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NAD C 426 Stereo AM FM Tuner Better-than-broadcast quality reception C 426 Stereo AM FM Tuner Front Finishes black titanium Available finishes may be limited by location. RDS Manuals / Downloads (9) Reviews / Awards (1) Consumer Reviews (0) Write A Review NAD C 426 FM/AM TUNER The C 426 FM/AM Tuner builds on the strengths of previous NAD tuners by offering reception quality that rivals that of todayrsquo;s broadcasts. We have carried forward our highly sensitive RF Front End for cleaner reception in fringe reception areas, and noise is extremely low across the audio spectrum. In line with global concern about climate change, we have completely redesigned the power supply for improved efficiency and ultra-low power consumption (lt;0.5W) during standby while still allowing all remote activation and control interfaces. The rear panel IR Input and RS-232 port allow the C 426 to be easily integrated with sophisticated system controllers used in custom installation. We also have one of the most intuitive user interfaces in the market utilizing a 24-position rotary encoder knob to more quickly tune stations or select preset stations. Features RDS PS (Station name) and RT (Radio text) 8 Character preset naming capability for AM amp; non-RDS stations 30 Station random presets (AM or FM) VFL display MOS-FET RF Front End RS-232 Interface IR Input NAD Full Function Remote Control lt;0.5W Standby power consumption With 30 presets available you can store all your favourite radio stations in any combination of AM and FM stations (for example, 25 presets for FM and 5 for AM, or 17 for FM and 13 for AM). To avoid having to scroll through 30 presets, the un-programmed (empty) ones are skipped to give you quick access to all your stations. Instead of littering the front panel with buttons and features that are hardly ever used, the C 426 concentrates on convenience in daily operation. The RDS limits itself to the RDS PS (Program Service) and RT (Radio Text) function, both of which enhance ease of operation. The RDS PS will automatically indicate the name of the radio station you are listening to in the display. At the touch of a button, RDS RT will display additional information broadcast by the radio station, such as the presenter, the music playing, etc. For AM and non-RDS stations the C 426 FM/AM Tuner allows you to name each preset individually with up to eight characters. Once you have named your presets you don't need to remember which frequency goes with what radio station, as the name is indicated in the display every time the preset is recalled. All the preset information is stored in the C 426's non-volatile memory, which means it will remember all of its preset information even if the unit has been unplugged for a prolonged period. Auto Search automatically stops at the next strong radio signal and optimises tuning. Weaker radio stations can be tuned into manually. Stations that are quiet in Mono but noisy in Stereo can benefit from the ldquo;Blendrdquo; feature that narrows stereo separation and improves noise. FM Mute eliminates inter-station tuning noise and only allows strong and clear stations to emerge from the silent background. The C 426 FM/AM Tuner also offers features to get the maximum out of the airwaves. The MOS-FET RF Front End design together with high quality components and careful PCB layout guarantees excellent sensitivity with low intermodulation distortion to provide quiet and musically satisfying performance. Although AM can never reach the quality of any FM transmission, the C 426's AM section retains excellent clarity together with lowest possible background noise. Whether you are looking for excellent performance, ease-of-use or the convenience of RDS, the C 426 FM/AM Tuner offers all these with the low price to high performance ratio for which NAD is so renowned.
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By Alexei Anishchuk
NOVO-OGARYOVO, Russia (Reuters) - The Kremlin said Russia must test imports of U.S. and Canadian beef and pork on grounds of safety, not politics, rejecting concerns the new demands, which could affect U.S. sales of $500 million, are in response to a U.S. human rights bill.
"It doesn't matter how much (the beef testing ban) is being politicized in the United States. What we care about are the reasons behind these decisions," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday.
On Friday, the same day that the U.S. Senate voted on a measure to "name and shame" human rights violators as part of a bill expanding trade with Russia, Russia demanded that U.S. and Canadian meat imports be certified to be free of the feed additive ractopamine.
Some analysts said the Russian move was linked to the U.S. passage of the "Magnitsky list", named after Sergei Magnitsky, a hedge fund lawyer who died in prison during a corruption investigation.
Russian officials denied that this programme was a political response.
"Russian institutions are responsible for allowing only meat that meets the necessary standards into Russia's customs zone. If a country's food does not meet these standards, Russia's institutions take measures," Peskov said.
"In that case the opinion of our overseas partners is secondary to us compared with the work of our own institutions," he added.
Studies of ractopamine on animals and people have shown that high doses can adversely affect the cardiovascular system.
Traces of ractopamine have been found in consignments of meat from the two countries on a weekly basis since a warning was issued earlier this year, according to Rosselkhoznadzor, Russia's watchdog for animal and plant health.
The new requirement would potentially make the United States, which exports more than $500 million a year worth of beef and pork to Russia, significantly less competitive and provide an advantage to meat producers in China and the European Union, where ractopamine is banned.
The United States will continue to reach out to Russia to resolve their differences, welcoming the chance to have further technical discussions on the safety of ractopamine, the U.S. Embassy in Moscow said in a statement.
The U.S. Trade Representative's chief agricultural negotiator is due in Moscow for talks on Wednesday.
"Russia has imposed a zero tolerance for ractopamine residues, effectively restricting Russia's imports of pork and beef products from the United States," it added.
Russia imported 1.25 million tonnes of red meat worth $4.47 billion from non-CIS countries in 2011 excluding offal, according to official customs data.
The additive, which is used to make meat leaner, has been banned by some countries despite scientific evidence that it is safe. The United Nations has agreed on acceptable levels of the drug.
(Writing by Polina Devitt; editing by Jane Baird)

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In this activity, students will use a simulator of an orbiting X-ray observatory to observe a supernova remnant, the expanding gas from an exploded star. They will take X-ray spectral data, analyze them, and answer questions based on that data. This... (View More) resource consists of a manual and software for the Introductory Astronomy Lab Exercise, from CLEA (Contemporary Laboratory Experiments in Astronomy). The manual includes introductory activities for students, background information, an instructor's guide, a student handout, an answer key, a software user's guide, and a glossary. The student section of the activity starts on page 13. See Related & Supplemental Resources for a link to download the software. Note: the software is only available for Windows. (View Less)
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* Driving time from Dublin is 50 minutes, take N7 from Dublin to Portlaoise, then N80 to Stradbally which is about 10 mins drive.
* Driving from Galway takes 2 hours 10 mins, take N6 to Portumna, then R489 to Birr, N62 to Roscrea, N7 to Portlaoise, N80 to Stradbally.
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The joy of scribing in a relatively small kingdom is that you can tailor a commission to the recipient.
The recipient has handled original manuscripts through his studies, and is familiar with the many shortcuts, abbreviations, acronyms and contractions that historic scribes used to fit text to the space given.
So this piece compresses a longish and wordy text (based on a late 15th c example in English) into the smallest space available - about A5 or half a sheet of standard printer paper - using short forms, symbols and Latin equivalents that are current in early modern English.
For most Society scrolls, you wouldn't dream of shortening the name of the king, the recipient, and the award itself. In this writ I did all these things.
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Vitus, by the grace of might, King of Drachenwald, and Isabel our queen, at the Glen Rathlin Flaming Arrow on the vigil of SS Philip and James the Just AS50, in the first year of our reign the forty-sixth after the foundation.
To the pleasure of our Crown, the surety of this realm and defense of our kingdom, to the singular comfort of all our subjects of the same and in avoiding of all ambiguities and questions,
it is ordained, established and enacted by authority of these witnesses that Alexandre d'Avignon with all the permanence and dignity to the same pertaining be, rest, remain and abide as companion of the Silver Guard, perpetually with the grace of God so to endure and in none other.
Done by our signs manual.
Writ by Genevieve rougemaunche; parchment w/ oakgall ink
Text taken from: Recognition of the Title of Henry VII (1485)
1485. 1 Henry VII. c. 1. 2 S. R. 499.) (Adams & Stephens)
Formatting advice: Arianhwy Wen, called Mala
I consulted HE Arianhwy Wen, who studied early modern English, on these short forms and abbreviations. She wrote out the text by hand and posted it to me. Most keyboards don't have Latin abbreviation symbols on them!
(A few years ago Ari wrote up and taught a class on early modern English and its spellings, posted to Master Robert's Forsooth wiki - you'll see a few of those spellings in this text.)
Thanks to a generous gift from Lady Victoria Alcon de Castile, I now have an ample supply of small pieces of parchment, and get both the joy of using parchment with the challenge of very fine calligraphy.
On parchment, I use a pointed tool (piece of hard wire stuck in the end of a broken arrow shaft, since you ask) rather than a pencil, for marking lines. Many lines you see marked in medieval manuscripts are like this - indentations, rather than surface ones.
To get the text small enough I used a pointed nib rather than a 'round hand' one (which has a flat nib end). After testing several nibs, and a couple of practice runs, I found one that gave 'thicks and thins' in the lines through pressure on the nib, rather than nib angle. I'm really pleased with this find.
The finished piece looks a bit lopsided in the first photo - partly camera angle, partly because the edges of the parchment piece aren't cut straight. I've marked out lines where a framer can trim to finish the piece.


