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Zippie X'CAPE pediatric folding wheelchair is the first ever wheelchair with XLOCK™ technology for the performance of a rigid frame and the convenience of a folding frame. Designed for active and growing kids, the Zippie X'CAPE weighs as little as 19 pounds and features a versatile frame available in over 600 color combinations.
Pediatric-specific design : Zippie X'CAPE was designed with the goal of helping children with varying mobility needs transition to their next level of independence. Zippie X'CAPE wheelchair allows child to spend less energy on propulsion and more on playing, exploring, and being a kid. X'CAPE's setup can be fine-tuned to provide the best possible access to the wheels for each child. As they grow, 2" of growth in the crossbrace and 3" in the seat rail keep your child positioned properly for maximum independence.
XLOCK™ crossbrace for performance and convenience : Zippie X'CAPE's patented XLOCK™ folding crossbrace fully locks when unfolded, creating a level of performance, efficiency, and durability comparable to a rigid frame wheelchair. And it couldn't be easier to transport. One-step push-to-lock and pull-to-fold functions are easy to operate with just one hand. Zippie X'CAPE's 27 frame colors and 24 crossbrace colors can be chosen separately to create over 600 color combinations, so child can sport their team colors, school colors, or personal favorites.
Z-finity™ system for lower extremity positioning : The Z-finity™ system's footplate can be adjusted between .5" above the seat pan to 21" below the seat pan to provide proper support as your child grows. Its pivot arm allows for infinite adjustment of the footrest angle and placement to achieve optimal positioning of the feet, ankles, and knees. Z-finity is available with both of the X'CAPE's front frame options - swing-in/swing-out and fixed in which swing-in/swing-out hangers for aid in transfers and pulling up close to cabinets and counters and fixed hangers for the lightest weight configuration and an active style.
VersaRail™ for limitless seating and accessory options : Pediatric wheelchairs often don't provide enough space to mount multiple components and accessories - custom seating, armrests, wheel locks, and side guards - leaving you in the tough spot of choosing what is most important. VersaRail's unique design accepts both bolt-on mounts and mounting clamps, and allows for shared placement of these components, so child has access to all the options they need - no compromises. VersaRail also makes ordering simple by offering one seat rail system that is compatible with both sling upholstery and custom seating options.
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FLUG REVUE receives award from the RAeS
The UK's prestigious Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) has singled out FLUG REVUE, the aerospace magazine published by the Motor Presse Stuttgart publishing house, as the best non-English-language international publication.
FLUG REVUE was awarded the Prize for the best non-english language aviation magazine in the RAeS contest (Photo: FR).
The Aerospace Media Awards were newly introduced this year by the organisation of aerospace engineers founded in 1866 and whose patron is Queen Elizabeth II. They were contested for in six categories and presented at a gala event in London on the eve of the Farnborough Air Show.
FLUG REVUE's prize was handed over by Dr. Theodor Benien, member of the Board of Management and Head of PR & Communications of Eurofighter GmbH, and Wing Commander Andy Green, who in October 1997 established a world land speed record of 1227.99 km/h with a vehicle powered by two jet engines that still stands today. Civil Aviation editor Sebastian Steinke received the award on behalf of the entire team of FLUG REVUE.
Commenting on the international award, Volker K. Thomalla, Editor-in-Chief of FLUG REVUE, said, "For us, given the fact that the German language is a rarity in aerospace circles, this honour is something very special." In the final shortlist FLUG REVUE was up against four other finalists.
FLUG REVUE is the aerospace magazine with the biggest circulation in German-speaking Europe. It concentrates on the latest issues in business and industrial policy, civil aviation, business aviation, spaceflight, military aviation and technology.

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Hi Guys it's daBOSS,
first of all i'd like you to enter this side and scroll down, check the whole side : https://sourceforge.net/projects/warzon ... 2016-03-29
as you can see the whole world plays warzone, The new Version 3.1.3 got +50.000 downloaders but we are only a around +50 active MultiPlayer community (99.98 % of Warzone players not play Multi-Player) ! its a ratio of ~ 1000:1 !. It seems not right! If you look at those numbers you not need to be a smart dude to notice that some thing is really not right about this numbers and there must be an clear issue.
In my opinion the clear issue is that Warzone doesn't have a clear Score/States/Rank system!
I'd like to tell you some about what captivates a player to play a game and train/skill hard to get better on it
As we all know WZ players are Humans and Humans like be rewarded for their performance provided (Score)
Here the rendered performance is not only retained but it creates a value with which I can dominate over my competitor!
Dominate over my competitor not only motivates me but also motivates my competitor cuz he like to be better as me
I hope you understand the deeper sense behind this text, these are a few examples which motivate and captivate a player to play a MP- game.
WZ as the numbers shown is played most likely in skirmish/campaign mod! (There are 50.000 ppl who did downloade the new version 3.1.3 so if the MultiPlayer communaty is only arround +50 ppl ... 99.98 % of Warzone players play only skrimish/Campagne)
Let's call the 99,98 % to join our community !
Its easssyyy !! All we need in WZ is a clearly functioning log-in system with a good score system and ALL MultiPlayer ISSUES ARE GONE !
Some main issues are = Noobs get kicked/ Pro have to kick Noobs for a balonced PRO game
Players fake Rank which fk the balonce
Newbies or Skrimish Players have no motivation to join the Multiplayer
Most Important is to Motivate skirmish players to join the Multiplayer!
This Issue can be handled by score system = Add score for "finished campaign" and remember him, score can grow in MultiPlayer..... like this the newbies not join MP with a 0 score!
Options for the HOST = only able to join hosted game with a score +1000, like this PRO dont have to kick noobs, and the noob have a motivation to skill up and be able to join the PRO games .
And i think Research should clearly be scored in this game.... a system which count the seconds of research lab is empty!.. a pro gamer not lose 5 sec in research.. it makes the difference on the top players stage.
and so on and so on ...... let's collect some ideas about how should the log in Score/States/Rank system be !
ALL this takes time to develop but at the moment there is only VEXED who active worke on Warzone!
so if you like this game and feel this game can be changed by a log-in system and you know how to dev. THEN PLS SUPPORT!!!


