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I was so excited when I started looking at Raleigh apartments. I knew what my budget was, and I honestly wasn't sure how far that would go for a nice apartment. What I hadn't considered is that Raleigh is a lot different than Los Angeles, where nice apartments can cost more than a nice car! The cost of living is a lot lower in Raleigh though, which meant that I did not have to worry about not finding a place that I could afford. In fact, it meant that I could actually look at some of the more luxurious apartment complexes instead, since they were well within my means.
The first one I looked at was Midtown Crossing, and I knew that I did not need to look at any others. I liked everything that was available, including all of the amenities. I liked that there is a 24 hour cardio and weight machine fitness center, because sometimes I like to work out really early in the morning. I don't want to wait around for something to open up if I am already up at 4am and ready to go. Also, there is swimming pool and sundeck, both of which I knew I would use over and over again.
As for the apartment itself, I got a two bedroom with two baths. Even though it is just me, I like having the extra room in case I have overnight guests. I have a lot of family, and we tend to travel a good bit when time permits, so I wanted to have the space available should any of them want to travel to see me. The rent is the part that surprised me the most, because I would have easily paid more than twice the amount where I had been living before. I have a feeling I am really going to like Raleigh a lot!

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EQUITONE architectural fibre cement materials from Marley Eternit have been used to create a striking facade on the UK's most northerly cinema and music venue.
Marley Eternit's EQUITONE [natura] was specified by Gareth Hoskins Architects for the £12.4m 'Mareel' building in Lerwick, Shetland, which has recently been awarded both RIAS Regional and RIBA National Awards.
Gareth Hoskins of Gareth Hoskins Architects said:
"We specified a Marley Eternit fibre cement facade principally because of its proven robustness, an essential requirement in this exceptionally exposed, northerly location. The material also gives an excellent uniformity of colour and sharp finish to the facades it adorns, providing a striking contrast with the more rugged nature of the other building elements and setting Mareel apart from the surrounding industrial sheds around the harbour."
Taking inspiration from the building's location on the edge of Lerwick's historic Hay's Dock, Gareth Hoskins Architects chose Anthracite coloured EQUITONE [natura] because of its combination of toughness, texture and appealing colour.
Robustness of the facade materials was an overriding factor on this project because Lerwick shares the same latitude as Alaska to the West and Norway to the East, and regularly experiences gusts of wind over 70 miles per hour.
As well as it physical robustness, EQUITONE [natura] was chosen for Mareel because the fibre cement material echoed the simple, robust forms that are typical of the nearby fishing industry buildings. The aesthetics of the fibre cement panels also complemented the other elements specified for the facade of the Mareel building.
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It is so close… yet so far. As much as I wish to sail out the San Francisco Golden Gate, you have no idea how much personal restraint this is taking, there are things that need to be addressed on Rad Mode before we can do that. Frankly if it were just me, or just hubby and me, I would make a mad dash out the gate no holds bared. But it's not just me, or us, we have children. As much as I don't like to admit that children slow me down, they do just a tad.
I only say this because of their safety. My worst nightmare, honestly, is losing a child. As a precaution we won't be sailing out just yet. Though the time is soon approaching. To make this happen we just need a few things in the immediate future, and a few things in the desirable future.
What do we need in the near future, you ask?
– Reefing system for our main sail. We have none.
– Our hatches do not latch down… at all.
– Staysail to be rigged
– Bilge pump installed
– And figure out why our running lights aren't working and our vhf won't transmit
The desirable future we need:
– Stanchion posts and lifelines
– Jack lines
– Life line netting
– Just a bit better way to make the boat a little safer….
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Good Monday morning to you! I hope that you had a great weekend and you were able to spend it with your mom's.
One of the things that has been lacking in my life is a regular schedule of fitness. Oh I work out, but it's hit or miss really. To be quite honest, I have actually enjoyed the break. There were some workouts where I think that I was just working out for the sake of it. The only thought in my head was that I was being fit! This was far from it. I want to be able to see my body change with my workouts, not feel completely drained after them. I need a plan. A good one. I don't want to just depend on running for my workouts, but I do want to incorporate it in there. I want a balanced workout that includes my entire body, not just my legs.
So I am going to be getting together a plan…..an organized plan of workouts.
One of the things that I want to look at is this…. Body Pump
Marvelous In My Monday:
Marvelous is my cat Ghost… He is the best cat….Well, I think so anyway. My dad would say that he is a bit "off".. The best thing about him? He's mine. I love it when he wants to be right next to me and wants to cuddle. He really is the best cat and he is adorable.
Marvelous is my first race finished! I can't tell you what a confidence booster this was. I now know that I can run in a race and not feel so self conscious about it.
Good times!
Marvelous is the fact that I want to try a dance class. I really do. I have been thinking about it for a while now and probably have mentioned it on here a long time ago, but I think that it would be so much fun! Even if it's just one class, I want to try it.
Marvelous is my mom. I can't tell you how thankful that I am to have my mother in my life. Both her and my dad brought me up in a home that was filled with love. My mom is someone that I can talk to and get godly advice from and she always tells me to seek out His will in my life and no one else's. Having this time to spend with her and with my dad is really a blessing and something that I am so thankful for. One of the greatest things that I can think of that my mother has given me is introducing me to Christ. They took me to church and it was there that I first heard about Christ and what He did for you and for me.
Marvelous is my new coffee cup!!
Marvelous is finding out that the adults in my church have a bowling date the last Friday in May! I was talking to one of my friends at church last night and she was telling me about it and I am really excited! I am not the best bowler, but I am pretty stoked about getting to hang out with the people that I worship with. This is something that I think is very important. I love my church… and I think it's important to find a church to worship in and serve in.
Cinnamon toast with almond butter and one egg cooked in olive oil
I hope you have a great day and a Marvelous Monday!
Question: What workouts are you loving right now?
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Dance class would be so fun! I'm so uncoordinated and it's hard for me to get out of my comfort zone like that. I've had a lot of fun doing the summer shred with nhershoes blog. I know that Tina Reale of best body bootcamp also has a pretty cool online bootcamp you could check into too! I like having someone else make my fitness plan. 😀


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The choice of syllable and character within the transferring of proper names into Chinese
The below presented results are outcome of the project titled The choice of syllable and character within the transcribing of proper names into Chinese, reg. nr. IGA_FF_2014_079, which was realized thanks to special-purpose funding for specific university research, which was allocated to Palacký University in Olomouc in 2014 by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic (MŠMT ČR). The research was focused on analyses of transfer of foreign proper names into Chinese language and its writing system (i.e. simplified characters). The research objects were Chinese replicas of English, German and Japanese proper names which were coined by language users from mainland China and which were divided into three sub-categories, namely anthroponyms, toponyms and chrematonyms. The obtained results are available below.
The analysis of English anthroponyms
The analysis of English toponyms
The analysis of English chrematonyms
The analysis of German anthroponyms
The analysis of German toponyms
The analysis of German chrematonyms
The analysis of Japanese chrematonyms


