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This exhibition focuses upon the Impressionist and Post Impressionist masterpieces from the Mellon Collection kept at the National Gallery of Art di Washington as a result of a donation. French artists in general and the Impressionists and Post Impressionists in particular have always held a prominent place in the Mellon Collection and it comes as no surprise that the collection includes the most moving and expressive masterpieces. The exhibit space at Rome's Ara Pacis is hosting such artists as Manet, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Boudin, Pissarro, Bonnard, Toulouse-Lautrec, Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh and Seurat.
St. George Rome, a 5 star Luxury Hotel in centre of Rome , located in a streategic position close to the city's most important monuments and streets such as Navona Square, Castel St. Angelo and Campo dei Fiori, offers its customers convenient packages for this special occasion. One of these is the Best of Rome:
- Full American buffet breakfast
- Free entrance to Vatican Museum and Sistin Chappel avoiding the cue
- Welcome Cocktail
- 20% Discount on SPA on body treatments
- Vat 10% per room per night included in room rate
- Rate is based on 3 nights stay
- The package cannot be combined with any other offer
- Check in time: 15:00 – Check out time: 12:00
City tax 3.00 euro per person per night not included in room rate
The Crowne Plaza Rome St. Peter's, 4 star superior hotel near the luxurious parks of Villa Pamphili and Villa Carpegna, at 3 km from the Vatican Museums and from the city center, also offers its customers convenient packages, like for example the Advanced Purchase Rate 25:
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- 25% Discount on best available daily rate
- Free parking
- Rate is bookable until 7 days prior to arrival date
- Total stay will be charged on client credit card at time of booking. The booking is not refundable in case of cancellation
- Children policy: Accommodation is free for 2 children less than 12 years old sharing parents' room
- Breakfast not included
- Check in time: 15:00 – Check out time: 12:00
– City tax equal to EUR 3.00 per person per night NOT INCLUDED in the room rate.
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District court's order setting aside default judgment against hotel-Respondent affirmed. An order setting aside a default judgment was appealable as a special order under Nevada Rules of Appellate Procedure (NRAP) 3A(b)(2)2. The trial court's determination of excusable neglect under Nevada Rules of Civil Procedure (NRCP) 60(b)(2)3 was not a proper basis upon which to grant relief from the default judgment, but a trial court's exercise of discretion to deny or grant a motion to set aside a default judgment under NRCP 60(b)(1) on the grounds of mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect will not be disturbed upon appeal, absent an abuse of discretion. The default judgment should have been rendered void under NRCP 60(b)(3) for Appellant's failure to provide Respondent with the three-days' written notice of hearings on the application for default judgment required under NRCP 55(b)(2).4 The hotel's participation in pre-suit negotiations equated to an "appearance" under NRCP 55(b)(2) and the three-days' written notice under NRCP 55(b)(2) was required when pre-suit interactions evinced a clear intent to appear and defend.
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Brown, Keith, "Summary of Lindblom v. Prime Hospitality Corp., 120 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 40" (2004). Nevada Supreme Court Summaries. 652.

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Numbers and What They Mean
Numbers and What They Mean
Dr. Virtue has, with the help of her guardian angels, given us the explanations to what these numbers mean. In her book 'Healing With The Angels", How the Angels can Assist with Every Area of your Life, she tells us that our angels often communicate messages to us by showing us sequences of numbers. Here are the basic meanings of various number sequences, please see her wonderful book for more detailed information on each number sequence.
• 111 – Monitor your thoughts carefully and be sure to only think about what you want, not what you do not want. This sequence is a sign that there is a gate of opportunity opening up and your thoughts are manifesting in the form of record speed.
• 222 – Your newly planted ideas are beginning to grow into reality. Keep watering and nurturing them, and soon they will push through the soil so you can see evidence of your manifestation.
• 333 – The ascended masters are near you, desiring you to know that you have their help, love and companionship.
• 444 – The angels are surrounding you now, reassuring you of their love and help.
• 555 – Buckle your seatbelts, because a major life change is upon you. This change should not be viewed as being "positive" or "negative", since all change is but a natural part of life's flow.
• 666 – Your thoughts are out of balance right now, focused too much on the material world. This number sequence asks you to balance your thoughts between heaven and earth.
• 777 – The angels applaud you – congratulations, you're on a roll! Keep up the good work and know that your wish is coming true.
• 888 – A phase of your life is about to end, and this is a sign to give you forewarning so you can prepare.
• 999 – Completion. This is the end of a big phase in your personal or global life.
• 000 – A reminder that you are with God, and to feel the presence of your Creator's love within you.
There is a wealth of wonderful, insightful information that can be accessed from this, and all of Dr. Virtue's books; I guarantee you will delight in reading each and every one of them.


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Gers Fightback Earns Worthy Draw
Report: Craig Carter
Sunday 15th September
Rangers became only the second team to take a point off Aberdeen in the U19 National Performance League, as second half strikes from Hannah Robinson and Hannah Jordan cancelled out an early Dons lead.
Aberdeen, as they have been so often this campaign, were quick off the blocks. Just two minutes gone when Leah Jones set up Bailey Collins for the opener. A mix up in the visitors' defence, keeper Jasmine McPhie's clearance ricocheting back off Collins and into the net.
Awoken into their stride by the goal, Rangers settled in the following minutes, grounding the ball and producing some fine passing football on the Kaimhill synthetics. Forward Reanna Bates was matched by Kirstin Pratt as the striker tried to round off their first attack. Meanwhile Collins and Nadia Sopel were denied by intelligent defending, Ellie Vernal in particular with an important shutout, using her strength well.
Despite no real early rhythm to the play, with the wind a constant harassment, Aberdeen would find themselves two in front before the quarter hour. They built a period of pressure, and Hannah Innes picked it up on the right side of the area, customarily excellent with her delivery, she may have mishit this one, sending the trajectory spiralling over McPhie. Erin Henderson was in first on the goal line to claim a tap in, with Collins also in the vicinity.
By no means had Rangers been poor, but they now had to dig in and find a route back. Eilidh Martin tested Pratt's handling when her wide freekick almost dipped under the crossbar.
Pushing the fullbacks on was imperative, Rangers bringing their pressing game ten yards further up the pitch, and starting to pin Aberdeen back.
The danger in doing so is the possible susceptibility to a counter. Sopel was almost in off a short back pass, and Ellen Reid put a header wide from a corner.
Rangers' next drive brought their first clear shot on target. Emma Watson with her right foot, after her own burrowing work outside the area, and Bates was close to snapping up any rebound. Not this time.
Watson herself was at the pinnacle of Rangers' forays forward, several times making arching, daring runs behind and through the lines, even when she did not receive the ball. This demonstrated a dedicated willingness to stretch the opponent, test their thinking, and was a clear reason behind what makes her, and consequently teammates around her, standout with attacking intent.
Emma, who would be substituted shortly after half time, was also a top performer for the Ibrox side's U15s when they visited the north on Cup duty back in May. Young stars are rising all the time. A couple of scrambles from corners ensued for both sides, but the final chance of note in thr half fell the way of Hannah Robinson, who did very well to control a bobbling ball with a smart half-volley which threatened the near post. More on her later.
Half Time: Aberdeen FC Ladies 2-0 Rangers
Mairi Whittingham had a header diverted off the line early in the period, before Henderson put the follow up wide, in search of her second.
Hannah Innes sent Kayleigh Traynor through on goal as Aberdeen continued to set about their early work with purpose. Abbie McKay was picking up scraps for Rangers and was almost on the end of some moves. Just the final ball was missing.
Rangers were working the ball nicely through the centre of the park, as Jodi McLeary and Kirsty MacLean took up the mantle as ball carriers for the team on a few occasions, showing calm and composure. Their trio, in combination with Hannah Robinson, was notable from middle to front, as the visitors went up a gear.
They would have a reward on 58. This one constructed down the left, Eilidh Martin exchanging possession with Robinson. A neat one-two with McKay prised open some space, and Robinson curled the ball beyond the reach of Pratt. The type of strike where the player uses the defender's body shape as a marker to guide the finish, it was inch perfect.
Now pushing all-in, McKay was next to flash a shot into the body of the goalkeeper, well held with Bates on the doorstep. Martin tried her luck from distance.
Emily Neish then replaced Innes, and the Reds found a response, gaining ground with the running of Bailey Collins and the work of their frontline. A third evaded them though.
Hannah Jordan came off the bench, and was soon into the action with the equaliser. If Robinson's was largely individual talent, this was teamwork. Goal of the game, it started with Martin in her own left back area, eluding two challenges to bring in Hannah Robinson. then Dion Young. The final pass to Jordan was exquisitely lofted over Pratt for 2-2. 73 played.
In truth, both teams had opportunities to win it, the game switching end-to-end in a frantic finish. The Govan team undoubtedly with the best of the productive dominance towards the close, which could have garnered the three points.
That said, Aberdeen had two further sights of their own, a Collins freekick for handball looking potentially profitable. Nadia Sopel with her radar just off too.
So a share of the spoils here – merged with Celtic's victory over Glasgow City – trims the young Dons gap at the top back to five points, with the Celts holding 2 games in hand by the latest standings. Other sides are in the conversation as well. Still all to play for in the division.
A great game, laced with quality at every turn, and we gladly make it through the report together, without so much as even the merest mention of "a game of two halves" Proud of that!
Full Time: Aberdeen FC Ladies 2-2 Rangers
Aberdeen FC Ladies: Pratt, Collins, Proctor, Whittingham, Sopel, Reid, Rogers, Henderson, Innes, Cooper, Jones Substitutes: Traynor, Hannah, Neish, Shand, Dalgetty
Rangers: McPhie, Daly, Slater, Vernal, Martin, MacLean, Robinson, Watson, McKay, McLeary, Bates
Substitutes: McMullan, Jordan, Todd, Young, Evans