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You Who's Guiding Me
by Lossy
I did the thing that one does when one finds new music that they love and found Lossy on the socials, scouring her pages and profiles for all and any information I could find about this woman with the super sweet voice. While I was there, a comment on facebook caught my eye. I can only assume it was from one of her friends, something about Lossy being so internet savvy and amazing and Lossy's response about loathing the job but needing to expose people to her music really made me smile, because in a short couple of sentences and a few minutes of one of the sweetest indie pop songs I've heard in a while, I found an artist who wants to be exactly that, an artist first, a social media personality second (or third, or fourth) which is something I really, really admire. In a world where I can hit 'like' and 'unlike' in a matter of seconds, what I really appreciate is an emotion that sticks around, a song that gets stuck in my head and a melody that won't let go. 'You Who's Guiding Me' is all of those things and worthy of a like, as in, an actual like, not just a social media one. Like: IRL!


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Excise taxes violate the most basic principle of taxation–low rate, broad base–since they are purposefully levied on a narrow base and generally with the highest rate possible. Why? Generally to "discourage" the activity being taxed.
Take cigarettes for example. The base is defined as one product and the tax rate, especially over the last decade or so, keeps going up, up and up i the name of "reducing smoking." Unfortunately, violating the principles of taxation carry a heavy price. In the case of cigarettes it can lead to cigarette smuggling and cross-border shopping.
Now, apparently, they want to tax your food . . . I wonder what kind of unintended consequences will come of this?
Hat Tip to International Liberty
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Jošitošiho tisky v japonské sbírce Náprstkova muzea. / Yoshitoshi´s Prints in the Japanese Collection of the Náprstek Museum.National Museum, Prague,
In the framework of the research project Personalities of the Czech Science and Culture supported by the Czech Ministry of Culture another part of the originally Hloucha´s collection has been processed under the title Yoshitoshi´s Prints in the Japanese Collection of the Náprstek Museum. This time the prints of lately very popular painter of the 2nd half of the 19th century, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, have been described and evaluated. The Japanese collection includes single prints and the library owns a famous album One Hundred Aspects of the Moon. Altogether 160 prints have been catalogued and saved in the form of electronic medium, the advantage of which lies in the possibility to publish digital photographs of all prints and in the possibility to enlarge them on the screen.


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Featured Pet Insurance Review – I love Trupanion!!
10/10 I love Trupanion!!
I have 2 dogs who have been happy Trupanion clients for a few years now. One has an ongoing Dermatitis issue. I have never been denied repayment for his care and medicine. I am impressed with how quickly I'm reimbursed. I have also received prompt answers to a few questions I have inquired on via email. I have found Trupanion to be a an honest company who cares about the animals they insure and I plan to always have the security it provides for me. I love my animals so I'm going to keep giving them the best of care and this insurance company is the one I choose to help me achieve this.
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HealthCareCAN and ISQua are very proud to announce our partnership to promote the improvement of healthcare quality around the world. Through this partnership, CHA Learning, the professional development division of HealthCareCAN, will annually make available five scholarships to ISQua Fellows from low and middle income countries. These scholarships will focus on learning and development in areas of quality improvement such as patient safety, patient engagement, change, leadership and management.
Additionally, CHA Learning is committed to providing ISQua Fellows and Members discounted tuition rates. Through our partnership, HealthCareCAN and ISQua will both facilitate the global spread of such essential professional development as well as the access of lower/middle income regions where such high-quality learning would otherwise be out of reach. About CHA Learning:
CHA Learning, the professional development division of HealthCareCAN, is a Canadian leader in the delivery of online education to those working in healthcare and has been a trusted national learning provider to health professionals since 1951. It has made significant investments in recent years to expand its suite of essential and relevant education for those in all parts of healthcare. CHA Learning's mandate is to develop 'people' capacity within the health system and this partnership is a unique and special opportunity for our organisation to not only impact the Canadian healthcare system, but to also have a positive influence on healthcare quality around the globe through a meaningful partnership with a trusted and well-respected organisation such as ISQua. We also believe we can learn from the experiences and lessons of other countries in our continuous improvement journey here in Canada.
Dale Schierbeck, VP Learning & Development, HealthCareCAN
The HealthCareCAN, CHA Learning programmes available to ISQua Fellowship Participants and Members are flexible, self-paced online study and are modelled on adult learning and activities involve application in the real healthcare workplace. Each programme includes expert faculty to support and coach learners throughout their studies and include continuing education webinars presented by experts across Canada on relevant topics of interest.
All programmes have estimated learning hours and a maximum study duration and extensions can be purchased if necessary. Applicants are required to have a high level of English proficiency.
Some programmes have specific admission requirements which must by met by all registrants these are detailed on the course information page for each course.
Some programmes require textbooks and may need to be purchased separately by the participant. The cost of textbooks is not subsidised by HealthCareCAN or ISQua. Information about purchasing required textbooks will be provided upon registration.
Fellowship Participants who were born in and currently work in low income and lower middle income countries as rated by the World Bank are eligible to apply. Participants who have previously been awarded an ISQua Education or Conference scholarship, are not eligible to apply for these scholarships. The call for applications is open until 30 June 2018.
Additionally, CHA Learning is committed to providing ISQua Fellows 25% discounted tuition rates and also extend 10% discount to ISQua Members for the online courses listed below:*
- Integrated Quality Management
- Patient-Centred Experience & Design Programme
- Management Essentials Programme
- Change Leadership Certificate
- Canadian Patient Safety Officer Online Programme
- Food Service & Nutrition Management Programme
All applications for discount codes must be made through Caroline Usher, ISQua Education.
*Please note that those who are both Fellows and Members will be entitled to 25% discount only.
HealthcareCAN also provide a number of recorded webinars to ISQua's resource library for participants on our programme.


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Nineteen players began the final round of the Crowne Plaza Invitational within four shots of the lead, but Boo Weekley's superior ball-striking helped separate him from the field on an ideal day for scoring. Here is the skinny from the final round at Colonial:
The leaderboard: Weekley (-14); Matt Kuchar (-13); Zach Johnson (-12); Scott Stallings, John Rollins and Matt Every at -11
What it means: It's a long-awaited title for Weekley, the soon-to-be 40-year-old who earned his first PGA Tour win since 2008. Since then, he's been beset by injuries, most significantly a torn labrum. Last year, he had cysts removed from his rectum. In March, he carded a final-round 63 to finish solo second in Tampa, then added a T-6 finish in New Orleans. With this victory, he also earns a return trip to the Masters.
Round of the day: Weekley's closing 66 helped him leapfrog overnight leader Kuchar, who finished solo second after a final-round 68. Franklin Corpening, who was coming off a T-3 at last week's Web.com Tour event, matched the low round of the week, an 8-under 62, to vault 48 places on the leaderboard, all the way up to T-14.
Best of the rest: It was another stellar week at Colonial for Johnson, who shot all four rounds in the 60s, including a closing 66, to finish solo third. It was his first top 10 since last year's British Open. Since 2009, he has won twice at Colonial and finished no worse than ninth.
Biggest disappointment: Scott Stallings went out in 29 and was two shots clear as he played his approach into the par-4 15th. He pulled that second shot left of the green, flubbed his pitch, left his fourth shot in the bunker and walked away with a double bogey. He settled for 66 and T-4 finish, his best result since the Humana Challenge (T-4).
Shot of the day: If he was showing any nerves, Weekley didn't show it down the stretch. Staked to a two-shot lead as he played No. 17, he hit his approach to 3 feet on the penultimate hole. He didn't make the putt, just as he missed the short-range birdie putt on 14, but the strong iron play helped keep him in front.
Quote of the day: "I finally get my name on that wall with Ben Hogan and some of the greats that have played here. It's awesome." – Weekley


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Washington — Jack Valenti is busily scripting the end of his legendary life.
But, even after 85 years, it's very much a work in progress.
Valenti, who ended his 38-year run as Hollywood's leading man in the nation's capital more than two years ago, continues to work five days a week as something of an icon-on-call.
Nattily dressed in dark suits, his silver mane of hair neatly combed and his manners similarly well groomed, Valenti still works the phones to tap political connections dating to his days at President Johnson's side. Now, however, it's for new causes that include world health issues and leading an entertainment industry campaign to teach parents how to block objectionable TV shows.
"I have a feeling that retirement is a synonym for decay," Valenti said in an interview over a fruit plate with nonfat cottage cheese at his regular lunch table at the Hay-Adams Hotel. "I watched President Johnson leave the White House, go back to his ranch, and literally do nothing. In four years, he was dead."


