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About Complete Tennessee
Complete Tennessee will begin our strategy for community engagement by holding a series of regional listening tours. It is our belief that higher levels of degree attainment is a goal all Tennesseans can embrace. However, we believe this goal is best executed through a localized context, ensuring community values remain central to this statewide effort.
The feedback from these sessions will inform our work at Complete Tennessee to develop a formal completion strategy for the communities we will work with over the next few years. The community completion strategy along with other reports will guide our framework for advocacy and accountability, in order to highlight areas in need of immediate attention necessary for meaningful local and statewide progress.
In addition to our strategies for engagement, advocacy, and accountability, we believe leadership development opportunities are essential to long-term support of Tennessee's goal for degree attainment. Leadership development is useful to every stakeholder involved in supporting student success. We have begun this strategy with a dynamic group of leaders across the state, currently leading change in all areas of the completion pipeline, from secondary education to job placement. In the near future, our goal is to expand these leadership development opportunities to more focused areas in the completion pipeline.
Finally, Complete Tennessee's strategy for innovation will serve as our primary channel to develop signature programs and solutions to improve completion rates, which will be informed by all the earlier mentioned strategies.
As we begin to collect the information and ideas useful to supporting innovation along the student success pipeline, your input and thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Our preliminary conversations with community members and organizations have revealed a wealth of innovative ideas in need of consideration. We want to cultivate these conversations to aid the development of high impact programs and solutions.
There is much ground to cover between the current realities of degree attainment in the Volunteer State and our aspirations for the future of Tennesseans in 2025. Other states are closely watching how forward-thinking public policy matches up to measurable outcomes in Tennessee. The internal and external attention on the state's completion goal is one of many reasons why an organization like Complete Tennessee is essential to sustaining and expanding the energy the state has directed toward the educational pipeline.
The Complete Tennessee team is eager to begin the work necessary for substantial transformation. Our Board of Directors has masterfully crafted a scope and mission to address the reasons why Complete Tennessee will have immediate value to the state's completion agenda. Our Steering Committee has helped guide the strategic focus to ensure future plans align with the needs of stakeholders along the completion pipeline. Now the journey begins to act upon the guidance of our Board and Steering Committee.
We look forward to the conversations, collaborations, and actions that will help carry out the Complete Tennessee mission.
Welcome to Complete Tennessee
In recent years, thanks to the hard work and dedication of policymakers on both sides of the aisle, Tennessee has benefitted from bold leadership in higher education reform.
Public funding for higher education has been revamped, encouraging public institutions to focus more on monitoring and student outcomes with the demands of the local workforce. The state has arguably the lowest cost barrier for postsecondary access, and substantial funding has been invested to increase capacity for high-demand programs at all levels of higher education. This productive policy environment emphasizes Tennessee's commitment to improving student success.
One would expect the combination of bold policy leadership, outcomes-based financial incentives, and investments to remove access barriers to render immediate success in achieving Tennessee's degree attainment goal. Yet the reality of our progress in higher education reveals a more complicated circumstance that goes beyond policy and public funding. More work must be done if we are to reach the state's Drive to 55 goal of ensuring 55 percent of adults have a postsecondary degree or credential by 2025.
Here at Complete Tennessee, our mission is to highlight the challenges and opportunities facing our postsecondary education system, and help determine what is required to not only accomplish the Drive to 55 goal, but do so in a way that better positions Tennessee to compete in the global economy.
Greater participation and improved outcomes in postsecondary education have been central to the work of many professionals in Tennessee, including myself. This is why I am so excited to lead the Complete Tennessee team. It is an opportunity to help amplify the voices of passionate advocates who have been working to strengthen student success for a variety of reasons, including equity, social improvement, or a stronger economy.
It is also an opportunity to cultivate new forms of engagement and advocacy by connecting the collective value for degree attainment to the current circumstances of citizens and organizations.
The stage is set for a new conversation on completion and degree attainment. The conditions are ideal for higher forms of local action to align completion strategies to significantly impact each and every citizen in Tennessee.
At Complete Tennessee, we are delighted to have the opportunity to facilitate these necessary conversations and guide meaningful action to achieve our shared goal.
Kenyatta Lovett, Ph.D.


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Running TPC-C on a single server
Start command prompt (cmd.exe) as administrator, navigate to the TPCCKit location and execute install.cmd batch file. The installer will configure the test environment and populate the TPC-C database. Wait until all CSV import windows close.
Edit TPCCTest.exe.config: specify ConnectionParams any valid nodes' listening TCP port, number of the Warehouses and UserSessions (concurrent threads). Then run TPCCTest.exe. The test application prints the number of executed New Order Transactions (NOT) per 10 seconds.

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This is a continuation of a demonstration of Johnston Architects' research into fabrication and installations. In our previous post, we looked at using projection and heat formed acrylic. In this article, we'll be looking at our second concept – a full color, Raspberry Pi-controlled ceiling light.
This concept brings light, color and pattern into a space in a very soft and controlled way, while also pushing forward interactivity in an organic and compelling way. Considering the lobby as a threshold, we wanted to develop something that made the transition from exterior-and-public to interior-and-private more profound. On the ceiling we imagined a grid of fabric rectangles hanging vertically like miniature flags, several inches apart and covering the entire lobby ceiling. Using the parametric design tool Grasshopper, we adjusted the length of each rectangle to create a billowing topography. The flags are alternately rotated, creating boxed spaces between them, and making the inverted terrain of the installation smoother and slightly less uniform. We then light the material from above, replacing the cloth rectangles with ones made of light, and further removing the delineation of an upper surface. The effect is that the ceiling disappears into a hazy pattern of semi-translucent fabric. By dematerializing the ceiling, we create an ambiguous upper limit, a soft edge that evokes billowing clouds or a downtown fog.
To visualize the concept, we used Rhinoceros with Grasshopper to create the pattern of fabric. Then we used Blender to render and animate different lighting scenarios. For materials we kept it simple. We knew the amount of material we would need for the ceiling would be large, so we kept an eye out for an economical but hardy medium. We tried vellum, silk, copy paper, and a few different nylons. We eventually found that rip-stop fabric, the kind used for sails and kites, suited our purposes very well. It was sturdy, easy to work with, plentiful, and transmitted the light beautifully. For the lights we started out small and ordered some color changing LED Christmas lights. If this works, we'll head on to more interesting lights. To support it all, we set up a rig of 1x4s and 1x1 rods from the lumber store. Laying out the 1x1 rods in 3 inch increments gave us the support we'd need for our alternating pattern of 6 inch wide fabric rectangles. Affixing the flags was simple using a staple gun. This is just a mock-up after all.
The mock-up itself is 4 feet wide by 8 feet deep. Before attaching it to our ceiling at JA, we supported it over a couple of chairs to lay in the Christmas lights, taking care to evenly distribute the light and to mind where the power was coming in from. We then clamped our mockup to the steel I-beams of our ceiling and plugged in the lights. We were all very pleased with the result: a soft, undulating light playing across our fabric terrain.
Up to now, the concept was simple and straight forward. We could alter the lengths of the fabric rectangles to provide texture and shape, creating interest with its irregularities. But we wanted something a little more reactive, that would feel special and unique to the viewer. Enter the programmable RGB LEDs. These types of LEDs come on strands and allow one to programmatically change the color of each LED individually. When you lay the strand out in a grid, you can create images and 2D patterns. This is where the project began to take on exciting character.
One of the skills we needed to pick up was wiring electronics. Soldering wires to breadboards, understanding resistances and amperes, and modulating power to avoid fires isn't usually what one finds themselves learning during an architecture project, but the great thing about architecture is that one usually finds themselves learning a great deal about things that are not strictly defined as architecture. We stumbled through some bad wiring and faulty components, but eventually everything was working just as intended.
We chose to program using the Python programming language. While there are other languages more suited to programming LEDs, Python has many libraries which allow us to vary the types of controls we employ. Using the Raspberry Pi and Linux as our operating system gives us the computing power we need to bring our vision to life. The choices for creating color patterns is overwhelming. We could programmatically create small animations, we could use it as a sort of coarse viewing screen and play videos and animated gifs, or we could employ algorithms to modulate color and intensity. So, we gave them all a go.
Programming the LEDs to act as a 2D screen wasn't terribly difficult. It has been done thousands of times, and there is a how-to blog or video for just about every attempt. We eventually learned to play animated GIFs, stream YouTube videos and even webcam footage to the ceiling display.
Now that it inhabits our office, we usually play a variation of 2D 'Perlin noise' – an algorithm developed to mimic the organic randomness found in nature. Video games and CGI artists use Perlin noise to simulate clouds, waves, fire, mountains, fog and much more. Our application of the algorithm displays a slow, undulating, random field of varying colors. We implemented a few controls over how it appears, building in a web front-end to control speed and color intensities on the fly. We even implemented a webcam library in Python to track movement and shift the colors accordingly.
We are currently looking at next steps. We've fleshed out the practical aspects of running a large, horizontal LED screen covered in fabric, and now face the challenge of adding more interaction. One approach we are looking forward to is motion tracking people through the space, creating wakes as though through an upside-down body of colorful water. We can also update the patterns to reflect external conditions – perhaps moody light on cloudy days, hints of lightning during rainstorms, or oranges and reds during Halloween. The flexibility and variations afforded by the LEDs and their programming means we can update and change well into the future.


