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Before you call one of the large advertisers claiming to solve your problems for pennies on the dollar, take the time to talk to your trusted, local expert.
Premier Tax & Finance, Inc. in Thousand Oaks, CA is here to help you resolve your tax problems and put an end to the misery that the IRS can put you through. Our tax resolution specialists pride ourselves on being very efficient, affordable, and, of course, extremely discrete.
We can help you with the following IRS tax problems:
Wage Garnishment – IRS wage garnishment is the deduction of money from an employee's monetary compensation resulting from unpaid IRS taxes. Most likely this should not be a surprise as the IRS will only levy one's wages after repeated letters and warnings about the taxes owed. This is one of the IRS's most aggressive tax collection mechanisms and should not be taken lightly. The IRS would rather resolve taxes in a different manner but they will levy when they feel the have run out of other options. It is important to understand how garnishments work to ensure you take the appropriate actions to avoid them or stop the IRS from taking your wages.
Bank Levy – An IRS levy permits the legal seizure of your property to satisfy a tax debt. It can garnish wages, take money in your bank or other financial account, seize and sell your vehicle(s), real estate and other personal property.
If you receive an IRS bill titled Final Notice of Intent to Levy and Notice of Your Right to A Hearing, contact us right away.
If you receive an IRS notice of levy against your employee, vendor, customer or other third party, it is important that you comply with the levy.
Threatening Letters – The IRS carry out their threats, so ignoring an IRS threatening letter is absolutely the worst thing to do. First, you should check the facts in the letter. If there is anything amiss in their calculations or your liabilities or their assessment, write a polite letter back explaining the error or omission and see if they will remedy the situation. If they have reached the point where they are sending you threatening letters however, you may need to be a little more proactive in resolving the situation before the IRS become proactive themselves. You do not want this to happen. If you allow the IRS to take action before you do it will result in you unnecessarily suffering at their hands. The IRS has considerable powers when it comes to collecting taxes and they are rarely if ever prone to taking the lightweight approach. The IRS sends out threatening letters when they know or think they know that you owe them money; beyond that, they have little interest in you.
IRS Audit Notification – Did You Receive an Audit Letter From the IRS? – The first step is not to panic. The IRS uses letters to communicate with taxpayers about IRS audits. As with most IRS communication, there are deadlines associated with IRS audit letters. You will have time to review the items that are being contested and prepare your response. Selecting a return for examination does not always suggest that the taxpayer has either made an error or been dishonest. In fact, some examinations result in a refund to the taxpayer or acceptance of the return without change.
Non-Filing – What if you fail to file? – The IRS may file what is known as a substitute return for you. However, as you well know, the IRS will not be looking to save you any money. In fact, a substitute return will not include any of the standard deductions your accountant would typically include in your return. Case in point, a substitute return only allows one exemption: single or married filing separate, so you end up with higher tax liability than if you would have just filed.
Liens – A federal tax lien arises when a tax return is filed and the tax isn't paid after a demand for payment has been made. By law the lien is in favor of the United States and is upon all property and rights to property of the person with the unpaid tax. It gives the IRS the authority to seize any proceeds from sales of real estate owned by a delinquent taxpayer. To protect the government's right of priority against other parties who are owed money by the same person, the IRS will file a Notice of Federal Tax Lien, which puts other creditors on notice about the IRS's claim.
Offers-in-Compromise – Reduce Your IRS Debt with an Offer-In-Compromise – Qualifying for an offer-in-compromise settlement can save you thousands of dollars in taxes, penalties and interest. An offer-in-compromise is an agreement between a taxpayer and the IRS to settle the taxpayer's tax liabilities for less than the full amount owed. Absent special circumstances, an offer will not be accepted if the IRS believes that the liability can be paid in full as a lump sum or through a payment agreement.
Innocent Spouse – Many married taxpayers choose to file a joint tax return because of certain benefits this filing status allows. Both taxpayers are jointly and individually responsible for the tax and any interest or penalty due on the joint return even if they later divorce. This is true even if a divorce decree states that a former spouse will be responsible for any amounts due on previously filed joint returns. One spouse may be held responsible for all the tax due even if all the income was earned by the other spouse.
In some cases, a spouse will be relieved of the tax, interest, and penalties on a joint tax return. There are three types of relief available:
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This course will explore the medical, psychological, cultural and social aspects of recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs of abuse. The student will be introduced to counseling techniques, case management, extended recovery and a person first approach to assessment issues, professional responsibility and proper ethical practice. Special populations such as dually diagnosed (co-occurring disorders) individuals and HIV substance abusers will be discussed. The course compares the traditional medical model and the community based social model of recovery.
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MetaTech Coin's Layer 1 Blockchain Delivers 1 Million TPS with Unbeatable Gas Fees for Users
Bar Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 23rd Feb 2024 – In today's fast-moving blockchain world, MetaTech Coin stands out as a top-notch Layer 1 solution. It's smashing records with a jaw-dropping speed of 1 million transactions per second (TPS) and barely-there gas fees. What makes MetaTech Coin really special is how it tackles the big blockchain puzzle – getting scalability, security, and decentralization all right at the same time.
Welcome to Blockchain 3.0: Where Speed, Efficiency, and Balance Shine
MetaTech Coin is leading the charge into what's called Blockchain 3.0, showing off some pretty impressive stats:
– Bitcoin, the first of its kind, can do 7 TPS and takes up to an hour for transactions.
– Ethereum, which lets people build decentralized apps, does 15 TPS and transactions take a few minutes.
– Solana, known for handling lots of transactions fast, does 65,000 TPS, and transactions take about 7 seconds.
But why MetaTech Coin? It's on another level with its 1 million TPS, finishing transactions in just 1.2 seconds.
Solving the Big Blockchain Puzzle
People often say you can only have two: decentralization, scalability, or security. But MetaTech Coin is proving you can have all three:
1. Scalability: It's setting new highs with its 1 million TPS.
2. Security: It keeps things super safe, even with all those transactions zooming by.
3. Decentralization: Maintaining the principles of blockchain technology, MetaTech Coin supports a decentralized structure that fosters openness and participation across the network.
Low Gas Fees Mean Everyone Can Join In
MetaTech Coin is all about making blockchain easy for everyone to get into, thanks to its super low gas fees of just $0.000004. This means more people can use it without worrying about high costs.
Why MetaTech Coin is a Big Deal
– Lightning-Fast Transactions: With transactions that take only 1.2 seconds, it's setting a whole new standard.
– Smart Solutions: It's finding the perfect balance between scalability, security, and decentralization.
– Wallet-Friendly: The low gas fees make it easy for more people to jump into the crypto world.
– Looking to the Future: MetaTech Coin isn't just another cryptocurrency; it's a forward-thinking solution that's ready to change how we think about blockchain.
Join the MetaTech Coin Adventure
MetaTech Coin is more than just a new cryptocurrency – it's a beacon of innovation in the blockchain space. As we step into a new era of blockchain, MetaTech Coin is leading the way. Dive into the future with MetaTech Coin, where advanced technology meets ease of use, and everyone can be part of the blockchain revolution.
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G P Roadway Solutions and its subsidiaries and divisions (collectively "We") are committed to protecting any personal information that you may provide to us. This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your personally identifiable information.This policy covers the G P Roadway Solutions family of companies' online services including websites and branded social media sites or pages as well as interactions you have viewing content provided through one of our digital advertising campaigns.