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Good Morning! This is the first week I'm joining the Can't Wait Wednesday/Waiting on Wednesday meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they're books that have yet to be released. It's based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous Jill at Breaking the Spine. If you're continuing with WOW, feel free to link those up as well! Find out more here.
I know. It doesn't come out until January and was only even announced just a short while ago. But I was approved for the ARC (bless the ARC Gods, HarperTeen and Edelweiss) and although I have to sit on it for at least a couple of months (ugh…) I am too excited not to talk about it! And with that, I give you…
Cover designed by Erin Fitzsimmons. Art by Kevin Tong
Silvera's first fantasy novel. The first in the Infinity Cycle series. I'm not sure what I can say that is going to sway anyone to not sit on the edge of their seat for the release of Infinity Son. So I'm going to let it speak for itself… At the end is all the pre-order and good reads information provided by Adam Silvera's Website.
All the below information and art credits above per Adam Silvera's website
Infinity Son is book #1 in the Infinity Cycle series. It's coming out January 14, 2020.
Balancing epic and intensely personal stakes, bestselling author Adam Silvera's Infinity Son is a gritty, fast-paced adventure about two brothers caught up in a magical war generations in the making.
Growing up in New York, brothers Emil and Brighton always idolized the Spell Walkers—a vigilante group sworn to rid the world of specters. While the Spell Walkers and other celestials are born with powers, specters take them, violently stealing the essence of endangered magical creatures.
Brighton wishes he had a power so he could join the fray. Emil just wants the fighting to stop. The cycle of violence has taken a toll, making it harder for anyone with a power to live peacefully and openly. In this climate of fear, a gang of specters has been growing bolder by the day.
Then, in a brawl after a protest, Emil manifests a power of his own—one that puts him right at the heart of the conflict and sets him up to be the heroic Spell Walker Brighton always wanted to be.
Brotherhood, love, and loyalty will be put to the test, and no one will escape the fight unscathed.
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The Thursday Evening Summer Ride (TESR) is a social ride for riders of all abilities including those who are relatively new to road cycling.
Depending on numbers and abilities, riders have the option to ride as one group or to split into smaller groups.
An experienced rider leader will be in attendance to welcome new members and to help them and less experienced riders to enhance their road cycling skills. However, the Ride Manager will have the discretion to cancel the ride unless a minimum of two riders have signed up by 14.00 on the day of the ride.
Meet at The Prince of Wales Bromham 18:30
At the end of the ride suitable refreshments are available. Those members who are unable to join the ride would be most welcome to come along and socialise from 20.00 ish.
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I'm so excited to join in for Winter 2014-2015 COYER, hosted by Berls @ Fantasy is More Fun and Michelle @ Because Reading. It runs from December 20th 2014 – March 6th 2015 and you can sign up here until January 25th! Go check out the details and if you do sign up, be sure to indicate that I sent you on the linky, where it says "Who referred you?" so I can win $5 to Amazon!
My Goals
I have no idea what I will read that far ahead – I'm a total mood reader. But since I'm limited to E-Books and Audiobooks that are FREE or NEARLY FREE, I'm going to try and make a big dent in my NetGalley & Review books. I also have a ton of FREE Kindle books I've picked up that I'm going to try and read. Here are my goals:
Read & review at least 20 books – that would be two books a week!
Visit and comment on at least 7 reviews from the linky a week
Participate in 3 of the read-a-thons… definitely the scavenger hunt!
Participate in at least one twitter party
Join in at least 1 social media activity a week in the Facebook group
Do at least 1 mini-challenge
Have a blast!
These are my starting goals, but they will probably change – so I'll do updates as the event progresses.
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A quick look at the Perth metropolitan area in Google Earth will show numerous small plots of vegetation surrounded by housing and industrial development. Similarly, the Wheatbelt contains many remnant plots of native vegetation surrounded by farming land (Plate 1). The value of many of these remnant patches of vegetation should be self-evident as they are the last remaining refuge for the fauna that once inhabited a much larger area. Where the clearing of vegetation has occurred on a large scale, remnant plots can provide important fauna habitat (How et al. 1996, Smith et al. 1996, Smith et al. 1997, Berry and Berry 2008). Some of these remnants support conservation significant fauna (e.g. Isoodon obesulus fusciventer in the greater Perth metropolitan area) and provide foraging habitat for conservation significant birds that move through the landscape (e.g. Calyptorhynchus latirostris).
Often, few if any of these remnant plots will support the complete fauna assemblage that was present prior to the disturbance. For example, Smith et al. (1997) made the point that even relatively large remnants with diverse vegetation did not always support all of the species expected to be found in the district and How et al. (1996) reported numerous remnant vegetation plots in the Perth metropolitan area that supported herpetofauna species that were not present in other plots where they probably once existed. There is generally a strong positive correlation between remnant size and species richness (Kitchener et al. 1980a, Kitchener et al. 1980b, How et al. 1996, Smith et al. 1996, Smith et al. 1997). It follows then that there is generally a higher loss of species over time from smaller remnants and habitat patches.
Of particular importance for remnant plots is that once a species becomes locally extinct, there is little opportunity for recruitment from other remnant patches (Smith et al. 1996). Also because many of these areas are particularly small, they can only support a few individuals for each species making them more susceptible to local extinctions.
Plate 1. Remnant plots of vegetation in the Western Australian wheatbelt
On one hand there is a case that fauna surveys of remnants, particularly those that represent a small fraction of what once existed, are not required as the habitat and the fauna assemblage are sufficiently important that they should be protected. However, to develop a strong case for the protection of these remnants it is often necessary to indicate what fauna are present and what fauna are present in adjacent remnants to demonstrate the consequence of a loss of a remnant.
As a general rule, small remnants do not support the larger-bodied species, particularly carnivores nor do they support small-bodied species that require large home ranges. Large-bodied species typically require large home ranges and access to an abundant prey source. In smaller remnant plots, once the resource is depleted there are limited opportunity for recruitment and replenishment of this prey source. However, there are examples, where this principle appears not to apply. For example, we know of remnant plots of vegetation in the wheatbelt that are quite small that continue to support a small population of Varanus giganteus, and others in the south-west that support a small population of Morelia spilota imbricata. In both circumstances, without a survey, these species could easily go undetected and be lost during a vegetation clearing program.
Given the ecological importance of remnants there is a strong case for having a near complete list of species for each habitat type and a good indication of their relative abundance. Although some of these areas are quite small, extensive surveys are required to achieve this objective (Smith et al. 1997, Berry and Berry 2008). Smith et al. (1997) for example, trapped remnant vegetation plots in the wheatbelt that had previously been surveyed by a team from the Western Australian Museum, and commented on the number of species that they caught that were not recorded in the earlier Museum survey.
Because in most cases the fauna assemblage in remnant plots will have been diminished by disturbances in adjacent areas, it cannot be assumed that two nearby remnants with similar vegetation will support the same fauna assemblage. Therefore, to understand the ecological significance of the fauna in remnants, it will be necessary to undertake an appropriate fauna surveys.
What would be the consequences of the government amending the existing legislation in its push to reduce red/green tape and to make life easier for land developers if it enabled upto 5ha of native vegetation to be cleared without the need to seek approval, as it has recently done for farmers?
Berry, P. F. and O. F. Berry. 2008. Herpetofauna of four remnant bushland isolates in the City of Nedlands, Perth. Western Australian Naturalist 26:27-41.
How, R. A., M. S. Harvey, J. Dell, and J. M. Waldock. 1996. Ground Fauna of the Urban Bushland Remnants in Perth, Report to the Australian Heritage Commission NEP Grant N93/04. Perth.
Kitchener, D. J., A. Chapman, J. Dell, and B. G. Muir. 1980a. Lizard assemblage and reserve size and structure in the Western Australian wheatbelt- some implications for conservation. Biological Conservation 17:25-62.
Kitchener, D. J., A. Chapman, and B. G. Muir. 1980b. The conservation value for mammals of reserves in the Western Australian Wheatbelt. Biological Conservation 18:179-207.
Smith, G. C., G. W. Arnold, S. Sarre, M. Abensperg-Traun, and D. E. Steven. 1996. The effect of habitat fragmentation and livestock grazing on animal communities in remnants of gimlet Eucalyptus salubris woodland in the Western Australian wheatbelt. II. Lizards. Journal of Applied Ecology 33:1302-1310.
Smith, G. T., J. Leone, and C. R. Dickman. 1997. Small terrestrial vertebrate communities in remnant vegetation in the central wheatbelt of Western Australia. Western Australian Naturalist 21:235-249.
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Best Vacation Rental Software Options for Property Management in Corona
If you're involved in the business of vacation rentals, you'll quickly realize that the rental industry is cutthroat and keeping up can feel nearly impossible. This is especially true for property management Corona vacation rentals; this city in Riverside is one of the top places to visit in all of Cali. One major reason for this is the stunning scenery, and another is the high value of rental properties here.
It doesn't matter if you own one small Corona property or 100, managing the business operations involved in guest rentals can be difficult. Luckily, there are plenty of resources to help out. Maybe you're already using the Airbnb booking system, or perhaps you're renting to guests on your own. Whatever methods you're utilizing, your life will become so much easier with the help of one of these vacation rental software programs.
Guesty is quite possibly the most well-known vacation rental software in the industry. This property management software is ideal for short-term rentals with high turnover rates. When guests are constantly filtering in and out, staying on top of things can be extremely difficult – but also extremely worth it since this increases the potential for rental income. Guesty can help.
When you sign up for a subscription to the Guesty software, you'll be able to integrate all of the listing sites you're currently using (like Airbnb, HomeAway, and Booking.com) into one easy-to-access platform. All in all, Guesty is the ultimate software for making your rental business a success.
Lodgify offers similar tasks and tools to Guesty, but this software is a better option if you're hoping to work independently from major booking sites. Lodgify allows you to create your very own vacation rental website from scratch with tons of unique templates to choose from. Through Lodgify, you'll be able to create and manage a reservation system, process payments, and even invest in marketing services for your website like search engine optimization.
Streamline VRS
Streamline Vacation Rental Software allows its users to expand their reach through multiple distribution channels. It provides direct integration with leading industry booking sites, including Airbnb, Booking, HomeAway, FlipKey, VRBO, and Expedia. If you go at it alone, managing all of these different channels can feel impossible. With Streamline, it's easier than ever.
The main goal of Streamline is to give rental property owners and managers a resource for improving efficiency – and that's exactly what they do. Their system is easy to use, but if you ever experience issues you can call the 24/7 customer service and receive direct support from a dedicated team member.
For help with scheduling and managing rental booking, there's no software quite like VRScheduler. VRS allows you to stay on track, even while multiple bookings are rolling in. The software allows you to import bookings from any booking platform, auto-generate tasks, and utilize the drag-and-drop scheduling system. Your guests will receive automated texts or emails updating them on their upcoming booking.


