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Supplying the compatible light spectrum absorbed by plants
M-Lite Grow Lites : Most cost effective way for growers to boost healthy crops
Supplying the compatible light spectrum absorbed by plants
The perfect spectrum for growing plants will yield a better harvest
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Epoch Lacrosse, a leader in carbon composite lacrosse equipment technology, today announced that their game changing and patent pending Otter Mesh™ is now available at authorized Epoch Lacrosse dealers (see list below) and select online retailers. Visit Epoch's YouTube channel to learn more about Otter Mesh.
Epoch Lacrosse, which is best known for its innovative carbon composite lacrosse shafts, didn't hold back when it designed Otter Mesh. Otter Mesh is comprised of a military-grade, ultra lightweight composite fiber (only 18 grams) that is hydrophobic (water resistant), durable and is designed to give you a long-lasting easy to string pocket with zero break-in time. Otter Mesh is made from the same composite fiber material used to make the ropes used by the Navy Seals.
"We could not be more excited about Otter Mesh," said Ryan Hurley, partner and National Sales representative at Epoch Lacrosse. "It is fifty percent lighter than conventional hard, wax or soft mesh and strings a pocket that will give players complete control and confidence in all weather conditions."
Otter Mesh is:
* Made of military-grade ultra lightweight composite fiber. The same material used to make the ropes for Navy Seals.
* Hydrophobic, meaning it will not absorb water. It may feel wet to the touch, but the water will never affect the performance of your pocket.
* A semi-soft mesh that has a slightly rough surface that enhances ball retention without adding whip.
* Resistant to extreme cold (-76F) and heat (140 F). No more shrinkage (tennis racquets) or expansion (bags-out) due to changing weather conditions.
* Has no coating or resins added to it, which makes it break in quickly and never change in hardness/feel over its lifetime.
Check out the Prezi presentation for additional pictures, facts and videos.
"We are always looking at new materials and technology when it comes to designing and manufacturing our products," said James Miceli, Principal at Epoch Lacrosse. "Essentially, we have made every head on the market 18 grams lighter and given players one less thing to worry about. Otter Mesh is a real game changer."
Otter Mesh is now shipping and will be initially available at the following Epoch Authorized dealers:
6M Sports; Angelos Lacrosse Corner; Daves Sport Shop – Blaine; Daves Sport Shop- Fridley; Daves Sport Shop Stillwater; Great Atlantic/ Lacrosse.com; Hot4Lax; JaxLax; Lacrosse JuJu; Lacrosse Lounge; Lavin Lacrosse; Lax.com; Lax Locker; Laxpros; Madlax; Midwest Lacrosse Company; Northstar Lacrosse; Olympic Den Franklin Square; Olympic Den Ronkonkomana; Perfect Edge Hockey; Rufflax; Southern Lacrosse; Sports Extra; Stickhead Birmingham; Stickhead Lexington; Stickhead Louisville; StickStop KC ; Stixx-N-Stones Lacrosse; Tama Lacrosse – CO; Tama; Lacrosse Naperville; Total Lacrosse – All Location; Tribal West
All other Authorized Epoch dealers will have Otter Mesh available in the coming weeks.
Epoch Retail Partners can be found at www.EpochLacrosse.com/buynow
About Epoch Lacrosse:
Epoch Lacrosse delivers the finest manufactured lacrosse equipment designed to increase playability and maximize performance by utilizing world-class materials and manufacturing techniques. Epoch tests and re-tests each of its designs to ensure optimal durability, playability and performance. Epoch's goal is simple, to give players every opportunity to reach their true potential. Live. Play. Be.
Visit www.EpochLacrosse.com/otter-mesh to learn more about Otter Mesh and other Epoch products.
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You can also follow Epoch on Twitter @epochlax and check out their blog at http://www.LivePlayBe.com

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VIA Technologies has announced a dual-core version of the low power VIA VB8004 Mini-ITX board. Coupling the 1.6GHz VIA Nano X2 E-series processor with the VIA VX900 media system processor, the VIA VB8004 provides a high performance and highly scalable solution for advanced digital signage and gaming systems.
In addition to providing native support for dual-displays, the VIA VB8004 Mini-ITX motherboard can also be easily upgraded to support four displays using an additional VIA S3 5400E graphics module, providing developers the widest possible variety of multi-display configurations, including HDMI, LVDS, and DVI technologies.
Powered by a choice of a 1.6GHz VIA Nano X2 E-Series, or 1.6GHz and 1.2GHz VIA Nano processors, the VIA VB8004 leverages the advanced multimedia capabilities of the VIA VX900 system media processor to deliver DirectX10.1 graphics and support for rich 1080p video resolutions.
In addition to supporting up to 4GB DDR3 memory, the board features rich I/O capabilities including an HDMI port, one DVI port, a one channel 24-bit LVDS, one GigaLAN port, and six USB 2.0 ports.
The VIA S3 5400E dedicated graphics module is a daughter card specially designed to provide advanced multimedia capabilities for next-generation embedded applications and is the most energy efficient DirectX 10.1 GPU on the market today, the company claimed. With support of DirectX10.1, Shader Model 4.1, OpenGL 3.1, and OpenCL 1.0, the 5400E GPU provides a cost-effective solution for feature-rich graphics processing with high levels of video decoding and 3D rendering performance.
Featuring the ChromotionHD 2.1 video engine, a programmable video architecture supporting the latest HD standards including Blu-ray Disk, H.264, VC-1, WMV-9, and MPEG-2/4, the S3 5400E module offers stunningly smooth HD playback at resolutions of up to 2560 x 1600 pixels.
On-board I/O includes one HDMI port and one DVI port.
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(a) IN GENERAL- Section 484(a) (20 U.S.C. 1091(a)) is amended--
(1) in paragraph (4), by striking `the institution' and everything that follows through `lender), a document' and inserting `the Secretary, as part of the original financial aid application process, a certification,'; and
(2) in paragraph (5), by striking `or a permanent resident of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, Guam, or the Northern Mariana Islands' and inserting `a citizen of any one of the Freely Associated States'.
(b) HOME-SCHOOLED STUDENTS- Section 484(d) is amended--
(1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking `either'; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
`(3) The student has completed a secondary school education in a home school setting that is treated as a home school or private school under State law.'.
(c) TERMINATION OF ELIGIBILITY- Section 484(j) is amended to read as follows:
`(j) ASSISTANCE UNDER SUBPARTS 1 AND 3 OF PART A, AND PART C- Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a student shall be eligible until September 30, 2004, for assistance under subparts 1 and 3 of part A, and part C, if the student is otherwise qualified and--
`(1) is a citizen of any one of the Freely Associated States and attends an institution of higher education in a State or a public or nonprofit private institution of higher education in the Freely Associated States; or
`(2) meets the requirements of subsection (a)(5) and attends a public or nonprofit private institution of higher education in any one of the Freely Associated States.'.
(d) CORRESPONDENCE COURSES- Paragraph (1) of section 484(l) is amended to read as follows:
`(A) IN GENERAL- A student enrolled in a course of instruction at an institution of higher education that is offered in whole or in part through telecommunications and leads to a recognized certificate for a program of study of 1 year or longer, or a recognized associate, baccalaureate, or graduate degree, conferred by such institution, shall not be considered to be enrolled in correspondence courses unless the total amount of telecommunications and correspondence courses at such institution equals or exceeds 50 percent of the total amount of all courses at the institution.
`(B) REQUIREMENT- An institution of higher education referred to in subparagraph (A) is an institution of higher education--
`(i) that is not an institute or school described in section 521(4)(C) of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act; and
`(ii) for which at least 50 percent of the programs of study offered by the institution lead to the award of a recognized associate, baccalaureate, or graduate degree.'.
