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A high quality 14K Gold Filled crescent moon charm hangs on a Gold Filled chain. Pendant is 22mm all 14K Gold Filled
18" 1mm Ball Chain Gold Filled has 100 times more gold than gold plated jewelry.
You can swim, shower, etc, this necklace is made to wear exactly like solid 14K Gold and will not chip or fade! Gold filled is created by taking a sheet of 14 karat gold and bonding it through extreme heat and pressure to a core of semi-precious metal (brass).
This is a very sophisticated process and only a few mills in the world do it. You should not mistake this process for gold plating as there is a very big difference.


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Winter Weddings
Couples are increasingly looking outside of the usual spring and summer months for their wedding days.
Winter weddings can be a really cosy, intimate affair, and if you're planning your big day for this season, we have the ideal winter wedding venue! With the ceremony, reception and accommodation all in one place, you won't need to worry about the weather affecting travel plans for you or your guests.
Our beautiful, oak-beamed barn is steeped in history and charm, and you'll find us nestled in the Essex countryside of Crondon Valley.
Why choose a winter wedding?
There are so many reasons to opt for a winter wedding. December, January and February are known to be low season in the wedding industry, which means you're more likely to find the perfect date to have all your friends and family in one place for your big day.
Snow or frost against the jewel tones popular with winter weddings can also produce really stunning photos of your day, plus in our experience, people get to the dance floor much quicker at a winter wedding, thanks to it being darker outside! Add some candles or fairy lights and you've got the kind of atmosphere that's hard to achieve with spring or summer dates!View Venue
Our winter wedding venue
We're proud to have one of the most celebrated wedding venues in Essex. As well as winning the Countryside wedding venue category in the British Wedding Awards 2019, we were also pleased to be highly commended in the wedding barn venue category.
Our Baronial Hall is temperature-controlled, so no matter how cold it gets outside, you and your guests will stay warm and comfortable all day and evening. A stunning rosewood flooring and light oak beamed décor add to the character and charm of our venue, and you'll also enjoy views of rolling countryside and our championship golf courses.View Sample Dining Menu
Request our free wedding brochure
Our brochure is a fully comprehensive reflection of what we have to offer. From our special Wedding Ceremony room, to our Baronial Hall Barn, it is no wonder that we are considered the wedding venue in Essex for all occasions.Click here
Food and drink
We're always complimented on the taste and presentation of our food, and that's thanks in part to the ingredients we use. Our talented chefs work with locally-sourced produce, and the freshest seasonal food to produce menus you'll be proud to serve your guests.
From the main sit-down meal, to the evening buffet, canapes, and even full English breakfast the next morning, we take care of the entire catering for your wedding. We also have an alcohol license and can provide waiting and bar staff for your big day.View Accommodation
Our granary bridal suite is an opportunity for you to enjoy your first night as a married couple in style, with a four-poster bed and free-standing bath, located just 30 yards from the Baronial Hall.
Your bridal party or guests can choose from a further five options of onsite accommodation; Poppy, Primrose, Bluebell, Rose and Lavender, all of which come with double or twin beds, en-suite bathrooms with walk-in showers, and large TVs.View Special Offers
Our winter wedding tips
Winter can be a great time of year to tie the knot, but there are a few things to consider that are unique to the season. We share our top tips:
- Send your save the date cards early
This is especially important if you're having a wedding in the run up to Christmas or immediately after, as people are often busier at this time of the year with Christmas parties, work dos, or visiting friends and family.
- Plan extra travel time
With Crondon Park, luckily you and your guests won't need to worry about travelling between a ceremony and reception, but it makes sense to advise them to leave a little extra time than normal to reach you in the first place, just in case there's snow or ice on the roads.
- Get wedding insurance
We'd recommend wedding insurance whatever time of the year you're saying "I do" but it's especially worth considering in the winter, with adverse weather conditions, as well as more illnesses circulating in the colder months.
- Embrace the season
Winter weddings are perfect for making the most of candles and fairy lights. You could also introduce a fur wrap over your dress, or have fur shawls for your bridesmaids. Take advantage of the winter flowers in bloom by including deep red gerberas, roses, amaryllis and carnations to your bouquet or centrepieces.
What Clients Say About Our Weddings in Essex
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Hitched UK
What can I say! Thank you so very much for making me one of the happiest girls ever! To say Mike and I had a great day yesterday would be the biggest understatement; we have had so many lovely comments from our guests on what a wonderful wedding we had and that's all down to you. The food was perfect, the bar and waiting staff were nothing but polite and extremely efficient and Tracey as our front our house was flawless. I've had so many calls and emails back fourth with Kara and the wedding team over the last year or so. Each time, nothing has ever been too much trouble, emails are responded to so quickly and how Kara remembers so many faces, dates and names is beyond me! There are so many beautiful wedding venues out there, but those venues are only ever as good as the people behind it. You not only have a beautiful venue but you also have so many brilliant staff who make that venue shine. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you!
What our couples say…
"We had the perfect day. Lindsey and the team were brilliant and were there to make our day run as seamlessly as possible, preventing us from any stress or drama at all. We love Crondon Park - it has a special place in our heart and we would highly recommend it to anyone considering booking their wedding there. Thank you."
"We got married at Crondon last Friday and we cannot find the words to express how truly amazing our day was. We did the booking and planning through Fiona who was lovely and on the day we had Deborah who was just incredible - nothing was too much trouble and she really put us both at ease. The food was amazing and all of our guests commented on this as well as the beautiful venue. Wish we could do it all again. Thanks so much to everyone for really making this the best day of our lives."
"Amazing venue and we had the best day. Maitre d' was incredible and really helped to make the day as easy and smooth as possible. She is a real asset to your team."

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In case you missed it, @Rebycsecurity recently participated in a panel for the North Carolina Technology Association Tech Talk Live (@NCTA)event in Charlotte, NC. The panel broke down some of the key differences between privacy and security and included senior leaders from Dixon Hughes Goodman, Samsung Mobile and CA.
The panelists covered a number of topics including:
– Mobile Encryption
– Privacy Best Practices
– Offensive Security Services – Penetration Testing and Phishing
– Malware and Ransomware
– IT Audit and Due Diligence Services
Below are a couple of pictures of the event. Make sure to get out and attend an @NCTA event – They put together some great events with top notch North Carolina Leadership.


