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Some "inside" home security tips on preventing home burglary from a former burglar.
Prevent Home Burglary With These Home Security Tips
Imagine yourself returning from a pleasant evening at the movies. You pull into the driveway, happy, as always, to be home, and walk in the front door. Switching on the light, you stare in disbelief. No, this can't be right. The living room is in disarray; the place is a shambles.
Your house has been burglarized. A stranger has invaded your home, sorting through and taking your possessions, and the odds are that the perpetrator won't be caught. Nor is it likely that your property will be recovered.
Unfortunately, the chances of your home being broken into increase every day. Middle-class suburban neighborhoods may be among the most popular targets for burglars, but no home is immune.
I know. As a former burglar, I did my work in all types of neighborhoods across the U.S. One week I'd be in California, the next in Arizona, and then in Florida. It wasn't unusual for me to pull as many as 15 jobs a week, then take the goods into another state and sell them before they had a chance to hit the police "hot sheet," a regularly updated list of stolen merchandise. For quite a while I found burglary an easy way to make a living, simply because the owners of the homes I hit failed to use common sense. They probably didn't really think themselves immune. Instead, I imagine most of them just didn't take the time to consider their vulnerability. After reading this article, I hope you'll invest the thought necessary to safeguard your home. Believe me, the repayment, in terms of both time and heartache spared, can be substantial.
Burglars: A Field Guide
There are several common types of housebreakers that may, at this moment, have your home under consideration. Let me describe some of the more common varieties and a few of their methods of operation.
Transient Burglars
This was my specialty. A thief of this type travels from city to city for the purpose of his (or her) work. He doesn't plan to stay in town for long, a week at most, so he needs to come up with a list of potential targets quickly. He'll probably begin with a map of the area, which he'll narrow down by focusing on subdivisions . . . particularly those with ritzy names and a golf course and community pool.
Once he's selected a likely development, say a Bedford Hills or a Bel Air, he'll visit the neighborhood, writing down names and addresses from mailboxes. A phone book provides the numbers for the targets. When the time is right, he'll simply work through the list, seeing which calls fail to bring an answer. (I've even gone so far as to have an associate phone a house at a set time when I would be at the window counting the rings, a sure-fire way to ascertain that no one was home.) If your neighborhood is hit more than once over a short period, the odds are a transient burglar is working the area.
Daytime Burglars
These guys have to be pretty nervy. Not only does the daylight housebreaker have to make sure the home is unoccupied, he also has to avoid attracting the attention of neighbors. To do this, he'll employ such ruses as posing as a door-to-door salesman or driving a fake department-store delivery truck. It's frightening, but true, that he will probably know a good bit about you and your habits before breaking in. He'll know how many people are in the household, how many cars there are (and who drives them), and when each person leaves and returns. When he's ready, he'll make a quick call to be sure no one is unexpectedly home, then park his vehicle nearby, or even right in your driveway. He'll often gain entry through the side or back of the house, placing the items he wants near the front door, since that's the least suspicious exit.
Nighttime Burglars
These housebreakers are very concerned about not being seen. Unlike the daytime burglar, who depends on people overlooking him, the cat relies on darkness and his ability to avoid detection. He can often look at a house and instantly judge if anyone is home, a skill honed while scanning as many as 1,000 dwellings a week. Many times he simply walks or drives through a neighborhood looking for the "right" house. Then, after knocking on the door (and perhaps looking in a few windows), he'll break in.
Petty Burglars
These are the thieves who'll take anything, whether it can be easily sold or not. If you find your TV or stereo gone but your jewelry left behind, you've probably been hit by a petty burglar, more often than not a kid from your own neighborhood. Amateurs that they are, petty thieves often break windows to gain entry.
"Pro" Burglars
At the top of his field, the pro can usually work day or night, and can often bypass an elaborate security system. Many times he'll actually be hired by jewelers or coin dealers to steal valuables from their own clients. If working for hire, he'll usually take only the specific items he's after. If he's free-lancing, jewelry is his most common target. He won't ransack a home, won't leave signs of forced entry; frequently the victim won't even know he's been robbed until he looks for the stolen item.
Charles Young, convicted after a cross-country burglary career spanning two years, will not be eligible for early release until September 1993.


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News Briefing: Sept. 11 Steel Forms Heart of Far-Flung Memorials
By Kate Golden on September 8, 2009No Comment
- The steel from the World Trade Center is being granted to groups around the country who would like to build their own memorials. [New York Times]
- Penn State University asks merit scholar parents to donate the annual merit scholarships their children receive back to the school. [Associated Press]
- A year into his new job leading the Smithsonian, Wayne Clough is intent on maximizing its science, research, and educational impact. [Associated Press]

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Closing the Deal
Yesterday at 12:30 our realtor called me and asked if we were ready to close. I said "Sure, when is it?" His response: "Can you make it to Grandville by 2:00?" Not a lot of notice, but we got it done.
Less than 30 days until we will be Zeelanders.