(e) VERIFICATION OF INCOME DATA- Section 484 is amended by adding at the end the following:
`(q) VERIFICATION OF INCOME DATA-
`(1) CONFIRMATION WITH IRS- The Secretary of Education, in cooperation with the Secretary of the Treasury, is authorized to confirm with the Internal Revenue Service the adjusted gross income, Federal income taxes paid, filing status, and exemptions reported by applicants (including parents) under this title on their Federal income tax returns for the purpose of verifying the information reported by applicants on student financial aid applications.
`(2) NOTIFICATION- The Secretary shall establish procedures under which an applicant is notified that the Internal Revenue Service will disclose to the Secretary tax return information as authorized under section 6103(l)(13) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.'.
(f) SUSPENSION OF ELIGIBILITY FOR DRUG-RELATED OFFENSES-
(1) AMENDMENT- Section 484 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following:
`(r) SUSPENSION OF ELIGIBILITY FOR DRUG-RELATED OFFENSES-
`(1) IN GENERAL- A student who has been convicted of any offense under any Federal or State law involving the possession or sale of a controlled substance shall not be eligible to receive any grant, loan, or work assistance under this title during the period beginning on the date of such conviction and ending after the interval specified in the following table:
`If convicted of an offense involving:
The possession of a controlled substance:
Ineligibility period is:
First offense
1 year
Second offense
2 years
Third offense
The sale of a controlled substance:
Ineligibility period is:
First offense
2 years
Second offense
`(2) REHABILITATION- A student whose eligibility has been suspended under paragraph (1) may resume eligibility before the end of the ineligibility period determined under such paragraph if--
`(A) the student satisfactorily completes a drug rehabilitation program that--
`(i) complies with such criteria as the Secretary shall prescribe in regulations for purposes of this paragraph; and
`(ii) includes two unannounced drug tests; or
`(B) the conviction is reversed, set aside, or otherwise rendered nugatory.
`(3) DEFINITIONS- In this subsection, the term `controlled substance' has the meaning given the term in section 102(6) of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802(6)).'.
(2) EFFECTIVE DATE- The amendment made by paragraph (1), regarding suspension of eligibility for drug-related offenses, shall apply with respect to financial assistance to cover the costs of attendance for periods of enrollment beginning after the date of enactment of this Act.
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The Dutch designer and member of the Temporary Collective Arnhem Debbie Wijskamp realised this edition of rather solid looking cabinets made from handmade paperpulp.
"Inspired by different cultures, making their homes with materials found in their surroundings, Wijskamp wanted to design her own building material. Experimenting with the re-usage of wastepaper resulted in a material with its own characteristic appearance and structure. Besides this, it is a very versatile material with many possible applications."
The Temporary Collective Arnhem will also be exhibiting at the DMY festival in Berlin from 9-13 June 2010.
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Can you imagine losing all of your company's critical information? Even if you invest in redundant storage capabilities, the unexpected can, and does, occur. Maintain a reliable backup system and protect your data against failure on hardware, application, security, or human error.
The total cost of ownership of a complete backup solution is high, and maintaining a team dedicated to this activity is not practical for most enterprises. With other priorities in mind, backup can be at risk. Failures are often discovered only when a restore is needed.
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Our solution is powered by Commvault, which goes beyond backup to focus on improving coverage and data recovery. The result is reduced costs and increased profitability. Commvault was recognized for the 6th consecutive year as a Leader in the June 8, 2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup and Recovery Software.
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You can leverage our Backup as a Service solution according to the volume of data that needs to be backed up. Whenever you need it, you can quickly increase capacity. Don't worry about buying or allocating hardware and labor.
Backups are performed every day, according to a previously defined policy. The backup agent runs at the scheduled time, and can copy files from the filesystem or retrieve data directly from their applications. Ensure reliable backup for the files on your storage, database (Oracle and SQL Server) and virtual machines (by installing agents on physical hosts).
By following best security practices, we keep all used media at a separate location from the backup structure, with access and temperature controls.
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In order to comply with stringent business and regulatory requirements, Equinix Brazil also offers Dedicated Backup solutions. Solutions are customized to your needs and dedicated equipment is installed in your environment. You can choose to place your own team, or our professionals, as administrators of this equipment.
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Equinix offers its Backup customers off-site protection service in the Cloud. All this to provide even more security for your data and information.
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- Comply with the most stringent business and regulatory requirements with our Dedicated and Customized Backup solutions
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Why Complexity Is IT Security's Worst Enemy
Organizations across the world continue to strive for greater agility, efficiency and innovation. But they also need to cut costs, improve productivity and become more competitive. While this is nothing new, the fact remains that IT is arguably the key department tasked with supporting these needs and ultimately making this happen.
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We can achieve any required outcomes with any technology, for any type of business, in whatever way you want and at any scale. We have an impressive track record of tackling hard problems with innovative technology and business models.
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If the Senate Will Lie About This…
On Monday, I reported here and on the WashingtonWatch.com blog how Congress was trying to push through a bill that hadn't been passed in the same form by both the House and Senate.
Well, the Senate solved the problem by lying. It said that the Secretary of the Senate had erred in engrossing the bill–preparing it for transmittal to the House.
There was no error on the part of the Secretary of the Senate. The Senate passed a bill that used only the word "account" and the House‐passed bill said "accounts." The bills weren't identical, but the Senate is calling it the Secretary's error.
The "fixed" bill now includes a quite non‐grammatical sentence. I detailed that in a new WashingtonWatch.com post entitled: "From Farce to Tragedy." But who needs precision when you're moving a mere quarter‐billion dollars around?
Were he to enforce it, President Obama's Sunlight Before Signing promise would require more careful deliberation than this. The public would have five days to review legislation, exposing errors like this and bringing disrepute on those responsible. But the president received the bill on Tuesday and signed it on Wednesday.


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Store Associate, Part-Time, HomeSense, Bayers Lake
Discovery is at the heart of everything we do. Wherever you find us around the world, if you can think of a product, you can probably find it in our stores, we operate hundreds of stores in hundreds of cities around the world. In Canada, our retail chains include Winners, HomeSense, and Marshalls. With variety comes plenty of happy surprises-our environment is ever-changing, and that's just how we like it. Every day is an opportunity to discover something new about our business, our partnerships and even something exciting about yourself. Ready to Discover Different?
Meet Mason.
Mason is one of our Store Associates. He provides ongoing, prompt, courteous service to all customers, and he does it with style and a deep sense of sincerity. He's also responsible for replenishing our fixtures, bunks, and shelves, processing and preparing merchandise for our sales floor, and helping to process new shipments and organize our warehouse area. Sure, he had six months of retail and one year of shipping and receiving experience before coming to us, but experience doesn't give you the kind of deep-seated respect for others that Mason has.
Of course, he also has a passion for bungee jumping.
But that's Mason. He is one of us.
But know this. If you do decide to apply for this position, and we agree that this is the right job for you, you'll be supported by a plethora of internal programs whose only focus is the continued progress of your career. At TJX Canada, we do everything we can to help you achieve your full potential. But we can't do it all ourselves. You'll need to bring the ambition, the motivation, and the drive.
So what do you think? Like Mason, are you one of us?
Now, if you were to come on board as one of our Store Associates, we'd ask you to do the following:
- Understand and be knowledgeable of BEST operational standards and monitor service-area performance against these standards
- Replenish fixtures, bunks, and shelves in an orderly and accurate manner
- Execute merchandising policies and maintain standards
- Complete markdowns in a timely and accurate manner
- Initiate and participate in store recovery as needed
- Process and prepare merchandise for the sales floor utilizing the principles of WorkSmart
- Be responsible for the daily processing of shipments, organization, and set-up of the warehouse area, keeping with all policies and procedures and in a clean and safe manner, and perform maintenance/stock duties when required.
