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Uhh... how do I start this? I'm not good at segueing between paragraphs, so bear with me. I'll try and go with some background explanation first, because we all love background explanations, right? Anyway...
We're the Masons, a cutesy, sitcom family comprised of five souls and renowned for producing incredibly precocious children. My father, Robert Mason, has been working as a District Attorney for quite a while now. He's rather calm, collected, but very much capable of drifting into bouts of mania. Trust me. I should know.
Then, there is my Mom, Julia. She isn't as tolerant as my old man, but never quite managed to strike fear in our hearts. Looking back at it, I frankly have no idea why. Ever since middle school, I always thought it's because my Dad's a man and as such is much more competent at being scary, but now, now that all traces of my fifth grade sexist mindset have vanished, I'm not quite sure.
There's also my sister, Alex, currently twenty-one and hellbent on following my dad's footsteps. Simply put, the only member of our family who didn't quite fit was Jeremy, my brother whom I preceded by five minutes. We were twins, yeah, so alike that we even used to complete each other's assignments back in middle school. When I say he didn't fit, I don't mean to imply he didn't fit in our family - no, his weird behavior covered a much bigger radius. He used to walk completely nude around the house, either terrorizing our sister or performing usual tasks. His tasteless jokes always got him in trouble at school and granted him the top spot in a lot of people's shit lists. I mean, I wasn't the most famous kid in school, and I still am not, but unlike my twin, I actually had a couple of friends I could hang out with. He only had me, and even I was seriously taking into account the possibility of disowning his hairy ass. He once accused me for his shitty behavior, claiming I attempted to eat him while on the womb, only to later shrug it off as a joke. If that's not unusual, I don't know what is.
Albeit a little bit late, Jeremy sensed that he was unwanted. That is what drove him to take steps towards a decision which would forever change his life.
Sixteen. That was the age he decided that he was done with Dad's constant rambling. It was a bright Thursday. I came into his room, shuffled through his disarranged "Green Day" posters to find out a little envelope, the letter inside detailing his escape from, and I quote, "the recurring madness lurking around the Mason spot". I have yet to decipher the meaning of that message, but I went on to presume he was referring to Robert's reprimands.
Immediately after he found out of his take off, my Dad went on the move. He was a DA, so money were not a problem for him, for any of us, actually. If there was something we never complained about, that would be money. But I digress. Dad phoned every contact in his phonebook and kept doing that for six months. Six goddamn months it took for him to track my brother down. Turns out he had a couple of cultist friends we weren't aware of, which further increased our belief that he was on serious drugs. He was a recluse when we found him, living alone in a cabin deep in the dense wood, a cabin which only Robert, and now recently, I had the privilege of visiting. Dad went first, in a pathetic attempt to convince my brother to come back. The latter didn't budge, and the whole argument closed with my Dad placing five grand on the table and then quietly leaving the place. The first week after the confrontation was characterized by an awkward silence. Mom constantly asked Dad what went on, Dad refused to answer while me and my then-19 year old sister were left in the middle, having to bear with their wordless scowls.
Now that I'm finally done explaining this strained family relationship, you can only imagine how hard my mom's decision that I should celebrate my 19th birthday with Jeremy struck me. I voiced my displeasure, protested, but it only took one glare from my stern father to force me into obedience. He decided that this birthday wasn't going to be about me, but rather about my not so beloved sibling.
So, I took off. I reluctantly packed my bags, reluctantly called a cab and made a reluctant fifteen minute jog to his place, right after going through an hour long drive. I'm not trying to come off as one of those spoiled, rich kids, but by the end of my mini-journey, I was exhausted. It wasn't like that was the first time I ever stepped into the woods. I was in a summer camp before, and we did all kinds of outdoor activities, but besides that, I'd go for the smell of smoke and garbage anytime over... whatever the woods promise. Jeremy in the other hand; all he lacked were the yellow buckteeth, and a pair of testicles dangling out of his ripped jeans, and he could easily fit the typical profile of a Hollywood redneck.
I climbed the small flight of stairs leading to the cabin's porch, struggling to move my luggage away from the dirt. I must have made quite a noise in the process, but there was nobody to be disturbed, except my brother, undoubtedly. I stood by the wooden front door, letting a soft sigh before tapping into it twice. I could make out a faint noise coming from the inside, sorta like a creak, accompanied by what sounded to be footsteps. After what seemed like forever, someone opened the door. Surely, it was my brother whom I hadn't seen since two years and a half. The neck beard he was sporting rendered him unrecognizable, but not enough for me to not be able to make out his pale, freckly, cocaine induced face.
He eyed me suspiciously, his sight following an invisible trail that started from my luggage and ended into my face. Looking at his expressionless face, I felt like one of those Jehovah's witnesses, that is, unwanted, but his grimace didn't last long. A half-arsed smile is all I could make at first, before I felt his arms wrapped around me and his head resting on my shoulder. Crazy or not, Jeremy could never hold a grudge for long. I admit, his surprise hug really... surprised me, but looking back at it I don't think it should have. That's what two years of avoiding interaction with your siblings does to you, ladies and gents. It makes you lose knowledge on their habits and routine.
"Happy Birthday, bro!" Jeremy excitedly pronounced, finally relieving me from his tight grip. I congratulated him back. He grabbed my luggage and invited me in. I complied.
The second I landed my feet inside the house, I couldn't make myself to look at it. My expectations were a dusty, disorganized living room, a kitchen in the verge of collapsing and a toilet at the far corner which would also serve as a meth lab. But no - the interior of Jeremy's house bore less resemblance to a crack den and more to those cool places in Christmas adverts. There was a warm, little fireplace, a kitchen, adjacent to the living room and, last but not least, a bathroom.
There wasn't a long list of furniture, and I felt that actually added more to the place's family pub atmosphere. There was a couch in the living room, and three stools at the kitchen counter, which was modeled after those cowboy bars you'd see in those spaghetti western flicks. There were a lot of photos and posters pinned in the walls, and there was a huge closet near the fireplace. When it came to the scope of the interior, it was just what I expected. After all, it was a cabin. The lack of a proper bed, a dining table, a TV, didn't go unnoticed by my keen eyesight, but it also didn't pose a big problem. At least to me.
"Woah. Nice place," I said in astonishment.
"I know, right? Lucky for you, I felt motivated enough to do a little clean up today," Jeremy responded, a perpetual smile covering his face, as he dropped my luggage down to a corner. He acted like he was expecting me all along, which I found somewhat odd.
"Did Mom tell you that I'm passing by for a visit?" I asked.
"Nope. It was just a weird coincidence," he responded yet again, his smile vanishing as he did so. I shrugged and just dove into the couch while he made his way into the kitchen, pulling a glass bottle of wine, removing the tap and then handing it over to me. I was not fond of wine, or alcohol for that matter, but I was too dehydrated to object. Emptied that shit in a short span of minutes, much to my misfit brother's surprise.
From then on it was just talk. I updated Jeremy with the latest news that hit the block, he told me about his many adventures with his stoner friends while mashing up the ingredients for a chicken casserole recipe. As expected, our dinner went for shit, so we had to call pizza delivery and make our way towards the nearest crossroad to pick up our food. It was then that it started to rain.
On our way back to the house, I could swear I saw two people entering the denser part of the woods, that one part where you can't see anything but trees and leaves. They seemed to be in a bit of a hurry. I lingered around, curious to know what they were doing, but the rain was getting heavier to the point where I couldn't see anything past my nose. That, coupled with my brother's constant nagging, compelled to make my way back to the cabin. We resumed our conversation there, now twice as soaked and under the effect of vine. I may have accused Jeremy for Dad's unusual attitude and he may have showed me a dragon tattoo he did in his left arm, but other than that I was pretty much shitfaced. All I remember is that, and giving my brother a bong as a gift which provoked a stream of laughter by his side. I never had a reputation for holding my liquor well.
I fell down the couch at about twelve o' clock. I could vaguely recall a voice, most likely Jeremy's, summoning me up for skinny dipping at 3 AM. I disregarded it as simply another joke in his long list of tasteless ones, and told him to whack himself to sleep. One hour later, I bolted awake. I looked around, searching for Jeremy, but he was nowhere to be seen. An air mattress in the floor near me was evidence that he did hang around for some time after I went to sleep, but must have left. Still, after a couple of minutes characterized by me stumbling around like a retard, trying to find a light switch, I decided to check the bathroom just to be sure. No one was there. "Did that crazy son of a bitch really go skinny dipping?" was all I could think. It was early in the morning, and even then, it was cold as hell outside. No mentally stable person would risk catching a flu, or in the worst case scenario, die, just to experience the brief pleasure of skinny dipping. Then again, my brother wasn't exactly stable.
I lazed around for about thirty minutes, I think. I'm not quite sure. All I remember is that I was worried sick. I thought of calling him, only to let out a curse word as I realized I didn't have his number. Fast forward a couple of minutes, and there I was - dressed in a jumper, a jacket, my camo pants and a nice pair of black combat boots, holding a flashlight and ready to conduct a search for my insane brother.
First thing I noticed right after I made my way to the porch was the cold breeze and the fact that rain had stopped. Some might find that romantic, but I sure as hell didn't. It was cold, I was tired and most importantly my brother was missing. I couldn't find pleasure in anything, not implying that there was anything that you could lay your sight on. It was mostly trees with brown leaves and the fading image of the crescent moon, as it got slowly covered by the coal-black clouds. If anything, the place resembled your usual horror setting established in those cliché B-rated monster movies.
I mustered all the courage I could get before soldiering on. My concern for my long lost brother's safety was quickly overwhelmed by the fear surging through my skin, but I couldn't go back. I felt the need to prove to myself that I wasn't some namby-pamby, dickless coward who can't take a hike in the woods. Doing my best to ignore the annoying flapping my boots did due to the mud, I followed a trail of footsteps, what I presumed to be my brothers, till the trail led me to a standstill. There were two dirt roads; one leading towards civilization, the other towards the forest's anus, where a tribe of man-eating mutants were probably waiting for me. I could make out a lot of footsteps leading to the forest, while the other dirt path showed nothing but a string of shoe soles that were mostly covered up by the rain. I concluded Jeremy met with his hippy friends at that spot, then they made their way down the forest to do... whatever those sick, twisted bastards did all morning. With that in mind, I began marching to the forest.
That was my first mistake.
I made my second and most devastating mistake while making my way into that God forsaken place. From there, I could see a shady, pale figure coming out of the trees. At first, I couldn't determine whether it was a woman or a man until I threw a flashlight at it. It was a man, shirtless, barefoot and freezing. He was sporting a pair of pants. I couldn't make out the brand because they were dipped in mud, and because it was too dark. It wasn't his fashion statement that captivated my attention, though - it was his look. He looked a lot like Jeremy, minus the neck beard. He was somewhat dazed, frostbite marks covering his nose, his finger, his lips and his toes. I could barely make out a red marking stretching out from his back, what seemed like a wound or something of the sort.
"Jeremy?" I asked confusedly. No reply. He was either pulling me an elaborate prank, or his skinny dipping session went real awry.
I didn't ask a second time, hurrying to where he was, struggling to take off my jacket while in motion. That's when it hit me. Like, literally. That is when I fell down to the muddy ground. I kind of spaced out at that moment, but from what I could collect, I think Jeremy had just given me a sucker punch to the face. I rapidly scampered out of the ground, searching for my jacket, but to no avail. It was gone, along with Jeremy. The good news, or bad news, is that I still could hear Jeremy's steps crunching in the distance, and I still had my flashlight.
Catching up to my hysterical brother was quite an easy task. His stoned ass couldn't make out two steps without tumbling into the ground. But, instead of slapping him back to consciousness, something in my mind told me to follow him instead, certain that if I do, there will be a bombastic revelation awaiting in the end. Sneaking up on him wasn't hard either, taking into account his senses were totally numbed by the cold. Nonetheless, something had to go wrong, and it did. Half-way through the chase, Jeremy made a series of sudden spastic movements before he drifted away. I desperately tried to catch up yet again, but my boots were made twice as heavy by the dirt sticking down like peanut butter. Fast forward a couple of minutes later, and that's when I realized I lost him.
Hell, I was lost myself. I tried to go back, but the dense terrain coupled with the lack of illumination made it hard for me to distinguish anything. There was this weird sense of déjà vu, however, like I had dreamed this before. It lingered on me for a considerable period of time as I paced back and forth in exasperation. Eventually, I decided to follow the trail of footsteps Jeremy had left, still holding out hope that he'll come back to his senses and escort me out of this goddamn maze.
I could swear I followed that trail for hours, even though according to the police, I had only been out for less than one. My ears were numb at the time, and my other organs were in the process of numbing. I almost freaked out when it dawned on me that I couldn't speak coherent English anymore. I began sounding like Borat, if Borat was struggling to swallow a pair of socks. I tried to speed up my pace at that moment as it occurred to me that I was losing stamina.
It was pointless, though. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't speed up. It was like there was a gigantic fan which was pushing me back. I also began to black out. Not your typical alcohol blackout; it was more like a blackout with activities. My vision would be obscured by pitch black darkness, and then I would find myself doing something weird like caressing a tree or going the other direction. If it wasn't for the trail of footsteps to help me navigate, I would have probably found myself going back and forth until I passed out.
Centuries of trial and error led me to a scent. It was the scent of something burning. Usually fires in the middle of a dense forest mean something bad's happening, but it'd be lying if I said that I wasn't glad. At least there was evidence that someone else, hopefully a mentally stable person, was roaming this damned place. I stumbled and grunted like a caveman, until I found out the source of the scent. What I saw was pretty strange.
The entire place was populated by huge, towering trees, except this one spot. That spot was blessed. It felt like the trees had moved a few feet away just so that they could give you that space, an ideal space to start a campfire. At this point, I had seen enough odd stuff, so I didn't even begin to question how the ashes weren't spreading around and lighting the surrounding trees in fire. I simply peered behind one of the trees and watched as Jeremy got cozy near the fire, wearing my jacket and rocking back and forth like an old man.
"JEWEMY!" I yelled, pausing for a moment upon hearing how raspy my voice had got.
He stared at me for a moment, like a deer caught in the headlights and then jumped away, taking a defensive position. I tried to reason with him, tried to make it clear that I wasn't there to hurt him, but my mouth was nearly sealed shut. I remember Jeremy trying to land a punch, which I easily blocked with my face. We were both tired and getting sloppy as we each wasted our breath. It was obvious that in Jeremy's messed up mind, I was a bad guy and I needed to be taken out of the picture. He had pinned me down to the ground, and tried his best to relieve me of my breathing privileges, but he just couldn't. He kept fumbling and falling face first on the mud.
I took off my boots after concluding that they were no longer wearable, and then I decided to take the upper hand. Without breaking a sweat, I tackled Jeremy to the ground and got on top of him when I realized something. The moonlight and the light that emanated from the fire nearby allowed me to get a better look at Jeremy, and that is when I noticed his dragon tattoo had vanished. Sure, there are such things like temporary tattoos, but not the kind so temporary that they disappear overnight. For a brief moment, I began considering the fact that perhaps that person wasn't Jeremy at all. Maybe it was just my eyes playing games with me. I was dumbfounded, and not-Jeremy used that to his advantage as he pushed me aside and tried to throw me into the fire. I tried to resist, but the fire still caught up and burned a chunk of skin in my back.
I decided I had enough of that shit and threw a punch at his stomach, causing him to back off, and then began pounding him. I beat him to a bloody pulp, and then made sure that he wasn't breathing anymore. Then, I took off my flaming jumper before it did more damage to the already scorched skin in my back. Yes, readers, I killed a man. I couldn't play it cool, either. The minute I saw his motionless body laying near the fire, I made myself scarce. Half-way through, I realized I hadn't retrieved my jacket, but I thought 'screw it'. I was not gonna go back to that place anymore.
I don't know if it was the effect of fear or if it was a divine miracle, but suddenly my strength was replenished. I ran like hell. I ran like I actually knew where I was going, even though I didn't even have the slightest idea. Then, my face lit up with glee at the sight of a familiar territory. I finally began to see the forest exit, the path to freedom, the end to all my torments. I stopped for a moment as my brain took in all of the surroundings. My sight veered at a single person standing a few feet away. I couldn't make out any features, but I could see that he was holding a flashlight. He was checking me out. He had all the reasons to. And then I blacked out. I don't remember much from then on. All I know is that the police found me laying just outside the forest.
Jeremy had indeed gone skinny dipping, and it was actually him who alerted them. He scolded me for going out without him. It was nice to be the crazy brother for a change. The cops took me to the station for questioning. I told them everything excluding the part where I straight up murdered someone. They let me off pretty easily. I was worried that they'd find the body in the forest after one of the cops pronounced that they were gonna conduct a search, but much to my relief and surprise, they found no body. My dad came to pick up both me and Jeremy at the station the other night. He looked at me with concern, but also curiosity as he bombarded me with questions. He wouldn't stop until Jeremy told him to knock it off already. Oh, and I also asked Jeremy if he was the guy with the flashlight. He told me he had no idea what I was talking about. Apparently, he was in the vicinity at that time and heard me calling his name. I couldn't remember that little detail. But then again, I was fucked up at that point.


