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Monday, April 16, 2018
Much life on earth evolved elsewhere
I have always thought that the theory of evolution provided a poor fit to what we see of life on earth. That the whole universe was involved fits a lot better
The evolution of life on Earth was spurred on by the bombardment from space of comets carrying viral genes and frozen eggs of complete species such as the octopus, a new multi-author paper has claimed.
Published in Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, the paper looks at decades of research into cosmic biology.
It coincides with another peer-reviewed article by Russian scientists that found cosmic dust taken in swabs from the outside of the international space station contained DNA sequences typical of many terrestrial and ocean bacteria on Earth. The race is on to find out how it got there and was able to survive.
Lead authored by Australian molecular immunologist and evolutionist Edward J Steele, the international paper, Cause of the Cambrian Explosion — Terrestrial or Cosmic?, brings the pioneering work of Hoyle and Wickramasinghe on cosmic evolution firmly into the biomedical literature.
The Cambrian explosion is considered the most important evolutionary event in the history of life on Earth. Biology's "big bang", it happened 541 million years ago and is when most of the major groups of animals appear suddenly in the fossil record.
Professor Steele's findings challenge the conventional view that evolution of life on Earth was wholly terrestrial. The bottom line, says the new paper, is "current evidence suggests we came from space, we are made of viral genes, and eventually our evolutionary legacy would in full measure return to space".
The co-authors said: "In our considered opinion in confronting the wide range of scientific data, all the scientific and societal evidence seemingly points in one direction, an all-pervasive cosmic biology, mediated mainly by cometary transfers, being a driver for life on Earth. We believe the signs of this change are now so apparent that one of the biggest backflips in the history of science is now on our doorstep."
The paper's findings are so controversial some reviewers refused to consider it and called for publication to be withheld, journal editor Denis Noble said.
But he said when journals received way-out, speculative articles, they carried a heavy responsibility. "The first is to judge whether the theories proposed are empirical and testable," he said, suggesting one day this would be possible.
He believed science was advanced by critical review of controversial theories. "There really is no agreed theory on how life arose on Earth. We simply don't know. All theories therefore are currently 'way-out'."
Two reviewers were not convinced. Keith Baverstock of the Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences University of Eastern Finland, said the authors had put forward much evidence that would support an extraterrestrial origin of life, but not definitive evidence — evidence that could not be explained in any other terms.
Karin Moelling of the Max Planck Institute Berlin and Institute of Medical Microbiology, Zurich, said the article was worth thinking about, "yet the main statement about viruses, microbes and even animals coming to us from space, cannot be taken seriously," she said.
Why the US Must Befriend Hungary's Populist Leader
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban won a convincing majority in Sunday's parliamentary election. Even the day before the election, The Guardian was all too pleased to showcase the left's apoplexy by running the headline "Hungary's war on democracy is a war on democracy everywhere."
This has it exactly backward, of course. Liberals may have a thousand reasons not to like Orban, but their beef is with the Hungarian electorate, which keeps re-electing him democratically by ever-increasing numbers.
If global managerial elites believe the typical Hungarian voter cannot be trusted with his own fate, they should at least be up front about it.
Orban has delivered Hungarians economic growth the likes of which have not been seen in Western Europe in generations (4 percent growth last year and 3 percent in 2016). He's also stood up to the unelected and distant European Union bureaucrats in Brussels, rejecting their demands that Hungary take in more immigrants.
And notably, Orban has led a campaign against the Hungarian-born American billionaire George Soros, who funds far-left causes around the world.
Hungarians on Sunday responded to this policy mix by giving Orban not just a third term in office, but a supermajority in parliament that he can use to ram through real constitutional changes. Orban's Fidesz party won 49 percent of the vote—the nearest competitor was the far-right Jobbik, which won 20 percent.
Leftist critics have been left to grumble that the results were unfair because Orban has squeezed the opposition, but as former Margaret Thatcher aide John O'Sullivan explained on Monday, this doesn't hold water:
It simply cannot be explained away as the result of gerrymandering, since a 49 percent share of the total vote would mean a landslide in seats under almost any multi-party electoral system. Nor can it be attributed to the right's dominance of the media, which was anyway exaggerated—there were newspapers, magazines, television stations, websites, and hoardings putting across the slogans and arguments of both left and right opposition parties.
Orban is not perfect—not many politicians are, in any part of the world. We keep hearing reports that, for example, he uses corrupt and crony practices with businesses not only to distort the economy, but to expand influence and retain power.
However, the best way for the Trump administration to cultivate Orban's potential and mitigate his downsides is by finally jettisoning the Obama-era policy of keeping him at arm's length diplomatically.
This policy was championed by President Barack Obama's last assistant secretary of state for Europe, Victoria Nuland.
Under Trump's first secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, U.S. diplomacy began to move away from this aspect of Nulandism. We hope that current CIA Director Mike Pompeo, nominated by President Donald Trump to replace Tillerson, and the new national security adviser, John Bolton, will accelerate the process while retaining Nuland's more forthright and no-nonsense approach to the Kremlin.
Only allies can speak as friends, and only friends can advise Orban, for example, not to interfere with the already-beleaguered government of Ukraine, as it did last year when Ukraine passed a language law that Budapest opposed.
Ditto for Orban's "Stop Soros" bill. On Monday, fresh from its landslide victory, the newly elected government said it now had a mandate to pass it. The bill would require nongovernment organizations that work on migration issues to register with the government, and would empower the government to ban NGOs that pose a "national security risk."
The Orban government is hardly alone in trying to stop Soros from destabilizing his society.
Soros uses his Open Society Foundations and his billions to undermine governments and societies around the world, in an attempt to weaken conservative values regarding the family, the church, and the nation-state. Just a few months ago, Ireland declared illegal Soros' donation of 137,000 euros to the pro-abortion side in that country's current, hard-fought referendum to legalize the practice.
So we wish Orban well in shoring up Hungary's government institutions and civil society.
But a U.S. government that Orban perceives as a friend can also quietly counsel the prime minister against any attempt to use the law for a generalized crackdown against opposition forces and NGOs—lest Hungary really become what its critics charge it already is but isn't. Becoming a Singapore-style democracy in name only—or worse yet, a Putin-style one—with a titular opposition is not the way of the future.
Orban's government, like those of some of Hungary's neighbors, especially Poland, have become anathema to the elites both here and in Europe because of their opposition to taking in large numbers of immigrants.
The redrawing of maps and ethnic cleansings that accompanied the two great wars of the 20th century left both Hungary and Poland almost ethnically homogenous. Their attempts to remain ethnically pure are no answer for France, Germany, and the United Kingdom—and much less for the U.S.
Having said that, it may be Orban's very own European values that ultimately lead to a solution for ethnically diverse nations that want to heal their internal ethnic rifts.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki recalled that a former French president once said to Poland's leaders, "You have values, we have funds." Morawiecki added, "Well, I would love to help the West with proper values."
The Western duty to be tolerant of others boils down to Matthew 22:39: "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." But if you don't love yourself—your own society—you cannot love others.
By constantly reminding their neighbors not to be embarrassed of Europe's history—on the contrary, to stand up for Western values—Budapest, and also Warsaw, are pointing the way toward being truly inclusive by offering immigrants and their children a value system to which they can adhere.
For all these reasons above, the good, the bad, and the ugly, the pragmatic course of action will be for America to work with Orban, as he will be in charge for the foreseeable future.
'New Yorker' Columnist: Chick-Fil-A Is Evil And Must Be Banned From Our Holy City
On Friday, The New Yorker honed in on a serious threat to the lives of all New Yorkers: the arrival of Chick-Fil-A in their homey little corner of the universe. In a 1400-word diatribe titled "Chick-Fil-A's Creepy Infiltration of New York City," one Dan Piepenring wrote that New Yorkers should not accept the intrusion of a popular restaurant serving chicken because the owner happens to be a religious Christian. "The air smelled fried," Piepenring wrote, ominously. "New York has taken to Chick-fil-A…And yet the brand's arrival here feels like an infiltration, in no small part because of its pervasive Christian traditionalism." What signs are there of this incipient theocracy? Its Atlanta corporate headquarters – not its New York store or any of its other stores – has Bible verses and a statue of Jesus, and its stores close on Sundays. That's it.
But the mere whiff of Jesus means that New York must cast out Chick-fil-A like a leper, and that those who refuse to do so have succumbed to the blasphemous entreaties of the Midianites. "When a location opened in a Queens mall, in 2016, Mayor Bill de Blasio proposed a boycott. No such controversy greeted the opening of this newest outpost. Chick-fil-A's success here is a marketing coup. Its expansion raises questions about what we expect from our fast food, and to what extent a corporation can join a community," Piepenring rants.
And insultingly, Chick-fil-A seeks to build community, using the word in its marketing, he complains. "This emphasis on community, especially in the misguided nod to 9/11, suggests an ulterior motive. The restaurant's corporate purpose still begins with the words 'to glorify God,' and that proselytism thrums below the surface of the Fulton Street restaurant, which has the ersatz homespun ambiance of a megachurch."
Are workers forced to sing hymns as they work? Are they required to worship while they work? Not at all. No, the problem is that Chick-fil-A's VP of restaurant experience told BuzzFeed that they want their employees to be efficient but "feel like you just got hugged in the process."
The horror!
But the real gods of Chick-fil-A are – no joke – "The Cows." According to Piepenring:
It's impossible to overstate the role of the Cows—in official communiqués, they always take a capital "C"—who are displayed in framed portraits throughout the Fulton Street location. If the restaurant is a megachurch, the Cows are its ultimate evangelists. Since their introduction in the mid-nineties—when they began advising Atlanta motorists to "eat mor chikin"—they've remained one of the most popular, and most morbid, advertising campaigns in fast-food history, crucial to Chick-fil-A's corporate culture. S. Truett Cathy, the chain's founder and Dan Cathy's late father, saw them as a tool to spread the gospel of chicken…It's worth asking why Americans fell in love with an ad in which one farm animal begs us to kill another in its place.
Um, because it's kind of funny, and acknowledges a basic truth? And because every company in America has some sort of slogan or marketing gimmick? Will Piepenring next go after the Hamburgler or Ronald MacDonald, or the lady from the Progressive commercials?
But no, it's more sinister:
Most restaurants take pains to distance themselves from the brutalities of the slaughterhouse; Chick-fil-A invites us to go along with the Cows' Schadenfreude. In the portraits at the Fulton Street restaurant, the Cows visit various New York landmarks. They're in Central Park, where "eat mor chikin" has been mowed into the lawn. They're glimpsing the Manhattan Bridge from Dumbo, where they've modified a stop sign: "stop eatin burgrz." They're on the subway, where the advertisements . . . you get the picture. The joke is that the Cows are out of place in New York—a winking acknowledgment that Chick-fil-A, too, does not quite belong here.
Yes, it doesn't belong here because New York restaurants ought not be chain restaurants, either. The dirty sidewalk shops must never bear a corporate brand, serve fast food, or be cleaned regularly by staff:
No matter how well such restaurants integrate into the "community," they still venerate a deadening uniformity. Homogeneous food is comfort food, and chains know that their primary appeal is palliative. With ad after ad, and storefront after storefront, they have the resources to show that they've always been here for us, and recent trends indicate that we prefer them over anything new or untested.
But what of the fact that Chick-fil-A donates literally tons of food to the New York Common Pantry and employs hundreds of people? That's just because they're trying to cover for their evil capitalism:
The more fatalistic will add that hypocrisy is baked, or fried, into every consumer experience—that unbridled corporate power makes it impossible to bring your wallet in line with your morals. Still, there's something especially distasteful about Chick-fil-A, which has sought to portray itself as better than other fast food: cleaner, gentler, and more ethical, with its poultry slightly healthier than the mystery meat of burgers. Its politics, its décor, and its commercial-evangelical messaging are inflected with this suburban piety.
Want to know why Trump won? Because not only will he eat Chick-fil-A, but because he doesn't scorn companies just because their owners happen to believe the crazy Biblical notions that undergird Western civilization.
Australia: 'The thought police have gone way too far this time': Critics slam proposed law that could allow children to identify as 'intersex' and 'non-binary' on birth certificates
Including the gender of a baby boy or girl on a birth certificate could become a thing of the past under a proposed law.
The Queensland government is discussing a law which will mean babies can be identified as 'intersex' or 'non-binary' on official documents, The Courier Mail reported.
The proposal has been fuelled by gender diversity conversations which could see the terms includes on documents in the sunshine state.
A paper commissioned by Attorney-General Yvette D'Ath outlined the changes could 'allow individuals to self-identify their sex or gender when registering a life event'.
'There are many people in the LGBTI community who feel current laws don't adequately reflect or capture the true fabric of all Queensland families,' Ms D'Ath told the publication.
However, Opposition Leader Deb Frecklington said the sunshine state cares about schools, jobs and hospitals, not the words on a birth certificate. 'These are official government records, you can only be born male or female,' she said. 'The thought police have gone way too far this time.'
In November last year a German court ruled parents could register their new borns as a third gender making it the first European country to do so.
Intersex people, who have a mix of male and female characteristics, make up less than two per cent of the world's population, BBC News reported.
Currently on Australian birth certificates, in some states, non-specific genders are included for the parents, where the labels mother and father can be referred to as 'parent one' and 'parent two'.
Political correctness is most pervasive in universities and colleges but I rarely report the incidents concerned here as I have a separate blog for educational matters.
American "liberals" often deny being Leftists and say that they are very different from the Communist rulers of other countries. The only real difference, however, is how much power they have. In America, their power is limited by democracy. To see what they WOULD be like with more power, look at where they ARE already very powerful: in America's educational system -- particularly in the universities and colleges. They show there the same respect for free-speech and political diversity that Stalin did: None. So look to the colleges to see what the whole country would be like if "liberals" had their way. It would be a dictatorship.
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All marketers want to help grow their company's customer opportunities through email lead generation, right? After all, email is one of the most powerful forms of sales and marketing. While there are endless ways to attempt to generate new leads and potential customers and clients for a company, not all of them work as efficiently as others.
Effective lead generation starts with your lead capture form. You simply can't get many new opt-ins if your lead capture form doesn't work, or if it isn't optimized for lead generation.
So let's talk about lead capture forms the right way, and how you and your marketing team can increase lead generation for your company.
First of all, you need to create opportunities for email lead generation all over your company's website. Back in the day, you'd see a simple email opt-in box in the sidebar or footer of a website, and businesses would call it a day. In this digital age, where every business is competing for attention, opportunity, and business online, that's not going to be enough.
Your content marketing game needs to be in full swing to bring in new leads, and your company's website needs to have multiple offers and multiple areas for customers to sign up for your email list.
Here are a few ways to create lead capture form opportunities for your customers to increase lead generation without being obnoxious (i.e., no flashing colors or sirens blaring at your website visitors to get their attention).
1. Create a splash page.
A splash page is a page that is shown to website viewers before they're able to access any of the main website content. These are especially effective when your business is launching something big or doing a rebrand. You don't want to utilize this option all of the time, because it can be annoying for website visitors who are coming to your site for something specific.
While you will see this used on some websites year-round as their lead generation tactic, a better way to leverage splash pages is to use them on occasion instead of continuously. A big product or service launch or rebrand is a great time to utilize a splash page, offer something big (free trial, product sample, etc.), and let both current and potential customers know what's coming.
2. Place a pop-up on your website.
You may be thinking that a pop-up is a lead killer. But many people understand that regardless of how everyone feels about them, they do work. Pop-ups grab attention and generate conversions.
There are several different ways that your company can place a pop-up on its website that vary on the "in-your-face" scale, from immediately after landing on a website to an exit-intent pop-up. Here are a few options from which your marketing team can choose.
- Timed Pop-ups
You can create a timed pop-up that appears anywhere from three seconds after someone lands on your website to a few minutes if you so choose. These are most often used to immediately appear shortly after a new website visitor has navigated to a site.
These are certainly one of the most in-your-face types of pop-ups, as they tend to be pretty sudden, but they're a great way to provide website visitors with a bit more information, or a valuable offer (whether it's a discount or a lead magnet) to reel them in before they even start looking around at the rest of your website content.
- Scroll Pop-ups
You can set a pop-up to appear after a user scrolls down the screen a certain amount. You can have it appear after a slight scroll, halfway down the page, or at the bottom of the page, with each pop-up getting less and less intrusive. Obviously, if someone has scrolled all the way down to the bottom of your website, they're interested, and presenting them with a pop-up with more information could very well be a welcomed next step.
- Exit Intent Pop-ups
This is a fun an strategic use of the pop-up. When someone scrolls off of your website in the direction of their exit button, it triggers a pop-up to appear. Your company can take advantage of this and create an engaging way to try to get people to stay on your website.
By using language like "Wait, don't go!" or "If you didn't see what you're looking for, you must not have seen this," you can capture a website visitor's attention with information they may not have previously found, potentially getting a new lead who was just about to leave your site.
3. Add a sticky bar to the top of your website.
There are several apps and tools that will allow you to do this, but creating a sticky bar at the top of your website for the purpose of collecting emails and lead information can be incredibly effective. This is one of the first things website visitors will see, and if you have a catchy and engaging offer, you're sure to see a huge uptick in leads.
Because this is a skinny bar at the top of your website, many of these ask only for an email address, or a name and email tops. This means you want your sticky bar offer to be incredibly top of the funnel so that you don't miss out on any marketing data that are necessary to close a sale with a lead toward the bottom of your funnel.
4. Offer content upgrades within your blog content.
When you're creating content for your blog, why not kick things up a notch? Take some of the content that you were planning to offer completely for free on your blog, and instead lock it behind an email opt-in.
You'll still create some content for your blog post, but then you can create a worksheet, cheat sheet, checklist, etc., that goes alongside your blog post, or perhaps offers even more valuable information, and require an email address in exchange for accessing the content upgrade.
This is a very powerful way to utilize your company's blog for lead generation, but it requires a lot of effort put into your content marketing strategy. However, it certainly can pay off, especially for industries that are information-based.
5. Create a dedicated landing page.
You can also create a completely separate page from anything on your website to send potential leads directly to your offer. There are several different types of software that will help your marketing team to create a dedicated landing page that showcases photos/graphics, copy selling your offer, testimonials, and more.
These landing pages are highly effective for lead generation social ads because they're hyper-targeted. Instead of finding people who are interested in your business or your website overall, you're able to send people directly to your specific current offer. No one has to scroll around on your site or wait for a pop-up to appear. Instead, they're directed straight to a landing page that is giving them all of the information they need.
Then, they're able to fill out an opt-in form and gain access directly to what they came to the landing page to see. You can then create a redirection after they hit the submit button to your website or to a different offer.
6. Add a call-to-action button on your homepage slider.
Most websites with a modern website design have some type of homepage slider, whether it's a carousel of images, an animation, or some other design that draws attention as soon as someone lands on a website. Take advantage of this space by adding a call to action or a sign-up form directly on your slider.
Your call-to-action button can lead to a pop-up that takes lead information, a product or services page, or a contact page with a contact form. You can also switch up your homepage slider, or just its call-to-action button, regularly so that users are always greeted with something new to do or see on your company's website.
7. Create a scroll box on your website.
It's pretty obvious where the scroll box gets its name. A scroll box is a box that scrolls up on the side of the website as a website visitor scrolls down the page. This is very similar to the strategy of a pop-up except it's much less intrusive as it scrolls up from the corner of your site and doesn't cover much/any content.
If you just hate the idea of placing a pop-up on your website, this can be a close second in effectiveness. As it scrolls up into place, it grabs user attention and entices them to sign up for your offer with their email address. This can certainly be a great way to increase lead generation on your website without being too intrusive for your customers and website visitors.
Looking for new ways to improve email lead generation for your company? These seven strategies are perfect ways to increase the number of leads and customer opportunities that are being generated by your company's website. Start by implementing one, two, or all seven.
Once those inbound leads are increasing in number, there's one more step you can take to make those leads really pay off. Learn how to enrich inbound leads in real-time today!

