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News Release
November 15, 2016
Minnesota's yearly COPD costs top $1.9 billion
About half of these lung disease cases go undiagnosed
Roughly half of the Minnesotans with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), sometimes called emphysema and chronic bronchitis, have not been diagnosed with the disease.
COPD, an umbrella term for progressive lung diseases, often goes undiagnosed until people are hospitalized or have a flair-up. The disease is characterized by increasing breathlessness.
As part World COPD Day, Nov. 16, MDH has updated information on MN Data including rates of hospitalizations and deaths. The update includes maps showing COPD rates in Minnesota counties and by age and zip code in the metro area.
Another MDH report, Chronic Conditions in Minnesota: New Estimates of Prevalence, Cost and Geographic Variation for Insured Minnesotans, 2012 (PDF), recently found that Minnesota spent $1.9 billion or $31,100 per-person on COPD care in 2012. This accounted for 7.1 percent of all health care spending that year. This report also found that COPD treatment costs varied greatly between counties, with Freeborn County costs averaging about $25,600 per person per year and Stevens County costs averaging nearly $40,000, according to MDH analysis that used the Minnesota All Payer Claims Database (MN APCD).
"The costs and the suffering associated with COPD are largely preventable," said Dr. Ed Ehlinger, commissioner of health. "We must continue our community-wide efforts to reduce smoking, while also helping individuals to quit and seek the care they need to identify and manage this deadly lung disease."
COPD is the 5th-leading cause of death in Minnesota. Death rates for COPD have declined for men but remain unchanged for women.
"Early diagnosis and treatment of COPD is the key to reducing symptoms and ensuring a high quality of life," said Dr. Jim Ehlen, American Lung Association in Minnesota Leadership Board Chair.
COPD was once more common among men, but women are closing the gap. This is due in part to increased use of tobacco among women after World War II. Smoking is the leading cause of COPD. Among adults with COPD, 40 percent are former smokers and 36 percent still smoke.
There are striking disparities in COPD deaths by race and ethnicity. COPD deaths are higher among Native Americans in Minnesota.
Twelve percent of Minnesota adults over age 75 have COPD. Catch COPD early by knowing the symptoms and talking with your doctor. Visit American Lung Association in Minnesota to learn more.
Managing COPD
- Know the symptoms
- See your doctors
- Learn how to talk with your doctor
- Learn to manage COPD
- Find support
COPD symptoms
- Chronic cough
- Shortness of breath while doing everyday activities
- Frequent respiratory infections
- Blueness of the lips or fingernail beds
- Fatigue
- Producing a lot of mucus
- Wheezing
Media inquiries:
Scott Smith
MDH Communications


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Interim Leadership
Dr. Phil Ehrhardt & Dr. Heidi Wennstrom
EMAIL: email@example.com
Dr. Phil Ehrhardt
Dr. Ehrhardt has over 40 years of experience in public education and recently retired from Benjamin School District 25 in West Chicago where he served as Superintendent for the past 12 years. Mainly based in Indianapolis, Indiana, he previously held roles as a Deputy Superintendent and Assistant Superintendent in MSD of Wayne Township and as an Assistant Superintendent in MSD of Decatur Township and Avon School Corp. He has also served as an assistant principal and teacher.
Phil believes that the purpose of education is to maximize the potential of each and every child in the areas of academics, social and emotional learning, and physical development. He has worked collaboratively with school boards, administrators, educators, families, and community partners to achieve this mission by keeping students at the center - even during difficult decisions.
In his most recent role as Superintendent, he led efforts to shift the district's model for special education services so that students could stay within their local school district rather than attending an outside program. This change led to better service for students and lowered financial costs. He also focused on enhancing climate and culture by strengthening relationships among stakeholders and improving communication across the organization. These efforts were successful and for the past three years Benjamin School District 25 was named as a Chicago Tribune Top Workplace, based on an independant survey given to all educators. In addition, one of the district's schools earned the distinction of being named a National Blue Ribbon School.
As Superintendent, Dr. Ehrhardt also focused on financial stability. He engaged both staff and community in implementing a number of cost saving measures, increased revenue through grants, and passed a referendum that resulted in lowered payment of bonds and actually decreased local homeowners' debt service tax rate.
- Dr. Ehrhardt has earned the following degrees:
- Ed.D in School Administration, Indiana University
- M.S. in Educational Administration, Indiana State University
- B.S. in Elementary Education, Indiana State University
Dr. Ehrhardt has published work and presented on education issues both locally and nationally and has earned a number of honors, awards, and special recognitions.
Dr. Heidi Wennstrom
Dr. Wennstrom has over 30 years of service in public education and recently retired from Butler School District 53 where she served as Superintendent for the past six years. Prior to that, she was the Assistant Superintendent for Teaching, Learning, and Technology in Northshore District 112 and Antioch District 34. She has also held roles as principal (Hillcrest Elementary School, Antioch) and as an elementary school teacher (Emmons District 33 and Libertyville District 70).
Heidi prides herself on actively building shared leadership and bringing people together to ensure children's optimal education experiences are achieved. She believes in building trust and respect through daily interactions and engaging educators, families, and community partners to ensure educational quality and equity are achieved for all students.
As superintendent, Heidi ensured a child-centered approach to education, creating a holistic pursuit of exemplary academic, social and emotional learning. She demonstrated her commitment daily to achieving educational equity and providing access to exceptional educational programming. She brings a student-focused, learning-centered culture that motivates, challenges and supports students and staff to reach their potential. In this role, Heidi reduced costs significantly while raising educational outcomes across demographics. She provided leadership and oversight of the entire educational program to ensure the highest quality, mentored principals and teachers, and led teams to achieve instructional growth through data-based decision-making. Educators and families who have worked with Heidi say she is an enthusiastic advocate for all children and that she works to establish meaningful relationships through honest and open communication. She has a demonstrated track record as an excellent financial steward who prioritizes the budget to achieve the highest outcomes for student and staff learning.
Dr. Wennstrom has earned the following degrees:
- Ed.D in Educational Leadership, National Louis University
- Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, Loyola University
- MA Educational Leadership, Northeastern Illinois University
- BA Elementary Education, Trinity International University
She has published work and presented on education issues both locally and nationally and has earned a number of honors, awards, and special recognitions.

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by Julie Guerra
"And now, like the monks, you will take a vow of silence. No talking as we walk to the abbey, starting…now." I made eye contact with my friend across the room and we shared a smile. We were wearing bland gray robes over our clothes, tied at the middle with slim rope. I wondered just how in-character they expected us to be.
We exited the Fountains Abbey information center and made our way to the beginning of the path, a silent group of about thirty teenagers dressed as monks. It was a soggy kind of day, the sky a uniform, pearlescent gray. Icy mist clung to our skin and clothes, and made the grass pale and glittery. I caught up to my friend, trying to telepathically communicate with her about how bizarre this was. Being in England was already strange enough, but dressing up as monks and exploring the ruins of an old abbey seemed like the kind of thing that only happened in stories.
"All right now," said one of the two guides, "From this moment until I tell you to stop, you are monks, so you're going to act like monks. Hoods up, everyone, heads down. Hold your hands together in front of you, like so." The guide demonstrated. "We'll be walking in a line two by two so get yourselves organized."
My friend rolled her eyes at me, but we both complied, making sure to situate ourselves next to one another. There was a bit of shuffling as we all tried to get into a line without communicating. A few girls next to us stifled laughter as they rushed around and squeezed between people to get in line.
The hood of my robe was big and fell down to my eyes when I put it up. The sleeves were oversized as well, and it didn't take much to shake them down over my hands, protecting them slightly from the hostile air. I clasped my hands together and waited for the bustling to cease.
After standing still for a moment in a formation that loosely resembled two parallel lines, we followed the guides as they set off down the gravel path. I glanced quickly at the window of an old building to my right, catching sight of our reflections, but for a moment I couldn't recognize them. In the dark, warped glass of the window, we seemed to take on the form of medieval shadows, apparitions of the past that were unidentifiable in formless robes. Before I could marvel at the transformation, we had moved beyond the window and the ghosts disappeared.
The grounds of the abbey were sprawling, and the gravel path we traversed wound through the grass like a snake, constantly turning corners and revealing a different view. We walked by a crumbling stone bridge over a small stream. Trees bowed over the path as if in prayer, leaves brushing the ground. Birds chimed out flitting, ephemeral hymns; the only other noise aside from the crunch of footsteps.
Our solemn procession eventually made it to the ruins. They were dark silhouettes towering against the gray sky, wreathed in green. Shattered stone walls arched upwards as if trying to crawl away from the ground, sticking out of the earth like the fractured ends of broken bones. Some parts still held an original imprint of what the building must have looked like when it was constructed in the twelfth century, but most of it had yielded to the weight of time. Gaping holes peppered the walls like a botched execution.
