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Sometimes, it seems like only yesterday that we pressed 'Publish to Web' for the first time and revealed our fledgling e-commerce business to the world. On that day, back in January 2006, Polished Bliss was officially born. Of course, the idea itself had sprung to mind earlier, back in the summer of 2005, but it took six months or so for us to shape it into a reality (chiefly by re-mortgaging our house, investing the proceeds in stock and putting together the first version of our website). Little did we know what we were getting ourselves into!
Our original business plan turned out to be rather conservative in terms of its growth predictions; when we hit all of our year three targets within six months of opening we had to smile. And to be honest, it's been a rollercoaster ride ever since, with lots of relentless climbs, plenty of sudden drops and some tamer times in between where we've been able to catch our breath. However, one thing has remained constant throughout; change. Like gravity, there's rarely any escaping it, and we've had to continually adapt in order to keep moving forward.
Take our business model for example. When we first started out, we spotted a gap in the market (in the UK at least) for combining the sale of high quality car care products with the provision of free detailing advice. Shortly after, we realised that this advice would be better received if it was offered from an expert point of view, so we added professional detailing services to our repertoire. Furthermore, we also started offering these services from an indoor environment, which was almost unheard of back then, in order to raise standards.
Through to our fifth birthday, this business model remained unique. However, in 2011, a number of our competitors took steps to emulate it, and this forced us to innovate once again. Over the next couple of years, free shipping, independent customer reviews, a price match promise, a satisfaction guarantee and trade accounts all helped to reinforce our position as a customer-focused leader in the marketplace. However, these schemes have since been widely copied too, and we find ourselves today looking at a growing need to evolve yet again.
This is actually no bad thing, as the landscape in which we trade has changed significantly over the last ten years, to the extent that a new business model might now serve us better. Detailing has matured a lot during this time, with many enthusiasts now possessing sufficient skills and experience to rival their professional counterparts. Furthermore, social media has made it progressively easier for everyone to share their knowledge collectively, to the point today where the opinion of individual experts is of increasingly questionable relevancy.
Of course, while we are considering how change has affected our business, we shouldn't overlook advances in technology. When we started, decontamination was done with a clay bar, major correction work required the use of a rotary polisher and last step products rarely, if ever, lasted for more than six months. Roll on ten years and decontamination is now mostly performed with chemicals, rotary polishers have been all but superseded by long throw random orbital machines and silica-based coatings offer durability measured in years rather than months!
Taking everything above into account, it's fair to say that being a key player in a niche market that has evolved so much over the course of a decade has been an amazing experience, and we're very proud of the contribution we've made to it. We're also hugely excited by the prospect of what the next ten years will bring. To finish, we'd like to thank each and every one of you who has supported us over the last ten years. Your custom (and, in a great many cases, repeat custom) has kept us going, and for this we are extremely grateful. Cheers!


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Teachers in Broward and Palm Beach County were devastated when they learned the Florida Supreme Court upheld the pension bill requiring all public employees to contribute 3 percent of their salaries to a pension fund.
"We're at a loss," said Suzi Grbinich, a math teacher at Boca Raton Community High School. "So many people's lives have been turned upside down because of this."
She said teachers were already talking about where they could pick up extra money on the weekends, like offering tutoring services or driving buses. "We have absolutely no breathing room."
The Supreme Court ruled 4-3, prompting relief in Tallahassee but delivering a huge blow to teachers.
Donna Shubert, a teacher at McNab Elementary School in Pompano Beach, has been teaching for 20 years and said saving is nearly impossible especially as she looks to retire soon.
"We work so hard for so little," she said. "Our salaries are so low and so stagnant for so long … I don't know how people are going to survive."
Disheartened union members vowed to mobilize and vote out the legislators that allowed the pension to pass.
"We've got to fight back," said Debra Wilhelm, president of the Classroom Teachers Association in Palm Beach County. "It just seems like it's one thing after another, how much can you take?"
"It's a bait and switch and it's on the backs of our public employees," said Sharon Glickman, president of the Broward Teachers Union.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Bahrain has arrested a prominent human rights activist and critic of the country's ruling family, the Interior Ministry and an activist said on Sunday, as the authorities escalated a crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.
Bahrain, which is ruled by a Sunni Muslim monarchy and hosts the U.S. Fifth Fleet, has been in turmoil since activists mainly from the majority Shi'ite community began protests in February 2011 after successful revolts in Egypt and Tunisia.
Police arrested Nabeel Rajab, head of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR), on return from Beirut on Saturday evening, Sayed Yousif Almuhafda, a member of the BCHR told Reuters.
"The police arrested him near the plane's door. They said they had an arrest warrant from the public prosecutions office ... He was allowed to call his family after the arrest yesterday but they could not see him," Almuhafda said.
He said Rajab appeared on court on Sunday on previous charges of taking part in and calling for an illegal gathering and march. "We don't know what the new charges are yet," he said by telephone from Manama.
Rajab shot to prominence last year when he became a loud campaigner against the crackdown. With 140,000 followers on Twitter he is one of the most well-known online activists in the Arab world.
Bahrain's Ministry of Interior confirmed Rajab's arrest "for committing a number of crimes punishable by law". It gave no more details.
Authorities are also holding protest leader Zainab al-Khawaja after she tried to protest alone on a major highway. Prosecutors say she insulted women police officers. She became a symbol for protesters after she was dragged from a traffic roundabout in December by women riot police.
Both Rajab and Khawaja, daughter of jailed uprising leader Abdulhadi al-Khawaja who is on a hunger strike, have been detained briefly on numerous occasions over the past year but this was the first time the authorities held them with apparent intent to press charges.
The International Federation for Human Rights, in which Rajab is deputy secretary general, condemned the arrest.
"The federation demands the immediate and unconditional release of Rajab and other rights defenders, while it appears that these judicial harassments aim to place blacks against human rights activities," the Paris-based group said.
Rajab and Khawaja have been a thorn in the government's side, organizing peaceful protests inside Manama without licenses - in contrast to the leading opposition party Wefaq which obtains Interior Ministry approval.
Their acts of civil disobedience have made them heroes to many Bahraini opposition activists. Western activists, who were eventually deported, joined Rajab for protests in February that marked one year since the protest movement began.
Tension has risen again since April when Bahrain's Formula One Grand Prix became a lightning rod for protesters and visiting journalists turned their attention to an uprising that has not gone away.
Analysts predicted that hardliners within the ruling family would show their teeth after the Grand Prix, when Bahrain stopped some journalists entering and deported a team from Britain's Channel Four for entering on tourist visas.
