check out this tutorial to get USA-inspired nails.
Nike never disappoints with their sporty and stylish gear! Check out these Nike Pro running tights that come in the traditional colors of Brazil, France, England and the U.S. These limited edition prints have a slim fit and a smooth feel. So even when you're at the gym you can show your pride. Use our coupon code to get free 2-day shipping on orders over $75 until June 28.
Of course the best way to represent your team is getting yourself a sweet jersey! There are too many to choose from with all the participating teams. But when choosing a jersey, be sure to get one that is comfortable, vibrant and fun.
Even if jerseys aren't your thing, just highlight your love of the game with a trendy tee or shirt that you can wear on any occasion.
Win or lose, this World Cup has shaped up to be an exciting sporting event for the ages. Millions of fans across the world have demonstrated their national pride as their country represents themselves on the field. Are you ready to represent?


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Lisa Rout necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 231 diseños de 27 diseñadores freelance.
Church for the City, East London
Based in Bethnal Green, Church for the City (http://www.churchforthecity.org.uk) is a multicultural, modern and lively Christian church in the heart of East London. It welcomes all to it's Sunday morning services at the FymFyg bar (http://www.thefymfygbar.com) and has a great social scene outside of Sunday services for all ages.
We want to target an East London audience, with a particular focus on attracting men.
BUT we want to attract a community which is diverse in age, class and culture.
Customer insight is as follows:
People who:
- Want something real
- Are tired of the synthetic
- Are searching for real love
- Are looking for something different
- Are hoping for answers
- Value freedom
- Are looking for an encounter
Needs to be suitable for letterhead and banner use.
The church meets in different locations - we want this to be reflected
We want to create a new, meaningful brand identity for this East London church and show that Jesus is relevant to the people of East London. We want to appeal to people who are looking for real love, wanting something different and hoping for answers.
We tend to attract those who are looking for an encounter and are happy to get their hands dirty
As a result of seeing this piece, we realistically expect our target audience to:-
Think: This isn't what I'd expect from a church
Do: Want to find out more
The tone of voice that will be most compelling to our audience is:
Edgy, Accessible, Challenging
The most convincing (rational) messages we must help them remember are:
• We're different from the norm
• Honest
• Friendly
The one big brand (emotional) promise we need our audience to buy in to is: 'I want to get stuck in!'
The name Church for the City must be included in the design.
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Excavator Kids Afghan, C2C Crochet Pattern
Excavator Kids Afghan, C2C Crochet Pattern
What you need for the Excavator Afghan:
· Red Heart Super Saver or any Worsted Weight #4: Blue 1211yds, Gold 456yds, Black 161yds, Gray 77yds and Yellow 19yds
· Hook = size 5mm or H Hook
· Yarn Needle
· Yarn Bobbins
Size: 63" x 53"
Gauge: 10 Rows = 8"
Blocks: 79 x 66
**The pattern testers are permitted to use the colors of their choice. Website photos will not always show the same colors as listed in pattern for this reason.
If you need assistance with understanding part of the pattern, please feel free to contact us, we are happy to help!
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FDIC - Electronic Deposit Insurance Estimator (EDIE)
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NEW YORK — Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been a public face of gun control for years, but he's in a new, unsought spotlight after ricin-laced letters were sent to him and a group he helps lead.
The billionaire hasn't shied from using his political post and his personal fortune to push for gun control well beyond the city limits, garnering both plaudits and complaints that he's overreaching.
The poisoned letters to Bloomberg and the group Mayors Against Illegal Guns essentially threatened that ''anyone who comes for my guns will be shot in the face,'' Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Thursday, shortly before the Secret Service disclosed that a similar missive was sent to President Barack Obama.
Bloomberg, speaking Friday on his weekly WOR Radio show, shrugged off any specter of danger.
''There's always threats, unfortunately. That comes with the job,'' the mayor said. ''I trust the police department, and I feel perfectly safe. I've got more danger from lightning than from anything else, and I'll go about my business.''