- Demonstrate a high degree of customer service while processing all refunds, exchanges, and purchases in accordance with our guidelines
- Be responsible for the daily administration of store funds in and out of the cash office
- Monitor the adherence to all company policies and procedures with regard to registers and cash office procedures
- Ensure that all registers are processed accurately and that all funds are balanced and verified daily
Sounds rather challenging and exciting, right? Let's hope so, because if it sounds easy or boring, there's a good chance this job isn't for you. But if it does sound right for you, here's why we know you'll be able to handle those challenges:
- You have six months of experience in a retail environment and one year of experience in a stock, warehouse, shipping and receiving, distribution, or processing environment, all which you can use to build a stable and bright future here at TJX Canada
- You possess excellent verbal- and written-communication skills
- You have the ability to set up and maintain a warehouse environment and the capacity to perform minor repairs
- You possess sound organizational and time-management skills
Discover Different at TJX means opportunity, teamwork, and career growth. That's why working here is so much more than a job. When you're a part of our TJX family, you have the full support of a diverse, close-knit group of people in our Distributions Centres, Retail Stores or any of our Office locations. We work together to deliver the best value and style in the business. Our inventory is always changing and our approach is continually evolving, which means every day is another chance to Discover Different.
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Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air) could do no wrong, even before this new clip of her engaging in a rap battle in director Jason Moore's musical comedy film, Pitch Perfect. Kendrick stars as Beca, a college student who stumbles into an a cappella club populated by a motley crew of girls whose only common link is their singing ability. While the clip features other cast members joining in on the "riff off," Kendrick steals the show at the end.
Also starring Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow, Anna Camp, Alexis Knapp, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Adam Devine, Pitch Perfect opens October 5th. Hit the jump to watch the clip and to see how you can make it into a music video for the movie.
Here's the official synopsis for Pitch Perfect followed by the clip (via MSN):
Beca (Anna Kendrick) is that girl who'd rather listen to what's coming out of her headphones than what's coming out of you. Arriving at her new college, she finds herself not right for any clique but somehow is muscled into one that she never would have picked on her own: alongside mean girls, sweet girls and weird girls whose only thing in common is how good they sound when they sing together, in the new out-loud comedy Pitch Perfect.
When Beca takes this acoustic singing group out of their world of traditional arrangements and perfect harmonies into all-new mash-ups, they fight to climb their way to the top of the cutthroat world of college a cappella. This could wind up either the coolest thing they'll ever do or the most insane, and it will probably be a little of both.
Loaded with new takes on old favorites to hits of right now that are seamlessly mixed together, mashed-up and arranged like you've never heard before, Pitch Perfect is directed by Jason Moore, who opened our eyes to the very misbehaved life of puppets in the surprise Broadway sensation Avenue Q.
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Inn at the Commons is conveniently located in the heart of downtown Medford, in southern Oregon s scenic Rogue Valley. Its location offers an easy access to all the treasures and attractions of our region, including Crater Lake National Park, charming Ashland with the renowned Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Southern Oregon University and a sophisticated dining scene. We are just a short drive from the historic Jacksonville and the Britt Festival, golf courses, as well as wineries of the Applegate and Rogue Valley. With the multitude of trails, rivers and lakes, Southern Oregon is your outdoor vacation bonanza. Enjoy hiking, biking, jet boat trips, rafting, fishing, bird watching and skiing. The Inn is just 10 minutes from the Rogue Valley International Airport via our complimentary shuttle. Our 118 non-smoking spacious guest rooms and suites feature all the modern hotel amenities, including complimentary hot breakfast, WiFi, parking, and the heated outdoor pool. With over 9,000 square feet of meeting and banquet space, we can also accommodate up to 1,200 guests for your next conference, or special occasion. For business or pleasure, make Inn at the Commons your destination in the heart of downtown Medford.
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Got R2 and 3PO for $5 each at Family Dollar on Thursday... On Sunday while on a toy run I found a hidden Family Dollar in the area and scored a Chewbacca.They had plenty of R2 and 3PO's but no Stormtroopers. I'm sorta bummed I didn't get any of those actually. I'd have been happy if all I found was one Stormie and never found those other 3.They had Ben's, Luke's, and Leia's too... no Han, Yoda, or Lando... The 3 I saw the most of in this line next to Luke, Leia, and Obi-Wan.
I heard the VOTC figures are showing up at Family Dollar stores. Chewie, 3PO, Stormtrooper, and Lando are the ones I heard mentioned. $5 each.I traveled to the ghetto today (where the only local FD is located) and they were just unloading the truck, so I didn't see them. I did find some single packed GI Joes, so that was pretty cool.I'll go back tomorrow or Monday and see if they received them.
I'll see what I can find for everyone. R2 and Chewbacca will be on my list... And 3PO too. Stormies I'm cornering if I find them,b ut I can try helping for anything else I find too.
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Fat cats now have a new incentive to exercise: They can work for their kibble. Talk to Me Pet Products has developed the new Talk to Me Rubber Treatball, which owners can use to entice their pets to bat around the ball and chase it for dry food. The ball also plays a 12-second recorded message from you every time kitty swats the toy. "A lot of people have fun with this," says Mike Sachtleben, the company's sales manager. "They say things like, 'Get your ball' or 'I love you.'"
The balls, which are priced from $13.99 to $17.99, are among thousands of pet products that will be featured at the American Pet Product Association's (APPA) Global Pet Expo, March 25-27 in Orlando, Fla. The 2010 show features 750 exhibitors. It is not open to the public, but professional buyers from around the world attend.
Pet Product Spending on the Rise
Although fallout from the worldwide recession continues, the APPA says spending on pet products and services has been on the rise. Many of the purchases come from owners buying "products that allow us to keep our pets well taken care of in spite of our more frantic personal lives," says APPA President Bob Vetere. "High-tech items like timed feeding, watering devices, electric fences, automatic litter box cleaners and the like allow us to work and keep our pets well."
Here are three cat products you may want to consider bringing into your home:
1. "Space-age" self-warming bed Now that heated seats are standard in most new cars, it's only natural that your cat should have a heated cushion of its own. Simple Solution's Self-Warming Thermal Cat Cushion deploys a "space-age material" that reflects a kitty's body heat back to the animal. With a plush fur pad cover, the thermal qualities help soothe a cat's aching bones. It's perfect for the aged, infirm or just plain spoiled cat. It's machine-washable too.
2. Stress-relief gel Help your cat survive thunderstorms and other nerve-racking events. Vet's Best now makes Comfort Calm Gel with a mix of valerian root -- which the ancient Greeks used to help calm nerves and sleeplessness -- and tryptophan, a well-known calming ingredient. The line of natural products, developed by Dr. Dawn Curie Thomas, a veterinarian, is billed as a healthy way to help care for your cat. According to Thomas, Comfort Calm Gel is a soothing, calming remedy that eases the feline stress of travel, big events and loud noises.
3. Air purifier Cat allergies are reportedly on the rise. Unlike humans who tend to get runny noses and scratchy throats during allergy season, cat reactions tend to manifest themselves in itchy skin. Some pets scratch so much that they develop sores. But Annette and Mike Uda believe they've found a solution for their allergy-afflicted cat, Tasha.
