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Help bring awareness to the use, or lack of, pesticides in our yards and parks. Visit Washington Toxics Coalition to request your free yard sign, letting your neighbors know your yard and garden is pesticide free while bringing awareness to this important topic. You will also find a list of pesticide free parks where you and your family can relax and enjoy nature without worry of harmful chemicals.
Cari Barron, owner and founder of Contractor Hotline, purchased a home in need of various repairs in 2002. The process to find a quality home remodeling contractor proved to be a complex challenge. The first-hand experience was the inspiration behind founding Contractor Hotline in 2006. Connect with her on Google+
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Recently, China Traveler Conference was held in Lijiang, Yunnan province. Through the conference evaluation, Tianzhushan scenic area was awarded as one of ten 2014 Best Natural Landscapes in China.
China Traveler Conference was sponsored by Ctrip website,and it has been held 5 times since 2009. It is the only national large-scale tourist destination evaluation activity voted by net friends, with great objectivity and authority, which plays an active promotion role in enlarging net tourism and upgrading tourism brand influence.
With the development of internet and mobile internet, online travel agency has become a main channel for tourist sources, the experience and evaluation of tourists has become an important ruler to check the attraction of a tourism destination and service level. The annual evaluation of Ctrip website not only reflects the assessment of net friends to tourism destinations, but also provides reference for travelers.
From Nov. 14 to Nov.15, 2017 annual conference of global geoparks of China was held in Fuding. Hosted by Mr. He Qingchen, vice president of Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences and executive director of National Geoparks Network Center, the meeting was attended by nearly 200 participants, including representatives from more than 30 global geoparks in China and 2 global geoparks candidates and relevant land and resources departments and famous domestic professionals. A representative of Tianzhushan also attended the meeting and made exchanges and shared experience together with other geoparks.
Mr. Guan Fengjun, director of geological environment department of Land and Resources Ministry, made a conclusion of the management, construction and system of geoparks, and pointed out the current challenges and solutions for the sustainable development of geoparks. Mr. Liu Yuan, inspector of geological environment department of Land and Resources Ministry, made 2016-2017 work report and made a work plan for 2018.
The meeting held an awarding ceremony for the new members of GGN: Arxan and Keketuohai. They respectively introduced their construction, development and management situation of geoparks. Zhijindong, Ningde, Guangwushan, Huanggang Dabieshan made exchanges on the management, evaluation and revalidation of geoparks, and new evaluators also shared experience. The next annual meeting will be held in Yandangshan UNESCO Global Geopark.

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- Journey on the Rothorn Railway and the cableway on the Brienz Rothorn.
- View of the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau and 693 other peaks.
You can reach the Brienz Rothorn from two sides with two different railways.
Coming from Sörenberg, you experience the journey on the aerial cableway with its spectacular view. From the woodcarving village Brienz you chug pleasantly up the mountain with the nostalgic steam cog railway. On the Rothorn (altitude of 2,351 m) there is a unique view of 693 summits, including the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau. And with luck a herd of ibexes will be there to greet you.
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Every day you probably come across several posts on the internet that humans are crazy and doing weird things. But do you know even our beloved animals are no different when it comes to showing their weird sides? We all face failures and face a moment of embarrassment. And animals, it seems are no exception to this rule either. The only difference between animals and humans is that, even in a dejected circumstance, animals look so elegant and graceful. This is the reason why we all love animals.
1. Lizard: "Big mistake!"
2. Poor seal! Looks like that must have hurt.
3. This goose is pretty optimistic.
4. This mouse went to Mission Impossible mode.
5. Can anything else make this day worse?
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Letters to the Editor
POSTED: Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Give health care to Micronesians
Do the words and promises of our government mean nothing? To become the great world power that we are, we tested our atom bombs, hydrogen bombs and other nuclear powers during the 1950s and '60s on unwilling Micronesians. Our bombs vaporized many islands and left others uninhabitable forever.
Our government promised these people medical care in exchange for the use of their islands for target practice. Some of these mothers gave birth to Jell-o babies; many of these people suffered and died from radiation poisoning because of our country's quest for dominance. Our government has paid the servicemen who were involved in the bombings, has paid the civilian workers who were there during and after the test bombings. How in the world can we now stop medical coverage that we promised to these people whom we used as human guinea pigs?
Our governor must secure funding from the federal government and continue coverage until she is successful in garnering this coverage. This reminds me of all the treaties we had with the American Indians.
Pauline Arellano
Say's comments are not helpful
As a chairperson of one of the Hawaii Government Employees Association's negotiating teams, it was upsetting to read and hear House Speaker Calvin Say's comments about contract negotiations.
Mr. Say said that the union leadership needs to consider what the members are saying and urged the unions to settle before September. Despite what he thinks, we have been working hard toward an agreement.
Mr. Say's comment to the unions, the governor and the county mayors, ";Let us all work together and try to stop the bleeding"; is pure shibai. I pose to him: What are he and the other legislative leaders doing to help our state fiscal situation?
The unions have all along said public employees are willing to ";share in the pain";—so why aren't our elected leaders doing their part to help the state's budget shortfall by exploring other options now, such as tapping special funds or early retirement legislation?
Now that the Council on Revenues lowered its revenue projections, that should be a clear signal to Mr. Say and his fellow lawmakers to take action. But instead, it seems the finger-pointing, hands-off attitude continues.
Peter S. Oshiro
Chairman, HGEA Unit 13 negotiating team
Natatorium is a dangerous relic
We in Hawaii can always be counted on to deny ourselves of any expense. We are told a single-payer national health insurance is expensive so we shy away. We are told tearing down the Waikiki Natatorium is expensive so we shy away. Short-term savings are long-term foolishness. How much is a square foot of Waikiki beach worth to our future? Why must we keep this dangerous wreck of a natatorium hanging in our mothball closet?
Carol Fanning
Act now to help aging population
The Alzheimer's Association, Aloha Chapter, was saddened to learn of the death of Sen. Edward ";Ted"; Kennedy, a true health care champion who worked tirelessly to improve the lives of Americans.
As head of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Sen. Kennedy understood the importance of developing comprehensive strategies and policies that address the needs of aging Americans. Consideration was given to those who suffer from chronic conditions, including the 5.3 million Americans who live with Alzheimer's disease.
As it stands today, our long-term care system is dangerously unprepared and ill-equipped to meet the needs of an aging baby boomer population.
According to the Executive Office on Aging report entitled ";Baby Boomers Data: Hawaii 2000,"; 20 percent of the state's population (excluding temporary military personnel) will be 65 years or older in 2020. We know that one in eight kupuna age 65 and older will get Alzheimer's disease or related dementia. Hawaii's availability of memory care units is grossly inadequate to meet the existing need, let alone provide the level of care that will be needed in the coming years.
Sen. Kennedy understood the importance of addressing the long-term care crisis before the 78 million baby boomers need long-term services. It's important that we honor his legacy by supporting the Alzheimer's Breakthrough Act of 2009 that provides additional resources for Alzheimer's care.