Bloomberg said Wednesday he wasn't inclined to back down.
''We're not going to walk away from those efforts,'' he said.
Fellow gun-control advocates deplored the letters, which arrived after Bloomberg played a prominent role in a now-stalled push for new firearms laws in response to the December school massacre in Newtown, Conn.
''The work Mayor Bloomberg does is vitally important to our cause, and our thoughts are with them this week,'' Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said in a statement Thursday. He emphasized that the organization doesn't think the letter episode reflects the mass of Americans engaged in the issue.
Thanks to his office and pocketbook, Bloomberg has become a uniquely influential figure in the gun debate.
Vice President Joe Biden said in March that ''there has been no support that has been more consequential'' than Bloomberg's in the recent, White House-fueled press for new gun restrictions. And the National Rifle Association has made clear it sees Bloomberg as a leading foe, caricaturing him as an octopus on the cover of its magazine in 2007 and branding him an ''evangelist for the nanny state.''
Representatives for the NRA and another gun-rights advocacy group, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, didn't immediately respond to inquiries Thursday about Bloomberg.
As leader of the nation's biggest city, Bloomberg often emphasizes that he feels mayors are on the front lines of a fight against gun violence — and that killings and shootings have dropped to historic lows in New York during his nearly 12-year tenure. And he has pursued the fight elsewhere.
His administration has set up gun-buying stings in other states to highlight what it said were illegal sales, on the premise that many illicit guns in New York were bought elsewhere. The city has sued dozens of out-of-state gun dealers, resulting in court-appointed monitoring for many. One South Carolina dealer ended up pleading guilty to a federal weapons charge.
Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino founded Mayors Against Illegal Guns, which now includes more than 900 mayors. Financed partly by Bloomberg, the nonprofit group has spread its message through such means as a Super Bowl ad this year and a $12 million ad campaign less than two months later.
The Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-unaffiliated Bloomberg also has spent millions of dollars advancing his gun-control views through political contributions. In one example, his super PAC, Independence USA, spent more than $2 million on ads in the Democratic primary in a special congressional election in Chicago this year.
Bloomberg's favored candidate, then-Illinois state Rep. Robin Kelly, got the seat. And Bloomberg got some criticism that he was butting in where he didn't belong.
''You had someone from outside of the community determining what the issue was for Chicago and that district,'' Delmarie Cobb, a Democratic political consultant who worked with one of the other candidates, recalled Thursday. Her candidate, Alderman Anthony Beale, called for tougher gun laws himself during the campaign, but he also sought to focus on job growth and other topics.
Bloomberg said at the time he was just a concerned citizen who happens ''to have some money, and that's what I'm going to do with my money — try to get us some sensible gun laws.''
It wasn't the first time he'd been branded a gun-control interloper. Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne complained in 2011 that Bloomberg had overstepped his power in authorizing investigators to run a sting at a Phoenix gun show. Bloomberg's representatives noted that Arizona-based private investigators carried out the undercover operation.
Now, government investigators are working to figure out who sent the letters to Bloomberg and Obama.
The two directed at Bloomberg were postmarked from Shreveport, La., according to the postal workers' union, which cited information from a Postal Service briefing. The Shreveport postal center handles mail from Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas, Louisiana State Police spokeswoman Julie Lewis noted.
The White House and Bloomberg letters were intercepted at mail facilities before reaching the president or mayor. The third was opened by the mayors' group director, Mark Glaze.
Three New York police officers who examined the letter to Bloomberg experienced minor symptoms that have since abated, authorities said.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ricin is found naturally in castor beans. Exposure can cause difficulty breathing, vomiting and redness on the skin.
The letters were the latest in a string of toxin-laced missives, but authorities would not say whether the letters to Bloomberg and Obama were believed to be linked to any other recent case.
In Washington state, a 37-year-old was charged last week with threatening to kill a federal judge in a letter that contained ricin.
About a month earlier, letters containing the substance were addressed to Obama, a U.S. senator and a Mississippi judge. One of the letters was traced back to Tupelo, Miss., and a Mississippi man was arrested.


