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Dear Deborah,
I am going on a cruise, and I'm wondering what shoes to pack? On board, there will be formal nights, and casual nights and I will need shoes for the land excursions. I don't want to pack too many shoes, but I do want to make sure I have the right shoes for my outfits and the different activities. Can you help me figure out how many and what kind of shoes to bring? Thanks, Sandra
Hi Sandra,
It's easy to feel overwhelmed when it comes to packing for a cruise, and space is limited, but don't worry because it is really quite simple. Here's a look at the four shoes you will need in your suitcase.
1. Comfortable Walking Shoes
Whether you are getting some morning exercise motoring around the ship or pounding the pavement in an ancient city, you will need some very comfy walking shoe. There's no need to limit yourself to a clunky sneaker when there are so many sleek and foot friendly walking shoes out there. Some of the most popular types in the last few years have been a slip on sneaker flat or the poplar, Mary Jane. Classic rubber shoes or canvas slip on are popular too.
Another option if you prefer a slightly dressier walking shoe is a cushioned ballet flat. These look great with sundresses and skinny cropped pants and capris. Check out this post on the best walking shoes to get a complete look at what is available.
Whatever you choose to keep in mind that ship decks can be wet and slippery, so your best is a shoe that has a rubber sole and is low heeled or flat for extra traction.
2. Slip -on or Easy Wear Flat Sandals
There's a lot of walking on cruise ships from the room to the pool, the pool to the dining room and everywhere in between. You are going to be traipsing through a lot of long hallways to get to where you want to go so even if you are just running out for a moment you need a pair of comfortable walking sandals you can just slip on and go. Some kind of flip-flop, sporty slide or pretty no fuss sandal is perfect for this and does double duty around the slippery pool decks. Sporty slides are very popular , but if you prefer something a bit more elegant a gladiator style is a cute option. Just buckle and go.
3. A Wedge or a Low Block Heel Sandal
There are many times on board when you will wear a sundress or a maxi like this blue pleated maxi, and you need a little height, but you don't want a high heel, so I suggest a low, chunky block heel shoe or a wedge. Low in your books could be anywhere from an inch to 2.5 inches. It just depends on what you are used to. These types of shoes also look great with wide leg palazzo pants and cropped skinny pants and even shorts too.
4. Sexy, Strappy Shoe
The other kind of shoe you some of you may want to tuck in your suitcase is a sexy high sandal. For some gals, a 2″ heel is plenty. For others, 4 inches feel right. It doesn't really matter so long as the shoe looks slim and sexy. A strappy high heel sandal is best for a balmy cruise.
A sexy high heel is perfect for the formal ship dinners when you want to get all glammed up, or you want to add some sexiness to a more casual look. If you are confused about which color to take, choose a neutral color like black, nude or a metallic because it works with everything.
So there you go! You've got your footwear covered. Now, what outfits do you pack for a cruise? I have some cruise fashion ideas for you.
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Asakusa Hanayashiki, which opened in 1853, is the oldest amusement park in Japan. One roller coaster in Hanayashiki dates back to 1953 and is the oldest extant scream machine in the country. With a large variety of attractions, such as those that even newborns can ride or spine-tingling haunted houses, this is an amusement park that you can enjoy with your kids. Put yourself in a festive mood for the ennichi, or traditional Japanese fair stalls, in the game zone. Another popular attraction is the Ninja Training Dojo, where anyone 5-years old and older can learn the requisite skills to become a ninja (reservations required). Hanayashiki even has an area on its rooftop with views of the main hall and five-storied pagoda of Senso-ji Temple, Tokyo Skytree(R) and other sights, making it a wonderful place to enjoy Asakusa sightseeing. The park is a three-minute walk away from Asakusa Station on the Tsukuba Express Line, and a five-minute walk from Asakusa Station on the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line, Toei Asakusa Line, and Tobu Skytree Line.
Location Information
- Address
2-28-1, Asakusa, Taitou-ku, Tokyo, 111-0032
- Nearest Station
Asakusa Station
・ Tokyo Metro Ginza Line
・ Toei Asakusa Line
・ Tobu Isesaki Line (Tobu Sky Tree Line)
・ Tsukuba Express
3 minutes on foot
- Phone Number
- 03-3842-8780
Our staff may only be able to communicate in Japanese.
- Hours
10:00am - 6:00pm
Last admission 30 minutes before closing; open hours vary depending on seasons and weather
- Closed
- Irregular holidays
Closed: on maintenance days in February, June, and December. Please contact the park for further information.

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Trash Dash
Serious Game About Effective Waste Management
Project Dates: 2013
Personal Project, School of Visual Arts Masters in Design for Social Innovation Program
My Roles: Designer
Every year, in the United States alone, more than 230 million tons of waste ends up in landfills.
By some estimates, more than 70% of this waste could be reused or recycled. Helping players to understand the overall impact of our consumer culture — that trash doesn't simply disappear once it leaves our hands — may be a first step in helping to reduce our culture of disposability. We hope that in making trash disposal into a fun game, we could ultimately contribute to positive real-world impacts on environmental, economic and public health problems.
Trash Dash is a fast paced game intended to educate and inspire behavior change around waste management.
Players race to put more trash into their own appropriate recycling bins than their opponents, while minimizing the amount of trash left in their "landfill" at the end of the game. "One Person's Trash Is Another's Treasure" cards give players a bonus while reinforcing the idea that much of what we think of as useless in our own lives still holds great potential utility for others.


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Compassion for LGBTQ+ Students
- Category: Folk Fest News
Time: 4:00 - 4:30 pm
Location: Lower shelter house
Your children will experience a live violin concert by children! Kids will be introduced to the regional music education group Strings, an organization dedicated to professional personalized violin instruction. They will also have the opportunity to hold and handle musical instruments.
Strings, Inc., is a non-profit arts organization dedicated to providing professional personalized violin instruction according to the Suzuki method for students in south-central Indiana. Although located primarily in the Jasper-Ferdinand area, during its history Strings, Inc., has served students from Dubois, Spencer, Orange, Pike, Daviess, Gibson, Martin and Crawford counties. The organization was formed in part because local school districts in these counties do not offer stringed instrument instruction in their schools.
The Suzuki method of music education was developed in Japan by Dr. Shinichi Suzuki (1898-1998) in 1945 and was introduced to the United States in the 1960s. The Suzuki method is based on the mother tongue approach to learning. Just as all children learn to speak their native language through a natural process of listening to, imitating, and repeating what they hear, so can children first learn to play the violin and subsequently learn how to read notes. Dr. Suzuki's philosophy is designed to develop concentration, awareness, and attention in student's growing appreciation for the art of music. The Suzuki method is recognized and used worldwide as a great tool for the training of the arts. Unlike larger city schools that offer an orchestra program, local school districts do not provide stringed instrument education.
Strings, Inc., is the only organized string music education program in the Dubois, Spencer, Pike and Martin County area. For more info, visit https://www.facebook.com/Strings-Inc-503194133092974/ and https://stringsinc.wordpress.com/.


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How To Design A Steel Truss With Stadd.Pro Software
This construction video is based on how to create the design of a steel truss with the use of Stadd.pro software.
Stadd.pro is a useful construction program for creating the design of all sorts of structures as well as distributing any coordinated model data amid your whole design team. With this useful construction software, different types of steel, concrete, timber, aluminum, and cold-formed steel projects can be completed in scheduled time and budget. Any structure can be designed by applying 80 international codes.


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Mobile Marketing: Drive for the Distracted
Mobile is fast becoming the dominant way for people to digest digital information, but the medium presents hurdles for pharma. Ritesh Patel and Ben Currie offer marketers tips for benefiting from a multi-screen world
By Ritesh Patel, global head of inVentiv Digital + Innovation, the digital consultancy of inVentiv Health
A recent survey by Nielsen found that up to 70% of Americans now own a mobile device and that most of those mobile devices are smartphones. Healthcare marketers should take note because behavioral trends like these suggest new ways for us to interact with people and share timely and relevant information with them.