Elizabeth Stevenson
Executive director and CEO, Alzheimer's Association, Aloha Chapter
Executive branch needs reining in
Regardless of who is in power—Republican or Democrat—the powers of the president need to be balanced with the powers of Congress. I urge Congress to act to rein in the war-making powers of the president. Illegal actions by executive branches past and present need to be prosecuted.
Robert Miyake-Stoner
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A KEIGHLEY brewery has helped a Skipton business celebrate its first birthday.
Wishbone Brewery, in Chesham Street, off Dalton Lane, collaborated with the Boat House Bar.
Staff from the Boat House visited Wishbone's Keighley base to create a beer in honour of the bar's first year of trading.
Ian Clarke, who owns the bar with his wife Pamela and daughter Zoe, visited last month along with employee Stan Venn, bar supervisor Annie Fawcett and bar manager John "Spike" Garton.
Adrian Chapman, who set up Wishbone Brewery with his wife Emma in 2015, said: "Ian, Spike, Annie and Stan spent the day getting stuck in with the brew, digging the spent malts out of the mash tun and finally cleaning all the hops out of the copper.
"They are good customers of ours, so we were happy to get together with them to help brew something special.
"The beer, which is called Tiller Pin, is named after part of a narrow boat.
"It's a pale and fruity session ale at 4.2 per cent, hopped with Citra, Cascade and Chinook, and it'll be available from The Boat House and other venues around Yorkshire and Lancashire over the next couple of months."
Beginning on March 24, the Boat House staged its own birthday celebrations which included a singer, a cake, free food and plenty of Keighley-brewed Wishbone beer to start the weekend.
Zoe Clarke said: "The beer has turned out really well. Quite a lot of our regulars have tried it and we've had some very good feedback."


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Framework shows how metals transform when quantum mechanics is
complete workings of quantum mechanics and how it affects the universe is still
a mystery, but Rice University-led physicists have made a key advancement in
understanding how complex quantum fluctuations play a role in the transformation
of metals from one electronic state to another.
findings provide insight into the electronic structure of strongly correlated
materials — materials that are potentially significant for far-reaching
technological applications in nanotechnology and high-temperature
University theoretical physicist Qimiao Si and his team of researchers report
their discovery of an entirely new class of critical point — the point at which
a complex system undergoes a change between two distinctive phases — marking a
substantial advance in the study of phase transitions. Familiar examples of
thermal phase transitions, those driven by changes in temperature, are when
water changes to steam or to ice.
phase transitions, on the other hand, are those driven by quantum fluctuations
and dictated by Heisenberg's famous uncertainty principle.
findings clarify, for the first time, what experimentalists have observed but
were not able to explain because the results apparently contradict the
traditional theory for quantum-critical metals — a theory that has held sway
since the mid-1970's," said Qimiao Si, associate professor of physics and
astronomy at Rice.
research is published in the Oct. 25 issue of the journal Nature. Authors on the
report are Si of Rice; Silvio Rabello, postdoctoral fellow at Rice; Kevin
Ingersent, associate professor of physics at the University of Florida,
Gainesville; and Llewellun Smith, graduate student at Rice.
researchers' theory provides a basis for the quantum mechanism that gives
seemingly conventional metals unconventional properties. In effect, they
discovered a new quantum critical metallic state of matter. It is "quantum
critical" because the transformation is dependent upon quantum fluctuations.
theoretical findings show that, under suitable conditions, quantum critical
metals contain 'critical local excitations' — collective electronic objects that
have very low energy, yet occur at one point in space," Si
The notion
of local criticality could be applicable to a range of strongly correlated
metals, including high-temperature superconductors. There is a growing
realization that the apparent breakdown of the standard theory of metals —
Landau's Fermi-liquid theory — in high-temperature superconductors and related
systems may result from proximity to quantum criticality.
Si and his
colleagues looked at a class of strongly correlated electron systems: heavy
fermion metals, which contain the so-called rare earth elements and actinides,
or radioactive metals. Among the most widely known heavy fermions are the
plutonium metals.
In strongly
correlated electron systems, the interaction between neighboring electrons is so
strong that the electrons cannot be considered separately, as is done in
describing simple metals and insulators.
Theoretically, it is very difficult to study complex behavior so Si and
his team looked for benchmarks where they could understand the behavior.
have learned how to manipulate, or fine-tune, the degree to which the
uncertainty principle comes into play in strongly correlated electron systems,
allowing them to observe a quantum critical point. Experimentalists have
previously done just that in heavy fermion metals.
electrons are strongly interacting, even a small change in some external
variable can have a dramatic impact, resulting in a change from one type of
electronic or magnetic state to another. By changing the parameters of the
system, Si and his colleagues were able to tune the system to be exactly at or
on the cusp of the transition, where electrons behave most collectively and
paradoxically, where accurate theoretical treatment is easier to carry through.
Taking into account both quantum fluctuations and strong electron-electron
interactions, they discovered the surprising "locally critical
correlated electron physics, a frontier of condensed matter physics, scientists
are trying to get an understanding of all of the electronic processes governing
natural materials and man-made ones.
"Our field is still very much in its
infancy," Si said. "We are looking for some very basic principles that govern
how new electronic states of matter emerge as a result of quantum fluctuations
and electron-electron interactions."
research was supported by the National Science Foundation, the Texas Center for
Superconductivity at the University of Houston and the Alfred P. Sloan
For more information about Qimiao Si visit: <http://dacnet.rice.edu/depts/ricephys/faculty/index.cfm?FDSID=568>.
Rice University is consistently ranked one of America's
best teaching and research universities. It is distinguished by its: size-2,700
undergraduates and 1,500 graduate students; selectivity-10 applicants for each
place in the freshman class; resources-an undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio
of 5-to-1, and the fourth largest endowment per student among private American
universities; residential college system, which builds communities that are both
close-knit and diverse; and collaborative culture, which crosses disciplines,
integrates teaching and research, and intermingles undergraduate and graduate
work. Rice's wooded campus is located in the nation's fourth largest city and on
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|Luca Orlem
Luca Orlem is the second romanceable character from The Tower of Sorrow Mystery Series and a student in Gedonelune Royal Magic Academy.
Luca is the illegitimate son of Princess Aulelia, of the Gedonelune royal family, being his full name is Luciano Orudeus Gedonelune. Aulelia died near his birth, leaving him in the guardianship of the Royal Advisor Conrad Schuyler. As Schuyler became a professor at the Academy, both of them started to live there. Luca was unaware of his past til Day 11-3 of his main route.
Luca is know throughout Gedonelune Academy for his bad behavior, skipping classes and dislike of authority. Although he plays a somewhat heroic role in his route, Luca turns out to be somewhat antagonistic in the other routes for the Tower of Sorrow Mystery Series.