Information we collect
We may collect and retain personal information from you such as e-mail address, mailing address, name, telephone numbers, and project names. We also automatically collect data pertaining to website visitors, including but not limited to, the IP address, tracking codes (cookies), the domain name, the web page, the length of time spent and the pages accessed while visiting our sites. This may also include location information for mobile applications. All of our online services are intended for a U.S. audience and we may pass along your contact information to another party if you are outside of our service area. Our services are not intended for children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from any minor without parental consent.
How we collect the information
The information we learn from customers helps us personalize and continually improve your experience on our sites. Here are the types of information we gather:
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We may use the information we collect from you in the following ways:
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- We may share the information we collect from and about you with our G P Roadway Solutions affiliated companies to bring you co-branded products or services.
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We use reasonable physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal standards to protect and limit access to personal information. This includes device safeguards and secured files and buildings. We use regular malware scanning on all computing equipment within our company.We do not use an SSL certificate because no sales are done on the site and we only collect email and name info if they want to be contacted by us.
We have never sold, traded or transferred to outside parties your personally identifiable information except for reasons stated above. Should that change, we will provide users with advance notice. This does not include website or delivery partners who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release information when its release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others' rights, property or safety.


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JT Eberhard is climbing the Reddit charts today with his post asking American voters to remind a certain politician that telling the truth does not make one "evil".
Up until recently a Rhode Island high school had a prayer hanging in a government building. When they were asked to take it down the administrators lied about the prayer repeatedly. While it was being hammered out in court, students at the school, as well as a frothing pack of Jesus-lovers harassed a 16 year-old girl the entire time. After a judge affirmed that the lying administrators were breaking the law, those students and the other Jesus-lovers doubled their efforts, many of them threatened the well-being of the 16 year-old girl implicitly or directly.
It should be noted that all the girl did was ask the lying administrators to stop breaking the law and, when they refused, she told the truth under oath (which the administrators did not).
Sadly, asking a politician to appreciate honesty is like asking a thief to appreciate surveillance. Peter G. Palumbo, the Democrat in the RI House from the Cranston district, has no rebukes for the Jesus-loving liars, bullies, or thugs. He has nothing negative to say about the people who felt they were above the Constitution and lied to subvert it. He did, however, have something to say about Jessica. Palumbo said, sarcastically, that she is "An evil little thing." That may have bee said sarcastically (there is debate over whether or not that line was sarcastic, but I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt), but the line "I think she's being coerced by evil people" was most assuredly not. She is not being coerced, and her cause is not evil.
Emphasis mine. Just wanted to point out that lying for Jesus is not a party line type deal.
I'm sure you can help keep this ball rolling. Telling the truth under oath about a prayer up on a wall in school is apparently an incredibly brave thing to do for a sixteen year old girl. By telling the truth, and having a judge agree that this prayer makes that school de facto Christian and is therefore unconstitutional, she has earned the enmity of everyone who would prefer a lie that protects their religion than the rights of this sixteen year old girl. She is being harassed on Twitter, in real life, and now by small-minded and provincial politicians. You voters can do something about that last.


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"Like from one seed comes a tree, from one tree comes million seeds, so this must grow. Every seed you plant must bear hundred such seeds and each of those hundred and so on it must multiply you know. And this is the purpose of Sahaj Marg – not only for your own individual growth and satisfaction and elevation and liberation and things like that but to become like Him so that someone else can become like him too through you and so it goes on. Like one candle can light a million candles. So please I request all of you to understand the seriousness of the spiritual pursuit, of its global significance for humanity."
Heartspeak is a means of communicating from the deepest core of our hearts – an effort at sharing that which is dear to us, which has changed us, and which has helped us in our divine journey.
While there cannot be one standard approach that appeals to everyone in all situations, human beings around the world are found to be the same in essence and are more connected than we may know.
In many countries, aspirants following Sahaj Marg have delved deep to come up with innovative ways to reach out to anyone seeking inner change. We come to understand that every situation in our lives, every interaction is indeed Heartspeak.
These pages contain some of the Heartspeak ideas and activities from various parts of the world. You are invited to read, assimilate and participate in this experience.
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OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.1 Update Released
OS X Mountain Lion has been updated to 10.8.1, the update is a general maintenance and bug fix release which includes assorted improvements.
The OS X 10.8.1 update can be downloaded through the Mac App Store, either launch the App Store directly or access it through the Apple menu by selecting "Software Update". The download is fairly small, ranging from 8MB to 30MB depending on the Mac, and you will need to restart the Mac for the Mountain Lion update to finish installing.
The official change and improvements list is as follow:
- Resolve an issue that may cause Migration Assistant to unexpectedly quit
- Improve compatibility when connecting to a Microsoft Exchange server in Mail
- Address an issue playing audio through a Thunderbolt display
- Resolve an issue that could prevent iMessages from being sent
- Address an issue that could cause the system to become unresponsive when using Pinyin input
- Resolve an issue when connecting to SMB servers with long names
- Address a issue that may prevent Safari from launching when using a Proxy Automatic Configuration (PAC) file
- Improve 802.1X authentication with Active Directory credentials
Though some individuals have reported improvements, there is no direct mention of the wireless dropping issues that some Mountain Lion users have encountered, and there is also no mention of the reported battery life drain that effects some Macs with 10.8.
All OS X Mountain Lion users are recommended to install the update.
Update: The popular "purge" command to clear inactive memory is broken in OS X 10.8.1 update, developers and users who use the command frequently may want to put off updating to 10.8.1 until a fix is available. Running the command issues the following error:
Used "purge" command in terminal and received the following error:
[ERROR] The device-file for this operating system, 'osx-12.1.0.xml', was not found. An attempt to revert to a previous revision of the OS devise-file: 'osx-12.0.0.xml' has been made. Please file a Radar report with Apple, on the 'CoreProfile' component, version 'X'.


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4 O's in Eye Care
Ophthalmology is a branch of medicine specializing in the anatomy, function and diseases of the eye. Pediatric Ophthalmology & Strabismus (strabismus is misalignment of the eyes) is a subspecialty of ophthalmology that deals with maintaining the health of children's eyes and vision, the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of children's eye disorders, and the diagnosis and treatment of double vision or eye muscle disorders in children and adults. An ophthalmologist (Eye M.D.) is a medical doctor who specializes in eye and vision care. Eye M.D.s are specially trained to provide the full spectrum of eye care, from prescribing glasses and contact lenses to complex and delicate eye surgery. Many ophthalmologists are also involved in scientific research into the causes and cures for eye diseases and vision problems. In addition to four years of medical school and one year of internship, an ophthalmologist spends a minimum of three years of residency (hospital-based training) in ophthalmology. During residency, Eye M.D.s receive special training in all aspects of eye care, including prevention, diagnosis and medical and surgical treatment of eye conditions and diseases. Pediatric ophthalmologists spend an additional one or more years in fellowship training in the medical and surgical care of children's eyes and eye muscle problems in adults. Visit www.aao.org to learn more about ophthalmology.
An optometrist (O.D., or optometric doctor) is trained to examine, diagnose, treat and manage disorders that affect the eye or vision. After attending a university or college for their undergraduate education, optometry students concentrate specifically on the structure, function and disorders of the eye for 4 additional years during their graduate education to earn their doctoral degree. While concentrating on the eye and visual system, optometrists also study general health in courses such as human anatomy, biochemistry and physiology. They receive extensive training in the fitting of standard and specialty contact lenses and low vision devices. In addition, some optometrists complete a one or more year residency in a specialized area. In New York and many other states, optometrists are licensed to use prescription medication to diagnose and treat eye disorders. Optometrists may also participate in scientific research in vision science and diseases of the eye. Visit www.aoa.org to learn more about optometry.