This ruin was like life support for the past, trying to keep history breathing even though its heart had stopped a long time ago. There was a stale sort of hope that it would return, would open its eyes and continue on as if nothing had happened.
We split off into two groups with one guide each so we weren't cramped in the small corridors of the abbey. I approached the ruins cautiously, keeping to the back of the group. Our guide explained that the roof of the abbey had been taken away during the dissolution of the monasteries in the fifteen hundreds and had been melted down for the lead. The stone walls that still stood formed an outline of where the roof should have been.
Even after the guide gave us permission to talk, I remained silent, shivering in the frigid air. I gazed up at the towering walls, feeling like a mourner at a funeral despite the happily chattering students surrounding me. I was walking were medieval monks had walked, had lived their lives. They might have once stood in this same exact spot as I was standing, their feet would have touched the same ground. They couldn't have known that eventually their grand abbey would be dismembered and hollowed out.
The grave of an abbots was still visible in the floor of one of the main chambers. It was a life sized plaque in the ground, placed between two rows of cracked pillars. Resting in the middle of it was the carved form of the abbot. Grass crept over the edges of the hewn stone like outstretched fingers, trying to banish the abbot from sight and pull him further into the ground. Had he been standing, he would have barely been taller than the shortest teenager in the group.
Without a roof and most of the walls, the abbey was more like the suggestion of a building, the scar tissue, the bones of a carcass. It felt dead, like the stones themselves were bodies left to moulder. I closed my eyes for a few seconds, concentrating on the cold air and the rustling leaves. Perhaps if I just took a moment and stood still, my mind would compensate for the centuries that had passed and I'd be able to see it the way the monks had. But when I opened my eyes the abbey was still decaying.
Our group marched up a winding staircase and into a small tower chamber with windows that overlooked the core of the abbey. "The monks used to sing from up here. The acoustics are fantastic! Would anyone like to give it a try?" asked the guide. We all shuffled awkwardly, none of us saying a word. The guide chuckled. "All right then, we'll carry on."
The abbey was a strange configuration. Hallways were filled with grass, walls stopped at odd angles, the ceiling was the sky. None of it seemed to add up to a place that could ever have been lived in. And yet it had. That was the room that the monks would get their blood drawn with leeches. This was the room that they would sing in. These were the halls they would walk through.
I shuddered and crossed my arms, trying to retain some warmth as we walked back into the open air. The guide kept talking, throwing facts at us that I would never be able to completely remember, but that didn't stop me from trying as hard as I could. I didn't want to forget a single moment. I wanted to soak in the history and keep it with me even after the two week school trip was over so I could revisit it whenever I wanted. There were no great ruins like this back home.
As we moved through an arched hallway, close to the grave of the abbot, a sound floated towards us, carried by a numbing draft of air. It was something other than bird song and the soft chatter of the students. I stopped and looked up, my eyes scanning the sharp edges of the abbey.
When I recognized the sound as singing, my breath froze in my lungs. The monks were singing. Their songs must have sunk into the stones and were now emanating from the walls around us. My eyes flickered around, waiting for the manifestation of ethereal spirits to emerge from the surrounding fog. Perhaps our robes had fooled them into rising and joining the people they thought were their brothers. I listened to the ancient voices drifting through the mist.
"… wooooorld, she took the midnight train goin' aaaaaanyyyyyywheeeeeere."
We turned a corner and came into view of the tower. Through the bare windows I could see the gray robes and blue sweatshirts of the other group. Their guide must have convinced them to test out the acoustics. It was the song that had somehow been chosen as the anthem for our trip, it was sung during bus rides and while walking around cities. And now it was being sung in a decrepit place of worship, bouncing off of the same stones as Latin hymns once did.
Air escaped my lungs in a quiet huff, sparkling in front of me for a moment before evaporating. I glanced around, this time trying to find my friend instead of the ghosts of people who had died so long ago they were now most likely nothing more than dust in the ground. The monks did not appear, the dead remained silent, and I was no longer waiting for the impossible to happen. But at least the guide was right about the acoustics.
Julie Guerra is an undergraduate senior at the University of Maine at Farmington. She is majoring in both Creative Writing and English, with a minor in Theatre.


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This deck is built to be a control deck (for Arena 3+), with every card used in affiliation with another in offensive, and defensive measures, centralized around the strategy's namesake, the X-Bow.
Deck Information
- Deck Created by: Pyro15232
- Minimum Recommended King Level: 4
- Maximum Recommended King Level: 13
- Arena Required: Builder's Workshop
- Average Elixir Cost: 4
- More Statistics: Go to Deck Builder
Card Roles
- X-bow: This is the main win condition card for the deck. It is used to damage the Crown Towers from all the way across the arena because of its long range.
- Archers: To counter a variety of ground or air attacks.
- Witch: To counter groups of smaller enemies and Goblin Barrels. This card can be replaced with the Baby Dragon. The Inferno Tower can also replace this card to deal with very high-hitpoint troops.
- Arrows: To counter any hordes of small enemies.
- Fireball: To counter groups of medium to high-hitpoint troops that are attempting to attack the X-Bow.
- Tombstone: To be placed in front of the X-Bow to block enemy troops from attacking it.
- Minions: To counter melee cards played to attack the X-Bow. This card can be replaced with the Minion Horde.
- Barbarians: To counter a variety of ground attacks.
The entire basis of this strategy is the X-Bow, and the entirety of this strategy is the effective use of this card. The first requisite of the strategy, is the 50% chance that the X-Bow will be in the starting 4 cards which can be drawn.
In the starting moments of the battle, place the X-Bow on your territory, at the side of which you wish to draw your offensive. If the Tombstone is in your deck, place it on the respective side of the X-Bow - this will act as a defense against any counters - before the X-Bow is spawned, and immediately targets the Crown Tower on the attacking side. This step is crucial: if the opponent places a counter-attack before the X-Bow is spawned, protect the X-Bow at all cost, with your cards: Barbarians or Archers for a Melee counter-attack, Arrows or Witches/Baby Dragon for any hordes of enemies (or for Goblin Barrels), Fireball if necessary (for multiple high-hitpoint troops) or place Minions for a relatively small melee counter and remember, you also have the aid of the Tombstone.
If the enemy counter-attack is defeated, the X-Bow will proceed to target and inflict immense damage upon the targeted Crown Tower. Counter any enemy offensives with any of the other cards, and aid the X-Bow as well - it will not be worth its effort, if your own Crown Tower is destroyed as well - and if successful, the opposing Crown Tower will be destroyed, and you can proceed to launch another offensive.
If an enemy Crown Tower has been destroyed, the opponent will be hording Elixir for a major counter-attack. Before the opponent can counter however, launch your own offensive against the King's Tower with the cards in your deck, spawning Archers, Barbarians, Minions & Witches and placing the opponent on defense, but logically leaving some cards to be played in your own defense.
If there are enough troops to counter any cards which will be spawned, place another X-Bow to target the King's Tower, and if successful, the King Tower will be destroyed, earning a VICTORY.


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Our board of directors are dedicated advocates of the Library who value ensuring Library access for all. They build relationships with individuals, businesses, foundations, and organizations, and actively seek support for Library core services and innovative programs.
An Impact Committee from the Board guides the funding process by reviewing grant applications from the Library, interviewing Library staff, and making investment recommendations to the entire Foundation board regarding priority Library programs and services.
Success is determined by how we positively impact the lives of library customers, through our fundraising success and the outcomes achieved through the Impact Investment process.
Focus Areas of Support
Prepare the very young to learn.
Support school and career success for all ages.
Inspire curiosity and imagination.
Foster a love of reading.
Create opportunities to discover new interests or pursue passions.
Build a reading community, support interaction and success for all.
Early Learning
Block Play and KABOOM Imagination PlaygroundTM help children build skills in math, literacy, science, social-emotional development, and technology. Blocks and books are transported to library branches, Head Start/ECEAPS programs and community events.
Science to Go backpacks with five books related to a specific STEM subject, activity sheet and a field notebook are available at the library.
Classes in computer code programming, 3-D printing, Lego Mindstorms, a robot building program, are available.
Adult Learning
Get Hired!, a Job & Business Center (JBC) program, will strengthen services and training to job seekers to reduce the number of disconnected young adults and help all ages to attain a GED or High School diploma.
"After receiving help from a librarian, a customer worked at a JBC computer to apply for jobs, later he emailed to say thank you and that he submitted five job applications. He stopped by the next day and happily reported that he had two job interviews. One week later he came back to announce he has a new job"
E-Books and E-Readers
E-book publication trends are making it easier to purchase titles and expand reading materials available especially for seniors needing large print. Training in use of e-books and e-readers will be available.