The Nielsen study illustrates a tipping point in the US as well as underscoring an enormous opportunity for the healthcare industry to reach customers in targeted and meaningful ways. The technology is advanced and ubiquitous, and it allows us to engage in places and at points we could never have imagined only a few years ago.
Consumer goods and automobile companies use mobile platforms today to interact with customers, offer purchase incentives or invite them to try out new products. BMW, Audi and Lexus all use the mobile platform to engage with potential buyers and arrange a test drive.
Retail outlets use near-field communication (NFC) and iBeacons to notify customers on their mobile devices about sales and special promotions when they are in the vicinity of the store. Companies like Unilever and Proctor & Gamble are constantly tinkering with mobile ad formats to reach their customers.
But the pharmaceutical industry lags behind. Few pharma marketers focus on the mobile environment beyond a couple of apps or the e-detail for sales representatives, despite the fact that mobile devices are the primary means of communication for most people.
A recent study by inVentiv Health's Digital + Innovation group found that of the 20 brand.com websites surveyed, only four were even accessible on a mobile device. This must change, as more and more customers are turning to these sites for information, but they're no longer sitting at their computers when they do so.
So while 85% of traffic is mobile, our industry is delivering the experience of looking up desktop information on a less-than 1080-pixel display. The marketing message is being lost. It is important to think through our campaigns in a coordinated and holistic way in place of the specific device- or product-oriented tactics that we have been using.
To get the most benefit from the new multi-screen environment, marketers need to carefully consider their audiences and how they interact with all their devices. I call it "creating content for distracted use," because in this multi-screen environment, the common experience is one of distraction.
People use smartphones while they watch TV, or check email and access the internet on a tablet while they wait for an appointment or for a train. It is critical to ensure consistency of brand and message along these distraction points.
The other two factors to consider are relevance and timeliness. Studies are available to help marketers understand the rate and frequency of individuals' interactions with their mobile devices at different times of the day. They follow a familiar cycle of content consumption.
People primarily watch television and read newspapers from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. and then again from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Desktop PC use is high throughout the work day and then again between 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. Smartphone use spikes from 6 a.m. to 7 a.m., 9 a.m. to 10 a.m., and 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. It spikes even more with peak use from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Tablet use follows a fairly similar cycle, with peak use from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Content consumption by healthcare providers, patients and caregivers follows a similar pattern.
What to build: app vs. responsive site
The rapid evolution of the web offers us opportunities and challenges. In the past, we worried only about what appeared on the landing page of a website, but with mobile sites, we have to decide whether to build an app or a responsive site.
In most cases, a responsive site allows the majority of customers to access information about a brand.
Apps are better as single-purpose tools. There is a different app for posting to Facebook, Foursquare or Twitter, for example. Brand sites are usually multifaceted, offering a wealth of information in different ways.
The decision is simple. Build an app when you want to do one thing and do it extremely well (blood glucose meter, information about a clinical trial). But when you are aiming for a comprehensive web presence (brand.com), it is much more effective to use responsive design principles.
Knowing when people are using specific devices allows us to more accurately render our brand or content in a way that is most relevant to the audience. For example, we could air a TV commercial during prime time to raise awareness about a drug and provide information on a responsive website that can be viewed on a cell phone, or run a banner ad with a similar video and a call-to-action with a coupon for tablets. In this way, the person viewing the TV ad can continue to consume information on a nearby mobile device and engage with a brand a second time for reinforcement.
Healthcare professionals can visit a brand.com site on a desktop computer at home before heading to their practice, continue looking at content on their smartphone or tablet during the day, and resume use of the desktop when they return home in the evening. The content and brand experience should be familiar and consistent across platforms.
It should be seamless from one screen to another. We typically see bounce rates (people leaving a site after opening the home page) of about 90% on websites that are not responsive or enabled for mobile devices.
The primary aim of creating multi-screen campaigns is having the ability to create truly engaging content for various mobile devices. With the advent of advertising units in the HTML5 format, brands can create relevant and compliant content, using video and imagery that is immersive, educational and engaging.
Employing sophisticated tactics to attract mobile users, we have seen click-through rates of up to 20% for some ad units on mobile devices. Compare that with the measly 0.003% on the web alone.
Developing cross-screen advertising is not as simple as just adding a few mobile placements to your ad buy. Multiple operating systems, device sizes and new protocols are emerging, and marketers may need help navigating the path to multi-screen success. Fortunately, a number of technology vendors have developed the capability to create branded pharma ad units for the mobile platform.
Here is an example of an ad that was created for Cimzia, UCB's brand, specifically for the iPhone and iPad platforms. The ad is contextually delivered in the health and wellness section of Time.com.
When a patient or health care professional clicks on the advertising unit, it expands just like a rich media unit on the web, including a video and also a scrolling ISI (important safety information).
The experience is the same on the iPhone and the iPad. The extended real estate on the iPad screen allows for the ISI to be displayed on the side of the banner advertising unit, within the advertisement. But, the engagement on the iPad is the same as it is on the iPhone.
Multi-screen marketing can make a huge impact on the pharmaceutical industry if it is done right. Every mobile platform has its own set of rules, but all can be part of an effective marketing initiative. When you define the goals of a campaign, you also should determine how every available digital platform plays a role and fits into the bigger strategic picture.
In summary, as you look at marketing in the multi-screen environment, think about consistency of brand, content and message, design for distracted use, and above all think holistically about a coordinated campaign. The days of siloed media are over. Ubiquitous mobile media is the path to engagement for your brand.
By Ben Currie, group director, digital solutions, GA Communications Group
There are several reasons why mobile optimization can be a tricky proposition for pharma. One of the most common concerns for review teams is the treatment of important safety information (ISI). The industry has had almost two decades to develop acceptable treatment of the ISI on landscape-oriented computer screens that are 800 pixels wide and larger.
But the industry has had less time to develop creative solutions that work with the portrait orientation and smaller screen sizes of tablets, phones and phablets. The smaller screen sizes provide scarce real estate, making it more difficult to display anything more than a logo and ISI on a page.
Once that the decision has been made to create unique sites for unique device types, more control can be gained by creating more separation between the design and layout treatments of the mobile and desktop versions of the site. However, the benefit of greater control is gained at the cost of an expansion of scope from several teams.
One often overlooked component of this increase in scope is the required ongoing efforts from both the agency and medical-legal-regulatory (MLR) teams to coordinate updates to the separate sites to ensure that the content of the two remains consistent through their lifecycle.
Quality assurance for any website includes extensive cross-browser testing in which every page and every interaction of the site is reviewed in each of the major web browsers. But when adding mobile into the equation, the planning, requirements-gathering and testing all increase in complexity.
UX designers must take into consideration the wide variety of browsers and screen sizes, as well as the native features of the mainstream devices and operating systems, and find solutions that not only display content as consistently as possible throughout many different viewing experiences, but also collaborate with MLR teams on the potential variations and then design a satisfactory review process.
In the past few years, the web-development disciplines have reacted to the explosion of mobile devices by crafting a methodology called responsive web design (RWD), in which the layout of web content is dynamically adjusted in order to deliver a device-optimized viewing experience.
Unfortunately, RWD inherently introduces content variations that can make MLR teams uneasy, resulting in the need to review every possible version of a given communication. This can burden reviewers with sometimes up to five variations of a single website that all need to be reviewed.
We came up with a process called the "content integrity approach," in which RWD is the foundation and we layer on top of that web-design guru Trent Walton's concept of "content choreography." We add our own framework over the two to specifically address the needs and demands of healthcare communications.