Orthoptics is an ophthalmic field pertaining to the evaluation and treatment of patients with disorders of the visual system with an emphasis on binocular vision and eye movements. Orthoptists are uniquely skilled in diagnostic techniques. Orthoptics is a versatile field with opportunities and responsibilities in a variety of clinical settings. Orthoptists may serve their communities in private ophthalmology practices. Others may work in hospital or medical university settings with involvement in patient care, academics and clinical research. Orthoptists may serve as directors or advisors of state and local vision screening programs. Orthoptists commonly work in pediatric ophthalmology settings. Orthoptists serve patients of all ages, but because of the nature of many binocular disorders, the majority of patients are children. Adult care in the field of Orthoptics is uniquely challenging and rewarding, found in settings of ophthalmology specific to neuro-ophthalmology and adult eye muscle disorders. Visit www.orthoptics.org to learn more about orthoptics.
Opticians are eye health care professionals who work with ophthalmologists and optometrists to provide vision services. With a two-year technical degree, opticians analyze and interpret eye prescriptions; determine the lenses that best meet a person's needs; oversee ordering and verification of eye-related products from start to finish; and dispense, replace, adjust, repair, and reproduce contacts, eyeglasses, and frames. Visit www.oaa.org for the Optician's Association of America website.
Eye health is the result of a working partnership between you and your eye health care provider. Ophthalmologists, optometrists, orthoptists, and opticians work collectively and with the patient to ensure good eye health and lifelong vision.


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At Home in Riverside
La Sierra Hills Neighborhood
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La Sierra Hills takes its name from the original Mexican land grant known as Rancho La Sierra de Sepulveda, and the high rolling terrain of the western portion of the area. The La Sierra Hills neighborhood was home of the Hole Mansion, built by a wealthy lumber baron, Willits J. Hole, beginning in 1913. This was the focal point of the Hole ranch, which encompassed much of La Sierra and portions of Corona and Norco. Starting in 1910, the land was subdivided and used for subsistence farming. La Sierra Hills was a well established unincorporated area when its voters approved annexation into the City of Riverside in 1964 and 1965. The neighborhood is bounded by the City of Norco to the west, Arlington Avenue to the north, the La Sierra Acres neighborhood marked by the Twin Buttes to the east and Gramercy Place to the south. Today, the diverse topography found in the open, undeveloped space of La Sierra Hills contributes to the neighborhood's beauty. A large expanse of hilly terrain in the westerly portion of the neighborhood remains undeveloped, largely due to its steep topography. Because the hills are a very important and valuable natural feature, future development will need to be designed to protect and preserve the hillside areas while allowing residential units that fit into areas with minimal impact to the natural topography of the land. The developed portion of the neighborhood consists almost entirely of medium density single-family homes. While residential development in the neighborhood occurred steadily for the latter half of the 20th Century, the majority of homes were built between 1960 and 1980. The La Sierra Hills neighborhood is well served by schools and parks. Both Twinhill Elementary and Loma Vista Middle School are located within the neighborhood, and many fine schools serve the area from just outside the boundaries. The City's Park and Recreation Master Plan proposes the Santa Ana River Parkway and secondary, interconnecting trails, including a trail traversing the neighborhood, providing a connection to the Santa Ana River Parkway from La Sierra Park. The coast-to-crest Santa Ana River Parkway trail will be linked with a series of hubs within parks along the way and will eventually span 100 miles. Residents within the neighborhood can enjoy La Sierra Park located adjacent to the southern neighborhood boundary. The park provides a broad range of recreation and fitness opportunities. In 2008, La Sierra Park was expanded and renovated, with the addition of two new children's playgrounds, a lighted basketball court and picnic facilities. Soon the park will also include a new Senior Center. La Sierra Hills is also the location of the Doty-Trust site, a future park site located at the southwest corner of Golden and Campbell Avenues. The 21-acre site is named in honor of Riverside police officers Dennis C. Doty and Philip N. Trust, who were killed in the line of duty in 1982. Council Representatives & Wards
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Open principles in the sciences in general and chemistry in particular are increasingly nowadays preached from funding councils down, but it can be more of a challenge to find innovative practitioners. Part of the problem perhaps is that many of the current reward systems for scientists do not always help promote openness. Jean-Claude Bradley was a young scientist who was passionately committed to practising open chemistry, even though when he started he could not have anticipated any honours for doing so. A year ago a one day meeting at Cambridge was held to celebrate his achievements, followed up with a special issue of the Journal of Cheminformatics. Peter Murray-Rust and I both contributed and following the meeting we decided to help promote Open Chemistry via an annual award to be called the Bradley-Mason prize. This would celebrate both "JC" himself and Nick Mason, who also made outstanding contributions to the cause whilst studying at Imperial College. The prize was initially to be given to an undergraduate student at Imperial, but was also extended to postgraduate students who have promoted and showcased open chemistry in their PhD researches.
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The 2015 Bradley-Mason prize for open chemistry.
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Frank Stephenson & Son Funeral Directors, Beverley
About our Beverley funeral home
Having conducted funeral services for many years, we strive to consistently exceed expectations, helping you to arrange a fitting farewell for your loved one.
Our funeral home is centrally located, and we are easy to reach from the wider parts of Beverley and surrounding villages, including Molescroft, Woodmansey, Tickton and Walkington. The interior is appointed with a charming decor, designed to help you feel welcome and at ease.
We have two chapels of rest where you can spend time with your loved one in a peaceful setting before the funeral takes place. We will guide you at every step, working with you to arrange a funeral service that truly reflects the life of your loved one.
What we offer
- Advice and guidance at every step, including registering the death
- Arrangements that are tailored to meet your family's needs
- Local expertise and knowledge
- Cremation or burial at any local crematorium or burial site
- Funeral services of all faiths and cultures
- Viewing of the deceased in the chapel of rest
- Hearses, funeral vehicles and bespoke transport options
- Memorials and tributes
- Prepaid funeral plans
Funeral Services with distinction
Many Dignity funeral directors have been part of the local community for generations and it is a privilege to serve those who live beside us. Our rich and lengthy heritage ensures we can deliver our service with local knowledge and unparalleled expertise.
Our funeral services
If you're looking for a traditional or contemporary funeral with a service, you should consider our Attended Funeral. If you want us to arrange a simple cremation without mourners present, our Unattended Funeral may better suit your needs.
View our Standardised Price List, Additional Options Price List and Crematoria Price List.
The Unattended Funeral
We will help you arrange a simple funeral consisting of a direct cremation without mourners present.From£1195plus £- (Includes cost of cremation).plus £- (Includes cost of cremation).Our Unattended Funeral allows friends and family to commemorate your loved one in their own way. Our expert funeral directors will provide all necessary care, while offering advice and support every step of the way. A cremation will then be carried out without mourners present, overseen by one of our qualified attendants.The Attended Funeral
A fully personalised funeral arranged and conducted by our expert teams in accordance with your exact wishes.From£1845plus £1470 estimated third party costs for cost of cremation with doctor's fees and attendance of a celebrant or minister.plus £1470 estimated third party costs for cost of cremation with doctor's fees and attendance of a celebrant or minister.Our Memorials
Choose from a variety of options, including headstones and urns to memorial plaques, vases, statues, jewellery and plenty more. With a Memorial, you can create a tribute that especially reflects the life, love and cherished memories of your loved one.From-plus £- (There's a wide range available and the price is dependent on product).plus £- (There's a wide range available and the price is dependent on product).