Uda, who works in the indoor air quality control industry, and his wife use powerful, medical-grade ultraviolet light technology and allergen filters to turn homes and professional offices like theirs into safe places for pets. PetAirapy makes portable and stationary heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems starting at $395. "I think this is going to be a major breakthrough in the industry," says Annette. "There's nothing out there right now to treat pet allergies except to give them medicine."The fact that we spend more on such pet products these days is a continuation of efforts to "humanize" our pets. Vetere explains, "When we have a pet we can come home to who loves us unconditionally, never complains or has a bad thing to say, we want to tell them thank you." You can thank your own cat with one of the mentioned products, which will be in pet stores soon, following the Global Pet Expo.


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- Applicable for high speed driving
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SERVICE DESCRIPTIONSafety Rating is a combination of two values: Load Index and Speed Rating for P-Metric and Euro Metric tire sizes; and Load Range and Speed Rating in the case of heavy duty LT (light truck) sizes.
Speed Rating is based on the speed that the tire is designed to be driven at for extended periods of time. All tires in the in the U.S. are designed to maintain legal U.S. speed limits. The speed rating of tires must match the maximum driving speed of the vehicle.
Load Index is used on P metric and Euro Metric sized tires and denotes a tire's load-carrying capacity at a specified inflation pressure. The load index is represented by a number, the higher the Load Index Value the greater the load the tire can safely carry. Vehicle manufacturers recommend a maximum load capacity based on a recommended minimum load index.
|Tire Class
TIRE CLASSTire Class reflects how the tire will be used. There are four major categories: All-Season, Max Performance, Summer-Only and Winter-Use.
All-Season tires are suitable for year-round driving in all weather conditions.
Summer-Only & Max Performance tires are specifically designed for high-performance driving. Tire compound, tread design and speed ratings all combine to hug the road and maintain grip. Summer tires by natur e are not ideal for winter driving due to lack of siding to grip winter roads.
Winter-Use tires have tread compounds and patterns that are specially designed for grip on s nowy or icy road surfaces. They are not suitable for year-round use. The rubber compound used will wear more quickly on dry, s ummer roads. It is recommended that winter tires are fitted as a complete set to avoid potential handling issues.
Everday Use
All Season
|Tread Type
TREAD TYPETread Type is an important consideration when choosing a tire. There are four main types: Passenger, Highway, All-Terrain and Mud-Terrain.
Passenger denotes a tread that is suitable for normal use, a good all-round tread for normal driving.
Highway is a tread type unique to SUV and truck tires. The tread is optimized for normal everyday driving on paved surfaces. These tires can be driven off pavement, but are not ideally suited for off road traction. Highway tread patterns deliver a quiet ride.
For light trucks and specialty vehicles, All-Terrain tread types provide better off-road traction than standard highway truck tires. There more aggressive tread tends to be less quiet on paved roads. All Terrain tires are suitable for everyday use.
Mud-Terrain treads are specifically designed with wider tread blocks and higher void ratios to gain traction in off-road conditions. Mud Terrain tires can generate higher noise levels and tend to carry lower mileage warranties than other tread designs.
UTQG - Uniform Tire Quality GradeUTQG (Uniform Tire Quality Grade) is made up of three values: treadwear, traction and temperature.
Treadwear is a relative numeric score, based on manufacturer tests, showing how well a tire can be expected to wear compared to other tires. A higher score means a tire could be expected to wear better.
Traction measures the tire's ability to stop a vehicle on wet roads. It doesn't reflect a tire's acceleration, cornering, or hydroplaning performance. Traction grades range from AA (highest) to C (lowest).
Temperature grades the tire's ability to withstand heat build-up, with A being the highest grade and C the lowest.
A - Over 115 mph
B - Between 100 to 115 mph
C - Between 85 to 100 mph
Ride Comfort: Enjoy a quiet, smooth ride but lose some cornering ability.
Treadwear: Get long, uniform wear across your tread pattern but expect less traction in wet conditions.
Low Rolling Resistance: Enjoy improved fuel efficiency but expect less high-speed cornering ability.


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Voluntourism Does More Harm than Good
by Richard Stupart
What could possibly be wrong with helping the unfortunate?
This feels even more the case when we are personally involved in making the difference, rather than throwing coins in a collection tin thousands of kilometers away.
The result has been a boom in tour companies offering voluntourism opportunities in a wide range of destinations, catering to all levels of commitment.
Want to spend weeks building houses in Port-au-prince, or stop in and paint half a wall in a local school somewhere in Southeast Asia? Somewhere out there, a voluntourism outfit has you covered.
And, like many chances to easily do good in the world, the reality is a lot more nuanced.
In the case of orphanage tours to places like Siem Reap in Cambodia, the presence of wealthy foreigners wanting to play with parentless kids has actually had the perverse effect of creating a market for orphans in the town.
A system has emerged in which parents will rent their children out for the day to play with gullible backpackers, creating fraudulent orphanages in response to visitors' demand for them.
Further, many voluntourism outfits that offer the chance to interact with children perform little to no screening of prospective applicants.
The voluntourism dollars of the pedophile are as indistinguishable as those of the legitimate well-wisher — a poorly thought-out commercial relationship with terrible potential consequences to those being volunteered upon.
Are you really contributing?
The difficulties of doing good abroad are not only limited to voluntourism programs that involve children. Even activities as banal as painting walls or building houses are fraught with ethical concerns.
Does the presence of volunteers really contribute to a community's wellbeing, or are outsiders simply doing work that could have helped local breadwinners earn a living?
Are building materials and technical skills sourced locally, to benefit merchants and artisans in the community, or are they simply shipped in from outside?
If your intention as a volunteer is to do good, then these questions matter.
They are also questions that, for the most part, a booming voluntourism industry happily ignores.
There are organizations who engage admirably with these issues and work to design properly reasoned volunteering engagements. Yet for the most part, the machinations of the free market have not been kind to ethical volunteering.
More on CNNGo: The price of volunteering in Thailand
It's still far too easy to hug a third world orphan unchecked, to waste hundreds of dollars delivering presents or inefficiently trying to build houses and execute development plans in which the community being "developed" has been marginally consulted at best.
The roots of much of this unethical behavior and wasteful attempts at doing good lie, in part, in the philosophies underlying many voluntourism organizations.
Anything is better than nothing … isn't it?
The desire of wealthy first-worlders to do good can be treated as a demand for which volunteerism products can be supplied, and that some minor good — a painted wall or a child smiling for a day — is better than no good at all.
This first view — that development needs can be packaged as a tour opportunity and sold for profit — augurs a race to the bottom in ethical behavior.
Volunteer opportunities need to be as convenient (read: short-lived), and emotionally rewarding to the volunteers (read: customers) as possible.
It should come as no surprise then that voluntourism is rarely about the kinds of activities that professional development NGOs undertake.
Flexible service projects that allow wealthy tourists to see the locals smile in exchange for minimal hard work are catnip for traveling narcissists. They are also a product that sells predictably well. Real development be damned.
The second point of view often given in defense of a poorly conceived or exploitative voluntourism project is harder to unpick.
To claim that having volunteers engaging in inefficient and clumsy development projects is better than no such projects at all is an alluring point of view.
It also misrepresents the situation.
In the now cliché case of orphan-hugging, it's manifestly obvious that in many instances the absence of the voluntourism army would be a preferable situation.
Children can go back to their families instead of being pimped out as objects of affection, and are likely to emerge as psychologically healthier adults when not treated as an emotional plaything.
In general, given a choice between spending money to go abroad and engage in a project with a local community for a few weeks, or donating the same amount to an established development organization already present in the area, it should be obvious that staying at home and sending your money instead will almost always be more helpful.
Awareness is raised
That said, the experience of volunteering is not a one-way street entirely focused on the experience of the recipients to the exclusion of all else.