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Visualization of four dimensional atomic orbitals
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- Jan 01, 2005
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- Saitama University Cyber Repository of Academic Resources
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Four dimensional hydrogen atomic orbital was investigated by a projection method to three dimensional space. The actual outputs were drawn on a two dimensional plane. Transparent plastic block mixed with a certain photochromic compound is expected to support the above visualization.


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Barber Park
Greensboro, North Carolina 1 course · 18 holes Driving directions
Course reviews
Most votes | Newest first | Oldest first
+0 votes Jason Sosnowski › May 9, 2013
+0 votes Kyle Rine › September 18, 2011
This course has ALOT of potential! A much needed addition would have to be some concrete too pads, as the natural ones this course has to offer are very misleading for beginners. Also these long par 3's take a strong arm if you want to come close to landing under par. Great local course but would suggest starting elsewhere then moving up to this one.
+0 votes Andrew Horne › May 20, 2012
+0 votes matt harmon › February 24, 2013
The lack of concrete tee pads would be the only complaint here. This course requires a long arm on a couple of holes. The thing I love about this course is that it requires you to think,,, on EVERY shot. It's unfortunate that Guilford County's premier course doesn't have tee pads??
+0 votes Matt Campbell › April 5, 2018
Has potential super wide open and boring apart from a few holes. Construction is currently stopping the course from having full 18. Needs markers and pads badly.


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I recently bought an AKAI Professional LPK 25 keyboard which works out of the box under Ubuntu. It's only limitation is the impossibility to change the velocity curve. So I decided to code a JACK application !
QMIDICurves is a simple JACK/Qt application (GPL license) that lets you change MIDI-keyboard velocity curve. You can choose one of the 4 pre-configured curves (flat, linear, concave, convex) or load your own defined curves.
You can download the release 1.0 source code and pre-compiled 64 bits version on http://christophe.tornieri.free.fr/wordpress/?p=149.
Hope, you'll like.


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Will Obama and his mainstream media crew attempt to upstage Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Investigation Conference with some manufactured crisis news event?
See and Hear Short 3 Minute U-Tube:
BREAKING NEWS! July 17th 2012, OBAMA to be exposed as Fraudulent President! – youtube.com/
"……And for those who might scoff at the proposition that Obama is illegal; I challenge you now, please present one piece, just one piece of 100% verifiable evidence that Obama is a perfectly legal citizen of the United States; much less, legal to hold the office of president. If you can do that, you will be the first person to be able to do so. Even the Congressional Research Service has thus far been unable to do so. So before you scoff and make a fool of yourself, consider the real evidence! Hang on – July 17th. – youtube.com/
Directly Related:
Now 'Indisputable Proof' Of Obama Forgery – Live-streamed event features latest revelations of Sheriff Joe's Posse – wnd.com/2012/07/
<<<<<<<< At a news conference Tuesday in Phoenix that will be live-streamed by WND, Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his Cold Case Posse will present "indisputable proof" the Obama birth document released by the White House is a forgery, according to the posse's lead investigator.