Building a Reading Community
Summer Reading is designed to keep students reading through the summer months, better preparing them for the next level in education and life. Youth are provided with incentives to keep learning through reading.
Our Own Expressions is a countywide teen contest involving writing, poetry, photography and art. It is promoted through the News Tribune, libraries, and schools. Teens enter their work, professionals in each field select the final winners. Their work is published and the books are available at the library for all to read.
On the Road
The Explorer Bookmobile and our roving kid's vans bring summer reading to youth at community sites, focusing on those whom face significant socioeconomic and transportation barriers to access branch services.
Community Programs
Pierce County READS brings the community together to read and discuss the same book(s) with discussions and a meeting with the author.
Pierce County MakerFest is a one day, all age celebration of the Do it Yourself culture.
Pierce County Conversations is a youth, teen, and adult program intending to explore a range of opinions and viewpoints, and to have meaningful dialogue with neighbors.
Our Community Adventure provides families an adventure map to exciting, low-cost experiences that introduce children to the big-wide-world of their community.


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How does Deposits and Withdrawals work?
To make a deposit you must enter your credit card information, that consists of 16 digits on the front of the card, followed by your name, the expiration date of the card and the three-digit security code on the back of the card (even called CVV code).
If you want to deposit money with a Visa card at an online casino it is a very simple procedure. First of all, you need to go to the deposit section at your casino. Choose "Credit Cards" as your preferred payment method.
Now you need to fill in the VISA card number, your name on the card, the card's expiring date and the 3-digit CVC safety code that is written on the back of your card. After indicating how much money you want to deposit, you need to check and verify the deposit. Once this is done, the money will appear on your casino account immediately.
The fees charged by online gambling for a VISA deposits may vary from casino site to casino site. If the deposit isn´t free, the fee normally is between 2% – 3% for every deposit. Some casinos only have a fee on small deposits. The limits for depositing money can vary too. Usually it is between €10 and €5000. The transaction is instant but sometimes it can take up to five days until it appears on your Visa account. Withdrawing funds from the casino account with VISA is done in the same way as with deposits.
However, not every online casino allows players to make withdrawals with their VISA credit card. So make sure that you know this before you start playing. Some casinos allow their players to make x amount of withdrawals per 30 days. Minimum and maximum limits for withdrawals with Visa also varies from casino to casino.
Advantages with this Payment Method
- Easy and secure payment method.
- Almost all online casinos accept Visa Cards.
- Depositing with VISA is a very easy procedure that normally won't take more than a couple of minutes.
- Deposits made with a VISA credit card are instant and they will immediately be available on your online casino account.
- For some players, it might be good to deposit money that you don't have on your bank account via a credit card.
- VISA as a payment method is available of millions of websites and stores around the world.
Disadvantages with this Payment Method
- Payments can take up to 3-5 days.
- Some online casino sites will take a charge of up to 3%.
- The principal disadvantage of using VISA credit card for payments is that you can very easily lose track on what you´re spending.
- When using VISA you have to be very careful with both the credit card data as well as your personal information because if you lose it, other people can use your card information and steal your money.
- Another disadvantage is that not all online casinos accepts Visa cards.
- Last but not least, some casinos charge a fee for both deposits and withdrawals with Visa cards.
VISA – Review and Conclusion
Just like MasterCard, VISA is also a credit card that you can link to your regular bank account. With a Visa card, you can take a "loan" each month and pay it back the next month from your bank account.
Visa and MasterCard are very similar and the fees are almost identical. If you have problems with gambling a credit card isn't the best payment solution for you because you can play with money that you don't have which could be dangerous.
In addition, a VISA credit card allows you to make payments at millions stores all over the world. You can use it for online casinos and other websites. You can also use it at physical stores and ATMs. The goal of VISA is to replace physical money in the future.
Visa is one of the most popular credit cards in the world. There are very few physical stores that doesn't accept Visa cards. This payment method was very popular a couple of years ago but now it is not so popular. The reason behind this is because of the fees. If you are using a credit card, the fee is much higher than if you are using an e-wallet.
As Visa card can be used at such a huge number of online casinos. The payment is very secure but if you lose your card, someone else can use your credentials and steal your money.
All in all, this was the best payment method a couple of years ago. But today, e-wallets are much cheaper, faster and simple. We really recommend all of our players to use e-wallets instead of credit cards.


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Spring 2020
Sunday Mixed
Sunday Open
Spring Hat Tournament
Spring 2020 Spring Hat Tournament (Co-Rec)
Tournament Format
The 2020 Ann Arbor Ultimate Spring Hat Tournament will take place on Saturday, May 16th at Lillie Park. Games will start at 10:00am and will go until about 5:00pm. This is a co-rec hat tournament and will play 3 or 4 games with food to follow.
We will accept registrations at the field site on the day of, but the only way to guarantee a spot on a team and food after the tournament is to sign up online by Friday, May 15th at 6:00pm. This will help us plan ahead and anticipate tournament needs.
Rule Modificatons
This division will play using the USAU 2020-2021 rule set with our recreational division rule modifications. Please see our rules page for more information.
Gender Matching
Offense sets how many women are on the field for a given point; defense matches to the best of their ability. Before the game, captains should recruit women up to the number assigned to the team OR a predetermined number decided by tournament organizers after team generation. At the fields, captains should strive to find a balance that is equitable to all genders. If there is a large imbalance of players (of one gender or overall), often the best solution is for one team to sub someone over to the other for the game (perhaps switching at half). Note that match-ups on the line should be assigned based on ability; a player does not need to match up with a player of the same gender.
Other Details
As with all ultimate games, the emphasis in this tournament will be on high spirit, great exercise, and fun for both new and experienced players. Play hard, but play nice. And remember, violence, be it physical or verbal, is never acceptable and will get you suspended.
- Bring light and dark (or your team color) shirts to delineate teams, water, and cleats.
- After the games do a cheer for the other team. This can be a quick "Great game!", a song with modified lyrics, a haiku, an interpretive dance, or a massive game of rock paper scissors. We've seen all of these done quite well. Show good spirit, this is ultimate.
- There is no alcohol allowed on or near the fields.
Most of all, have fun! Any questions, comments, or concerns can be directed to your captains, or to league organizers by emailing email@example.com.


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Follow These Tricks in the Morning to Look and Feel Your Best
Have you been waking up in the morning feeling sluggish, wishing you could sleep for another hour or two or ten? Don't worry, we all have at one time or another. Maybe you need a change in your morning routine? Rather than going straight for the coffee as soon as you roll out of bed, adopt these morning habits to feel refreshed and ready to conquer your day. By doing these simple things, you'll start the day looking and feeling your best.
Do your best to stop "snoozing"
It's difficult to resist hitting that snooze button over and over again, but you're better off without it! Even though you might get another few minutes of shut eye, it is such a low-quality form of sleep that it is actually making you feel more tired when you actually get up. So even if your finger gravitates to that button as soon as your alarm starts sounding, try your best to roll out of bed and start your day instead.
Drink a mug of warm lemon water
While you sleep, your body becomes dehydrated – typically you haven't had anything to drink for about eight hours. So the best thing to do as soon as we wake is to drink a full glass of water. Even better is drinking warm (not hot) lemon water. It can help flush the digestive system and the vitamin C in the lemon gives your immune system that boost it needs first thing in the morning. Doing this has also shown to promote happy skin and a healthy weight.
This might be hard for a lot of people to do first thing in the morning, especially if you have kids or an intense work schedule. But do your best to get in some form of exercise before you start your other daily routines, even if it's just fifteen minutes of meditation or yoga. The endorphins that your brain releases while exercising will actually improve your mood and relieve stress, leaving you feeling happier and healthier.
Eat breakfast
Many people forego breakfast due to their fast-paced lifestyles, but eating a healthy and hearty breakfast each morning will give you the energy you need to put your best foot forward. Eating a larger meal in the morning is actually great for maintaining a healthy weight, and by skipping breakfast you might actually be risking overeating later in the day, causing your body to feel sluggish. So go ahead, enjoy that bacon and eggs with your cup of joe every morning!
This all sounds pretty basic, right? The reality of the situation is that feeling and looking your best isn't difficult. It's all about slowing down and going back to basics really. In today's world it's so easy to eat poorly and become decadent in all other areas of life such as sleeping in, over indulging in drink or anything else. If you just keep it simple, live simply and follow basic common sense you'll be looking your best in no time flat. You might even get a flatter stomach in the process.


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Bristol - Abolish Workfare demo targets Holland and Barrett
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Joining with actions across the country against Workfare, members of Bristol Solidarity Federation, Bristol Anarchist Federation, Bristol & District Anti Cuts Alliance, Youth Fight for Jobs, The IWW (union), Right to Work and others took to the streets as part of the fight-back against the Workfare providers.
