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Over 40 years of innovation and commitment to an exceptional customer experience
HALIFAX, NS – Eastlink confirmed today that the company has been honoured by Deloitte Canada as one of Canada's Best Managed Companies for the ninth consecutive year. The announcement comes as the company heads into its 45th year in the telecommunications industry – growing from a small cable company in Amherst, NS in the early 70s, to become Canada's largest family-owned telecommunications service provider.
"I want to congratulate Eastlink on becoming a Platinum Club member. This designation exemplifies consistency, commitment and the ability to be flexible in a changing marketplace. These qualities are what makes Eastlink such a great business success story and one of Canada's Best Managed Companies," said Peter Brown, National Co-Leader of Canada's Best Managed Companies Program and Senior Practice Partner, Deloitte.
Deloitte Canada's Best Managed Companies program is the country's leading business awards program, recognizing Canadian companies who demonstrate profitability, innovation and overall corporate success.
"We're so proud to once again have met the stringent standards of Deloitte Canada's Best Managed Companies program," said Eastlink's CEO Lee Bragg. "Consistently winning this designation over the past nine years is a direct reflection of our employees' unwavering commitment to innovation and customer service."
Eastlink was first recognized by Deloitte Canada as one of Canada's Best Managed Companies in 2006, and in 2013 earned the program's prestigious Platinum Club status.
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Anvil Style, Lesson By Gabriel Leopardi
Here is where the magic happens: the REC board turns bedroom guitarists into real pros. Remember - it doesn't matter if you fail or pass, as long as you keep posting REC takes you will progress.
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Original lesson: Anvil Style by Gabriel Leopardi
Pretty much first time filming with the DSLR. I'm using a Blackstar ID Core 20, and its mic'ed up with a Zoom H2 thats plugged directly into the camera. Guitar is a Fender Strat with a DiMarzio Chopper in the bridge. The strings are dead... but will be replaced soon. I had a better take earlier, but I had no pants on... don't think you guys want to see Sasquatch rocking out to Anthrax...
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Mr Bone! It's good to see your sexy self in the REC zone.. and how do you know we don't want to see the no pants video?
Duder, I've got no complaints with this take other than, at a push, I could say it felt you were pushing slightly ahead of the beat during the opening riffs.
Your picking technique is interesting, you have a very relaxed, wrist 'out' approach which is natural for strumming / riffing yet you also anchor the fingers as well. It looks uncomfortable with the anchor + wrist out that way but looks can be deceiving!
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I would like to add some technical suggestions to what Ben's has said already (mostly little timming issues comes out at the beginning). Recording levels - your takes sound like it's way too compressed and with clipping. Always make sure to not overdo the compression since it can make same good as bad when used inproperly. Backing tracks can be already mastered to a high volume and usually it's better to bring out the solo by decreasing backing track volume. All together should not go above ) db on your master volume track meter.
Another thing is the gain level - it also sound a bit too compressed - slightly muddy. Giving less gain would give you clearer attack and better separation between notes - especially in the fast, pal muted runs. Check original lesson for reference and compare the difference. Aside from this I do not notice any serious mistakes. Well done
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Hi Mudbone! Great to see you playing this lesson!
I have nothing to add to my friends comments here. The overall take is tight and well played. Just focus on those details that Ben marked and off course try to improve the sound of your audio mix as Darius suggested.
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This courageously reflective essay revisits the history of the Iranian revolution as if it were the history of Iranian cinema. On the eve of Iran's Islamic Revolution, when more than 130 cinemas were burnt to the ground, the characters abandon the screen and the people turn their cameras onto each other, taking centre stage in a rapidly unfolding drama which they direct themselves.
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As we impatiently await the release of Eva's "GIGO" EP, here's a freestyle on Gangstarr's (DJ Premier and the late Guru) "Tha Squeeze" which is off 2001's "Training Day" OST (It also appears as a bonus track on their "The Ownerz" album).
Eva, who is currently working on the "GIGO" EP and her debut album simultaneously, decided to put this freestyle out to the fans. She has been nominated in the "Best Rap Act" category of the 2011 NEA
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Sweet tooth craving satisfied… check
Limited sharing ability… check (although mommy's little helper did eat half of the blueberry props and ingredients)
The Big Sweet Tooth posted this recipe recently & I saw it pop up on Facebook. It was just too yummy looking to ignore …. so I clicked the link, bookmarked it and tested it out last week when the weather was miserable and I needed a quick afternoon sweet pick-me-up.
Monkey (aka Mommy's Little Helper) got in on the action… eating the berries while I quickly whipped up the muffin/cake. I convinced myself that it was healthy because of the berries and the name *muffin*… but I am not entirely sure that this is accurate.
And it seriously is the quickest sweet fix I have ever made! Within 5minutes of breaking the egg (step 1) – I was already dipping my spoon into the cooked end product. It was delicious!
I had to adapt the recipe as I didn't have any milk in the house – so I used a spoon of greek yoghurt. It still turned out (and tasted) ok….
Blueberry Mug Muffin
1 egg
2 Tablespoons sunflower/canola oil
1 Tablespoon greek yoghurt (or milk)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 Tablespoons sugar
4 Tablespoons flour
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
3 Tablespoons blueberries
- Whisk wet ingredients in a mug
- Add the dry ingredients and fold until moist
- Fold in the blueberries
- Microwave for 1min 45sec (1000 W)
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I was shocked by how much more food my children need now that they are not being taught at home. Since they have PE (hockey, volleyball, tumbling, dodge ball) twice each week, and twice per day field recess, they come home each day from school ravenous.
My car just after pickup sounds like this:
Mom: Hi kiddos! How was your day?
L & C overlapping: , Mom! I'm hungry! Can we go to McDonalds?
Mom: NO!!
L&C I am thirsty! Can we have a snack?
Mom: YES, but only when we get home.
L&C: But we're STARVING!!!
Mom:I think you'll make it home before dying...
L& C: I did good on my quiz, so can I have a candy bar?
( I did this for the first month if they did well on their Bible verse test, and now it is coming back to haunt me)
Mom: NO FOOD TILL WE GET HOME!!! You may have a healthy snack then...
L& C: We're/I'm soooooooooo huuuuunnnnnggggrrryyyyyy...!!!!!!!!!
I inform them of the punishment that will occur if they speak about it again until we get home, and after chatting briefly about school, I turn up the radio and enjoy the clouds & birds on the way home.
We didn't really eat many snacks until school started. For C's first grade class, they asked me to send 2 snacks per day for her. I began packing lunches that included a juice drink, sandwiches, and 2 other snacks. The class policy was no sweet snacks, so the oatmeal cookies I had planned were out. We then switched to store bought snacks which although SUPER yummy, were a bit more than I would like to spend... 2 bags of chips, per kid per day = way too much money on chips.
