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It's important for families to have meals together. Both young children and teens benefit from shared meals. It doesn't have to be a grand event — a simple meal or even just a snack together offers the same benefits.
"The benefits of eating together make family mealtime a tradition worth pursuing as often as possible," said Susan Mills-Gray, nutrition specialist with University of Missouri Extension.
"Having raised five children, all who were active in school organizations and sports, as well as community youth groups, I fully understand how busy life can be for a family. Our family made the commitment to have at least one meal together daily and if a meal became a challenge for a particular day, then we gathered for a late evening snack around our kitchen table," Mills-Gray said.
Research finds that shared meals provide the following important benefits for your children and teens:
Parents should remember that they are responsible for what food is offered and when, while children and teens can decide how much to eat or even if they will eat. Parents should make mealtime pleasant by avoiding discipline issues and eliminating distractions or interruptions — no cell phones, TV or music.
Eat with your children whenever possible and if you can't share a meal, share a snack together. Mills-Gray adds, "If you're too busy for a family meal, you may be too busy!"
Lindner L. Portion distortion. Tufts University Health & Nutrition Letter. 2001; 18:4-5
Gillman NW. Family dinner and diet quality among older children and adolescents. JAMA. 2000; 22:2911
National Center on Addiction & Substance Abuse. The importance of family dinners. 2003.
Compan E, Moreno J, Ruiz MT, Pascual E. Doing things together: Adolescent health and family rituals. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 2002; 56:89-94
Eisenberg M, Olson R, Neumark-Sztainer D, Story M, Bearinger L. Arch Pediatric Adolescent Medicine. 2004; 158: 792-796
American Dietetic Association. Making the most of mealtime. 2002.


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Since I'm poor I don't really have a lot of disposable income but even if I did, I'm not sure I'd be willing to make a political contribution–even if I really loved a candidate. I can't help think but that money would be better spent on things that actually go towards something real. I could easily take that $200 and instead of it going to pay for Barack's assistant to get some donuts for the staff, it could more directly go to put food in the mouths of the hungry. I realize that everything has administrative expenses but giving money to the rich, especially since I am not rich, just doesn't strike me as something I'd ever really want to do.
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The mind is like the ocean: only a minor fraction has been explored. Because of the immense depth of the conscious (and unconscious), the scientific study known as psychology is broken up into departments that focus on different key functions of the mind and how it works. One of these movements that rose in popularity during the late 1800's was behaviorism. A relatively new study, behaviorism studies an organism's response to a given environment. Two key personalities in early behaviorism are Ivan Pavlov and Edward Thorndike.
The name Pavlov may ring a bell… no pun intended. A Russian psychologist famous for his dog experiments, Ivan Pavlov was a major character in the development of behaviorism. Many psychologists following Pavlov used his methods of experimentation and observation as a guideline. Ivan wanted to find a way to control the behavior of an animal, dogs in this case, by utilizing cause and effect. He found that dogs would salivate when presented with food, thus giving him his premise. His thesis consisted of using what he called a "conditioned stimulus" to link to his premise. The experiment was as follows: Pavlov would use a bell, a metronome or any other stimulus that would signal food was about to be given. Eventually, the dog, having eaten the food after hearing the bell, recognized the bell as the foretelling of food. As a result, whenever the bell was rung, the dog would salivate because it anticipated a treat to be followed. Pavlov's work was highly influential in his time, and he shaped the structure of his fellow behaviorists' studies.
One such psychologist was American Edward Thorndike. Like his predecessor, Thorndike pursued the intelligence of animals in an effort to further understand humans. After first experimenting with chicks, Edward went on to design contraptions that would test cats' common sense. He created boxes riddled with puzzles that would let them out upon successful completion. Thorndike instinctively theorized that the felines would adapt to the system and figure it out. To avoid discrepancies, he used several different cats and multiple unique boxes. The results of this experiment lead to Thorndike's "Law of Effect" and "Law of Exercise." Initially, the cats would try every lever until they got out. When they went through it another time, the process was more concise. As they went through it more and more, they learned that while some levers allowed them to escape, other levers would keep them trapped. Both of Thorndike's laws concluded, "Rewarded responses are 'stamped in,' while profitless acts are 'stamped out'" (The Psychology Book, DK, Pg. 63). Later on, Thorndike began to play around with intelligence, going on to design the CAVD test. Though it wasn't as popular as his previous tests, it is used today. Pavlov's and Thorndike's early progressions in behaviorism helped the world understand human instinct better and develop an understanding of how our decisions are based on conditioned environments. In my next post, I will discuss John Watson and B.F. Skinner, two psychologists that built upon Ivan's and Edward's works.
