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We usually will have a few netbooks, GPS receivers, and remote controls in stock to provide to you if you don't already have the hardware you need to collect your travel time data. We buy the netbooks (usually on eBay), fix them up as needed, test them, and then make them available to you for a very good price. We don't really try to make much money on this equipment; we charge just enough to cover our costs. Check this page often to see what is currently in stock.
Netbook These little netbooks are a really good way to collect travel time data. We bought some refurbished netbooks, loaded them with our software, and tested them.
10.1" Netbook with 160 Gig Hard Disk: Price $250. Currently in Stock 1
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Globalsat BU-353 S4 ReceiverThis is the GPS receiver that we have used with laptops and netbooks. The BU-353 has a USB connector, which plugs into a USB port on your computer. Power is supplied through the USB port so there is only one cable. Globalsat BU-353 S4: Price $50.
Kensington PresenterThis little remote makes data collection a little easier and safer since you don't have to take your eyes off the road to start and stop runs.Kensinton Presenter: Price $50.


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House (villager)
In the Animal Crossing series, in addition to player houses, villagers each also possess their own house. They usually move onto signposts around town, except in Animal Crossing: New Leaf, where they can move in anywhere where there is sufficient space. Each differs in appearance slightly and is furnished differently. When a villager moves out, their house will vanish from town, leaving behind a signpost and/or a patch of bare ground.
Houses owned by villagers are always 6x6 in size, and usually cannot be entered by the player unless the villager is inside, with a few exceptions, such as Toy Day in Animal Crossing: City Folk (where Jingle could be inside an empty villager's home).
Designing villager houses is the main element of the spin-off game, Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer, although facilities such as a school can be designed as well.
Players can interact with some objects in villager houses, such as musical instruments. If the player opens a storage unit, a message will be displayed, usually about how cluttered the villager's drawers are.
Birthday parties and Flea Markets take place in villager houses, and in the former instance another villager will be present. In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, another animal can sometimes be present even not on the villager's birthday.
In Animal Crossing: City Folk, an animal may lose the key to their house. The player can find it by fishing in the river, and return it to the villager for a reward. The villager will never be permanently locked out, though, even if the player does not help.
Villagers sometimes invite the player over to their house, and the appointment time (chosen by the player) must be at least 30 minutes into the future. The player can sometimes buy an item from the animal.
In most towns, different exterior house designs can appear, which is chosen specifically for every villager and is not random. In Animal Crossing: City Folk, for example, there are three house styles that appear in all versions of the game and two exclusive ones for each region. A player's town will never contain more that two of these styles (out of a possible five). Shapes of housing, fencing, and roofing colors appear to be determined by the specific villager.
In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, each villager has a unique design of home, although many of these look quite similar.
In Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer, the player may customize the exterior of each villager's home and its surrounding area.
Villager houses are always 6x6 in size and never expand, unlike the player's home. Each villager starts with different furniture, but this changes over time, such as when the player mails them new items or when the villager (or a player) buys items at the Flea Market. Wallpaper and carpeting may change if the player sends a letter to a villager with one of these attached as a gift.

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Following tests of the standard of security at US airports (see October 9, 2003), the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), and a private company provide a series of classified briefings to the House Aviation Subcommittee, saying the security is currently lax, bureaucratic, and no better than it was 17 years ago. After the briefings, committee chairman John Mica (R-FL) says, "We have a system that doesn't work." Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-OR), who supported the federal takeover of airport security, says, "The inadequacies and loopholes in the system are phenomenal." A 2006 book by investigative reporters Joe and Susan Trento will say that the new federal screeners are "much worse" than the old private ones. A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) official will say that the "private sector was held to a standard of somewhere between 80 to 90 percent" for weapons detection, but now at one airport "they ran eight [tests] and we missed four of them." He will add, "But what is really alarming to me is that they said we're above the national average so they recognize you for a job well done." Another official will complain about the lack of testing in the federal system, saying that the new screeners even have difficultly recognizing explosives when they appear on a screen, "And when you run an actual [improvised explosive device], they don't know what it is." The Trentos will attribute some of the blame to the way the security staff are trained, noting, "the TSA certifies and tests itself and classifies the results as secret." (Trento and Trento 2006, pp. 172-4)
In July and then again in August, Representative Peter DeFazio (D-OR), a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, asks for access to the "classified annexes" of the Bush administration's Continuity of Government (COG) program. DeFazio became interested in the topic because of Homeland Security Presidential Directive 20 (also known as NSPD-51), issued in May 2007, which reserved for the executive branch the sole authority to decide what constitutes a national emergency and to determine when the emergency is over. In a press release issued in August, DeFazio says he is concerned the NSPD-51 COG plans are "extra-constitutional or unconstitutional." Around the same time, he tells the Oregonian: "Maybe the people who think there's a conspiracy out there are right." However, the documents will not have been released by May 2008. Some time soon after this, Congressional sources will say DeFazio has apparently abandoned his effort to get to the bottom of the classified annexes. However, DeFazio's chief of staff will say he soon intends to ask for a classified briefing. (Ketcham 5/2008)
Bradley A. Smith, the chairman of the Center for Competitive Politics (CCP) and a former commissioner and chairman of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) during the George W. Bush administration, writes a second editorial for US News and World Report defending "super PACs," the "independent" political entities responsible for infusing millions of dollars into the political campaign system. Smith wrote an editorial in January 2012 defending super PACs, claiming they are the direct outgrowth of First Amendment free-speech rights and are actually good for the campaign system (see January 13, 2012). However, as in his first editorial, Smith makes a number of false claims to bolster his arguments. Such organizations were created in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision (see January 21, 2010) and the following SpeechNow.org decision (see March 26, 2010). He notes, correctly, that until 1974 there were no federal restrictions on super PACs, apparently referring to that year's amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act (see 1974), though he fails to note that such organizations did not exist until after the SpeechNow decision. He claims that "[t]here is no evidence that super PACs have led to a greater percentage of negative ads" than in earlier presidential campaigns, though he cites no evidence to that effect. He also claims, as he did in the first editorial, that it is false to claim super PACs "spend 'secret' money. This is just not true. By law, super PACs are required to disclose their donors. There are groups that have never had to disclose their donors, non-profits such as the Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood, the NAACP, and the NRA. If you want more disclosure, super PACs are a step forward." Unfortunately, the Citizens United decision specifically allows donors to super PACs to remain anonymous, despite Smith's claims to the contrary (see January 27-29, 2010, July 26, 2010, July 26-27, 2010, September 13-16, 2010, September 21 - November 1, 2010, Mid-October 2010, Around October 27, 2010, April 20, 2011, April 21, 2011 and After, July 12, 2011, and November 18, 2011). Republicans have fought to preserve that anonymity (see July 26-27, 2010, May 26, 2011, July 15, 2011, and July 20, 2011). As in the first editorial, Smith is correct in saying that traditional nonprofit groups must disclose their donors, though many are apparently failing to do so (see October 12, 2010). He also claims that super PACs increase competition—"level the playing field," as he wrote in the first editorial—by allowing Republican candidates to equal the spending of their Democratic opponents. In reality, Republicans have outstripped Democrats in outside, super PAC spending since the Citizens United decision (see Around October 27, 2010, November 1, 2010, and May 5, 2011). Smith bolsters his claim by citing direct campaign spending as offsetting "independent" super PAC spending, such as in the 2010 US House race involving incumbent Peter DeFazio (D-OR), who won re-election even after a $500,000 super PAC-driven effort on behalf of his challenger. DeFazio, Smith claims, "outspent his opponent by a sizable margin and won. Still, for the first time in years he had to campaign hard for his constituents' support. That's a good thing." He cites the presidential campaigns of Republican contenders Newt Gingrich (R-GA—see December 19, 2011 and January 6, 2012) and Rick Santorum (R-PA—see February 16-17, 2012), which have relied on the contributions of a very few extraordinarily wealthy contributors to keep their candidacies alive against the frontrunner Mitt Romney (R-MA), whose own super PAC funding is extraordinary (see June 23, 2011). And, he writes, super PAC spending "improves voter knowledge of candidates and issues. Indeed, political ads are frequently a better source of information for voters than news coverage." The most important benefit of the two Court decisions and the subsequent influx of corporate money into the US election continuum (see January 21, 2010, January 21, 2010, January 21-22, 2010, January 21, 2010, January 21, 2010, January 21, 2010, March 26, 2010, April 5, 2010, September 13-16, 2010, September 21 - November 1, 2010, October 2010, Mid-October 2010, October 18, 2010, Around October 27, 2010, June 23, 2011, July 12, 2011, August 4, 2011, October 27, 2011, November 23, 2011, December 1, 2011, January 3, 2012, January 6, 2012, January 10, 2012, and January 23, 2012), he writes, "is that they get government out of the business of regulating political speech. Who would say that you can't spend your own time and money to state your own political beliefs? Vindicating that fundamental First Amendment right is good for democracy." (Smith 2/17/2012)
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Website: https://www.gocva.com/alpinecamps
Why You Should Attend This Camp: We use an age-appropriate blend of freeskiing, skills quest drills, gate drill courses and full-length GS & SL training to develop solid balanced technique and focused tactics for this age group. Full day (typically 8-3) winter skiing in this expansive Chilean resort cannot be compared to skiing just mornings in a lane on a western glacier. Other standout elements include a low (6/1) athlete/coach ratio, winter snow conditions, family atmosphere (parents invited to attend), 1800 acres of skiable terrain, 29 runs, longest is 5 km long, 860 meters of vertical drop, 6 lifts, 5 meter of snow average annually, and a luxury hotel with spa & customized meals.
What Makes This Camp Standout Above the Rest:
This is a CVA camp for our ski club & academy that we open up to a limited number of athletes from other clubs. It is not a commercial camp so the atmosphere and training are very individualized. We require strong recommendations from home coaches for any athletes we don't already know. Our camp director, Ron Bonnevie has 40 years of coaching at all age groups.
Location: Corralco, Chile
Ages: U12 – U16
Coach to Athlete Ratio: 1:6
Notable Coaches: Ron Bonnevie, Jon Wagner, Jeni Conover
Notable Alumni: Bode Miller, Kirsten Clark, Sam Morse
Cost: $500 deposit, final costs TBD
Contact: Ron Bonnevie, 207-491-7134, [email protected]


