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I currently have...
a computer at home with internet access.
a computer at home with no internet access.
no computer at home and no internet access.
I would rate my skill in using a word-processing program as...
high—I have excellent word-processing skills.
average—I have good word-processing skills.
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I would rate my knowledge and use of email as...
high—I use email daily.
average—I use email weekly.
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I am good at problem-solving technical difficulties on the computer.
I am okay at problem-solving technical difficulties on the computer.
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If instructed to download a software program, I would...
feel confident. I have downloaded software many times before and require no instruction.
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I have sent an email with an attachment at least one time before and should have no problem doing it again.
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2-5 hours a week.
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When asked to convert a file to a "rich-text" format in a word-processing program, I would...
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- Shares of General Electric are down 4.26% at $18.21 as selling continues following Monday's release of the company's turnaround plan.
- GE shares have fallen more than 10% since the plan was released.
Shares of General Electric are seeing follow-through selling on Tuesday, trading down 4.26% at $18.21 a piece. The losses come after shares tumbled more than 7% on Monday in response to the company's turnaround plan.
CEO John Flannery doesn't seem to be too worried about the selling on Wall Street.
"I'm not trying to run the company for the reaction on Monday and Tuesday or Wednesday of this week," he told CNBC's Squawk on the Street. "We have a long-term plan."
GE announced it was slashing its dividend by 50% and implementing other cost-cutting measures to turn things around. Shares had slumped about 35% this year before Monday's slide. More than $100 billion in market value has been wiped out this year.
In addition to its cost-cutting measures, GE forecast full-year 2018 adjusted earnings of $1 to $1.07 a share, well below the $1.18 that Wall Street was expecting. It also said it expects revenue growth of 0% to 3% in 2018 and that it will target 2% to 4% long-term organic revenue growth.
The plan has received a lukewarm reception on Wall Street with RBC downgrading GE shares following the plan's release.
Flannery says investors should invest in the future of the company.
"I would say the outlook for the company over three to five years, what we laid out, growing cash and earnings in three to five years, that's what someone should buy," Flannery added. "So is it going to be immediate, is it going to happen in two months, four months, six months? No, there are operational things we need to change in the company."
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Dragon on treasure hoard: finish
When you're sure you've left no part of the base bare, you can bake your model. What I said at the end of the previous chapter applies to the treasure hoard also. It might be a good idea to let your dragon rest for a while, thus seeing slight flaws, like a heap of coins that cannot lie there because it's got nothing to stop it from sliding down. Just add a dish of part of a shield beneath it.
Below are pictures of the final dragon model from all sides.
So now it's time to bake your model and paint it. I hope you've enjoyed this case study. Feel free to mail me if you notice anything amiss or feel that I've left out some valuable information for creating dragons.


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Family-friendly run/walk to kick off the Saturday fun of Vacation Bible School and Chautauqua: An Adventure in Community. We'll start and end on The Green in downtown Homer. Choose from either a 3K or 5K route through the tree-lined streets of the historic village. Walkers, runners, and kids welcome! Kids 12 and under get a medal!
All proceeds benefit the Wilcox Fund of the Cortland County Council of Churches.
Saturday, Aug. 6, 2016
- Check-in begins at 8:30 am.
- Run begins at 9:30 am
Must pre-register by July 22 to be guaranteed a T-shirt. Day-of registrations permitted.
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After the run, join us on The Green for water, fruit and the awards celebration and a bounce house for the kids!
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On January 6, 2016, Oculus tweeted: "We're excited to announce that
#Rift is available to pre-order on http://Oculus.com ! http://ocul.us/rift ." This is big news and will do much to make virtual reality (VR) part of our lives in the near future. We've come a long way from Nintendo's 1995 Virtual Boy, one of many VR failures.
Remember when the Internet and the smartphone industry became mainstream? The same thing will happen with VR, and some are predicting 2016 will be the year, especially with the long-awaited arrival of the Oculus Rift, a VR system for the masses.
VR has similarities to the Internet and other emerging new technologies, especially in terms of how quickly it will become a part of everyday life, but another industry provides better insights into how VR will evolve. As a former student and teacher of film history, I see clear similarities between VR and the early cinema industry.
- New technology proponents are often convinced (or pretend to be) that it'll be a boon to education. For example, Thomas Edison thought film would change the educational system. "It is possible to teach every branch of human knowledge with the motion-picture," he said in 1914. "Our school system will be completely changed inside of ten years." He also thought films would make school more appealing to young people. "Sort o' swing the education in on them so attractively that they'll want to go to school. You'll have to lick 'em to keep them away," Edison said, even earlier, in 1911.
- New technology is often touted for educational purposes, but is almost immediately used for pornography. Early filmmakers quickly realized there was a market for risque content. Le Coucher de la Mariée featured a strip-tease by Louise Willy in 1896. Its success was followed by many other films with sexual content. The same thing will happen with VR, and the porn and sex industry will eagerly integrate VR into their products.
- New technology is scary. A new invention could be the end of civilization as we know it. Or at least create unforeseen individual and societal problems. Civilization is, of course, never static. Post-industrial society is dependent on change. Still, in the early days of cinema, some wanted to censor or regulate the film industry in an attempt to "protect" members of society from themselves. In the case of VR, it's easy to see that it could become addictive. Some will prefer VR to life and become dependent on the experience. We all know people who spend too much time on Facebook and other social media and ignore family and work life. We've even heard of people who play video games and ignore, sleep, food, and other basic necessities. There's no question VR has the potential to become like a drug, but, truly, just about anything that's halfway enjoyable can turn into a drug for the right (or wrong) person.
- Tremendous technological innovation will be the hallmark of early VR. Like film, VR relies on illusion or tricking the brain, and equipment is key. Unfortunately, equipment in a new technology's early days is often unrefined. This means innovators will be forced to invent new tools and techniques. This includes headsets (even the Rift is too big and unwieldy), controllers, and even cameras. I recently took a Udemy course on making virtual reality films, and many filmmakers are developing their own cameras and other equipment, so they can customize technology to fit their needs. It reminds me, again, of early cinema when pioneers like the Lumiere brothers tinkered with their own cameras because they were unhappy with what was available.
- It will be interesting to watch how VR content evolves. Early film theorists argued about the purpose of cinema and wondered such things as whether film should reflect reality or provide an experience that is outside reality. Thomas Edison and the Lumiere Brothers were interested in documenting reality. One of Edison's early films was correctly titled Fred Ott's Sneeze. The Lumiere Brothers first film was Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory. And that's exactly what it was–a bunch of people walking out of a factory. Other filmmakers, most notably Georges Méliès took a different direction. Méliès, a magician and theatre director, successfully used illusions and special effects to depict worlds divorced from reality. By the way, as with film, we'll also likely end up with college courses and majors on VR theory, history, etc., as VR becomes its own field of study.
In the last month or so, I've been talking a lot about virtual reality to friends and family. Most of them first respond by asking, "What is VR?" After the Rift ships in March, other VR systems are likely to follow. Next year at this time, in January 2017, few will be asking "What is VR?" Instead, they'll be asking questions like "Which VR system should I buy?" or "Seen any good VR lately?"