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Nowadays, Jennifer Lopez is known for her amazing abs, killer legs, and big booty. But it wasn't always like that for the 48-year-old singer. In a new, tell-all interview with In Style, Lopez is dishing on the struggles with the Hollywood "body image" at the start of her career.
Growing up, Lopez tells the magazine that she was always proud of her body. But once she got to Hollywood, they were less than accepting of Lopez, who received plenty of flak for the way that she looked.
"They'd say, 'You should lose a few pounds,' or 'You should do this or do that.' It finally got to the point that I was like, 'This is who I am. I'm shaped like this.'"
Lopez went on to say that pretty much everyone who she grew up with looked similar to her (body-wise) and that she saw them all as "beautiful." In fact, the mother of two still says she sees nothing wrong with her curvy body at the start of her career. When she was a kid, Lopez dishes that everyone that she saw on TV and in movies wore a size zero. But, her mother instilled it in her that she was beautiful just the way she was.
Today, many people credit Lopez with paving the way for curvy women, like Kim Kardashian, and for being such a positive role model when it comes to body image. Lopez even tells the publication that people often come up to her and thank her for opening the door for curvy women like themselves.
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"So many people have come up to me over the years—famous people, people I meet on the street, fans, everybody—and they say that very thing: 'Thank you so much. I have the same type of body. I used to think I was fat, but now I feel beautiful,'" Lopez dished.
She also added that her dad loved her mom's curvy body and now she wants to teach her daughter, Emme, the same thing — to be confident in her body. The singer notes that she has told her 10-year-old daughter to love and respect herself first and then command respect from others. With social media being the way that it is these days, Lopez just wants to teach Emme to be a good person, friend, and daughter.
Lopez also sat down with the magazine to promote her new cosmetics line, JLo Beauty. The collection is about 40 pieces including illuminator, bronzer, gloss, eye shadow, and mascara. The World of Dance star claims that the collection is a true reflection of what people know her for — her glowing skin and neutral shades.
The collection is available for purchase now on her website.