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Sisyphus Does the Grind
Another existentialist classic, Vancouverized. more
VIFF 2017: "At the End of the Tunnel"
A paraplegic engineering technician in Buenos Aires rents rooms to an exotic dancer; bank heist ensues. more
VIFF 2017: "Faces Places"
Veteran filmmaker Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR travel the back roads of rural France in a mobile photo booth. more
VIFF 2017: "Loveless"
A loveless marriage in its final throes, with tragic consequences. Another powerful drama from Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev. more
VIFF 2017: "The Killing of a Sacred Deer"
A perfectly pitched absurdist parable, at once chilling and comic, from Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos. more
VIFF 2017: "Leaning Into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy"
A look at the recent work of landscape artist Andy Goldsworthy, whose visually stunning works engage with nature, examining time and timelessness, creativity and decay. more
VIFF 2017: "Shadowman"
A fascinating documentary about pioneering New York City street artist (and former Vancouverite) Richard Hambleton, a contemporary of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. more
VIFF 2017: "The Other Side of Hope"
The latest from Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki is a gem, his trademark deadpan humor perfectly balanced with a wry compassion. more
VIFF 2017: "Lucky"
Harry Dean Stanton's final film, a fitting send-off for one of the great character actors. more
John Berger in the Bardo
John Berger—Marxist art critic, poet and novelist, screenwriter and essayist—passed away in Paris on January 2nd of this year at the age of 90. more
Jack Kerouac, francophone
Jack Kerouac, that prototypically "all-American" writer, was born to Québécois parents, and raised in the midst of an expatriate French-Canadian community in the mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts. more
Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart
Shakespeare & Company, Paris, is one of "The World's Coolest Bookstores," one of "The 20 Most Beautiful Bookstores in the World"—or both at once. more
VIFF 2016: "Paterson"
A sweet, eccentric, and nearly perfect film about poetry, English bulldogs, Ohio Blue Tip Matches, and Paterson, New Jersey. more
VIFF 2016: "I Called Him Morgan"
Bebop jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan had been resurrected: back from his heroin addiction and playing as good as ever. Until one snowy, fatal night in New York City, 1972. more
VIFF 2016: "Personal Shopper"
Kristen Stewart stars in a new film from French director Olivier Assayas, in a story that genetically recombines elements of both the thriller and horror genres. more
VIFF 2016: "The Death of Louis XIV"
Doctors and courtiers hover anxiously in the wings as the Sun King, Louis XIV, suffers through the final stages of gangrene. more
VIFF 2016: "The Last Family"
A fascinating take on the biopic genre, presenting the life—idiosyncratic, oddly charming, and ultimately tragic—of Polish surrealist painter Zdzisław Beksiński, between 1977 and 2005. more
VIFF 2016: "Maliglutit (Searchers)"
A harrowing story of brutality, kidnapping and revenge from the director of "Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner", shot entirely in the Artic and in the Inuktitut language. more
VIFF 2016: "RiverBlue"
A look at the damaging environmental effects on the rivers of the world, caused by the textile and tanning industries, with "fast fashion" and blue jeans the primary culprits. more
VIFF 2016: "The Trap (Ottaal)"
Kuttappayi, an orphan, lives a life of rural poverty with his grandfather in Kuttanad, south India. When his grandfather falls ill, his future must be decided. more
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The National Jurist - Spring 2017 - 4
For-profit law schools under pressure
Florida Coastal School of law and Charleston School of law flunk Department of
education standard, giving them a year to improve or risk losing federal aid
But it has filed a teach-out plan with the
ABA section of Legal education and
Admissions to the Bar as a contingency.
the ABA will review the plan in march,
and, if accepted, the school will remain
their legal education in Charlotte, Florida
Coastal would be responsible for distributing federal student aid and administering
student and career services.
But Florida Coastal could also lose fedphoto by heather blanton
the five ABA-accredited for-profit law
schools are under intense pressure from the
Department of education (DOe), which
had previously pulled federal financial aid
from one of the five, Charlotte school of
Law, in January. the DOe announced
that two others - Florida Coastal school
of Law and Charleston school of Law
- failed its new gainful employment
standard. the last two schools, Arizona
summit Law school and Western state
College of Law, received a "zone" rating,
meaning they are in danger of failing.
Charlotte also received a "zone" rating.
the standard measures debt against
graduates' earnings. Florida Coastal and
Charleston must improve their ratios in
the next year or run the risk of also losing
federal student aid, a move that would
most likely force them to close.
Charlotte school of Law lost financial aid starting in January after the DOe
found it made "substantial misrepresentations to current and prospective students
regarding the nature and extent of its
accreditation and the likelihood that its
graduates would pass the bar exam." the
school has since seen more than half of its
students transfer to other schools. It has
only 270 students remaining, down from
1,392 in 2013.
Charlotte, which is one of three ABAapproved law schools owned by the
InfiLaw system, is still hopeful to resolve
issues with the DOe and remain open.
Florida Coastal School of Law
open until December 2019, when all currently enrolled students graduate.
the teach-out plan would appoint
Florida Coastal school of Law, also owned
by InfiLaw, to serve as Charlotte's teach-out
partner. Although students would complete
eral loans, if it fails the DOe's gainful
employment standard two years in a row.
the DOe introduced the gainful employment standard in 2010 in an
attempt to strengthen the federal student
aid program and protect students from
By the numBers
The modest increase in
the number of first-year
law students who enrolled
nationwide in 2016 compared
to 2010. Still, that's the first
increase in six years.
$52.2 million
The value of the 2.2 million
hours in legal services that the
Class of 2016 gave as part of
its legal education.
How many more people took
the LSAT in December 2016
than in December 2015,
marking the largest year-overyear growth since 2009.
The NaTioNal JurisT
Spring 2017
The percentage of law school
scholarships that are meritbased. Just 19% of scholarships
are need-based, according to
the 2016 Law School Survey of
Student Engagement.
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Iowa reports bird flu on 3 more chicken, 1 more turkey farm
Iowa reports bird flu on 3 more chicken, 1 more turkey farm
DES MOINES, Iowa —
Four more Iowa farms are testing positive for bird flu.
The Iowa Department of Agriculture says an egg-laying farm and a turkey farm in Buena Vista County bring to 15 the number of cases in that county in northwest Iowa. A broiler farm in Osceola County is the state's first indication of the disease on a farm raising chickens for meat. Officials said Tuesday the farm has 700 birds. Most of Iowa's affected chickens are egg layers.
Lyon County also has its first case. It's on an egg farm.
Iowa has 49 cases of bird flu in 13 counties. More than 26 million birds will die.
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GRAND FORKS, N.D. — Charles I. "Chuck" Viergutz Sr., 80, of Grand Forks, North Dakota, fell asleep in death on Saturday, Dec. 23, 2017, at Altru Hospital with his loving family and friends by his side.
Charles Ivil Viergutz was born on Feb. 15, 1937, in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, the son of Ivil and Emily (Jonas) Viergutz. Chuck grew up in Nebraska and first worked for a railroad company. Chuck had many occupations during his lifetime. His longest was working in the hide cellar at a meat packing plant outside Schuyler. Chuck married his first wife, Jean Birkel, and they had two children Jeanie and Charles Jr. "Chuckie."
He was baptized as one of Jehovah's Witnesses on Jan. 19, 1985. He was united in marriage to a fellow Witness, Annette Osell, on Feb. 1, 1986, in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Along with Chuckie, they raised two children Nathan and Jessica. They first lived in Grand Forks and then moved to Schuyler. They returned to the Grand Forks area in 1994. Shortly after returning to the area Chuck began working for the J.R. Simplot Company as a custodian. He retired in 2001.
Chuck was preceded in death by his parents and his sister Ivileen Martinez.
Chuck is survived by his wife of more than 31 years, Annette Viergutz of Grand Forks, North Dakota; children, Jeanie (Jeff) Taake of Papillion, Charles "Chuckie" Viergutz of Grand Forks, North Dakota, Nathan (Melanie) Viergutz of East Grand Forks, Minnesota, and Jessica Viergutz of Grand Forks, North Dakota; grandchildren, Sydney Taake, Kiley Viergutz and Mackenzie Viergutz; and several nieces, nephews and friends.
A memorial service will be held 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 30, at The Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, 2311 River Rd. NW, East Grand Forks, Minnesota. Visitation will be one hour prior to the memorial service on Saturday.
Online guestbook at www.dandahlfuneralhome.com.
Arrangements by Dahl Funeral Home of East Grand Forks, Minnesota.


