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Breda Lynch is a Irish artist living in Limerick. She received her BA Hons degree at the Crawford College of Art, Cork, MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art, London and an MPhil from the University of Wolverhampton, England.
She has presented solo shows in Ireland and Northern Ireland and has participated in group exhibitions in Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, England, Italy, Turkey, Thailand, China, USA and Iceland. Most notably of these were the BEFF – Bangkok Experimental Film Festival 2008 and 2015 and the Irish Pavilion at World Expo, Shanghai 2010.
Lynch has been a recipient of the Artists Bursary Award from the Arts Council of Ireland 2005, a prize-winner at Iontas in 2007, and a number of Limerick City Council Artist Bursary Awards, Arts Council Travel and Training 2014, was awarded the NUIG purchase prize for her work at Impressions Biennale, Galway International Arts Festival 2017 and is taking up her residency award from Cow House Studios, Wexford in 2018.
She has curated art exhibitions, most notably 'Darkness Visible' with Ann Mulrooney at the Galway Arts Centre commissioned by the Galway Arts Festival in 2008, 'A Poem of Friendship' at Occupy Space, Limerick 2010, 'Excavate', commissioned by Cork Printmakers and Cork City Museum, 2010 and 'Other Drawings' at Ormston House, Limerick 2012.
In 2014 she presented a solo show titled: 'The Pit and Other Stories', at Siamsa Tire Gallery, Tralee and participated in the SIM – International Artists Residency Programme in Reykjavik, Iceland, which was supported by the Arts Council of Ireland 2014.
More recently, Lynch presented solo exhibitions at Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co.Mayo, titled 'Fragments of a Lost Civilization' 2016 and the popularly received 'Witch and Lezzie' at the Ashford Gallery, RHA Dublin, October 2017.
Breda is a full-time lecturer in Fine Art at Limerick School of Art and Design, LIT, Limerick.
Lynch references gothic worlds in her work, which question 'what is considered traditional 'normality'. This is in a sense a night or 'noir' world where extremes and uncertainties of sexuality, morality and power exist shadowing the prevalent social ethos. The gothic operates within what Freud terms the 'uncanny', which could be described as the fear of the new and unknown. But the gothic world is a dark one, where it is impossible to see certainties. The fact that there are no certainties is much more unsettling than any supernatural imagery that the gothic evokes.' (Greg McCartney – Director, North West Visual Arts Archive, Ireland, 2007).
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Soft Eyebrows using Eyeshadow tutorial! This is my Eyebrow Routine with video! Achieve natural looking soft eyebrows with my tutorial!
Hi gorgeous! This is my soft eyebrows using eyeshadow tutorial. This gives my eyebrows a soft natural look. My natural eyebrows are black but I love filling them in with a lighter brown palette. Give this a try!
How to get Soft Eyebrows using Eyeshadow Tutorial
1. Use two different colored eyeshadows – One light and one a couple shades darker.
2. Apply the darker eyeshadow to the arch and outer corner.
3. Apply the lighter color eyeshadow to the beginning of the eyebrow and blend it toward the middle.
4. Use a blender brush to soften the eyeshadow.
5. Apply concealer to the bottom of the eyebrow and blend it downward creating a sharp clean line.
6. Finish by concealing above the eyebrow arch.
Products I used:
e.l.f. Studio 36-Piece Geometic Eyeshadow Book ($4.80)
e.l.f. Studio Small Angled Brush ($3.00)
e.l.f. Studio HD Lifting Concealer -color FAIR ($3.00)
Sonia Kashuk Gold Limited Edition (these are so hard to find online)
here's my review: http://eleganceandbeautyreviews.com/sonia-kashuk-makeup-brush-review/
If you want to experiment and try a new eyebrow shape for your eyes, try my free printable eyebrow stencils
I'm still new at the makeup tutorials. Any honest feedback is beyond welcome! I have so much respect for youtubers who make high quality makeup tutorials. I had a hard time making this. Hopefully the next will be better! YAY!
Link to my youtube video:
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Consider it habitual. For the world's best surf photographers, shooting these atmospheric angles is just another checkmark in their daily "must shoot" list. Photographers such as Surfer Senior Photographer Ryan Craig have gravitated toward "the drone angle" because it adds another dimension to their bag of tricks. The drone was once used mostly as a video component but now provides a fresh canvas for surf photographers like Corey Wilson, Chris Burkard, Jimmicane and now Craig to work with.
Above are some of the best images Craig captured with his DJI Phantom 4 on the North Shore this winter.
You can view more of Craig's drone photography work here, where he captured empty lineups without a soul in sight on his recent trip to Southeast Asia. Enjoy!


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In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the defendants appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County dated May 27, 2008, which, upon a jury verdict on the issue of liability finding that they were 80% at fault in the happening of the automobile accident and that the plaintiff was 20% at fault in the happening of the accident, upon a jury verdict on the issue of damages, and upon an order of the same court dated February 26, 2008, denying their motion pursuant to CPLR 4404(a), inter alia, to set aside the verdicts on the issues of liability and damages and for judgment as a matter of law or, in the alternative, for a new trial is in favor of the plaintiff and against them in the principal sum of $2,375,871.
On September 22, 2003, the plaintiff, LR, allegedly was injured when he was struck by a bus owned by the defendant New York City Transit Authority (hereinafter NYCTA) and operated by JA, sued herein as John Doe, as the plaintiff was crossing Gates Avenue at its intersection with Franklin Avenue in Brooklyn.
After serving a notice of claim upon NYCTA, and thereafter commencing this action, the plaintiff served a verified bill of particulars dated June 4, 2003, alleging that he sustained permanent, serious personal injuries including, inter alia, L5–S1 disc protrusion with impingement on the proximal right S1 nerve root and L4–5 disc bulge. On July 27, 2006, he underwent surgery consisting of right-sided hemilaminotomy, L5–S1 and right-sided partial disectomy L5–S1. The plaintiff did not claim aggravation of any preexisting condition or prior injuries. After the trial on the issue of liability, the jury found the defendants 80% at fault in the happening of the accident and the plaintiff 20% at fault.
After the trial on the issue of damages, the jury found that the plaintiff, as a result of the accident of September 22, 2003, sustained a significant limitation of use of body function or system. The jury awarded the plaintiff the sums of $200,000 for past pain and suffering, $1,210,000 for future pain and suffering for 25 years, $60,000 for past loss of earnings, and $905,871 for future loss of earnings over 17 years.
The defendants moved, pursuant to CPLR 4404(a), inter alia, to set aside the jury verdict on the issues of liability and damages, and for a judgment as a matter of law, arguing, among other things, that several of the plaintiff's injuries were not proximately caused by the subject accident, and that those injuries which may have been caused by the accident did not meet the threshold of serious injury required by Insurance Law § 5102(d). In an order dated February 26, 2008, the Supreme Court denied the defendants' motion. A judgment in favor of the plaintiff was subsequently entered. The defendants appeal. We reverse, and grant a new trial on the issues of causation and, if necessary, damages.
A postverdict motion pursuant to CPLR 4404(a) for judgment as a matter of law, made on the ground that a jury verdict is not supported by legally sufficient evidence, may be granted only if the court concludes that there is simply no valid line of reasoning and permissible inferences which could possibly lead rational persons to the conclusion reached by the jury on the basis of the evidence presented at trial.
If you suffered injuries, similar to the above case, contact Stephen Bilkis and Associates. Our Kings County Truck Accident Lawyers works together with Kings County Personal Injury Attorneys to help you defend and/or raise your claims and rights against the wrongdoer. Visit us at our offices located around New York Metropolitan for free legal consultation.


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Enough house stuff, huh?
I'm a little tired of talking about it, myself.
Time for a street party! My future home town hosts an "Alive After 5" event every month. They close the main street to traffic, while various restaurants, non-profits and businesses set up booths with giveaways and promotional stuff, accompanied by live music and a general festival atmosphere. All the artists who display are clustered on one street, which makes for good shopping. It's all on the banks of the mighty and generous St. Johns river.