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Hawkeye Roofing understands that choosing the proper type of roofing shingle for your Newmarket home can be a difficult decision. You will need to consider cost, appearance, durability, and even whether the product is eco-friendly. For many reasons, asphalt organic or fiberglass shingles are the most common type of shingle used in Newmarket and surrounding towns including Aurora and Richmond Hill. Other roofing options for your Newmarket home include cedar shingles, metal, slate shingles, and flat roofing materials including rubber membranes.
There are two kinds of asphalt roofing shingles that Newmarket Roofing Contractors use: organic roofing shingles and fiberglass (glass fiber) roofing shingles.
Organic Asphalt Shingles are usually made from waste paper saturated with asphalt. Adhesive asphalt is applied into the shingle along with ceramic granules making the shingle waterproof.
Some of the ceramic granules embedded into algae-resistant roofing shingles contain leachable copper. These copper granules protect against discoloration of the roofing shingles. The copper granules do not stop algae growth altogether, but merely slows the growth of the algae. In Newmarket, Richmond Hill and Aurora regions, moss will grow on algae and other particles on the roof. Many roofing shingle manufacturers give a five or ten year warranty against algae growth on the organic roofing shingles in Newmarket.
Throughout the Newmarket region, many people are concerned about the environment. However, don't be fooled by the word "organic". The organic roofing shingle is not more environmentally friendly than other types of shingles. Organic roofing shingles contain significantly more asphalt than fiberglass roofing shingles. The large amount of asphalt is necessary in the organic shingles in order for them to be waterproof. Due to the fact that the organic roofing shingles contain paper, they are more prone to fire damage than other types of roofing shingles. In Newmarket and area, the standard warranty for organic roofing shingles is twenty years, although some brands offer longer warranties.
Fiberglass Roofing Shingles contain a glass fiber reinforcing mat. The mat is constructed of fiberglass strands bonded with urea formaldehyde resin. This mat is then coated with asphalt and other fillers resulting in a waterproof roofing shingle. Typically, fiberglass roofing shingles resist fire better than organic shingles. Fiberglass roofing shingles are becoming the roofing shingle of choice by contractors in Newmarket, Richmond Hill and Aurora.
Some fibreglass shingles are composed of two layers of randomly laid strands of fibreglass and are bonded together with an asphalt sealant. Although these laminated/architectural shingles are more expensive, they are more durable and attractive than regular fibreglass shingles.
It is necessary to ensure that your Newmarket home has proper roof ventilation. Improper ventilation can reduce the life of your roofing shingles. If you live in Newmarket, Richmond Hill or Aurora and are considering organic or fiberglass roofing shingles, contact Hawkeye Roofing for advice on which type of roofing shingle would best suit your needs, cost, and warranties.
Cedar shakes are another popular roofing material for the following reasons:
- Cedar is a good insulator, which minimizes heating and cooling costs.
- Cedar creates a great sound barrier.
- Cedar is one of the most durable types of roofing material available. If properly ventilated, cedar lays flat and resists splitting over its lifetime.
- Treated cedar shake roofs have a lifespan of fifty to sixty years.
- The oils present in cedar provide fungus and insect resistance.
- Cedar shake roofs have a unique and attractive appearance.
There are several choices of cedar roofing including hand-split shakes, shakes sawn to a smooth surface on both sides, and taper-sawn shakes. Hand-split shakes are hand split on the exposed face and sawn flat on the roof side, giving them a more rustic appearance than a cedar shake sawn flat on both sides. A taper-sawn shake is cut thicker on one end, which gives the shake its tapered appearance. All cedar shakes can be treated to make them fire-retardant.
Metal roofs are an excellent roofing choice for the following reasons:
- Metal is very durable. Most metal roofing products come with twenty-five-year to lifetime warranties. Copper and zinc roofs have been known to last up to one hundred years.
- Metal reflects heat which minimizes cooling costs.
- Metal roofs are fire and spark resistant, hail resistant, and wind resistant.
- Roofing metal is snow-shedding making it ideal in the GTA, Toronto, and Barrie areas.
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|Nuts About Squares CAL. Photo credit: Scheepjes
If you followed any of Scheepjes or my CAL's (Circles of the Sun and Peacock Tail Bag) you have definitely "met" Esther already. She is well known in the world of crochet for her professional and very detailed instructional videos, and for her calm voice as well. But did you know Esther only learned to crochet in 2014? And did you know she is a chemical engineer with a math degree?!
Today we talked with Esther about inspiration, importance of crochet videos and being organized, designing, and Nuts About Squares CAL.
|Esther Dijkstra of It's All In A Nutshell. Photo credit: Dedri Uys
- Hi Esther, congratulations on your Nuts About Squares CAL, I am very proud and happy to be a part of it. The blanket looks amazing! How did you come up with this idea?
- I have always loved squares, and especially squares with a lot of detail and texture. I love to work on intricate and complicated patterns and designs that challenge me. I wanted to combine all of these elements in my first CAL. I wanted to make a project that would be a challenge to those that have been crocheting for a longer time and at the same time be achievable for those that are new to the game. I hope that the video tutorials of each square help crochet-newbies and those less experienced to master the sometimes challenging squares and at the same time provide a challenge to the more experienced crocheter. I want people to feel a sense of pride and accomplishment when they finish Nuts about Squares.
|Nuts About Squares CAL. Photo credit: Scheepjes
- I received a message from a lady asking me for help for her daughter who wanted to learn to crochet. Her daughter was left handed and was turned away from a crochet class because she was left handed. The crochet-instructor did not want to be bothered and take the time to help someone who was left handed. I was both flabbergasted and infuriated when I heard this. Seriously, how can you treat someone like that!
Everyone has the right to learn and the right to education, and that includes crochet education. This young girl is the reason why all my crochet fundamentals are also available in a left handed version. I want each and every person to have the opportunity to learn to crochet. Crochet does not discriminate between race, religion, gender or nationality and there is no way that I am going to let someone use crochet to discriminate against a left handed young girl.
|Stripey Pouf, free pattern. Photo credit: Esther Dijkstra
- Probably not everyone knows, but except of creating videos you are also designing yourself. I especially like your pouf project, and you also have beautiful blankets, and Touch of Velvet wrap… Where do you find an inspiration for designing work?
- I am taking small baby steps in making my own designs. The Stripey Pouf was inspired by my HUGE stash of leftover yarn and the loads of old cushions I have in my attic. I wanted to use it in a useful way (I can't throw yarn away, just can't, not gonna happen). I am inspired by rhythm and geometric shapes. I like clear lines and I like repeated patterns. That is the engineer in me in guess.
|Touch of Velvet Wrap, free pattern. Photo credit: Esther Dijkstra
- You are a chemical engineer with also a math degree, and now you are teaching mechanical engineering students… How do you manage to combine your daily job, your crochet "job" (preparing CAL's and everything takes lots of time and efforts) and your family life?
- I am very good at planning and organizing, and I am very efficient. Something passes through my hands only once. I tend to be to the point with everything I do, also when doing video tutorials and writing blog posts. So when I am done with something, I am done and can move on to the next thing.
|Ice Waves color pooling blanket. Photo credit: Esther Dijkstra
- I started to crochet in the summer of 2014. My sister in law was crocheting on a family trip and it caught my interest. I bought some cheap yarn and a plastic hook and read up on how to make stitches and watched a hand full of videos. It just clicked with me. Crochet is a rhythmic, mathematic craft. It might not look like it at first glance, but the way stitches and patterns are made has a logic in it that I appreciate.
|Scheepjes CAL 2014. Photo credit: Esther Dijkstra
My first big project was the Scheepjes CAL 2014 designed by the talented, but sadly late, Wink from A Creative Being. I joined the CAL rather impulsively; I bought a yarn kit without really knowing what I was getting into because the CAL was a mystery project. When the CAL started I made the first few squares without any problems, but I noticed that other people were having issues. They were fussing about things they didn't understand and some were even giving up. I thought to myself: "If only they could see how to do it, where to put the stitches, what to watch out for…". The idea grew in my mind to make video tutorials that would show how to make the squares stitch by stitch and because the idea did not want to go away, I decided to act on it. I contacted Wink and asked her permission to make videos that would support her designs and illustrate how to make them and she said "yes". And the rest, well, you know the rest!
Making videos is not something that I set out to do, and I never dreamt that I would be able to help so many people. It just kind of happened and came on my path. Where my path will lead me next I don't know, but I do know that I am enjoying every step of the journey.
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life's been a little rocky around here lately. grumpy kids with colds, sleepless nights (and naps), and so. very. much. snow. and. cold. and. ice.
but apparently a groundhog didn't see his shadow and spring is on its way. a strange little tradition, surely, but hope is hope, and i'll take two.
i need to get out of my house and see green again. we all do. my babes are not much for playing indoors and they're small to play outside in frigid temps for long. afternoons at home can feel a million hours long.
but jim is back from his trip, so i can tag out a little a night. our vintage kitchen aid buzzes as jim and dylan craft pancakes together. breakfast-for-dinner cheers a weary soul, i think. especially when someone else makes it!
you know what else does, even though the anti-materialist in me hates to admit it?
brand spanking new furniture:
i should have taken a before picture. our old table was a garage sale find from jim's single days, and it was definitely worse for the wear. the buffet in the back was our make-shift changing table with bins, buckets, and clutter abounding, but no more. the dining room was also the temporary home of the kids' expansive train table, the treasure we picked up on craigslist for christmas. now it's tucked away upstairs in dylan's bedroom, and our dining room is a haven.
i love having something big enough to host friends and set with a centerpiece. we can share meals with toddlers and still enjoy beauty.
and that yellow runner? spring beckons.
are you a cold weather lover, hater, or somewhere in between? if you have little ones, any tips for keeping them busy indoors for longer than three minutes at a time? what is cheering your heart lately?