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Caution: This section includes various modifications made to the Lotus Elise. Do not perform these modifications unless you know what you are doing. We accept no responsibility for damage to you or your car.
These are some of the modifications we and our friends have performed on the Elise. Some are for cosmetic reasons, such as removing the grilles, and some are to make the car safer and easier to drive. The EliseTalk community helped with ideas, pictures, and words, and I strongly recommend participation if you are going to maintain or modify your Elise.
driver's seatThe seat is raised one inch.
fire extinguisherA fire extinguisher is mounted in front of the passenger seat and using the existing seat mounting studs.
mesh grillesThe egg crate and plastic grilles are replaced with expanded mesh.
lugnutsThe splined lug nuts are replaced with BMW M3 lug nuts
grille removalstart of project to remove all grille material
tail light grilleremoving the grilles near the tail lights, filling the holes
side grille removalremoving the side grilles, trying a frame
front grille removalremoving the front grilles and radiator exits
mirrormaking a smaller mirror that mounts higher
air hornreplace the original horn with a louder air horn
wheela pictorial sequence showing how to replace the steering wheel with a removable steering wheel. Graphics intensive (1MB). Thanks to Theo
111R wheelhow to replace the Federal steering wheel with the steering wheel from the 111R European version. (many pictures, lengthy download time)
cold air intakehow to install the TurboXS cold air intake (While I used my car to model the installation, I did not leave the intake installed. I enjoyed the noise it makes but worried about the reduced filtration of the air. It made an amazing noise at full throttle!)
key fobThe transmitter circuit board from the Cobra immoblizer is installed in the combined key and fob from Blackwatch Racing.
console removal how to remove the shift console in preparation for bracing the shift frame.
brace the shift matrix how to keep the shifter from flexing and reduce the vague shift pattern.
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If we could read everyone, how much thievery would go on, how could we hide our inner feelings? We do not have to work with a partner for 20 years only to discover later that he is a thief or marry a woman and find out after decades it was not the best match. We all experience misjudgment of character and incompatibilities at one time or another but the Zohar has provided us with information gleaned from Yitro on how to facilitate, through observation and understanding, the complications that arise in our lives. When we scratch below the surface, what we receive with this portion in the Zohar is the knowledge and methodology by which we can recognize people. Behind all the education and knowledge is energy. It is not simply a question of just knowing; of looking at some lines. These lines speak out to us.
"There is a system, and the system is in the Zohar."
"What we receive in the Zohar is the knowledge and methodology by which we can recognize people."
The Zohar says every experience shows on the exterior of a person and indicates the internal characteristic of that individual. What this discussion is about is that we can truly see, we can tell immediately. We do not have to go through the problems that most of us and the world in general undergoes. There is a system, and the system is in the Zohar.
This is all a prelude to the verses detailing the Ten Utterances at the Mount Sinai event. It is all about immortality, about removing that one cause that creates chaos in one's body, the environment, and everywhere. The Zohar explains that Yitro advising Moses regarding the court system is significant enough to mention leading up to the Ten Utterances at Mount Sinai. Yet, what does Yitro have to do with the Ten Utterances, which is most significant to man, more important than even the Exodus from Egypt?
We can capture this knowledge unconsciously. Although we may not know why, we will be more comfortable with one person and not with another. This conversation between Moses and his father-in-law is not something Moses needed; it is far deeper than that. From the Bible and the Zohar we are receiving the ability to read people, to really see people around us and remove all those layers that are blinding us.
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Our company is now participating in round-robin and blind-study testing with Analytical Reference Materials Inc. and Alpha Resources, Inc. to ensure standardization and normalization of its methods and instrumentation. As a result of these independent testing trials, Our company efforts are now assisting in the certification process of many certified reference materials now domestically produced!
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After four glorious, errand-free days, I finally ventured into the outside world.
After clearing the snow from my windshield, I headed for the post office, which, as it happens, is right by a fabric store.
The fabric store caters to quilters, so the array of choices was staggering. How, I wondered, was I going to make a choice? After walking past what must have been thousands of bolts of fabric, I settled on this:
While the colors in the fabric are more muted than the colors of the yarn I used, it has a definite joy about it and the circles are not only playful, but echo the donut theme.
Here is fabric with the body of the bag for which it is intended:
The next step after completing my fabric purchase and the other errands was to wash the fabric.
While I was waiting for the fabric to run through the wash and then dry, I got started on another project that had caught my eye. A "Get Your Granny On" bag that is the creation of Valerie Whitten, crocheter and all around renaissance woman, who has a blog called Vallieskids. In her how-to for this project, (which you can find here), she shows several takes on bags she has made from 3 to 4 granny squares that are anywhere from 6 to 8 rounds.
Unable to decide which sort of granny square I wanted to make, I made what I think of as a mash-up of a traditional granny square (clusters of 3dc separated by a ch-1, except for corners where there are 2 3dc clusters separated by a ch-2) and a variation on the traditional granny which is used in both the ever popular Babette and the equally popular Inga's Haekelbeutel. In this version of the granny square, the corners are composed of 2dc, ch-2, 2dc, and then a dc is made into each dc and ch-1 space across to the next ch-2 corner where the process is then repeated.
This is how far I had gotten after two hours of crochet, punctuated with interruptions to finish laundry and other household chores:
By the time the sun had begun to set, I had gotten this far:
Since I took this last photo, I have finished all three squares and have joined them, adding a row of single crochet around the edge.
Tomorrow is a new day, and my hope is that I finish at least one of these bags.