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Roaches, rotting mouse in restaurant among March food safety problems
Critters — including roaches, a rotting mouse and a cat hanging around food-preparation equipment — and a grocery store that failed to shutdown departments that had no hot water were among problems Kansas Department of Agriculture food safety inspectors found at Wichita-area businesses last month.
March proved busy for inspectors, with 44 Sedgwick County food sellers deemed out of compliance, according to inspection results posted on KDA's website. Not all businesses that had violations were considered out of compliance.
An inspector who visited Pig In Pig Out BBQ, 1003 E. 13th, on March 26 noted 14 violations, including "a live cat in (an) outside storage shed" where restaurant "equipment and cooking supplies were present." The 15 violations reported at Great Wall Chinese Restaurant at 410 N. Hillside Ste. 600, on March 25 included "one live roach on (a) sticky trap" behind some line coolers next to a floor drain.
Great Wall told the inspector that it gets pest control treatments twice a month, with the last happening on March 14. The restaurant promised to call again, an inspection report said.
It isn't clear from the inspection report what the BBQ joint did about the cat.
Savute's Italian Ristorante at 3303 N. Broadway told a inspector who found one living roach in a storage area that it also gets pest control treatments every two weeks. The inspector noted 13 violations during a March 14 survey.
Evidence of mice invading the kitchen of Quincy's Bar and Grill, 2047 N. West St., on March 18 included "what appears to be a dead and decomposing mouse" behind a water heater, hundreds of rodent droppings and "a soft-ball size hole with chew marks in the wall," according to an inspection report that noted eight violations.
Two out-of-compliance restaurants in March — Rain Cafe and Lounge at 518 E. Douglas and Fredo's wine and tapas bar at 301 N. Washington — threw out liquor bottles that had dead insects inside, their inspection reports said.
And the Save-A-Lot discount supermarket at 2404 George Washington Blvd. on March 18 agreed to close its meat and produce departments after an inspector discovered water that was too cold running out of sinks there and in the bathrooms.
Store staff told the inspector it had been operating without hot water for about three weeks.
Under the state's food safety rules, a business is supposed to "immediately discontinue operations and notify the regulatory authority" under a variety of circumstances including "extended interruption of electrical or water service" because of the health hazard risk, according to the inspection report.
The Wichita Eagle curates a database of the non-compliant inspections. You can search it using keywords like roach or mold or bedbug (or as two words, "bed bug"), by a business' name or address, or by date. Simply hit the search button if you want to see the violations at all establishments.
When is a business out of compliance?
It's common for businesses to have some violations during an inspection. The number and kind of violations discovered, though, determine whether a business appears on the non-compliant list.
A business is considered out of compliance if an inspector finds three or more priority violations — those that directly affect the prevention of food-borne illnesses — or five or more priority foundation violations — issues that could lead to problems preventing food-borne illnesses. Both types are considered critical violations, which require immediate attention.
A business is also out of compliance if it has a problem that isn't or can't be corrected immediately in front of an inspector, like a plumbing problem. Businesses found to be non-compliant are required to have follow-up inspections.
Inspectors also note what's known as core violations on their reports. Those are problems that aren't considered critical.
The frequency of inspections depends on the type of facility. Most restaurants are inspected once every 12 to 18 months. All establishments are inspected when they open as part of the licensing process and also when someone complains about conditions.
Inspections can take place at any time, and follow-up inspections take place if violations aren't corrected on site immediately.
How to complain about conditions
You can complain about a Kansas food establishment by sending an email to firstname.lastname@example.com or by calling 785-564-6767.
To file a confidential food safety complaint involving illness, call the Kansas Department of Health and Environment Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Response at 877-427-7317 or email email@example.com.
Food establishments include grocery stores, gas stations and convenience stores, senior meal sites, mobile food units, restaurants and schools. Food processors include wholesalers, warehouses, packers and manufacturers. Lodging establishments include hotels and motels, boarding houses and any other operation that charges for sleeping accommodations.
You can learn more about Kansas' lodging and food safety laws here.