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In the Information Age, it's easy to get hit over the head with a deluge of propaganda about anything and everything. Comment boards, social media and more all provide a microphone for anyone with an opinion, right or wrong. Who's doing the fact-checking? Who's got the best interests of the reader in mind?
This overload of information transcends topics, and is constantly re-shaping and re-defining total genres — and that includes fitness. This can be very useful; we LOVE it when trustworthy sources come up with new facts and findings to help us achieve our healthiest bodies possible. But there is also a downside: the presentation of skewed or flawed info that, over time, gain traction and eventually start becoming believed as facts.
These are fitness myths. And this week, we're debunking them, two at a time.
- TURN FAT INTO MUSCLE. No. Even a rudimentary understanding of how the body works should have gotten this one tossed out a long time ago, but you still hear people all the time asking how they can "turn fat into muscle." You can't, anymore than you can turn bone into muscle or straw into gold (though it would be nice). A fat cell is a fat cell is a fat cell, and once it's created, it never goes away — it just grows, or shrinks, much in the way a water balloon would, depending on what you eat. It's important to remember this, too: Your body, for all its efficiency, has a thing against muscle. It costs a ton of energy, relatively speaking, to maintain it, so when it gets a chance, it certainly won't go out of its way to change fat (one of its most easily stored tissues) to muscle.
But the relationship between the two tissue types DOES exist, and, no surprise here, it's an inverse relationship. Losing fat doesn't necessarily mean adding muscle, but adding muscle almost always will help those fat cells shrink. A faster metabolism that gets a steady supply of muscle-building nutrients while limiting the amount of ready-made energy (in most cases, carbs) will accomplish this. It will make more muscle and deplete fat storage. But it will never transform one into the other.
- "TONING." Somewhere along the line, it became obvious that working out and dieting properly were keys to a stronger, more muscular physique (go figure). So we have this means to an end, except that we hear one caveat ALL THE TIME: "I don't want to get big, I just want to do some toning."
The translation: "I don't want to build more muscle, I just want certain parts of my body to be stronger and skinner."
It doesn't work that way. For one, you cannot spot-burn fat (this is why crunches have very little to do with whether or not you have a gut). Secondly, and more importantly, you cannot "tone" muscle that isn't there. Many misinformed clients have the assumption that light weights that cause little-to-no strain, coupled with a high range of reps, will help them tone. Yes, it's better than nothing, that's true. But the fact remains that you must grow muscle and lose fat to change the "tone" of your body, whether it's your stomach or your arms. Build the muscle, and while you're losing fat with a healthy diet and increased physical activity, the increase in shapeliness that so many like to call "toning" will take care of itself.
- "PROLONGED CARDIO IS THE BEST WAY TO BURN FAT." To an extent, aerobic exercise — running, elliptical or stair-climbing machines, swimming, etc. — will burn body fat. But there's a reason many people fail at weight loss when they start with distance cardio from the very beginning: The results do not reflect the time and effort. Should it be easy? No. But compared to the other three methods of losing fat (sound diet, resistance training and HIIT), there's no question that the strategy of cardiovascular exercise for extended periods of time is a poor one (again, by comparatively speaking. If you like to run, by all means, run).
Increasingly, studies are showing that prolonged cardio is great for the heart and lungs and builds stamina — and it's also a pretty good way to eat up much-needed muscle tissue, which, as we discussed before, is crucial for your overall metabolism and fat-burning capability. This is all to say nothing of the "after-burn effect," which essentially provides nothing in the way of metabolism boost once you're done running; compare that to weight training, which can keep your fat-burning engine humming along up to eight hours after you're done. If you are doing proper weight training or high-intensity cardio, like short-distance sprints, and maintaining a disciplined diet, there is truthfully no reason you need to spend huge chunks of time running if fat loss is your goal.
- "I'M NOT A POWERLIFTER, SO I DON'T NEED TO SQUAT OR DEADLIFT." There's a reason your average person doesn't like to do them: They're hard. And they're hard because they work huge amounts of muscles, including the biggest groups in the body. The benefits of compound lifts (exercises that affect multiple muscle groups) are numerous, regardless of what your goals are. If you've thrown down money for a gym membership, that means you have some shred of desire to get in shape, and no matter if you're trying to lose a gut or build a six-pack, it starts in the squat rack. By not doing squats or deadlifts, you miss out on an opportunity to get huge results in a short amount of time — there is not a single more time-effective lift than these two. The squat and deadlift build big muscle and burn fat at the same time, while shaping and strengthening the lower body and core. Let us know when your seated leg extensions do that for you.
- WOMEN GETTING "BULKY." Arguably more important to muscle building than protein or carbs, or bench press or squats (though those are all important), is one thing we just about all have in common: testosterone. Here's what we don't have in common: how much of it we produce. While females certainly can build muscle rapidly using the aforementioned training and a high-protein diet, their muscles will ultimately look vastly different than a man taking the same steps. The reason: Men produce, on average, about 10 times more of this natural anabolic hormone than do women. The result, on a physicality scale, is that yes, women will get stronger, and their muscles will firm up the body. But adding bulk? Not so much. The first thing likely to happen to a weight-lifting woman will be strength gain, followed by fat loss (remember, muscle helps burn fat). Will significant muscle mass occur? Eventually, with high-calorie eating and intensive training, sure, it absolutely could. But hormonally speaking, it will take 10 times the amount of time and effort it would take a man — and ask one of them if he could ever gain bulk fast enough.
- "HEALTH STORE" FOODS/DRINKS. Modestly, we'll put the ratio of importance for diet-to-exercise at about 70-30 percent — it may be even more. Simply put, you are what you eat. The food industry knows this, believe it or not, better than you do. And so it acts on consumer knowledge: It slaps labels and tags everywhere to try to target the health-conscious. "Gluten-free," "fat-free," "14 essential vitamins and minerals," and so on. Want to know what those terms could easily apply to? An entire bag of pure cane sugar is gluten-free (and fat free), and 14 essential vitamins and minerals are found in just about every breakfast cereal, including sugar-loaded ones like Cocoa Pebbles. Would you call these "health foods?"
The problem is, it's not the obvious ones that catch people who are trying to be diet-smart. Sports drinks and fruit/vegetable juice blends, promoted as healthy beverage alternatives, are often worse than if you'd eat a Snickers bar because of their exorbitant sugar content. Check out the Nutrition Facts on a Naked juice or an Odwalla the next time you're at the grocery store, or compare the sugar content between fat-free dressings and their full-fat alternatives (especially when the fat is from healthy olive oil, that's particularly good for you). You'll see through the food industry's B.S. before too long.
- ABS = CRUNCHES. Simply put, you'll get abs when you get your diet right. Too many people think they can skip the hard stuff and get that amazing six-pack by just hammering out a few sets of crunches every day. Remember: You CAN'T spot-burn fat. In fact, it's not an uncommon sight for people who work their abdominals a lot to have a bloated-looking belly — the "boiler" look — because they haven't lost enough body fat to keep their guts from bulging out. Knowing fat loss is 70 percent of the equation helps. When you drastically cut down your carbs and sugar intake, and up your protein consumption along with a good workout plan, the abs will come. You can help pronounce them, but crunches aren't the only (or even best) way to go. Hanging leg raises, planks, twists, etc., are all better, more function-based ways to target your core.
- EATING FAT MAKES YOU FAT. Blame the '80s for this (among other things — looking at you, leg-warmers). Once upon a time, we were all told about the food pyramid, and how the very bottom of it, the BIGGEST PART, should be comprised of breads, cereals, grains and pasta. Oops. We laugh at that now, because we know better. So why aren't we giving the same treatment to the "oils" part of that same pyramid? Remember, it's that little one at the top, grouped in heinously with sweets.
Olive oil (as well as other mono- and polyunsaturated fats found in nuts, seeds, legumes, etc.) is directly related to things like lower blood pressure, lower cholesterol and lower body fat. The omega 3-rich meat of fish has long been known to increase people's health when eaten regularly. EFAs (essential fatty acids) have to come from your diet, and yet people still are making fats out to be an enemy. Dietary fat DOES NOT equal body fat! When your diet has enough healthy fats in it, the body becomes much more effective at burning off the unhealthy ones. Put this myth to rest already.
- WORKOUTS MUST BE LONG TO BE EFFECTIVE. Show me someone who boasts about a two-hour workout and I'll show you someone who either 1) has a lot of time on his hands or 2) is a competitive bodybuilder. If you don't fit either category and you're still taking beyond an hour to get your exercise in, your workouts are too long and you're probably wasting your time. The amount of work you can get in in just 40 minutes, if you're watching your rest periods, is amazing. Consider the math:
Let's say you want a really intense, multi-muscle-group workout — we'll go with every bro's favorite, chest and back, for simplicity's sake. Consider a 3×10 scheme for this day (certainly this will be altered from workout to workout, but let's keep these numbers round). Even if you did eight total exercises, for a total of 24 sets, you'd be looking at about 35-38 minutes, assuming 1-minute rest periods and some time for loading and re-racking your weights.
Bring a stopwatch. Be mindful of your time. Don't be a gym flirt. And, Fabio — stop looking in the mirror while you rest.
- "I'VE WORKED HARD. I DESERVE A CHEAT WEEK." To stay sane and keep your metabolism working hard, you need a cheat meal every now and then. If you've put together six straight days of purposeful, healthful eating, by all means enjoy a slice of pizza or two on the seventh day. Your body will be so unused to it you likely will benefit from a metabolic spike just to process it (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has actually gone on record about choosing to eat a whole cheese pizza weekly as his cheat!).
But be honest with yourself — keep a dietary journal, if you have to. Track your workouts. Track your meals. When all you have to do to ruin your well-laid plans is talk yourself into it, that's when you must be at your most accountable. When it doubt, assume you don't deserve it quite yet. Ask yourself if you're eating because you're hungry, or because you're bored.
This also applies to your training. If you've ever fallen sick in the midst of a workout program, you know just how fast your body can completely reset its strength and muscle-building levels (and how fast fat can return, too). Because, inevitably, you WILL catch whatever cold is going around at some point and you WILL be involuntarily forced out of the gym, limit the days that you voluntarily keep yourself out. If you can work out that day, do it. Try not to ever have three straight days off (unless you're on an intense four-on, three-off split, of course).
And if, after 4-6 months of solid, consistent workouts and dieting, you finally decide a vacation is in order, enjoy it. Only then will you have earned it, and you'll thank yourself for sticking to it — an earned day off feels a lot better than one you wish you hadn't taken.