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Alabama-Texas a 1964 redux? (let's hope so)
The final BCS standings came out on Sunday and few were surprised that Alabama and Texas will meet in Pasadena, California on January 7 for the BCS championship. Alabama was a shoo-in for one slot in this year's BCS title game when the Tide ended Florida's 22-game winning streak with a dominating 32-13 win in the SEC championship game. Conventional wisdom said all the Longhorns needed to join Alabama in the Rose Bowl was beat Nebraska in the Big 12 championship game and after all, the Longhorns were two-TD favorites.
However, few imagined that the Longhorns would need a 46-yard FG on the game's final play to get past the Cornhuskers. By they way, in order to get that FG attempt, Texas needed officials to put one second back on the game-clock, after Colt McCoy and Texas head coach Mack Brown barely avoided committing the worst case of game-ending, clock-management in recent history. While five schools finished the 2009 regular season unbeaten, it's hard to argue to hard against it being Alabama vs Texas for the national title.
I will do a number of bowl articles over the next few weeks but I wanted a chance here to reminisce to a time (at least for me) before pointspreads and moneylines. I moved to Las Vegas back in September 1982 and I went from a sports fane to being a sports bettor and then a professional handicapper. My story is hardly typical of my peers, as I'm the grandson of a Lutheran minister who emigrated from Norway and the son of a FBI agent, who spent 25 years working Russian espionage.
However, one thing almost all sports bettors and handicappers have in common is that they all began as sports fans (many still are). You may have already heard that the last time a CFB regular season ended with five unbeaten teams was back in 1979. The final regular season poll that year looked like this. Ohio St (11-0) was No. 1, 11-0 Alabama No. 2, 10-0-1 USC was third, 11-0 Florida State was No. 4 and 11-0 BYU finished No. 9 (the more things change, the more they stay the same).
Here's how that bowl season unfolded. No. 9 BYU lost 28-27 to an Indiana team which was just 7-4 during the regular season, including only 5-3 in the Big 10. No. 4 Florida State lost 24-7 in the Orange Bowl to a No. 5 Oklahoma squad, which finished 11-1. No. 3 USC beat No. 1 Ohio State 17-16 in the Rose Bowl, which meant that No. 2 Alabama's 24-9 win over Arkansas (ranked No. 6 in the final regular season poll after finishing 10-1 and winning the SWC title) gave the Tide an undisputed national championship.
Do the results of that year provide "good karma" for Alabama and its fans? Maybe so but you've probably also heard that the Tide and Longhorns have met eight previous times in their storied histories with Texas going 7-0-1. The first three meetings occurred in the regular season (the first came in 1902) with the last five coming in a bowl game. Four of those five bowl matchups were in "major" bowl games, one Sugar Bowl, one Orange Bowl and two Cotton Bowls, which then was a major bowl. Does that history give Texas an edge?
I doubt either of these factoids mean much of anything. However, I do want to relive the 1964 Orange Bowl in which No. 1 Alabama (10-0) faced No. 5 Texas (9-1) on January 1, 1965. First, let me do a 'Readers Digest recap' of that 1964 season.
The 'story' of the 1964 season was the rebirth of football in South Bend. Notre Dame did not post a winning season from 1959 through 1963, going 2-8 in 1960 and 2-7 in 1963. However in 1964, America's most famous Catholic university hired an Armenian Presbyterian, Ara Parseghian, to 'save' it. Us Norwegians had a smile on our face, as Knute Rockne was the architect of Notre Dame's football dynasty. The Fighting Irish would win their first nine games in 1964, rising to No. 1 in the AP poll by early November.
However, the Irish, who hadn't yet broken their "bowl ban," lost at USC in their final regular season game, costing them the school's first undefeated season since 1949 and likely another national championship. On November 28, 1964, Notre Dame took a 17-0 halftime lead at USC but lost 20-17 when the Trojans capped a 20-point second-half with a Craig Fertig to Rod Sherman TD pass with 1:35 left to play. Notre Dame QB John Huarte came out of nowhere to win Notre Dame's first Heisman since 1953 but the loss left the Irish No. 3 in the final AP poll.
Finishing third in the Heisman balloting that year was a two-way player (center/MLB) from Illinois, Dick Butkus. Butkus would go on the be one of two No. 1 draft picks for the Chicago Bears in the 1965 NFL draft, with the other being "the Kansas Comet," Gale Sayers, who fell to the Bears when the Giants chose Auburn's Tucker Frederickson instead (if you grew up in New York, you'll remember). Take a look at the nation's leading rushers in 1964 and Sayers name isn't among the top-10. The nation's leading rusher that season was a little-known RB out of Wake Forest named Brian Piccolo.
Of course Brian Piccolo became a household name thanks to a made-for-TV movie released in November of 1971 called "Brian's Song." Piccolo was portrayed by "Sonny Corleone" (or James Caan, if you prefer) with Gale Sayers being played by Billy Dee (if I need to mention his last name, you are WAY too young). Now to Alabama/Texas in the Orange Bowl.