Mike Zullo said the new information was developed during an investigative trip to Hawaii in May. >>>>>>>>> – wnd.com/2012/07/
Also Related:
Moralmatters.org Articles Dealing With Obama's Identity Scandal and Presidential Eligibility
- Carnival Barker Birther's Case Before the Supreme Court – moralmatters.org/2012/07/16/
- Personal Testimony Evidence of Obama's Kenyan Birth – And Facebook Deleting This – moralmatters.org/2012/06/04/
- The Obama Bin Laden Kill Myth – Why? – moralmatters.org/2012/06/03/
- Birther Barker Bashing Ridicule Gets Old – moralmatters.org/2012/05/31/
- Bottom Line – Obama Not Legitimate President – moralmatters.org/2012/05/27/
- Tabloids Do the Heavy Lifting While Mainstream Media Wimps Out – moralmatters.org/2012/05/26/
- Mainstream Media Gobbles Up Latest Hawaiian Propaganda of Obama's Alleged Birth Origin – moralmatters.org/2012/05/25/
- Obama Lies – He Must Shame Even the Devil – moralmatters.org/
- Birther Basher's Arrogance and Denial – www.moralmatters.org
- Obama Identity Scandal Grows – moralmatters.org/
- FOX Network's Obama Sin of Omission – moralmatters.org/
Also related:
Shhhh…There's a Paraceratherium in the Room – thenationalpatriot.com/2012/07/17/
Please also note the following Scriptures as they describe liars. Based upon these Scriptures (and, because the Triune God of this divine revelation, cannot lie), it can be honestly concluded that Barack Obama is headed for a great awakening:
Psalm 58:3 – "The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies." – KJV
Proverbs 26:23-28 – "Fervent lips with a wicked heart are like earthenware covered with silver dross. He who hates, disguises it with his lips, and lays up deceit within himself; When he speaks kindly, do not believe him, for there are seven abominations in his heart; though his hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness will be revealed before the assembly. Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and he who rolls a stone will have it roll back on him. A lying tongue hates those who are crushed by it, and a flattering mouth works ruin." – NKJ
Please note 2 informational links:
U.S. Constitution Online – usconstitution.net/
The Complete List of Email Addresses and Fax Numbers for the U.S. Congress and Governors – conservativeusa.org/
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It's a classic variation on the eternal triangle: brilliant doctor, innocent subject and the transgressive experimentation that binds and threatens to destroy them. In the case of the elegant creepfest "Eyes Without a Face," the patient is the doctor's disfigured daughter, and his single-minded pursuit of a remedy is motivated by guilt as much as by hubris and love.
The lyrical and the gruesome have seldom entwined so seamlessly or with such disturbing power as they do in Georges Franju's 1960 feature, a tale of mad science and fatherly devotion gone extravagantly wrong. Upon its release in France, critics struggled to reconcile the movie's straight-up horror with its artistry.
Two years later, it hit stateside theaters in an edited, dubbed version that was named "The Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus" and placed on a double bill with the even more regrettably titled exploitation flick "The Manster." That schlock-shock trailer — and the original French one, which emphasizes the film's psychology and its noir attributes — is among the extras in a new high-definition digital restoration that Criterion Collection released Tuesday on DVD and Blu-ray.
Also included is Franju's first film, the 1949 short "Blood of the Beasts," a tough-to-watch yet beautifully lensed documentary exploring the grim business within Paris slaughterhouses and the serenity of their surroundings. With its unblinking gaze, it's a telling piece of work; the director's fiction films deepened that clinical approach rather than departing from it.
Franju, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française, had a lifelong passion for the strange-but-true, and he claimed that even as a child he found reality far more amazing than fairy tales. He pointed out the distinction in a 1982 television interview: "The fantastic is created, while the bizarre is revealed."
What he chooses to reveal in "Eyes" has the hypnotic pull of dread without relying on scare-tactic tricks of the trade. The aesthetic is austere and direct. Eugen Shuftan's black-and-white cinematography maintains a certain distance from the horror in the story of Dr. Génessier, a man hell-bent on restoring the beauty of his daughter, Christiane. A car accident has destroyed her face, leaving intact only her eyes, if not the feelings they express.
For the screen adaptation of Jean Redon's novel, Franju cast the accomplished actor Pierre Brasseur, whose dozens of screen credits included Marcel Carné's masterwork "Children of Paradise," and the unknown Edith Scob. Italian actress Alida Valli completed the deranged household as Louise, a surrogate mother figure to Christiane, Génessier's partner-in-crime assistant and the successful recipient of one of his tissue-transplant "heterografts."
Christiane's case proves more challenging for the doctor. It's more urgent too, given that he was behind the wheel when the accident occurred — which he never mentions even as his awareness of it colors his every gesture and glance. Much remains unspoken in "Eyes," a film that uses dialogue sparingly and whose soundtrack features the baying of caged dogs and composer Maurice Jarre's crazed-carousel score. (He would soon score a very different type of tale of obsession, "Lawrence of Arabia.")