Last night was a lovely fallish night, with a slightly cooler temperature and a light breeze. The theme was "Motown karaoke" and we were treated to a heart-pounding version of Tina Turner's "Rollin' on the River" as we strolled between art gallery, restaurant, and blues bar, soaking up the deliciously genuine small-town atmosphere.
Friday, September 14, 2012
Moving On
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That would be a YES, I am staying in this town!!!ReplyDelete
You may have moved to a new topic but I'm glad you're staying in town. It looks so friendly. I was thinking about how to capture their festival for our town center. The music and art 'row' would make it so much fun.ReplyDelete
I love the artsy quality. Such fun.ReplyDelete
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|Chiaro di Luna by Lamu Fashion (front view)
For now, I'm presenting Chiaro di Luna, a really nice formal from Lamu Fashion that's only $1L on the Second Life Marketplace. The amazing thing is that it comes with separate appliers for Belleza, Body TMP, Omega/Lolas, Maitreya and Slink Physique mesh bodies. That's some work!
In addition to the top & pants applied to the clothing layer, there is a mesh dress panel and two conventional flexi prims that make up the foot's lower lace ruffles.
The total effect is quite realistic inworld and movement of the flexis is what you would expect from quality work.
|Chiaro di Luna by Lamu Fashion (back view)
I'm sure the designer (Lamu Freidman) is giving this away so you'll look at her other work. Although I tried to visit her inworld store, I crashed twice. Anyway here's the SLURL to Lamu:
And here's a link to the dress on SLM:
There's a bit of keyword spamming going on with the item title but I suppose we can forgive that since it's only $1L and well done.


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Rich Hill is a friend, colleague and mentor of mine. Along with being a great consultant and coach to many recognizable companies, Rich was also the Executive Director of the Dow Leadership Center at Hillsdale College and the Director of Human Resources for General Electric Plastics when Jack Welch took over the division. In essence, he was one of Jack's first HR directors.
Rich dropped me this note the other day:
I really like the post on Mentally Ill Teams. How many times have I seen these dynamics exist in my many years of work with organizations? The point of "The attempt to avoid the suffering simply causes more and deeper suffering" is so true.
Rich goes on to talk about a process he titled "Contracting for Change". Notice a couple of elements of the process as he explains it:
One of the key elements in the process was putting charts up on the wall for each team player with three columns:
- Things I should do more of/or better
- Things I should do less of
- Things I do well and should not change.
Each chart had additional columns to assess the Priority of each response relative to Top Priority or secondary Priority. Each of the other team players were given tags to write on for each of the three elements. Feedback!
Once all the feedback tags were up on each person's chart the entire team moves to a given chart and the owner of that chart first suggests what the comment means to him or her and then asks for individual clarification of the statements – such as
- Can you give me a specific example?
- Where have you seen this characteristic in play?
We used these clarification statements especially if the owner's interpretation didn't quite square with the person who put the tag point up. This approach assures better mutual understanding by all members of the team.
Rich goes on to explain the next step of prioritization on the Do More Of and Do Less Of columns only done by all other team members, not the person's own chart.
But I think the next step was the most powerful:
The next step deals with negotiating the key items on given charts to enhance both individual and team effectiveness (emphasis mine). If successful, the final understanding is put into a written contract between the parties. 90 days out we reconvene the teams and go over contracts to see how much progress was made. I used it with several organizations and always got good results.
As you can imagine there was some suffering as a result of the clarity of issues between people, but it often led to good results.
I don't really know what Jack Welch would do in this case, but I do know what one of his first HR directors would do. Working with executives at the level where Rich worked probably made the statement "some suffering" a bit of an understatement. But the power of feedback and dealing with the direct pain and suffering cannot be denied or overlooked as a powerful tool for leadership and team improvement.
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From Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom:
I'm a 19 year old who was only diagnosed a year ago, and my blood sugars are not good. Ever since I was diagnosed, I haven't been able to keep them below 20 mmol/L [360 mg/dl] for a long period of time, even with help from my nurse. Recently, I have been experiencing many effects of the diabetes.
My penis is in an awful state, I have had thrush for months now, and sometimes I even wake to find my penis bleeding. I get terribly paralysing cramps, sometimes in 80% of my body at the same time which has come on me twice while I was driving and I have crashed, so I have had to give up driving now. My eyes feel cloudy and blurry most of the time, especially towards the end of the night.
All this has come on be within the past 12 months, and I don't like it to say the very least. My life has dramatically changed. I get very depressed sometimes, and I hate my life now. What are the chances of a cure in my lifetime? If a cure is found, will it work on someone who has had it for a prolonged period of time? Basically I want to know if there is hope or should I stop kidding myself and try to live with it?
Clearly you are depressed and your diabetes control is very poor, especially considering the recent advances in management. The monilial urethrits can certainly be remedied, but it will recur if you don't achieve better control.
With determination and good supervision, it is certainly possible nowadays to lead an essentially normal life despite diabetes, nonetheless it is very understandable to hope for a cure. In a sense this is already possible with islet cell transplantation, but its availability is limited because of the paucity of donors and the need for lifetime immunosuppression. As scientists learn to develop surrogate cells with much abbreviated immunosuppression this will not always be the case and even sooner there are likely to be artificial pancreas, where a long lasting glucose sensor can be safely linked to an insulin pump. There is indeed hope, so you must get help.
Additional comments from Dr. Andrea Scaramuzza:Surely you are in a bad situation. Also if you have only had diabetes for a year with inadequate metabolic control all this time, you have begun have some consequences of prolonged hyperglycemia. However, I think, honestly, that in this situation you can have an hope again. You need to talk with your doctor about a new treatment plan using basal/bolus approach or an insulin pump. I think that if you improve your control in a short time, you could feel less depressed, see your life in a new manner, and most importantly, stop the progression of complications linked to poor diabetes control. You have surely another chance, but you have to take it soon as possible.
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photo taken by Bill Latronica
Corner Pocket
Bird in Black and White
property of Bill Latronica
Inverted Sky
Bear Creek is so low right now, but there are pools of water that are pitch black and perfectly reflect the sky.
this picture and the next are the same picture, but I was trying to portray two very different feelings.
I wanted to make the flags big with vibrant colors to honor the men and women that fell in battle. I wanted to capture the significance of their sacrifice.
Zoe looks into the distance.
For some reason, I find Zoe a fun model for photography.
door to love
took this picture of a gate door my grandfather made for my grandmother many many years ago
swimming the backstroke
4th of July 2007
Bottom of the Pool
Pretty Bird
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The music's just getting started!
To fete the release of her seventh album, Unapologetic, Rihanna will be flying via Delta 777 jet to play seven concerts in seven cities in seven different countries in seven days — and Us Weekly's invited! For the next week, Us Weekly's Senior Editor Ian Drew will be flying with the 24-year-old superstar — plus nearly 250 members of her team, worldwide press and fans — on her landmark 777 Tour.
For all of the inside details aboard the 777, read Ian's dispatch from day one, Wed. Nov. 14, where the "Diamonds" singer et al travel from Los Angeles to Mexico City and then Toronto — and check back at Us Weekly daily for exclusive tidbits, photos and more!
Did Rihanna have a quiet night in before kicking of her staggering, globe-trotting tour? No way!
She began her day in Los Angeles, partying until before 2 a.m. at a Hollywood bash — and waking up just before 9 a.m. to begin her trek to the private plane terminal at LAX.
At noon, Rihanna arrived in a black tank top, Burberry sunglasses and a gray leopard-print backpack. Greeted with cheers onboard, she told her the crowd, "I should be freaking out over you! This is going to be an unforgettable experience."
I even got a hug from Rihanna herself! "We're gonna party!" she told Us.