Where to find us
Directions and Parking
We have a small parking area as you pull in from Minster Moorgate.
Funeral Home Opening Times
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Monday | 09:00 - 17:00 |
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Supporting you along the way
What to do when someone dies
It's perfectly normal to be unsure of what you need to do following the death of a loved one. These step-by-step guides will carefully explain everything you need to when someone dies, helping you through each stage of the process.Find out morePlanning a funeral
Our guides on planning a funeral will ensure your loved one's send off is a personal and unique celebration of their life. We will explain how our Funeral Directors will help you plan a funeral service and support you at every stage.Find out moreThe day of the funeral
This guide will explain what happens at a funeral; including the funeral procession, funeral service, committal service and the wake. We will be here to help you through every step of the journey.Find out more
Frequently asked questions
When someone dies, the first steps will depend on how and where the person passed away. Our step-by-step guides will walk you through the practical steps. For additional support and personal advice, please get in touch with us.
You don't have to make an appointment at our funeral homes. However, doing so will ensure that someone can be available to cater to your needs. When arranging a funeral, our Funeral Directors are happy to visit you in your own home, if required.
Third party funeral costs are additional charges which we will manage for you and attach to your single invoice. Get in touch with us to confirm costs and plan a funeral to fit your budget.
If you choose to arrange the funeral with us, you will be given the option of a complimentary Funeral Notice. We will set it up for you using the details discussed during the arrangements. All we need is an email address.
Dignity Funeral Plans let you pay for your funeral in advance and at today's price. It's a way of taking control of the unexpected, setting out the arrangements and limiting the costs by paying for the services included in the funeral plan upfront.
We are a member of the National Association of Funeral Directors and as such we abide by The Funeral Director Code. We also have a legal obligation to try and ensure the person who is arranging a funeral has the right to do so, or has permission from those who do.
If you are aware that someone has been appointed as the administrator, you should only arrange the funeral with this person's agreement.
If there is no Will or Letters of Administration, then the responsibility would pass to the next of kin.A Memorial is a way of creating a lasting memory to help remember a loved one.
Dignity has been established for over 200 years and is one of the UK's leading providers of Funerals and with an 'Excellent' Trustpilot rating (02/24). We are proud to help our customers every year with a diverse range of Memorial products and services to help remember their loved ones.
We offer a wide range of products – from traditional headstones, kerb sets, urns and benches to remembrance trees, plaques and vases. We also offer more personal and modern options such as jewellery, pin badges and photo related memorial products. As well as completely customised items.To organise your Memorial contact us on
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In compliance with 18 U.S.C. 2257, all models, actors, actresses, and other persons who appear in any visual depiction appearing or otherwise contained in this website, whether of sexually explicit conduct or otherwise, were eighteen (18) years of age or older at the time of the creation of such depictions. Some visual depictions contained in this website are exempt from the requirements of 18 U.S.C. 2257 and 28 C.F.R. 75 because such depictions were produced prior to July 3, 1995 or do not consist of depictions of conduct as specifically listed in 18 U.S.C 2256 (2) (A)-(E). The owners and operators of this website are not the "primary producer," as such term is defined in 18 U.S.C. 2257 or subsequent case law, of any of the visual content contained in this website. The date of reproduction or republication of any non-exempt visual depictions of sexually explicit conduct or otherwise is current as of the date of the visitor's entry into this website. Today's date is 2007-02-10. Actual production dates are contained in the records held by the Custodian of Records maintained pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 2257 and 28 C.F.R. 75. The original records and documentation required to be maintained pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 2257 and 28 C.F.R. 75 for all non-exempt visual depictions of sexually explicit conduct contained in this website are kept at the following locations by the respective Custodian of Records: S van Manen, Kreeft 28, 3225 AB, Hellevoetsluis, Netherlands |


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Recommended Readings
The articles, books and websites recommended here provide an excellent starting point for classroom or research team discussions about the ethical conduct of research with human subjects, participants, co-researchers, etc.
- Fred D. Gray. 1998. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study. NewSouth Books. Montgomery, AL. ISBN 1588380890.
- James H. Jones. 1993. Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. The Free Press. New York, NY. ISBN 0029166764.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. The Tuskegee Timeline. This is a very brief overview of the events of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
- The Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics homepage has additional information about the study and related events.
- Samuel Z Klausner. 1979. The Inupiat: Economics and alcohol on the Alaskan North Slope: a final report on alcohol
use in Barrow. Center for Research on the Acts of Man. Philadelphia, PA. ASIN: B0006XDVN4.
- American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research devoted a special issue of
the journal (vol.2, no.3, 1989) to the Barrow Alcohol Study. The lead article by Foulk
and the articles by Attneave, Beauvais, Trimble, and Mohatt have been recommended
by Jim Allen; however, each article in the issue lends unique insight and perspective.
This journal is available in Rasmuson Library.
- New York Times articles on the Barrow Alcohol Study. January 22, 1980: Alcohol Plagues Eskimos by Dava Sobel. January 29, 1980: Eskimos Irate Over Alcoholism Study by unknown. Both articles are available from the NY Times Article Archives website.
- Rex Dalton. 2004. When two tribes go to war. Nature, vol. 430 (July 29): 500-502.
- Paul Rubin, Indian Givers, Phoenix New Times, May 27, 2004.
- Nature (editorial), Tribal Culture Versus Genetics, 430 Nature, 489, July 29, 2004.
- Order in Tilousi v. Arizona State University, No. 04-CV-1290 (D. Ariz. March 3, 2005)
- The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) Resolution #SAC-06-01 TITLE: Supporting the Havasupai Indian Tribe in their Claim Against the Arizona Board
of Regents Regarding the Unauthorized Use of Blood Samples and Research, Adopted at
the 63rd Annual Session of the NCAI in Sacramento, CA, October 1-6, 2006.
- Jana Bommersbach, Arizona's Broken Arrow, Phoenix Magazine, November 2008, p.134-148.
- Amy Harmon, Indian Tribe Wins Fight to Limit Research of Its DNA, New York Times, April 21, 2010.
- Amy Harmon, Havasupai Case Highlights Risks in DNA Research, New York TImes, April 21, 2010.
- Amy Harmon, Where'd You Go With My DNA?, New York Times, April 23, 2010.
- Committee on Evaluation of 1950s Air Force Human Health Testing in Alaska Using Radioactive
Iodine-131, Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources, Commission on Life
Sciences, National Research Council. 1996. The Arctic Aeromedical Laboratory's Thyroid Function Study: A Radiological Risk and
Ethical Analysis. You can buy or read this book for free online here.
- A free executive summary is available here.
This study is currently (December 2006) under review by the Alaska Area Institutional Review Board, sponsored by the Indian Health Service.
- New York Times Article: December 10, 2006: DNA tracking project stalled while benefits are debated by Amy Harmon. (Reprinted in the Daily News-Miner 12/11/06).
- National Geographic, Genographic Project Website.
- George J. Annas and Michael Grodin. 1992. The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code: Human Rights in Human Experimentation. Oxford University Press. New York, NY. ISBN: 0195101065.
- Jon Harkness, Susan E. Lederer and Daniel Wikler. 2001. Laying Ethical Foundations for Clinical Research. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, vol. 79 (4): 365-372. This article provides
a reproduction and discussion of Henry K. Beecher. 1966. Ethics and Clinical Research. New England Journal of Medicine, vol.274(24): 1354-1360.