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We Now Return You to Your Regularly Scheduled Adamas
Thanks to all of you for your wonderful comments on the sweater. I love it -- and I can't wait to wear it! I don't care if it's so bright that I'll stand out in a crowd. In fact, that's actually a good thing when it comes to shopping at the mall with one's husband...
So now that the sweater is done, I've moved back to my Adamas. I'd post pictures, but I realize that, to anyone but me, any pictures of the shawl at this point will look exactly like the ones I've already posted. Adamas after 7 repeats pretty much looks like Adamas after 6 repeats.
I'm still in awe of the Addis. I can't believe how smoothly it's going now. That doesn't mean, of course, that it's not going to be a last-minute race to the finish -- but I think it may actually be possible.
32 days to the wedding...
Yesterday, I showed up for knitting with the girls, not knowing if I'd be knitting solo. Poor Miss S had a dentist appointment, and I wasn't sure if Miss H would be there, either. So, along with my knitting, I packed a bit of work, in case I had to sit around and wait for a while. But, as it turned out, I didn't have long to wait. Miss M the Elder (whose little sister, Miss M the Younger, is apparently *very angry* that she hasn't been allowed to come along) showed up, ready to try something new. Her goal was to knit a hat on circs. But before she started on that, I decided that it would probably be a good idea to teach her to purl -- since it's much easier to get a ribbed hat to fit than a stockinette hat. So Miss M spent the day purling. I taught her all about bumps and Vs -- and as she practiced, I flipped through books of stitch patterns and showed her all the cool things she could do now that she knew how to purl. We were just getting to the point of working on a rib when it was time to go home.
Miss H also showed up. This time, in addition to the brace on her sprained wrist, she came in limping, her newly-sprained ankle wrapped in a bandage. Poor Miss H is an accident waiting to happen. The good news, however, is that Miss H found her missing bag back -- so she'll be able to finish it and felt it. The bad news is that she found that her new scarf was nothing but a headache. She'd worked on it for a while, but then she'd frogged it. So I started her out again. Once we got to the complicated part, I found that she wasn't kidding. It was confusing. I worked a row -- and was then in the process of taking it out when Miss H's mom showed up.
We had a great time this week. Miss M stood up and danced around the room while she worked, making strange noises and chatting a blue streak as she did. And Miss H played her favorite songs on her cell phone and filled us in on her week. Mondays with the girls never cease to amaze me. Our conversations range from politics to American Idol to teachers to the Oscar Mayer Wiener song.
And, somewhere in there, we manage to knit, too.
This week, I worked on my new baby sweater -- but I'm a little worried about it. The neck just doesn't seem big enough. But, since I don't have any babies to measure it on, I have no idea if I'm just being paranoid or if it's really too small. Right now, I'm debating whether I want to frog it and start over.
In other knitting news, how totally cool are these Knit Lite needles? How much to you want them? They're not available yet, but Beth placed a gigantic order for them today -- and we should have them by the 19th or so. I got a pair of 8s, even though I have about 15 pairs of 8s already -- two kinds of metal, bamboo, circular...you name it. But 8s are my standard size -- perfect for dishcloths. And if I'm going to be knitting in the dark, I'll probably be working on something uncomplicated...like dishcloths. Sure, it's a little pricey for plastic knitting needles, but how cool will it be when we can all go to our summer concerts in the park and knit right through to the end? We're so cool, I can hardly stand it.


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If you are in seo you probably know that videos became very important for seo and online marketing.
First of all, by making creative video you can get direct traffic, customers, brand awareness, etc. etc. More and more people search for videos on google and other search engines.
There are several options:
1) You can host your videos on such sites as Youtube, Dailymotion, Metacafe and many others. However the research showed that people tend to hang on those video sites and they rarely click links in description or inside the videos.
2) Second option is to upload your video to some video site and then embed it to your site. In this case there are also many providers. But after checking several of them I came to conclusion that I prefer Vimeo PRO.
You can also check sproutvideo review.
Vimeo was founded in 2004 by a group of filmmakers who wanted to share their creative work and personal moments from their lives. I'm not a filmmaker but during my life I worked with several filmmakers so I understand their creativity and all the problems they face.
Vimeo Pro is only $199 per year, it's not a big amount of money if you run a company, business or seo services. And if you're just someone who want to share own videos with the world – you can just sing up to Vimeo free account and just upload videos like to youtube. I Prefer Vimeo to Youtube for several reasons:
1) Esthetics
2) I think youtube new design is awful
3) Vimeo is not owned by such a giant like Google. And I prefer to support small businesses and entrepreneurship.
4) There is less censorship
If you are looking for the alternative of video hosting and share some of my views: GO AHEAD AND JOIN VIMEO!
This post first appeared on Online Marketing Specialist - Flodner, please read the originial post: here