A statement on the state news agency warned clerics against incitement to violence, sectarianism, insulting the judiciary and constitutional institutions and harming the economy - comments apparently directed against leading Shi'ite clerics such as Sheikh Isa Qassim who led a mass protest in March.
"The cabinet instructed ministries to take legal measures if these violations continue, affirming its total rejection of any bargaining over the nation's security and unity," BNA said.
King Hamad enacted constitutional reforms last week that would boost the elected parliament's powers of scrutiny over ministers and budgets. But the government has not budged on the key demand for a single chamber of parliament with full powers to legislate and form governments.
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During World War II, rescue of Jews and other victims of the Nazis was not a priority for the United States government. Due in part to antisemitism (prejudice against or hatred of Jews), isolationism, the economic Depression, and xenophobia (prejudice against or fear of foreigners), American policy made it difficult for refugees to obtain entry visas to the United States. The US State Department also delayed publicizing reports of genocide. In August 1942, the State Department received a cable revealing Nazi plans for the murder of Europe's Jews. However, the report was not passed on to its intended recipient, American Jewish leader Stephen Wise. The State Department asked Wise, who had almost simultaneously received the report via British channels, to refrain from announcing it.
The United States failed to act decisively to rescue victims of the Holocaust. On April 19, 1943, US and British representatives met in Bermuda to find solutions to wartime refugee problems. No significant proposals emerged from the conference. That same year, Polish underground courier Jan Karski informed American President Franklin D. Roosevelt of reports of mass murder. Nevertheless, American authorities did not initiate any action aimed at rescuing refugees until 1944, when Roosevelt established the War Refugee Board. At that time, four fifths of the Jews who would die in the Holocaust were already dead. By the spring of 1944, the Allies knew of the killing operations using poison gas at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. Some Jewish leaders pleaded unsuccessfully with US government officials to bomb the gas chambers and rail tracks leading to the camp. American officials argued that their aircraft did not have the capacity to conduct air raids on these targets with sufficient accuracy, and that the Allies were committed to bomb exclusively military targets to win the war as quickly as possible.


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British folk rock band Mumford and Sons, have kicked off the German leg of their European tour in Munich, playing to the packed out Zenith centre.
Mumford & Sons on tour
Mumford & Sons on tour
The London-based band shot to fame in 2009 and their star continued to rise with their second studio album "Babel", released last September debuting at number one in the UK and US.
This year they picked up a Grammy for Album of the Year and a Brit Award for Best British Group.
However the quartet try to ignore the media noise and stay true to the music. Lead singer Marcus Mumford explained: "We are just focused on the gigs really. We are trying not to focus on the media or even the awards rubbish or album sales or charts or anything like that. That stuff… happens and we know it happens, but we like to distract ourselves and just focus on the gigs. And if we do that every day I don't think there is a chance of being too affected by the other stuff."
Mumford and Sons starred in the Grammy award-winning film "Big Easy Express". It followed their train journey from San Francisco to New Orleans on a cross country jam session with the folk rock and bluegrass musicians Old Crow Medicine Show and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes. The film by director Emmett Malloy sought to chart the rise of a new generation of folk rock idols. But this has not gone to bass player Ted Dwane's head.
"I mean video is just another thing that we deem a slight distraction, really. We really understand gigs, and we love writing songs and literally everything else is a bit of distraction. And I think we feel in a way, we think of ourselves as a live band," Dwane said.
The next stop for the European leg of their Gentlemen of the Road tour is Italy. They will be on the road until mid September taking in the sights in the US and Canada before heading home.


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See Columbia Valedictorian Brian Corman Plagiarize Patton Oswalt in Graduation Speech
Keep it up, class of 2010!
Hot on the heels of sad, small-time comedian Nick Madson passing off Oswalt's material as his own, Columbia School of General Studies valedictorian Brian Corman does the same. Keep it up, class of 2010! Corman's bit gets going at the 38:30 mark — compare his Star Trek joke to Oswalt's from a 2006 performance below. (Also: Read Columbia's acknowledgment of the event over at ArtsBeat.)
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I also work with ILETS students. Typically success in achieving your desired goal in ILETS ultimately relies on consistent and persistent effort an applying the skills you learn. I recommend the following schedule to provide ample preparation time. Approximately 4 months prior to testing. It is best to take a minimum of 60 minutes 7 days a week. Of course, there will be study time needed outside of class which relies on how much effort and time you can put into learning. Without putting sufficient time and effort into ILETS preparation, it will likely be difficult to achieve your desired goal.
Interests: I love computers and facilitating courses that empower learners. Some courses that I facilitated include college English, Computer courses, and Speech Communication classes. I am interested in technology and how their use are evolving in the business sectors. I enjoy discussing media and what is happening globally. I frequently watch the Discovery channel and even the History channel. I have a passion for learning and helping others achieve their potential.
Education: I have 4 degrees, 3 certifications, and I speak 2 languages.I graduated from the University of Arizona at Phoenix with a Master's degree in Education with an emphasis in Instructional Design, E-learning, and Computers. I am completing my doctorate in Educational Leadership and Technology (ET). I also have a Bachelor's in Management and Human Relations, and an Associate of Science with an emphasis in Media Communications. I hold certifications in the business, legal, and medical fields.
Spoken Languages: English (Native: US / Canada), Spanish (Conversational)
Profession: Academic English Teacher
Teaching Experience: Teaching since 1997, basic skills in adult ed. cent; then teaching general English children (6 years old upwards) and young adults in Taiwan. On to Vietnam teaching academic English to adults in universities, children in private secondary schools and young adults in Foreign managed university. Also spent a year in Berlin, Germany teaching TOEFL, Modern Musicology and Critical Thinking at a university. Finally to the present, working part-time as a supply teacher for secondary schools.
Interests: Travel, landscape photography, country walks/ hiking, jogging, playing guitar and songwriting, science fiction movies, historical novels, world news and cultures, football.
Education: As a child left public school at 16, keen on languages, History, English Lit., but poor at sciences and Maths. Went back to school in 1992 to study Humanities Diploma. 1993 entered York University as a student of Politics and English Lit. Studied 2nd year in Toronto, Canada on exchange 1993-94.
Studied MA Ed (TESOL) 2008 -11 and passed with distinction. Most recently studied Special Ed Needs online course with British Council.
Spoken Languages: English (Native: UK), German (Basic), French (Basic)
Profession: English Professor, Accountant
Teaching Experience: English professor
Petersons Global Services, Bogotá (9/2012-present)
• I teach conversational and business English to executives on a virtual platform.