At the center of the story is a "large open wound where a face should be," as a police inspector describes one of the doctor's victims. That could also describe the raw emotions just beneath the surface in the Génessier household — the grieving, longing and rage that are evident but never acknowledged.
Scob — who played the chauffeur in last year's "Holy Motors," Leos Carax's fractured love letter to the dreamscape of cinema, complete with a nod to "Eyes Without a Face" — spends most of the movie behind an eerily smooth mask designed to hide Christiane's wounds. In a remote suburban mansion whose mirrors have been blackened, she floats like a ghost through the rooms, and into the basement with its nefarious surgical doings. Atop the slender stalk of that preternaturally long neck, the impassive mask is an otherworldly flower.
Franju provides a brief, unforgettable glimpse of what lies beneath, in terms of the physical damage: a soft-focus image that hits hard. And then there's the five-minute surgical sequence halfway through the movie, which reportedly caused audience members to flee or swoon. In the decades since the film's initial release, horror films have embraced a far more graphic sensibility, but "Eyes" still has the capacity to haunt.
And echoes of its understated nightmare still reverberate. Though Pedro Almodóvar's "The Skin I Live In" is based on a different book, the Spanish director's story of surgical atrocity borrows from "Eyes" for its setup and then cranks it up way past 11. The 2011 film deals more explicitly with sex and gender, yet Franju and Brasseur's portrait of the patriarch is more penetrating. When we first see Génessier entering his inner sanctum, he moves from darkness into light, a father's hope conflated with his monstrous mission.
Through the film's lens, the grotesque is matter-of-fact, and all the more provocative because of it. "I love images that make me dream," Franju said. "But I don't like someone dreaming for me."


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Let $X$ be the vector space of all Lebesgue-measurable functions $f:\left[a,b\right]\rightarrowℝ$ such that $\int^{b}_{a}\left|f\left(x\right)\right|^{2}dx<\infty$ (Lebesgue integral). Then we can define an equivalence relation on $X$ as follows: $f \cong g$ if $f(x)=g(x)$ almost everywhere on $\left[a,b\right]$. Then we construct equivalence classes $\tilde{f}=\{g\in X:f\cong g\}$, and the vector space of these equivalence classes is $L^{2}[a,b]$, on which we define the norm $||\tilde{f}||_{1}=\sqrt{\int^{b}_{a}\left|f\left(x\right)\right|^{2}dx}$ (Lebesgue integral). Now some of these equivalences classes are rather special: they contain a continuous function in them, so this is the natural choice for a representative of the equivalence class. Let $D\subseteq L^{2}[a,b]$ be the subspace containing these special equivalence classes. My basic question is, if we assign the equivalence classes in $D$ their continuous representatives, what are the natural representatives of the other equivalence classes?
We can make this more precise. Let $C[a,b]$ be the vector space of continuous functions $f:\left[a,b\right]\rightarrowℝ$, endowed with a norm $||f||_{2}=\sqrt{\int^{b}_{a}\left|f\left(x\right)\right|^{2}dx}$ (Riemann or Lebesgue integral). Then the norm-completion of this space is in fact $L^{2}[a,b]$. The upshot of all this is that $D$ is dense in $L^{2}[a,b]$, and we have a norm-respecting isomorphism $T:(D,||\cdot||_{1})\rightarrow(C[a,b] , ||\cdot||_{2})$ defined by $T(\tilde{f})\in \tilde{f}$ (assigning each element of $D$ its continuous representative). So now the question becomes, does there exist a continuous linear extension $S$ of $T$ defined on all of $L^{2}[a,b]$ such that $S|_{D}=T$ and $S(\tilde{f})\in \tilde{f}$ ? Well, $T$ is a bounded linear transformation (with operator norm 1) defined on a dense subspace, so it meets all the conditions of the BLT theorem other than the fact that its codomain is not a Banach space. Thus we have to expand $C[a,b]$ to a larger subspace of $X$, so that the codomain of $T$ becomes complete.