Lately I have been sending maybe an apple, and a slice of homemade bread. Today I began learning a new addition to the snack arsenal... Homemade pretzels...! I prefer to buy snacks, but this is MUCH cheaper (about $1.54 total) and not that hard. The most time consuming part is the kneading and rolling of the pretzel dough into ropes that makeup the pretzel shape... plech!
We'll see how the starving students like them....
2 1/4 tsp Yeast
1 1/2 C. Warm water
1 Tbs. Sugar
1 1/2 tsp. Salt
4 1/2 C. Flour
1 egg (lightly beaten for glaze)
Coarse salt
1. Mix yeast, water & sugar in bowl. Allow to stand till foaming (about 5 minutes)
2. Stir in flour & salt. ( I think slowly is better)
3. Turn out onto lightly floured board or counter and knead about 8-10 minutes till smooth and elastic
4. Divide into 16 pieces (cover & keep the ones you aren't working with yet from getting all dried out... )
5. Roll each bit in to a 20" rope , and form into a pretzel shape ( or letters, etc.)
6. Place each as you make them onto a lightly greased baking sheet, cover and let them rise for 20 minutes.
7.Preheat the oven to 425 and brush the egg onto the pretzels, sprinkle with salt (or something else, like cheese, etc)
8. Bake for 15 minutes or till lightly brown. Cool on rack
OK, I messed this up and they still came out yummy, I just dumped all the flour in the bowl at once. This meant I couldn't mix it all into the dough properly, and it was REALLY hard to knead. Sometimes the amount of flour in bread recipes needs to be tweaked. I have a dry cold house, and I usually need less flour than called for.
Anyhow, this made kneading a nightmare.... I did it though, and then when I was doing the rolling out, I forgot to keep the balls of dough moist... I had to use water on my hands to roll them out, and used the counter with a bit of moisture on it.
Then to get the dough to rise well in our icebox house, I heated the oven to 170, left it on for 5 minutes, turned it off, let it cool a bit, and popped in the rising dough. I am not sure how long to hold the door open for, but this is the only way to get the dough to rise here. Well, the only Mark proof way.. (Our radiators are too close to the ground for safe dough rising) I have also heard of using a heating pad, and a couple towels under the pan, but we don't have one.
So you can flub it up a bit, but the pretzels still are yummy!
Just before baking:
My cost per batch is about $1.54, or about 10 cents per pretzel. (40 cents per day) The cost of the single serving chips is about .36 per bag, or 1.44 per school day
You could lower this by using different toppings. I figured the cost using roughly 2TBS coarse sea salt, but you could use regular salt, or just use cinnamon sugar, Parmesan, etc


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Means for limiting and ameliorating electrode shorting
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|A fuse and filter arrangement for limiting and ameliorating electrode shorting in capacitive deionization water purification systems utilizing carbon aerogel, for example. This arrangement limits and ameliorates the effects of conducting particles or debonded carbon aerogel in shorting the electrodes of a system such as a capacitive deionization water purification system. This is important because of the small interelectrode spacing and the finite possibility of debonding or fragmentation of carbon aerogel in a large system. The fuse and filter arrangement electrically protect the entire system from shutting down if a single pair of electrodes is shorted and mechanically prevents a conducting particle from migrating through the electrode stack, shorting a series of electrode pairs in sequence. It also limits the amount of energy released in a shorting event. The arrangement consists of a set of circuit breakers or fuses with one fuse or breaker in the power line connected to one electrode of each electrode pair and a set of screens of filters in the water flow channels between each set of electrode pairs.
|Van Konynenburg; Richard A. (Livermore, CA), Farmer; Joseph C. (Tracy, CA)
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|May 4, 1998
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Common, over-the-counter drugs may be harming seniors' brains: study
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Published Sunday, April 24, 2016 10:11PM EDT
Common drugs, such as Benadryl and Dimetapp, could be harming the brains of seniors, a new study has found.
Prolonged use of certain drugs called anticholinergics is linked to physical changes in the brain, according to Shannon Risacher, an assistant professor of radiology and imaging at the Indiana University School of Medicine
"The concern is that taking these drugs may increase your risk of dementia," Risacher says. "Particularly in people with a family history of dementia."
Anticholinergics stop a chemical called acetylcholine from working properly in the nervous system, which can help ease gastrointestinal, respiratory or urinary symptoms, for example.
Gravol, sleep aid Unisom, antidepressant Paxil and antipsychotic Zyprexa are among the drugs in this class. A full list of anticholinergics can be found here.
"Older adults who might be at risk of dementia, or who feel their memory has started to change might want to go see their doctors if they are on these medications," Risacher says.
Researchers examined brain scans and cognitive test results from 451 older adults, including 60 who had been taking anticholinergic drugs for at least a month.
The researchers noted clear differences among those taking anticholinergics.
"Over a long period time, using these drugs may be really bad for your brain in a very concrete way," says Sandra Black, a senior scientist at Sunnybrook Research Institute.
Researchers noted reduced brain volume, as well as thickness in areas linked to cognitive function. They also saw lower levels of glucose processing in the brain and lower scores on memory tests.
Black says those taking the drugs long-term should be aware of the potential risks.
"That's very important because they are avoidable," she says. "There are alternatives."
Michael Borrie, a geriatrician and researcher with Lawson Research Institute in London, Ontario, says these types of drugs simply aren't good for older people to take.
"This study shows memory is not as good, brain activity is impaired and it showed that there was shrinkage of the brain related to memory," Borrie says.
Borries says pharmacists need to be attentive to products people are purchasing over the counter.
"We also need to get physicians to stop prescribing these medications," Borrie added.
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Company-supplier verification services: China Credit Information Service (P.R.C.) Ltd. [CCIS (PRC)]
Business license (registration number): 838854
Date of issue of the license: 2003-03-17
License expiration date: 2016-03-16
The registered capital of the company: HKD 10,000
Company Name: CARN BREA COMPANY LIMITED
Country / Territory: Hong Kong
Registered address: Unit C, 8/F. Blk. II, Camelpaint Building, 60-62 Hoi Yuen Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Year of Incorporation: 2003
Issuing Authority: Companies Registry
Operational Address: Unit C, 8/F, Blk II, Camelpaint Building, 60 Hoi Yuen Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Full Name of Applicant: Mr. Alvin Chong
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THE HOST director Bong Joon-ho's new creature feature OKJA appears to be a very interesting film, and a much stranger one than I had anticipated. At least, the marketing for it has certainly gotten weird.
OKJA's latest promo trailer features Tilda Swinton as Lucy Mirando, CEO of Mirando Corp, who's doing a bit of a commercial for her company - a commercial that contains a bizarre contemplation of what sort of nightmares pigs might have. I don't know if the full feature will be as odd as this promo is, but the amusing oddness definitely makes this ad for Mirando's "Super Pig Project" worth watching.