She wasn't kidding! About halfway through the flight, she came back through the plane passing out Ace Of Spades champagne and cognac to everyone, shouting, "Who's ready to hit it?!"
Pouring me a glass of the champagne, Rihanna told Us: "I feel good. This is so much fun."
(First class at the front of the 777 was for Rihanna, in seat 1B, and her entourage — including friends and family, glam squad, private masseuse, security guards, her band and dancers.)
Six hours after arriving in Mexico City, she took the stage just past 10:30 p.m. in a black leather jersey, black shorts and black booties for a killer show, where she debuted new tracks from Unapologetic.
"This is crazy! This is the first show of the 777 Tour," the stunner told the crowd. "It's been such a long time that I've been waiting to come here. Too long."
Appropriately, she celebrated her very first Mexico City show with tequila — downing a glass of it straight up onstage later on in the show.
After the incredible opening night was over and a very brief cat nap, it was time for the late night/early morning flight to Toronto — and another costume change! For the flight, Rihanna wore a cropped grey Adidas tracksuit, black and green Nike Air sneakers, a white t-shirt, black coat, hot pink diamond baseball cap and Burberry sunglasses.
Once we landed in Canada around 9 a.m., Rihanna checked in through customs by herself, filling out her own customs card and waiting for her own luggage — and chatting happily with airport staff and posing for photos.
One reminder that a diva was in the house? She kept her sunglasses on the whole time.
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Tag Archives: BP Settlement
The big, potentially positive story in Louisiana environmental circles has been the push to restore the state's depleted wetlands. It had become increasingly clear that something had gone terribly wrong in the Bayou State, where the swamps define a way of life — and also perform a very important role. These reedy marshes — as regular readers know well by now — are Louisiana's natural defense barrier. But they've been [...]Read More »
In more than a quarter century as an environmental lawyer, I've learned a lot about the mostly ineffective ways that government regulators do their jobs — and that learning curve definitely accelerated in those first few months after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Time and time again, I — and others in the environmental community here in Louisiana — watched in those early days of the massive BP oil [...]Read More »
I've long said that no likely BP settlement would ever be enough for the damage that its 2010 oil spill caused to the Gulf region. Mostly, that's a moral argument: The purpose of punitive damages is that a company must be shown that the cost of doing bad is more than doing good — but that's hard to do when an oil company's typically reckless drilling and production practices bring [...]Read More »
Last week I wrote here that BP's $54 billion payout for damages and restoration from the 2010 Gulf oil spill just wasn't really enough — both because of the ongoing environmental damage from the Deepwater Horizon oil that continues to wash up on our beaches and because dollars trumped real accountability. You won't hear that critique too much from public officials, who are too preoccupied with boastful press releases and [...]Read More »
If anything has the ability to cut through the clutter in our 24/7 frenetic news cycle, it's Wall Street. Say what you will about the capital markets, but the way that investors react to important news is a pretty good reality check. This week, there was a major development in the quest for just compensation for the 2010 BP oil spill, the ongoing crisis that sparked the creation of this [...]Read More »
Every time that I hear or read about what the folks at BP are up to lately, I have the same thought: Can you believe these guys? Forget — if you can, for one minute — that these are the people whose gross negligence and corner-cutting caused 5 million barrels of crude oil to spew in to the Gulf of Mexico. in an accident that also claimed 11 lives. But [...]Read More »
It was gratifying to see that the editorial board of the New Orleans Times-Picayune has picked up on the issue of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and its treachery against the small- and mid-sized business owners of the Gulf Coast. As you'll recall, last week we spotlighted how the inside-the-Beltway-based national Chamber — which receives the bulk of its support and is increasingly fixated on the needs of the top [...]Read More »
It's an idea that boggles the mind: America's largest, most powerful and best-known business organization siding AGAINST tens of thousands of its own members — small- and mid-sized business owners in the U.S. heartland whose very survival is on the line. The only thing that could make that scenario involving the U.S. Chamber of Commerce even more staggering would be if the Chamber were doing this to aid a company [...]Read More »
Earlier this summer, I told you about an outrageous breech of promise by BP — how the oil giant was abruptly closing down an internal-claims program that was intended to help business owners who wanted to resolve their claims from the 2010 oil spill, quickly and fairly. This was supposed to be an alternate route for those who didn't want to go through the burden of dealing with the court [...]Read More »
Throughout 2014, BP has shown us its true colors, again and again. The "friendly, community-oriented company" that the British oil giant spent hundreds of millions of dollars depicting in its slick television ads — its effort to clean up its image even as gooey tar balls continue to assault the beaches of the Gulf Coast — is all but gone. In its place is a Grinch that is seeking to [...]Read More »


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Here's a conversation i had with a Mexican guy who was looking for 'friends' on Skype (i keep getting those invites these days):
i'm a student in France
i'm originally from Mauritius, which i don't think u've heard about
yes, a little bit. Near to Africa, right?
;) in spanish it's Mauritania, i think
nope....this ain't mauritania
Mauritania is another country in West Africa
Mauritius is an island in the Indian Ocean
This is a common mistake by English speakers as compared to French people don't really have this problem to distinguish 'La Mauritanie' from 'L'île Maurice.'
A few years ago, even Times Magazine made that mistake. In their list of countries governed by islamic principles, they mentioned Mauritius! Thankfully they cleared their erratum later but my island was listed as a potential threat to the US government for a few weeks.
There's also the story of a US President who made the same confusion when meeting the Mauritian Prime Minister...
Let's clear this confusion once and for all, please, shall we?


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All About Me
All About Me – Movie Review
Feinstein and Dame Edna accidentally book into the same Broadway theater on the same night. After much tussling, the two performers decide to make the best of it and do a variety show together.
All About Me is at the new Henry Miller Theatre on 43rd Street. Ostensibly, it's stars Michael Feinstein, all by himself. He comes out with his piano, singing and talking. Then Dame Edna, aka Barry Humphries, comes out and this the entire problem is exemplified by the fact that there are two Play Bills. One Play Bill has Michael Feinstein sitting on a piano saying "All About Me", and the other that has Dame Edna doing the same thing. And that's the strength and the weakness of the entire process metaphorically, that they really don't fit together, to have two different covers, two different styles, two different stories. When they actually do get together and do a medley at the end it is kind of charming. But the reason for this escapes everybody, including I think the audience and the two performers. I don't know who came up with this idea, but it was a very different kind of act. Michael Feinstein does great American song books. He has an acceptable voice and it works very well in a cabaret setting. Dame Edna has done her show, this is, I believe the third time, where she does sort of outrageous satire. She's sort of Joan Rivers in drag, or is that redundant. The two together, this is kind of an upscale cabaret act in a big theater and I don't think it worked very well as evidenced by the fact that half the theater was empty. It's sort of an idea that almost works, but doesn't quite. Fundamentally, I'll give it two stars.


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The Kladno Knights of the Czech Extraliga recorded their fourth win in a row, a 3-1 victory before a sellout crowd in Chomutov Friday night. Tomas Plekanec and Tomas Kaberle each recorded an assist. Plekanec linemate Jiri Tlusty scored two goals in the third period to clinch the victory.
In five games Plekanec now has 12 points, six goals and six assists and has a one point lead in the Extraliga scoring race. He has a plus-7 rating. Kaberle has an assist in each of the two games he's played for Kladno.
Kladno will continue their road trip with a game at Mountfield Budějovice Sunday night. The Knights are third in the league with 5 wins and 2 losses, one of the losses in shootout.
In the Swiss National League, Max Pacioretty scored his first goal for Ambri-Piotta six minutes into his first game as Ambri lost to Fribourg 3-2 in a shootout. Pacioretty was playing right wing on a line with former NHLer's Richard Park and Jason Williams who drew assists on the goal. Pacioretty had four shots on goal and was plus-1. Ambri will play the Lions in Zurich Saturday night.