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2016 Paint Congress Grand Champion Mare and Elite Halter
Circuit Champion 2 year old Mare, Amateur 2 YO 2016 Pinot World
Champion Yearling Filly.
Owned by Joyce Cassata, Morganton, NC
Owned by Double C Acres; Morganton, North Carolina
Owned by Double C Acres
Multiple WC Mare, APHA and AQHA
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Owned by Joyful Spirit Ranch
Now a 5 Time World Champion
Diamond 2M Show Horses. Shown in Amateur by Melinda Minnis and Open by Kelley Stone
Owned by Joyce Cassata, Morganton, NC
Unanimous Open World Champion Yearling Filly;
World Champion Amateur Yearling Filly,
Breeder's Trust Gold Division Champion Yearling Filly,
Scarlet Print Award Winner
Click to enlarge Scarlet Print Award Winner write up.
Breeder's Futurity Gold Senior Champion Filly
Owned by Double C Acres; Morganton, North Carolina
Owned by Karen Lonski and Craig Dengate, Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia
Reserve World Champion Open Two Year Old Stallion
Owned by Karen Lonski and Craig Dengate, Port Macquarie NSW, Australia
World Champion Amateur Two Year Old Mare,
Reserve World Champion Open Two Year Old Mare.
Owned by Double C Acres
Bronze Winner at the AQHA Select World in Yearling Geldings.
2016 Pinto World Champion Open and Amateur, 2016 Paint Congress
Circuit Champion
Yearling Gelding Open and Amateur.
A Secret Addiction Open and Amateur World Champion Aged Gelding.
Red Hot N Stylish, World Champion Ama and res World Champion Open 2 Yr Old Mare.
By He's Stylin and out of Red Hot N Clusified LL
Hot Fire and Style, Open and Amateur Unanimous World Champion Yearling Filly.
By He's Stylin and out of Red Hot N Clusified LL
Inferno, Open and Amateur World Champion Yearling Gelding. AQHA, APHA, PHBA, PtHA registered.
By Intentions and out of Starlite Stardust.
RJN Centerfold - Unanimous 3 YO World
Red Hot N Stylish- Unanimous 2YO
World Champion.
Get Of Sire Champions- HES STYLIN-owned by Diamond 2M Show Horses.
The trio that helped us to win this for the second year in a row are all Individually INCREDIBLE
horses and as a stallion owner and breeder we could not be happier or more proud to present this group.
TRANSCENDENCE - aged stallion who is Multi World Champion and the
2015 Elite Halter Congress Champion. He is owned by Edie and Kevin Williams and prepared
by Terry and Sue Heimerman .
RED HOT N STYLISH- 2yr old mare, Multi World Champ, 2016 Elite Congress
Halter Champion and Hot Fire and Style- yearling filly,
multi world champion and Congress Circuit Champion Yearling filly!!! Both girls owned by
Double C Acres and prepared by Diamond 2M.
Produce Of Dam Champion- won by Full sisters-
Hot Fire and Style and Red Hot N Stylish
out of the Great Dam- Red Hot Clusified LL owned and bred by Boncita Ranch.
Mares shown by myself and Jennifer Sovocool. Mares owned by Double C Acres.
3 yr old spb mare- Grand Classic Lady- 4 first unanimously and 4 Grand Champions
in SPB Mare division- owned by Diamond 2M Show Horses and shown
Amateur by Melinda Minnis and Open by Myself.
3 yr old mare- RJN Centerfold- Circuit Champion 3 Yr Old Mare- Open,
Grand Champ
and Res Grand Champions. This mare was Youth Paint World Champion
unanimously also. She is owned by Smiths Creek Paint Horses-
Karen Lonski and Craig Dengate. She is shown in Amateur by Karen Lonski and in Open by myself.
Yearling Gelding- Inferno- Circuit Champ Yearling Gelding- Open and Amateur,
Jr Amateur high point gelding. Owned by Double C Acres and
shown in Amateur by Bob Cassata and Open by
Aged Gelding- A Secret Addiction- Circuit Champ Open and Amateur Aged Gelding,
High point overall gelding in Open and Amateur, 12 grand ribbons and 4 res ribbons total,
Owned by Double C Acres and shown in Amateur by Bob Cassata and Open by myself and Sidney Thomas.


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Originally from an agricultural-business background, Joe Kinsella qualified as a chartered accountant in Ireland while working with the accountancy firms of Baker Tilly and PricewaterhouseCoopers. After eight years in practice, Joe went on to run his family agri-business in Wicklow, opening up his own parallel accountancy practice in 2008, which still continues.
Prompted by a career move of his wife and with some gentle persuasion, Joe moved to Montreal in June 2014 and since his arrival has been engaged in developing business interests through his links in Ireland in Canada. Presently, he is working with Metro on importing Irish food products to Quebec as well as other ventures.


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Read this tip to make your life smarter, better, faster and wiser. LifeTips is the place to go when you need to know about Marathon Training Plans and Principles and other Running topics.
Here's another tip inspired by a quote from legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden, who died in June 2010 at age 99:
"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."
To me, this translates into the following marathon training tip: If your planned training run doesn't go as planned, don't beat yourself up about it, and don't give up. One run when you felt tired, ran slower, or bagged your speed workout in favor of a steady run does not mean that your marathon is doomed. Much of marathon training is just getting the miles in--you don't have to hit a magic number on a heart rate monitor to benefit from a 5-mile run, not in my experience. So don't get discouraged if (and when) you tweak your training plans. Instead, make the best of it--you got your miles in, and that's what will help you as much as anything on marathon day.
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Please contact our receptionist by calling 902-538-9065 to coordinate the most convenient appointment time for you within your own schedule, and book with the dentist or hygienist that you prefer. You can also submit a request on this webpage, or email the office directly (firstname.lastname@example.com). At AppleTown Dental Centre we have a collaborative dental office where our patients are scheduled in with the dentist or hygienist of their preference, otherwise at the earliest available opening. If by chance you are scheduled with one of our health professionals that you were not expecting, or would prefer a particular dentist or hygienist, we are happy to oblige – just let our receptionist know and we will try to accommodate at your future visits to the office.
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Our office takes great pride in the preventative services that we offer through our regular recall appointments. We prescribe an individual recall schedule based on the conditions present in your mouth. This is the most predictable way to reduce the chance that you will have progression of receding gums and gum disease. In general, most patients benefit from dental scaling (cleaning your teeth) twice a year. Some patients with moderate recession, aggressive oral bacteria and/or difficult areas to clean on their own are seen three or four times each year for scaling.
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Tuesday Night Social Bowling League - San Jose (Archived)
Program Description
That's right, we're bringing bowling back this Fall/Winter at a cool new venue...Bass Pro Shop! This league features:
- 2 Games per night for 6 weeks
- Playoffs in week 7 for qualifying teams
- Sign up solo, with a small group, or a full team
- All games begins at 7:30pm and conclude by 9:30pm
- Socializing at your lanes and at the bar after with fellow Dynamaniacs
- Handicaps to equalize skill gaps
- Prizes for winning teams
- One 1-topping PIZZA and one pitcher of soda provided per team, per night
- Homemade costumes and uniforms encouraged
- Non pre-paid small groups that do not reach 4 players by the deadline or once the league reaches maximum player capacity will have free agents added to fill the roster
Program Details
|Official Rules:
|Bowling Rules
|San Jose - Bass Pro Shop - Uncle Buck's Fish Bowl and Grill
|Registration Dates:
Now — Oct 16, '17 Early Bird
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Canadians are protected from unreasonable search and seizure because they are legally afforded a reasonable expectation of privacy. However, that expectation has come into question after a recent decision by the British Columbia Court of Appeal.
The case involves a man who received and opened a package that contained drugs. The police already knew the package contained drugs, however, because an employee of the courier company thought the sender looked suspicious. The employee opened the package, found the drugs and notified police, who then conducted a "controlled delivery" to the recipient.
The contract between the sender and the courier company, DHL, indicated that the company could "open and inspect any shipment and its contents at any time. Customs authorities, or other government authorities, may also open and inspect its contents at any time."
The question, though, was whether the recipient, who was unaware of and not party to the terms of the contract, should be held to its terms. Were the search and its impact on the recipient legal? The court of appeal said yes and upheld the legality of the search that led to evidence against the recipient.
The decision undoubtedly strikes many as troubling because it suggests that an individual can lose his or her rights -- in particular, freedom from unreasonable search and seizure -- because of the terms of a contract to which the accused is not a party. In other words, if you unknowingly accept a package that contains an illegal substance, can the contract between the sender and the courier company be used as evidence to convict you? Again, the court of appeal said yes.
The case is a heavy reminder of the importance of a strong criminal defence to protect the rights of the accused. Much is at stake in drug cases, and defendants should be fully aware of their defence options.
Source: Toronto Star, "What's a 'reasonable expectation' of privacy?" Michael Geist, Aug. 20, 2014


