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Tony Stark is Iron Man.
You aren't, and therefore you aren't, but you can kind of/sort of pretend to be with the right costume t-shirt.
I know, I know -- you can't develop a personal weapons system controlled by registered thought impulses and a seductively voiced AI, but you CAN buy an Iron Man Suit-Up Men's Costume T-Shirt and indulge in a little roleplay.
This Iron Man costume t-shirt for men features the printed appearance of Tony Stark's augmentative super-armor with detailed, illustrated plating, marginally exposed sub-plating, comic-accurate accents, and a thickly rendered Uni-Beam.
It's like being Iron Man without spending an additional seven-billion dollars on exhaustive R&D trials.
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If you've been turning to Netflix and homecooked meals lately in favor of dining out, you're not alone. In fact, the number of homecooked meals has spiked during the past decade. There are numerous reasons for this trend, including a steady increase in the cost of restaurants, especially at the fast food level. Per Bloomberg, price hikes may make the industry look like it's booming, but the truth is that traffic has fallen for 29 months in a row. The latest statistics show that July kept this downward spiral alive with another 1.1 percent drop in traffic.
In 2000, Americans were eating out an average of 216 times annually. Last year, a repeat of the same study showed that this number had fallen to 185 times. Although this still represents a lot of dining out, it spells big trouble for an industry that's having trouble keeping up with consumer demands for more modern diets.
An emphasis on better health and diverse food options will be critical if the fast food industry wants to survive long-term. Forbes reported that 5 percent of Americans are vegetarians, with another 3 percent eating a vegan diet. These numbers may not seem very high, but they actually represent a big increase in meat-free living. In 2008, the Vegetarian Times put these numbers at a much lower 3.2 percent and 0.5 percent, respectively.
Budgetary concerns are another major issue for today's consumer. According to CNN, student debt has ballooned to $1.5 trillion in the U.S. for the first time ever. New graduates now owe an average of $28,400, and 20 percent of people with student loan debt are currently behind on their payments.
The average cost of eating out is $12.75 per person. Meanwhile, making a similar meal at home has an average cost of only $4. With this $8 price disparity, it's easy to see why cash-strapped Americans are spending more time in their kitchens than they have since 1990. Delivery, meal kits and new appliances — such as Instapot pressure cookers that allow you to make a wide array of food items at home — are allowing people to stay home and eat in new and exciting ways.
Another major influence comes alongside shifting attitudes about entertainment. Per CNBC, an estimated 57 percent of Americans utilize a major streaming service. This makes sense when you consider that a basic Netflix streaming plan is only $10.99 for a month as opposed to the average movie price of $9.16 per ticket. To put this into comparison, it would cost a married couple $18.32 just to see a single movie without any snacks or drinks.
The drive to become more financially solvent and physically healthy is likely to continue hurting the fast food industry unless it can evolve quickly. Some chains are putting a bigger emphasis on providing healthier options, but this may not be enough if their prices also continue to increase. After all, when it comes to the cheapest and healthiest way to have a date, Americans plagued with student loan debt are hard-pressed to find a better option than streaming services and home cooking.


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Montblanc announced Thursday a wearable computing option for mechanical watch owners. Being launched initially for the Montblanc Timewalker Urban Speed line of watches for 2015, the eStrap includes an OLED screen and various fitness-related sensors.
Montblanc Timewalker Urban Speed with eStrap
The short version of the eStrap is that it has sensors in the part of the strap that passes underneath the watch, as shown above. For non-watch nerds, this is a "pass-through" or "NATO-style" strap, but Montblanc has designed the eStrap so that it will work with any of its 42mm and 43mm time pieces (meaning it should work with similar sizes from other watchmakers if they have the same size lugs).
The strap is also designed to pass through the 128 x 36 pixel OLED display, which would then sit underneath your wrist. Many commenters at A Blog to Watch, which broke this news, were arguing that the eStrap would be uncomfortable to wear due to the placement of the screen.
The eStrap is 40mm long, 14.2mm wide, and 9mm high (or thick), and Montblanc said it will have a battery life of 5 days—it's rechargeable via a micro-USB port. It's shock and splash-resistant, and it communicates with both iPhone and Android devices through Bluetooth 4.0.
It's designed to display basic call information, texts, e-mails, calendars, social media, and reminder notifications, and it features a pedometer and an accelerometer. It also features a vibrator for alerts.
Montblanc, a maker of both fine pens and fine time pieces, competes starting in the mid-range of the Swiss watch markets. The piece shown is the Timewalker Urban Speed Chronograph with the workhorse ETA Valjoux 7750 movement, and it will retail for €4,690 (US$5,630), including the eStrap. The eStrap will be sold separately for €250 ($300).
Here's what the front of the Timewalker Urban Speed Chronograph looks like:
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The Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) is a hiking trail that runs 2,650 miles (4,265 kilometers) from Mexico to Canada through California, Oregon, and Washington. The PCT covers the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Mountain Ranges and includes deserts, glacial valleys, forests and more.
Pacific Crest Trail Stats
- Length: 2655 Miles
- Traverses: 24 National Forests, 37 Wilderness Areas and 7 National Parks
- Southern Terminus: Campo, CA (32.589733, -116.466965)
- Northern Terminus: Manning Park, British Columbia, Canada (32.590603, -116.468033)
- Number of Hikers Per Year: 500 – 1000
- Length of Time to Complete: 4 to 6 months
- Managed By: The U.S. Forest Service, in partnership with the National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, California State Parks and the Pacific Crest Trail Association.