In others series, particularly Vincent and Leon routes, Luca is nosy, questioning them regarding the academy mysteries. Also he can be teasing Liz a lot, but he's genuinely caring towards her.
In his route, he meets Liz (MC) just after a carbuncle is placed on her head. Because she can't see the creature, she's frightened of it, especially when Luca (after laughing at her) tells her that the creature on her head has fangs and it could bite. However, when she discovers it's a carbuncle, she hugs it and tries to befriend him. Luca mentions that that particular carbuncle is rare because it's pink (normally the carbuncles are white).
After teasing Liz for while (saying that he had a magic ability that can decipher a person's features, like height or weight; or that his name was Serge Druandal), their emblems glow, making them buddies (though Liz doesn't know what this means yet). He bolts after hearing Elias calling out to him. Elias questions Liz about Luca's whereabouts, but after learning she's a new student, he leavs her as well. Later, Liz continues searching for the girls dorm. She meets Yukiya and he shows her the way to the dorm.
Personality Edit
Luca is regarded as a troublemaker and prankster by his classmates and teachers. He rarely attends classes, especially those he considers boring. He is carefree and flamboyant, and these traits put him in frequent conflict with Elias, who harbors a bitter dislike for him coupled with a fascination and envy for Luca's natural magic ability.
Despite his truancy and cavalier attitude towards his studies, Luca is highly skilled with magic. In addition to great magical power, his approach to magic is also innovative and creative, and he is sometimes compared to famous and powerful wizards like Claude Molders and Serge Durandal. However, his spellcasting is arbitary and seems to be self-taught, considering he skips most of his classes.
Luca frequently skips class and can be found usually napping in the Archives, near the lake, or in other quiet areas. He also has a penchant for slipping off the school grounds and visiting town. Luca enjoys drawing, and is known to be a bit of a clotheshorse.
But it is learned in His Sweet 'n Spicy Special Lesson event that he hates sharing pieces of himself with people he doesn't trust, and that he has a hard time trusting people.
Magical Abilities Edit
Luca is considered a magical prodigy, but he often uses his skills for pranks. He states repeatedly through his own route and spin-offs that he isn't concerned with developing his skills, partly out of cockiness, but also out of disinterest in competition and grades.
He seems to have a penchant for potions, as many of his spinoffs feature him developing potions of some sort. The Magic Competition spinoff implies that he spends a lot of his free time mixing concoctions, sneaking into classrooms after-hours to do so.
He is a direct descendant of Claude Moulders and the First King of Gedonelune, both highly renowned wizards, and presumably this is where his extremely high affinity for magic comes from. The MC states that his magic has a "fairy tale" feel to it. In Sigurd's route, when the students with the highest magical affinity come forward to aid in the battle against darkness, Luca is among those who come forward, along with Randy, Klaus, Joel, Sigurd, and the MC.
His magic isn't as strong or developed as Professor Schuyler's, likely due to the fact that he doesn't apply himself in training.
Trivia Edit
- His age is approximately 19-22.
- According to Professor Schuyler, Luca has been held back 4 times, suspended 3 times, put in the detention chamber 7 times, and given a stern warning 138 times.
- Luca uses his left hand to cast his spells.
- Ironically he calls Elias, "Prince Elias" due to his majestic and gallant pose as well as his high moral and sense of duty. But in reality Luca is the real one with royal blood, though he doesn't know of this until almost at the end of his route, and is unclear that in other routes he knows about his past.


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Investment Banking Round Table
This year we are launching the Investment Banking Round Table in addition to our normal trading and investing activities.
Investment Banking Round Table
When people talk about the financial world, they will often throw around words like Bulge Bracket, Boutiques, Private Equity, DCF, Valuation and it goes on and on...
This probably seems intimidating to you, especially if this is something you are considering as a career. But do not worry. Our five part series on Investment Banking will cover everything from the basics, to a more in depth view of the individual sections of an Investment Bank.
Whether you are just curious to have some of the terms explained or want to prepare for your Spring Insight week, this will be a great commercial awareness booster.
Some of these sessions might be run in conjunctions with experts, and other presented by our in house 'advisory' team. (You will get that pun after you have participated!)
The structure of our five part series will be as follows:
Session 1 (26/10/17)
Overview of Investment Banking - Our first session will give you a general overview of everything that goes on in the Investment Banking sphere. If you are considering applying for any kind of internship, you should seriously consider coming along. Out of all sessions this is the one you do not want to miss!
Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) - The most fabled aspect of Investment Banking. The one that everyone strives for. We will be going into detail here on what services Investment Banks provide, how these tie into the banking work and lastly we will be analyzing a deal in all of its facets.
Session 2 (30/11/17)
Equity and Debt Capital Markets (ECM & DCM) - Tieing into our last session on M&A, we will be looking at equity (and IPOs or Initial Public Offerings) and DCM (think restructuring) capital markets. Again, we will finish our session by looking at a recent deal to bring some practical analysis to the theory.
Sales and Trading - Another well known aspect of Investment Banking. Who doesn't want to try and emulate Jordan Belfort? Although reality is slightly different, we will be diving into the nitty gritty of Sales & Trading, and what goes on in those gleaming towers. As expected of you, we will also be filling in the theory with some practical analysis.
Ancillary Functions - None of what we will discuss in the previous sessions would be possible without the back room of the banks. We will be doing a more cursory overview of what it takes to run a bank - operations, technology and finance may ring a bell.
Session 3 (25/01/18)
Introduction to Financial Statements:
- Income Statements
- Balance Sheet
- Cash Flow Statements
What you gain from this session will be incredibly useful for the next sessions on valuation....
Session 4 (18/02/18)
Discounted Cash Flow Valuation - An introduction
This session will cover:
- Levered vs Unlevered DCF
- Calculating FCFF
- Calculating WACC
- Calculating Terminal Value
- Enterprise Value
- A basic DCF Model using Excel
Session 5 (TBC see facebook page)
Further detail on DCF
- In-depth investigation of Working Capital line items – refined FCFF
- Normalise Earnings – Operating Leases and R&D
- Calculate WACC via Risk Free Rates e.g. US T-Bonds, Credit Rating
Agency Ratings, Credit Default Swaps, Betas
- Calculate Equity Risk Premiums using Company Default Spreads
- Marginal vs Effective Tax Rates and when you use them
Please note that these events are subject to change, both in dates and in content. We will try to keep this space updated, but for the most up-to-date information, please visit our facebook page


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Johnny Stewart Will be Performing Live in the Velvet Lounge Located in the Upstairs of Hagan's Bar & Bar Bella in Dungannon
Four time number one blues artist Johnny Stewart is a Wexford born independent singer, songwriter, guitarist who fuses the soul and honesty of blues and the energy and attitude of rock with the infectiousness of pop and creates something fresh and exciting. When you combine this trio of genres with a powerful voice and silky guitar skills you get a young man who captivates the hearts, the minds and the ears of anyone who listens.