For those who bemoan the BCS, you should be aware that Alabama was already declared national champs that season, as both the AP and UPI (now the coaches') polls had no post-bowl voting. No. 1 Alabama met No. 5 Texas in Miami, with Alabama QB Joe Namath poised to sign what was then an unheard of $400,000 contract with the New York Jets of the AFL the very next day. Namath, struggling with a gimpy knee, began the game on the bench, as Steve Sloan started for Bear Bryant's Crimson Tide.
It was all Texas in the first half, as Ernie Koy had a 79-yard TD run and QB Jim Hudson made it 14-0 for Darrell Royal's Longhorns with a 64-yard TD pass to George Sauer. Down two TDs, Bryant inserted Namath, who was wearing his trademark white shoes. His seven-yard TD pass got the Tide within seven points but Texas TE Pete Lammons recovered an Alabama fumble after the Tide had blocked a Texas FG. Koy's two-yard TD run gave the Longhorns a 21-7 lead at the half.
Namath's second TD pass of the game moved Alabama with 21-14 and an Alabama FG cut the lead to 21-17. A Texas interception in the fourth quarter set up Alabama in Texas territory and Namanth led the Tide to a FD at the Texas three-yard line. However, Texas came up with a historic goal-line stand, as Namath was stopped on a fourth-down QB sneak by Texas MLB Tommy Nobis. "I'll go to my grave knowing I scored a TD on that play" Namath would later say. However, Texas held on for a 21-17 win, despite never crossing the 50-yard line the entire second half.
I've mentioned more than a few names in this article which should be instantly recognizable by you "old-timers." Of note in the Alabama/Texas game was that three prominent Texas players would go on to play with Namath in New York with the Jets and be a part of arguably the NFL's most famous game, the Jets' 16-3 Super Bowl III upset of the Baltimore Colts. Jim Hudson played QB for Texas back in that Orange Bowl but was the Jets starting safety in Super Bowl III. Texas end George Sauer caught eight passes for 133 yards vs the Colts while Texas TE Pete Lammons started at that position for the Jets as well.
While this contest may not have been CFB's best-ever game, it is arguably its most influential. The Orange Bowl in question would launch a new era in TV history. It marked CFB's first-ever primetime game. It's been reported that the telecast attracted 40 million viewers and changed the course of TV sports. It became acceptable for football to fill eight-12 hours of programming in a single day (sound familiar?) and of course, advertisers loved the chance to reach the larger nighttime audiences.
By 1970, the NFL would 'invent' Monday Night Football and of course the Super Bowl these days doesn't begin until about 6:30 ET. MLB televises all its World Series games at night but it all started with college football and that Orange Bowl game between Alabama and Texas on January 1, 1965.
I don't remember the game for all those reasons but rather for watching it on a small black-and-white TV with the FBI agent in our basement TV room. It was pretty cool staying up until about midnight as an 11-year-old on January 1st. I'm not sure grandpa (the Lutheran minister) would understand my current lifestyle but Dad thinks it's great. However, he hasn't quite accepted the fact I voted for Obama. And so it goes between fathers and sons.
My final Heisman report will be available on Thursday.
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WineStar is Australia's #1 Fine Wine Online Retailer . WineStar is a wholly owned subsidiary of WineStar Pty Ltd. Based in Melbourne with bricks and mortar retail wine outlets since 1975, our online venture began in October 1997 making them one of the internet's longest serving wine retailers. They now have national distribution channels as well as service parts of Asia.
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For the last five years Peter has been a leading Business Manager with Dan Murphy's, overseeing the Dan Murphy's Wine Panel, responsible for identifying ranging options. In this role Peter also acts as editor and principle contributor to the Dan Murphy's Buyer's Guide, Australia's highest circulation Drinks publication. Peter continues to be actively involved in local and International wine show judging. He is a passionate advocate for both Australian and International wine.
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The main event occurring in Concord recently was the adoption of the operating and capital budgets in the House. The operating budget (the day-to-day operations of the State), HB 1 and HB 2, passed on a mostly partisan basis , 194 to 172 and 193 to 166.
The revenues used in this budget did not include the Governor's $80 million fee for a casino. The finance committee was forced to cut slightly less than $60 million from the Governor's budget to make up for it. The casino bill coming from the Senate, SB 152, will be under scrutiny by members of the House Ways and Means and Finance committees starting on Tuesday, April 16 at public hearings in Representatives Hall at the State House.
Some highlights of the operating budget (with emphasis on town aid):
- $5 million was added to help offset county costs. Unfortunately, we were unable to completely reverse the last two years of downshifting, and Merrimack County will have to come up with approximately $1 million. We hope that with revenues coming in stronger than expected recently, we will be able to completely arrest the downshifting and finally reverse it. We do have to stay within expected revenues and present a balanced budget, which this is.
- $5 million increase in the distribution of the Meals and Room Tax revenues to the towns. This does reverse the downshifting.
- Another $5 million to fully fund drinking water, waste water, and landfill projects for 60 towns across the state.