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My good friends Jen and Karim were married on October 18th in a tiny school house in downtown Toronto called the Enoch Turner School House. I was excited when they asked me to be part of their day by photographing it for them. It turned out to be a great day even thought the forecast was for rain. Congratulations to you both.
A big thanks to my brother Eric for helping me second shoot and photograph the guys getting ready.
Hair and Make up done by Donna Lajeunesse


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Late Visits
It was a bit of a rush to finish all my Late Visits for the Breeding Atlas. I've been wading through chest-deep nettles one morning and beans the next, got soaked with dew, scratched, stung and sunburnt, menaced by dogs, befriended by cats and shadowed by suspicious crows.
There were surprises right to the end: a Little Owl flying across the front lawn of Buckswood School for instance, (never seen one in that area before) and 5 Yellowhammers suddenly singing around Brook Lodge Farm, Brede instead of the usual 1, as well as a female gathering nesting material. Read the rest of this entry »


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I require at least a four hour notice of cancellation. Anything less than four hours will result in the student not being given a make-up lesson for the missed lesson. I check e-mail as well as voicemail throughout the day.
Make-up lessons
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** Make-up lessons cannot be used as partial payment for monthly lessons.
The studios are closed on all major holidays, for example: July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and the Christmas holidays. Students have several options when lessons fall on holidays: either reschedule their lesson to another day or take a make-up lesson.
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If any reality star wants a career after their fifteen minutes of TV fame are up, they should definitely follow in Lauren Conrad's successful footsteps. The former Hills star-turned-mini mogul was spotted in New York yesterday, where she greeted two young fans before heading into NBC Studios to promote her new book.
Lauren Conrad may have an extremely successful career, but when it comes to love, the former Hills star admits that dating in Los Angeles isn't as easy as it seems.
"Dating in Los Angeles can be hard, which makes it all the better when you meet a really nice guy," said Lauren. "I'm not old-fashioned when it comes to dating, but there's something nice about a guy pulling out a girl's chair and opening the door for her, even if it's just in the beginning."
Even though Lauren's currently "single at the moment," with a crazy promotional schedule ahead of her, the blonde beauty has plenty to keep her busy AND happy.
"It's funny. I'm my happiest when I'm really busy. I love feeling like I need one more hour of sleep, or when I'm running around frazzled!"
Click here for more posts on Lauren Conrad
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~Kelli at Hills Freak
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A relieved husband whose wedding ring was reportedly stolen at knifepoint in Doncaster has been reunited with the treasured possession.
The 74-year-old had been walking along High Street in Mexborough on Sunday, April 29 when he says he was approached by a stranger who threatened him with a knife and forced him to withdraw money from a cash machine on Main Street, before his gold wedding ring was taken.
The unknown man headed towards Lower Dolcliffe Road following the alleged robbery, which happened at around 10.20pm that night.
READ MORE: Some callers waiting over an hour to get through to South Yorkshire Police
Police, who had appealed for information, say the wedding ring has since been recovered from a local pawn shop - much to the relief of its owner, who had never been parted from it during 43 years of marriage.
A 28-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of robbery and has been released under investigation.
READ MORE: Lack of parking affecting trade for businesses in Sheffield suburb
Ben Lackenby, 22, and Kelly Hoult, 32, both of Cedar Avenue, were also arrested that day and were charged on Thursday with handing stolen goods in connection to the incident.
They have also been charged with robbery in connection to an incident that is reported to have occurred on Saturday, May 5.
READ MORE: Man caught committing obscene act at Ponds Forge
On that occasion, a 45-year-old woman reportedly had her nose broken in an assault on Wath Road in Mexborough at around 3am and was robbed of the £120 she had withdrawn from a cash machine.
Lackenby and Hoult appeared at Doncaster Magistrates' Court yesterday and have been bailed until their next appearance at court.


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Considering how late we woke up on Saturday, we managed to cram a surprising amount into the day. After a big breakfast, I somehow succeeded in convincing everyone to join me in the pouring rain for my doctor-mandated daily walk. It was actually a beautiful day in the valley where I usually walk because the rice paddies are so green and lush, and the mountains were misty. But we did get very wet! By the time we finished our walk, we were all starving, so we started on a mammoth egg salad for sandwiches, and I made some banana bread while we were boiling the eggs. We all wanted to take naps after lunch, but instead we almost immediately started thinking about dinner. Eliza made a big vegetarian shepherd's pie (with lentils instead of meat - yum!), and the guys huddled over the grill in the rain barbecuing pork ribs. By the time all this was finished, it was nearly 10 p.m.! That worked out well for everyone, though, because the Korea - Uruguay world cup game started at 11. I was totally zonked and decided to go to bed instead.
On Sunday, we were lucky enough to have our friends stay with us for the whole day. We spent some time with the Ryan family, who are going to take care of Nate and Eliza's beloved dog while they are in the U.S. next month. The guys decided to spend the afternoon brewing beer at Joe's apartment, and Eliza and I spent the afternoon in town having lunch and coffee. Then we came home for a pizza dinner and and early bedtime. It was such a relaxing weekend, clearly full of food and also good conversation. I just wish that our friends lived closer to us than 3 1/2 hours away!


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Compiled by Marc Collin of the phenomenal Nouvelle Vague comes an equally phenomenal album, this is Nouvelle Vague in reverse - new wave bands covering classic tracks of our time. Not a compilation for the sake of it, but an album breathing new life into one of the most controversial & back in vogue musical movements of recent times.
Nouvelle Vague presents New Wave features some of the great names of the 80's – Visage, OMD, The Stranglers, Joy Division, Gary Numan rendering their versions of classic tracks by The Rolling Stones, Bowie, The Kinks, The Velvet Underground, The Doors and others. Alongside these are more obscure bands – Belgium's Polyphonic Size, Antena from France, The Comateens from New York. Perhaps most representative of the spirit of the new wave movement as a whole and this album in particular is Belgium's Elton Motello deviant cover of Plastique Bertrand's international hit, Ça plane pour moi. Or was it the original ... ?
This is a quirky, fascinating, illuminating insight into the weird and wonderful world of New Wave.


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Jane Fonda talks 'male domination'
Jane Fonda says the male power structure that has dominated the world for centuries has been wounded - "but there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast."
The actress and women's rights activist has given a telephone interview ahead of UN meetings next week to assess progress toward women's equality.
She says "the most intractable problem that humanity faces is the problem of patriarchy," which she partly blames for the rise in terrorism and the destruction of the environment.
She said patriarchy is very entrenched, which has made it difficult for women fighting for real equality to challenge it, though she says women have made inroads.
Male power is "wounded now but there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, thrashing about, flailing its tail with the barbs on it, and a lot of people are really getting hurt badly," she said.
Fonda said this challenge to male power has not only had an impact on terrorism and the environment but has affected women demanding equality because "there's a lot of guys who won't stand for it."
"So we have to be constantly reminded of how far we've come and how far we still have to go," she said, and that's why she will be at the UN on March 12 to help launch a campaign by the women's rights group Equality Now urging all governments to repeal or amend all gender discrimination laws.
Fonda, a longtime supporter of the group, said just over half the laws it highlighted in 1999 have been revised, appealed or amended, but there is no excuse for less than 100 per cent.
Changing laws "is a huge step forward" and helps empower victims, she said, but to achieve equality many other things are needed as well.
"You need women elected to office, you need movements in the streets, you need social media, you need every single form of social protest and speaking truth to power that's possible," Fonda said.
And a woman leader must lead "as a woman and not as a man in skirts" who thinks she needs to prove she's not weak, she said.
Her value "is to bring her woman-ness to her leadership style" which means empathy, compassion and "someone whose head and heart are not bifurcated," she said.
Fonda said it took her a long time to understand what the women's movement was about and what feminism meant, and she will be fighting for equality for the rest of her life not only with Equality Now but with V-Day, a movement to stop violence against women, and the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential which she founded in 2001.
But Fonda hasn't given up on acting: She will be starring in director Paolo Sorrentino's movie Youth in Venice with Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel, which will be released this year. And she said she's gearing up for a second season of the Netflix series Grace and Frankie with Lily Tomlin.


