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Madrid IT & Innovation hub creates 250 high tech jobs in total.
Ryanair announced that it had filled 50 of the 250 positions in Travel Labs Spain, as it opened its new, state-of-the-art digital and IT innovation hub, based in Madrid city centre, where recruitment continues.
Travel Labs Spain is the airline's third digital innovation hub following Dublin and Wroclaw (Poland), and these 50 positions have been filled across a range of roles in backend and frontend development, testing, data analysis, digital experience and social media. Recruitment is continuing for Frontend developers, C# Developers, Full Stack Developers, Data Engineers, QA Engineers and Insight Analysts.
Labs has allowed Ryanair to roll out a number of digital initiatives under Year 4 of its "Always Getting Better" programme, including a personalised Ryanair.com website, a new Ryanair Rooms website, a dedicated Chinese Ryanair website, Ryanair Tickets for concerts and events, Apple Pay integration, long haul Air Europa flights on sale on Ryanair.com and a new partnership with the Erasmus Student Network.
Travel Labs Madrid will hold a "Hackathon" on 20th and 21st January and will be inviting Madrid's best talent to take part and build an app that solves real world corporate challenges. Further details of our "Hackathon" will be published on the Ryanair.com website.
In Madrid, Ryanair's Chief Marketing Officer, Kenny Jacobs said: "As the largest airline in Spain, we are excited to open Travel Labs Spain in the heart of Madrid, where we have already recruited 50 of the best and brightest talent to join our online travel revolution. We will continue to grow Spanish employment by delivering a total of 250 new jobs and we look forward to building our team.
In Madrid, Ryanair's Chief Technology Officer, John Hurley said: "Labs continues to deliver the core digital improvements under Ryanair's "Always Getting Better" programme with Ryanair.com now the world's largest airline website, our mobile app having over 25m downloads and more than 30m customers signing up for the "My Ryanair" customer registration service, as we continue on our journey to becoming the "Amazon of travel". We are keen to hear from new talent and to welcome even more tech stars on board Travel Labs Spain."
Angelos is the news editor for TravelDailyNews Media Network (traveldailynews.gr, traveldailynews.com and traveldailynews.asia). His role includes to monitor the hundrends of news sources of TravelDailyNews Media Network and skim the most important according to our strategy.
He currently studies Communication, Media & Culture in Panteion University of Political & Social Studies of Athens.