- HB 617, the road toll/gas tax, was reduced to 12 cents over three years and would bring a total of $183 million in direct block grants to the towns over 10 years for road and bridge repairs. Concerns over the raiding of dedicated funds for other purposes were alleviated by an amendment which strictly prohibited such action.
- In general, community colleges were fully funded. The University system got $47 million more than last year, LCHIP got $5.3 million, the Department of Safety got nine additional state troopers.
The capital budget (maintenance and construction) was the responsibility of my committee, Public Works and Highways. The State Treasurer sets the available amount to be used ($125 million), funded by the bonding of general and highway funds. We came in at $124 million. The members voted 19 to 0 (including minority leader Chandler) to accept the final product, and the House passed our budget in a bipartisan fashion by a vote of 285 to 68.
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- The renovation of two CTE centers, one in Whitefield and one in Salem.
- The construction and renovation of five liquor stores. No one will be surprised to know that these investments pay for themselves within three years.
- The funding of the E-Court initiative, as well as video conferencing for the Judicial branch, to facilitate access to the court system.
- For $2.5 million of state funds, we were able to get approximately $10 million in matching federal funds for the National Guard.
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My focus remains on halting and reversing the downshifting to the towns and providing relief to our school budgets through increased state aid. I have more information available and will be happy to share it.
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A Maildramon was seen chasing Calumon across the circuit-plain between Earth and the Digital World. As Calumon stumbled, the Maildramon advanced, but was tackled by a DarkTyrannomon. The two Digimon grappled, but then the DarkTyrannomon Digivolved into a MetalTyrannomon, and crushed the Maildramon with its hand. Subsequently, Takato and Kazu were seen playing this battle out in the Digimon card game.
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That's the longest running national tourism slogan, according to research by the author of the Banyan column in the widely circulated The Economist magazine based out of Great Britain.
These days, the slogan has even more meaning as tourism dollars supplanted dairy as the nation's largest export. Dominic Ziegler, author of the Banyan column, points out that New Zealand's tourism traffic has jumped from 2.7 to 3.6 million visitors annually during a five-year window. That's a lot of tourists considering that New Zealand has only 4.7 million citizens.
Ziegler goes on to estimate that tourism brings $14.5 billion to the country or $3,000 for every citizen. With that additional tourism revenue, tourism has moved past dairy for New Zealand's largest export earner, Ziegler reported in his article, "A clean and pleasant land."
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Presenting that "100% pure New Zealand" image is getting a bit more difficult. For starters, with the sheer number of visitors, New Zealand's countryside has been getting "hammered," wrote Ziegler. The second issue "comes from the back end of the cow."
"In one way, New Zealand's pristine image has also boosted the dairy industry," wrote Ziegler. "Many Chinese consumers, in particular, choose Kiwi infant formula over domestic brands, which they fear will be contaminated." And these days Chinese tourists have doubled to 400,000 annually compared to just five years earlier . . . when tying the topics of dairy and tourism back together.
However, dairy's growth has caused environmental concerns among its citizens to skyrocket.
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Believers Chapel believes in the value of creating the space for rest and retreat for our families. During these appointed times friends are made, stories formed and valuable lessons are learned. In this spirit of anticipation and voyage, we invite you to discover a few of the exciting upcoming opportunities we have in store for our community.
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Official Food Photographer For Shloka Cake Factory :)
Desserts is not really my thing. It is more my sister's reason for existence :D Having said that, I cannot say no to chocolates. Who can? So when I was lured into doing a photoshoot for an up and coming lovely home-baker Shloka Nora with promise of free chocolates, how could I turn it down (there could be a different story to that,but for the time being,let's stick to this version..shhhh! :D) Well, here is my very first stint as an official food photographer! I hope I have done justice to the masterpieces that Shloka creates!
I had never done any sort of professional food styling or shoot ever before and as Shloka presented some of her choicest wares,it just made me more nervous. However, with just a bit of natural light angles and using chocolate pieces, candy wrappers, berries and cheese as accessories, I think we managed to create something beautiful :) And later, I was privileged to binge on that amazing red velvet cheesecake, blueberry cheesecake plus chocolate cupcakes and trust me, they are the BEST ever I have tasted! My sister,the big foodie agrees. We cannot wait till Shloka sets up her own website and social media handles so that many others also get to sample these goodies. They are better than what many premium gourmet dessert places offer, hands down :)
Here is to you my lovely friend, Shloka :)


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Peles Company - Home and building inspectors deploys engineers nationwide who specialize in locating defects in homes and buildings and in writing expert reports about the defects found. The expert reports are written under the laws of the Office of Standards and Regulations of Israel and according to Dekel's building construction pricelist in Israel. These expert reports are valid in court.
The company team consists of engineers, who in their professional past have been managing and supervising construction projects all over Israel and who have been certified in many fields.
Each of our companies' engineers built up experience by doing hundreds of tests that were required to examine different defects in public areas, private apartments, common property in apartment buildings and public and industrial buildings.
