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Conscious Fashion Labels and Certifications
With there being so many different factors to consider when it comes to how sustainable our clothes are, and with it being difficult for consumers to tell whether brands are doing what they claim to be doing, it can get overwhelming very quickly. To address this, we can look out for the following certifications and labels that signify fashion brands meeting certain criteria in terms of being more mindful of their business practices.
These labels differ from one another in many ways, but each serves its own purpose. Some certify an entire company, whereas others certify a specific product or just one ingredient. Many of them use third party verification, and a few rely on self reporting. Some of them focus on one aspect of production, such as fair pay for factory workers or the elimination of harmful chemicals, whereas others take a more holistic approach.
Regardless, being familiar with these certifications can help us become more informed consumers, allowing us to more easily shop based on our personal values.
Fairtrade International
Fairtrade International (and its US partner, Fairtrade America) works with small farmers around the globe. Both producers and traders must meet strict standards, which vary by industry but include things such as fair wages, safe working conditions and supply chain transparency. These standards are audited by a third party called FLOCERT. Fairtrade International certifies products and ingredients.
Fair Trade USA
Fair Trade USA carries many of the same standards as Fair Trade International; however, the biggest differentiator is that Fair Trade USA allows larger farms to become certified as well. Fair Trade USA products must not only include labor standards such as fair wages and safety in the workplace, but also certain environmental standards such as the prohibition of GMOs and toxic chemicals. Like Fairtrade International, Fair Trade USA also certifies products and ingredients.
World Fair Trade Organization
The World Fair Trade Organization certifies enterprises, as opposed to specific products or ingredients. The "Guarantee System" of the WFTO was developed by a group of experts in the field of Fair Trade monitoring and verification and the major aspects of the group are credibility, sustainability and robustness of the system. To achieve these three criteria, there are five major components: new membership admission procedure, Self Assessment Report, Monitoring Audit, Peer Visit, and the Fair Trade Accountability Watch (FTAW) accountability watch.
Fair Trade Federation
The Fair Trade Federation is more like a network than a true "certification;" however, in order to be a member of that network, organizations must meet a strict set of qualifications in the same way they would for a certification. The biggest difference is that members of the Fair Trade Federation are not audited by a third party; rather, their membership is based on self-reporting.
Fair for Life
Fair for Life is a third party certification that focuses on three primary areas of impact: respect of human life and fair working conditions, respect of the ecosystem and promotion of biodiversity and sustainable agricultural practices, and respect and betterment of local impact. Fair for Life was in part created in order to include certain products and raw materials that other certifications have excluded.
USDA Organic
Products, ingredients, or materials (like cotton) can be certified by the US government if they meet strict standards in the growing and harvesting process. Certified USDA Organic products cannot be treated with any pesticides, synthetics, fertilizers, hormones, or other types of additives.
B Corp
B Corp certifies entire companies, as opposed to specific products or ingredients. A certified B Corp company is a for-profit organization that uses the power of business to solve social and environmental problems and is doing good in the world in some way. B Corp companies are given a lot of resources to help assess and measure their impact in different social and environmental areas and are regularly subjected to audits.
Ethical Clothing Australia
Ethical Clothing Australia (ECA) is an accreditation body working collaboratively with local textile, clothing and footwear (TCF) companies to ensure their Australian supply chains are transparent and legally compliant. It is a voluntary accreditation program which offers practical and affordable assistance to Australian businesses that are manufacturing locally.
ECOCERT is an inspection and certification body that specializes in organic agriculture products. For textiles, an ECOCERT label means the fabric is either GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standard), OCS (Organic Content Standard), or using ecological or recycled textiles (an ECOCERT standard).
GOTS Organic
GOTS stands for Global Organic Textile Standard. It is a global standard for organic fibres, which includes ecological and social criteria and is backed by independent certification of the entire textile supply chain. The standard covers the processing, manufacturing, packaging, labelling, trading and distribution of all textiles made from at least 70% certified organic natural fibres.
Fair Wear Foundation
Fair Wear Foundation is a non-profit organization that works with brands, factories, trade unions, NGOs and sometimes governments to verify and improve workplace conditions for garment workers in 11 production countries in Asia, Europe and Africa.
There are seven different OEKO-TEX certifications, which address different areas and levels of impact in the textile industry. The most common one you will see with clothing is the Standard 100, which ensures that materials such as cotton are free from a range of toxic chemicals and other harmful substances
Cradle to Cradle
The Cradle to Cradle Certified™ Product Standard guides designers and manufacturers through a continual improvement process that looks at five categories: material health, material reutilization, renewable energy and carbon management, water stewardship, and social fairness. A product receives an achievement level in each category — Basic, Bronze, Silver, Gold, or Platinum.
Ethical Trading Initiative
Ethical Trading Initiative is another label that is a membership network rather than an actual certification. ETI's Base Code includes qualifications that protect the liberty, safety, and health of factory workers. In order to become a member of the Ethical Trading Initiative, companies must commit to these standards and submit annual reports.
The bluesign® system unites the entire textile supply chain to jointly reduce its impact on people and the environment. bluesign's goal is to link chemical suppliers, textile manufacturers, and brands together to foster a healthy, responsible, and profitable textile industry.
Eco-Age is a consultancy whose purpose is to distill know-how, expertise, enthusiasm and talent into client campaigns, strategies and programs that bring real and substantive change. They visit their clients' suppliers and experience, first hand, the employees' conditions and environments, making recommendations and working closely with brands and suppliers based on a set of criteria that involves social justice, corporate accountability and environmental stewardship. When that criteria is achieved, they award the Green Carpet Challenge®, which guarantees sustainable excellence.
The PETA-Approved Vegan label signifies that the brand has signed PETA's statement of assurance verifying that their product is vegan. PETA's cruelty-free bunny logo similarly reflects that no animals were harmed in personal care and beauty products.
Note: Many conscious fashion brands often meet the criteria of the above labels and certifications, but have chosen not to apply for certifications for various reasons, such as cost of getting certified. So, beyond looking out for these labels, it can be helpful to also check the fiber composition of the clothes, read the About page of the brand to see what insights it shares about its supply chain, and get in touch with a brand representative to ask more questions as necessary.


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TV18 Dwelling Purchasing Community Ltd.
In some unspecified time in the future or one other, you've got stumbled upon HSN, the 24-hour television network in ninety six million properties that's all the time promoting something. After 2 mos of taking a look at this hanging in my closet I realized I'm never going to wear this – too skimpy and never my style. The next month—in February 1992—the home procuring business threatened to consolidate when rival firm QVC proposed a merger with HSN. That added 500,000 viewers to its Home Shopping Club within the form of new Tele-Communications Inc. With DiCentral, you will have Dwelling Procuring Community compliant EDI, as well as EDI with any retailer, at your fingertips. With earlier expertise at Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger and Nike, Grossman began by rebranding the community and updating the merchandise and names related to it.
By September the company had began using the UHF tv stations it had been acquiring, and the community started broadcasting from its new one hundred eighty,000 sq.-foot telecommunications facility, hoping to beat down its competitors with better reception.
At that time Residence Buying was nonetheless within the process of making an attempt to persuade cable operators to carry its show over other alternative programming. Diversified Advertising and marketing and Media Services, Inc.; HSN 800/900 Corp.; HSN Health Companies Inc.; HSN Telemation Inc.; Residence Procuring Membership Inc.; Web Buying Network; Mistix Corporation; Precision Methods Inc.; Vela Research Inc. Not long ago, it looked as if Residence Purchasing Network Inc.'s picture tube had gone kaput. I just bought my first merchandise (ever) and realized the channel I was viewing was HSN 2.
When I referred to as them again after discovering out about it, I used to be advised that they or only doing flex on that on 2 pay so they might not give me the 4 pay on it. After I informed them it was 4 once I purchased it, she said it didn't matter and that she would only do the 2 pay.
In January 1987 Residence Buying introduced plans to build a new telecommunications middle and company headquarters in St. Petersburg, Florida. We've options to pay using Credit Card, Debit Card, Web Banking, EMI, Wallets, Credit Card EMIs, and Money On Supply applicable throughout our whole product vary.

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Mantrac cuts bandwidth costs with Riverbed WANs
Caterpillar distributor cuts bandwidth costs by 75% with Riverbed WAN optimization appliances
Egypt's Mantrac Group has deployed Riverbed's Steelhead WAN optimization appliances across eleven locations cutting bandwidth costs by 75%, the company reports.
Mantrac Group, an authorized dealer for Caterpillar construction vehicles and plant, says that it has realized savings of $300,000, and seen ROI in ten months.
The Steelhead appliances were installed at the company's Cairo HQ and ten other locations by Riverbed reseller IP-Protocol Inc.
Mantrac wanted to automate business processes while reducing costs through an IT consolidation project, which required a more reliable network infrastructure, according to Amgad Yassin, group business solutions manager at Mantrac Group.
"We wanted to improve our data collection system and automate a number of business processes, while reducing operational costs. In order to achieve this, senior management proposed an IT consolidation project. However, for this project to be successful, we recognized that users would need fast and reliable access to data over the wide area network (WAN). This would be critical to the success of our business," he said.
Riverbed was selected after proof of concept testing of its solutions, plus Citrix and Cisco solutions, with Riverbed being selected due to best results when uploading and downloading CIFS, MAPI and HTTP files and price-to-performance ratio, according to Yassin.