The premise is to lock down the content in such a way that its message and hierarchical placement remains the same regardless of the viewing device. So in an RWD layout, when three columns of content are reduced to a two-column layout on a smaller screen, the intended hierarchy of the content is not altered.
This goal is accomplished by documenting the hierarchy decisions that essentially "choreograph" the content's behavior across various devices. For example, if the hierarchy document dictates that the call-to-action must always be visible without scrolling, then we design and program our communication to ensure that this is true on all devices.
The images nearby provide concrete examples of content integrity principles at work in our designs. As demonstrated here, the approach attributes significant importance to legal concerns. We define strict rules for relationships between content elements in order to maintain the content's integrity—including its compliance with MLR requirements—no matter what device is being used to access the information.
By pushing compliance to the forefront and following a strict content hierarchy, clients' MLR teams can remain confident that the content they reviewed and approved is not undermined by a user's choice of internet browser or mobile device.
As we have seen, optimizing digital communications for mobile devices means that content will display differently on different devices. Pharma companies must invest heavily in reviewing and approving their digital communications, but they are unlikely to mitigate risks with the existing layout-centric review model.
Due to the ever-increasing variety of mobile devices on the market, as well as the unpredictability of user behavior, it is extremely taxing and expensive to review every iteration of mobile-optimized digital communications. Therefore, instead of focusing on the layout, the focus must shift to the hierarchy of content elements and the rules governing their placement, with MLR considerations at the forefront of decision-making.
To sum up, the content integrity approach entails three basic steps:
1 Define the hierarchy. Craft, review and approve a content hierarchy document that defines the relative importance of content elements, as well as the rules governing their placement and/or accessibility.
2 Review one detailed prototype and supplement it with wireframes for more layout possibilities. Proceed through architecture, design and copy development to produce one detailed content deliverable that can be reviewed page by page for legal compliance. Supplement it with samples of additional layout possibilities showing how the content will respond while still adhering to the content hierarchy.
3 Review the developed piece in its true form, before it is deployed. Identify common-use cases, and check those iterations for compliance by engaging in those use cases. Review the developed communication in the way users would experience it: on screen, not paper.
Following this methodology allows an agency to be efficient with clients' time and money while still achieving legal compliance. The content integrity approach means that there is only one story that must be written, reviewed, approved, published and maintained. Though this story will adapt to different devices, we can remain confident that its message, intent and tone is never compromised, and the relative prominence of information is never violated.
Despite these benefits, it is true that the content integrity approach involves a greater project scope than if no mobile optimization efforts were pursued at all. However, choosing not to optimize for mobile can pose significant compliance risks (such as a lack of visibility for ISI on small devices), and therefore the scope increase is worthwhile.
We also recognize that our approach involves the deliverable of a content hierarchy document—not something that other methodologies need to address. While this new deliverable involves more investment early on, it ultimately saves time and money by eliminating the need to review a full set of screenshots for a multitude of layouts.
Also, as mentioned above, it is impossible in the layout-centric review model to ensure that the layouts selected for review are the only layouts. As a result, there is more risk incurred by designing, developing, and reviewing layouts than there is with an approach that defines rules for content hierarchy and then develops the communication to meet those rules.
The content integrity approach to digital communication reduces confusion for users by making the content order logical and legible independent of the device used for viewing. Content integrity helps achieve mobile optimization for digital communications while remaining on time and on budget with a streamlined MLR review process. As a content-centric methodology (rather than a layout-centric methodology), content integrity is also a scalable solution for the future, which will inevitably include new mobile devices with varying screen states and sizes.
This year, we expect that most of our brands will launch mobile versions of their online assets. Our initial success with content integrity increases our confidence that this new approach fits within the constraints of our regulated industry while simultaneously providing a cost-effective solution to keep our users, clients, and MLR teams happy.


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1 I wandered just at even,
Beside the sounding sea;
The whispering winds of Heaven
Their story told to me;
The east wind said, I'm hasting
From tropic Ganges' wave;
Where children they were casting
Within a watery grave.
A soft wind whispered,
Who will send or go,
To teach the heathen
Jesus' love to know?
2 The north wind told its story,
With one swift angry blast,
Of Indian offerings gory,
It saw, in rushing past;
Where far off northern nations
In forests dark and deep,
With fearful incantations
Their heathen vigils keep. [Refrain]
3 The south wind said, I'm telling
Of polar southern night;
When angry surges swelling,
The darkened souls afright;
I saw no offering burning;
No incense filled the air;
No souls to God were turning;
No gods they worship there! [Refrain]
4 The evening winds passed o'er me,
The angry northern blast,
Across the sea before me,
Went hasting, far and fast;
The zephyrs ceased their wailing,
And in my heart, I heard,
This promise, never failing,
The earth shall know the Lord! [Refrain]
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CEMS Club Copenhagen is the student organisation for the CEMS programme at CBS. Our primary objective is to ensure that the CEMS students at CBS are presented with the best possible CEMS year academically and socially, in close interaction with the other stakeholders of CEMS.
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Today is the start of another challenge at Polkadoodles - all the challenges are now Anything Goes, although the DT are challenged with Shop till you Drop this week - you can play along if you like.
I decided to do another shaped card, but before I get on with that I would like to share with you that Nikky has another 2 fabulous collections being released soon. Both the Doolie Daydream - Girl Talk CD and the newest Dollie Daydream - Goes East (if you like Oriental, this collection is awesome and I can't wait to share it with you) are currently available for pre-order.


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Our Thing: An Organized Crime Podcast
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If there is one drug cartel more violent and depraved than all others in Mexico right now, it is Los Zetas: a gang made up of former Mexican Special Forces operatives who turned to the drug trade to make a better income, and then took control from the cartel that employed them. Los Zetas have brought military efficiency and absolute ruthlessness to the war between the cartels and against the Mexican government. They recruit young teenagers like Rosalio Reta to become killers for them. They murder women and children and massacre people they later bury in mass graves. They burn people alive in oil drums. They have no morals and no qualms as long as they get what they want. Los Zetas are the new normal in a drug war that has escalated out of control. Thanks to bensound for our theme, sci-fi, and the Narcocorrido linked to below as supplemental music. Insightcrime Zetas profile Los Zetas After Lazcano: Branded Barbarism Read more »


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There are many ways to bring in income on a domain name, even though it may not be substantial at first to do this full time. Beware of get rich quick schemes, where what seems too good to be true
Name.com Review
If your company is in need of a domain name to get on the web you should call name.com or go online to visit them today. My company's website is hosted through name.com and in the five years we have been
How to Pick the Perfect Domain Name
What is a Domain Name? Domain names were designed to give a "humanly memorable name" to computers, networks and services according to Wikipedia.org. They are used as host identifiers which in turn appear in URLs (uniform resource locators). They also
The First Ever Website Is Back
In celebration of the 20 year anniversary of the World Wide Web, the first ever website is resurrected to it's original URL. CERN, the organization and initiative which made the world wide web technology available in April 30, 1993 to
ICANN Announces Trademark Clearinghouse
ICANN announced that it will be launching the Trademark Clearinghouse, a global repository of trademark data. ICANN says it the clearinghouse is the first of its kind in the domain name sector. Once the clearinghouse is launched on March 26,
Ron Paul vs. Ronpaul.com
Former Rep. Ron Paul, a strident libertarian with a large fan following, is embroiled in a domain ownership controversy with owners of ronpaul.com. The site was launched back in May 2008 and has since become a resource and online community
When is Webfest Global?
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News Release
A Cappella Choir to perform
for Warsaw's Rodeheaver Series
The Rodeheaver Series for the Performing Arts will present the A
Cappella Choir of Manchester College in concert at the First United
Methodist Church of Warsaw at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 25.