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School transmutation; Level antipaladin 2, cleric 2, inquisitor 2, paladin 2, sorcerer/wizard 2
Casting Time 1 standard action
Range touch
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Magic Siege Engine
This spell permits an indirect fire siege engine to bombard its targets with greater accuracy, delivering more damage. The siege weapon receives a +1 enhancement bonus on targeting rolls and damage rolls. If used on a direct fire siege weapon, this spell acts a magic weapon.
Magic Siege Engine, Greater
School transmutation; Level antipaladin 4, cleric 5, inquisitor 4, paladin 4, sorcerer/wizard 4
Casting Time 1 standard action
Range close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
This spell functions like magic siege weapon, except it gives an indirect fire siege weapon an enhancement bonus on targeting and damage rolls of +1 per four caster levels (maximum +5). If used on a direct-fire siege weapon, this spell functions as greater magic weapon.
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Monday, August 31, 2009
What brings forth a Kingsnorth?
On the subject, Janice Moor - she of the Grayson Ellis Official Site - comments below about the remarkarble parallels between Kingsnorth's 'award-winning' poems and certain Ellis juvenilia written in the early 1950s. No suspicion of plagiarism - the Ellis works have apparently never been published.
Fascinating comparison though: you can view it here and decide for yourself. I make no comment (wouldn't want an Alerted Kingsnorth back on my case, after all).
Sunday, August 30, 2009
My service record
Friday, August 28, 2009
Perhaps the funniest thing you will read this year
Paul argues that we should embrace the post-apocalyptic future now, while George politely disagrees and decides that no, on reflection, he will continue to use his position as a Guardian columnist to save billions of lives.
(via The Hooting Yard)
*Amendment to original post made in deference to Mr Kingsnorth's perfectly reasonable objection that he is not, in fact, posh and was dragged up in a hellish-sounding state school
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Never but when he is drunk
Tell me, is there a more luscious heartbreaker in which to wallow, sipping a third glass of red as dusk descends, than the closing song of REM's multi-nineties mega-hitsmash record Automatic for the People? Maybe Sinatra's version of Cycles, or No Easy Way Down from Dusty in Memphis.
You can get a really good dose of Wabi Sabi from any of those, much better than Zen, which is bad for the knees. The booze is critical though, otherwise you're always thinking: "I'm enjoying this song, but consciously, and every second of that enjoyment brings me closer to its termination, and I will only hear it a finite number of times before I pop my clogs or lose my wits or both." This is why we must produce offspring.
And here we can once again turn to the sharp, bleak wisdom of Samuel Johnson, as related by the faithful Boswell:
He this day enlarged upon Pope's melancholy remark, "Man never is, but always to be blest."
He asserted that the present was never a happy state to any human being; but that, as every part of life, of which we are conscious, was at some point of time a period yet to come, in which felicity was expected, there was some happiness produced by hope. Being pressed upon this subject, and asked if he really was of opinion that though, in general, happiness was very rare in human life, a man was not sometimes happy in the moment that was present, he answered, "Never, but when he is drunk."
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
America and race
I appreciate that the bold originality of this insight might shock you.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
On the Greatness or Otherwise of Andrew Flintoff
Atherton's argument is mostly based on Flintoff's career stats, which are good, but not, well, great. I'm firmly with Barnes.
This ultimately comes down to whether you take a statistician's or a more romatic 'sportsman's' view of cricket (and probably, of sport or even life in general.) I'm a romantic: I barely remember dates, scores and tables, but I never forget the heroes and the villains. Yet if stats could tell the story of a match, it would be just as meaningful to watch it on a Teletext scorecard as in the flesh. Clearly it isn't; stats are just one facet of the game and averages don't win Test series or get you an MBE.
The 2009 Ashes proves this: the Aussies had all but one of the series' top seven run scorers, and all of the top three wicket-takers. Yet they lost. Australia's Clarke and North finished with excellent batting averages, but so what?
Much more important than numbers are the key passages of play which swing matches and inspire teams, often come out of the blue and sometimes don't show up at all in the stats. This time there were three: Collingwood, Anderson and Panesar manfully blocking out the unlikely draw at Cardiff; Flintoff's five-wicket demolition job at Lord's; and Broad's spell of bowling at the Oval on Friday.
Flintoff has been responsible for more of these key winning passages and more great moments than any other England player of this era and therefore he is indeed the 'great' player of his generation, whatever the stats might say.
Trotty's Knock
Terrific to win it of course, and a great series, but this was nothing like 2005. The 2005 Ashes was a contest between two almost equally excellent sides, whereas this was a contest between two almost equally flawed and fragile sides. 2009 didn't lack for entertainment, and was at times almost as nailbiting as 2005, but they'll sell much fewer DVDs and there'll be no Trafalgar Square parade. But then what could ever match 2005? It was perfect and unrepeatable and it towers over any other sporting event I've witnessed - pointless to keep comparing things with it.
Anyway, three things stood out for me in this evening's post-match gloats:
1) while we already knew that cricket nickname protocol states that you add an "ey" to the player's surname (or a shortened version thereof), we learned today that when somebody's name already ends in an "ey", you simply drop it. Thus Michael "Clarkey" Clarke referred to Mike Hussey not as "Huss-ey" nor even "Hussey-ey" but as plain old "Huss".
2) Stuart "Broady" Broad came up (deliberately, one hopes) with a really good name for a band, when he praised "Trotty's knock".
3) Both captain Andrew Strauss and coach Andy Flower were eager to spread the net of credit for the victory beyond the eleven on the pitch at the Oval to "all fourteen players" used in the series, charitably namechecking Kevin Pietersen, Monty Panesar and Graham Onions.
Poor old Ravi Bopara; already the Forgotten Man.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Brendan Foster is my new hero
The radio commentary team of Test Match Special are rightly praised for their ability to fluently fill five days of airtime no matter what is happening on the field of play, including occasions when nothing is happening except heavy rain. But in truth the TMS boys have an advantage in that cricket is a game of myriad, multi-faceted complexity – anyone with half an interest in the game can comfortably natter about some aspect of it for hours on end, and if all else fails you can always default to slagging off the ECB.
More impressive to me are those microphone jockeys who really have to manufacture their commentary. I've always been impressed by Eurosport's veteran cycling pundit David Duffield. Stages of the Tour de France unfold slowly, with developments in the action taking all day to reach fruition. Duffield copes with this through his mastery of the art of the lengthy digression, filling the long hours with discussions of yesterday's supper in a favourite little restaurant in Rouen, or the historical importance of particular French fishing villages. I was once hypnotised by a very detailed lecture he gave on the problems faced by the banana industry in Central America (yes, really).
But again, Duffield doesn't quite take the prize because there are numerous technical diversions open to him, on bicycle technology or team tactics. For this reason I used to consider marathon running to be the ultimate commentator's challenge, since it lacks both of these technical options and, for the TV viewer, essentially consists of a great number of shots of people running and not overtaking each other very often.
I say 'used to' because last night I realised that even the marathon is a breeze compared to the king of the commentary-defying sports: middle distance track running. At least for the marathon the commentator fulfils a useful purpose in reporting spot times, which allow the viewer to follow whether chasers are gaining or losing on the leaders.
But middle distance track running is a sport where on television the action is entirely self-explanatory. The commentator has literally no useful purpose, so he must instead make the best he can of uselessness. And last night I witnessed a masterclass by the BBC's Brendan Foster, as he covered the World Athletics Championship Men's 1500m Final.
For describing the business of runners going round and round in a perfectly obvious order, Foster employs two separate but expertly intertwined methods:
1. detailed speculations about the runner's thought processes (eg. "And he'll be hurting now, really hurting, he'll know that this is the hard part, but he'll also be thinking 'This is what I've trained for, this is what I've put in all that hard work for', and he'll be reaching inside himself, and digging deep, and using that pain…" etc)