It's fascinating to contemplate the tipping point when VR becomes mainstream. Without a doubt, augmented reality (AR) in real life (IRL) is our future.


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In December of 1993, right-wing radio talk show host Marlin Maddoux announced the formation of a new legal organization that would attack church-state separation and oppose groups like Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the American Civil Liberties Union.
"Our intent is to out-swamp them so bad they'll wonder why they ever went into this business," bragged Maddoux, a Dallas radio minister, since deceased, who at that time hosted a program called "Point of View."
The following year, Maddoux and five Religious Right colleagues made good on the promise, launching the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF). Now marking its 10-year anniversary, the organization hasn't quite "out-swamped" AU and the ACLU – but it has raised millions of dollars for Religious Right legal cases and been active in federal and state lawsuits that seek to blast holes in the wall of separation between church and state.
Lately, the ADF has been in the news in a big way. When battles over same-sex marriage erupted in California, Massachusetts, Oregon, New Mexico and New York earlier this year, the ADF spearheaded the opposition. In many ways, it was a natural move for the group. For years, the ADF had been opposing "domestic partner" laws in various cities, fighting ordinances protecting gays from discrimination and even working to deny gay parents custody of their own children. The ADF would regularly mail lurid fund-raising letters warning of the latest plot by "militant homosexuals" to undermine the American family.
Still, the ADF remained under the radar for most Americans. Although the group became well known in Religious Right circles, it was far from a household name elsewhere. With the battle over same-sex marriage heating up in several states, that may be changing.
Newspapers usually describe the ADF, which is based in Scottsdale, Ariz., as a "conservative" group but give little additional information. USA Today even called the ADF "a legal alliance that promotes religious freedom...."
Critics say a description such as that doesn't even begin to tell the story. Far from supporting religious liberty, the ADF champions the exact opposite: It was formed by a band of television preachers and radio broadcasters to advance the Religious Right's perspective in the courts.
The ADF, watchdogs at Americans United say, champions a radical agenda to destroy the wall of separation between church and state. It even has close ties to the most extreme faction of the Religious Right – a movement that wants to create a harsh fundamentalist Christian theocracy in America. (See "The ADF's Reconstructionist Ties," page 9.)
Since its founding, the ADF has played a role in nearly every church-state case to reach the U.S. Supreme Court and many lower federal courts. Since 1994, the ADF has directly or partially funded cases dealing with government aid to religion, religion in public schools, abortion, gay rights and religiously based censorship. Throughout, the organization's goal has been the same: merge religion and government.
The idea behind the Alliance Defense Fund was simple: Prominent Religious Right leaders would lend their names to the organization and help it solicit funds. The ADF was originally conceived as a type of giant Religious Right ATM. The group would collect millions from ultra-conservative, politically active fundamentalist Christians and then parcel the money out to Religious Right legal groups working in the courts to lower the wall of separation between church and state. Although footing the bill, the ADF would remain behind the scenes.
A good example occurred in 1995 when the Supreme Court heard a case from Virginia called Rosenberger v. Rector and Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, in which a conservative Christian student successfully sought money from the UVA student subsidies for his evangelical newspaper. On the surface, the case was litigated by attorneys with a Washington, D.C., group called the Center for Individual Rights. But it was really the ADF that provided the funding that made the case possible.
That model was the original plan, and the ADF stuck with it for many years. Today, the group still provides that type of funding to outside legal groups. But two years ago, perhaps eager to get a taste of the courtroom action itself, the ADF expanded its efforts and hired staff attorneys to begin directly litigating cases on its own.
From the beginning, the ADF was clear about what it wanted to achieve. Its founders announced the group's formation in 1994 with a huge direct-mail campaign aimed at fundamentalist Christians. Maddoux and five other high-profile Religious Right leaders endorsed the effort: James Dobson, president of Focus on the Family; Bill Bright, president of Campus Crusade for Christ; D. James Kennedy, a television evangelist and head of Coral Ridge Ministries; the Rev. Donald Wildmon, president of the American Family Association; and Larry Burkett, president of Christian Financial Concepts (now Crown Financial Ministries), a fundamentalist-oriented financial services company. (Bright and Burkett both passed away in July of 2003.)
In a letter soliciting donations for the ADF, Dobson wrote, "[B]y pooling resources, substantial amounts of money can be channeled into a critical aspect of the civil war for values – namely, the legal battle in our nation's courts for the sanctity of life, the defense of religious freedom, and the preservation of traditional family values."
The innocuous-sounding language masked the ADF's real agenda: Knocking down the church-state wall and aligning the country with fundamentalist interpretations of the Bible.
Early ADF fund-raising mail almost always found a way to drag in references to President Bill Clinton, and the ACLU was a frequent target. For many years, ADF solicitations were accompanied by a mock newspaper article headlined, "The ACLU Finally Meets Its Match."
In the late 1990s, the organization shifted gears and decided that gay bashing would be more lucrative. A 1999 letter sent under the signature of Alan E. Sears, president and general counsel of the ADF, stated, "I can't stress enough that the traditional family is under relentless attack by homosexual activists. By God's grace, the Alliance Defense Fund is a major force in opposing them."
Like other anti-gay fundamentalists, Sears is always careful to claim that he loves his enemies. The same letter, after four pages of portraying gays as a dangerous, malevolent force, asserts, "At risk is our freedom to help people find forgiveness for their sins. That is the greatest need for the heterosexual and the homosexual alike, and the reason that ADF is motivated by compassion, not hatred, for our opponents."
Aside from attacking gays, Sears never hesitates to launch salvos at Jefferson's wall of separation. Sears, a longtime Religious Right ally who served as an anti-pornography crusader in the Reagan administration, has repeatedly ridiculed that protective barrier.
In a January ADF e-mail alert bragging about the ADF's successes, Sears charged, "One by one, more and more bricks that make up the artificial 'wall of separation' between church and state are being removed and Christians are once again being allowed to exercise their constitutional right to equal access to public facilities and funding."
In a February alert, Sears called separation of church and state "bogus." In August of 2003, he issued an alert asserting that in recent years "we have seen one brick after another removed from the so-called 'wall of separation' between church and state."
In an August 2003 opinion column for Baptist Press, the news organ of the Southern Baptist Convention, Sears really pulled out all of the stops. He accused "radical advocates" of "trying to rewrite the Constitution by making the First Amendment say something it doesn't. The First Amendment plainly forbids the creation of a national denomination, because that would be an 'establishment of religion.' It says nothing about the so-called 'separation of church and state.'"
Church-state separation, Sears went on to assert, was invented by former Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black in cahoots with the Ku Klux Klan. "Klan doctrine," he wrote, "is not a good way to interpret the U.S. Constitution."
Reflecting on Bright's death last July, Sears remarked that Bright was crucial to the overarching goals of the ADF.
"It was Bill Bright," said Sears, "who challenged us to think 'God-sized thoughts,' to envision not just fighting, but winning, not just keeping the door open for the gospel, but reclaiming the entire legal system under a higher law."
(Church & State sought to ask Sears about these views, but he did not respond to requests for an interview.)