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Learn about a few technical points about extenders, the different versions that have appeared through the years and their compatibility with specific Canon EF lenses.
Rudy Winston
Further expand on your lens' telephoto power by using an EF 1.4x III or EF 2x III Extenders.
A great accessory to double the effective focal length of whatever lens you're using, without changing its minimum focus distance – so, for example, it can be a tremendous asset to nature shooters photographing small subjects such as birds.
© 2018 Canon U.S.A., Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited.


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HuggleHounds Knotties Santa Sock Monkey
- Brand: Hugglehounds
- Product Code: 1440
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Great new super soft corduroy plush material is a wonderful, irresistible fabric for dog toys. Each arm and foot features a wonderful knot to gnaw on and a squeaker to capture a pet's attention. 5 Squeakers; one in the body and 1 in each paw.
Sock Monkey Knottie
Wee - 6" x 2.5" x 2.75" Each toy has 1 little squeaker in the body. As always, toys can be machine washed.
Small - 9" x 4" x 3.75"
Large - 14.5" x 7.5" x 5.75"
Super Sized - 21" x 12" x 6"
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2nd July 2018 - 5th Sept 2018
February 1, 2018
Applications to be an Amgen Scholar are provided by and processed at each participating host institution. Follow the link above to find this institution's application.
Sophie Goyard, PhD, Program Coordinator
Nienke Buddelmeijer, Karin Eiglmeier and Mariana Mesel-Lemoine
Program Committee Members
Phone number: +33 1 40 61 34 46
Institut Pasteur is a non-profit private foundation dedicated, since 1889, to research, public health and teaching. According to the humanist ideals of Louis Pasteur, the institute stands at the forefront of innovative research against infectious diseases. Ten scientists of Institut Pasteur won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the most recent one for the discovery of human immunodeficiency virus. Institut Pasteur in Paris is the center of an international network of 32 institutes located on every continent.
Amgen Scholars at Institut Pasteur will have the opportunity to participate in an eight-week intensive research experience in one of the 120 laboratories on the multidisciplinary Paris campus. Each scholar works with a lab-mentor (a postdoctoral fellow, a senior graduate student or a staff scientist) and the Head of Unit on an individual project as part of the research performed by the host-lab. The Amgen Scholars program offers a first hands-on research experience in a variety of scientific fields, covering Molecular and Cellular Biology, Genetics, Immunology, Microbiology, Genomics, Bioinformatics, Structural Biology, Virology, Parasitology, Mycology, Epidemiology, Imaging, Neurosciences, and Developmental Biology.
Scholars will interact with and receive guidance from faculty and administrative mentors. In addition to hands-on laboratory activities, the program includes scientific seminars, advices on scientific communication and career development. The program will end with poster presentations on the conducted research projects, followed by a wine-and-cheese party for all participants and their mentors. Scholars will also attend the annual symposium held in Cambridge (UK) in early September.
Paris is one of Europe's most culturally diverse and artistically rich cities, offering a large variety of social programs (museums, sight-seeing etc.). Amgen Scholars will be offered housing in a student residence in Paris with easy access to Institut Pasteur.
Interested students from across Europe are invited to visit the Program website at Institut Pasteur for further details.Learn more and apply to be an Amgen Scholar on this campus
Amgen Scholars is an international program funded by the Amgen Foundation with direction and technical assistance provided by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Cambridge.


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Featured News - Current News - Archived News - News Categories
Congressman says system is broken and WNYers burdened with hefty flood tax
Saying, "Enough is enough," Congressman Brian Higgins, D-NY-26, opposed a bill he said perpetuates a broken Federal Emergency Management Agency flood insurance program. Under the bill, residents whose homes fall into designated flood zones would see a significant rate increase in addition to a new $25 annual fee.
"The FEMA flood program is fundamentally flawed with many Western New Yorkers paying into a system they will never see one benefit from," Higgins said. "This bill is guised as one that eases the pain, but I simply can't support legislation that allows for already hefty flood insurance rates to increase and new fees to be imposed."
Higgins became a co-sponsor of the legislation because the bill originally postponed flood insurance rate increases for several years. However, he said, in order to secure enough votes for passage, the rate increase delay was removed from the bill, offering little relief for Western New Yorkers faced with mounting premiums.
Higgins has been an outspoken opponent of the FEMA's flood insurance program. In 2008, he was successful in his fight to remove nearly 2,800 properties in the City of Buffalo from the flood zone. In 2011, he introduced a bipartisan amendment with Rep. Candice Miller aimed at terminating the National Flood Insurance Program.
The U.S. Congress established the National Flood Insurance Program with the passage of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968. The program is administered by FEMA under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.


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Book Review: Wrapped in Pleasure by: Brenda Jackson
Delaney's Desert Sheikh
A mix-up in Delaney Westmoreland's vacation plans forces her to share a cabin with a tall, dark and oh-so-handsome sheikh who is bent on her seduction. Jamal Ari Yasir intends to school Delaney in sensuality for his own pleasure. But instead of loving and leaving her, he becomes enraptured by an irresistible and unforgettable passion for his sexy-as-sin roommate. Can the arrogant sheikh convince his secret lover that they are fated for more than just a summer fling?
Seduced by a Stranger
Johari Yasir has no interest in returning to her homeland to marry a man she's never met—at least, not without sowing some wild oats first. And when a handsome charmer offers to whisk her away in his private plane, she impulsively accepts. Rasheed Valdemon is shocked that his bride-to-be would fly off with someone she barely knows— even though he's the one doing the asking. More surprising is his hunger for this lovely, rebellious woman. Yet what will happen when she realizes she's been seduced by the man who's destined to be her husband?
Delaney's Desert Sheikh
This story was cute and charming. I love Delaney's 'take no crap' attitude and I adore these two characters together. Very good story, really not much more to say. This is my first foray into arabesque romance, and I quite liked it, very steamy.
Seduced by a Stranger
This story was also cute but I definitely Johari risked way to much by running off on her own and leaving with a complete stranger, she is lucky it turned out to be who it was. This one was cute and charming as well.
Received from: Netgalley
For more information or for purchasing visit Brenda Jackson's webpage.
I give this book 4/5 stars. ★ ★ ★ ★
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5 Ways to Remain Positive When Your Work Life Is a Downer
Over time, having a not-so-desirable work life can take its toll and, eventually, start negatively impacting your personal life. A typical adult spends two-thirds of his or her entire life working, so there's no use in wasting all that time being miserable. If you feel that your work life resembles the depths of hell, then hopefully these tips can help you see the light at the end of the tunnel (until you find your dream career).