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Join The Conium Review for a night of #AWP19 offsite readings from Theodora Bishop, Ashley Farmer, TJ Fuller, Simone Person, Caitlin Scarano, Rebecca Schiff, Eliza Tudor, and Christine Texeira.
Readings from 6:00 to 7:30. After the readings, authors will be selling and signing books. Plus there will be free swag from Conium Press!
Stick around for a live jazz performance from the Michael Raynor Quartet. The band starts playing at 8:00pm. Please note: the readings are free, but there is a $5 cover if you stay for the music. If you anticipate staying for the band, it's highly recommended that you make a reservation for that portion of the evening; seating for the music fills up fast!


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Cat decides to take nap on top of dog
Unlikely friendships happen all the time. As fate had pitted one another against each other, these two ignored the stereotype. Here we have an adorable cat and dog sharing a special moment. This one will unite all dog and cat lovers into one, at least for the duration of the video. Who doesn't want to join in on this adorable cuddle session with our furry friends?
The bond between this dog and cat is beyond words. These two best friends clearly love spending time with one another and their affectionate moments have been captured on camera by their human!
Now this is something that you don't see every day. What an awesome moment! Be sure to stop by https://rumble.com/ for more amazing animal moments like this one, as well to get your daily dose of cuteness!
Check out this unlikely pairing.


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In the above video Derek shares with us: how he felt when he was diagnosed with CLL and his journey since then, how he copes living with 'watch and wait' and involving family, friends and doctors, his hopes for the future and his activities that keep him busy.
Diagnosis of cancer is devastating and to be diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia can be very confusing; especially when you may have no physical signs and CLL was discovered during routine blood tests. The uncertainty involved when you are diagnosed with what is often an "unseen" and chronic (slowly developing) condition can be very hard to come to terms with.
Understanding "Watch and Wait" involved for the majority at diagnosis may be difficult, when you know other cancers may need to be managed and treated with a need for speed. CLL is slow to develop if it is going to and requires monitoring over time to see how it is likely to behave.
To start your journey this page provides an introduction and overview explanation of CLL and its management today in understandable language.
Reliable information and support can aid you to cope with diagnosis and help prepare you to be more involved in your own health care discussions with your doctor. This website we hope helps prepare you to live well with CLL, it is not a substitute for medical care, you should always consult your medical team if you have concerns about your health.
Many also find our on-line community helpful too, where members share their own experiences and discuss issues together. Our regular members meetings are also a very effective way of meeting others with CLL and learning from each other and clinical experts.
"Welcome to the Family"
A Practical Guide for Newly Diagnosed CLL Patients
and those close to them.
Written for CLLSA by Professor Chris Fegan MB, MD, FRCP, FRCPath
Consultant Haematologist School of Medicine Cardiff University September 2017
We all know that rarely do good things last forever, but our health is something we often take for granted until it is taken away. You're reading this because either you, or someone close to you, has been diagnosed as having chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, usually known as CLL. It's a devastating moment- leukaemia – cancer of the blood – a real smack between the eyes. Yes it's cancer and with that diagnosis often comes memories of family or friends lost. You've heard stories of others and their treatments, or disturbing images from the television. CLL is the commonest leukaemia but many of you will never even have heard of it until now. The important word however in CLL is not "Leukaemia" but "Chronic". Hence the stories and images on TV are almost never those of CLL patients as most of these patients are well and having a full and active life, although there are an unfortunate few, who for many reasons things do not have the outcome one would hope.
As in any family, you did not choose to become a blood member. Fate forced it upon you. But the CLL Family is made up of tens of thousands of CLL focused members. Laboratory researchers, nurses, doctors, therapists, dieticians and most importantly the over ½ million CLL patients around the world - and those close to them - all with the one goal, that of supporting patients to live fully with their illness, learn more about CLL and ultimately identify even better treatments, to enable patients to have a normal, full and active life.
If you take nothing else away from reading below just remember that CLL is an illness you can usually live well with – very often without requiring any specific treatment.
The aim of this Guide is to inform you where we are with regards to background research and knowledge, to provide you with tips of how to cope with the news that you – or someone close - has CLL and to stop it affecting your life more than absolutely necessary, if at all.
Click here to read the full Article
CLL patient/carer Information booklets written in patient friendly language to help you start your Journey
Finding out about your condition
People feel differently about how much information they want and when they want it. You may not want a lot of information at the beginning; you may want it bit by bit or you may want to have as much information as possible. It is important to let your consultant and clinical nurse specialist know how much information you want.
You can always ask for more information at any time. Even if you decide at the beginning that you do not want detailed information, it is still possible to ask more questions later on. If you have questions about your condition, it is a good idea to write them down to have them handy when you see your consultant or key worker. If they are not the best person to ask, they can tell you who you should speak to. You can find some suggestions of questions you might want to ask at the end of this booklet.
If your hospital has a clinical nurse specialist, it may be possible to arrange time with them to discuss your condition. Some patients prefer this to asking the consultant. You should decide what is right for you.
Bloodwise Booklets
Leukaemia Care Booklets availble as PDF downloads
Step by Step on Lymphocytic Leukaemia
Many diagnosed may be told they have smouldering CLL, in the video below produced by partners PatientPower world-renowned CLL expert from MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Dr. William Wierda, defines smoldering CLL including an explanation of how it is diagnosed and monitored.


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Local First Arizona networking mixers are a great way to meet fellow Local First Arizona (LFA) members and other independent business owners and a great opportunity to connect with LFA staff and hear more about the local movement in Arizona. Learn more at www.LocalFirstAZ.com!
Granite Mountain Brewing will be hosting the monthly Northern Arizona Mixer at the Brewery & Taproom on Wednesday, July 12th from 5:30-7:30p.