Attacks on church-state separation and assaults on the religious neutrality of the public school system were the ADF's bread and butter in the early years. In fact, in August of 1995 Sears told the Denver Post the ADF was formed because, "There are some groups with a particular agenda, like the American Civil Liberties Union and the Americans United for Separation of Church and State."
While ADF still works assiduously to undermine the church-state wall on a number of fronts, the group has been heavily focused in recent months by the latest Religious Right-declared "culture war": gay marriage.
When San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom earlier this year ordered the city to begin issuing same-sex marriage licenses, the ADF couldn't wait to jump into the fray. ADF attorneys were so eager to get involved that they ran over one of their own allies – Religious Right attorney Mathew Staver's Florida-based Liberty Counsel.
Staver, who is now closely aligned with the Rev. Jerry Falwell, had accepted ADF largesse in the past. He hoped to be the lead attorney in an effort to stop same-sex marriages in California, but ADF attorneys had the same idea. Staver later told the Los Angeles Times that he was prepared to challenge domestic partnerships in California even before the same-sex marriage flap but deferred when the ADF asked him to.
When gay marriages started in San Francisco, Staver rushed into court to block them but made a procedural error in filing his papers. While that matter was being resolved, ADF attorneys slipped into court and filed their own papers, hoping to seize control of the issue. ADF Chief Counsel Benjamin Bull later rubbed salt in the wound by dissing Staver in the media, telling the Times that some of Staver's work was not up to par.
Staver fired back, telling the newspaper that the ADF has in the past taken credit for his cases when they have only partially subsidized them with small grants.
A state court later consolidated the cases, leaving Liberty Counsel and the ADF jockeying for control of the legal effort.
"Please be in prayer in the days ahead – for the court, for the ADF attorneys involved in the case, and most of all, that God's plan for marriage and the family will be allowed to prevail," Sears wrote in a recent e-mail to supporters.
The ADF also sued in Oregon, where officials in Multnomah County had been issuing same-sex marriage licenses. The group claimed a great victory when a state judge ordered a stop to the licenses, but in reality the decision was mixed because the judge refused to invalidate the 3,000 same-sex marriages that had taken place. Nevertheless, Sears immediately issued a "Special News Alert" to supporters via e-mail attributing the victory to ADF attorneys and the Almighty.
"BY THE GRACE OF GOD. . . SAME-SEX 'MARRIAGE' BROUGHT TO A HALT IN OREGON!!!" it read.
Sears is so incensed about gay rights that in 2003 he coauthored a book titled The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious Freedom Today. Heavily advertised in the right-wing media, the tome, produced by Broadman & Holman Publishers, the publishing arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, asserts that the ultimate goal of gay activists is to intimidate conservative Christians into silence.
Sears comes off looking a tad paranoid in The Homosexual Agenda. He tends to see gay conspiracies everywhere. In the book, he asserts that the zany 1959 comedy film "Some Like It Hot," in which two musicians dress as women and join an all-female band to hide from mobsters, promotes cross dressing. Sears also speculates that the popular cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants is gay. (To make the case, Sears cites a Wall Street Journal article that notes that SpongeBob often holds hands with his friend Patrick, a pink starfish.)
To ensure that its anti-gay, anti-separation agenda survives in the years to come, the ADF has launched special efforts aimed at law students. Every summer, it holds a seminar for attorneys in training called the Blackstone Fellowship.
The ADF's website (www.alliancedefensefund.org) says the program is designed to, "Profoundly influence Christian law students to take their training and knowledge into positions of influence where they can bring about needed change in America's legal system." (In 2003, 10 percent of the program's attendees came from one school: Ave Maria Law School, an ultra-conservative Roman Catholic institution founded by Domino's Pizza magnate Tom Monaghan.)
The staffer who runs the Blackstone program for the ADF, Jeffrey J. Ventrella, is, like Sears, no fan of gay people. During a Feb. 24 debate on gay rights at Rice University, Ventrella veered into rhetorical excess.
"For that organ that was designed to be the font of new life," he said, "to be placed in that cavity which was designed to eliminate waste – what that tells us is that, philosophically, death has swallowed life."
According to Houston Voice, Ventrella's statement "prompted shocked outbursts and laughter from the crowd."
Ventrella also has little use for the public schools. In a May 1999 article published in New Horizons, a magazine published by the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, he wrote, "In recent decades, God has granted his church a new interest in rearing covenant children. Many Christian parents have recognized that covenant faithfulness necessitates removing their children from the godless secular schools. Home education and private Christian schools have become common."
Previous Blackstone Fellowships have featured David Barton, a Texas-based "Christian nation" advocate whose historically inaccurate retelling of U.S. history is wildly popular among the Religious Right.
For lawyers already working in the field, the ADF sponsors a "National Litigation Academy." The five-day seminar amounts to a crash-course in how to be a lawyer for the Religious Right. Attendees don't pay for the training but in return pledge to provide 450 hours of free legal services to ADF over a three-year period. On its website ADF boasts, "As of September 2003, more than 700 individuals have graduated from 17 National Litigation Academy sessions and pledged more than $65,000,000 of pro bono legal work!"
Attorneys or would-be attorneys who go through ADF training often end up later working on cases for groups like Pat Robertson's American Center for Law and Justice, the Liberty Counsel or other Religious Right legal outfits. Others simply freelance.
The group's success may be due in part to its powerful friends – especially FOF's Dobson. Since its formation, the ADF has retained strong ties to Focus on the Family. Dobson was a founder, and Focus Vice President of Public Policy Tom Minnery serves on the ADF Board of Directors. (The board also includes representatives from Campus Crusade for Christ and Coral Ridge Ministries.)
Backing from Religious Right heavy-hitters like Dobson has made it easier for the ADF to raise funds. Although it has yet to reach its goal of netting $25 million per year, the sums collected are not shabby. According to information from the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA), a voluntary oversight group of which ADF is a member, the group raised nearly $16.5 million in fiscal year 2002-03. Of that figure, $11.5 million went for programs and services, about $2 million went for administrative expenses and a little over $2 million paid for fund-raising.
ECFA summaries do not include information about salaries, but as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, the ADF must make much of its financial information public on a federal tax document known as a Form 990. This form, which must by law be made available for inspection, shows that Sears is well compensated for his work at the ADF: In 2001, the last year for which figures are available, he earned more than a quarter of a million dollars.
With well-heeled attorneys on staff, an army of volunteer lawyers nationwide and a growing public profile, what can the ADF achieve? Defenders of church-state separation say the answer to that question depends to a large extent on the federal courts.
In recent years, observers note, the Supreme Court has approved certain types of government aid to religious institutions, culminating in the 2002 ruling upholding vouchers for private religious schools. While the ADF and other Religious Right legal groups were quick to claim credit for this, in reality the decisions were brought about because Presidents Ronald W. Reagan and the first George Bush had stacked the federal courts with justices with a wary or even hostile view toward church-state separation.
But in other instances, the Supreme Court continues to uphold church-state separation in the face of ADF attacks. The high court has shown no desire to overturn the school prayer rulings, for example, and has turned down cases dealing with the display of religious symbols like the Ten Commandments on government property.