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The Richmond leather holdall is the perfect bag for a weekend away. With an inside zip pocket and a convenient ouside pocket for easy access, it comes with a removable and adjustable shoulder strap. Crafted in rugged eco friendly leather which is tanned without using heavy metals and fully lined in sporty blue and white striped cotton. A weekend bag which will make you want to go away more often. Handcrafted using chrome-free Richmond leather, this holdall's eco-credentials are as strong as its sense of style. Practical and durable with handy pockets and a removable shoulder strap, this bag is essential for anyone who likes their luggage to look good and feel fantastic. Fully lined with blue and white striped cotton and with metal feet to protect the holdall's base, we think this product is a winner. It even has a lockable two-way zip to keep your belongings secure.
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More details emerge on Cinemark labor violation lawsuit
The collective-action complaint for underpaid wages was filed in U.S. District Court in Denver alleging Cinemark USA and its janitorial services provider, Simply Right, are in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act by classifying janitorial employees as independent contractors to dodge minimum-wage and overtime laws. The lawsuit also names Simply Right owner Daniel Kilgore and manager Beatrice Perman as defendants.
"These folks are performing labor that they are required by law to be paid at least minimum wage for," said Boulder-based attorney Brandt Milstein, who is representing the seven plaintiffs named in the suit. "If employers were allowed to pay less than minimum wage, all low-wage workers would suffer. It is beneath the dignity of any business in Colorado to pay any employees less than minimum wage."
Simply Right workers were paid a flat rate instead of an hourly rate to do the theater-cleaning work, the lawsuit alleges. Read more…


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Making the Grade
There's nothing better than a "Goode" man.
Brian Goode is in a tough spot. With all his friends getting married, and his sister in a relationship with not one, but two men, the love bug is hovering around his heart, ready to bite. Trouble is, he's tired of playing a field full of gold-digging women.
Then there's Faith Sumner. She's gorgeous, genuine, and turns him on without even trying. Time to suck it up, ask her out, and pray their blazing attraction won't dissolve into another lukewarm disaster.
Faith is finished dating wealthy men. No longer willing to let anyone make her feel inferior for her humble roots, she's finally making good choices. Except this "Goode" choice turns out to be exactly the kind of man she's sworn off.
Though she's content to keep their one-night stand to a single amazing, unforgettable mistake, Brian's persistent wooing—and convincing groveling—begin to turn her head. Until Faith's ugly past comes calling, redoubling Brian's determination to show her she's worthy of loving, and being loved…
This book has been previously published.
- Release Date: May 29, 2018
- Publisher: No Box Books
- Length: Novel
He opened the door and led her into his home.
And bam, her anxiety returned.
Faith saw money everywhere she looked. Nothing over-the-top ostentatious, but quality furniture, countertops, appliances. Comfortable and stylish and unassuming. Which meant costly.
It made her ashamed of what her apartment must have looked like if this was what he saw on a daily basis.
"Faith?" He frowned. "You okay?"
"I need a drink."
He nodded. "Wine, beer, water. Whatever you want." He moved around her and walked to the fridge.
To her amusement, when he opened it she saw his food organized and way too neat. "You're a little OCD, aren't you?"
His faced reddened, and she found him absolutely adorable. Her unease about his wealth began to fade.
"I wouldn't call myself obsessive—"
"Just compulsive?"
"Smartass." He grabbed a water, twisted off the lid and drank.
When he finished, she took the bottle from his hands and drank—her mouth right over where he'd had his—then handed it back.
His eyes darkened. "Hmm. The bet. What should I pick for you? Something worthy of my grand win."
"Please. You got lucky."
"Lucky? I spelled 'obsequious' backwards."
She shrugged, feeling warmer the more he stared at her. Why the hell had she not put up more of a fight over being near the man in private? She knew better. Her control over her sexual impulses improved with distance. But in close quarters? In the privacy of his own home where no one would see her lapse in judgment?
Hell. She was dying for a repeat performance of their first time.
"How about this?" He took another swallow of water, watching her all the while.
"Quit dragging it out, Goode."
"Snippy little thing." He moved in on her, and she sucked in breath. Brian leaned close, his lips almost touching her collar bone.
"Brian?" she whispered, totally turned on.
"You smell good. All the time." He leaned back and smiled at her.
The warmth in his gaze lured her forward…until he stepped away. "Come on in to the living room."
Swearing silently, she followed him after getting a handle on her stupid hormones. "Okay, the bet?"
"You agree to join me at the club this weekend. One room. Just you and me. Any fantasy you have, and I mean anything, and it's yours. But you have to be honest with me. No holding back."
She blinked. "Um, what?"
"You heard me. Or are you too chicken to play?"
Oh, a dare. That set her back up. "I thought it was double or nothing?"
He grinned, a mean smile that looked totally out of place on the charmer's face. "I get to play out my fantasies as well. With you."
She licked her lips. "I thought we weren't going to have sex again until we knew each other better."
"You never knew your father, you don't talk to your mother, and you have no siblings. You love your friends, are loyal, funny, and sexy as hell. You favor milk chocolate over dark, crave coconut cream, hate being used, don't like rich assholes—which obviously excludes me—and use Dylan Warren as your therapist. Oh, and you have the sexiest body I've ever seen."
She just stared at him.
"Ask me any question you want to know. I'm an open book."
She didn't know what to ask.
"I like you. A lot," he admitted. His words warmed her from the inside out, because he wasn't looking at her body, but her eyes. "You're so funny and snarky and sweet too, when you're not telling me to kiss your ass and rejecting my apologizes."
Her cheeks heated, and he grinned.
"I know I'm not the only one feeling things between us. Am I?" He sat down in a large leather arm chair and tugged her down into his lap, forcing her to straddle him.