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As Admin, if I click on a topic page, click on "Edit Page", click on "Save Page" without editing anything, then change the URL under the field "Save the page URL based on the page name", then click "OK" ("Overwrite template" is selected by default), the URLs of every other topic page in the category is changed to the same new URL.
Is this because I accidentally chose "Overwrite template"? I now have over a hundred pages with the same URL under "Save the page URL based on the page name". So when I post a link to any of these pages in Facebook, the thumbnail and link that Facebook sees are the always to the same URL under "Save the page URL based on the page name".
This means that over a hundred pages are pointing to a single page instead of the correct page.
If I manually edit all these pages, change the URL in "Save the page URL based on the page name" to the correct URL, and save again, but choose not to overwrite the template, will this fix the problem? If I do this, I have to manually create over a hundred new Template Names.
I don't know if this is a bug or not, if it is, it is a very serious one.
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Are you keeping dry in your part of the world??? I sure hope so because it has been wet, wet, wet in my neck of the woods lately. This bout of rain will slow down any harvest that has begun. But it won't effect small time farmers like my dad. He is not like the big time farmers that need start getting off their crops now. He can wait for it to dry before he will continue on with harvest. There is not much harvest being done in the Red Deer Hill area. But south of St. Louis in the Hoey area you will see people harvesting. There are a few big time farmers in that area and they are already doing some major harvesting.
I am not against it raining. Trust me, I am not. It's just that wicked crazy amounts of rain is not good either. See wicked crazy amounts can cause problems that we can't control like floods, mudslides, and other natural disasters. If it rains enough and not an excessive amount then I fine with it. But if it wants to rain then let it rain.
I have been thinking about what to write about Hurricane Katrina because the manitude of this disaster is something I can't even imagine. It's like cities are submerged under water like New Orleans for instance. The pictures on TV, internet, newspaper, and magazines, are enough to stop a person in there tracks and take notice.
Our lives may seem a thousand times better then those who are in Louisianna, Alabama, Mississippi because we can't even fathom being in such a natural disaster. The only natural disaster that we get in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada is a snow storm or a rainstorm. But snow and rain is a regular occurance here in my neck of the woods so we know how to ready ourselves for such weather. But places like New Orleans were not ready for such a disaster. They knew it was coming but they didn't prepare for it years in advance. They were not ready which is a shame.
My heart goes out to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Just seeing those images and seeing how these people break down and cry really makes a person feel for them. Sure we may not know how they feel, but we try and comprehend in some little way what they must be going through. But in the grand scheme of things, we don't have the slightest clue as to what is going through there minds and how they must be feeling emotionally.
But watching a special Hurricane Katrina edition of Larry King Live, they had Bill Cosby asking people to donate there money towards food, shelter, clothing, and other items. You know that this has struck a chord with celebrities if they can personally send a message to the people watching. Bill Cosby said "I am begging you to please send in your money." Doesn't that send a powerful message??? A man of Bill Cosby's stature can go and beg without thinking twice. I know I would do it. I commend people who are trying to make a difference in this whole situation.
Doesn't it make you feel helpless knowing that you can't be down there helping in some way no matter. I know that some of would help if you had the chance. It would be a life changing experience that's for sure. But it's totally understandable if you got caught up in all the drama so to speak. But it still, for me anyways, would be a life changing experience.
I know that the hand of God is on them and is helping them get through all of this.
Psalm 139:10
10 even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
I know that God will guide them along and show them what they need to do. They will take it one step at a time in this rebuilding process. The hand of God will be signal that he is right there by their side and helping them get through this lowest of low times.
Psalm 31:3
3 Since you are my rock and my fortress,
for the sake of your name lead and guide me.
They know that God is there strength in a time when they are so fragile and weak in an emoitional and even physical sense. God will guide them to a place of rest during this trying time.
Psalm 48:14
14 For this God is our God for ever and ever;
he will be our guide even to the end.
God will guide them to the end. God will guide them to where they are to go. They know that God is there through the good and the bad times. But this will certainly put their faith to the test. I have faith that they will in time pull through.
Now, if you would like to make a donation then I suggest you check out one of the following sites.
Red Cross Canada
American Red Cross
Red Cross has been their in times like these. I encourage you to make a donation to this orginization who has done so much for so many over the years.
Facts At A Glance
The facts on the American Red Cross website are startling. You don't truly know how much the Red Cross does until you see you the facts for yourself. Even then you don't can't comprehend what it's like to do what the Red Cross does.
Salvation Army In Canada
Salvation Army USA
Another worthwhile organization to donate money and goods to. They also do so much good at home and abroad. They need you to donate money and goods. They will send it the disaster torn areas of the southern United States. But they can't do it without you.
Mennonite Disaster Service
Here is another organization for you to donate to. They are another worthwhile organization to donate to. But they also need your help in the way of money and goods.
America's Second Harvest
America's Second Harvest is the nation's largest hunger-relief, distributing surplus food to more 23 million hungry American's each year.
That is startling number of people who go hungry each year. But now in this time of disaster, Second Harvest needs your help even more. Every dollar raised brings 15 meals to the table or every raised will help distrubt nearly 4 bags of food. But now more then ever, Second Harvest needs your help.
Which ever organization you choose, please donate as money and goods are always needed.
I pray that the disaster torn areas of the United States will pull through this in time.
Now on a less depressing note, there was a potluck at church today. It was to kick off the fall season of Sunday school. It was a good time of food, fun, and fellowship, like it always is.
People really seemed to like Matt's cheesecake. It looked really good too. But I HATE banana's!!!! I really stress the word hate. Maybe hate is too strong of a word. I should have said dislike. In any event, it still won't change the fact that I still don't care for banana's. He brought it out near the end and put what looked to be a caramel sauce ontop. That made it look that much better. But as I said, I HATE banana's.
Anyways, Sunday school starts up next week at 11:00 AM after the service. If you are not sure what classes are availiable then don't hesistate to ask around. I do know there is one for the youth. So I will be expecting to see all of the youth up there. If not then who knows what will happen. All I know is that you will not like it.
Don't forget that Tuesday is the Rockin' Drop In. It is one Tuesday of course. As if you couldn't read. Anyways, we will be playing songs that one of us will pick. I picked the last bunch and maybe Marky Mark or Steve can pick this time. I ENCOURAGE the youth to come even if you don't have an instrument. I strongly stress encourage. If you do have an instrument then bring it and play. Don't be like Marcus and complain about this song being too hard after complaining about not playing music. I don't want any defeatest attitudes. If Marky Mark can sing when he normally doesn't then you can play an instrument.
If you do decide to come then bring some supper. Steve and the youths eat supper after rocking out. Rocking out is hard work and works up an apetite. That is why so many 80's rockers are thin. It's because rocking up gives you a work out. All that bouncing around and jumping on stage.
Event: Rockin' Drop In
Where: Gateway Covenant Church
When: Tuesdays from 3:30-5:30
Bring: Yourself, an instrument, and supper
As always I ENCOURAGE you to leave comment in the comment box. Also leave a comment in the guestbook or shout on the tag board.
Keep on rockin' in the free world.
Remember to learn it, use it, and never forget it!


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That time when I photographed a newly minted engaged couple!
I can't tell you how many times I read of photographers catching a surprise engagement just because they were at the right place at the right time! Things like that never ever ever happened to me!
Until it did!
While I was at the Blithewold Mansion assisting a photographer with another another wedding, I happened to be THAT photographer who was there at the right time and place. I was walking through the Rose Gardens when I heard a squeal of pure joy and I looked up to see a couple embrace. The young lady was flush and breathless with the widest smile on her face while the man beside her was also smiling, in a relieved sort of way - as if he just passed a really huge test.
There it was - a surprise engagement and I was there! with my camera. I should have dropped everything that very second and run to play the lottery because when next would my luck be this good?!
Here's Alan and Jasmine - after he asked, and she said "Yes!"