- When the Shit Hits the Fan – The trail will provide.
Pacific Crest Trail Usage Stats
General Overview Resources
PCT Resupply and Planning Resources
Resupply strategies include having someone mail pre-prepared supply boxes to yourself, purchasing supplies on the trail or a hybrid combination of the two.
- Craig's PCT Planner – A unique trip and resupply planning tool.
- Postholer Planning Page – Provides a wealth of helpful data related to weather, routes and planning.
PCT Maps and Mapping Resources
- Halfmile's PCT Maps – Downloadable maps, smartphone apps and GPS Data & Waypoints .
- Postholer Pocket Maps – These maps include land cover, climate, elevation charts, resupply, road crossings, lakes & creeks and terrain features in an easy to digest format.
- Official USFS PCT Maps – These are printed on waterproof, tear-resistant paper but scaled at 1:63,360, which may be too small for some. You can purchase them at the National Forest Service Map Store or at the PCTA Map Store.
- Google Maps – Postholer's awesome Google Map with resupply points, snow reports, bear boxes, water reports and more!
- Postholer Pacific Crest Trail Data Points By Section – This collection of data points includes geology, roads crossed, land cover, historic temps and more.
- Bearcant Pacific Crest Trail Elevation Profiler – Online elevation profile for PCT by segment.
PCT Permit Information
- Long Distance Permit > 500 Miles : If you are hiking more than 500 miles of the trail PCT in a single continguous trip, you will need a long distance permit, there is no additional fee for peaking Mt. Whitney.
- Short Distance Permit < 500 Miles: National Forest Wilderness Areas, National Parks and California State Parks may require an overnight camping permit. Some of these permits can be found at Recreation.gov.
- California Fire Permit – Required for open fires, such as campfire, barbecues and portable stoves on federally controlled lands and private lands that are the property of another person.
- Canada Entry Permit – In addition to an accepted entry permit, if you are a U.S. citizen, a passport is not required, but you will need evidence of your citizenship in the form of a birth certificate, passport card, enhanced driver's license, or NEXUS card. Questions can be directed to the Canada Border Services Agency at [email protected] or via phone at at 1-866-496-3987, then press "0" and ask for the Pacific Crest Trail Coordinator.
PCT Cell Phone Reception Resources
Pacific Crest Trail Books
Pacific Crest Trail Books – Amazon has a large number of PCT related books worth checking out.


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John P. Gullo II
John P. Gullo II has over 25 years experience in the practice of law, including working for a large law firm in Buffalo, New York in the commercial litigation and insurance defense departments. He also served as an Assistant District Attorney in Chautauqua County District Attorney's Office, a Chautauqua County Legislator, and as an Adjunct at SUNY Fredonia.
His criminal defense practice includes all felonies and misdemeanors, DWI and traffic offenses. As a former Assistant District Attorney now in private practice, he has experience with the defense of matters small and large.
Mr. Gullo's work on real estate matters includes work for residential and commercial clients, as well as a number of lending institutions.
The business and corporate work of the firm includes start-ups, incorporations, leases, contracts and all other aspects of small to medium-sized businesses, except tax matters.
Areas of Practice
- Business Formation and Choice of Entity
- Business Transactions
- Driving While Intoxicated charges DWI/DUI
- Criminal Defense (Felonies and Misdemeanors)
- Residential and Commercial Real Estate
- Estate Planning and Probate
- Speeding Tickets
Litigation Percentage
- 50% of Practice Devoted to Litigation
Bar Admissions
- New York, 1991
- U.S. District Court Western District of New York, 1991
- Boston University School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts
- Canisius College, Buffalo, New York
- Major: Political Science
- Major: History
Representative Cases
- People of the State of New York v. James Lee, 19 A.D.3d 1148, 796 N.Y.S.2d 492 (NYS Appellate Div., 4th Dept 2005)
- People of the State of New York v. James Lee, 2005 N.Y. Slip Op. 048 (NYS Appellate Div., 4th Dept 2005)
- York v. Wolfinger, Clark and RAM Forest Products, Inc., 309 A.D.2d 1229, 765 N.Y.S.2d 536 (NYS Appellate Div., 4th Dept 2003)
- York v. Wolfinger, Clark and RAM Forest Products, Inc., 2003 N.Y. Slip Op. 17 (NYS Appellate Div., 4th Dept 2003)
Representative Clients
- ROM Property Management
- Lily Dale Assembly
- Shaun P. Heenan
- Linda Harris, C.P.A.
- Walter Gotowka, Tradition Agency
- Adjunct Professor, SUNY Fredonia, 2005 - Present
Past Employment Positions
- Magavern & Kanaley, Partner
- Damon & Morey, Associate
- Chautauqua County Office of the District Attorney, Assistant District Attorney, Part Time
- SUNY Fredonia, Adjunct Professor of Political Science
- Chautauqua County Legislator
- Chautauqua County Office of the Public Defender, Assistant Public Defender, Part Time
Pro Bono Activities
- Chautauqua County Rural Ministry, Board of Directors, 2002 - 2006
- United Way of Northern Chautauqua, County Board of Directors, 2003 - 2006
- Chairman of the Chautauqua County Ethics Board, 2005 - 2006
- Past President of the Board of Directors of the Boys & Girls Club of Northern Chautauqua


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Premier Coaches Northwest, which offers charter services to Seattle, Tacoma and Bellevue's Eastside areas of Washington, added a new Temsa TS 35 from CH Bus Sales.