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Traders more optimistic about stock market; value easy-to-use trading platforms
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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Charles Schwab today released new data showing that active traders are feeling bullish and plan to invest their tax refunds in the stock market. The latest Charles Schwab Active Trader Sentiment Survey polled more than 650 individual investors who trade frequently (at least 36 times per year) and found that 72 percent of those traders who are expecting a tax refund this year plan on investing at least some of it. In fact, more than a quarter of respondents (28%) say they will put the entire refund into their investment portfolios.
According to the survey, overall optimism about market conditions hit its highest level since the end of 2009. Nearly half of those traders surveyed (47%) said they are currently bullish, compared to 38 percent last November and up from just 28 percent in April 2010.
Other key findings include:
- More than three quarters (77%) consider market volatility a friend versus a foe, up from 71 percent in November 2010.
- Traders are most bullish on the technology sector (36%), followed by materials (26%) and financials (13%). Only four percent of traders said the energy sector looked most promising to them and just one percent identified commodities as the sector they were optimistic about.
- Roughly half (49%) own foreign stocks mostly through American Depository Receipts (ADRs) or Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), down from 56 percent in November, possibly reflecting the crisis in Japan and continued unrest in the Middle East.
Traders Taking Action
Optimism about the market appears to be pushing traders into action. One in four (25%) recently changed their portfolio allocation to include less cash. And, more than two-thirds (69%) plan to make more than 36 trades this year.
Traders said an easy-to-use trading platform (26%) was most important to them, followed closely by access to research (25%) and cost (20%).
"These survey results reinforce what we are already seeing among our client base," noted Kelli Keough, vice president of active trading at Charles Schwab. "The trading platform is often the single biggest influence in how a trader perceives and reacts to market-making events. At Schwab, we are committed to providing our active trader clients with an approachable easy to use platform that helps them confidently interact with the market and make smarter trading decisions."
Charles Schwab recently unveiled a new flagship platform for active traders called StreetSmart Edge™. The platform is based on feedback from clients and Schwab's extensive research on trader preferences and behavior, including observing how traders interact with their current trading platforms. For more information, traders can visit www.schwab.com/ssedge or call 1-877-566-0905.
For More Information
Charles Schwab provides active traders with several trading platforms, free seminars and workshops, online education resources and 24-hour access to experienced trading specialists. For more information, including StreetSmart Edge eligibility requirements, please visit www.schwab.com/AT or call 800-435-9050.
Survey Methodology
Survey data was derived from responses of 653 active traders and investors collected from March – April 2011. The data was analyzed by Directive Analytics and has a statistical accuracy at the 90 percent and 95 percent confidence levels.
Some specialized exchange-traded funds can be subject to additional market risks. Investment returns will fluctuate and are subject to market volatility, so that an investor's shares, when redeemed or sold, may be worth more or less than their original cost.
Investors should carefully consider information contained in the prospectus, including investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses. You can request a prospectus by calling Schwab at 800-435-4000. Please read the prospectus carefully before investing.
Since a sector fund is typically not diversified and focuses its investments on companies involved in a specific sector, the fund may involve a greater degree of risk than an investment in other mutual funds with greater diversification.
International investments involve additional risks, which include differences in financial accounting standards, currency fluctuations, political instability, foreign taxes and regulations and the potential for illiquid markets.
About Charles Schwab
The Charles Schwab Corporation (NYSE:SCHW) is a leading provider of financial services, with more than 300 offices and 8.1 million client brokerage accounts, 1.44 million corporate retirement plan participants, 719,000 banking accounts, and $1.65 trillion in client assets. Through its operating subsidiaries, the company provides a full range of securities brokerage, banking, money management and financial advisory services to individual investors and independent investment advisors. Its broker-dealer subsidiary, Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. (member SIPC, www.sipc.org), and affiliates offer a complete range of investment services and products including an extensive selection of mutual funds; financial planning and investment advice; retirement plan and equity compensation plan services; referrals to independent fee-based investment advisors; and custodial, operational and trading support for independent, fee-based investment advisors through its Advisor Services division. Its banking subsidiary, Charles Schwab Bank (member FDIC and an Equal Housing Lender), provides banking and mortgage services and products. More information is available at www.schwab.com and www.aboutschwab.com. (0411-2859)
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The woman who Offset allegedly cheated with while in a relationship with Cardi B has apologised to the rapper, saying she's 'remorseful'.
It recently came to light the couple had split up, just months after the birth of their daughter, Kulture Kiari Cephus.
Cardi made the shock announcement via video, which was uploaded to her Instagram page yesterday (December 5), telling fans how they'd 'grew out of love'.
You can watch it below:
The 26-year-old I Like It rapper explained she's remained friends with Offset and how their break-up was 'nobody's fault'.
She explained:
So everybody been bugging me and everything and you know, I've been trying to work things out with my baby father for a hot minute now and we're really good friends and you know we're really good business partners.
He's always somebody that I run to, to talk to, and we got a lot of love for each other but things just haven't been working out between us for a long time and it's nobody's fault.
I guess we grew out of love, but we're not together anymore. I don't know. It might take time to get a divorce and I'm gonna always have a lot of love for him because he is my daughter's father and yah.
Despite Cardi's explanation of what happened, rumours of Offset cheating have followed the couple ever since they tied the knot in 2017.
After their wedding, Offset was accused of making a sex tape with another woman and now, one female has come forward apologising to Cardi for cheating with her ex-husband.
In an interview with TMZ, the woman – called Summer Bunni – cried openly as she acknowledged the fact how her sleeping with Offset could have caused the couple to split.
Take a look at her apology below:
Summer starts off by stating she's 'not messed with Offset' since the birth of his baby, before going on to apologise.
She says:
I didn't know how serious this marriage was, y'know, I kinda read or kinda see things but it took until today to actually like get into this, seeing everything.
It's at this point she starts to break down, acknowledging her potential role in the break up of the celebrity couple.
She then states:
I feel ashamed, y'know like growing up it's a lot but just coming from me and to Cardi B and to her fans and to her family, her situation… I never wanted to break up a happy home or to be the cause of someone just saying f*ck it to get a divorce.
I have not spoken to Cardi B but I would like her to know that I am a very genuine person and I'm not here to break up her family… I'm very sorry that this has happened.
So, according to Summer, her and Cardi have not actually spoken, instead choosing to go through TMZ to make her apology public.
Cardi is yet to respond but keep your eyes on her social media, I'm sure she'll have something to say about it soon enough.
If you have a story you want to tell, send it to [email protected]
A Broadcast Journalism Masters graduate who went on to achieve an NCTJ level 3 Diploma in Journalism, Lucy has done stints at ITV, BBC Inside Out and Key 103. While working as a journalist for UNILAD, Lucy has reported on breaking news stories while also writing features about mental health, cervical screening awareness, and Little Mix (who she is unapologetically obsessed with).


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Stephanie C.
"Thank you so much for assisting in my work during my PTO. I appreciate you completing activities, reviewing and handling mail, etc. I know I can always count on your assistance when I am out of the office. It is refreshing to know I can take off and not worry about my work list while I'm away or what I may come back to when you're my "backup." I truly appreciate your strong teamwork and the excellent customer service you provide."
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The Pants Project is a non-profit organisation started back in 2016, because our founder discovered the magical powers of underwear – yes, she was sober *eye roll*. The Pants Project is a revolution that starts with YOU, and exists in the name of equality, inspiration, celebration and dedication. We aim to teach people – no matter who they are, what they look like, where they live or what they've faced – that underwear can be a source of strength and a tool for empowerment in everyday life, regardless of your background. Our story started by supporting those facing infertility (check out our campaign page to find out why), but the world is wide and pants are powerful so we support any issue we believe needs our help. By selling knickers, putting on events and sharing stories, we raise funds and awareness through the world's love of all things pants to bring about social change, empower people and make this world a little bit better.
What can you do? Go run-dies for those empowering undies in your drawer and show the world what you're made of. Or, wear your knickers round your neck to show your support for the best underwear drawer in the world.
Have a mooch around our site, check out what we've been up to, follow us on social media, or if you're feeling brave send us a love note and share YOUR story. This community is yours, mine and ours.


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Because Section is the only CDN that allows you to choose the reverse proxies that run in your stack, you can choose to bring the Web Application Firewall created by the security experts at ThreatX into your web site's delivery infrastructure.
ThreatX is a reverse proxy that inspects and adapts to web site attacks that can infiltrate your web site and cause problems for your business.
Because ThreatX doesn't simply rely upon statically defined rule sets like old WAFs (and CDNs based on those old WAFs) you can expect a higher degree of security.
This also means that there's a lower cost to maintain that level of security, because the adaptive nature of the platform means that you don't need to spend time and money on in-house security experts to keep your rules up to date.
Of course, you can still rely on ThreatX for virtual patching, which is one of the most sought after features in a WAF.
Naturally, you can see ThreatX is on your site by looking at the Overview page in Aperture, Section management console.
The Section platform writes a log for each HTTP request that passes through ThreatX. These will be available in our powerful Kibana interface alongside logs from all of the other proxies in your stack.