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|19 Sep 2013
now it will detect if i plugged in my external drive. new problem is it's copying speed is slow. max copy is 1.0+ MB and min is 0.43
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Without asking any further questions like :) -
1. What exactly you did that brought your HDD back in the reckoning ? (This may help others with similar problems)
2. What is the read and write speed on your lappie? (use the same file, same size) -
I would delineate a way to bring your Western Digital HDD to factory condition. So you will be starting with a clean slate as if you bought a new drive just then.:) Nothing better could be done.
First backup all your data on your WD elements drive to another External drive.
Run the manufacturer's diagnostic/repair utility Data Lifeguard Diagnostics for DOS. Download dlgdiag_5_20.zip from WD Support / Downloads / SATA & SAS / WD Blue / SE / SE16 (SATA II) Read the Instructions therein.
First create a bootable MSDOS pen drive using Rufus Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way
( Backup all data in the WD ext. drive as aforesaid for it will all be lost while formatting it with Rufus. Plug your WD ext. drive (remove all other external drives) and run Rufus. In the "Create a bootable disk using" select MSDOS from the dropdown arrow and click on Start. When completed close Rufus.)
Extract the contents of dlgdiag_5_20.zip directly into the newly created DOS pen drive.
Plugin your WD drive into the laptop.
Boot from the MSDOS pen drive using the one-time boot menu.
Against the command prompt C:> type dlgdiag5.exe and press Enter to run the Diagnostics.(Take care to select the correct external drive and not your system drive)
Run the Quick Test (I am sure it will pass.) , then Write Zeroes to clean it up and bring it to the factory condition.
Now format the drive with any formatting/partitioning utility.
Check read and write speeds on both machines (again the same test file, same size)
Are you happy?
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|19 Sep 2013
1. What exactly you did that brought your HDD back in the reckoning ? (This may help others with similar problems)
-Updated my BIOS and CHIPSETS.
-Did a full Computer Virus Scan.
What is the read and write speed on your lappie?
I can sir, but THIS is the only External Drive i have. 2 Pen Drives and this External.
Are you happy?
But in the future, if this happens again i'll be sure to buy 2 external drives.
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HCC hosts inaugural Teen Entrepreneur Summit
By Justin Boyd
May 2, 2015
With the HCC Teen Entrepreneur College launch in the Fall 2015 semester, the Houston Community College Office of Entrepreneurial Initiatives hosted a Teen Entrepreneur Summit on Saturday, May 2 at the Central College auditorium.
The free event brought together high school students and their parents from communities all over the greater Houston area to learn about entrepreneurship as a viable career option.
The theme of the summit was Entrepreneurship: A State of Mind. Those in attendance heard from two successful entrepreneurs: Marcus Davis, radio host and owner of The Breakfast Klub restaurant, and Luis Vicente Garcia, best-selling author and international speaker. Davis highlighted vision, faith, hard work, determination and sacrifice as the key traits of a successful entrepreneur, while Garcia identified positivity as the starting point for anyone entering the business world.
Special thanks to #HCCTeenSummit keynote speakers Marcus Davis of @TheBreakfasKlub and Luis Vicente Garcia @lvgarciag pic.twitter.com/zsN2emcE5Q
— HCC District (@HCCDistrict) May 2, 2015
Sean Gilmore, a 14-year-old who invented the "Sleepover Bed Tent" shared his story of success to his peer group. But Gilmore wasn't the only youngster to take the stage as the event was emceed by 12-year-old Kidz View talk show host Victoria Baynes Lopez, 11-year-old Jackie Lugo performed chart-topping hits from Anna Kendrick and Bruno Mars and the national anthem was sung by 13-year-old Nicholas Connors.
Connors, who was in the national spotlight last week as he sang the national anthem before a Houston Rockets playoff game and had a surprise on-court meeting with Houston Texans star J.J. Watt, was presented a Watt No. 99 Texans' jersey by HCC Director of Entrepreneurial Initiatives Jennifer K. Holmes.
13-year-old Nicholas Connors sings the national anthem and then receives a @JJWatt jersey from #HCC at #HCCTeenSummit pic.twitter.com/FotnesTljN
— HCC District (@HCCDistrict) May 2, 2015
Singing the National Anthem at the #HCCTeenSummit and they surprised me with my first @jjwatt jersey!… https://t.co/PM6YHKIHmS
— Nicholas Connors (@thenickconnors) May 2, 2015
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee made a surprise appearance at the event and presented HCC with a Certificate of Congressional Recognition.
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (@JacksonLeeTX18) appeared at today's #HCCTeenSummit at @HCCcentral. pic.twitter.com/ovDICkNvnw
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The Teen Entrepreneur College is designed to introduce high school students to entrepreneurial and innovative thinking. The premise is to teach basic enterprise skills, provide "hands on" experiential learning, and to begin the pathway to college completion.
This program will encourage students to complete their college education, even though they may want to start an enterprise. It is crucial that students develop all the skills needed to be successful in today's changing and challenging economy. TEC is for high school juniors and seniors who have demonstrated academic effort, creativity, innovation, determination, the ability to communicate, and a commitment to their community and family.


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The Other Side was an episode of The Walking Dead that needed to happen. I guess you could view it as maintenance or upkeep. That doesn't mean we have to like it. The "Rosita/Sasha going rogue" has been set up for some time and it was nice to finally see some forward momentum with the characters. The conversations that were had between Rosita and Sasha were fantastically written and acted pitch perfect. It's just a shame that these scenes took place inside a nonsensical story arch.
The show lays out their reasoning for going rogue, but it doesn't make their plan any less stupid. The only thing that Rick and the gang have going for them right now in the fight against The Saviors is the element of surprise. Two fighters from Alexandria popping things off inside The Saviors Compound is the exact opposite of a surprise. Jesus' half-ass plea to get them to stay made me even more annoyed. It's as if the writers saw these plot holes and felt having one minor character be a voice of concern would be enough. Let's hope these shenanigans get wrapped up next week and Sasha doesn't die in vain.
Quick Thoughts:
- The Walking Dead is a show that usually forgets about dead characters fast. That's clearly not a problem anymore.
- I was holding out hope the Eugene was just playing along until he found an opportune moment to strike, but I guess he really is just a giant piece of shit.
- Of course, this is The Walking Dead so he will redeem himself as some point because the fans like him. I'm betting it will be saving someone's life at the last second.
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Formerly the right batsman at the wrong time, Cameron Bancroft is in red-hot form and on the cusp of a Magellan Ashes debut.
Bancroft was somewhat of a forgotten man a month ago – despite carrying his bat for an unbeaten 206 during the final game of this year's county stint.
The resolute right-hander is now being floated as a viable answer to any one of the nation's three selection conundrums.
Matthew Renshaw and Peter Nevill are expected to receive good news from selectors.
But even if overlooked as an opener and wicketkeeper, Bancroft's unbeaten 228 at the WACA may make him irresistible to a panel wanting the best available batsman at No.6.
A Baggy Green would be reward for Bancroft's resilience and adaptability – traits that resulted in a call-up for Australia's Test tour of Bangladesh in 2015.
Then 22, he was already being talked about among insiders as a subcontinent specialist based on development tours to the region plus a knack of knuckling down.
The Baggy Green went begging, with tour was aborted at the last minute for safety reasons.
Bancroft was overtaken in the pecking order, lost confidence, started to overthink the game and couldn't get a look in – barring a one-off Twenty20 for Australia.
Former chairman of selectors Rod Marsh forecast Bancroft becoming "a very good player for us over a long period of time", while the current panel is also aware of his talent.
Bancroft was set to play for Australia A earlier this year. 'Mother Cricket' – as Bancroft's idol-turned-mentor Justin Langer likes to call the sport's seemingly mystical forces – intervened again.
The West Australian was collateral damage in the ugly pay dispute. He stayed in England and experienced the angst in relative isolation compared to other members of the squad, who assembled in Brisbane for a week of training before the pin was pulled.
Some members of the squad were in tears about the cancelled trip to South Africa. Bancroft went back to work with Gloucestershire.
The no-nonsense operator gave selectors a timely reminder of his talent with an unbeaten 76 against the Test attack last week - the first time a keeper has carried his bat through an entire Sheffield Shield innings.
The runs have continued to flow but it would be foolish to think Bancroft is purely in the mix because of the past fortnight.
Since opening the batting for Australia at the under-19 World Cup in 2012, Bancroft has put a high price on his wicket. It doesn't matter if he is yet to score or has just reached three figures.
It is a trait Langer was renowned for and something Steve Smith is desperate to see more of.
"Growing up, I loved JL's grit at the crease," Bancroft noted earlier this year.
The uncapped batsman's prowess - and willingness to endure painful blows - under the lid is also widely respected. As is his work ethic.
"He's got elite fitness ... no one in the world works harder," Langer said this week.
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It steals all type of information about the user, such as passwords and usernames, by logging the keystrokes typed by the user and the mouse movements. It can also store the user's MSN Messenger conversations. Then, it sends the gathered information to its author.
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AttachMsngr.G is a Trojan that steals all type of information about the user, such as passwords and usernames, by logging the keystrokes typed by the user and all the movements made with the mouse.
Additionally, it is designed to store a log with the user's MSN Messenger conversations, possibly with malicious purposes.
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AttachMsngr.G does not spread automatically using its own means. It needs an attacking user's intervention in order to reach the affected computer. The means of transmission used include, among others, floppy disks, CD-ROMs, email messages with attached files, Internet downloads, FTP, IRC channels, peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks, etc.
AttachMsngr.G is easy to recognize once it has affected the computer, as it displays the following image when it is run and whenever Windows is started:


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Tennis lessons. A workshop on choosing clothes and makeup. Exercise classes, early-bird dinner specials and help with your taxes.
Broward County`s hospitals are branching out. In the interest of their own financial health, they are offering a plethora of programs for healthy people.
``If you create a relationship with people before they are ill, they`ll come to you when they are ill,`` said David Voneida, director of the Wellcare Program at Holy Cross Hospital in Forth Lauderdale.
Last November, Holy Cross offered tennis lessons and a workshop in choosing the most flattering colors of makeup and clothing. Both were at nominal cost.
``(The participants) get all these warm fuzzy feelings because they think, `Oh, the hospital did this for me even when I was not sick,``` said Diana Cavazos Rivera, spokeswoman for the South Florida Hospital Association.
``The community outreach programs are a way to get people into the hospital in a non-threatening situation when they are not sick so that when they are sick they will go there or ask their doctor to treat them there.``
There are emotional support groups galore and free screenings for high blood pressure and cholesterol.
Pembroke Pines General Hospital prepares toddlers for siblings-on-the-way. Expectant mothers, children and senior citizens attend exercise classes at Coral Springs Medical Center.
At North Broward Medical Center near Pompano Beach, seniors can learn safe driving tips and receive free help with their income taxes. The hospital held a Valentine`s Day square dance -- a ``Hoedown for Health`` -- to raise money for a new treadmill and exercise bicycle.


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Hi MOMOF6ANGELS,
Your post makes me so mad!! What the heck are doctors thinking?! I think you need to remind that doctor that medicine is still a consumer affair. You have the right to move on and find a new one. DO THAT. You might want to follow up with this doc as you have paid your dues (literally)and get your medical records (they are yours). Tell your soon-to-be-former-doctor doctor the reason you won't be back then start your search. You can call the offices and ask to speak to the doctor before you make an appointment. If they won't call you back.....move on. You may have to ask for an in person interview. Ask the receptionist how far ahead most appointments usually book and how long the typical wait is on appointment days.
You have gotten excellent advice from Sunny and Rhonda. Remember that many doctors can give you the attention and treatment you deserve and they may not be specialists. I have had members here that are very happy just going to a PCP and getting all their MS needs met there. If your MS is reasonably stable or very slow progressing, that may be the way to go.
I wish you the very best of luck....please post back as to how it is all going.
Hi MOMOF6ANGELS
My husband and I had the same exact experience but this was all while I was waiting for my diagnosis. Once I got the news that I had MS (yes this neuro was also highly recommended) I couldn't get any info from them. I had to beg to get my rebif prescription. In fact rebif bugged the office for me and got the prescription and gave me more info than I got from the doctors office. When I was having trouble walking, I had his assistant tell me that if the doctor felt it was important they would call me back. I never got the results of my last MRI from that office. I called my regular doctor and they got me in within a week to someone else who is wonderful. She reviewed all my records and their office calls me back within several hours on concerns. You have to fight this darned disease, you shouldn't have to fight the doctors office too! Hang in there and find someone else. I am so sorry about your anniversary. The good thing is it sounds like you have a wonderful husband with great support. Keep us posted.


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Pablo Sandoval's situation with the Boston Red Sox only grows more complicated by the day. The third baseman was placed on the 15-day DL by the Red Sox last week, a move many fans perceived as an excuse not to play Sandoval until he either got into better shape or the Red Sox figured out what to do with him.
But on Monday, Sandoval had an appointment with the renowned Dr. James Andrews to get his shoulder checked out, and Red Sox manager John Farrell made it sound like the injury is serious. He told reporters that Sandoval was so sore that he was unable to get a full exam.
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"He had the exam here today with Dr. Andrews. He's still very sore," said Farrell. "To say there was a full exam conducted, Dr. Andrews couldn't because of the soreness. He was given an ejection to calm the inflammation down. At this point he will be re-examined likely by Dr. Andrews in a few weeks."
But the story only gets stranger from there. Many fans and media personalities questioned the idea that Sandoval was too sore to be evaluated by Andrews, and Dr. Thomas Gill, the former Red Sox team physician, made an appearance on WEEI radio Tuesday to give his thoughts on the report.
Former Red Sox/Pats team doc, Dr. Gill on Pablo not being able to get full exam: "I've never heard of this before. It is a head scratcher."— Joe Zarbano (@JoeZWEEI) April 19, 2016
Dr. Gill on @WEEI talking Sandoval situation: 'It is pretty confusing, I have to be honest'— Rob Bradford (@bradfo) April 19, 2016
Dr. Gill is no longer the Red Sox team doctor and is not currently treating Sandoval, so anything he says should be taken with a grain of salt, but his comments on Sandoval do not help clear up the situation.
Sandoval played in three games for the Red Sox this season before he was placed on the DL and is 0-for-6 with one walk and four strikeouts.