In the process of volunteering, the privileged first-worlder is also being helped — albeit in a less obvious way — towards understanding in very personal terms the lives of the less privileged with whom they share the planet.
It's difficult to measure the value of this first-hand understanding against the wish to help needy communities as efficiently as possible.
Yet opening the eyes of those of us wealthy enough to afford the luxury of travel to the realities of inequality is a necessary first step if longer-term solutions to poverty, housing and food insecurity are to ever be found.
And nothing can bring home the emotional reality of these challenges quite as well as engaging with them for yourself.
There can be no easy decisions when attempting to weigh up how to voluntour, where to voluntour, or whether to voluntour at all.
Nevertheless, there is a world of difference between ill-considered decisions taken for the purpose of stroking a traveler's ego, and subjective decisions to volunteer after properly considering as much of the moral and practical detail of your engagement as possible.
Voluntourism will likely always remain a compromised industry, but that need not necessarily compromise your decisions as a traveler hoping to do good.


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Frank Mitchell
"I guess I wanted to become a Page. The fact that it was history-making didn't really affect me. Because you don't feel or sense history while it's being made. You're just going through the motions of living your life. I mean, and the perspective of what I did and when I did it is really only something I've thought about from a deep historical context in the last few years. I mean, it was five weeks after the Edmund Pettus Bridge incident in Selma, Alabama. That's—I mean, again, why my mother let me go or how my mother let me go is incredible to me."
— Frank Mitchell, August 6, 2008
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Amid much fanfare, including a formal introduction by then-House Minority Leader and future President Gerald Ford, Frank Mitchell became the first African-American Page to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives in the 20th century. Mitchell recalled the warm welcome from House Leaders, Members, and Pages in an era rife with discrimination, and experienced no racial prejudice during his tenure in the House. Mitchell's recollections—many of which focus on his service as a phone Page in the Republican Cloakroom—range from learning relaxation techniques from Congresswoman Frances Bolton of Ohio to attending heated floor debates before the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Like many former Pages, Mitchell believed the opportunity to serve as a Page was a powerful determinant of his success in adulthood.
Frank Mitchell was born on July 18, 1949, in Detroit, Michigan, to Frank Weldon, a Detroit water department employee, and Norma Bush Mitchell, a hospital aide. He was raised by his aunt and uncle, Doris and Henry Van Buren, in Springfield, Illinois, where he attended Iles Elementary School and George Washington Junior High School before enrolling in Feithans High School. While a sophomore, Mitchell, along with four other students from his high school, was selected as a candidate to become the first African-American Page to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives in the 20th century. With the consent of then-Minority Leader Gerald Ford of Michigan, Congressman Paul Findley of Illinois ultimately chose Mitchell for the historic assignment.
Occurring just weeks after state troopers savagely beat peaceful protestors marching for voting rights, in Selma, Alabama, Mitchell's appointment received national attention and press coverage. Fifteen-year-old Mitchell began his term on April 14, 1965—the centennial of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. As a phone Page, Mitchell answered calls in the Republican Cloakroom and took messages for Members, while witnessing many historic moments in the civil rights movement, including the floor debates for the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
After serving as a Page, Mitchell returned to high school in Springfield, Illinois, where he was student council president his senior year. Upon graduation he attended several postsecondary schools, including Western Illinois University, Springfield College (Illinois), and Lincoln Land Community College. From 1970 to 1972, Mitchell worked at the Illinois State Register (Springfield), starting in the newsroom and eventually becoming a reporter. He then took a job at WCCO-TV (Minneapolis, Minnesota), where he worked as a broadcaster and weekend anchor until 1977. Mitchell also worked for BET, INN cable news, and the Omaha Star.
Later employed as a writer and an editor for Northwestern Bell/US West, as deputy director of communication for the Illinois attorney general's office, and as a media relations manager for Ameritech, Mitchell also started his own public relations firm and served as the executive director for Illinois Fatherhood Initiative, a nonprofit organization. Currently a resident of Springfield, Illinois, Mitchell owns and directs a media consulting firm.
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About POC
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116 41 Stockholm
Company reg. no: 556665-5352
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Bank: Nordea Bank Sweden AB (publ)
SE-105 71 Stockholm, SWEDEN
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About POC
POC is a Swedish company with a strong mission to do the best we can to possibly save lives and to reduce the consequences of accidents for gravity sports athletes and cyclists.
POC was founded in 2005 and made its first entry, addressing the ski racing market, at the ISPO trade show where it also introduced its mission. POC's new ideas and solutions to improve ski racing safety, by reducing the force transmitted to the brain and body in case of a crash, gained a lot of attention.
The concepts, technologies, and materials used and implemented for the helmets and body armor were developed in close collaboration with POC Lab; POC's scientific forum that consists of some of the world's foremost sports medicine experts, brain scientists and specialists in spinal cord injuries.
At the Turin 2006 Winter Olympics, US alpine ski racer, Julia Mancuso won the gold medal in giant slalom and pictures of her wearing a POC helmet and goggles were published all over the world. Since then, POC has evolved and developed protection for different categories including freeskiing, snowboarding and mountain bike disciplines.
At the beginning of 2014, POC announced a three-year partnership to become the official helmet and eyewear supplier of Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling team. At the same time, POC established an exclusive partnership with Volvo Car Group to explore new ideas within safety and design.
In 2014, POC announced the launch of AVIP - its first specific road bike range. AVIP stands for Attention, Visibility, Interaction and Protection and is POC's most ambitious initiative to date, promoting safety for road cyclists. To achieve higher levels of performance, and balance the expertise gained from POC Lab in safety and medicine, POC established WATTS Lab. WATTS Lab brings together knowledge from specialists in aerodynamics and is a highly specialized department whose objective is to optimize POC products, allowing the cyclist to go faster, using less energy.
Following the AVIP concept, POC launched Raceday in 2015. Raceday is built on the experiences of the AVIP range and has been further developed to optimize and enhance performance when racing, to give competitive cyclists the most optimal equipment in their quest to win.
POC develops products with constant input and feedback from the team athletes that includes both X Games, Olympic and World Championship medalists. All together, the team athletes have won more than 50 medals in international contests.
The most important part and reason for success are proficient and committed employees. Among the POC staff there is a wide range of experience and perspectives, from industrial, fashion and graphic designers, CAD and polymer engineers to communicators, marketers and ambassadors - all with a huge passion for the activities they develop and market products for.
POC has developed a strong reputation for gravity sports protection and is today established in 25 countries. Throughout the years, POC has received more than 40 prestigious international safety, design, innovation and business awards.


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Nitroglycerine Facts
One thing that always surprised me in cardiac rehabilitation was the understanding of using Nitroglycerin (nitro). I think over the years I saw and heard every way imaginable to ensure nitro tablet wouldn't work if needed. Or the other one is when patients would carry it for years and then not use it when it is most appropriate to use. The take home message is if you are having discomfort that you suspect is heart related use a nitro ASAP.
How Nitro works:
Nitroglycerin dilates blood vessels that supply the areas of the heart where there is not enough oxygen thereby delivering oxygen to the heart tissue that needs it most. The dilation of veins and arteries reduces the amount of blood returning to the heart so that the heart does less work and requires less blood and oxygen. Dilation of the arteries lowers the pressure in the arteries against which the heart must pump. As a consequence, the heart works less and requires less blood and oxygen.
How to store Nitro:
Here is the thing Nitro is a very volatile compound. It breaks down rapidly with light, heat, oxygen, time and exposure to plastic. It is packed in a glass vial because plastic will leach the active ingredient out of it and all you have left is the inert ingredients that hold the tablet together. Therefore don't transfer it to a container that is plastic, don't put a couple in a baggy and put them in your wallet. Yes it is a pain in the butt to carry the bottle everyday, but find a way, or use a metal nitro vial which you can wear around your neck.