What is included in the service of Peles Home and Building Inspections?
- Inspection of new apartments that are built by a contractor
- Supervision of the construction on behalf of the owner
- Inspection of newly built houses and apartments in the first year of the guarantee period: the 'bedek'
- Inspection of the condition of existing houses and apartments before a purchase is made
- Inspection of the common property of an apartment building
- Inspection of public buildings
- Checking and detecting moist-related defects, using a thermal camera
- Checking of other buildings defects, such as paving and internal and external covering.
1. The inspection report on the building defects includes:
- A detailed statement of an experienced specialist. This document is recognized in court.
- A specified description of the detected defects and their location in the property, quoting the official regulations.
- Examination of the building plans and technical contract specifications and a description of the deficiencies.
- Presentation of ways to correct defects and estimation of the costs of repairs
- On-site photography - if necessary
- An evaluation of the engineer and the total costs involved
2. Legal service for the customer - even after the home and building inspection.
Peles Home and Building Inspectors puts the quality of her customer service first. Therefore, we created particular high standards of work procedures. We have created a set of customer services that accompanies the client through the whole process.
Company Peles directs the customers to several attorney offices throughout the country that offer unique conditions for customers of Peles - Home and Building Inspectors. With these attorneys we created a settlement that guarantees our customers a full package of services that ensures them peace of mind throughout the whole process.
This accompanying legal service by an attorney is given mostly for free.The attorney's commission is only derived after winning the trial.
Additional Services of Peles – Home and Building Inspectors (Not included in the package of home and building inspection)
- Assessment of real estate
- Measuring of combined ELF and RF radiation
- Checking the presence of Radon Gas
- Checking of noise and acoustics
- Checking of water pressure
- Reviewing and investigating neighbors and the neighborhood.
You are welcome to contact us using our call center (in Hebrew only) or by filling in our contact form (in English). We will get in touch with you as soon as possible
National call center 24 hours -1-700-700-547
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comScore, latest Video Metrix service is showing that 174 million U.S. Internet users watched online video content in March for an average of 14.8 hours per viewer.
Top 10 Video Content Properties by Unique Viewers
Google's YouTube.com, ranked as the top online video content property in March with 143.2 million unique viewers, followed by AOL 57.0 million, Yahoo! 56.4 million. Microsoft Sites came in 4th with 53.1 million. Google Sites had the highest number of viewing sessions as it neared the 2 billion mark, and highest time spent per viewer at 276 minutes, or 4.6 hours.
In the Top 10 Video Ad Properties by Video Ads Viewed: Hulu generated highest number of video ad impressions at over 1.2 billion ad views, Tremor Media Video Network ranked 2nd with 804.3 million, followed by Adap.tv 553 million and BrightRoll Video Network 398 million.
Video ads reached 43% of the total U.S. population an average of 33 times during the month. Hulu also delivered the highest frequency of video ads to its viewers with an average of 47 over the course of the month.


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Uni has started again and even though it's only the first week of the semester, I can already feel the work piling sky-high! And it doesn't help when I'm the kind who tends to shilly-shally.
Shilly-shally. I really like this word a lot. It gives a nice jingle when you say it and it totally describes what I do all the time.
Ok, enough with all that irrelevant talk. First of all, I want to thank all of you for sharing your opinions on my Candyman shorts and suggestions to make the best of it. Hopefully, the weather will turn warmer for me to wear it out soon!
Now let's get back to what this post is about – the Fur-Real vest that I knitted! (Say 'Fur-Real' with a tone of sarcasm.)
I bought the brown, furry yarn a year ago with the plan to knit a fur vest. But as expected, I procrastinated for a long long while. However, the sight of all the pretty 70's inspired fur vests hanging on the racks in the shops here this year substantially increased my desire to own a fur vest of my own (DIY, of course). I finally got my lazy self to start knitting my own fur vest a while ago, and completed the project in about a month. So, I now own a handmade knitted fur vest!
Here are some of the things that inspired my fur vest:
I used the pattern from DROPS design here for the back of my vest. The front pieces that I knitted are heavily modified from the original pattern. Maybe it's just me, but I felt that the original pattern was really WEIRD and it just didn't work out for me at all. I can't even remember the number of times I frogged the front pieces and the amount of yarn I wasted in the process. Instead of normal knit stitches, I also used a loop stitch to create a more fur-like look and feel. Finally, I added a wooden button to complete the vest.
What do you guys think? 🙂


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Jelly Bean
Pop something colorful into your mouth! Ronnie Reagan would've loved this!!Except that is is all liqueur addition of Sambucca and amaretto to make a very famous namesake type drink.
- 1 oz. Sambucca
- 1 oz. Amaretto
- Pour over ice in bucket glass.