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IG Report Names SPY 183 Times But Doesn't ID Her as a SPYJun 24, 2018 No Comments ›› admin
By Ben Barrack The Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General (IG) named Muslim Brotherhood spy Huma Abedin 183 times in his recent report on the Hillary email investigation. However, he did …Continue Reading
Iran Admits Role in 9/11 Attacks; BOLSTERS Case Won by 9/11 WidowJun 9, 2018 No Comments ›› admin
By Ben Barrack Iran has admitted it played an active role in the 9/11 attacks. That government agreed not to stamp the passports of hijackers who traveled through Iran. In …Continue Reading
Sex Worker Reveals Huma's Muslim Family HATES Her Jewish Husband Anthony WeinerFeb 12, 2018 No Comments ›› admin
By Ben Barrack A high dollar female escort contacted the Gateway Pundit. She claims to have been a client of Anthony Weiner. One relevant revelation is that the family of …Continue Reading
ARK Zone: Eastern European Nations Seek Refuge from Flood of Muslim AliensJan 13, 2018 No Comments ›› admin
By Ben Barrack If you lived in Eastern Europe during the Cold War, you wanted to escape – to the west. The day is coming when citizens of Western European …Continue Reading
Greatest Enemy of Radical Muslim Brotherhood is a… Moderate MUSLIMOct 7, 2017 No Comments ›› admin
By Ben Barrack Extremely intelligent people have made the case that Islam itself is evil. Leaders of western nations have been making the case since 9/11 that such an argument …Continue Reading
Trump Deputy Nat'l Security Adviser Dina Powell Schmoozed with Al-Jazeera ReporterSep 13, 2017 No Comments ›› admin
By Ben Barrack In 2013, the woman who would become President Donald Trump's Deputy National Security Adviser – Dina Powell – sat down for a very friendly interview with Ahmed …Continue Reading
Facebook OPENLY Supporting Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist OrganizationSep 12, 2017 No Comments ›› admin
By Ben Barrack On August 3rd, the man who launched what's become a very effective Facebook campaign intended to expel the British Ambassador to Egypt, had his page suspended for …Continue Reading
Trump Deputy Adviser Dina Powell REPEATEDLY Caught In Bed with Valerie Jarrett and JihadistsAug 26, 2017 No Comments ›› admin
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Soros Continuing Hitler's Legacy with Muslim Brotherhood in EuropeJul 28, 2017 No Comments ›› admin
By Ben Barrack Hungarian Prime Minister Prime Minister Viktor Orban recently accused George Soros of intentionally trying to "Muslimize" Europe. The real danger of such a scenario is the percentage …Continue Reading
TRUMP STARTS WINNING! Travel ban OK. Obama blew Russian meddling!Jun 26, 2017 No Comments ›› admin
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A federal appeals court said yesterday that despite his poor health and good works, former Wal-Mart executive Thomas Coughlin got off too easy after admitting he had cheated his company and the IRS.
If anything, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said, Coughlin�s standing in his community made his crimes appear worse. It directed an Arkansas federal judge to resentence Coughlin � rejecting a term that included only home detention and probation.
Coughlin pleaded guilty in January 2006 to felony wire fraud and tax evasion charges after embezzling cash, gift cards and merchandise from Wal-Mart Stores Inc., where he worked for 28 years and served as Sam Walton�s proteg�. Wal-Mart estimated the loss at nearly $500,000.
The former No. 2 Wal-Mart executive faced more than 28 years in prison and fines of $1.35 million, but U.S. District Judge Robert T. Dawson handed down 27 months of home detention and 33 months of probation. Coughlin was fined $50,000 and ordered to make $411,218 in restitution.
The sentence �does not fall within the range of reasonableness,� Judge William Jay Riley wrote for the majority.
While Dawson gave Coughlin credit for his being a pillar of the community, prosecutors still wanted him to impose a prison term of at least six months. The 8th Circuit, in a split decision, agreed with prosecutors that, based on what was said in court, Coughlin�s sentence seemed too light.
�Perhaps Coughlin�s family ties and station in the community, as well as his lofty corporate position of trust and power, exacerbate the nature of his crimes, especially for Coughlin�s victims: Wal-Mart, and more generally, American businesses,� the majority wrote.
In the new hearing, the court said, prosecutors and Coughlin could raise new arguments.
A spokesman for Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart declined to comment. In the past, Chief Executive Lee Scott has called the Coughlin case �an embarrassment� for the company. Prosecutor Bob Balfe said he appreciated the court�s consideration. Coughlin did not return telephone calls made to his Centerton, Ark., home.
Coughlin can seek a rehearing before the full nine-judge panel in the 8th Circuit or appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, said Sam Perroni, a former U.S. assistant attorney and white-collar crime defense lawyer in Little Rock.
�The fact that the decision was split could mean a better chance for a rehearing or a hearing before the full appeals court,� Perroni said.
In yesterday�s decision, the court rejected arguments that Coughlin�s health problems � heart failure, obesity, diabetes and gout � might not receive satisfactory treatment in prison.


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I have done this for the last 6 months.
Start a free 30 day trial on your amazon account if you haven't already done so. If you have already done a trial before then see below. Note that there is a minimum period you wait between starting a new free trial with the same account. I think it may be 6 months but if someone could clear that up that'd be great.
If you have already done the trial, sign up for a new account with a different email address. I kept everything else the same, card number, name, address etc. and I had no problems.
Once you have done this, begin your free prime trial again. To save having different orders over many accounts, invite your main account to the prime membership using manage my membership option under your account. That way you can keep all your amazon accounts organised.
That's it! This method is perfect for people who don't order often (maybe the odd thing here and there) and you get free one day delivery! Make sure you switch off auto upgrade on all accounts to prevent being charged £49.
I've done this for ages and had no problems so thought I'd share it! Amazon will probably pull the free trial now!
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Trump has something no other candidate has
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The Magus Era - Chapter 349
Chapter 349: Explanation
''Good one!'' Both of the two old men laughed out loud while taking back their sword and
machete, which had almost touched the bodies of the two Yu Clan's elderly men
The two Yu Clan's elderly men were sent flying backwards while vomiting blood, one of them
had a twisted neck and the other one had a huge hole in his chest, all of his internal organs
exposed in the air. After steadying their own bodies, they stared at Ji Hao and Man Man in a
great shock, as if they couldn't believe what had just happened. Boiling blood containing strong
life-force surged inside their bodies and quickly healed their wounds.
Looking at their speedily healing wounds, Ji Hao couldn't help but have his eye corners twitch
intensely. Yu Clan's people were never famous for great physical strength and strong life-force,
they were more like pure 'wizards', who were good at controlling all kinds of magical powers
and launch effective attacks with outside forces.
These two Yu Clan's elderly men were injured so severely but managed to fully recover within
the span of merely one breath, this clearly showed that their spirit blood were even many times
powerful than Ji Hao himself.
''The shell-breaking stage?'' Ji Hao stared at the two Yu Clan's elderly men and yelled.
''Indeed, the shell-breaking stage!'' responded the two Yu Clan's elderly men while staring back
at Ji Hao with fierce looks. Their sharp and malicious eyes made them look just like two
wounded old wolves, which would rush up and tear Ji Hao into pieces if they could, then feed his
corpse to wild dogs.
To Yu Clan's people, breaking into the shell-breaking stage meant stepping into a special and
transcendental status. Breaking out from the mortal shell and reaching the higher world was
the meaning contained in the name of the shell-breaking stage. Every Yu Clan's person who
managed to step into this stage had strong life-force and solid, robust bodies, as great as
human Magus Kings. Added with all kinds of secret magic possessed particularly by the Yu
Clan, Yu Clan's warriors at the shell-breaking stage could individually crush human Magus
Kings, although technically, the Magus-King-Level was equal to the shell-breaking stage.
Both of the two Yu Clan's elderly men were at the shell-breaking stage, and also powerful
beings among their own group. Nevertheless, they had both been injured by Ji Hao and Man
Man. To these Yu Clan's noble people, who especially valued glory and face, it was not hard to
imagine how ashamed and angry they were right now,
''Ah, shell-breaking stage, no wonder your neck is so hard... nearly broke my bones.'' said Ji Hao
while swaying his hand. Broken muscles and skin on his hand grew back speedily, the wound
on his hand recovered completely in the span of a few breaths.
''Even though you're shell-breaking stage powerful beings, you have to be reasonable. The Red
Wood Palace's people also are Qian Family's members, who attempted to forcibly sell things to
my friend, and have been bullying my friend since the very beginning. How should we settle
this? Hm? What do you think?'' said Ji Hao blandly, ''Yes, this is our very first visit to this Chi Ban
Market, but don't you treat us like silly kids and think we're all pushovers.
Qian Tan, who had suffered a great punch from Ji Hao was currently lying on the ground with a
face covered in blood, still twitching his body. He took a deep breath with difficulty, and after a
few guards had given him emergency aid, he finally could talk again. Tremblingly, he screamed
out with a high-pitched voice.
''Dear four law enforcers, don't listen to this little human bastard's crap! He didn't even know
that old tree man!''
''Didn't know?'' Ji Hao gave three loud and bright laughter, then raised his right hand. From his
palm, a faint sphere of green light slowly rose into the air. Soon, a thumb-sized, vividly green
leaf flew out of that green sphere of light. This tiny leave had a crystal-like texture, as if it was
exquisitely carved out of a jade piece, and had been releasing a dense sense of life-force.
''Friend! A friend I can trust with my life!'' seeing that tiny leaf, the old tree man instantly yelled
out in a great excitement. He then gently reached a thin branch to Ji Hao, intimately patting on
Ji Hao's head, after which, he coiled that branch around Ji Hao's waist.
That tiny leaf was a gift given by another treeman, who was Ji Hao's close friend back in the
Southern Wasteland.
Tree men were special and magical creatures, produced by this wonderful world. Originally,
they were all ordinary trees. Only trees that had lived for countless years and been nourished by
the purest natural power could gain consciousness and finally become human-shaped spirit
creatures. They had a unique ability that belonged only to their kind, that was, each treeman
could produce an imprint, containing the information of his own soul, when he met a true
friend who could be trusted with his life; normally, tree men would give their imprints to their
friends as gifts.
The treeman imprints could be fruits, flowers or a piece of tree bark; of course, it could also be a
Any individual holding a treeman imprint would be seen as a true friend by every other
treeman, even the most violent ones and the ones who had the worst temper. In a similar way,
every individual holding a tree man imprint would naturally see all treemen, who admitted the
friendship presented by the imprint, as true friends.
This was a magical and even divine ability, gifted by the nature itself. An ability that belonged
to a magical and magnificent kind that allowed the members of this kind to build connections
with other kinds.
''You!'' staring at this glowing tiny leaf, Qian Tan was suddenly choked by his own words.
''Friend! Friend!'' The old tree man was still yelling in excitement, such that those fruits
hanging on his head even began shaking in rhythm.
''Fruit! Fruit!'' Staring at those fruits with a pair of glowing eyes, streams of saliva gushed out of
Man Man's mouth corner again.
The faces of the two Yu Clan's elderly men were awfully darkened. They glared at Qian Tan, and
yelled together, ''You stupid kids! Have you forgotten about the rules of our Chi Ban Market?!
The Chi Ban Market, regardless of your backgrounds, experiences, races or personal hatreds,
this is a place for fair trade!''
''There is no hatred in our Chi Ban Market! All that matters in here is money! You kids have
started such a foul atmosphere in here, do you want to ruin our family businesses?!''
Qian Tan and a group of Qian Family's members lowered their heads, silently hearing the two
law executors, daring not to say any word.
The Chi Ban Market was a black market, a typical black market. Regardless of your background
and standpoint, or your personal hatred, the only principle working in this place was nothing
else but money. Making more, and more and more money! Uncountable amount of money!
''You have to give us a reasonable explanation!'' Ji Hao didn't want to forgive Qian Tan and the
Red Wood Palace so easily, slapping hard on the old tree man's branch and yelled angrily,
''Look! Purple grain dragon sandalwood! Hehe, Qian Tan, you knew my friend is a valuable
Purple grain dragon sandalwood, therefore, you attempted to force him to sell himself to your
Qian Family, so that you could harvest the 'purple snow dragon juice' and 'purple grain, dragon
blood fruits' from his body, right?!''
''Eh?'' The old tree man lowered his head, looked at Ji Hao in surprise and asked, ''My juice and
fruits? What for?''
Ji Hao threw a heavy kick on his foot then yelled at him, ''You're all blockheads! Don't ever say
such a silly word! You're much more valuable than you think you are anyway! If I were you, I
would hide in the deepest mountain and never come to this outside world before I cultivated
myself into an invincibly powerful being!''
''You just walked on streets with this big cat? You're already lucky for not being cut into pieces
and inserted into the soil to reproduce more of you!'' After having yelled at the old tree man, Ji
Hao turned to the two Yu Clan's old men, sneered and said, ''Those young people lack
experiences and manners, but I assume old folks like you are much more reasonable than them,
aren't you?''
''For a purple grain dragon sandalwood who has cultivated himself into a spirit creature, how
much is he worth, say it by yourselves! Only a million? I can give you a hundred million right
now, but do you even dare to try to get me a hundred purple grain dragon sandalwoods with
that price?!'' Ji Hao pointed his finger at the two Yu Clan's old men and growled.
Resonant swishing noise came one after another, while Ji Hao was speaking, law executors of
the Chi Ban Market, who came from fifty to sixty different races and all wearing the same black
long cloak, had came to the Red Wood Palace.
At the same time, huge groups of heavily armored warriors were quickly moving over from all
directions, firmly surrounded the entire Red Wood Palace.
Ji Hao's voice became louder and louder when he told these newcomers about how Qian Tan's
attempt to force the old tree to sell himself to the Qian Family; when telling the story, Ji Hao
added some inflammatory details.
''Hehe, Chi Ban Market, I came here because I heard about the reputation of this place.''
''But I did not think that this so-called Chi Ban Market is nothing but a gangster's inn!''
''Today, this Red Wood Palace and your Chi Ban Market, both have to give me a reasonable