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August 29, 2013
Brit Parliament Rejects Syrian Strikes
British Prime Minister David Cameron has lost a vote endorsing military action against Syria by 13 votes, a stunning defeat for a government which had seemed days away from joining the U.S. in possible attacks to punish Bashar Assads regime over an alleged chemical weapons attack.US Constitution Art I, sec. 8:
The Congress shall have Power To ... declare WarRemember when Bush went to war in Iraq? Yeah, he went to Congress first.


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This week I had the absolute pleasure to produce the 50th Anniversary event for The North Face brand. It was a 3 day event showcasing the brand's history including it's inception, products, partnerships and events. We also hosted a film screening each night with an intimate group of the brand's biggest supporters which felt more like a big house party each night - the crowd were all so friendly and welcoming, it certainly didn't feel like I was working!
Massive thanks to the team at The North Face for getting me on board and allowing me to celebrate with them (special mention goes to Mark Watson for recommending me!) and the team working hard alongside me including Anne Robinson for being my partner in crime in the early stages, DJ Warehouse for doing a stellar job with all the creative AV, and Rockwall for putting on a spectacular feast each night.
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As reported in the last released research note by Janus Capital Markets, there are a sort of fashion retailers reaching to the old trick of discounts to clear up their inventories. Gap was running an extra 50% off women's markdowns,while Ann Taylor already reduced styles were an extra 50% off, and at Talbots sale items were an extra 30% off.
October is typically a clearance and markdown-driven month as retailers clear through excess early-fall inventory in preparation for pre-holiday selling, point out from Janney Capital Markets. Clearance inventory generally looks appropriate and relatively clean for this time of the season. As published by Barron's, "without another major "event" to drive sales until Black Friday, we believe that retailers will have to continue to aggressively promote to drive sales. Thus far in October, including the Columbus Day weekend, our reads are that business has softened materially from September."
The analysts from the capital market research firm Janus Capital Markets shared and highlighted their concerns about clothing retailers. Following are some highlights from its report:
Gap is clearing out its inventory in advance of the holiday season, marking down clothes by 50% in some cases. Strategy of growing international and online sales continues, with new stores opening in China, Poland and Russia in recent months. The company's bet on strong sales in this area comes against the backdrop of consistently weak sales overseas for the past year. "Now that cotton prices are lower, that will bode well for the company. Management knows full well the extent of the company's malaise," conclude analysts from Trefis. As CFO Sabrina Williams said at the annual investor meeting in mid-October, "Management is disappointed in our 2011 financial performance." Glenn K. Murphy, chairman and CEO, also admitted at that meeting that he "allowed the cotton crisis to become a distraction inside the business. That's my fault."
Talbots is also clearing out its inventory, with discounts of up to 30%. As reported at Financial News Network, Talbots has potential upside of 15.8% based on a current price of $2.51 and analysts' consensus price target of $2.91. The stock should find initial resistance at its 50-day moving average (MA) of $2.73 and further resistance at its 200-day MA of $4.30. In the past 52 weeks, shares of Talbots have traded between a low of $2.25 and a high of $11.84 and are now at $2.51, which is 12% above that low price.
Abercrombie & Fitch's inventory levels are rather low in advance of the holiday season, suggesting that October sales at stores open for more than a year will be low as compared to prior years. The analysts also speculate that Abercrombie & Fitch has been successful in taking market share from Aerpostale and American Eagle Outfitters. "Abercrombie's inventory levels domestically looked excessively clean and this may impact their ability to drive comparable-store sales during October. Over the weekend, we noted exceptionally clean levels of inventory across all Abercrombie concepts with stockouts in many styles and sizes. The light inventory was particularly noticeable at the Kids and Adult divisions, and even the Hollister division looked very light on both full price and clearance inventory levels.We believe this could impact the company's ability to comp strongly domestically, but that margins should be improved," advanced from Janney Capital Markets


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Here are a few examples of some of the work we've been able to do.
Lakeland, Florida
According to the homeowner, this Crape Myrtle had literally never been trimmed before Tree Tune-ups got to it. Many people would have just cut the top of the tree completely off, in a practice we call "Crape Murder," but our team has been trained in the proper care of Crape Myrtles, and was able to do justice to this beautiful tree, as well as several others in the yard.
Lakeland, FLorida
As you can see, this beautiful old oak tree once was touching the roof of this home until we lifted it, sculpted it, and removed the dead wood from it. We also cleared away some smaller trees that were growing from the ground and rubbing the side of the home. As a result, the large oak tree will live a longer, healthier life, and the roof and sides of the home will last longer as well.
Auburndale, FLorida
Unfortunately, sometimes trees need to be removed. Typically a tree is removed when it is either dead, too sick, or too dangerous to remain where it is. Sick and dead trees can be very dangerous to people and property near them. They can fall or drop pieces of themselves onto things around them, and for this reason it is best to remove a dead tree, or a tree that is too sick to recover.


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Past Event
Transnational Summer Book Club
The Beekeeper
Discussing The Beekeeper by Dunya Mikhail, translated by Max Weiss.
Our Transnational Summer Book Club will discuss a book that explores themes of migration, displacement, and exile. To contact our moderator, email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Since 2014, Daesh (ISIS) has been brutalizing the Yazidi people of northern Iraq: sowing destruction, killing those who won't convert to Islam, and enslaving young girls and women.
The Beekeeper, by the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail, tells the harrowing stories of several women who managed to escape the clutches of Daesh. Mikhail extensively interviews these women–who've lost their families and loved ones, who've been sexually abused, psychologically tortured, and forced to manufacture chemical weapons–and as their tales unfold, an unlikely hero emerges: a beekeeper, who uses his knowledge of the local terrain, along with a wide network of transporters, helpers, and former cigarette smugglers, to bring these women, one by one, through the war-torn landscapes of Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, back into safety.
In the face of inhuman suffering, this powerful work of nonfiction offers a counterpoint to Daesh's genocidal extremism: hope, as ordinary people risk their own lives to save those of others.


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AeroFlow Aerial Yoga
Aerial Yoga is a fairly new practice that modifies traditional yoga poses using the aerial hammock apparatus to encourage deeper stretching, lengthening and strengthening. The aerial hammock/swing is suspended from the ceiling, allowing gravity to assist in playful, creative and fluid movement without compressing the joints or spine. While it may be beneficial to have an established yoga practice before participating, there is no experience necessary to join. Our professionally trained instructors will lead you through a safe and supported practice.
Benefits of an aerial yoga practice may include:
+ Decompression of the spine and tight joints
+ Increased core strength
+ Increased flexibility and balance
+ Improved posture and alignment
+ Stress relief
+ Deeper stretches, with less straining
+ Overall muscular strengthening
+ Increased self-esteem by conquering fears
+ Increased brain functioning by building new neural pathways through movement
+ Increased creativity, fun and exploration
+ Deeper mind-body connection
- Please arrive at least 10 minutes early to adjust your hammock height.
- Do not eat at least one hour prior to class.
- Bring a water bottle with a lid.
- Wear comfortable, form-fitting clothing that allows you to move. We request a fitted T-shirt with sleeves (covering the armpits) that will stay in place shall you go upside down and pants/capris that cover the thighs and back of the knees.
- No perfumes, lotions or jewelry please.
- We will be barefoot.
- For maximum comfort, we request a weight limit of approximately 250 lbs.
Contraindications: Please consult with a doctor if you have any of these conditions. While this is an extensive list, it may not be comprehensive:
Easy onset vertigo, Inner ear problems, Severe balance issues, Severe muscle spasm, Severe neck or back pain, Recent surgery, Osteoporosis or bone weakness, Glaucoma, Very high or low blood pressure, Propensity for fainting, Recent head trauma, Obesity, Severe arthritis, Head cold, flu or sinusitis, Hiatal hernia, Disc herniation, Pregnancy beyond the 1st trimester, Recent stroke, Radiculitis, Cebral sclerosis, Trauma, Botox within 24 hours