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Marwood Hill Gardens
This magical garden with three lakes is spectacularly beautiful. Take a stroll around this marvellous 20-acre garden and be amazed with the impressive collection of flowers, shrubs and trees.
No matter what time of year you visit this garden, the colours are guaranteed to brighten up your day. Just sit on a bench, relax, listen to the birds or watch beautiful butterflies flutter from plant to plant. It is an absolute haven here.
The garden has featured on many TV programmes and has inspired people of all ages. Not surprising really as its beauty is exquisite.
There is a Garden Tea Room with a view of the valley, making it a perfect place to have refreshments. And if you feel inspired, you could buy some plants or flowers in the Plant Sale area. Dogs on a lead are welcome too.
Marwood Hill Gardens is ideal for the whole of the family and a must to visit.
Opening Times: Mid March to September


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Welcome to Susie's Place, our homely family run and owned bed and breakfast in a convenient and quiet location in the north of Madagascar's capital, Antananarivo.
With a beautiful garden, Susie's Place is set in an inviting, large modern villa in a quiet residential area ideally located. As a small family-run bed and breakfast, with only 4 guest rooms, you get the assurance that at Susie's Place you will be warmly welcomed, and will be served personally and exceptionally treated as a friend.
We are available at all times to answer any queries.
Send a mail with your question or call us +261 032 71 454 35
or +261 034 25 713 77
Send a mail with your question or call us +261 032 71 454 35
or +261 034 25 713 77
What we offer you!
Susie's place is a friendly family run bed and breakfast that offers a home to travelers, by providing convenient airport transfers, alluring relaxed accommodation and memorable excursions for the day trips.
Airport Pick-Up
Due to different flight schedules, travelling can be tiring and inconvenient. We offer airport pick up and drop off no matter the time you arrive, at only 15 Euros. So please relax, let us take care of you.
Beautiful Rooms
We have intimate, homely guest rooms which are individually passionately decorated. After a long tiring day of traveling we offer a calming and relaxing room that features comfortable beds for a relaxed peaceful night's sleep.
Day Trips
Madagascar, a dream destination, offers a lot to see, but you need time. Our day trips to nearby attractions will let you experience a bit of Madagascar in a few hours. Please inquire by mail about our offer of excursions around Tana.
Car Hire
Traveling in Madagascar is challenging, so a good car is a must! Are you looking for a good car and driver or for a self-drive adventure? We work alongside good local car renters and drivers. Please inquire by mail about the possibilities.
Madagascar is a hidden gem in Africa, visited by many travelers. With everything we do, we believe in thinking differently. We are redefining hospitality to more than just the ordinary by simplifying traveling and providing a relaxed start or finish to a wonderful holiday. We offer you a beautiful home in Madagascar with comfortable beds, a hearty breakfast and warm personal service.
What our guests say
In April I spent a very pleasant day/night in Susie's Place. A spacious villa surrounded by a large garden with flowers. The location close to the airport and not far from the city center is excellent. An elaborate breakfast on the terrace with French croissants and the like. Friendly hospitality. I would give it a rating of 9.5!Paul Lagendijk (The Netherlands)
After a long journey Susie's Place is a haven of warmth and tranquility. Because it is not far from Tana airport, it is such a perfect place to start the trip and /or end it. We stayed in a lovely room with all the trimmings. And with some nice restaurants nearby for lunch and / or dinner. We had delicious breakfast served by the charming hostess in the dining room and outside on the porch in the colorful and lush garden. This place feels like coming home. We look back with pleasure on our two day stay on 11 and June 12, 2016.
Karen and Godert (The Netherlands)
After being picked up from the airport, Susan, Coen and their son Kieran (an English/Dutch – speaking family) welcomed us into their home. We had a beautiful spacious clean room with a large bed, good mattress and a large bathroom en-suite with tub and shower. On the terrace we had delicious breakfast and in the evenings, a drink by the fireplace. We had a mini-bar in our room where we could readily get drinks for little money. For lunch and dinner, there is a good restaurant within walking distance. We would recommend Susie's place to anyone, as the best bb in Antananarivo and it really feels like coming home.
Woutrine and Arjan (The Netherlands)


text: Demand for oil will grow in 2009 after shrinking this year according to the International Energy Agency. The prediction from the IEA is in stark contrast to the US government's Energy Information Administration, which said this week that demand is expected to shrink next year. The IEA – which is an adviser to 28 industrialised countries – sees demand rebounding, on the assumption the global economy will gradually recover in the second half of next year.


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Vatican bishop calls for sustainable energy, Tobin Tax at Caritas meeting
Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, Chancellor of Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, addressed representatives of Caritas Internationalis (CI) on the economic crisis facing much of the world yesterday. CI President Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga had invited the academic to address the 100th Executive Committee meeting of the confederation. During his speech he called for greater care for the environment, the development of sustainable and a more just economic system. The Tobin/Robin Hood tax made "economic common sense" he said.
Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo told Caritas delegates from around the world that finance and the economy can benefit society if they are tailored towards the common good, but financial institutions can be destructive if unregulated.
Pointed to the protest movements taking place in North Africa and the Middle East, Europe and North America, he said: "a large number of people around the world believe we are headed in the wrong direction".
"Economics must not be exclusive," he said. The bishop called for economics to be seen in the context of other issues such as sustainable energy, the environment, education and social issues such as drug use and prostitution rather than just GDP.
He also urged the use of more sustainable energy sources rather than coal, oil or nuclear power. In April, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences published a report: 'Fate of Mountain Glaciers in the Anthropocene', looking at the melting of mountain glaciers. Bishop Sánchez referred to that study, telling the Caritas meeting that changes to the glaciers normally occur every 10,000 years, but this new human-induced phase is moving at a 10-100 year cycle.
On finance, the Bishop said it was ridiculous that global finance wasn't taxed and said the Tobin/Robin Hood Tax on international financial transactions made economic common sense.
He said the Catholic Church could provide the 'faith horizon' to get the world back on the right path, and urged Caritas leaders to focus on reason and faith as roots towards a new evangelisation.
Source: Caritas
Tags: Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, Caritas Internationalis CI, Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences
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The vast majority of our staff have disabilities.
All of our staff have completed higher education certifications or degrees, with the majority having Bachelor's degrees.
All staff who work with consumers are Certified Peer Supporters, and many are graduates of Georgia Voices That Count, an advocacy program.
And yes, there are service dogs at our center!
(If you click on each staff member's name, you will be taken to the blog post that has their Staff Spotlight to learn more about them.)
Maia Santamaria, Executive Director
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Autism is a neurobehavioral and developmental disorder which affect all the areas of the development of child. Although the presentation varies form child to child but, mainly it is recognised by poor social skills, delayed speech development and poor communication skills and stereotypical behaviour. It is a life long disability. It can happen at birth, or a child may have a period of normal development followed by a deterioration of verbal and social skills around 1 1/2-2 1/2 years.
Early Intervention
Early intervention is a program to identify & evaluate as early as possible those infants and toddlers (0-3years) whose healthy development are compromised and provide for appropriate intervention to improve child and family development.
Red Flag Signs
Child development is amazing. All the developmental milestones are fixed but flexible. Many a time child does not follow the sequence and time but most of the children follow the predictable developmental sequence. Parents should always keep a track of their child development and should know the red flag signs.
Sensory integration
Sensory integration is a neurological process that helps in receiving, modulating and organizing the sensation from one's own body and the environment, for an adaptive behavior. Specifically, it deals with how the brain processes multiple sensory modality inputs into usable functional outputs. It is a normal process and it happens in all of us. It helps a person be adaptive in environment. Sensory Integration is necessary for almost every activity that we perform in effective manner.
Visual therapy
Vision therapy is a type of physical therapy for the eyes and brain. It is very effective to the children with vision difficulties and visual problems associated with developmental delay. Children with developmental disabilities and learning disability improve with vision therapy. For young children with developmental delay vision stimulation should be given as a part of early stimulation or therapy plan. Parents should be guided for environmental modification, posture correction and vision stimulation.
Physiotherapy helps in controlling movement and posture, and balance problems. It facilitates the learning of gross motor movements to the children with developmental delay. Physiotherapy plays a central role in managing the condition, to inhibit abnormal reflexes and patterns of movement, to reduce the spasticity, preventing the complications and achieving the motor control and various developmental milestones.
Occupational Therapy
Will be updated soon...
Speech Therapy
The speech therapist is a trained and qualified professional who treat the difficulty or speech production. They assess the people with speech problem and helps them. For children the speech therpaist needs to be specilaized in child development and techniques to teach and improve the speech and communication in children.
Assessment is the process of gathering sufficient information about individuals and their environments to make informed decisions about intervention. (Christiansen & Baum, 1992, p.376). Assessment is core to the delivery of medical or therapy services. For deciding the problem, its severity, treatment and management depend on the assessment. The right and valued treatment is based on correct assessment.
Assessment serves as the foundation for the recommendation, professional opinion, and referral. Assessment should be a comprehensive and consistent process. Its duration varies from one to number of sessions. It is based on the principles and competencies of therapy for the specific and desired services and needs of the individual client. Assessment is an ongoing process.
Reassessment is an integral process of assessment. Reassessment assesses the effectiveness of previous diagnosis and its treatment. Report of the outcome of assessment and reassessment is documentation.
Reflex Inhibition
Bobaths found that the main problem with children with CP and brain damaged is inability to inhibit the primitive reflexes and facilitate the balance and equilibrium reactions. Because of persistence of primitive reflexes, the posture and movement reactions do not develop.
NDT helps in reduction of spasticity by inhibiting abnormal tone, reflexes and facilitation of normal and postural reflexes. It helps in facilitation of milestones in developmental delay children. It also helps in children with learning disorder, autism and ADHD by reflex inhibition specially ATNR, STNR and moro's reflex
Individualised Early intervention Program
To be updated soon...
Parent guidance and counselling
Positive parenting is important not only to bring up the child but intended for the bringing the child to a responsible family member and a citizen, prevention of social, emotional and behavioral problems in childhood, the prevention of child maltreatment, and the strengthening of parenting and parental confidence.
Psychological Assessment
To be updated soon...
Yoga for children
Yoga is an art, science and in broader term it is a way of living. It is not only for the adult to maintain the fitness and flexibility but it can be done for the children after 5yrs.