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I was in church as a Sunday School student today, it was a very welcome change.
As the lesson on faith was going on, we read from the book of Daniel 3.
We didn't read the whole chapter, but as the day progressed and I commuted with God throughout the day, lifting up my heaviness, I heard Him say to me, 'You will not smell of smoke'.
The Holy Spirit immediately sent me back to scripture. Read with me: 'The Kings satraps, governors, mayors and advisers gathered around the three men. They saw that the fire had not harmed their bodies. The hair on their head wasn't singed, their clothes weren't burnt and they didn't smell of smoke'- Daniel 3:27.
If you've been holding on to your faith in God and his word, you've prayed and nothing seems to be changing, if the conspiracies against you seem to be gaining ground and you're at the point where it seems like it's deny God or drown, guess what I have learned?
God is able to make you go through the fire and come out without smelling of smoke.
You will go through the fire- no doubt, Christianity does not exempt us from trials but the trials will not consume you.
You will come out on the other side of those trials and no one will ever believe you went through them.
No matter what the devil throws at your faith this year, you will not smell of smoke.
I will not smell of smoke.
Who's With Me?


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Company executives believe that corporate responsibility programs can positively impact their business and help achieve strategic goals, according to a survey of more than 500 business executives conducted by accounting firm Grant Thornton.
Only a quarter of survey respondents believed that profits needed to be sacrificed to achieve social responsibility, while three quarters believed corporate responsibility could enhance profitability. As a result, 77 percent said they expected corporate responsibility initiatives to have a major impact on their business strategies over the next several years.
"Corporate responsibility programs have moved out of the realm of public relations to become real tools for improving the bottom line," says Jim Maurer, national managing partner of the consumer and industrial products practice at Grant Thornton. "Companies are realizing that strong investment in corporate responsibility programs is both a civic obligation and a successful business strategy. Today, corporate responsibility programs are a large part of what customers demand. What's more, if implemented correctly, they can also serve as a highly effective means of recruiting and retaining talent."
In fact, despite the fact that the Grant Thornton Business Optimism Index (a semi-annual measure of confidence among U.S. business leaders) reached an all-time low at the beginning of the summer, executives say their companies will increase investment in corporate responsibility: 77 percent anticipate more spending on environmental programs, 50 percent expect greater allocation to social responsibility programs and 45 percent say economic/governance initiatives will see more funding.
Other findings in the survey include:
• 19 percent of the companies surveyed report having a single point person in charge of all their corporate responsibility programs.
• 68 percent say they expect environmental responsibility reporting to be mandatory within the next three to five years, yet 55 percent say they have no plans to do any kind of corporate responsibility reporting.
• The four greatest obstacles to successful execution of corporate responsibility programs are: focus on quarterly earnings or other short-term targets, cost of implementation, measuring and quantifying ROI, and a non-supportive corporate culture.
• The three greatest benefits of enacting corporate responsibility programs are: improves public opinion, improves customer relations and attracts/retains talent.
• 72 percent of respondents believe that government should regulate companies for their effect on the environment and 56 percent said companies should be regulated for their effect on human rights and labor practices.
• 70 percent of respondents foresee increased government regulation for environmental responsibility in five years or less.
• 62 percent believe that pressure to pursue corporate responsibility programs in the future will come chiefly from consumers (45 percent) and investors (21 percent).
• 64 percent believe that the human resources department should take on social programs, 50 percent say operations should be in charge of environmental initiatives and 57 percent say finance should be responsible for economic responsibility programs.


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Trends in Consumers' Time Spent with Media
There are only so many hours per day that consumers can spend watching TV, reading newspapers and surfing the internet. But as marketers may suspect, the time devoted to media is undergoing some not-so-subtle changes.
eMarketer recently conducted a meta-analysis of data from dozens of research firms using a variety of methodologies. The result is a series of estimates of how much time consumers spend with all major media, regardless of multitasking or simultaneous usage, from 2008 to 2010. The estimates apply to average media usage of the general public, not solely to the users of each medium.
The average time spent with all major media combined increased from about 10.6 hours in 2008 to 11 hours in 2010, according to eMarketer. TV and video (not including online video) captured the lion's share of all media time, about 40% each year. The share of media time increased over the same period, from 21.5% to 23.5%, as did mobile's share, from 5% to 7.5%. The share of time spent with magazines and newspapers fluctuated between 10% and 7.5%, while radio and all other media—video games, movies in theaters and outdoor media—declined.
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Meltdown. Photographer Gary Braasch inside an ice cave on the edge of the Marr Ice Piedmont on Anvers Island, Antarctica. The cave has reportedly since disappeared as the glacier retreated. *Photograph by Gary Braasch.*David Elliot Cohen's new book, What Matters, which hits bookshelves today, is a collection of photo essays that explore 18 distinct social issues that define our time. Shot by the world's most renowned photojournalists, including James Nachtwey, who has contributed to V.F., the photographs explore topics ranging from genocide and global warming to oil addiction and consumerism, offering a raw view into the problems that plague our world. Each photo essay is accompanied by written commentary from an expert on the issue.
Cohen hopes the book will inspire people to work toward resolving these problems. "Great photojournalism changed the world in the past, and it can do it again," Cohen says. "I want people to see these images, get angry, and act on that anger. Compelling images by the world's best photojournalists is the most persuasive language I have to achieve this."
A slide show of images from the book, with captions by Cohen, is after the jump.
Chinese Pollution. Jia Jiale's grandmother applies lotion to treat rashes that appeared after a move to Sunying, in China's Huai River Basin. Photograph by Stephen Voss.
Water. Women and children are responsible for hauling water in Africa. This four-year-old girl in Ghana walks two and a half miles twice each day to fetch buckets of water for her family. Photograph by Brent Stirton.
Chernobyl. This children's home in Vesnova, Belarus, cares for 150 children with severe mental and physical disabilities. Although the cause of these disabilities is a matter of dispute, many such shelters receive support from international Chernobyl aid programs. Photograph by Gerd Ludwig.
Genocide. A memorial to the 1994 Rwanda genocide at the Church of Ntarama, in Kigali Province. Photograph by Raymond Depardon.
Darfur. Refugees flee across the Darfurian desert toward the border with Chad. Photograph by Marcus Bleasdale.
Jihad. A masked Islamic Jihad militant during a demonstration against an Israeli offensive in Gaza. Photograph by Muhammed Muheisen.
Bitter Fruit. A funeral service in Ellsworth, Wisconsin, for Private First Class Bert Hoyer, who was killed in Iraq. Photograph by Paul Fusco.
Poverty. A father and son in the poverty-stricken Rwandan countryside. Photograph by James Nachtwey.
Consumerism. A young actress shops at the upscale Kirna Zabete boutique in New York. Photograph by Lauren Greenfield.
Child Labor. Sathi's face is covered with carbon dust from recycled batteries. She is eight years old and works in a battery-recycling factory in Korar Ghat, on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Photograph by Shehzad Noorani.
Child Brides. Soon-to-be-wed Faiz Mohammed, 40, and Ghulam Haider, 11, at Ghulam's home in the rural village of Damarda, in Ghowr Province, Afghanistan. Photograph by Stephanie Sinclair.
Oil. Workers push gasoline barrels from the waterfront onto the main market road of Yenagoa, Nigeria. Photograph by Ed Kashi.
Migration. In Jakarta, Indonesia, wealth is in the hands of a privileged minority, while most people struggle in poor, polluted slums. Photograph by Sebastiao Salgado.
Border. In Tijuana, on the Mexican side of the border, the fence is covered with hundreds of memorials to those who died trying to cross into the United States. Photograph by Anthony Suau.
AIDS. A young AIDS victim in a Lusaka, Zambia, morgue. Photograph by Tom Stoddart.
Malaria. To repel malarial mosquitoes, the Mora people of Amazonian Peru wear a natural insect repellent made from two fruits that stains the skin for several weeks. Photograph by Maggie Hallahan.
Philanthropy. Philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi with a few of the many thousands of children he has helped. Photograph by Shahidul Alam.