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Master's in Human Services in Oregon
A Master's Degree in Human Services is an advanced degree focused on human needs. It's designed for grad students who wish to help others live better lives. Human services degree holders could pursue many health and human services career paths. Do you hope to make a difference through care and advocacy? Consider earning an online Master of Human Services.
Masters in Human Services programs are multi disciplinary. So, they tend to touch on many social science topics. These may include family studies, criminal justice, human development, and more. These programs tend to cover community, health or social service topics.
What is a Human Services Masters Degree Program? in Oregon
A Master of Science in Human Services is a graduate degree all about helping people. Well, that's the simple answer. In reality, this field is complex. And it's always changing. So your program could touch on everything from counseling skills to business smarts. You could study how to work with kids or the elderly. And you could learn how to manage services that make a difference.
Human services masters programs tend to be broad in scope. Maybe you're interested in substance abuse or mental health counseling. Or maybe you're eager to learn about family services or nonprofit management. Or one of many other areas of the field of human services. Your program may delve into all that and more.
Most programs explore the many ways to meet human needs. That means preventing problems. And finding solutions. You could discover how to improve the quality of life for vulnerable populations. And, you could boost your multicultural knowledge. That's key when working with people from diverse communities.
Human Services professionals advocate for and provide services to people in need. Their work may include helping the homeless get shelter, food, and health care. Or, assisting children in abusive homes. Many pros in this field work in leadership roles. Examples include community service managers. Or admins in human services agencies. They may work to improve public health and safety for the community.
By the way, you'll need a Bachelor's degree to apply. Usually, a master's takes about two years of full-time study to earn.
What Type Of Masters Degree Program in Human Services is Perfect For You? in Oregon
Look for a master's in human services from an accredited school. Accreditation helps you know your school offers high quality learning.
One way to make this simpler: use the search tools on GradSchools.com! There are different ways to review your match results. For instance, you can search masters programs by city, state or country. This type of school search can help you find campus or hybrid programs. Or, search for online master of human services degrees.
Also look for programs that match your goals. Say you want to study Human Services Administration. Or earn a Master of Science in Human Services. You could even find a Master of Arts in Human Services Counseling.
Finally, consider these factors when doing a program evaluation:
- Potential availability of financial aid
- School rankings and reputation
- GRE test requirements
- GPA requirements
- Transfer credits policy
- Whatever else you're looking for in your ideal program
Masters of Human Services Potential Coursework & Specialization in Oregon
A master's degree programs in human services could build on your past knowledge. In fact, professional development tends to be a big focus. So if you're already working in the field, you could enhance your skills. Most Masters in Human Services programs cover community, health, and social service topics. To start, you'll take core classes in the field. Like, ethics, psychology, and cultural diversity. Students might also explore topics like:
- Communication
- Group dynamics
- Child development
- Counseling
- Society and law
- Policy analysis
- Statistics
- Program management
Human Services: Concentration Areas For Masters Students
Some programs let you select a concentration. For instance, you could explore Child Development. Or Gerontology. Other focus areas may include:
- Business
- Family
- Social Work
- Counseling
- Healthcare
- Faith
- Education
- Organizational Leadership
FUN FACT: Yes, most social workers need a bachelor's degree to start. But clinical social workers must have a master's degree. And 2 years of post-master's experience in a supervised clinical setting. They must also have licensure in the state where they practice.
What Could You Do With a Masters in Human Services?
Do you aspire to career paths that make a difference? Consider pursuing a human services master's. Human services pros may work in many settings. Like, nonprofit organizations. Or human service organizations. Or the criminal justice system. Here are some human services careers you could pursue:
- Counselor
- Social worker
- Human resource manager
- Group managers
- Healthcare consultant
- Health Educator
- Community Health Worker
- Mental Health Counselor
- Marriage and Family Therapist
- Probation Officer
- Correctional Treatment Specialist
- Rehabilitation Counselor
- School Counselor
- Career Counselor
- Social and Human Services Assistant
The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects rapid growth in Community and Social Service jobs, outpacing the overall average, with approximately 281,600 openings annually from 2022 to 2032. Many of these new roles should be in the social work and counseling career areas. For instance, substance abuse and rehabilitation counseling. Additionally, the May 2022 median annual wage for this group was $49,380 in 2022.
- Health Educators and Community Health Workers
- Mental Health Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Probation Officers
- Correctional Treatment Specialists
- Rehabilitation Counselors
- School and Career Counselors
- Social and Human Services Assistants
- Social Workers
Ready to Pursue a Masters Degree in Human Services? in Oregon
Many career paths in human services call for a master's. Why not explore online programs on GradSchools.com? You may find the grad program that's perfect for your goals!
State | Employment | Annual Mean Wage |
New York | 12,560 | $82,190 |
Pennsylvania | 7,920 | $61,160 |
Massachusetts | 6,810 | $64,570 |
Michigan | 4,590 | $70,040 |
Ohio | 4,470 | $66,990 |
Schools with Master's Degree in Human Services in Oregon
Program | Institution | Degree Awarded |
Master of Science in Human Services | Purdue Global | MS |
GradSchools.com offers 1 Master's in Human Services in Oregon
Purdue Global
Regent University
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A map is a symbolic depiction highlighting relationships between elements of that space such as objects, regions, and themes.
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[edit]- Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
- Muhammad Ali, in Don't Stop Believin': Pop Culture and Religion from Ben-Hur to Zombies, Westminster John Knox Press, 2012, p. 35
- The map is not the territory, and the name is not the thing named.
- Gregory Bateson (1979) Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity. New York: E. P. Dutton. p. 30
- Let's not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls.
- Gregory Bateson (1988) Mind and nature: a necessary unity p. 99
- There are no maps to lead us where we are going, to this new world of our own making. As the world looks back to nine decades of war, of strife, of suspicion, let us also look forward—to a new century, and a new millennium, of peace, freedom and prosperity.
- George H. W. Bush made those comments on January 1, 1990. The Watchtower magazine; In Search of a New World Order, 7/15 1991.
- In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.
- Harold Bloom, in Paul A. Olson Beyond a Common Joy: An Introduction to Shakespearean Comedy, U of Nebraska Press, 2008, p. 12
- History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.
- John Henrik Clarke, in Robert K. Johnston, et al., John Henrik Clarke: Historian, Scholar, and Teacher by Eric Kofi Acree, Africana Librarian, John Henrik Clarke Africana Library, Cornell University
- A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal that's communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.
- Chuck Close, in Andy Ward What I've Learned: Chuck Close, Hearst Communications, 31 December 2001
- This seems highly likely, especially as it has been shown that in several systems mutations affecting the same amino acid are extremely near together on the genetic map.
- Francis Crick, in The Realm of Science, Volume 18, Touchstone Publishing Company, 1972, p. 171
- We may think of maps and mapping as an objective process, but that would be an illusion. What gets mapped, and more importantly, what does not, is a product of various social, economic, and political phenomena. Quite apart from border disputes and contentious sovereignty, mapping also reflects political priorities. Creating the survey data that can be used in maps is expensive, and large-scale mapping endeavors are typically the preserve of states, whose ability to deliver that data often depends on resources that compete with other governmental priorities. This is true especially in resource-constrained settings.
- Chris von Csefalvay, "Spatial dynamics of epidemics: Epidemics in discrete and continuous space", Computational Modeling of Infectious Disease (2023).
- In generalizing lies the difficulty of scientific map-making, for it no longer allows the cartographer to rely merely on objective facts but requires him to interpret them subjectively. To be sure the selection of the subject matter is controlled by considerations regarding its suitability and value, but the manner in which this material is to be rendered graphically depends on personal and subjective feeling. But the latter must not predominate: the dictates of science will prevent any erratic flight of the imagination and impart to the map a fundamentally objective character in spite of all subjective impulses. It is in this respect that maps are distinguished from fine products of art. Generalized maps and, in fact, all abstract maps should, therefore, be products of art clarified by science.
- Max Eckert, "On the Nature of Maps and Map Logic," in: Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, Volume 40, (1908), p. 347; Cited in: McMaster, Robert Brainerd, and K. Stuart Shea. "Generalization in digital cartography." Washington, DC: Association of American Geographers, 1992.
- We invented a nonexistent Plan, and They not only believed it was real but convinced themselves that They had been part of it for ages, or rather They identified the fragments of their muddled mythology as moments of our Plan, moments joined in a logical, irrefutable web of analogy, semblance, suspicion. But if you invent a plan and others carry it out, it's as if the Plan exists. At that point it does exist. Hereafter, hordes of Diabolicals will swarm through the world in search of the map. We offered a map to people who were trying to overcome a deep private frustration. What frustration? Belbo's first file suggested it to me: There can be no failure if there really is a Plan. Defeated you may be, but never through any fault of your own. To bow to a cosmic will is no shame. You are not a coward; you are a martyr.
- Umberto Eco Foucault's Pendulum Yesod, Chapter 118
- A map is not the territory. - Alfred Korzybski
- Umberto Eco Foucault's Pendulum Tiferet, Chapter 83
- You fall in love with somebody who fits within what I call your 'love map,' an unconscious list of traits that you build in childhood as you grow up. And I also think that you gravitate to certain people, actually, with somewhat complementary brain systems.
- Helen Fisher, in Sharing The Good Life, Prezi Inc., 15 November 2013
- The three basic mechanisms of averaging, feedback and division of labor give us a first idea of a how a CMM [Collective Mental Map] can be developed in the most efficient way, that is, how a given number of individuals can achieve a maximum of collective problem-solving competence. A collective mental map is developed basically by superposing a number of individual mental maps. There must be sufficient diversity among these individual maps to cover an as large as possible domain, yet sufficient redundancy so that the overlap between maps is large enough to make the resulting graph fully connected, and so that each preference in the map is the superposition of a number of individual preferences that is large enough to cancel out individual fluctuations. The best way to quickly expand and improve the map and fill in gaps is to use a positive feedback that encourages individuals to use high preference paths discovered by others, yet is not so strong that it discourages the exploration of new paths.
- Francis Heylighen (1999) "Collective Intelligence and its Implementation on the Web: algorithms to develop a collective mental map", In: Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory 5(3), p. 253-280. p. 265
[edit]- Now, to use the famous metaphor by Alfred Korzybski in his Science and Sanity (1933), this verbal world ought to stand in relation to the extensional world as a map does to the territory it is supposed to represent. If a child grows to adulthood with a verbal world in his head which corresponds fairly closely to the extensional world that he finds around him in his widening experience, he is in relatively small danger of being shocked or hurt by what he finds, because his verbal world has told him what, more or less, to expect. He is prepared for life. If, however, he grows up with a false map in his head [...] he will constantly be running into trouble, wasting his efforts, and acting like a fool. He will not be adjusted to the world as it is: he may, if the lack of adjustment is serious, end up in a mental hospital. (editor's link)
- S. I. Hayakawa Maps and Territories, p. 31
- Heinz performs the magic trick of convincing us that the familiar objects of our existence can be seen to be nothing more than tokens for the behaviors of the organism that apparently create stable forms. These stabilities persist, for that organism, as an observing system. This is not to deny an underlying reality that is the source of objects, but rather to emphasize the role of process, and the role of the organism in the production of a living map, a map that is so sensitive that map and territory are conjoined.
- Louis H. Kauffman, "EigenForm." Kybernetes 34.1/2 (2005): 129-150.
- The map is not the territory … The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map.
- Alfred Korzybski Science and Sanity (1933) Edition:Institute of General Semantics, 1995, p. 58
- Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.
- Alfred Korzybski, in Martin Dodge, et al., The Map Reader: Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation, John Wiley & Sons, 9 May 2011, p. 60
- Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?
- Aldo Leopold "Chihuahua and Sonora: The Green Lagoons" p. 148-149
[edit]- The representational nature of maps, however, is often ignored – what we see when looking at a map is not the word, but an abstract representation that we find convenient to use in place of the world. When we build these abstract representations we are not revealing knowledge as much as are creating it.
- Alan MacEachren (1995/2004) How maps work: representation, visualization, and design. Guilford Press. p. v
- Understanding how maps work and why maps work (or do not work) as representations in their own right and as prompts to further representations, and what it means for a map to work, are critical issues as we embark on a visual information age.
- Alan MacEachren (1995/2004) How maps work: representation, visualization, and design. Guilford Press. p. v
- The fact that map is a fuzzy and radial, rather than a precisely defined, category is important because what a viewer interprets a display to be will influence her expectations about the display and how she interacts with it.
- Alan MacEachren (2004). How Maps Work: Representation, Visualization, and Design, The Guilford Press. p. 161
- Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we wander unaware, without a map. Be careful: in the last analysis, reality may be exactly what we think it is.
- Alan Moore "What Is Reality?" (written for television)
- Many technologies for mapping and viewing are closely connected to the growth of surveillance in contemporary society and the power of defining who sees and who is seen (Parenti 2003, pp. 3, 9; Dodge & Perkins 2009). The use of surveillance technologies to examine the past does not exclude the present: When satellite imagery is used to search for archaeological sites and their spatial relationships to landforms, images of contemporary settlements and land use are also part of the picture. This intrusion into people's lives takes place without consent, informed or otherwise.
- Susan Pollock, "Archaeology and Contemporary Warfare", Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 2016. 45:215–31, p.221.
- No map contains all the information about the territory it represents. The road map we get at the gasoline station may show all the roads in the state, but it will not as a rule show latitude and longitude. A physical map goes into details about the topography of a country but is indifferent to political boundaries. Furthermore, the scale of the map makes a big difference. The smaller the scale the less features will be shown.
- Anatol Rapoport Science and the goals of man: a study in semantic orientation. Greenwood Press, 1950/1971. p. 85
- A fundamental value in the scientific outlook is concern with the best available map of reality. The scientist will always seek a description of events which enables him to predict most by assuming least. He thus already prefers a particular form of behavior. If moralities are systems of preferences, here is at least one point at which science cannot be said to be completely without preferences. Science prefers good maps.
- Anatol Rapoport Science and the goals of man: a study in semantic orientation. Greenwood Press, 1950/1971. p. 224; Partly cited in: Book review by Harold G. Wren, in Louisiana Law Review, Vol 13, nr 4, May 1953
- There are few results of man"s activities that so closely parallel man's interests and intellectual capabilities as the map.
- Arthur H. Robinson (1965) as cited in: Matthew H. Edney (2008) "Putting "Cartography" into the History of Cartography: Arthur H. Robinson, David Woodward, and the Creation of a Discipline"
- If we then make the obvious assumption that the content of a map is appropriate to its purpose, there yet remains the equally significant evaluation of the visual methods employed to convey that content.
- Arthur Howard Robinson (1952/1966) The look of maps: an examination of cartographic design University of Wisconsin Press. p. 15
- Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home—so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt, remarks at presentation of booklet on human rights, In Your Hands, to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, United Nations, New York, March 27, 1958.
[edit]- As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops.
- Octavia Spencer, in Octavia Spencer, Hollywood Journal, 14 May 2013
- You can't physically touch software. You can hold a floppy disk or CD-ROM in your hand, but the software itself is a ghost that can be moved from one object to another with little difficulty. In contrast, a road is a solid object that has a definite size and shape. You can touch the the material and walk the route...
Software is a codification of a huge set of behaviors: if this occurs, then that should happen, and so on. We can visualize individual behaviors, but we have great difficulty visualizing large numbers of sequential and alternative behaviors...
The same things that make it hard to visualize software make it hard to draw blueprints of that software. A road plan can show the exact location, elevation, and dimensions of any part of the structure. The map corresponds to the structure, but it's not the same as the structure. Software, on the other hand, is just a codification of the behaviors that the programmers and users want to take place. The map is the same as the structure... This means that software can only be described accurately at the level of individual instructions... A map or a blueprint for a piece of software must greatly simplify the representation in order to be comprehensible. But by doing so, it becomes inaccurate and ultimately incorrect. This is an important realization: any architecture, design, or diagram we create for software is essentially inadequate. If we represent every detail, then we're merely duplicating the software in another form, and we're wasting our time and effort.- George Stepanek (2005) Software Project Secrets: Why Software Projects Fail. p. 10-11
- There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.
- Meryl Streep, in Diva of the Week: Meryl Streep, Beige Magazine, 2014
- Pierre Bourdieu, a French sociologist, observed that elites in a society typically maintain their power not simply by controlling the means of production (ie money), but by dominating the cultural discourse too (ie a society's intellectual map). And what is most important in relation to that cognitive map is not what is overtly stated and discussed – but what is left unstated, or ignored.
- Gillian Tett "Eliminate financial double-think" Financial Times, August 20, 2009
- Believable fairy-stories must be intensely practical. You must have a map, no matter how rough. Otherwise you wander all over the place. In The Lord of the Rings I never made anyone go farther than he could on a given day
- Israel, as the Jewish state, must disappear from the map. The so called peace-path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance.
- Ahmed Yassin, in Daniel Byman A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism, Oxford University Press, 15 June 2011, p. 170
- In other words, all of my books are lies. They are simply maps of a territory, shadows of a reality, gray symbols dragging their bellies across the dead page, suffocated signs full of muffled sound and faded glory, signifying absolutely nothing. And it is the nothing, the Mystery, the Emptiness alone that needs to be realized: not known but felt, not thought but breathed, not an object but an atmosphere, not a lesson but a life.
- "Foreword" to Ken Wilber: Thought as Passion (2000) by Frank Visser
- I compare a lot of life to looking at a map through a straw. The less ability you have to see life in a humorous way, the smaller the straw is that you're looking at the map of life. You're not looking at the whole picture. You can't see the whole topography without it, and it can help you to make better choices.
- Reggie Watts, in Johnny Firecloud Reggie Watts on Jack White, Existentialism and Live at Third Man Records, Craveonline,11 April 2011
- What often happens if you study this integral map is that it begins to make room in your psyche, in your being, in your soul, for all the parts of you that were disowned, whether by society, your parents, your peers, whomever. An integral approach even makes room for those who did the disowning to you.
- Ken Wilber "Integral Spirituality in Real Life," on beliefnet.com, 2005/05