In Alabama, ADF attorneys fought Americans United and backed former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore in his battle to display a Ten Commandments monument in the rotunda of the state Judicial Building. Even with the ADF's help, Moore lost every round.
And, despite the ADF's constant vows to overturn legal abortion and roll back gay rights, so far a high court majority has not gone along. The court has voted to keep the core findings of Roe v. Wade intact and last year struck down state laws that made consensual gay sex among adults a crime.
"Groups like the ADF advocate a radical restructuring of church-state relations in America," said Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United. "They want to remove the church-state wall and gain favored status from the government for their version of fundamentalist Christianity. We plan to fight them every step of the way."


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First impressions: First things first - I absolutely adore the sugar skulls print on the diaper pictured here. I mean - how awesome is that? I was able to choose the colour of the snaps and the interior fleece lining and appreciated this touch from the WAHM. The diaper is well made with even stitching. Some of the snap placements seem a little off, but nothing that would affect function. The cut of the diaper seems a little longer and narrower than other fitteds I've tried. [Rating: 3.5/5]
Fit: I found these a little tricky to fit at first. Because of the long body I had to fold down the rise a tad more than other hybrid fitteds to get the best fit on J. This is not an issue with the diaper though, just my own "standard settings" in my head that needed some tweaking. Once it was on I found the fit to be nice and trim and it's definitely a slimmer fit than other hybrid fitteds that I've tried. I was able to add a thin bamboo booster to the diaper and still get a good fit, but anything more caused leg gaps for us. I think this could be related to the crotch width. The crotch is narrower than other fitteds I've tried which makes for a nicer fit on smaller babies in my opinion. However the back coverage is still good, so I think this will work on chubbier babies/toddlers as well. At a year old and 9.5kg we are still using the fold down rise on J and there is still plenty of room to grow at the waist as well. The woven cotton outer does make for a slightly less customisable fit vs a cotton jersey outer; however the woven stays looking nicer for longer, so you need to weigh up what is more important to you. [Rating: 3.5/5]
Performance: As is, this diaper works well for us during the day (bearing in mind that J is a fairly light wetter in the day) and the exterior is still dry when I change him after 2 - 3 hours. At night we need to add an extra booster to last the whole night (approx 10 hours). While I prefer to use wool or fleece soakers with overnight fitteds, with this diaper I find I have to use a PUL cover which seals well around the legs to combat the slight leg gap we get from boosting, or else we get leaks. J feeds throughout the night and I consider him to be an above average wetter at night. [Rating: 3.5/5]
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Disclaimer: All image credits belong to Hippie Safari. Please do not use or distribute without my permission. I paid regular retail price for this diaper and was not compensated in any way for this review. While I aim to provide detailed, objective reviews of all the diapers that I've used, please bear in mind that this is my opinion and that every mom has her own preferences and every baby is built differently. So what works well for me and J, might not necessarily work well for you and your baby. J was 13 months old and 9.5kg when these photos were taken.


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Here is another former-NFL-player goes wrong tax story: Michael Bennett has been convicted of wire fraud and will serve 15 months in prison.
Who is Michael Bennett? He was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings in the first round of the 2001 draft. He was a Pro Bowl player. He was in the NFL until 2010, although he was a backup player for much of the time. Still, he earned millions of dollars from football. May we be so lucky.
How did he get arrested? It has to do with identity theft and tax refund fraud in North Miami. South Florida is a hotbed for tax refund fraud, and the FBI was operating a tax-refund and check-cashing storefront. It sounds like the business was quite lucrative, as the FBI was charging fees ranging from 35% to 45% of the face value of the checks. People would go the store and cash fraudulently-obtained checks, presenting false identification and sometimes forging the victim's signature on the back of the check.
There was one ring of seven people which cashed approximately $500,000 of refund checks. The FBI caught the conversations and transactions on tape. Sadly, two former NFL players were in this crowd. Perhaps that is how we get to Michael Bennett.
In walks Bennett. He is not part of the tax-refund ring, but he does want to borrow money. He wants to borrow $200,000. I can understand. Surely many of us have been returning from lunch and decided to stop in at the cash-and-dash to borrow a couple of hundred grand. Bennett presents a bank statement showing that he had buckets of bucks at UBS, and the statement is accepted as "collateral" for a loan. On April 30, 2012 Bennett picked up a $150,000 check. He was supposed to pay back $280,000 after three months.
NOTE: Yes, I wrote the amounts correctly.
There was no money in his account, of course. Bennett admitted to altering his UBS statement to make it look like he had a lot of money there. He was arrested for wire fraud. He has until January 18, 2013 to begin serving his sentence.
My Take: Sad.
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InnoDB, we recommend that you use MySQL 5.1.48 or later instead of 5.1.46sp1. This is because 5.1.46 contains the first production-ready version and the later version has fixes for some of the bugs found during more widespread production use.
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Functionality Added or Changed
Bugs Fixed
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Functionality Added or Changed
A new system variable,
skip_name_resolve, is set from the value of the
--skip-name-resolve server option. This provides a way to determine at runtime whether the server uses name resolution for client connections. (Bug #37168)
Bugs Fixed
Security Fix: Privilege checking for
UNINSTALL PLUGIN was incorrect. (Bug #51770, CVE-2010-1621)
Performance; InnoDB: The redo scan during
InnoDB recovery used excessive CPU. The efficiency of this scan was improved for
InnoDB Plugin, significantly speeding up crash recovery. (Bug #49535, Bug #29847)
Performance; InnoDB:
InnoDB Plugin page-freeing operations were made faster for compressed blocks, speeding up
DROP TABLE, and other operations on compressed tables that free compressed blocks. One symptom of the older behavior could be 100% CPU use during these operations. (Bug #35077)
Performance: While looking for the shortest index for a covering index scan, the optimizer did not consider the full row length for a clustered primary key, as in
InnoDB. Secondary covering indexes are now preferred, making full table scans less likely. (Bug #39653)
References: See also Bug #55656.
Important Change: When using fast
ALTER TABLE, different internal ordering of indexes in the MySQL optimizer and the
InnoDB storage engine could cause error messages about possibly mixed up
.frm files and incorrect index use. (Bug #47622)
InnoDB; Replication:
TRUNCATE TABLE performed on a temporary table using the
InnoDB storage engine was logged even when using row-based mode. (Bug #51251)
InnoDB; Replication: Column length information generated by
InnoDB did not match that generated by
MyISAM, which caused invalid metadata to be written to the binary log when trying to replicate
BIT columns. (Bug #49618)
InnoDB: For
InnoDB Plugin, bit fields were causing problems with concurrency on SMP systems because of word-packing issues. (Bug #52360)
InnoDB: Fixed a performance issue on Windows systems that affected the InnoDB Plugin, by turning off atomic instructions. (Bug #52102)
InnoDB: The AIX implementation of
readdir_r() caused
InnoDB errors. (Bug #50691)
Partitioning: Partition pruning on
RANGE partitioned tables did not always work correctly; the last partition was not excluded if the range was beyond it (when not using
MAXVALUE). Now the last partition is not included if the partitioning function value is not within the range. (Bug #51830)
Partitioning: The
insert_id server system variable was not reset following an insert that failed on a partitioned
MyISAM table having an
AUTO_INCREMENT column. (Bug #50392)
Partitioning: Foreign keys are not supported on partitioned tables. However, it was possible using an
ALTER TABLE statement to set a foreign key on a partitioned table; it was also possible to partition a table with a single foreign key. (Bug #50104)
GROUP BY queries performed poorly for some partitioned tables. This was due to the block size not being set for partitioned tables, thus the keys per block was not correct, which could cause such queries to be optimized incorrectly. (Bug #48229)
References: See also Bug #37252.