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Enjoy some Aloha from Keoki's Paradise wherever you are!
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Our collection of management training programmes are geared to provide individuals with a host of tools and techniques that will better-prepare them for the continuous and diverse challenges that come with the responsibilities of this role. Our management courses focus on managing self, managing others, management as a set of tools and management as a skill.
Managing the HR Function
This intensive, hands-on three -day programme comprehensive is designed to give participants a solid grasp of all functional areas of the Human Resources Management providing operational information and guidance for individuals newly charged with HR responsibilities or wishing to expand their HR current skill set.
Delegates will learn the essentials of key human resources management functions and how they tie in to corporate performance.
HR Policy Development and Auditing
This course is designed to empower HR practitioners draft organizational/ human resource policies that are feasible and implementable. Delegates would be equipped with skills to write policies can be easily understood, interpreted and implemented, thereby making monitoring and measuring easy.
The program is for those who draft policies to be able to decide on a framework for policies, producing consistency and quality in terms of luggage and format.
Performance Management: A Practical Approach
This course helps to create an understanding of the performance management process and how to use performance management to develop a superior workforce. It will guide participants' an understanding of performance management that goes beyond performance appraisals or annual reviews.
Delegates would learn to set performance goals based on overall corporate strategy as well as interpret data and understand deviations.
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I have a scroll view with several embedded mobile views, each with 1 or more mobile list views on them. The list views are configured to use AJAX calls to get their data. To ease the scrolling experience, I load all the list view data as soon as the user navigates to the view with the scroller.
All works great, except that the ShowLoading icon will be shown as long as any individual list view is still busy with the ajax call. This will block the scroller from being used; which i do not want. My user should be able to swipe to other views while listviews are still loading. A progress indicator on the mobile listview itself (kendo.ui.progress) would be clear enough that it is still loading and will not block the scroller.
So my question is, what is the best approach to take here? Ideally, I would like to switch off the showLoading function for AJAX calls completely and use the kendo.ui.progress by default on any ajax call. Can that be centrally configured? I tried several approaches, but none of them seem to work properly.
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Hello Ruud,
What you describe is not supported out of the box, but can easily be hacked. You may override the showLoading/hideLoading methods of the listview widget instances and replace them with a custom call. Notice that kendo.ui.progress does not have specific mobile theming, though.
Should you decide to do that, you may obtain the widget reference like this.
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Hi Petyo,
Thanks! This seems to work. What I did is the following:
Kendo UI Mvc server wrappers; one MobileView with a scroller, scroller has multiple listviews configured to use AJAX bindings
Only the listviews themselves should show loading icons, not the mobileview itself. This enables users to use the sroller while some listviews are still (AJAX) loading.
- On the "Init" event of the mobile view, the "loader" property is set to null: $("#editflockdetails").data("kendoMobileView").loader = null;
function ShowSummaryLoading(e) {
kendo.ui.progress($("#lvwweighingsummary"), true);
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That's it! A true async experience for the user. Only open point here is I would like to use a generic js function to accomplish this. I cannot seem to find the parent listview of a dataSource object however. So, when I use the RequestStart event, the "e" parameter will be the dataSource itself. Is it possible to get a reference to the parent object (the listview) for which this dataSource is used?
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Nullifying the loader reference of the listview may result in javascript errors. I am not sure if it will, though.
Now, referring the widget from the datasource is not possible - one DataSource may be bound to multiple widgets and does not keep track of them (the reverse applies, though).
What you may do instead is to override the methods on the widget prototype level:
kendo.mobile.ui.ListView.prototype.showLoading =
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Feature on Graphic 45 Community Site!
Just a quick post today! My Altered Witch's Hat (below) was featured on the
Graphic 45 Community Site
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Altered Witch's Hat - Graphic 45 "The Magic of Oz"
Ahhh...Poor neglected blog. It has been such a busy summer and I hadn't been feeling the crafty-mojo for a while - until I got the new Graphic 45 "The Magic of Oz" paper collection. I LOVE it! When I saw a paper mache witch's hat at Michael's I had to have it to use with the G45 papers; so here is a first for my blog - an altered art project! I am SO happy with how this turned out - for my first foray into altered art I think it is pretty amazing. I've got lots of photos and close-ups of this one for you!
I started out with a plain brown paper mache Witch's Hat. I painted the entire surface of the hat with
Pure Black
acrylic Paint. I then covered the peak of the hat with the reverse side of the
Goblin Gazette
paper - I love the black paper with "Oz" all over it as the background for this project. I wanted this project to show the duality of Oz (i.e. Good vs. Evil) so I created a "Wicked" Side and a "No Place Like Home" side. I also wanted to be sure to include images of all the major players in the Oz story. The series of photos below shows the entire circumference of the hat so you can see how the sections flow into each other.
I love how the floral embellishment for this hat turned out. I used a combination of satin flowers, feathers and floral swirls to create the embellishment - which I attached to the brim of the hat with hot glue. Below are a few alternate views and a close-up of the floral embellishment.
Materials Used:
Celebrate It Paper Mache Witch's Hat; Folk Art Artist's Pigment in
Pure Black
; Patterned Paper from the Graphic 45 "The Magic of Oz" Collection including:
Emerald City, Journey to Oz, There's No Place Like Home; Wicked!; Poppy Fields, and Goblin Gazette
; Tim Holtz Distress Ink in
Black Soot
Vintage Photo
; Ranger Stickles in
Ruby Slippers
; Studio 18 Rhinestones; Finishing Accents Rhinestones; Celebrate It Halloween Floral (Roses and Black Sparkle Swirls); Ashland Feather Picks (1 Purple, 1 Green); Mod Podge (Gloss); Glue Dots minis; Hot Glue Gun
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At their best, transfers are a way of life in college athletics. At their worst, transfers are an all too necessary evil. The fact is with 400,000 student-athletes who make a major life decision at 16–18 years old,there is bound to be some amount of transfer activity. All sorts of ideas have been tried to reduce the transfer rate, with varying degrees of success, but it will never be reduced to zero.
Once a student-athlete decides to transfer, a number of rules come into play. It's a complicated process, and a lot about the process is understood. Much of that is due to the exceptions that arise. If there were no exceptions, transfers would be governed by two simple rules. But as you'll see in this guide, simpler is rarely better.


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The Morris wrestling team picked up a pair of dual wins Saturday at the Lincoln-Way West Super-Duals, while losing to the hosts – the No. 4 ranked team in Class 2A by Illinois Matmen. The Redskins knocked off Eisenhower, 54-27, and Tinley Park, 39-28, but lost to West 45-25.
"The boys wrestled well," Morris coach Jon Lanning said. "I was proud of the effort that was given and they showed me they have been working on the things the coaching staff has been emphasizing in practice."
Winners for Morris against Eisenhower included: Tony Menozi at 106 pounds (fall in 1:17); Andrew Smith at 113 (by forfeit); Dominic Byerly at 126 (forfeit); Kenny Baldridge at 132 (forfeit); A.J. Vota at 138 (forfeit); Cody Decker at 145 (fall in 2:26); Trevor Allbert at 160 (fall 2:38); Dalton Ness at 220 (fall 1:34) and Andrew Fought at 285 (forfeit).
Winners for Morris against Tinley Park included: Smith at 113 pounds (forfeit); Baldridge at 132 (11-1 major decision); Vota at 138 (18-2 tech fall); Emmet Chouinard at 152 (fall 3:17); Ryan Kowalczyk at 182 (forfeit); Ness at 220 (fall 2:24) and Mason Dryfhout at 285 (forfeit).
Winners for Morris against West included: Jarred Bernard at 120 pounds (forfeit); Baldridge at 132 (17-5 major decision); Allbert at 160 (11-4 decision); Ness at 220 (fall 3:54) and Fought at 285 (fall 1:26).
"I was very proud of the effort given against Lincoln-Way West," Lanning said. "[Coach] Brian [Glynn] always has his guys ready to wrestle. We battled them and gave 100 percent effort, which is all I can ask."
Dwight 52,
Dwight improved to 9-7 on the season with a nonconference win over the Panthers.
Caleb Boma led the Trojans with 13 points while Kyle Robison had 13 for GSW.
Coal City 45,
Dwight 41
The Coalers dropped Dwight to 1-4 in the Interstate Eight Conference with the win while moving to 4-0 themselves.
"This was a much-needed win for us tonight," Coal City coach Brad Boresi said. "I thought we did a nice job defensively locating shooters."
Boma led all scorers in the game with 12 points while Brennen Shetina added 11 for Coal City.
"Brennen had a great all-around game for us," Boresi said.
Nick Peters added nine points and nine rebounds in the win.
Seneca 53,
Manteno 42
The Irish landed three players in double-digits scoring in the I-8 win.
Carter Gallick had 16 points and both Conlan Callahan and Austin Applebee added 13 apiece.
In the frosh-soph game, Manteno won, 35-34, despite 13 points by Ross McCormick and seven from Arik Applebee.
Coal City 62,
Momence 36
On Saturday, Coal City beat the Panthers.
"Tonight was a great team effort," Boresi said. "We turned up the defense in the fourth quarter and were able to put the game away."
Peters led the Coalers with 16 points and 14 rebounds while Shetina added 12 points and four steals.
Sandwich 74,
Reed-Custer 72
Brent Headrick led the Comets with 14 points and Mason Dransfeldt added 11 in the I-8 loss.
"The kids played their hearts out tonight," R-C coach Mark Porter said. "To lose at the buzzer the way we did tonight was tough."
In the frosh-soph contest, Sandwich beat Reed-Custer 64-58 despite 16 points from Neil O'Donnell. Also for the Comets, Tommy Shaw had 14 points and A.J. Simonelli had 13.
Coal City 48,
Sandwich 20
Britta Spelde had 12 points for the Lady Coalers while Emily Halliday added 11 and Nicole Borgetti eight in the Interstate Eight Conference win. Madyson Bunton had 10 rebounds and Spelde nine.
Minooka 48,
Plainfield South 37
The Indians went out to a 11-4 lead right from the beginning and never looked back.
Erin Heide had 17 points to lead Minooka while Kelly Carnagio added 14.
Coal City 49,
Dwight 10
Coal City improved to 16-0 overall and 5-0 in the I-8 with the win.
Spelde led Coal City with 12 points while Borgetti added 10. Additionally, Brittany Jezik and Rebecca Cash had nine points apiece.
Seneca 36,
Hinckley-Big Rock 30
H-BR jumped out to an 8-3 lead after the first quarter of play, only to see the Lady Irish come back for the nonconference win.
"After a slow start we battled back against a tough H-BR team," Seneca coach Barb Beck said. "Our guards picked it up after the first quarter and attacked the defense.
Danielle Hauch led Seneca with 12 points while Mallory Misener and Jacey Lamboley added 10 each in the win. Kayla Haines had eight rebounds.
In frosh-soph action, Seneca beat H-BR 45-23 with Clarissa Wignes scoring 11 points and Natalie Hamilton 10 for the younger Irish.
Dwight 48,
For Dwight, Alyson Wiemken had 19 points, 11 rebounds and nine steals to lead the Lady Trojans while Savannah Baldauf added 15 points.
Newark 45,
Indian Creek 38
Kelsea Zitt had 15 points in the Little 10 Conference game for Newark. Nicole Lawrence added 12 points and Jasmine Mitchell had 10.
"This was a very good varsity basketball game by two fundamentally sound teams," Newark coach Brian Holman said. "It was nice to see us respond well on the road in a tough environment."
Ottawa Marquette 51,
Morris 46
Jessica Jurak had 12 points, Meghan Smith had 11, Addison Polite had 10 and Janelle Brehn had eight in the nonconference loss.