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Overshadowed by a second aura when committing a crime
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Tenet of the 12-step programs
"Justified resentments"
|Source: ► Article Practical Magic(k): Secret of the Five Pranas, presented by the publication Evolve and Ascend, 22. April 2016
| Book reference: ► Dr. David Frawley (Vamadeva Shastri), Gods, Sages and Kings.
Vedic Secrets of Ancient Civilization, Vedic Secrets of Ancient Civil, 4. April 2001
|See also: ► Body parts contest – Who's on top?
|Source: ► Article Secrets of the Five Pranas, presented by the American Institute of Vedic Studies, 13. June 2012
[T]he Urim and Thummim [...] shall be upon Aaron's heart when he goeth before the Lord: and Aaron shall
Urim and Thummim are described as flat crystals or transparent gems. High priests of the Hebrew Temples held the red Urim and the green Thummim over their eyes like spectacles. This apparently induced visionary images. Urim and Thummim influenced the visual processing of colors to occur as a stereo blending between the eyes rather than for each eye separately prior to reaching the visual cortex where colors are recognized. By separating the brain's signal processing of red and green through the red-green cones of each eye's retina, the color yellow is synthesized in the visual cortex as a stereoscopic function. When combined with the intake of entheogens, psychoacoustics, symbolism and meditation, such a stereoscopic stimulation of the visual cortex could have assisted in synthesizing visual constructs.
Studies of psychedelics have confirmed that red and green (or else pink and chartruse) colors are perceived as superimposed with patterning in the visual field:
Viewing the faces of other people in the room, the subject observed red and green glowing lines crossing their faces horizontally but following the contours of the face. […]
Whenever the subject closed his eyes, he was presented with a dazzling array of colours and patterns. Most of the patterns were of a repetitive nature, resembling mandalas. The predominant colours were red and green and the predominant patterns were formed from circles and octagons.
| References:
► Article Scientists studying psychoactive drugs accidentally proved the self is an illusion,
presented by the US American online portal Quartz, Ephrat Livni, 9. February 2018
► Blog article Hebrew-Mormon Seer Stones,
presented by the publication Interference, Richard Merrick, 18. April 2017
| Referenz: ► Videopräsentation von George Pennington, britisch-deutscher Psychologe, Trainer, Coach, Autor,
Meditation 6 – Die Tafeln von Chartes, YouTube Film, 11:24 Minuten Dauer, 11. May 2018
Links zum Thema Aura
Literature (engl.)
Externe Weblinks
External web links (engl.)
Audio- und Videolinks
Audio and video links (engl.)
The aura is the carrier of what one has learned – energy transmission via teacher/spiritual aspirant
1 Scientific article by Beverly Rubik, Ph.D., US American professor of biophysics, University of California at Berkeley (UCB), researcher of biofield science and energy medicine, founder of Institute for Frontier Science (IFS), David Muehsam, Richard Hammerschlag, Shamini Jain, Biofield Science and Healing: History, Terminology, and Concepts, presented by the publication Global Advances in Health and Medicine (GAHM), Suppl. 8-14, 4. November 2015 ⇑