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Touch of Mink, a local manufacturer of skin care products, launched a brand new look for their website for 2010. We first met with Touch of Mink in early 2009 to discuss the possibilities regarding updating their website and their online marketing strategies.
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Most seniors have got most of their notices in by now, and most have to decide by May 1. That's about six weeks of thinking and researching and visiting and thinking and talking and thinking.
If you haven't had a serious discussion with your family about money and cost yet, you're really running out of time. Hopefully you've already gone over the details enough that you've eliminated choices that you can't afford, but haven't eliminated any you actually can afford.
When it comes to seeking advice, remember that it really is ok to talk to your parents. They know you well and are invested in your success. Don't be afraid to reach out to them just because they're, you know, your parents.
But if your family is trying to get more involved than you can handle, feel free to send them this article from the Today show. It's a list of eight things the writer advises parents in your situation to do. And most of them are basically "stop bugging people your child about college!" Have the link ready, and just send it to their phone every time they ask. Even if it's several times a day. They'll get the hint.
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If you need even more empathy for dealing with parents in this stressful time, you can always turn to Will Smith.
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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says Giuseppe Rossi's finishing is still so good that even Sir Alex Ferguson was impressed when he saw the former Manchester United striker in training over the weekend.
The legendary Scot made a surprise trip to Carrington to meet up with the 31-year-old free agent, who has been given the opportunity to train with United while he looks for a new club.
Solskjaer was quick to play down any suggestions that Rossi might be offered a deal by United, though he has shown exactly why Ferguson rated him so highly.
'We're not going to sign Giuseppe I think, no, but he's trained well with us,' Solskjaer told United's official website.
'He looks sharp, he's looking for a club so Giuseppe is probably going to stay with us for another week, unless someone takes him.
'He scored a fantastic goal yesterday [Saturday] in training. The gaffer [Sir Alex Ferguson] turned around and said "what about that son?"
'It's a bit of us helping him to get fit before his next move, so if there are any takers you should be quick!'
Rossi moved to Manchester from Parma as a teenager though struggled to force his way into a hugely talented first team.
He moved to Villarreal and enjoyed several incredibly prolific seasons before getting injured, and he has been without a club since leaving Genoa at the end of last season.