The creature in OKJA has been described as being a "very shy and introverted animal", and it forms a bond with a young girl, Seo Hyun An as Mija. Mija
must risk everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend – a massive animal named Okja.
In addition to Tilda Swinton and Seo Hyun An, the film also stars Lily Collins, Jake Gyllenhaal, Kelly Macdonald, Paul Dano, Giancarlo Esposito, Devon Bostick, Byun Hee-bong, Shirley Henderson, Daniel Henshall, Yoon Je Moon, Choi Woo-shik, and The Walking Dead's Steven Yeun.
OKJA will be available for viewing on Netflix as of June 28th. Exactly two months from now.


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QUEEN-Length 21-25 mm., breadth of abdomen 9.5-11 mm.; black, including legs, spurs and tegulae; wings deeply infuscated, veins testaceous to blackish; pubescence rather short but copious and dense, bright yellow pronotum, tubercles, anterior margin of scutum, and abdominal terga 1-3; scutellum with black or intermixed black and yellow pubescence, and basal tergum more or less intermixed with black; otherwise black over entire head, thorax, legs and abdomen; clypeus doubly punctate, rather closely so laterally and above, with quite coarse and rather close punctures, interspaces with very minute punctures, median line and apical margin to some degree impunctate; labrum broadly rounded or subtruncate apically, a basal protuberance on each side, rather deeply excavated medially, with a subapical, transverse row of rather short, fuscous hairs; inner apical angle of mandible with a pair of rather obscure notches, otherwise rather broadly rounded, outer surface somewhat shining, doubly punctate, with coarse, sparse punctures interspersed with very minute and rather close punctures; malar space smooth and shining, with a few minute, scattered punctures, length about equal to basal width of mandible, about one-fourth length of eye; punctures of face fine and close but deep and distinct medially, becoming somewhat coarser and somewhat more distinctly separated just below ocelli, surface between lateral ocelli and eyes shining and impunctate in part, vertex very finely and densely punctate medially, becoming sparsely punctate laterally; lateral ocelli sub- equally distant from eyes and each other, this considerably less than distance to margin of vertex; scape slightly more than half length of flagellum, basal segment of flagellum considerably shorter than segments 2 and 3 combined; corbicular fringe composed of robust, rather long black hairs, the hind basitarsi very slightly broader at basal third than at apex; tergum 6 narrowly rounded apically. somewhat shining, minutely and rather sparsely punctate toward apex, the broad basal area dull, densely and finely roughened.
WORKERLength 14-18 mm., breadth of abdomen 6.5-8 mm.; resembles the queen in most details other than size, but thoracic pubescence tends to be more elongate and copious.
MALELength 16-22 mm., breadth of abdomen 6.5-8 mm.; black, including legs, spurs and tegulae; wings quite deeply infuscated, veins testaceous to piceous; apical margins of abdominal terga narrowly yellowish-hyaline; pubescence in general quite long and copious, face and cheeks with short, greyish-white pubescence, interspersed with long and erect, black hairs, vertex largely black; pubescence yellow and elongate on pronotum, tubercles, anterior margin of scutum, and pleura adjacent to tubercles, black on posterior two-thirds of scutum, the scutellum, pleura and propodeum with long intermixed black and pale hairs; pubescence largely blackish or dark on legs anteriorly, the posterior fringes more or less pale, fringes on hind tibiae very short and distinctly black on anterior margin, yellowish on the posterior margin; abdominal terga 1-4 densely clothed with elongate and erect, yellow pubescence, 6 and 7 more or less black pubescent on the discs, fringed laterally and on 7 apically with yellowish hairs; tergum 5 is yellow in some specimens, black in others; clypeus closely, finely, deeply and distinctly punctate laterally and above, median apical area shining and impunctate; labrum shining and impunctate across basal margin, otherwise with close, irregular, rather minute punctures, apical margin rather broadly subtruncate, lateral margins rounded; mandibles short and slender, distinctly bidentate apically, the lower tooth more robust than the upper, outer face densely clothed with short, yellowish tomentum, completely hiding the surface, lower margin fringed with elongate, fuscous hairs; malar space smooth and shining, with very minute, scattered punctures, length about equal to basal width of mandible, about one- fourth length of eye; median area of face rather finely and densely punctate, these becoming relatively coarse and well separated toward ocelli, surface between ocelli and eyes shining and sparsely punctate, vertex very closely but rather coarsely punctate medially, becoming somewhat more finely and more sparsely punctate laterally; lateral ocelli very slightly nearer each other than to eyes, sub- equally distant from eyes and margin of vertex; segments 1 and 2 of flagellum equal, segment 3 only slightly shorter than 1 and 2 combined; sterna 7 and 8 and genital armature as shown (fig. 130).
DISTRIBUTIONQuebec to Florida in the East, west to Pacific Coast, throughout season.
FLOWER RECORDS Aureolaria, Bidens, Cirsium, Cucurbita, Daucus, Eupatorium, Galactia, Hydrolea, Hypericum, Kuhnistera, Liatris, Malus, Medicago, Opuntia, Pontederia, Rhus, Richardia, Rubus, Spiraea, Vernonia and Vicia. Robertson (1929) records this species on the following: Abutilon, Actinomeria, Aesculus, Agastache, Amelanchier, Amorpha, Antennaria, Arctium, Asclepias, Aster, Astragalus, Baptisia, Blephilia, Boltonia, Brauneria, Campanula, Cassia, Cephalanthus, Cerastium, Cercis, Circaea, Claytonia, Clematis, Collinsia, Convolvulus, Coreopsis, Cornus, Crataegus, Crotalaria, Cuphea, Delphinium, Desmodium, Dentaria, Dianthera, Dicentra, Diospyros, Dipsacus, Dodecatheon, Eryngium, Frasera, Gaura, Gentiana, Geranium, Gerardia, Gymnocladus, Helenium, Helianthus, Heliopsis, Heuchera, Hibiscus, Hydrangea, Hydrophyllum, Impatiens, Ipomoea, Iris, Isopyrum, Krigia, Lantana, Leonurus, Lepedeza, Linaria, Lippia, Lithospermum, Lobelia, Lonicera, Ludwigia, Lycopus, Marrubium, Martinia, Melilotus, Mertensia, Mimulus, Monarda, Nelumbo, Nepeta, Oenothera, Orobanche, Oxalis, Pastinaca, Pelatostemum, Pentstemon, Philadelphus, Phlox, Physostegia, Plantago, Podophyllum, Polemonium, Polygonatum, Polygonum, Polytaenia, Potentilla, Prenathes, Prunella, Prunus, Psoralea, Pycnanthemum, Pyrus, Ranunculus, Rhamnus, Ribes, Robinia, Rosa, Rudbeckia, Ruellia, Sagittaria, Salix, Scutellaria, Seymeria, Sida, Silene, Silphium, Sium, Solanum, Solidago, Specularia, Stachys, Staphylea, Strophostyles, Stylosanthes, Symphoricarpus, Tecoma, Teucrium, Tilia, Tradescantia, Triosteum, Trifolium, Uvularia, Verbascum, Verbesina, Verbina, Vernonia, Veronica, Viburnum, Viola, Vitus and Zizia. The male of pennsylvanicus can be easily confused with that of fervidus (Fabricius). In the latter, however, the malar space is slightly longer than basal width of mandible, and the eyes only about three and one half times length of malar space: the short greyish pubescence on face and cheeks is much less evident, giving the head a much more definitely black appearance; segment 2 of the flagellum is distinctly shorter than the 1st, and the two combined are distinctly longer than segment 3; the scutellum, pleura and propodeum are definitely yellow pubescent, with no black hairs evident except on posterior surface of propodeum, just below the dorsal triangle; the wings are somewhat less deeply infuscated; the hind tibiae are somewhat more broadly dilated apically, with both the posterior and anterior fringes black.