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Afrobarometer is an independent, non-partisan research project that measures the social, political, and economic atmosphere in Africa.
Afrobarometer surveys are conducted in more than 30 African countries and are repeated on a regular cycle. Because the instrument asks a standard set of questions, countries can be systematically compared. Trends in public attitudes are tracked over time. Results are shared with decision makers, policy advocates, civic educators, journalists, researchers, donors and investors, as well as average Africans who wish to become more informed and active citizens.
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Afrobarometer: An African-led series of national public attitude surveys on democracy and governance in Africa
Afrobarometer is an African-led, non-partisan survey research project that measures citizen attitudes on democracy and governance, the economy, civil society, and other topics.
We are the world's leading research project on issues that affect ordinary African men and women. We collect and publish high-quality, reliable statistical data on Africa which is freely available to the public.
We currently conduct surveys in more than 30 African countries. We are proud of what we have achieved so far and our goal is to have Afrobarometer surveys in all African countries.
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The Arab Barometer was established in 2005 by scholars in the Arab world and the United States. Leadership was initially provided by the University of Michigan and Princeton University in the U.S. and by universities and research centers in Jordan, Palestine, Morocco, Algeria and Kuwait. In 2010, a partnership was formed with the Arab Reform Initiative (ARI: www.arab-reform.net) in order to expand the project's scope and range of activities, building off ARI's regional survey work carried out in 2006-2008.
The Arab Barometer was developed in consultation with the Global Barometer project, a network composed of regional barometers in Latin America, Sub-Saharan, East Asia and South Asia (http://www.globalbarometer.net/). Like other regional Barometers, the objectives of the Arab Barometer are to produce scientifically reliable data on the politically-relevant attitudes of ordinary citizens, to disseminate and apply survey findings in order to contribute to political reform, and to strengthen institutional capacity for public opinion research.
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The Google Public Data Explorer makes large, public-interest datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand. You don't have to be a data expert to navigate between different views, make your own comparisons, and share your findings.
Students, journalists, policy makers and everyone else can play with the tool to create visualizations of public data, link to them, or embed them in their own webpages. Embedded charts and links can update automatically so you're always sharing the latest available data.
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An international consortium of more than 700 academic institutions and research organizations, ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community.
ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.
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Latinobarómetro is an annual public opinion survey that involves some 20,000 interviews in 18 Latin American countries, representing more than 600 million inhabitants.
Latinobarómetro Corporation is a non-profit NGO based in Santiago, Chile, and is solely responsible for the production and publication of the data.
Latinobarómetro Corporation researches the development of democracy and economies as well as societies, using indicators of opinion, attitudes, behaviour and values. Its results are used by social and political actors, international organizations, governments and the media.
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Passport is a global market research database providing statistics, analysis, reports, surveys and breaking news on industries, countries and consumers worldwide.
The Library subscribes to the following modules in Passport:
- Countries & Consumers - Provides in-depth analysis on trends impacting consumers and countries around the world. It delivers research and analysis on the evolving economy, business environment, population, and income and expenditure patterns in 210 countries worldwide.
- Industries - Includes global statistics and analysis for 27 major consumer industries worldwide. Contains historic and forecast market sizes, distribution channel analysis, company and brand share data, company profiles, global industry reports, expert and breaking news & articles and more.
- Cities - Provides socioeconomic data and analysis on 850 of the world's largest cities.
- Survey - Consists of online consumer survey data from 16 countries covering consumer habits, attitudes, opinions, values, behaviours and motivations on a variety of topics.
- Industrials (Canada) - Breaks down the Canadian economy into 177 different industry sectors from a B2B perspective. Data and analysis is provided for Agriculture, Forestry, Mining, Alcoholic Beverages and many other industries.
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The Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project conducts public opinion surveys around the world on a broad array of subjects ranging from people's assessments of their own lives to their views about the current state of the world and important issues of the day. More than 240,000 interviews in 57 countries have been conducted as part of the project's work.
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The Asian Barometer Survey is a cross-national survey project. The success of the project required collaboration among the thirteen participating country/territory teams and the funding support from many national and transnational sources. Under the data-sharing agreement among our East Asian collaborators, we have made our merged dataset and all the variables contained in our core questionnaire freely accessible to scholars and experts worldwide upon application.
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The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) launched a new internet based data service for the global user community. It brings UN statistical databases within easy reach of users through a single entry point (http://data.un.org/). Users can now search and download a variety of statistical resources of the UN system.
Useful features like Country Profiles, Advanced Search and Glossaries are also provided to aid research. The numerous databases, tables and glossaries containing over 60 million data points cover a wide range of themes including Agriculture, Crime, Education, Employment, Energy, Environment, Health, HIV/AIDS, Human Development, Industry, Information and Communication Technology, National Accounts, Population, Refugees, Tourism, Trade, as well as the Millennium Development Goals indicators.
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WorldPublicOpinion.org is an international collaborative project whose aim is to give voice to public opinion around the world on international issues. WorldPublicOpinion.org seeks to reveal the values and views of publics in specific nations around the world as well as global patterns of world public opinion.
The WorldPublicOpinion.org website provides information and analysis about public opinion on international policy issues from around the world. While the studies of the WorldPublicOpinion.org network figure prominently, the website draws together data from a wide variety of sources from around the world. We have found that data from all reliable sources are important contributions and that as more studies are integrated into analyses, world public opinion comes into increasing focus.
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Nuclear Eagle
If you're sitting on the edge of your seat waiting for the next Brad Borne game, or if a little repetitive strain doesn't bother you, this next game may be just what you're looking for.
In Nuclear Eagle, a brand new release from Luksy of c404, Brad Borne and Armor Games, you play a mutant eagle—apparently a victim of the nuclear waste from a nearby power plant—with a nest of "babies" to feed. Fortunately, there are plenty of townsfolk from a nearby city milling about, and so the objective becomes a task of grabbing them in your claws and dropping them down or tossing them up into the nest. Eventually, as the townspeople begin to fight back, you must begin to defend the nest as well.
Control is entirely with the mouse. Click to grab, then drag and drop to deposit into the nest. Alternately, you can just give a 'flinging' motion with the mouse as you release the mouse button and the poor innocent townsperson will go sailing through the air. Later levels will introduce police cars and swat vehicles, both of which can also be lifted off the ground. Use these as return fire to create fantastic explosions and combos. You can even grab the people as they are flying. Wacky, outrageous fun.
Try to stay alive as long as you can. The townspeople and police increase their rate of attack and will begin to fire their weapons at the nest. You must protect both you (red health gauge) and your nest (blue health gauge) from harm. If either gauge depletes in its entirety, it's game over.
Analysis: Although the game is a bit violent, it was the explosions that held my interest for a while. The underlying physics engine was programmed by Brad Borne, and considering his work with the Fancy Pants Adventures, it's not surprising that it works here, too, save for a bit of slowdown that eventually occurs once there is a lot happening simultaneously on-screen. Unfortunately, the constant and repetitive click-drag-release motion this game requires to make it even to level 10 to unlock the "City" portion of the game is its greatest weakness. Even after the first play through (I only made it to level 8) my arm was aching, so please use caution and take frequent breaks while playing.
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The California Highway Patrol is not releasing the name of the driver who was killed in today's accident, but do note that he was 29-years-old and lived in Stockton. Press release below:
On Tuesday, November 17, 2015, at approximately 1120 hours, a male adult was driving semi-truck northbound on US Highway 101 at MPM 101 HUM 42.39 The semi-truck was traveling at an unknown speed and for reasons still under investigation, the semi-truck traveled from the northbound lanes, across the southbound lanes, and onto the southbound shoulder. The semi-truck traveled a short distance on the shoulder before colliding with multiple trees.
The collision resulted in the Freightliner truck tractor overturning and coming to rest on its roof facing in a southwesterly direction. The trailer became separated from the truck tractor, overturned, and came to rest on its right side facing in a southwesterly direction, a short distance away from the truck. The truck became partially engulfed in flames which were quickly extinguished at the scene by responding Fire Personnel.
The driver became trapped in the cabin of the truck and was extracted with the use of hydraulic equipment at the scene. The driver appeared to have suffered blunt force trauma to the head and was pronounced deceased by City Ambulance of Eureka personnel, prior to extraction.
The Freightliner truck overturning resulted in the separation of fuel tanks and an undetermined amount of diesel fuel was spilled into the dirt. The Humboldt County Hazmat Team has been requested to facilitate the cleanup and mitigate the environmental impact.
Assisting agencies at the scene included Cal Fire, Scotia Volunteer Fire, City Ambulance of Eureka, Caltrans, and Humboldt Dept. of Health and Human Services.
This collision remains under investigation by the California Highway Patrol. Alcohol does not appear to be a factor in the cause of this collision.