Premier's TS 35 coaches are equipped with Alcoa wheels, REI Audio/Video monitors, and side and driver shades. The most recent 2014 model also includes leather seats, wood grain floors, cordless microphone and 110-volt plug outlets.
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They are so easy to make. I have bought some more ingredients!
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Hi Sarah
What pretty soaps.
Happy New Year and thank you for all your support in 2010.
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Hi Sarah,
How lovely you also make these soaps!!! So nice and a wonderful gift!
Hope you enjoyed the past weekend!
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What beautiful bars of soap.. great gift ideas..
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i had good intentions lol.. bought some plain soap at my craft store to make something for Chrstimas presents but never made it.
do you have a good website you can share with me? was it difficult?
i love the interesting texture you gave yours!!!!
Sarah, that little stand i used is a candle holder thingy that i just flipped upside down. I think it is supposedly for one of those larger glass candles. I got it at Michaels and it was somewhere between 5-10 dollars. they come in all sorts of colors. I wanted to get also such a vintage white one - but they were all sold out.
thanks for the reminder i must check if they are back in. :-)
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Hunny you have really impressed me you have made loads of stuff! busy bee you are! and the soaps look so good!! really pretty! very inspiring. Thanks for playing along with my candy Challenge!
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Oh Sarah these look lovley!!
Bet they smell great too!
Happy New year when it comes sweetie :O)
Your handmade soaps look gorgeous Sarah and what a fabulous idea. Wishing you and your family a Happy New Year. Hugs Michele xReplyDelete
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With exams and then the long languid vacations round the corner, it is perhaps a good idea to think about how fit our children are to meet the challenges before them. Challenges of facing examinations and the challenge of not letting oneself go after that!
And as the old adage goes, a sound mind in a sound body. Let's turn our attention to the sound body bit.
We live in an era that is instant – instant noodles, soup, juices, coffee, masalas, even idli, dosa, daal and mutter!! So inundated we are with a flood of instant and processed food, that sometimes our children don't know any other way in which these foods are made or that they also exist in non packaged forms!
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From Adrian Baker comes a fresh Reisling: bright and full of lime zest, lime leaf and lemon flavours:
Picked from our Goldie road vineyard and 5 different sections of our Carrs Landing Vineyard, over the course of 3 weeks. Chilled fruit was whole bunch pressed and the juice settled clear. Juice was then inoculated with selected neutral yeast strains and fermented close to dryness. Aged on light lees for 2 months, as is typical our Riesling was bottled early to retain freshness and vibrancy.
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The File Optimization tab is Where you can set up WP Rocket's minification and concatenation functionality.
· Minification — shrinks the size of your website's code by removing unnecessary characters (such as whitespace) without changing any functionality.
· Concatenation — reduces the number of documents on your website by combining multiple CSS/JS files into one.
You can also install some other Settings such as.
· Remove render-blocking CSS/JS (PageSpeed Insights is notorious for yelling at you about this issue).
· Combining Google Fonts documents (useful if you use multiple Google Fonts on your website ).
· Eliminate query strings from static sources (this one won't have a big effect, but it might improve your GTmetrix score, even if you care about that).
I urge Enabling as a number of these settings as you can. I state as possible because some of the settings for CSS or JS may cause difficulties with your website (this is not WP Rocket's fault — it's almost always a potential problem with minification/concatenation).
What I enjoy is that WP Rocket Makes this clear once you go to activate one of these settings.
Three cheers for good UX Design!
Preload — Preload Your Own Cache File
Without Preloading, your website only"builds" the cache for a page when someone actually visits the webpage. That means the very first visitor following the cache lifespan expires doesn't see the cached version (since the cache hasn't been built yet).
Cache Preloading enables you to ensure all visitors see the quick-loading cached page by"warming" the cache yourself, rather than waiting for a person to visit the webpage.
One of those Advantages of WP Rocket is the fact that it provides you two different strategies to preload your cache, whereas some caching plugins do not even provide one.
· Sitemap preloading — preloads your cache according to each of the pages in your sitemap.xml file. It has low impact, but the disadvantage is that it does not cache freshly published or edited articles.
· Preload bot — automatically crawls URLs after you publish/edit a post to make sure that newly edited/published content is also preloaded. The only disadvantage is that it is a little bit more resource intensive, which could cause issues on"weak" web servers. WordPress Wp Rocket Lazy Load Images
You Can Opt to use zero, One, or both methods to preload your cache, depending upon your needs.
Database — Clean Up Your Database
As your site ages, your Database will pick up all kinds of"gunk" from the kind of revisions, trashed opinions, transients, etc..
This area helps you wash out All that unnecessary crap from the database with a single click.
Personally, I find this to be The least exciting area of WP Rocket because there are plenty of free plugins that do a great job cleaning your database. But I guess the main advantage here is that WP Rocket eliminates the need for you to put in a separate plugin.