Zug's Raphael Diaz assisted on both goals in a 3-2 loss at Geneva. Yannick Weber was held off the scoresheet for Geneva. Geneva plays at Davos Saturday night while Zug will host the Kloten Flyers Saturday night.
Meanwhile Andrei Markov told Sovietsky Sport yesterday that he is willing to entertain offers to play in the KHL, perhaps with Moscow Dynamo. Markov has been working out in Montreal but told the Moscow newspaper, "First I need an invitation. With that, I'm ready to fly to Russia, undergo the medical examination and sign the contract. I could play immediately although I would need a few games to get into game shape. I if I have an offer from any club, I would gladly consider it" Markov said Sergei Korolev is looking after his affairs in Russia. Markov played in a charity exhibition in Chateauguay Thursday night.
Alexei Emelin has signed with Ak-Bars Kazan but has yet to play. Kazan will play it's next game Monday in St. Petersburg before moving on to play Dynamo in Moscow on Wednesday. He'll probably see action in one or both of those games.
One other note – As he did during the 2004-2005 lockout, Scott Gomez is working out at the training camp of the Alaska Aces under a "professional tryout contract". During the last lockout Gomez played 61 games with the Anchorage team winning the league scoring championship and MVP award with 13 goals and 73 assists. During their playoffs he suffered a broken pelvis after being checked into an open bench door. Still, the following NHL season with New Jersey he had a career best year with 33 goals and 84 points. Among the drawbacks to Gomez actually playing for the Aces, it's estimated that full-season insurance to protect his 5.5 million dollar 2012-13 contract would amount to 137-thousand dollars, most of which would have to be absorbed by Gomez himself, since average weekly salaries in the ECHL are in the neighborhood of 1,000 dollars .


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It's International Coffee Day and we all know what that means! Wait, what does it mean? Free (or discounted) coffee from (some of) your favourite java spots (and you may have to purchase a donut first)! Yay!
International Coffee Day may only come around once a year and we're not really sure what it is (because, let's face it, there's a holiday for everything), but something that every coffee lover does know is that one special holiday isn't necessary to remind us that we love roasted beans. We know what every day.
Two of TV's biggest coffee crusaders were undoubtedly the mother/daughter duo of Rory and Lorelai Gilmore of The Gilmore Girls. As if two people could speak that fast without the help of caffeine.
The Gilmore Girls taught us a lot about love and relationships and growing up and what's really important in life — coffee.
The Gilmore Girls know that mugs are for chumps.
With no coffee, there is nothing remotely physical.
Vanilla and caramel are examples of flavours to put in your coffee, but they're not the only examples.
At some point, doctors may tell you that your obsession with coffee is hurting you. To that, we say 'schmoctors'.
When discussing your love of java, clarity is always the best adjective.
And honesty is not always the best policy.
Coffee lovers have their own set of rules when it comes to their preferred drink.
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Coffee lovers have their favourite way of ordering.
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This discussion covers the way Django 1.4 and Postgres 9.1 work as of mid 2012. If you have trouble with this or very similar code let me know and we can post your examples.
Some of us like Python. Some of us are subjected to working with the Web, at least from time to time. Despite the fact that we would all love to write native applications against a sane API that we're allowed to read in a single language in an environment we control with a single data handling layer, that's just not always reality. We'd all love to commit to a solid data model that someone smart was permitted the time to work on before the FAD design crew got spun up. But sometimes we hit weird cases where there's just not time or money or scheduling is stupid or there are unanticipated complications or the platform changes based on a buzzword or the situation doesn't fit because you're working behind a three-star programmer who quit last week. Ha ha, just kidding — I meant that's all the time every time.
Since that's the norm, I'm discussing using Django to make reporting faces for existing database applications. In particular database applications that rely on a non-trivial normalized or properly denormalized data model. A lot of folks dive straight to the "Hire a guy to build a Django/PHP/TG/Rails/whatever application with a separate database that syncs or queries-to-sync what it needs from the existing database" conclusion. This is wasteful since most of the time all we want is to display some tabular data along with some custom math on that data. Usually the data set is not enormous and going full-bore data warehouse prepared to carry billions of records in a large set of denormalized, parallel schema is way, way overkill.
So how do we do this with a web framework that uses an ORM (noooo~!) and expects a 1-to-1 mapping between classes and tables? We use views against unmanaged Django models.
When I say "views" I mean in the database sense, not the ubiquitous Django view.py stuff. As in the good ole' Postgres
CREATE VIEW foo AS SELECT [stuff]. This could be materialized views, calculated views, a denormalized table triggered to always be current (see "materialized view"), etc. Database views, whatever the flavor, will serve our purposes.
A lot of folks get tripped up on this particular subject because of the way frameworks like Django and Rails nearly always rely on meaningless integers as primary keys by default, can't handle multi-column natural keys and try to add an integer "ID" to any model even if its not the primary key and therefore completely superfluous. Any non-trivial, normalized data model won't have integer primary keys and any DBA who administers such a data store won't add them to satisfy your stupid web framework. So forget about adding integer primary keys, we're not going to use them and adding them would be an exercise worthy of something the government would pay for. But that means that until true support for natural, multi-column keys in Django gets finalized we need a new approach (and anyone stuck working with Django at least up to 1.5 will need a different approach anyway). No worries, read on.
We're going to create a view against an unmanaged Django model class, and feed Django a dummy "id" column to keep it quiet. Of course, we have to remember that the unmanaged model isn't safe to use as a target for
models.ForeignKey(), but as we'll see this is a pretty simple limitation to work around since any existing data model will already have pre-defined primary keys. This is workable even if we need to treat the view as a real model in the future.
Note: this is a toy example for necessary reasons. I'm only writing this to illustrate a point, not to write a full-bore business application on my blog. That said, feel free to use these ideas or any code presented here in any way you like.
So let's get a few tables down. Let's say there is a cost/price margin history schema in a database that various applications use to keep track of how much stuff costs today and how much it used to cost at a given point in time. Let's say also that some of the items in the list are for sale and the history of the sale price needs to be tracked in a similar manner to the costs of things. Since a lot of applications access the data store and many of them are designed either strictly for sales/ordering-only or cost/inventory-only the cost and price histories are completely independent. Different applications can already tell the managers and analysts what the margin is right now, but all this historical data is difficult to compare over time because its tedious for humans to run the comparisons by hand, and a real pain to keep straight even in a spreadsheet application.
Sounds like a perfect job for a computer! Further, since this is tabular data display and essentialy a document-export function it is a perfect fit for something that is accessible from a browser.
So far we've got two tables on the costing/inventory side:
inventory.item and
inventory.cost_history. They look like this (note, this isn't quite the way psql will display the table data, but just go with it):
Table "inventory.item" Column | Type | Modifiers ----------------+--------------------+----------------- nsn | varchar(50) | primary key is_active | boolean | not null Table "inventory.cost_history" Column | Type | Modifiers ----------------+--------------------+-------------------------------------------------------- item | varchar(50) | foreign key (item.nsn), unique together with start_date start_date | timestamp | primary key with "item" end_date | timestamp | value | money | not null
Over on the product/pricing side we have two more tables to compliment those above:
sales.product and
sales.price_history. They look like this:
Table "sales.product" Column | Type | Modifiers ----------------+--------------------+------------------------------- item | varchar(50) | foreign key (item.nsn), unique sku | varchar(30) | primary key name | varchar(100) | not null is_active | boolean | not null Table "sales.price_history" Column | Type | Modifiers ----------------+--------------------+---------------------------------------------------------- product | varchar(50) | foreign key (sales.sku), unique together with start_date start_date | timestamp | primary key with "product" end_date | timestamp | value | money | not null
Enormously simple — to the point that if I hadn't explained the scenario you'd wonder why we even have a "sales.product" table. But let's just accept that not every item in the company's inventory is for sale, and those that are need to be treated differently so tying everything to inventory.item records isn't a good idea. (It bears mentioning here that sales.price_history.product could just as easily point to inventory.item.nsn as sales.product.sku: natural connectivity with the "real" NSN vs more frequent reference by/to SKU from application queries.)