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How to Start a Successful At-Home Business
Starting a successful at-home business holds a vast variety of many possibilities. Not only can you enjoy more flexible working hours, but you can also finally benefit entirely from all your hard work. If you have a family, then owning and managing an at-home business can be the ideal way to make money and spend more time with them. Whatever your lifestyle, a successful at home business can help improve it. That being said, it is not easy to switch from the 9-to-5 to an at-home working environment. If you want to succeed, you will need to be disciplined and smart. If you don't know where to start, don't worry. You can follow this guide to help you start your new life as an entrepreneur.
Create a Productive Space to Work In
The first step to working at home is, of course, to set aside a space to work in. What you should never do when being an at-home entrepreneur is to work in your bed or elsewhere that is reserved for relaxing. Doing so will only make it difficult to get a good night's rest at the end of the day. Instead, build yourself an office or designate a particular area for working. To spice things up, head out to a café to get some work done there.
Start an Online Shop
Working from home means starting an online business. You can do this by freelancing your talents or by starting an online store. Freelancing requires a lot more time and dedication in terms of building up a client list and your reputation, so it can be wise to start an online shop instead. Online stores can be managed part-time initially, so you can still stay financially stable with your full-time job and avoid the stress and pressure. To truly reduce the upstart financial costs and to get right into managing your own business, try dropshipping with Shopify. You can manage a store within a niche and allow the manufacturer to handle the inventory and even shipping. This reduces the amount of work you need to take on and can maximize your success sooner.
Manage Social Media and Marketing
Social media has allowed everyone to become an influencer, and when you are managing an at-home business, you need to take full advantage of it. Start social media accounts and build a community. It doesn't matter if the community is small, only that it engages and is interested in you. A few repeat customers are more valuable than sales bought through a PPC campaign.
Collaborate for Greater Reach
To further boost your visibility you can use advertising schemes and PPC marketing, yes, but if you want to gain greater engagement you should try to partner with others in your niche. Collaborating is a great way to do business and boost users' trust in you at the same time.
Starting a successful at-home business is not easy. You need to master your routine and take on several roles at once in order to succeed. If that is your drive and your dream, then you owe it to yourself to at least try. The best part about e-commerce stores is that you can start it part-time, so there is little risk involved.


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Though social media is a great way to connect with friends and loved ones, it can also be disheartening. Negative news, sad stories, and opinionated rants can seem to stretch on forever. And even good news can be overwhelming when we don't feel particularly good about ourselves or our own lives.
But it doesn't have to be that way. Here are a few things you can do now to have a more uplifting social media experience.
1. Start with you.
If you want to have a good social media experience, an obvious place to start is on your own page and with your own posts and comments. Are you creating the kind of experience for others that you'd like to have for yourself?
Post things that inspire and uplift. Avoid commenting on posts that upset or anger you. If you can't say something nice, it's best not to say anything at all.
2. Look for the good.
Then, take some time to review the pages and platforms you currently follow. Unfollow pages that discourage or depress you, and stay away from topics that make you angry. If scrolling the comments section on a friend's opinionated post upsets you, don't do it!
Next, seek out uplifting content. Like or follow pages that inspire and energize you. You'll find that a few clicks can dramatically change the look and feel of your newsfeed.
3. Scroll less. Connect more.
How you use social media matters. Scrolling through an endless stream of everyone else's engagements, promotions, and vacations can be discouraging.
Instead, try to connect in meaningful ways with friends and family online. Brighten someone's day by sending them a funny video, or reconnect with an old friend by sending them a personal message.
As you consider your current social media experience and look for more ways to get uplifted, remember Paul's admonition to the Philippians:
"Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things" (Philippians 4:8).
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Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit for Somalia (FSNAU) - Phase VII
Tags: SOMALIA, EASTERN AFRICA, DROUGHT IN THE HORN OF AFRICA, FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY, FOOD SECURITY ASSESSMENT, DATA COLLECTION, CAPACITY BUILDING, NEEDS ASSESSMENT, TRAINING, FOOD SECURITY MONITORING, RESOURCE PARTNERS, UNITED STATES,
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Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit for Somalia (FSNAU) - Phase VII
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A broad range of stakeholders and Somali institutions have access and contribute to timely and relevant gender-disaggregated data and information on the food-, nutrition-, and livelihood security situation of the Somali population for improved emergency and longer-term responses, thereby ensuring that communities, agencies and authorities in Somalia, as well as the international aid community are empowered to respond.
Key partners:
Government ministries and institutions, Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET), local authorities, local and international NGOs and United Nations agencies.
Beneficiaries reached:
Government, United Nations and NGO stakeholders.
Activities implemented:
- Conducted two countrywide seasonal food security assessments (post-gu and post-deyr) and 55 nutrition surveys across Somalia.
- Collected weekly market data from 71 urban and rural markets, analysed and reported through FSNAU's monthly market updates.
- Compiled rainfall and vegetation cover data from weather stations and remote sensing satellite imagery, analysed and reported through FSNAU's monthly climate updates.
- Published and disseminated 47 publications to a broad range of users.
- Carried out three institutional capacity needs assessments to inform the development of FSNAU capacity development plans for key institutions of the governments of Somaliland, Puntland and the Federal Republic of Somalia.
- Established two coordination units and two sub-units to facilitate the institutionalization of government food security and nutrition assessment, analysis and coordination capacity.
- Provided trainings in food, nutrition and livelihood security assessments, monitoring, analysis and reporting to 51 staff from government institutions.
- Delivered food security and nutrition assessment-related training to 61 government focal persons and 627 staff drawn from government line ministries and institutions, local authorities, local and international NGOs, UN agencies and hired enumerators.
- Trained 70 government and partner staff jointly with FEWS NET on food security monitoring and scenario development.
- Enhanced the availability of and access to timely and quality information relating to the prevailing and protracted food security and nutrition situation and early warning of potential food crises in Somalia.
- Enabled the food security coordination units to lead regular multisectoral technical-level coordination meetings and produce food security and nutrition bulletins.
- Improved capacity of government and other actors to conduct food security, nutrition and livelihood assessment, monitoring, analysis and reporting.
- Continued to improve the link between early warning and early action by making updated information and data on a wide range of food security- and nutrition-related indicators accessible to users through an online early warning–early action database and dashboard.


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Project Area: 90 sq.m.
Project Year: 03/13 - 11/13
Location: Kyiv, Ukraine
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The motto of the project was making things simple: esthetic wires for self-made ceiling looked elegant on a painted light-grey concrete, two brick walls remained exposed, only polished.
Both in-built wardrobe sets occupied the whole wall therefore did not appear over-occupied and heavy in the room. Apartment significant advantage – top-to-ceiling windows on the both sides allow sun light 20 hours a day, even reaching stone-cladded bathroom cube through a glass door.


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This weekend I broke my own rules. And, I wish I could say this is one of those posts where I say how freeing it was or how I realize now that my rules were silly, but it isn't. Nope, I really wish I had followed the rules – today would have gone much more smoothly.
Perhaps I should be clearer, yes?
The rules I'm referring to are my Pre-Travel Home Prep Rules. Not yet widely recognized, but it's only a matter of time before Real Simple emails asking for an editorial piece. You, as my trusted readers will get the inside track.
I love coming home to a place where peace and serenity rule and in an ideal world I would do all of these every time we travel for more than a night. In this actual world that we live in I maybe get to about 75%, which still makes a huge difference. These aren't about setting the alarm or stopping the mail (which I also recommend); they're about making home feel welcoming and that re-entry day less stressful.
Laura's Pre-Travel Home Prep
Clean Sheets. This one is the most 'unnecessary,' but is my most favorite – in the midst of all the pre-travel laundry I try to throw in our sheets for a cycle. Because after traveling isn't it awesome to get home to your own bed? And isn't it even better when it's made up with fresh sheets? I rest my case.
Pack Neatly. Yes, the suitcase, but also the 'discards;' all those things you considered taking, but then wisely decided not to because you were packing light. Putting them away (rather than leaving them strewn around) means less chaos. Always a good thing in my book.
Weed. Not the garden, the refrigerator. Doing a little pruning of the fridge shelves and getting rid of that withering bouquet of flowers before you lock up reduces the likelihood of mysterious smells when you return.
Clear the Decks. Run the dishwasher, and take out the trash & recyclables. A sink full of dirty dishes or an overflowing garbage can don't really say "Welcome Home" do they? Doing this step sets the stage for a good morning your first day back.
So, there you have it. My tried and true Pre-Travel Home Prep steps – if the day ever comes that I manage all four I will let you know. In the meantime, how about you? I there anything you always do to make the first day back a little easier?