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Arts Market in downtown Baton Rouge
Don't miss our first Saturday bounty of local creativity! The Arts Market, an open air market held on the first Saturday of each month (excluding January and April) in conjunction with the weekly Red Stick Farmer's Market and the Main Street Market, located at 5th and Main Street from 8 AM- 12 PM. The Arts Market provides entrepreneurial opportunities to local artists, while fostering creative community relationships by allowing artists to sell directly to the public.
Stroll through our Arts Market on the first Saturday and find a variety of hand-made arts including: pottery, cast & blown glass, jewelry, metal sculpture, hand-bound books, hand-made soaps, mixed media, hand-made garments, furniture, wood carvings, hand-painted silks, mosaics, hand-woven baskets, photography, and more!


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Finally, I got chance to finish this one. hmmm!!! quite a long break after coming from India, but its never too late to start again. Its kinda absurd that very few of us have 'Water' as favourite drink, isn't it? Anywayz... I had decided to draw transparent object and thought glass of water would be ideal. Initially, I thought I would just draw glass of water. But while searching for some resource material, I had come across a great artist who had worked on this subject. Immediately, I had decided to rework on his idea as it will be good practice for me. I am fairly happy with the outcome and very happy with the scanning output (unlike old drawings shot by camera).
So folks leave your comments/ feedback on this one. I had already decided on the next work, but I would be taking a break before I start drawing, as I am busy preparing for SQL DBA (Thanks to my friend - Amit for training me :)
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Cozy cabins and cottages, some sleep up to 9 people comfortably. Convenient, secluded place to base your ride in the Ozark Mountains and enjoy scenic lake views when the riding is through at the end of the day. Located on AR 101, just north of Hwy 62/412 east of Mountain Home. Address: 2655 AR 101. Call 870-467-5800 to book your reservation. You can visit their website for more details: www.wagonwheelresortlakenorfork.com
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A visit to her studio and sculpture garden
Barbara Hepworth in St. Ives
Over the holidays I managed to go and see Barbara Hepworth's studio and sculpture garden in St Ives. It was was incredible. Visiting this magical little spot gives you insight into the world and work of one of Britain's most important artists of the twentieth century.
She lived and worked at Trweyn studio for over 25 years. The small building has now become a museum dedicated to her work; it's run by the Tate but has managed to retain an air of intimacy and privacy that is truly unique. You can walk freely throughout the spaces and the garden, enjoying the serene atmosphere Mrs Hepworth managed to create. Seeing her work and her tools laid out as of frozen in time was absolutely lovely, but it was the light in her studio and the vegetation in the garden that were the highlights for me.
The Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden is open year round in Barnoon Hill, St. Ives.
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Now we officially have a GPU driver version 197.41 that supports the new Fermi-based GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480 cards and Nvidia also has released a 3D Vision driver 197.41 that is designed to be installed only on the GTX 470/480. So if you happen to be one of the first lucky owners of a brand new Fermi-based video (I still see only pre-orders being taken) you should download and install these, especially if you wish to use your new powerful GPU for gaming in stereo 3D with 3D Vision. Have in mind that according to Nvidia the new 3D Vision driver 197.41 only supports GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480 and not other cards so you should not try to install it on others!
The new 3D Vision driver for Fermi comes with a fix for a problem with ViewSonic projector timings for models PJD6210-3D, PJD6220-3D, PJD5351 and PJD5111 and update to include support for ViewSonic projector models PJD6381, PJD6211, PJD6221, PJD6241, PJD5112. New 3D Vision profiles for the following two games: Alice in Wonderland and StarCraft II Beta, and updated profiles for Battlefield: Bad Company 2, BioShock 2, Metro 2033: The Last Refuge, Napoleon: Total War. These updates and new features will probably very soon be available in an update of the 3D Vision driver that will cover all video cards. Also you should have in mind that in this driver there is still no support for 3D Vision Surround!
– Download the GPU driver 197.41 for 32-bit Win Vista/7 – 197.41 for 64-bit Win Vista/7
– To download the new 3D Vision driver 197.41 with support for Fermi only! (32/64-bit)…


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Looks like Aprilia got the "update your superbike" memo, along with everyone else. The company that just carried Sylvain Guintoli to a World Superbike title on Sunday, released an updated RSV-4 RR and RSV-4 RF on Tuesday at the EICMA show.
Although the 2015 Aprilia RSV-4 RR looks similar to the previous iteration, it actually has a number of changes. The 999 cc V4 engine will now make 201 horsepower and 84.4 foot-pounds of torque. That's a 17 horsepower bump over the current model, thanks to an all-new airbox, injectors, intake ducts, redesigned heads, and titanium valves with new valve springs.
The 2015 version is also three pounds lighter, for a wet weight of 449 pounds.
Though it doesn't look like it, the front end has been completely redesigned. The front fairing and headlight are new, and now include an LED parking light. New mirrors have built-in turn signals. The APRC system, Aprilia's electronics package that includes traction control, wheelie control, launch control and quick shifter, has also been reworked. Aprilia is calling the version on this bike a second generation, but they've yet to release information on what that means.
The swingarm is new and 14 mm longer than its predecessor, though the rest of the chassis remains unchanged.
For those of you who just can't get down the road without all the bells and whistles, Aprilia is releasing the 2015 Aprilia RSV-4 RF.
The RSV-4 RF adds Aprilia's Race Package, which includes Ohlins suspension, forged aluminum wheels, and super-special graphics. (Who am I kidding? I actually really like them.)
We're still waiting to hear pricing and release dates, and you can be sure we'll be looking for more information on Aprilia's second-generation APRC.