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We're Cooking Up Business!
Duplin Winery!!!!
2014 Fourth Quarter
Business of the Quarter
Duplin Winery of North Carolina begins construction on a unique 15,000 square foot wine tasting station in North Myrtle Beach
Largest winery in the south plans to deliver the relaxed, North Carolina wine country experience at its first location in South Carolina
Duplin Winery, the largest winery in the South has begun construction on second retail outlet to be located in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. At 15,000 square feet, the tasting room and retail shop will be able to comfortably accommodate more than 200 guests for guided wine tastings per seating, making it the largest wine tasting station on the Grand Strand. The location will also include more than 5,000 square feet of retail space featuring Duplin wines, as well as specialty drinks, foods and merchandise. Duplin Winery by the beach will be adjacent to Barefoot Landing and Alligator Adventure on Highway 17, and is expected to open for business in spring 2015.
An award-winning winery, Duplin is known for its "cool, sweet & easy" sipping wines. Its relaxed and fun-filled wine tasting tours are extremely popular, and more than 100,000 guests tour the original winery in Rose Hill, NC each year. Duplin is planning to provide the same comfortable, inviting and casual atmosphere at its North Myrtle Beach location.
"My brother Dave and I have dreamed of opening a location along the Grand Strand since the 1990s," said Jonathan Fussell, president of Duplin Wine Family and head of the winery's marketing division. "We're excited about bringing the laid-back North Carolina wine country experience to the beach. In the wine country of North Carolina, we're serious about our wines but relaxed about life, and so our wine tours are just a little different than others that people might have experienced. Our focus is on fun and we try our very best to show our guests a good time. We expect our Grand Strand tasting station to become a gathering place for current Duplin customers visiting the area, and an inviting spot for folks who want to experience our wines for the first time."
Daily guided tasting tours at the tasting station in North Myrtle Beach will offer guests the opportunity to sample a wide variety of Duplin wines as they are entertained with fun facts about Muscadine grapes, Carolina winemaking, and the Duplin brand. Corking demonstrations will be accompanied by a presentation about the early days of the winery when Duplin first sold its wines in mason jars before moving to more traditional wine bottles. Now a Duplin tradition, the signature mason jar remains a popular item among Duplin wine fans.
For more information about Duplin Winery and its North Myrtle Beach location, go online to http://www.duplinwinery.com.
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When customers understand their options, they're more likely to have a better experience—and you just may uncover a whole new revenue stream for your business.
The amount of data in the world continues to explode, and the problem these days is less about accumulating it than it is about understanding it. The sheer volume of data organizations must grapple with quickly creates complexity, and trying to deal with it manually can rapidly get out of hand.
This challenge is especially pronounced in the healthcare space, where stringent regulations can limit data processing options. Billing, with its web of billing codes and definitions, is a particularly difficult area in this regard—compliance with requirements related to privacy, security and technology can present an obstacle to employee efficiency and customer service.
Practice Alternatives, a longtime Progress OpenEdge partner and provider of a certified EHR (Electronic Health Record) system, management software and expert billing services for the medical community, identified billing as an area with major potential for improvement. If they could cut through the complexity, they knew they could make life easier for their existing customers—and maybe even start a whole new stream of revenue.
Practice Alternatives already provided a billing solution, but it was limited to providing a yes or no answer as to whether the procedure would be covered by a patient's insurance. While the user could access more information, this was often in the form of difficult-to-decipher messages, which created confusion. It wasn't always easy to tell how much of the procedure was covered, what final costs would be or what the reasoning was.
To get better details, Practice Alternatives queried a third-party company that provided information on copays, deductibles, network information and more. However, the queries were returned in an "X12 271" coded message, which is a healthcare eligibility/benefit protocol. The typical 271 message is essentially a long string of text with over 97 different code types, which must be translated to be legible for users.
As you can imagine, this wasn't easy to work with. Practice Alternative's original solution was to hand-code a function to translate these messages. This code had to be kept up with 90+ tables maintained by outside entities, and required a very specific skillset to maintain. Keeping this up to date was a challenge, to say the least.
While looking for a better way to solve this data access problem, they discovered just how much Progress DataDirect could improve the process.
Progress DataDirect is our leading data connectivity solution for enterprises that need to better integrate data across relational, big data and cloud databases. Practice Alternatives is a longtime Progress Application Partner, and their billing solution, Rexpert, is built on Progress OpenEdge. It was when describing the problem to their Progress account manager that the manager pointed out that DataDirect can handle X12 messages with its converters for EDI.
DataDirect converted the long X12 string to JSON, and provided text descriptions of all the codes in the X12 string. Just like that, Practice Alternatives could easily manipulate the data and put it into the HTML provided to the user, so patients could understand their options in plain English.
"With DataDirect, everything we needed was right there," explained Anne Disney, Lead Software Engineer, Great Valley Technologies (a daughter company of Practice Alternatives). "It took an enormous weight off our shoulders."
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Some of them are no longer available online as the sites that published them have either been taken down, or the site archives don't stretch far back enough, but I thought I'd collect them together to save people trawling through my publishing credits to read my published work.
The front cover is my own photographic work, although the short story inside, The Mirror Phase, features an illustration by the very talented Jimmy Misanthrope.
Checkmate & Other Stories is available for FREE from Smashwords, in all the various different formats that you'd expect. Don't forget that The First Tale is also still available, for the princely sum of 99c. Of course, if you really enjoy either work and want to donate something to show your appreciation, you can do so by clicking the button in the sidebar! All proceeds go towards funding my PhD.
Enjoy, and have a wonderful Halloween!
Sunday, 31 October 2010
My Halloween Gift To You
Posted by Icy Sedgwick at 10:10 am
Labels: ebook, publication, self publishing, short story, smashwords
2 comments:
- Unknown said...
Thanks, Icy! Have a terrific All Hallows Eve.
- 31 October 2010 at 14:13
- Alan W. Davidson said...
Thanks, Icy! A very cool halloween treat...
- 31 October 2010 at 15:43