Reprinted from: LeBerge, W.E., and Webb, M.C. 1962. The Bumblebees of Nebraska. University of Nebraska College of Agriculture-Agricultural Experiment Station, Research Bulletin No. 205
This species is probably the most common in Nebraska. It is found throughout the state in large numbers.
Female: Head with black pile, some yellow often present on vertex but vertex never with pile entirely yellow; thorax black at sides, dorsum yellow anteriorly with interalar band of black pile and scutellum usually with pile completely black but occasionally with some yellow hairs intermixed; tergum 1 with pile all yellow or yellow in apical half and black basally; terga 2 and 3 with yellow pile; terga 4-6 and sterna with black pile; legs with black hairs.
Male: Head hairs usually entirely black but on face below antennae and on clypeus often with some white or cinereous hairs intermixed and vertex rarely with a few yellow hairs intermixed with the black; thorax yellow with black interalar band; abdomen yellow except last two terga usually at least partly black above and often entirely black; legs with hairs dark; outer surfaces of hind tibiae with abundant short erect or suberect hairs and small punctures obscuring surfaces; eyes not greatly enlarged, ocelli placed on supraorbital line.
Locality Records. (Fig. 3) Counties: Adams, Antelope, Arthur, Banner,
Blaine, Boone, Box Butte, Boyd, Brown, Buffalo, Burt, Butler,
Cass, Cedar, Chase, Cherry, Cheyenne, Clay, Colfax, Cuming, Custer,
Dakota, Dawes, Dawson, Deuel, Dixon, Dodge, Douglas, Dundy, Fillmore,
Franklin, Frontier, Furnas, Gage, Garden, Garfield, Gosper,
Grant, Greeley, Hall, Hamilton, Harlan, Hayes, Hitchcock, Holt,
Hooker, Howard, Jefferson, Johnson, Kearney, Keith, Keya Paha, Kimball,
Knox, Lancaster, Lincoln, Logan, Loup, Madison, McPherson,
Merrick, Morrill, Nance, Nemaha, Nuckolls, Otoe, Pawnee, Perkins,
Phelps, Pierce, Platte, Polk. Red Willow, Richardson, Saline, Sarpy,
Scotts Bluff , Seward, Sheridan. Sherman, Sioux, Stanton, Thayer,
Thomas, Thurston, Valley, Washington, Wayne, \Webster, Wheeler,
Extracted from Jonathan Koch, James Strange, Paul Williams. 2012. Bumble Bees of the Western United States. A product of the U.S. Forest Service and the Pollinator Partnership with funding from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
Sonoran bumble bee
Status: Uncommon
Select food plant genera: Gossypium, Viguiera, Helianthus, Linaria, Chrysothamnus, Kallstroemia
Tongue Length: Long
Distribution: California central valley south to Baja California and east to western Texas
Can be confused with the yellow form B. crotchii and B. nevadensis
Thorax predominantly yellow with black usually between wing bases, T1-3 yellow, T4-5 black, face long.
Mid leg basitarsus with the distal posterior corner sharply pointed (may be hidden by hair). Cheek longer than broad. Hair of the face and top of head predominately black. On the side of the thorax, the lower anterior surface predominantly black, corbicular fringes black. Hair length short and even.
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Saving Faith: A Matter Of The Heart Series
Contributed by David Dykes on Oct 30, 2014 (message contributor)
Summary: Calling on the Lord has never saved anybody, but calling on the name of the Lord, always saves. How can you do that? How can you have that kind of faith? I've noticed there are at least three different types of faith I think everybody possesses.
We have come now to what I believe to be the clearest instructions in all the Bible that tell a person how they can be saved. How they can get from Texas to heaven. You may see in the bulletin there a little outline, you might want to follow along and fill it in. I'm convinced people in our church like to do that because it lets them know when I am almost finished. Instead of saying, "Well, there's ten more minutes", they say, "Well, there's only two more blanks to fill in." If you don't believe me, just listen to what happens when the last blank gets filled in. You may be like the lady who said to me one time. She meant well, but it didn't come out right. She said, "Oh, brother David, you'll never know how much your sermons mean to my husband since he lost his mind." Another lady said to me, "Oh, pastor, every sermon you preach is better than the next one." Some of you will get that a little bit later.
Have you ever been lost and you stop and ask someone for directions? You always appreciate it– if they give you some clear, simple directions. Well, here, as I said, in Romans, chapter 10, we have the clearest, simplest directions anywhere in the Bible about how a person can be saved. I would like to ask all of you a question this morning. I really wish I had the time to just sit down one on one and look into the eyes of every single one of you and ask you this question personally. Have you ever come to a place in your life that you know for certain you have eternal life and you will go to heaven when you die? Now the answers you may give are, "Yes." or "I'm not sure," or "No." Well, in this passage of scripture we are going to find out how you can be sure that you can go to heaven when you die.
We'll begin reading in verse 8 of Romans 10. We pick up here because we have been talking about what the Old Testament says about faith. I'd like you to see how many times the word faith and also, the recurrence of the words heart and mouth are found. Romans 10:8, "But what does it say? [meaning the Old Testament] The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart, that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming: That if you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart, [not your mind] that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess, and are saved." As the Scripture says, "Anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame. For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile–the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him" Now, verse 13 is a great verse, but I want to intentionally misread it, and if I didn't point it out, most of you wouldn't catch it: "for everyone who calls on the Lord will be saved." You say, "Well, you left out the phrase, "the name of the Lord," is that important?" Well, it is tremendously important! It is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. I mean it is of tremendous importance! There are some people who say, "All you have to do is just believe in the good Lord somewhere" and they have sort of thought about some mysterious, ethereal, ambiguous God somewhere...and said, "Lord, help me." The Bible says the Lord has a name. Calling on the Lord has never saved anybody, but calling on the name of the Lord, who is Jesus, always saves. How can you do that? How can you have that kind of faith?" I've noticed there are at least three different types of faith (probably more) I think everybody possesses one of three types of faith. Of course, the first two are defective, inferior faith, and they don't save anybody. The third one does.