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Living Quotes
Antonio Tabucchi
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.Albert Schweitzer
There's no way that I could be the president. You can't have a pacifist in the White House… I'm an actor. This is what I do for a living.Martin Sheen
Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing needs it for life… The law needs to be clear to protect water quality and the rights of landowners.Mark Udall
If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.Andrew Young
Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more interesting than those you ask into your living room. I kid you not!Jack Paar
I was definitely living fast. I was working, traveling a lot, playing. I didn't stop. It all became unbalanced.Kate Moss
But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living harmoniously, will probably go along in fits and starts now but at least it has a great constitution now to back it up.Janet Suzman
Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.Joan Rivers
Let me tell you who I am: I'm a girl from New Jersey who moved to New York and worked in a bar while trying to make a living at what I really wanted to do, which was act.Piper Perabo
So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.Ed Smith
TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.Charles Kuralt
Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?Jackie Kennedy
Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which is fed in by the operation of the escalator.Leonard Woodcock
Alfred Molina
I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It's been one of my dreams since I was 3 years old. I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, 'I can fly!' Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous.Elena Anaya
Elizabeth Taylor
Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.Alex Rodriguez
Eleanor Clift
Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadian cities.Leonard Woodcock
Henry David Thoreau
I'm blown away by the graphical detail of today's games. I can't imagine that it's going to get any better, but it's just going to continually progress and soon we'll be living in that world.Christian Slater
John Mills
Matthew Lotti
To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.Marsha Sinetar
I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the know child.Dick Francis
Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.Joseph Auslander
Amanda Holden
If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.Antonin Scalia
It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.William Weld
The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to the love that is God. Anyone who begins to live and grow away from God, who lives away from what is good, is turning his life toward wrath.Joseph Ratzinger
It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.Mariska Hargitay
There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted.Nicholas D. Kristof
The Temple will not be completed until every living stone is there. And then what? The next thing will be that which our Masonic friends make so much of, and which we make so much of namely: the glorification of the temple.Charles T. Russell
Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living.John Agyekum Kufuor
Edward Bond
People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.Dashiell Hammett
The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you.Walter Martin
Loretta Young
It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name.Agnes Macphail
The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.Robert Falcon Scott
The secret of living in peace with all people lies in the art of understanding each one by his own individuality.Friedrich Ludwig Jahn
We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.Joseph Ratzinger
I am living in Norway, where I am under the care of the best cancer doctor in Norway and I can be closer to my family.Grete Waitz
I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place.Bell Hooks


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Ragnar Kjartansson | San Francisco, California
Ragnar Kjartansson
Romantic Songs of the Patriarchy
Women's Building, 3543 18th Street #8, San Francisco, CA 94110
November 9th – 11th, 2018
C Project was founded by Carla Emil to bring original performance-based art experiences to San Francisco.
The foundation will commission leading contemporary artists to create site specific art events in nontraditional venues that will be free and open to the public.
C Project will launch its inaugural event with Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson this November.
The Performance
Romantic Songs of the Patriarchy is a three-day durational musical performance that will be staged throughout the public and private spaces of the Women's Building in the Mission District of San Francisco. The audience will encounter musicians performing familiar and what at first appear to be innocuous love songs but, when listened to more carefully, reveal more complex and often more disturbing attitudes towards women.
Ragnar's work often draws on repetition to tease out the complexity of an idea or emotion, resulting in works that are often at once joyful, funny, sorrowful, and deeply moving. Romantic Songs of the Patriarchy will continue his interest in using a durational performance to explore a complicated and challenging social issue, one that has become increasingly complex in the wake of the current cultural climate.
The performance will take place on November 9, 10th and 11th, 2018. Tickets are sold out but go to Eventbrite to get on the Waitlist.
About the artist
Ragnar Kjartansson draws on the entire arc of art in his performative practice. The history of film, music, theatre, visual culture and literature find their way into his video installations, durational performances, drawing and painting. Pretending and staging become key tools in the artist's attempt to convey sincere emotion and offer a genuine experience to the audience.
Kjartansson's work has been exhibited widely. Recent solo exhibitions include the Barbican Art Gallery in London, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and the New Museum in New York. Kjartansson was born in 1976 in Reykjavík and studied at the Iceland Academy of the Arts and The Royal Academy, Stockholm.