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Introduce your business and tell us your story: How did you decide on what to sell, and how did you source your products?
I used to design shoes for Converse and Puma, and on the side I start a clothing brand. I gained a ton of industry experience by working for big corporations, but realized I wanted my time to be in my own hands. In running my apparel line, I earned a lot of hands-on experience, but realized the limitations of having a brand whose main goal was to be carried in shops. That uphill battle was real. I ultimately decided to combine the knowledge I had learned in creating products for myself and others, and decided to open a shop that sold the product I loved. Instead of being the maker behind it all, I wanted to be in charge of the shop that sold it. I wanted to work with creatives to showcase their talent and perhaps steer them to success, too. Strange Ways was born to showcase independent designers, artists, and small brands. We're strange because the product we carry can be kind of weird (that's sort of my thing), but it's also unique, limited, often made by hand, cared for, eccentric and interesting.
It started out working with friends I had made throughout the years, and knowing the cool stuff they were making. I got them on board with the shop, and eventually it was a domino effect. I started carrying work by friends of friends, then people started coming to me, and now I can reach out to artists I admire and creative exclusive content for the shop.
How did you earn your first sales? Which channels are now generating the most traffic and sales for you?
I knew an online shop would be the easiest and fastest way to start making money and spread the word about Strange Ways. With a webstore you can reach anyone around the globe with a few social media posts or online ads. Congruently I also participated in regular events like markets and festivals in my area to see if the local customer base was there. Eventually I was invited to hold pop-up shops at local retailers, including Urban Outfitters. The online shop continues to grow the fastest and generate the most revenue with hundreds of items shipped out weekly. This is probably partly because the largest audience interaction we have is through Instagram, but I also like to think that our online shop is set up well. :)
Tell us about the back-end of your business. What tools and apps do you use to run your store? How do you handle shipping and fulfillment?
The greatest asset has been the Shopify POS app. It makes accepting money in person easy, but I truly love that it syncs up with the online shop so seamlessly. It not only brings in pricing and automatically charges sales tax, but it depletes inventory from both channels to prevent overselling. The Wanelo Shopify app has been the hugest surprise for sales. Without any work on my part it easily brings your product onto their platform and exposes you to their thousands, if not millions, of users. Strange Ways has received a lot more sales by simply installing the app. For months I packaged orders myself; writing all orders by hand and going to post office for an hour almost every day. It was my least favorite part of having the shop. Recently Shopify began rolling out an automated shipping service directly from our account dashboard and it has helped tons. I can buy postage and just drop off packages at the post office now instead of waiting in line. Often I'll just pack up orders and print labels when there's a lag at the storefront.
What are your top recommendations for new store owners?
Do not start any business you don't believe in. Do not start any business you wouldn't shop at yourself. Do not start any business you aren't passionate about. Customers are smart. They can see if you aren't 100% into what you're trying to sell to them. And if what you're doing isn't worth your time, how can you convince others it's worth theres? (You'll also have a really hard time devoting so much time to something you don't care about.)