1. Heart: No real change (conversion)
Let's talk about type A. I call this "counterfeit faith". It looks like faith. It sounds like faith. It even smells like faith, but it's not real faith. You're going to see that there are some people who possess this false facsimile of faith that we could call "counterfeit faith." In each one of these cases there is a characteristic of the heart and a characteristic of the mouth. What's the characteristic of the heart in this kind of faith? There is no real change in the heart. A person who has "counterfeit faith" has really never had their inner person transformed or changed. There has been no conversion.
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I drove my kid back to college yesterday. It took most of the day. On the way home I stopped to visit my Grandma Gertrude who lives in Lawrence. She just turned 90. I also stopped at H&M and bought me some clothes. So I look really good today. I'll have to take a bloganista picture and show you. I'm kind of joking cuz I bought the same stuff I always do which means I pretty much look the same. Only newer.
Oh yah. I did take pictures while I was driving. You shouldn't try this. It's dangerous. I'm just a really skilled driver and multi-tasker.


text: A king, who is loved by his subjects, wants to lead a normal life away from all the responsibilities and his kingdom, while his step brother plans to steal the throne from him. But things are changed when the king finds out the common man who looks exactly like him and they change their identities with each other temporarily. Written by Simret Sekhon


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I remembered I once used to feel really ridiculous about this and even mocked at that someone who made the below comment
"at my happiest stage, i usually feel even more frighten as i dont know when is the next moment where i will lose all these"
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CRAZY! If you meant to lose it, you will lose it and worrying will not help to secure it but instead pushing it further, making the current happiness in your hand diminished bit by bit
I can understand why people feel that way. They relate the common factor of "happiness" when they gain and lose it to feelings they had. I also understand the fear which is usually due to experience.
And although i have all the logic on hand, right things i know to do.. my heart doesn't follow.
Now, once again, i become the person i used to ridiculed at.


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We moved back to the town where my Granny lived when I was in the 9th grade. I graduated from that school. They had a contest that summer before I went into the 9th grade. My Granny's sister's daughter... Jane Ellen played the piano. So Aunt Mavis and Jane Ellen decided that Lynette (7 years old) and I would enter the contest. haha! Lynette sang a Elvis song and I sang the old Johnny Ray song... "Just Walkin In The Rain". I remember my cousin saying that her fingers might not work... and I might be walkin' in the rain!! lol My dad was pretty easy going but he was very upset that I was going to enter the contest. He said that I was going to make a fool of myself. Years later I realized that my dad was more than likely thinking about me singing in night clubs and etc. Being in the wild life?? I took 3rd place, the school band boys took first, and the banker's daughter took 2nd doing a dance. Her music stopped while she was dancing but she finished her dance without the music. lol
I hated music class in school. I could never sing with the other girls because I was a low singer. Maybe if I had gone to music I would have learned to harmonize or something?? When singing with a group I have to sing with the men... tenor.. I guess?? I use to sing in the gym after gym class for the girls. I would take my song books and they would want me to sing. We would have about a 10 or 15 minute break after gym. The gym teacher use to let me sing?? My mom found out that I was singing because she worked at the local drugstore with some older girls. The girls that worked at the drug store told my mom that the science teacher use to let them sit there and listen to me sing. I did not know that until later years. lol My mom's boss was so funny. He was a pharmacist and he would have me come to the back of the drugstore and sing a song over his microphone. I was always so nervous doing that. lol
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PJV Quickie: I'm always up for a sexy paranormal romance novel with a hot werewolf, which was why I jumped at the chance to read Apocalyptic Moon. For the most part it just ended up making me feel a little underwhelmed and disappointed.
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Author: Eva Gordon
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Published: January 24, 2013 by The Wild Rose Press
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Dr. Dora Adler's life has been in disarray since the beginning of the zombie apocalypse, but when she gets bitten by one of the undead, her whole world is turned upside down. Held captive in a secret underground lab, the tall, muscular hunk in the next cell is her only hope for salvation. Unfortunately, he claims to be a werewolf. Yeah, and she's supposedly a witch.
Dirk Gunderson is an alpha Arbor pack werewolf. Captured and collared, he's sold to the zombie lab in hopes his blood serum can create a vaccine. He needs to escape, but not without the hot little brunette witch.
In the midst of enemy werewolves and the hordes of undead, Dirk and Dora's sexual tension ignites a blaze hotter than the desert highway. Along their journey, they battle the inevitable: a werewolf must never take a witch as a mate. (synopsis courtesy of GoodReads)
I wasn't a huge fan of the characters in this book, partly due to the fact that I found myself not connecting with them at all. They just seemed too generic and not developed enough to remember after I was done reading. I didn't anticipate how much their names would bug me. I imagine it's hard for an author to pick just the right moniker for a main character, but the ones chosen for this book elicited some pretty funny images for me. There's Dr. Dora Adler, which of course made me think of a certain cartoon girl who teaches kids Spanish, and Dirk Gunderson, who sounds like he stepped out of an 80s soap opera. I'm not done with Dirk though; he also has red hair, a fact that Dora fawns over often. There are two things when it comes to a man's hair that turn me off, and they are red color and curliness. Now, before everyone jumps down my throat, keep in mind: this is my personal preference. I decided to Google "men with red hair" just to get a visual for what Dirk might look like with his rippling muscles and nope, wasn't attracted to any of them. The best likeness I could come up with was Sheamus, a wrestler for the WWE, which didn't help me like Dirk any better. Another problem I had with the characters was that the entire middle of the book was full of the same thoughts over and over again. For Dirk, it was a loop of him having feelings for Dora and thinking how hot she was, reminding himself they couldn't be together because she's not a werewolf, then thinking about how much he wanted to have sex with her, followed by him resigning to the fact that again, they couldn't be together. Return to beginning of loop and repeat. With Dora it was more of a loop about how hot Dirk was, but she didn't want to settle down, yet maybe they could just have sex, but she needed to focus on finding her brother and niece. Again, return to beginning of loop and repeat. Also, Dirk had an annoying habit of calling Dora "babe" a lot. That can be cute every once in a while, but it was on almost every page, sometimes several times on the same page. I'm not just picking on Dirk, it annoys me in other series too; a good example is Ranger in the Stephanie Plum series (sometimes "babe" was the only word he uttered to her). Plus, Dora had her own annoying repeated phrase that she gleaned from Star Trek, in which she said, "Damn it Jim, I'm a doctor not a ______." Again, it was clever the first time, but ultimately overused.