Escorted by the police throughout, the 40 strong group headed straight for a Holland and Barrett's in the swanky Cabot Circus. Bemused shoppers were treated to punk classics from the wheeley-bin sound-system and gladly accepted a variety of literature outlining the perils of Workfare. Then the march headed-off to picket more of the cities Workfare poverty-peddlers. Primark, McDonalds, Greggs, Wilkinson's and another Holland and Barrett were targeted.
Until the threat of unpaid-mandatory free labour is lifted we will continue to target the these parasitic companies.
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First day with Gretchen and Wendy from Utah in the US.
Bonelli's Warbler (Mosquitero Papialbo / Phylloscopus bonelli) which was not a great problem as we had some good views later just up the road in the same Pine woods. We started to walk along a track out in to the woods where we quickly picked Coal Tit (Carbonero Garrapinos / Parus ater), Jay (Arrendajo / Garrulus glandarius), Common Chaffinch (Pinzón Vulgar / Fringilla coelebs), Serin (Verdecillo / Serinus serinus) and in the air just down the hill we could hear at least two Woodlarks (Totovia / Lullula arborea) singing their distinctive tune. In the more open areas we found our first butterflies which included Grayling (Hipparchia semele), Small White (Artogeia rapae), Wall Brown (Lasiommata megera) and Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas). Wild Flowers were going past their best but we did see Polygala boissieri, Wild Peony (Paeonia broteroi), Salvia lavandulifolia subsp vellerea and Red Phlomis (Phlomis purpurea). We moved on down through the pines and walked back towards the car on the way we had good views of Robin (Petirrojo Europeo / Erithacus rubecula), Great (Carbonera Común / Parus major), Crested (Herrerillo Capuchino /Parus cristatus) and Blue Tits (Herrerillo Común / Parus caeruleus) all of which were Lifes for both Gretchen and Wendy. Once we were on the road again we turned away from the car and walked back down to the junction with the main road where we saw the beautiful Spanish Rusty Foxglove (Digitalis obscura) growing out of the rocky sides of the road. From here we could still hear the Woodlarks but again we could not see either of them, along with these we heard but did not see Common Crossbills (Piquituerto Común / Loxia curvirostra). We turned around and walked back up the road where we picked up a Short-toed Treecreeper (Agateador Común / Certhia brachydactyla), a Spotted Flycatcher (Papamoscas Gris / Muscicapa striata), Woodpigeon (Paloma Torcaz / Columba palumbus), Wren (Chochin / Troglodytes troglodytes) and once we were up passed the car we heard a calling Nuthatch (Trepador Azul / Sitta europaea), Cirl Bunting (Escribano Soteno / Emberiza cirlus) and on our third attempt we found a Woodlark sat in the top of a Pine Tree singing. Further up the hill we found a Common Magpie (Urraca / Pica pica), Southern Grey Shrike (Alcaudón Real Meridional / Lanius meridionalis), Blackcap (Curruca Capirotada / Sylvia atricailla) and during the walk back down the hil towards the car we saw several immature Common Stonechats (Tarabilla Común / Saxicola torquata), Corn Bunting (Triguero / Emberiza calandra) and in the air a fine pale phase Booted Eagle (Aguililla Calzada / Hieraaetus pennatus) which gave really good views right over head. We also saw several more butterflies which was the main thing Wendy had come for, they included Bath White (Blanqiverdosa / Pontia daplidice), Black-veined White (Banca del Majuelo / Aporia crataegi), Purple-shot Copper (Lycaena alciphron subsp gordius), Clouded Yellow (Colias Común / Colias corcea), Holly Blue (Celastrina argiolus), Spanish Gatekeeper (Lobito listado / Pyronia bathsheba) and Speckled Wood (Pararge aegeria).
From here we drove up to the car parks near the barrier at 2500meters, on the way we stopped near on of the disused ski lifts and picked up Rock Sparrow (Gorrión Chillón / Petronia petronia), Common Swift (Vencejo Común / Apus apus) and Linnet (Pardillo Común / Carduelis cannabina). We parked near the carpark and walked out towards the large green military building, here we soon had good views of a nice male Black Redstart (Colirrojo Tizón / Phoenicurus ochruros), several Pallid Swifts (Vencejo Pálido /Apus pallidus) and a couple of Crag Martins (Avión Roquero / Ptyonoprogne rupestris). We walked up passed the building and started out on the track towards the Barranco de San Juan but our way was blocked by a large slab of lying snow, in the area we saw a few flowers starting to bloom as the snow was melting, these included Galium pyrenaicum, Cliffhanger (Chaenorhinum villosum), Mucizonia hispida, Sierra Nevada Violet (Viola crassiuscula), Pterocephalus spathulatus, Putoria calabrica along with a couple of Spanish Ibex (Cabra pyreaica hispanica). We decided that crossing the snow was not a good idea so we made our way back along the track towards the car, on the way we had good views of a displaying Tawny Pipit (Bisbita campestre / Anthus campestris), both Large Tortoiseshell (Nymphalis polychlorus) and Small Tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae) were seen along with the none flowering succulent leaves of the Nevada House Leek (Sempervivum vicentei ssp lainzii). Once back at the car we dropped down through the town to a spot at the start of one of the tracks out onto the slopes, we walked out along here for a while looking for both Birds and Butterflies. Birds included Common Whitethroat (Curruca Zarcera / Sylvia communis), Rock Bunting (Escribano Montesino / Emberiza cia), Sardinian Warbler (Curruca Cabecinegra / Sylvia melanocephala) and the butterflies were Silver-studded Blue (Plebejus argus hypochionus), a single Apollo (Parnassius apollo subsp nevadensis) a species only found here, Moroccan Orange-tip (Anthocharis belia), Panoptes Blue (Pseudophilotes panoptes), Southern Brown Argus (Aricia cramera), Large White (Pieris brassicae), Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui), Blue Spotted Hairstreak (Satyrium spini) and Knapweed Fritillary (Melitaea phoebe). We again returned back to the car and started to drop down, we turned off and took the old road down the rest of the way through Guejar-sierra but on the way we called and got a baguette for our lunch. A little later we stopped on the roads side and had our food sat under some nearby Pine trees, whilst there we saw several more species including Cardinal Fritillary (argynnis Pandora), Meadow Brown (Maniola jurtina ssp hispulla), Small Skipper (Thymelicus sylvestris), Spanish Marbled White (Melanargia ines), Berberis hispanica, Common Stork's-bill (Erodium cicutarium), Pine-cone Knapweed (Leuzea Conifera), Salvia lavandulifolia subsp vellerea, Southern Knapweed (Centaurea pullata ssp pullata), White Rockrose (Helianthemum apenninum) and as we were so far from water we were surprised to see a male Blue / Common Emperor (Anax imperator) and a female / teneral Broad-bodied Chaser (Libellula depressa) both of which passed by quickly. We moved on from here and made a few more stops on the way down, near the river we picked up several more butterflies and birds including Marsh Fritillary (Euphydrayas aurinia beckeri), Mallow Skipper (Carcharodus alceae), Marbled Skipper (Carcharodus lavatherae), Cleopatra (Cleopatra / Gonepteryx cleopatra), Spotted Flycatcher (Papamoscas Gris / Muscicapa striata), Orphean Warbler (Curruca Mirlano / Sylvia hortensis), Crag Martin, Cetti's Warbler (Ruisenor Bastardo / Cettia cetti) heard only, Grey Wagtail (Lavandera Cascadena / Motacilla cinerea), Hawfinch (Picogordo / Coccotraustes coccotrauetes) a quick flyby and only seen by me and Turtle Dove (Tórtola Europea / Streptopelia turtur). Wild flowers included Common Fumitory (Fumaria officinalis), Common Snapdragon (Antirrhinum major), Curry Plant (Helecrisum stoechaes), Milk Thistle (Silybum marianum), Pistorinia brevifolia and Pitch Trefoil (Psoralea bituminosa). From here we headed back down to the city where I made arrangements to meet Gretchen tomorrow for more of a birding day.
Photographs from the top: Sierra Nevada Violet (Viola crassiuscula), Gretchen and Wendy in one of the wooded lanes on the lower slopes, Galium pyrenaicum, Pterocephalus spathulatus and Marsh Fritillary (Euphydrayas aurinia beckeri).


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This strategy, for the most part, has been beneficial. No doubt digital marketing, when done right, is an effective strategy. As a result, there are more measuring and targeting options for building relationships and acquiring leads.