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By Leonie Reid
Born in Beaconsfield in 1938, Tom Tranter spent most of his early life in the Wheatbelt towns of Kellerberrin and Tammin.
He attended Kellerberrin Convent and Tammin Primary School before going to board at St Ildephonsus College, New Norcia at the age of 13. There he was educated by the Marist Brothers and credits them with instilling in him the values he lived by in his adult life.
Tom came to Perth in 1955. He first worked with BP, while studying Accountancy at night school. After he qualified as a Chartered Accountant, he went to work for C.P. Bird and Associates (subsequently named Bird Cameron). His first posting was at Moora where he and his new wife Fay met many friends.
Tom loved the land and he loved his farming clients, often speaking of them with a touch of envy. His experience of growing up in the country was embedded in him and was a great asset in his rural work.
In Moora in 1964, Tom and Fay welcomed their daughter Genevieve into the world, followed two years later by a son Matthew.
When Matthew was barely a year old, Genevieve contracted encephalitis which left her with severe brain damage.
From there on, family life became a challenge with regular seizures, tantrums and constant medical treatments. A move back to Perth became a necessity. Through all this, Fay and Tom left no stone unturned in trying to make Genevieve's life better. In the eyes of the family, Tom was the most devoted and loving father any daughter could have wished for.
In their eulogies, sons Matthew and James both commented on the profound impact Genevieve's life and disability had upon Tom.
They remembered him telling them that this opened up completely different things in life, a new direction, new people, new challenges and basically a whole new positive meaning. He often said that spending time with people who had an intellectual disability was a good way of staying grounded and getting back to basics.
In the early 1980s, Tom and Fay were part of a small group of parents who really believed that their children with intellectual disabilities had as much right as anyone else to be included in the life of the Catholic Church.
They started to put pressure on Church authorities to open the way for their sons and daughters to receive the sacraments. Eventually, as a result of their efforts, a large group of children and adults (including Genevieve) received Confirmation in 1977 and went on to receive the Eucharist in 1978.
One of their greatest allies on this journey was Sr Maureen McCarthy RSM, the founder of Catholic Care for the Intellectually Handicapped (CCIH).
Sr Maureen arranged a meeting of the small parent group at the Tranter home in Churchlands and introduced them to Sr Eileen Casey, a Sister of Mercy from Melbourne who had done some further study in America and discovered a program called SPRED (Special Religious Development) – a faith program that offered a way for parishes to reach out to people of all ages who had an intellectual disability and include them in the sacramental, liturgical and social life of the parish community. Everyone pledged their support immediately.
After much negotiation, the Archbishop of Perth invited Sister Eileen to come to Perth where she threw herself into the challenge of establishing a ministry, based on her experience in the USA, which would provide ongoing support for those with intellectual disabilities.
Sr Eileen was very definite that this ministry had to be parish-based, providing friendship and support through parish volunteers who were linked one-on-one with the people with disability.
In answer to the prayers of parents, the Personal Advocacy Service was officially established in 1989. Tom Tranter was one of the founding members of the organisation and threw his heart and soul into its development. In fact, he remained a stalwart member and Treasurer of the Board of Management until the day of his passing last December.
Apart from his 30 year involvement with the Personal Advocacy Service, Tom was a foundation member of Catholic Care and walked the journey from its humble beginnings in 1977 to the now thriving organisation of Identitywa which supports in excess of 500 people with disabilities.
Over the years, Tom has also been Treasurer of the Slow Learning Children's Group; President of the Pyrton Parents' Association; parent representative on the Government committee set up to bring about the admission of children with disabilities into the school education system; and Board member of the Spine and Limb Foundation (formerly known as Civilian Maimed and Limbless Association).
On another level, Tom was a passionate sportsman and fan, playing tennis, squash and cricket well into his fifties. He was a 28yr member of the Nedlands Golf Club, and always looked forward to playing golf and spending time with the guys he played with. He was a keen West Coast Eagles supporter as well – a trip to the footy rain, hail or shine was his way. He could talk and argue about sport for hours.
Somehow, with all this ongoing community involvement, Tom still found time to be an outstanding 'Pa' to his six grandchildren. He was always there to offer advice, tease, babysit or just play with his grandkids. He is well loved and will be missed by each of them.
His family remember him fondly as a man of great faith, love, hard work, integrity and humility. His 55 years of marriage to Fay is a true example of love and companionship. Together they set the foundation for a very warm and stable family environment.
In a recent article that Tom himself wrote for the Abundant Life magazine, he said that the motivation for he and his wife Fay to promote the Personal Advocacy Service (PAS) ministry is to provide help and support for his daughter Genevieve and others to share in the gifts that the Church offers to all people.
Tom suggested that the reason for establishing PAS could be understood more clearly by relating a true story of two women with intellectual disability waiting to cross a road.
They were recognised by a parishioner from a nearby parish. The offer to assist them to cross the road was politely refused but the ongoing exchange revealed that both young women had stopped going to Mass on Sundays. Asked why, the sadly given answer was: "No-one would speak to us."
Out of this chance meeting, the young women were brought back to experience the joy of inclusion within the pastoral and sacramental life of the Church through the encouragement and support offered by PAS. Both were linked to a volunteer advocate from the local parish community.
This connection meant that they had a welcoming word and smile at Mass, as well as support at other faith-based and social activities within the parish. Inclusion transformed the lives of those two young women with special needs.
At Tom's invitation, a visiting Marist Brother from Melbourne attended one of the regular Masses in the Morley Parish which is adapted in order to include members of the PAS groups in that area.
In conversation over morning tea, he said: "I have just witnessed Christ at work." This profound statement summed up in a succinct but beautiful way the impact PAS has on a parish community.
Tom's wife Fay said that their Personal Advocacy involvement has been a wonderful journey in faith not only for Genevieve but for the whole family who share in its blessings.


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Ages 3 to Adults
It's our goal for God's word to be the guiding force at Western Avenue. From A to Z, young to old, new believer to the regulars - that's the goal for all of us.
It's with that in mind that we offer Sunday School classes for everyone in the following groups:
Ages 3 to 4
Kinder to 1st Grade
2nd to 3rd Grade
4th to 6th Grade
Jr & Sr High School
Mixed Adults 1
Mixed Adults 2
No need to sign up in advance or reserve a spot, just show up at 9am and an usher will help you find the right class.


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After migrating my site from a subdomain to the main domain I am unable to update the urls for images to the new domain. I performed the migration with Snapshot and then performed a search and replace on the database with Search-Replace-DB-master. The search and replace action updated the urls and links in the menus located in global regions and also corrected the url for the logo image in the global header region but did not update the urls for images and links in local body regions or in galleries.
I have tried the operations several times always with the same results.
It seems that Upfront is storing these data somewhere inaccessible to the search and replace program.
Any assistance would be appreciated as there are many images to be edited.


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Today, WeddingLovely, is teaming up with Wish Upon a Wedding! Wish Upon a Wedding is a magical organization, and we are SO PROUD to share them with our vendors, all 1k+ of them! Vendors, we hope that you'll feel inspired by their mission and apply to become a Wish Granter after reading this post!
From Wish Upon a Wedding's website:
" Wish Upon a Wedding is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization that provides weddings and vow renewals to couples facing terminal illness and serious life altering circumstances, regardless of sexual orientation. Our organization was created to celebrate the courage, determination and spirit of these couples by granting their dream wedding Wishes. Our hope is that chosen recipients can inspire other couples facing similar situations to find hope and strength."
If you are currently listed on one of our directories and are currently a Wish Granter with Wish Upon a Wedding, then you now can edit your profile and add their badge to your profile:
Wish Upon a Wedding currently has chapters in the following areas:
- Northern California
- Chicago
- Southern California (LA & OC)
- Orlando & Central Florida
- St. Louis
- D.C. (Maryland, DC, Virginia, W. Virginia)
- New Jersey and Metro New York
- Houston
- Atlanta
- Ohio
- Philadelphia (Delaware, Pennsylvania, South Jersey)
- Minnesota
- San Diego
- Michigan
- Boston
- North Carolina
- Nashville
- Indianapolis, Indiana
- Mississippi
- South Florida/Miami
- Las Vegas
- Kentucky
Not a vendor? You can still help!
Not a wedding vendor, no problem! You can make a donation, or if you are a couple getting married and would like to make a donation in lieu of favors or gifts (Wish Upon a Wedding will send you 150 cards to include in your invitations!), you will be helping a great cause.
A huge heartfelt thank you to Wish Upon a Wedding — we're excited about working together and hope that we can help you make a difference! Visit their blog to read the love stories of couples who have had their wish granted, they're pretty inspiring!