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Ways to demystify finance in your charity/
Ways to demystify finance in your charity
'Finance' can be an off-putting word for non-financial managers – all too often it means complex terminology, processes and reports. And without the right support and training, managers shy away from financial responsibility because of a fear that they can't understand it.
But financial management shouldn't be the preserve of the finance department. Making sure that a charity remains resilient and sustainable is a collective responsibility across the whole organisation, and strong financial management is a fundamental part of this.
As a sector we need to support our operational teams to build their financial awareness and empower them to take on some financial accountability. This article addresses a number of steps you can take to remove the fear that people feel when it comes to finance and make the processes and reports more accessible to all. If you master this you will take a giant step forward in bringing the charity closer together and setting yourself up to thrive.
1. Simplify the language you use
The language used by the finance team can be confusing and off-putting to say the least. So the first step towards making finance accessible across the organisation is to remove the jargon. For example, forget the terminology of debtors and creditors and simply say 'people that owe us money, people we owe money to'. It may seem too simple but we learn better as individuals if we can relate to what we are being told so present the terms in language that a non-finance person uses. Go a step further and remove the terminology from your meetings and reports, and sense check communications from the finance team with people in the wider organisation to make sure it is user friendly.
2. Create a real partnership between finance and operational teams
If there is a specific person in the finance team that supports your department, invite them along to regular team meetings, from operational reviews to budget setting meetings. The finance team will gain a greater understanding of the department they support, both in terms of strategy and language used, and the operational team will benefit from the invaluable insight they can provide for decision-making and strategy development.
This will go a long way to bridging the gap between finance and operational teams, and lead to a greater understanding and appreciation on both sides.
3. Communicate the positive aspects of financial management
All too often finance teams are seen as 'No' people! It's true, their role is to ensure that the organisation's income is carefully monitored and managed but equally it's about ensuring that the charity achieves its charitable aims. This is a shared objective across the whole charity and all departments need to be reminded of this common goal. So take time to highlight and report on the positive outcomes that have occurred as a result of strong financial management in your organisation.
Have budget savings in one area enabled you to start a new project elsewhere or further supported a key initiative of the charity? If so, share this news with the whole charity and congratulate them on working together to manage the charity's finances so effectively. The wider organisation will start to see that rather than trying to take away money necessarily, the finance team are helping to ensure that it can be redirected to where it will be most impactful.
4. Invest in training for your non-finance staff
Finance teams may be seen as the purse strings of an organisation but it is the budget holders that are responsible for ensuring that every £1 of the funding a charity receives is spent effectively. Non-finance managers need support to build their financial awareness and understand the impact that their role has on the charity as a whole.
The right training course should help them to understand financial management in the context of their own role, and leave them feeling motivated to meet their financial tasks. To achieve this it needs to be interactive, relatable and above all fun, so that they leave the course feeling empowered.
5. Make your reports visual and accessible
Management reports are typically number heavy and this can be overwhelming to a non-finance person. It can also often fail to highlight the true meaning of the information being presented. Financial reports need to be given more context to become truly valuable to a non-finance manager.
By adding graphs and visual aids to regular reporting, you can help mangers to interpret the data and really understand what is driving the performance of their team.
If you would like support in strengthening your finance function or training your non-finance staff please do get in touch on email@example.com
Nishka Smith
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My guess is no, but I wanted to see if anyone was able to confirm this.
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Dec. 20, 2017 -- The Frankenmuth Community Foundation on Dec. 18 awarded a $200,000 grant for the construction of the Frankenmuth Jaycee Community Splash Pad, one of the largest allocations in the Foundation's 40-year history.
"This exciting project will provide a free space for recreational water play for the Frankenmuth area community," said Stephen C. List, executive director of the Frankenmuth Community Foundation.
The grant monies were awarded through the Palmer Foundation Endowment Fund, which is managed by the Frankenmuth Community Foundation.
The nearly $1 million Jaycee Community Splash Pad will be built in Frankenmuth's Memorial Park and include a splash pad, playgrounds, restroom facilities and a gathering place. The new park will be free to use and completely handicapped accessible.
Splash pads are designed with multiple water sprays and interactive features for children of all ages and are a popular way to spend warm summer days with the family.
The Frankenmuth Jaycees have spent much of 2017 developing design plans, seeking funding and securing the community partnerships necessary to clear the way for construction in 2018.
The splash pad and bathroom facilities are slated for completion by July.
With the $200,000 donation from the Frankenmuth Community Foundation, the Jaycees have so far raised $730,000 for the project, said Christy Kuczynski, co-chairman of the Jaycees Splash Pad Committee.
The donation from the Foundation is the largest single gift to date.
"We're aware the Frankenmuth Community Foundation supports many causes and we're very pleased to be one of them," Kuczynski said. "The Jaycees also support many great local causes, so this is a great partnership between two great organizations."
Other Frankenmuth civic and community organizations have already donated or are considering funding the Jaycees' project as well.
As more donations come in, the Jaycees will be able to construct an additional playground for younger children and make the existing playground handicapped accessible.
The Palmer Foundation Endowment Fund has already played a key role in creating many of the amenities at Memorial Park including the Palmer Schau Platz, concession and bathroom facilities, expanded parking and road improvements, List said.
The Frankenmuth Community Foundation's Board of Governors is proud to play a role in bringing the splash park to fruition.
"The Jaycees have done a great job in planning the project's design, construction phases, meeting with potential donors, and providing information for the public to see what the plans are for the Frankenmuth Memorial Park," List said.
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Dr. Jessica Knox, Medical Director, NurX
Terrence Nelson: Could you briefly describe what Nurx is and the services that you provide?
Dr. Jessica Knox: Nurx is a tele-medicine startup and our main purpose is to put healthcare back in the hands of the people by making healthcare more accessible through our app. Currently, we offer couple of different service lines, one is birth control. We offer pills, patches, rings and emergency contraception. We also offer Truvada which is a daily medication for HIV prevention. What's different about tele-medicine service is we allow patients to access the basic prevention medicines without a doctor's visit. Patients can come to our website, request the medication, complete a health history questionnaire and then that request will be reviewed by one of our doctors. For birth control a patient will get a prescription and the medication is mailed to them and then automatically refills for a year. When it comes to Truvada, we will order their labs and have the patient visit a local lab to have their labs drawn. If all is good they will get their prescription written and it will be automatically refilled for 3 months until they need to repeat the lab process. Nurx's goal is to use technology to improve patient's access to preventive medication to make that and to make the easier process for them.
Terrence: What need in the marketplace did you identify to develop the concept of Nurx?
Dr. Knox: One of the co-founders (Dr. Edvard Engesaeth) is a physician and his friends would call him on Friday nights because their girlfriends were running out of birth control and they were hoping he could refill their prescriptions. Which is actually a common situation among physicians in that their friends call them to request prescriptions when they cant make it to their primary doctors. So that's originally where the idea came from and our other co-founder (Hans Gangeskar) who is not a physician, was interested in offering Truvada services and felt like there was no reason it couldn't be offered in a more convenient way. Also, the primary issue with Truvada is that the access to it is very poor and a very small percentage of people who should be on Truvada are actually on it. Due to a of lack of education there is also a stigma associated with going to the doctor and discussing your sexual health risks and asking for medication that will protect you from HIV. Patients have shared a lot of stories with us about going to their doctors and asking for Truvada and have been shamed out of the office and told they need to make better sexual decisions for themselves. Both birth control and Truvada are medications that still have a lot of stigma and judgement involved in the prescription of these medications so Nurx works around those barriers not only making access easier but also enabling patients to connect with healthcare professionals who believe in these medications.
Terrence: How does Nurx use its digital influence to educate along with providing medication?
Dr. Knox: We are in the process of developing educational content so when patients visit Nurx's website or app for medication they can also poke around and learn a lot. Currently we really focus a lot on consultations when prescribing medications. I spend approximately half of my day responding to our patients questions, we've created an environment where patients feel very comfortable messaging Nurx because our patients feel very comfortable communicating with us about their sexual health and medications.
Terrence: How does technology affect the communication between patients and medical professionals?
Dr. Knox: The way we interact with our patients is very different than a more traditional model where you sit face to face with a doctor in their office. Most of our communication happens through our secured messenger through the Nurx platform which enables our patients to log in to our profile and message us directly and they'll receive a response within 24 hours. Patients have given us feedback that they feel much more comfortable asking us questions than their primary care physicians. Our platform makes it easier to discuss difficult topics and since it's not a live chat people have time to think about and research the questions they want to ask us. Furthermore, they get to think about the information our doctors have provided them with and do research and come back more informed about their health and that really empowers people. The other piece to our communication is that if we aren't able to fully gain an understanding of a patient's specific issues we can still pick up the phone and talk it through.
Terrence: When it comes to women's health specifically, how does technology change the privacy landscape?
Dr. Knox: Removing the need for women to physically go to the doctors office and go to the pharmacy is adding an additional layer of privacy. By using Nurx women don't have to sit in a waiting room with 30 other patients peering at you (laughing) or having that person at the pharmacy looking over your shoulder. Also, many women find it difficult to find a doctor whom they are comfortable having these conversations with. An interesting twist to that, is the fact that we've found that most our patients have no problem taking to social media and promoting the fact that they are using the Nurx app. When we ask our new patients how they learned about our service, more often than not it's because a friend posted about us on one of their social media platforms.
Terrence: What kind of response has Nurx gotten from other doctors or healthcare providers who aren't necessarily as progressive when it comes to tech and health?
Dr. Knox: Overwhelmingly positive surprisingly, but we have had some negativity thrown our way as Nurx has gained more notoriety. There have been doctors who have expressed concern about taking the prescribing of birth control out of the doctors office. Their concerns primarily have been based on the perceived lack of sexual health consultations or services especially when it comes to minors. We've done a lot to fight these misconceptions about Nurx because they simply are not true. We often have to remind health providers that CDC guidelines state that there is no physical exam required to prescribe birth control so physically requiring a patient to come in for that service is not necessary. Nurx also does in fact provide sexual health counseling so we're not leaving patients void of any resources.
Terrence: What is your long term vision for tele-medicine?
Dr. Knox: My grand vision for tele-medicine is to have it fully scaled up and eventually have the tools to make it the norm for preventive and primary care. That technology would enable people who are otherwise healthy and don't necessarily need to be in a doctors office for something like a sore shoulder to be served by a healthcare provider remotely. That would enable people who need acute care to have more time in the doctor's office or the emergency room. With that said, in my perfect world we would be able to re-allocate patients based on their actual needs so that highest acuity, high cost care in the hospitals, emergency rooms and doctors offices are the people that actually need to be there.
Terrence: What does innovation mean to you?
Dr. Knox: Innovation is the application of tools to a problem to create a solution. You can innovate every and anything it's just a matter of reimagining how a system can work better and using or creating tools to bring that imagining to fruition for the improvement of that system of that experience.