REPAIR TABLE failed for partitioned
ARCHIVE tables. (Bug #46565)
Replication: When using temporary tables, the binary log needs to insert a pseudo-thread ID for threads that are using temporary tables, each time a switch happens between two threads, both of which are using temporary tables. However, if a thread issued a failing statement before exit, its ID was not recorded in the binary log, and this in turn caused the ID for the next thread that tried to do something with a temporary table not to be logged as well. Subsequent replays of the binary log failed with the error Table ... doesn't exist. (Bug #51226)
References: This bug is a regression of Bug #35583.
Replication: If the master was using
sql_mode='TRADITIONAL', duplicate key errors were not sent to the slave, which received
0 rather than the expected error code. This caused replication to fail even when such an error was expected. (Bug #51055)
Replication: When run with the
--database option, mysqlbinlog printed
ROLLBACK statements but did not print any corresponding
SAVEPOINT statements. (Bug #50407)
Replication: When a
CREATE EVENT statement was followed by an additional statement and the statements were executed together as a single statement, the
CREATE EVENT statement was padded with "garbage" characters when written to the binary log. This led to a syntax error when the event was read from the log. (Bug #50095)
Replication: The value of
Slave_IO_running in the output of
SHOW SLAVE STATUS did not distinguish between all 3 possible states of the slave I/O thread (not running; running but not connected; connected). Now the value
Connecting (rather than
No) is shown when the slave I/O thread is running but the slave is not connected to a replication master.
The server system variable
Slave_running also reflects this change, and is now consistent with what is shown for
Slave_IO_running. (Bug #30703, Bug #41613, Bug #51089)
EXPLAIN EXTENDED crashed trying to resolve references to freed temporary table columns for
ORDER BY arguments. (Bug #52397)
The optimizer could attempt to evaluate the
WHERE clause before any rows had been read, resulting in a server crash. (Bug #52177)
For LDML-defined collations, some data structures were not initialized properly to enable
UPPER() and
LOWER() to work correctly. (Bug #51976)
On Windows,
LOAD_FILE() could cause a crash for some pathnames. (Bug #51893)
Invalid memory reads occurred for
HANDLER ... READ NEXT after a failed
HANDLER ... READ FIRST. (Bug #51877)
TRUNCATE TABLE of a
MyISAM table, subsequent queries could crash the server if
myisam_use_mmap was enabled. (Bug #51868)
myisam_sort_buffer_size was set to a small value, table repair for
MyISAM tables with
FULLTEXT indexes could crash the server. (Bug #51866)
LOAD DATA INFILE, using a
SET clause to set a column equal to itself caused a server crash. (Bug #51850)
A problem with equality propagation optimization for prepared statements and stored procedures caused a server crash upon re-execution of the prepared statement or stored procedure. (Bug #51650)
References: See also Bug #8115, Bug #8849.
The optimizer performed an incorrect join type when
COALESCE() appeared within an
IN() operation. (Bug #51598)
The server crashed when the optimizer attempted to determine constant tables but a table storage engine did not support exact record count. (Bug #51494)
A unique index on a column prefix could not be upgraded to a primary index even if there was no primary index already defined. (Bug #51378)
The server could crash populating the
INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PROCESSLIST table due to lack of mutex protection. (Bug #51377)
Use of
HANDLER statements with tables that had spatial indexes caused a server crash. (Bug #51357)
With an XA transaction active,
SET autocommit = 1 could cause side effects such as memory corruption or a server crash. (Bug #51342)
Following a bulk insert into a
MyISAM table, if
MyISAM failed to build indexes using repair by sort, data file corruption could occur. (Bug #51307)
CHECKSUM TABLE could compute the checksum for
BIT columns incorrectly. (Bug #51304)
HAVING clause on a joined table in some cases failed to eliminate rows which should have been excluded from the result set. (Bug #51242)
The type inference used for view columns caused some columns in views to be handled as the wrong type, as compared to the same columns in base tables.
DATE columns in base tables were treated as
TIME columns in views, and base table
TIME columns as view
DATETIME columns. (Bug #50918)
YEAR values
2000 and
0000 could be treated as equal. (Bug #49910)
Performing a single in-place
ALTER TABLE containing
ADD INDEX and
DROP INDEX options that used the same index name could result in a corrupt table definition file. Now such
ALTER TABLE statements are no longer performed in place. (Bug #49838)
mysql_upgrade did not detect when
CSV log tables incorrectly contained columns that could be
NULL. Now these columns are altered to be
NOT NULL. (Bug #49823)
InnoDB returned an error when inserting a negative value into an auto-increment column. (Bug #49497)
InnoDB did not reset table
AUTO_INCREMENT values to the last used values after a server restart. (Bug #49032)
If a stored function contained a
RETURN statement with an
ENUM value in the
ucs2 character set,
SHOW CREATE FUNCTION and
SELECT DTD_IDENTIFIER FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES returned incorrect values. (Bug #48766)
A trigger could change the behavior of assigning
NULL to a
NOT NULL column. (Bug #48525)
The server crashed when it could not determine the best execution plan for queries involving outer joins with nondeterministic
ON clauses such as the ones containing the
RAND() function, a user-defined function, or a
NOT DETERMINISTIC stored function. (Bug #48483)
MERGE engine failed to open a child table from a different database if the child table or database name contained characters that were subject to table name to file name encoding.
Further, the
MERGE engine did not properly open a child table from the same database if the child table name contained characters such as
'/', or
'#'. (Bug #48265)
A query that read from a derived table (of the form
SELECT ... FROM (SELECT ...)) produced incorrect results when the following conditions were present:
The table subquery contained a derived query (
The derived query could potentially produce zero rows or a single
NULL (that is, no rows matched, or the query used an aggregate function such as
SUM() running over zero rows).
The table subquery joined at least two tables.
The join condition involved an index.