CDN — Integrate With Your CDN
If you use a CDN to accelerate The worldwide delivery of your website, WP Rocket can help you.
· Rewrite your URLs to use your CDN
· Exclude specific files from your CDN
As You can Discover complimentary Plugins to do the first component, the second component, in addition to the fact that you're able to book CNAMEs for specific document types, provides you more flexibility than most of these free choices.
By Way of Example, you may use one CNAME for your pictures, and yet another for the remainder of your files.
If you are using Cloudflare, WP Rocket also comprises a committed Cloudflare add-on which can help you get setup with Cloudflare and control specific facets of the Cloudflare service right from the WP Rocket interface.
And that pretty much sums up The new WP Rocket 3.0 interface!
Through The plugin configurations, you could even enable caching for both mobile users and logged-in users — all with a simple click. After moving to the'advanced' tab, however, things begin to get a little more complex.
To give you even greater control over how caching Works on your site, you are also free to exclude pages from the cache by adding their URLS to the'not cache the subsequent pages'
Through The CDN tab, you can configure the plugin to work together with your content delivery network of choice, whereas the tools section provides you fast access to the clear and preload cache buttons.
What's? More, should you get stuck, the FAQ and service tabs make it incredibly easy to access the online instruction, and even open a support ticket from within your WordPress dash — a lovely touch!
In General, WP Rocket aims to be all things to all people. On the other hand, it's very easy to prepare and start using on your website with default settings that actually produce great outcomes, nevertheless, on the flip side, there's also a much large choice of configurations and options to cater to more sophisticated users with specific needs, or people who demand more control over how caching works on their website.
By Default, each time you publish a new article or add fresh content to your site, WP Rocket will automatically regenerate that part of this cache. Not only that, but will also refresh the related areas of the cache (including the archive pages, menus, or widgets). WordPress Wp Rocket Lazy Load Images
Should You need to refresh everything in the cache, though (not just recently updated or modified content), you can force WP Rocket to regenerate it from scratch. Going a step further, you'll also find choices to have unrelated components of your website automatically regenerated if a new post, page, merchandise, remark, or another kind of content gets added.
field. (Note. Shopping cart and checkout pages are automatically excluded from the cache as part of their eCommerce service of WP Rocket.)
Documentation And Support
Even though Utilizing WP Rocket from the box is very simple, should you get stuck or need to know more about the intricacies of how it functions, there's quite a bit of high-quality documentation supplied — including a getting started section, various tutorials, useful FAQs and a convenient troubleshooting section.
As long As your licence is still active, you can even open tickets with support to get whatever WP Rocket-related assistance you need.
My WP Rocket Testing Outcomes
As Mentioned at the top of this article, I had excellent results from using WP Rocket to cache my WordPress website. By analyzing the rate of my website with GTmetrix — using the default settings of WP Rocket and simply uploading and activating the plugin before creating the cache and running the tests — the ordinary page loading times dropped from 2.2 seconds to 0.9.
The site I tested the plugin on was a WordPress blog using the free Twenty Twelve motif, with about 80 articles and 37 active plugins. The website is hosted on a entry level shared hosting program from HostGator, and does not have any CDN in drama.
No two WordPress websites are the same, however, so that these results might not be typical for many sites. They do, however, show that even a very basic WordPress site on the cheapest hosting will almost certainly be able to achieve significantly improved load times together with the plugin.
Other Ways to Accelerate Your WordPress Website
Whether You opt to use WP Rocket on your site or not, there are a number of different means to accelerate your WordPress site that are well worth mentioning, such as.
· Deactivating all redundant plugins (many plugins will considerably slow down your site)
· Compressing and optimising all pictures
· Employing a CDN support
· Updating to a WordPress-specific high-performance web host, such as WP Engine or Flywheel(if your budget permits ).
All of All these are well worth trying in the event that you have not already.
WP Rocket Pricing
With Prices starting at just $39 for use on one WordPress site, WP Rocket is an inexpensive alternative for most. There are also some other strong free selections available — such as WP Super Cache, also, for the technically minded, W3 Total Cache (to mention but 2 of many). If you're searching for something that's exceptionally easy to set up and use, however, and also provides access to an extremely beneficial premium support desk, then WP Rocket is a powerful contender.
The full Pricing options are as follows. WordPress Wp Rocket Lazy Load Images
· Personal. $39 (1 site)
· Company. $99 (3 sites)
· Pro. $199 (unlimited sites)
All Options include a year's access to plugin updates and service. After this period, you can keep on using the plugin or renew your permit to keep access. There's also a 30-day refund on offer if you aren't completely satisfied with the plugin after purchase.
WP Rocket Is really very striking. Not only is it extremely simple to use, in addition, it provides great results.
Most of The activities you can execute to optimise the rate of your website take substantial time and effort — if that is optimising media documents, reviewing and consolidating your plugins, then migrating to a different web host or altering themes. WP Rocket, on the other hand, can be applied to your site in just a few clicks.
What's? More, if you're a WordPress freelancer, whether helping customers with their present sites or creating sites from scratch, having something like WP Rocket in your toolkit may be of enormous benefit. In only a few minutes, you will have the ability to speed up a client's website and provide them tangible results (in the form of'before and after' online rates tests), also, when the very best way to separate yourself from your competition would be to provide more value to the client, things like this will definitely help.