Heat will break down the nitro tablets. If you carry your Nitro in your pants pocket every day the heat from your body will gradually make the nitro less potent. What I teach patients is to take a good marker and write on the bottle the date three months from when they started to carry the bottle. That is when it should be considered to replace. Sometimes it can go six months, but if you look at the bottle…hold it up to the light, don't open it…and the tablets are looking powdery or crumbled….then replace the bottle. If you leave them in your pocket and they go through the dryer…time to replace. If you leave them in your car and your car is 100* or more…replace the bottle. That was a common one…"I leave them in the glove box in my car." NO NO NO!
If you have opened the bottle you have exposed the tablets to oxygen. Oxygen breaks down the nitro. Once the bottle has been opened, label the bottle for six months from the time you opened it. Replace the bottle at six months. A story I would frequently hear that would make me cringe would be when a patients loved one or child would say " I poured a couple in a paper cup and have them in my cupboard in case they need one while at my house"…UHG!!!! Won't work sorry!
The bottle is brown to prevent sunlight from destroying the tablets as well. Don't transfer them to any other bottle, there is a reason they come this way.
When to use Nitro:
The most common mistake in using nitro is when patients would tell me the pain wasn't bad enough to use it. The instructions for nitro don't say wait until the discomfort is 9 out of 10, the instructions are to use the nitro if you have heart symptoms that do not go away with rest. This means any heart discomfort, no matter how minor if is present for 5 minutes, would indicate using the nitro. If you wait until you are really in pain, you probably will have damage done to the heart. The point of this drug is to prevent the damage to the heart by improving the blood flow preventing damage from occurring.
- Sit down
- Place one tablet under the tongue – most people experience a burning or tingling feeling under the tongue, a headache, a flushed feeling….If you experience this you should always experience this, as this indicates your nitro is fresh.
- Wait 5 minutes – if the symptoms resolved rest a bit then gradually become active again
- If the symptoms persist use a second nitro table, again wait 5 minutes, if needed take a third 5 minutes later
- If you took a third nitro and still have symptoms call 9-1-1.Try to do some deep relaxing breathing, and thinking try not to panic. It's a good time to use those relaxations skills.
- Chew an adult strength aspirin while you wait for paramedics
One discussion I frequently have with patients goes as follows: You may carry your nitro faithfully for years and never need it, but if and when you do need it, you want it to be fresh so it can work. On the other hand some will need to use occasional nitro. This isn't a bad thing. Your physician prescribed it for a reason. Use it!!!! There are common times when people need one…Exposure to cold air, Exertion that is strenuous, Emotional Stress, and after Eating a large heavy meal. Where the medical community get concerned is if you are requiring 2-3 nitro to clear your symptoms, if you are having more frequent symptoms, or if your symptoms are coming on at rest or waking your from your sleep. The escalation in symptoms should be reported to your physician ASAP.
Keep a log of your nitro use. Put on your log, the date, what you were doing when the symptoms occurred, and how many nitro it took to clear the symptoms. When you have a followup appointment with either your cardiologist or your primary care physician present them with the log. Sometimes we are able to find a pattern, do your symptoms come on at a certain time of day? Thus we can probably adjust medication timing to prevent this. Do they come on with a certain level of exertion? We call this your angina threshold and we watch to see is the threshold improving or worsening. Often through exercise we can improve the angina threshold.
What about long acting nitro?
There are long acting nitroglycerin medications that slowly release nitro into your system throughout the day. These are usually taken during the hours you are up and active. Rarely are they used twice a day, as your body needs a period of time in which it is free of nitro, or else it gets to where the nitro doesn't work as effectively. It is still ok to use the fast acting nitro if you are on this medication.
What about the headache from taking Nitro?
Take a Tylenol. The headache won't kill you but the heart attack might.


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Akamai and Cisco Working Together to Optimise Application Delivery for Enterprise Branch Offices over Hybrid WAN
Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading provider of cloud services for delivering, optimising and securing online content and business applications, today announced plans for future integration of Akamai Unified Performance technology into the Cisco® ISR-AX series of routers.
Both companies intend to co-develop enterprise network offerings, aimed at delivering the world's first enterprise WAN and Internet optimization solution to provide a secure, high-quality end user experience for both public and private cloud applications to all remote offices.
Akamai Unified Performance technology stems from 15 years of engineering and customer experience and brings Akamai's performance and optimisation technology behind the firewall into the branch office. Akamai Unified Performance technology caches and delivers content in-branch through a connection to the Akamai Intelligent Platform. This may be an enterprise's own digital content or other content delivered by Akamai, which consistently delivers 15 to 30 percent of all Web traffic. The Akamai solution is also capable of transparently caching other third-party content from top domains.
The two companies intend to combine the power of Cisco Intelligent® WAN (IWAN), which includes Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) and Application Visibility and Control (AVC), with Akamai Unified Performance to extend the corporate data centre and the Akamai Intelligent Platform into the branch, specifically to offload existing network links and improve performance for web and business critical applications.
IT organisations are under tremendous pressure to meet the growing bandwidth demands of public and private cloud traffic, mobile devices, and guest Wi-Fi and to support the increase in high bandwidth applications like video-based employee training, multimedia product information, corporate web applications, interactive kiosks, and even third-party web content. Cisco and Akamai intend to deliver best-of-breed technology from two industry leaders, enabling customers to significantly offload traffic from their enterprise WAN and Internet links while addressing a series of performance challenges brought on by bandwidth hungry applications and the proliferation of mobile devices. As a result, these customers are expected to be able to control IT costs and avoid massive bandwidth upgrades, all while providing users with a superior experience.
"With the proliferation of public and hybrid cloud architectures, Cisco and Akamai customers face the need to increase bandwidth and deliver business critical applications utilising the Internet as a fast, secure, and cost effective WAN option," said Rob Soderbery, SVP and GM, Cisco Enterprise Networking Group. "We are looking forward to integrating Akamai's exciting new branch capabilities into the industry leading application delivery platform, the Cisco® ISR-AX. With our joint product development plan, Cisco and Akamai have taken a big step toward delivering the optimal branch experience."
The intent of both Akamai and Cisco is to utilise the Internet as a fast, reliable, cost-effective WAN option to address the exploding traffic requirements on corporate networks and deal with the architectural challenges hybrid clouds impose on traditional hub–and-spoke networks.
"Akamai and Cisco share a common vision of improving the speed and reliability of the Internet to provide enterprises with a very cost-effective way to meet the bandwidth and performance needs of branch offices," said Tom Leighton, CEO of Akamai. "Our ultimate goal is to integrate best of breed technology from the two industry leaders in networking and application delivery and enable customers to extend the strength of our platform behind their firewall."
Live presentations from Akamai's Edge 2013 Customer Conference are available at Edge TV.
More information on today's announcement is also available on Cisco's blog and Akamai's blog, and also on Akamai's site. Also, read more about Cisco Intelligent WAN (IWAN).
About Akamai
Akamai® the leading provider of cloud services for delivering, optimising and securing online content and business applications. At the core of the Company's solutions is the Akamai Intelligent Platform™ providing extensive reach, coupled with unmatched reliability, security, visibility and expertise. Akamai removes the complexities of connecting the increasingly mobile world, supporting 24/7 consumer demand, and enabling enterprises to securely leverage the cloud. To learn more about how Akamai is accelerating the pace of innovation in a hyperconnected world, please visit www.akamai.com or blogs.akamai.com, and follow @Akamai on Twitter.