2. reciting synonyms for the word "accelerate". Last night Foster came up with the following, which I repeat verbatim: "And you just sense now that the pace is going to change: it's going to gather, it's going to pick up, it's going to multiply and it's going to move."
Any fool can say "I think they're speeding up a bit." It takes a true artist to say it in fifty different ways for the duration of a 1500m race. I therefore put it to you that Brendan Foster is the Michelangelo of sports commentary.
Rifftrax Live
If you happen to live in that great country, go and watch them take the piss out of Plan 9 From Outer Space.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
It's also amazing how quickly you become immune to the babysecretion element. Immune is wrong, you become fascinated. Ooh that's a good one. The hard part is actually getting up in the middle of the Dog Watch to change the nappy; its contents are perfectly manageable. I suggested to Mrs Brit that we play Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock (thanks Nige) to decide whose turn it is. That proved too mentally taxing for daysleepers. Unfortunately so did normal Rock-Paper-Scissors. Even tossing a coin was too complicated so in the end we agreed that whoever lets out the biggest sigh doesn't have to do it.
No really we're loving it mostly. I don't want to go back to work, though next week I must. It being the school holidays, an ice cream van is cruising the area. He's playing O Sole Mio (the English translation of which is of course "Just one Cornetto") to lure the kiddies, but something's wrong with his music machine and it's playing at about two-thirds the correct speed. This makes it sound mournful and heartbreaking. How can anyone be so cold-hearted as to refuse to buy one of the poor man's ice creams? I picture him weeping gently into his cones and feel a strong urge to rush out to console him, perhaps by purchasing a Fab. My protective instincts must be over-secreting, I think.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Exceedingly diverted by very small sport
I have known [Johnson] at times exceedingly diverted at what seemed to others a very small sport. He now laughed immoderately, without any reason that we could perceive, at our friend's making his will; called him the TESTATOR, and added, 'I dare say, he thinks he has done a mighty thing. He won't stay till he gets home to his seat in the country, to produce this wonderful deed: he'll call up the landlord of the first inn on the road; and, after a suitable preface upon mortality and the uncertainty of life, will tell him that he should not delay making his will; and here, Sir, will he say, is my will, which I have just made, with the assistance of one of the ablest lawyers in the kingdom; and he will read it to him (laughing all the time). He believes he has made this will; but he did not make it: you, Chambers, made it for him. I trust you have had more conscience than to make him say, "being of sound understanding;" ha, ha, ha! I hope he has left me a legacy. I'd have his will turned into verse, like a ballad.'
Mr. Chambers did not by any means relish this jocularity upon a matter of which pars magna fuit, and seemed impatient till he got rid of us. Johnson could not stop his merriment, but continued it all the way till we got without the Temple-gate. He then burst into such a fit of laughter, that he appeared to be almost in a convulsion; and, in order to support himself, laid hold of one of the posts at the side of the foot pavement, and sent forth peals so loud, that in the silence of the night his voice seemed to resound from Temple-bar to Fleet-ditch.
It happens from time to time that one finds something which others consider to be 'very small sport' inordinately amusing, and the more your companions resist or object to the hilarity, the more hilarious it becomes.
I recall a dear University friend insisting with perfectly straight face that he had, in his childhood, improved upon the game of Rock-Scissors-Paper by the ingenious addition of an extra element, Water. I forget which of the other elements it beat or was beaten by, but he indicated it with a wave-like motion of the hand. I was immediately overcome by paroxysms, and the more the rest of the company's gentle chuckles turned to bemusement at my paroxysms, and the more his good-natured tolerance turned to indignation, the more uncontrollable they became. I had to stagger weeping from the building for fresh air, and for weeks afterwards the mere thought of his wavy hand gesture was enough to have me giggling like a lunatic. Our friendship survived, fortunately; Lord knows he had plenty of opportunities for revenge.
Friday, August 14, 2009
I spoil you
Thursday, August 13, 2009
And blogging stops...
Last night was Charlotte's sixth but her first at home. Mrs B has got somewhat used to the experience in hospital. My eyes were opened, in every sense. Well nobody said it would be easy, but also nobody said anything about the graphic, reality-bending anxiety nightmares about dead babies. At 4am I experienced what can only be described as a 'waking dream'. Dear me.
The world righted itself this morning however and I read aloud to Charlotte from Boswell's 'Life of Samuel Johnson'. She showed no signs of enjoying it but it soothed me to sleepfulness and more reality-bending. BRIT. 'Madam, are you weary?' CHARLOTTE. 'No, Sir, I am not'. 'Have you moved your bowels, or are you to some Degree famished?' CHARLOTTE. 'No, Sir, not that.' 'Are you gaseous then?' CHARLOTTE. 'Again, Sir, you mistake my meaning'. 'Then I am at a loss, Madam. To what purpose or intent do you grizzle thus?' CHARLOTTE. 'It is not for me, Sir, to make plain the topick of my communication, any more than it is for the Dog to explain his bow-wow-wow. The intent and the expression of it are One and the Same.'
Saturday, August 08, 2009
Hallelujah... Hello World!
It wasn't an easy one by any standards, but everyone is fine and happy and will be home from Southmead Hospital (where the staff are, to a lady, angelic and wonderful) soon.
Thanks for all your kind emails and comments, blogpals!
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Today we leave the house as a duo, to return as a trio. Here's something more fitting. See you on the other side.
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Mr Noseybonk Returns
Mr Noseybonk Returns
(A duet)
Creeping under bridges, peeping through the drains,
Noseybonk goes where no-one else can!
So always mind the gap when you're stepping off the train.
Noseybonk! Noseybonk! Noseybonk Man!
He can curl up very small, all twisty and bended,
Noseybonk can squeeze into such wee spaces!
So never leave suitcases or bags unattended.
Noseybonk appears in the least expected places!
Who is that moving in the Deep End of the pool?
Noseybonk sees in the gloomiest dark!
So don't run by the side, and follow all the rules.
Noseybonk can swim like a Great White Shark!
Underneath the pavement, grabbing at your feet,
Noseybonk! Noseybonk! No-one knows how!
So always take care when you're crossing the street.
Noseybonk! Noseybonk! Where is he now?
Waiting for Godot: an optimistic interpretation
I'm surprised Disney-Pixar haven't snapped up the film rights...
Monday, August 03, 2009
Following the Purdy case, the Yard writes about assisted suicide. The legal position of relatives who assisted with Swiss death trips was previously in a typically fudgy British grey area: illegal but unprosecuted. The Blind Eye was turned. Now we are apparently being forced to shine some legal light on this dark business.
It seems to me that the problem with the assisted suicide debate is that an unstoppable force of a principle meets an immovable object of an argument:
1) each individual should have the final say over how and when he dies – it is no business of the State.
2) a life must have an objective value beyond the worth accorded to it by the individual at any given time - because otherwise we have no obligation to discourage someone who is merely depressed from committing suicide.
This is another interesting instance of the left-right political distinction breaking down, or becoming counter-intuitive. Those on the Left are generally pro-death because of 1, but pro-universal state healthcare because of 2. Position 1 is libertarian but conservatives tend to be anti-death because of 2.
Terry Pratchett was on BBC Breakfast this morning arguing for assisted suicide, but he was soon struggling as the interviewer ran through the slippery slope arguments. Pratchett talked about how in Victorian times doctors would routinely 'make people comfortable', ie. kill them softly. The name 'Shipman' wasn't spoken but must surely have leapt to everyone's lips.
There just isn't a single argument or great, overriding trump card that can win this one and so it defies clean legislation, every attempt at which appears to make things worse. We had the least bad solution already: the British Fudge, the Blind Eye. This is conservatism, I suppose.
Saturday, August 01, 2009
Middle names
For parents, it's usually either:(a) a good place to get a bit of familial duty done (grandparents' names etc); or (b) a consolation prize for daddy in the naming debate; or (c) an early and excellent opportunity to start embarrassing your offspring.
There's an obvious candidate for Brit Jnr. It begins with a 'G'.