So this is the existing schema we're hoping to write a small dashboard-ish web thingy in Django against without modification. How do we do it without driving the DBA nuts, making one query per iteration, burying a lot of huge raw() queries in our application code, or forcing things into some nooberiffic "One Class, to rule them all" paradigm? First we need something Django can hold on to deal with on its own terms — something that behaves enough like a real table to pass a sort of duck check.
We need a concept of "things for sale". We don't care about the items not for sale in this case, because the whole point is demonstrating a margin history — so we can, for the purposes of our dashboard — lump sales.product and inventory.item together:
class ProductRecord(models.Model): nsn = models.CharField('NSN', max_length=50) sku = models.CharField('SKU', max_length=30) name = models.CharField(_('Name'), max_length=100) is_active = models.BooleanField(_('Active')) class Meta: db_table = 'sales\".\"product_record' managed = False
Pretty predictable so far. But it could use a better name than
sales.product_record. I suck at naming things without thinking a bit first. With that in mind, note that I named the class "ProductRecord" to stay in tune with the db_table value. At the moment we're just writing a dashboard, but if that requirement grows later on you'd hate to remember that in every other app "Product" refers to
sales.product but in this app its something different because you already used the name "Product" for something else. We've lumped together a lot of pretty obvious data in one place from
sales.product and
inventory.item. Now let's lump the money stuff together:
class ProductValueHistory(models.Model): sku = models.CharField('SKU', max_length=30) cost = models.DecimalField(_('Cost'), max_digits=15, decimal_places=5) price = models.DecimalField(_('Price'), max_digits=15, decimal_places=5) start_date = models.DateTimeField(_('Start Date')) end_date = models.DateTimeField(_('End Date')) class Meta: db_table = 'sales\".\"product_value_history' managed = False
Also fairly predictable. (The DecimalField thing and fixed-point math for money handling is a subject for another time.) You probably noticed the lack of a Django
models.ForeignKey on both of these models. We don't have them because we don't have anything to tie them to that Django can understand because of that silly litter integer-as-a-primary-key assumption that nearly every ORM seems to universally make. We could add it, but that would require altering the original tables to accommodate this dashboard, and that goes against the principles of being a good guest in someone else's digital house. Besides, a lot of applications access this data store — doing anything that changes things up could have ripple down effects all over the place; much better to forget about all that mess. Never let your tools drive your design — otherwise you're being a tool for the sake of a cosmic "in Soviet Russia…" joke.
We could declare something else to be the primary key, but that would only affect how Django would generate SQL table creation code when running
manage.py syncdb, and since we're never going to run that on an unmanaged model and Django tries to add an integer ID to everything whether or not you've already got a natural primary key defined, that's pointless
Now lets write our views for the database. This works in Postgres 9.1. I don't know about other databases — and if you're doing this in MySQL you probably don't want to do things this way (hint: you should migrate):
CREATE VIEW sales.product_record AS SELECT row_number() OVER (ORDER BY s.name) AS id, i.nsn AS nsn, s.product AS sku, s.name AS name, s.is_active AS is_active FROM inventory.item AS i, sales.product AS s WHERE i.nsn = s.item;
Now we've got a "fake" table in the database that Django thinks is a real one. It even has an "id" column generated for us by the
row_number() window function. This is silly, and only present to fool Django into accepting our model, but compared to how a lot of other ORMs work, this is a pretty small ORM tax to pay. The price goes up a little if we want to be allowed to do insertions and modifications from the Django class to this view instead of the real tables (we'd have to write rules), but even that isn't so hard.
So now let's get what we want out of the price/cost history combination. I'm not 100% happy with the way this query turns out, to be honest (partly because I deliberately made this situation a little complex by not making
sales.price_history reference the
inventory.item.nsn at all, so we require an extra join), but it does work fine — and there is a way around even the inefficiency in my (probably bad) SQL view code here:
CREATE VIEW sales.product_value_history AS SELECT row_number() OVER (ORDER BY p.start_date DESC, c.start_date DESC) AS id, p.sku AS sku, CASE WHEN p.start_date < c.start_date THEN p.start_date ELSE c.start_date END AS start_date, CASE WHEN p.end_date < c.end_date THEN p.end_date ELSE c.end_date END AS end_date, c.value AS cost, p.value AS price FROM sales.price_history AS p, ( SELECT product.sku AS sku, cost.value AS value, cost.start_date AS start_date, cost.end_date AS end_date FROM sales.product AS product, inventory.cost_history AS cost WHERE product.item = cost.item) AS c WHERE p.product = c.sku AND ( (p.start_date, p.end_date) OVERLAPS (c.start_date, c.end_date) OR (p.end_date IS NULL AND c.end_date IS NULL));
The query represented by this view goes a touch beyond what the Django ORM provides access to, but isn't that hard to understand. The subquery where we join
sales.product and
inventory.cost_history is the link that provides us the necessary connection between a product's SKU and its parent item's NSN and returns a table called
c. Joining that to the
sales.price_history table for matching SKUs gives us all the costs and prices associated with a given product (and no results for items in inventory that are not for sale), and the extra
WHERE clause using
OVERLAPS lines up our price histories so we don't have NULL-value gaps across spans of time when either the cost or price changed but the other didn't.
We did the same "fake id" trick in this query using the
row_number() window function so we can use Django's ORM to pull results from this table like any other model. Because the window function already sorted the results in descending order, we don't need to sort the results to know they are in chronological order.
Now where to put this bit of SQL? Of course, check the Django docs, but as of Django 1.4 the .sql files should go in a directory located at
project/app/sql/ . Once there it should execute when you run
manage.py syncdb — and if it doesn't or you need to re-do something manually you can invoke it from within psql quite easily by doing
\i /path/to/project/app/sql/filename.sql. (If you do it manually from within psql, remember to
ALTER VIEW view_name OWNER TO django_role_name or Django probably won't have permission to query it.)
So how do we use it to get a history for a specific product? Since we don't have any primary key/foreign key relations set up in Django, we can't just do:
product = ProductRecord.objects.get(id=number) value_history = product.price_history.all()
This is a limitation many ORMs have, but we can work around it easily enough since the database itself has other primary keys that are guaranteed to be unique and therefore safe to use with
object.get() or
product = ProductRecord.objects.get(nsn=value) value_history = ProductValueHistory.objects.filter(sku=product.sku)
The results are already sorted so we can also do the following without any
order_by() clause in Django:
current_value = ProductValueHistory.objets.filter(sku=product.sku)[0]
This gets us right up to the point of needing to write the math in to actually get margin totals and calculate percentages and make pie charts and all the other stuff business types like to do with this kind of data. At this point you can do all that in your Django view in Python (very easy and comfortable) or write a few more columns into the views that do this processing for you before it ever leaves the database, or even write entirely new views and new models that do whatever it is that you want.
Faced with the options above, when there is no obvious right answer I prefer to put it into the database as calculated columns or new views and get a complete answer per query instead of processing raw data in the application code. I (usually) take this approach because processing in the application makes that logic unavailable to any other applications that access the same data store which might want the same information in the future, thus leaving the writer of those other applications (probably me) with nothing left but to reinvent the wheel to get the exact same result (and looking ahead at maintenance centralizing logic is always better, whether in a library, database or whatever). Another good reason I've found to do things this way is to avoid accidentally writing an iterative processing routine at the application level that calls the database on each iteration of an arbitrarily large loop (I know you think "Yikes!" but people do this all over the place without even realizing it!).
But this view would be rather inefficient on very large rows of tables because its not eliminating rows based on an indexed item before it does the join processing and also because the
OVERLAPS bit is pretty compute intensive on large sets. Indexes on the view can mitigate that to some degree, but there will come a point when materialized views/denormalized tables trump having faster hardware.