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Doug is a well known and highly regarded executive in the U.S. home furnishings industry and has been instrumental in Duralee's growth and expansion. Thibaut, an iconic American fabric and wall paper company founded in 1886, is America's oldest continually operating wall paper company. Now represented by Duralee, Doug will talk about this venerable and quintessential American company and showcase its latest new collections. 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm


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My wife and I have known each other since high school, but didn't date until much later. We had only dated a couple of weeks before we realized that we were madly in love and wanted to get married.
I was all for it! I even suggested a spontaneous, immediate wedding in Vegas. (Seriously.) Kim, however, was a bit more practical about the whole thing. She wanted to take time to plan it all out.
I felt deflated. "We're so different," I said. "You like to plan, while I like to be spontaneous."
Kim's eyes widened. "I can be spontaneous!" she said, hurriedly. "I can totally be spontaneous. You just have to tell me in advance when you want to be spontaneous, and I will write it down in my planner..."
I gave her a strange look. She was totally serious! Clearly, Kim did not understand the meaning of spontaneity.
Funny as it may seem, the more I think about this conversation the more I've come to realize that planning to love someone--or choosing to love someone--is actually one of the most beautiful things about love.
I've heard it said that real love is an unconditional commitment to an imperfect person.
It's true.
When all the butterflies have fluttered away and your wedding day becomes a distant memory, you will discover that you've married someone who is just as imperfect as you. And they, in turn, will come to learn that you have problems, insecurities, struggles, quirks--and body odor--just as real as theirs!
Then you will realize that real love isn't just a euphoric, spontaneous feeling--it's a deliberate choice--a plan to love each other for better and worse, for richer and poorer, in sickness and in health. Of course, you don't choose who you're attracted to, but you definitely choose who you fall in love with and (more importantly) who you stay in love with.
Our society places a lot of emphasis on feelings. We are taught that we should always follow our feelings and do whatever makes us happy. But feelings are very fickle and fleeting. Real love, on the other hand, is like the north star in the storms of life; it is constant, sure, and true. Whenever we're lost and confused we can find strength in the love that we have chosen.
Besides, life already offers us plenty of spontaneity: rejection, job loss, heartache, disappointment, despair, illness, and a host of other problems. We simply can't abandon ship every time we encounter a storm in our marriage. Real love is about weathering the storms of life together.
When my grandma was in her fifties, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a degenerative disease that disrupts the body's ability to communicate with its nervous system. Within a few short years, Grandma had lost the ability to walk and was confined to a wheelchair. Grandpa, who was then the chief of police, retired two years earlier than planned in order to take care of Grandma. He helped her do everything--from getting around the house and visiting the doctor, to helping her take her medicine and bathe.
In speaking about my grandma, Grandpa once told my mom, "It hurts me to see her like this. You know, when I got married I thought that everything would be smooth sailing. I never imagined that I would have to help her change her catheter every day. But I do it and I don't mind it--because I love her."
Love is so much more than some random, euphoric feeling. And real love isn't always fluffy, cute, and cuddly. More often than not, real love has its sleeves rolled up, dirt and grime smeared on its arms, and sweat dripping down its forehead. Real love asks us to do hard things--to forgive one another, to support each other's dreams, to comfort in times of grief, or to care for family. Real love isn't easy--and it's nothing like the wedding day--but it's far more meaningful and wonderful.
I recently came across this wonderful quote: "No one falls in love by choice, it is by chance. No one stays in love by chance, it is by work. And no one falls out of love by chance, it is by choice."
Whenever my wife and I run into a problem in our marriage we do our best to choose love. While we're certainly not perfect, the love we share today is more real and more wonderful than anything we had ever anticipated.
So, whatever spontaneous storm may come our way I plan on loving my wife.
If you truly love someone (and they truly love you), commit to that love and plan on it being hard work.
But also plan on it being the most rewarding work of your life.
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A suspected U.S. drone strike against Islamic State in Afghanistan killed at least 21 people on Wednesday, most of them militants but possibly including some civilians, Afghan officials said.
Civilians casualties in U.S. air strikes have long been a source of friction between the Afghan government and Western allies fighting the Taliban-led insurgency since 2001.
The strike in Nangarhar province, on the eastern border with Pakistan, killed 21 people, at least three of them civilians, and wounded another 11, according to Malem Mashooq, the governor of Achin district where the attack occurred.
One of the wounded said that the attack struck a house where people were sleeping after a gathering to welcome a local elder who had recently returned from the Hajj pilgimage.
"I saw dead and wounded bodies everywhere," Raghon Shinwari said, lying on a hospital bed in Jalalabad city.
Mohammed Ali, the Achin district police chief corroborated that account.
"They were in a house to visit someone who had just come from the Hajj pilgrimage," he said. "A drone targeted the house and killed most of them."
Provincial police spokesman Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal said several Islamic State leaders had been killed, but he denied there were any noncombatants among the victims.
A spokesman for the U.S. military command in Kabul confirmed that U.S. forces conducted a "counter-terrorism" air strike in Achin, but would not discuss the details of the target.
"U.S. Forces – Afghanistan takes all allegations of civilian casualties very seriously," said Brigadier General Charles Cleveland.
"We are aware of some claims of Afghan casualties, and are currently reviewing all materials related to this strike. We are continuing to look into these allegations."
Determining which victims were civilians and which were militants would not be possible until an investigation was complete, said Attaullah Khogyani, a spokesman for the provincial governor.
Islamic State has attracted hundreds, perhaps thousands, of fighters in Afghanistan and Pakistan to join its ranks, and it holds some territory in Nangarhar, and Achin was a stronghold for the group.
But it has not been able to expand its influence in Afghanistan beyond a few districts and the Taliban remain the dominant militant force.
Thousands of U.S. troops remain in Afghanistan, with many recent air strikes and special operations missions aimed at Islamic State in Nangarhar, but they have also been helping Afghan forces fight Taliban elsewhere in the country.
Between January and August this year, American aircraft released more than 800 weapons and flew more than 3,500 close air support missions in Afghanistan, according to U.S. military reports.