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Blazing Fast, Qualcomm's Fastest Snapdragon Processor To Date – 1.5 Ghz
Qualcomm's Vice-President, Mark Frankel, has told the press that the dual-core Snapdragon processors are on schedule to be delivered to devices by this Christmas or as early as the 4th quarter. These "supersonic jets" have been clocked at speeds up to 1.5 Ghz, the fastest to date on a Snapdragon chip.
So what should this added speed and dual core processor do for you and your phone?
- Individual Core Scaling – (Meaning one core could sleep when not in use, resulting in extra battery life (Qualcomm states a 30% Improvement)
- 1080P Video Playback
- HDMI Output
- Speed, Speed, Speed
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Cover of the Week: "Lumberjanes," "Grayson," Rocket Raccoon and More
Each Monday, staff writers Kevin Melrose and Steve Sunu discuss their five favorite covers from the previous Wednesday's new comic releases, selecting from among them CBR's Cover of the Week.
Keep reading for Kevin and Steve's favorites from the week of July 9, and then discuss your choices in the CBR forums.
For a story billed as "the horrifying last stand of The Penguin," Dustin Nguyen depicts Oswald Cobblepot not as a grotesque bird-like caricature but rather as a fearsome, imposing figure who dominates the cover, dwarfing even Batman. The limited color palette is a nice choice, too, as the burgundy blood pouring from The Penguin's neck cascades over the Dark Knight, and appears to fill the background. — Kevin Melrose
Tony Moore brings his attention to detail and his knack for facial expressions to "Detective Comics," dropping Batman into the middle of a gang war. You undoubtedly noticed the Wonder Woman tattoo on the arm of the guy in the foreground, but I also like the tiny Batman throwing knives sticking out of the back of one of the figures in the pile and, best of all, the Dark Knight's barely suppressed grin as he motions for his next opponent. — Kevin Melrose
This Andrew Robinson cover hits all the right cover notes, including the title character in a cool action pose. While Robinson's pencils are a good fit for the series' premise, it's the concentric circular background in hot pink and lime green that really makes this stand out. Moreover, the cover serves the ever-important purpose of relating to the content within. — Steve Sunu
Noelle Stevenson draws inspiration from Scout handbooks of yesteryear for perhaps the best "Lumberjanes" cover to date. Alternately, it could be viewed as an unused poster for an early draft of Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom" — the one in which Camp Ivanhoe is infiltrated by yetis. — Kevin Melrose
Although themed variants don't typically impress me, John Tyler Christopher is such an incredible talent that it's no wonder his Rocket Raccoon cover for "Captain Marvel" #5 would prove an exception to the rule. This image is indicative of his work as a whole: a simple and clean design with a number of individual parts that combine to form an impressive image. A Rocket Raccoon made of weapons — including a rocket launcher — would be great on its own, but filling out the background with neutral gray weapons is an inspired choice, and makes the image that much stronger. — Steve Sunu
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Bertrand Russell Quotes About SinQuotes about: Sin
The knowledge exists by which universal happiness can be secured; the chief obstacle to its utilization for that purpose is the teaching of religion. Religion prevents our children from having a rational education; religion prevents us from removing the fundamental causes of war; religion prevents us from teaching the ethic of scientific cooperation in place of the old fierce doctrines of sin and punishment. It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin; he does not say, 'You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.' He attempts to find out what is wrong and to set it right.
The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by a love of knowledge but by malice: no one gossips about other people's secret virtues, but only about their secret vices. Accordingly most gossip is untrue, but care is taken not to verify it. Our neighbour's sins, like the consolations of religion, are so agreeable that we do not stop to scrutinise the evidence closely.
When a man acts in ways that annoy us we wish to think him wicked, and we refuse to face the fact that his annoying behavior is the result of antecedent causes which, if you follow them long enough, will take you beyond the moment of his birth, and therefore to events for which he cannot be held responsible by any stretch of imagination... When a motorcar fails to start, we do not attribute its annoying behavior to sin, we do not say, you are a wicked motorcar, and you shall not have any more gasoline until you go.
It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At what point sin begins is a matter as to which casuists differ. One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil intent. But I doubt whether modern authorities would agree with him on this point.
I should like to believe my people's religion, which was just what I could wish, but alas, it is impossible. I have really no religion, for my God, being a spirit shown merely by reason to exist, his properties utterly unknown, is no help to my life. I have nor the parson's comfortable doctrine that every good action has its reward, and every sin is forgiven. My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.
The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self-absorption.
We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. . . . This leads to frightful results. . . . The British State considers it the duty of an Englishman to kill people who are not English whenever a collection of elderly gentlemen in Westminster tells him to do so. . . . Church and State are placable enemies of both intelligence and virtue.
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Banana Republic Skirts
Designer skirts from the collection at Banana Republic are cut to be flattering and fun to wear. Versatile ladies skirts can be worn as casual, evening, dress or work-wear. We offer women's skirts in a variety of styles including pencil skirts, mini-skirts and gathered skirts. You are sure to find the perfect little skirt from our selection of skirts for women.


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Author Notes: These little bars have no gluten, no baking time, require minimal effort and then they reward you with how loaded with protein and delicious they are. Love these recipes where the healthier version tastes so much better than store bought granola bars. Perfect for travel, lunches or general snacking needs. Use your food processor or a good quality blender. I use my blender on the same setting that crushes ice. Makes 12 bars. Let's get started. —Rachel Barbaro
Makes: 12
cup unsalted almonds
cup unsalted pepita seeds
cup unsalted cashews
cup dried cranberries
pinches salt
medjool dates pits removed
tablespoon coconut oil (room temperature)
- Line an 8 by 8 or 9 by 9 pan with plastic wrap. The edges at the sides will help you lift out the bars. Pulse the almonds first. Add the pepita seeds, cashews and salt to pulse. Lastly blend in the remaining dates, cranberries and coconut oil. Tumble the mixture into the lined pan. Press down. Wrap it up and store in the fridge for 3 hours or overnight. When set, lift out and slice. Store in the fridge for 10 days or freeze for longer.
- Experiment with what you have on hand. Raisins, orange zest, chocolate or crystallized ginger chunks would all be lovely additions. I make these as bars. But if there are little (or big) hands at home that want to help, they could easily be rolled into small balls, and then set in the fridge the same way.
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Missing matter of the Universe found in spaces between galaxiesMay 21st, 2008 - 11:46 am ICT by admin
Washington, May 21 (ANI): Astronomers have claimed to have found baryons, which is half of the missing normal matter of the universe, in the spaces between the galaxies.
Although the universe contains billions of galaxies, only a small amount of its matter is locked up in them. Thus, scientists have determined over the years that most of the universes matter that was created during and just after the Big Bang must be found elsewhere.
Now, in an extensive search of the local universe using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers claim to have found about half of the missing normal matter in the spaces between the galaxies.
Known as baryons, this missing matter consists of protons, neutrons, and other subatomic particles that make up ordinary matter such as hydrogen, helium, and heavier elements. Baryonic matter forms stars, planets, moons, and even the interstellar gas and dust from which new stars are born.
This important component of the universe is known as the intergalactic medium, or IGM, and it extends essentially throughout all of space, from just outside our Milky Way galaxy to the most distant regions of space observed by astronomers.
We think we are seeing the strands of a web-like structure that forms the backbone of the universe, said Mike Shull of the University of Colorado.
What we are confirming in detail is that intergalactic space, which intuitively might seem to be empty, is in fact the reservoir for most of the normal, baryonic matter in the universe, he added.
Danforth and Shull, of the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado in Boulder, looked for the missing baryonic matter by using the light from distant quasars to probe spider-web-like structure that permeates the seemingly invisible space between galaxies.
The bright quasar light was measured to penetrate more than 650 filaments of hydrogen in the cosmic web. Eighty-three filaments were found laced with highly ionized oxygen in which five electrons have been stripped away.
The presence of highly ionized oxygen (and other elements) between the galaxies is believed to trace large quantities of invisible, hot, ionized hydrogen in the universe.
The team also found that about 20 percent of the baryons reside in the voids between the web-like filaments. Within these voids could be faint dwarf galaxies or wisps of matter that could turn into stars and galaxies in billions of years.
Our goal is to confirm the existence of the cosmic web by mapping its structure, measuring the amount of heavy metals found in it, and measuring its temperature, said Shull. Studying the cosmic web gives us information on how galaxies built up over time, he added. (ANI)
Tags: astrophysical, baryons, cosmic web, danforth, distant quasars, distant regions, filaments, hubble space telescope, intergalactic medium, interstellar gas, invisible space, milky way galaxy, new stars, other subatomic particles, planetary sciences, planets moons, protons neutrons, shull, spider web, university of colorado in boulder