English teacher
Open English Jr., Miami (9/2017-present)
• I teach English to students between the ages of 7-14 on a virtual platform
Interests: I like to discuss current events. I also enjoy watching and participating in a variety of sports. And lastly, I´m somewhat addicted to chess.
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M.P.S. Real Estate Finance, December 2009
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Concentration in Real Estate Finance
B.S. Accounting
The Smeal College of Business
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
Major in Accounting
TEFL-150 hours
Spoken Languages: English (Native: US / Canada)
Profession: Online English Consultant and Tutor,
Teaching Experience: I have two years of experience teaching English in East Asia. I relocated for a year in August 2015 to work at Aston English Educational Group in Hanzhong, Shaanxi Province, China. I taught students ranging from pre-school age to students preparing to enter university. In 2016, I moved to Taiwan and tutored university students with their writing, while attending Fu Jen Catholic University, in New Taipei City until September 2017. Currently, I have been an online consultant for the past year.
Interests: Music, reading, and writing are my major interests at the moment. I feel that music allows us to connect with our own emotion and to the humanity of other people. I love to read and write as it constantly floods me with new ideas and perspectives about our society and the experiences of those around us.
Education: I currently hold a B.S in Psychology from Central Michigan University, received May 2015. I also hold a TEFL certificate from Bridge English Language Center, received January 2015.
Spoken Languages: English (Native)


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U of O journalism building gets redesign
By KELLY ARDIS
The Register-Guard
EUGENE — After being "homeless" for 18 months, University of Oregon journalism students have been checking out their new digs this week — and liking the feel of the place.
"I feel like I have a place where I belong," said Jackie Haworth, a sophomore journalism major. "It's my second day (in this building), and I already feel at home."
While the School of Journalism and Communication's Allen Hall was being redesigned — a $15 million remodeling project funded half by private gifts and half by state bonds — journalism headquarters were moved to Agate Hall, about a 15-minute trek from the center of campus. Most journalism classes were held in that building, but others were scattered across campus at such locales as the Knight Library and Lillis Business Complex.
More seating areas in the new Allen Hall — nicknamed Allen Hall 3.0 — are intended to foster a sense of belonging, and already are encouraging students to interact and collaborate — a practice that will come in handy for the professions that the students are entering, Haworth said.
"People are more comfortable here; they're already talking to people they don't know," she said. "In Agate, you don't really want to stay and hang out."
While remnants of Allen Hall's 1922 building and 1954 remodel remain, the open and airy layout adds a modern touch. The three-story building has been expanded by about 18,000 square feet — a 40 percent increase — but also designed to meet the silver equivalent of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED, standards of energy efficiency. Its energy use is 26 percent more efficient than required by Oregon's energy code.
Windowed walls let students see what their peers are up to, and dry-erase board walls are intended to foster collaboration, allowing students to turn any casual conversation in the hall into an impromptu meeting. Students already have contributed drawings, inspirational phrases and plenty of versions of "Chip's staying!" — references to head football coach Chip Kelly — to the boards.
The building also includes a Digital Commons area on the third floor, an open-air computer lab that can accommodate a large class or several small groups. There's also a hearth area and a signature lecture space.
Junior journalism student Alan Sylvestre was sitting with Haworth during an afternoon break this week. Both said they attended classes in the old Allen Hall for just a single term, before the start of construction in the late spring of 2011.
Sylvestre predicted that the new building will help his creative process, which he said is at its optimum when he's surrounded by peers.
"I produce journalistic work best when I feel like I'm in a newsroom, and this feels like one," Sylvestre said of the building.
Jackie Kokka, a sophomore advertising major, shared similar sentiments.
"I like how (the open layout) gives a creative atmosphere," she said. "I love the windows, too. It's nice to see out of them when you're working."
Allen Hall 3.0 is the product of architect of record TBG Architects + Planners in Eugene; design architect YGH Architecture of Portland; and contractor Lease Crutcher Lewis. The building was last remodeled in 1954, when it served 300 majors. Now it will serve more than 2,000 majors in journalism, public relations, advertising and communication studies.
Kokka said she appreciated the journalism faculty's efforts to make Agate Hall work as a temporary home, but is happy that the school is back where many feel it belongs: in the center of campus. With the Erb Memorial Union's food court just minutes away, she said she's looking forward to hunkering down to do work without the inconvenience of being so far removed from the rest of campus.
For some students, Allen Hall's reopening is a return home, but for newcomer Kiersten Olsen and those like her, it's a fresh start regardless of the location.
"It's really cool to be in the first set of students to go through here," said Olsen, a sophomore public relations major. "I saw the old Allen Hall when I toured the campus, and it really needed some improvements. I'm happy for the university that they got to remodel."
Allen Hall is now on par with the university's other new buildings, such as the Lillis complex and the John Jaqua Center for Student Athletes, she said.
"I think it'll be more of a draw for people who want to join the journalism and communication school," Olsen said. "More people can access the facility. There are new labs. I think it will help advance our school."
Still, as much as journalism students may love the new building, their studies have taught them to be objective and take in all the details. One thing Allen Hall is still missing? A cafe, Sylvestre and Haworth agreed.


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It's a rare office or home that doesn't have some Wi-Fi dead zones, areas that, for whatever combination of reasons to do with obstructions, interferers or distance from router, have poor or no wireless network coverage.
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For enterprise network integrators and installers, there are a bunch of options, most requiring knowledge and expertise beyond what the average home user or small business owner possesses, and sometimes a significant expenditure as well. So we noted with interest a recent product from EnGenius Technology Inc., the 300Mbps Wireless N Range Expander (model ERB9250), which sells online for about $50.
EnGenius already claims that its Wi-Fi routers and access points deliver Wi-Fi range superior to competitors' products. Now the ERB9250 promises to extend coverage to remaining dead spots in networks that use either EnGenius's own or other vendors' router and AP products. And it also promises to be dead easy to install. We put this to the test, with mixed and slightly ambiguous results.
Testing the ERB9250
We tested the ERB9250 in conjunction with an older EnGenius router product, designed for home and small business use, the 300Mbps Wireless N Router with Gigabit (model ESR-9850), which sells online for about $70.
Setting up the ESR-9850 was fairly simple. Turn it on, plug in cable modem and wired network devices, wait for it to configure itself and then access the browser-based configuration interface from a computer connected by Ethernet cable.