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Scale stroke - always?
calerius posted a topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (Mac and Windows)Is it possible to set the application to always scale the stroke until i manually change this setting agian? Now I need to set the option for every asset, very annoying. :P
Stroke glitches when using draw behind and scale strokes
evtonic3 posted a topic in (Pre 1.7) Bugs on MacWhen I check the options draw behind fill and scale strokes in the stroke panel I noticed that erratic slider behavior when I get real close to the max value on the slider. It's smooth and fine until I reach the end maxed out values of the slider, then it glitches and tries to persistently override my placement of the slider and gives me a value that it wants (if that makes sense). This is in both MAS and Beta versions.
Scale Stroke Doesn't Stick When Checked.
Patchwork posted a topic in (Pre 1.7) Bugs on MacI've mentioned this in several other posts already, but forgot to post about it here in Bugs, so here it is. Unfortunately, it's still a problem. I always have the set stroke scale box checked, but if I dare send a file out to my client (they use AI, so have to open the files with that), the stroke ends up huge, and not scaled properly at all. For now, I'm solving the problem by expanding stroke on everything, but that ends up being really inconvenient. So far this has been a problem with the main program and all of the betas I've been using. I hope you can fix it.


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Over 3 million people access high cost credit in the UK
Problem debt costs the UK an estimated £8.3 billion
It's estimated that 16.8% of the UK population are over-indebted
12 million people in the UK have less than £50 in savings
Who we are
Fair4All Finance has been founded to support the financial wellbeing of the most vulnerable people in society. Our ambition is to increase access to fair, affordable and appropriate financial products and services.
We are funded by dormant assets money for financial inclusion.
We are currently working on our first strategy, which will be in place by autumn 2019. Our first focus area is improving access to affordable credit. Our aim is to build capacity in the affordable credit sector with a combination of financial support, capability development and ecosystem development programmes.
Our challenge
Over 3 million people access high cost credit in the UK and more than 12m people have less than £50 in savings.
Our challenge is to increase access to fair financial products and services to help vulnerable people meet their day to day financial needs, absorb shocks and smooth incomes.
Collaborative partnerships
We will work collaboratively with a range of groups who are already active across the financial inclusion and financial services sectors.
- Government and financial inclusion regulators
- Financial inclusion advocates & researchers
- Financial guidance and debt advice providers
- Affordable credit providers
- Credit reference agencies
- Commercial lenders
- Housing associations
- Employers
- Technology for good providers
- Insurance industry
Get involved
If you operate in the financial inclusion space and would like to help us in our mission to end financial exclusion, please get in touch.
Stay informed
Read the latest Fair4All Finance news and stay up to date with developments in the financial inclusion space.
We continue to make good progress on all workstreams connected to our first focus area; affordable credit.


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Who is eligible to apply to the Center for Curatorial Leadership?
Candidates for the Center for Curatorial Leadership must be full-time art museum curators who are in charge of the care, display, and interpretation of objects as well as the organization of permanent collections and temporary exhibitions. The CCL welcomes candidates with significant curatorial experience from all ranks of the profession.
What kind of experience should a candidate have had in order to apply for the CCL fellowship?
The ideal candidate demonstrates a track record of success and commitment to the full range of curatorial endeavor – management, care, and scholarly study of collections as well as the development and execution of exhibitions, publications, and community programs. Experience with the supervision of both personnel and finances as well as exposure to fundraising initiatives and strategic planning are essential for engagement with the management topics addressed in the CCL curriculum.
Do I need to be nominated by my institution?
No. The CCL encourages both institutional and self-nominations for this program.
Who should I ask to write my recommendations?
The CCL requires two recommendations. One recommendation should come from the applicant's museum director or someone in a senior role who is a current supervisor. The other should come from a professional colleague from outside the applicant's museum. This can be a trustee, a peer in the field, a former supervisor etc.


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Robert Castillo
Missions and Spanish Ministry Pastor
Robert Castillo has been the Missions and Spanish pastor of the First Baptist Church of Duncanville since the end of 2014. Robert graduated from Criswell Bible College. He has served as pastor and ordained to the ministry in 1995, working as a church planter in southwest Dallas. His passion is to see families experience salvation in Christ. He is married to Claudia and he has four children. Roberto Carlos (Monica) , Vanessa Guerra (Armando) , Valerie and Joel Alexander. His favorite saying "one more for Christ."


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MONTGOMERY— Greater access to high-tech medical care is coming to 19 Alabama counties with the help of a $139,650 Appalachian Regional Commission grant announced by Gov. Kay Ivey.
The Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) will use the grant to expand its local telehealth services by building and deploying telehealth carts for use in 19 county health departments. Each cart will be equipped with a high-definition video camera, computer, monitors, a Bluetooth stethoscope and a handheld examination camera. The equipment will enable patients to travel to their local health department for a telehealth appointment with their doctor or specialist located in another city.
"The use of telehealth technology greatly eases the burden on patients in rural areas by eliminating the need to travel to see a doctor or specialist in one of our major metropolitan areas like Birmingham or Mobile," Ivey said. "I commend the Department of Public Health for expanding this initiative, and I am grateful for the ARC funds to make this expansion possible."
The patients schedule the appointments with their health care provider then travel to their local health department where staff facilitate the appointment using the telehealth cart equipment. The service is already available in 21 county health departments.
State Health Officer Dr. Tom Miller said, "The overarching goal of the department's Telehealth Program is to increase access to a broad range of health care services by collaborating with providers who are willing and able to serve new and existing clients via telehealth technology. This new model of care in Alabama has the potential to provide expanded access to healthcare services, specifically to the underserved population throughout the Appalachian region."
The new carts will go to health departments in the following counties: Bibb, Chambers, Chilton, Cleburne, Fayette, Franklin, Hale, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lamar, Macon, Madison, Marion, Morgan, Pickens, Randolph, St. Clair, Tallapoosa and Winston.
The Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs administers the ARC program in Alabama. Thirty-seven counties in Alabama are part of the ARC region and eligible for funds, which could be cut under current federal budget proposals.
"A native of rural Alabama, Governor Ivey knows first-hand the importance of access to high-quality and specialized health care to the quality of life in any community," ADECA Director Kenneth Boswell said. "With Governor Ivey's support of this grant, ADECA's partnership with ARC will enable the Department of Public Health to offer telehealth services to more Alabamians – particularly those in rural areas of our state."
The ARC's mission is to innovate, partner, and invest to build community capacity and strengthen economic growth in Appalachia to help the region achieve socioeconomic parity with the nation. During a period of October 2015 to January 2017 ARC has funded 64 projects in Alabama totaling $11.2 million and resulted in 900 jobs and trained or educated 14,000 students or workers for new or advancement jobs.
ADECA administers an array of programs supporting law enforcement and traffic safety, economic development, energy conservation, workforce development, water resource management and recreation development.
Contact: Mike Presley or Jennifer Ardis Elmore


text: 31 August 2015 Handy advice for first home buyers Buying a home is an important decision and purchasing your first home, even more so. It can be a tricky and somewhat daunting process which is why it is essential to do your homework, have a plan and budget, and seek expert advice before jumping in. Here are some quick tips to help avoid some of the common traps when taking your first step onto the property ladder: Be clear on what you can afford to spend to avoid looking at properties that are out of your price range. Work of the best home loan for you and check the ongoing repayments taking into consideration interest rate increases over time. Get pre-approval for your loan so you know exactly what properties you can afford to be looking at. Understand all your costs such as stamp duty, pest and building inspections, insurance and legal fees. After getting off to a bit of a rocky start, Corey and Jessica from Queensland's Sunshine Coast managed to get into their first home with little stress and fuss. Listen to what Corey and Jessica have to say about buying their first home.


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*Clings to her Iiyama CRTs*
Have to smack one of them once in a while to make the picture return, but then it's good for a while again ^_^
*Clings to her Iiyama CRTs*
Have to smack one of them once in a while to make the picture return, but then it's good for a while again ^_^
www.mayaposch.com - My personal site. Yes, I'm a girl geek
So far I have bought Dell, Asus and Acer monitors. I am pleased with the Dell and Acer. Our 18-inch (officially 19 inches?) TV is a Samsung. All have functioned reliably.
Thank you for the report on the LG. Your experiences would make a fine review, especially as we're waiting for a PSU review (hint hint).
CPU: Core i7 8700k, HT enabled, all 6 cores OC'd to 4.8GHz, Vcore = 1.24v
Heatsink: Noctua NH-D15 with one NF-A15 1500 RPM PWM fan
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z370X Aorus Gaming 7
RAM: 4x16GB (64GB) Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 RAM 16-18-18-36@3200MHz, Vdimm = 1.35v
GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 1080 DirectX 12 with 8GB 256-Bit GDDR5X
SSD1: Samsung 840 EVO 500GB TLC; SSD2: SAMSUNG 860 EVO 1TB 3-bit MLC
HD: WD 500GB (old); Case: LIAN LI PC-7H Aluminum ATX Mid Tower
PSU: Seasonic Platinum 660W
There's one planned for tomorrow, but right now I'm extremely low on review samples. March might be a little slow.
The M2762D review came to 8 pages. Hated to scrap it, but when you can no longer find it to buy it, there's no point publishing the review.
I know the feeling... I've still yet to pop the cherry on my new tester properly...