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With Passover coming up next Wednesday, you might like to clip and save some of our decalorized versions of real winners. These recipes are adapted from the top entries in the ``Taste of Passover`` contest co-sponsored by The Jerusalem Post newspaper and Sheraton Hotels.
Finalists competed in cook-offs at the King Solomon Hotel in Jerusalem and the Tel Aviv Sheraton. Winning recipes and others appear in ``The Taste of Passover,`` published by The Jerusalem Post, a souvenir travelers might like to look for when visiting Israel.
These Slim Gourmet versions use low-calorie or low-fat ingredients to replace some of the original ingredients. The first is a variation on lasagna, submitted by Susan Karp of Jerusalem.
Tomato sauce:
2ripe tomatoes, peeled and chopped
18-ounce can plain tomato sauce
1/4cup dry red wine
1onion, minced
1/4cup minced bell pepper
1rib celery, minced
1clove garlic, minced
1teaspoon each, dried: oregano, basil, thyme
1/2teaspoon fennel seeds
Dash of ground cinnamon
Salt, pepper, to taste
Cheese filling:
1cup low-fat cottage cheese
3/4cup grated low-fat mozzarella cheese, divided
3tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
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UPSSSC Stenographer Admit Card 2015 upsssc.gov.in Hall Ticket
Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Services Selection Commission has announced a notification supporting UPSSSC Stenographer Admit Card 2015. The Hall Tickets can be downloaded through the online mode for written examination for stenographer posts to be conducted on 19th July 2015. The applicants are to be informed that the hall tickets are available at the UPSC official site and it can be getting through providing the Registration Number and Date of Birth.
The UPSSSC offered 635 vacancies of Stenographer posts. Innumerable candidates applied for the posts. Now they all are waiting for getting the call letter. Candidates who are eagerly waiting for the Entry Tickets their wait has come to an ending point. The All participants are now able to get their UPSSSC Hall Ticket through the official site that is mentioned below.
We are also providing some steps in the below section through which the job seekers who applied for the posts can download the call letters online. It is advise to all exam participators that they should keep the entry card with themselves while they go to appear for the examination.
Examination Date: 19th July 2015
How to Download the UPSSSC Call Letter 2015?
1. Visit to the official website upsssc.gov.in.
2. Then Click on "Download Admit Card" link mentioned under "Download" section mentioned at the left side of the home page.
3. Then Enter your Registration Number, Date of Birth, Gender and Enter Verification Code.
4. After filling details, click on "Download Admit Card" button.
5. Then the hall ticket shall be generated on the computer screen and candidates can get their entry tickets for bringing it in the examination hall.
Further Details: The commission has decided to conduct the written examination for short-listing to the candidates who applied for the posts. After successfully conducting the written exam, the
commission shall conduct the Skill/Typing Test and Interview or both for final appointment on the posts.
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Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs' Professional Fellows Division, this program supports 20 mid-career professionals from Brazil, Kenya, Peru, and Tanzania, selected through a competitive process, to participate in a five-week intensive fellowship program at a university-based research and education center for disabilities in the U.S. The program is focused on inclusive education and seeks to strengthen education access for people with disabilities globally.
Welcome to the ADA International Fellowship Program
The ADA International Fellowship Program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Professional Fellows Division and administered by the Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD) in partnership with the Institute for Community Inclusion at the University of Massachusetts Boston (ICI).
Inclusion Statement
AUCD and ICI envision a future in which all people, including those living with developmental and other disabilities, are fully included, participating members of their communities. We seek equitable access to supports and services that reflect the preferences and values of diverse communities and that lead to self-determination, independence, productivity, and a healthy and satisfying quality of life.
Video Message from Former U.S. Senator Tom Harkin
Former U.S. Senator Tom Harkin, co-sponsor of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), speaks about the ADA International Fellowship Program and inclusive education.
Recent News
Inclusive Education Vital for All, Including Persons with Disabilities
See the September 1, 2016 News Release from the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner regarding the importance of inclusive education for all people, including persons with disabilities. Read more about the United Nation's news release on OSERS Blog.
2016 Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
This 2016 Report to the General Assembly by UN Special Rapporteur for Disability Rights Catalina Devandas-Aguilar addresses disability-inclusive policies. Read the full report and an easy-to-read version.