- Thomas Blass. 2004. The Man Who Shocked the World: The Life and Legacy of Stanley Milgram. Basic Books. New York, NY. ISBN: 0738203998.
- Ngina Lythcott. 2000. Changing the Research Paradigm: Community Involvement in Population-Based Research. Cancer Supplement, vol. 88(5): 1214-1216.
- Gerald V. Mohatt, et al. 2004. Unheard Alaska: Culturally Anchored Participatory Action Research on Sobriety With
Alaska Natives. American Journal of Community Psychology, vol. 33(3/4): 263-273.
- Mohatt, G.V., Thomas, L.R., People Awakening Team. (2005). "I wonder, why would you do it that way?": Ethical dilemmas in doing participatory
research with Alaska Native communities. In J.E. Trimble & C.B. Fisher (Eds.), Handbook of Ethical Research with Ethnocultural
Populations and Communities. New York: Sage.
- Swazo, Norman K. 2005. Research Integrity and Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Appropriating
Foucault's Critique of Knowledge/Power , Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological
and Biomedical Sciences, 36: 568-584.
- Shelton, Brett Lee (J.D.). Consent and Consultation in Genetic Research on American Indians and Alaska Natives , Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism website.
If you would like to recommend additional readings please email the IRB at firstname.lastname@example.com .


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The language of love can very, very easily get lost in translation. What may be perfectly acceptable when dating in Ireland can warrant a well-aimed slap in the face in the U.S.
Remember: it was America that invented "dating." It's not an Irish concept – but one that has been imported from across the Atlantic.
And even though it's an American import, the rules for dating in the U.S. differ vastly in many ways than the rules for dating in Ireland.
As such, this brief guide is intended for the Irish male who finds himself at a loss at what to do when dating an American girl.
(We at Irishcentral.com take no responsibility for possible assaults, drinks over the head, etc. that can happen in the application of this guide. Use at your own risk!)
1. Try not to get too drunk
This especially applies when you are on a first date. Although Irish girls are often fairly unimpressed at the sight of their date slurring his words and talking to inanimate objects, in many cases, it is the Irish girl who is even more drunk than her partner for the evening, so this problem can be avoided, and the Irish male doesn't have to be as careful in not getting too hammered. In general, however, American girls drink far, far less than Irish girls. And they can get pretty disgusted at the sight of their date making a total fool of himself.
This rule is probably the most critical in this guide – but is one that the Irish male typically grapples with the most. Remember: Americans often go on dates that are non-alcohol related – which can involve things such as "cups of coffee" and not going to the pub. The standard response from the Irish male to this activity in this situation might be: But where will my confidence come from?
It must come from within. When the date does take place in a pub or bar, the Irish male should take care to remember that the graph showing the relationship between pints and charm looks like this: it goes upwards initially, levels off after about three or four, and then at about six pints it takes a dramatic nosedive. In other words, it usually takes about six drinks before charm turns into sleaze.
2. Pay for everything
The U.S. may be the birthplace of the modern feminist movement, but when it comes to picking up the tab for drinks and dinner, American females are thoroughly old-fashioned. American girls will inevitably expect you to at least offer to pay for dinner, and if you do offer, most will gladly accept. The same goes for drinks. If you are on a first date, and you don't offer to foot the bill, don't expect a second. It doesn't matter that she is better educated than you, earns more than you and is likely to outlive you. She'll still expect you to pay. That's just how it is.
3. Play up the accent
If you have a fairly neutral Irish accent, then scrap it quickly – you won't sound very "Irish" to the American girl you are trying to impress. Go and watch "Darby O'Gill and the Little People," and try to talk like some of the characters in that movie. Sure, you won't sound genuinely Irish – simply because no one in Ireland talks like that – but the girl you are on a date with won't know that, and probably thinks that everyone in Ireland talks like Sean Connery in the 1959 classic.
Throw in a few Irish expressions here and there – even ones we don't really use, like, "To be sure, To be sure." Add a few more that you know the girl won't understand, thus making her curious, playing up your Irishness and impressing her.
4. Think of non-alcohol related date activities
Be creative in where you take her. Remember (as per point one) that Americans are not nearly as pub-centric as Irish people and don't need alcohol at every social occasion. Take her to an art exhibition and impress her with your knowledge of the early modernist period…
5. Be chivalrous
You don't have to put your coat over a puddle of water on the sidewalk so she doesn't wet her shoes, but you do have to hold doors open, pay for drinks (see point two), pull out her chair and so on. As a rule, you can't go wrong with chivalry with American women.
6. Try not to talk about your mother
Yes, it is hard being away from home and yes, no one makes bacon and cabbage like your mother can, but try to keep these details to yourself. If you go on too much about your mother, you will reconfirm a stereotype that your date probably already has about Irish guys and their mammies. So keep the mum discussion to a minimum. On the other hand, your date may be relieved to hear that your mother has no interest in being her new best friend.
7. Make vague references to a troubled past
Some Americans have a romantic idea of Irish people as inherently troubled. This may make you seem more attractive in the eyes of the American you are pursuing, so play this up. If you had quite an idyllic childhood, then fabricate. Come out with lines like: "I remember the day the soldiers came to the village...They took every last man, woman and child...The screams, I still hear the screams..." before gazing away sadly into the distance. Refuse to elaborate, adding to your mystique.
8. Don't forget where you are from
Your true Irish character might frighten them, but that's okay. You do not need to pretend you are the personality that they would imagine an Irish person to be. Let your bitterness, begrudgery and down-to-earthiness shine. You might lose her, but you will still be YOU.


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OUTRIGHT INSANITY: Bio-weapons research endangers the planet.
[ Editor's Note: Plead with them to stop this madness. Lock up all samples of potentially catastrophic flu. Prosecute those who have been illegally engaging in biological weapons production. These bugs can kill BILLIONS of human beings.]
The history of the synthetic H1N1 flu virus and a not-so-rosy future
By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer
May 21, 2009, 00:20
(WMR) -- The history of the extraction of the genetic material from the corpses of victims of the 1918 Spanish influenza virus who were buried in Arctic permafrost is part �X-Files� and part �Jurassic Park.�
After an unsuccessful 1951 mission, that involved U.S. biological warfare specialists, to extract 1918 Spanish flu genetic material in 1951 from a cemetery in the Inupiat Eskimo village of Brevig Mission, Alaska, scientists made another attempt, a successful one it turns out, in 1997.
Dr. Johan Hultin, from the State University of Iowa, successfully extracted genetic material from the corpse of an obese 30-something female who died from the Spanish flu in 1918, along with 85 percent of Brevig Mission�s (called Teller Mission in 1918) villagers in a single week. The pandemic killed at least 50 million people around the world.
Once the Spanish flu genetic material was obtained from the lungs, spleen, liver, and heart of the Eskimo woman�s corpse, scientists, in a scene reminiscent of the fictional movie �Jurassic Park,� in which genetic material from extinct dinosaurs is used to bring the creatures back to life, recreated the long-since dead 1918 Spanish flu in a U.S. government-funded laboratory. The woman�s organs were cut into one-inch cubes and shipped to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Rockville, Maryland, where the virus�s genetic RNA material was identified and the 1918 Spanish flu was successfully brought back to life.
The search for the frozen bodies of 1918 flu victims was not limited to Alaska. Another team of scientists, acting like Dr. Frankenstein�s �Igor,� set out to dig up the graves of miners who died from the flu in the remote Norwegian mining village of Longyearbyen in Spitsbergen, which lies north of the Arctic Circle.