We inserted the EnGenius router into an existing network, using the same security settings (Mac filtering only) and the same SSID. Changing the default SSID on the ESR-9850 to the one our devices already connect to was easy using the intuitive and well-designed browser interface.
Our first objective was to test EnGenius's contention that its routers deliver superior range - to the extent we could in our facility, a small suburban home with three home office setups on two floors. We tested this proposition by comparing the ESR-9850's performance with our existing router, a Draft N model from Netgear.
We measured signal strength in various locations in the house using inSSIDer 2.0, a freeware Wi-Fi signal monitor from MetaGeek LLC, and also timed large file transfers - first with the old router in place, then after installing the ESR-9850.
There initially appeared to be some instability in the network after installing the EnGenius product, with network devices not responding or responding with error messages. These problems resolved themselves seemingly spontaneously and have not reappeared - suggesting they were not related to the ESR-9850, or not directly.
We started by testing in two rooms on the same floor as the router: one the room in which the router is located, the other only 30 feet away, but with historically poor Wi-Fi coverage. In these rooms, the differences in performance between the two routers was negligible: a matter of a few seconds on transfers of a 210MB file that took about half a minute in the router room, a little over a minute in the other room. The received signal strength indicator (RSSI) reading in inSSIDer was also very similar in the two sets of tests: about -30 in the router room, -50 to -60 in the other. That said, high-bit-rate streaming video performance did seem better in the poor-coverage room after we installed the EnGenius router.
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EPA's Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) program requires farms and other facilities to prepare plans to prevent oil spills into U.S. waters. Farms in operation on or before Aug. 16, 2002, must maintain or amend their existing plan by Nov. 10, 2011. Any farm that started operation after Aug. 16, 2002, but before Nov. 10, 2011, must prepare and use a plan on or before Nov. 10, 2011.
The SPCC program applies to a farm which:
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- Stores more than 1,320 US gallons in aboveground containers or more than 42,000 US gallons in completely buried containers.
- Could reasonably be expected to discharge oil to waters of the US or adjoining shorelines, such as interstate waters, and intrastate lakes, rivers and streams.
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Reps. Crawford, R-Ark., and Fincher, R-Tenn., are circulating a letter for colleague signatures. The letter is addressed to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and asks her to extend the Nov. 10 deadline due to a lack of outreach and education to farmers on the part of EPA, a scarcity of qualified PEs, and the current hardship facing farmers in the Midwest and Mid-South brought on by floods and severe weather.
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Gail Caldwell's latest book, Let's Take The Long Way Home comes out next Tuesday (August 10th). Here is my review:
I am just going to write this as candidly as possible, just as Caldwell wrote her novel: this book touched my heart in a way so profound that I am fumbling over how to even begin to talk about it. Saying that life is so fragile, as is love and friendship and allowing yourself to open up and know someone and be known, almost feels too cliche to speak the words. I cannot possibly tell you about this book – I am not the writer that Gail Caldwell is. But Let's Take The Long Way Home took my breath away – another cliché, but it's true. It's full of so much profundity, so many analogies and metaphors and stories that it's amazing that such a small book could hold it all. It's about death – the death of the author's best friend and fellow writer, Caroline Knapp. It's about their friendship. It's about Caldwell's life, her struggle with alcoholism. It's about beloved dogs and the way it feels to love a place, to love a river and the woods around it. Mostly, it's just about hope. I stayed up until 1:00am finishing it one night and sobbed, but just felt so overwhelmed with gratitude for having read it.
It made me miss people. It made me miss the friendships that used to be so deep and now have come and gone. It made me ache with longing for that feeling of belonging when you are with people who "get it."
I cannot recommend it enough.
Some quotes from Let's Take The Long Way Home:
"I would be the sensitive heroine, or doomed romantic, or radical bohemian – I was Hamlet, Icarus, Edith Wharton's Lily Bart. God forbid that I simply face who I was, which was somebody drunk and scared and on my way to being no one at all."
"...my idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window."
"To people who have spent their lives thick with the bounty of other people, attachment itself is complex but assumed. For the introvert, it is a more nebulous territory."
" We lived here for each other, and for everyone else we loved within twenty miles, and for all the good reasons people live where they live. They need the view of a wheat field or an ocean; they need the smell of a thunderstorm or the sound of a city. Or they need to leave, so that they can invent what they need someplace else."
"Accepting a death sentence is like falling down a flight of stairs in slow motion. You take it in one bruise at a time – a blow, a landing, another short descent."
"Death is a divorce nobody asked for; to live through it is to find a way to disengage from what you thought you couldn't stand to lose."
"Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive."
"The real trick is to let life, with all its ordinary missteps and regrets, be consistently more mysterious and alluring that its end."
Louise Tripp grew up in North Carolina. She currently lives in Chicago, where she is revising her first YA novel and working in a public library. You can read her regular blog at http://risktoblossom.blogspot.com.


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"Raging Bubbles" is the 30th episode of the series and the 9th episode of Season 2. Bubbles becomes furious when Buttercup tells her she is not an important member of the team.
The episode starts with The Rowdyruff Boys and The Powerpuff Girls eating in the Lunch Room at school. They are serving grape pie. Bubbles sits next to Boomer playing patty cake at their table. When Bubbles tells Boomer she is important to the team, like the others, Buttercup suddenly laughs at her, and claims that she isn't so tough. This gets both of them into an arguement. Buttercup then says to Bubbles grinning, "She isn't important at all, so there." With her last word, Buttercup throws a purple grape pie at Bubbles. The pie hits Bubbles in the face with purple grape pie all over her face. This makes everybody in the Lunch Room laugh at Bubbles, including Buttercup, all except Blossom, Boomer, Brick, and Butch. Bubbles then bursts out crying and flies off. She hides herself in the girls' bathroom pouring water on her face and crying in the corner of the bathroom. Once she sees a portal in the toilet areas, she goes inside to another world. HIM in a fly version of himself, tricks Bubbles once more. HIM teaches Bubbles her inner rage. Bubbles then becomes furious in a rage because her sister was being selfish. She then becomes in a full hotheaded rage and then goes back to the real world. As she is in the girls' bedroom, Blossom finds her and asks her if she's hurt. Bubbles suddenly attacks Blossom badly, badly enough that Blossom breaks through the wall and lands on Brick. Bubbles then goes out of school, simply by breaking the wall of the girls' bathroom, and goes off to destroy Townsville. Blossom, Buttercup, and The Rowdyruff Boys then go after her. Bubbles destroys Townsville in a full head of rage. She even harms, elders, adults, and including animals! She nearly destroys the whole place. Blossom, Buttercup, and The Rowdyruff Boys look for her. They finally found her destroying a bank. Boomer tries to calm Bubbles down, but nothing convinces her. Bubbles then knocks out all five of them. Finally, Bubbles calms down. She doesn't realize what she had done until she sees she had beating up her sister, her boyfriend, and her friends. Bubbles then cries for her actions. Suddenly, at the moment, HIM comes and reveals his plan what he had done to Bubbles, by using her rage to destroy Townsville, their citizens, and those she feels closes to. Bubbles, upset for being tricked yet again by HIM, gets fed up. She badly injures HIM making him faint on the ground. Blossom, Boomer, Buttercup, Brick, and Butch recover, and see Bubbles back to her sweet, kind-hearted self. She hugs Blossom, kisses Boomer, and hugs Brick and Butch. Buttercup was sad, and depressed says sorry to Bubbles for her actions earlier and says she is important member of their team. Bubbles emotionally forgives Buttercup and hugs her.