However, a majority of realtors tend to focus more on generating leads with little attention to qualifying and engaging the prospects. As a result, this has caused more than a few setbacks to many agents. With new digital channels emerging each day, it is even harder to keep up with new trends, further aggravating the situation.
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Social media is a great way to connect with your targeted audience. According to a TechCrunch report, Facebook had 2 billion active users as of 2017. 66% of these users are using the platform on a daily basis. Further, Statistica reveals that Twitter had an average of 336 million active monthly users by the first quarter of 2018. Other hugely popular social media sites include Instagram and Snapchat According to recent statistics, Instagram has 500 million daily users. Meanwhile, Snapchat has seen the number of their daily users rise to 150 million. If these figures are anything to go by, social media marketing is not something to be taken lightly.
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As technology advances and customers become more sophisticated, crafting a solid digital marketing strategy will grow your real estate business. Take full advantage of the tools and information at your disposal to drive more quality leads and build stronger relationships.


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Hi, I'm Venkat. Today, I'm here to tell you about Sales Tool Belt by PowerObjects, an app your sales team won't be able to live without. Simply put, the Sales Tool Belt app gives all salespeople access to all sorts of relevant information from their CRM on the go. Although it's called the Sales Tool Belt app, it can be for a traveling salesperson, or a field technician, it's very versatile.
PowerObjects got a lot of feedback from our customers. What we mostly heard was all of their end users who were traveling, whenever they wanted quick access to CRM information, there wasn't really an easy way to do so. One, they either had to open their laptops to access CRM, which was a cumbersome process. Or, they had to use the out-of-the-box Dynamics 365 app, which is very good, but it does come with its limitations.
The Sales Tool Belt app removes limitations of the Dynamics 365 app by providing access to the most relevant information and the ability to perform quick actions with the least number of clicks. The backbone of this app is Dynamics 365, although you can connect it to any system of your choice.
In addition, it uses something called cognitive services. Cognitive services are a set of services that are in Microsoft Azure, and these services are used for performing certain actions like scanning business cards or entering your notes in your app through just your voice. Let's take a look.
If you use Dynamics 365, you're probably familiar with this interface. Up on the top menu, you have access to all of your areas. Within sales, you have accounts, contacts, opportunities, leads, etc. And then whatever you want to access, you drill into it. Right now, I'm in my opportunities area. I see my open opportunities, if I want more information, I drill into each one of these to get more access.
So now let's see what it looks like on the phone. When I switch to my phone and I open the Sales Tool Belt app, this is the first thing that I see, my home screen. On my home screen, as you can clearly see, I have access to all sorts of relevant areas that I am interested in. I can access my opportunities, accounts, appointments, and so many other areas. If I want to go into my opportunities, I just click the button, and the first thing it does is it loads the opportunities that are assigned to me and that are open.
Of course, if I want, I can drill down into each of these opportunities, but the one cool thing that it really does is it lets me communicate with the primary contact of this opportunity with one single click. For example, in my first opportunity here for Alpine Ski House, if I want to contact Robert, I can just click the phone icon right here on the opportunity, and this will initiate a phone call for me. Similarly, if I want to email Robert, I just click the email icon, and this opens up the email app on my phone so that I can quickly send an email to Robert.
Going back, it also gives me some more information about when these opportunities are closing, what kind of opportunities these are, etc. And of course, all of this can be redesigned for your specific needs.
Now let's look at appointments. In my Sales Tool Belt app, if I go into appointments, the first thing it does is it loads all of my appointments that I need to take care of. For each appointment, you will see that there are some options available. You're familiar with the phone icon and the email icon, there for calling someone and emailing someone with one single click.
In addition, you will also see a car icon. Clicking that will give me driving directions from my current location to that appointment. I click it, and it opens my map application, and it also gives me all of my directions. As simple as that.
If I go back to my Sales Tool Belt app, and once I'm done with my appointment and I had to leave some notes, I can just speak my notes into the app, and it'll take care of the rest. I don't need to type any of it. Let me show you how. For my notes, I can just click the microphone icon, and just speak into the phone. What I'll say here is, "The demo went really well." Once I click the stop button on the microphone, it processes my voice and adds the text to the notes section in this app right here. It's just that easy. I was able to add notes to my appointment hands-free.
The next thing I'll show you is perhaps the most requested, the most asked-for, feature by our customers. As a traveling salesperson, think about all the business cards you collect when you're traveling to prospects' locations or when you go to a conference or a trade show. You may end up with maybe at least 20 business cards. Who wants to really enter all that information manually in their CRM? For that purpose, we have the ability to scan business cards from this app. All you do is take a photo of the business card, and the app will process all that information and send it into CRM.
Let me show you how. If I go into leads and click the camera icon at the bottom, it enables my phone's camera. All I do now is take a photo of the business card, and once I do that this image is processed, and all of the information in that business card becomes a lead in Dynamics 365. It's as easy as that.
There are so many cool features in this app, but we really don't have time to show you all of it in this video. But you can test drive all these features by yourself by going to Power Apps' website. Go to the menu. In the menu under partners, go to partner showcase. On this page, scroll down to where it says PowerObjects, and click on it. This will give you the option to test drive this app. Clicking the test drive button will open the Sales Tool Belt app in a new window.
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The Donald entered the race for President of the United States yesterday, and his status as a Republican is a black mark on that political party.
Mr. Trump is first and foremost a showman, but the positions he takes derive from the mainstream of the Republican party. And by his exaggerations and egotistical manner, he shows up those positions for what they really are.
The Republican stance on immigration, for example, is based on fear and prejudice, and Trump takes that paranoia to its logical conclusion by proposing to build a wall across our thousand-mile border with Mexico. Branding illegal immigrants as rapists and thieves, he ignores their real economic needs and their hope for a better life for their children.
But the lack of compassion for immigrants represents the mainstream of the Republican Party, and he is only taking the next step in supporting their position.
The Republicans also have a reflexive aversion to the President, and by trying to brand him as an "other," somehow outside the mainstream of American politics, by his avowed support of "birtherism" and calling for the President to release his college manuscripts, Mr. Trump is making outrageous statements. But, again, just the next logical step driving Republican policy, and one espoused by many on the far right.
On these and so many other issues, Donald Trump appeals strongly to the base of the Republican Party, and by highlighting what their positions really mean, Mr. Trump is doing the Democrats a favor. I can't wait for the Donald to comment on climate change and the Pope's acknowledgement of its effect on the poor in his most recent encyclical.


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Session Number: 11
Date: Saturday 14 March 2009
Venue: Internet
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XP Awarded: TBC
"Normal" monastery life resumes and work commences on the new defensive wall. One day, monastery scouts return bearing a human girl about 5 years old, dressed in rich silk clothing. She appears to have been the only survivor of a raid on a wagon train that they discovered burned out. The scouts found her inside the smashed remains of an ornate wagon. Around 30 other bodies were recovered. The girl does not speak common, dwarven, or any other language in common use around the monastery. No-one has been able to determine her real name; she has been affectionately named "Ellie". Two weeks have passed since the girl's arrival at the monastery. She sleeps in a bed next to the most senior student in the girl's dormitory - Rowaine.
The following are excerpts of an MSN conversation between Densial (DM) and Craig (Rowaine/Silque):
Craig: /me goes to get books
Denz: ok, you will have to play Silque too, so make up some numbers
Denz: and give me your and Silque's spot and listen skills
Craig: k…
Craig: Rowaine: spot +3 listen +3
Craig: Silque: Spot +8 Listen +8
Craig: Rowaine is too busy contemplating Moradin's greatness to notice much
Denz: interesting roll… Rowaine starts awake one night in her bed, in the dorm, something doesn't feel right
Craig: OK… Does she think she was woken by a sound?
Denz: ok, so you're awake, not sitting up, just laying there…
Denz: your heart is racing, you have a dry throat and a slight sick feeling…
Craig: I'm in the girl's dorm, right?
Denz: yes, it's night, everyone is asleep
Denz: you also appear to have a slight headache
Craig: Do I remember any dreams?
Denz: no, nothing, but something started you awake, you didn't come out of slumber nicely
Denz: everything the night before was normal
Craig: Get out of bed, find (1) a weapon and (2) a drink of water
Craig: maybe a cloak too
Craig: Anyone else disturbed?
Denz: you sit up and swing your legs to the right hand side of the bed (you're right handed, right?), as you do you hear a creak of wood
Denz: of the other girls, everything seems normal.
Craig: RH yes
Craig: Creak… is that a normal kinda sound? Where from?
Denz: well it could easily be a normal sound, your bed creaks all the time, but this creak came from further in the room. your bed is at one end, against the wall, since you are most senior in this dorm. there is a wall to the left hand side of your bed (about 2 feet away, a small private walkway between your bed and the wall). the bed to the right of yours is normally vacant as it's kept for .. TBC…
Denz: …for new arrivals, and there is one tonight, a very young girl who only arrived a few days ago. Silque is on the other side of the girl.