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Specialist lawyers at Irwin Mitchell have secured a settlement for the widow of a man who developed the asbestos related cancer mesothelioma as a result of his occupational exposure to the substance over 50 years earlier.
Mr L sadly passed away as a result of his condition at the age of 83. As a young man he was employed by Metropolitan-Cammell Carriage and Wagon Company Ltd at their Birmingham plant, at Common Lane, Washwood Heath, between approximately 1950 and 1956.
He was employed as a welder. Metropolitan Cammell manufactured railway carriages which were lagged with asbestos as the carriage frames were put in place.
As a welder, Mr L was involved in assembling the frames before the coach body workers put the wooden panels of the carriages together. He worked in the vicinity of the asbestos sprayers and was heavily exposed to asbestos dust on each occasion. At no point during the course of his employment was Mr L provided with any respiratory equipment to prevent him inhaling asbestos dust. He was never warned of the dangers of working with asbestos.
Mr L developed progressive respiratory symptoms including chest pain and shortness of breath. He was subsequently diagnosed with malignant mesothelioma.
The case was eventually concluded when a settlement was agreed with the defendants' solicitors in the sum of £135,000.
Mark Lennon, a solicitor in the Birmingham office of national law firm Irwin Mitchell, represented the personal representatives of Mr L's estate. He said: "Mr L was avoidably exposed to asbestos during his employment at Metropolitan Cammell. Tragically he received the devastating news of his mesothelioma diagnosis, which brings such a poor prognosis that cruelly cut short his life.
"Sadly we continue to see cases like this where workers receive the terrible news that they are suffering from a condition such as mesothelioma. Their illness and diagnosis comes many years after being negligently exposed to asbestos, at a time when employers should have known full well about the terrible risks associated with the material, but continued to use it in defiance of health and safety standards in place at the time."
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Hazy, hot and humid temperatures return to Brooklyn
Hazy, hot and humid weather has returned to Brooklyn.
News 12 Brooklyn meteorologists expect the hot weather to last through Saturday.
News 12 was at Shore Park in Bay Ridge, where people were finding ways to cool off.
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London, 10 February: A new paper by Bernie Lewin and published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation re-examines the legacy of the father of British climatology Hubert Lamb (1913-1997). After leading and establishing historical climatology during the 1960s, Hubert Lamb became the founding Director of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East […]Read more
Fatally Flawed Climate Science Paper 'Should Be Withdrawn'
Press Release – Authors of a fatally flawed climate study "have no scientifically-defensible choice but to withdraw the paper." A recent paper in Nature has received worldwide media attention because of its claim to have shown that the recent hiatus in surface temperature rises was the result of natural variability. The lead author, Jochem Marotzke of the Max Planck […]Read more
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When Aggies graduate, there are many opportunities offered by the university and the Texas A&M community that remain with them for life.
Through systems like the Aggie Network, the Career Center and the Money Education Center, former students can seek advice and connect to all Aggies when in need of assistance, whether they're settling into a new area, building successful career tools or redesigning their budget. Although these systems are based on campus, students can still access resources from other cities, states or countries.
View the full article about Aggie lifetime support opportunities.
"It's one of the oldest cons around. Come up with the cash to pay a small fee up front, and there is a big pot of money just waiting for you," Acorns reports.
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NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - Nov 20, 2014) -
What: Working America Health Care announces the opening of an office in New York City, where workers not covered by an employer or union health insurance plan can connect with licensed professionals to purchase coverage, discuss concerns and ask questions about Obamacare. New Yorkers who cannot visit a local office can still get help through the Working America Health Care program's hotline or by visiting www.WorkingAmericaHealthCare.org.
When: The New York City office is now open for drop-in visits every Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and every Thursday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. The office will be closed on Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 27.
The New York City office will be open for drop-in visits during office hours through the end of enrollment. The Working America Health Care program may hold additional office hours in this location, as well as visit additional locations in New York City, between now and Feb. 15, 2015.
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Why: Working America Health Care is a consumer advocacy program that helps working-class Americans learn about health insurance marketplaces; connect with licensed brokers to better understand their options and purchase coverage; and receive the most out of their health insurance plans and budgets.
Even those looking to renew last year's plan can benefit by checking out the Working America Health Care program before "auto-renewing" their plan. Purchasing a plan through licensed brokers affiliated with Working America Health Care costs the same as purchasing through another broker or on a public exchange and includes access to added member benefits at no additional cost, including:
Who: Working America Health Care's project director Brandon Koebbe is available for inquiries about the program and the members who are benefiting from its Health Advocate service. Tony Cheng of Working America and Eleanor Trice of Union Plus are also available. Members who've purchased a plan may be available upon request.
About the Working America Health Care Program:
The Working America Health Care program is a joint effort between Working America, the community affiliate of the AFL-CIO, and Union Privilege, created by the AFL-CIO to deliver benefits programs, discounts and services to over 13 million current and retired working people. Union Privilege, through its Union Plus brand, brings unique member-only value and high-quality service to Working America's 3.3 million members and their families.
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Jennie spoke about her secret to maintaining a good shape.
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On June 26, Jennie appeared on the radio show, SBS Power FM Choi Hwa-jeong's Power Time, together with other BLACKPINK members.
When she was asked about how she manages her figure, she answered, "I try not to eat salty foods during the promotion period. I try to have a low-salt diet."
She further said, "Before going into promotion, I exercise steadily, doing yoga or pilates. Although working out is tiring, I kind of like that process. After exercising, I become more inclined to eat healthy food too."
To the question asking, "How do you hold back yourself from eating salty foods?", Jennie replied, "When I monitor our stage, I sometimes look very round, and fans tease me with the nickname 'dumpling'. So I'm holding back, thinking of that."
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Leslie woman dies in wreck
A Leslie County woman was killed in a wreck Wednesday when she lost control because of ice on the road and collided with a tractor-trailer, according to a news release from Kentucky State Police.
Doris Morgan, 24, of Stinnett was pronounced dead at the scene of the wreck on Ky. 11 in Knox County, state police said.
Morgan was driving south about 8:15 a.m. when her vehicle hit ice on a curve and crossed into the oncoming lane and the path of the tractor-trailer, police said.
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Ricardo Corral-Venegas was found guilty of committing sexual abuse with a violent weapon, court records say. (Aurora Police)
A former police officer from Mexico was found guilty Wednesday in the rape of a woman in Aurora, Co., where the authorities said he ordered his victim to put down her 1-year-old son prior to the attack.
Ricardo Corral-Venegas, 27, was armed with a butcher knife on Oct. 4, 2016, when he forced his way into the apartment of his 26-year-old victim, police said.
He returned days later to the same complex and tried to force his way into another apartment, but an 18-year-old girl, fought against him, preventing him from entering, authorities said.
The police arrested him later in the day after they saw the suspect at a Buffalo Wild Wings, the Denver Post reported.
During the interrogation, he reportedly cried, saying there is "something was wrong with his head." Moments later, he acted as if he didn't know why he was being questioned, a police report detailed. Court reports indicate that Bead-Venegas told the police he had a duel personality.
According to authorities, Corral-Venegas is a former police officer from Chihuahua, Mexico, where he worked for four years.
He allegedly used a red motorcycle and did a courier with sexually attacking women in Mexico – a trick that the Mexican media refer to him as the "Motorized Rapist."
Bead-Venegas previously deported back to Mexico in the United States illegally, the Denver Post reported.
An Arapahoe County jury found him guilty of sexual assault, kidnapping and burglary as well as the use of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime.
He is currently being held without bond, where he faces a maximum of 92 years in prison.