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A Link Marker (リンクマーカー, Rinku Mākā known as "Link Arrow" in English) is a set of indicators unique to Link Monsters, used to denote a Link Monster next to the Link. A Link Monster's Link Number is equal to the number of Link Markers it has. Link Markers are represented by red arrows radiating outward from the Link Monster's art frame.
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A Monster Zone which a Link Marker is pointing to becomes a Linked Zone and is considered to be of that Link Monster, and any monsters occupying those Linked Zones are considered to be linked to the Link Monster(s) whose Link Marker(s) are pointing to those Zones. Fusion, Synchro, Xyz, Pendulum, and Link Monsters can be Special Summoned from the Extra Deck to the Main Monster Zones which are linked to a Link Monster.
Like the Pendulum Scales on a Pendulum Monster, Link Markers are separate from a Link Monster's effect. The Link Marker is active even when the Link Monster's effect is negated and vice-versa.
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|Anime (Episodes (Season 1,Season 2)) • Characters • Yu-Gi-Oh! LABO
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|Attack and effect names • Cyberse • Extra Monster Zone • Link Marker • Link Material • Link Monster • Link Number • Link State • Link Summon • Master Duel • Next to the Link • Skill • Speed Duel
|D-Board • Data Gale • Data Storm • Duel Disk • Link VRAINS • Solid Vision
|Ignis • The Knights of Hanoi • SOL Technologies • Charisma Duelist
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Client: Tom Inatomi, Los Angeles Realtor
Projects: ThomasInatomi.com Graphic Design, Website, Branding
One of the problems we had with the current marketing and advertising pieces was consistency and transforming a the pieces from former partner to something new. Keeping simply stylish fonts, but adding graphic elements was key. Also, developing a stand out product for mailings-- which was formally done by printing out flyer, folding and mailing. The addition of the rack card gave a bright and professional method.
We developed a simple website for clients to see current listings, get property information and contact.


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In the 60s and 70s, IBM was THE dominant force in enterprise computing.
Despite incursions from vendors both inside and outside the US, IBM developed an intimate understanding of their customers' needs and requirements. No matter what happened, IBM always had their clients' backs—and this is where other vendors failed on a spectacular scale.
To put it simply, other businesses thought they were selling a box. IBM knew they were selling a solution. That's why the phrase "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" became so popular—customers knew that IBM was such a safe bet, they could stake their jobs on it.
The love for IBM was despite IBM's higher prices, and it wasn't until the rise of personal computers and client server computing that IBM's star began to fade as cheaper, more accessible options with a higher ROI began to appear. Frankly, it didn't matter if you had a problem with a Client Server solution because it was so much cheaper and so much faster to fix. The Client Server innovation changed the dynamic of the customer equation but IBM, with their huge investment in traditional mainframe computing, simply could not or would not make the shift. It was the beginning of the end of a nearly 100 year run for a technology giant.
We're witnessing a very similar phenomenon in the aerial robotics industry that's making ripples in other fields as well—especially solar energy.
With the introduction of more reliable and more efficient drone technology, history is repeating itself. Engineers and builders have long relied on traditional survey approaches to establish topography maps for difficult construction problems—and like IBM, "nobody got fired for hiring a traditional surveyor" is a pretty accurate way to describe the state of the industry.
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Two years ago, Manhattan resident and creative community-builder Stacy Harshman Googled the terms: depressed, therapy, work, community, mountains. From the results, it was Spring Lake Ranch (SLR) in Cuttingsville that caught her eye. A multi-talented artist, writer and musician who has struggled with bi-polar disorder, Stacy said her time at SLR has made her, "a much happier version" of herself.
"One of my greatest learnings is about being resilient," Stacy said. "I've struggled with bi-polar disorder for most of my adult life. This has knocked me around and off my dearest wishes and plans many times, yet somehow, with the great help of my family and friends, I have gotten back up, picked up the pieces and patched them back together. I think, and hope, that my creativity is a more colorful patchwork as a result of overcoming these challenges.
"I am proud of the creative community I built in Manhattan," Stacy continued. "I wanted to create a space for people to share that was warm and welcoming and free for everyone, and that celebrated all kinds of expression." And she did.
At her "Sunday Salons," Stacy hosted comedians, singers, dancers, magicians, tai chi masters, poets, glass artists, composers and actors in her home in the East Village. "The joy they brought everyone who participated was spine tingling. We created something very special. I hope to re-create that specialness and community here, Vermont-style."
How Stacy plans to do that is through her brand-new adventure: The Sparkle Barn, in Wallingford.
After her time at SLR, taken by the beauty of the area, Stacy moved to Rutland and took a part-time job at Pierce's Store in Shrewsbury. Here she found a striking contrast to Manhattan, where "the art scene, along with everything else, is so competitive and so, 'who you know.'" In Vermont, she felt welcomed and part of the community. "I knew I was done with the fast-paced and sometimes unwelcoming vibe of Manhattan," Stacy said, "Rutland, and Vermont, were much nicer."
Holding onto a vision of one day owning a store with beautiful, handmade objects from around the world, Stacy found that her success at selling via Facebook the paintings she was creating in her apartment in Rutland, was the encouragement she needed. "It re-ignited my dream. This time around though, the dream could include my own art."
And when she found a property beside Route 7 in Wallingford with a barn which used to be an antique store, she knew she had found her spot.
Stacy explained that owning such a store is in her blood. "My Grandparents owned an antique store, so I grew up around unique pieces that had stories. I'm passionate about beauty, and the history and stories that go along with the physical manifestation of it. I'm also passionate and fascinated by artists' unending creativity and talents. I also love finding beauty. I call myself a beauty-collector."
The Sparkle Barn, which will have its grand opening this weekend, July 1 and 2, offers unique, handmade art and artisan creations from Vermont and all over the world, for which Stacy's selection criteria has been simple: Is it handmade? Does it delight? In the future, the upstairs of the barn will be used for classes, workshops and events such as music, art shows and movie nights. For the opening weekend, there will be 25-percent-off barn-wide, two drawings for $50 gift certificates and refreshments.
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A loop statement allows us to execute a statement or group of statements multiple times.
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- Shakespeare as Relic in Wallace Stevens' Late Poetry
Wallace Stevens: the interacting veins of life between his early and late poems are an ever-continuing marvel to me.1
In a response to a letter from an American professor interested in Wallace Stevens' use of William Shakespeare's work, Stevens replied, on 1 July 1953, almost exactly two years before his death:
1. Is not Peter Quince in Midsummer Night's Dream?
My Shakespeare is in the attic, which is hotter than the Sahara and I could not bring myself last night to go up to look. I think you should verify this under refrigerated conditions in the library at Harvard.2
Stevens, famous for his wry sense of humour, makes reference to Shakespeare throughout his poetic career, but the following discussion begins with the ways in which he employs the plays toward the end of his life, when the idea of Shakespeare was at its most virile, burning hot in the attic of his imagination. Shakespeare's last plays hold a privileged place in Wallace Stevens' late poetry, and in this paper I will argue that Stevens' appropriation of the play he considered Shakespeare's last, The Tempest, forms part of a constructed late style. Theodor W. Adorno coined the term 'late style', Spätstil, in the 1930s in his essay on Beethoven's final compositions.3 Regardless of whether or not Stevens was familiar with this seminal essay, his final poetic compositions reveal that he clearly understood the facets of aging and ending in literature in a manner that were held synonymous with Shakespearean 'lateness' from the nineteenth-century. I have two primary aims in this paper: the first is to demonstrate that Wallace Stevens knew what lateness was and what it meant to have a literary 'late phase', as the idea had been fashioned through Victorian reception of Shakespeare's last plays, and the second is to reveal how employing late Shakespeare helps him achieve a late style of his own. That Stevens secures a place in the canon as a late poet is evidenced by a body of criticism that still reveres his last poems as revealing an organic, transhistorical connection to Shakespeare's late phase. What will become clear throughout this discussion is that his conception of lateness belongs to a masculine literary inheritance. For Stevens, Shakespeare represents a significant male figure in the late canon, and by uncovering the way Shakespeare's works are used, and the possible motivations behind using them, we gain further insight into the privileged place Shakespeare holds in modernist poetics. By first shedding light on the way that certain modernist writers see late style as a specifically male-dominated phenomenon, this paper then questions the absence of women writers in late style studies, uncovering the gendered nature of the construct.4
The OED defines a 'relic', among other things, as a surviving trace or idea of something past, and it is with this in mind that I will discuss 'late Shakespeare' as an idea that informs Stevens' final poems. Gordon McMullan is apparently the first to interrogate traditional perceptions of late style, redefining lateness as a critical theory and construct applied to literary works. He traces its history in Shakespearean scholarship, exploring traditionally and specifically 'late' ideas and tropes, and the psychological and/or physical dispositions of the artist on which they are predicated.5 The body of scholarship from which the concept of late style emerged he refers to as the 'discourse of lateness', and criticism on Shakespeare's late style has contributed to this.6 I will show how appraisals of Stevens' final works that embrace the supposedly 'organic' nature of his late style tout court are also a part of what we now understand as a 'discourse'. A theory of how writers might create a late style thus begins to come into view. In many regards, it was precisely the prolonged lack of such a theory that enabled critics and writers to attribute late style where, and when, they deemed appropriate. Two main tools used to support the idea of a naturally occurring late style in past scholarship have been the notion of charting literary patterns through the lifetime, and the belief that the writer's psychology unconsciously informs the work. The idea that late style is a naturally occurring phenomenon with a biographical imperative still persists in scholarship on Shakespeare and Stevens today, and for my purposes here I will simply clarify that the 'late style' that has been attributed to Shakespeare and Stevens refers to a natural, unconscious shift in both verse style and thematic, which arises from contemplation of death, or a direct closeness to it, through ill health, retirement and in Stevens' case, old age.
- Marianne Moore, cited in Marius Bewley, The Complex Fate: Hawthorn, Henry James, and some other American Writers (London: Chatto & Windus, 1952), 171 [↩]
- Holly Bright Stevens, ed., Letters of Wallace Stevens, 2nd edn (Berkley: University of California Press, 1996), 786. [↩]
- Theodor W. Adorno, 'The Late Style', in Beethoven: The Philosophy of Music, ed. by Rolf Tiedemann, trans. by Edmund Jephcott (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998), 123–37 (124). [↩]
- For an outline of the absence of women in late style criticism, see Gordon McMullan's introduction to Shakespeare and the Idea of Late Writing: Authorship in the Proximity of Death (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), particularly 18–23. [↩]
- McMullan has written extensively on the problematic nature of Shakespeare's late style in early modern England, a culture in which the process of play writing was collaborative, and the notion of the 'author' as we know it today did not exist. See in particular Late Writing, Chapter 4, 'Last words/late plays: the possibility and impossibility of late Shakespeare in early modern culture and theatre', 190–258. [↩]
- Late Writing, 5. Emphasis his. [↩]