Denz: more to come…
Craig: Ro is in two minds … she is wanting to believe that all the trouble that has befallen the monastery was because of Sarthen, and that threat has now been removed. But she is still painfully aware of being taken by surprise .. and the associated costs…
Denz: so in layout the dorm runs left to right, a door in each end, you are by one door in bottom left corner, door at your end leads to bathroom, door at far end leads to another bathroom, door in oposite wall to your bed leads outside
Denz: ok, so back to it, you are getting up and getting your sword, yes?
Craig: well, axe might be a bit of overkill for a hunch… I will grab my dagger.
Denz: which is currently located, where?
Craig: Silque is not awake
Craig: dagger will be in my chest at foot of bed
Denz: no, you appear to be the only person awake, with your limited eyesite (there is a night light though, so you can see the other beds)
Craig: that's cute
Craig: Will check location of creaking noise
Denz: ok, so you get up, walk to the chest at the foot of your bed, open it, find your dagger (assumedly at the top of the pile) and pick it up, yes?
Denz: night lights are for newbies
Craig: hey, I'm thankful for it
Craig: yes I open chest, mindful of noise I heard earlier
Craig: not wanting to wake anyone at this stage
Denz: before getting up, you look down the row of beds and see… a dark shadow at the foot of Silque's bed. Too small to be a person, possibly a cloak haphazardly thrown over the end of the bed, what do you want to do now?
Denz: you are still seated
Craig: do I have dagger?
Craig: guess not
Denz: no, you sed… "Will check location of creaking noise before I got to do the move thing…"
Denz: so you are still seated…
Craig: OK… watch and wait .. if shadow moves, move towards it
Craig: binning dagger plan from before
Denz: how long would you like to watch and wait?
Craig: half minute
Denz: nothing happens.
Craig: if nothing is visibly or audibly happening in that time I will resume grab dagger plan
Denz: you stand, turn to your left (you got out of rhs of bed) walk to the end of the bed, turn around and face the bed and hence the chest and open it, as you do so you see a flicker of movement from your left, which is towards the other beds… TBC
Denz: you look to your left, towards the other beds and the flicker of movement and see a shadow land on the bed next to yours and you hear a slicing sound. what do you wish to do?
Craig: Shout. Loud. "ALARM"
Denz: Silque wakes to a shouting sound…
Craig: Jump on the shape on my bed, with dagger ready
Craig: … but not pointy bit first
Denz: the shadow rises to a crouching position, now obviously a figure clothed in black, you see it flailing at the bed next to yours… TBC
Denz: Silque wakes to a shouting sound… being of a particular type of person, she immediately looks around and notices a figure totally clothed in black in the bed next to her, it appears to be stabbing at the bed with something.
Craig: Yell loudly INTRUDER and jump at it… Silque?
Denz: Ro, init please
Denz: Silque too I think…
Craig: Ro's init: 5
Denz: ooo… bad…
Craig: that was AFTER the +2
Craig: Silque: 16
Denz: ok, Silque first, what does she wish to do?
Craig: scuse me putting away dice
Craig: Silque: take out its feet with the nearest available weapon. If it's my feet, so be it
Denz: the figure is straddled over the little girl on the bed, you will have to get out of bed to reach it
Craig: Silque: fly at it
Craig: with all available speed
Denz: roll to hit, grapple? punch? bite?
Craig: Grapple probably …
Craig: hang on …
Denz: me too
Craig: it gets an AOO
Denz: yes, and you do 1d3
Denz: you're going to die
Craig: Silque rolls a 7, modified to 10
Craig: phb p156
Denz: miss, what AC is Silque?
Craig: in her nightie?
Craig: 14
Denz: oh… hang ten
Denz: I was on phb 139
Denz: ok, Silque takes 2 point of damage from a stab from some short of long dagger…
Craig: standard actions?
Craig: ah crap
Denz: that was an AOO
Craig: ok
Denz: figure attacks Silque,
Craig: damn it gets an aoo and a normal attack
Craig: Silque is in deep poo
Denz: figure leans to the side, its leg extends with amazing grace and clarity, smacking Silque in the chest for a wopping 7 points of damage.. WOT, 7 points from a kick? you have seen this kind of manoeuvre before, but where? oh where? TBC
Denz: figure then rolls back towards Silque, extends arm with horrific speed, another manoeuvre you have seen before, narrowly missing Silque's head
Denz: Ro may act
Craig: Last I hear Ro was leaping at the figure … call it a grapple attempt
Denz: roll to hit, you get flanking
Craig: NAT 20!
Denz: bugger
Denz: don't kill my NPC, it took me minutes to make….
Craig: all up, that's 23
Denz: opposed grapple check…
Craig: check = 11 (roll 8 + 3str)
Craig: This is exciting!
Denz: you win, just, but you do, do your damage
Craig: 1d3 + str?
Denz: yes… unarmed attack equiv I believe
Craig: 2 + str = 5 pts dmg
Craig: not bad
Denz: 88 more to go
Craig: you had BETTER be kidding
Denz: ok. you have the shadow, it is def a person, albeit a small person, in very dark shadowing clothing.
Denz: ok new round I believe… Silque may act
Craig: Ro: will "maintain grapple" (PHB p 156)
Denz: btw others in the room are waking and some are screaming…
Denz: help is only a few dozen hit points away
Craig: Silque: 2 exits to room?
Denz: 3 exits, one to the west to a bathroom, one to the east (furtherest) to another bathroom, and one to the north, past the foot of Ro's bed, to the outside.
Craig: Silque: crap, that's a lot of exits to cover… Where are my weapons? In my chest?
Denz: Silque will always carry a dagger or two on her, any other weapons will be in her chest
Craig: Silque: yells to some chick near her to go to the eastern door, and then herself goes to the northern door, 2 x daggers ready
Denz: figure attempts to break away from grapple, roll your dice
Craig: This is Ro?
Denz: yes, Silque has moved to the door as a movement, yes? and yelled to the girl next to her, free action? has readied weapons, that's pretty much all she can do, yes?
Denz: therefore on figure's turn it will attempt to break grapple, opposed grapple check to break
Denz: for Ro
Craig: Silque: yes, moves to the doorway (move), readies an action to gut anything coming at her that isn't a student (standard action)
Craig: Ro's opposed grapple check = 13
Denz: ooo.. you lose. you're going down, nat 20 and all…
Craig: shit.
Denz: figure has broken grapple, shrugging off Rowaine's feeble atttempts to hold it. leaning forward it shoots a leg out behind it and… whats your AC?
Craig: Ro's unarmoured ac is 12
Craig: what the hell is this thing?
Denz: bugger, narrowly missing kicking Rowaine's insides out her side, instead its leg grazes down Rowaine's leg. Figure then sits up smoothly, elbow arcing over its shoulder, it thumps ineffectively (bloody dice) into Rowaine's shoulder… TBC
Denz: you have seen actions exactly like this before, this is the kind of thing Hep and Vor-Wrek do when they are practicing… if you didn't know better you would think it was one of them.
Denz: Ro's turn… what would you like to do?
Craig: Ro: it's small right? overwhelm it. jump on it. attempt to grapple again. i'm big, it's gotta work…
Craig: I guess I incur another aoo
Denz: You jump forward to grab it again and pin its arms to its sides, overbalanced by its previous two attacks it spins and attempts to kick out at your legs, but fails, you may touch attack
Craig: roll 17 + 3 (str) = 20 still flanked = 22?
Denz: geez, lend me your dice for a minute eh you got it, opposed grapple please…
Denz: I get a 7
Craig: roll 16 + 3 (str) = 19
Craig: wahaa!!!
Denz: ok you have it grappled, do some damage
Craig: 3 + 3 (str) = 6 dmg
Craig: who's your daddy???
Denz: you grab the figure, twisting and squeezing it, you feel some tendons creak and stretch and hear its sharp intake of breath, you have obviously done some damage…
Denz: I believe we have a new round, this is round #3, girls are running for the door, most are screaming in thier beds, Silque, what do you wish to do?
Craig: Silque: is there a position whereby I can cover both western exits?
Craig: i.e. can I move to a spot where both exits are 1 square away?
Denz: you can cover the north and west exits, but not the east since it's at the other end of the dorm, you will be a 5 foot step from either.. however, you notice movement under the bed that Ro and the figure are fighting on, something is under there…
Craig: Move to cover both western exits (i.e. doorways are no more than one square away), marshal whatever friendly forces that are ready to gather at the eastern exit and stop any foreigners exiting
Craig: Silque: Ro can take 'em …
Denz: is that it?