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SVdP Meeting
December 18 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
An event every 2 weeks that begins at 7:00 pm on Wednesday, repeating indefinitely
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul has been an active ministry at St. Ignatius Loyola since 1865. SVdP has continued serving our neighbors in need through several wars, the Great Depression, and the September 11th attacks.
Our meetings begin with a prayer and spiritual reflection, followed by an agenda of items geared toward service toward the Poor. We also build and grow in friendship by sharing updates and happenings in our lives. Please consider joining us as we serve our neighbors in need.
SVdP meets biweekly (year-round) on Wednesdays at 7:00 PM in the Gonzaga Meeting Room at the Parish House.


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We had rented a cabin and were going to spend a week with another family. We were on a tight schedule and had to be pretty organized. I had the food prepared as much as possible and in the freezer and fridge. The plan was we would go to our home and then I would make the 45 minute drive each way to drive the in-laws home. I was also going to stop at the grocery store to pick up the fresh veggies and other perishables.
My BB was to load his vehicle with all the food from the house that was coming with us. He was also to load the suitcases we had zipped out of my van and put them in his. I'm sure he had to do a few other things too. I just don't know what they were.
It was a great drive up to the cabin. Our friends were already there. The BB and other guys unload all the food and stuff from the trailer and truck. After a few pleasantries I ask my BB where he had put my suitcase.
It was not where he said it should be and I started to get this uncomfortable feeling in my stomach. I pressed him for an explanation as to where it was and what we figured out is he was trying to be helpful and had taken the suitcase from my car and emptied it into the laundry room at home.
So I was supposed to spend a week in the bush with nothing but the clothes on my back. Smart A** whipped out his American Express card and laughed about me taking it to go shopping out in the middle of nowhere. Common sense kicked in at that moment and he put it away real fast knowing I would use it to call for a helicopter to land on the frozen lake and take me shopping at the nearest urban centre. (spelled right...I'm Canadian)
So what to do. The other lady there loaned me a pair of pajamas. She kept offering me her underwear too but that was out of the question. I wore my BB's sweatshirts and my same pair of pants for 7 days. I washed out my undies repeatedly. I shared a toothbrush with my BB.
It has been some time since this happened but my memory is long for these things. I haven't got even yet but I will. Maybe on his next business trip I will replace all of his clothes with mine in his suitcase. That should be a real laugh at the airport security booth. Not that I hold a grudge or anything.


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The RAMI 4.0-Toolbox deals with the complexity that comes up with Industrie 4.0. Implemented as extension for the modeling tool Enterprise Architect it provides a framework for modelling an architecture based on cyber physical systems.
Building on the success that comes with the SGAM-Toolbox we started creating a new concept for Industrie 4.0 in 2016. Currently the first launch of the toolbox is available which includes some adaptations and improvements.
The toolbox is based on the "Model Driven Generation" technology provided by Enterprise Architect where the results are stored in a XML-based file. The language of choice is C# which allows to make use of all functionalities that come with it.
The RAMI 4.0 Toolbox has been made possible and in cooperation with SparxSystems Central Europe (DE: www.sparxsystems.de, EN: www.sparxsystems.eu)
The next step is to improve the toolbox according to usability and scope of functions. To achieve this, the toolbox is under continuous processing and integration of suggestions from constant exchange with the community.
Complete documentation: https://www.en-trust.at/wp-content/uploads/Introduction-to-RAMI-Toolbox.pdf
Press Relase (german): https://www.pressebox.de/pressemitteilung/sparxsystems-software-gmbh/SparxSystems-CE-RAMI-40-modellbasiert-umsetzen/boxid/876469