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Quantum liquid droplets in a mixture of Bose- Einstein condensates
Letitia Tarruell, ICFO, The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain
26.01.2018 at 09:00
Self-bound states appear in contexts as diverse as solitary waves in channels, optical solitons in non-linear media and liquid droplets. Thei r binding results from a balance between attractive forces, which tend to make the system collapse, and repulsive ones, which stabilize it to a finite size. This talk will present our recent experiments on dilute quantum liquid droplets: macroscopic clusters of ultra-cold atoms that are eight orders of magnitude more dilute than liquid Helium, but have similar liquid-like properties. In particular, they remain self -trapped in the absence of external confinement due to the compensation of attractive mean -field forces and an effective repulsion stemming from quantum fluctuations
[D. S. Petrov, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 155302 (2015)].
We observe these self-bound droplets in a mixture of two Bose -Einstein condensates with attractive inter-state and repulsive intra -state interactions. Exploiting in situ imaging, we directly measure their ultra-low densities and micro-meter scaled sizes, and demonstrate the many-body origin of their stabilization mechanism. Furthermore, we observe that for small atom numbers quantum pressure is sufficient to dissociate the droplets and drive a liquid -to-gas transition, which we map out as a function of atom number and interaction strength
[C. R. Cabrera et al., Science 14 December 2017 (10.1126/science.aao5686)].
In a second series of experiments, we study the difference existing between these liquid droplets and more conventional bright solitons. In analogy to non -linear optics, the former can be seen as one-dimensional matter-wave solitons stabilized by dispersion, whereas the latter correspond to high-dimensional solitons stabilized by a higher order non -linearity due to quantum fluctuations. We find that depending on the system parameters, solitons and droplets can be smoothly connected or remain distinct states coexisting only in a bi-stable region, and we determine experimentally its boundary
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Rachel Lindsay was a fan favorite on Nick Viall's season of The Bachelor, and starting Monday, she will have the opportunity to hand out long-stemmed roses to some lucky men. Lindsay was sent home after the Fantasy Suites episode, but she was announced as the next Bachelorette before she was sent home. And her season started early when four of her potential suitors walked in on After the Final Rose. The rest of the cast bios were posted, and as per usual, they prove to be very interesting. First impressions matter, right? Here are the best and worst profiles on this season of The Bachelorette:
The Best
Anthony — If he could be anyone, he would be his mom to "understand her better." But that is only the start of his impressive application. He received a Fulbright Grant to teach English on the Ivory Coast, which was also the most outrageous thing he has ever done. The reason he likes his favorite book — The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami — is because "It's like a dream I don't want to wake up from." He is attractive, smart and, as he describes, "emotionally intelligent." Hey, Anthony. If it doesn't work out, hit me up.
Dean — His mom died 10 years ago, and all he wants to do is have lunch with her one more time. He also wants to go to Hawaii to spread his mom's ashes there. There is a potential one-on-one date somewhere in there. Also, his favorite childhood memory included sitting on the roof of his mobile home, eating Oreos and watching a demolition derby with his family. Rachel, this guy is handing you date ideas in a little white envelope.
Demario — This man infused his application with a lot of humor and personality. He said he is a party-starter and wants to "fire it up, put on some Prince and party like it's 1999!!!!" He likes to be the center of attention, but the natural center of attention — not like "'07 B. Spears" or "2011 Sheen." The best present he has ever given was Beyonce and Jay Z tickets because "Bey and Jay = everyone's relationship goals." Honestly, I think this man might be the one for Rachel. He's up-to-date on pop culture, and there is potential for a Beyonce concert. This man is the real deal and just might steal the show — and Rachel's heart.
Jedidiah — This dude's name alone makes him one of the best contestants. Can you imagine Rachel calling out "Jedidiah" every week? "Rachel and Jedidiah" does have a nice ring to it.
Matt — He volunteers as a basketball coach with inner city children, and one of his favorite artists is Justin Timberlake. Enough said.
The Worst
Adam — The most romantic present this guy received was a threesome because "It was (his) birthday." Social standards suggest that you're not supposed to lie on applications, but why would you tell the whole world that? Too much information, Adam.
Blake E. — Blake E. is a little off beat. His occupation is listed as "Aspiring Drummer." First off, whoever puts that as their occupation must not be a very good drummer. Second, get a real job, dude. When asked what movie he wanted to watch, he said the new 50 Shade of Grey because he loves "taboo sexy stuff." Blake probably won't make it through the first rose ceremony.
Diggy — When asked about a fun one-night stand story, Diggy said he pretended to be asleep after hooking up with someone because their brother went missing and he didn't want to help. Honestly, Diggy, that was a loser move.
Kyle — His ideal woman is a "7" or better. Way to reduce women to a number. I give you a zero for that, Kyle.
Lucas — He listed his occupation as "Whaboom." What in the world is "whaboom." It appears other people are perplexed by this too. And his one-night stand story was also a threesome. Guys, stop talking about how much action you can get, please.
The Bachelorette will air Monday at 9 p.m. on ABC.


text: Our Family Photos Posted on November 16, 2017February 24, 2018 by Rai Zapata Can you believe these are our first professional family photos we've taken? I'm always taking photos of Cataleya. My dad takes photos of Cataleya and I, but I've just kept putting our family ones off. Continue reading "Our Family Photos" →


text: Does anyone ever get stuck in a repetitive loop of negative unwanted thoughts during a panic attack ? It feels like nothing is real and you feel like you are floating through a dreamy reality but at the same time very you are hyper aware of what is happening. And there is just this overarching feeling of doom like something is pinning you down or suffocating you. When I was young when I got high fevers I would sometimes have night terrors and wake up sweating, pace around very delusional feeling like I was going to die or that something was trying to kill me. I feel like I have some PTSD from that and sometimes when I am stuck in a thought loop I get into a similar irrational/ delusional mode as when I got those fever nightmares. It's not the same but I feel mimicking symptoms, mostly like I'm losing a grip on reality or trapped in a nightmare. I usually only get it like this when I'm very sleep deprived, wake up in the middle of the night or when I feel like I'm getting sick. Am I alone in this? This feeling of losing grip on reality freaks me out.