(Bug #47904)
The optimization to read
MIN() or
MAX() values from an index did not properly handle comparisons with
NULL values. This could produce incorrect results for
MIN() or
MAX()when the
WHERE clause tested a
NOT NULL column for
NULL. (Bug #47762)
Killing a query during the optimization phase of a subquery could cause a server crash. (Bug #47761)
The query shown by
EXPLAIN EXTENDED plus
SHOW WARNINGS could produce results different from the original query. (Bug #47669)
Renaming a column of an
InnoDB table caused the server to go out of sync with the
InnoDB data dictionary. To avoid this issue, renaming a column uses the older technique of copying all the table data rather than updating the table in-place. (Bug #47621)
MyISAM could write uninitialized data to new index pages. Now zeros are written to unused bytes in the pages. (Bug #47598)
myisam_repair_threads larger than 1 could result in the cardinality for all indexes of a
MyISAM table being set to 1 after parallel index repair. (Bug #47444)
In debug builds, if the listed columns in the view definition of the table used in an
INSERT ... SELECT statement mismatched, an assertion was raised in the query cache invalidation code following the failing statement. (Bug #46615)
For a query that selected from a view and used an alias for the view, the metadata used the alias name rather than the view name in the
MYSQL_FIELD.table member. (Bug #41788)
mysql_upgrade did not create temporary files properly. (Bug #41057)
It was possible for
DROP TABLE of one
MyISAM table to remove the data and index files of a different
MyISAM table. (Bug #40980)
If the arguments to a
CONCAT() call included a local routine variable, selecting the return value into a user variable could produce an incorrect result. (Bug #40625)
SHOW CREATE VIEW returned invalid SQL if the definition contained a
' statement where the
string was longer than the maximum length of a column name, due to the fact that this text was also used as an alias (in the
AS clause).
Because not all names retrieved from arbitrary
SELECT statements can be used as view column names due to length and format restrictions, the server now checks the conformity of automatically generated column names and rewrites according to a predefined format any names that are not acceptable as view column names before storing the final view definition on disk.
In such cases, the name is now rewritten as
Name_exp_, where
pos is the position of the column. To avoid this conversion scheme, define explicit, valid names for view columns using the
column_list clause of the
CREATE VIEW statement.
As part of this fix, aliases are now generated only for top-level statements. (Bug #40277)
mysqlbinlog option-processing code had a memory leak. (Bug #38468)
The test for
readline during configuration failed when trying to build MySQL in a directory other than the source tree root. (Bug #35250)
A query on a
FEDERATED table in which the data was ordered by a
TEXT column returned incorrect results. For example, a query such as the following produced incorrect results if column
column1 was a
TEXT column:
SELECT * FROM table1 ORDER BY column1;
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Submitted by RLS Staff on Jun 18 2017 - 7:05pm.
Newark Police took a male suspect into custody after he attempted to rob a woman earlier this morning in East Orange.
Officers patrolling the East Orange border observed a male snatch a woman's pocketbook in front of a bakery in the 900 block of South Orange Avenue at around 9:30 a.m.
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The suspect was arrested then turned over to East Orange Police.
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RESOLVED, that consistent with the Supreme Court's directive in Boumediene v. Bush and President Obama's January 22, 2009 Executive Order on "Review and Disposition Of Individuals Detained At The Guantanamo Bay Naval Base And Closure of Detention Facilities," the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers urges the U.S. Government to ensure that:
1. All individuals who have been or are expected to be charged with violations of criminal law should be prosecuted in Article III federal courts, unless the Attorney General certifies, in cases involving recognized war crimes, that prosecution cannot take place before such courts and can be held in other regularly constituted courts in a manner that comports with fundamental notions of due process, traditional principles of the laws of war, the Geneva Conventions and the Uniform Code of Military Justice;
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In countries around the world, doctoral education, especially in science, engineering, and technology, is growing rapidly, with many countries looking to international collaboration as a means of enhancing their research capacity, finds a report issued in September as part of the CODOC project of the European University Association. Titled CODOC–Cooperation on Doctoral Education Between Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe, the report culminates a two-year international effort.
Doctorates awarded rose by half in the European countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) during the first decade of this century, but they doubled in Brazil and quadrupled in China during the same period, writes the report's author, Thomas Ekman Jørgensen in an article about the report at University World News. China is now the world's second largest producer of Ph.D.s after the United States, and Brazil's output matches that of France. In 2008, China awarded more than 43,000 Ph.D.s and in 2009 Brazil awarded more than 11,000. The great majority of the Ph.D.s awarded in the three non-OECD regions studied are in scientific and technical disciplines (including social sciences)–83% in Asia, 78% in Latin America, and 58% in southern Africa, according to the report.
For many developing countries, the report notes, national development strategies include research and innovation, and doctoral education is a significant element of that. Building capacity for research and graduate education is essential to achieving those goals, as is creating a critical mass of well-qualified scholars for a vigorous research culture. Many countries are thus working to increase the percentage of the people in their research and teaching institutions who hold doctorates. In southern Africa, institutions included in the study predicted that the percentage of their research personnel and faculty holding Ph.D.s will rise over the next 3 years from the current total of 33% to 41%. For Asia and Latin America, the predictions for rises over the same period were from the current 49% to 62% and from the current 31% to 40%, respectively.
The drive to increase the numbers and enhance the qualifications of research and faculty personnel has created significant employment opportunities for Ph.D.s in those regions, in contrast to the situation in the United States and Europe, where academic posts are highly competitive. In the countries covered in the study, "The career prospects of doctoral graduates are wide-ranging and quite good. They usually take up senior positions appropriate to their skill level, with roughly the same proportions entering government, the private sector, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the universities. This also implies that universities face a challenge in achieving their intended growth in numbers of staff with doctorates," the report states.
This challenge occurs because, as we've reported previously in this space, newly established or remote universities and colleges in countries with rapidly expanding higher educational systems often have difficulty providing salaries, facilities, working conditions, locations, and scholarly cultures that doctorate holders find attractive. This is especially the cade with the many Ph.D.s who have studied or worked in Europe or the United States.
As the report notes, training and working conditions vary considerably among the various countries and regions studied. It's clear, however, that the push toward increased doctoral education as a means of building the "knowledge society" is likely to continue in many countries around the world.
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The rise of smart technology has transformed the way we live.
Whether it's in the home or in our devices, consumers have a dizzying number of ways to make life easier with a tap of a button. In the same way, smart technology can work wonders in taking you from being an average driver to an exemplary one.
Vehicle manufacturers have come up with some clever smart innovations that help make driving a safer, easier and more enjoyable experience for everyone.
Gone are the days when a car's sole purpose was to move people and stuff from A to B. Vehicle manufacturers have come up with some clever smart innovations that help make driving a safer, easier and more enjoyable experience for everyone.
In the coming decade, it's possible that your car will become just another smart device that effortlessly navigates the streets safely and efficiently, while offering a superior driving experience.
Here's a quick introduction to some of the latest technologies that can shift your day-to-day commute into a higher gear.
Enjoy the ride!
1. Automatic Parking Technology
Do you find yourself circling the block multiple times in order to avoid the challenge of squeezing into a parallel parking spot? Reverse and parallel parking can be a huge ordeal, even for experienced drivers.
Automatic parking assist (otherwise known as auto parking, park assist or intelligent parking) is now fitted as a standard option for a growing number of new cars in Australia.
These vehicles have a series of sensors which can measure the dimensions of a parking space on your behalf, taking the guesswork out of the parking challenge.
Once you've found a suitable parking spot, instead of trying to manoeuvre your way back and forth into a parking space, with the press of a button the car can effortlessly steer itself into that coveted parking spot. All you need to control is the accelerator and brake.
No dents or nasty surprises to deal with.
2. Lane Departure Technology
"Unintentional lane drift is a huge issue," explains Neil Chambers, CEO of the Victorian Transport Association. "It causes 14 percent of all fatal crashes and 5,031 non-fatal injuries in Australia."