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Rev. Doug Peterson
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Doug has been an ELCA pastor since 1993. He has served congregations in Montana and Washington State. Along the way, Doug also served as a hospice chaplain for seven years before accepting the call to Faith in 2018. Along with his wife, Rev. Brenda Satrum, they have two adult children, Ben and Hannah, and a soft-headed, sweet-hearted Australian shepherd named Xena.
Jordan Leach
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Jordan grew up going to church at Faith Lutheran. She just graduated from South Eastern University with her bachelor's degree in Ministerial Leadership.
Jeanette Leach
Jeanette has many years of experience working in a bookkeeping position. She and her husband Kevin have four children and they have attended Faith Lutheran Church for about 10 years now.


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Canadian Maple Bowl Blank
Our 75mm x 150mm diameter Canadian hard rock maple bowl blanks are produced from the finest prime quality hardwood timber. They are ideal for beginner and experiences wood turners alike.
Canadian hard rock Maple (Acer sacchrum) is a temperate hardwood that is a uniform creamy white to light tan. It has a typically straight grain and has a fine and even texture
In addition to the 75mm x 150mm diameter bowl blanks we also stock the following sizes:
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Our Role
VKE Namibia Consulting Engineers, part of the SMEC Group, was contracted by the Namibian Roads Authority to carry out the design work and to supervise the construction phase of the Main Road 118 upgrade.
Project Overview
The lack of a road transportation link between the Kharas Region town of Oranjemund in the far south of Namibia and the rest of the country has been a controversial issue since the 1990s. Residents of Oranjemund have had to drive across the Orange (Gariep) River via the border post on the B1 at Noordoewer (past Port Nolloth and Steinkopf in South Africa) in order to access routes onwards to the major centres of Namibia. This increased the travel times to and from Oranjemund to anywhere else in the country by a significant amount.
Following pre-feasibility and feasibility studies undertaken prior to 2000, the Namibian Government decided that a bitumen road link to the national road network between Oranjemund and Lüderitz would suit neither the operation at Rosh Pinah nor at Skorpion some 20 km to the of Rosh Pinah. The government also decided that a road via Lüderitz would not improve the road conditions for traffic using the national gravel road along the Orange River between Noordoewer and Rosh Pinah which serves the Rosh Pinah/Skorpion mines and the commercial grape production unit at Aussenkehr, as well as various tourism lodges and canoeing recreational facilities along the Orange River.
A subsequent fact finding study to investigate a direct link between Rosh Pinah and Oranjemund, so that people could avoid travelling through the diamond mining deposits along the Orange River, once again favoured the upgrading of the existing Namdeb private road along the north bank of the river, rather than the construction of a whole new route altogether.
The overall rationale for this conclusion concerned the tourism potential of the extremely beautiful scenery along the Orange River; the potential practical difficulties in crossing the very high Obib sand dunes and other parts of the pristine Namib environment; and – importantly – the fact that diamond mining in the area will one day be phased out leaving the country with the responsibility of maintaining the existing gravel road in addition to any new direct bitumen road.
A decision was ultimately made to upgrade the 'river route' to a bitumen surface which would be known as Main Road 118.
The southern part of the Namib Desert has become much more accessible with the upgrading of the 99 km main road between Rosh Pinah and Oranjemund. The project significantly reduces time and travel costs for the residents of Oranjemund, increases potential tourism growth and has been designed to withstand sandstorms, flooding and other challenges. The road, now completed, is of a very high geometric standard with an excellent riding quality, and complements the beautiful natural scenery of southern Namibia.
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- Namibia
- Technical Area:
- Transport
- Client:
- Namibian Roads Authority
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Washmatic India brings automatic water softeners that save consumption of detergents and other washing chemicals used in dishwashers and a variety of washing appliances used in homes, restaurants and other establishments. New Delhi, India, October 23, 2018 – There are different types of appliances used in homes and other commercial establishments for washing dishes, utensils and other items. The use of hard water in these machines often affects their cleaning efficiency. The solution is the use of water softeners that can remove calcium and magnesium compounds from water and make the water soft for an effective cleaning of different items. In India, Washmatic boasts of introducing an automatic water softener that can dramatically improve the cleaning effectiveness of different cleaning appliances. According to the spokesperson of Washmatic India, perhaps they are the first company to introduce an automatic water softener in India. This automatic water softener can also remove the limestone hardness from water, besides compounds of calcium, magnesium etc. Thus, the water softenerDetails


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Snohomish County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue units responded to two separate incidents overnight.
The first involved locating a 45 year-old Everett man after he failed to return to the trailhead from Barlow Pass. The man was reported missing around 8 p.m. last night. Searchers deployed around 8:30 p.m. and located the man early this morning. He was cold and hungry, but uninjured, and safely escorted back to the trailhead around 9 a.m. today.
The second incident occurred around 1 a.m. today when a call came in that a 16 year-old female had sustained head and spine injuries after a fall near Foggy Lake. She was camping with a group of people who were able to keep her warm and sheltered until SnoHAWK10 arrived after daybreak and was able to transport her to Providence Regional Medical Center around 6:30 a.m.
sourced – Shari Ireton, Director of Communications, Snohomish County Sheriff's Office