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After a Jackpot has been won, a new pot is started, with the casino contributing a base amount of money (called a seed). This ensures that even if you get a Jackpot result in a game right after someone else has won the Jackpot, you will still get a large win.
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- All paytable wins and multipliers for the Dollar Ball game correspond to the Jackpot bet only.
- If a Jackpot is being discontinued (a game is closed and removed from the casino client), you will be notified of it by the casino.
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Let's talk about how we can help you. Thomson Orthodontics is here to provide top-tier orthodontic services for kids, teens, and adults. We use the latest in orthodontic digital technology along with the latest products such as ceramic braces and Invisalign to make your smile the best it can possibly be. No matter what your age, every smile should show the best in you and help to encourage and motivate others.


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In today's lesson we will:
- Define your dream client aka your customer avatar
- Find out where your dream client spends their time
- Learn what their interests are
- Create the perfect bait to get them hooked
Define Your Dream Client
There is almost nothing more important to the success of your sales funnel then accurately defining your dream client. You need to define in as much detail as possible who exactly the person is you want to work with.
Click here to download your customer avatar worksheet. Use this worksheet to define your avatar and follow along below as we go through an example of what a well defined custom avatar looks like.


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When an employee is separated from work, there are several steps the employer and employee must take to ensure that eligibility is determined accurately. As an employer, learn about what you can do to promote an effective claims process, including responding to requests for information from the Department of Unemployment Assistance (DUA). You will also learn how to protest benefit charges or appeal an unemployment determination.
Log in links for this page
- This page, Employer responsibilities during the unemployment claims process, is offered by
- Department of Unemployment Assistance
Employer responsibilities during the unemployment claims process
Table of Contents
Eligibility for unemployment benefits
Eligibility for unemployment benefits is based upon 3 categories:
- Wages
- Reason for separation from job
- Work search requirements
A worker may be initially eligible for unemployment benefits if they:
- Are separated due to layoffs
- Are totally or partially unemployed
- Are discharged for reasons not related to deliberate misconduct or violation of an employer rule or policy
- Quit for reasons attributable to the employer, or for an urgent, compelling, necessitous reason
Learn more about unemployment insurance and how benefits are calculated.
Key Actions for Eligibility for unemployment benefits
Additional Resources for Eligibility for unemployment benefits
Notify employees of their options upon separation of employment
When an employee is separated from employment, regardless of the circumstance, it is your responsibility to issue the employee a copy of the DUA pamphlet How to Apply for Unemployment Insurance Benefits (Form 0590A). The law allows you 30 days to distribute this information to all permanently and temporarily separated employees.
This pamphlet is available in English and 12 additional languages. The pamphlet includes space for you to record your federal employer identification number (FEIN) and mailing address to ensure accurate filing of the claim and mailing of the claim notice.
The pamphlet should be issued in person whenever possible, but can be mailed when an employee is not available.
Key Actions for Notify employees of their options upon separation of employment
Additional Resources for Notify employees of their options upon separation of employment
Respond to DUA with information in a timely manner
If an employee who worked for you within the past 15 months files a claim, you are considered a base period employer and you may receive a request from DUA to provide information regarding the employee. You will be able to complete these requests through your UI Online account.
Any employer for whom the employee worked during the last 8 weeks of work (prior to the filing of the claim) is considered an interested party to the claim, and has the right to protest an employee's eligibility for unemployment benefits.
If an employee is approved for benefits by DUA, protesting interested party employers receive notice of the approved claim and have the right to request a hearing within 10 business days (provided the request for wage and separation information was returned to DUA timely and adequately). A disqualified employee can also request a hearing.
If you do not respond timely or adequately to requests for information, you may:
- Lose your right to be notified of the eligibility determination and your right to appeal that determination
- Lose your right to a hearing. If a disqualified former employee files an appeal, you will be invited to attend the hearing as a witness only, with no right to introduce evidence or testimony, question the former employee, or examine other witnesses.
- Lose your right to protest benefit charges to your account (even if circumstances are such that you would ordinarily be relieved of those charges)
Key Actions for Respond to DUA with information in a timely manner
Review and record the approval or disqualification notices
You will be notified of any approved or disqualified claims if:
- You are an interested party employer, and
- You returned the separation request within the required time frame
If a claim has been approved for payment, you will receive a determination notice with information about your appeal rights and instructions on how to request a hearing.
If you were a base period employer but the claim arises due to separation from subsequent employment and you returned DUA's request for information in a timely manner, your account should not be charged for benefits paid on that claim provided the former employee was separated under disqualifying circumstances. If charges are assessed to your account, you have the right to protest those benefit charges.
Key Actions for Review and record the approval or disqualification notices
Comply with ongoing claim activity
Reopening a claim
In some cases, an individual may stop receiving benefits, but later reapply for benefits. This is called reopening a claim. If you are an interested party to the claim, DUA will contact you to obtain information necessary to evaluate the claimant's eligibility to receive benefits. If you receive a request for information, it is important to respond in a timely manner.
Although you may not accrue charges resulting from a claim being reopened, charges may result on a subsequent claim. Providing the requested information promptly will protect your rights should any charges result.
In addition, the separation information you provide may have an impact on the claimant's right to continue to receive benefits on the current claim. The eligibility requirements for a reopened claim are the same as those for a new claim. If a claimant returns to work and then becomes unemployed under disqualifying circumstances, no further benefits will be paid.
Refusing a recall
If an employee is recalled to work but fails to report, you must notify DUA in writing within 5 days. You must include the following information in your notice:
- Employee name
- Social Security number
- Occupation
- Recall date
- How the employee was notified of the recall
DUA will determine if the individual had good cause for failing to return to work. A disqualification of the individual may result if DUA determines that there was no good cause.
Key Actions for Comply with ongoing claim activity
Control unemployment insurance costs
As an employer, there are many things you can do to control your unemployment insurance costs. You should:
- Budget and forecast for likely contributions due
- Keep your UI Online account up to date
- Maintain your rights to claims filed by former employees
- Explore alternatives before laying off employees
- Rehire workers after layoffs