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Ruidoso Municipal Court
The Honorable Judge
Beverly A. Rankin
421 Wingfield
PO Box 2330
Ruidoso, NM88355
Tel: 575-257-9055
Fax: 575-257-7965
Deputy Clerk - Lori Coughlin
- Bench Warrants
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Court Clerk II - Sarah Phelps
- Traffic Citations
- Community Service
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Court Hours
Monday - Friday 8:00am to 5:00pm
Closed Saturday, Sunday, Holidays
Monday - 10:30 AM
Wednesday - 10:30 AM Adult and 3:00 JUV
For waivers please contact the Municipal Court
The Municipal Court has jurisdiction over traffic and other violations of Municipal ordinances. The Municipal Court does not have jurisdiction over civil matters.
The maximum penalty that may be assessed in Municipal Court is a $500 fine and 90 days in jail for each offense, except for DWI cases where the maximum penalty may be 179 days in jail and a $999 fine.
For information regarding small claims court, please call Magistrate Court at 575-378-7022.
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12th Judicial District Court
300 Central
Carrizozo, NM 88301
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301 Highway 70
Ruidoso, NM88345
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Actress Hilary Swank has fueled rumors she has a new man in her life after she was photographed enjoying a romantic birthday meal with a former contestant of reality show The Bachelorette.
The Million Dollar Baby star was recently spotted on a date with a mystery man at New York City's Beauty & Essex restaurant, sparking speculation of a new romance, and on Thursday (30Jul15), Kasey Stewart appeared to go public with their budding relationship by sharing a picture of the pair on social media.
After dining at popular eatery Gjelina in Venice, California to celebrate the movie star turning 41, he uploaded an image of the two on Instagram and captioned it, "Happy Birthday to this beautiful soul. @hilaryswank."
The Oscar winner's intimate birthday meal took place four days after her friends and family threw her an early surprise party on Sunday (26Jul15).
She shared footage of her stunned reaction online, and wrote, "Oh what a night! I love surprises! I have the bestest (sic) friends ever! Thank god birthdays only come once a year or else I would blow a cornea".
Stewart featured as a potential suitor on season nine of dating show The Bachelorette, but he failed to win over Desiree Hartsock and was eliminated a week before the finale.
Swank was previously married to actor/director Chad Lowe from 1997 to 2007, while she went on to date her agent John Campisi and was more recently linked to French real estate broker Laurent Fleury.


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Vitamin E-assisted Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Clusters Formation for Magnetic Resonance Imaging
J-R Lai, H-C Yen, C-Y Hsu, P-S Lai
National Chung Hsing University, TW
Keywords: MRI, iron oxide, clusters, vitamin E TPGS
Abstract:Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has been regard as a noninvasive powerful imaging tool that yields excellent soft-tissue contrast, has a high spatial resolution, and possesses tomographic capabilities. Among the contrast agents used for MRI, superparamagnetic iron oxides (SPIO) serve as MRI T2-shortening agents for non-invasive cell or tissue imaging in clinic. In this study, we prepared clustered SPIOs with a diameter around 110 nm using vitamin E TPGS as a surfactant observed by DLS and TEM, leading to a significant advantage in terms of T2 relaxation and dose-dependent darkening of MR images compared with a commercial SPIO contrast agent (Resovist®). The better contrast enhancement using SPIO cluster may due to the collective properties of SPIO that are more responsive to an external magnetic field that thus can potentially act as efficient T2-shortening MRI contrast agents.


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Chapter 21: Time to Get Me a Servant
Two more years go by, and Crusoe spends time thinking of ways by which he could escape from the island. He again reflects philosophically on his past and regrets his greed, which his led to his present state. One night he has a vivid dream that savages land on his island with a victim, who breaks free and comes to his grove to hide. Crusoe rescues him and he becomes his servant. After this, Crusoe looks for the savages, hoping his dream will come true.
A year and a half later, Crusoe sees five canoes land on shore. About thirty savages emerge, build a fire, and begin to dance around it. Crusoe then sees two miserable wretches being dragged from the boats. One of them is immediately knocked down and killed. The other takes the opportunity to run away, straight towards Crusoe's castle. He is followed by three of the savages. The run-away swims across the creek with ease, and only two of his chasers follow him into water. Crusoe now appears on the scene and beckons to the fugitive.
Crusoe realizes the danger of firing his gun, for it could bring all the savages after him; instead, he advances on the two pursuers and knocks one down with a blow of his gun. When the other savage puts an arrow to his bow, Crusoe shoots him. The bewildered runaway, terrified by the gunshot, approaches his rescuer, lays his head on the ground, and places Crusoe's foot's upon it. The savage who has been knocked down now stirs, and the fugitive signals for Crusoe's sword with which he cuts off his enemy's head in one blow. They bury the dead cannibals in the sand, and Crusoe leads the fugitive to the cave where he gives him food and lets him sleep.
Crusoe's next two years are filled with thoughts of escape and reflections on his past. After having a dream, Crusoe entertains notions of capturing a human and making him into his slave to aid him in his escape from the island. The dream is significant, for like the earlier dream of the terrifying angel, it foreshadows later events. Within the chapter, a man will arrive on the island to become his servant.
Crusoe watches as approximately thirty savages land on shore, build a fire, and begin dancing. He then sees them drag two other humans from the canoes. One is immediately killed and one manages to escape. As the fugitive is pursued by three savages and then two, Crusoe makes the decision to help this poor run-away. He signals to the fugitive and approaches the pursuers. He knocks the first down with the butt of his gun and fires at the second savage, killing him. The fugitive finishes off the first savage with Crusoe's sword. The fugitive then indicates that he is in Crusoe's control by laying his head on the ground and placing Crusoe's foot on top of it. It is the fugitive's expression of appreciation to the man who has saved his life.