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The man was funny. He always made me laugh.He will be missed.
I always liked Bernie Mac. I was a gifted comedian. Like DH, Bernie had sarcoidosis for the past 5yrs. I believe his illness was pretty stable, but still,it scars your lungs terribly. I don't know how bad his lungs were, but I know with DH our greatest fear is pneumonia and flu--either one could kill him.Bernie Mac was only 50--so young and so talented. God be with his family.


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There are so many fruit cake recipes it's difficult to know where to start!
Everybody has their favourite recipe – either handed down through the family or discovered hiding on the page of a cookery book or magazine. I love fruit cake recipes, in fact, I probably enjoy making fruit cakes more than anything else, even more than luxurious chocolate cakes. There's something so wholesome about all that dried fruit, and so many of the good fruit cakes include a splash of alcohol!
Scroll down for more fruit cake recipes, like carrot cake, banana and walnut loaf, banana cake and many more.
Here's a slightly different fruit cake recipe with a splash of rum and full of raisins, dates, whole glace cherries and nuts.
Fuit Cake With Mixed Nuts
- 8 oz glace cherries
- 2 oz (1/3 cup) chopped candied peel
- 3 fl oz (3/8 cup) rum
- 1 tsp butter
- The grated rind of 1 lemon
- 3 oz (1/2 cup) seedless raisins
- 7 oz (1 1/4 cups) stoned and chopped dates
- 5 oz (1 cup) chopped walnuts
- 5 oz (1 cup) chopped almonds
- 4 oz (1 cup) flour
- 6 oz (3/4 cup) sugar
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 4 eggs
Grease a deep, round 8 inch cake tin and line with greaseproof or waxed paper.
Preheat the oven to 300 deg F, 150 deg C, Gas Mark 2.
Mix the candied peel and cherries in a bowl with the rum and leave to soak, giving the mixture an occasional stir. After 30-45 minutes drain the fruit from the rum, keeping the rum for later.
Using a wooden spoon, gently mix all the fruit in a bowl with the nuts, before sifting in the flour, sugar, salt and baking powder. Mix gently but thoroughly until all the fruit is coated with the flour mixture.
Beat the eggs and add to the dry ingredients, stirring gently until well mixed. Spoon the mixture from the bowl into the prepared cake tin and bake for 1 1/2 to 2 hours until cooked. As usual, test with a skewer or cocktail stick – when inserted into the centre it should come out clean. The top of the cake can be protected with some foil if it starts to burn during baking.
When cooked, remove the cake fom the oven and carefully pour or spoon the rum over the hot cake. It will provide a slight glaze when cool. After about 30 minutes cooling in the tin, carefully remove the cake from the tin but wait until completely cool before removing the greaseproof or waxed paper.
Make a nice cup of tea or coffee and enjoy a slice of homemade cake while browsing for more fruit cake recipes!


