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Full Mouth Reconstruction
Do you feel like the state of your smile is beyond repair due to lost teeth, gum disease, tooth decay, and other issues?
No matter how compromised your teeth and gums may be, a full mouth reconstruction can completely restore your smile.
Alafaya Family Dentistry serving Oviedo and Orlando, FL, can combine dental implants, dentures, and more into a custom rehabilitation plan.
What Is Full Mouth Reconstruction?
Full mouth reconstruction combines restorative dentistry services like implants, dentures, crowns, and gum disease treatment to completely restore every aspect of your oral health. Sometimes referred to as full mouth rehabilitation, dentists typically recommend this dental treatment to patients with badly damaged smiles who require more than one treatment. Looking and feeling your best is important, which is why our restorative dentists provide comprehensive solutions to all of our patients living in the Oviedo, Fl area, regardless of the present state of their oral health.
Am I a Candidate For
Full Mouth Reconstruction?
Patients suffering from multiple dental health issues such as a missing tooth or teeth, significant tooth decay, worn teeth, old or failing fillings, or a broken tooth are good candidates for full mouth reconstruction.
Frequently Combined Treatments In a Full Mouth Reconstruction
Restoration options for full mouth reconstruction include:
In addition to restorative services, there are a variety of cosmetic dentistry procedures you can elect to include in your treatment:
- Dental bonding
- Teeth whitening
- Porcelain veneers
- Gum tissue reshaping
How Long
Does Treatment Take?
Because no two patients' needs are alike, a full mouth reconstruction could span a couple of appointments or several over the course of a year or longer. During your consultation, your dentist will take note of your needs and goals to create a treatment timeline. In some cases, multiple treatments can be performed in a single visit. We will do our best to consolidate treatments whenever possible to provide the best value for your time and money.
Full Mouth Reconstruction Recovery
Healing time varies from one person to the next. Meanwhile, a more extensive treatment plan will require more healing time. Your dentist will provide you with a set of post-operative instructions for each procedure you undergo during your full mouth reconstruction. If you require dental implants, for instance, you will need to wait until the implant completely fuses with your jaw tissue before moving on to the next step of the restoration process. This takes three to six months and depending on the stage of your recovery, you may need to eat only soft foods or take other measures to ensure that you heal properly.
Your dentist may prescribe oral antibiotics or an antimicrobial mouth rinse to prevent infections and promote quicker healing. Once your full mouth reconstruction is complete, one of our dentists will guide you through the best oral hygiene practices as you recover.
"Dr. Ross saved my smile." Hear from our patients
Dr. Ross saved my smile. I used to never smile, laugh or almost talk without covering my mouth. Now I smile daily, I laugh daily and never cover my mouth. Very friendly, personable, has all the time in the world for you. Never makes me feel like I am just a dollar being made. Thank you Dr. Ross for helping me come to life.
View On GoogleWent in today for my first visit to meet Dr. Ross and the staff....I think I am in LIKE with my new dentist. I LIKE the professionalism, compassion, honesty and overall FRIENDLINESS of the entire group. I am a Dentistphobic person...Dr. Ross and staff put me instantly at ease. Looking forward to next visits to get my smile back!!!
View On GoogleHow Much Does a Full Mouth Reconstruction Cost?
While insurance will contribute to the cost of solutions such as dentures, gum disease treatment, and fillings, premium options such as dental implants are rarely covered. To help make any out-of-pocket costs affordable, we partner with CareCredit® and Lending Club. These financing options allow you to make low-interest monthly payments. Meanwhile, our staff will gladly work directly with your insurance provider to secure maximum coverage of your care.
What's the difference between
a smile makeover and
a full mouth reconstruction?
In the simplest terms, a full mouth reconstruction is focused on oral health issues while a smile makeover combines cosmetic treatments to achieve an aesthetic upgrade. We can incorporate elements of either treatment into your plan, depending on your goals.


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On August 5, Abishur Prakash shared his thoughts with a dozen CBC radio stations across Canada on TikTok and geopolitics of technology. Listen to his interview with CBC's "Metro Morning" here.