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Editor's Note: John Avlon is a CNN contributor and senior political columnist for Newsweek and The Daily Beast. He is co-editor of the book "Deadline Artists: America's Greatest Newspaper Columns."
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John Avlon: It's hard to run for office, and the lure of highly paid TV seems more attractive
Avlon: Palin goes on "Today" show, Huckabee declines to run and sticks with Fox news
A TV appearance is fine, but is no substitute for commitment to real public service, he says
Soundbites on a TV show are poor second to public debate, civic involvement, Avlon writes
It's tough to get quality people to run for political office these days. There's the cult-like polarization, the vicious mudslinging, and the cost to families and finances.
But there's a new trend which promises to make the problem much worse: It seems that people who have achieved elected office would rather be on TV.
Sarah Palin's appearance as a co-host on the "Today Show" was just the latest reminder that she walked away from the governor's mansion in Alaska after getting a taste for the bright lights. Yes, she told her constituents that she was looking out for their best interests by removing the distraction she had become. But the prospect of a lucrative cable news contract, a reality show and big-ticket speaking gigs was certainly a large part of the incentive.
In a way you can't blame her – she got maximum compensation and minimum responsibility. But this shortcut to the financial side of the American Dream ignores the larger honor of being elected to serve in the first place. You don't walk away from that sacred trust of executive office because you'd rather be doing something else.
A variation on this theme can be also seen in Mike Huckabee – a genial conservative and inspiring orator. It's now apparent that the former Arkansas governor could have been a real contender in the presidential campaign if he had chosen to compete. He could have quickly established himself as the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney, and I believe he would now be the favorite in this race.
But Huckabee was making good money with a weekend show at Fox News. He was building a house in the Florida Panhandle and launched a nationally syndicated radio show that promises to compete head-to-head with Rush Limbaugh. I wish him all the success in the world. But I can't help but feel he passed up not only an opportunity, but also an obligation – to do the hard thing and throw his hat in the ring.
Former governors like Eliot Spitzer and Jennifer Granholm, now hosting prime-time hours on the Al Gore-owned Current TV, are other recent examples of this trend.
Look, talking about politics on television is fun and purposeful. At its best it can help elevate the debate and cut through the self-interested partisan spin. But it is no substitute for the honor and opportunity of actually serving in elected office. That is the main event in politics – a chance to make a difference directly in people's lives, rather than just the bank-shot of making a point in the public eye.
At the end of the day, the impulses to work in government or journalism should have some degree of overlap in the best sense: a commitment to civic debates, public policy and making a positive difference in the life of your city, state and nation.
I don't fault those political figures who, with their time in public service behind them, decide to remain engaged in the great debates through writing and television. Presidents like Calvin Coolidge and Theodore Roosevelt wrote newspaper columns in their sunset years after leaving office. But choosing to avoid the real arena for the comparative comfort of a TV studio seems like a softening of our democracy.
Maybe it reflects the frustrations of executive office in our era, a process surrounded by partisan land mines, polarized legislatures and legal red tape. The process of legislating in obscurity for low pay is another disincentive for public service, which explains why so many members of Congress and their staff cash out for jobs on K Street.
But when the lure of celebrity and luxury outweighs the responsibility of public service, it represents a challenge to our democracy. The people who have the honor of holding high elective office also have the obligation to lead by example. The bottom line is that we're in danger of getting it backward – the broadcast studio is not the real bully pulpit.
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It's been a weird week. Since Canada Day fell on a Tuesday this year, today feels more like a Monday rather than a Wednesday. Luckily, it's not a Monday, and we only have a few days to go until it's Friday again. And to celebrate, we have these new shots of Kit Harington's latest campaign for Jimmy Choo. Jon Snow may not know much, but he sure does know how to look hot and moody. Frankly, I couldn't care less about the shoes on his feet, so I don't know if this is effective advertising, but I am certainly not going to complain!
Have a great Wednesday and enjoy some more Kit Harington hotness after the jump!
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Must-have: Smooth-365 Intensive Clarity + Smoothing Peptide Serum
- Yeast Extract, Mulberry, Grapeseed and Scutelleria - these ingredients helps in dispersing melanin production that makes skin appear more even. Even skin = better looking skin.
- Optical Diffussers and Flamenco Blue Pearls and soft focus silicas called Monoveil - upon application, you'll notice blurring of your fine lines and a more smoother texture of your skin. These silicone ingredients are responsible for that. It also helps reflect light that your skin appears clearer even with just one application.
- Hight tech Peptides: Palmitoyl Oligopeptide and Acetyl Hexapeptide - encourages collagen production that give back that youthful look to the skin with prolong use.
- Upon application, your face will appear smoother, softer and more pliant to foundation or any sort of makeup application. Fine lines are less apparent and you will appear a lot more photogenic on photos.
- A few weeks of use and you'll notice a more radiant and even skin tone.
- More than a month or so, your skin will become more supple with increase of collagen production, and there are less lines and wrinkles with continued us.
- Squeeze tube to the palm.
- Warm the product by rubbing both hands together.
- Gently pat the palms on to your face until every thing is cover
- Smoothen it out with your fingers
- Denifinitely a great product for those who are already conscious about aging.
- For those who loves makeup and want a primer that can double as anti-aging product.
- Want immediate results of less visisble lines and wrinkles, especially during event.
- If you are allergic to silicone-base product, this is not a good product for me.
- Ridden with adult acne may cause this product to aggravate it as it may clog your pores if you don't visit your dermatologist for treatments.
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Ooh, nice review, Shen. I saw this together with the eye creams being sold at SM together for a cheaper price. But I thought it was just a little too expensive and it would be awful if this broke me out if I bought it. I wish they have smaller sizes or samples so we can try them first before splurging on it. A couple of thousands for one product is no joke. But I am itching to try this especially the eye cream. :)
ReplyDeleteI really love everything about goodskin labs products. even if i get some of them fr review, i am going to continue using them buying with my own moolah. the eyeliplex-2 is my most favorite. very gentle to the skin around the eyes.
smooth 365, i really reco for aging women, like our moms, tita's and even aging men. for us who still have acne should use this with caution. and those who could be allergic to silicone, this product might be too much for them.
it's a good thing i'm not allergic to silicone. :)Thanks for the review! I really need to start using this. I have one unopened because I've always been apprehensive about using silicone-based serums. Moisturizers don't seem to sit well on top. But I've never tried with Smooth 365. Do you use it before or after moisturizer?
ReplyDeleteHi Connie, i use after moisturizer. :) It's always been my practice to wait and let the moisturizer get absorb before I apply any face primer since it tend to clump my makeup. :) i massage my face while waiting.
when it's too hot, i forgo the moisturizer and straight to sunblock, same thing i do. wait for it to be absorbed. :)Ooh, now that you mentioned it has silicone, I'm so relieved that I skipped it. I break out with products with silicone.


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Prepare to be enchanted by the sheer cuteness of these delightful photos featuring an adorable kitten with four paws but only two tiny shoes! This captivating collection captures the heartwarming moments as this little furball confidently strides on two feet, each adorned with a precious shoe. Join us as we unravel the tale of this endearing feline and the playful quirkiness that ensues when fashion meets furry paws!
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As this precious furball struts its stuff, it's hard not to imagine other feline friends casting envious glances at those stylish shoes. After all, who wouldn't want to follow in the paw-steps of such a chic trendsetter?
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With each new photo, the kitten seems to strike the most adorable poses. Whether sitting elegantly or trotting with pride, it carries itself with confidence, embracing both its inherent feline grace and the added charm of its footwear.
In this captivating array of snapshots, we have witnessed the irresistible allure of a kitten with four paws, but only two shoes. The charming combination of furry innocence and fashion flair creates an unforgettable experience that tugs at the heartstrings of all who lay eyes upon it. This enchanting tale is a testament to the beautiful bond between pets and their owners, where love, creativity, and imagination intertwine to create moments of pure joy. Indeed, this fur-tastic feline proves that with a touch of whimsy and a dash of love, the world becomes a more delightful place for us all!


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Eli Manning Holds Passing Camp With Giants Receivers
HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) — Eli Manning simulated taking a snap, backpedaled in the pocket and then rolled to his left and hit receiver Hakeem Nicks on a pass to the sideline.
It's what one would expect in a New York Giants' minicamp at this time of year.
The only problem was this pass took place on a high school field in the shadow of New York City and not under the watchful eyes of coach Tom Coughlin and his staff at the Giants' practice facility.
Welcome to lockout football, where one gets to watch eight players try to stay in shape under the supervision of Manning and his trainer.
The onlookers at Hoboken High School include about a half dozen members of the media, about a dozen locals from this trendy community and a half dozen firefighters from a ladder company who climbed to the top of a roof of a nearby storage building and stood on the edge of the building to watch a little of the workout.
"We're getting our timing back down the first week, making up a little bit," Nicks said after the roughly 90-minute workout that really didn't raise much of a sweat for anyone. "I think guys are trying to get back in that groove and get that connection back."
Manning and Nicks were joined on the field by quarterback Sage Rosenfels, tight end Kevin Boss and receivers Michael Clayton, Duke Calhoun, Victor Cruz and Samuel Giguere.
Manning set up the workouts about a month ago after getting permission to use the field from Mauro DeGennaro, the high school's athletic director. Thursday's workout was the third this week.
"It's good to get back out on the field with the guys again," said Boss, who left about 20 minutes early to participate in another workout in Mahwah. "It's nice to see everyone and start catching the ball again and have fun while we are doing it."
The people watching the workout seemingly had fun.
The field, which had an artificial surface, was next to a tennis court, where about 10 people either shot pictures with their cell phones or seemed to be texting friends.
"This gives a little excitement to the high school and the community," DeGennaro said. "Eli has always been very generous with the students of Hoboken High School, not just the athletics, but all the students. When he made the request, it was very easy to say 'yes and come do what you want to do.' He's just a real, real nice person, as are all the guys."
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The players plan to work out Friday and again next week.
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Nicks refused to say the lockout was bugging him.
"I am not frustrated at all, this is part of the business part of it," he said. "I just have to make sure I am doing my part and standing on my ground."