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When investment bank Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy ten years ago, one of the firm's newest hires, Scott Norton, now 32, was manning an electronic-trading desk in Tokyo and figuring out how to respond. Norton, a native of California's Bay Area, had joined Lehman's Japanese trading operations in the summer of 2008, shortly after graduating Brown University, seeking the adventure of spending his early twenties in Asia while taking the well-trod path from the Ivy League to banking.
On Monday, September 15, he headed to the office ahead of the Asian market open and expected a wild trading day. Lehman's stock had been cratering for months; now the firm's last hope was a weekend rescue. It never began. "The first exchanges to open for our desk were in New Zealand and Australia, and somebody turns to me and says, 'Our trades are failing in New Zealand,' " Norton recalls, "Our trading licenses had been revoked."
Lehman's bankruptcy filing on Sunday evening in New York and ahead of Monday's first trades in Asia, put Norton and rest of the firm into a permanent freeze. It meant the bank's top brass and rank and file alike had just cemented billions in losses on their Lehman stock. Their jobs were likely next. Back in New York, Wall Street was reshaped in a matter of hours. Within weeks, an unprecedented credit crunch took hold, putting even the world's strongest companies at risk of running out of cash. At the worst of the tumult, over a million Americans lost their homes to foreclosure. Millions more found themselves unemployed.
But for some like Norton, being little more than a young bystander at the epicenter of the financial crisis was a break. "I wasn't like some of these guys that had 20-year careers with Lehman. It was devastating to them," he says. "I got the opportunity to really be an observer and say to myself, 'Everything happens for a reason. In the story that is my life, this is a pivot-point. I'm going learn from this experience. Change is a good thing.' "
Before shipping off to Tokyo with a Lehman signing bonus in hand, Norton and his college roommate Mark Ramadan had been toying with a small business idea during their final months at Brown that was far afield from the world of finance and trading. They wanted to make better ketchup.
"It was the second semester of our senior year in college, and we were talking about how odd it was that there were so many types of mustards but only one type of ketchup," Norton says. "We realized that food in America was changing for the better. Every food category in the supermarket, whether it was whole grain bread or organic dairy or cage-free eggs, or in restaurants with the farm-to-table trend, was improving. But condiments, and specifically ketchup, hadn't really evolved in 70 years."
Norton, Ramadan and two other Brown friends began experimenting from their off-campus house on Benefit Street in Providence, Rhode Island. They tried dozens of recipes and threw ketchup-tasting parties for classmates. Ultimately, they decided there was a market opportunity. The ketchup industry "was dominated by a monopoly and that seemed ripe for change," says Norton. But as graduation loomed, he and Ramadan didn't yet think they could turn the idea into a real business. "It was just kind of a novelty," Norton says. Once in Tokyo, he spent weekends speaking with Ramadan, who had taken a job as a consumer goods consultant McKinsey in New York, forging the business idea, including a go-to-market strategy and a financing plan. Then came Lehman's bankruptcy, which shook Norton's trajectory.
"It left me on a path where I was off the treadmill. I wasn't on the fast track to managing director at this global investment bank," he says. Already in Asia, he decided the crisis was an opportunity to experiment and take risks. The more seasoned hands on Norton's Lehman trading desk called contacts around Asia and found a home for everyone at a smaller rival, Mizuho. Norton joined for a year, but then quit finance to start a project called Asia Wheeling, where he and a friend traveled around the continent on folding bicycles, exploring nearly two dozen countries and building a burgeoning media business off of their dispatches. By 2010, Norton returned to New York, rejoined Ramadan and two classmates, and went all-in on their ketchup idea.
They launched Sir Kensington's, a condiment company named after a *fictionalized English merchant, who they say advised the British East India Company on spice trading and was a member of the National Geographic Society and the Guild of Pepperers. When Sir Kensington returned to England, he authored what Norton and Ramadan call a "groundbreaking" doctoral thesis at Cambridge University titled: A Most Seemly Union: Byzantine Gastronomy & the Delightful Marriage of Greek and Roman Influence, 330-453. With this inventive name in hand, plus a spicier and all-natural ketchup recipe, they decided to take on Heinz, one of America's most iconic and profitable brands.
From a small start in 2010, Sir Kensington's quickly grew by word of mouth into one of the best new brands in the food industry. Norton and Ramadan raised a total of $20 million from investors, including acclaimed Verlinvest. They were both named to Forbes' 2012 30 Under 30 list in the food and wine space. Soon, its ketchup and other condiments, like mustard and mayonnaise, went nationwide to high-end restaurants and supermarkets.
By 2017, the company had become exactly what Norton envisioned: a disruptor of the ketchup business. So much so, Unilever, the competitor to Sir Kensington's Goliath rival Kraft Heinz, acquired the company for a reported $140 million. Now, Norton and Ramadan are building their dorm room idea into a global phenomenon, with the support of a $160 billion parent that's incubated the growth of pioneering food brands like Ben & Jerry's.
Norton's wildly successful ketchup odyssey may never have happened had Lehman not gone under. "I knew that I was never gonna be as young. I was never gonna be as unencumbered, and I was never going to have fewer liabilities and responsibilities than I did when I was 23 years old," says Norton, of the crisis. "The biggest risk was not taking one. I would just live the life that had been pioneered by other people rather than pioneering my own life."
For Norton, seeing the largest bankruptcy in American history and its consequences was part of the reason he and Ramadan decided to sell to Unilever, making their backers money while gaining stability and resources.
"The story of finance is about the supply and demand for credit, which is more or less the supply and demand for risk," Norton says. "I think that my experience at the very beginning of my career, at Lehman, has given me a perspective that values creativity and values stability over a maniacal accumulation of wealth."
"[T]here's no question that the people making investment decisions at Lehman Brothers were reckless," he adds. "Companies are very important organizations in society, to stakeholders, to employees, to customers. To put that stability at risk is to renege on your responsibility to society."
*We briefly thought Sir Kensington was real.
I'm a staff writer at Forbes, where I cover finance and investing. My beat includes hedge funds, private equity, fintech, mutual funds, M&A and banks. I'm a graduate of…
I'm a staff writer at Forbes, where I cover finance and investing. My beat includes hedge funds, private equity, fintech, mutual funds, M&A and banks. I'm a graduate of Middlebury College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and I've worked at TheStreet and Businessweek. Before becoming a financial scribe, I was a part of the fateful 2008 analyst class at Lehman Brothers. Email thoughts and tips to email@example.com. Follow me on Twitter at @antoinegara


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Cozy classic style villa with golf course view – 1005
1500$ p/night
Great Beach
Nice Sea View
Great Beach
Nice Sea View
Villa has been renovated in the fall of 2016!
This 10,000 sq. ft. (929 m2) luxury villa is located in the exclusive gated Puntacana Resort & Club, home to celebrities such as Julio Iglesias, Mikhail Baryshnikov and the late Oscar de la Renta.
Villa Blanca sits on 1.5 acres of land with gorgeous views of the La Cana golf course; a 27-hole championship golf course designed by P. B. Dye, with 4 oceanfront holes and 14 holes with ocean views. The private beach club with swimming pool, restaurant, bar and the renowned Six Senses Spa is just 400 yards from the villa. As a guest staying at Villa Blanca, you will have full privileges to the Puntacana Resort & Club. Please ask for more details.
The villa rental includes a 4 person in house staff including our Gourmet Chef, a butler, a maid and a gardener.
As you arrive at Villa through the lighted entry columns, you drive over a quaint wooden bridge with ponds and manicured gardens on both sides. The 1st guesthouse is located to your right and offers a spacious accommodation with a Queen bed and a full bathroom. The 2nd guesthouse, which also has a Queen bed and a full bathroom, is located on the back of the villa with a view towards the golf course.
The main house has two levels, and as you walk through the impressive entrance, you will immediately feel the warm, tropical breeze welcoming you home. Although the villa does have a/c in every room, you will notice that the structure and location invites you to open up the doors and to let the ocean breeze sweep through.
On the first floor you will find the spacious kitchen, a formal dining room, a sitting area and TV room with a large flat screen TV.
Upstairs there are four bedrooms. The grand master bedroom (1,000 sq. ft.) has a King size bed and a large walk-in closet with make-up counter. The master suite also features a large in-suite bathroom.
The 2nd bedroom has two Queen beds and a spacious bathroom.
The 3rd bedroom has a King bed and the 4th bedroom has two Queen beds. These bedrooms are located on the left side of the upper floor with a shared bathroom between them. The bathroom connects to both rooms and is shared between the two rooms, but each bedroom has an entrance to this bathroom directly from the bedroom.
Outside, you can enjoy the BBQ dining area, which has two beautiful stone dining tables and cast iron chairs that were handmade in the Dominican Republic. There is also a very comfortable outdoor lounge/living room, which is the perfect place for you to enjoy a cocktail at the end of the day.
During the day, you may lounge on the upstairs sun terrace or around the large, round swimming pool while enjoying the view of the golf course.
While you are staying at Villa Blanca, you will be pampered by Gourmet Chef and serviced by your very own butler, who speaks English and Spanish. He will tend to your every request. You will also have a maid to take care of all your housekeeping needs.
There is currently some construction in the neighborhood, which may give a bit of noise in the daytime between 8am-5:pm (not on Sundays).
|Punta Cana
|Max people to live
|Price from
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Walt Willis writes interestingly on all subjects, and especially on subjects on which he is best informed, such as himself. Here we have a fast coverage of the time which passed between the incidents related in 'The Subcutaneous Fan' and now ...
(from CANFAN #25, June, 1955)
If some enterprising hobbyist manufacturer ever starts manufacturing 'Fandom Kits' he can come to me for a testimonial. I can recommend the hobby to anyone with a surplus of mental energy, a sense of humor and an interest in people. (A liking for science fiction is no handicap.) It seems to me one of the few hobbies that give an actual and continual return commensurate with the energy expended. Admittedly if I had diverted the same amount of energy into dull mundane channels I should no doubt be earning a few pounds more a month and people would be able to find their way through my front garden without a compass, but then look at what I would have missed. As a result of having become involved in fandom I have learned to type; I have acquired an intimate knowledge of the reproductive processes (printing and duplicating I mean, not sex -- though I could have learned about that too at some conventions); I have acquired a rudimentary facility for stringing words together; I have been to Oshkosh, Cheyenne and Tallahassee; I have introduced Lee Hoffman to Forry Ackerman, watched the latter sneer at the Grand Canyon as mere terrestrial scenery and taken the former to the Okefenokee Swamp; I have learned to drive a car; I have been offered the Associate Editorship of a leading promag; I have fixed the lock on the bathroom door (it would never have been done if Bea Mahaffey hadn't been coming to stay with us); and I have met some of the most likeable and interesting people in the world.
Thinking of all this, I sometimes wish it had occurred to me to write to the letter column of those Astoundings I used to read in the early Thirties; I might so easily have entered fandom along with Bob Tucker. But for some reason I didn't, and in the late Thirties I stopped collecting promags and turned my attention to women. Fortunately I wasn't a completist. After a while I started going steady with one Madeleine Bryan. We'd been going together for quite a while when one day she darted in a newsagent's shop. I followed her because I'd noticed a copy of Astounding in the window, and found she'd just bought it. She had, it turned out, been reading science fiction for years. It didn't seem so important or surprising at the time but as the newer Campbell authors, mainly Van Vogt, made their appearance our interest began to increase. By the time we were married (1945) we knew to the day when the next British Edition of Astounding was due out, and sometimes we used to read it together.
Then one day in early 1947 I came across in a secondhand bookshop a copy of the American Edition of ASF for January of that year. I was shocked to the core. The last time I had seen the American edition of a science fiction magazine was in 1939, and I had innocently assumed that the miserable little British quarterly reprint was all there was of it. It hadn't occurred to me that there could exist any fiend so black-hearted as to suppress any of it, no matter how great the wartime paper shortage. But here was the evidence of the crime. This magazine was monthly, had twice the wordage of the BRE*, and had contained serials. Moreover this had been going on for years! Filled with a burning sense of injustice we embarked on a determined investigation of all the secondhand bookshops in Belfast. We didn't find any more ASFs, but we did find a copy of Fantasy, a short lived British promag, containing a letter from a James White of Belfast. I wrote inviting him to come and see us, mentioning casually my large collection of British Editions. We soon found that the James was the reason we had never found any other American ones in the secondhand bookshops. James had been camping on their doorsteps for years and had acquired almost a dozen. We regarded with awe and envy this wealth beyond the dreams of avarice.
James and I at once joined forces, and for months our only interest was in furthering our collections. We wrote to all the dealers we could find, and joined Ken Slater's Operation Fantast. At that time Ken was enclosing with his mailings various one-page fanzines by various fans. By now James and I had read each other's collections, had want lists written in blood with all the dealers, and had nothing left to do but gnaw our fingers. We got the idea of producing one of these fan magazines as part of our collecting drive. But we hadn't access to a typewriter or publishing equipment and after making enquiries from professional duplicators we rather lost interest in the idea. Then one day I happened to be in the loft of a shop where one of my friends worked. There, lying in a heap of junk was a curious looking machine. I asked what it was and was told it was a printing press the boss had got to print letterheads on and later thrown away. I smuggled it out under my coat and we started right away. We had only enough type to print about a third of a page, so we spread it out with em spaces between the words and James made woodcuts with plywood and a razor blade to fill the rest of the space. We called the magazine Slant. We sent out the first three issues free.
By the fourth issue, however, we had progressed to 42 pages, a subscription rate, and linocuts. James' work in this medium has never been surpassed in the history of fanmag art. Manly Banister, editor of Necromantikon, was so impressed that he crated up his old press, a massive brute of a thing, and shipped it off to us. When this arrived we really went to town, with photo-engravings and multicoloured linocuts. But by now each issue was getting so ambitious that the intervals between them were getting to be something like six months. Slant 6 was probably the most ambitious handset magazine ever printed and after it we felt we needed a rest. Besides James' eyesight was going and I'd found a new type of fanactivity. So far I's only written what I had to write to fill up blank pages in Slant, but recently I found I was tending to have several hundred words left over. It seemed to me it might be a good idea to foist them off on some other editor, so when a new mag called Quandry arrived I offered to do a column for it. Freed from the inhibitory feeling that every word I wrote would have to be set up in type I let myself go and spread myself over page after page of Quandry. Nevertheless the column turned out to be popular. So much so that within a year Shelby Vick of Florida had started a campaign to bring me over to the Chicon. By the middle of 1952 it had succeeded. I travelled about the States -- New York, Chicago, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, Kansas City, Panama City, Savannah -- for a hektic four weeks. When I got home I was in a state of complete mental exhaustion, partly from the strain of the journey, and partly from the effort of all the fan writing I'd done in the previous months. But even during a long bout with pneumonia in the following Spring, I never really lost touch with fandom. For one thing it would have seemed ungrateful after all fandom had done for me. I soon became active again . . . but in a different way. It no longer seemed sensible to devote most of my spare time to pure drudgery like setting type. In the old days James and I had been quite happy to sit working all evening listening to symphony concerts on the radio, but now we had a third fan, Bob Shaw, and we kept putting down our composing sticks to talk. We did produce one more issue of Slant, Number 7, but it was mostly mimeographed and we didn't feel happy about it. And yet once having known the comparative luxury of duplicating, we could never go back to typesetting. So Slant fell into suspended animation. I egged James into starting his pro-writing career and in collaboration with my friend Chuck Harris of England started a new mimeoed mag called Hyphen, strictly for amusement only.
Which brings you more or less up to date. We have so much fun with Hyphen that I doubt if SLANT will ever appear again, and yet I hate to proclaim it officially dead. I shall have to make up my mind about it one of these days. One thing I'm sure of, and that is that I'll stay in fandom. I have met more fans than probably anyone in the world except Forry Ackerman, and I'm still not disenchanted with them. They can be infuriating at times, but at least they're never dull.
Data entry by Judy Bemis