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Peat bog restoration project/
For the past month we have been working for Natural Resources Wales at Cwmparc, Rhondda carrying out Peat bog restoration. This was a first for us and we have enjoyed the challenge. The scope of the works wasto cut down a stand of trees in the centre of the site and cut down any self set or regenerating trees. These were then placed in ditches throughout the site. Pegs were inserted into the ditches at certain points to dam up the water, waterlogging the site. The contract had proved to be a challenge, its hasn't been the sunniest of months, with a bit of snow throw into the mix, but the results area already evident, with water backing up quickly. You can see below some before and after shots.
If you managed to catch last nights episode of country file, they talked about the uplands being the key for holding water back, hopefully we will see many more contracts of this sort in the future.


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While thong sandals were commonly worn, many people in ancient times, such as the Egyptians, Hindus and Greeks, saw little need for footwear, and most of the time, preferred being barefoot. The Egyptians and Hindus made some use of ornamental footwear, such as a soleless sandal known as a "Cleopatra", which did not provide any practical protection for the foot. The ancient Greeks largely viewed footwear as self-indulgent, unaesthetic and unnecessary. Shoes were primarily worn in the theater, as a means of increasing stature, and many preferred to go barefoot. Athletes in the Ancient Olympic Games participated barefoot—and naked. Even the gods and heroes were primarily depicted barefoot, the hoplite warriors fought battles in bare feet and Alexander the Great conquered his vast empire with barefoot armies. The runners of Ancient Greece are also believed to have run barefoot. Pheidippides, the first marathoner, ran from Athens to Sparta in less than 36 hours. After the Battle of Marathon, he ran straight from the battlefield to Athens to inform the Athenians of the news.
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"He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life."
~ William Law
The Importance of Praying for Oral Learners
There are ±5.2 billion oral learners in the world with the minority of resources attempting to reach them for Christ. The vast majority of outreach work today is conducted through literate means that these oral learners do not understand.
The remaining Unreached Unengaged People Groups are predominantly oral societies
They can be completely illiterate, functional illiterate, visually impaired, simply part of an oral culture, or highly literate but prefers to learn in an oral manner. They do not understand the literate concepts even when they hear them.
The solution is to communicate the message of Christ to people in ways that make sense to them – instead of in ways that make sense to us!
It is the inalienable right and privilege of every person, including every oral learner, to have access to the Word of God in their own heart language and in a media format they understand.
Each Thursday, the Orality Network and partner groups unite to pray. We ask you to pull away and gather together as a group and really pray! If you are able to connect to the weekly prayer call, we invite you to join the physical prayer call.
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Shepherds' skills put to the test at farm
Northumberland College recently welcomed more than 50 dogs and their handlers from the International Sheep Dog Society to Kirkley Hall Farm.
The Northumberland Heat Open Sheep Dog Trial lasted nine hours and there were three different categories – New Handlers, Novice and Open League.
It was the first such event to be held at Kirkley Hall in eight years. Participants came from as far away as Scotland and Manchester.
During the competition, dogs were guided through a series of commands to complete a variety of tasks that reflect their everyday work with a packet of sheep.
Each competitor started with 100 points and for every mistake made during the run, judge Stuart Wallace – who is a well-known shepherd from the Borders region, deducted points.
Kirkley Hall Farm stocksman Michael Stephenson organised the event. He joined Northumberland College in 2011 as an animal management student and has since progressed to full-time employment on the farm.
He said: "I have four Border collies who work with me at Kirkley Hall Farm that I've trained from puppies, so I thought now was a perfect time to host the trials.
"It's great to put Kirkley Hall Farm back on the map for these sorts of events, which are important in the farming community."
The 190-acre Kirkley Hall estate, along with 1,314 acres at Carlcroft Farm, provide a valuable hands-on teaching resource for students studying various land-based courses in areas such as agriculture and horticulture.
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Before the Geological Survey teamed with Microsoft Corp. to set up the TerraServer Web site, USGS had never tried to put so much data online over the Internet.
The earth science agency typically distributes its aerial image data on CD-recordable disks or 8-mm tapes, or stages it over the network using the File Transfer Protocol.
The people at Microsoft wanted data the public would be interested in, said Hedy Rossmeissl, senior program adviser at the Geological Survey.
They originally thought about Dow Jones data and genealogy data sets. Then they stumbled on these aerial images we had, she said.
Under a three-year cooperative R&D agreement, a dozen USGS employees have worked for a year on the Microsoft TerraServer project, processing 3 terabytes of digital orthophoto quadrangle images.
This is a lot of data, and being able to section it and sample it and serve it back and forth across the Internet is a huge challenge, Rossmeissl said.
The earths curvature presents special problems.
When youre trying to stitch together geospatial images, youre always running into little snags about how they fit, she said.
Since June 24, the processed images have been posted publicly on an Internet-attached 64-bit AlphaServer 8400 supplied by Compaq Computer Corp.
The public server has eight 440-MHz Alpha processors. It runs Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition and the third beta release of Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Enterprise Edition.
With TerraServer, we learned a huge amount about very large databases and are feeding that back into our development process, said Jim Gray, senior researcher at Microsofts Bay Area Research Center in San Francisco.
Microsoft officials said the 41'2-ton server has 10G of memory and eight cabinets worth of Digital StorageWorks ESA 10000 RAID Level 5 storage.
The servers four NT physical volumes each hold up to 600G.
A server-attached StorageTek 9714 DLT tape library from Storage Technology Corp. of Louisville, Colo., stores 3.5G of uncompressed image data, which it can transfer to the disk subsystem at rates up to 108G per hour. The library has six StorageTek 7000 digital linear tape drives and 100 cartridges.
A new version of Legato NetWorker software from Legato Systems Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif., backs up the TerraServer database to a 12-terabyte StorageTek TimberWolf 9710 tape library.
NetWorker runs with the Legato BusinessSuite Module for Microsoft SQL Server, a database-aware backup and recovery application that performs online backup of the SQL Server database, Legato officials said.
The TerraServer, located at Microsofts Internet data center in Canyon Park, Wash., links through a 100-Mbps Ethernet switch to a half-dozen four-way Pentium Pro servers running NT and Microsoft Internet Information Server 3.0.
A pair of 7500 series routers from Cisco Systems Inc. of San Jose, Calif., manage the heavy traffic from two incoming OC-12 circuits and 11 T3 Internet circuits.
The TerraServer is the first in a series of Geological Survey projects to build a gateway to the Earth, said Barbara Ryan, associate director of the 119-year-old agency.
The digital orthophoto quadrangles are aerial photographs, but a little different, she said. Each photograph has been rectified, and any distortion in what you would normally see in an aerial photograph has been removed, so what youre looking at is like a photograph of a map.
Digital orthophoto quadrangles, she said, make a framework for plotting elevation data and other information about water and transportation resources.
Federal, state and county agencies use digital orthophoto quadrangles as base maps for analyzing wetlands, soils, land parcels, farm field boundaries and forest inventories.
The digital orthophoto quadrangle images are part of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure framework, a project of the Federal Geographic Data Committee that sets standards for collecting and registering geospatial data.
The millions of black-and-white digital orthophotos that the public can download free from http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com are low-resolution, 10K Joint Photographic Experts Group-compressed tiles.
The full-resolution, 55M digital orthophotos suitable for geographic information systems applications are available for online purchase from a separate Web server running Microsoft Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition at the Geological Surveys Eros Data Center in Sioux Falls, S.D.
On the same day the TerraServer got 4 million hits, the USGS server in Sioux Falls registered about 100 hits, Rossmeissl said.
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James Anthony Traficant, Jr. (born May 8, 1941) is a former Democratic Representative in the United States Congress from Ohio (from 1985 to 2002). He represented the 17th Congressional District, which centered on his hometown of Youngstown and included parts of three counties in northeast Ohio's Mahoning Valley. He was expelled after being convicted of taking bribes, filing false tax returns, racketeering, and forcing his aides to perform chores at his farm in Ohio and on his houseboat in Washington, D.C., and was released from prison on September 2, 2009, after serving a seven-year sentence.
Traficant signed a limited, three-month contract to work as a part-time weekend talk radio host for Cleveland news/talk station WTAM in January 2010. His contract permitted him to quit if he chose to run for office. As of July 2010, it remains unclear if Traficant will return to the station; the WTAM website currently makes no mention of him.
Traficant ran for his old seat in the 2010 general election as an independent; he was defeated by incumbent Tim Ryan.