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I need to talk to spiritual white women about white supremacy (Part Two)
I have had to wait two months before I was ready to pen this second open letter.
It took two months of processing the enormity of what happened when I hit 'publish' on Part One of this series, before I could summon up the fire and love to write Part Two.
Let me give you a quick recap of what's happened since publishing Part One of this letter.
About two months ago, following the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, I was driven to write what I thought would be a regular newsletter to my small but engaged community (of largely white spiritual women) on white supremacy, racism, spirituality and the complicity of entrepreneurs who do not speak up on issues of social justice.
It was a complete shock and surprise to me when this letter went viral It has now been viewed over 200,000 times at the time of writing this second letter. It has been commented on, shared, criticised, referenced, celebrated, disparaged, upheld, dragged and everything in between.
And so have I.
My words have reached far, far beyond what I could have expected, and for that I am grateful.
At the same time, I have had to process and very rapidly adjust to the sudden expansion of my business and the interest in my work. I've also had to deal with my fair share of internet trolls, misogynists, white supremacists and spiritual-bypassers.
It's been quite a journey and I am still on it.
But this letter isn't about me and my experiences. This is about white supremacy. And so I return to you today to share more on the conversation that I started two months ago.
As with my first letter, I am specifically speaking to Spiritual White Women (SWW).
I'm talking to entrepreneurs and people who hold a platform - no matter how big or small. I am speaking to the spiritual teachers, soulful coaches, heart-centered creatives, intuitive soul guides, energetic healers and transformational entrepreneurs who are dedicated to positively changing people's lives. (However, even if you aren't an entrepreneur or don't have a platform, please know that what I will be sharing in this letter is helpful to you too. We need all of us to do this work).
This letter is both a call-out and a call-in. It is a call for us as leaders and change-makers to do better for ourselves and one another. It is a battle cry for justice and liberation.
And it is written with the sacred medicine of anger and love.
This time I won't be telling you what day of my cycle I am on, or infusing these words with the healing power of reiki. I will not cushion the blow or excuse away the fire of my words.
We have opened the door now. The gloves are off. We have called a thing a thing.
Now, we must dive deeper.
Now we must do the work.
Let's go.
In this second letter, I want to provide some guidance and resources on how to begin doing the work - both inside yourself and in your communities - of anti-racism and dismantling white supremacy.
I need to reiterate however, that I am not an expert, and that nothing I am sharing in this letter hasn't already been shared by others who are far more qualified, experienced and literate in this work than I am. In fact, I feel wholly unqualified to write this letter in the first place. And yet I am writing it.
As I keep repeating to SWW who I interact with, this isn't about being perfect.
This is about being accountable and showing up to do the work. If we waited until it was perfect, we'd never say or do anything.
I myself, as a black woman, am showing up to do my own work of educating myself through reading articles, listening to podcasts, engaging in social justice education programs and watching and listening to the teachers and advocates who have been doing this work for far longer than I have. Although I do not hold white privilege, I still need to be able to identify the ways in which I oppress myself and others through white supremacist and patriarchal ideology. Also, while I may not hold white privilege I do hold other privileges (e.g. cis-gendered, straight, able-bodied, class, etc) which I need to unpack and work through.
White supremacy isn't just about neo-Nazis rallying in Charlottesville. In fact, that's a very extreme manifestation of this system and ideology of oppression. White supremacy (and patriarchy) is in our everyday lives. It seeps into everything that we do. It influences the way we think and see the world, and the way we interact with each other. It informs how we live and work because it is the very foundation upon which places like the USA, Canada, the UK, Europe and Australia are based on.
And it is certainly a dominant paradigm that influences the world of online business.
If you hold white privilege, then white supremacy is the air you breathe and the toxic sea you're swimming.
You can't see yourself as perpetuating white supremacy because you have been conditioned to believe that the way you see the world is the way that everyone else sees the world too. But that just isn't true. White supremacy centers and serves whiteness, while de-centering and oppressing people of colour (POC). You as a white person are seen as normal, and non-white people are seen as 'other'. White-centric programs/summits/conferences are seen as being for everyone. Non-white centric programs/summits/conferences are seen as being exclusively for POC.
It is not as simple as not using racial slurs. We are socialised into white supremacy from the moment we are born. So it's not enough to say 'But I love black people!'. It is about completely dismantling how you see yourself and how you see the world, so that you can dismantle how white supremacy functions as an institutional and ideological system of oppression.
If I, as black woman, am making it a priority to do this work for myself, then you as a white person have an even greater responsibility to do this work.
It is your work to do.
Remember: Even if you hate the fact that you have white privilege and do not agree with white supremacist ideology, if you are white or a white-passing person, you are still a beneficiary of a system that oppresses non-white people. Racism is not a problem that POC created. And we do not benefit from it in any way. So you have a duty and a responsibility to use the privilege that this system has given you from birth to dismantle it - both within yourself, in your communities and in your institutions.
A few weeks ago, while feeling frustrated and exhausted from white people asking me for free emotional labour work and problematic comments on my social media posts from well-meaning spiritual white women, I published the following post on my private FB page:
"I have a lot of white friends here on FB. Some of whom are doing the work of dismantling oppression (within themselves and their communities) and some who aren't.
I need to know who I can call on or tag to support me with emotional labour when a problematic white person wanders into my comments and starts to whitesplain to me how I should work or live.
Being a truth-teller who is a black woman means I face an inevitable backlash of comments soaking in both white supremacist ideology and patriarchal bullshit anytime I call a thing out for what it is. It is exhausting and it takes up a lot of emotional labour.
Who of my white friends can I call on for support with this? Who is willing to step in if I tag you and handle these problematic and privileged comments? Who is actually willing to step in and do the work, no matter how imperfectly? Who actually has my back?
Please comment below if you are here to support me (and other marginalised folk) in this way.
If you've been thinking 'how can I use my white privilege for good?' - this is how."
I was delighted to have almost 250 white friends raise their hands and say 'Yes - count me in. I'm here for you'. However, what I noticed is that many of them also had the caveat of 'I'm not going to be anywhere near perfect at this, but I'll try my best'.
I am dedicating this letter to those who wrote that caveat, and to anyone who is reading this letter and feeling the exact same way.
I understand that you want to be able to do this work, but you're afraid that you're going to get it wrong. And guess what? You probably will! You'll probably make mistakes or say the wrong thing or inadvertently cause more harm than good.
Because you've probably never done this before in a big way, or feel you don't know enough to handle these kinds of conversations with confidence. Also, you might find it uncomfortable to call out other white folks because you can see where they are coming from, and you know that in the past you've probably done exactly what they're doing right now, because you didn't know any better.
So if you are like one of the white people who raised their hands on my FB post and said, 'YES, Count me in for being an ally to you and other people of colour in my community. I'm ready to use my white privilege for good!', then you've got some work to do if you want to make sure that you don't make as many mistakes and that you don't do more harm than good.
Saying 'YES' to doing this work is only the first step.
If you've given your YES, then you need to know what your YES means.
Your YES means:
YES to constantly educating myself around issues of social justice, intersectional feminism, sacred activism and conscious leadership.
YES to constantly doing the work within myself of identifying how I oppress others and myself, and doing the work of calling myself out when I do harm - whether I meant it or not.
YES to listening to people of colour and other marginalised folk when they are taking the time to educate me for free, and not telling them how I think they should see things or what I think they should do.
YES to speaking up as often as possible in my personal and professional environments about this work and to calling out / calling in white privilege and oppression when I see it.
YES to supporting POC and other marginalised folk by reading and listening to their work, buying their services and products, inviting them onto my summits, podcasts and programs, and cultivating relationships with people of colour that are 'transformational and not transactional' (hat tip to Desiree Adaway for this quote). In other words, not using POC as tokens, but having real and respectful relationships with them of mutual support.
YES to doing the work of educating myself instead of expecting people of colour to tell me what to do or expecting them to make it comfortable for me to unpack my own privilege.
YES to seeing my spirituality as a way to engage deeper into this work rather than as a way to bypass this work, and to recognising that being devoted to Spirit means being devoted to social justice.
YES to taking an honest look at my business and the way that I may be perpetuating white supremacy through it (e.g. through cultural appropriation, mainly highlighting white people, refusing to speak on social justice, etc.) and doing what I can to change that.
YES to doing this work every day, even when I get it wrong, even when it's hard, even when it feels like I'm not good enough at it - because it's not about me.
YES to not just doing this work when it is convenient or comfortable for me, or because I think that talking about social justice will somehow enhance my business brand, but because it's the right thing to do.
YES to bringing my anger to the table and using it in conscious ways to call out spiritual-bypassing, white-washing, light-washing, racism, misogyny and microaggressions when I see them happening.
YES to calling out and not engaging in cultural appropriation – which is rampant in the world of spiritual entrepreneurship.
YES to staying in my own lane and using my unique spiritual gifts to show up in sacred activism – whether as a writer, an artist, a facilitator, a speaker, a healer, a teacher or a guide.
YES to setting my ego and fragility aside so that I can do what's right instead of what is easy.
YES to not letting guilt or making mistakes get in the way of me continuing to show up.
YES to apologising when I get it wrong and taking accountability for the harm that I've done.
YES to forgiving myself and educating myself, so that I can do better next time.
And lastly, for those of us who identify as priestesses, YES to understanding that doing this work also means saying YES to the Dark Goddess.
Not as a deity to be worshipped. But as an embodied practice of working with the Dark Feminine within yourself.
The times that we are now living in and the work of social justice necessitates having a relationship to and embodiment of aspects of ourselves that patriarchal white supremacy has deemed as wrong, deviant or dangerous.
The Dark Feminine and her myths from around the world as Kali Ma, Inanna & Ereshkigal, Demeter & Persphone, Isis, Sekhmet, Cerridwen, Hecate, Pele, Durga, Oya, Lilith, Baba Yaga and many more, have so much to teach us about what it means to embrace and transform the shadow – both within ourselves and in the collective consciousness.
I will be writing and speaking much more about the Dark Goddess in the future, but for now what I want to say about this archetype is that through her myths, she teaches us the importance of transformational portals like rage, death & rebirth, grief, power, the mystery of not knowing all the answers, sexuality, no-bullshit truth-telling, strong boundaries and doing what is right rather than what is comfortable.
To the extent that we are unable to tolerate and embrace these dark aspects, we will similarly be unable to do the work of sacred activism.
If you cannot be with your own rage, then you cannot be with the rage that arises when a POC is getting frustrated with you because of your white privileged behavior.
If you cannot be with your own grief, then you cannot be with the grief that POC feel as a result of living with the constant trauma of being oppressed and discriminated against.
If you cannot be with your own power, then you cannot make space for POC exerting their power through their voice, their boundary-setting and their no bullshit truth-telling.
If you truly want to do this work then saying YES to all of the above is a non-negotiable.
Anything less than this is performative. It is wanting to give the perception of allyship and solidarity, without fully committing to it.
And if a part of you is saying 'Layla, you're asking too much of me. I don't know if I can do that', then know that that in itself is privilege in action. Doing this work is an option for you because of your privilege. It is not an option for black and brown people, because it directly affects our lives.
I also hear the highly sensitive, introverted empaths in the back saying, 'But this will exhaust me!'.
Guess what? There are highly sensitive, introverted empaths who are black and brown (like myself!) who are exhausted too. Sadly, we don't get to opt out.
I'm not saying don't tend to your self-care needs to do this work.
I'm not saying sacrifice your mental and emotional safety to do this work.
I'm not saying nothing else matters except this work.
I'm saying you can do both.
You can do this work, and tend to your needs.
Most POC you know are doing both all the time.
Whether we want to or not.
Remember, I am not asking you to do any of this perfectly. I am asking you to do it sincerely and with integrity.
Just begin.
Try. Fail. Listen. Learn. Speak. Be quiet. Change. Fail. Try again. Do better. Keep going.
And don't stop.
Not ever.
Not until all of us are free.
In the final part of this letter, I want to share some links and resources for you to begin diving into.
It goes without saying that this list is not exhaustive.
It's a starting point. It's a way in. I will be adding this list as a separate Resources page on my site in the future, and adding to it whenever I come across helpful resources. But remember, this isn't my work to do. It is yours (if you have white privilege).
Please also remember that I regularly write about and hold conversations around these topics on my blog, my podcast, and now on Patreon.
I wish you all the best as you continue on with this work.
People of colour who I listen to and learn from:
Websites and online publications that I follow and learn from:
Social justice programs, groups and initiatives that I recommend:
Podcasts I recommend:
further reading & Research:
12 Essays About White Privilege That Every White Ally Needs To Read
A Flowchart For People Who Get Defensive When Talking About Racism
No, We Won't Calm Down – Tone Policing Is Just Another Way to Protect Privilege