I'm constantly amazed at how fast hardware is these days and how much Postgres performance increases with each release, but that's no excuse for a rather blatant query inefficiency that can be fixed easily. Its also absolutely no help for people stuck using Postgres < 7.1 or the legions of people stuck with MySQL or the poor fools stuck using a crap, deliberately crippled "home" or "small business" version of a proprietary database.
There are two possible ways out of this. You can write a
raw() SQL query into Django (sometimes the easy answer), or you can make
sales.product_value_history into a real table in the database that updates itself whenever the
sales.price_history or
inventory.cost_history tables are modified.
The second idea is the most interesting and involves a deliberate denormalization, which in this case I think is probably appropriate. This is called making a "materialized view". Its available as a native feature in DB2 and Oracle, but not in Postgres just yet (I think 9.2 or 9.3, probably 2013 or 2014). However, in Postgres we can write triggers which keep our price/cost history table updated automatically whenever either of the sponsoring tables is modified. This ability is why while DBAs love conveniences like built-in materialized views features like this tend to take a lower priority than the serious stuff like JOIN efficiency, window functions and query optimizations. A word of caution: it is pretty common for folks whose first experience with databases like Postgres was through an ORM framework to try keeping tables synced by writing routines in at the application level — but this is a bad idea and defeats the purpose of using the database as a layer of abstraction. Leaky abstractions suck the further you travel with them and always remind me of the Turkish proverb "No matter how far you've gone down the road, turn back."
I can feel your boredom burning into my fingers through a quantum time warp in the net, so I'll end this here. Yes, I'm leaving the materialized views implementation as a loose end (there are great resources on the net for this), but the main point was how to put Django in meaningful touch with a database schema that is both non-trivial and doesn't use arbitrary integer values as primary keys.


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Taught to knit by my grandma at a tender age (8 or 11, I honestly don't remember), hating it (dark green probably acrylic and tiny needles), only to pick it back up at 17 when hand knit mohair sweaters were all the rage (pfft, I can do that!), I never thought I'd find myself designing, teaching, or helping others with their knitting. Funny where life takes you sometimes :)
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Young micro-entrepreneurs will be invited to take part in the "INVEST WISELY" course, and benefit from a flexible, but also customised, training model dealing with financial literacy issues in accordance to their specific needs. This will provide guidance on how to make good choices with regards to their business and also to their personal finances.
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Nublu 10th Year Anniversary
Logo, Poster
Sun Ra Arkestra, Moby, Groove Collective, Jojo Mayer's Nerve and the other legends at the same festival. Technically, it should be an anniversary. However, it actually was a festival with all the big names. Designing the poster for this festival was a big honor for me.
First, I was thinking a retro logo which gives a subliminal legendary image at the first look. Therefore, I used only black as a color and then added some shining effects to on it. The result was good and feedbacks was so positive. I also decided to use matte paper for it. This was a one-time printed poster. I also printed them as postcards.


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How under the eye fillers can help you get rid of dark circles
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Established: 08/83
Revised: 07/94
Retitled: 2/15
FLSA: Non-Exempt
Class Characteristics
Under direction, to inspect, maintain and repair the machinery, equipment and instruments in wastewater treatment plants and/or pump stations; to participate as a member of a work team in the maintenance and repair of wastewater facilities; and to do other work as required.
Distinguishing Characteristics
The Department of Water Environment Services manages and operates the County's utility service districts, including sewage facilities, collection systems, pumping stations, treatment plants and surface water management.
The Wastewater Mechanic repairs and maintains the mechanical, instrumentation, electrical and electronic equipment at a wastewater treatment plant or for the wastewater collection system pump stations. Incumbents also participate in work planning, training, problem solving, budgeting and personnel issues as part of a self directed work team.
The Wastewater Mechanic differs from the Mechanic (DTD) which performs automotive and truck maintenance and repair.
Typical Tasks
Duties may include but are not limited to the following:
- Installs, inspects, maintains and repairs mechanical equipment and machinery, including valves, pumps, heat exchangers, blowers, clarifiers and chlorinators; examines, adjusts, lubricates and paints machinery and equipment; replaces worn and broken parts; fabricates and modifies parts and tools.
- Inspects, maintains, repairs and replaces electrical equipment and electronic instruments, including electric motors, motor control panels, electric monitoring and control systems, flow meters and temperature and level sensors; examines, adjusts and replaces existing wiring, motors, fuses, starters, switches, alternators, generators, transformers, sensors and electronic components; monitors, calibrates and repairs programmable logic controllers and associated components.
- Installs, inspects, maintains and repairs building structures, systems and equipment, including heating, ventilating, air conditioning and water boiler systems.
- Participates in the development and implementation of a maintenance, repair and replacement program; prepares and maintains preventive maintenance manuals, schedules, records and work orders; evaluates facility condition to prioritize and schedule projects; assists in defining user requirements for the design and construction of wastewater facilities; evaluates cost effectiveness of equipment replacement or repair; maintains parts and supplies inventory.
- May serve as project or team leader on various assignments; serves as work group representative or contact person for limited remodeling, repair and improvement projects for wastewater facilities and mechanical systems; trains lower level mechanics and new and temporary employees; may provide group safety training; demonstrates safe working practices in the field.
- Provides public and customer service support to County operations and other municipalities; responds to complaints and inquiries; conducts facility tours and public information meetings; answers technical questions and explains wastewater collection and processing systems.
Required Knowledge and Skills
Working Knowledge of: Basic principles and practices of personnel management, budgeting, purchasing and contract administration; principles and concepts of self directed work teams; practices, procedures and equipment used in the maintenance and repair of mechanical equipment, building systems, electrical equipment and electronic instruments; basic methods and techniques of painting, carpentry, welding, metal fabrication, plumbing, pipe fitting, and electrical and electronic systems; operation and maintenance of programmable logic controller systems; Federal, State and local rules and regulations applicable to safety and environmental compliance, basic principles and methods of wastewater collection, treatment and discharge; basic math; English grammar, spelling and punctuation; computer software applications and programmable logic controllers used in wastewater systems.
Skill to: Coordinate completion of projects within established budget and time guidelines; incorporate team participation in decision making; promote individual agreement and group consensus on issues and problems; communicate effectively, both orally and in writing; read and understand technical operations and maintenance manuals, blueprints and schematics; identity and correct mechanical and electrical system malfunctions and failures; identify and correct problems with instrumentation systems controlling chemical concentrations, digester heat and gas systems, sludge processing and other plant and collection system operations; remove, disassemble, assemble and install machinery and equipment; calculate gear and drive belt ratios, belt lengths and pulley diameters; safely operate steam cleaners, sand blasters, power tools, lathes, welders, drill presses, hand tools and other shop equipment; understand and comply with regulatory and department safety and environmental rules and practices; prepare and maintain accurate records; establish and maintain effective working relationships with contractors, vendors, County employees and the public.
Working Conditions
Duties require physical labor, including walking, reaching, squatting, kneeling, bending, balancing, climbing, shoveling, fine motor control, and ability to lift up to 50 pounds, carry, and push/pull up to 70 pounds. Duties also involve exposure to bacteria, viruses and toxins in wastewater, chemicals, exhaust fumes and dust, loud noises, and vibration. Some duties involve exposure to adverse weather conditions and hazardous locations, such as streets, live sewers, confined underground areas and on elevated platforms.
Other Requirements
Incumbents may perform after hours emergency response on a call-out basis.
Driving is required for County business on a regular basis or to accomplish work. Incumbents must possess a valid driver's license, and possess and maintain an acceptable driving record throughout the course of employment.
Employment is contingent upon passing a post-offer physical assessment. Accommodation requests will be reviewed on an individual basis in compliance with State and Federal legislation.