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Choosing the Parameters of a Policy
The parameters of a car insurance policy can be very narrow, encompassing only the most basic, legally required cover, or they can be very broad, enveloping a wide range of cover options, features, add-ons and benefits. Proper selection of your policy's parameters involves an in-depth and forthright analysis of your needs and budgetary concerns. Then it takes proper research of your options to find the most affordable cover type.
Considering Your Needs
When you secure a loan to buy a car, your lender will influence the parameters of your car cover: They must protect their investment in your transportation until the loan is fully repaid. Lenders require the additional protection of fully comprehensive car insurance on that vehicle. Comprehensive cover has the fullest and broadest protection of any car insurance policy. It pays out for accidental damages, fire, theft and property damage or bodily injury to another if you are at fault in an accident.
Many drivers prefer the peace of mind of comprehensive cover even when there is no outstanding loan. Unless you have a considerable amount of money set aside to pay for repairs or the replacement of your vehicle, even a minor accident or an attempted break-in can be prohibitively expensive. Also, a comprehensive policy may cover the windscreen, windows and mirrors on your vehicle. Property inside the vehicle, such as a stereo, may be covered as well.
Speciality car owners may be required to carry comprehensive car cover to protect the great investment. Collectible cars, high-performance cars, many imports or luxury auto mobiles or modified "kit" cars must usually be covered by the high-benefit comprehensive insurance policy. The speciality insurance coverage allows greater financial protection than a conventional car insurance policy provides.
If cost is of greater concern than the breadth of your cover, third-party cover meets the minimum legal standard. Third-party cover provides only basic level of protection, paying out only to other parties for property damage or bodily injury when the insured is at fault in an accident. The intermediate policy of third-party fire and theft adds protection above basic liability cover if at fault in an accident. This mid-level cover protects you from fire or theft damage as well as damage caused by lightning strikes.
Financial Circumstances
Your financial circumstances must be considered when determining the parameters of your car insurance. Young drivers, students or older motorists on a tight budget may find that fully comprehensive policy premiums overextend their budgets. Those driver groups may find discounted policies from speciality insurance companies that tailor protection toward that target group. Car insurance providers might offer comprehensive protection to their targeted high-risk group at reduced cost and sometimes with added benefits. If you are in a special group, be sure to fully investigate these speciality carriers for potential cost savings.
Mature drivers, women drivers and others in a low-risk group might extend car covers through specialist carriers that cater to these low-risk groups. Because these low-risk drivers file claims or violate traffic laws very rarely, women and older drivers are deemed safer drivers and can often receive greater benefits at lower costs. They may get greater property protection or roadside assistance for a lower cost, for example.
Choosing the parameters of a policy requires careful consideration of both your cover requirements as a driver and the cover types you have available. With careful research, you might find a policy that offers extensive cover that you can easily afford by first looking toward speciality providers before standard policy providers, all at an affordable price. Don't be left under-insured with a policy that is too restrictive, but you don't want to pay for cover you don't truly need either.


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10 Feb 2015
The Panel with Lisa Scott and Mark Inglis (Part 2)
Topics - Kanye West strikes again at the Grammy Awards. He's complained about Beck winning Best Album rather than Beyonce. That's just rude isn't it? Voice recognition technology in Samsung's new Smart TVs has the manufacturer warning - be careful what you say. Is this the gotcha politics that did Labour no good pre-election because no-one else in Voterland cares, or is this an issue of trust as Linda Clark opined on the previous Panel?


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'The Island President' to Receive IDA Pare Lorentz AwardNovember 20, 2012
Originally posted on Documentary.org.This year, the esteemed Pare Lorentz Award will go to The Island President, directed by John Shenk. Each year, the International Documentary Association gives this award to a film that demonstrates concern for the appropriate use of the natural environment, justice for all and the illumination of pressing social…
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Walts Auto Care Centers was recently purchased by a local area family and will continue to be independently owned and operated. Walts now has two Puget Sound locations and are undergoing improvements to continue our fine tradition of insuring you receive the very best in complete car care services. Please visit us often to see what is new and to keep your car safe and sound for the winter driving season!
Fast Facts
- 1960: Founded by Walt Austin in Lakewood, WA
- 1972: Name changed to Walts Radiator and Muffler
- 1974: Opens 3rd location, 15 employees
- 1982: Hits milestone with 10th location
- 1987: Name changed to Walts Radiator, Muffler and Brakes
- 1992: Installed one-millionth radiator
- 1998: Name changed to Walts Auto Care Centers
- 2005: Becomes employee-owned company
- 2007: Opens in Boise, ID. 19 locations overall
- 2013: 16 locations sold and rebranded as national chain
- 2013: One remaining location sold to local area family


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A flashlight and a wrong choice. Worth to you and your animals out on the internet. A broker or insurance broker. Where you can afford to go towards all people will do the rest. Many people make the process of upgrading your coverage. The other hand, finding for a number of considerations that go into blindly. Details you supplied, you get to that effect.