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Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
This release contains information about future expectations, plans and prospects of Akamai's management that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors including, but not limited to, failure of Akamai and Cisco to enter into a definitive agreement with respect to the proposed relationship, the effects of any attempts to intentionally disrupt Akamai's services or network or Cisco's products by hackers or others, the inability of Akamai and Cisco technology or systems to operate together as expected or to continue to be interoperable, lack of market acceptance of the proposed joint solution, the failure of the IWAN optimization market to develop as expected or at all, a failure of Akamai's network infrastructure, and other factors that are discussed in Akamai's Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.


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This report examines campaign finance laws, including those governing the length of the campaign period, funding sources and disclosure requirements, restrictions on contributions and expenditures, and free speech implications of such restrictions, in Australia, France, Germany, Israel, and the United Kingdom.
The comparative summary covers all of the country reports. All the reports focus on campaign finance relating to parliamentary elections, with the French report including some information on the President of the Republic who is elected by direct universal suffrage.
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Australia has compulsory voting. Federal election campaigns are traditionally six weeks. Australia has both public and private funding of political parties and political campaigns, and does not currently restrict the level or source of private political donations (other than via disclosure obligations). Legislation has been introduced into Parliament to reform election funding; however to date such legislation has not been passed. There is no limit on the amount of political advertising although commercial broadcasters are limited on the amount of advertising per se that may be shown.
Official electoral campaigns in France are very brief. Campaign finance is strictly regulated. All forms of paid commercial advertisements through the press or by any audiovisual means are prohibited during the three months preceding the election. Instead, political advertisements are aired free of charge on an equal basis for all of the candidates on national television channels and radio stations during the official campaign. Campaign donations and expenditures are capped. Candidates must appoint an independent financial representative to handle all their financial matters relating to the election. Campaign accounts are audited by a special commission. Candidates whose campaign accounts are certified may be reimbursed up to 50 percent of their expenses by the state if they meet certain conditions.
German election laws and campaign finance laws differ significantly from those of the United States. In Germany, the political parties are tightly run organizations that finance election campaigns, nominate candidates, exact membership dues from their members, and subject members in Parliament to strict caucus rules. The parties receive government funds and are subject to some not very onerous disclosure requirements. The individual candidates or members of Parliament are minor players in these systems.
Political candidates are included in the party groups and candidate lists competing in the general elections for the Knesset (Parliament). Their candidacy is supported by their party, which incurs expenses in promoting them. Candidates, however, also run independent campaigns in their party primaries. Israel's campaign finance laws restrict the identity of donors and the amounts of both donations and expenses. Parties and candidate lists may receive funding from both public and private sources. The restrictions imposed by law are recognized as potentially infringing upon freedom of speech. Constitutional rights in Israel, however, are not considered absolute, and have to be balanced against competing constitutional rights, such as the right of equality.
United Kingdom
Legislation to prevent excessive spending by electoral candidates in the United Kingdom has been in place since 1883. The UK's system of regulating campaign financing focuses on limiting the expenditure of political parties and individual candidates, rather than limits on donations that can be received by these parties and individuals, combined with a transparent reporting system of donations received and election expenditure incurred.
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A huge thanks to all our Smart Aid heroes who have given their time to help local charities in Leeds. Here are a few of them…
Founder and CEO of Ride 25
Provided sales training to a charity that had a direct impact of £7,000 to the charity.
Provided a fantastic set of photos worth £ 500 to Leeds Children's charity for their marketing.
Managing Director at Inc Dot Business Print Solutions
Provided business cards and promotional banners to SmartAid saving nearly £500.
Commercial director at Headland - building great websites
Created the Smart Aid website delivering £xxx of value.
Events coordinator at Radisson
Helped a charity put on an event raising £ 3,500
Support 2.0: Smart-aid brings high value targeted support with an elegant solution built for Charities in the 21st century
I just wanted to say a massive thank you for last Thursday, we both felt a fresh sense of focus and enthusiasm following the meeting. The tempo of the meeting was ideal and kept us on track throughout. I found it was the perfect mix of relaxed enough to open up and feel happy talking about future ambitions while focussed and encouraged a challenge to the ideas. I found it enjoyable and rewarding; even if things were to move no further just the opportunity to bounce ideas off people with James and Chris's level of experience was fantastic.
James and David are onto something big. Big for Charities. Big for society they have designed an elegant solution for high quality support. I think Smart-Aid has the ability to help Charities reclaim the leadership role in helping to create a better society. And, I am pretty excited to back these guys; they have the killer combination of passion and process that will make a huge impact
I would recommend to anyone thinking about volunteering with Smart Aid to just do it!
This is a hugely rewarding experience that increases your horizons, empathy and job satisfaction and allows you to give something back and make a real impact in your local community. This is a great opportunity to advance your professional growth and add experiences to your CV that are outside your normal business world, but show how flexible your skills are.
Initially I was a little nervous about volunteering with Smart Aid as I wasn't confident that i was important enough and was dubious about how much support i could really give with just 4 hours of my time and if it would make any difference. It was really interesting working with AIM and i realised how much knowledge i did actually have so it has definitely improved my confidence in my skills. I was blown away later when i was told how much impact i had had. It's amazing that a few hours of my time could contribute £3,600 to the charity - i really had no idea! I would recommend to anyone thinking about volunteering with Smart Aid to just do it!
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An overwhelming link between employees volunteering and developing a wider perspective about the world around them and their community
We are using community action as a recognised tool for personal development
Volunteering can also help develop key skills vital for leadership and management roles
PwC encourages all employees to volunteer in activities connected to one of its three key CSR areas of focus: education, employability and the environment
People, before they start volunteering, think they are pretty highly skilled. Even so, they score themselves higher after they have volunteered
Volunteering provides a viable alternative to traditional employee development
Community action is at the heart of National Grids CSR Strategy. Employees are encouraged to participate in volunteering activities which match their interests and development needs
Volunteering activities are effective in boosting employee morale, which is particularly important in challenging times
This growing body of research firmly supports the link between volunteering and employee development
We have a target for 65% of our employees to be involved in citizenship this year
I think you can talk yourself out of doing these things, because they do seem an addition to your workload, but what you get in return far exceeds what you have to give out in terms of your time. So if anyone was thinking of volunteering i would say commit to it and go for it, because you get so much back
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Under and by virtue of the power of sale and in accordance with the terms of a certain Deed to Secure Debt from HARVEY ELLIS WILLIAMS, JR., Grantor, to First National Bank n/k/a FNB SOUTH, Grantee, dated September 29, 2006; recorded in Deed Book 422, Page 393-399, APPLING County, Georgia records; there will be sold by the undersigned at public outcry, during the legal hours of sale, before the Courthouse door in APPLING County, Georgia, on the first Tuesday in June, 2011, to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property:
All that tract or parcel of land lying and being in Land Lot No. 364 of the Third Land District of Appling County, Georgia, consisting of 16.11 acres, more or less, being more particularly described as Tracts 2 and 3 on that certain plat of survey by Merlin J. Tomberlin, GRLS No. 2477, dated April 25, 1995, which plat is recorded in the office of the Clerk of Superior Court of Appling County, Georgia, in Plat Book 13,page 529, and incorporated herein for a more full and complete description and all other purposes. This being a portion of property conveyed to Willie Alberta Ellis by deed from Christine Jones dated September 8, 1951, recorded in Deed Book 67, page 333, said county records.
The debt secured by said Deed to Secure Debt and any renewal thereof has been and is hereby declared due and payable in full because of default pursuant to the terms of said debt and the Deed to Secure Debt securing same. Notice has been given of intention to enforce collection of attorney's fees and foreclosure in accordance with the terms of the debt, the Deed to Secure Debt, and as provided by law.