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I hate you! You're so unfair! Riley's mom is so much cooler than you are! Do you feel like you're stuck in a never-ending fight with your child? Do you feel that each day just goes from bad to worse? Break the cycle of negative parenting and create a Positive Parenting program in your home.
You, alone, have the power to change the environment of your home from negative to positive parenting. You are the parent and you are in charge. So make a commitment to yourself and your children to turn around the atmosphere in your home and become what we call a "Positive Parent."
Before you do this, you're going to want to spend some time gearing up. Take a walk, go out for dinner by yourself, get your nails done— whatever you enjoy that allows you quiet time to think. During your thinking time, list out what it is that you love about your child. This is the first step toward becoming a positive parent.
Ask yourself: What does your child do well? What qualities about your child do you admire? What hidden talents do you see in your child that makes him a good person? (Depending how deep you are in the negative cycle, this may seem difficult, but it's in there! We love our children, and as parents we see qualities in our kids that no one else can see. Sometimes we just get so wrapped up in the day to day that we lose sight of these positive things.)
After you've developed your starting point, begin being a positive parent! One great thing to do is keep a small notepad with you during the day and write down every positive thing your child does during the day. These don't need to be complete sentences, just ideas (Trust me, your child isn't going to critique your grammar!).
For example:
*brushed your teeth this morning without being asked
*gave your sister the last cookie
*got a B+ on your spelling test
*didn't tease your sister when she spilled her milk at dinner
*and so on. . .
Then, at the end of the day, when you tuck your child in for bed, read over the list. Let your child know that you were watching and caught him doing good things that day. Your child will love the special time you're spending together and will relish the positive praise. Need some tips on what you should be able to realistically expect from your child at his stage of development? Check out the CDC's website at http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/childdevelopment/positiveparenting/
This website allows you to pick your child's age range and has great suggestions on age-appropriate positive parenting as well as information about developmental milestones and the health and safety of your child.
Tips for Toddlers:
• Play matching games with your toddler, like shape sorting and simple puzzles.
• Encourage your child's growing independence by letting him help with dressing himself and feeding himself.
• Respond to wanted behaviors more than you punish unwanted behaviors (use only very brief time outs). Always tell or show your child what she should do instead.
• Give your child attention and praise when she follows instructions and shows positive behavior and limit attention for defiant behavior like tantrums.
• Teach your child acceptable ways to show that she's upset.
Tips for Preschoolers:
• Be clear and consistent when disciplining your child. Explain and show the behavior that you expect from her. Whenever you tell her no, follow up with what she should be doing instead.
• Help your child through the steps to solve problems when she is upset.
• Give your child a limited number of simple choices (for example, deciding what to wear, when to play, and what to eat for snack).
Tips for Middle Childhood:
• Show affection for your child. Recognize her accomplishments.
• Help your child develop a sense of responsibility—ask him to help with household tasks, such as setting the table.
• Make clear rules and stick to them, such as how long your child can watch TV or when she has to go to bed. Be clear about what behavior is okay and what is not okay.
• Do fun things together as a family, such as playing games, reading, and going to events in your community.
• Use discipline to guide and protect your child, rather than punishment to make him feel bad about himself. Follow up any discussion about what not to do with a discussion of what to do instead.
• Praise your child for good behavior. It's best to focus praise more on what your child does ("you worked hard to figure this out") than on traits she can't change ("you are smart").
• Support your child in taking on new challenges. Encourage her to solve problems on her own.
Positive Parenting is possible! It just takes commitment on your part and a starting point. Behavior Management Coaching helps frustrated parents develop positive parenting strategies to reduce defiance and build stronger family relationships! Talk to us today!