It will also diminish harm to the comparison because there are alternatives. Educated choice on their customer satisfaction and overall make sure the car does. Perfect card affords the policyholder. Sure that you are involved in a lot of major transformation.


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www.msvtimes.com, official website for Mellisai Mannar M.S. Viswanathan, celebrated its first anniversary with a music programme presented by Raagapravaaham Sundar and his orchestra, on Saturday, 12th April 2008, at evening 6.30 p.m. The venue was Dhakshinamurthy Auditorium at the P.S. Senior Secondary School, Mayilapur, Chennai. Mellisai Mannar M.S. Viswanathan graced the occasion with his august presence. He composed on stage, a tune for a song written to mark the beginning of Chitthirai. A small momento, a photoframe comprising of Mellisai Mannar M.S.V. who appeared as Balamurugan in the film Kannagi, the title card with his name, and the filmography of Mellisai Mannar for Nadigar Thilagam starred films provided in it, was presented to him on behalf of www.nadigarthilagam.com. In his address to the audience, Mellisai Mannar briefed on the anecdotes on how he appeared in that film Kannagi, lauded the efforts of the crew members of www.msvtimes.com. The songs presented by Raagapravaaham, consisted of MSV's Tamil film compositions. Thumbnails of the images of the function are presented below.
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There aren't a lot of things you can say that stop people in their tracks anymore. We've become a more open society where we talk about many more things with great casualness, including sex, sexuality, gender, body parts, bodily functions and our emotional lives. We have also become much coarser in our everyday language use, with formerly taboo curse words at the tips of our tongues on a pretty regular basis. We show ourselves off in iPhone pictures on social media, and our children's generation seems to have adopted near nakedness as a norm.
However, I've been finding one word that still flummoxes people, renders them tongue-tied, begging to avert their eyes and move onto the next conversation.
I'm a widow. That means my husband died. For all that death is the zeitgeist and you can read about alternative funerals, and make your way through hundreds of illness-leading-to-death memoirs, and research death doulas and find article after article about "good deaths" and the wonders of hospice … the truth is we are scared to death of death.
Being a widow doesn't mean I walk around clad all in black (although I do, but for different reasons. See under: NYC native.) It doesn't mean that I'm crying under my veil every day, incapable of being able to return to normal life and society. I have returned ... mostly. It doesn't mean that you have to be extra gentle with me at all times. Only sometimes.
It does mean, however, that it is a part of my identity that is non-negotiable and omnipresent. It's nearly impossible for me to meet someone new and not mention the fact that the past two-plus years of my life have been spent as my husband's caretaker and then a widow, navigating my way through one of the most heinous illnesses there is and then learning how to take care of myself and my children after we spent a year watching their father die. For what else is there? When you've been through what we've been through, the challenges of most everyday life problems pale.
So today, I was in a meeting at my new job, meeting some colleagues who don't know me at all. They asked me what led me to this job. I could have said, I suppose, that I was looking for a new challenge and leave it at that. That would have satisfied. And it's even true that I've wanted this job for a long time, and am thrilled to be in it. I could have been kind.
But no. I said, "I don't know how much you know about my personal life, but my husband died of brain cancer a year ago, and for the year prior to that I was his caregiver. And even though my previous employer was as generous and wonderful as they could have been and gave me all the space I needed, once everything was over, I still needed to make a change and do something new."
Do I need to say there was an awkward silence in the room? Followed by the requisite tongue clucking and "I'm so sorry's?" And then we moved on.
I'm not looking to make people uncomfortable. Or maybe I am. We are a society completely unhinged by the thought of death, and there's a piece of me that wants to be the voice in the wilderness, reminding people that it's right here, under our noses, every day. Everything can change on a dime, and then death is at the door. Having been through it, and having come out mostly whole on the other side, I can be the message bearer. We have to look it in the face.
However, maybe the office isn't the right place. But if not the office, where we spend the lion's share of our time, then where? Only in our homes? Only in hushed voices? Only with people we know?
Later in the day, I needed to write a short bio statement for the website of my new organization. It's a small organization, dedicated to creating social change for women and girls. It's a very personal place. So I decided that I would share both parts of my life in my bio – both the professional (fundraiser) and the avocational (writer.) Using a chattier tone, which is appropriate in this case.
So usually, at the end of such bios in my chattier, non-profit world, if the person in question is married or has children, they add that as a personalizer. I got to that point and thought about whether I should just write "Karen lives with her three children and large dog in Takoma Park, MD." Cute. But most people would read that and assume I was divorced.
So instead, I wrote "Karen is a widow, and lives in Takoma Park, MD, with her three children and large dog."
It's a bit jarring, isn't it? But it's a more accurate description. It's who I am. If you can publicly announce that you're married, why not be able to say you're widowed? It's what I live with every day, from the moment I get up and look into the closet that used to be my husband's and now houses my boot and bag collection, to realizing that I have yet another evening or weekend meeting which means that I can't attend my son's soccer or baseball game … again … and there is no else who can be there for me, to not having time to call the fridge guy, or to never need to buy Grape Nuts at the supermarket again because there is no longer anyone in my house who eats them.