The romance between Dirk and Dora wasn't all bad. I enjoyed it best when he wasn't obsessing about his erection and she wasn't obsessing about how ridiculously attractive he was (yeah, we get it). He was very protective of her, which was sweet and, while in the beginning he had plans to take her straight to his pack, he understood her need to rescue her brother and niece before getting to safety herself. I thought the sex scene was fairly hot, and the lead up to it amped up the anticipation. Which also means that, although their inner monologues were full of thoughts about jumping into bed together, at least they didn't act on it right away. That might have something to do with the fact that zombies were chasing them most of the time though. The one thing that did irritate me is how Dirk was always yelling "mine" in regards to Dora. I get it, the whole werewolf bond is very strong and he's super protective of her. Really it just made me think of a caveman dragging his woman back to his place for sexy times, or possibly the seagulls from Finding Nemo, since he said it quite often.
I thought the werewolf and witch elements were pretty vanilla and didn't stray far from the normal stereotypes you see. The witches even rode brooms (or in this case, a shovel and a hobby horse). I didn't particularly like the rhymes that Dora had to say each time she wanted to use her witch powers; they were extremely corny and made me facepalm a few times. The zombies were an interesting addition and added a bit of suspense to the mix, which was a welcome distraction from some of the other things that didn't work so well for me.
I enjoyed the action and suspense toward the end of the novel. I don't want to give much away, but Dirk and Dora find themselves in a predicament with a different group of werewolves, the Benandanti. They are basically the werewolf equivalent of the Westboro Baptist Church, in that they are both groups of intolerant bozos who think they can do whatever they want. Dora was the one who really shined in this encounter, because she doesn't just sit around and wait for Dirk to act. She takes control of the situation and shows that she truly is a heroine.
I wanted to love Apocalyptic Moon and it certainly had a lot of potential; for me, personally, it fell flat overall. My main problem was with the characters. I just couldn't connect with them enough, and they were more apt to annoy me than to elicit any other, more positive response. What saved the overall grade from being lower was the ending, which just goes to show that a good strong finish can certainly help wipe a bad taste out of your mouth.
Paranormal romance fans will probably enjoy this one, as long as they aren't opposed to having zombies thrown in the mix and don't mind main characters who fall for each other rather fast.


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Safe Voting Machines for the 2020 presidential election
penPittsburgh.Org spent 2017 working to have obsolete, insecure voting machines replaced with a new paper-backed voting system. In consultation with cybersecurity and computer experts and with input from voting rights advocates, OpenPittsburgh.Org prepared an ordinance that would create an expert Voting System Review Commission which would determine the best system for the County to acquire. A similar ordinance was passed unanimously in 2006, the difference being that it was purely advisory, whereas the current proposed ordinance would instead put a referendum on the ballot by which the County electorate could either approve or disapprove its acquisition.
Unfortunately, the intransigence of the Allegheny County administration forced OpenPittsburgh.Org to take legal action after our proposed ordinance was submitted to County Council through Agenda Initiative and the County Solicitor blocked County Council from even considering it. Since holding a hearing on October 20, 2017, Judge Joseph James held his 3.5 page decision against us until the last day to file for the Spring primary. We filed an appeal at 3:40pm on Monday, March, 26th, -- we need your support now!
That brings matters to the next step for 2018, which involves approaching the issue at the municipal level. The Election Code provides that any municipality can put a referendum on its local ballot to "authorize and direct the use of" the voting system used in its polling places. All that is needed is a resolution of its governing body or submission of a petition with signatures equal in number to at least 10% of those voting in the previous election. For a typical election nearly half of Allegheny County's 130 municipalities would need only the required minimum of 50 signatures. You can obtain a petition to use in your municipality upon request by contacting OpenPittsburgh.Org.
Open Government Amendment to the Pittsburgh City Charter
n 2016, OpenPittsburgh.Org managed to obtain enough signatures to place a comprehensive City Charter Amendment on the fall ballot after acquiring a federal injunction that enabled using professional canvassers to collect petition signatures. However, the Mayor's Chief of Staff objected and sought to have the Amendment removed from the ballot. Though the objections were filed well beyond the mandatory challenge period, nonetheless, Judge Joseph James rejected 70 years of case law and allowed the objections to stand, then withheld his ruling in the expedited case until over two weeks later, issuing it just two days before the ballots were sent to the printer, making a successful appeal virtually impossible.
While being removed from the ballot was at first a huge disappointment, we quickly recognized it created a tremendous opportunity. Despite the Mayor's statements of support for open government to the contrary, we could clearly see we would be ill-advised to expect the administration to implement the Open Government Amendment effectively if it were ratified. We can now revise the Amendment, splitting it into two referendum questions, the second being to establish a new, independent Open Government Office with a non-partisan elected director. The new office would be responsible for implementing the City's new Open Government requirements; for establishing a citywide Citizen Advisory Panel; and for providing the support needed to ensure effective proactive public participation -- all of which in the Amendment's earlier versions was to have been the responsibility of the mayor.
You can get involved and help with drafting the final provisions for the new Open Government Office by contacting OpenPittsburgh.Org today.
How to bring recountable voting to your municipality
ennsylvania is among a decreasing minority of states that allows direct record electronic (DRE) voting machines. These are special computers which take and store a voters choices on electronic media without any way for human beings to audit or recount the votes on their own should there be any question of the election results. DRE machines are used by 50 of the state's 67 counties, including Allegheny County. The State of Virginia, which had exclusively used DRE voting machines statewide, recently de-certified their use.
Cybersecurity experts say the only secure way to conduct an election is with a system that includes the use of a human readable paper ballot or record which is verified by the voter while voting as correctly representing their choices, that paper being anonymously retained as the official record of each voters selections for later audit and recount purposes. The paper can then be scanned for quick electronic tabulation of the results, but if there is any question about the results, humans can recount the paper for a final determination.
OpenPittsburgh.Org is the lead plaintiff in a case before Common Pleas Court concerning efforts to have the County replace our aging, insecure voting machines with a new secure voting system that utilizes a human readable paper ballot or record as the official record of each voter's choices. However, as the court case proceeds at the county level, you don't have to wait.
State law enables the voters in each individual municipality to approve or disapprove of the voting system which will be used in their polling places. The mechanism for this is through the use of a referendum question placed on the local ballot either by a petition from registered voters or a resolution of the municipality's governing body. The County must then provide the means for voting which the municipality's voters have approved.