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Who We Are
Radius Irrigation is a partnership formed between Klass (Nick) Banman, owner of Quality Pivot Service, and Country Feeds of Montezuma, KS for the purpose of servicing, selling, installing and maintaining Valley Center Pivot Irrigation.
Nick Banman
- is the General Manager of Radius Irrigation.
- Started Quality Pivot Service in 2010.
- Has setup and repaired all brands of Center Pivots.
Country Feeds
- Started in 1991 by Doug Classen in the town of Montezuma, KS as a small town feed-store.
- Started carrying trailers, Polaris ATV's, and other lines in the mid-90's.
- Started service and parts outlet for Valley Irrigation in 1995.
- Became standalone Valley Dealer in 2008.
- Moved into new location in 2014. 43,000 square feet of Showroom, Parts, and Warehouse.
What We Do
Radius Irrigation is committed to providing the best possible service, parts and sales to the growers in the Dodge City area. We are committed to Valley and believe that the products designed and produced by Valley Irrigation are the best possible solutions for our growers. We will service and inventory parts for all brands of electric center pivots. We will strive to provide the best technology solutions to help growers manage their irrigation needs as efficiently and easily as possible.


text: I believe I have my 16th (!!!) ECT treatment today. I am in the maintenance phase of ECT and going less than once a week now. This means that technichally, I'm eligibible to drive. I'm going to ask my doctor about this. When I asked him last week things didn't go well. He called my sister, and she took my car over to her house. This has been an incredible infantilizing experience, I can't even tell you. People have no confidence in anything I say or do. It's like being five again. I tell you, if I had it to do over, I don't think I would have done ECT. If you are considering it, think long and hard. Then think again. It hasn't lived up to its promise, that's for sure.


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No Recalls Ever!
It's time your dog (or cat) started living abundantly! Choosing a pet food can be challenging, confusing and scary with the constant news of recalls.
Life's Abundance Premium Health Food is made with select ingredients, including high-quality chicken and catfish meals, whole grains, nutritious vegetables and fruits, omega fatty acids and much more. Corn or wheat products and artificial flavors or colors are never used. With Life's Abundance, you can be confident that you are feeding your dog advanced nutrition.


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BC Serna has spent the last 10 years traveling the world sharing stories of good and highlighting non profit organizations through film and social media. He's also worked closely with high school organizations teaching students how to become heart led leaders in their communities. He spent 5 years as a younglife leader in Denver Colorado.
In this interview, BC shares about the experiences of 10 years spent traveling the world along with the tradeoffs that come with it. He dives into why it's so important to move from passion to purpose, and why life is centered around authentic relationships and community. He gives perspective on storytelling and film, as well as the unique ways his personality influences his decisions and the life he has lived.
Show Notes
Young Life
Up With People
Interview with Ethan Renoe
The 4-Hour Workweek - Tim Ferriss
From Here to There - Thane Marcus Ringler
Love Does - Bob Goff
The Hero's Journey - Joseph Campbell
Strangers To Ourselves - Timothy D. Wilson
The Righteous Mind - Jonathan Haidt
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
The Heart-Led Leader - Tommy Spaulding
I AM - Documentary by Tom Shadyac
Finding Joe - Documentary
Connect with BC!
— Website
— Podcast
— Instagram
— The Traveling Good
Follow us on the Socials!
- Instagram
- Facebook
- Twitter
Send us an email - firstname.lastname@example.com
"I think God pulls us from our [Enneagram] numbers in cool ways." - BC Serna
"We crave for security and identity, but it also numbs us." - BC Serna
"We need to be okay with stillness and we need to be confident in it." - BC Serna
"Novelty is like a drug a lot of the times." - Thane Ringler
"You always have to see your intention - what's your intention in it?" - BC Serna
"If you have a passport and you've been to one other country, you're literally in 0.1% of the world." - BC Serna
"The opposite of faith is sight." - BC Serna
"We thrive in community, we thrive with roots, and we thrive with people." - BC Serna
"We're all trying to earn love, we're all trying to be loved, and we're all trying to be interesting, and we think if we're more valuable we'll be loved by more people." - BC Serna
"At the end of the day 'love' and 'like' are very different, and it is much better to be loved deeply by few than liked widely by many." - BC Serna
"Being liked by many will make us seen, but being loved deeply will make us feel heard." - BC Serna
"I want to create a culture of angel-advocates, encouraging the hell out of people." - BC Serna
"What makes a good story is: simplicity." - BC Serna
"I found my freedom in who I am - and separation from my identity, I found my confidence when I helped people more than helping myself." - BC Serna
"Our world is so transactional. I think love is transformational." - BC Serna
"Our worst drug in America is apathy. For me, I want to turn apathy to empathy." - BC Serna
"It's supposed to be tough." - BC Serna
"Safety, security, and comfort - that never produces the people that God wants us to be." - Thane Ringler
"Own your story, own your God-gifts, own your breath." - BC Serna
"Don't put a mask on today." - BC Serna
5:30 - Memories / Dancing
9:30 - Playing Basketball
13:00 - Playfulness / Being Childlike
21:30 - Running From vs. To (Fear vs. Vision)
25:00 - 10 Years of Travel
32:00 - Powerful Cultural Experiences
34:00 - Lasting Impact from Past 10 Years
36:00 - Transition from Global to Local Ministry
40:30 - Impact of Local / Inner-City Work
42:00 - Downsides / Tradeoffs of Travel
43:30 - Creating Community
47:00 - Championing / Believing in Others
50:30 - Film / Shooting Video
54:30 - What Makes BC Come Alive
57:30 - Marrying Dreams vs. Reality
1:01:00 - Storytelling
1:06:30 - From Passion to Purpose
1:10:00 - Unique Challenges Today
1:14:00 - Most Common Self-Talk
1:15:30 - Biggest Need In The World
1:19:30 - Lowest / Darkest Season in BC's Life
1:26:00 - Advice He Would Give to 20 year old Self / 40 year old Self
1:28:30 - Class BC Would Teach
1:29:00 - When BC Is Most Himself
1:29:30 - Belief BC Wishes Every Else Believed To Be True
1:30:00 - BC's Guilty Pleasure
1:30:30 - Cornerstone Habits
1:31:30 - Books with Biggest Impact
1:32:30 - Morning Text Reminder