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Hi Pesto lovers! How's it goin? I'm gonna apologise now about this Kale + Walnut Pesto Chicken, cause it's not really authentic, if ya know what I mean. If you're a pesto purist, look away now.
I'm not really sorry that I took traditional pesto and gave it a shake up. My confession: I hate traditional pesto! I have no idea why…
Okay that's not true. I do know why and I completely accept if you don't want to be friends any more… but it's just that I'm not a basil fan. I know… tell me about it. It would be so much easier if I was. People look at me like I'm some kind of animal when it comes up.
Whatever the case, I think this pesto made with blanched kale and walnuts kicks regular pesto's butt. It just seems earthier and I suppose more fitting to fall nights. I used blanched kale and toasted walnuts to make this pesto. In place of the garlic I used smoked garlic. It's completely fine if you can't find smoked garlic to use regular. The usual parmesan made an appearance, too.
And chicken… let's talk chicken. Mine is free range and corn fed. All. The. Time. It may not seem like the time or place to talk about it, but we just buy meat that has been ethically reared and processed. It tastes so much better and we know that when we buy that kind of meat, a farmer is being paid fairly for doing things properly.
Does it cost more? Yes. But, cost isn't really the issue. Ethical animal welfare is the issue. Not to mention that it tastes so much better. And we are all about flavour first (who isn't?).
The chicken we just roasted and stuffed with a lemon cut in half and some more garlic. And rosemary. Of course rosemary.
It's a quick and simple roast chicken with some fall pesto sauce. What's not to love?
- 1x 1.5kg chicken
- 4 sprigs rosemary
- 1 lemon cut in half
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- For the Pesto
- 55g walnuts
- 1 red chilli
- 150g kale leaves blanched
- large handful of flat leaf parsley
- juice of 1 lemon
- 100 ml olive oil
- large hand full of manchego or parmesan
- salt and cracked black pepper.
- Pre-heat the oven to 180c
- pour the 3 tbsp of olive oil and rub into the chicken. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
- Cut the lemon in half and place it in the cavity of the chicken along with the rosemary.
- Roast the chicken for 1 hour and 10 minutes or until the chicken is golden and cooked through.
- For the pesto boil a large pot of well salted boiling water and blanche the kale leaves.
- Place the kale leaves in a food processor and blitz.
- Add the walnuts and the chilli and blitz again.
- Process the kale mixture and in a slow steady stream add the olive oil.
- Season with salt and pepper to taste.


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Framestore has worked alongside director Johnny Green and W+K Amsterdam for the anticipated launch of the new FIFA 11 game from EA Sports. EA Sports host teams of global football stars and their mates, high on competitive spirit, battling it out in a vast virtual stadium.
Directed by Johnny Green, the spot is an effects-laden affair covering two-minutes, 130 VFX shots and nine edits. Jonathan Hairman supervised the shoot, overcoming the dual challenges of a vast convention centre combined with a limited amount of time with each star to capture essential shoot data and readable tracking markers.
The entire stadium was built in CG as believably contemporary architecture with the screen as its focal point. Framestore also designed a photoreal crest for each team and thanks to the gyrosphere camera, painstakingly painted out rigs from every single shot.
Additionally to help the momentum of the camera moves, Framestore created digital whip pans to help join shots but also help link opposing teams in terms of story telling. These whip pans consisted of the CG stadium with intricate graphic design elements created in flame.
With the exception of some 16mm footage, the workflow was entirely tapeless; data was taken straight from the set ready for AVID, conform and DI, as crafted by our very own Dave Ludlam.
Framestore has been working in digital film and video for over 20 years now, creating original and astonishing work that has helped make it the largest visual effects and computer animation studio in Europe.


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The Breitbart Crew has done the world a very valuable service in finding a 1991 biography of Barack Obama from his literary agent claiming he was "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii."
Our own Jeff Emanuel also pointed out a 2004 Associated Press article that began, "Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations." [Editor's note: James Taranto pinged me on Twitter that this "Kenyan-born" bit was an addition added by a local editor of a Kenyan paper.]
I do not believe Barack Obama was born in Kenya. I don't think it matters even if he were born overseas because his mother was an American citizen. I'm not going to debate it with the cult of birtherism.
But the Breitbart Crew has, only a few days after the Obama White House was caught editing the biographies of other Presidents on the White House website to insert Barack Obama into their Presidential legacies, done an invaluable service in highlighting two very important issues.
First, as someone who has written a book, I find Barack Obama's literary agent's explanation not very credible. The literary agent explains, "This was nothing more than a fact checking error by me — an agency assistant at the time. There was never any information given to us by Obama in any of his correspondence or other communications suggesting in any way that he was born in Kenya and not Hawaii."
It was a fact checking error based on . . . no facts? Barack Obama never gave any information . . . suggesting in any way that he was born in Kenya and not Hawaii? Well where the hell did this very huge extrapolation come from? It's like the virgin birth of a legend — some lady and God alone were involved.
That's laughable. Miriam Goderich had to have gotten the idea from somewhere. But what is more laughable is that Barack Obama did not know and did not approve. When I wrote my book, I had to approve my biography multiple times. But more damning, this biography went to the press in 1991 and it circulated for more than a decade.
Even the Associated Press picked it up and I cannot find anywhere suggesting Barack Obama tried to have the AP correct its reporting.
The point is not that Barack Obama was born in Kenya. The point is that Barack Obama has repeatedly been perfectly okay embellishing and having others embellish his qualifications and biography to make himself someone unique instead of just another Chicago politician. The pattern goes back to his job as a "financial reporter". A former colleague of his and Obama fan, way back in 2005, claims Barack Obama really embellished his resume describing his financial related reporting.
Second, and the largest point, however, is that the media is yet again caught flat footed, claiming the story is no big deal, irrelevant, or that somehow the Breitbart Crew is in the wrong and peddling Birtherism.
They are not peddling Birtherism. The Breitbart Crew are kind of like illegal immigrants — doing reporting Columbia journalism grads won't do. And doing it quite well. In 2008, the New York Times ran a big story on John McCain having an affair with a lobbyist. It got picked up all over the place. Reporters were on the trail. There was no *there* there.
It took most of the month of August in 2004 for the media to pay attention to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth — men who served with John Kerry and had real problems with both his conduct in Vietnam and his conduct after he left Vietnam. The media did not want to cover the story. For a while, it was just Fox News. The clear demonstration of bias finally forced the New York Times and the big three nightly newscasts to play catch up as dismissively as possible.
This story has been out there since Barack Obama ran for the United States Senate. Even now the media is dismissing it as frivolous. If it turned out Mitt Romney had not actually been a missionary in France, it would be headline news.
Barack Obama embellishing his biography to make himself look unique? Hardly worthy of press attention. In fact, nothing Barack Obama has done suggesting serious character flaws — and that's what this is about — is ever worth the media's collective attention. Why? Because some people think Barack Obama was born in Kenya, but much of the press corps is pretty damn sure he was born in Bethlehem.
One last point — a friend raised this on email. Could this be why the campaign screams bloody murder about racists and birthers every time someone asks about Barack Obama's college transcripts? This would explain why Obama is so squirrely about the issue and waited until Donald Trump caused him measurable damage in the polls on this issue before responding. He's not embarrassed that people will find out he lied about being born in Hawaii; he's embarrassed they'll find out he lied about being born in Kenya.