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Peace campaigners release WILPF Auckland Declaration
AUCKLAND, New Zealand (Pacific Scoop, April 27, 2014) – Women peace campaigners from Aotearoa, Australia, Hawai'i, Japan, Philippines and Polynesia/Te Ao Maohi have called for the removal of military occupation and bases in the Asia-Pacific region.
Meeting at AUT University in New Zealand, the three-day conference organised by the Aotearoa section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom also called for the removal of military training and promotions that "normalise violence" in schools.
The women campaigners urged that military spending be reallocated to eliminate all forms of violence – domestic, social and military. The WILPF Auckland Declaration said:
* Military occupation and military bases must be removed from the Asia Pacific region.
* A call for the decolonisation and demilitarisation of the Pacific came from women at a regional gathering of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) in Auckland April 25-27.
* Women attended from Rapa, Polynesia/Te Ao Maohi, Japan, the Philippines, Aotearoa, Australia and Hawai'i.
* They also call for the removal of military training and promotion from schools since this normalises violence. Military spending should be reallocated to eliminate all forms of violence: domestic, social and military, to meet human needs.
* People have been dispossessed of their land through military colonial forces and all forms of human rights violations.
* The meeting called for recognition of independent countries [which] are still under colonial military domination.
* "Militarisation in the past has caused the colonisation of countries which are still under domination," said Roti Make from WILPF Polynesia section. She specified Hawai'i under the USA, Rapanui under Chile, French Polynesia/Te Ao Maohi, Kanaky (New Caledonia), Wallis and Futuna annexed under France, and West Papua under Indonesia.
* "We call on the United Nations to accept our identity and recognise us as independent nations," she added.
* The women also called for an end to joint military exercises.
WILPF has its hundredth anniversary in April 2015 and they invite all women in the region to join their call.
The conference was held in partnership with Peace Movement Aotearoa and AUT's Pacific Media Centre.


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When we initiated a new usability study of our library's website, we reviewed close to 60 library websites. The one dominant trend we observed was the placement of some sort of search functionality was present on the library's homepage. Most libraries had tabbed search boxes that allowed users to click between tabs for searching the OPAC, periodical databases, and other types of information.
Our assumption was that we also should move our search functionality to our library's homepage. We thought that search was the primary purpose of our website, but the results of our usability study caused us to rethink this assumption. We found that our existing library website where users must click to a separate "research tools" page, outperformed a mock up site with the search box on the homepage. Jeremy Green and I wrote about our usability study findings in the Journal of Academic Librarianship ("Why We Are Not Google," JAL 37:3, May 2011, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2011.02.014).
In our article, Jeremy and I framed our usability study findings with Siva Vaidhyanathan's critique of higher education as having been seduced by Google. We did this partly as a critique of ourselves, partly as our interpretation of our review of library websites, and partly as a rhetorical device to get you to read our article. We hoped that our article would be part of a larger debate about how librarians design websites to fulfill our missions. Are libraries trying to be Google and not be libraries?
Since the article was made available online and in print, I have had several librarians drop me notes about their own usability studies. While all of these notes were very professional and generally grateful for our article, they all presented evidence to support the usability of tabbed search boxes on their library homepages. I greatly enjoyed the exchanges I have had about our study's findings, and I hope to broaden this conversation with this blog post.
For me, the bottom line remains the same. A mock up site with a tabbed search box on the homepage did not out perform our current website when it came to users actually answering the questions we presented them. Our study revealed many problems with our current site that we are addressing, but participants had very few problems navigating between search tools on our site. There was absolutely no evidence that clicking down one level to a page devoted to research was a hindrance to success. Additionally, there was evidence that not having a tabbed search box on the library's homepage made the homepage cleaner and more usable.
One caveat that must be made is that we were testing a tabbed search box, because this would have been the most realistic option for our library. There are many options for federated searching, tabbed searching, and a new generation of discovery tools that may impact future results. We are a relatively small library that does not have programmers or systems support within the library, so our technology options are limited.
This leads to a second caveat, which is that context absolutely matters. A library's homepage needs to make sense for the library. We expect our library's homepage to be a gateway to all of our services, not just a search portal. Moving our search services to a secondary page allows us to build more context around searching.
A final caveat to our findings is that the participants of a usability study matter. There are some aspects of usability that are universal and there are some aspects that really do depend on your participants. The goal of any usability study should be to get behind the eyes of the user and get a feeling for how they see your website. In our case, we wanted to know about our students and our website, and our study has been very enlightening. At that outset of our study, I assumed that search should be front and center on our site. Now, I have abandoned that assumption. I was seduced by Google, but the seduction is over.
Part of the fun of an article like ours is that we have leveled a criticism against all libraries and higher education based on 16 students, but I haven't lost sight of the fact that our findings are really only relevant for us. Yet, knowing how much work a full usability study takes and the prevalence of tabbed search boxes across library websites, I am curious how many libraries are really testing usability? Maybe everyone out there is testing? But, I am skeptical. I think that Google has done a sexy dance, and we have been charmed.
Troy A. Swanson is Teaching & Learning Librarian at Moraine Valley Community College. You can follow him on Twitter at @t_swanson.