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A British student demanded this week that confectioner Nestle give her a lifetime supply of Kit Kat bars after she bought eight packages, none of which contained the candy's wafer portion, the Daily Mail reported.
Saima Ahmad, 20, a student at Kings College in London wrote the manufacturer demanding the sweet restitution after purchasing an £2 multi-pack (about $3) in December which contained pure chocolate.
"They go about the advertising the unique concept of Kit Kat, but I'm so disappointed by what I have purchased," Ahmad told the paper.
"No one else in the industry has that unique concept of mixing the wafer with the chocolate," she said.
Ahmad asked that Nestle's CEO, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, personally respond to her request.
She said that having a lifetime supply of the chocolate creation will allow her to execute quality control for the company.
"Clearly, if I wanted to purchase a confectionery item that is purely chocolate, I would have purchased a bar of Galaxy," she wrote in the letter.
KitKat is manufactured in the United States by the Hershey Chocolate Company, but is produced worldwide by Nestle.
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Phillips-Medisize at Medtec Europe: Connectivity – key to future-oriented medical care
Hudson, WI and Cambridge, MA - March 20, 2017 - Phillips-Medisize's stand 1E28 at Medtec Europe, Stuttgart/Germany, April 4th to 6th, 2017, is designed for medical device professionals to discuss future products – from the first idea through to engineered-in scalability and batch production respectively. Several display cases reveal a clear view of numerous medical, diagnostic and drug delivery devices. They serve the discussion partners – potential customers, OEM manufacturers and the experts from Phillips-Medisize – as illustrative material to determine the typical steps and processes from the first model component to the ready-for-use solution. These disciplines have become even more important since the implementation of connectivity within the wide array of medical, diagnostics and drug delivery devices. Over the last years, Phillips-Medisize has proven its potential as a renowned outsourcing partner for projects involving high-end connectivity.
The purpose of a connected and electronic-enabled medical device – such as a pump injection system for insulin – is obvious: it is supposed to provide the patient with security and sustainability with regard to the administration of the precise dose at the right time under the respective pathological conditions. Medtec is a perfect opportunity for Phillips-Medisize to discuss with interested parties the key benefits, convenience and latest innovations regarding prefilled syringes and connected injection devices on the basis of examples, proficiency and know-how gained during various recent projects. Apart from user-friendliness, it will be a major point of interest to look at data privacy, medical regulations and swiftly changing legal stipulations which accompany the subject of connected health in its emerging stages. "As patients continue to be the focus for new devices, their ease of use and adherence to treatment is key; with the rising drug costs, healthcare payers seek justification that the drugs and their delivery systems are cost effective and improve patient outcomes," comments Bill Welch, Chief Technology Officer. "New opportunities for these increasingly challenging requirements are found when companies begin incorporating electronics, mobile apps, and cloud databases to create disease therapy ecosystems."
Another focal point during the customer/outsource partner dialogue will be the know-how to develop a completely integrated supply chain for such a sophisticated product. The acquisition of the Danish Medicom Innovation Partner company (mid 2016) by Phillips-Medisize and the synergy effects derived from the integration of Phillips-Medisize into the Molex Corporation (October 2016) boost the electronics capabilities and connectivity potentials of this global contract manufacturing organization. A project study – presupposing human-centered design (HCD) – starts at the evaluation whether commercial production volumes will be in the range of target cost when considering design for manufacturing (DFM) and design for assembly (DFA) analyses. Subsequent feasibility assessments lead the R&D experts from the first pilot components to the preproduction batch and finally to scalability into millions of units of this medical device.
The processing must always be in line with the following prerequisites: HCD standards, fulfillment of validation, certification, clinical tests and conscientious quality surveillance. Numerous exhibits provide opportunities to discuss the route of scalability: customized medical and diagnostic devices such as electronic auto injector systems, specialty drug delivery devices, various types of dosing systems, multi-component dosing units, disposables and consumables for diagnose components, disposable insulin pens, blood glucose meters, inhalators, spray applicators, IV sets, peristaltic pumps, titration plates, mixing injectors, complete MDD application sets, single-use surgical devices, tube sets, catheters, diagnostic arrays, and much more. Phillips-Medisize provides a complete supply chain for customers – from the early design sketch to the special custom batch or multi-million production run of a given medical device packed under sterile conditions ready to be used for/by the patient.
At Phillips-Medisize, production is monitored under a cross-process method by means of high-priority quality assurance standards in accordance with ISO 13485 and/or the corresponding FDA standards and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP). Phillips-Medisize tests and checks all products at its in-house facility with appropriate measuring technologies and also carries out cytotoxicity tests, bio burden determination, LAL and performs risk analysis by means of FMEA. Validation of the processes follows industry standard DQ-,IQ-, OQ- and PQ stages.
For more information, contact:
Christina Johnson
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Phone +41448383933


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Shots rang out late Friday in front of a Gold Coast restaurant and game venue, and although the building sustained some damage, no one was injured and the business was able to remain open.
An unidentified white car drove by Dave & Buster's at 1030 N. Clark St. about 9:40 p.m. and someone from the car fired multiple shots into a window in the building, police said. Investigators could not immediately say how many shots were fired.
No one was injured as a result of the shooting, and only a window was broken, police said. There was no motive known and police did not know if the restaurant had been targeted.


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Farmers Agents And Customers Wear March of Dimes Signature Purple
Jul 12, 2012, 03:47 ET
Raises $2.5 Million for Moms and Babies
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., July 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Farmers Insurance Group, its agents and customers all across the country wore the March of Dimes signature purple as they raised $2.5 million in a one-day fundraiser called Be a Hero for Babies Day.
Be a Hero for Babies Day began in 2006, and supports March of Dimes education and research programs that help women have full-term pregnancies and healthy babies. Over the 25-plus year partnership with the March of Dimes, Farmers Insurance has raised more than $40 million to help give every baby a healthy start in life.
"For the seventh consecutive year, Farmers agents and employees have shown us how much they care about America's families," said LaVerne Council, March of Dimes National Board of Trustees Chair. "It was a thrill to see everyone at the Farmers headquarters in Los Angeles to TV personalities across the country wearing our signature purple! We are so grateful to our long-time partner, Farmers Insurance, and all who participated in Be a Hero for Babies Day who helped make this one-day fundraiser such a great success."
"I am extremely proud of every Farmers employee, agent, district manager and our customers who helped support this incredible one-day fundraiser," said David Travers, head of operations for Farmers Insurance Group and March of Dimes trustee. "I want to personally thank everyone who participated because nothing is more important than family and improving the health of our children."
Preterm birth (birth before 37 weeks gestation) is a serious health problem that costs the United States more than $26 billion annually, according to the 2006 Institute of Medicine report. Babies who survive an early birth often face the risk of lifetime health challenges, such as breathing problems, cerebral palsy, intellectual disabilities and others. Even babies born just a few weeks early have higher rates of hospitalization and illness than full-term infants.
As the nation's third-largest personal property and casualty insurance group, Farmers is committed to improving the communities where their customers, agents and employees live and work. Farmers' commitment to the March of Dimes spans more than 25-plus years and has donated more than $40 million dedicated to research and education programs to protect infant health.
The March of Dimes is the leading nonprofit organization for pregnancy and baby health. With chapters nationwide, the March of Dimes works to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality. For the latest resources and information, visit marchofdimes.com or nacersano.org. Find us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.
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American Residential Properties, Inc. Announces 2014 Annual Meeting Of Stockholders
Jan 21, 2014, 04:33 EST
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Jan. 21, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- American Residential Properties, Inc. (NYSE : ARPI ) (the "Company") today announced their 2014 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the "2014 Annual Meeting") will be held at 8:00 a.m. Mountain Standard Time on May 21, 2014 at The Westin Kierland Resort & Spa, 6902 East Greenway Parkway, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254.
Stockholders of record at the close of business on March 25, 2014 will be entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the 2014 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and any adjournment or postponement of the meeting.
Deadline for Rule 14a-8 Stockholder Proposals
Stockholder proposals intended to be presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting must be received by the Secretary of the Company not later than 5:00 p.m. Mountain Standard Time on March 25, 2014 in order to be considered for inclusion in the Company's proxy statement relating to the 2014 Annual Meeting pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, ("Rule 14a-8 Proposals").
Deadline for Other Stockholder Proposals
Stockholder proposals, other than Rule 14a-8 Proposals, intended to be presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting must be received by the Secretary of the Company not earlier than February 21, 2014 and not later than 5:00 p.m. Mountain Standard Time on March 25, 2014.
About American Residential Properties, Inc.
American Residential Properties, Inc. is an internally managed real estate company, organized as a REIT for federal income tax purposes, that acquires, owns and manages single-family homes as rental properties in select communities nationwide. The Company's primary business strategy is to acquire, restore, lease and manage single-family homes as well-maintained investment properties to generate attractive, risk-adjusted returns over the long-term. With a vertically integrated real estate acquisition and management platform incorporating disciplined acquisition criteria, extensive research, seasoned personnel and comprehensive operations, the Company is well-positioned to execute its strategy.
Additional information about American Residential Properties, Inc. can be found on the Company's website at www.americanresidentialproperties.com.
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Perhaps the combination of heat, heavy travel and little rest was too much for the Maryland Bays this weekend in their hopes of grabbing a pair of road victories.
After defeating Penn-Jersey 4-2 in Camden, N.J., Saturday night, the Bays took an early morning flight to Albany, N.Y., yesterday and had to face the rested Capitals in 94-degree afternoon heat.
The result was a 3-0 loss, only the Bays' second setback of the season and the first time the team has been shut out since June 1990.