Over the past 7 years Johnny has played support to some of the most well-known names in Irish music including: Ryan Sheridan, Jack L, Damien Dempsey, Hermitage Green, The Saw Doctors, Paddy Casey, Heathers, Cast of Cheers, The Kanyu Tree, Clive Barnes, The 4 of Us, Ham Sandwich, The Hot Sprockets, Corner Boy, Fight Like Apes, Royseven and Jamie Lawson. In this time he has also earned himself the reputation of providing exemplary live performances where brute force meets pure emotion in equal measure. He has a natural ability to capture the crowd's attention with his special mix of blues laced pop songs which incorporate his soulful voice and his scintillating guitar skills.
In August 2013 'Little Miss Sunshine' was the first single from 'Daydreamer' to be released. A funky fresh blend of blues & pop, 'Little Miss Sunshine' hit #1 on the iTunes blues singles chart and stayed there for two weeks. 'Little Miss Sunshine' also garnered national radio play and was well received by music lovers worldwide. The album release followed soon after and hit #1 on the iTunes blues album chart. 'Daydreamer' was described as ".. a stunning debut album.." by Kevin Dillon of Chew Your On Fat. Blues, rock, funk and pop combine to make a distinctive sound on this self-produced 10 track debut which highlights an exceptional song-writing ability for such a young artist. The launch of 'Daydreamer' on November 29th 2013 was followed up with a short tour of intimate venues across Ireland. A debut performance at Electric Picnic and a memorable set at the renowned Wexford Spiegeltent festival were big highlights of 2013. Johnny was a top 20 finalist in MTV's Brand New Unsigned for 2014 out of 580 artists. The competition recognises outstanding new unsigned talent from around the world.
Johnny Stewart released his second single, 'She's Trouble' on Friday June 13th with a sold out show in the historical Wexford Arts Centre. 'She's Trouble' followed in the footsteps of 'Little Miss Sunshine' and earned top spot on the iTunes blues singles chart. Even more honours were bestowed on 'She's Trouble' when it was made the 'Daily Download' on The Tony Fenton Show on Today FM at the end of July.
Johnny's newly released 'Ain't Love A Beautiful Thing' the third single from 'Daydreamer' was released on Friday August 22nd and once agin shot straight to number one on the blues charts. Gritty vocals, overdriven guitars, grooving bass lines and thunderous drums collide perfectly in 'Ain't Love A Beautiful Thing' to show off the heavier side of this young modern blues man's repertoire.
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A conversation about rising classroom temperatures got heated Wednesday evening in Cohasset after one School Committee member lost their cool over the issue.
Newly-elected School Committee member Paul Kearney recently obtained documents from the Department of Public Works detailing excessive heat in Deer Hill classrooms in June 2017. Kearney posted the data on the Cohasset143 Facebook page as well as a copy of a letter he had sent to Police Chief Bill Quigley and Fire Chief Bob Silvia regarding his concerns around the data to stoke the conversation.
In the letter, which was included in the Facebook post, Kearney questioned the legality of the situation and said school officials have done little to resolve to issue.
Kearney attempted to make his case at Wednesday�s School Committee meeting, where he claimed school officials were ignoring the issue and called the district�s supposed lack of action �child abuse.�
�If somebody knew this, this is a crime. You covered up a crime and you�ll stop abusing children. And I�m going to make sure of it, alright?� he yelled as School Committee chair Jeanne Astino attempted to regain order of the meeting.
A group of parents also attended Wednesday night�s meeting in hopes of discussing the matter as an official agenda item at an upcoming School Committee meeting. Many jumped directly to the defense of the School Committee and Superintendent Louise Demas, arguing their effectiveness in improving the district drastically over the last few years.
The committee decided to take a 10-minute recess to allow emotions to settle.
Not even a minute later, officers from the Cohasset Police Department arrived at the Middle-High School to help restore order to the meeting and spoke with both Astino and Kearney separately. The officers asked attendees and committee members alike to maintain a conversational tone moving forward to help the meeting progress smoothly.
Kearney apologized for his actions before the meeting reconvened, but several members of the audience were not accepting of the apology. A number residents in attendance Wednesday evening to discuss proposing later school start times were upset with how Kearney chose to address his fellow committee members, claiming he �hijacked� the constructive conversation they wanted to have about an ongoing issue in the district. Others found his tone condescending.
While they have been aware of the issue for over a year, school officials have in fact been addressing the situation. According to a memo sent by Facilities Department Director Mark Kelly to Superintendent Louise Demas, the Deer Hill principal Jennifer deChiara �expressed concerns regarding the seasonal classroom temperatures� back in Spring 2016.
In May 2017, the Cohasset Facilities Department recorded daily temperature readings each weekday in the classrooms identified by deChiara. The temperature log was made available for all to review, according to the memo.
Estimates to install air conditioning units at Deer Hill range from $80,000 for select spaces in the school to as much as $550,000 to install a traditional commercial building cooling system that already exists in one-third of the Deer Hill building.
DeChiara had originally requested the installation of air conditioning units in some of the classrooms, but was unsuccessful in her efforts after being made aware of modifications necessary to prepare for the building for such and installation. Funding had not been appropriated for the project in 2016, either.
Since then, simple solutions such as fans and shades have been added to affected classrooms to help mitigate the effects of the heat. Students will also be moved into classrooms with air conditioning in the event of extreme heat.
School officials say they will continue to address the issue.
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By Jean-Claude Elias - Aug 14,2014 - Last updated at Aug 14,2014
Have you found your perfect web browser? I haven't so far. Chrome, Internet Explorer (IE), Safari, Firefox, Opera, I like them all, and yet…
My browser is dear to me for it is the window I have to open wide to see the web, the world, hence its importance. It cannot be overestimated. For a long time I remained faithful, exclusively, to Microsoft's IE to do my web browsing. Being a Windows user I try, as much as possible, to use Microsoft products for maximum comfort and compatibly with the main operating system. It's just plain common sense.
However, at one point in my living with IE a colleague convinced me to move to Chrome, the browser that Google launched in 2008. I was immediately attracted by the interface and by the speed of Chrome.
In parallel I kept on experimenting with the other browsers, namely Opera, Safari and Firefox, including the mobile versions of all existing browsers. I was driven by the need to know more and to be able to compare, so as to choose the best, and also to find my way around the browsers used by my friends and clients who work on various platforms, from Apple products to Samsung mobile devices.
To cut a long story short, for indeed a comprehensive comparison of all browsers would be a long story, it is virtually impossible today to opt for just one browser and to live perfectly happy with it. It is not only the comparison per se that is hard to do, but there's also the fact that what may be true today may be false tomorrow, given the changes in software, the updates and the elusive aspect of Internet security.
I'll stick to a few examples to illustrate the above and I will also keep it down to the two major browsers, Chrome and IE. It is not a coincidence that these are the two browsers I use, at least in my Windows environment.