There are two potential ways to do this, depending on whether we define the norm $||\cdot||_{2}$ in terms of Riemann or Lebesgue integrals. If we use Riemann integrals, we would need a subspace of $X$ consisting of Riemann-integrable functions, so we would have to answer the following in order to establish completeness: if $f_{n}\rightarrow f$ with respect to the the $||\cdot||_{2}$ (where $f$ need not be continuous), is $f$ necessarily Riemann integrable? (My first instinct is no, because Riemann-integrability requires boundedness, and you can have a sequence of continuous functions with ever-increasing bounds, so that the limit is unbounded). If we use Lebesgue integrals, we would need to ensure that two distinct elements of the subspace cannot have zero distance, so we would have to answer the following: if $f_{n}\rightarrow f$ and $g_{n}\rightarrow g$ with respect to the $||\cdot||_{2}$ norm (where $f$ and $g$ need not be continuous) and $f(x)=g(x)$ almost everywhere on $[a,b]$, then are $f$ and $g$ necessarily the same function? (Again I fear the answer is no, because perhaps you can have a sequence of continuous functions that converges to a function with a removable discontinuity).
I know I've included a lot of convoluted detail, but my fundamental question is relatively simple: can we replace the equivalence classes in $L^{2}[a,b]$ with natural representative functions, using continuous representatives where possible? Or to put it another way: does there exist a subspace $Y$ of $X$ containing $C[a,b]$, on which we can define a norm which will make it isomorphic to $L^{2}[a,b]$?
EDIT: As Gerald has pointed out, a simpler way to phrase my question is that I want a lifting of $L^{2}[a,b]$ or more generally $L^{2}(ℝ^{3})$.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You in Advance.


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130 Stamey Farm Road is a $2,000 home on a 2.63 acre lot located in Statesville, NC.
Great Highway visibility off of I-40 on the Stamey Farm Road. The property is for lease at a rate of $2,000 a month for a minimum lease agreement of one year.
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This morning on twitter did appear
An equation for making a heart!
My eyes lit up and I had an idea;
What wonderful, accelerator art!
And so into a 4 MeV accelerator design
I put 629 shiny red protons
Yes, I placed my heart at a single point in time
By (cos(100*x)*sqrt(cos(x))+sqrt(abs(x))-0.7)*(4-x^2)^0.01
Now on my computer I said the words
opal ffag-tracking.in --commlib mpi (romantics, that's one to learn!)
and physics was set to work
to track these lovely particles around one turn
(of a 4MeV fixed field proton accelerator)
Now my heart was relatively intact
by such a short journey through space and time
so I decided to keep going and continue my quest
around this accelerator so fine...
By fifty turns there was some distortion
But in relationships, we need to give and take
So let's go again my dear, another portion
By the way: I promise this is not fake!
After a hundred turns I'm sad to say
My heart looked a bit of a mess
But hopefully it will make your day
Seeing this little valentines jest
Happy valentines day everyone.
P.S. Thanks to @standupmaths for the equation and for the words of encouragement ("do it do it do it do it do it" - to be exact)


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The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College has released a new Issue in Brief:
"Do Income Taxes Affect the Progressivity of Social Security?" by Norma B. Coe, Zhenya Karamcheva, Richard Kopcke, and Alicia H. Munnell
The brief's key findings are:
- Low earners receive much more in Social Security benefits than they pay in Social Security taxes, reflecting the program's progressive design.
- The interaction between Social Security provisions and income taxes has little net effect on the program's progressivity:
- the exemption of employers' Social Security contributions from workers' income taxes makes the system less progressive, but
- the income taxation of retirees' Social Security benefits makes the system more progressive.
- Over time, the income tax effects will add to progressivity because an increasing percentage of retirees will pay taxes on their benefits.
The brief is available here.Read more!