WMR has learned from a research scientist who has been working on the recreation of the 1918 flu that the genetic material has been re-engineered to synthetically create what is now known as the A/H1N1 virus, or as the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) calls it, the �novel flu.�
The A/H1N1 influenza, which contains genetic material from two strains of swine flu, two strains of human flu, and a single strain of avian flu, has, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), infected, as of May 13, a total of 4,880 people in North America: 2,059 in Mexico; 2,535 in the United States, and 286 in Canada. There have been 56 reported deaths from the flu in Mexico, three in the United States, and one in Canada.
WMR has learned from an A/H1N1 researcher that the current �novel� flu strain is mutating rapidly in humans but no animals have contracted the virus. The enzyme in A/H1N1, as with all influenza A viruses, is called a polymerase. Scientists have calculated the molecular clock of A/H1N1 form the virus�s polymerase rate. Because of the rapid mutation of the virus and the fact that, unlike 1918, rapid global transportation is now the norm, scientists are predicting that the molecular clock of the A/H1N1 virus, coupled with modern transportation, means that almost all the countries of the world will experience an A/H1N1 outbreak within the next few months.
What is different about A/H1N1 is that, unlike other new strains of viruses that rapidly mutate upon emerging and then slow down mutation and then stop entirely, the �novel� or incorrectly-named �swine flu� is showing no signs yet of slowing down its mutation rate and that, according to scientists who worry about A/H1N1 being synthetically-generated, does not happen in nature.
In 2006, at a summit meeting in Cancun, Mexico, President George W. Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and Mexican President Vicente Fox agreed for their nations to coordinate their response to avian flu, which was spreading in Asia. National Public Radio, on April 2, 2006, ran a segment on how bird flu wreaked havoc in 1918 in Brevig Mission. NPR�s Weekend Edition ran a report from Brevig Mission by Lori Townsend of Alaska Public Radio: �The grave has been opened twice by the same pathologist. In 1951, Johann Hultin convinced village elders to allow him to take tissue samples from bodies buried in permafrost. His lab attempts to map the virus were unsuccessful, but he returned in 1997, and when he did, he was once again given permission to re-open the grave.�
WMR has learned from a journalist from Anchorage who covered the 1997 grave exhumation that there was CIA personnel with the team of scientists. Inuit elders of Brevig Mission argued that digging up the graves of the flu victims would release evil spirits. However, money allegedly changed hands between the U.S. government research team and some of the elders, so permission to dig up the graves was granted.
NPR and Alaska Public Radio was reporting what was extracted from the 1918 flu victim�s corpse was the H5N1 avian flu virus, but that was erroneous. Or was it? If what was extracted from the dead woman�s body in Brevig Mission was used to synthetically create the current A/H1N1 virus, there is a strain of avian flu in the virus. But the current A/H1N1 virus also contains swine and human flu strains.
What has been relayed by the researcher is that the original 1918 virus was the H1N1 virus. In Bio-safety level 3 (BSL-s) laboratory work that was largely classified, the virus was artificially combined with common H3N2 and a minor gene splice from the H5N1 Eurasian avian flu strain.
The avian flu or H5N1 virus that struck Asia in 2006 contained some genetic mutations of the 1918 virus. And scientists researching pandemic flu strains have, since the recreation of the 1918 flu, been playing fast and loose with flu samples. On April 17, 2005, The Washington Post reported that Meridian Bioscience, which was under contract to the College of American Pathologists, accidentally distributed the pandemic H2N2/Japan flu strain, as part of a flu testing kit, to influenza laboratories around the world. WHO ordered the labs to immediately destroy the flu sample because it was worried about an accidental release of the pandemic virus, resulting in a global health crisis. In 1957, H2N2 killed a million people around the world.
The Post�s article, by Wendy Orent, states that scientists were working to create an artificial strain of the 1918 virus: �[Scientists] can combine some 1918 genes either with laboratory strains that have been adapted to grow in mice, which don�t normally catch human flu, or with ordinary human flu strains to yield new artificial strains. Then the researcher infects mice with his new strain. Strains using three of the 1918 genes are already known to kill mice.�
The same Post article quotes Peter B. Jahrling, the chief scientist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, about the danger of the virus recreation research. Jahrling stated the research was like �looking for a gas leak with a lighted match.� The article continues: �What concerns Jahrling and Brown, among others, is that experiments involving 1918 genes are not being carried out under the highest biosafety level, BSL-4. While most of the scientists use what is known as BSL-3 plus, or enhanced, conditions, they do not use space suits, chemical showers or gas-tight cabinets in their work.�
Lastly, the article has a stark warning regarding the 1918 flu reconstruction at the military laboratory in Rockville, research led by Dr. Jeffery Taubenberger. The article states: �Even more disturbing is what may happen when Taubenberger publishes the remaining three gene sequences. Then the entire 1918 flu could be built from scratch by anyone, anywhere, who has sufficient resources and skill. It is quite conceivable that resurrected 1918 flu could someday be used as a bioterrorist agent.�
In a January 29, 2006, New York Times article by Jamie Shreeve, titled �Why Revive a Deadly Flu Virus?,� it is reported that the 1918 flu had been successfully revived. The article states: �In October, a team of scientists, [CDC�s Terrence] Tumpey among them, announced that they had recreated the extinct organism from its genetic code -- essentially the scenario played out in the movie ��Jurassic Park,�� albeit on a microbial scale. In the movie, the scientists� self-serving revivification of dinosaurs leads to mayhem and death . . . How dangerous is the 1918 virus to today�s population? Its genetic code is now in public databases, where other researchers can download it to conduct experiments. Scientists from the University of Wisconsin and the National Microbiology Laboratory in Canada have already collaborated to reconstruct the virus from the publicly available sequence. How easy would it be for a bioterrorist to exploit the same information for malevolent ends?�
The article details how the 1918 genetic material was extracted and who worked on the project: �The resurrection of the 1918 influenza virus was a team effort engaging the resources of the C.D.C. in Atlanta, an obscure military pathology lab outside Washington, D.C., an esteemed group of influenza experts at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and one elderly Swede. Though the story has been told before, it is impossible not to begin with the Swede. In 1950, Johan Hultin, then a 25-year-old graduate student at the University of Iowa, was searching for a Ph.D. topic when he heard a visiting virologist say that the only way to solve the mystery of the 1918 pandemic would be to recover the virus from a victim who had been buried in permafrost.�
There has been yet another secretive U.S. government group involved in researching bio-warfare agents like influenza. Known simply as JASON, the group consists of civilian scientists, the top experts in their fields and a number of Nobel laureates, who meet periodically and issue reports, many of which are classified. JASON has been in existence for 40 years and is thought to be a follow-on to the Manhattan Project, the top secret scientific group that created the atomic bomb during World War II. In fact, some of JASON�s earliest members helped to design both the atomic and hydrogen bombs. Its first three members were scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the home of the Manhattan Project.
Operating under the aegis of the MITRE Corporation, a federally-funded contracting entity, JASON scientists primarily met in the highly-secured Building 29 at 3550 General Atomics Court in San Diego. The location is the address of the Torrey Pines Institute. Funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), JASON also has links, according to distribution lists on JASON reports, to the CIA. The CIA maintains an element called the IC [Intelligence Community] JASON Program under the Chief Technical Officer. Traditionally, JASON self-selects its members from a number of academic disciplines. However, JASON almost lost its funding a few years ago, when, after issuing a report critical of the Bush administration�s ballistic missile defense program, DARPA attempted to force three new members, obviously political overseers, on to the JASON membership rolls. DARPA�s chief, Tony Tether, pulled funding for JASON, forcing the group for the first time since its inception in 1959 to look for another Pentagon sponsor. The ballistic missile defense program, also called Star Wars II, was a personal pet project of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
JASON survived when DARPA�s parent orgzniation, the Pentagon�s Directorate for Defense Research and Engineering (DDR&E), provided JASON with direct funding, an indication of the power enjoyed by the secretive JASON organization. JASON also has other federal government sponsors, including the Department of Energy.