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Syfy's 12 Monkeys Replaces the Movie's Poetry With Prose
Starring Aaron Stanford in the Bruce Willis role.
The cliché about TV being movies extended past their natural lifespan is reductive, but it's not always wrong. 12 Monkeys is one example, unfortunately. I say "unfortunately" because, even though this adaptation of the same-titled 1996 film about a time-traveler trying to prevent a humanity-exterminating plague has many fine qualities, the conversion from film to TV series kills the original's finely honed sense of clockwork inevitability, along with most of the story's poetry. In its place, the show substitutes what you might call prose values: lots and lots of scenes of people talking about what's happening and what it means, and then sneaking around or running or getting in fistfights, and occasionally getting close to the information or people they're desperately seeking only to be thwarted, by choice or circumstance, because if they weren't thwarted, the show would end, or be a lot shorter, or be a movie.
In a way, you could see this series from writer-producers Travis Fickett and Terry Matalas as a continuation of a process that started 20 years ago, when screenwriter David Webb Peoples (Unforgiven, Blade Runner) teamed up with director Terry Gilliam (Brazil) to make a feature-length dramatic riff on Chris Marker's still-frame short movie La Jetée. Marker, who died in 2012, was a poet and philosopher as well as a filmmaker; like a lot of his work, La Jetée packs rather than unpacks its Mobius-strip narrative. The rather slight story begins and ends with the same event viewed from a different perspective (or with a fresh and tragic understanding); it's a a worm eating its own tail (tale?) and, as such, it makes the viewer ask basic questions about free will versus fate. Gilliam's feature version made space for a bit of that, but it was a lot more prosaic about the plot and the characters. That was fine, though, because the characters (played by Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, and a twitchy, pop-eyed Brad Pitt) were fascinating and often moving — and because the filmmakers made sure to include lots of touches that connected the feature to Marker's work and to film history generally, including a rather long riff on Vertigo, a movie that, in its heart, is about redeeming past errors and resurrecting the dead, which is exactly what Bruce Willis's time-traveler Cole was trying to do for humankind.
This new version is content to fuse La Jetée, Twelve Monkeys, and a lot of more-conventional time-travel movies, specifically the Terminator franchise, with its superhuman cyborgs and nearly superhuman cyborg-battling warriors. Where Cole was an ordinary (if capable and brave) man in Gilliam's movie, here he's practically a superhero, a synthetic savior bred in the postapocalyptic future for maximum durability. (A doctor describes him as "a flesh-and-blood molecular computer, programmed for what, I've no idea.") Aaron Stanford gives the character a nervous, furtive energy that undercuts the action-heroism, but he's still mainly a vehicle for exposition: a means of filling out and understanding the show's comic-book-style "universe." Stowe's character in the 1995 movie, Kathryn Railly, was a psychiatrist at the mental hospital where Cole was incarcerated. This version changes her to Cassandra Railly (Amanda Schull), a scientist and plague expert who meets Cole in 2013 (briefly), believes his prophecy, then becomes an outcast in her field, dismissed as a kook peddling armageddon fantasies. The name Goines, originally assigned to Pitt's asylum inmate, is here granted to Zeljko Ivanek, a man blamed in 2043 for somehow jump-starting the plague; he's got a daughter named Jennifer (Emily Hampshire), who's been institutionalized and who might or might not be the real architect of the coming plague years. Tom Noonan shows up as a mysterious, monologuing killer in episode two; he's characteristically typecast and just as characteristically excellent. But none of the performers can do much to enliven a show that, judging from the two episodes sent to critics, is comprised mainly of padding.


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Much ado about the Pike Plan
Stephen M. Finkle, Director of Economic Development for the city of Kingston, sent Freeman reporter Paul Kirby a copy of Uptown's Pike Plan.
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Pike Plan
Construction begins March 14.
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The first section shows items to be demolished, the second shows construction.
Note that much of the structure is not being demolished- that the roofs will be replaced and skylights installed; columns will be repaired and about 20% of the columns will be eliminated to allow for more visibility behind them. You should probably look at the construction drawings after page 24 for a view of the finished product.
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Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez Tuesday signed an agreement on jointly building the biggest oil refinery on South America's Pacific Coast.
Located in El Aromo in the coastal Ecuadorian province of Manabi, the refinery is expected to start operation in 2013 with a daily capacity of 300,000 barrels of oil, according to the agreement signed in El Aromo. It can produce gasoline, diesel, and liquefied gas from petroleum. The refinery is also capable of supplying fertilizers, plastics and polyethylene.
The initial capital for its construction is estimated at $30 million. The two countries said that Venezuela's state-run oil firm PDVSA and its Ecuadorian counterpart Petroecuador will finance the total investment of $6.6 million, or they may open the project to international investment. At the launching ceremony, Correa said the project will save Ecuador $3 billion per year as it helps cut the country's oil imports.
Chavez said PDVSA will own 49% of the stake of the refinery while the Petroecuador, 51% stake. Chavez also announced that he plans to build other refineries in Brazil and Nicaragua to keep Venezuela's oil wealth away from the United States, where Venezuela currently runs seven refineries. Chavez said that his goal was to offer "energy security to all the people on the (South American) continent." He also proposed to build a steel joint venture in Ecuador.
Correa welcomed Chavez's proposal, saying such plans were motivated by his desire to seek regional unity instead of intention to interfere in other countries' internal affairs. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega also attended the ceremony. (people.com.cn)


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Office Staff
Your heli-skiing holiday doesn't start when you get to our lodge… it begins when you contact our friendly and knowledgeable Office Staff.
If you are new to the concept of heli-skiing, or you have a million vertical feet one-piece suit and want to find out why we believe we are the best helicopter skiing operation in Canada, then speak to our office team who are truly heli-skiing experts. Find out why heli-skiing in a Small Group of 4 is so much better than skiing in a group of 12, or why Unlimited Vertical offers the best value for your Dollar/Euro/Pound. Our Office Staff are the best in the industry at accommodating your schedule . No other multi-day heliski operation in Canada will let you start your trip on any day of the week… contact Deane to choose your specific dates.
- Name: Deane Pickering (pronounced "Dean")
- Position: Business Manager
- In the Ski Industry since: 1996
- At GCH Since: 1996
- Home Town: Golden, British Columbia, Canada
- Home Resort: Kicking Horse Mountain Resort, British Columbia, Canada
- Languages Spoken: English
Hundreds of guests have been welcomed by Deane's friendly voice, and keep coming back because of her excellent trip and group organizing skills. She loves the diversity of our guests and sharing the details of the heli-skiing experience. Deane has lived in the mountains all her life and enjoys riding her motorcycle, camping/fishing and hiking with her family in the off season.
- Name: Maaike Porter
- Nickname: No nickname for Maaike, she would just like people to pronounce her name properly (ie "Mica")
- Position: Owner and CFO since 2000
- In the Ski Industry since: 2000
- At GCH Since: 2000
- Home Town: Golden, British Columbia, Canada
- Home Resort: Kicking Horse Mountain Resort, British Columbia, Canada
- Languages Spoken: Dutch and English
Growing up in the Netherlands Maaike's family would escape the sea level flatness of her home to holiday and ski with her family in Crans-Montana, Switzerland. Now she has it all in her backyard to share with her family in Golden. Maaike is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CMA), which combined with her Dutch heritage is a calculated asset to the company. Or, as her husband Greg likes to complain, "she has deep pockets but short arms". You would also mistakenly think that she has short legs when watching her ski deep powder.
- Name: Greg Porter
- Nickname: GP
- Position: Owner and CEO since 2000
- In the Ski Industry since: 2000
- At GCH Since: 2000
- Home Town: Golden, British Columbia, Canada
- Home Resort: Kicking Horse Mountain Resort, British Columbia, Canada
- Languages Spoken: English.
Greg is a go-West-young-man kind of guy! Growing up in Ontario while frequently travelling to compete Nationally with snowboarding, Greg consolidated his resolve with every Western trip that he would make Western Canada his home. However, "owning a heli-skiing business in Small Town BC is beyond even my wildest Ontario boyhood dreams" Greg said. Although he feels like his kids do not seem to know how good they have it, Greg says he is reminded of this every time he goes out into the mountains to heli-ski. "I know each time I go out (heli-skiing) or our guests go out, there is the potential to have 'the best ski day of our lives'. It's my job to make sure the company delivers this as many times as possible!"
- Name: John Holton
- Nickname: Johnny H
- Position: General Manager
- In the Ski Industry since: 2010
- At GCH Since: 2016
- Home Town: Soon to be Golden, British Columbia, Canada
- Home Resort: Hailing from Whistler Blackcomb, now Kicking Horse.
- Languages Spoken: English.
Born and raised in West Vancouver John was fortunate to experience the west coast mountains as a young boy and by the age of 3, his passion for skiing was realized. His love for skiing grew as did he and a dream of working in the industry became his career focus achieving a degree in Hospitality Management from Royal Roads University. Based on this focus John spent the last 7 years in Whistler, BC embracing the mountain life and learning the ins and outs of resort culture. John joins the GCH team with over 20 years of hospitality experience and is very excited to explore the local mountains in and around the Kootenays both on skis and hiking with his two young daughters. He and his wife Kathleen (also a ski enthusiast) look forward to emerging themselves into the community of Golden.