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Author: Lily Malone
Publication Date: 17 December 2018
Publisher: Harlequin Mira
Copy: Courtesy of the Publisher
The Café by the Bridge is the second book in the Chalk Hill series, where we are taken back to the scene of Water Under the Bridge; back to where Ella and Jake fell in love.
Abe Honeychurch is our leading man, still broody and miserable after being scammed hard and losing it all. He's back in Chalk Hill to work on paying his debts and open a new eatery in his home town; in the inherited house that caused so much angst in Water Under the Bridge.
He isn't interested in justice, he just wants to move on and forget all about the whole situation.
Unfortunately for Abe, Taylor Woods has come to town looking for Abe because her brother was left broke and broken-hearted by the same woman and Taylor is determined to get justice for him.
The Café By The Bridge promises a journey filled with angst, laughter, small town community and chemistry.
I look forward to picking this up sometime real soon. In the meantime, thanks to Harlequin Mira 10 of our Beauty and Lace Club members will be reading The Café By The Bridge and you can read what they thought in the comments below. Please be aware there may be spoilers.
The Café By The Bridge is published by Harlequin Mira and is available now where all good books are sold.
You can follow Lily Malone on Facebook, Twitter and her Website.


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Lecture | "Lover, Father, Killer" by Dr. Keith Camacho
- On Wednesday, may 04, 2016 at 16:00
- Blaisdell House Room 7, 143 E. Tenth St.
"Lover, Father, Killer: The Auckland District Court and its Condemnation of Samoan Men, 1950-1990" presented by Dr. Keith Camacho, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at UCLA.
What makes a "Samoan man" in New Zealand and the United States? If we turn to the historiographies on militarism and sport, we can begin to assess the various links between martial acts of state warfare, on the one hand, and martial-like acts of state competition, on the other. In this respect, we can gauge the making of acceptable and valorized masculinities in and between New Zealand and the United States. But how do we account for the marginalization and criminalization of non-normative masculinities in these countries? In this talk, I will focus on the Auckland District Court in New Zealand and offer preliminary observations about its condemnation of Samoan men from 1950 to 1990.
BIO: Professor Keith Camacho is an Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at UCLA. Professor Camacho received his interdisciplinary training in anthropology, literature, and history at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. He has also held research appointments in indigenous studies at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. As an historian of Chamorros and other Pacific Islanders, he has published widely on empire, gender, militarism, race, and sovereignty in the Mariana Islands, Oceania, and the broader Asia-Pacific region. His new research agenda extends these issues to the sphere of U.S. colonial law and to its imperial regimes of freedom, punishment, and surveillance in the Pacific.
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Tustin's elections are at a crossroads: threats from CVRA suits might force lackluster change and the system is not as representative as it could be. The Rank and Add system yields we propose for Tustin's elections results that satisfy both current laws and fair representation through elegant simplicity.
Executive Summary
In this report, Voters Choose proposes a bold and pragmatic solution to confront the impending threat of mandated, costly changes to Tustin's electoral system. The proposal is cost-effective and satisfies the framework of the California Voting Rights Act (CVRA) on the people's terms, not a court's. In the past decade, cities across Southern California like Tustin, including Buena Park, Costa Mesa, and Garden Grove, have already succumbed to abandon at- large elections, and adopt ineffective district models. Even in localities that comply with demand letters from these outsiders, the city or school district must reimburse an author up to $30,000 for research on racial polarization in electoral patterns. The Tustin Unified School District fell victim to these unnecessary expenses in 2016 and now operates under a district-based system that ultimately is worse for Tustin's residents. Thus, the law has forced cities into lackluster compromises at the expense of their financial health and their residents.
The Rank and Add system yields results that satisfy both current laws and fair representation through elegant simplicity.
But Tustin can do things in a different and better way that represents its citizens. Voters Choose has an electoral reform that optimizes representation for Tustin geographically, where representatives are accountable to an area; ideologically, where representatives respond to their constituents' interests; and descriptively, where representatives themselves represent the demographics of the community. Rank and Add Voting allows individual voters to rank a set of candidates (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.), at which point each ranking gets a point value (1st=1 point, 2nd=1⁄2 point, 3rd=1⁄3 point, etc.) and the sums determine the winner. All of this can be achieved in an easy, affordable way; no other system improves the quality of elections and ensures the city council can maintain the public's confidence for years to come. In short, it balances key priorities of a government, which includes representing the voices of minorities, but also giving moderates the chance to win broad, popular majorities. The Rank and Add system proposed here yields results that satisfy both current laws and fair representation of voters' nuanced preferences through elegant simplicity.