Lane departure assist technology uses a few simple cameras and sensors to potentially save you from a crash. The system, installed on many modern cars, uses front-facing cameras to scan the road surface markings ahead.
If your vehicle is about to drift across lane markings and the left or right indicator lights aren't on, the system will sound an alert and automatically correct the steering to keep you in the lane.
More sophisticated crash-avoidance technology is expected in the near future, once new vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication systems are set up where cars can exchange basic speed, position and safety data with each other.
3. LED Headlight Technology
There's certainly more to headlights than just being the culprit of your last flat battery. They're indispensable for driving at night, and many a backcountry road would be impossible to navigate without the trusty beams illuminating the road ahead.
Vehicle manufacturers have started moving towards high-intensity discharge (HID) headlamp technology, which gives off brighter light than a traditional halogen bulb.
The technology for headlights has been pretty static for many years, with halogen lamps the standard option. While halogens are cheap to produce and replace, they're not very energy efficient and draw a fair amount of energy from your car's battery.
Vehicle manufacturers have started moving towards high-intensity discharge (HID) headlamp technology, which gives off brighter light than a traditional halogen bulb.
But the next step — LED headlight technology — promises to improve efficiency and driving experience by offering smarter beam patterns for different road conditions. LED headlights require far less power to produce a light beam that can be controlled far more effectively than HID or halogen systems.
For example, some LED headlights can be directed away from oncoming vehicles without reducing the overall brightness on your side of the road. This means you could drive with full beam on the whole way, and other drivers won't be blinded for it.
4. Continuous Variable Transmission (CVT) Technology
Gone are the days when a vehicle purchase was a choice between either manual or automatic transmission. Car manufacturers now offer a dizzying array of gearbox types: single-clutch, dual-clutch, tiptronic and more.
Of the many developments in automatic gearboxes over the years, the continuous variable transmission (CVT) offers the most potential for improving your driving efficiency. Instead of swapping through five or six pre-set gears, a CVT can move between an almost infinite number of drive ratios. This means a CVT engine can keep spinning at peak efficiency, regardless of how fast your vehicle is going.
A CVT can move between an almost infinite number of drive ratios.
Not only is there no need to worry about changing gears and pressing the clutch at the right time, but your engine is always running at the best fuel economy.
5. Smart Car Gadget Technology
If asked, most of us would say that we're pretty good behind the wheel. But we're still prone to falling into bad driving habits, like braking too suddenly or over-revving the engine.
Not only can this kind of driving be risky, it means you miss hitting your engine speed's sweet spot, where your car runs best and is most fuel efficient. According to a report by the AA Research Foundation in New Zealand, the potential benefits of driving efficiently (or "eco-driving") include "reduced car running costs, reduced driver and passenger stress, and improved traffic flow."
Smart car gadgets are the latest way to help drivers to drive more efficiently. These gadgets plug into your car's standard diagnostics port (usually found under your steering wheel), and send information to your smartphone or another device mounted on your dashboard.
Smart car gadgets are the latest way to help drivers to drive more efficiently.
Once on the road, your gadget will measure things like how much fuel your vehicle uses per trip, how much blasting the air-con costs in petrol, and other real-time feedback to improve your driving habits and overall car health.
Australian company GoFar has developed and fine-tuned an eco-driving system that's been shown in trials to reduce fuel consumption by up to 22 percent.
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In history of mankind only two kinds of people have been remembered for generations. Only two kinds… Meditators and Murderers
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Donald Trump took the White House, Republicans control of both houses of Congress and Jeff Sessions is officially attorney general. That combo is bad news for U.S. marijuana stocks.
On Election Night, marijuana scored key vote victories in eight out of nine states. Unfortunately, it remains illegal on a federal level, and prospects for U.S. federal legalization of marijuana seem nearly nonexistent in the near future.
Business is booming for marijuana stocks in states with legalized weed. But a big part of the huge growth in the marijuana business in recent years has been the previous administrations' willingness to turn a blind eye.
Trump's temporary travel ban and free trade disruptions make clear that he is certainly not scared to disrupt the status quo. In the past, Sessions has harshly criticized the marijuana industry. Sessions even once said "good people don't smoke marijuana."
Trump's unpredictable and aggressive policy attitude could easily disrupt the U.S. marijuana industry overnight. Fortunately, not every marijuana stock needs federal legalization. Here are three marijuana stocks that would be just fine if the U.S. never legalizes weed.
Marijuana Stocks to Buy: GW Pharmaceuticals (GWPH)
If you didn't know where cannabidiol came from, you would never group GW Pharmaceuticals Plc-ADR (NASDAQ:GWPH) in with other marijuana stocks. GWPH is a biopharmaceutical company developing cannabis-based drug Epidiolex for treatment of a rare brain dysfunction called Dravet syndrome.
GWPH is a British company. It's not skirting U.S. federal laws to get a piece of the marijuana market. Instead, it is simply developing Epidiolex and several other cannabis-based drugs the same way any other biopharma company would. It's running down the same U.S. drug development checklist of testing and reporting data. Its results have little to do with marijuana law.
So far, positive data on Epidiolex suggests there is plenty of reason for hope. The FDA could potentially grant GWPH access to the U.S. market within the next year or two, with a potential for $1.1 billion annually by 2021. To do so, Congress won't have to amend the Controlled Substance Act. It won't have to face any push-back from anti-marijuana constituents. Instead, the FDA will simply have to grant parents access to a potentially better and cheaper treatment for their afflicted children's seizures.
After an action-packed 2016, there may not be any major catalysts to propel the stock higher until the second half of 2017. In the meantime, while other marijuana investors will fret about the Trump administration, the only thing GWPH stock investors have to fear is the efficacy data from its studies.
Marijuana Stocks to Buy: Canopy Growth Corp (TWMJF)
The U.S. marijuana legalization movement has been temporarily derailed. However, it seems to be full speed ahead for our neighbors to the north. Canopy Growth Corp COM NPV (OTCMKTS:TWMJF) is the single-largest marijuana company in the world. The company's OTC-listed stock has a market cap of roughly $1.6 billion. At that size, TWMJF is now even larger than S&P 500 member Fossil Group Inc (NASDAQ:FOSL).
TWMJF has taken a commanding lead in the Canadian marijuana market. In Canada, medical marijuana is already legal nationwide. All Canadians are now authorized to possess up to 150 grams of dried marijuana if it is prescribed by a doctor and purchased from a licensed producer.
"Canopy Growth has assembled the broadest platform of production facilities and brands in Canada, establishing an early leadership in its federal legal medical cannabis program," New Cannabis Partner founder Alan Brochstein explains.
American marijuana stocks are relegated to the OTC market. In Canada, TWMJF just debuted on the Toronto Stock Exchange, one of the largest markets in the world.
TWMJF would likely expand to the U.S. market should the federal ban ever get lifted. For now, the company is doing just fine in Canada.
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How to Market Your Book Online
Many authors dream of the day their book will be published. What they don't often realize is the amount of work it takes to market a book. Thanks to the internet, however, marketing has become easier than ever before when you know how to market your book online.