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Wednesday, June 20th
Today's walk in Piraeus on stone sidewalks, steep hills and many steps tested Joan's knee…..and this wonder woman walked her 28,000 steps as her knee ached in pain.
You're awesome woman!!!! Nothing can stop you!!! xoxo
Joan travels back to Denmark tomorrow morning. See you in two months, in Doha my friend!!! xoxo
A chocolate eclair that was a treat after walking 28,000 steps!
Back in Athens…..good night Acropolis…….
S, xo


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Google Manually Manipulates Search to Exclude Conservative Sites, Report Shows
Search engine giant working to bury conservative websites, documents reveal
Google is manually manipulating search results to exclude conservative websites, such as the American Spectator, the Conservative Tribune, and the Gateway Pundit, according to leaked documents.
The search giant's internal documents were leaked to the Daily Caller and were reportedly approved by Google's top executives who report directly to CEO Sundar Pichai.
The files detail two Google policies, known as the "good neighbor policy" "misrepresentation policy," that determine which sites end up in the "XPA news blacklist."
"T&S [Trust & Safety team] will be in charge of updating the blacklist as when there is a demand," revealed one document leaked to the news outlet.
"The deceptive_news domain blacklist is going to be used by many search features to filter problematic sites that violate the good neighbor and misrepresentation policies."
"The purpose of the blacklist will be to bar the sites from surfacing in any Search feature or news product," the document explained
"It will not cause a demotion in the organic search results or de-index them altogether."
According to the Daily Caller, a "manual review tool" is also "involved in maintaining the blacklist," which includes "Gateway Pundit, Matt Walsh's blog, Gary North's blog 'teapartyeconomist.com,' Caroline Glick's website, Conservative Tribune, a property of The Western Journal and the website of the American Spectator."
According to Breitbart, in a statement, Google responded to the report, declaring, "We do not manually determine the order of any search result, nor do our algorithms or policies attempt to make any judgment on the political leanings of a website.
"Our Google News inclusion policies are publicly available online.
"They provide guidelines on content and behaviors for matters like sponsored content, deceptive practices, and more.
"Sites that do not adhere to these policies are not eligible to appear on news surfaces or in information boxes in Search.
"These policies do not impact the way these sites appear in organic blue-link Google Search results."
In December, Google CEO Sundar Pichai claimed during a hearing before Congress, "we don't manually intervene on any particular search result."
Last year, a Google document titled "The Good Censor" was leaked to Breitbart News.
In the Good Censor document, Google admitted that tech companies were on a "shift toward censorship," and should "police tone" of users.


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https://www.rivieranayarit.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/logox300.jpg 0 0 1stonthelist https://www.rivieranayarit.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/logox300.jpg 1stonthelist2017-10-31 10:26:002017-10-31 10:26:00The Riviera Nayarit Welcomes VNG 2017 Chefs
The Riviera Nayarit Welcomes VNG 2017 Chefs
The chefs who will be participating in the VNG 2017 received their chef jackets during the welcoming ceremony.
The Riviera Nayarit CVB and the Nayarit State Government welcomed the chefs who will be participating in the 9th Vallarta Nayarit Gastronómica 2017 with a splendid cocktail on Sunday, October 29 at San Pancho's La Patrona Polo & Equestrian Club.
During the event top polo players from the region put on an exhibition game, for which chef Betty Vazquez, Culinary Ambassador for the Riviera Nayarit, was invited to throw out the first ball.
This was followed by the official inauguration ceremony, led by E-Consulting directors Carlos Elizondo and Consuelo Elipe, together with the Secretary of Tourism for Nayarit, Eulalio Coronoado Mendoza; Miguel Benzo Perea, the Spanish consul based in Guadalajara; Alvaro Garciarce Monraz, President of the Puerto Vallarta Hotel and Motel Association; and Marc Murphy, Director of the Bahia de Banderas Hotel and Motel Association and the Riviera Nayarit Convention and Visitors Bureau.
As is traditional the chefs who will be participating in the VNG 2017 received their chef jackets during the welcoming ceremony, all of which were beautiful embroidered with Huichol symbols, as well as a special gift representing the State of Nayarit: a professional chef's knife with the handle decorated with the traditional beadwork handmade by the Wixarika artisans.


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Iowa State Association of Counties, Iowa
The Voting in Iowa Video Series is three videos created jointly by the Iowa State Association of Counties (ISAC) and the Iowa State Association of County Auditors (ISACA).
- Voting in Iowa: Part 1. Registering to Vote
- Voting in Iowa: Part 2. Voting Absentee
- Voting in Iowa: Part 3. Voting on Election Day
ISAC made these short, funny and informative videos with the goals of:
- Increasing voters
- Educating voters
- Eliminating fear and intimidation
- Informing about county government
- Informing about the role of the county auditor as the commissioner of elections
- Breaking down walls for people who have never voted or haven't voted in a long time
The videos and rollout campaign carried an overarching theme that "county auditors bring you free, fair and honest elections." ISAC rolled out each video to coincide with Iowa pre-election deadlines, major absentee ballot mailings and the General Election. The videos received an immense amount of attention throughout the state with the following results from the ISAC social media sites.
- YouTube: 13,162 individual views
- Facebook: 6,332 reached with 57 shares and 329 likes of our posts
- Twitter: 14,900 impressions, 461 profile visits, 35 retweets, 6 mentions
Ms. Rachel Bennett
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私はここにいる。Tuesday, 29 March 2011
Hello. I am here. I am okay. All of your words and thoughts have been extremely uplifting. Thank you so much. Cherry blossoms have started to bloom. The most beautiful time of year in Tokyo is almost here. It's been really uneasy to be here but still my favourite time of year to be in Japan will arrive. I think it's about time I start taking photos again. I think that is a good sign.


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10mm x 3 Core H07RN-F Cable
10mm x 3 Core H07RN-F Cable is a flexible rubber cable which is ideally suited to many tasks. The size 10mm refers to the cross-sectional diameter of the cores so the overall diameter is 19.9mm.
Below is a list of specifications and features relating to this cable therefore can help you make an informed purcahse:
- Thickness of Insulation: 1.2mm
- Number of cores: 3
- Core Identification: Green/Yellow | Blue | Brown
- Conductor: Class 5 Flexible Copper
- Insulation: EPR (Ethylene Propylene Rubber)
- Sheath: PCP (Polychloroprene)
- Sheath Colour: Black
- Overall Diameter: 19.9mm
- Weight (Per Metre): 0.705Kg
- Gland Size: 32
- Current Capacity: 47A
- Maximum Supported Mass: 5Kg
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This article examines how to setup a new episode in your Podcast, followed by a video tutorial.
1. Start in the Podcast Library. You can navigate here by clicking on the "Podcasts" button on the top left of the screen. Identify the Podcast you would like to create a new episode for.
From your Podcast page you can click between the Episodes tab (this contains all episodes currently in the RSS feed or scheduled episodes) and the Drafts tab (which has all Draft episodes for your podcast).
2. To create a new episode, select the "Create Episode" button and fill in the appropriate information. If you already have a Draft created for your podcast then use the appropriate Draft episode on the Draft tab.
Fill out the information for all of these fields:
Episode Title
Episode Clean Title (iTunes will pull this as the title, should not include episode or season numbers)
Episode Subtitle (commonly referred to as "Description")
Episode Summary (commonly referred to as "Show Notes")
You can add timestamps and chapter titles following the guidelines here:
Episode Website Link (links to a website that corresponds to your episode and appears as a link in Apple Podcasts).
Episode Type: Select between full (default), trailer, or bonus (for when submitting extra content such as additional interviews).
Episode Rating
Season and Episode Number: these fields specify the release order for episodes in iOS 11.
Episode Pubdate
Note: Sometimes audio producers enter similar information into ID3 tags when they are bouncing the MP3 file for their podcast. With Megaphone this is no longer required. When you upload an MP3 file to Megaphone the system will strip out all ID3 tags and replace it with the information you enter in this step. If you are going to dynamically insert ads (upload ads to a campaign and target the campaign to this episode) you will need to schedule the episode first - only use the "Publish Now" feature if this episode will not contain any ads.
3) The final step is to upload your audio/content and image (If no image file is uploaded, the default graphic will be the Podcast cover art file). Megaphone only accepts MP3 files. Once uploaded, click "SAVE" in the top right.