The concert is free. The church is in downtown Warsaw, at 179 South
Indiana St.
The A Cappella Choir is an auditioned ensemble of more than 50 students
of a variety of majors, including music, peace studies, education, the
sciences, accounting, athletic training, history, religion and
Under the baton of Dr. Debra Lynn, associate professor of music, the
repertoire of accompanied and unaccompanied choral literature spans all
style periods, including Gregorian chant, opera choruses and folk song
The choir and choir alumni will perform in residence at Carnegie Hall
this May – an encore of their spring 2001 visit to the acclaimed New
York City concert venue. The A Cappella Choir also has toured Italy,
performing at the Vatican, St. Mark's Basilica and St. Francis of
The Rodeheaver Series for the Performing Arts was established in 1990 to
support and foster performing arts and artists in a manner that brings
glory to God. The Series has sponsored more than 55 concerts, recitals
and theatrical presentations.
For further details about this concert, contact First United Methodist
Church of Warsaw, 574-267-6933 or email@example.com.
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Think Progress - Some 100 national companies have signed onto a letter first distributed earlier this week decrying the [North Carolina anti-LGBT] law. They join the several businesses that had already spoken out against it in the days immediately after it passed. Wells Fargo added to the symbolic stand by lighting the 48-story Duke Energy Center in pink, white, and blue to celebrate International Day of Transgender Visibility.
Likewise, several cities and states and have banned all government-funded travel to the state of North Carolina. District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) added D.C. to a growing list, which includes San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, and Portland, as well as the states of New York, Vermont, Connecticut, and Washington.
These largely symbolic actions are increasingly being buttressed by measurable economic consequences. Braeburn Pharmaceuticals was planning to build a $20 million manufacturing and research facility in Durham County, but it announced this week that it is "reevaluating our options based on the recent, unjust legislation."
Lionsgate Entertainment said that it would continue production of its made-for-TV Dirty Dancing remake in North Carolina, but would reconsider filming future projects in the state. "We will be hard pressed to continue our relationship with North Carolina if this regressive law remains on the books," the company said in a statement. Already, it abandoned lining up rentals and hiring for a comedy pilot, choosing instead to shoot it in Canada.
Theatre composer Stephen Schwartz is also encouraging members of the theatre community to boycott the state because of its "reprehensible and discriminatory law." He announced this week that he and his collaborators "are acting to deny the right to any theatre or organization based in North Carolina to produce any of our shows. We have informed our licensing organizations and touring producers of this, and I'm happy to say have met with compliance and approval from them." This means that no theatre in North Carolina will be able to legally produce Wicked, Pippin, Godspell, or Children of Eden so long as the law is on the books.


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Jive catches the Wave to new horizons
At the start of this week Jive, one of the dominant enterprise social vendors, agreed to a buyout. While analysts had been predicting an acquisition as the most likely future direction for Jive for some time, the buyer and the timing caught many by surprise.
So what does this mean for Jive, and for the wider ESN market? We take a closer look at the buyout.
The sale
Timing is everything in tech; Jive was once valued at $27.16 a share (a market cap of $2bn+), and rival Yammer was bought by Microsoft for $1.2bn in 2012.
Since then Jive's stock – literally, and metaphorically – has been on the slide. Sales for the last nine quarters have been largely stagnant. More positively, it did return its first profits in Feb 2017 of $915,000 on sales of $51.7m (a margin of 1.75%); however, consensus is the profit is as a result of laying off 14% of workforce.
While the enterprise is suddenly sexy – ESN unicorn Slack is valued at over $3bn, and Facebook's now vying for a share of the market – Jive's being purchased for $462m. At $5.25 a share, that's a 20% uplift on their current share price (but not great news for anyone who snapped up stock in the glory days). Agreeing a buyout at this stage, after three years of declining stock price, suggests a degree of boardroom panic and an expectation this might be 'now or never'.
The buyer
You may not have heard of Aurea, the family of customer-centric software offerings owned by private equity firm ESW Capital, LLC, through its affiliate Wave Systems. Don't worry – neither had we. Aurea's website blurb says they create transformative experiences for their end customers, through provision of a suite of email, monitoring tools, CRM, retail and workflow tools. They are firmly aiming at the external-facing part of B2B.
Jive is a fascinating purchase given that context. With their employee-centric, ESN focus, it's clearly a new software offering in a new sector for Aurea but to what end? Where are the synergies? Maybe we'll see the Jive code copied into the Aurea retail and CRM systems; maybe the customer success teams exchange notes for cross-selling opportunities.
In an internal blog to employees, Jive CEO Eliza Steele offered the first clues on why this deal made sense for both boards. "Aurea's interest in Jive is both strategic and operational. First, Aurea knows that it takes truly engaged employees to deliver superior and differentiated customer experiences—and they see Jive as a platform for the kind of employee engagement that ultimately delivers superior customer experiences. In other words, with the Jive acquisition, Aurea is making employee engagement a key pillar of their customer experience vision." The two companies are aligned via their "commitment to customer success"
In short, employee engagement leads to great customer experiences. That will be the $462m challenge.
The timing
What did take many by surprise was the timing, announced at the start of their annual JiveWorld customer conference this week. At the Las Vegas event they announced some exciting new changes, in particular the launch of a 'universal identity' for users to work across internal and external communities. It's shifting its cloud solution to AWS and adding AI and machine learning capabilities.
Changes to Jive's metadata will power an 'entitlements-based universal search' so users can get access to information and collaborate on content without leaving Jive's user experience. Their roadmap focuses on simplifying and streamlining the experience, minimising the tool overload that results in confusion and lost productivity.
Jive's top brass sought to reassure customers that despite the announcement the core product will continue to evolve and innovate to meet their needs.
The business
Those who've bought Jive for its employee engagement and collaboration capability may find the product becomes the odd man out in the Aurea stable. That Jive-n (the employee engagement product) could be hollowed out and replaced has to be unsettling for anyone who has built their internal community and collaboration strategy around the existing platform.
For existing Jive customers then, we're in a period of some uncertainty as the newly merged business figures out its new direction. Uncertainty is not something customers will welcome – they'll want stability and to know that their choice of partner is here for the long term, so we predict that some will get cold feet and look elsewhere.
If you're mid-cycle with Jive, that may mean accelerating the renewal process; if you're end-of-life, you're less likely to renew; new customers could hold off to see what happens. None of these scenarios play out well for Jive. We've spoken to senior people at other vendors who see the Jive purchase as a huge market opportunity for them.
The market
We've long predicted the arrival of Facebook – with its mature product and deep pockets – was always going to create some casualties in the ESN market. (Of course, time will tell if Jive is one). If you're considering your first ESN, Jive isn't sufficiently better or more powerful than Facebook to justify the additional cost. If your primary competitors are ostensibly free, you're already up against it.
So where does this leave ESNs? Two of the largest players in the market, Jive and Yammer, are both in a period of transition with their respective owners. Why is this and why now? Is this a reflection of board-level nervousness — both at client and vendor — with this form of social technology? Intrinsically, everyone knows they add value, but *what* value? That inherent struggle to identify ROI makes this software vulnerable in cost-cutting and efficiency reviews. We think businesses on both sides of the relationship are concerned about how these tools fit into the enterprise and what return they bring. Collaborative islands are all well and good but how they bridge into the rest of the business, and how that adds value, is the ultimate wish.
The timing, the partner and the price makes this a surprise deal. While many were predicting that the Jive board would cash in, no one mentioned Aurea.
Jive started out as a tool to help businesses work with other businesses – true B2B collaboration, focused on customer experience. It quickly evolved — strategically or tactically, you choose — into the enterprise world and that's really what the tool is now known for. What is unclear to us is how this now positions Jive: will it augment Aurea's existing customer-orientated tool suite, particularly CRM, or will it continue with its employee-focused roadmap? If we were Jive customers, we'd want that clarity. This uncertainty will not help Jive's customer retention and acquisition plans in the near future. The roadmap ahead will be interesting to watch.