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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union countries are struggling to find a common position on the role that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should play in the solution of the Syrian crisis, diplomats said on Friday.
Ahead of a regular meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg on Monday, diplomats are working to reach a compromise between countries which want Assad to quit immediately and others ready to accept a "flexible" transition.
"There is consensus among member states that Assad will not be part of a future governance of Syria but how to formulate that exactly is to be seen," an EU diplomat said.
With pressure on EU governments to work for an end to the war heightened by the arrival in Europe of large numbers of Syrian refugees over the past few months, France is keen to see Assad go as soon as possible, while Germany would prefer to have him involved in the transitional phase before he quits.
Under discussion is also what should happen to the Syrian president after he leaves, with hardliners preferring him to be referred to the International Criminal Court, while a softer option would be a voluntary exile in Russia.
The issue is so divisive that EU foreign ministers for many months have refrained from adopting common conclusions on Syria and its rulers, despite the worsening situation in the field.
"We are talking about flexible transition arrangements," a second EU diplomat said. "Transition is key now. You won't see 'Assad must go' in the EU's position," the diplomat added.
This would be a significant turnaround from past positions when the Assad administration was considered not even fit to fight Islamic State due to its "brutal" actions.
Other diplomats are more cautious and point out that the key issue is stopping violence against Syrian people.
Even if a compromise is reached on a transitional phase for the Assad rule, EU states appear divided also on its duration, with some countries insisting on a "clearly defined transition" and others making clear that "it's not up to us to define how long it should last".
Earlier this week, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond told Reuters the key to peace was a managed transition, even if that left Assad nominally in place for a time: "If ... we have to accept that Assad will remain as titular head of state for a period of time, do I really care if that's three days, three weeks, three months or even longer?" he said.
EU diplomats will meet again on Saturday to finalize a common text to submit to foreign ministers, and may need to meet again on Sunday.
In less controversial parts of the conclusions, ministers will underline that Assad's administration should immediately stop using barrel bombs against its own people, diplomats say.
On the military role of Russia in Syria, EU countries are set to urge Moscow to focus its attacks exclusively on Islamic State targets. Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent warplanes and tanks to support Assad.
Additional reporting by Robin Emmott and Philip Blenkinsop; Editing by Alison Williams


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fogo island inn
The Fogo Island Inn is a 29-room high-end eco-tourism facility on the island of Fogo, off the north-east coast of Newfoundland. In addition to providing accommodations the Inn also houses a community library and art gallery, an e-cinema and a five-star restaurant. A goal of the project was to make the Inn as energy and cost efficient as possible. Sustainable features include a high performance building envelope design and high-efficiency mechanical systems. Systems include radiant heating from solar thermal and wood boilers, solar domestic hot water for rooms and laundry, displacement ventilation with heat recovery, demand ventilation and summer outdoor air cooling with dehumidified outdoor air and kitchen exhaust air cleaning to avoid cooking odours.
CLIENT: Shorefast Foundation
SERVICES: Architect of Record
SIZE: 4,000 m²
LOCATION: Fogo Island, Newfoundland
STATUS: Completed 2013


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EXCELerate – Helping professionals to EXCEL and accelerate as leaders
Working with others is complex. In fact, cooperation is a skill that challenges the Neocortex in our brains. In a world where social media, influencers and networking have become indicators of professional and business success you need to master the Art of Cooperation.
EXCELerate is a coaching program that helps people to work together. We guide you and hold you accountable to make small shifts in your habits and big improvements in your leadership.
Our program is different: No slides, no standard front-end loading. We use your experience, your challenges, activities, games and role play to let you experience the potential of sharpened communication skills.
This is the first module in our success coaching program: EXCELerate. The Art of Cooperation takes a constructive look at how you work with others and build your network. We practice tools to improve relationships that are difficult to date. You will soon realise that having a powerful and active network is a tangible competitive advantage for your career and you as a leader.
This session enables you to:
- Grow your network
- Practice cooperation skills
- Adapt your style to improve relationships
ABOUT EXCELerate – THE ULTIMATE LEADERSHIP COACHING PROGRAM
EXCELerate is designed to help professionals excel and accelerate their careers.
We believe that embracing personality diversity within your team or client relationships boosts performance, innovation and engagement. Our experiential workshop format guarantees a better uptake of tools, skills and shifted thinking.
We invite you to our personalised coaching, easy-to-apply actions and playful adventures in a supportive small group environment.
The Art of Cooperation is the first module of our EXCELerate coaching program for emerging leaders. The other 5 fortnightly sessions cover value-driven leadership, playful communication, conflict & problem-solving, boosting motivation and powerful mentoring. All modules compliment but do not require each other.
This is the leadership training you have been waiting for. Start your growth journey now!
WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT EXCELerate
Eva is the kind of facilitator who has a contagious positive energy which is making learning easy and enjoyable especially when it is combined with the experiential tools used in this program. Andre, Leadership Coach
Before the EXCELerate Cooperation session, I had not really analysed the network I relied on. It was a real eye-opener when we went through the activities. It will definitely change the way I work with others. Jack, IT specialist
- All participants are welcome whether their background is theoretical, practical or both. No previous experience with the EXCELerate program is required.
- Tickets are essential to secure your spot. The number of participants is limited to 7 people per session.
- The two-hour session requires you to be open to contribute and participate in activities.
- By registering you consent that photos and videos might be taken of the event.


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Guy Fieri
|January 22, 1968
Guy Fieri is an American chef who was born on January 22, 1968. Ridiculousness and The Chew account for some of Guy Fieri's recent TV credits. Guy Fieri has a credit for the movie I Am Evel Knievel (2014). Guy Fieri's Instagram account (@guyfieri) has a significant following with around 1.1 million followers. Guy Fieri's recent posts to Instagram have gotten around 30,000 likes each.
Guy Fieri TV Shows
|The Chew
|The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
|The Talk
|The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
As of 2018, Guy Fieri has contributed to about 7 TV shows. Some of the most recent Guy Fieri TV appearances include Ridiculousness, The Chew, and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. In 2014, Guy Fieri appeared on Ridiculousness. Guy Fieri was a guest on The Chew also in 2014 and again in 2014 Guy Fieri was a guest on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Guy Fieri Movies
|I Am Evel Knievel
As of 2018, Guy Fieri has appeared in only one movie. I Am Evel Knievel is the only recent movie featuring Guy Fieri. I Am Evel Knievel was released in 2014.


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PARALLEL SESSION - Center for Democracy & Technology/Global Network Initiative
Parallel Session #12
Center for Democracy & Technology / Global Network Initiative - Surveillance Reforms: Toward Transparency and Accountability
The central topic of this panel was the effort to increase governmental transparency and accountability regarding surveillance programs. The transparency reports of large Internet corporations were held up as useful models, but the culture of secrecy in government agencies is something that those kinds of reports don't address. Increased parliamentary oversight, an informed public, good journalists, corporate advocacy efforts, and an active civil society were all seen as necessary elements in holding governments accountable. One theme became abundantly clear over the course of the discussion: the debate is only just getting started.