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What Happens In The Garage Stays In The Garage Fabric/ 100% Cotton / Sold by the Yard
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What Happens In The Garage Stays In The Garage Fabric. Perfect for a Man Cave. Motorcycles, tires, helmets, spark plugs and tools on the white background fabric.
Shipping is priority mail flat rate. First class shipping is available upon request prior to purchasing.
International shipping available. Flat rate is $32.00 and I can fit up to 8 yards in envelope. Maybe more depending on thickness of fabric.
INTERNATIONAL BUYERS: Buyer is responsible for any duty and local taxes on the purchase. Some countries charge this when they deliver the package. You are responsible for that cost at that time.
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(1838–1906), was born in the Bay of Islands as the son of the missionary James Buller (1812–84; author of Forty Years in New Zealand, 1878, and New Zealand: Past and Present, 1880). Bilingual from childhood, he worked as a court interpreter in Wellington and later edited the didactic newspaper Te Karere o Poneke. He was also editor of the Maori Messenger and its successor Te Manuhiri Tuarangi: The Maori Intelligencer. However, he is best known for his ornithological masterpieces: A History of the Birds of New Zealand (1873) and A Manual of the Birds of New Zealand (1882), both beautifully illustrated with hand-coloured lithographs by J.G. Keuleman. These classificatory works are still of value to naturalists.
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I am just furious that this man was put in a cell after the dragging ordeal (instead of a hospital) and then even worse now to find out he was beaten even further when he got there?
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yes, as I read on the link I gave in another thread that says ""The video footage and the man's death raised fresh concerns about police brutality in a country where more than 1,200 people a year die while in custody."


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We've been listed by Forbes in the top 10 alongside AngelList, Quora and many top Venture Capital blogs.
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This Christmas Eve, we were invited to Harkadas Primary School, a Government run school located in Pune's oldest slum. This school, is one of many schools operated by the Pune Municipal Corporation. It attracts children from neighboring slums as fees are nominal, and kids are provided a free mid-day meal at lunch time. India's current Education Crisis Most (if not all) municipal schools in India, that are funded by local civic bodies, lack basic infrastructure (fans, lights, desks and clean toilets). Besides this, they also lack the ability to attract good teachers. As a result, municipal schools struggle to offer quality education to children from low-income families.They struggle even more to retain children in school. The reasons are several: Children cannot relate life in the slums, to what is being taught – For example, although kids are taught English, they have no opportunity to speak the language, and cannot read or write in English. Moreover, children and their parents do not see education as being critical towards helping them overcome poverty and providing them access …


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Summary: With simple tools and do-able steps, Comfort Living will guide you in creating a home that transforms the way you experience each day. No big investment of time or money is required. Filled with exercises, ToolBoxes, photographs and planning pages, this book becomes a personalized experience for each reader, customized to individual needs and wants, much like a wedding planner or baby book. Just as comfort food does more than satisfy hunger, Comfort Living realigns your surroundings so that they support your priorities and feed your soul.
I just finished up my 8 week guide on how to make my home warmer and more me, or well us, but you all know how home decorating goes in the Husband's eyes. I actually expedited the process a bit, but the results are still beautiful, I can imagine how much more so they would be if I used the full 8 weeks. I adored this book, my Husband and I just bought out first home back in May, and while we have a few things, we lacked some of the stuff that makes a home homey. I used this book exactly as prescribed and my house looks and feels better for it. 'Comfort Living' is a super quick and easy read, great photography, and comes with a small journal to document the process and journey. If you feel your home is lacking the 'home' feel, try this book out for yourself, you won't regret it.
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Grieving a Suicide
Every seventeen minutes, someone in the United States dies by suicide. It is one of the most serious public health crises of modern times, claiming over one million lives worldwide every
Those who have lost a loved one to suicide experience tremendous shock and trauma, with a confusing mix of emotions--anger, guilt, grief and despair. Suicide also raises heartrending questions: Why did this happen? Why didn't we see it coming? Many also wonder if those who choose suicide are doomed to an eternity separated from God and loved ones. Some may even start asking whether life is worth living at all.
After his father's death by suicide, Albert Hsu wrestled with the intense emotional and spiritual questions surrounding suicide. While acknowledging that there are no easy answers, Hsu
draws on the resources of the Christian faith to point suicide survivors to the God who offers comfort in our grief and hope for the future.
If you have lost a loved one to suicide or provide pastoral care to those left behind, this book is an essential companion for the journey toward healing.
"In Grieving a Suicide, Al Hsu has done what few can do. He has created a thoughtful, empathic, spiritually ennobling and practically helpful account of his response to the loss of his father by suicide. Al?s journey shows how suffering, when we know the Lord, can mature us. I started merely to scan the book just before leaving for a trip, and drawn into the narrative, I read it straight through by the time my flight was finished. Wow!"
"I think the material in this book will be a godsend. . . . It is a solid handbook to propel the reader through the anguish that suicide brings on. This is unlike any other book on this particular subject and will prove to be a must-read for counselors, as well as stricken families."
"The author does an outstanding job exploring his own emotions and spiritual responses to this tragedy. Hsu opens this poignant and informative book with five chapters devoted to the initial aftermath suicide survivors must face. He breaks these key journey-points into five parts: shock, turmoil, lament, relinquishment, and remembrance. Hsu also tackles the toughest questions survivors ask, 'Why?', 'Can suicide be forgiven?' and 'Where is God?' This remarkable resource will surely meet the needs of those dealing with a loved one's suicide. Hsu's words fairly shine with the one commodity most needed at times of such immense pain--hope."
"Hsu gives those who have lost loved ones this way a helpful handbook for dealing with the shock, denial, grieving, the ever-present question 'why' and the awful finality of a sudden death. This book will help survivors understand they are not alone in their suffering. Hsu offers excellent advice on how to move from the grieving period into the recovery period and, finally, into the remembering period. While some of the stories, and Hsu's personal experience, will make you cry, this is a must-have book for anyone who is a suicide survivor. By the time readers finish the book, they will know, thanks to Hsu's encouraging style of writing, they will be able to go on."
"Hsu's wise, bittersweet, intelligently written book relates his own coping with unexpected, violent death and compassionately examines the emotional and theological issues of suicide. . . . Respecting his readers--for instance, by acknowledging individual differences in grieving--Hsu encourages remembering while lamenting and realizing that one will never know what could have been. He addresses such difficult, unanswerable questions as 'Why did it happen?' and 'Could anything have prevented it?' while exploring the morality of suicide and the problem of forgiving the suicide with great sensitivity and care. Suffering, he concludes, is part of the human condition. Rather than pondering 'unfathomable mysteries,' it is better to do one's best to achieve relief. Despite suffering, one can still find meaning, connect with others, and hope that good can come from pain and healing from grief. Strongly recommended for those who have lost a loved one to suicide."
"This guide for suicide survivors--family and friends of people who took their own lives--maintains InterVarsity Press's tradition of cerebral evangelicalism: it is biblical, well reasoned, clearly presented and thoroughly researched. . . . An unexpected bonus is the personal thread [Albert Y.] Hsu weaves through each chapter, the story of his own deep grief at his father's sudden suicide four years ago. . . . With its careful biblical exposition presented in a friendly homiletical style, Hsu's how-to-think-about-suicide book will have value for evangelical pastors and counselors as much as--perhaps even more than--for the bereaved themselves."
Introduction: For Survivors--the Other Victims of Suicide
Part 1: When Suicide Strikes
1. Shock
2. Turmoil
3. Lament
4. Relinquishment
5. Remembrance
Part 2: The Lingering Questions
6. Why Did This Happen?
7. Is Suicide the Unforgivable Sin?
8. Where Is God When It Hurts?
Part 3: Life After Suicide
9. The Spirituality of God
10. The Healing Community
11. The Lessons of Suicide
Epilogue: Going On
Appendix: Resources for Suicide Survivors and Suicide Prevention