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Mike Klein
Very interesting piece. And the state of affairs in the ESN market is a far cry from where pioneer advocates thought it would go when we were trying to sell our companies on Jive and other promising tools. Could the old comment about Brazil be rightly adapted: "ESNs are the technology of the future…and always will be."


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February 13, 2014 16:14 ET
EDMONTON, ALBERTA--(Marketwired - Feb. 13, 2014) - The Western Convenience Stores Association (WCSA) is urging the Redford Government to maintain current tobacco tax rates after yesterday's increase in the federal excise tax on tobacco products.
"Increased taxes on tobacco products punishes small businesses and does nothing to address the issue of contraband tobacco," said Andrew Klukas, CEO of the Western Convenience Stores Association. "A further tobacco tax increase by the Alberta government would further incentivize traffickers and organized crime."
Contraband tobacco is sold without mandated health warnings on packages and without age-verification checks. Increased taxes and regulations drive the tobacco market underground, meaning these products are both more affordable and accessible to youth.
"Illicit tobacco is a public safety issue, plain and simple," stated Klukas.
Alberta communities are vulnerable to the illegal tobacco trade, and the recent federal budget had no additional contraband enforcement measures for Western Canada, leaving the provinces to fend for themselves.
Given the proposed province-wide flavour ban on all tobacco products, there is already concern amongst retailers about future increases in the underground market.
Alberta's convenience store retailers are urging the province not to follow suit with the federal government by hiking provincial taxes on tobacco products. Instead, the WCSA is asking the Alberta government to step up the fight to stop illegal tobacco sales. The Association is also asking the province to consult further with retailers on this public safety issue, and to work with all levels of government to address Canada's illegal tobacco problem.
"We want to work with the Alberta government to address youth access to tobacco and the illegal tobacco market. Raising taxes is not the way to do this," emphasized Klukas. "Tax increases may appear to be a short-term gain for governments, but the consequences faced by provincial law enforcement, communities and our small businesses that accompany these increases are felt for much longer."
The WCSA is a not-for-profit trade association that represents the interests of over 6,500 convenience store retailers operating throughout Western Canada. These retailers employ more than 40,000 people and contribute over $10 billion in sales to the local economy. Our mission is to foster the success of the convenience store industry in Western Canada by representing the best interests of our members, and the communities they serve.
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Super Bowl LI is this upcoming Sunday and I think the New England Patriots are going to win it. However I hate the Patriots so I'm hoping the Atlanta Falcons upset them and pull out a victory.
Who do you think will win?
I'm not a sports fan so I won't be watching it.ReplyDelete
I hope all who go and watch, or those who watch from TV's at home, enjoy the match ...
All the best Jan
I'm really hoping for the Falcons but I'm sure the Patriots will win.ReplyDelete
The Patriots will probably win, but I'll be rooting for the Falcons.ReplyDelete
is it that time of year again already?ReplyDelete
I'm cheering for Atlanta! I hope that no one get injured!ReplyDelete
I have no idea, I don't follow football and didn't even know who was playing!ReplyDelete


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The Morgan Plus 8 is a vehicle built by the British manufacturer, Morgan. It was offered between 1968 and 2004.This model was loosely based on the chassis design of the Morgan Plus 4, but it was extended by 2 inches in the wheelbase. The larger and more important change though was the engine, which was a Rover V8 unit. At first this engine had a capacity of 3528 cc, and was joined to a 4 speed gearbox. The Morgan Motor Company is a British automobile manufacturer that was founded in 1910 by H.F.S. Morgan and was operated by Peter Morgan, who was the son of H.F.S, the founder. This was the case until his death in 2003. The earliest models were two seat three-wheelers, so not really what we think of as cars. They were better described as cycle cars. These were designed to avoid a British tax on cars because they were classified as motorcycles instead. The Austin 7, though, had a comparable price and better comfort, thus making cycle cars much less attractive. Morgan's first four-wheeler was the 4/4, which stood for four-cylinder engine and four wheels. On the Plus 8, in 1972 the original gearbox was replaced by one from the Rover 3500 and then by the five speed unit from the Rover SD1 in 1976. Despite their traditional design, the Morgans have modern sports car performance, due to their very low weight. For example, the Morgan Plus 8, which for used the 3.5L (215ci) aluminum V8. Most impressively, it could accelerate from 0-60 mph in 5.6 seconds. Enthusiasts did work on the engine and exhaust to improve this figure even more. For a few brief years in the 1980s, the Plus 8s were imported into the United States after being converted to run on propane, which allowed them to pass the U.S. emissions regulations.<< Back to Vehicle Index
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POSTAL Redux
The classic dark and surreal twin-stick isometric shooter returns with a vengeance!
POSTAL Redux is a high definition remake of The Postal Dude's infamous first foray into the world. Prepare to experience his psychological journey with faithfully recreated high resolution visuals, remastered music, sounds, and dialog, and revamped and modernized gameplay. Crazed gunmen out for your blood await you around every corner. The only choice is clear: Get them before they get you. Fight back with a devastating arsenal as you make your way through a violence-stricken town.
It's time to relive the madness of GOING POSTAL!
Running With Scissors announces plans to create a modern remake of the original POSTAL. Fans are invited to submit ideas and suggestions for what they'd like to see done, with the remake.
Full development of the remake is on-hold, as RWS focuses on their development of a new expansion for POSTAL 2.
After the release of POSTAL 2: Paradise Lost, focus shifts towards POSTAL Redux and full development is underway.
POSTAL Redux is released on Steam, for Windows, on May 20.
Version 2.0 is released on August 24, adding online co-op multiplayer, among other updates.
Version 3.0 is released on September 30, bringing a new batch of levels, and multiplayer character selection, including a character who is Not Important…
Version 4.0 is released on January 1, improving the loading times and adding deathmatch multiplayer for up to 8 players.
POSTAL Redux Credits
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Game Design
Bob Richardson
Jon Merchant
Lead Game Design
Rikki D'Angelo
Lead Programmer
Rick Foltz
Lead Level Design
Bob Richardson
Level Design
Francisco Garcia
Jon Merchant
Michele Bellone
Lead Artist
Andrew Faecke
2D Artist
Tomoko Hosoo
Sound Designer
Kurt Willoughby
Lead QA
Marcin Trybus
Jon Merchant
Business & Marketing
Mike Jaret
Executive Producer
Vince Desi
Contributing Programmer
Frédéric Desbiens
Contributing Animation Artist
Erik Rossik
Music Production
Takumi Sloan
Tom Wiseman
Contributing 3D Artists
Claudio Fabrizzio Trucido Yoncee
Tom Wiseman
Contributing 2D Artists
Tymoteusz Kowalski
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Voice Acting Engineer
Fernando Rivas @ OG7 Studios
Voice Acting Producer
Mike Jaret
Voice Acting
Rick Hunter
Corey Cruise
Alex Sternheim
Andrew Tishkevich
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Ashley Maina
Cesar Guzman
Dalice Shepard
Dirk Nelson
Eric Varela
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In the 1960s a number of sociologists (including Talcott Parsons, Edward Shils, and Robert Bellah) distinguished civil religion from institutional (church-based) religion, arguing that societies such as modern America were attaching sacred qualities to certain of their institutional arrangements and historical events. Thus, in the case of the United States, the extensive immigration from Europe was analogous to the Jewish Exodus, and the Civil War a rebirth through bloodshed and an expiation of old sins. The theme of American civil religion was therefore one of Americans as the new Chosen People (see, for example, Bellah's 'Civil Religion in America', in W. G. McLoughlin and R. N. Bellah (eds.), Religion in America, 1968). Similarly, in a famous (and much criticized) article on the monarchy in Britain, Edward Shils and Michael Young identified what they argued were religious aspects of the apparently secular rituals surrounding the coronation ('The Meaning of the Coronation', Sociological Review, 1953). The basic idea behind these and other variants of the 'civil religion thesis' is that in advanced industrial societies, which are increasingly secular in terms of institutional religions, civic religions (such as the celebration of the state or civil society) now serve the same functions of prescribing the overall values of society, providing social cohesion, and facilitating emotional expression. In other words, civil religions offer a 'functional equivalent' or 'functional alternative' to institutional religions, since they meet the same needs within the social system. Both arguments (about civil religion in particular and functional alternatives in general) were subject to the charges of evolutionism, teleology, tautology, and empirical untestability laid against normative functionalism as a whole. See also secularization.