There is no doubt that Chrome is fast, but recently it has become "randomly" incompatible with many sites, in particular those that deal with online banking. Moreover, if you are going on Microsoft sites, they would often display pop up screens telling you "This site is better viewed with IE". You can't blame them for that, after all IE is their baby; they have to promote it!
To make our life even more miserable, not all browsers treat plug-ins equally. Java plug-in (by Oracle) for example may prove hard to install on one browser, whereas doing it with another browser would be a breeze.
I always check my Gmail using Chrome; it's fast and foolproof. If I want to play the nice and easy crossword puzzles I find on the site of USA Today Chrome often crashes. I still haven't found out why. With IE, however, the site never crashes.
On the other hand I found excellent ad blockers for Chrome; easy to install and efficient, blocking more than 90 per cent of the annoying ads. I have yet to find the same kind of plug-in for IE.
By keeping Chrome and IE and by moving from one to the other, depending on what I may be doing on the web, I got close to an ideal solution, better than just a dull modus vivendi. This being said it takes some time to find out what kind of web activity is better done with this or that browser, but this is how life with IT and the Internet is about.
Statistics about browsers usage in the world are impossible to express in simple form. This is because usage varies depending on what consumers are exactly doing through the browsers: running online applications, doing online shopping, web search, gaming, etc. For instance one given user may do his online banking with IE whereas he would switch to Chrome when it comes to searching for information. Apart from the fact that Chrome and IE certainly are the two big contenders, capturing between them some 70 per cent of the market, there are no conclusive figures.
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10 things that will happen when the Queen dies
The phrase "London Bridge is down" doesn't mean much to most of us. But on the day that the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom hears these words, it means something big. It means that life in Britain as we know it is going to change forever. It means that Elizabeth II has passed away. But what exactly will happen when the Queen dies?
Queen Elizabeth II is the longest reigning monarch that Britain has ever seen; currently celebrating her 65th year on the throne. The day she passes away will be a sad one for everyone. But it's only natural for us to wonder what exactly will happen once she is gone. How will we find out the news? What will her funeral be like? How soon will her son Charles take the throne? The answers to all of these questions have been around in the form of an extensive plan since the 1960s. Here is what we know so far.
1. Who will get told first?
Sir Christopher Geidt, the Queen's private secretary, will bear the responsibility of sharing the news. He will phone the Prime Minister of the UK to inform him or her that "London Bridge is down", before the Foreign Office's Global Response Centre passes the information around the 15 other countries where the Queen is the head of state and the other 36 Commonwealth nations.
2. How will we find out?
The general public are likely to not know a single thing until Buckingham Palace choose to announce the death. Tradition dictates that this will firstly come in the form of a footman dressed in formal mourning attire who will pin a physical notice on the Palace gates. Secondly, news will come in an alert via the Press Association, before the information is published on other media sites and in newspapers.
3. Will news agencies go into a frenzy?
Of course the Queen's death will be monumental news for every newspaper and website out there. But rather than a mad panic, news agencies have been preparing for this for years and years. They will have pre-planned stories, films and obituaries (as well as black suits and ties) prepared to go at a moment's notice - the Times is said to have 11 days of coverage ready to go - not to mention that newsreaders have been practicing segments for decades. According to the Guardian, BBC news teams are often hauled in on quiet Sundays to perform mock storylines about the royals. Apparently, there was once even a fake scenario about Princess Diana dying in a car crash on the M4.
4. The BBC's bizarre cold war alarm system
Upon hearing of the Queen's demise, the BBC will activate their Radio Alert Transmission System (RATS). The cold war era alarm system is near mythical to staff who have only seen it work in rare tests or not at all. In addition, blue lights will begin to flash in commercial radio studios and the presenters will put on prepared music lists of sad songs before announcing the news.
5. Britain at a standstill
When the Queen dies, it will send shockwaves around Britain with the country more or less coming to a standstill. The London Stock Exchange will close, potentially costing the economy billions of pounds, TV programs will grind to a halt in order for news channels announce the news, both houses of parliament will be recalled, people will go home from work early, satire comedy will be cancelled until after her funeral. Even life 40,000 feet above ground will be affected when plane pilots take the time to announce her death to their passengers.
6. What if she dies abroad?
Every aspect of the Queen's death is planned and forethought is granted to where she will be when she passes away. If the Queen dies abroad, a BAe 146 jet from the RAF's No 32 squadron, known as the Royal Flight, will take off from Northolt with a coffin on board to go and collect her body. However, if she dies in Scotland - where she traditionally spends three months of the year - Scottish ritual will commence and her body will lie in Holyrood house, Edinburgh, and then taken up the Royal Mile to St. Giles's Cathedral, then put on the Royal Train down to the east coast.
7. What will happen to her body?
Wherever she dies, the Elizabeth II's body will always return to the throne room in Buckingham Palace, guarded by four Grenadier Guards in bearskin hats. After precisely four days, her will coffin be taken via military procession to lie in Westminster Hall, where members of the public will be able to visit to say their goodbyes 23 hours of the day. When the Queen Mother died, more than 200,000 people visited to pay their respects.
8. What about the funeral?
After nine days of national mourning, the Monarch's funeral will take place in Westminster Abbey. Dignitaries and royal families from all over the world will travel to London and join 2,000 guests in the Abbey waiting for the Archbishop of Canterbury will speak. The coffin will reach the doors at 11am where television camera will be waiting among the Queen's relatives, friends and acquaintances to join prayers and say goodbye. The day will be a national bank holiday for Britain and thousands of people, British and foreign, will be waiting on the Mall for a funeral procession to wave a royal farewell.
9. What about Charles?
Prince Charles will become King the instant his mother passes away and the accession council will convene as soon as possible to declare him the new monarch, as well as MPs and Lords convening to swear their allegiance to him. But the most important thing he will do will be to embark on a tour of four-nations; the current monarch in waiting will tour the country, visiting Edinburgh, Belfast and Cardiff to attend services of remembrance for his mother and to greet the leaders of the devolved governments as their new King. When he returns to London, he will lead the mourners in commemorating his mother's life and his coronation will take place a few months after the funeral, another national holiday for the British.
10. And then?
With the new King on the throne, there will also be a brand new Queen. Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall will legally become queen consort, in accordance with English common law when her husband becomes King. However, there is ongoing uncertainty over her official title and this will not be confirmed until Charles succeeds the Queen. Life in Britain without the Queen will be reflected in the words to the national anthem, which will be changed to "God save the King", as well as new coins, notes and stamps being minted to reflect the arrival of the UK's new monarch.
So, can you even begin to envision what Britain will look like without Queen Elizabeth II? After 65 years of royal service, it's certainly hard to imagine life without her. In much happier royal news, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are expecting their third child.


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So, what do you do when your professional rugby team has been cut from the big League? If you're an Aussie billionaire, you start a new league to find a place for the team.
This is the proposal of Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest, a western Australian mining magnate whose pro rugby team, Western Force, were recently eliminated from Super Rugby Championship, a decision that engendered a legal battle, which he lost.