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May 23, 2019Labor and Employment
Hundreds of thousands of migrants come to the United States each year for work, but Washington has struggled to balance the shifting needs of industry with the concerns of the domestic labor force.
May 14, 2019China
On virtually every front—from trade and investment to technology and innovation—it has become clear that the U.S.-China relationship has entered a new, increasingly contentious period marked more by …
May 10, 2019Climate Change
A version of this blog was originally published at The Hill website. Guest blogger Daniel Scheitrum, assistant professor, Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics, University of Arizona, cont…
May 15, 2019Burkina Faso
President Emmanuel Macron of France announced on May 10 that French military forces rescued four hostages in Burkina Faso held by Islamist militants. Two were French, one was American, and one was South Korean. No authorities have released freed hostage names, citing privacy considerations. However, the operation cost the lives of two French soldiers, the names of whom have been made public.
May 10, 2019Hungary
President Trump's hosting of Prime Minister Viktor Orban will be viewed as a boost to populists and another blow to Europe's strained political center.
April 17, 2019Genocide and Mass Atrocities
The history of the Genocide Convention stretches back more than seventy years, yet much work remains to be done to prevent and respond to atrocities.
April 3, 2019Somalia
The United States has been helping Somalia fight al-Shabab militants for more than a decade, but rights groups say increasing drone strikes are putting civilians at risk.
May 24, 2019India
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist party resoundingly won the general election following a divisive campaign, but it is not yet clear how the results should be interpreted.
May 24, 2019Cybersecurity
This week: Huawei feels global effect of Trump administration order; Qualcomm loses in antitrust action; Washington calls for regulation of facial recognition; Facebook enforces its content rules; an…
May 2, 2019Iran
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text: Todd Cary wrote: > Thank you all for the store of knowledge. > > I do have a follow up question about Rick's suggestion concerning > ownership of the "Apache" directories. What is a good alternative? If > they are "root", can Apache access them? Is that even good? > > Suggestions welcomed... > > Todd > I'm a bit misunderstood about what you are trying to accomplish here? Are you just trying to share different files to different groups served by apache? If this is the case you may be better served dishing out the content using something like apache basic authentication instead. Just password protect the directory structure that belongs to the viewpoint group with a different one that belongs to the todd group. That way you can keep permissions quite simple on the server side. WebDAV is also another great way to share files in it's simplest of senses. Additionally, if you are just trying to share files and documents, you may be best to investigate DocMGR. It's a great document management system that supports users and groups, full text searching and many other features. Combined with WebDAV it can be quite powerful. -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-3610 Fax : 778-782-3045 Mobile : 778-840-6434 E-Mail : jpeltier at cs.sfu.ca Website : http://gruvi.cs.sfu.ca | http://scirf.cs.sfu.ca MSN : subatomic_spam at hotmail.com


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A year back, against the wishes of the Government, Lalit Modi moved the IPL to South Africa. That was insulting the nation's pride - to say the least. Is the event so very important than the nation, when it is under a security threat? IPL anyway started late in April and they could've waited. Oh! branding and business needs? Don't get me started. It is a sham anyways.
And now, this is what Modi & co. get for trying to be a smart ass. You don't mess up with the Government. You don't insult your nation. If you do it, you get whacked on your butt. And for the Govt, it has been a wait and watch for a year before pulling the trigger. Perfect execution.
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Jade is a GHF Ambassador and Family and Educational Coach for the Gifted
As a family coach, blogger, and independent educator, I often say that although my work has some to do with gifted children, it actually has more to do with gifted families. Parents will come to me when they suspect their child is gifted, stressed out with a million questions. And at some point in our conversation, they will realize they are not only asking about how to best support their children, they are also asking about how to best support themselves and their partners.
I call this The Cycle of Realization. To be honest, it's more like a Winding-Staircase-That-Never-Ends of Realization.
And that's when the mourning begins.
A clinical understanding of giftedness as a holistic, inherent cognitive difference has only now begun to explode into popular culture. Everywhere, people are working hard to develop strategies to support the gifted learner. The semi-joking question I get from gifted parents all the time is "Where were you when I was five?"
When that gifted parent was five, the presiding parenting dictum was that children were to be seen and not heard. Often the only explanation any child got for anything was "Because I said so." Questions were interpreted as distractions or unhealthy attention-seeking behaviors that were to be ignored.
This type of authoritarian parenting often shuts down a gifted child's drive to learn, explore, and create. If a child is chastised every time she makes a comment or asks a question, you better believe that child is going to go underground with her giftedness. Going underground with an inherent aspect of our selves results in depression, anxiety, and poor decisions.
Gifted parents can't help but wonder "How different or better would my life be if I had been identified as the gifted being I now realize I am?"
After I help a gifted parent develop some empathy and strategies to support their gifted child, they begin to see all the ways they could have been supported more effectively by their parents and educators.
My next step is to teach them to self-empathize, using healthy self-talk that includes phrases like:
I did the best I could with what I had.
I acted out in the past because my need for understanding was not being met.
I tell them to put phrases like these on repeat in their mind as they parent their own gifted child. This soothing self-talk can serve to ease the sometimes upsetting realization of how much better your childhood could have been, while you actively work to create a supportive environment for your own gifted child.
Does this sound like you? Are you a parent just beginning to realize that this gifted stuff applies to you, too?
If you'd like to listen and share your experiences with navigating how the traits of giftedness apply to you, please join Sara Yamtich and me on July 9, 2014, for a free community call. During the call, we will offer peer support to one another as we discuss characteristics of adult giftedness, including insatiable curiosity, high sensitivity and perceptivity, multipotentiality, perfectionism, and entelechy.
It's sure to be a great time and I sincerely hope you'll join us.
To receive details, please take a moment to sign up for Sara's mailing list. We look forward to hearing your voice!
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Can I let you in on a secret? In the military we would get roped into a meeting, where some presenter rambled on with slide after slide of boring information. The topics were supposed to be useful, but the presentation sucked, and had to meet a minimum time requirement.
We couldn't leave. We had to do it. We had to merely endure it.
We would have rather been subjected to, well, pretty much anything else.
Did we retain any information? Absolutely not.
Could we have acted on what we learned? Hell no!
We called it…
Now I'm in an industry that cloaks valuable information mumbo-jumbo "reports". You know the ones: they are full of mind-numbing statistics with no frame of reference. They are worse than useless.
I even see other agents on TV with a paid ad and airtime doing nothing more than reciting numbers. What a complete waste of time and money. Worse is that they expect anyone to sit through it voluntarily.
I can't stand "Death by Statistics"!
Due to my severe aversion to the useless and mind-numbing, I made sure that my guide is actually useful. It may never be considered entertaining (that's reserved for my videos), but it is chock full of great information in a format even I could quickly grasp.
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TEXAS - ZipRealty has released a list of the ten most affordable housing markets of 2013.
The evaluation compared median home sale prices in 30 metropolitan areas to median household income levels in those same cities. Those metropolitan areas with the lowest ratios of home price to household income were deemed to be the most affordable areas for purposes of the study.
*Three months ending February 1, 2012, year over year
**Three months ending February 1, 2013, year over year
Source: ZipRealty
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Are more of those manifolds for sale at that price
Little bit of an update, i now have the engine/gearbox in the car was a little bit of struggle but got it in started to plumb everthing back up..
look like the manifold is a good fit:
think ill be making a heat sheild for the ABS though.
i also bought a bit of bling for the engine bay, i have no idea if these work but they look pretty cool:
did come up against some snags though, i need to fit electric fans to help me get the oil filter relocator in/thermostate. any one have any idea on what fan controller to use? i know HKS use to make one but seems they dont any more.. i know the Kenelowe ones are pretty good used one of them on my last car. but are they any others?
Next on the list:
fit new rocker cover
oil cooler kit
do some wax oiling.
little bit of an update not done a massage amount due to the weather being minging, started to fit the oil cooler, bottom mounts made from some titainium
made the top ones from some alloy tho, gave them a lick of paint.
get my Greddy filter relocator fitting as well, need some more fittings to finish it off:
and this is what she looks like back together:
i decided to get started on sorting out getting the diff cleaned up
and i picked myself some new wheels up:
guna give them a refurb thinking of either painting them bronze or satin black not sure yet..
its getting there now, hopfully will be on the road in the next couple of months !!!
been plodding along with the car, managed to get a first start on it last weekend.. in the process of sorting a few teething troubles. i have a dead coil pack so need to get a known good one to make sure before i buy a new set. managed to get a alot of work on the engine bay tidying everything up:
happy with the way its looking at the minute...
also had a chance to test fit my new brakes:
360mm vs stock R GTR disc
looking good behind the TE's
although i am tempted to upgrade yet further for some 6 pot brembos ! any interested in this kit?
What did you use to make the abs heat shield?
No.1 Vertex S15 running HKS GTRS sold
No.2 Aero S15 running top mount GTX3076R sold
Now BB R34 GTR V-spec II
Simple and effective looks good!
No.1 Vertex S15 running HKS GTRS sold
No.2 Aero S15 running top mount GTX3076R sold
Now BB R34 GTR V-spec II
Did you make the air filter shield up as well? Looks nice