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MTV Launches Multiplatform Campaign Against 'Modern-Day Slavery' (Exclusive Video)
The network announced its "mtvU Against Our Will Campaign" Thursday at the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting.
MTV and its college campus network, mtvU, announced Thursday at the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting that it will be launching a multiplatform campaign combating sex and labor abuses in the United States called the "mtvU Against Our Will Campaign."
"Young people on campuses around the country are rising up and taking action to help end modern day slavery," says MTV President Stephen Friedman. "As we've seen with the anti-apartheid movement and the genocide in Darfur, students are a powerful engine for social change, and mtvU is proud to give them a national megaphone to help abolish all forms of slavery in our country."
The initiative will use a multiplatform approach to help get its message across with an online site, mtvU on-air programs, on-air Public Service Announcements (PSAs), college campus programs, and student organizing.
The network partnered with and developed the program with Free the Slaves, Girls Educational and Mentoring Services (GEMS), and Polaris Project, which are organizations focused on stopping "modern-day slavery." The campaign will also help to highlight and expand the work of more than 300 existing student organizations from campuses across the nation.
"College students are the future of the abolitionist movement," says Free the Slaves College Chapter Coordinator Laura Murphy. "They will become the researchers, the legislators, the social workers, the lawyers, the teachers and nonprofit leaders who will ensure a future without slavery in the U.S. and abroad."
According to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center, incidences of human trafficking have been reported in all 50 states, which includes forced prostitution or working without pay. Free The Slaves reports that there are as many as 27 million sex and labor slaves worldwide.
For more information on the MtvU campaign visit the website, www.mtvU.AgainstOurWill.org.
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Sunday, January 11, 2009
Shouting Fire
Going to Sundance? Don't miss "Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech." Here is part of the description from the festival website:
"Liz Garbus's Shouting Fire, a riveting exploration of the current state of free speech in America, is crucially relevant.Interweaving historical cases—The New York Times's fight to publish the Pentagon Papers and the Nazis' insistence on marching in Skokie, among them—with contemporary free-speech infringements, the film documents the way both the Right and the Left have lashed out in fear. In the stories of a left-wing professor fired for provocative remarks about 9/11, an Arab American principal made to resign after discussing the word ""intifada,"" and Christian schoolkids suspended for wearing Bible-quoting T-shirts, there's an ironic pattern. When threatened by an outside enemy, perceived or real, we often demonize each other, undermining the very freedom we seek to protect. We think of First Amendment rights as inviolable; in fact, they're profoundly vulnerable. Mixing vibrant pacing with an elegant journalistic style, Garbus orchestrates this urgent matter like a rallying cry for action. As her father, legendary attorney Martin Garbus, wisely warns, if we don't fight for our freedoms every day, we will lose them."
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text: Much like fashion trends, the hair trends of 2013 have been strongly influenced by the styles on the runway. And in our numerous interviews with hair teams backstage at the shows, particular words have been bandied about again and again, a common thread of inspiration between shows in every city. One of those words was tomboy. Boyish, another. Stemming from 2012 and carrying into spring 2013's hairstyles, it's hard to ignore the amount of effortless, cool, boyish hairstyles dominating the runways and the streets. Tomboy hair: where it fits with fashion If you were to simplify it, there were two main ways that boyish hairstyles for girls were being interpreted by high fashion this year. One is by pairing boyish hair with androgynous fashion for a complete, or near to complete, masculine look. Androgynous look at Jeremy Laing, F/W '12 The other is to contrast highly feminine fashion with a contradictory hairstyle that's careless and tomboyish. Contrasting boyish and feminine at Karen Walker, F/W '12 Tomboy hair: the styles There are countless variations on hairstyles that give off a tomboy vibe. Below we're highlighting just a few as seen on the fall 2012 runways; styles that you can try at home (follow each link below for a how-to tutorial) or vary as you see fit to create new styles of your own. Some tomboy styles take inspiration from the refined, Dandy side of menswear – they're perfectly slicked and clean and parted. But for the most part, in 2012, they're about creating a look that's effortlessly chic, as if you just rolled out of bed and whipped your hair into a fabulously boyish 'do. Gelled tomboy hair From a slick, deep side part to a combed-back 'do, a gelled hairstyle has its roots in the opposite gender. That's not to say that all wet look hairstyles are boyish (some taking their cues from mermaids and ocean goddesses) but there are certainly those that are menswear inspired. One to try: Jeremy Laing's boyish half-slicked hairstyle (follow the link for a how-to guide) which deliberately opts for a bit of texture and tousle. Boyish half-slick at Jeremy Laing, F/W '12 For a very slick, androgynous look the wet look ponytail is a must to master. From the front it's all boy, culminating in a neat ponytail at the back. Follow the link for a tutorial based on the look at Anthony Vaccarello's stern-yet-sexy fall 2012 collection. Slick ponytail at Anthony Vaccarello, F/W '12 Effortless tomboy hair A little bit of texture and hair tucked casually – and practically – behind the ears. It may not be a style that borrows directly from the boys, but it's a style that the tomboyish girl is well acquainted with. It's no fuss, fancy-free, and she can wear it while kicking a ball with the boys. Alexander Wang channeled that sentiment in his fall 2012 collection, creating an effortless tomboy hairstyle to go with the sporty-luxe clothing. Follow that link for a tutorial on creating the look. Easy tomboy hair at Alexander Wang, F/W '12 When she does do her hair up, the nonchalant (yet stylish) tomboy is likely to opt for something like this: the tomboy ponytail as created for the runway of Paul Smith. It's a little messy, a little voluminous, and a little bit sexy. Tomboy ponytail at Paul Smith, F/W '12 Retro tomboy hair You couldn't miss all the retro inspirations swirling through this year's fashions. And with them: various takes on retro and rockabilly hair. On the runways we paid particular attention to easy-to-create, modern updates on classic styles. Karen Walker gave the pompadour a fresh reworking in this messy, boyish half-up pompadour hairstyle. Follow the link for steps on recreating it. Half pompadour at Karen Walker, F/W '12 Alexandre Herchcovitch meanwhile presented a look that merged a men's quiff with sleek sides. It's simple to achieve, too: you can read more about the smooth vs textured hairstyle at that link. Textured hairstyle at Alexandre Herchcovitch, F/W '12 Tough and punky tomboy hair Last but not least can a tomboy hairstyle lean to the tough side. This is for the girl who has a punk edge – or at least wants to add a punk edge as a contrast to her otherwise chic yet feminine getup. For this, don't look past a style like the knotted fauxhawk. It takes a little practice, but will make you stand out in a crowd if you can master the combination of neat sides and textured knotted center that make this look so striking. Knotted fauxhawk hairstyle For other fall 2012 hairstyles that don't necessarily lean to the boyish, follow that link. You'll find plenty of others styles for those ultimately feminine days.