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Catteries and kennels
If you run a boarding kennel or cattery business, you need a licence (under the The Animal Boarding Establishment Act 1963 (link opens in new window)).
This also applies if you look after other people's dogs or cats within your home ('home boarding').
Home boarding has a condition preventing young children in the same house as the dogs - the minimum age is 12.
You should consider the following when applying for an animal boarding establishment licence:
- whether you will require planning permission for change of use or for building the necessary accommodation
- the disposal of waste and litter
- the potential for nuisance to neighbours - for example from barking dogs
- the health, safety and welfare requirements in relation to anyone you may employ in connection with the business
The costs
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|1 to 10 animals
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|21 animals or over
You may also be required to pay the cost of inspections carried out by our authorised veterinary surgeon or practitioner.
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B.C. Natural Chicken
Address: 2609 U.S. Rt 22, Fredricksburg, PA 17026
Establishment No.: p493
USDA Inspection Report: 11 Oct 2011
Code: 03J01
Violation: 417.5(a)(3), 417.5(c)
Citation: Today 10/11/11 while performing the recordkeeping component for the 03J01 procedure, I observed the following noncompliance's while reviewing HACCP records generated for the week of 10/3/11through 10/7/11. The plants HACCP plan states that a While reviewing the HACCP records for CCP #5B dated 10/7/11, there wasn't any direct observation/record review verification documented. Also the "HACCP Checklist Signoff" form was initialed by HACCP Coordinator ) and QA Technician () and signed by 10/10/11 @ 900 and signed by same date and time was 1006 hrs. The pre-shipment review was signed off by at 857 hrs. In addition to the above noncompliance's, there wasn't any verification of direct observation/recordkeeping for CCP #2B for any days the week of 10/3/11 and the "HACCP Checklist Signoff" form was initialed by (), and ( and signed by and and , except for the date of 10/4/11 no signature for QA Technician. pre-shipment review was signed off for each day by An 03J02 procedure will be performed for a check of all regulatory requirements for all CCP's plus the pre-shipment review. This document serves as a written notification that failure to comply with regulatory requirements could result in additional enforcement action described in 9 CFR part 500.
417.5(a)(3) Records documenting the monitoring of CCP's and their critical limits, including the recording of actual times, temperatures, or other quantifiable values, as prescribed in the establishment's HACCP plan; the calibration of process-monitoring instruments; corrective actions, including all actions taken in response to a deviation; verification procedures and results; product code(s), product name or identity, or slaughter production lot. Each of these records shall include the date the record was made.
417.5(c) Prior to shipping product, the establishment shall review the records associated with the production of that product, documented in accordance with this section, to ensure completeness, including the determination that all critical limits were met and, if appropriate, corrective actions were taken, including the proper disposition of product. Where practicable, this review shall be conducted, dated, and signed by an individual who did not produce the record(s), preferably by someone trained in accordance with § 417.7 of this part, or the responsible establishment official.
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Keep your memories in the cloudThere are dozens of digital photo storage sites available, but which one is best for you? We show you how to select one and offer important tips on what to consider.
[MUSIC] I spent a good portion of my life trying to figure out the best way to store my photos. It all started with shoe boxes, then it moved to hard drives, and then it all went to the Cloud. Now we're lucky enough to live in a time where there's so many options when it comes to storing our photos online. But on the other hand, with so many options out there how do you pick the right one? I'm going to give you some advice on choosing the right cloud photo storage solution that works for you. First off you want to think long term. The reason so many companies offer you free storage for your photos is because they know how difficult it can be to switch services down the line. So you want to think about a company that will be around for the next ten, 20, 50 years. But if this is my going to be my main backup for a lifetime of photos, I don't trust a few young guys won't go under in the next ten years or be sold to another company. So that leaves us with the big boys you got; Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo and to some extent Dropbox. So I have a hard time believing they won't get snatched up eventually. Let's boot up Apple and Amazon right off the bat. iCloud only works with Apple devices and it doesn't handle video so boo. And then Amazon's cloud drive is just too basic. So let's go through the rest. Google's photo services called Google Plus Photos. You get 15 gigs of free storage but you have to share those gigabytes with your Gmail and Google Drive. It also works with your browser or you can auto-upload from the Android or IOS app. Now if you need more storage, you can pay for it. Up to 16 terabytes. Downside is it's tied to Google Plus, Google's answer to Facebook. You can set photos to private, but ultimately Google is dangling the service out there to get people to use their network and share photos. More people, more photos, more stuff to sell at the round which is really what Google is all about. For something a little more cut and dry, you can try Microsoft OneDrive, formerly Microsoft SkyDrive. It works with Android and IOS, and also Windows and Windows phone. Comes with 50 gigs of free storage. Plus, you can buy more. The clean layout includes detailed information on your photos, including excess data. My only worry here is, as the recent name change implies, is that I don't feel Microsoft has totally ironed this thing out. I mean, Microsoft as a company is gonna be around a long time, but I feel like maybe this time next year, Microsoft will call this thing Super Xbox Live Photos, or something else. I mean, it's still a great solid option, especially if you're a Windows user. You have a Windows phone. But if you're not there's some other options to explore. Next up: Dropbox. Almost identical to One Drive, it's an online file locker with a very clean look and apps for every platform including Windows. They have a mobile app called Carousel that does an excellent job of letting you quickly browse through your photo collection with a timeline bar at the bottom of the app. The downside here is that you only get 5 gigs of free storage before you have to start paying. Unlike Microsoft or Google, online storage is Dropbox's entire business and they don't make up the difference on online advertising. Finally, there's Flickr by Yahoo. And full disclosure, I've used Flickr for years so I'm a little biased. It works on every platform, even Windows Phone. There are useful privacy controls, there's a huge community of users and the best part is, there's one terabyte of free storage. You'll get some ads, but a full terabyte should be enough to back up your average photo library. Also video support is limited to one gigabyte per video, so you have to backup longer clips to YouTube or do the world a favor and shoot shorter vacation videos. So there you go. That's my best advice for where to go to store your photos in the cloud.


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REVIEW: B1A4 Adventure tour is G-rated fun
While other boy band comebacks are filled with sultry imagery, the B1A4 adventure concert was good family fun.
B1A4 has always offered playful, lighthearted pop tunes, and this hasn't changed as the boys have matured into their 20s. While other groups make sexy comebacks, B1A4 knows their audience. Their Adventure tour played up their bright attitudes for fangirls and families alike. Here are four reasons to check out the next B1A4 concert near you!
1. You can take your family.
Yonsei University's relatively small outdoor arena was filled with fans of all ages and occasionally whole families. Young boys and girls cheered as the boys entered on a Segway procession (risky move, boys) and sang along with their B1A4-themed light-sticks to the beat. Parents had a good time and didn't have to cover their children's eyes. Even the slight hip thrust dance featured in their "Baby Good Night" video was substituted with a less suggestive dance. but older fans still got to check out the boys' muscles when they each performed a drum solo.
2. You can see the boys up close and personal.
As the end of the show neared, the boys replayed the song "Cup of Water" as they splashed water on their fans. Given the nature of the arena, each member walked up and down a certain section. This gave all the fans a chance to see and interact with the members when they were close enough to touch. While there were plenty of fangirl screams, there were no stampedes or injuries, thankfully. This wasn't an uncontrollable EXO or iKON concert, which meant the boys could greet the audience comfortably. (Just another reason to ditch your big boy band.)
3. You can get tickets.
Buying K-pop concert tickets in Korea is the hardest game of Minesweeper you've ever played. If you're lucky, there will be an English purchasing page. If you're not, you'll need to click through Korean purchasing options at the speed of light to beat the students racing you on the PC bang computers. Bigger groups will sell out in a matter of seconds, leaving you to forlornly watch performance videos on YouTube. B1A4's concert didn't sell out — which left plenty of tickets for foreign fans to purchase that weren't way up in the nosebleeds.
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3. You can learn the dances without feeling silly.
Despite being a relatively youth-oriented concert, B1A4's dancers seemed older than the boys themselves (all being about 23). The dances were fun and relatively easy — no advanced dance experience required. Anyone can do the sprout dance!
Did you see B1A4 in their Adventure concert? What did you think— do you think the boys should keep it playful or adopt a more grown-up image?
If you're a fan of B1A4, check out Jinyoung in the movie Miss Granny:


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Call me a fusspot but I really don't like having a mish-mosh of spice jars, packets, tins and bags. A few years ago when we built a pantry in our kitchen, I added 2 spice drawers and decided it was time to get rid of the jars and bags, at last! I needed something with labels on top so I could pull open the drawers and see all the spice names at once. I bought a bunch of food-safe plastic containers from Consolidated Plastics -- yes, you may recognize them from the doctor's office, but we don't need to discuss that -- and then a wet-erase pen from Staples, and ... ta-da! Any time I run out of a spice, I just rinse the label off the top and add a new one. Inner fusspot satisfied.


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text: There is a seemingly never-ending Bush administration bashing by many Hollywood personalities who use words such as "stupid," "ignorant" and "moronic" ad nauseum. A little research determined the following educational endeavors of some of these outspoken critics of the Bush administration: Barbara Streisand completed high school - career choices are singing and acting. Jessica Lange, who said in Spain that she hates President George W. Bush and was ashamed to be an American, dropped out of college in her mid-freshman year - career choice of acting. Cher dropped out of school in the ninth-grade - career choices of singing and acting. Martin Sheen, currently playing the U.S. president "West Wing," flunked the exam to enter University of Dayton - career choice of acting. Alec Baldwin dropped out of George Washington University after scandal - career choice of acting. Julia Roberts completed high School - career is acting. Susan Sarandon received a degree in drama from Catholic University of America - career of acting. Sean Penn completed high school - career is acting. Ed Asner completed High School - career choice of acting. George Clooney dropped out of the University of Kentucky - career of acting and fund-raiser. Michael Moore dropped out of freshmen year at the University of Michigan - career as a movie director. Sarah Jessica Parker completed high school - career of acting. Jennifer Anniston completed high school - career of acting. Mike Farrell completed high school - career choice of acting. Janeane Garofelo is a college dropout - career stand-up comedy and acting. Larry Hagman attended one year at Bard College - career choice of acting. Some of the targets of the Hollywood group above are: President George W. Bush who earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University, master's of business administration from Harvard Business School, was an F-102 pilot, and was an oil and gas businessman. Later he became the governor of Texas and was re-election to consecutive four-year terms, a first for the state. He currently is president and commander in chief of the U.S. armed forces. His opponent in the presidential election, Al Gore, flunked divinity school. Vice President Dick Cheney received a bachelor's degree and later a master's degree in political science. Secretary of State Colin Powell received a bachelor's degree in geology from City College of New York, received a master's of business administration degree from George Washington University, and attended the National War College in 1976. His career has been in the U.S. military and public service, and has many honorary degree for several universities. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld attended Princeton on scholarship, he was a U.S. Navy aviator, and has worked in public service. Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge went to Harvard University on scholarship and graduated with honors in 1967. He was drafted into U.S. Army while in the first year of Dickerson School of Law and served with honor as infantry staff sergeant in Vietnam. After the Army stint, he earned a law degree and was in private practice and district attorney's office in Erie County, Pa. He was then elected to Congress in 1982 and re-elected six times. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice earned a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Denver in 1974. She was cum laude and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She received a master's degree from Notre Dame 1975, and her doctorate from the School of International Studies at University of Denver in 1981. It is interesting to note that Ms. Rice enrolled at the University of Denver at age 15 and received her bachelor's degree at age 19. Ms. Rice has honorary doctorates and authored books and articles too numerous to cite here. Ms. Rice's career choices span American business and government and are also too numerous to cite here. When comparing the education and experience of the Bush administration with those in Hollywood who bash the administration, I have a hard time in attaching any significance to the Hollywood crowd having any credentials to make government decisions. Personally, I do not need Sean Penn as a diplomat to Iraq, nor do I need Michael Moore to thank France for telling us we were wrong. Not only are the credentials of the Bush administration impressive, the conduct of the individuals in their personal lives is impressive, as well. I think the pasts of individuals pretty much indicate from where the ignorance, stupidity, and alike emminates from. http://www.thereporter.com/Current/Forum/forum051803_5.html