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I practised my wonky french knots......
My little girl has nothing to say...........any suggestions???
You know what ? I don't think having nothing to say will be a problem on Saturday.
Great people are coming and I know Ballarat is kinda in the middle of nowhere, but some delightful Melbourne bloggers are coming along by train and by car and Silly Gilly (maybe that name means something ) is actually driving over from Adelaide and planning to stop at every op-shop she passes.......
Come on , jump on the train, get in the car - it'll be fun and I am even going to cook a cake !!!
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Great top & I love that yall got to meet up- such cute pregger ladies!!ReplyDelete
You two are probably the cutest pregnant ladies ever!! :)ReplyDelete
Y'all are the CUTEST, glowing little Y-walkers I ever did see!!! PRECIOUS and perfect sign for the nursery, girlie. And safe travels with your mama tomorrow...y'all have fun! Merry, merry!!! xxReplyDelete
Okay, you did NOT get that top for $10! I feel like I'm never finding such fabulous deals! Love it! And I adore those ornaments!! xoReplyDelete
Sometimes Kohls literally blows my mind! i scored some really cute Lauren Conrad stuff there last week that was dirt cheap. My wallet was happy and so was my closet and hubby :-) super cute shirt you got there! and your baby bump is so stinkin cute!ReplyDelete
Love that yall went & walked together- you both look great!! Thanks for the link, printing the gold one for our front foyer! :)ReplyDelete
Love the momma walk, too cute!!! And that print, adorable! Thanks for sharing!!! Happy Friday!ReplyDelete
So jealous of the Holiday Market you're going to this weekend...they are wonderful! Have so much fun! And I can't get enough of those baby bumps either..SO cute! In a few months we will be seeing play dates! Exciting!ReplyDelete
Happy Weekend, Love!
You are too adorable! I've been following your pregnancy updates and you are truly glowing!! Thanks for the reindeer printable and I'm definitely gonna have to check out that etsy site--you said it best who doesn't love a free $10??ReplyDelete
Love the top from Kohls, looks exactly like one from J.Crew! Hope you have a great weekend love! xoxoReplyDelete
I love that you and Christina are preg at the same time and meet up to exercise! Too cute. Love the shirt and as I'm sure everyone else has said, it looks just like the J.Crew version!ReplyDelete
I got that same top the other day in blue at kohl's! I have not washed it yet either, but I will be sure to share if I find a way that works other than handwashing! It was a fantastic find!ReplyDelete
Rue La La is my jam... I can't get enough of that site! They have been having some great holiday sales too! It's so great to have a friend who is pregs at the same time - you guys will definitely need each other once those sweet babies arrive!ReplyDelete
Y'all are adorable! Thanks for sharing the printables and happy weekend :)ReplyDelete
I also have that shirt from Kohl's (in blue, too) and I washed it in the washing machine--clearly I have no patience for laundry rules. But, it was fine--none of the crystals came off...ReplyDelete
Ok, you and Christina are the cutest things I've ever seen!! How fun to have her along the ride with you!ReplyDelete
How cute are you and Christina! It's great you live close to each other and can share this journey together.ReplyDelete
You 2 preggos are the CUTEST! And I wish I had bought that shirt this summer. I had it in my cart for a while then I guess I just forgot about it. I'm so jelly I didn't purchase it!ReplyDelete
YAY for speed walking! And that $10 shirt is a MAJOR score!!!! happy weekend friend!ReplyDelete
Good for you for working out! I bet it is hard as you expand :)ReplyDelete
Good for you for working out! I bet it is hard as you expand :)ReplyDelete
Good to know about that Koh's shirt. I am in love with it, but not in love with hand washing items...ugh. And BTW you are such a cute preggo :)ReplyDelete
How cute are you two with your baby bumps?? Work it girlys!...all 4 of you ;)ReplyDelete
I love those vintage ornaments in your last post! We have some that were passed down to us, and also bought some in Selma at their huge Antique warehouse. Unfortunately the latter didn't make it because a guy put them in the same bag as our mason jars! // whoopsieReplyDelete
LOVE the shirt!!! I gotta go scope mine out now and see if I can get lucky with the sales racks, too!ReplyDelete
And, go you for working out! I can't wait to get the green light. My postpartum checkup is next week - can't wait to get my sweat on!
Love the shirt!ReplyDelete
That glitter printable is so cute!ReplyDelete
I had a good friend who was pregnant the same time as me and we got out for walks together every weekend. It was so much fun and great motivation to get out there and move. Love that button down! Looks just like ones from J. crew !ReplyDelete
i love that yall had a walking date!!! wish i could be there to walk with you and stick out my leftovers from thanksgiving..hahaha!!!!ReplyDelete
that shirt is GORGEOUS, too...look at you savvy shopper ;)
loving those printables! I definitely need to utilize them!! I Got the shirt and and love it!ReplyDelete
love that little rue la la sign!!ReplyDelete
LOVE seeing you and Christina's little baby bumps next to each other! Absolutely precious!!ReplyDelete
i LOVE that shirt. def worth the handwashing. it's gorgeousReplyDelete
That Kohls shirt is appearing under the tree for me and I am so excited!! It is so cute and fun!ReplyDelete
Your new shirt is darling. I have one similar to it and I always do a long soak and light hand wash in Woolite so I don't loose a bead.ReplyDelete
I am so behind on blog reading and I'm just now seeing this. Thanks for sharing the printable on here. You're so sweet. Loved seeing you last night! Wish I got more of a chance to catch up. You look fabulous :)ReplyDelete


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An expanding text area is a multi-line text input field that expands in height to fit its contents. Commonly found in both desktop and mobile applications, such as the SMS composition field on the iPhone, it's a good choice when you don't know how much text the user will write and you want to keep the layout compact; as such, it's especially useful on interfaces targeted at smartphones. Yet despite the ubiquity of this control, there's no way to create it using only HTML and CSS, and most JavaScript solutions have suffered from guesswork, inaccuracy, or a lack of elegance "¦ until now.