As a Data-backed article on Moz puts it. "Quick websites have more visitors, who see more pages for longer periods of time, who return more often, and are generally more inclined to purchase goods or click advertisements."
Due to Its quick set-up procedure, speeding up your site with WP Rocket is an easy triumph in the war against slow loading times.
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Nothing's the same anymore. Jason conspires with us to discuss episode 1×22 – "Chrysalis".
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Job opening: Media and Communication Officer
Position: Media and Communication Officer
Organisation: Counter Balance
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Starting date: 1 November 2019
Deadline for applications: 11 September (18:00 CET)
Please apply in writing by sending an e-mail to: firstname.lastname@example.com, with the subject line "Media and Communication Coordinator", including:
– Your CV in English;
– An application letter, focusing on your motivation and suitability for this position;
– A blogpost of max 400 words about the role of public banks for the EU economy.
Interviews will take place in Brussels shortly after the deadline.
>> Download the job description here or read below
COUNTER BALANCE's MISSION:
Counter Balance – Challenging public investment banks is a European coalition of development and environmental non-governmental organisations (NGOs) with extensive experience working on development finance and the international financial institutions (IFIs) as well as campaigning to prevent negative impacts resulting from major infrastructure projects.
The coalition was formed in 2007 to specifically challenge the European Investment Bank (EIB) and push for its reform. While the EIB remains our main target, we have expanded the scope of our work to other public investment banks such as the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and national Development Financial Institutions (DFIs) – all public financial institutions which operate similarly. We also deal with related EU policies and regulations impacting those institutions. Counter Balance's mission is to make European public finance a key driver of the transition towards socially and environmentally sustainable and equitable societies.
You are responsible for developing and implementing the communications and media plan of Counter Balance to optimize the visibility of our work and the impact of our organisation. The main duties of the Media and Communication Officer are listed below:
– Designing, implementing and monitoring the media and communication strategy of Counter Balance.
– Drafting, editing and coordinating the sending of press releases, opinion pieces, newsletters and blogposts.
– Assisting in the preparation and finalisation as well as reviewing our reports and larger publications.
– Establishing and maintaining contacts with journalists and media at European and national level.
– Managing our social media communication (i.e., twitter, youtube, facebook).
– Assisting in internal communication towards the Counter Balance member groups.
– Being responsible of communication towards external stakeholders, including other NGOs.
– Managing the website of Counter Balance.
– Leading on the production of the annual reports on Counter Balance activities.
– Ensuring that the organisation's experience and expertise are well communicated and consistently presented.
– Monitoring media coverage of Counter Balance. – Additional responsibilities may be agreed upon dependent on your specific skills and interests.
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The Director of Counter Balance will be the direct supervisor of the Media and Communication Officer. Both of them constitute the bulk of the secretariat of Counter Balance based in Brussels
The Board of Counter Balance is responsible for the oversight of the work and performance of the Counter Balance secretariat. Therefore, members of the secretariat report regularly on their activities to the Board.
Other key relationships:
Counter Balance is a coalition of 9 NGOs which benefits from the expertise of its member groups across Europe and seeks to coordinate campaigns and activities at a pan-European level. In this context, the Media and Advocacy Coordinator will work in close relation with the staff of our member groups dedicated to the work of Counter Balance. Finally, the Media and Advocacy Coordinator will work with: other NGOs in and outside of the EU with which Counter Balance has developed strong partnerships, journalists and decision-makers at EU level.
– Full time position (38 hours)
– Place of work: Brussels (Belgium) – Mundo-B Office, 26 rue d'Edimbourg, 1050 Ixelles (With possibility to make flexible arrangements)
– Salary: A competitive non-profit sector salary – Working language: English
– Excellent written and oral English (native speaker is an advantage), knowledge of other languages is an additional asset.
– Strong communication and inter-personal skills.
– Highly developed writing skills.
– At least 3 years of work experience in the communication field, preferably with an NGO.
– Experience in event organizing, producing of outreach materials (leaflets, publications, videos, social messaging).
– Experience in relationships with national, European and international media.
– Proven track record of activism and working with NGOs, campaigning activities with NGOs in national or international level is an advantage.
– Good knowledge of the EU political architecture. Knowledge of the EIB and/or EBRD is an advantage.
– Knowledge of one or more of the following topics is an advantage: International Financial Institutions, energy and climate, human rights, transparency, fraud & corruption, development agenda.
– Experience in research (desktop research, field trips and interviews).
– Must be available to travel and to participate in European and international meetings.
– Ability to work on own initiative to build on and develop the job, combined with the ability to work effectively as part of a team.
– Creativity and openness for new ideas
− Excellent attention to detail, good time management and proven ability to deliver under pressure
– Proven experience of using MS office application (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) and desktop publishing software, knowledge and skill in graphic design a plus. – Experience in website management is an advantage
EQUALITY STATEMENT: Counter Balance is keen on ensuring that its work includes people regardless or colour, gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, origin, disability or age. Those principles apply to the planning of our work, its implementation, the partners and members of our network, as well as management and staffing.