Here is a list of all the CBC stations Abishur chatted with:
- Metro Morning (Toronto)
- Superior Morning (Thunder Bay)
- Morning North (Sudbury)
- London Morning (London)
- The Morning Edition (Kitchener-Waterloo)
- Newfoundland Morning (Newfoundland)
- Labrador Morning (Labrador)
- Edmonton AM (Edmonton)
- The Eyeopener (Calgary)
- Daybreak South (Kelowna)
- Daybreak Kamloops (Kamloops)
- Saskatoon Morning (Saskatoon)

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Understanding behavioural finance and cognitive bias
Human beings are often unpredictable when it comes to relationships, preferences, habits and purchases. The same is true when we invest. Time and again, stock market trends have shown that many investors act irrationally in certain situations. A prime example of this was the financial crisis of 2008, but the same pattern repeats every time investors get caught up in the moment and are then brought crashing back to reality, as happened during the dotcom bubble in the late 1990s. Behavioural finance is the study of this irrationality and the cognitive bias behind it.
Let's be honest: however hard we try, we never succeed in acting entirely rationally. Nevertheless, despite the degree of irrationality that seems to characterise homo sapiens, financial theorists have long viewed the investor as some kind of homo economicus who always makes decisions based on facts alone. Their theory suggests that investors gather all of the information available and study it carefully. Investors use this information to carry out the appropriate calculations and then decide, in full knowledge of the facts, on the best way to achieve precisely defined and clearly delineated goals. This is what is meant by the ideal or rational economic agent model.
The benefit of these theories is that they produce reliable predictive models, but they sometimes seem completely at odds with the actual behaviour observed on the stock markets. It just goes to show why economics is a humanities subject rather than an exact science in which lab test results can be reproduced.
With the growth of behavioural sciences, other models have gradually emerged that attempt to account for the limited – or even minimal – level of rationality shown by the majority of flesh-and-blood investors.
Behavioural sciences demonstrate the cognitive factors and biases that are likely to influence a person's decisions.
Based on social sciences including psychology as well as economics, behavioural sciences focus on how people actually think and behave in the real world. In particular, they demonstrate the cognitive factors and biases that are likely to influence a person's decisions, often without their knowledge. A cognitive bias should be understood as an automatic thought process, of which we are generally unaware, that short-circuits our ability to think logically and distorts the way in which we process information. The purpose of these biases is to simplify and streamline our processing of internal information (our memory) and external information (our environment) so that we can make decisions more quickly. There is nothing wrong with such biases in themselves and they are vital if we find ourselves facing a crisis or an imminent threat. However, they can prove immensely harmful when we need to make decisions based on a rational analysis that is as objective as possible.
The study of investors' behaviour and cognitive bias is what we call behavioural finance. This discipline gained particular prominence in 2017 when the Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded to Richard Thaler for his "understanding of the psychology of economics".
Let's move on from the theory now and consider a few examples to aid our understanding. myLIFE has reviewed four of the most famous types of cognitive bias to help you identify them in your own decision-making and try to mitigate the effects.
1. Confirmation bias
While not specific to investment, this type of bias is among those that cause the most harm to investors. Confirmation bias involves only considering information and events that confirm what we already think and ignoring or disregarding anything that contradicts our beliefs. This usually means that we arrive at our investment strategy through reverse engineering. We start with a goal in mind and then only select and consider arguments that support it.
Nobody enjoys thinking about scenarios or studying facts that go against their opinions. However, doing so is a must for anyone who wants to invest as rationally as possible. Sticking our heads in the sand is the most sure-fire way to lose a lot of money – and to miss out on opportunities to make money.
Losing a certain sum of money has a greater emotional impact on investors than gaining the same amount of money.
2. Risk and loss aversion
When we invest, we are completely obsessed with the positions that lose us money. Even if the majority of our positions are in the black, all we see is the stock that has been dropping for two weeks and we're on tenterhooks until it rises again. "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush," as the saying goes, so we promise ourselves that we will be more careful and choose safer investments in future. This is what we call risk aversion.
Losing a certain sum of money has a greater emotional impact on investors than gaining the same amount of money. And this prompts us to make irrational decisions because we believe, for example, that a bad result must have been caused by a bad decision. This bias may stop us from holding on to a stock that we chose for the right reasons but which is performing poorly. Our risk aversion will mean that we are tempted to dispose of the stock when it reaches its lowest point. However, if the stock's fundamentals are just as robust as ever, that would actually be the best time to buy more.
Conversely, loss aversion may push some investors to hold on to a stock that is in freefall, whose fundamentals have seen a major and long-term deterioration, in the vain hope that it will ultimately "come right again" and they will recover their money.
3. Overconfidence and self-denigration
As the name suggests, overconfidence is our tendency to overestimate our abilities. In investment terms, this manifests itself as a belief that we are always right, despite clear evidence to the contrary. Or we might believe that we have discovered the investment of the century that nobody else has spotted.