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What is YIN?
YIN stands for Young Inspirators Network. It is a platform to create Social Development & Awareness across the Globe. This network aims at utilizing the energy, social sense and ideas for change which our youth possess in abundance. Social, economic and political empowerment of youth is promoted through YIN and several outreach projects and programs are used to develop and engage them. Here's the informative video
How can I contact your organization?
Visit https://www.yinforchange.in, email us at firstname.lastname@example.com or contact our Call Centre at 9225800800.
Why should I choose to be a part of YIN?
YIN is a platform that provides the youth with a chance to uplift the society by pitching their ideas and in return getting a fair opportunity to turn those ideas into an inspiration for others. We are all trying to bring about change together.
How is YIN different from other social service communities?
Unlike other social communities, the YIN initiative will assist students in making their surrounding a better place and contribute to the Nation's development process. The implemented ideas could be selected by our nations Prime Minister and will also appear on our website.
How will my contribution towards this initiative help in growth and development of the nation?
YIN was launched to harness and utilize the energy of the youth in Maharashtra. While focusing on their careers and goals, the youth can also and have a great impact on creating social change.
Eligibility criteria to become a member?
There is no eligibility criterion for being a part of our initiative. Students in the age group of 18-24 years can become members. However, housewives, working professionals and retired citizens can volunteer to extend their help and support towards our initiative.
How can I be a part of YIN? What is the registration process?
You can like our Facebook and Twitter pages and simply register on our website https://yinforchange.in/
Is there any registration fee/charges for sign up?
An amount of Rs 100 can be paid towards registration fees for signing up.
Why is there a registration fee if the initiative is for a noble cause for bringing about a change/development for the society?
This fee is charged to ensure that only those who are seriously and sincerely interested in the cause to make a change towards a better society and better India will register.
What is the duration of this initiative?
The duration depends on the task undertaken by the students. It can vary between 1 week to 6 months.
Will I be paid for any of the services offered?
No. YIN operates as an NGO. It is an initiative which provides a platform to the youth to come together and implement their ideas for developing the nation and bring about a change in the society.
What are your call centre service hours?
Our call centers operate 24 hours a day 7, days a week.
What if the phone lines are busy? What are the alternative methods to contact you?
Members can contact us on 9225800800 or write to us at "email@example.com"
Association/tie-ups of different bodies/partners for this initiative?
The YIN initiative is backed with famous and influential personalities like Mr. Abhijit Pawar, Aamir Khan, Anand Mahindra and Dr. Amir Kfir who have mentored other initiatives in the past.
How many projects can an individual take up at one time?
Members can take up only one project at a time. On completion of their project, they can take up another one.
Can I gather people such as friends and family members to help me in the initiatives? (Is it restricted to college members only?)
Yes. A member can gather all his friends and relatives for these activities as volunteers.
How can we monitor the daily activities and progress of our contribution?
Once you register yourself on our website and create an account, the leader board provides all the data related to the initiatives and progress of his/her activities.
Do we need to undergo some training/briefing before we start our activities? If yes, where will it be provided?
The training for this initiative will be provided to the students in their college campus. The students will have a mentor who will guide them throughout their activities. The Principal/Director of the colleges will also extend their help and support.
What are the benefits of being a member/association with YIN?
The most implementable ideas will be selected and presented to the Prime Minister, Chief Minister, leaders of various political parties and representatives of NGO's. These ideas will be published and uploaded on the YIN website. YIN also gives us an opportunity to network and collaborate with like-minded people to seek Personal, Professional and Social Development.
Can we make donations for carrying out this initiative? If yes, in whose name and where can we make these donations?
Just call us on our helpline numbers and we will guide u through the process.
Are there any tax exemptions/benefits against donations?
No there are no tax exemptions.
Will there be any financial support provided by YIN for carrying out the initiatives?
Yes, mentors can provide some kind of financial assistance.
I am trying to gather people/support for this initiative. Where can I order brochures or other promotional material?
Write to us on firstname.lastname@example.com
What if I am unable to complete the tasks undertaken? Will there be some kind of support (non-financial) from your side?
Yes. The initiatives taken will be monitored by your college leaders. In addition to this, there will be mentors and facilitators to guide you and help you out.


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House where Prince once reigned sells in Beverly Hills
The only Los Angeles-area home that singer-songwriter Prince has ever owned recently changed hands in Beverly Hills for $5.5 million.
The perpetual renter's onetime palace is a gated Italian-style compound. The main villa is set at the end of a long driveway on about three-quarters of an acre. Inside the two-story rotunda entry is a sweeping staircase.
French doors open the interiors to the outdoors. Unusual ceilings add drama in the master bedroom and family room.
Formal living and dining rooms, a two-story wine cellar, a wood-paneled library/office and a family room with a wet bar are within the 7,104 square feet of living space. Including the guest house, there are a total of five bedrooms and seven bathrooms.
Fireplaces grace the living and family rooms, the library and the master bedroom.
Prince, 56, sold the home in 1997 for $2.2 million. The property previously sold in 2003 for $2.855 million, public records show, and had been leased out three years ago at $21,500 a month.
The music megastar is among the bestselling artists of all time, with such hit albums as "Purple Rain." He won an Oscar for the "Purple Rain" score and is a seven-time Grammy Award winner.
Joseph Babajian of Rodeo Realty and Nina Moshkovich of Nelson Shelton & Associates were the listing agents. Martine Zoller of Gussman Czako Estates represented the buyers.
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How I gained commit access to Homebrew in 30 minutes
If I were a malicious actor, I could have made a small, likely unnoticed change to the openssl formulae, placing a backdoor on any machine that installed it. If I can gain access to commit in 30 minutes, what could a nation state with dedicated resources achieve against a team of 17 volunteers? How many private company networks could be accessed? How many of these could be used to escalate to large scale data breaches? What other package management systems have similar weaknesses? This is my growing concern, and it's been proven time and time again that package managers, and credential leaks, are a weak point in the security of the internet, and that supply chain attacks are a real and persistent threat. This is not a weakness in Homebrew, but rather a systemic problem in the industry, and one where we need more security research.
Galway-based refurb phone retailer, recommended by co-worker Ciaran where he picked up his Pixel
"rsync for cloud storage" – Google Drive, Amazon Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Cloudfiles, Google Cloud Storage, Yandex Files
(tags: backup github sync cloud s3 storage rsync rclone google aws dropbox backblaze yandex onedrive)
People Think This Whole QAnon Conspiracy Theory Is A Prank On Trump Supporters
This, if true, is the most gloriously Discordian thing ever.
"Let us take for granted, for a while, that QAnon started as a prank in order to trigger right-wing weirdos and have a laugh at them. There's no doubt it has long become something very different. At a certain level it still sounds like a prank. But who's pulling it on whom?" they [Roberto Bui, Giovanni Cattabriga, and Federico Guglielmi] said.
(tags: q conspiracy politics trump qanon luther-blissett discordianism wu-ming funny crazy)