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I found this interesting article about Zika while reading the newspaper the other day. Yes, we still do get newspapers 🙂
The article was about how the number of birth defects hasn't happened as first predicted. This is wonderful news! In this article form the Washington Post,
RIO DE JANEIRO — Nearly nine months after Zika was declared a global health emergency, the virus has infected at least 650,000 people in Latin America and the Caribbean, including tens of thousands of expectant mothers.
But to the great bewilderment of scientists, the epidemic has not produced the wave of fetal deformities so widely feared when the images of misshapen infants first emerged from Brazil.
Instead, Zika has left a puzzling and distinctly uneven pattern of damage across the Americas. According to the latest U.N. figures, of the 2,175 babies born in the past year with undersize heads or other congenital neurological damage linked to Zika, more than 75 percent have been clustered in a single region: northeastern Brazil.
The pattern is so confounding that health officials and scientists have turned their attention back to northeastern Brazil to understand why Zika's toll has been so much heavier there. They suspect that other, underlying causes may be to blame, such as the presence of another mosquito-borne virus like chikungunya or dengue. Or that environmental, genetic or immunological factors combined with Zika to put mothers in the area at greater risk.
While My Vacation Lady is NOT a doctor and we will never tell our clients to go to destinations that they are not comfortable with, this news may be very welcome news to many of our clients who were concerned about travel to Mexico and the Caribbean.
The article goes on to talk about other factors that may have caused the high amount of birth defects in babies born in Brazil since that seems to be the only destination with a high % of babies born with birth defects to mothers who contracted Zika while pregnant.
This is good news for travelers who have been putting off travel due to the Zika virus.
We also spoke to one honeymoon couple who are thinking about starting a family soon after the honeymoon. The bride's OB/GYN suggested that they continue with their plans of going on their honeymoon in February. Once they return, they can get tested and if either has contracted Zika, they can wait either 6 weeks (bride) or 6 months (groom) before trying to conceive.
Again, we are not doctors and would never tell our clients to travel somewhere that makes them uncomfortable, but this sounds like promising news for many of our clients who postponed traveling to the Caribbean or Mexico for fear of contracting Zika.
Please always check with your personal physician before deciding on a travel destination if you are pregnant or trying to conceive.
My Vacation Lady will continue to share news as we receive it so that you can make intelligent decisions about planning your vacation or honeymoon.


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Clinton Township, MI: In Michigan and the rest of the Great Lakes season, winter weather is still in full swing.
CLINTON TOWNSHIP, MI, USA, March 25, 2020 /EINPresswire.com/ — Bill Burkhardt Jr.
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Clinton Township, MI: In Michigan and the rest of the Great Lakes season, winter weather is still in full swing. This leads to more wear and tear for your roof. While working on your roof is a year-round task, these cold-weather months are perhaps when being vigilant is most critical. Roofing experts Kanga Roof offer some key upkeep tips to keep your roof at its best during this time.
Remove snow quickly: Despite the picturesque look, the added weight of snow can lead to damage down the line. There's also the risk of an ice dam developing when things melt. These backup runoffs, potentially causing leaks.
Repair the flashing: Be sure to look at the flashing at some point during the winter, preferable early. Even if it's properly installed, it can warp over time. When this happens, it's easier for snow and ice to enter the roof and cause an interior leak. Take this time to look at shingles as well, especially asphalt.
Clear debris off: If you know a winter storm is coming, be sure that your roof, downspouts, and gutters are free of plant matter and grime. This makes sure that any moisture doesn't end up gripping onto your roof. If this starts to rot, it can lead to leaks. A simple rake or broom can clear things off most of the time.
Professional Inspections: A representative of Kanga Roof added that "while there are going to be some roof upkeep tasks you can do yourself, for the major work, you want professionals to work with. This not only helps make sure that you're safe, but gives you additional peace of mind that everything you need to check and be repaired is getting attended to."
About Kanga Roof: Kanga Roof is a Clinton Township-based roofing company servicing Oakland and Macomb counties in Michigan. They provide a variety of essential services, including ice and hail damage repair, as well as roof inspections for people either looking at a new property or trying to maintain their home. With a management team that brings a combined 70 years of experience to the table, you know you have professional support and care for your next roof job.
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Plants grow from the roots – the ecology of social movements
I think we've kind of neglected that fact. All life emerges. Plants come from roots. Forests grow from tiny seeds that fall into the ground. The shell breaks open or dissolves. Little sprouts shoot up. One day, we are hiking in a forest on a beautiful summer day…
Gardeners know. As we feel deep within us that the time for planting is soon, despite the cold and snow, we know this. The light tells us. The warmth that comes from the sun now even on the coldest days is pregnant with this keen anticipation. A few weeks from now, we'll put seeds in the ground. Later this summer, we will feast.
I never get over that miracle – that from those tiny seeds I put in the ground, I will feast.
And so of social movements as well, revolutions that transform societies and cultures. They don't come from above, though last century that was too-often attempted, with rather dismal results. The movements that transform our world come from below, from seeds planted in good soil, nurtured, cared for, allowed to be and to rise and to grow and to enlarge…
Until they change the world.
Since I returned from my Athabasca River Pilgrimage 17 months ago, and after all these months of presenting and workshopping the connections among the tar sands of Alberta, the Bakken oil fields, fracking, mountaintop removal coal mining, pipelines and oil tanker trains – trying to lay out the map of this interlocking reality that is destroying our future on this planet – during these many months I have longed for a coming-together of activists in the Upper Midwest to share stories, strategies, inspiration, and solidarity as we build a human network to counter this vast destruction underway, an ecological response from this species to what is being done to the Earth where we reside.