The key to marketing your book online is to start early. Get going with the marketing work before your book is even published. You can do this by starting a blog about your book, contributing to forums, and establishing social media pages that can build a following.
Once you've done this and get your book published, then you'll be ready to take advantage of these additional marketing methods.
#1. Find your community.
You need to know who is going to want to read your book. Not everyone in the world will want to pick up your book, no matter what you might "suspect" to be true. Focus on your core community. You'll want to segment your audience with as many specifics as possible.
Look at it this way: if you wrote a book about trends in book marketing, would it make more sense to target authors and book marketers? Or would you want to target IT professionals?
#2. Know what your readers like to do online.
Different people enjoy doing different things online. You've got your social gamers. You've got folks who are on Instagram 24/7. There are also demographics who might be interested in your book, but are only online maybe 30 minutes per week.
You've got to be able to connect to your community on their terms instead of yours. If your reader segments are primarily on Facebook, then you've got to create a Facebook page for your book and then promote it to your core groups.
The same is true for online conversations. Forums are great places for a conversation thread, but so is Reddit. So is Twitter. Go where your community meets, lives, and thrives. That's where you'll have the best chance to promote your book to them.
#3. Embrace your inner extrovert.
Many authors tend to be introverts, either naturally or through adaptation. Let's face it: spending hours in front of a computer screen every day by yourself doesn't really create friendships. You become comfortable with more of a solitary life, which means you become shy in social situations – even when they happen to be through the computer.
Knowing how to market your book online means knowing how to talk effectively to each reader segment you've identified. You can send out messages all the time or choose to respond to message from others that come in. Some people prefer to be the loudest person in the online room. Others prefer to be the wisest. Combine the two together and you'll likely see good results.
#4. Apply the fundamentals of supply and demand.
The goal of marketing today has changed from overall sales to specifically timed sales. If you can get everyone to purchase your book at relatively the same time on a single website, then you have a chance to create a best-seller… for at least one day. That gives you bragging rights, however, and a good marketing message that can be sent out in the future.
People also purchase items based on a combination of value and scarcity. We all want the best possible item we can get at a price we can afford. If you can create urgency around your book buying experience, then you'll be more likely to get some sales momentum going.
#5. Keep promoting your book.
There's always a new angle that you can take in the marketing process. Interest will always wane in a book, but you can keep it fresh. After all – we're still reading Charles Dickens. Edgar Allen Poe. There's this fellow named Shakespeare as well.
Now will your book be famous in 400 years? The odds aren't in your favor, for sure. But it helps to treat your marketing efforts as a marathon instead of a 100-meter sprint. Find new reasons why certain groups of people would be interested in your book and you could breathe new life into something that is more than a decade old.
When marketing a book online, the process is very similar to the in-person marketing efforts that authors have used for years. You must connect with people. You must create value with your book. You must create a sense of urgency. When you can do this, then your reader segments will be more likely to want to see what it is that you have to say.


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The tabins are well appointed with cozy duvets, vintage Hudson Bay wool blankets and handmade furnishings. This is camping luxury style. There is a modern composting toilet close by and full access to the locker rooms in the main building for showering. Here are some photos and price indication and what is included:
Algonquin Tabin: located in a sunny area at the edge of the forest and trails, overlooking horse paddock, often an areas that is visited by deer.
Highlander Tabin: located in a shaded area ducked in the edge of the the forest.
Distance from main building: Eco-tabins are a 2-3 minute walk from the main building and only a one minute walk from each other.
- one double bed and one single bed, maximum three people
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- modern composting toilet close by
- assigned lockers are inside main building (recommended to lock valuables in car or locker)
- it is not recommended to keep food inside tabins
- cars are not permitted by the eco-tabins. Parking is only a one-minute walk from tabins
- showers are inside main building, open 24 hours for tabin guests
- daily tidy available, linen turnover every three days
- no wi-fi or electricity, zero EMF's
"I had the good fortune of staying in an eco-tabin while I was at Grail Springs. I enjoyed all of the wonders an Ontario forest has to offer from the comfort of a clean and cozy Canadiana (tent) cabin. It was a real treat to unplug and unwind while the forest sang around me. Thank you Grail Springs!" ~ Mandi H.


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Central Timna Valley in Israel is an extreme arid environment and perfect for the preservation of textiles. Many fragments of textiles and cordages were found: 116 fragments were uncovered during the 2013 and 2014 excavation seasons and a few dozens of other textile fragments were uncovered in the successive 2015 and 2016 seasons. The textiles were radiocarbon dated to the early Iron Age (11th-10th centuries BC[3].
What plants were used to colour these textiles? Analysis indicated that the textiles were dyed using two different plants: Madder (Rubia tinctorum) for red and - most probably - woad (Isatis tinctoria) for blue[4]. These plants are among the earliest known in the dyeing craft.
[1] Strand et al:Old Textiles–New Possibilities in European Journal of Archaeology – 2010
[2] Good: Archaeological Textiles: A Review of Current Research in Annual Review of Anthropology – 2001 [3] Ben-Yosef: Back to Solomon's Era: Results of the First Excavations at Slaves' Hill (Site 34, Timna, Israel) in Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research – 2016
[4] Sukenik et al: Early evidence (late 2nd millennium BCE) of plant-based dyeing of textiles from Timna, Israel in Plos One - 2017. See here.


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We invite you to visit our beautiful historic town and our new restaurant "Prime 225" located at 225 Bohemia Ave.
Our vision: to create a unique dining experience with an emphasis on the finest Prime steaks, fresh seafood, pasta & meticulously selected wines, all within an atmosphere which can be described as both elegant & historic.
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From baseball...
In 2007, two couples were sitting at the bar of The Yacht Club, we struck up a conversation about baseball and became close friends. At the time our families resided in Delaware and New Jersey but now both own homes in beautiful Chesapeake City, MD.
... to Prime225!
In May 2015, our two families purchased The Yacht Club, more recently known as the Southside Bar & Grill, which is now Prime 225. In January 2016 we reopened the newly renovated upscale restaurant and would love to welcome you!
Sam Mahan
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We invite you to visit Prime 225 where inside the restaurant you'll find warm lighting glows through the long stone bar and you'll enjoy sitting in our comfy barstools. The restaurant and bar are divided by a lovely brick wall which offers diners a cozy ambiance.
Outside you'll be welcomed by gas lanterns from New Orleans and inside, at the bar, hand-blown globes from San Francisco. Our families considered every little detail of the restaurant; from the Italian porcelain and Brazilian pecan wood, right down to every glass, dish & utensil. We sought after a high-end, boutique-style restaurant with top quality food & wine, ambiance, service and hospitality. We want every guest to walk away with an unforgettable experience.
The front of the restaurant offers views of the quaint streets in our historic town. While the back offers a small wine room for diners to visit and peruse our extensive wine selection. We were equally particular in selecting our staff. Sam Mahan, formerly of The Bayard House and The Rail at Delaware Park, is our General Manager and Brandon Gentry is our Executive Chef. With them they bring a wealth of knowledge, experience, professionalism and perfection! We're excited and can't wait for you to experience Prime 225! Thank you from our family to yours.
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