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SYDNEY — The most famous Central Park is in New York, but Sydney is planning its own version that is less like a park in the city and more like a city in the park, with the urban parts aspiring to be as green as their surroundings.
When finished, Sydney's Central Park, a $2 billion mixed-use site on 6,500 square meters, or 70,000 square feet, of park land, will have 11 buildings that will be so energy efficient they will be able to export electricity to neighboring areas, according to the developer, Frasers Property Australia. The rooftops will be designed to turn rain into drinking water. When the toilets flush, the sewage will be recycled into usable water.
The project, situated on 5.8 hectares, or 14.3 acres, surrounding a defunct Foster's brewery on the edge of the city's financial district, is simple in its rationale, but not its aesthetic. Verdant vertical gardens designed by the French botanist Patrick Blanc will cover the walls of the residential towers, dangling in suspended animation from a cantilevered park.
Frasers said it eschewed the bells and whistles common to many "green" developments in favor of a combination of best practices and proven technology that could be upgraded. Frasers avoided some better-known technologies it said it thought were superfluous.
"There's not going to be wind turbines on the roof or even necessarily photovoltaics," for example, said Stuart White, a professor at the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology in Sydney, who is an adviser on the project.Continue reading the main story
The development, which was designed by Foster and Partners of Britain, is part of Sustainable Sydney 2030, the city government's plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent, increase renewable energy supplies and add 48,000 dwellings to the city within the next 20 years.
The Central Park project will have 1,800 residential units housing about 2,500 people in a pair of buildings designed by the renowned French architectural firm Ateliers Jean Nouvel, with an additional 5,400 people working in the 70,000 square meters of commercial space.
Construction on the park's 11 new buildings, which range in height from 3 to 33 floors, began earlier this year, with the first apartments set to open in 2013.
Central Park uses a "precinct" approach for energy: Energy use peaks at different times of the day — commercial usage rises during the workday while residential use spikes in the evening — and a precinct approach allows the site to increase efficiency by shifting the energy where it is most needed at the time.
The site will get its electricity from trigeneration generators, a system where heat, mechanical energy and cooling are created from a single source, harnessing "waste heat" to significantly raise overall output. This is more efficient than the more common co-generation, which generates only electricity and heat.
Ultimately, the developers said, by coordinating between the peak consumption hours on the various buildings, their trigeneration generators could allow them to export surplus electricity into the grid for sale to neighboring areas.
Central Park will also have blackwater recycling, which uses all waste water, including sewage. A plant in the basement of the old brewery building draws water from the sewer mains to filter and treat the sludge, which is then fed back into the site's water system.
The recycled sewage will be used things like watering the gardens and washing clothes. People are not allowed to drink the recycled blackwater for legal reasons, but it is safe for human consumption, Frasers said.
It is not that the technologies are new, said Nicholas Wolff, the chief operating officer of Frasers. They are, however, exceedingly expensive, so Sydney's Central Park seeks to make the technologies cost-efficient by distributing the output, and cost, over different buildings at different times.
Past projects were too small in terms of area to absorb the cost, he said, but that will not be a problem in a project of this scale.
Sydney, however, is a low-rise city, and a shift toward high-density development has exposed a divide familiar to city planners everywhere. Many residents fear that the city's character is being buried by Central Park and other Sustainable Sydney 2030 projects like the towering urban renewal project under construction a few blocks away at the Barangaroo waterfront.
"Sydney feels like an aging celebrity that's had a series of botched facelifts. It's just a little too tight and clean," said Michelle Retford, 27, who started a Facebook page to save her favorite music venue, the Abercrombie Hotel, a heritage building that sits at the corner of the brewery lot and was shuttered for renovations as part of the development. Frasers said the closure was temporary.
Glenn Murcutt, a recipient of the 2002 Pritzker Prize for architecture and Australia's most famous architect, said he was disturbed by the prevailing attitude among developers of high-rises.
"Office buildings don't sponsor loitering, spending time, thinking," he said. "They discharge people and they're out. High-density housing tends to do the same thing."
Mr. Murcutt, 75, said he was deeply skeptical of "utopian" projects, a feeling the British-born architect traced back to Britain's experiments with public housing in the 1950s and '60s. The towering residential blocks in the Roehampton neighborhood in London left a deep mark, he said. "I lived in England when Roehampton was touted as the future," Mr. Murcutt said. "And it had mixed development. It had point blocks and low-scale development. The low-scale worked."
But families could not live in the high-rises, he said, because the children wanted to play outside, where the parents were not able to watch them from inside their apartments.
"And so families had to move out of Roehampton. Is this going to be different?" Mr. Murcutt said.
The debate over whether high-density building is the best model for sustainable development is far from settled, says Randal O'Toole, a fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute in Washington.
"We can make single-family homes as energy efficient as we want," he said. "We can make cars more energy efficient. And we can do these things for a lot less money than building higher densities and mass transit to try to substitute for the single-family homes that people seem to prefer and automobiles that provide much better transportation at a lower cost than mass transit."
Frasers and the designers of Central Park disagree. The science is on their side, they say, and they hope to use Central Park as an example of what is possible.
"In most parts of the world people are really disconnected from nature," said Mr. Blanc, the French botanist. "The most important is to show that it's not totally in opposition, the way of life of the human beings and the way of life of the plants."Continue reading the main story


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Thomas Holt offers Respite Care for low and high levels of care.
Thomas Holt commends families and carers for the wonderful role they play in caring for our older community members. We recognise that sometimes the carer needs support and as such we have designed a range of respite care options for short and long term support. This service is offered at both our Kirrawee and Sans Souci Garden sites.
Please call Thomas Holt on (02) 9545 4799 for more details about your Respite Care options.
Below is a list of FAQ & answers regarding respite care
When you are taking care of someone it is important to also consider your own health and wellbeing. Just as most jobs provide holidays, carers should try to take some time off from caring.
Respite care offers the opportunity for both the carer, and the person being cared for to take a break. Respite is needed to relieve the stress of being a carer or to take a well earned break while your loved one is safe and in the best of care.
The most commonly known form of respite is when an older person enters an aged care home for a few days or weeks. It is possible for one person to use up to nine weeks of respite during a financial year.
When the elderly are no longer able to manage at home without assistance, the ACAT helps them, and their carers, determine what kind of care will best meet their needs.
This may be residential permanent care or respite care. The Aged Care Assessment Team may include a doctor, nurse, social worker, or other health professional.
A member of your local ACAT will visit you in your home or in hospital to assess your needs.
There is no charge for the assessment as the ACAT is government funded. The ACATs cover the entire country and are based in hospitals or in the local community. If you are of non-English speaking background and require an interpreter, please advise the ACAT at the time of assessment.
While an ACAT cannot make recommendations about individual homes or community services, they can provide you with information to assist you to make decisions.
On the day you check-in at Thomas Holt you will be welcomed by our friendly team. You will be taken on a tour to meet and greet your neighbours and our team will assist you with choosing the activities you would like to enjoy during your stay with us.
As a DVA pensioner, you may seek approval from the DVA for payment of respite daily fees. This approval must be obtained prior to entering respite care. Please contact your DVA adviser for more information in relation to your ongoing needs and requirements.
The current rate of respite is set by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing. It is a requirement of Thomas Holt that you pay for the entire stay in advance. Please contact our Client Relationship Manager on 8536 1905 or email email@example.com to ascertain the current respite rate.
Respite is intended for you to stay within the aged care facility for a period of time. During your respite time you may go out for lunch, but if you wish to stay out overnight, we will be required to discharge you from the facility and you will need to re-book your stay.
If you require hospitalisation during your respite stay, we will organise transport to hospital. As per Government regulations, on admission to hospital, you will be discharged from Thomas Holt. If the room is available, we will arrange rebooking for the respite bed once you are medically fit for discharge.
You are entitled to enjoy the same services as permanent Residents do. This includes all your meals, room cleaning, laundry, medication management and access to all Lifestyle programs and residential facilities, such as lounge rooms, games rooms, gardens, chapel, dining room, concerts, outings and of course, fantastic care..
Each approved person can receive up to a total of 63 days of subsidised respite in any financial year. This amount covers respite admissions to all Commonwealth funded Residential Aged Care facilities.
Yes, you are able to extend your stay but you will require an ACAT approval. The length of this extension is 21 days.
This extension will be dependent on such considerations as:
You will need to bring adequate personal clothing and toiletries. If you wish staff to assist you in your medications, the Care Manager will liaise with you to ensure your medications are in the form of a 7 Day Webster Pack.
If you are requiring rehabilitation or medical appointment follow up during your stay, please let us know before you check in to ensure we can assist you to make the necessary arrangements. We can arrange for you to receive rehab during your stay with Thomas Holt by our Allied Health Team. We can also arrange transport for your to travel to medical appointments and alike if required.
If you require an escort for the appointment you will need to speak with the Care Manager or Registered Nurse who will arrange this. Please note that there is an additional cost to this service.
You will need to be assessed by the ACAT to become a permanent resident. In some cases, the ACAT approval may have been granted prior to your entry to Thomas Holt.
You may be asked to pay a booking fee to assist in organising your care and to secure your respite place. The booking fee is a prepayment of respite care fees and not an extra payment.
This fee, however, cannot be more than a full week's fee or 25% of the fee for the entire stay, whichever is the lower.
Once you have a planned date for respite, our team will meet with you a few weeks beforehand and explain to you some of the arrangements you need to make so your stay will be enjoyable. This includes ensuring we understand your health and wellbeing needs and liaise with your GP regarding any medications and treatments you may need during your stay with us.
If you have any other questions relating to Respite Care offered by Thomas Holt, please speak to our Client Relationship Manager.
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