Crusoe wins the battle against the savages because he takes a stand against them, rather than being overcome with fear. He is also helped by his superior weapons and intelligent planning. Providence is obviously on his side and has answered his cry for a companion after all these years.
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Birmingham binmen to stage two strike days
Binmen and street cleaners in Birmingham are to hold two days of industrial action.
The dispute with the city council is around pay and conditions and workers plan to strike on the morning of 11 and 15 August.
Talks with unions will continue but a spokesman for the council said there will be some disruption to services.
Residents are still asked to put rubbish out but it may not be collected.
The strikes follow workers taking two hours of industrial action last month.
A council spokesman said: "Despite continued talks with representatives from Unite which have seen some significant movement in negotiations, we have still not be able at this point to reach an agreement over issues that have been raised about terms and conditions for refuse collection staff."


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Performing Arts Education
Established in 2007, the Performing Arts Education Centre is an initiative of the Academy to strategically embed and systematically coordinate different educational outreach activities into the Academy programmes with the aim of nourishing young and talented Hong Kong students in preparation for post-secondary and tertiary studies at the Academy. The Centre is also involved in the development of local and international networks to strategise and raise awareness of performing arts education within community activities and government circles.
Expanding their artistic horizons and providing rich learning experiences, the Centre has launched different kinds of outreach programmes, offer local school students a wide range of performing arts activities in Dance, Drama, Music, Film & Television, Theatre & Entertainment Arts and Cantonese Opera.


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An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the Board) by the Northwest Tennessee Regional Port Authority to establish a general-purpose foreign-trade zone at sites in Dyer, Gibson, Haywood, Lake, Lauderdale, Madison, Obion and Tipton Counties, Tennessee, adjacent to the Memphis Customs and Border Protection (CBP) port of entry, under the alternative site framework (ASF) adopted by the Board (74 FR 1170-1173, 1/12/09 (correction 74 FR 3987, 1/22/09); 75 FR 71069-71070, 11/22/10). The ASF is an option for grantees for the establishment or reorganization of general-purpose zones and can permit significantly greater flexibility in the designation of new "usage-driven" FTZ sites for operators/users located within a grantee's "service area" in the context of the Board's standard 2,000-acre activation limit for a general-purpose zone project. The application was submitted pursuant to the Foreign-Trade Zones Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u), and the regulations of the Board (15 CFR part 400). It was formally filed on September 29, 2011. The applicant is authorized to make the proposal under Tennessee Code Sections 7-85-101 thru 7-85-103.
The proposed zone would be the third general-purpose zone in Tennessee for the Memphis CBP port of entry and would be the fifth zone overall for the port of entry. The existing zones are as follows: FTZ 77, Memphis, Tennessee (Grantee: City of Memphis, Board Order 189, April 2, 1982); FTZ 223, Memphis, Tennessee (Grantee: Memphis International Trade Development Corporation, Board Order 904, July 2, 1997); FTZ 262, Southaven, Mississippi (Grantee: Northern Mississippi FTZ, Inc., Board Order 1353, October 1, 2004); and, FTZ 273, West Memphis, Arkansas (Grantee: City of West Memphis, Arkansas, Board Order 1551, April 15, 2008).
The applicant's proposed service area under the ASF would be Dyer, Gibson, Haywood, Lake, Lauderdale, Madison, Obion and Tipton Counties, Tennessee. If approved, the applicant would be able to serve sites throughout the service area based on companies' needs for FTZ designation. The proposed service area is adjacent to the Memphis CBP port of entry.
The proposed zone would initially include nine "magnet" sites in the service area: Proposed Site 1 (350 acres)—Cates Landing, One Cates Landing, State Highway 22 and Donaldson Road, Tiptonville (Lake County); Proposed Site 2 (279 acres)—Dyersburg Industrial Park, located at the intersection of Interstate 155 and U.S. Highway 412, Dyersburg (Dyer County); Proposed Site 3 (197 acres)—Gibson County Industrial Park, 2725 N. Central Avenue, Humboldt (Gibson County); Proposed Site 4 (474 acres)—Brownsville South Industrial Park, located at the intersection of Highway 70/79 and Windrow Road, Brownsville (Haywood County); Proposed Site 5 (1,720 acres)—Mega Site, located along Interstate 40 near Highways 70 and 79, Stanton (Haywood County); Proposed Site 6 (161 acres)—Walker Industrial Park, 374 Highland Street, Ripley (Lauderdale County); Proposed Site 7 (55 acres)—American Drive Business Center, 96 American Drive, Jackson (Madison County); Proposed Site 8 (235 acres)—Obion County Industrial Park, located at the intersection of Highway 21 and U.S. Highway 51, Union City (Obion County); and, Proposed Site 9 (415 acres)—Rialto Industrial Park, Highway 51 North, Covington (Tipton County). The ASF allows for the possible exemption of one magnet site from the "sunset" time limits that generally apply to sites under the ASF, and the applicant proposes that Site 1 be so exempted.
The application indicates a need for zone services in the West Tennessee area. Several firms have indicated an interest in using zone procedures for Start Printed Page 61668warehousing/distribution activities for a variety of products. Specific manufacturing approvals are not being sought at this time. Such requests would be made to the Board on a case-by-case basis.
In accordance with the Board's regulations, Camille Evans of the FTZ Staff is designated examiner to evaluate and analyze the facts and information presented in the application and case record and to report findings and recommendations to the Board.
Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions (original and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the Board's Executive Secretary at the address below. The closing period for their receipt is December 5, 2011. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period to December 19, 2011.
A copy of the application will be available for public inspection at the Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 2111, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230-0002, and in the "Reading Room" section of the Board's Web site, which is accessible via http://www.trade.gov/ftz. For further information, contact Camille Evans at email@example.com or (202) 482-2350.Start Signature
Dated: September 29, 2011.
Andrew McGilvray,
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Indianapolis shocks No. 4 NKU
Roundup: Top-ranked Fort Lewis tops UC-Colorado Springs
INDIANAPOLIS -- A golden goal in the 102nd minute off the foot of Wes Oliver lifted Indianapolis to a 1-0 upset of No. 4 Northern Kentucky in a battle for the GLVC's top spot on Sunday afternoon.
UIndy nearly took a 1-0 lead about 16 minutes into the match, with a ball of the head of Ryan Barnett bouncing off the crossbar. The chance came off of a Bobby Adkins corner kick to the far side of the box.