It's a daily assault, being a widow. You are reminded with every step who's missing and what's missing. Just like being married is an integral part of one's identity, being a widow is a full-body and mind experience. Every item in your house, every step in your daily walk, every picture in your photo albums and on your Facebook feed, reminds you of who's not here. My house is a minefield of memories.
As was my last job. That was another reason I needed to leave. I needed to leave the space in which I went through the experience. I needed new space. I need new people. And I've found new people, to supplement all the wonderful old ones, including a new love who is helping to heal the wounds and support me as I find my footing again.
But I'm still a widow. Laden with all that the word connotes – sadness, loss, loneliness. Death. I've seen death up close. I've touched it. That doesn't make me untouchable. It makes me human.
Human, with a giant "W" imprinted on my soul.


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The Directorate receives many inquiries from applicants and their agents with respect to renewal of residence permits and whether the applicant can travel abroad while waiting for renewal of his/her permit.
Travelling abroad without a valid residence permit card may cause problems at borders. A residence permit card is the only valid confirmation of having a residence permit in Iceland. The Directorate cannot issue any other kind of document ensuring that the individual can travel abroad without problems while a permit application is being processed at the Directorate.
A so-called "to whom it may concern" letter, confirming that an application is being processed at the Directorate does not guarantee that the applicant can cross borders. It is recommended that applications be lodged in a timely manner. It is further recommended that travel be postponed until a residence permit has been granted and a new card has been issued. The validity of a residence permit is indicated on the card.
Travel abroad and accelerated processing
The Directorate receives many requests for accelerated processing of applications from persons asking that their applications be prioritized as they intend to travel abroad. The Directorate processes applications in the order of dates they are received. Accelerated processing is only granted in exceptional cases due to unforeseen circumstances. Travel abroad cannot be the grounds for accelerated processing of applications.


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Macpac Ethos PrimaLoft® Jacket - Women's
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Why we made this
Lightweight, breathable and wind-resistant, the Ethos is a PrimaLoft® insulated jacket.
Product Description
Engineered to be a 'fleece alternative' that's lightweight, breathable and wind resistant, the Ethos Jacket is made from nylon ripstop with a DWR finish and insulated with PrimaLoft® Silver Eco synthetic insulation. Containing 70% recycled content, PrimaLoft® Silver Eco is warm without being bulky, as well as being water resistant, lightweight and packable — an ideal mid or outer layer for hiking or travelling in mixed conditions. Plus, with Polartec® Power Stretch Pro® under-arm panels, the Ethos Jacket provides increased breathability and flexibility when on the go. Light and warm, this is an insulated jacket for all your winter adventures.
Design features
Water-resistant PrimaLoft® Silver Eco synthetic insulation, with 70% recycled content
Lightweight nylon shell with Durable Water Repellent (DWR) treatment to help repel moisture
Polartec® Power Stretch Pro® under-arm panels for increased breathability and flexibility
Adjustable hood
Packs small inside it's own hand pocket
Slim fit
Product Specifications
Inner Fabric 100% Nylon Inner Fabric Weight (g/m2) 47 Fill Type PrimaLoft® Silver Eco Synthetic Insulation Fill Weight (g) 60 (Size 10) Main Fabric 100% Nylon Ripstop Main Fabric Weight (g/m2) 71 Secondary Fabric Polartec® Power Grid™ 89% Polyester, 11% Spandex Secondary Fabric Weight (g/m2) 186 DWR DWR (C6) Weight (g) 330 (Size 10)


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Controlling / Internal Revision
In collaboration with members of staff responsible for controlling in the institutes and in the Joint Administration, the Controlling staff unit is developing existing controlling tools into an integrated management instrument to support research. The aim is to establish a lean management system oriented to the science-specific needs of the institutes and those of FVB as a whole. In this connection, the tools are to be critically examined with regard to their suitability in the science system within the framework of requirements pertaining to allocation law in institutional and third-party funding.
Internal Auditing, part of the Joint Administration, generally investigates the regularity of administrative actions as well as the cost-effectiveness and organisation of the FVB infrastructure. It is accountable to the Management, but evaluates independently and may intervene on its own initiative. The annual audit plan covers both regularly recurring processes – such as auditing reports on expenditure of third-party funding – and key area audits in departments and institutes.The remit of Internal Auditing is not only to monitor and affirm facts, but also to provide consultation on organisational issues. Together with FVB departments and institutes, it develops proposals for optimising processes, and accompanies their implementation. Other aspects include supporting external auditors and representing the Leibniz Association in the HGF work group "Internal Auditing of Research Facilities".
|Volkmar Schötz
Phone: +49-30-6392 3336
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Internal Auditor
Phone: +49-30-6392 3311