Minimum Recruiting Standards
Any satisfactory combination of experience and training that demonstrates possession of the required knowledge and skills. Desirable qualifications include a Limited Maintenance Electrician's (LME) License.
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The City of Long
Beach adopted a Small Business Enterprise (SBE), Very Small Business Enterprise
(VSBE), and Local Small Business Enterprise (LSBE) Ordinance in
June 2011 to encourage more small businesses to participate in City
contracts. Small Business certification can be obtained through our
bidder's database registration.
The City of Long Beach utilizes the
United States Small Business Administration (SBA) size standards based on
the North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) codes. To see
if your business qualifies, view the SBA's Table
of Small Business Size Standards.
The City determines SBE
eligibility by utilizing federal U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) size
standards either by the average gross annual revenue or by the number of
employees, based on North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS)
VSBE eligibility is determined utilizing maximum allowable
annual gross revenues consistent with those of the State of California's
Department of General Services' "micro-business" designation. The current
guidelines for this designation can be accessed on the State of California's
website at http://www.dgs.ca.gov/pd/Programs/OSDS/SBEligibilityBenefits.aspx.
LSBE eligibility shall be determined by the criteria established in Municipal
Code section 2.84.030, subdivisions (1) and (2), http://www.municode.com/resources/gateway.asp?pid=16115&sid=5
in addition to the SBE eligibility criteria described above.
If you are
a small business, you must register and obtain SBE certification through the
City's online bid management system.
Registered vendors can also use this database,
to find a list of certified SBEs.
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In Memory of those who died on Sept. 11th...and to wear for Red, White & Blue Day. On the news they asked everyone to show their support for our Country by displaying our flag and wearing red, white and blue.
String your beads &
flowers before you start crocheting the wire.
String in this order: red bead, white flower, blue bead. Four clusters of them.
Single crochet a chain st. Crochet 5 st. pull up a bead over and over until entire beads and flowers are crocheted. Add jewelry fastener to finish bracelet.
Fold wire ribbon and glue. Fold blue lace over it and glue. Now fold the red and white ribbons over and glue. Glue your flower to the middle and pin to the back...ready to wear.
Note: Amount will depend on how many you make of each.
Remember: Each time you notice your bracelet or ribbon while you are wearing it....whisper a prayer for our Country and its leaders.
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The mission of the Ability Services office is to arrange equal access and opportunity for students in the way of academic accommodations and to provide students an inclusive and accessible campus community and culture.
Ability Services serves students with a documented disability who need to arrange academic accommodations for their classes. A disability under ADA may include ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Acquired Brain Injury, PTSD, or a physical, sensory, psychological, or learning disability, etc.
In an effort to ensure equal access for eligible students and appropriately guide and support those students, Ability Services focuses on the following learning outcomes: fostering independence, reducing barriers, and promoting inclusively.
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With the official release of the BlackBerry PlayBook SDK, developers have been given access to a lot of great tools. Not only is there a few wallpapers from the PlayBook, but also its official ringtone set.
A developer was nice enough to put them all together and send them to us so you can enjoy the ringtones on your current BlackBerry. These ringtones should really come in handy with any of the PlayBook themes out there.
Download BlackBerry PlayBook ringtones from:
These are all .wav files bundled into a zip file. You may need to extract them on a computer first, to install on your BlackBerry. Hope you enjoy.


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East Texas Methadone Clinic Owner Sentenced on Multiple Federal Charges
A Tyler man has been sentenced on charges of attempted arson and solicitation of murder for hire.
43-year-old Edward T. Jacobs, who appeared in Federal Court, was sentenced Thursday to 15.6 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Leonard E. Davis. Jacobs pleaded guilty on December 18th, 2012 to the federal charges.
According to information presented in court, on Mar. 19, 2012, Jacobs gave Daniel Kubisty $3,000 to burn down the Add-Life Recovery Center, a methadone clinic located in a building at 3322 E. Fifth Street in Tyler. Jacobs and Kubisty conspired to burn down the building in order to gain a competitive advantage for the Methadone Clinic of East Texas, which was owned by Jacobs and also had an office in Tyler, Texas. On Mar. 19, 2012 Kubisty was arrested in Tyler by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) and was found to have a gasoline can, with a wick saturated in gasoline protruding from its neck, in the back of his pickup.
After Kubisty's arrest, Jacobs feared Kubisty would testify against him and on June 1, 2012, he arranged a meeting with a man he believed he could hire to murder Kubisty in order to prevent Kubisty's testimony. During the meeting, Jacobs offered to pay the hit-man $12,000 for Kubisty's murder. ATF was monitoring the meeting and arrested Jacobs at the scene.
Kubisty pleaded guilty to attempted arson on Jan. 19, 2013 and is awaiting sentencing.


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Do you regularly keep up with IDEA Fitfeed? It is a great way to stay up-to-date on the latest health, fitness and nutrition news from around the world. This inclusive tool collates top headlines being shared around the web by health and fitness professionals and posts them in one convenient location. Article headlines range from What Happens to Your Body During a 30-Minute Run? to 20 Reasons Why Yoga Heals. These headlines come from top news sources, personal blogs and everything in between. If you missed the latest news from this past week you can catch up here.
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Young kids who specialize in a single sport risk injury and burnout, but don't improve their odds of attaining an elite sports career, according to this article from The Washington Post. The piece looks at research which has found that focused training programs can be harmful to kids and do not increase their later success. The article suggests letting kids have unstructured play and letting them sample a variety of sports, instead of pushing them to pick just one. View the full article here.
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The "real food" message is a great way to start reversing the obesity problem, but to really make it effective we need to make eating real food easier, according to this article from The Huffington Post. Author Brad Stulberg explains that our food environments make junk food the easier option and that is why people usually choose it. Stulberg explains that to really make a difference we need to redesign our supermarkets, convenience stores and restaurants to present real foods as the easier choice. View the full article here.
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Building healthy habits is an essential part of getting and staying fit, according to this article from MindBodyGreen. This piece looks at five common habits that fit people share, including enjoying exercise, avoiding diets and prioritizing sleep. The article explains why each of these habits is essential to a healthy lifestyle and how you can start incorporating them into your life. View the full article here.
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Most people underestimate the intensity of physical activity required to achieve health benefits, according to this article from Science Daily. The piece looks at a recent study which found that people underestimated what moderate intensity exercise was and overestimated their own intensity levels. The researchers note that this finding is very worrisome for public health and well-being. View the full article here.
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Hi my name is Sunny and I was born in Kathmandu, Nepal. The place where one should visit once in a life time to climb mountains and make life more adventurous. I feel lucky to be born in the country where lord of peace Gautamn Buddha was born.
About my family, my mom and dad got separated since I was six years old. Even after their separation my mom continuously encouraged me to study and always supported me financially.
As a child, my aim was always to work in bank, I was always interested in mathematics and accountancy and used to get good score on every exam. After completion of my high school in Nepal, I was planning to study chartered accountancy in India as well but I didn't know my destiny would bring me to such a wonderful land like US.
One of my most memorable moments spent in Nepal was rafting in Trishuli River with friends. Other unforgettable memories includes time spent with mom all the time, visiting different places and traditional temples with her.
On 25th April, 2015, I prepared a vegetable soup for mom as she was having neck ache and was unable to move it, so she was having rest. I made noodles for me and we both had our lunch together. We were on 4th floor and watching TV together, suddenly the TV shut off, due to load-shedding. Suddenly at around 12:12 pm we felt a small movement but then we thought it was a small quake like it used to before. We were sitting on a small couch, and right opposite to us was a huge closet weighed heavy which was made out of wood. After 4-5 minutes the floor moved so badly that we couldn't even stand up, it didn't either stop. The closet was also moving so hard that all of its doors opened it self and we saw it was almost about to fall up on us. I thought it was the last day of my life I screamed so loudly crying we both would die. But my mom helped me to stand up, hugging each other we were moving downstairs. The water tanks had broken, water was flowing on the back side of the house, heard the sounds of breaking glasses in the kitchen. On the stair way we had a shoe rack just opposite to the gate, when we were trying to get out of the house the shoe rack had also already fell off and we had to step over it and come through the stair to move out of the house. Finally, when we were out on bare foot, it stopped moving. We found the walls on the other side was demolished. We lived in an open ground for more than 2 weeks with neighbors sharing food.