And then it happened, on very short notice, activists were invited to gather together in Madison on Feb. 21 for a Midwest Tar Sands/Bakken Petroleum Summit: Building the Momentum in the Midwest (see the list of sponsoring organizations at the end of this post. To view the packed agenda, click here).
One of the things that happened was that so many people wanted to be there that they ran out of space in the room at the Pyle Conference Center on Lake Mendota. They had to create a waiting list.
Many seeds have been planted over the past several years – from Minnesota across Wisconsin to Michigan and south to Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Nebraska – and now here they were, the shoots that had sprouted up from the soil of the places we love, the threatened places, the contaminated places, the mined places, the places still beautiful, the places we are determined to protect from the industrial sacrifice zones of the corporate fossil fuel predators.
Some rock stars were there for sure, including Winona LaDuke (Honor the Earth), who offered a stirring presentation that evening to a standing-room-only crowd, and Jane Kleeb who brought with her the story of Bold Nebraska's brilliant campaign to stop the Keystone XL pipeline from snaking across her state.
But it was from grassroots organizers ranging in age from mid-20s to 70s who, one after the other, offered evidence of what is emerging in this region of our world – a movement, a growing and expanding movement, emergent, unstoppable now, becoming more effective and expert in knowledge and experience as we keep learning, experimenting, reaching out, educating, raising awareness, and organizing to show that another kind of world really is possible.
That other kind of world was gathered in that space – not perfect, still growing and maturing, but earnest, sincere, full of passion, and commitment to preserving a world for future generations that is abundant, healthy, and beautiful.
Also fun.
It often feels like a privilege to have this vantage point. I returned to Milwaukee to pursue this work from my old home ground because a part of me never left the Upper Midwest. I spent 25 years working for the Religious Task Force on Central America & Mexico in Washington DC, a national office that was one of several groups that helped lead a national solidarity movement to support liberation struggles in the region, and to stop US support for military dictatorships and government repression. I came back to Wisconsin with this kind of national reach and so it made sense for me to maintain those connections and work with and through them as more and more of that old solidarity community was moving in this direction. I found colleagues everywhere working to deepen our understanding of what was happening to this planet, finding old spiritualities and religious understandings being transformed by what we were learning about the cosmos and of our place on this precious little life-bearing planet, while beginning to bridge long-standing divides between the work of ecological and social justice.
One outcome of that history is that I have been gifted to "see" the transformation underway in so many of our ecological communities – from the Bay Area to Long Island, from the Utica Shale play in western PA to the prairies of central Wisconsin, from the Alberta tar sands to the BP refinery in Whiting IN, and many points between these places.
If I begin to add to this picture the time I spent with the Sisters of the Humility of Mary in Western PA where fracking has begun in earnest, or a recent first-time visit to the Holy Wisdom Monastery near Middleton WI where a group of ecumenical Benedictine women is restoring prairie surrounding their new LEEDs-certified monastery building, or visiting Alice's Garden and Walnut Way in Milwaukee's inner city, or Will Allen's Growing Power, or the work in Dane County to block Enbridge from constructing the one more pumping station they need to complete their vast pipeline expansion across my state…
When I add all that together, well, despite the often-grim news about our political culture right now, all of this amounts to a stunning level of social change work taking place in conscious awareness of and directly related to the ecological crises of our times. And they are spaces where the crucial connections are being made between ecological and social justice. The day will come soon when there will be no "between" there at all, when we will see the organic interrelationships between these two expressions of injustice, when they are so bound together in our work that we will wonder that we ever thought we could have one without the other.
The seeds are many, and often they are seeds of our tears, our grief, at what is being lost – the sand hills of western Wisconsin sacrificed to the frac sand industry, the more than 600 Appalachian mountaintops that have been blown away for coal, the boreal forests of northern Alberta, the millions of acres of land and groundwater sources being ruined for the hundreds of thousands of fracking wells pumping from the Earth what ought to be left there (oh, this list is long).
They are often seeds of our fears as the threats come home to our places – the Penokee Hills of northern Wisconsin where a vast open pit iron ore mine was being planned for the Lake Superior watershed (looks like we may have won that battle), northern Alabama, part of Kentucky and Utah "cursed" with tar sands, communities threatened by oil tanker (bomb) trains, my state and so many others where pipelines are being constructed or expanded for the transport of tar sands and Bakken oil…
The seeds are also of our love for these places – a most natural love before industrial/consumer anti-civilization came along to replace that love with addiction to stuff. After all, where does the grief and the fear come from except from that love?
So while I share a lot of bad news here, the amount of time I am privileged to spend in other communities, with so many caring, creative people, opens this enormous window on the other crucial part of this story. Humans are indeed responding. This human species also has instincts – for survival, for protecting our loved ones, our most intimate relations, for what we need so that they may thrive in a world rich in abundance for all.
Plants grow from the roots. So do social movements. So does authentic social, cultural, and political transformation. Something truly significant is occurring now, and it is part of our task, our vocation, to protect the spaces from which it is emerging, to help nurture it so that it can continue to grow. There will be a new forest soon, teeming with life.