Forrest, worth over US $1.2 billion, plans to start a new league called the Indo-Pacific Championship with six teams coming possibly from Australia, Singapore, Samoa, Fiji, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, China, Sri Lanka, or Malaysia. The inaugural season would begin in August 2018. Importantly, the Western Force would be the Australian team entry. The competition would consist of ten matches with a four-team title playoff.
Forrest's aim is twofold: to begin a second tier competition that might eventually merge with Super Rugby, offering promotion and relegation opportunities, and to lure back from Europe, leading Australian players.
He has started negotiations with the Australian Rugby Union to ensure that Aussie players who compete in the new league can qualify to play for the Wallabies.
Throughout the world, rugby is witnessing multi-national plans to start new professional entities, and to expand existing leagues with new teams.


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ever since i went freelance, i've been doing things at my own time, as and when i like it... going to bed and waking up, eating, bathing, working, checking n replying mails etc. at the oddest hours, it's absolutely glorious! but now, after my doings have been discovered (by those who love to nag!), i'm careful to avoid sending/replying e-mails at abnormal hours (esp to family members).
reply from bro: what were u doing still up at such unearthly hours?! have u any idea what time it was?! 4.30am!!!
yikes! hehe...
anyway, this has made me quite accustomed to sleeping at any time of the day... which is really a bad thing. esp when i'm in the cinema. for the 3rd installment of a trilogy. with the first 2 installments i've yet to watch. that runs for 3 hrs. which the bf has practically dragged me to the cinema for.
can anyone believe i actually fell asleep in the middle of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End? twice??? and an afternoon show at that??? and it's not that it's a boring show. dunno y, somehow i just dozzed off! i'm so ashamed of myself. *hangs head*
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Monday, 18 June 2007
overdue gift...
remember this failed tatted piece? well, i finally gotten round to finishing it... it was meant for N for her exam, but her exam ended last monday! hehehe... anyway, she was fascinated with it when i presented it to her on sat. keep asking me how it was done and was amazed when i told her it was done not using a crochet needle, but a UFO kinda thing called shuttle. i met her outside for dinner, so didn't have any of my tatting tools to show her exactly how it was done. but then she moaned that blue is MY fav colour, not hers! her's bright yellow, orange or pink. then i reminded her, "eh, the waist pouch u got me for my birthday is not in my fav colour also mar" - the waist pouch is pink.
here's the finished bookmark... kinda uneven, that's y it's a bit curved. guess i was impatient in finishing it and didn't pull the thread snug enough in the 2nd half.
here's the finished bookmark... kinda uneven, that's y it's a bit curved. guess i was impatient in finishing it and didn't pull the thread snug enough in the 2nd half.
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the bf's lar, not mine! found these in his handphone:
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The average fixed interest rate on a 30-year loan has fallen to near its record low set earlier this month. The rate on the most popular mortgage dipped to 3.37% from 3.39 last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said. Two weeks ago, the rate reached 3.36%, its lowest level on records dating to 1971. The average rate on the fixed 15-year loan, often used for refinancing, set a record low of 2.66%, down from last week's 2.7%. Today applicants that seek a no cost home loan will typically pay a point. Less costly mortgages are helping fuel a modest but steady housing recovery. The average rate on the 30-year loan has remained below 4% all year. And rates have fallen even further since the Federal Reserve started buying mortgage bonds in September to encourage more borrowing and spending. The Fed said it would continue buying bonds until the job market shows substantial improvement. When home prices rise, people tend to feel wealthier and spend more freely. And consumer spending drives nearly 70% of economic activity.
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Sales on houses have inched up slightly from last year, and prices are rising more consistently in most areas. Builders are clearly more confident but has the housing market turned the corner for good. Read
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Is it possible that Sarah Palin loves America so much that she is trying to systematically eradicate the National Hockey League of Canadians?
The nation's most famous hockey mom was invited to drop the first puck at Friday's game between the Blues and Kings in St. Louis. A blue carpet was rolled out for the vice presidential candidate as she made her way to center ice. Unfortunately, Blues goalie Manny Legace - a native of Toronto - slipped on the carpet and injured his hip. He tried to play in Friday's 4-0 loss but departed after the first period and was replaced by red-blooded St. Louisan Ben Bishop. Legace also sat out last night's game against the Florida Panthers.
His injury probably won't help the Republicans in the swing state of Missouri, although the Blame Canada First crowd - initially leery because Alaska for all practical purposes is part of Canada - now supports the McCain-Palin ticket wholeheartedly.
The Legace incident only encourages rumors of the Palin Curse. She also dropped the first puck at the season opener for the Philadelphia Flyers. Although no Canadians were harmed in that appearance, the Flyers opened the season with three straight losses. They didn't win until Friday night, when the prospective veep transferred the curse to the Blues.
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Spanish telecom giant Telefónica has partnered with the investment and advisory firm Blackstone GSO Capital Partners to launch Axonix, a mobile advertising exchange platform. Telefónica's CEO of Digital Service and Innovation, Stephen Shurrock, said, "We're proud to be the first telecoms company in the world to own and power a mobile ad exchange platform." The platform will be powered by MobClix, a programmatic advertising platform, which was recently acquired by Blackstone. The new firm will operate independently of Telefónica and be based in London. The move will allow the operator to compete for the ever-growing mobile advertising sector, projected to grow 50 percent each year to reach US $45 billion per year by 2016. Telefónica has over 323 million mobile customers across 24 countries.
The creation of Axonix is Telefónica's latest and most aggressive move to tap into more diverse revenue streams and avoid the fate of becoming a "dumb pipe." In entering mobile ad sales, Telefónica is joining a crowded and competitive marketplace. The leading players, Google, Facebook and Twitter, are household names, with high levels of programming expertise and proven track records of innovation. The growth potential for mobile advertising is as clear to these actors as it is to Telefónica, and they will fight to keep their share.
As it tries to overcome these challenges, Telefónica has three significant advantages. First is its huge user base with verified demographic information. Unlike with PCs, where significant personal information is gathered through cookies, mobile ads tend to employ algorithms that use site visits and preferences to estimate demographic information. Simon Birkenhead, who has been chosen to run Axonix, said, "This is really going to be quite a leap forward for programmatic for mobile because currently mobile advertising suffers from a lack of good quality data for targeting. Yet programmatic media buying is totally reliant on data for it to work." Second, due to its significant presence in Latin America, Telefónica's operations pair well with the highest-growth areas for mobile advertising. Unlike North America and Europe, Latin America and Africa are poised to be filled with mobile-only internet users. Third, while Axonix's platform will almost certainly be used initially for Telefónica's subsidiaries (the company's deal with mobile ad platform Amobee is up for renewal this year), it can leverage Telefónica's relationships with other operators for growth. As a giant in the industry, Telefónica has relationships with virtually every major player, and we expect the team at Axonix to rely on these to help it push the platform as a mobile ad marketplace for other operators.