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You'll notice I took the liberty of throwing in
some cleavage. And a hint of bra strap. If that
doesn't work, I guess I'm just going to have to
sleep with you!
Because I don't know about the garbage men in your town, but Brampton garbage men are fucking picky. If it doesn't look nice enough, they won't take it. I had a shouting match with one of them a few weeks ago when I came out just in time to see him turning his nose up at it and starting to drive away. When I asked why he wasn't taking my garbage, he said, "Because it offends me." Well not in those words. What he actually said was, "It's all jumbled up and I can't see what's what. It looks like you've got some non-recyclables in there."
Well I was livid. "Jesus!" I huffed. "You're might picky for a garbage man!" Which of course was the wrong thing to say because although he might have been persuaded to take my messy garbage before I said that, he sure as hell wasn't going to take it now. He drove off and left me there with my unfit detritus, and I had to wait until the following week to rearrange it in a more tempting display and hope someone else was on duty.
Then one week I put a red bow on it. Which was sarcasm, but he either didn't get it or did get it and liked it, because he took the garbage ... and the bow.
Next week, I'm signing up for an "artful garbage presentation" class, in which we will learn to make stinky items smell better and to arrange rotting vegetable matter into happy faces.
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Another game with sudoku? Will they ever stop coming... *rolls eyes*
I say keep'em coming. My wife loves Sudoku. So as a result of so many Sudoku games being available on the DS she full supports my purchase of games and other peripherals for the system.
"Can't sleep nights and puzzle days", eh?
Tried a bit of it but the touch screen usage on games is inaccurate and not really nice. One with drawing lines between spots on a grid makes you end up drawing at least 3 other lines at a time and having to keep switching to the "erase" tool to undo it.
Interesting theory though... a puzzle game compilation designed to help you either
a) enjoy puzzles in the day at your leisure
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DomTopDad gives us an insight in his last FAMILY REUNION.
Hello MasterMarc and a warm hello to your readers and those that follow our family updates on your site.
Firstly, we want to congratulate you on the new great look of your site. Our articles look great in the new format and I know how hard you've worked to update and refresh your online magazine.
As always its been a very busy time for me and the boys. As they have all flown the nest, getting them here can prove difficult with their work commitments and time spent with their friends. But they do visit when they can.
So you can imagine the logistical nightmare of trying to get ALL the boys here together at once. But, we managed it last month. Joshy, Pete and Mark were all able to come for a few days. It was an amazing time. While Mark has settled into the family perfectly, he had yet to meet his brothers. Joshy and Pete have met many times and as you know, Joshy loves his big brother. So it was no surprise that Mark was both nervous and quite excited.
It was also interesting for me to watch how they got along and interacted. For Mark to meet both his brothers on the same day was naturally quite hard. Let alone the expectations of the sexual part of our family dynamic. Thankfully both Joshy and Pete were excited to meet their brother and were very relaxed and friendly towards their new sibling.
It was a joy for me to see and watch.
So we hung out together for a while. Chatted and caught up. Talked about cars, rugby and how much all the boys love (and look hot in) sports gear. Also, luckily for me, all 3 boys are extremely good looking, fit and easy on the eye. They know how to tease their daddy as I had to nip out briefly, when I returned all the boys were wearing pulled up sox and jocks.
They put on a show for me which was incredible, watching the three of them suck and then fuck each other. Our main concern was more practical, Mark is almost virgin tight. And although I am hung, your readers will know that Pete is horse hung and packs a massive 9.5″ thick donkey dick. Mark is barely able to take me. so we were a bit worried what would happen when Pete wanted to take his turn with his bro. It took a long while and a lot of patience, we managed to film the actual moment when Pete broke his brother, you can see Mark astride Pete, trying to slide down his cock, Pete's cock actually bends right to the side and then amazingly bursts through. You can hear Mark gasp and hear his ass actually 'POP' as Pete gets balls deep. It was an amazing session. So much so, that Joshy then fucked Mark too. It's the first time he's fucked anyone in the family and daddy taught him well. His little ass banging up and down like a rabbit as he fucked Mark. But of course, this family operates with me as the natural Alpha, and it's dads dick they all actually want. Suffice to say, I did get stuck in. Marks first family reunion ended with him taking 3 loads. Mine first obviously as his Dad, then Pete's as the eldest and finally Joshys.
It's strange to see how Petes gone full circle, from being my first sub son 4 years ago, to a natural top now. I am very proud of him.
I do want your readers to also understand that our family bond is NOT just centered on sex. We do enjoy a healthy sex life together, but I do think of myself as their actual dad. We all talk every day, they all have dreams and ambitions and I try to guide them and take care of them. They are bright young men, all work hard and are trying to make their way in the World. I am genuinely proud of them. And whilst your readers may find this hard to fathom, I do love them too. I am grateful as their Dad to watch them grow and how they share their thoughts and plans with me. So it was very important for me that Mark would get along with his brothers and that they would accept him as part of the family. Which they did.
So as far as I am concerned, my family is now complete.
Some of your readers may be thinking, what of Max? The little scamp? He is fine and couldn't be with us as he's travelling. We all skyped him though and he's delighted at having a new brother to play with.
I hope you have seen what a fun weekend we've had and of course we will write you soon again.