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Miss Lillian Wilson, a comely and seemingly respectable San Diego lass, was, alas, a maniacal gearhead. Her obsession and her downfall were other ladies' bicycles, which she could not stop herself from hopping onto and riding off with…. and quickly selling them for much less than they were worth to SRO Land dealers who asked few questions. She needed the money, you see, for candy, wonderful, beguiling, intoxicating candy. It was the only thing more fascinating to her troubled mind than bicycles.
She was found out after she stole Miss Elizabeth Altenhofer's bike from its spot on Hill near Sixth. Miss Altenhofer made a careful scrutiny of pawn and junk shops, finding nothing. Later, perhaps shopping for a replacement, she peered in the window of R.K. Holmes' bicycle shop at 208 West Fifth and saw her very own bike within.
Detective Joseph Ritch was grilling Holmes on the appearance of the woman who'd sold him the hot wheel when he exclaimed "There she goes now!" And indeed, a young woman was gliding along Fifth towards Spring Street on yet another bicycle. Ritch dashed after her, and when she slowed to avoid people walking, he grabbed the girl and compelled her to come with him back to the shop. She came readily, denying any knowledge of the stolen bike or the shop, and was promptly identified.
The handsome Featherstone bike she was riding was, of course, someone else's: Catalina Hotel resident Mrs. E. F. Sweezy's. Confronted with serial numbers that matched a police report, and Holmes' recognition, Lillian Wilson confessed that she had stolen both machines, selling Altenhofer's about twenty minutes after taking it, and snatching Sweezy's immediately after. Her South Main Street rooms were searched, and tool-bags from both bicycles found inside.
A third missing bicycle, belonging to Miss Mable Clapp and stolen from in front of her rooms at 614 South Main, was discovered in a shop on Broadway. The store owner well remembered seller Lillian Wilson, hailing from San Diego. All three machines had been taken within three hours on Saturday last.
Said cool Lillian, "I guess I'm in for it. You have got me, and I might as well tell you all about it. I'm not the crying kind. I'll take my medicine." She planned to plead guilty.
The bold girl was 20, and when not stealing, said she had been appearing as a flower girl in a play at the Burbank Theater. She had arrived but recently in Los Angeles, and was wanted for bicycle theft in her native San Diego, where she had worked as a book-keeper.
On September 23, she appeared in court, not so cocky anymore. Charged with two counts of theft, and represented by Hugh J. Crawford, Esq., she was somber in a white skirt, heliotrope shirt and waist and sailor hat. Crawford asked for a continuance, and it was noted that her parents were expected from San Diego.
The case dragged along until late December, when Lillian Wilson (not her real name, it transpires) quietly pled not guilty by reason of temporary insanity, and was acquitted. Her sister promptly fainted, as the girl thief announced that her intentions for the future were, simply, to be good.


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The Trek Red Truck p/b Mosaic Homes Cycling Team is pleased to announce that former professional cyclist, personal trainer and motivational speaker Leah Goldstein has joined the team after retiring from 13 years on the pro race circuit. Leah retired in the Spring of 2010 following an accident in which she sustained two broken arms.
Leah is a four time Canadian National Time Trial Medalist, overall winner of the 2008 Tour of the Gila, five time Israeli National Cycling Champion in the time trial and road race, three time winner of the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic, BC Provincial Time Trial and Road Race Champion, and still holds numerous climbing records in the Pacific Northwest.
She is now focusing on ultra endurance racing, and has set her sights on attempting to break the female solo record in the 30th anniversary year of the 2011 Race Across America (RAAM - www.raceacrossamerica.org), generally regarded as "the World's Toughest Bicycle Race."
Outdoor Life Network (OLN) has expressed interest in following her exploits in the race and profiling her story. She has already won the Furnace Creek 508 Ultra Endurance race twice and was the first solo woman and second overall in last year's Race Across Oregon. She also set a new record en route to winning the women's solo division of the Ring of Fire 24 Hour Time Trial in Oregon.
TRTR Team Director Steve Engh commented: "Leah raced with our team a number of years ago, so she is very familiar with our program and will be a valuable mentor and inspiration for our women's team. Over the course of her pro racing career she has been among the best in North America and has overcome many injuries as a result of some horrific crashes and accidents. She is one of the most determined and toughest athletes we have ever worked with, so her transition into ultra endurance events is no surprise. She is a terrific addition to the team and a great representative for our corporate partners, especially at high profile events such as the RAAM."
For more information on Leah Goldstein, and to follow her athletic endeavours, please visit her website at www.leahgoldstein.com.
Follow the team by clicking on their website at www.trekredtruckracing.com.
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It used to be when a drug company settled illegal marketing charges that millions took its drugs under false pretenses, the news would be released on a Friday afternoon when no one would notice. That was then. Now almost all the drug companies have joined the Off label/Kickback club and the public doesn't seem to notice or care.
On the surface, Johnson & Johnson's $2.2 billion settlement this week for illegally marketing drugs to the elderly, children and the mentally disabled looks like a victory. J&J's subsidiary, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, will plead guilty to illegally promoting the antipsychotic Risperdal for "controlling aggression and anxiety in elderly dementia patients and treating behavioral disturbances in children and in individuals with disabilities," reports Reuters. The promotions included a brazen kickback scheme to Omnicare Inc, a pharmacy supplying nursing homes, exposed by a whistleblower.
At least 15,000 elderly people in nursing homes die a year from drugs like Risperdal said FDA drug reviewer David Graham in Congressional testimony a few years ago. Eli Lilly who makes the similar drug Zyprexa and AstraZeneca who makes Seroquel have also settled charges that they churned the elderly drug market at the price of Grandma and Grandpa's lives.
But it is not a victory. J&J made $24.2 billion off Risperdal from 2003 to 2010 and shareholders won't even notice this week's nano loss. J&J milked Risperdal for all it was worth and the patent had already run out by the time it was charged with illegal schemes. Other drug giants charged with illegal marketing schemes–Abbott for Depakote, Pfizer for Bextra, Eli Lilly for Zyprexa, AstraZeneca for Seroquel, GlaxoSmithKline for Paxil and Merck for Vioxx–also got their money's worth before the trivial nuisance of suit. Many, like Pfizer who illegally marketed its seizure drug Neurontin while under probation for illegal Lipitor activities–are brazen and shameless repeat offenders.
Many say the only justice that will get Big Pharma's attention is frog marching the CEOs off to prison and/or cutting them off from their lucrative public trough of Medicare, Medicaid and military health programs.
Still, Big Pharma's audacious business plan of asking forgiveness not permission is winding down. Not because Pharma, prescribers, consumers, regulators and health officials have seen the light but because there are no more big drugs to pimp. An estimated 100,000 workers will be losing their jobs at Pfizer, Sanofi, Roche, GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca and Merck reported Yahoo finance last month.
Only two new drug campaigns seem to be brewing and they require a major suspension of reality on the part of doctors and patients. One tries to convince people with low back pain they actually suffer from ankylosing spondylitis an arthritis-like condition that causes chronic inflammation of the spine. If your spine is stiff when you wake up in the morning you can take an immune suppressor like Humira which puts you at risk of tuberculosis and lethal viral, fungal and bacterial infections while costing you $12,000 to $17,000 a year. Line forms to the left.
The other, even more brazen campaign, tries to convince people with insomnia, tiredness during the day, moodiness and relationship problems that they actually suffer from Non-24-Hour Sleep–Wake Disorder, a disorder that affects mostly blind people. You don't have to be blind to have the disorder, says the new Pharma message even though there have been fewer than 100 cases of sighted people with non-24 reported in the scientific literature. It sounds like a stretch but so did convincing people with job, money and marriage problems they really had depression or bipolar disorder.
Still it is obvious the bloom has fallen off the Big Pharma rose and it is now paying the piper for the high-flying party with drug settlements like Johnson & Johnson's this week. But that doesn't mean shady marketing, hidden risks, kickbacks and outrageous prices are gone from the medical field. They have just moved to the Medical Device industry.
Martha Rosenberg is an investigative health reporter. She is the author of Born With A Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks and Hacks Pimp The Public Health (Prometheus).