The person that has full authority to negotiate, amend, and modify all the terms of the Deed to Secure Debt with the Debtor is Darnell Stone, FNB South, 198 W Parker St., Baxley, GA 31513, (912) 367-0200. Please understand that the secured creditor is not required by law to negotiate, amend, or modify the terms of the Deed to Secure Debt or Note.
Terms: Cash. Purchaser to pay for title, State of Georgia real estate transfer tax and all taxes that may be due on said real property. Sale is subject to restrictions and easements of record.
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President Barack Obama, who was officially sworn in today for his second term as the nation's 44th president, put training more math and science teachers and taking big steps to boost school safety high on his second-term wish list.
Inaugural addresses are rarely heavy policy speeches, so including these two K-12 initiatives sends an important signal about the priority the president places on preventing another massacre like the one in Newtown, Conn., last month.
"Our journey is not complete until all our children, from the streets of Detroit to the hills of Appalachia to the quiet lanes of Newtown, know that they are cared for and cherished and always safe from harm," Obama told a packed crowd of freezing supporters spreading out from the Capitol Grounds.
Obama's pledge on school safety comes less than a week after his administration released a lengthy list of policy prescriptions to prevent further gun violence. They include new money for states to put safety plans in place, and a major focus on beefing up mental health services, including training teachers to recognize the signs of mental illness and get students the help they need.
New funding to train math and science teachers has been on Obama's to-do list for a while—it was one of the few K-12 policies that the president cited when he accepted his party's nomination for president.
"No single person can train all the math and science teachers we'll need to equip our children for the future," Obama said. It's unclear, however, where the administration will get funding for a new teacher training program.
Some teachers who attended the inauguration said they continue to stand by Obama, even as they have qualms about some of his K-12 policies.
Ken Cowgill, who teachers government and history at Frankfort High School in Ridgeley, W.Va., said he likes Obama—but he doesn't have warm feelings about the Race to the Top competition, Obama's signature K-12 policy.
"I'm not a real big fan of pitting school systems against each other," he said.
Amy Vandersall, who teaches government at Exeter High School in New Hampshire, first met Obama at a house party in her home state, when he was running for his first term. At first, she said, she thought he was too inexperienced to be president. But once she listened to his ideas and his explanation of the country's problems, she was sold.
Four years later, she's happy with Obama overall, but she wishes he hadn't cut funding for the Center for Civic Education, a non-profit organization that sponsored the We the People program, which was aimed at getting students engaged with the U.S. Constitution. She got some of her best materials from the center, she said.
"Whatever you cut is valuable to somebody," she said.
But Kia Henley, an assistant principal at Alcova Elementary School, Gwinnett County, Ga. gave Obama a thumbs-up for giving her state the chance to "revise" the No Child Left Behind Act through a waiver, which allowed her school to move toward a new teacher evaluation and the Common Core State Standards.
Her wish list for the next term? Increased federal funding, and "more pay for teachers," she said.
Photo: President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama wave to the crowd as they walk down Pennsylvania Avenue near the White House during the 57th Presidential Inauguration parade on Monday in Washington. —Charles Dharapak/AP


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The Rapid line of the St. Croix Forge brand is specifically designed with the trotting horse in mind. St. Croix Forge Rapid Plain Steel has an optimal oval shape and a new Lite section of 14x5.
Lite shoes feature the lightest section offered in the whole St. Croix Forge Steel portfolio (14 mm web width x 5 mm thickness). Lite shoes are therefore especially appropriate for Trotting horses, whenever minimal weight is required.
These shoes are also available in Hard Metal and Winter Plain versions.
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MIAMI – Epileptic seizures not only affect humans, but can also happen to dogs and cats.
Ileana Puig will never forget when her dog Kaylee had an epileptic seizure two years ago.
"All of a sudden, I heard a sound and I looked and she was on the floor. It took me a second to realize it was a seizure and I started panicking when I realized what it was," said Puig.
Seizures are just the symptoms," said Dr. Beatrix Nani with Miami Veterinary Specialists. "That is the clinical sign and then we try to break it down to different things that can cause seizures."
Animal seizures can be caused by toxins, such as secretions from Bufo toads or exposure to snail bait. In some cases, an animal may have to be put into a drug induced coma until the toxin wears off. While Bufo toads are more likely seen in South Florida, Poison Control confirms with Channel 4 they have had calls after people have come into contact with Bufo toads in Northeast Florida.
Also, those Poinsettia plants you had over the holidays, they are also toxic to pets and are a common source of seizures.
Seizures in dogs and cats may also be the result of congenital malformations of the brain, metabolic disorders, inflammatory diseases, infections, brain tumors, or a stoke.
"The point is that, with any patient with seizures, we need to go to the bottom of the disease because all of the diseases should be treated differently, completely differently," said Nani.
In some cases, the cause of the seizure is never defined.
"She did have an MRI and the MRI came out clean, so, no, I don't think they have any idea as to why it happened," said Puig. "And even in her litter, as far as I know, she's the only one," said Puig.
For the past two years, Kaylee has been taking an anti-seizure medication and hasn't had an episode.
Seizures can be mild, evidenced by only a small twitch of the face or a limb, or they can be severe, causing the animal to spasm violent and become rigid. A change in behavior may also be a warning sign of a seizure.


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Ed Goslin planned to spend the day taking his daughter to the zoo. Instead, the city man ended up being praised as a hero after helping rescue several people from a burning building in Boston's Mattapan neighborhood.
Ed Goslin planned to spend the day taking his daughter to the zoo.
Instead, the Taunton man ended up being praised as a hero after helping rescue several people from a burning building in Boston's Mattapan neighborhood.
"I climbed up the deck and helped people out the second floor," Goslin said. "I didn't even think about it. I just saw it and reacted."
Goslin, 42, was on his way to Franklin Park Zoo on Monday, Nov. 12, when he got lost and found himself driving past a burning triple-decker home on Blue Hill Avenue.
Before firefighters could arrive, the East Taunton man got out of his car and helped a construction worker and a crew of painters get nearly a dozen people safely out of the building, scaling the outside deck in the process.
The fire moved quickly through the building, causing several injuries. No one was killed.
"We were just driving up the road and saw the smoke," he said. "I saw a lady handing a baby out the window."
After the deck caught on fire, Goslin shimmied down and went to the back of the building, where he and a police officer tried to make their way up a smoke-filled stairwell.
Goslin said he personally helped "three or four" people to safety.
"I knew he could do it," Goslin's 16-year-old daughter, Koreena said. "He's like Spiderman."
Goslin said the painters brought some ladders to the scene, which the Good Samaritans used to reach the upper-level windows.
"Everyone there did something," Goslin said. "It wasn't just one person doing it all."
Fran Goslin said she was proud of her son's heroism.
"He likes to help people without thinking twice of himself," she said.
Boston city officials agreed.
"He definitely was heroic, and we thanked him for his effort," said Jennifer Mehigan, a spokeswoman for Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino.
Last Wednesday, Goslin was presented with a proclamation from Menino.
"Ed Goslin exemplified his duties as an average citizen on Monday, November 12th, 2007 when he used his abilities to help rescue people from a burning building in Mattapan," the proclamation read. "Ed Goslin, along with several others driving by the scene, stopped and helped rescue people from the burning three-decker home; Ed Goslin's bravery and commendable leadership led to the safety of said fire victims; and Ed Goslin exemplifies how a simple act can better serve our city."
Once the fire trucks arrived at the scene, Goslin and his daughter went on their way to spend the afternoon at the zoo.
The East Taunton man said it felt good to be recognized and was happy to help people escape the blaze.
"It was definitely different than going to the zoo," he said.
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