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Graduate Nutrition Officer job vacancy at Action Against Hunger | ACF International
Job Title: Nutrition Officer
Locations: Borno, Jigawa, Yobe
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- To strengthen the capacity of the Local Government Area (LGA) nutrition focal person or team (as designated by the LGA) in planning, management, delivery, follow-up and advocacy of cost-effective malnutrition prevention and treatment interventions (interventions include – Infant & Young Child Feeding, Community Management of Acute Malnutrition , Maternal & Child Health Weeks).
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- Support the assigned LGA in nutrition related program planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation(IYCF, CMAM, MNCHWs and/or other as needed).
- Regularly assess and build capacity of the LGA level personnel in designated health facilities.
- Coordination with and support to LGA health office.
- Strengthen technical and advocacy capacity at LGA level.
- Management of community mobilization assistants and/or LGA level consultants.
- Responsible for LGA level results and overall regular reporting, data analysis, communication and management aspects of the project (finance, logistics).
- Bachelor of Science with a major in Nutrition or Bachelor of Nutrition; graduate degree in a similar field a plus
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- Health / Public Health / Nutrition / diploma or equivalent
- Experience of emergency nutrition work and the design and implementation of feeding programmes (ideally IYCF, CTC/CMAM), including IYCF monitoring and evaluation
- Proven capacity to supervise, train and coach staff
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The First Excuse
Don't blame sexism for Hillary Clinton's defeat.
Posterity may well remember the Hillary Clinton campaign as the nearest that a member of the female gender had thus far gotten to the nomination of a major political party. But the episode will be recalled for many other salient features as well. The first time that the wife of an ex-president had leveraged her first-lady status into a senatorial seat and then a bid for the presidency. The first time that the candidate's spouse (and campaigner in chief) was a person who had been disbarred for perjury and impeached for—among other things—obstruction of justice. The first time since the 1960s that a Democrat seeking the nomination had implicitly relied on a "Southern strategy" of appealing to the rancor of the "white working class." The first time since the lachrymose Ed Muskie that a candidate's eyes had welled up with tears in New Hampshire. The first time that a woman candidate was married to a man who had been believably accused of rape and sexual harassment (see my book No One Left To Lie To). The first time that a candidate had said of her half-African-American rival that he was not a member of the Muslim faith "as far as I know." The first time that the loser in the delegate count had failed to congratulate or even acknowledge the winner on the night of his historic victory.
These are quite a lot of firsts to have accumulated. But now Sen. Clinton's partisans are crying foul and saying that the Democratic primary voters, incited by the media, only rejected her for something known as sexism. This indistinct and vague offense, portentously invoked in many recent articles and "news analyses," is supposed to be revealed (as a New York Times report on its own reporting so masochistically phrased it) in such outrageous ways as the following: "The New York Times wrote about Mrs. Clinton's 'cackle.' "
Other cited examples of the poison at work were Chris Matthews' use of the term "she devil" (which can only be a female equivalent of a he devil, unless only the prefix "he" can denote a devil), a remark by Mike Barnicle to the effect that Sen. Clinton was "looking like everyone's first wife standing outside a probate court," and more than one joke about the way in which her fanatical persistence and denial was reminiscent of the Glenn Close character in Fatal Attraction.
None of these things will bear the smallest comparison with racism, which must be strictly defined as the attribution of inferior characteristics to the members of a distinct ethnic group. (And one reason why the comparison almost never works is a very simple one: No anthropologist or ethnologist or geneticist of any reputation really believes that the human species is subdivided by race, whereas it would be a very incautious person who did not regard the human species as separated for reproductive purposes into two sexes or genders. One distinction is false, in other words, while the other is real.)
Replay some of Sen. Clinton's less spontaneous moments of laughter during the Democratic debates. How would you describe them? To refer to them as merely mirthful would be to do violence to language. The word cackle, which is really an onomatopoeia, is easily the best, because it conveys what her awkward noise sounded like. It also perhaps conveys hens rather than roosters, but that's exactly why our language has so many words for our great species distinction, which is the ability to laugh. The range from guffaw to snigger or giggle is huge, and some of it will imply "male," just as some of it will imply "schoolboy" or, as the case may be, "schoolgirl." So what?
Try the same test with the more edgy stuff, such as the Fatal Attraction gag. Is it being alleged that to be a stalker is to be a female? Not at all. Like serial killers, stalkers are almost always (and are almost always assumed by the police and the press to be) men. Perhaps this makes it appear to some people that it's almost unnatural for a female to be a stalker. But, then, how "sexist" is that assumption? For making a one-off reference to this notorious movie, Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee is being humorlessly hounded by the stone-faced ladies of EMILY's List, who have now endorsed a female rival who is in every way less liberal and less qualified than he is. Nice work.
Going as far as it dared on the point, the same sternly disapproving New York Timesreport found the courage to say that the Washington Post, in mentioning Sen. Clinton, had also alluded to "her cleavage." Living as we do in an age of the easily offended and the aggressively innocent, we were not regarded as sufficiently adult to be informed whether this cleavage was in the front or the back. (Something in me makes me hope very devoutly that it was not the latter.) But I think I see the emerging pattern. People who favor Sen. Clinton are allowed to stress her gender and sex at all times and to make a gigantic point of it for its own sake. They are even allowed to proclaim that she should be the president of the United States in time of war only becauseshe would be the first vagina-possessing person to hold the job. But—and here's the catch—people who do not favor her are not even allowed to allude to the fact that she is female and has feminine characteristics. In this way, we prepare our brave daughters and granddaughters and even disenfranchised grandmothers for a future that is sex-free and gender-neutral or, at any rate, something like that. How pathetic can you get? When will we learn that there is more to political and social emancipation than the simple addition of the "ism" suffix to any commonplace word?
In common with quite a lot of men, I have or have had a mother, wife, grandmother, mother-in-law, daughter—more or less everything female except a sister, which I wish I had had—and given all this feminine backup, I decline to be talked to in such a condescending fashion. There are many ways in which to be a bad person, and I don't think that I would ever deny that the Y chromosome especially encodes some of these. I certainly don't know any feminists who wouldn't agree with me that some regrettable traits are forever associated with the male sex. But in that event, it will not be easy for Sen. Clinton's supporters to argue that she can't be identified as womanly, or even as a woman, unless (or do I mean until?) the word woman becomes more coterminous with the word saint or angel or the term nurturing person than it is now. Her whole self-pitying campaign, I mean to say, has retarded and infantilized the political process and has used the increasingly empty term sexism to mask the defeat of one of the nastiest and most bigoted candidacies in modern history.