This bias often causes investors to buy and sell at a faster rate because they think they know better than everyone else. Investors who do this have to pay transaction costs that may end up weighing heavily on the overall profitability of their portfolio – especially if their picks fail to significantly outperform the rest of the market.
The opposite of overconfidence is self-denigration, which is when we come up with a long list of valid and invalid reasons as to why our portfolio holdings are bound to perform poorly in the future. It's similar to pretending not to have studied at all just before a test at school so that you can justify getting a bad mark. It helps the investor to psychologically prepare themselves for a potential disappointment if the investment actually does perform poorly. It may even help them feel better about it. The problem with this bias is that it tends to prevent us from taking action, whether that means buying a stock or selling a position.
This bias may manifest itself as an inability to wind up a position when the underlying business is showing signs of deterioration on the grounds that we have already invested a lot of money.
4. Sunk cost
Have you ever bought tickets to a show in advance only to discover that the show is rubbish and your friend is throwing an amazing party on the same date? Most of us would go to the show anyway on the grounds that we already have a ticket. We choose to have a bad night instead of a good night despite the fact that going to the party wouldn't have cost us any more money than what we had already spent on the show. This is how a sunk cost works: we behave irrationally and fail to properly assess the options open to us because of a past investment that we can't get back anyway.
When we invest, this bias may manifest itself as an inability to wind up a position when the underlying business is showing signs of deterioration on the grounds that we've already invested a lot of money. The question to ask yourself is this: what would I do if I had invested someone else's money rather than my own?
Behavioural finance highlights the cognitive biases to which investors unwittingly succumb when they make decisions. Considering human nature and the biases that influence you will help you to invest more thoughtfully. This article has covered a few such biases but there are many more. The myLIFE team would be happy to address this topic again if it would help you to better understand investment in all its forms so that you can make more well-founded decisions in future.


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Borge, Østfold facts for kids
Borge is a parish and former municipality in Østfold county, Norway. Today it is located in the northeast part of Fredrikstad municipality, near the border with Sarpsborg.
The parish of Borge was established as a municipality January 1, 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The district of Torsnes was separated from Borge as a municipality of its own January 1, 1910. The split left Borge with a population of 6,466. In 1951 a part of Borge with 53 inhabitants was moved to Fredrikstad municipality, and on 1 January 1964 the properties Gansrød and Ulfeng with 30 inhabitants followed the same way whereas the majority of Torsnes was reunited with Borge. After the merger Borge had a population of 9,219. The rest of Borge (together with Kråkerøy, Onsøy and Rolvsøy) was merged with the city of Fredrikstad January 1, 1994. Prior to the merger Borge had a population of 11,959.
Borge Church (Borge Kirke) was built in 1861. It was built of stone and has 270 seats. The church was restored during 1950. The first church built on the site was dedicated to St. Olav. Churches at this site have burned several times.
The name
The municipality (originally the parish) was named after the farm Borge (Norse Borgar), since the first church was built on its ground. The name is the plural form of borg 'hill fort'. However, the remains of such a fort is not known in the area.
Roald Amundsen, polar explorer, was born in Borge.
See also
In Spanish: Borge (Østfold) para niños
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…outpocketing of the cloaca, the bursa of Fabricius, controls antibody-mediated immunity in young birds. The bursa regresses with age, and thus its presence or absence may be used to determine age.
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- In blood: Lymphocytes
…lymphocyte was influenced by the bursa of Fabricius (an outpouching of the gastrointestinal tract) and thus was called the B lymphocytes, and the other was influenced by the thymus and was called the T lymphocytes.
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…B cells mature in the bursa of Fabricius. (The process of B-cell maturation was elucidated in birds—hence B for bursa.) In mammals the primary organ for B-lymphocyte development is the bone marrow, although the prenatal site of B-cell differentiation is the fetal liver. Unlike the thymus, the bone marrow does…
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…stands for the bursa of Fabricius, a lymphoid organ found only in birds, the organisms in which B cells were first discovered.
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During the past six years, Hayley Westhoff has consistently been a Chicago Association of Realtors top 1 percent producer. With her business partner, Pam MacPherson, Westhoff has cultivated a 10-member team. In 2018, the team sold $75 million collectively; Westhoff sold just over $25 million individually. She donates part of her commissions to Team Bright Side, an organization that funds pediatric cancer research.


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Homemade Mara Mara Nyika Camp Pastries
If we let them, our Great Plains chefs will get up to mischief with decadent pastries and playful yet healthy dishes to celebrate all occasions. Easter is one of those occasions we simply can't hold them back from.