You can help your municipality join the majority of US communities that use recountable paper. You can help place the required referendum on the Spring ballot in your municipality by circulating or signing a petition and/or by getting your municipality's governing body to pass a resolution to place a question on the ballot. When the petition or resolution is delivered to the County Board of Elections, by law the referendum question must be placed on next Spring's ballot in your municipality. If approved by the voters, it would require that the County provide the polling places in your municipality with a voting system which uses a paper ballot or record.
In a small municipality, the quickest way to place the referendum on the ballot can be to collect the signatures of your neighbors in a few hours on specifically worded petitions which OpenPittsburgh.Org can provide. At least 50 signatures or 10% of the number of people voting in the previous election are needed. It may be quicker in larger municipalities to get the governing body to pass a simple resolution to put a referendum question on next Spring's primary ballot. For the latter, you could contact your municipal manager or an elected official and request that they pass such a resolution. Either way, we can help you in your effort.
For more information or assistance, contact OpenPittsburgh.Org at (412) 532-8338.
The legal basis for getting recountable voting machines for your municipality:
Proposed referendum question
Shall an electronic voting system be used at polling places in the (City, Borough, Town, Township, etc.) of (name of municipality) where the primary official record of each voter's choices shall be a human readable paper ballot or record, marked and verified by each voter at the time of voting as correctly indicating their choices, the election vote totals being electronically tabulated and the paper records/ballots being retained, untraceable to the voter's identity, for audit and recount purposes?
The question length is restricted to 75 words by state law. If your municipality's name has 3 or more words (excluding Borough, City, etc., & "of"), call OpenPittsburgh.Org at (412) 532-8338 for possible question wording.
The Pennsylvania Election Code
The following is excerpted from the statutory requirements of the state Election Code (emphasis added):
Section 1102-A. Authorization of Electronic Voting Systems for Use at Polling Places.-- Any county or municipality may, by a majority vote of its qualified registered electors voting thereon cast at any primary or election, authorize and direct the use of an electronic voting system for registering or recording and computing the vote at all elections and primaries held at polling places in such county or municipality.
Section 1103-A. (b) The county election board, upon receipt of a request from the governing body of a municipality, said request being evidenced by the filing of a copy of a resolution certified by the secretary or clerk of the municipality, or upon the filing of a petition with them signed by qualified registered electors of the county or municipality, equal in number to at least ten (10) per centum of the total number of electors who voted in said county or municipality, at the preceding general or municipal election, but in no case less than fifty, shall, at the next primary or election, occurring at least sixty days thereafter, submit to the qualified registered electors of such county or municipality, the question "Shall an electronic voting system be used at polling places in the (county or municipality) of .....................?"
Discussion of the question template:
Section 1103-A (b) provides a template for the ballot question that is to be used with a referendum where the electorate can indicate its approval of disapproval of the use of electronic voting equipment. An excessively restrictive interpretation of the blank at its end would be that it is solely for the name of the county or municipality. But the Legislature did not specify "(name of county or municipality)" in that space and instead provided an open blank that can be used to further the intent of Section 1102-A.
In Section 1102-A of the Election Code, the Legislature expanded upon the state constitution, unambiguously providing that the electorate may "authorize and direct the use of an electronic voting system ..." Had it said require instead of direct, it would not be as clear and might have left room for an interpretation that the electorate should only be able to force the use of some vague form of electronic voting equipment, with all considerations beyond that left entirely to Board of Elections' discretion – but it didn't say "require," it said "direct."
The Election Code does not define the word "direct." Had the Legislature intended anything other than its normal meaning, they could easily have offered an alternative meaning in "Section 1101-A. Definitions.-- As used in this article." But it didn't add a special case definition there, nor anywhere else in the Election Code. Therefore, lacking the provision of an alternative meaning, any interpretation must rely upon the regular dictionary definition: direction, a verb meaning "to control the operations of; manage or govern; to cause to perform in a particular way."
With the state's referendum law stipulating that a ballot question can be up to 75 words in length; with the template's open blank; and with a specific provision for the electorate to direct the use of an electronic voting system – it can be concluded that the template merely serves to stipulate the beginning words of the question; that the open blank provides for the completion of the question, up to 75 words in length; and that it is permissible for the remainder of the question to succinctly designate specific parameters which shall apply to the use of the electronic voting system.
Conclusion: The proposed referendum question can be placed on the Spring Primary ballot upon the request from the governing body, enabling the municipality's voters to consider and either approve or disapprove it. Upon receiving a majority affirmative vote of the electorate, it would have the force of law, requiring that all polling places within the municipality use a voting system meeting the designated parameters. The Board of Elections would have one year and 30 days to comply, and, if not, the Secretary of the Commonwealth would handle the full implementation before the Fall 2019 municipal election. – This should provide ample time for testing of the new system, training, etc. to occur before the 2020 presidential election cycle begins.
The Pennsylvania Constitution
The following is excerpted from the Pennsylvania Constitution (emphasis added):
Article VII, § 6. Election and registration laws.
All laws regulating the holding of elections by the citizens, or for the registration of electors, shall be uniform throughout the State, except that laws regulating and requiring the registration of electors may be enacted to apply to cities only, provided that such laws be uniform for cities of the same class, and except further, that the General Assembly shall by general law, permit the use of voting machines, or other mechanical devices for registering or recording and computing the vote, at all elections or primaries, in any county, city, borough, incorporated town or township of the Commonwealth, at the option of the electors of such county, city, borough, incorporated town or township, without being obliged to require the use of such voting machines or mechanical devices in any other county, city, borough, incorporated town or township, under such regulations with reference thereto as the General Assembly may from time to time prescribe. The General Assembly may, from time to time, prescribe the number and duties of election officers in any political subdivision of the Commonwealth in which voting machines or other mechanical devices authorized by this section may be used.
(Nov. 5, 1901, P.L.881, J.R.1; Nov. 6, 1928, 1927 P.L.1050, J.R.13; May 16, 1967, P.L.1048, J.R.5)
Discussion of a constitutional right:
In Pennsylvania's Constitution, Article VII, § 6. Election and registration laws, requires that the Legislature "permit the use of voting machines, or other mechanical devices for registering or recording and computing the vote, … at the option of the electors …" This clearly provides Pennsylvania voters with a fundamental right to determine whether or not to use voting machines in their municipality. By listing various configuration alternatives and, in the language that follows, allowing their use "at the option of the electors," it also establishes a constitutional right of the electorate to choose among possible configurations.
In practical terms, there are 3 basic ways in which electronic voting devices can be employed:
They can be used for the entire voting process in which the voter uses the apparatus to register their choices which are directly recorded electronically when a submit button is pushed and stored for computing a tabulation of the vote totals using an electronic device after the close of voting. These are called Direct Record Electronic (DRE) voting systems and have significant inherent cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
Alternatively, the voters can register their choices by marking them or causing them to be marked onto a paper form that can be scanned or processed to record their votes for later tabulation of the vote totals after the close of voting. The paper record can then be used for audit and recount purposes later should there be a close race or any reason to question the accuracy of a particular election.