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Three thousand metres of Austrian banking history from 1855 to 1970
At a length of 3,000 metres, or the equivalent of roughly 30,000 archive boxes with written documents, photos, signs and audiovisual materials such as slides, films and tapes, the newly established bank archive contains countless historical documents on the history and activities of Bank Austria and its predecessor institutions from the founding of CA in 1855 through to 1970.
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Google dropped word today that they have made some improvements for CardDAV. Earlier this year Google dropped free Gmail accounts from using Exchange ActiveSync, so for many BlackBerry 10 users, CardDAV has been a great solution. The updates here aren't too crazy but they do keep things running smoothly for any and all devices using the CardDAV service.
Improvements include:
- High resolution contact photos, which enables syncing of full-screen photos used by some mobile devices including iPhones (previously we supported 96x96 thumbnails).
- Sync-Collections, which improves battery life for mobile users by reducing the amount of data exchanged.
- POST support, which reduces mobile data usage when creating new contacts.
- For Google Apps users, searching the domain's Global Address List.
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Cat finds its way home after going missing on holiday
A tortoiseshell cat called Holly has stunned her owners by walking 200 miles home, two months after she got lost on holiday.
The Mirror reports that Holly was on holiday in Daytona Beach, Florida, with her owners, Jacob and Bonnie Richter, when she ran away after being scared by fireworks.
The couple were devastated about losing their pet but, giving up all hope of finding her, they returned home to West Palm Beach, 200 miles up the coast.
Jacob said: "It was like losing a child. She'd become part of my life, not a pet but a family member."
But, 63 days later, Jacob was amazed when Holly was found in a garden just a short walk away from his home. Her paws were worn down, she had lost half her weight and was too weak to meow. He believes that she must have followed the coast road home.
Animal expert Professor Marc Bekoff, from Colorado University, told The Mirror: "She may have had a basic sense of direction and got clues from sights or sounds but the truth is we have no idea how she got home."
Unfortunately, not all cats have such a great sense of direction. A missing tabby called Bobby has been found in Cardiff, 150 miles from his home in Stoke-on-Trent, four years after he went missing.
BBC News reports that he was taken in as a stray by Lawrence Gwynn after he turned up on his doorstep last summer.
When Mr Gwynn recently took him to his vet he discovered that he was microchipped and was registered as missing from Stoke-on-Trent in 2009.
However, his previous owners can't be traced so Mr Gwynn is keeping him unless they come forward.
He said: "Nobody knows how he ended up in Cardiff, 150 miles away. One theory is that he got inside a vehicle like a removal van that brought him down here."
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At Care Indeed, our Palo Alto caregivers know that aging is an inevitable fact of life; we all age, and some have a more difficult time than others. Whether you are a senior or the adult child of an aging parent, there are things you can to "age gracefully." Certainly medical conditions or diseases are a possibility, but aside from things you cannot control, there are many aspects of aging that ARE within your control. Below we have a simple "blueprint" to healthy aging.
The word of the day when it comes to healthy aging is stimulation: Physical, mental, and social.
Mental stimulation is vital for a sharp mind. Many seniors are as "sharp" mentally as those half their age or even younger. How can seniors maintain a sharp mind, and avoid many of the issues others who are aging face? By staying mentally active. Engaging in conversation with others on a regular basis, working crossword puzzles, reading, doing Sudoku, and even watching television game shows that entertain and compel seniors to play along can keep their minds sharp.
Physical stimulation is important throughout life, especially for aging seniors. Of course the elderly aren't expected to engage in aerobics or other high-impact activity, but even the simplest exercise such as walking, dancing at the local senior center, or Tai Chi can help preserve bone and muscle strength, and help avoid aching joints. Regular exercise is key to good physical health; be sure to change your routine up every now and then to avoid boredom.
Staying active socially. Sitting at home for hours upon hours every day can lead to feelings of loneliness and boredom, or even result in depression. Your aging parent should continue to engage in favorite hobbies, get out with friends for a game of cards, lunch, or a movie when possible, even attend church or simply visit with neighbors occasionally to stay socially active. Many areas offer activities designed especially for aging seniors such as book clubs, golf leagues, bridge clubs, or even knitting/crocheting groups. The importance of staying connected to others cannot be stressed enough!
What is the takeaway here? Seniors should stay as mentally, physically, and socially active as possible in order to enjoy healthier, fulfilled lives. At Care Indeed, our Palo Alto home caregivers are dedicated to helping improve the lives of those who are elderly, proving compassionate care, companionship, guidance with physical/social activities, and more.


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Museum of London Docklands will be closed between 9 July and 16 September to host Deutsches Haus, the official base for the German National Olympic Committee. Activity will include Deutsches Haus, a private hospitality base, and Fanfest, a public celebration of German sport and culture. German-Sport Marketing tell us about the final preparations.