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I am not one to complain about things unless I can propose solutions (generally speaking.) In my last blog I did a bit of complaining so in this edition let's examine some possible mitigating ideas for the problems I brought up last time.
In my last blog I basically stated that the western nations could do little to reduce green house gas emissions and that even if we (we as the old established, stable nations) completely eliminated green house emissions that it would make virtually no difference in the long run.
So, what can we do? Well let me list a few items first.
Point 1: Melting of polar/glacial ice is reducing the albedo of the Earth (decreasing our reflectivity) because when the white snow/ice melts it is being replaced by dirt/water which absorb infrared and other energies rather than reflecting it, producing heat.
Point 2: The replacing of trees with manmade, usually dark structures is resulting in urban areas absorbing more heat
Point 3: The highest use of energy comes from air conditioning, heating, and heating of water in most homes.
Point 4: The major cause of global warming is the effect of the nearly circular orbit in this phase of the Earths 100,000 year cyclic dance with the sun resulting in the highest level of solar input to the eco-system in 100,000 years.
Point 5: Burning of fossil fuels for power generation and transportation adds millions of tons of green house gases to the environment.
Point 6: Developing third world countries and China and India have little incentive to reduce emissions.
Ok, what can be done about point 1? Well, we could paint the ground reflective white where the ice/snow has melted and construct large floating reflective surfaces in place of the missing ice, of course this would have to be done over and over again as the calving ice flows smashed down. In addition the angle that the Sun's rays strike at the poles makes this very inefficient. So, what else could we do?
Hmmm, how about a tax credit for everyone in the USA that is willing to have their dark roofs painted with reflective paint? Since the sunlight reaching the USA (for the most part) is at a more oblique angle than the polar sunlight we would get more efficient reflection. This would also reduce the internal temperature of the houses reducing the cooling loads in the summer months, perhaps something could be done with high tech coatings that, when the temperature dropped below a certain level, these coatings would absorb heat? Hmmm…this also covers some of point 2.
Alright what about point 2? Require builders to not be able to take building sites to grade over 100 percent of the site. At least in Atlanta the first thing builders do to a new subdivision is knock down all of the trees, bushes and grass and scrape away the top inches of topsoil so they can "clear to grade". Make builders have to justify every tree they remove. Give huge tax credits to "green" builders who build off the grid homes, build underground homes and homes embedded in hillsides. Make it worth their while to not knock all the vegetation to flinders when they build new homes. Penalize them heavily if they do clear to grade. Use of passive solar for water heating, solar panels, and other energy saving techniques should also give tax benefits to those who pursue them.
On point 3, use of the solutions for point 1 and 2 should handle most if not all of point 3. Use of proper passive solar designs can help heat the home, heat hot water and provide for cooling through proper use of convection flow.
On point 4, Ok, this one is tough. However, let me delve into my engineer, and radiation technologist background. The actual percentage of the suns energy that reaches us is quite small. By obscuring even a small (relatively speaking) percentage of this radiation nearer the source it could make a large difference in temperature rises on Earth. As you get nearer the sun the amount of area needed to be actually blocked becomes quite small (a small percentage of the Earths diameter actually.)
Think of a flashlight beam, the width of the beam at the flashlight head is much smaller than if you project the light onto a building 100 feet away. Now, if we assume the diameter of the Sun is equal to the diameter of that flashlight lens, the Earths diameter is 1/110 of that diameter. So, for ease of calculation let's make the diameter of the lens 11 inches (a really big light!) in this case, the Earth would be roughly 1/10 of an inch in diameter. Now, place the 1/10 of an inch diameter Earth 28 feet away, how much of the flashlight beam is intersecting our 1/10 of an inch Earth? Not a whole heck of a lot, this is equivalent to the actual amount of Solar energy we get out of the ½ of the Sun's total output (remember, half of the Sun's output gets sent the other way.)
Everyone has seen or at least heard of total solar eclipses. A solar eclipse happens when the moon (roughly 1/4 the size of Earth) passes between us and the Sun. The moon completely covers the Sun's disk when this happens. So, assuming that we wanted to block 2 percent of the Solar input we would need a disk roughly the same distance from the Earth as the moon is that is 1/50th the size of the Moon (21 miles in diameter). If we move it out to twice as far as the moons orbit this drops to 10.5 miles in diameter, at 4 times as far, to 5.25 miles in diameter and so forth and so on.
It would be a relatively stupid satellite, only needing to keep itself relatively stationary directly between the Earth and the Sun in a solar orbit, minimal thrusters to combat light pressure and do station keeping. Manufacture it out of used aluminum cans. At only an inch thick, that would require a little more than 685 tons of aluminum (or, make it inflatable out of mylar only a couple of millimeters thick…) you would be surprised how fast temperatures would go down. Build it with shutters so we could fine tune how much we let through, make it solar powered or use the entire thing as a parabolic disk to run a thermionic generator to provide the power to run it…When we didn't need it anymore (in a couple of hundred years) nuke it into oblivion to restore the solar output, shoot, build in a self destruct after 100 or so years or just turn it edge wise or push it off solar axis in orbit using it's thrusters.
On point 5, give big tax breaks for companies that show they really are going green. Utilize nuclear energy. Give breaks to companies that produce "green" hydrogen and breaks to consumers who utilize hydrogen burning cars.
For point 6, pay subsistence farmers to not cut down the rain forest. Provide food from all that we waste to feed them and their families. Only give foreign aid to countries that can prove they are doing everything possible to develop "green" technology. Put stiff import trade embargoes on anything that is not produced using green technologies world wide.
Just a few suggestions, and believe it or not, all of them doable and all of them would provide positive and lasting results. Let's stop gnashing our teeth and solve the issues that we can.
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Clippers guard Jamal Crawford named Sixth Man of Year
It took a bit, but Jamal Crawford has officially been named the NBA's Sixth Man of the Year on Thursday.
Crawford also won the award as a member of the Atlanta Hawks in 2009-10 and joins Kevin McHale, Ricky Pierce and Detlef Schrempf as two-time winners.
"Growing up, my goal wasn't to be a sixth man. I've always been a starter and one of the best players on my team. When I went to Atlanta, I realized the importance of it," Crawford said.
Crawford is the first player in NBA history to win the award for two separate teams and at 34, is the oldest player ever to receive the honor.
Crawford, who led all NBA reserves in scoring (18.6 ppg), came off the bench in 45 of 69 regular season games he appeared in, helping the Clippers finish with their best record in franchise history (57-25).
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"He's done so much more. He was known, including by me, as only a guy that wanted to score and wouldn't do other things. This year, he's run the point guard position, he's been a passer at times when CP was out, he's been a defender. He's been a complete team guy," said Clippers head coach Doc Rivers.
Additionally, Crawford set the Clippers' single-season franchise record for three-pointers made with 161, surpassing the record he set a year ago. In doing so, he moved into 11th place on the NBA's all-time three-pointers made list with 1,697.
With their second-round series with the Thunder tied at 1, the Clippers return home to Staples Center for Games 3 and 4 on Friday and Sunday.


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Tech policies are for officials to decide, new Hong Kong Science Park chief Sunny Chai says while revealing plans for HK$10 billion spending
Incoming chairman says he will spend his energy on things related to Science Park, after outgoing boss Fanny Law admits she may have been blunt when 'speaking the truth to rich and powerful'
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