JASON is also very much involved in issues of biological warfare. JASON produced a report on Civilian Biodefense in January 2000, which was highly redacted when released. Even the names of the report�s authors and the information on four bio-warfare scenarios is completely blacked out, except for a discussion of a 1947 smallpox incident in Scenario Two. The report also states that the CIA�s Clandestine Measurement and Signatures Intelligence (MASINT) Operations Center and Counter-Proliferation Center were interested in biological weapons intelligence collection and signatures. A section of the report on �Managing Civilian Response� to a bio-war attack is also completely redacted, as is a section on domestic intelligence. A page on the anthrax threat references �psychological BW [biological weapons] warfare.� The JASON report was completed almost two years before anthrax attacks all but suspended the work of Congress after 9/11 and saw the quick passage of the USAPATRIOT Act.
The JASON report also discusses the mining of medical data, including patient billing records, to find out if a disease outbreak has occurred and how far and what direction it is spreading by examining �spatiotemporal patterns,� including �averaging statistics for humans traveling globally.�
In fact, the JASON Civilian Biodefense report mirrors, in many respects, the analysis being currently conducted by medical intelligence (MEDINT) agencies around the world on the outbreak and spread of A/H1N1. And that begs the question: is A/H1N1, artificially-developed by U.S. government scientists, the real thing or a test run for something much worse?
The JASON report on bio-war discusses �managing civilian response.� That also appears be a major concern of the CDC on A/H1N1 at the present time judging from the following internal CDC memo obtained by WMR (note that �swine flu� is being referred to as the �novel H1N1 flu�):
From: CDC Announcements
Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 10:31 AM
To: CDC All - [REDACTED]
Subject: Public Inquires Regarding Novel H1N1 Flu � CDC-INFO
Public Inquires Regarding Novel H1N1 Flu � CDC-INFO
The CDC National Contact Center, CDC-INFO, is available to assist CDC programs in responding to calls and emails related to the novel H1N1 flu. CDC-INFO maintains current content for phone and email responses; maintains records of calls/emails; collects and analyzes quality assurance and customer satisfaction data; and provides on-demand reports for program partners.
If the general public is contacting you with questions related to the novel H1N1 outbreak, we encourage you to direct those inquires you receive to CDC-INFO. CDC-INFO representatives are available to respond to inquiries 24 hours, 7 days a week via email and phone, in English and Spanish. Emails should be forwarded to firstname.lastname@example.com. Telephone inquiries may be routed to 1-800-CDC-INFO (1-800-232-4636).
If you have any questions regarding this email, or for assistance in routing public inquiries, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
CDC-INFO�s Novel H1N1 Flu Response
Since April 22, 2009, CDC-INFO has answered more than 29,000 phone and email inquiries from the general public and health care professionals in support of CDC�s novel H1N1 flu response. As of Friday, May 8, 2009, the average hold time for phone calls related to novel H1N1 flu was less than 5 seconds. To date, the states with the highest number of phone inquiries are: California, Texas, New York, Florida, and Georgia.
On Thursday, April 30, 2009, CDC-INFO answered the highest number of inquiries on a single topic in its 4-year history, with 3,127 calls and emails answered related to the novel H1N1 outbreak.
As of May 5, 2009, 75 percent of survey respondents gave CDC-INFO their highest satisfaction rating for the novel H1N1 flu-related services they received.
Supporting CDC�s Mission
The CDC-INFO National Contact Center (1800-CDC-INFO or email@example.com) supports CDC�s mission by providing a single trusted source of accurate, timely, consistent, and science-based information for the general public, healthcare providers and public health partners. Information is available on more than 400 CDC health and safety topics, disease prevention, and health promotion information through phone, TTY, and email. CDC-INFO provides critical health information to vulnerable populations, including those without access to CDC�s internet resources or those with low health literacy.
Previously published in the Wayne Madsen Report.


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For the cure:
1.In a food processor, add all of the ingredients for the cure and blitz together.
2.Place the fish on a flat tray using greaseproof paper and cover the sides of fish with the cure.
3.Massage the cure into both sides and cover with a second sheet of greaseproof before using asecond weighted tray on top to press it together. Refrigerate overnight.
4.The following day, wash off the cure under cold water.
5.Pat both sides down using a cloth to rid ofany excess water and to ensure the fish is as dry as possible.
For the Onion Crisp:
6.Separate one sheet of the Bric pastry and lightly egg wash using a brush.
7.Sprinkle the top with the onion seeds and place on a baking tray.
8.Bake in the oven on 190 degrees for 2-3 minutes, (ensure that the fan is switched off).
9.When ready remove from the oven, leave on a cooling rack to cool down, and break it into shardsready for garnishing the dish.This will add some savoury notes as well as some crunch to this lovely recipe.
For the Lovage Oil:
10.Blanch the lovage leaves in boiling water add the oils, and liquidise using a hand blender beforepassing through a muslin cloth.
11.This will create a beautifully clear lovage scented oil to be able to make the lovage emulsion.
Lovage Emulsion:
12.In a food processor, add the egg yolks, mustard, and vinegar
13.Using a jug, gradually add the pre-prepared lovage oil until it thickens and continue to add untilyou reach the desired consistency.
14.Be careful not to split the sauce. Taste before you add the seasoning but keep in mind that the salmon has already been cured and therefore has a salty taste.
15.For the Salad consisting of a general mix of the following leaves (Oyster leaf, flower Samphire, Sea purslane, Bronze fennel).
16.Pick and wash all of the various leaves and sea herbs, ensuring that they are fresh.
17.Peeled, deseeded cubes of cucumber placed in a good quality Chardonnay vinegar and seasonin.
18.Arrange salad around the cubes of salmon and shards of the onion crisp, before finishing with the lovage emulsion.
19.Finish off by adding Attilus Oscietra Caviar on top of each cube of salmon for a stunning dish.


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University students 'face lectures ban unless they are fully-vaccinated'
University students could be required to be fully-vaccinated in order to attend lectures in person and live in halls of residence.
Boris Johnson has suggested the move in order to help drive up the rates of young people taking up the vaccine, The Times reports.
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An education minister has repeatedly refused to rule out the move during an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme this morning.
Conservative MP and minister Vicky Ford (Chelmsford) initially answered "no" when asked about the plans on Sky News, before stressing the need to prioritise education, she did not take the opportunity to rule the policy out later on.
Ms Ford told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "So obviously, I can't comment on things that haven't been announced. But one does need to look at every practicality to make sure that we can get students back safely and make sure that we can continue to prioritise education."
And she told Times Radio: "We don't want to go back to a situation where large parts of education were closed to many young people and children, and a key part of doing that is having that double-vaccinated population.
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The Times reported that the Prime Minister made the suggestion, subject to medical exemptions, during a virtual meeting from his isolation at Chequers.
The newspaper reports that Mr Johnson has been "raging" about the relatively low uptake of the vaccine among young people.
It comes after England manager Gareth Southgate was recruited to help push up vaccination rates among young people.