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Help to Buy has boosted housing market confidence, says Government
A Government report on the Help to Buy housing scheme has found little evidence that it has pushed up housing prices.
The Department for Communities and Local Government review said the equity loan scheme has boosted market confidence among consumers, developers and lenders.
But Labour said the Government initiative has only offered a "modest boost" to the housing market and the number of home-owners has been in "free fall" since 2010.
The report said 82% of owners who bought under Help to Buy were only able to join the housing market because of the scheme, while 43% of Help to Buy homes would otherwise not have been built.
Housing minister Brandon Lewis said: "Anyone who works hard and aspires to own their own home should have the opportunity to do so and this report shows how the Government's Help to Buy scheme continues to turn those dreams into a reality."
John Healey, shadow cabinet minister for housing and planning, said many young people continue to struggle to become home owners.
"This research confirms that the average Help to Buy applicant earns almost £50,000," he said.
"Meanwhile home-ownership is increasingly out of reach for young people on low and middle incomes."
The scheme, launched in 2013, offers loans to potential home owners who can afford to pay a mortgage but struggle to save a deposit.
The report comes as the Liberal Democrats announced they would attempt to strike out another of the Government's key housing policies.
The party wants to axe the Pay to Stay scheme from the Housing and Planning Bill when it returns to the House of Lords next month.
Pay to Stay will see families or individuals in social housing with a total income of £40,000 a year in London, and £30,000 outside the capital, forced to pay the rental market rate.
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I always walk away with one 'ah-ha' moment that is going to help me be a better doctor when it comes to treating those challenging cases
Kent, WA (PRWEB) October 15, 2013
Dr. Danene Saggau, a chiropractor who has been working with patients in Kent, WA for over 23 years, recognizes that continuing education and professional development are the "not-so-secret-ingredients" for sustainable success. As a key member of the Lake Meridian Chiropractic (LMC) team, Dr. Saggau feels that it's important for every healthcare provider in the practice to be aware of new technologies and techniques that can improve the quality of care. She also believes that members of the practice's administrative staff should always be on the lookout for best practices that could improve patients' overall experience and streamline the practice's own operations. For physicians and staff alike, this means taking time away from day-to-day activities to be exposed to new ideas from outside the clinic.
Recently, Dr. Aaron Placke—another member of the LMC team—attended a conference entitled, "Scientific Approach to Low Level Laser Therapy," that was presented by Dr. George Gedevanishvili, who has both medical and business degrees. This conference's purpose was to provide doctors with scientific, unbiased information regarding LLLT. Topics included the clinical application and efficacy of LLLT based on independent research papers published in prestigious scientific journals. There are over 6,000 published papers on LLLT.
Low level laser therapy (LLLT) provides an exciting opportunity to help doctors stimulate the body's own healing in their patients. Dr. Gedevanishvili wrote in an article in The American Chiropractor magazine that, "Laser therapy has minimal contraindications and virtually no side effects, which makes it the treatment of choice for rapid, non-invasive pain and inflammation relief." Dr. Placke's biggest takeaway from the Renton, WA conference on LLLT centered on potential benefits to his patients. "The best part of the conference," he said, "was learning some specific procedural changes to the application of the laser therapy so we get better and faster outcomes for the patient—especially those with a disc bulge."
Later this month, Dr. Saggau will attend a seminar on Advanced Atlas Orthogonal Technique (AO), to be held in Seattle, WA. She has long felt strongly motivated to attend seminars like this one throughout her professional career. "Even though I've been doing this for nearly 25 years," she said, "I always walk away with one 'ah-ha' moment that is going to help me be a better doctor when it comes to treating those challenging cases. I firmly believe there is an answer to everyone's problem and a way to relieve everyone's pain; we just have to look hard enough to find it." Dr. Roy Sweat, who will be presenting at the seminar, is the developer of the atlas orthogonal program, which uses a percussion wave to re-position the atlas vertebra. Dr. Sweat is considered by many to be one of the foremost authorities in the world on the cervical spine.
LMC office management and administrative staff also participate in training- and education-oriented events designed to help them bring new ideas into the practice. Dr. Saggau said, "We see a lot of value in making professional development opportunities available to everyone on our team, whatever their role happens to be. The staff has attended outside conferences and we've also brought trainers in-house so that the team wouldn't have to travel."
Whether it's the latest clinical procedures and technologies or best practices in business management, Lake Meridian Chiropractic is always looking for new ways to improve the quality of care as well as the patient experience.
About Lake Meridian Chiropractic
Lake Meridian Chiropractic has been providing quality, effective chiropractic care to the residents of Kent, WA since 1990. Lake Meridian Chiropractic is one of only 2% of chiropractors nationwide to offer the Atlas Orthogonal technique. In addition to working with patients suffering from back and neck pain, Lake Meridian Chiropractic has achieved excellent outcomes for patients with head and jaw complaints, extremity and joint pain, chronic conditions, and injuries related to sports, auto and workplace accidents.
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Pasolini, during the filming of the desert scenes for Teorema
"Who is that boy?"
At the beginning of Teorema (1968), a film by the Italian director, writer, poet, and leftist intellectual Pier Paolo Pasolini, this question is asked. The subject of the question (played by Terence Stamp) is the visitor of an Italian bourgeois family, and at the moment it is raised, he has just entered the room of their house where at the same time a party is taking place.
In the film, it is through him that each member of the household (the mother, father, son, daughter and maid) will experience a certain crucial moment, through a brief relationship, wherethrough each of them will come to a realization about their life. When, in the middle of the film, the visitor suddenly has to leave, the film shows us how each member of the household tries to cope with his absence, and the resulting insight.
Pasolini, in his cleverness, manages to let the viewer experience a similar feeling, all while focusing on his views of society; the uncertainty in the relation between the film's prologue and the main part of the film is resolved in the last scene, and beautifully so.
Teorema film still: The father walks through nature after a rendezvous with the unnamed visitor
A natural sacredness
Thematically, in these moments of realization, nature is used as a central theme, and throughout the film, shots of a desert are used as a motif. It is also a very visual film, and in it slowness, with little dialogue and scenes which flow in and out of one another, it displays a visual rhythm, a certain serenity, which invites the viewer in. In its ambiguity—it is a very open-ended film—it offers ample room for the viewer to put meaning into the work—and it is in this way that I consider it to be one of the finest art films. It is a film that keeps one mystified for weeks—and as such it made a most lasting impression on me.
Through its use of natural themes and its visual language, the film conveys a natural mysticism—reminiscent of Romanticism. As an example, it surely must not be a coincidence that the visitor is reading Rimbaud while sitting in the garden at some point. For Pasolini, nature had this timeless, miraculous, aspect.
Interested in this moment of realization which is connected to nature, I thought of a headpiece which would convey similar feelings. My first approach was to do something which would frame the face, thereby putting a focus on the eyes, mouth; like a veil as it appears in The Gospel According To St. Matthew, or as can be seen in portraits of Humanists such as Erasmus, or Petrarca—or the sight of someone, partly hidden behind a tree branch.
Pasolini's use of anachronisms, as apparent in The Gospel According To Saint Matthew, seemed an interesting element to take on too. As an example, the Roman soldiers in the film appear as if stepped straight out of a renaissance painting, while in another scene Odetta's live performance of Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child from 1960 is played in the background. Later on, records of pieces by Prokofiev, Mozart and Bach can also be heard, all clearly out of time. It marks, as far as I know, the first intentional use of anachronisms in cinema—and it works beautifully, as evident to anyone with eyes and ears.
As a person, Pasolini had many contradictory characteristics, being a marxist and atheist while working with religious themes, a homosexual who found inspiration, and perhaps a sense of consolation, in traditional Italian values. Instead of hiding the uncertainties that would come out of such contradictions, he decided to bring them to the center of his work, and in my opinion this is particularly interesting.
Related to the visual arts, he also experimented with drawing and painting, and in these experiments worked with non-ordinary materials, such as coffee, glue and tea, producing interesting sculptural effects.
As a loose interpretation, I translated this to thinking about the use of certain unnatural materials that surprisingly seemed to contain natural characteristics—concrete slabs which had dried in such a way that a leaflike structure was present on the surface, mortar, branches of trees and pieces of aluminium.
Similar to his (in form), my first experiments, trying to deal with the fragility of the concrete and mortar, consisted of an assemblage of these on a flat frame—to frame the face—itself made out of chicken wire, combined with a colour palette which was derived from the visual aspect of his work. But these went astray, both in form and content.
Deciding that I needed to shift my focus on the sublime aspect of these natural, mystical moments—in a scene in Teorema for example, the maid's body is partly covered with soil; in another, the daughter repeats daily the steps that she once walked with the visitor through the garden of the house—it became apparent that the headpiece itself would need to induce such a moment.
Chipping off slim slabs from a block of two kinds of river clay with a metal spatula, I built up a flexible fabric of inflexible building blocks. By puncturing the clay before it dried with a needle, they could be tied together with thread to form a rectangular lattice structure, which I modified in specific places to follow the curvature of the face.
Pasolini talked of "this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which does not lesson, but augments this love of life" as the mark that dominated his work. As such, a headpiece which can only be worn when laying down on the ground seemed fitting in its passiveness, while referencing natural elements, as discussed above.
Arranged on the bottom, as a pillow, are loose slabs of a slightly darker clay.


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Name: Lynn Spangler
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Department: Communication
Expertise Keywords: Documentaries, Feminism on television, Media criticism, Media effects, Role portrayals, Sitcoms, Television, Television criticism, Television effects
Available For: interviews, essays, speaking
Expertise: I have a Ph.D. in Mass Communication and have researched television for many years. I'm also an independent television producer, writer and director.
Currrent Research: Social class as depicted on television and a video documentary on John Burroughs
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Office Phone: 845-257-3551
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Positions held at New Paltz prior to current position:
Assistant Professor, Associate Professor
Positions held prior to joining SUNY New Paltz:
Northern Michigan University, Marquette Michigan, lecturer
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI--part- time lecturer and graduate assistant
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2006 Catskill Watershed Corp. grant for educational video on John Burroughs. Several research and creative projects awards, mostly for documentary on Sojourner Truth.
Certificate of Appreciation from University Police in 1991 for producing and director their campus safety video
Certificate of Appreciation from Eastern New York Correctional facility in 1986 for documentary and Alternatives to Violence Project work.
Other professional activities
Paper presentations on several panels at Broadcast Education Association over the last 10 years. Also presented at National Communication Association, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender; Eastern Communication Association, Popular Culture Association
Organizational Memberships
Broadcast Education Association co-chair of International Festival of Film, Video and Media Arts 2000-2002
Broadcast Education Association co- chair of paper competition for the Production, Aesthetics and Criticism division 1993-1995
Book--"Television Women from Lucy to 'Friends': Fifty Years of Sitcoms and Feminism--Praeger Encyclopedia entries--The Encyclopedia of Radio, entries on WJR and CKLW, forthcoming from Fitzroy & Dearborn
Encyclopedia entries--The Guide to United States Popular Culture, 12 entries for television, 2001, from Bowling Green State University Popular Press
book chapter--"Designing the Thomas/Hill Hearings on Designing Women: Creative and Business Influences on Content," Outsiders Looking In: A Communication Perspective on the Hill/Thomas Hearings, ed. Paul Siegel, Hampton, 1996
Book chapter--"Buddies and Pals: A History of Male Friendships on Prime- Time Television," Men, Masculinity and Media, ed. Steve Craig, Sage, 1992
journal article--"Television Autobiographies: The Audience Speaks for Itself," Journal of Communication and Media Arts 1 (Spring 1992): 7-15
journal article--"A Historical Overview of Female Friendships on Prime-Time Television," Journal of Popular Culture 22 (Spring 1989): 13-23.
TV documentary--"The Life and Legend of Sojourner Truth", seen on public television stations across the country and on videocassette through Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 2001.
TV show--"On Campus at SUNY New Paltz." Produced 25 half hour weekly shows seen on Time Warner Cable throughout several counties, 1997. Also produced three in fall 2001.
TV documentary--"Surviving Vietnam: The John Wolfe Story", a half hour show seen through WTZA, Kingston, 1989-1990
TV documentary--"Recipe for Success: John Novi and American Cuisine", half hour show broadcast on WHAI-TV in Connecticut, 1993


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