As I've always heard that the education system in United States is the best, I wanted to come here to study and pursue my degree. The degree we get from here is recognized in every corner of every countries whereas the degree we get from Nepal is recognized only in our country rather than other countries. The education system here is based on both practical on theoretical aspect but there it is based more on theoretical aspect.
I heard about Northwest Missouri State from many of my senior friends. So, I researched on this university and planned to study here if I get a F1 visa which I got in the very first attempt.
I am majoring in accounting as it has always been the field of my interest and I am very motivated to pursue my undergraduate degree with this major. The courses that I am taking this semester are: accounting II, general geology, psychology, computer and info tech and comp I.
Being an international student it is very difficult to pay tuition. Parents earning money in rupees and we paying in dollars. Paying 8-9 thousands for a semester is a lot. I haven't even got the job. With status of F1, we have to work on campus to earn money whereas students who are citizens have more opportunities to earn they can both work on and off campus. And even university is also not offering any jobs until now


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SGT Gary De Willett's service to the men of 3rd Platoon, Bravo Company, is an inspiration to all. His attention to detail and resourcefulness on several occasions was often the difference between success and failure. His perseverance during adversity set the example for all Soldiers. SGT Willett served with honor and distinction both as a Team Leader and a Stryker Infantry Carrier Vehicle Gunner. SGT Willett proved himself repeatedly to his men and his leaders. His willingness to push himself and his Soldiers enabled Bravo Company to complete every mission to the highest standards.
SGT Willett is survived by his son Zeno Z. Daily.
SGT Willett's awards include the Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, Combat Infantryman Badge, Army Commendation Medal with Valor device, Army Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Noncommissioned Officer Professional Development Ribbon, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Overseas Service Medal (with numeral 2) and the Army Service Medal.


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Valparaiso University Acting President, 1926, 1927-28
The Rev. John C. Baur led the administration at Valparaiso University in the years after it was purchased by the Lutheran University Association, in which he had been serving as secretary. Baur commuted from Fort Wayne, refusing to move to Valparaiso, to demonstrate that his work at the University was an emergency measure — one that lasted 10 years. He was also member of the first Board of Directors of Valparaiso University selected in 1925 and a member of the first Board of Directors elected in 1926.
In "Valparaiso's First Century," John Strietelmeier credits Baur with having prodded the University back to life in the first decade of Lutheran administration." Baur, along with President Dau and Dean Kroencke, is also credited with winning accreditation for the University in 1929. Valparaiso University awarded him the honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 1951.


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Friday, 29 January 2010
Eline's Baby meets a few challenges
27 comments:
- Tab said...
Gorgeous card, hun, love the sweet image you have used and the colours are divine. Glad you found your stash, sweetie!
Hugs Tab xxx
- 29 January 2010 at 18:23
- Christine said...
Hi Heather this is such a cute pretty card love the shades of pink you used & the image is gorgeous one fab creation love it.
Hugs Christine xx
- 29 January 2010 at 19:06
- scrappyjan said...
very very cute Heather.. Love all of the PINK!!!
Cute image!!
hugs, Janiel
- 29 January 2010 at 19:09
- Moni said...
Hi Heather, stunning card, so love the colours you have used, cute image! Have a nice weekend! Hugs, moni
- 29 January 2010 at 19:11
- kaz_za's crafty corner said...
its like christmas all over again..lol finding your stamp and papers... i love this card.. its sooo cute...!!!! great layout and fab colourin...!!!!
- 29 January 2010 at 19:41
- Emma Lockley said...
oh i love this Heather, LO, colour combo all of it stunning!
where can i get those stamps from???
love emma xxx
- 29 January 2010 at 19:50
- Sue said...
Hi Hun
another gorgeous card,fantasic colouring as always, beautiful embelies, sue.x
- 29 January 2010 at 20:41
- Chrissie said...
I can see why you were glad to find this little treasure. Beautiful card Heather!
- 29 January 2010 at 20:57
- Loz (Aus) said...
gorgeous, love that stamp! lucky your cat only stood on the one area...
- 29 January 2010 at 21:03
- Karen said...
Stunning stunning cards Heather !
love Karen x
- 29 January 2010 at 21:25
- Riet said...
What a beautiful card Heather,i love your image and colours.
So gorgeous papers.
Hugs Riet.xx
- 29 January 2010 at 22:00
- Glitter Monkey said...
What an absolute beauty! You would never know your cat had walked on it - what would we do without bows and big flowers!! Thank you for joining in with Cute Card Thursday. Lol Lynn ♥
- 29 January 2010 at 22:02
- Sandra1968 said...
A beautiful pink card and a gorgeous image.
- 29 January 2010 at 22:54
- Kim Piggott said...
So happy you found them this is so divine!
Love your beautiful card!
kim x
- 29 January 2010 at 23:25
- Jackie Thomas said...
This card is stunning Heather. I adore it. The flowers in the corner are gorgeous and your colouring is out of this worlld. You made me laugh when you said the cat walked on it. We have two cats and when the children are laying on the floor reading, they flop right ontop of the book. Where would be be without them? Thank you for the award, it means so much too me. Have a wonderful weekend. xo Jackie
- 29 January 2010 at 23:51
- Cheryl said...
just gorjus love it love cheryl xxx
- 30 January 2010 at 00:20
- Leigh said...
I like these images Heather. Love your baby card.
- 30 January 2010 at 03:53
- debby4000 said...
Oh WOW this is so cute.
- 30 January 2010 at 11:02
- cats whiskers said...
Heather thisis just breathtaking I love the image and your colouring and the gorgeous flower arrangement in fact I just adore the whole thing
Hugs Jacqui x
- 30 January 2010 at 11:50
- Georgia said...
I love this Heather! It's so elegant and pretty and I love the pink colour combo and lovely border punching! Such a sweet image and your colouring is fabulous as always! Have a nice weekend! :)
Love, Georgia xx
- 30 January 2010 at 12:16
- Anesha said...
Beautiful card, lovely colours. Anesha :)
- 30 January 2010 at 18:08
- Hanna said...
Such a gorgeous card, Hetaher! LOVE IT! Stunning colours, everything about it is so pretty, soft and romantic.
Your design is stunning, and so is your colouring!
Have a great weekend!
Hugs from Hanna
- 30 January 2010 at 19:31
- Lorraine A said...
very cute card :-) I haven't seen, or heard of these images before ,,, lovely ! :-)
I have just been for a little browse around your blog too ,,, sorry I haven t been for a little while ,,, :-) All your cards are gorgeous :-)
thanks for joining the Simon Says Baby Challenge :-)
Lols and the DT
- 30 January 2010 at 21:33
- Julie said...
Gorgeous card Heather, a real sweetie.
- 30 January 2010 at 23:13
- The Crafty Den said...
What a gorgeous baby card. The image is so sweet and the papers are stunning. Thanks for joining us at stamp with fun this week. Hugs, Denise x
- 31 January 2010 at 13:21
- Pia said...
wow what a great card, love it!!!
- 31 January 2010 at 22:20
- America said...
holy smokes GF!! Your soft coloring ROCKS my world here!! Is this ever sooooo precious??! I do LOVE IT!!! And wait, is that a booty charm I see?? Oh goodness, be-still my heart! :) Hey- sometimes the best cards come from the smallest/silly mistakes for me too! So, WAY TO GO on making GORGEOUS errors GF!! heheh. I LOVE THIS!!!!! Did I mention that part??
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