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Professional kitchen and bathroom installations, specialist fitters of bathrooms and kitchens in Carmarthenshire and Swansea. All the skills required to design and fit your perfect bathroom or kitchen. The whole process from consultation, project managing all the skills needed and the attention to detail to ensure you have a bathroom or kitchen of your dreams.
Our German designed accessories use a patented adhesive system that provides the strongest non-drill solution available. They are suitable for use on ceramics (including porcelain), glass, laminates, wood, metals, brick and natural stone. Our accessories are designed and manufactured to the highest German specifications and are guaranteed not to rust.
We are a family owned and run business with over 40 years in business. We offer a FREE no obligation plan and design service using the latest in computer aided design software. We are able to project manage your installation from concept to completion.
Our wide range of installation services range from tiling applications to full kitchens, Full CAD Design & Planning service to assist you in realising the full potential of your Living areas. Supply & Installation of Kitchens and Bedrooms. Replacement made-to-measure kitchen and bedroom doors given you the choice of a facelift to breathe life into your existing kitchen, bedroom or bathroom from an
In the Bathroom section you can find information on the ranges of baths, sanitaryware, showers, shower trays, shower enclosures, bathroom furniture, mirrors and accessories that we have available along with details of any current special offers. We can supply sanitaryware, brassware, showers, furniture, accessories and more, from these leading manufacturers and others.
PTS (Training) Ltd run two tiling training centres in Harlow, Essex and Warrington, Cheshire. Where tilers are trained to a professional level in tiling bathroom, kitchens, hallways, walls and floors. Some of the tilers also attend the specialised tiling courses in Victorian tiling and Mosaic tiling.
Coastal Ceramics, based in Colwyn Bay, North Wales, provides high quality Bathrooms, Kitchens and tiles, along with all the accessories required to complete the look. We have a fantastic range of bathroom suites on display, along with an extensive selection of accessories and tiling options.
We take great pride in our large showroom displaying both Traditional and Contemporary bathrooms, shower cubicles, Tiles and the very latest in kitchens and appliances. We can offer you a full kitchen design and kitchen fitting service. Fully trained staff are on hand to help you choose the perfect bathroom or kitchen for your home. If we do not have what you are looking for we will do our very best
Since - the 18th Century the Spanish region of Valencia has been famous for the beauty and quality of its ceramics, but until the founding of Porcelanosa it was the vast, centuries old orange groves that dominated the industry of the Castilian town of Villareal. The Porcelanosa Group, as one of the worlds leading tile and bathroom and kitchen manufacturers, has committed to a grand and rapid expansion
Bath screens should not detract from the beauty and elegance of the bathroom setting, and consequently many of our frameless screens are supplied with clear toughened safety glass in order to create a sensation of depth and spaciousness. A two-panel bath screen provides a sensible showering width preventing water spraying past the screen onto the floor.