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Robert Halfon, Conservative MP and chairman of the education select committee, told the newspaper: "This is wrong-headed.
"It's like something out of Huxley's Brave New World where people with vaccine passports will be engineered into social hierarchies — ie those who will be given a higher education and those who do not.
"Where does this stop? Do we fire apprentices who have not had the vaccine? Do we remove older students from FE (further education) colleges? Do we close down adult education courses where adults have not had the vaccine? I hope not."
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The pandemic and its subsequent lockdown has forced many people into a self-reflective space. For Florence Welch, the frontwoman of the Grammy-nominated band Florence + the Machine, this moment of solitude came with an intense period of personal deliberation over her seemingly fractured desires. Questions about how to balance motherhood with the bodily experience of being a performer left her with a painful type of frustration. To work through it, she took to the studio and put all of these complexities into her latest record for Florence + the Machine, Dance Fever.
In this interview from Weekend All Things Considered, Welch sat down with NPR's Michel Martin to talk about her creative process for her latest record, the struggles she feels tearing her between motherhood and performing and the influences behind two of the songs on Dance Fever.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Listen to the audio version above.
Michel Martin, Weekend All Things Considered: This is your first album since 2018. You were working on the new album, but now releasing it and working on it in a very different time than you anticipated when you started. Do you think that it's different from what you would have said ... if you had worked on it the way you'd intended?
Florence Welch: I had said at the end of [2018's] High as Hope, I'm going to stop, I'm going to settle down. I need to stay still because touring is hard and putting yourself out there, even in records, is hard and it doesn't get any easier. You'd think you'd get used to it, but the more you give and the harder it kind of gets. I was like, I need to take a really big break.
And I did not. It was like the album kind of came to me in a flood and it was like a fever. It was like, you can try and settle and not write, or you can get carried away in this fever of songs. And I really did. And the album became about that feeling, the beginning of it, of being sort of dragged away by your own creativity — from stability, from home, from more domestic pursuits. I felt like I went to New York to make it in this kind of fever of creativity that I was already questioning. I was already like, oh, is this a good idea? But I'm going to do it anyway because it feels so good in the moment.
I need to play [your song] "The King." Humans have all kinds of different feelings, but there are many people out here, particularly people who identify as women, who will hear those words and will say "Yes? Yes!" At the top of the song you sing, "We argue in the kitchen about whether to have children / About the world ending and the scale of my ambition / The very thing you're best at is the thing that hurts the most."
And "How much is art really worth / Because the very thing you're best at / Is the thing that hurts the most." It just seems like that's the summation of my life. And also the conflict of being in a nontraditional role. It's the stuff that I just never thought about going in as a young woman into making music. It wasn't like these fears about what am I sacrificing or what other avenues am I missing out on by doggedly pursuing the thing that I've loved the most.
I never dreamed of marriage or children. I just thought it was something that would happen. Like, I'll focus on the work, and that's something that will probably just happen. I turned 35, and then it became the time to book tours and write again. That was the moment when I realized that for me, the next five years in terms of having a family and making those decisions, that time was becoming more and more precious and pressured.
Did you intend what I hear, which is rage?
I'm so angry. I think my performances are so bodily. They're so entrenched in my body and I think there are a lot of ways that you can make it work. For me, it definitely felt like I would have to choose, depending on how I wanted to use my body for the next couple of years. And the rage was so acute. It was frustration as well. Just the frustration, which I think is the scream at the end of it. I think a reading of this song would be to oversimplify it, to be like she's against these things. I am not a mother, I'm not a bride. And the rage is not that I'm against them, it's the rage that actually, I feel completely split. I feel like I'm being torn in two.
I think a lot of my work as a person, not just on stage, is to find a way to bring my creativity and the more grounded side of me that does want stability and glimpses of normality wherever I can find them. I think it's been a gradual work for me, especially since getting sober, of trying to bring the opposing sides of myself together. And I think this might be the last hurdle. For me, it's also going to be accepting change and letting go of control. I have been the architect of my creativity and my life in such a specific and obsessive way. And it feels like handing yourself over to motherhood is a total letting go of control. I'm slowly trying to come to terms with what that means for a perfectionist obsessive who's controlled every part of their creative life to the nth degree.
Let me ask you about one more song on this album, which is "Choreomania." The song takes its title from the dancing mania that swept Europe in the Middle Ages during outbreaks of the plague, where people literally danced until they collapsed from exhaustion — clearly making the connection with the current moment. But how did you hear about this? Did they teach this in high school in England?
No, no. I was told about it by a friend, actually. My friend is a poet, and they had written a poem about it that I'm in. But they transferred the dancing plague into current day Berlin. And it would be me dancing in a gay nightclub in Berlin with Patti Smith and Kate Bush. I was like, "This is amazing!"
They told me about this dancing plague and I went down such a rabbit hole with it. There was one specific outbreak in Strasbourg where 400 women danced themselves to death. What I found so fascinating about it is they have so many theories as to why it happened. One of them, which I found really interesting, was that it could have been psychological because of stress, because of all the other plagues that were happening, because of how hard life was in the Middle Ages. It was like a psychological phenomenon, and I just really related to [it].
I understand that you shot the videos for this album in Kyiv before the war. You dedicated the video for "Free" to "The spirit, creativity and perseverance of our brave Ukrainian friends." It's such an emotional, difficult and terrible time for so many people. What gave you the idea and have you heard from any of the people you work with there?
[Director] Autumn de Wilde, Kyiv was like her second home to shoot. We shot there in 2021 in November. She was like, "There's such great crews out there and they have amazing special effects teams" and we knew we wanted to make this epic. Autumn was just like, "I have got an amazing team in Kyiv. Do you want to go to the Ukraine?" I was like, "Oh, I would love to." We went out there and just spent time. It's hard to imagine that there [were] kind of rumblings. We just had the most amazing time, and there was no sense of just how much horror was around the corner. And — I'm so sorry — it's so hard to talk about it without crying.
You can cry. A lot of us have cried.
When the war broke out, we just got in touch to make sure everything and everybody was okay. I think everyone's okay so far. And our two dancers that danced in ["Heaven Is Here"] ... one of them is now in England and I'm hoping that I'm going to get to see her, and one of them is now in Amsterdam. Those videos ... they are my favorite videos ever made. We couldn't have made any of them without those crews and those people. It's really hard to talk about because it's a feeling I don't even know how to put into words. It's still a bit of a shock.
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'Ted 2′ Reunites Liam Neeson With Seth MacFarlane
Apparently Liam Neeson didn't get his fill of Seth MacFarlane charm from 'A Million Ways to Die in the West.' As the 'Family Guy' creator revealed on Twitter, Neeson has joined the cast of 'Ted 2,' and not only that, but he also filmed his scene already.
So get ready for Liam Neesons!
Based on McFarlane's announcement (embedded below), details on Neeson's role are unknown, though we're presuming it to be more of a cameo appearance.
'Ted 2' has already begun filming and features a cast that includes the returning Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis and MacFarlane as the foulmouthed, animated teddy bear, as well as Amanda Seyfried and Morgan Freeman. Little is known about what will befall our Flash Gordon-loving, pot-smoking, toilet humor connoisseur buddies this time around, but based on a recent set photo, it's believed Wahlberg's John Bennett will be getting hitched...but to whom? Kunis is expected to reprise her role, but there's also Seyfried's character to consider. Regardless, he at least has one new love interest in his life.
'Ted 2' will hit theaters on June 26, 2015.


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