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(NBR) Nabors Industries Ltd.- Bear of the Day
Based upon the number of near-term challenges, we are maintaining our Underperform recommendation on Nabors Industries Ltd. (NBR) shares. The land-drilling contractor is facing headwinds in the pressure pumping market on the back of collapsing prices and lower utilization. The recent weakness in the North American onshore rig count has also been a negative.
As usual, we remain concerned about weak natural gas fundamentals, which are likely to limit the company's ability to generate positive earnings surprises. Nabors' fairly debt-heavy balance sheet also remains an issue.
Considering these factors, we see Nabors as a risky bet from which ordinary investors should exit or avoid. This is corroborated by our $12 price objective, which is based on a 2013 P/E multiple of 7.8X.
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Frank Castle is back to fight his way
We first met Frank Castle a few years ago in season two of Daredevil, and fans were very much intrigued by the wild and intense character so wonderfully played by Jon Bernthal. His introduction into the Marvel Netflix shows was so well done that it was no surprise that a solo show for the Punisher was soon announced. On November 17th, thirteen episodes of Frank in all his brutal glory hit Netflix (watch the promo here). Featuring enough blood to fill a small lake, The Punisher is an overall impressive show, and if you can handle a bit of gore and like military dramas, then you might really like this, as it follows ex-marine Frank Castle as he seeks revenge for the murder of his family by taking down people from the military and anyone who opposes him. The show really embraces the roughness and the darkness Marvel's Netflix shows are famous for, but it doesn't get too creepy or too deep.
It's important to note that if for some reason you didn't watch season two of Daredevil, you can still enjoy The Punisher. Of course there are a few references and things to know, but they're not big enough to interfere with you watching this now. However, EW does have a handy Frank-centric recap if you want a quick refresher.
Warning for minor spoilers in the rest of this article.
The good, the bad, and the mediocre
Personally, while I enjoyed the show for the most part, I found the first half to be kind of slow and boring. There wasn't enough action, and the bits we did get weren't even that extreme. Not that I wanted to see brutal murders all over the place, but if you have a character as merciless as Frank that I'm voluntarily watching, then I do expect more than what the first seven episodes delivered. Luckily the second half kicked it up a notch, both in terms of murders and plot. The stakes were raised, and it was really cool to see all the characters finally come into their own. However, one of my biggest complaints with this show was that there wasn't a clear villain for most of the time. We had all these little characters that I constantly wondered if they'd become the big bad, but in the end, it was very weakly done. Think back to Daredevil and Jessica Jones where Fisk and Kilgrave were fantastic villains, perfectly antagonizing the hero. But The Punisher just didn't have that aspect, and combine that with the fact that Frank doesn't really have any enhanced powers or skills, this show didn't really feel like a Marvel show, or at least not one like Netflix has given us before.
As for the characters, they were okay but not as great as I'd have liked (please note that I haven't read the comics so I can't compare that). Frank Castle really carried the show, allowing us to see several sides of him, which was amazing. He really made us root for him, and not just because we feel bad for him. He is a brilliant guy, and that was shown again and again, but he's also a bad guy. He's committed many murders and he enjoys it too, so he made for a really fascinating main character. Then there was Micro aka David Lieberman (played by Ebon Moss-Bachrach), and it took me a while to warm up to him, but eventually, I came to enjoy the data analyst. The Punisher had very few comedic moments, but Dave had a nice dry wit to him that really made his interactions with Frank fun to watch. The partnership that these two strike up was probably my favourite part of the show because it was so interesting. They're so different but work together fairly well, even though they were probably seconds away from killing each other at least a dozen times. Dave has a family he's separated from, and I just need to express how annoying I found his wife, Sarah. The female lead of the show was in the form of CIA agent Dinah (pronounced dee-na) Madani (played by Amber Rose Revah). While I liked her hair, I didn't ever really love her. I found her boring throughout. The other lady in this show is the only other familiar face: Karen Page (played by Deborah Ann Woll). If you'll remember from Daredevil S2, she helped Frank in court and there was no denying an underlying mutual attraction between the two, and that carried over to this show too. Karen brings out a different side of Frank and I would have liked to see more of that, but she is only in four episodes. Which is better than nothing. She basically the only tie to Frank's previous introduction, so at least we got that (and yes, I am a little sad that they couldn't slide in Claire Temple. There was even a perfect part where Frank took an arrow to the shoulder desperately needed reliable and safe help). Other characters included Billy Russo and Curtis Hoyle (played by Ben Barnes and Jason R Moore), two friends from Frank's military days, and I liked their involvement as they really showed different aspects of life after war and how being in the military can change a person. As did Lewis Walcott (played by Daniel Webber), a young ex-soldier who I think really paralleled Frank and his demons in an interesting way. I think perhaps the many characters and their specific small storylines really played a part in the boring first half of the show, and only when the storylines came together or ended in the second half did it amp up.
As Luke Cage took an opportunity to touch on race in America, The Punisher touched on the hot topic of gun control but didn't make the show too political. I don't want to get into it especially given the fact that I just complained that the show sometimes wasn't gory enough, but I do think it was admirable for them to include these varying opinions in a military/vigilante show like this.
We got just the right amount of The Punisher
The Punisher did end off nicely. Would I watch a season two, should the show get renewed? Sure. But I think this one season was solid enough and closed off Frank's story pretty well. I don't feel like we need much more.
Despite what you may have thought about Marvel/Netflix's last few shows (Iron Fist and The Defenders), The Punisher is a show of its own with a darker and more graphic style, and if you want to see that grittiness that we haven't seen a lot of lately, then give this show a watch. Sure, I would have liked a few more jokes in there, but Frank's situation and his overall personality is not one that lends itself well to sarcastic remarks and cheap laughs. Netflix is a platform that allows for more than regular cable TV can, and the Punisher and his many sides is a perfect character for such a platform, so bravo to Marvel for bringing him to light in an entertaining way and not losing anything from the comics. All in all, another win for Marvel, I'd say, though it's not my favourite of the Marvel Netflix shows.
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In a culture where reading often stops at the end of high school or university with a book bonfire, let's have some reasons to read. So here's one for starters from Adrian Reynolds, director of ministry at the Proclamation Trust…
I love reading. I don't think that comes as a surprise to many who know me or visit my office where I am trying to cultivate a Polytechnic version of a Oxbridge Don's study with various piles of books scattered around. I can't help it. I love reading.
But you may be surprised to know why.
I had a day off this week to do some home things with Mrs R, getting ready for our holiday in a few weeks time. Afternoon came around and England were bowled out. What next?
I'm really very bad at doing nothing. I can't stand it, in fact. That, coupled with the Messiah complex that all of us have, at least in part, could be very bad news. It would make me a workaholic. Someone who can't switch off but constantly needs to be checking emails and the like. That could easily be me.
Neither can I just zone out. I love sitting by the pool, but I can't do that with nothing in my head. I'm always mulling over things, checking them over in my mind, rehearsing and repeating events of this day and tomorrow. That's a real hiding to nothing, I can tell you for free. Or, worse still, my attempts to empty my head lead to all kinds of unhelpful stuff drifting in that I do well to avoid. You get the drift.
And so I read. It helps me fill my mind with useful stuff. Not junk. And not sin. And not work. It's a switch off. And for that reason alone (even though there are others), I love it.
So I commend reading to you. A guard against too high a view of self, sinful thoughts and workaholic-ism. It's why I'm taking away a few books this holiday.
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Decolonizing Autism Acceptance is an important article, well worth reading, by Estée Klar of The Autism Acceptance Project.
TAAP is one of the foremost parent-ally initiatives, founded in 2006. Klar asserts that there are not versions of "autism acceptance" out there, and cautions against co-optation of ideas and rhetoric that originated in the Autistic community.
" I will argue, however, that charity, parent and scientific "voices" are the predominant ones leading the autism discussion and appropriating the term "autism acceptance."
"To return to the autism community, for instance, an acceptance campaign movement that focusses on parents as "sufferers" and the "most important" people to talk to in addition to medical professionals, perpetuates the very oppressive, dominant voices that autistic people work so hard to be heard over."
NOTE: Autism Acceptance originated in the Autistic community. When mainstream organizations try to jump on the bandwagon, they water down our message and meaning. They can't help it. They have to try to be everythihng to everyone. They should choose and use their own rhetoric, not appropriate ours.


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Service Marketing concept understanding service management
A service is action of doing something for someone. It is largely intangible service management is important role in the economic development of many countries including India. Almost all developed and developing countries emerging as services economics. An economy is called service sector to the G.D.P of the nation is more than 50%.
Ex : transportation, education, healthcare, banking, entertainment
" A service is an activity or benefit that one party can offers to another party. Intangible and does not result in the ownership of anything. -Philip Kotler
Characteristics of service marketing:
Intangibility No ownership
Customer variability
Participation services
portability in separate ability
It cannot be taste, feel & smell before they are bought unlike physical product. The intangibility creates a feeling of uncertainty about the outcome of service.
In separate ability:
Services cannot be separated from the services provided in fact the product delivers consumption of a service.
Services of highly variable. It is almost impossible to have the same service from the same seller the second time.
Customer participation:
Service product is not a one side activity customer are core product of services. The product quality of services greatly depends upon the ability, skills and performance of the employees as well as the activity and performance of the customer.
No ownership:
Service consumer will have experience but not ownership since services are intangible.
They cannot be stored
Servicing marketing mix:
Promotion customer price
Physical evidence process
service in modern economy in India:
i. 1950-51
70%-agriculture 20%-industries 10%-service
ii) 1990-91
iii) 2000-2001
Classification of services:
G.A.T.S- general agreement on trading services
● Business services
● Communication
● Construction
● Distribution
● Education
● Environment
● Health
● Tourism
● Recreation
● Transportation
Market services Vs Physical services:
Marketing services
Physical services
customer participation
high involvement
time spread
customer imparticipation
low involvement
Service as a system:
service operation:
● Where by inputs or process and elements of the service product created.
● Like a play in theatre the components of service operations can be divided in those related to the actors or service personal and those relating that stage set or physical facilities equipment & other tangibles.
Service delivery:
Finally assembly of these elements takes place and the product is delivered to the customer.
Service delivery is concerned with
how the service product is delivered to the customer.
The interaction between services provides and their customers
Ex; atm's, automatic fuel pumps, 24hrs a day, 7 days a week.
Service marketing systems:
The service organizations include communication effects of the advertising & sales dept telephone calls & letters from service personal billing from the a/c ing depts. New stories and editorial in the world of mouth comments from current all formal customer and even participation in market research studies all points of contract with customers including advertising billing and market research.