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SEMrush is an online advertising and competitive intelligence Suite of SEO tools you can use in online advertising to get top ranking results. Founded by marketers and designed for entrepreneurs, SEMrush has grown from a startup in 2008 to a recognized global brand encouraging 20,000 partners, 3 Million users, and over 8.3 Billion keywords globally. SEMrush is your best-in-class service supplier when it comes To online marketing and relative competitive intelligence. No wonder the word SEMrush is synonymous with comparative and competitive intelligence. Semrush Support
Features of the plans that are different
Are you a freelancer or a startup, little or growing An agency with a comprehensive presence or an established brand which requires a customized marketing solution for your business, Advertising agency? Well search no more, because from just $99.95 to 399.95 USD per month, SEMrush has bundles and plans designed for the size of business.
Additional you can make your subscriptions Online marketing and competitive intelligence services, which can help you save up to $800! For the monthly subscriptions though, SEMrush has 4 main price strategies, specifically:
1. SEMrush Pro Plan:
Designed for in-house marketers start-ups and freelancers Using a minimal budget, this, $99.95/month plan, is the most elementary plan that gives you access to 28 innovative tools and features to enhance your advertising. It is going to only cost you 999.40 for a yearly subscription. By the On-Page SEO Checker into Organic Traffic Insights, from PPC Keyword Tool to Ad Builder and many other tools and features, this plan gives you more than enough tools and features to offer you an advantage over your competition. While also letting this program Provides you 3,000 daily reports One track 500 key words to utilize 5 endeavors, crawl 100,000 pages and monitor 50 media profiles. Permitting you to conduct your SEO, PPC (Pay per Click) campaigns and Social Media Marketing for your business, this strategy provides you the'spying' possibility you need by providing you with in-depth analysis and advice regarding your competitor's sources of traffic, social media outcomes, and other relevant marketing-related information.
2. SEMrush Guru Plan:
At $199.95 USD a month, this strategy is suitable for small And growing advertising and marketing agencies and businesses. You have the option of paying 1,999.40 upfront for an yearly subscription. Aside from getting all the tools and features the Guru program comprises, the Guru plan includes Historical information, Branded reports and elongated limits. This program offers you 5,000 daily reports along with a total of 50 projects, 1,500 key words to track, 300,000 pages to crawl along with the capability to track 100 Social Media profiles.
3. SEMrush Business Plan:
This plan is designed for agencies, E-commerce projects Businesses with a comprehensive web presence. Price at $399.95 USD monthly or $3,999.95 to get a yearly subscription, it gives you 10,000 reports daily while also providing you with a total of 200 Projects, 5,000 key words to monitor, 1,000,000 pages to crawl and the capacity to track 300 Social Media profiles.
4. SEMrush Enterprise Plan:
Designed for businesses and brands that need and Customized advertising and competitive intelligence solutions is available upon request. This plan allows its users to expand their limits and make jobs, unlimited tracking, unlimited pages to crawl and boundless social networking submitting and tracking apart from allowing its users to get daily accounts and API access. Semrush Support
Pros and Cons of using SEMrush
1. Access to Tools That Boost Your ROI For Paid Advertising:
Apart from SEMrush being simple to use, it also gives you Access to keyword research tools which throw out any guesswork . During the SEMrush Keyword research, Keyword Magic Tool and Keyword Difficulty tools, you can use the SEMrush recommendations to Maximize your ROI.
2. Site Audits and Keyword Research: SEMrush comes in handy When you have to check and compare the health status of your website'SEO-wise' alongside the websites of your competitors . SEMrush also has no equal when it comes to present keyword tracking and tips on emerging and upcoming key words.
3. All-Under-One-Roof Tools: Whether it is SEO or content Advertising, keyword research and Ad construction, Multi-targeting and social networking monitoring and submitting, you name it, SEMrush has it under one roof allowing a freelancer and some other business to maximize their internet marketing and competitive intelligence goals.
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5. Get Using a regularly: into The Best of Search Engines Pages Upgraded database of more than 10 Million keywords sourced worldwide, SEMrush is in the ideal position to ensure your site ranks and gets into the top of the search engines results pages.
6. Easy to Understand Reports Clients, most of whom might not be SEO-savvy, SEMrush goes a long way in making sure the daily report which SEMrush provides to them are user-friendly and free of technical jargon.
1. Prohibitive Price: If it had been possible to get all the SEMrush tools and features under one roof in a price that is cheaper.
2. Keyword Direction Access &: It could be challenging sifting Through trying to find certain key words from the above 100 Million key words the SEMrush database keeps and updates.
3. No Branded Reports:
SEO advertising agencies and specialists who deliver regular Reports to their clients may desire to possess the reports branded using their corporate graphics. SEMrush does not permit this at the present time.
Can I recommend SEMrush for your advertising and competitive intelligence?
It is not as Straightforward as Yes or No. Exactly the way Google's search engine has better each Search query on its site, SEMrush has gotten considerably better with every key word every page crawled and every Social Media profile recorded. Because it requires time, engineering and enormous capacity to Have the ability to crawl and generate the type of online data that a firm like SEMrush generates, I'd recommend that when choosing your internet advertising or competitive intelligence spouse, ask yourself these questions:
1. Have they been tested and tried?
2. Have they delivered in different businesses?
To Assist You answer the questions over, SEMrush has not only Been proven and tested by everybody including that SEO guy you know from next door, but it has also delivered incredible results to established brands that the likes of Amazon, Forbes, HP, Deloitte, eBay etc.. As a matter of fact, Booking.com consistently has got a #1 ranking on Google among 17 million results, as a result of SEMrush! That is not to say that utilizing SEMrush will guarantee that your Success, however you can be sure that using a marketing and Competitive intelligence partner will increase your likelihood of success. Semrush Support


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The Price of Being with Virgin
Well, I'm sure you heard all about the hoopla concerning BT and Phorm. Well now, Virgin Media has decided that they too want to snoop on you to see what you're up to.
It seems they're trialing a software product called CView, which allows something called "deep packet inspection", which means they can see not only addressing info (download source or upload destination) but also file names too, which conceivably could be linked to your IP address.
Personally, I'm totally against it. And I would like to point out that if it's illegal for the Royal Mail to open our letters, shouldn't it also be illegal for Virgin Media to open our packets? Or is this another grey area that certain large companies are more than happy to exploit?
Apparently, Virgin confirmed to the BBC that 40% of their customers could have their data scrutinized and this would not require customer consent, so no opt out – or should that be no opt in?
Anyway, I'm not a Virgin customer and have no intention of enjoying their much touted 50Mb speeds at this price. Are you? (Answers to both questions are welcome.)


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We gave you a sneak preview of the C&IT State of the Industry Report, sponsored by Cvent, in our June issue, followed by daily exclusive articles online over the last month - now you can download the full State of the Industry 2016 report as a PDF file here.
C&IT surveyed and interviewed almost 200 UK event agencies and corporate event planners to create our annual snapshot on the issues of the moment.
We also partnered with Cvent to hold the first State of the Industry MDs dinner on 29 June at The Savoy, London, which brought together the leaders of 20 of the top agencies in the UK to discuss the impact of Brexit, the opportunities for new technologies, and forecast the future of the C&I industry.
The full report includes:
- 15 Top Stats
- Overview - The big squeeze
- Brexit - the MDs lowdown
- Top 50 agencies ranking
- Top 20 agency profiles
- Top agencies by profit and client spend
- Top 5 corporate challenges
- Top 5 agency challenges
- Procurement - from villain to hero?
- Compliance - the new enemy?
- Event tech trends
- Talent - finding the right fit
- Vertical victors - which sectors are booming?
- Event trends - meetings back on the agenda
- Destinations - off the pitch list
- Destinations - on the pitch list
- Forecast - what does the future hold?
Visit the State of the Industry web page to view all content online
State of the Industry 2016: Top 50 Agencies revealed
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[Bristol Herald Courier - Bristol, Tennessee]
Truth always destroys falsity. When we understand that one plus one equals two, we are not fooled into believing that one plus one equals three. Once we demonstrate our understanding, we are neither afraid of nor upset by the suggestion that one plus one equals three; we simply use our understanding to correct the mistake....
Through prayer, we can demonstrate that life is Spirit, and we can thereby stop being fearful, upset or victimized by human problems. We can stick to the truth of Being, holding to the truth that man is the image, idea or reflection of God (Genesis 1:26), even if the whole world believes that the universe is material and that man is organic and mortal.
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For the last few years my interest in architecture has grown a lot. I've always appreciated architecture (especially after traveling in Europe and seeing some masterpieces) but lately I've found myself reading articles about it online and learning a bit more about the various styles in depth.
When it comes to Miami Beach Architecture, the first name that comes to mind is Morris Lapidus. Lapidus was known for his Neo-baroque Miami Modern hotels that defined the era in the 1950's (great stuff on wiki). He is the genius behind the Fontainebleau Hotel and it's neighbor the Eden Roc. Both Hotels hosted some of that era's biggest stars and today they continue to be a main Miami Beach attraction. Not to mention, I have a lot of my own personal history with both hotels.
His influence in Miami Beach is legendary and I was so excited when a friend of mine invited me to a special event at the Eden Roc Hotel to commemorate his legacy by proclaiming his birthday November 25, as Morris Lapidus day.
It was a really fun and intimate event. The food was amazing and the champagne was flowing. There were women dressed in glam vintage style dresses walking around offering free chocolate cigars and there was also a live jazz performance. It all felt very 1950's in a wonderful way. The Eden Roc's GM Jim Mauer was present and spoke about the significance of Morris Lapidus' achievements. The former Miami Beach Commissioner Michael Gongora was also there with the official certificate.
This special honoring is long overdue. Though, Lapidus was asked to design hotels all around the country and internationally his works weren't always popular. Wiki explains it best below. I can't help but think of Howard Roark…(Fountainhead Reference)
"Lapidus designed 1,200 buildings, including 250 hotels worldwide. The American architectural establishment regarded Lapidus as an outsider, tried to ignore his work, then characterized it as gaudy kitsch.Ada Louise Huxtable, writing in the New York Times, said of the Americana, "The effect on arrival was like being hit by an exploding gilded eggplant." This abusive critical reception perhaps culminated in a 1963 American Institute of Architects (AIA) meeting held at the Americana, where a variety of well-known architects including Paul Rudolph, Robert Anshen andWallace Harrison took Lapidus to task for what they described as vulgarity, cheapness, and incompetence."
The good news is that his work and contribution to architecture was ultimately accepted. And now Miami Beach is recognizing this with his own very day.
Whenever I find myself in a space that I find truly inspiring I take mental note to find a bit of background on it. You just never know what kind of story you will find.
Learn more about Morris Lapidus here: http://morrislapidus.com


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22/9/18 @15:00
Join us @ the National Cycling Centre Manchester for our official Team JRC launch!
Meet the team, meet the coaches, meet the sponsors and suppliers, meet other riders, find out who we are and what we can offer you for your cycling and racing journey.
Our coaches will be on hand to answer questions, and discuss our coaching support for youth & junior riders. Find out about our club rides including ladies only rides, as well as road and track skills development sessions coming up.