As we have written before, working to increasingly monetize subscribers' demographic information without creating the perception of violation of customer privacy is an excellent way for operators to combat declining ARPU. It now appears that Telefónica is heavily invested in making this strategy work.
The above item appeared in a recent issue of The Tarifica Alert, a weekly resource that analyzes noteworthy developments in the telecoms industry from around the world. To access all of the latest articles and issues: http://www.tarifica.com/TarificaAlert.aspx


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As a strong yet transient trough moved over the region last night, the coldest overnight lows so far this winter have been observed across the area, dropping into the mid 10s inland, lower to mid 20s in the north/west suburbs of NYC, lower 20s in southern Connecticut, and upper 20s to lower 30s in NYC, making last night the first sub-freezing low temperature in NYC this winter. Long Island generally saw lows in the 20s, although the parts of eastern Long Island which typically see the most radiational cooling dropped into the upper 10s as well. Mainly sunny skies were observed during the day with chilly temperatures, peaking in the mid to upper 30s inland and the upper 30s to lower 40s across the rest of the area.
Although the cold air mass has left the region, cold temperatures are expected again tonight. A warming trend will begin tomorrow, with highs on Tuesday once again getting to nearly 50 degrees in the immediate NYC area. Although dry conditions with mostly sunny skies will remain in place through Tuesday and slightly increased cloud cover on Wednesday, an approaching storm will bring clouds and rain back into the forecast for the late week. Although no significant rain amounts are expected, scattered showers will take place again on Thursday with warmer temperatures, passing the 50 degree mark.
Tomorrow's Outlook:
After another cold night, with temperatures dropping into the upper 10s to upper 20s across most of the area with lower 30s in NYC, warmer temperatures will return tomorrow as weak ridging continues in the eastern US. Temperatures will warm up into the lower to mid 40s inland and the mid 40s across the area, with sunny skies expected again along with light SW winds.
Tuesday – Friday: Still Warmer Than Average; Rainy Ending
Temperatures today dropped below average only for a brief time, as next week will continue the pattern of mostly above average temperatures frequent throughout the fall and the first part of this month. With mostly sunny skies, Tuesday will bring even warmer temperatures, reaching the mid 40s inland and the mid to upper 40s across the rest of the area. Although widespread lower 50s are not expected, parts of the immediate NYC area may reach 50 degrees. A slightly colder air mass will move in in on Wednesday along with partly cloudy skies, bringing slightly cooler temperatures, peaking in the mid 40s across the area with a few upper 40s in the immediate NYC area.
An intensifying low pressure will move towards the Great Lakes on Thursday, quickly moving into Canada overnight. This storm will push out the very weak cold air mass over the region, as light front end snow/sleet/freezing rain fall in parts of New England. Mostly cloudy skies are expected on Wednesday night and Thursday, and although scattered showers are expected, especially on Wednesday night, most of the time frame until Thursday evening is expected to stay mainly dry. With the area in the warmer section of the storm, temperatures will rise into the lower to mid 50s across the area on Thursday. As the storm's cold front moves through on Thursday night, temperatures will remain steady in the mid 40s to lower 50s across the area with more scattered showers moving through the area. Once the front moves through, temperatures are expected to drop; exactly when it moves is still a little uncertain, but at this time I am expecting a slight drop in temperatures on Friday morning into the upper 30s to mid 40s across most of the area, with temperatures only slightly rising on Friday afternoon to reach the mid to upper 40s across the area, potentially near the lower 50s in parts of the immediate NYC area and Long Island.
Next Weekend – Next Week: Colder, Then More Rain
A weak trough will move in behind the late week storm, bringing colder temperatures again. High temperatures are likely to drop into the lower to mid 40s across the area on Saturday and into the upper 30s to mid 40s on Sunday, with low temperatures in the 20s again across most of the area, with upper 10s possible towards NW NJ/Orange county in the colder case scenario. As should be expected with the current pattern, the ridge in the southeastern US will rebuild again as another cutoff low pressure reaches the southwestern US. Although there is uncertainty with the exact timing due to the time range, warmer temperatures are expected for the start of next week with the potential for more stormy conditions around early-mid next week. Stay tuned for more information on the longer range.


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"Just as the tobacco industry created and sustained its market with the addictive properties of cigarettes, so does wheat in the diet make for a helpless, hungry consumer. From the perspective of the seller of food products, wheat is a perfect processed food ingredient: The more you eat, the more you want. The situation for the food industry has been made even better by the glowing endorsements provided by the US government urging Americans to eat more 'Healthy' whole grains." – Dr. William Davis, Wheat Belly
I have recently had my nose in a great book, sneaking in a chapter in every spare moment. It has captured my attention, because naturopathic doctors are highly trained in the field of clinical nutrition, and despite being aware of much of the information, the argument presented is new to me. In his best-selling book Wheat Belly, Dr. William Davis pulls together existing information on wheat from all corners of research to create a very compelling argument against wheat consumption for all human beings. There are many adverse effects of wheat that can wreak havoc on people (whether you have a food allergy or not) because our wheat today is not the wheat of our ancestors. The following is a summary of some of the most important points, in my opinion, presented in Wheat Belly:
1. Be in Control of Your Appetite and Your Blood Sugar – Wheat contains a unique complex carbohydrate called amylopectin A, which is quickly broken down into glucose and absorbed into the bloodstream. Because of this rapid process, it results in a spike of blood sugar, followed by an inevitable drop. This drop is what stimulates hunger. Once you consume wheat again, the cycle repeats. There are other foods that have a blood sugar increasing effect, too, but the unique properties of today's wheat along with the volume and frequency of consumption give it command over one's appetite. Studies actually show that people who do not consume wheat consume less calories per day than those who consume wheat.
2. Lose the Wheat Belly and Muffin Tops – When high blood sugar and subsequent insulin release are repeatedly triggered, it leads to increased fat accumulation especially around the abdomen, known as visceral fat (a.k.a. wheat belly). In men, the increase in fat makes estrogen levels rise, which can result in breast growth – 'gynecomastia'. The more fat, the more inflammation occurs and the higher your risk of chronic disease including diabetes, heart disease and cancer.
3. Don't Become Another Diabetes Stat – 1 in 17 Canadians have been diagnosed with diabetes. Diabetes — or complications from the disease — now kills 3.8 million people a year or about the same number as HIV/AIDS. The damage and eventual destruction of pancreatic beta cells is the hallmark of prediabetes and diabetes. The continual intake of wheat, which spikes your blood sugar, takes your pancreas on a roller coaster ride. The higher your blood sugar goes, the more glucotoxicity (gluco = sugar) occurs. Lipotoxicity (lipo = fat) is another phenomena that damages the beta cells as triglycerides and fatty acids are the produced with the high carbohydrate intake. Additionally, inflammatory cells are released that add insult to injury, resulting in prediabetes, then diabetes.