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December 8, 2013
Well this is a pretty disappointing week for everyone…but oh well! (The Sun Devil football team lost the PAC-12 Conference Championship game to Stanford that week.) It was a good year for the Devils! Better than anyone predicted! It can be used as a stepping-stone for recruits! But sadly I knew it was going to come to an end. I mentioned in a letter that I sent to Mom and Dad that I looked back and saw that since I had been with Elder Arrington (who is converted to the Devils by the way. Like 100% into cheering for them instead of BYU) they had not lost! But then this week the news came in, and the Devils destiny was sealed on Monday. But before I get to the story let me say how sorry I am to Staci and Chris. My memory is so bad that I had written down right in my planner that I needed to say "Happy Birthday" to them this week and then completely forgot. I guess that's what happens when 1 week gets confined to 1 hour! Well now I guess I can say it… HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I'm sorry about the loss but the Holiday Bowl (hopefully) (The Sun Devils did end up going to the Holiday Bowl in San Diego.) that's not a bad bowl game!!!
Anyway, on Monday night we were walking to a lesson and the assistants called us. I knew ahead of time exactly what what it was about. I mean it's not unusual for the assistants to call us, but we just went with them to the Science Museum an hour before hand so I knew what it must be. They called and said that I was being transferred on Wednesday, so that for Mission Leadership Council I could work with my new zone. The good fantastic ole days of Cheung Sha Wan came to a great ole finish 8 months to the day that I first served there! And now I'm back to Tolo Harbour! Which I'm excited about! I'm senior companion with an Elder Welker from Oregon in Sha Tin! It's just an awesome area. Tai Po was beautiful and all, but Sha Tin blows it out of the water! Anyway before that…I got to see all the people one last time, Or Lan, Emily, Hazel, A-Hung (who is now named Stew for some reason… he picked it) A-Keung, A-Wing, Stephen, and some of the less-actives we helped bring back. It's awesome. A-Wing's baptism is coming up soon. We finished teaching him everything this past week and he is doing all right! When we went finding for the last time, I found something I had never seen before. We found Bruce Lee's old school!! I had to take a picture with it! It's famous!
He came back one day and handed out awards to some students and the plaque said, "The students were happier to receive an award from him than they were from the governor of Hong Kong" or something like that. Also there is a picture of my favorite tree in Cheung Sha Wan. We go by it like everyday and it just sticks out into the middle of a very busy road!
So it's so long farewell to Cheung Sha Wan. Until we met again! I was very used to it and the work is just going so awesome! I can't wait to see what Sha Tin has in store! I'll be here for a while since Elder Welker will go home in February someone will hold down the fort. That's me! I wont miss the primary kids screaming their heads of everyday during personal study! That has already been a bonus! And we live like 10 minute walking distance from the chapel instead of a 45-minute train ride! That's always nice!
This week was an okay week for me. I'm very sad to leave Cheung Sha Wan but if duty calls then duty calls! It is great place and some of, if not the best experiences of my life happened there. There is just so much that happened and I hope to keep those things learned with me here in Sha Tin. I'm excited to go to work in a new area. There is a lot that can be done here. The ward is absolutely amazing! They have so many people that know how to do missionary work. We have an investigator named Kira who didn't come to church for two weeks in a row and then yesterday when she came everyone was coming up to her asking if she was okay or if she needed any help (turns out she was going through a rough time in her life.) They were just so excited to see her and they told her so. One of the Young Women even bore her testimony in sacrament meeting about how she prayed to see "her friend" here at church because for the past few weeks she has not been in contact with her. It is such an awesome ward! I'm excited to go out and give these great ward members a bigger load to work on. There is a lot of finding to do and we need to be more ready to find these people. I've been studying and restudying Chapter 9 of Preach My Gospel over and over again. I've lost count of how many times I've studied those chapters. But I guess that's a good thing! I love Chapter 9, it brings us some great success. (Chapter 9 of "Preach My Gospel is entitled "How Do I Find People to Teach?" No wonder it is his favorite.) There is a lot of the attitude "Sha Tin has always been known as one of the toughest places to have investigators in Hong Kong" going on but that's okay. We will get up, go to work, and find the elect.
Zone training meeting went pretty well. This week! I love planning them!
The area is going okay. We have one solid investigator that is preparing herself really well for baptism. She has already given up her friends, her job, her drinking, her smoking, her relationships, and just about everything else for the gospel. She apparently got a miracle job but then after 3 weeks of them not letting her get Sundays off for church she quit! She didn't even get one paycheck because of it! Her name is Kira and she is awesome. She came back to church for the first time and was really happy. She said during that short time she stopped feeling the spirit, but then she realized its because of what she did, not Heavenly Father.
Well that's all! Merry Christmas to one and all! Go Devils!!! I love you all!! Keep up the good spirits!
Elder Allen


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By Michael E. Ruane
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
In the year 2108, after the general collapse of society, Washington residents will flee the violent decay of the city and migrate to utopian "ecohubs" in the middle of the Potomac River.
There, civilization will be reborn amid renewed natural resources, wind- and solar-generated power, clean water and man-made wetlands brimming with wildlife.
Or, a century from now, Washington will be ringed by 2,000-foot towers -- erected on the sites of 28 Civil War forts -- where rain will be collected for water, power will be generated by wind and sunlight, and multitiered hydroponic farms will grow food for the city.
By 2108, heat could be generated by thermal wells. Cars and commuting could be obsolete. The Pentagon might be a peace institute. And elevated farms could grow crops above inner-city neighborhoods.
For three hours yesterday, eight teams of architects and designers, armed with scissors, cardboard, plexiglass, plywood, glue, tape, pushpins and jumbo containers of coffee, raised imaginary Washingtons of the future.
The event was a competition of sorts called City of the Future and was hosted at Union Station by the History Channel, IBM and Infiniti.
The teams, from architectural and design firms and universities near the Washington area and New York City, had been given seven days to come up with visions of Washington 100 years hence, and had from 9 a.m. until noon to assemble their models inside the station.
Missing was the sense of limitless possibilities. Many hinted at a dire future plagued by pollution, shortages of water, goods and energy and the prospect of catastrophe. The future seemed a place for those who might survive the present.
One collaboration of D.C. architects and designers from the firms Envision and IStudio foresaw a city in which the government bureaucracy was moved from downtown and its office buildings converted to hotels, condos and apartments.
"The federal agencies . . . start to become something that provides a barrier to people actually being on the Mall, accessing the Mall and bringing life to the Mall," said IStudio's Rick Harlan Schneider.
Several entries foresaw a critical need for food in Washington's future and designed sci-fi urban farms to meet it.
The elevated farmland was the idea of a team of students and teachers from the University of Maryland.
"This would be an urban agricultural farm," Isaac Williams, an architecture teacher, said as he held part of a plexiglass model of future Washington with a carpet of green floating on pillars near New York and Florida avenues.
The farm would draw water and power from the ground, he said: "We'd be to able harvest the crops from here and feed most of D.C."
The team from the Washington firm of Beyer Blinder Belle, which won the competition, looked into the city's future and saw "totemic" towers raised on the sites of the old forts, partner Hany Hassan said.
The towers would have to be huge -- taller than the Sears Tower in Chicago -- to harvest the wind for power. The sides of the towers would capture solar energy, and farms would be spread across lower levels.
Hassan's plan envisions the Mall inundated with water from the Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial, much as it was when the Tiber Creek ran where the Mall is now.
"We believe that water is life," he said. "Bring life into the city. Transform what is referred to as the National Mall today . . . to become a water mall, [and] reflect all the monuments and memorials into it."
The team from Sorg and Associates imagined a vast extension of the Mall across the Potomac and enveloping the Pentagon, which would become a peace institute in a new world where security is achieved through diplomacy and ideas.
New York's OBRA Architects saw a future in which technology will eliminate the need for commuting. "Traffic will disappear as we know it," said Pablo Castro with OBRA.
Castro also imagined multi-use "super towers" the size of the Empire State Building. They would be scattered across the city, including around what is now lower Rock Creek Park. "We think in a hundred years the infrastructure . . . will need to be replaced," he said. "All the areas of medium density become areas of high density, and all the areas of low density become parks."
The most apocalyptic scenario was created by a team from the University of Virginia.
"This project starts off by assuming that Washington, D.C., will decline to a certain extent," said Nataly Gattegno, an assistant professor of architecture. "Because of its pollution. Because of its lack of educational infrastructure, lack of actual infrastructure, sewage, water treatment, energy, fuel, coal plants."
That would lead to "citizen engineers" creating river ecohubs capable of cleaning and recycling water, generating energy, cleaning the Potomac, attracting wildlife and essentially saving the city, she said.
"We harvest the decay of the city and build off of it," she said. "It all comes out okay in the end."
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INCREDIBLE CLIP: Bus driver slams on brakes and saves woman moments from jumping to death
A SUICIDAL woman was just moments from leaping to her death when a bus driver pulled over and dragged her to safety.
Incredible CCTV footage shows the bus crossing a bridge and passing the woman, who already has one leg over the railing.
Slamming on the brakes, the driver throws open the doors and springs into action, leaping across to her and pulling her back from the edge.
"Local news said the 30-year-old woman had a leg over the railing"
And though the woman screams and struggles, she is soon wrestled on to the bus with the help of a passer-by and passengers.
The remarkable rescue took place on Sunday above the surging waters of China's Yangtze River, on a bridge in the city of Nanjing.
Local news source People's Daily Online said the 30-year-old woman had a leg over the railing before she was rescued.
The driver, who is reportedly named Bian Peng, continued with his journey after the incident.
Passengers said the woman was taken away for counselling. The reason for her suicide attempt is unknown.
Recently a woman was saved from a fatal drop over the Avon Gorge after being grabbed by her hair.
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