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Soft and lightweight, these thread-wrapped bracelets are perfect for collecting and stacking! To give this color-blocked bracelet its shape and stability, we wrapped colorful thread sourced from local markets around our very own t-shirt offcuts! Each piece comes with a sliding knot to easily fit all wrist sizes. Available in six colors.
Material: Nylon thread
Size: 16cm; adjustable 12cm
Weight: 4g
Color: Black
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The stated prices are for retail purchases. Our sales officer will review your order and respond with a custom quote in case your ordered quantity qualifies for a volume based discount.


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From L to R: Dalton Clifford, Melissa Angel, Lance Grimm, Angie Dodge, Rory Dineen, Steve Billingsley, Joey Adams
Lance Grimm joined the EMI team in December as the Director of Sales. He graduated from Miami University in 2007. Prior to EMI he spent six years working for a local software company. In his free time, Lance enjoys attending concerts, hiking, rock climbing and photography.
Steve Billingsley is a veteran in the market research industry, knowledgeable in sampling, quant and qual methodologies and online fielding best practices. In his role as Senior Sales Executive, he is responsible for developing new accounts for EMI and building strong client relationships. He enjoys reading, CrossFit and chasing his 3 boys around baseball fields around the Dallas/Fort Worth area.
Melissa Angel serves as Controller, responsible for corporate finance, accounting and tax, financial planning, human resources, and internal compliance. Melissa works closely with the executive team to help define strategy, align resources, and execute on the company's strategic vision and enjoys vacations by the water – lake or ocean. Melissa has three children, four grandchildren and two dogs.
Angie Dodge just joined EMI as an Executive Assistant and HR. She has an undergrad in human resource management and has been an Executive Assistant for 15 years in several industries; military, telecommunications, and banking. She lived in Europe for 6 years and traveled to 30+ different countries in that time. She also have been known to do stage plays around the city.
Rory Dineen recently graduated from Xavier University where she studied International Business. She joined the EMI team after learning about the industry through a summer internship in the industry. In her role as Client Services Representative at EMI she enjoys creating solutions that make clients lives easier through by providing the best online sample. In her free time, Rory enjoys watching the New York Yankees and Xavier Musketeers, playing lacrosse, and biking.
Joey Adams is Office Manager at EMI Research Solutions. She joined the EMI team in August 2016. She has a background in Media and Surgical Equipment Sales. Her proudest moment during her short time here is moving the entire company in three days! When she isn't taking care of the needs of everyone at EMI, she is carting around her awesome redhead 11 year old boy to swim meets, basketball and lacrosse games, and drum lessons. When she has free time she loves to refinish furniture! Her motto is "You got this!". An interesting fact about Joey is that she has a twin sister!
Dalton Clifford was born and raised in Mason, OH. He is set to complete and graduate in May of 2018 with degrees in Accounting, Finance, and specialization in sales from The University of Alabama. At EMI Dalton works as a Client Service Representative focusing on current and new prospects while assisting the sales team with clients and partners. In his free time, Dalton enjoys traveling, spending time with family and friends, and cheering on the Cincinnati Reds and Alabama Crimson Tide.


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Assassin Bug
there are many versions of this aggressive beneficial insect
Order: Hemiptera (true bugs)
Images - I. Lindsey
Assassin bugs are appropriately named because of their habit of lying
in ambush for their insect prey. With speed and accuracy, this bug uses
its long "beak" to stab the victim and then inject it with a lethal toxin
that dissolves the victim's tissue, then it sucks up the liquefied tissues
through its long beak
Assassin bugs are aggressive and not afraid to attack creatures much
larger than itself. They will inflict a very painful bite to humans
if handled carelessly, causing a severe reaction in some persons. As you
can see in the picture on the left, the beak is rather large and the beast
can manuever it very quickly to not only impale its victim but to inject
toxic venom.
The Assassin bug pictured above is a dull-colored variety found on milkweed growing in the Alkali Meadow. The common variety, pictured at the top of the page, is much more colorful and found everywhere in the Central Valley. Assassin bugs prey on other insects and benefits people because it eats many non-beneficial insects that are pests to farmers and ornamental gardeners.
Most Assassin bugs are found in late June to early August, but can be active year-round in the Central Valley of California. These bugs have a long narrow head, long beak (three-segmented), long slender antennae (four-segmented) and an abdomen often widened at the middle exposing the margins of the segments beyond the wings. An adult may reach 3/4" long.
Assassin bugs, sometimes known as conenoses or "kissing bugs," are occasionally found in the home (bathtubs, sinks, drains, etc.).
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HERSHEY, Pa. -- A new program to promote research collaborations and fund team research projects kicks off on Feb. 26.
PSU Pathway to Partnership (P3) was created to increase the number and diversity of teams that would be competitive for large externally funded research program grants such as NIH Program Project or Center Awards or similar collaborative mechanisms from other agencies or organizations. The program has three stages spanning almost two years with up to $300,000 available to each funded project in the third stage.
"We have high hopes that this program will help identify the next generation of innovative and ground breaking research here at Penn State College of Medicine," said Sheila Vrana, vice dean for research and graduate studies.
The idea and framework for the program came from Unified Campus Research Team. P3 is modeled loosely after a program at University of Michigan that also incentivizes diverse groups of at least three faculty to come together in one project.
"The challenge of team science is that bringing researchers together in new ways, especially across disciplines, takes time, patience and skills that most researchers either do not have or struggle to mobilize when they are already running at full speed," said Dr. Sarah Bronson, director, Research Development and Interdisciplinary Research. "However, teams, potentially innovative and interdisciplinary, can realize increased productivity and impact once they reach a certain stage."
The P3 kickoff will take place from 1:30 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, at the University Conference Center on the Penn State Hershey campus. The day will feature a panel discussion on team science successes and challenges; networking opportunities, a talk by Dr. Rosemarie Filart, a former NIH program officer who will discuss best practices for team proposal development, an announcement of the RFA for stage 1, and a reception.
To register, click here.
P3 is sponsored by Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute, the Office of the Vice Dean for Research and Graduate Studies and the Unified Campus Research Team.


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About Martel Electronics
57 Years of History with The United States Presidents
Martel has since remained a favorite of American presidents, and is often referred to as "The Source". Martel has become a premier outfitter for various electronics to all branches of law enforcement and the united states government. In 1999, the company moved into its own state of the art building located in Yorba Linda, California. This was due to outstanding, continual growth, greater customer demand for our products, and expert knowledge. We pride ourselves in being able to respond with modifications that our customer requires. In addition, most medical transcriptions schools use Martel as their direct supplier for their students. Our ever growing database enables Martel to send out more than 500,000 specialty catalogs yearly to our valued customers, of whom records are kept private. Given the opportunity we will prove our excellence!