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September 3, 2014 – UCLA Law was ranked fourth in the nation for Entertainment Law and eighth in the nation for Business Law by the Law Street website. It was also ranked number 11 in Environmental Law by the site.
According to Law Street, the law specialty rankings "are a detailed resource for prospective law students as they consider the many law schools across the country. Law Street Specialty Rankings blend the quantitative and qualitative in a way that accurately highlights the top law schools based on specialty programs."
View the full list of rankings.


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Peggy Ahern
Peggy Ahern
Peggy Ahern (c. 1921–1922)
Peggy Lenore Ahearn Blaylock
March 9, 1917
Douglas, Arizona, U.S.
|October 24, 2012(aged 95)
|Lassie Lou Ahern (sister)
Peggy Lenore Ahearn Blaylock, known professionally as Peggy Ahern, (March 9, 1917 – October 24, 2012) was an American actress best known for her appearance in eight of the Our Gang series of films released between 1924 and 1927.[1] The Our Gang series, which were also known The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals, were a series of comedic, short, silent films created by director and producer Hal Roach. Ahern was one of the last surviving cast members from a Hal Roach film.[1]
Ahern was born in Douglas, Arizona. She moved to Culver City, California, with her family in 1921.[1]
She began her film career as a child actor in the 1923 Hal Roach film, The Call of the Wild, which was released by Universal Studios.[1] She next appeared in small roles in two films, both released in 1925: Excuse Me, starring Norma Shearer, and Not So Long Ago, starring Ricardo Cortez and Betty Bronson.[1]
Ahern was then cast by Roach in eight of his Little Rascal films from 1924 to 1927: Cradle Robbers in 1924, The Sun Down Limited in 1924, Circus Fever in 1925, Dog Days in 1925, The Love Bug in 1925, Official Officers in 1925, War Feathers in 1926, and Olympic Games in 1927.[1]
Ahern and her sister, Lassie Lou Ahern, toured as a vaudeville song-and-dance act from 1932 until 1939.[1] They also appeared in the 1937 comedic short musical, Hollywood Party by Charley Chase.[1]
Ahern died on October 24, 2012, at the age of 95.[1]


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For the day anyway....
Its a pretty sad situation,
when you are hoping for rain to the point that you will even take a storm!!
These are the clouds we saw on Wednesday when the tornado hit Alida,Sk!!
We have not had rain for months.
The hay and crops are pretty dismal this year.
Its our saving grace that we have some carryover of hay!
The antelope are loving the fields around here.
Feels like South Dakota Prairie to them I am sure!
The heat has been on for the last week.
We got out early and hauled our square bales....
Then headed to the lake for the day!
I will be going to the Artist Colony from August 3-8, 2017
Moose Mountain Park, Saskatchewan.
I wanted to visit with the artists that are there right now!
Ken Frederickson is one of the resident artists.
His work just keeps getting better.
He is currently working on some pieces to be entered for the Calgary Stampede trophies
Calf roping...
Barrel racing...
He is working on a little challenge piece on his version of an angel
Such detail in the feathers...
Peggy Windmill does incredible pencil sketching.
She is looking after Margaret Delainey's cabin till Margaret can return.
Margaret broke her leg and is recovering.
Missed seeing her there!!
Shirley Rumble is the other artist in residence.
This little Miss is 81 years young.
I couldn't believe all the new work she had in her cabin.
So many I wanted to buy!!
I settled on this one...for now!!
I can't wait till it is my week to come!!
Such a great place to be creative!
There will be a Meet the Artists Tea on July 23 from 1-5 in front of the Chalet.
Hope to see everyone there!!
It was a great way to spend a hot day!!


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Susan G. Komen San Diego
Sunday, November 4, 2018
In San Diego, six women a day are diagnosed with breast cancer and unfortunately one woman a day passes away from this disease.
Early detection and effective treatment provide the best chance of survival from breast cancer.
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We are the only organization that studies San Diego County to identify the gaps in breast cancer care and the barriers to health access. Komen San Diego's work is about removing barriers, improving the law, changing systems, and most importantly, elevating the women and men directly impacted by breast cancer.
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The Race for the Cure® would not be possible without the generosity of our volunteers. Thank you for supporting Komen San Diego!
We Live Here. We Walk Here. We Save Lives Here.
Date: Thursday October 25, 2018 to Sunday November 4, 2018Location: Balboa Park, San Diego, CA, United StatesApplications Close: Friday November 2, 2018
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Call to arms brought out 11 members and one new recruit. With the little rain (4-5") we got, it was more like a November rain than an end of the season spring storm. Everything came down. We had planned to work on finishing the fence and you should have seen Cindy's face when someone suggested the entire crew work on the trails. Well we honored the commitment and we split the and I took 4 others to start on Meteor Trail and Mike took the rest.
Last month we started work on the split rail fence project across from the parks stores, but because it had been many years since we did a fence and were digging the post holes by hand, we only completed about one-third.
We hoped to complete the remaining stretch this month and with the addition of a gas powered auger to drill the holes it seemed doable, although I thought it might require a long day.
I was wrong about the long day - the auger made things MUCH easier. We quickly split into teams and while some used the auger to quickly drill all the holes, others dug out the loose soil and made sure the holes were the correct dimensions and others did the prep work on the posts and rails.
After an hour of work we were already installing the posts and rails and by the time we broke for lunch we had about two thirds of the posts and rails installed. After lunch we completed the fence work and even had time to take care of finishing touches like rounding off edges on the posts and using a draw knife to smooth down the tops rails.
All in all a very productive day and a nice looking fence in the end.
Fence Crew with Maintenance Lead Cindy on the left
I took the other crew on what was reported as a 4ft tree down on Meteor Trail about 15 minutes from the top at Middleridge Road. We headed up Gazos and then took the roller coast called Middlefield Road. We gathered all the gear and it dawned on me that it only takes about a 1/2 hour to hike the trail especially from the top. Wonder where the tree really was located.
Many Newts and Banana Slugs were on the upper part of the trail.
What the . . . Yes this huge root ball was right in the middle of the trail and what are we going to do with it?
A couple of us worked on clearing the route up and around the root ball and the rest started on a 11" Tan Oak on the other side.
After the Tan Oak and around the corner we came across the report. Not 4ft but close at 36" Fir.
Dale cutting slices
Peter cutting out the slices
Out comes a round and some fun and wonderful log time
Cleared of trip hazards it was easier to get around the root ball and after clearing another 7" Tan the trail was cleared. Janie earlier walked the rest of the trail and it turned out we were about 2 minutes from No. Escape. Boy that would have been too easy parking there. We decided to lug all the gear back up.
On the way down we passed this and since we ran out of monkeys we broke out the gorilla
With the rain the mushrooms final emerged as well as wild flowers
Redwood Violet
Good days work and we're done for the day.
So both crews were successful and we put in 100 hours. Thanks to Janie, Dale P., Dale S., Norm, Mike, Peter, Michelle, Francis, Steve, Janette, and new member David.
See you on the trails
Jeff and Mike
Birds of the Day
Pacific Wren
Acorn Woodpecker
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Purple Finch
Hairy Woodpecker
Nuttal's Woodpecker
Warbling Vireo
Dark-eyed Junco, Oregon


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O'Connell Dermatology Presents Dr. O'Connell's Gems Video 3
Welcome to O'Connell Dermatology's YouTube Channel. O'Connell Dermatology proudly presents: Dr. James V. O'Connell's Gems, a video blogging channel where followers can tune into the latest gems from Dr. O'Connell. O'Connell Dermatology is proud to provide effective dermatology and skincare solutions for women and men of every age and ethnicity. Dr. James O'Connell is a Board Certified Dermatologist with over 30 years of experience. Our staff are highly trained certified skincare specialists that will select specific in-spa facial and body treatments customized specifically for you. Our product line is medical grade pharmaceutical strength line that is formulated in a FDA clinical laboratory. We are a results driven dermatology practice that strives on proven and researched results that are consistent and safe for all skin types.