A third possibility is for voters to register their selections using a device to mechanically mark a human readable paper record while at the same time electronically storing the voters' selections for tabulation of vote totals at the close of voting, with the paper record, verified by the voter at the time of voting, being the ultimate record available for audits and recounts if necessary.
In any case, through the Election Code the General Assembly allows the electorate to "authorize and
direct the use of an electronic voting system," which, within the 75 words allowed for the question, could constitute the designation of specific parameters as the chosen option. This is in distinct contrast to the assumption of some who may claim that the electorate can merely give its vague consent to the County Board of Elections to choose any electronic voting apparatus that the Board wishes and use it entirely as it wishes


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We had tears in the locker room this weekend. My younger daughter played in a hockey tournament in Des Moines. Her team lost the third-place game, and my super competitive daughter was frustrated. She was also tired and irritated about some teasing from her teammates.
As I hugged her and talked her through her frustration, I was struck by the courage she displays every time she steps on the ice. Forget that hockey can be a brutal sport, and you have to be pretty tough to play it. Forget that she willingly steps on a sheet of ice knowing that she will block a shot, take a hit or be tripped by a stick. All of that takes courage. But it's the courage she shows in being herself that leaves me in awe, wishing that I had half as much courage as she shows every day.
You see, girls hockey has taken off in certain pockets of this country. If you live on the East Coast, the West Coast or in the northern Midwest, you can take your pick of girls' hockey teams. But here on the plains of Kansas, we don't have a lot of kids who play hockey at all, much less girls who play. There are a few girls on her team and a handful of girls who play for other hockey organizations in her age group, but there isn't a girls' team for her to play on. There isn't a support system for girls' hockey here.
To play this sport, she has to play mostly with boys. She has to be willing to step on the ice, many times as the only one with a ponytail doing so. She has to be willing to prove that she belongs over and over again. She has to work to fit in when we travel with the boys -- because she's the only girl.
And she does it all mostly with grace and determination. It seems as if she does it almost effortlessly. But then there are the moments in the locker room when the tears roll down her cheeks. There are the moments when she comes home from practice frustrated with something one of the boys said to her or upset about a coach sending her to a lower skill group just so she can be with the other girls. And that's when I realize that to be true to her love of this sport, it takes courage.
It takes courage in great measures to be different. It takes courage to stick it out when the going gets tough, when the boys are more than she can handle and the desire for someone else to just be like you is overwhelming. Honestly, it takes more courage than I think I could muster.
I know that the lessons she's learned about staying true to who she is and how to muster up the courage to be different are ones that will stay with her through her whole life. Knowing that even when the going gets tough she's willing to be the person God created her to be, makes me confident that the courage she's learned in these childhood years will make her a force to be reckoned with as she gets older.
As her mom, I wish this road were a bit easier for her. I wish that we could offer her more than just hugs in the locker room when it gets to be too much. But I know that God is molding her into the person He needs her to be and these lessons in courage will pay big dividends in the future.
Sometimes, though our kids choose to do things that take courage. When they do, they need our unwavering support. They need us to bolster them. They need us to be there to offer the hugs and the encouragement to keep going.
Through it all, though, I know this: My daughter amazes me every time she chooses to put on her hockey gear and step on the ice. I watch in awe, and I learn something about courage from her every single day.


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Sallie Krawcheck is the current CEO of Ellevest (a digital investment platform for women), is a former CFO and CEO at Citigroup and Merrill Lynch respectively, and is a self-described "financial feminist". She speaks here to women, but this advice can be applied across the board to anyone who is marginalized in the workplace or wants to jumpstart their personal wealth. For Krawcheck, the best career advice no one is talking about is actually financial advice: invest. Make your money work while you do, so that you have more financial freedom to make confident decisions in your career: ask for a promotion, quit the job that doesn't treat you well, or test your own business ideas. If you have money in the bank, you are free to play looser with your decisions. Men do it, and women should too. Remember this: "Ladies, we will not be equal with men until we are financially equal with men," Krawcheck says. Her second piece of advice is to ask for more money from your very first job, and to plant the seeds of a 12-pronged pay-rise request far in advance. Twelve prongs? Yep. It will all makes sense once you hear out her incredible guide to negotiating a salary increase and closing the gender pay gap. Sallie Krawcheck is the author of Own It: The Power of Women at Work.
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Sallie Krawcheck: So there is so much career advice for women. The best career advice that you are not getting is to invest.
"What? What? That has absolutely nothing to do with my performance on the job!" Yes, but it does have to do with having more money. And if you are investing to the same extent that the guys are, that will on average—and has historically—added to your wealth hundreds of thousands of dollars, for some women millions of dollars, over the course of their lives.
What happens when you've got more money? You can play looser, right? You can, with more confidence, go in, ask for that promotion, for that overseas assignment, quit that job you cannot stand because that boss is such a jerk. Start your own business, test your own business. The degrees of freedom when we've got more money are substantial. And I'll even take it all the way to: it will also help us get to equality with men. That confidence in the workforce, that equality. Ladies, we will not be equal with men until we are financially equal with men. So the best career advice you're not getting is to invest.
I wish I didn't have to give you this advice. I wish every company out there just let you be you; accept that you're just not comfortable going in and negotiating for the raise and not to force you to do it. Close that gender pay gap, pay everybody exactly what they're worth, and not make negotiating a core part of getting compensated in this country. So I wish I didn't have to do that. But I do. And so we have to accept the world as it is today, and so ladies, you've got to negotiate from the first job. You just have to. Let me give you the example why.
So I managed a lot of people over a lot of years and I will tell you that every year almost every guy who reported to me, before bonus time would come into my office and tell me how much they wanted to make. And every guy every year typically told me more than he was in the budget for. And so, think about what happens, right: Jim and Mary. Jim and Mary are both in the budget for a bonus or a raise of five each. Jim comes in, tells me he wants ten—I never hear from Mary. I giggle to myself, "That Jim, he's so crazy, you know, we're never paying him ten."
Well comes around time to put the budget together, give out the raises or the bonuses, and I know—my HR head and I both know Jim wants ten. Well, you know, we're not going to pay him ten but, you know, his office door was closed the other day and the guys down the street are looking for someone like Jim. And by the way, he made a really good point, I totally forgot about that project he did. We'll pay him seven.
Now how much does Mary make? The answer usually is five. The right answer, of course, is three. Just because Jim asked for more and I choose to give him more doesn't mean my bonus pool goes up. It doesn't mean my budget goes up. And so there is to some extent a zero sum game.


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New Austyn shoe in stock.
New Expo colorways.
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