The Greyhounds had a great chance with about two minutes left in regulation, with Brett Greubel sending a ball through on the near side to Adkins. The Norse keeper was drawn out, but Adkins' attempt went into the side of the net.
Oliver netted the game-winner at the 101:29 mark, sending a ball in the near side of the box across the frame and over the outstretched Norse keeper. Oliver's fourth goal of the season came on an assist from Micah Uemura.
The stingy UIndy defense is the first to hold Northern Kentucky scoreless since Lewis on Oct. 3, 2010. The overtime defeat is the Norse's first since a loss Dec. 5, 2008 in the NCAA semifinals to Dowling. The win is the Greyhounds' first over the Norse since Sept. 1, 2006, also a 1-0 overtime win.
NKU out-shot the Greyhounds 18-13 in the contest, and took five corner kicks to UIndy's four. Andrew Verhonik earned his first win in a UIndy keeper uniform with the victory, coming on in relief of Justin Roberts in the 64th minute. Roberts made three saves while Verhonik made two in the combined shutout effort.
No. 1 Fort Lewis 1, UC-Colorado Springs 0
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Derek Freeman scored in the eighth minute as No. 1 Fort Lewis (12-0-0 overall, 8-0-0 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference) defeated UC-Colorado Springs (6-6, 4-4) by a 1-0 score on Sunday afternoon at Mountain Lion Field.
Third-year FLC head coach Oige Kennedy said senior leadership factored into the victory, especially after losing captain and All-America defender Fabian Kling to a knee injury late in Friday's 1-0 win against No. 14 Metro State.
"We obviously had some adversity on Friday with the injury to Fabian," Kennedy said. "Everybody rallied around him really well, especially our seniors. Thomas Hoang, Cory Dean, Ryan Wirth, Joey Madigan and Berekk Blackwell really stepped forward."
The Skyhawks came out firing on all cylinders, eventually scoring when Alberto Capdepon-Rodriguez slipped a pass along the ground through the Mountain Lion defense to set up Freeman with a one-on-one opportunity.
The Skyhawks outshot the Mountain Lions 13-6 overall, 6-4 in shots on frame. UCCS goalkeeper Brandon Costa made five saves, while Wirth stopped four shots Fort Lewis.
Game information and photos compiled from athletic department websites.


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Are you sufficiently
jealous sick satisfied with my revels in Filo-land? I'm not.
You cannot Imagine the 'homesickness' I feel for the Philippines. There have been genuine tears of nostalgia. And waking up wishing Little A was sleeping next to me. And the puppy and the sunshine and the noise and the pollution and the mayhem and the food and family.
Aaanyway. I went to a convention.
I made a set a day and managed to make a relatively decent haul – at least to cover costs and make a bit of profit, which, yay! I did.
|slide on ears!
Our conversations revolved mostly around watching Rambo, zombies, Abraham Lincoln (I guess cause of the vampire hunting movie? I don't remember) and my obsessive lust for frozen yoghurt, which he kindly took me to buy after we finished setting up. When not chatting I was wobbly-ly singing Maniac in order to not collapse in a fevered heap.
I lost my voice! I had watery eyes! made worse by coloured contact lenses. I swear that was an exercise in futility. The contact lenses were 'Aqua', and they did not make even so much make a smidge of difference on my eyes. HOW THE HELL?!?!?!? AQUA IS AN ENTIRELY WEIRD COLOUR FOR SOMEONE WHO HAS BROWN-ISH EYES!!!!
Aaanyhoo. It was pretty fun playing dress up, and I got to really take good advantage of my Illamasqua stash to make some interesting looks. However, I will say this – False Lashes are the Enemy. I really wanted to take a chance on them since they just look oh-so-pretty on other people but damnit, they are stubborn little shitty thingimabobs and will always, ALWAYS find a way to somehow curl in and poke me in the eyeball. They ended up making a huge mess and I had to peel them off before the day was done.
Three tables worth of Manga art books and Llama plushies are certainly harmless, and the Llama plushies are a sure fire heart warmer for the likes of me, but what really got me were the body size love pillow-cases hanging on the walls of their booth, one was almost infringing onto my wall. All naughty bits were covered by bright neon yellow post-it notes. You know, for modesty.
|oh the sexy (little girls)....
What did bother me was the somewhat excessive amount of lolis prevalent in the designs. I know hentai has focused a lot on the hyper sexualisation of females who look underaged but this was getting damn uncomfortable. And while I could talk about how buying a love-pillow with a seductive, innocent looking loli on it is better than let's say, making a pass at some young girl, the fact that this was even acceptable as being a product to be sold at an event was just downright saying something. What that something is, I haven't worked out yet.
Further, while I didn't really see many of these pillows getting sold, (because really, what self-conscious teenaged boy is going to go up there in front of the eyes of so many onlookers and say, "uh, I'll take the one with the pigtails please"?), I heard a ridiculous amount of immature guffawing.
"Uhyuk, hawwww, lookit that, nekkid gurls! haw haw!" And yes, this is an almost true-to-life quote. I kid you not. It was like being in a corral of donkeys. And it wasn't just the boys, it was EVERY ANIMU WEABOO FAN THAT PASSED IT. Ok, I understand, young people, potential boobies, titillation and all that. But really? But having that stall next to me was just so weird. I'm not sure if it hurt sales, but it did hurt my eardrums.
It was great meeting up with old friends though. Andrias from Poporetto and his sisters were there and I managed to add an adorable miniature Captain Ameriwuff in a bottle (along with a free badge!) to my collection. I now have a veritable album of their work and they always get better! Also I have a new cute beer bottle opener, SWEET!!!
Old friends from Void also attended and I got my table cleaned out by a very enthusiastic girl and her boyfriend (aka – human wallet). She bought so much from me it was crazy! I gave her a free bracelet for her enthusiasm.
|people wanted the ponies more than the merch...
Singing 80s tunes helped, until I started dancing…
I will take moment to give special acclaim to the vendor of ILikeShinies. She messaged me a few months ago saying that I had inspired her to make her own little miniature cakes and sweeties accessory shop. Frankly, while that was a really sweet and flattering thing to tell me, I cannot for one second believe it because this girl is AMAZING and I cannot possibly imagine how I could have inspired such adorable and well made products when I used to have so much fucking trouble making my own. Ugh, I bought a small bottle of young mandrake root in a bottle and she gave me a Triforce pendant and a small bottle of Felix Felicis. I gave her a customised sketchbook with all sorts of deco-den stuff all over it. We hugged and squealed and I felt awesome despite my flu.