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By Anthony Gucciardi, Storyleak.com
Speaking with the Daily Telegraph, the highly decorated psychopath expanded upon his notion that the plague of humanity must be reduced throughout the world. Reduction that, according to him, really starts with starving poorer nations that have been decimated by first world global powers (and could be fed with about a week or so of military spending). The problem, Attenborough says, however, comes down to numerous "huge sensitivities" that continue to block the goal of massive population reduction.
And what are these 'huge sensitivities'?
Well, it turns out that the 'sensitivities' blocking the decimation of the world's human population include 'the right to have children'. How truly horrible. Instead, it seems Attenborough thinks that we should revoke the right of citizens to even have children, let alone feed the existing humans in hungry nations. In the interview, Attenborough states:
"We say, get the United Nations to send them bags of flour. That's barmy."
Now perhaps the most alarming thing to note here is that this psychopath who justifies his genocide with faulty reasoning is considered a 'national treasure' in Britain. Better yet, Attenborough also has 31 honorary degrees from British universities, which is more than any other person. This is in addition to his numerous 'royal' titles.
Truly, Attenborough's comments being met with mainstream media attention in a positive light shows just how far gone the mega media is. Ultimately, there is a war on our right to not only have a family and basic necessities, but life itself. If Attenborough wants to reduce the population and starve entire nations into death, then why does he not offer up his own life first?


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In what's become a biennial spectacle, supporters of unprincipled Republicans – who often vote with Democrats – are maligning conservatives as "purists" and accusing them of gambling away Republican control of the Senate. Today, Kimberley Strassel published a column in the WSJ, "Conservatives vs. a Senate Majority," insinuating that Freedom Works and The Club for Growth are helping elect Democrats to the Senate. Specifically, she charges that conservatives opposing Lugar, Bruning, and Thompson will deny Mitch McConnell "the Senate majority leader's office."
There is one predominant point that is overlooked throughout Ms. Strassel's column: it is the very insipid Republican candidates and senators that she supports who have helped the Democrats control the Senate – both in the minority and the majority. It is the very people like McConnell, Lugar, and Thompson who have supported big government, and will continue to support big government in the majority.
The column starts off on the wrong foot with this oleaginous opening line: "Two things stand between Mitch McConnell and the Senate majority leader's office: Democrats, and the conservatives who might help elect Democrats."
Wait a minute. Even if Republicans take back the Senate, who coronated McConnell to be majority leader? The very fact that she deems the election of McConnell as majority leader to be the superlative endgame tells you everything you need to know about her politics.
Does she not realize that McConnell has failed to lead his conference against the plethora of bailouts, stimulus, subsidies, and market interventions that Democrats are itching to pass and have already passed? Or does she support these ideas, so as not to be branded as a truculent purist? The sad reality is that control of the Senate is worthless if less than 51 Republicans are willing to support basic Republican proposals and oppose fundamental Democrat big-government ideas. At present, Senate Republicans are capitulating on so many things that I've had to prioritize which issues to highlight for lack of space in these pages. And I'm sorry, but if we're forced to nominate a guy who still supports Eric Holder in a state like Nebraska, we should all call it quits. Ditto for Indiana. Even in Wisconsin, we didn't do too bad last time with the purist Ron Johnson, and that was against a well respected incumbent.
Strassel goes on to implore us to nominate these non-purists, who are supposedly paragons of electability, because they are the only ones who will bequeath to us a 51-seat majority to "roll back ObamaCare through a "reconciliation" process that skirts the filibuster."
I love how establishment Republicans talk so boldly about repealing Democrat bills and ideas, yet when the rubber meets the road, they capitulate and even lampoon conservatives for urging them to fulfill their promise. They did that on numerous occasions last year. Repealing Obamacare through reconciliation is absolutely vital to preserving this country. But it is also an extremely bold move that will require 51 members with intrepid courage. Does anyone really believe that a bare majority of 50-52 Republicans, comprised of the current flaccid crop, along with a couple of new marginal Republicans, will be sufficient to orchestrate reconciliation? There are already numerous Republican senators – not even the most moderate of the bunch – who have gone on record expressing reservations about full repeal.
In fact, it is for this very reason why we feel it is so important to elect conservatives who will fight for repeal of Obamacare with all their political capital. Without conservatives, there will be no Republican majority in the Senate; not one that supports Republican ideas and risks their careers on full repeal of Obamacare. In 2006, then-Sec. of HHS Tommy Thompson, who always had an affinity for government intervention in healthcare, praised Romneycare for "showing us a better way, one I hope policy makers in Statehouses and Congress will follow to build a healthier and stronger America." Then in 2009, when the Democrat Congress did just that, he praised them. Please forgive my purist instincts for not fully trusting him as the 51st vote on Obamacare repeal.
Ms. Strassel closes by drudging up the banal paradigm of Sharon Angle. She fails to disclose to her readers that Angle's main competitor in the primary was someone who became even more unelectable after suggesting that people will have to barter for their healthcare.
As we noted earlier this week, it's not about purity, it's about consistency. We are looking for candidates who have consistently supported the very fundamental Republican ideals that supposedly unite all factions of the party. Obamacare is definitely one of them. And had we left the Senate races to the likes of Ms. Strassel, we would be at the mercy of Charlie Crist, Bob Bennett, and Arlen Specter. That's not even accounting for Murkowski, Collins, and Brown. We'd need a lot more than 51 "Republicans" to repeal Obamacare. We better do it right.
After all, what's a Republican majority without Republican values?
Cross-posted from The Madison Project


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Do you have a property you want to sell in the Michigan area? For many homeowners, using a rent to own agreement will be the most profitable way to sell their home. Learn more about how it works and what you need to do to sell your house using a rent to own agreement!
Many sellers don't consider the benefits of a rent to own agreement for their Michigan house. While the terms of every contract are different, there are some great perks that you will see across the board. If you don't need the cash from the sale immediately and are comfortable renting out the house for an above average amount each month, selling your house via a rent to own agreement might be the best way to sell your Michigan house!
#1 – Cash Upfront
With most rent to own agreements, the tenant is required to make a downpayment to the seller. While this may be much less than with a standard loan, it should be enough to ensure the tenant won't back out of their debt. You can also utilize an option fee, which is non-refundable and provides the tenant with the option to buy. This is usually about 1% of the sale price. In most cases, this option fee and a portion of the monthly rent will go toward the tenants down payment when the official sale occurs.
#2 – Generate Passive Income
So long as you have a tenant in the home, you will be generating income on the property. Many times, a tenant will pay above average rent, with a portion of the funds going toward the eventual downpayment to the bank. Your tenant isn't going to want to risk default, losing their deposit and option to buy. Knowing this you can almost rely on a continued tenancy from your tenant for as long as you own the property.
#3 – Get The Price You Want
Tenants using a rent to own agreement typically aren't able to qualify for a conventional loan. Whether they don't have the down payment, the income to qualify, or the credit score required, buying via a rent to own agreement will allow people to purchase who may not have been able to in the past. As such, by having the opportunity to buy, these folks will likely be willing to pay your asking price for the property, as long as it's fair.
Keep in mind that the value of the house could go up or down while the agreement is in place. The negotiated sale price will remain the same.
#4 – No Risk If The Tenant Defaults
With most agreements, if the tenant defaults, the seller is able to keep all monies paid. Sure, you will be back at square one, but you will likely be ahead financially and have the option to sell outright or find a new rent to own tenant. The amount you can profit here may be in the thousands when you include the raised rent and down payment.
#5 – Increase The Number of Potential Buyers
There are kinds of wonderful people out there who could afford to buy your house, people who would never default on their loan. However, they may have a blemish on their credit report or insufficient down payment, making them unable to buy a house at the moment. They want to buy but are being held back due to something on paper. With a rent to own agreement, you will be able to open the door for many people who may not have been able to buy otherwise.


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