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Raindrops on Water II - Fine Art Photograph
Raindrops on Water II - Fine Art Photograph
Fine art abstract sepia photograph. Rain falling in water.
Title: Raindrops on Water II
Note from Beth
I love all three of my "Raindrops on Water" triptych. The interplay between the shadows and light on the smooth glassy surface of the water is made even more interesting by the raindrops disruption the stillness.
About your print
This photograph will be printed on Somerset Velvet paper, with Ultrachrome HDR inks. This fine art paper has a slightly textured, beautiful matte finish that will enhance the detail and beauty of the print.
Your print will be unmatted and unframed, printed by a professional print lab, and mailed directly to you.
100% Guarantee
I want you to be 100% happy with your artwork! All artwork purchases are covered under my 90-day money back guarantee. If you are not satisfied with your purchase you can return it for a credit, refund or exchange for up to 90 days. See my "Purchasing Prints" page for more details.
Prints can be shipped anywhere in the United states. Your fine art print will be printed and shipped within 3-8 business days from the time you order it. Prints will be shipped via USPS and will come with a tracking number. I offer standard shipping and a priority mail upgrade. Print orders of over $150 qualify for free standard shipping - use promo code: 150SHIPPING.
If you have any questions feel free to contact me!


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Technologies keeping up with the times
Every client wants his product / project to be done qualitatively, in the shortest time and with the minimal material costs.
Modern development technologies in the IT-sphere let us create all sorts of products, taking into consideration all possible, even the wildest wishes of the client.
Our professional team of experts will carefully study your project/idea. In the shortest time we will determine the optimal set of technologies specifically for your company that will make us create a quality product in the shortest time.
We take into consideration all the wishes of the client, we find an individual approach to each project and create a unique high-quality product, using the latest development technologies.


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40 Things You Need To Know About.
Yup, so today I turn 40. And rather than get all deep about this milestone birthday, I am gonna keep it on-brand (as the under-40 kids say) and share this quick list of 40 things I find essential as I enter into a new decade.
My hope is that, no matter how old you are, you will consider this bookmark-worthy… Because I try a LOT of things, and these are deemed worthy of a being commemorated for posterity on the blog:
1-4: Overpriced sneakers. Yup, gonna start there. Because they make wearing sneakers for basically any occasion acceptable since people recognize instantly that they are essentially Louboutins, but for wise grown up women. I adore these for extra height, and just ordered this pair while writing this post because OMG the glitter and retro velcro, how could I NOT? For high tops, I love this glitter-meets-old-school pair, however you will surely maximize wear for both denim and dressy with something silver.
5: Madewell 10" High Waist Skinny Jeans. They suck it ALL IN, and just feel so good every time you put them on.
6: NuFace at-home microcurrent device- use it 3-5 times a week to keep your skin looking 100%. Read more about my love for microcurrent HERE.
7: This eyeliner because it makes ALL THE DIFFERENCE and never leaves you looking like a hot mess.
8-9: A doormat that says "sure, I own a home and have a mortgage and kids and responsibilities, but I don't take myself too seriously." Option B: SUP.
10: Ice Roller- it is the best $12 or so you can spend to recover your face- and soothe a headache- after a rough night.
11: This Dyson stick vacuum will change your life- I have it mounted on the wall in our kitchen and use it like 100 times a day.
12: While we are on the topic of Dyson, I paid full price for this hairdryer (even though I have like 8 other ones at home in boxes that were sent to me to try, for free) and it was SO. WORTH. IT. My hair has never dried so fast, or smooth.
13: It's time for grown-up luggage, and there is no better choice than a full set of AWAY suitcases. Preferably in a fun color. (Get $20 off when you use this link to buy.)
14-15: My Holy Grail daily tinted moisturizer (as the beauty girls say) is this from IT Cosmetics, and you should apply it with this game-changing Blend Smart rotating makeup brush, you won't believe how your skin looks after using this combo. Promise.
16: The no-show socks that inspired my first Better Basics segment for TODAY, and are one of the most-purchased items on my blog. I love thinking back to the number of women that have come up to me and slipped off their shoes while excitedly thanking me for bringing these socks into their lives!
17-20: Fun, whimsical sunglasses are the best accessory- I wear these heart shaped ones all the time, bought a pair identical to these oversized frames (great for rounder faces thanks to the squared-off edges) at a vintage store in Iceland and now own multiple back-ups because I love them so much. I do believe you need one splurge-worthy pair, and they should be from DITA- I have a version of these aviators, but any pair HERE is an A++.
21: I don't know what I did without Lele Sedoughi headbands in my life. They flatter every face shape, and cover up roots and baby hair flyaways in the most chic way imaginable.
22: You guys love this Nooni tinted lip oil as much as I do- it is always in my top 10 most-clicked links on the blog- first raved about HERE.
23: If I could only wear one style of workout leggings for the rest of my life, it would be these from The Upside- most flattering ever, and such fun limited run designs each season.
24: This goes in my coffee every single morning, my hair has never been healthier as a result.
25: Having this grown-up coffeemaker just makes me happy- both the product it brews, and the way it looks on my countertop.
26: This cocktail dress that makes you feel like a hot 28 year old every time you wear it (as seen in the photo above!).
27: The most whimisical-yet-grown-up and crazy affordable giant statement ring ever- also disguises my chubby fingers in photos.
28: Nothing (except an in-home spray tan from my go-to girl Simoni here in Connecticut) compares to the instant glow you get from St. Tropez One Night Only Bronze Body Gloss.
29: I am terrible at packing lunches for my kids- but when I put a random assortment of leftovers in the compartments of this eco-friendly, dishwasher-safe lunch box, I feel like a hero.
30: The best leather jacket ever ever ever- I have had mine for 3 years now, it never looks outdated, fits so well, and is soft as butter.
31-32: I order all my bathing suits online now because I know between THIS Flagpole suit and of course, THIS style from Eres, I will never have to deal with returning- they are perfection.
33: This luxe neutral blush handbag that fits iPads for the kids when you need them handy, but doesn't scream MOM (though to be truthful, I don't actually own it, I just borrow it from my mom!)
34: Biologique Recherche Lotion P50 1970. If you don't know it, you should- so click HERE and learn.
35: Wildfox Sweatshirts. I got my first one 5 years ago, and have been collecting ever since. They are fun and youthful and SO COMFY. Insider Tip: Save like $80 and buy from the KIDS section in a size 14 if you wear a 2-4 in women's sizing. I just got this one and LOVE!
36: Being a parent means packing for yourself AND your kids (at least, it does for me), without travel cubes to organize everything I would be LOST (more on my travel essentials HERE).
37: Flesh Pot from Flesh Beauty because glowing skin can TOTALLY be faked- this is proof.
38: Oliver Thomas laptop case: I first learned about the brand when putting together my Better Basics Back To School segment for TODAY. This case is lightweight, water-resistant and roomy enough to hold my charger, a notebook, some pens and of course, the all-important lip gloss and pack of gum.
39: I reach for this Marula Oil whenever my skin feels even the slightest bit dry- and when I travel and don't want to pack a ton of stuff, I just bring this and a cleanser and I am DONE. The brand is super buzzy in the beauty world at the moment (which normally makes me wary, ha) but. so far, I have loved everything I have tested.
40: I JUST got my first pair of Airpods (as you may have seen on my instagram stories- I got a TAD excited about the purchase!) and OMG, life-changing. Worth every penny, and then some.
Would love for you to share an item you think the rest of us need to know about below in the comments! xx JF