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I am going to admit something difficult. Today has been a hard day.
My daughter finally got to go back to school, which is wonderful.
This is finally happening, which is also wonderful…
except that it means that they are currently jack-hammering the perimeter of an 1100 square foot basement. It's a little loud.
So my son's 2 hour morning nap was cut to 15 minutes.
I don't like to bother my family and friends with my problems; I know that may seem surprising, as I am constantly talking about my incredible support system, but I desperately do not want to be self-involved or insensitive of their time or to worry them. I keep a lot in. But today, I felt like I could admit it. I spoke with my dear friend of over 13 years this morning about the crippling anxiety I was feeling. She guided me through some techniques to assuage the feelings.
And I told my mom, which is something that I have rarely done as of late. And she said that what I am feeling–this heaviness–is all because of what is coming up on Thursday. Thursday is Thanksgiving, for which I am more thankful than ever, but it is also the anniversary of a very troubled time in my life.
And then my mommom called to invite us to the mall and I wasn't able to go because of the whole baby no-nap situation and she knew I was anxious and she said, "I am always just a phone call away. Although my fax machine broke this morning and I am so frustrated, I don't know what to do."
I assured her that I wouldn't be faxing her with an SOS, so that she could take that off of her list of worries.
And then I texted with a special friend, a friend who gets me, because she sat on the floor with me all last winter, even through my darkest of times, as our babies rolled around and drooled on each other. And I told her that I felt as though I was unraveling. And she made it better.
And all of those things that I just wrote about are concrete examples of the incredible tribe that I have surrounding me.
But then I did the most important thing of all;
I picked up my son and looked into his eyes. I kissed his face and nuzzled him into my cheek and inhaled him so deeply.
"I love you, I love you, I love you."
I asked him if he wanted a baba. "Baba!" he said.
My son, who is now learning to talk, and learning to walk, and dances when he hears music and squeals with glee over Lola and knows to pet her ever so gently and who understands everything we say; As I looked at him, I felt more love for him than I have ever felt for him before.
And then it hit me;
My daughter is, and has always been, so obviously my dream come true. She is named the name we chose 3 months into dating and that I chose when I was 10 years old. She is exactly like me in looks and personality. We are so bonded. She is my heart and soul.
But my son, my dear son
just may be the very best thing that has ever happened to me.
I looked over to the framed painting I made for him that hangs in the corner of his nursery.
Take me where the music's playing
Get me on the dance floor, hold me a little closer.
And I swayed with my son, my lips to his cheek, and the deluge of memories of the past year poured over me.
He has taught me that I could overcome things that I never imagined I would be strong enough to endure.
He may drive me crazy with his "lively antics", but oh my goodness, my son is the best thing that has ever happened to me.
He redefined me.
He has given me purpose.
He opened up parts of me that I didn't know existed.
His first year was not filled with the magic and enchantment like it was with his sister.
He didn't come out looking like me or acting in a way that I understood inherently.
But I now rock him to bed every night, and I look down at his sleeping face and I marvel at how he looks exactly the same as he did when they would place him next to me to nurse in the hospital bed.
This little ball of energy and activity and constant movement and craziness has saved me.
Remind me to thank him for it.


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Sayreville Representing GMC Again in Red Bank Holiday Tourney
LITTLE SILVER, NJ–On Saturday, GMC Hoops received information including the seeds and schedule for the 2016 Albert E. Martin Buc Classic at Red Bank Regional High School. Eight teams are competing in the tournament including six that participated last year.
Last year's champion, Ranney is competing in a holiday tournament down in Florida. However, entering the tourney this year is last year's Shore Conference Tournament champions, Mater Dei, which was awarded the top seed, and will face eighth seeded Freehold Boro in the opening round on December 27th.
Sayreville, the third seed, is the lone representative from the Greater Middlesex Conference in the tourney, and will face sixth seeded St. John Vianney in the first round. The tournament will take place over three days: Tuesday, December 27th, Wednesday, December 28th, and Friday, December 30th. Below is the schedule for the three days:
2016 Albert E. Martin Buc Classic–Day One–December 27th
- #6 St. John Vianney vs. #3 Sayreville, 12:30 PM
- #7 Shore Regional vs. #2 Middletown North, 2:00 PM
- #5 Red Bank Regional vs. #4 Central Regional, 3:30 PM
- #8 Freehold Boro vs. #1 Mater Dei Prep, 5:00 PM
2016 Albert E. Martin Buc Classic–Day Two–December 28th
- Consolation: Red Bank vs. Freehold Boro, 12:30 PM
- Consolation: St. John Vianney vs. Shore Regional, 2:00 PM
- Semifinal: Central Regional vs. Mater Dei, 3:30 PM
- Semifinal: Sayreville vs. Middletown North, 5:00 PM
2016 Albert E. Martin Buc Classic–Day Three–December 30th
- Consolation: Freehold Boro vs. Shore Regional–7th Place Game, 12:30 PM
- Consolation: St. John Vianney vs. Red Bank–5th Place Game, 2:00 PM
- Consolation: Central Regional vs. Middletown North–3rd Place Game, 3:30 PM
- Championship: Sayreville vs. Mater Dei Prep, 5:00 PM
NOTE: GMC Hoops plans to cover action from at least one day of this event. You can view the bracket for this year's boys varsity tourney on bracketmaker.com at http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=465331.


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Senior judo coaches from the All England Judo Federation Essex Region and Northern Region came together for a training day at the Riverside Leisure Centre in Morpeth.
Local clubs who were taking part were the Ronin Judo Club, Morpeth, Shugendo Judo Club, Cramlington and Wallsend's Bushido Judo Kwai.
The coaching team from Essex were Joe Norman 7th Dan, Fred Turner 7th Dan, Lee Cleasby 3rd Dan, from Northumberland Juneille Meyer 7th Dan, John Hall 5th Dan and Andy Bell 3rd Dan, and from Wallsend Chris Dawson 7th Dan and Robert Stuart 1st Dan.
The training day attracted an excellent turnout of both junior and senior judoka and due to the success of the event it is envisaged more of the same in the future.


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Welcome to Resting in the Heart
As a Clinical Hypnotherapist and trauma specialist my aim is to provide a space in which you can develop insight and self-awareness and become the best possible version of yourself.
Perhaps you are on a journey of self-discovery, trying to figure out where you're going or attempting to cope with difficult life events that prevent you from moving forward? Are you ready to remove obstacles that have been holding you back and take the next step towards your best possible future? Isn't it right that you should be happy and fulfilled in the life you are living now?
Gaining insight into your own functioning enables you to become more self-aware, it brings about healing, removes emotional blocks and allows you to move on from personal and emotional difficulties, above all it puts you back in charge.
Change comes from a deeper subconscious level, connected to a much deeper awareness, it's the level you might attempt to reach through meditation or other such practices that allow powers of concentration to be heightened. It's a place we might reach without realising many times a day, but when we go there with purpose incredible things can happen.
There is growing evidence to suggest that hypnotherapy, meditation and other mindful practices are effective in the treatment of trauma and promote personal growth. These practices have been gaining momentum, they are now much more widely accepted and can be incredibly effective in bringing about the change that you desire.
I use a number of therapeutic techniques and healing therapies, including relaxation, visualisation and hypnotherapy, along with my experience of working in the field of trauma to work with a client to reach a level of being, where they will realise possibilities and make the best decisions for their future.
So What is Hypnotherapy?
Hypnotherapy is a complementary therapy that uses the power of suggestion to bring about change. By working directly with the subconscious we are able to make changes in our thoughts, feelings and behaviour. The subconscious stores all of our memories, it's the store that holds what we have learnt and the place from which our automatic responses to recurring events are triggered. Change can only occur when we work with the subconscious, to gain more perspective on these memories, or to make changes to those automatic responses that have been established through our earlier experience. As a hypnotherapist, I will support the dialogue between the conscious and unconscious to aid recovery and promote wellness.