The work of ecological hope – the work of social justice – the work of "new creation."
~ Margaret Swedish
Some wisdom from Winona LaDuke, Feb. 21:
We've all become fossil fuel addicts. Our whole way of life is dependent on fossil fuels. And we're hanging out with the dealers. We live in an economy that is taking stuff out of the Earth and making garbage. This stuff should be left in the ground. It should not be removed. The oil is in the ground for a reason…
Fracking is rape of Mother Earth. We are exploding the bedrock of Mother Earth. When you know a child next door is being sexually abused, you have to do something. You know that child is going to be messed up. We should not accumulate the rape…
We have to think differently. We need to be changed. God is at work in this world. We need to begin putting this world back into right relationships. Being partners means being co-creators. We have to unite in a multi-racial way.
Sponsors of the Midwest Summit: 350 Madison, Family Farm Defenders, Four Lakes Sierra Club, Grassroots Pipeline Awareness Group, Madison Action for Mining Alternatives, Madison Union Cab, Midwest Environmental Activists, Midwest Tar Sands Group, Wisconsin Tar Sands Action Coalition, Wisconsin Safe Energy (WiSE) Alliance, Minnesota 350, Milwaukee 350, 100 Grannies for a Livable Future
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Dr Carolyn Reinhart
Thank you for this Margaret. A good article, perspective and reminder of both the great difficulty and the hope as we connect together as people responding to the desire to care for our shared earth home.


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UPDATE: In March 2014, I attended an official git training by @PeterBell, hosted at Gilt! Here are my more comprehensive notes from the training: https://github.com/lpatmo/git-training-notes
Git was a bit confusing when I first started exploring it, coming from using Subversion for version control. I was used to having everything I committed go live, and the idea that everything I committed would go to some virtual staging area on my computer but not on my github account did not immediately click until… well, it clicked.
And after that, everything was fine.
(As I heard a tech conference co-attendee explain to a github beginner once, the value in not having every single thing you commit automatically be seen live by your co-workers is that it gives you room to make mistakes. You can think of a "commit" as a documented "save"/snapshot of your code. But git lets you control which commits you push to your teammates, whereas subversion does not.)
The typical commands I use when starting a new project with git:
- mkdir // Creates a directory
- git init // I type this after I cd into the directory to initialize the git directory
- [Create a repository on github.com] // All it takes is a click of a button — but this, confusingly, has to be done manually
[Copy/paste the two commands output in the "repository created" page into my terminal] // The first set of instructions does some extra stuff that I don't need if I already initialized the repository using git init, I believe. //
git remote add origin https://github.com/username/repository-name.git
git push -u origin master
- touch index.html // This creates a file called index.html in my current directory
- pwd // Optional command that tells me where I am
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- subl . // This command is configured using the sublime text editor, and opens up all the files in the directory in sublime.
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- git log //Tells me what my most recent commits were. Note that if I push my changes up to github.com, I'll also be able to see my commit change logs there in a nicely visually highlighted way (green = additions; red = deletions).
- git push //Pushes up my committed files to my github.com account when I'm satisfied with my commits. I'll do this in bursts.
- git pull // I update my local files with the commits that my teammates pushed up to the shared repository. I'll do this before I start the day, and throughout the day.
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OH! Did I mention github's issues/bug tracker and milestone counters? When I make a commit that resolves an issue number, I can write "resolves #87" in the commit message, and it'll automatically close issue #87 within the repository. I found it amusing that at one point, I was using trello (a project management platform) with some hackathon friends to organize our bugs. We totally could have used github!
Yes, to be sure…
Of course, merge issues often come up, and your terminal might spit back frustrating messages such as "You do not have permission…" or "Merge conflict in FILEPATH." I'll discuss a few of the most common error messages I've encountered in another post.
But anyway… Version control FTW. I am glad I won't be going back to drag-and-drop FTP anytime soon.


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This is my first wonky block. I admit, I had trouble at first and then caught on finally. I hope you like the colors. I thought these represent spring pretty well. I was in between projects and didn't have anything on the sewing table so I thought I'd go ahead and knock this out.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
3 comments:
- Needled Mom said...
I LOVE it!!!!!
- February 2, 2010 at 10:18 PM
- Iva said...
That is fabulous, Tonya!! The butterflies are a great touch. Thank you so much!
- February 2, 2010 at 11:33 PM
- quilt'n-mama said...
I love it!
I am excited to do this block, I have a quilt I need to finish piecing then it is on to this one:)
- February 3, 2010 at 4:00 PM
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Materials you need at home:
Yarn 4 skeins of Jamieson & Smith 2 Ply Jumper Weight in the 202 colorways --> garter section 3 skeins of Jamieson & Smith 2 Ply Jumper Weight in the 61FC OR 072 colorway --> lace section 1 skein of Jamieson & Smith 2 Ply Jumper Weight in the 002 colorway --> braids section.
Needles A pair of US8 or needle size to obtain gauge
Gauge 15,5 stitches and 37 rows= 4"/10cm in garter stitch, or needle to obtain gauge.
Notions 2 stitch markers stitch markers for the lace section (optional) tapestry needle to weave in the ends.
Finished measurements 57"(145cm) long and 21,6"(55cm) deep


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