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From The National Marine Manufacturers Association
Temporary change in the size standard for the agency's 7(a) loan program means more credit now available to marine industry
The Small Business Administration (SBA) has taken an important step toward making more credit available to marine dealers, announcing an increase in the eligibility of its 7(a) guaranteed loans. The SBA will adopt a change in its size standard for 7(a) loans, allowing a small business to qualify based on net worth and average income.
The alternate size standard will temporarily replace the SBA's traditional size standard for 7(a) loans, which varied by industry. For the marine industry, this meant a marine dealer would only be eligible for the SBA 7(a) loan program if they had total annual receipts less than $7 million and a boat manufacturer would only qualify if it had less than 500 employees, making many ineligible.
The new alternate standard expands the eligibility for 7(a) loans and better reflects the true size of a business instead of relying on a dealer's annual receipts. As a result, a marine dealer can now qualify for SBA 7(a) loans that can be used for working capital and the refinancing of existing debt if it meets the following:
1. A tangible net worth not in excess of $8.5 million (including its affiliates); and
2. Average net income after federal income taxes (excluding any carry-over losses) for the preceding two completed fiscal years not in excess of $3 million.
The temporary change in the 7(a) loan program size standard will last until September 30, 2010.
"The expansion in the SBA's loan eligibility requirements is another positive step forward in helping marine dealers secure much needed access to capital, though more work remains to be done," noted NMMA president Thom Dammrich. "It's critical we continue voicing our concerns for the marine industry on Capitol Hill to ensure dealers and manufacturers have the resources needed to conduct business and sell boats."
Currently, SBA 7(a) loans cannot be used for floorplan financing. NMMA and the National Marine Bankers Association are working closely with the SBA to develop a program for SBA 7(a) floorplan loans.
NMMA commends the new SBA administrator Karen Gordon Mills for her leadership in expanding opportunities for the marine industry to access critically needed credit.
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It is important that women get enough folic acid during pregnancy; the vitamin is important for healthy development of the fetus, reducing the risk of neural tube defects (NTDs) such as spina bifida and anencephaly.
According to the US Public Health Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the UK's Department of Health, all women of childbearing age should take 400 micrograms (mcg) of folic acid a day.
It is difficult for such women to get a high enough folic acid intake from dietary modifications alone. As such, the use of folic acid supplements or consumption of foods fortified with the vitamin is advised.
In 1998, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) required all manufacturers to fortify flour - as well as cereals, pasta, rice and other grain products - with folic acid, a program that has been estimated to increase mean folic acid intake in the US by around 200 mcg daily. Such a requirement is also present in 77 other countries - but the UK is not one.
In this latest study - published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood - Prof. Joan Morris, of Queen Mary University of London in the UK, and colleagues set out to estimate how many cases of neural tube defects could have been prevented if the UK had adopted fortification of flour with folic acid since 1998, as has been done in the US.
Prevalence of NTDs could have been reduced by 21%
To do so, Prof. Morris and colleagues analyzed data from the British Isles Network of Congenital Anomaly Registers (BINOCAR) to assess the number of NTDs and associated terminations of pregnancy that occurred in the UK between 1991-2012.
The team estimated the number of pregnancies with an NTD that could have been avoided with fortification of flour with folic acid, based on previous estimates that such fortification provides women of childbearing age with an additional 200 mcg daily.
The researchers identified a prevalence of pregnancies with an NTD of 1.28 per 1,000 births between 1991-2012, and 81% of these pregnancies were terminated.
While there was a 23% reduction in prevalence of pregnancies with NTDs in the US between 1998-2012 - after mandatory fortification of flour with folic acid was introduced - there was no significant change in the UK during the 14-year period.
The researchers also found no significant changes in UK prevalence of spina bifida, anencephaly with or without spina bifida or encephalocele when analyzing each condition separately.
The team estimated that 2,014 fewer pregnancies with an NTD could have been avoided between 1998-2012 if the UK had adopted the same fortification policy, representing a possible fall in NTD prevalence of 21% in the 14-year period.
Unless the UK adopt mandatory fortification of flour with folic acid, there will be an additional 150 pregnancies with an NTD each year, around half of which will be due to spina bifida without anencephaly, according to the researchers.
What is more, if such pregnancies are not terminated, almost all would result in the birth of severely disabled children.
Failure to fortify a 'public health failure'
The team compares this current situation with the thalidomide epidemic - a drug that caused around 500 people in the UK to be born disabled.
"Justifiably, steps were introduced to immediately halt the epidemic, and regulatory precautions were introduced to avoid another similar epidemic," they note. "Unfortunately, no such sense of urgency has been applied to the prevention of spina bifida."
The researchers add:
"It is illogical to take preventive public health action to avoid a drug-induced congenital anomaly, but to largely ignore action in relation to a congenital anomaly which can be prevented by vitamin fortification of flour, when the failure to act has resulted in, and continues to result in, many more serious cases.
It is a public health failure that Britain has not implemented the fortification of flour with folic acid for the prevention of spina bifida and other NTDs."
It seems the UK Government is taking note of calls to adopt the mandatory fortification policy, however. Last year, the Department of Health revealed they are "currently considering the case of mandatory fortification of flour with folic acid and will reach a decision in the light of new data from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey."
Folic acid may not only be effective for reducing the risk of NTDs; a study reported by Medical News Today earlier this year found that for people with high blood pressure, folic acid may reduce the risk of first stroke.


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The weekend is here- thank God!! I've had a lovely chilled day today. I went out with a friend to a lovely little pub called the Travelling Man and then to the pictures to see Gnomeo and Juliet. We thoroughly enjoyed the film, it was so nice to watch a carefree and funny film and it was a welcome change from our usual choice of thrillers and horrors.
Tonight, I thought I'd share with you a video that I've recently uploaded to YouTube. At the beginning of the year I set myself some new years resolutions that were designed to help me save money and space by using up the products that I already have rather than buying new products.
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Transition Westcombe and other Transition Towns in Greenwich are joining together to organize meetings about issues which affect a wide area, and are forming a network called Transition Greenwich.
The first meeting of Transition Greenwich will discuss how best to balance the various transport, business, residential and visitor requirements of Greenwich Town Centre in terms of traffic management. Greenwich Council has produced its own draft proposals on which they are currently consulting.
The meeting will be from 8pm to 10pm on Tuesday 20th July, in St Alfege's Church Hall, behind St Alfege's in Greenwich.
Anyone from Greenwich and Lewisham is welcome, including community groups, businesses and council officers. Please come and share and compare your insights and ideas for a long-term strategy for traffic management in Greenwich Town Centre.
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Fiddling Traditions
Florida fiddlers are among the best anywhere. Enjoy a rare recording of Cush Holsten, rustic Cracker fiddler from the Gulf Hammock area, and the renowned Chubby Wise - who some say was the first real bluegrass fiddler. Chubby Anthony bows a blistering version of "Lee Highway Blues" that includes a homespun spoken introduction. Vassar Clements, who has played with everyone from Bill Monroe to Stephane Grappelli and the Grateful Dead, serves up a large helping of his tasty fiddling. There's a sample of Michoacán-style Mexican ranchera fiddling from the Redlands agricultural area and the stellar fiddling of James Kelly, one of the finest Irish fiddlers of this or any generation. Jonita Aadland and Amber Randall, who play in the Norwegian twin-fiddle tradition, make some of the sweetest music to be found.
Listen to "Kissimmee Kid" by Vassar Clements with Charlie Daniels, Doug Jernigan and others.
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With more than 364,000 Floridians of Mexican descent, our state's Mexican-American population is the largest in the southeast. Enjoy a generous sampling of accordion-based musìca norteña, the pulsing dance music of the working class; hear Mother's Day serenades sung tenderly before daybreak; then listen to the plaintive strains of ranchera music by Los Halcones de Michoacán. Thrill to the soaring falsetto, brilliant brass and stirring strings of Orlando's Mariachi Cobre, one of the world's top mariachi bands. Marimba Mayalandia delights with intricate melodies played on their beautiful, three-person marimba doble.