4. Protect Your Gut and Immunity – Gliadin, a protein in wheat, has recently been found to have the ability to make your gut lining more permeable, meaning it loosens the otherwise tight junctions between cells lining your gastrointestinal tract. This results in gliadin and other unintended invaders to have a free for all in your bloodstream. One of the results of these unwanted guests is the activation of your immune system against itself, called 'autoimmunity', where your immune system starts to attack its own organs and tissues, leading to autoimmune conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, celiac disease and more.
5. Keep Your pH in Check – When metabolized, wheat creates acidic by-products in the blood, including sulfuric acid. Your body needs to neutralize these acids in order to survive, so it steals calcium from your bones, which over time, leads the osteoporosis after years of an acidic diet. A University of Toronto study measured the loss of urine calcium with gluten consumption and found it to increase by a staggering 63%.
6. Preserve Your Joints for Life – The more wheat you consume, the higher your blood sugar increases and the more a process called 'glycation' occurs. Glycation is a sugar-coating of proteins that is irreversible and affects body tissues, including the joints. Cartilage in the joints is extremely susceptible to this process, becoming stiff and brittle, eventually disintegrating, leading to arthritis and joint pain.
Now I know much of this information may come as a surprise to you, as it did to me. I encourage you to read the book for yourself and evaluate the validity of Dr. Davis' case against wheat consumption. But, philosophical arguments aside, let your body be the judge!! I challenge you to go wheat-free and gluten-free for 30 days. See how you feel – how your energy, your mood, your sleep and your overall health change. Please share your experience – I would love to hear from you!


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'Poetry is a universal language in which we can all hope to meet'
This year's National Poetry Library Open Day takes its name from something Ted Hughes said at the launch of Poetry International in 1967. Can poetry be a universal language? Can poems unite people across borders? Is the hope that Hughes had in poetry as a political force as valid today as it was 50 years ago?
After the open day, come along to the library to hear poets Hannah Silva and Victoria Adukwei Bulley respond to the day's displays and themes. Find out about the relationship between sustainability and poetry, eco-poetry and poetry that uses signs and code instead of words.
Level 5, Blue side, Royal Festival Hall
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What is AGBell hoping to achieve by its portrayal that Listening and Spoken Language (LSL) is a credible ideology? Are they hoping parents of Deaf children accept it as a remedy for their Deaf child to become "normal" or "hearing"?
AGBell Association created the terminology LSL and its certification so to equate it as equal to "language" such as ASL, American Sign Language….hence they replaced the "A" with an "L". American Sign Language has been proven to be a fully developed visual language for the Deaf. AGBell doesn't endorse bilingualism (ASL and English) for Deaf children. Their ideology for the Deaf child is to be verbal only… which means listening and speaking i.e. LSL without ASL. LSL is all about portraying itself as a language when in fact it is still speech and listening training therapy-no different than what they have been doing for the past 130 years.
LSL therapy is becoming an added certification that professionals can add and is highly promoted in early childhood programs. What hasn't been investigated is the actual outcomes of the modern day LSL therapy and those it has failed. Most of AGBell's publicity using LSL is focused on younger children but very little focus on adolescents. Those few teenagers that are successful with LSL programs are actually "the few"… "cream of the crops"… just like myself, John F. Egbert. Yes, I am able to speak but unable to listen like a hearing person. On the average, oral Deaf people are able to speak at a variety of levels but to be able to listen is the most difficult in most situations. When I learned ASL at the age of 19, I finally was able to fully "listen" with my eyes. I became a normal person able to interact fully.
In the beginning, I did not really understand when someone said, "You have to know ASL to understand ASL". But now I do understand what that means. Yes, I can speak very well and was trained to speak, in a lot of ways for the hearing society and their benefit. What I find is most of us oral Deaf are not trained to understand the hearing society. For me, I became a "one way street" conversationalist. That made it hard for me to receive all the data (conversation) from those who spoke to me. I am not alone, my oral Deaf friends can relate to this type of communication that becomes a one way street. It isn't easy like ASL.
I will continue to advocate for all Deaf children to be bilingual, American Sign Language and English. This includes Deaf children who are able to learn speech and listening. The banning of ASL (sign language) in AGBell's LSL therapies and through its professional certification is not only limiting for Deaf children but is harmful to a Deaf child's full development. AGBell needs to stop their manifestation against American Sign Language and do what is right for Deaf children by promoting a healthy whole child approach to language through bilingualism. This is something we all can push for to ensure Deaf children today don't have to suffer the same historical results connected AGBell's listening and speaking therapies that ban the use of sign language. Deaf children CAN have it all through ASL and English bilingually.
John F. Egbert


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Welcome to the Strinestown UB Church website!
Welcome to Strinestown Church on the web. We'll post news and updates here. Things like notices on special events in the church and community, snow closings, etc. Things like these:
Thanksgiving Eve Service – Wednesday, Novemer 21, 2018 at 7:00 PM.
Christmas Eve Candlelight Service – Monday, December 24, 2018 at 6:30 PM.
The doors will be open at 7:00 PM. Come as you are and stay as briefly or as long as you like. The doors are open to all who need prayer, who are heavy burdened, who are fearful, thankful, uncertain, blessed, confused, lost, lonely, and all who understand that prayer is a direct conversation with the Lord and group prayer is VERY powerful. Don't miss this opportunity to place your petitions before the Lord for family and friends, our community, our State and our Country.
"…If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place." 2 Chron 7:14-15
Additionally, we'd love it if you'd follow us on Facebook.
We're hoping that soon our weekly sermons will be available on YouTube.


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English_Master May 23, 2016 No CommentsFAITH AND REASON There is no conflict between faith and reason. May we examine the issue in some detail? In this context prayers offered in full faith are very efficacious. Prayer does not change things. It changes people, and they change things. So do not pray for lighter burdens; pray for stronger back. Rabbi Eliezer once said, 'Turn to god one day before your death." His disciples asked: "How can a man know the day of his death?" The Rabbi replied: 'Then you should turn to god today; perhaps you will die tomorrow; thus everyday will be employed in returning to god." Faith, as embodied in religion, and reason as embodied in science are often but erroneously thought of as being in opposition to each other. Science is not an enemy of religion, only of superstition. Both science and religion are engaged in the search for truth, the main difference lies in the methodologies used. Science is an investigation of truth in the finite nature outside, the object. Religion is an investigation into the nature of the infinite, the subject. Science aims for universally verifiable knowledge. Religion aims for individual realization. We are closer to the physical world than to the metaphysical. We respect science, because it is premised... read more


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DS to launch flagship BMW 5 Series-rivalling saloon in 2020
https://www.autocar.co.uk - DS is primed to launch a flagship saloon as early as 2020, according to company sources. It is thought that the new luxury model will be based on the PSA Group's EMP2 platform, which underpins numerous other cars within the company including the DS 7 Crossback, the recently revealed Peugeot 508 and the Vauxhall Insignia.
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