I also got to have a chat with Blue Fishies regarding the sales of indie art and admired her epic draw skillz. Damnit photoshop – y u no do that for me?
Its times like those when we share badges and talk to fellow vendors and exchanging art that I feel completely and utterly satisfied about attending things like this.
Sadly, everything else was lacking. There were less cosplayers around and from what I heard, the staff made it difficult for photographers to do their shoots at the venue. The focal Japanese lifestyle booth was horrible beyond belief. Normally there is a booth with a nice display of some sort of Japanese cultural theme. Last year, it was a tea ceremony display, the year before it was Lolita. This year it was this horrifying wishing tree display with dirty cheap xmas trees and badly tied paper wishes tied to the branches. And you had to pay to pick a wish!!!!
Also – it looked like the Maid Café was a disappointment of epic proportions for all fans of things moe.
But hey, we did well and Nekochii and I celebrated with long awaited beer and Korean food.
Now, I am going to work on new projects, and I have a nice photographing session coming up to showcase my stuffs. I am so excited but am equally nervous that every photo will have derp-face.
Also – I regretfully must mention that:
I got my postgrads! Yes, plural, certificate and diploma – YAY ME my studies was for naught, I now have pieces of paper.
I have enrolled in my second-to-last class before I receive my masters and damnit, I am so NOT looking forward to this. It's a policing course and I feel really out of my depth.
But as I say to that elusive masters qualification: CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. T_T…
Also – another niece/nephew is on the way!!! EEEEeeeeEEEEEEeeeeE!!!! clucky time!
Also – new art projects, just because I am restarting my studies, I am not going to give up on my work. So yes, full time job, part time studies, all-time gaming and most-time crafting and arting.
|test project!
Also – I still haven't finished Dragon Age 2 – its so boring!!!! Why??? I love killing things and running and armour and magic? I'll finish it eventually, Borderlands is more fun at the moment and I am so incredibly exited to play Dishonored.
Also – I am actually still enjoying WoW. I love going from one place to another. Buggered if I know what the quests are about? I never read the descriptions. I just like the pretty landscapes.
|So much true ;_;
So – until next month, which hopefully has more pictures and better humor and hopefully news that I have finished something, be it an academic paper or a friggin video game.Toodlios!!!


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Release notesFull release notes for POA 5.2.10 can be downloaded from here.
Fixed Issues
POA-64050 Install service-WebCluster-5.160" drops iptables customization
POA-64022 Cannot edit DNS record in POA 5.2.
POA-63954 SFTP-server is broken for POA chrooted webspace users. Impossible to access by SFTP.
POA-63908 Apache vulnerability CVE-2009-1890
POA-63730 IIS security: flexible restriction groups are required
POA-63664 Random website responds for webcluster shared address
Update can be downloaded from here.
Please contact Support for its deployment.
You can find full installation instructions in the UPDATE.txt file from the distribution.
After installing should be run 'yum update httpd' on each shared hosting node.


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The Handy Person Service (HP+) provides a maintenance and repair service for older vulnerable and other vulnerable people living in the city in their own privately owned/rented accommodation. The service is generally available free of charge to people in receipt of one of the qualifying benefits but also provides the service at very low cost to those not receiving these benefits. The aim of HP+ is to enable older people to stay living independently in their own homes by offering an easy to access service that responds quickly to day to day property maintenance issues, therefore reducing the stress and anxiety that these issues can often cause. HP+ also works in close partnership with other services to ensure that other support needs of individuals that are not being met can be addressed appropriately.
The service is now available to vulnerable families with children under the age 5 living in the property. If the family is in receipt of one of the qualifying benefits, the service is free (see terms and conditions) but is also available at low-cost to vulnerable families not in receipt of these benefits.
The key objectives of the service are to:
- Prevent and reduce the number of home accidents by making homes as safe as possible
- Identify current or likely support needs and making appropriate referrals
- Enable people to remain in their homes for as long as possible consequently reducing/preventing the need for expensive care packages or residential care later in life. Improve quality of life
- Promote independence, safety and wellbeing
- Ensure contact with other appropriate service providers
HP+ undertakes minor repairs, maintenance and adaptations that would not normally be eligible for financial assistance from the City Council or other providers. The service is available to residents living within the Southampton local authority boundary.
To contact HP+ telephone: 0800 085 4802
Monday – Thursday 9am-5pm; Friday 9am-4.30pm
Answering Service available outside of these hours
Eligible Clients:
- People over 60 (key priority group)
- Vulnerable households with children under 5 in receipt of one of the eligible benefits
- Disabled people
- People awaiting hospital discharge needing minor work to enable them to return home
- Other individuals receiving care or Supporting People services or defined as vulnerable by the local authority
Eligible Benefits:
- Income Support
- Guaranteed Pension Credit
- Council Tax Benefit
- Housing Benefit
Owner-occupiers in Private Sector Housing that is either Owned by them or Owned by a relative.
Tenants in Private Sector Housing that is:
Rented privately (Tenants of the local authority or a Registered Social Landlord are not normally eligible for the service except where the specific work would not be the responsibility of the landlord – please telephone for further information)
For People living in Sheltered Housing Schemes the Service is:
- Limit of 2 calls a year, starting from date of first call (this can be waived due to an emergency or by Police request or at the discretion of the Project Manager);
- The initial assessment is the first 15 minutes of each visit and is free for everyone;
- A maximum of 2 hours labour, in addition to the assessment period, is provided free of charge if you are in receipt of an eligible benefit;
- Up to £30 materials @ cost price provided if you are in receipt of an eligible benefit;
If you are not in receipt of one of the eligible benefits you may still be able to access the service at low-cost. You will pay £10 per hour for the labour and the cost of any materials provided – please telephone the service for further information.
Eligible Works:
Securing internal & external doors, Fitting grab rails and stair rails, Fitting key safes, Draught proofing, Installing/fitting batteries in smoke alarms, Changing light bulbs, replacing plugs, Bleeding radiators, Re-pressuring boilers, Fixing trip hazards (e.g loose tiles, carpets etc), Minor guttering repairs/clearance, Minor plumbing repairs – tap washers, replacing taps, leaky pipes, Improving security by fitting window locks, spyholes, door chain.
HP+ now offers some garden work to improve safety and security and is offered on a one-off basis only – we do not provide a regular garden maintenance service. Please telephone for further information.
The service does not provide the following:
Major electrical, Gas / Boiler, Major plumbing, Window/door installation