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While the equity market and accounting issues and corporate scandals are weighing on the economy, it is still fundamentally sound. The recovery process hasn't been derailed. We still think the economy is going to grow at about a 3.5-percent pace in the second half -- fast enough to keep the Fed from easing, but not fast enough to cause them to tighten this year. - Gerald Cohen
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In the past, my mom has bought a turkey for Christmas dinner.
We only had to reheat it.
This year I am making this roast turkey. I'm not going to go all Jamie Julia, but I do want to chronicle it. I've made a Thanksgiving turkey before, but have never had my whole family counting on me for the bird.
At the moment, I am dehydrating the bread for the handful of crumbs I'll need in the morning, along with some tomatoes. It's Mrs. Baird's bread. I've got a big plastic zip lock ready to put it in.
I chopped the pork already.
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Interesting Research on Franchises – What You Didn't Know
July 1, 2018
Angel Broking Franchise Review.
In India, the largest broking franchise is the angel brooking franchise since it has the largest number of the sub-brokers ecosystem. The important features of the angel broking partner program, angel broking sub-brokers offers and angel broking franchise revenue share models are the components that this article seeks to review in depth. In Mumbai, India, angel broking is well known for its many years of service in broking. In terms of, marketing strategies, angel broking has the most innovative techniques. There are very many branches in the cities and across India as well as sub-brokers in all the cities and spread in India that is run by the angel broking.
Angel broking is not only known for broking but also it is best in broking franchise with very many sub-brokers. They provide a variety of services and products to their sub-brokers that are flexible in commission sharing with their partners. The following is a detailed review of this.
The angel broking franchise can be split into three categories. They include, sub-broker, master franchise, and remisier. To begin with, angel broking sub-broker well known as the angel broking business partners is a program with low investment venture of angel broking. It harps the highest numbers of sub broker in the country. This has a faster three day registration where the client can have a registration number in the third day from BSE/NSE. It has a variety of products that provides customer service, assist in the marketing of the business, the technology support. For one to become a sub-broker, one needs to make a security deposit which is refundable. This offers no franchise fee involvement. As it provides marketing support, it also offers a tag with a dedicated relationship manager A tag with a dedicated relationship manager is offered due to the nature of customer support services offered.
It also ensures that there is adequate training in form of seminars, sessions, webinars and many others. From time to time this is imparted to the staff and the sub-brokers. Through the access to software, there is access to performance of various dealers and therefore advising them accordingly. There are profits that are associated with the angel broking sub-broker and they are, a flexible initial investment amount, flexible revenue sharing model, three day tag generation process, free demat account to sub-broker clients and sub-broker clients can open account in five minutes.
The model that allows the client to have a monopoly of broker ship in a locality is the angel broking master franchise. This investment requires one to have a decent infrastructure and a handsome investment amount. This is a category with various benefits that include, having a monopoly over an area, location or town, revenue sharing for sub-broker, large area to work upon without any direct competitor and an opportunity of building a large business.
To conclude, the angel broking remisier is a model with simple company agent model which requires the remisier gets the prospects for angel broking to open a demat account and trading purposes. The angel broking remisier has the following benefits, very low initial investment, attractive commission and a very easy on-boarding process.
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moovel North America (becoming REACH NOW), the leading provider of mobile ticketing solutions for transit agencies in North America, will preview its new Loyalty and Rewards platform at the APTAtech Transportation Technology Conference in Columbus, Ohio from September 16-17, 2019.
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Mobility-as-a Service pioneer moovel: 6.5 million users, growth rate of 69%
moovel Group GmbH has a customer base of 6.5 million people as of 31 January 2019, reflecting a growth rate of 69 percent in the last 12 months. Apps such as "Mobil in Düsseldorf" underline the innovative strength of the tech company. In the USA, moovel cooperates with 18 transportation companies, underscoring its market leadership in the field of mobile ticketing solutions for local transportation companies.
moovel: Mobility-as-a-Service pioneer has five million users
moovel Group products are used by five million people. The Daimler subsidiary is a Mobility-as-a-Service pioneer.
moovel lab visualizes mobility infrastructures on land and in the air with the design project "Flights to Rome"
moovel lab visualizes mobility infrastructures on land and in the air with the design project "Flights to Rome"
Beat The Traffic X: the moovel lab promotes discourse on urban mobility with online game
The moovel lab today presents its new Beat The Traffic X project, an online game that allows players to playfully transform vehicles into other elements.
German Design Award: the moovel lab children's book "Where Do Cars Go at Night?" receives a prize from the German Design Council
What happens when the city is sleeping and self-driving vehicles move through the city?
With the moovel app and a bit of luck, you can travel on local public transport on particulate matter alarm days completely free of charge
The moovel Group, which has its headquarters on the Marienplatz in Stuttgart, supports the capital of Baden Wurttemberg during the particulate matter alarm season.
Win the chance to ride VVS for free during particulate matter alert days
During particulate matter days you have the chance to win a free bus or train ride using the moovel app.
New moovel lab project – "Who Wants to Be a Self-Driving Car"
See the world through the eyes of an autonomous vehicle – the new moovel lab "Who Wants to Be a Self-Driving Car" project makes this possible.
moovel at the Frankfurt International Motor Show IAA
Frankfurt, 13.09.2017. From September 14 to 24, 2017, the Frankfurt International Motor Show IAA opens its doors to trade visitors and all other people interested in mobility.
Come and visit us at our moovel booth! We will have a photobooth, foosball table, moovel mobility bonus, sweepstake and space for just chilling.
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Behold the Staggering Human Cost of Qatar's 2022 World Cup Games
The Washington Post explores the toll paid by workers during the past five years of desert construction.
Image by the Washington Post. Click through for the full chart.
FIFA is in a ton of hot water over major corruption charges that implicate the organization's high-ranking officials and executives in money laundering, racketerring, and bribery schemes, among a number of other criminal indictments. This scandal may spell incredible losses for the international soccer association, which will hopefully (and finally) bring light to FIFA's other less palatable, yet legally ambiguous ventures like its decision to host the 2020 World Cup in Qatar.
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Accession Number : AD0712686
Title : THE SCALING PROBLEM IN THE CLASSIFICATION OF IMAGES BY SPATIAL FILTERING.
Descriptive Note : Master's thesis,
Corporate Author : AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OHIO SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
Personal Author(s) : Gill,Richard A.
Report Date : MAY 1970
Pagination or Media Count : 92
Abstract : The purpose of this investigation is to modify an existing model of the human visual system, based on the spatial filtering of the two-dimensional Fourier transform of an input stimulus, to allow for considerable scale changes in the input stimuli. The primary tool compensation, the scaling property of the Fourier transform is discussed and its application to discrete two-dimensional patterns is presented. A method for determining the scale factor of an input pattern, given some 'a priori' information on several input patterns, is described. The scale factors derived from this method are shown to relate to the human estimation of size. A complete scaling algorithm, applicable to many pattern recognition problems, is presented. The results of two computer simulations, using this algorithm, are presented. The first simulation demonstrates the successful classification of handwritten geometric outlines, with moderate scale differences, and the second simulation shows the classification of Russian characters with scale differences of up to 3.5 to 1. These results clearly demonstrate both the need for the scaling algorithm and its effectiveness. (Author)
Descriptors : (*PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL PERCEPTION), INTEGRAL TRANSFORMS, INVARIANCE, INTEGRALS, MATRICES(MATHEMATICS), COMPUTER PROGRAMMING, APPROXIMATION(MATHEMATICS), ALGORITHMS, TABLES(DATA), THESES
Subject Categories : CYBERNETICS
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- Publication no: ABC2017-082-17
- Published: 21 April 2017
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Roads and Maritime Services New South Wales (NSW) is currently undertaking an $84 million project to upgrade the Pacific Highway and Wyong Road Intersection at Tuggerah on the NSW Central Coast. The project involves conversion of an existing roundabout to a signalised intersection and duplication of an existing bridge over the Main Northern rail line connecting Sydney and Newcastle. The project also includes approximately 1km of retaining structures (up to 11m high), modifications to the existing rail overbridge, extension of an existing pedestrian underpass and relocation of above and underground utilities. The project will improve safety, ease congestion and improve travel times for approximately 55,000 vehicles which currently use the intersection daily.
A key challenge for the project was designing the 45 degree skew, four span Super-T bridge and substructure to be installed adjacent to rail within a designated number of track possessions. The bridge design was driven by a number of constraints, the foremost being the proximity of the central pier to existing rail, direct current overhead wiring (OHW) and high voltage (HV) rail aerial feeder lines. The clear distance between the central pier and centreline of the nearest track is 3485mm.
The project team worked with various stakeholders to develop a hybrid cast in-situ / precast concrete central pier to expedite construction and to reduce safety risks associated with working in such close proximity to rail. An animation of the anticipated bridge construction was developed to communicate the proposed design and associated construction sequence to all stakeholders. The project is currently under construction with works on the new bridge nearing completion.
This paper focuses on how the risks associated with bridge construction adjacent to rail were addressed during the design.


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A little work now will reap several quarts of chicken stock for your freezer to use later. In this tight economy, making something from scratch will also save you money.
Whenever I make chicken for dinner, the bones are put in zippered freezer bags and saved in the freezer. Anytime I use onions or carrots or other "soup" veggies, the peels, tops and bottoms are also saved. Celery leaves, garlic skins, the ends of peppers, leftover tomato slices, and more are added to the "stash".
Usually, I save veggies leftover from dinner (a spoonful of corn, or a half cup of peas, etc) in a separate bag. I don't care for these in stock, but they could be used for that purpose. I use mine in chicken pot pie or casseroles instead, like a frozen form of Veg-All.
When I have enough chicken bones and veggie scraps, or when the freezer is too full, all the bags are emptied into the stockpot, water is added, and the pot simmers all day long. Adding a splash of apple cider vinegar will help draw calcium out of the bones. When it's done, I strain the solids from the broth, then run the broth a second time through muslin or cheesecloth, and refrigerate so I can remove the fat after it cools. This last time I ended up with 5 quarts of broth for a day's work, but it isn't a full day, just a few minutes here and there.
Either keep this refrigerated, or freeze in zip-topped bags or freezer containers. If you wish to can the stock, you must use a pressure canner.
It's not only free, since it's made from what is essentially throwaway bones and scraps, it's also sodium-free unless you decide to add salt. It's thick - gelatenous - you can't pour it out of the jar like you do the canned stuff from the store. It's so much better for you too. If you want a richer stock, just cook it down for awhile with the top off the pot.
What can you make with this stock?
Chicken soup, chicken stew, chicken'n'noodles; add to casseroles and other recipes that call for stock or broth.
Index of Convenience Foods posts:
Part One - Spice Mixes
Part Two - Chili Mac
Part Three - Ground Beef
Part Four - Dump Chicken
Part Five - Make Ahead
Part Six - Pizza Crust
Part Seven - Pies
Convenience Foods - Chicken Stock
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A problem from Stewart Calculus: Concepts and Contexts 2/e p. 30.
Ball = fetchData("PREP-Toronto-ball.csv")
modHeight = fitModel(Height ~ a * Time^2 + b * Time + c, data = Ball)
findZeros(modHeight(t) ~ t, t.lim = c(5, 15))
## [1] 9.674
An a priori model:
apriori = makeFun(450 - 0.5 * 9.806 * Time^2 ~ Time)
How good are the models?
aprioriResids = with(data = Ball, Height - apriori(Time))
fittedResids = with(data = Ball, Height - modHeight(Time))
plotPoints(fittedResids ~ Time, data = Ball)
Do some research on "terminal velocity" to figure out what would be an appropriate terminal velocity for a ball. One equation you may find is \[ V_t = \sqrt{\frac{2 m g}{\rho A C_d}}, \] where \( m \) is the mass of the ball, \( g \) the acceleration due to gravity, \( \rho \) the density of air, \( A \) the cross-sectional area of the ball, and \( C_d \) the "drag coefficient." You should be able to find values for each of these and a plausible range of values for \( m \) and \( A \) for a "ball." For a sphere, the drag coefficient is \( C_d = 0.47 \).
Build a differential equation with a reasonable model of air drag. In particular, arrange it to reach a plausible terminal velocity. How far is height versus time from a parabola?
Here's a video of a falling ball. Perhaps you can find other data for longer falls. Try to find some compelling data and see if they display terminal velocity.