Craig: Silque: ready action to attack an enemy that attempts to flee thru one of the exits covered
Craig: …and that's about it
Craig: OK?
Denz: the figure on the bed, now facing Ro, who is also on the bed attempting to grapple it, shoots a fist out smacking Ro on the jaw, doing 5 points of damage, it then curls it's hand around the back of Ro's neck and pulls her head towards it, at the same time raising it's other elbow up, smacking her on the jaw for another 3 points of damage, total 8 for the round.
Denz: excuse my creative license with the descriptions, it makes it more fun
Denz: this is the end of it's attacks, Ro may now act.
Craig: Qn: Ro was on 6 pts below max hp at the end of the last session … did she get the chance to heal any of that?
Denz: all healed, this has taken place some time later, out of necessity
Craig: Ok…
Craig: still some ouchies there…
Denz: you are doing ok, it rolls d8 for damage and has hit you 3 times. by my count you should be dead
Craig: attempt to pin the little bastard … what am I holding?
Craig: opposed grapple check: 14 + 3 (str) = 17
Denz: it is humanoid, you cannot tell race, could be a very small human or a small elf, or a big goblin…
Denz: b@$t@rd… I gotta get new dice, you win, do some damage
Craig: ur dice SUCK dude…
Craig: …which is OK…
Craig: dmg = 2 + 3 (str) = 5
Denz: at least we know they are consistent…
Denz: hang ten, I made a mistake… you took no damage COZ the figure needed to break grapple first
Craig: ok… (yay!)
Denz: bugger…
Craig: actually, did my pin do dmg?
Craig: probably not…
Craig: phb 156 col 2
Craig: btw Ro is definitely NOT holding back, she's going to maim if that's what it takes…
Denz: ok back to the start, at it's init it attempted to break, ignoring the fight we still had an opposed grapple check, which you won… so you still have it…
Denz: ok so now what do you want to do on your turn…
Craig: OK at Ro's turn she attempts to pin (opposed grapple check)
Craig: not so good this time
Craig: 6 + 3 (str) = 9
Craig: if Ro fails the opponent is still grappled
Denz: I got 17, you lose pin failed but you still have the grapple
Denz: yup
Denz: end of round, next round, #4, Silque please…
Craig: same as before … ready an action to attack any nonstudent who attempts to leave via the west or north exits
Denz: ok, figure attempts to break free, rolls a 15 for opposed grapple…
Craig: Ro opposed grapple: 2 + 3 (str) = 5
Craig: is the target small?
Denz: and Ro might go doooowwwnnn… grapple broken, end of figure's turn, it is now Ro's turn…
Craig: Ro: it is still effectively on the bed?
Denz: yes, you are both effectively on the bed…
Denz: Pillow fight?
Craig: ooooooooooooooo…
Craig: better not blog that
Denz: LOL…
Craig: OK… Ro attempts to grapple again
Denz: roll to hit
Craig: 15 + 3 (str) = 18
Craig: …but there might be an aoo?
Denz: done, shit, I got an opposed grapple of 2, tell me you get a 1
Craig: opposed grapple = 3 + 3 (str) = 6
Denz: oh yea AOO, well that's the 2 then aint it.. if you take the number in order…
Denz: roll again, and I get a 3,
Denz: this is a little like a bad movie
Denz: ok you got me, do your damage
Craig: dmg = 3 + 3 (str) = 6 !!!
Denz: I believe we are still on round 4
Craig: yep
Denz: figure is NOT happy… you have done a lot of damage (I make it 17 so far).
Denz: start of round #5, Silque you can hear noise from outside, voices, some sort of commotion, some of the girls have stopped screaming but many of them are still screaming, you spot a figure crawling from under the bed that was attacked, it is headed under your bed.
Denz: do your thing…
Craig: Silque: hopes that the commotion outside is friendly… still monitors the unfriendlies INSIDE and maintains position, guarding exits
Craig: (i.e. readies action as before)
Denz: figures attempts to break free again, rolls a 9 for opposed grapple…
Craig: 3 + 3 (str) = 6, means it does…
Denz: figure rolls off bed and onto feet, is now standing on eastern side of bed, looks down and spies something below it and readies a weapon, some sort of long pointed dagger, somewhat similar to a stabbing weapon you have seen Hep and Vor-Wrek use before… Ro, your turn.
Craig: *detect evil* on the figure before me (spell-like paladin ability)
Denz: interestingly, you detect evil…, what do you wish to do now?
Denz: you also note that the stabbing weapon, which it was using to stab the little girl in the bed with but which it did not use on you, appears to have small grooves in its blade
Denz: well spotted
Craig: hmmmmm … why would it switch weapon? Now I know it's evil, I don't want any of the other girls (perhaps besides Silque) involved. Back off, grab my axe from beside my chest (it's too big to fit inside).
Denz: you back off the bed and towards your chest, reaching down while keeping an eye on the figure, now obviously a small humanoid in dark clothing. end of round I believe
Denz: start of round #6, Silque you see a figure come thru the door, one of the teachers, holding a torch high and looking around, what do you want to do?
Craig: Silque: "Help! someone's over there!" [indicating Ro's opponent]. Keep a close eye on the figure under the beds. Maintain position, guard exits as before.


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Beliefs are ideas that we take and assume to be true.
They are not the truth, but our way of perceiving what we experience.
Let us suppose that it is as if we were wearing glasses through which we see the world and ourselves, and consequently, the reality we project.
An approach to become aware is that the importance of our reality is not in what happens, but in how I interpret, what I feel and what I am saying to myself, regarding what happens.
There are two types of beliefs: the toxic or limiting ones (those that condition us, convict, prevent us from advancing and harm us), and the healthy or empowering ones (that remind us of our true potential and help us open up to possibilities).
If we want to transform or liberate those beliefs, we must begin by recognizing them, accepting them and by being willing to stop identifying with them.
We can begin to release them with a simple: "Thank you for participating" or "I don't know, I don't know anything"…
The key is to detect them and to let them go.
By refusing to remain attached to them we make room for a new vision and open the way for healthier and empowering ones.
Observe: What kind of beliefs do you nourish in your daily life, giving them your energy and attention? What kind of ideas have more power over you and your way of life?
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- Q: Why will we go on strike?
A: Our Strike Authorization vote passed with a 95% approval rate! This is a historic moment. We all know that Marriott is experiencing record breaking profits while we are struggling to make ends meet. We are fighting for a contract in which One Job should be Enough!
- Q: How long will the strike last?
A: As long as it takes to win!
- Q: Will we be fired for going on strike?
A: No. A federal labor law called the National Labor Relations Act guarantees workers' rights to strike without retaliation. Be sure to clock out and secure your area if you are on duty to make it clear you're striking.
- Q: What if I am in the hotel when the strike starts?
A: You have a federal right to walkout at the onset of the strike. Clock out and secure your area. Contrary to what management may say, it is not job abandonment and the Employer cannot retaliate against you for participating in a strike.
- Q: How many hours am I expected to do strike participation?
A: Strikers who participate in at least 30 hours/week in strike activities will receive $300/week strike benefits. Picket shifts are 6-hours. You will get lunch and other breaks. Shifts are 8am – 2pm, 2pm – 8pm, 8pm – 2am OR 2am – 8am.
- Q: Will we have health insurance?
A: Yes. If you have medical coverage at the onset of the strike, you will have medical coverage during the strike. The union has negotiated that the Health & Welfare fund continues to provide health benefits even during a prolonged strike. It is unlawful for Marriott to change your medical coverage during the strike.
- Q: Can I still participate in the strike if I am a new hire still on probation?
A: Yes. All employees have a federally protected right to strike even if they're still under their probationary period.
- Q: Do I have to tell management my plans to participate in the strike?
A: No. Marriott managers or supervisors may ask you if you will participate in the strike. You do not have to give them an answer. If you don't feel comfortable answering, you can simply tell them to direct their questions to the Union. If you choose to respond, you must tell them the truth.
- Q: If the strike falls during my approved vacation, can Marriott cancel my vacation?
A: No. If your vacation is pre-approved, Marriott cannot cancel it because of the strike.
- Q: If I have scheduled vacation during the strike, will I get vacation pay?
A: Yes, you should receive vacation pay if you already had your vacation scheduled.
- Q: What if I have another job and have to go to work?
A: Go to work at your other job and try and make up your strike participation when you can.
- Q: What other support will we get?
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- Q: What is the safest strike?
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One of America's largest frozen pizza manufacturers contracted The CMM Group to engineer an infrared pre-melter, (commonly known as an IR cheese pre-melter). The custom designed production machine equipment replaced the company's existing convection oven pre-melters.