Listen to "Presumida" by Los Fronterizos de Matamoros.
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Pacific Island
Florida is home to a small but culturally active population from the Pacific Islands, many of whom came to work as entertainers at restaurants and theme parks. This program focuses on two of the larger Pacific Island cultural groups in Florida: Hawaiians and Tongans. Enjoy ancient chants and drumming, poignant falsetto and smooth contemporary three-part harmony singing. Slack-key artist Roy Pang and steel guitar virtuoso Dick Sanft demonstrate their mastery of two vibrant but endangered guitar traditions from Hawaii. Tongans are known for beautifully harmonized group singing. The Wolfgramms of Orlando pound kava root to make a relaxing drink, then sing a romantic song from a Tongan courtship ritual.
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Old-Time Country and Bluegrass
Don't understand the difference between old-time and bluegrass music? Both are demystified as you meet the folks who play and enjoy this music. Richard Seaman, who was born in 1904, provides a musical link to the nineteenth century. Along our journey we attend an old-time dance and a community picking session to experience first-hand how tunes are passed from one generation to the next. Florida bluegrass fiddle greats Vassar Clements and Chubby Wise keep your toes tapping with their inventive music. Tuck Tucker of McIntosh plays a sample of the fiery picking that made him a Florida Dobro legend.
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The religious freedom enjoyed in the United States has resulted in a tremendous range of sacred music. In this program we explore black and white Christian music such as shape note singing, hymn lining, vocal quartets, the fiery "sacred steel" guitar tradition of the House of God Holiness-Pentecostal Church, and Easter chanting at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Tarpon Springs. Departing from Christian music, we hear Susana Behar sing poignantly in the Sephardic Jewish tradition, drummer Ezequiel Torres lead an Afro-Cuban batá. ensemble in sacred music of the Orisha religion, and witness a rarely recorded HaitianVodou ceremony.
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Cuban Music
The 833,000 Floridians of Cuban descent have had an enormous impact on the state's cultural landscape. Cuban music selections range from ballad singing in Key West to modern Latin jazz standards. We explore the country music known as punto de guajiro, delve into the mysterious realm of Afro-Cuban Orisha worship and the consecrated drums that provide its heartbeat, and feel the infectious rhythm of Israel "Cachao" Lopez, the original mambo king. Contemporary artists Gloria Estefan, Willie Chirino and Albita Rodriguez showcase their synthesis of roots music and contemporary popular stylings. The brilliant Latin jazz and Cubop improvisations of trumpeter Arturo Sandoval simply soar.
Listen to "Descarga Cachao" by Israel "Cachao" López.
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Caribbean Music
Hundreds of thousands of West Indians have made Florida home. Our program begins with rousing Bahamian-American junkanoo parade music. Next, we visit Michael Kernahan as he makes Trinidadian steel drums and plays samples of big band and calypso music on this fascinating folk instrument. Reggae great Bob Marley's mother, Cedella Marley-Booker, and Taj Mahal give their rendition of a traditional Jamaican song. Members of Miami's large Haitian community serve up a spicy menu ranging from an acapella lullaby to a folksong by the former mayor of Port au Prince to pulsing raraand konpa dance music. Button accordionist Guillermero Guante pumps out a sizzling Dominican merengue with lyrics that comment on the September 11 terrorist attacks. The program and the series closes with hot Puerto Rican plena jazz by Los Pleneros de Borinquen.
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ROY — Tuesday was already going to be an emotional day for Bountiful High softball sophomore Dashani Purcell.
When the ball went over the fence, the tears went over her eyelids.
It's been more than three years since Purcell's cousin, Adelaide 'Addy' Clinger, was killed in an accidental shooting in Kaysville.
Purcell thinks about her cousin all the time. Everything she does is for her. That Tuesday, April 10, would've been Clinger's 16th birthday.
It was the same day Bountiful played Copper Hills, so the day before that game, Purcell went to her teammates with a request.
She asked if they would all write "11.23.14" — the day Clinger died — on the inside of their arms as a tribute to her memory.
Indeed, when Bountiful lined up to play the Grizzlies in West Jordan, every Braves player had "11.23.14" written in black marker on one of their arms.
"I thought it would be nice to support her in that way, and it just meant a lot to me that they all did it," Purcell said. "It goes along with how our team is. We support each other."
Her teammates were more than willing to support her, which says something about how close the Braves are as a team.
Purcell went 2 for 5 with five RBIs and a home run as Bountiful beat Copper Hills 19-6. It was another good game in a season that's been full of them so far, but this one was a little different.
"I was very emotional, but I did pretty good. I did hit a home run and then cry after that," Purcell said.
The next day when Bountiful played at Roy, those numbers were still visible on a lot of the players' arms.
Purcell, batting .467 with team-highs in RBIs (18) and home runs (6) through 10 games, hit a grand slam in the second inning and a solo home run in the fifth that propelled the Braves to a 7-3 win over the Royals.
Purcell is one of a group of players leading a youth movement for Bountiful, a team with seven sophomores, seven freshmen and just two seniors.
Their leadoff hitter is sophomore Libbie Hawker, who's batting .484 with a .579 on-base percentage. Bountiful's leading hitter by average is freshman Livi Arona, batting .529 with eight RBIs.
The starting catcher is sophomore Sophia Stoddard, batting .500 with 14 RBIs. There's another sophomore, Abby Steed, starting at first base.
"When we play, I think we like to have a lot of fun and talk and dance a lot," Hawker said.
Practices are a lot of fun, Hawker says, and that's where the team's apparent goofiness also shows its colors.
But they never get too far off track, in large part thanks to the two seniors — pitcher McHailee Danner and second baseman Katie Tanner — who provide leadership and direction.
It isn't a situation where the freshmen and sophomores are rambunctious and the coaches and seniors are trying to herd cats, which Danner appreciates.
"Everyone here's mature and they all have lots of skill and they know what they're doing," Danner said. "It makes me so happy, I just love how we have all this different diversity in skill set, if any one of us during varsity got hurt, I would not be worried about any one of them coming in."
After Wednesday's win over Roy, the Braves are 8-2 overall, 4-1 in Region 5 and right in the thick of things for the region crown with the Royals and Box Elder.
It's apparent just watching the Braves that they get along well. The "11.23.14" gesture is another indicator that Bountiful is a tight-knit group.
Head coach Butch Latey is in his 14th season at the helm. He's seen what happens when good teams don't get along.
When he was asked if this year's team was the best in terms of team chemistry, his answer was resounding.
"Oh yeah, they really like each other," he said.
That's the overwhelming sentiment among the players, too.
So there's some symbolism, then, when Purcell trots around the bases after hitting (another) home run.
The entire team has already sprinted to home plate. They're jumping, clapping and hollering, waiting eagerly to embrace Purcell and celebrate.
You can reach prep sports reporter Patrick Carr at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter at @patrickcarr_ or like him on Facebook at Facebook.com/patrickcarr17.
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"Master" page of my projects. I moved the big two projects to git and subsequently to github. That is where you will find pretty much everything.
Not originally my project, I wrote some patches and gradually took over the development. Being able to run a bot 24/7 (dude Shawn, you need to get your own local server) is largely the reason why it was dumped on me. In the midst of a partial rewrite to use Moose and a different ORM. Some day I will finish this and get it working smoothly with a live dgl installation. Some day...
This is not really my project, but rather Shawn's. I simply worked on it a bit and did the darcs to git conversion. My only claim to fame would be adding color support to TAEB, which was a first (that I know) for bots. I also did the initial mapping of various tile features to something unique for each (glyph, color) tuple to ensure no confusion.
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