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12 May 2021 🐛
I've been drawing Grubs, a little character I made, since Dec 2014. It took me about 400 days to fill out a grid of 256, which I detailed a little bit here.
Over the years since, I've drawn them on and off, either in random notebooks or on my iPad. At this point I'm well over 400, not including ones lost to old notebooks. Recently, I've decided to challenge myself to draw one a day again and have been using a Futureland Journal to post them for the last 40 or so days.
What I'd really love is to have a little collection of Grubs drawn by other people. So I invite you to try. Doesn't matter if you are an artist or not, I sure as hell am not. It can be a stick figure or a curved line for all I care, but I'd love to see you play around with it, reinterpret it, and just draw something inspired by or along the lines of my Grub.
If you want to participate, you can respond on micro.blog or email a picture to me at email@example.com and let me know how you want to be attributed. When I have a few, I'll publish them somewhere like Multiverse or in a Raindrop collection.
Below are a few examples to help inspire.
Feels weird writing this, but I'm not selling anything or making anything off of this (or paying for that matter) just selfishly thought it'd be cool to have a community project of amateur drawings of my Grub.


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LOUDON, N.H. — For Clint Bowyer, expectations are high, and, accordingly, so is the pressure to perform well at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
Bowyer enters Sunday's Sylvania 300 tied for fourth in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series standings, 15 points behind Chase leader Brad Keselowski. Though Bowyer finished 10th in last Sunday's Chase opener at Chicagoland, he lost ground to race winner Keselowski and runner-up Jimmie Johnson.
Then again, Bowyer hasn't posted a victory at an intermediate speedway — ever. New Hampshire is another matter. Two of Bowyer's seven career victories have come at the Magic Mile, and he led 49 laps in last year's Chase race before running out of fuel in the closing circuits.
Consequently, Bowyer comes to Loudon expecting his No. 15 Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota to run well — and under pressure to make up ground on the Chase leaders.
"You definitely need to capitalize on your good race tracks, and I think this is one of my good race tracks, so it's definitely important to capitalize on that and get myself closer to the front," Bowyer told the NASCAR Wire Service on Friday at NHMS during a question-and-answer session behind the No. 15 transporter.
"This is a track where we can gain some ground, and we need to make sure we do that."
Bowyer feels confident he can live up to the expectations with a strong finish.
"There's a reason there's some pressure," Bowyer said. "It's because we've performed here, and we need to do it again. I feel like we can back that up, and I'm fairly confident in that. This is just one of those tracks where you just kind of go in, and usually things work out, you know?
"(But) you don't take that for granted. I did run out of gas leading here one time, and I think I finished like 25th (actually 26th in last year's Chase race), so that wasn't much fun."
If Bowyer is to win on Sunday, he'll have to beat Denny Hamlin, who earlier this week called his shot and promised to win the race. Hamlin was fastest in qualifying trim in Friday's opening practice, with Bowyer ninth.
"I guess he enjoys pressure, because that certainly places a lot of pressure on you," Bowyer said of Hamlin's promise. "Who knows? I'm going to call his bluff."
- NASCAR to debut new short track package at Phoenix - February 28, 2023
- The Wrench Who Stole Racing - December 16, 2022
- Matt DiBenedetto's excellent run comes to abrupt, violent end - February 17, 2019


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220.127.116.11 Weapon Usability
Types of military equipment vary in their effectiveness, the uses to which they can be put, and the likelihood that they will be used:
- Ground-based weapons such as artillery, mortars, rifles and hand-guns are readily available. Commanders know that people on both sides of the conflict will be killed, but they expect losses to be tolerable even if the dispute escalates.
- Countries incur fewer casualties when making air-strikes against targets on the ground. A BBC article, Syria war: Weapons key players have at their disposal, describes the piloted aircraft, drones and missiles used there by America, Britain, France, Russia and the Syrian military. Air-strikes are ineffective, though, unless there are military targets whose location is precisely known.
- Navies are constrained by geography to projecting power in maritime contexts. The above article mentioned aircraft carriers, to support the air-strikes, but no other ships.
- Nuclear weapons have rarely been used but they have effectively deterred aggression by other States. The value of deterrence is declining, though – as described later (7.4.2).
- Other weapons of mass-destruction, such as chemical and biological weapons, are forbidden by the Geneva Convention and they are universally condemned. Political leaders who use them lose legitimacy and they incur the risk of intervention by other countries with UN agreement – as in the case of the UN resolutions to contain Saddam Hussein for example, which are described later (8.7.1).
- Defence shields are not weapons, and therefore cannot be used aggressively, but they undermine the effectiveness of other countries' deterrents and they might be seen as indicating a state of preparation for war. The BBC article, Missile shield 'threatens Russia', described how Russia was concerned about American plans to install a defence shield in Eastern Europe, for example
These capabilities were mostly designed to combat another country's armed forces and destroy military targets. As described in the following sub-sections, these capabilities are of limited utility against guerrilla tactics (22.214.171.124), for conflicts in civilian areas (220.127.116.11) and when trying to occupy another country (220.127.116.11).
This is a current page, from the Patterns of Power Edition 3a book, © PatternsofPower.org, 2020. An archived copy of it is held at https://www.patternsofpower.org/edition03/7411.htm


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Chakra Zen Incantations
The Thinking and Breathing incantations in Eric Maisel's book entitled Ten Zen Seconds: Twelve incantations for Purpose, Power and Calm are as simple as counting from one to two.
Here's how it works – First take in a deep breath. Second release a cleansing breath out. The thought is a phrase that is to be spoken out loud. The words are to broken down into two parts so that it has a rhythmic tone to it.
I am open to joy.
Breathe in as you say … I AM OPEN,
On the out breath say … TO JOY.
The idea is not to create images in your mind while doing these incantation, but to focus only on the words and the breath. Here are some chakra-zen incantations that are intended to be used for chakra balancing.
Chakra Zen Incantations:
- My energy … is free of blockages.
- My root chakra … is deeply grounded.
- My sacral chakra juices ,,, are creative and bold.
- My solar plexus … feels mellow and calm.
- My heart … is filled with love.
- My throat … speaks the truth.
- My third eye … intuits inner knowledge.
- My crown chakra … projects inspiration.
- My chakras … are spinning in alignment.
- My aura … is colorful and clutter-free.
- My lightbody … beams brightly.
- I am … centered and balanced.
These can be done individually as needed, or collectively. Recommended time spent on this mantra practice is 15 to 20 minutes each day.


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