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How To Get The Junk Jet Launcher and Righteous Authority In Fallout 4
In a post-apocalyctic world such as Fallout 4's, even junk can be useful, really useful. You can even make a launcher out of it! Notice we didn't say what you launch with this weapon, as with it any item can reveal precious ammo for you to beat the hell out of your enemies. In order to get the Junk Jet, you will have to complete a few, not so challenging quests.
Step 1:
Travel Southeast from your starting location at Vault 111, towards the Cambridge Police Station until you come across the "Military Frequency AF95" radio station. Once you are listening to the radio station, you will notice there's some help to be delivered at the station: there's a ghouls attack in the making right there.
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Talk with Paladin Danse after defending the station and go to ArcJet Systems right after
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Follow Paladin Danse in there, and help him getting rid of all the enemies you will see around him.
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Go into the rocket test chamber beneath ArcJet Systems, then reach the control room: on a table you will see there's the Junk Jet. Grab it as soon as you can because, depending on your actions, there could be a chance of losing the opportunity to get it due to the control room's door being shuttered.
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Complete the quest for another great weapon, Righteous Authority (a laser rifle), provided by Paladin Danse as a reward. Be careful, by the way: you can't access those latter specific areas going to ArcJet Systems before of this quest.


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What's Happening in Silvermine…
- Come to the Silvermine Craft Beer Tasting on 2/29
Join us at our craft beer tasting with Silvermine's gregarious Gregg Glaser, Editor of Modern Distillery Age and Modern Brewery Age.
So use the form below to sign up now! You'll sample some of the finest brews from Connecticut's craft breweries and learn a thing or two from Gregg along the way. Light refreshments will be provided.
Location: Quaker Meeting House, 317 New Canaan Road, Wilton.
Date: Saturday February 29th
Time: 6.30pm to 8:00pm.
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Based in Silvermine, Gregg has written and spoken about beer, spirits, saké, wine and food since 1994. He is the Publisher/Editor of Modern Distillery Age, Editor-in-Chief for Yankee Brew News and a Contributing Editor for Modern Brewery Age. Gregg has presented talks to business and trade associations, museums, libraries and civic organizations. He also regularly conducts spirits and beer tastings and dinners, working with chefs to prepare the menu.
- Santa Will Arrive Via Antique Fire Truck @ 3:00pm Christmas Eve
This is an SCA members-only Event. Click HERE to Join Today.
One of the oldest traditions in Silvermine (stretching back decades) is the arrival of Santa Claus by antique fire truck on Christmas Eve. And, having received official word from the North Pole, we are happy to report that once again, Santa will arrive at the Silvermine Arts Center around 3:00pm on Christmas Eve.
Festivities begin promptly, so don't be late. As usual, there will be lots of hot chocolate for everyone while season's greetings are exchanged by all who attend.
How it works:
Drop your children's gifts offon Tuesday December 24th, between 10:00 and 2:00 p.m., at 297 Silvermine Ave, which is an antique red home near GrayBarns Inn. You'll find a large box awaiting the arrival of your child's gift.
Label the gift with your child's name in large block letters. Tie multiple gifts together. (Occasionally, Santa has been known to forget his spectacles and he doesn't want any child to worry about being forgot!
Later that day, arrive with your family at the Silvermine Arts Center parking lot at 3:00pm You'll hear the jolly sound of Santa's elves ringing bells on the fire truck. For the next hour or so, the air will be filled with the merry sound of children's excited voices as gifts are opened and admired. And yes, Santa sent a message again this year, saying the elves will be handing out candy canes to all those youngsters waiting to hear their names called!
Don't miss this annual tradition cherished for generations. Plan to join us on Tuesday, December 24th at 3:00 p.m. at the Silvermine Arts Center!
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- The 2019 SCA Scholarship Winners
On behalf of the Silvermine Community Association Board we are pleased to announce our 2019 SCA Scholarship recipients and our entire community is proud to continue a 50 year old tradition of supporting local Silvermine students headed off to college.
Sarah Bernstein
Sarah is a graduate of the Bi-Cultural Hebrew Academy of Connecticut. She managed a challenging academic schedule in addition to significant extracurricular activities. Sarah started her own tech support business for Apple and Microsoft users.
She will be attending Brandeis University, Waltham MA where she is considering the technology/business industry in future studies.
John Peiser
John was graduated from New Canaan High School where he maintained an outstanding academic, athletic and leadership history. As an Eagle Scout, working with the New Canaan Land Trust, he created a project to transform the Fowler property into a usable natural area with other Scouts and youth organizations.
He has chosen to attend Indiana University. He will concentrate on marketing with a focus on innovation.
- NASH and SCA Sponsored Another Successful Multi-Location Tag Sale
Homes from all over Silvermine banded together in a neighborhood-wide tag sale.
The Neighborhood Association Of Silvermine Homeowners (NASH) partnered with the Silvermine Community Association to sponsor the third Silvermine Neighborhood Tag Sale. It took place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 18.
Residents of Silvermine who participated in the effort agreed to hold a tag sale that day at their home. They received promotion on the NASH website, SCA Website, Next-door Silvermine , onandFacebook and various area tag sale sites on the internet. NASH and SCA also set up sandwich boards aroud the neighborhood.
Maps were sold for $1 on the day of the tag sale at the Silvermine Elementary School.
- Longtime Silvermine Resident, Granville Ackermann, dies at 86 Long-time Silvermine resident Alan Granville "Gran" Ackermann of Silvermine died on Tuesday, October 16 at Fairfield County Hospice House. He was 86.Continue reading →
He lived in Silvermine since 1957, where he and his wife, Martha, raised their two sons. He was a past president of the Silvermine Community Association Board, researching its historic boundaries and designing the area's iconic signage.
Gran was an architectural designer, graduating from the University School of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA. During his prolific career of 58 years, he worked at Becker and Becker in New York City, and later had his own firm, Facility Design Consultants. His work included projects for leading hotels and restaurants, corporate offices, the White House, the 1958 Brussels World's Fair and the 7UP and Lowenbrau exhibits at the 1964 World's Fair in New York.
He was a founding member of the Rowayton Yacht Club at Hickory Bluff and a member of its Board.
Gran will be remembered for his love of and talent for architectural design, drawing and art, as well as his love for his family and his gift of conversation and curiosity about others' interests.
Granville is survived by his wife of 66 years, Martha, his sons Jeffrey and David, grandchildren Jed and Marne, great grandson Wren and sister Nancy Munz and family.
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Invisible from the street and set on two and a quarter acres of woodland with American Elms, fig trees, pine, magnolia, wisteria and dogwood, this one of a kind property is a true sanctuary away from the bustle of modern Alexandria. With four bedrooms and four bathrooms, the low slung Main House, designed in 1939 by Frank Lloyd Wright-trained architect, Charles Callander, remains nearly unchanged from 1940. Designed for entertaining, the home features a variety of gathering spaces, inside and out, including a screened in porch built around a giant sycamore tree, a second story balcony overlooking the large expansive yard, and outdoor access from all main level rooms to brick seating areas and a covered patio. A separate 1700 SF two-story guest house overlooking a large swimming pool was designed by another Wright apprentice, Jone Thurmond, and compliments the design of the Main House with similar architectural details inside and out.Video Tour available here: https://vimeo.com/418735627
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23 May 2017
What business owners do not realise is that the businesses they look up, give great importance to branding. It's not far from the truth to say that the terms 'branding' and 'business' are interchangeable.
Magnetic branding can be how you define your own business, your company or staff, as well as your target market. It's the identity of your enterprise; representing the core of your business and its values. Nowadays, clients or customers can find out easily if you are trying to sell them something - no matter what a company may do to conceal that motive.
Magnetic business branding images make an emotional connection with your prospective clients, fast and to the heart. If you succeed in doing this, you will not only improve your reputation or sales, you will also win their loyalty.
Identify what drives your business
What are the core beliefs of your business? What did you create a business for? These questions and more, will help you create your brand positioning.
Define your brand
Take a close look at your product or service. Find out what part of the market your business is for. Then do some research into what your clients' needs and concerns are. Your business branding, apart from promoting your trade, should make you stand out in the market and connect with your prospective clients with confidence.
Treat your brand like a person
People love doing business with people. Everyone has a certain character - composed of purpose, values and beliefs - which defines who that person is and who they successfully connect with.
Commit to establishing a long-term relationship with your clientele.
Stay true to the values of your company. Base your business branding on honesty and trust. Avoid breaking promises. Over deliver.
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You did not start a business that you did not believe in. Try to be bold and innovative while being flexible to your clients' needs. Re-fresh your brand yearly.Post some high quality business branding images.
Present your business in such a way that it captures your clients' attention through a unique approach. Engage them with compelling images of you. Make the images interesting enough without giving everything away.
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