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This article was published in The Louisiana Weekly in the May 21, 2012 edition.
Nalco Company, the maker of Corexit used to disperse oil from the BP spill, is using Louisiana state credits to build an $18.7 million polymer facility at its Garyville plant -- 35 miles upriver from New Orleans. Critics of that early May announcement wonder why the state continues to subsidize petrochemical plants and why Illinois-based Nalco is being given incentives when cleanup workers in Louisiana are suffering from Corexit sprayed in mid-2010 and later.
The dry-polymer unit will be part of Nalco's 42-year-old complex, making water-treatment chemicals, in St. John the Baptist Parish. The parish's biggest industry is its ten petrochemical plants and oil refineries. Nalco, a unit of Minnesota-based Ecolab, expects to add 22 jobs to its Garyville staff of 235 and to create the equivalent of 167 temporary construction jobs. Louisiana Economic Development officials said as an incentive, Nalco will use the state's Industrial Tax Exemption and Quality Jobs incentive programs.
Ground was broken last fall and the unit should be finished late this year. Nalco is awarding all ten of the project's construction contracts to Louisiana companies but that doesn't mean the workers they hire will necessarily be state residents. The new 300,000-square-foot facility will expand the complex, which is already Nalco's biggest plant, to one million square feet.
Customers for Nalco's dry polymers are expected to include plants along the river owned by other companies who need the products for water treatment.
Last week, Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Stephen Moret said "the state's Industrial Tax Exemption and Quality Jobs programs provide incentives that are available to any company meeting the eligibility criteria." Under the tax exemption program, no property taxes have to be paid on improvements -- new facilities and equipment -- for 10 years. And the quality jobs program gives Nalco an annual, 5-to-6-percent rebate on eligible, new payroll for 10 years.
"The actual value of these incentives for Nalco will depend on their final capital investment and payroll numbers," Moret said.
What's wrong with the state helping Nalco? A lot, said Daniel Becnel, Jr., a long-time resident of St. John the Baptist Parish and an attorney representing BP spill victims. For starters, petrochemical plants don't need subsidies and credits to locate in Southeast Louisiana. "They want to be here because of navigation and infrastructure and since few other states or communities will let them in," he said.
From his office in Reserve, La., Becnel said "we've got the river, entry to the Gulf, a full rail network, along with cheap natural gas, land and labor, and very little cold weather. Our pollution laws aren't strictly enforced."
Becnel continued "this used to be plantation country but agriculture is disappearing and the land here sells very cheaply." Antebellum mansions coexist with plants along the river. "The river suits these plants because they need water for steam and cooling," he said. Marathon Petroleum Co. is seeking a state permit now to expand crude oil output at its Garyville refinery.
Many states shun petrochemical plants -- especially near urban areas -- because they release toxic chemicals into the air, and can catch fire and pollute water. "New York, Massachusetts, Minnesota, California and most states don't want these plants," Becnel said.
Meanwhile, droves of people were exposed to BP's oil and Nalco's Corexit in 2010, based on an estimated 90,000 cleanup workers and 105,000 Gulf Coast residents eligible to participate in the medical portion of the likely, $8.7 billion settlement against BP. Settlement documents have been fied in U.S. District Court in New Orleans.
In early April, Daniel Becnel objected to a motion by plaintiff attorneys in the BP settlement to dismiss Nalco from that litigation.
Becnel, who has already settled claims against BP for thousands of fishermen, seafood companies and property owners, also represents 3,500 cleanup workers. He filed a class action suit on April 17, seeking damages from BP and Nalco for cleanup workers who suffer medical problems. The case is Jarod Elrod et al. v. BP Exploration & Production Inc. et al, and Becnel intends to try it in court.
After local cleanup workers suffered from exposure to dispersants, should Corexit's maker be subsidized by the state? Coastal advocate Sherri Foytlin, the wife of an oil worker and mother of six, said "Nalco has shown no social responsibility to cleanup workers. It took a lawsuit from Earthjustice to find out what was in the Corexit sprayed on the water, the coast and on us." She lives in Rayne, an oil workers' town in Acadia Parish.
A year after environmental law firm Earthjustice sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in mid-2010, the feds released the components of Corexit 9500 and Corexit 9527--produced by Nalco and used in the BP spill. Dispersants, which break oil into droplets and move them from the sea surface and into the water column, also contain chemicals linked to cancer and other illnesses, Foytlin noted. Cleanup workers, coastal residents and marine life were all hurt by Corexit, she said.
But Foytlin said "there's a big ravine, a big gap in understanding among the leaders in Baton Rouge about the threats that south Louisiana residents face from chemicals and from petrochemical plants. State Senator Crowe has tried to raise awareness about the dangers of Corexit in the Louisiana legislature but the lobbyists are in charge and they win the day." In May of last year, a Louisiana Senate committee approved Slidell legislator A.G. Crowe's proposal to ban dispersants to fight spills in Louisiana waters -- which extend three miles into the Gulf. Little has happened with the bill, however, and Foytlin predicts "oil companies will continue to use dispersants in spills here."
BP used 1.9 million gallons of Corexit to remove at least some of the estimated 4.9 million barrels of crude the gushed from its Macondo well in 2010. The capped well is 52 miles southeast of Venice, La.
The amount of Corexit spraying and its underwater use in BP's spill were unprecedented. And that's even though years before the spill, in 2001, the EPA and Swedish scientists had evidence that Corexit mixed with oil was much more toxic to aquatic life than oil itself. The UK, where BP is headquartered, banned Corexit in 1998.
In June 2010, with the BP spill in progresss, Louisiana oystermen sued Nalco and BP -- accusing them of permanently altering the seabed and food chain.
The spill is the latest chapter in Louisiana's dependence on industries that threaten human health, critics say. "Many of us here in St. John the Baptist Parish are ill because of all these plants and refineries," Becnel said. "But I stay because I've always lived here."
As for Nalco's Garyville plant, it seems to have cleaned up its act after violations nine and ten years ago. In March 2007, Nalco paid the Louisiana Dept. of Environmental Quality $50,000 in a settlement over improper storage in 2002 and 2003 of materials, including hazardous waste, and over an illegal wastewater discharge in 2003, according to Tim Beckstrom, DEQ spokesman. "No major concerns have been noted at the facility since," he said last week.
In a misstep blamed on the nation's weak economy in 2009, Nalco's Garyville plant was stuck with surplus, finished products with expired shelf lives, and sent them to landfill, Ecolab spokesman Roman Blahoski said last week. The DEQ said Nalco had to send acrylic polymer to a class I landfill in Sorrento, La. from 2008 to 2009.
More recently, the Garyville plant's record includes safety and pollution-prevention awards from the Louisiana Chemical Association and the DEQ.
Nonetheless, many south Louisiana residents want to see fresh thinking about industry from lawmakers. "Other Southern states give tax credits and subsidies but they attract big factories that, for instance, make cars and employ thousands of workers," Becnel said. Hyundai in 2005 opened an Alabama plant that has 2,000 employees and is hiring 900 more now. Toyota opened a Blue Spring, Miss. plant last year, creating 1,500 jobs.
A drive through Louisiana's River Parishes to view plantations and trace ancestors can be jarring because of the many plants and refineries plunked down in that country setting. Petro-chemical facilities exist near Louisiana's beaches, too.
Foytlin said "the state should try to attract clean, sustainable industries, and could outfit hundreds of old oil rigs in the Gulf with wind turbines, or could use turbines to create energy from river currents. But instead we're living in cancer clusters. I attribute it to an extreme lack of vision among the leaders in Baton Rouge."
If you're wondering where Corexit is made, Nalco said last week it isn't manufactured in Garyville and wouldn't reveal where it is produced.


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