No matter what Easter means to you, what time of the day you feast or fast, the suggestion below from Mara Nyika seems appropriate because it is 'reflective' food, and that is what is familiar to everyone at this time.
I do hope you 'try this at home'. But remember us, and imagine what it was like the first time you were surprised and delighted by the Mara Nyika kitchen aroma and tastes wafting across the plains that excited and mingled with those at our other Mara camps.
Guests at Mara Nyika often rave about the breakfast pastries!
They are surprised we can produce fresh, quality products in the middle of the Masai Mara bush setting.
Making pastries can be fun and personalised – once the dough is made, you can get a variety of products from it as you just need to substitute the filling. So choose the fillings depending on your taste! For example, the same procedure below can be used to make chocolate croissants, almond croissants, blueberry Danish etc.
Ingredients for the dough
- 950 grams of White Flour
- 150 grams Sugar
- 20 grams Salt
- 30 grams Yeast
- 150 ml Milk
- 150 ml Cooking Cream
- 200 ml Water
- 500 gams Unsalted Butter ( folding)
- One egg – for egg wash
Ingredients for the Pastry Cream (used in the making of the Danish pastry)
- 250 ml Milk
- 75 grams Sugar
- One Egg
- One Egg yolk
- 22.5 grams of Cornflour or custard powder
- Few drops of vanilla essence
- In a heavy saucepan, stir the milk and sugar together. Bring to a boil over medium heat.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the egg yolks and egg.
- Stir together the remaining sugar and cornflour; then stir them into the egg until smooth.
- When the milk comes to a boil, drizzle it into the bowl in a thin stream while mixing so that you do not cook the eggs.
- Return the mixture to the saucepan and slowly bring to a boil, constantly stirring, so the eggs do not curdle or scorch on the bottom.
- When the mixture comes to a boil and thickens, remove it from the heat. Keep aside to cool.
- Mix all ingredients together to make a soft dough.
- Chill the dough for 2 hours, then fold in the butter.
- After folding in the butter, roll the dough and make the first turn (fold the pastry in half).
- Chill the dough for an hour.
- After the hour, roll the dough and make a second turn.
- Chill the dough for another hour. Then make a third final turn.
- Divide this dough into two.
- Roll one-half of the dough and cut it into triangles for croissants.
- Fill the triangles with any filling you would like (experiment with what you have, from jams to Nutella!).
- Start rolling the croissant from the base of the triangle to the tip.
- Apply egg wash and keep aside to proof.
- Once croissants have proofed (almost double the size), bake at 170 degrees C for 10 minutes.
- Roll the other half of the dough to requires size, then spread the homemade pastry cream evenly on the dough.
- Sprinkle raisins evenly on the dough (or anything else you have in the cupboard – be experimental)!
- Roll the dough starting from the far end towards yourself.
- Once at the end, apply egg wash to seal the dough.
- Cut the rolled dough into desired sizes, apply egg wash and keep aside to proof.
- Once the cut dough pieces have proofed (almost double the size), bake at 170 degrees C for 10 minutes.
Enjoy! We look forward to making pastries for you on your safari!


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A few days ago Ginny's desktop machine (a home built system cobbled together from various parts I had on hand) finally gave up it's ghost. It wouldn't book up, just gave one long beep, waited a few seconds, gave another long beep, over and over.
Well, her laptop (Dell Inspiron 8600) is almost out of warranty … and she's not going to be getting my Dell Latitude D630 (due to the Latitude E6400 being returned), so I figured it wouldn't be a bad idea to get her a new computer.
So we went over to CompUSA (formerly Tiger Direct) and looked at the small form factor desktop systems. We chose a Gateway SX2800-01 system (Core 2 Quad, 4gb RAM, 640gb SATA disk, 64bit Vista Home). The only problem was that it had on-board Intel video and no DVI output (although it does have HDMI output). Cost about $500. FWIW: This is Ginny's first new computer in quite a while. Most of her other computers were hand-me-downs (from me).
We got the system home and set it up. It was then we realized that the system's video wasn't up to Second Life's standards. Realizing that CompUSA would give us a hard time about returning the system, Ginny tried Second Life out and declared it to be adequate.
The systems "Gateway Recovery Manager" software kept bugging Ginny about creating recovery disks (since the system didn't come with any OS media). It wanted 4 DVD's (or a box full of CD's) … which I had.
I tried to burn the Applications & Drivers DVD, but kept getting an error 205 from the Gateway Recovery Manager, no mater what DVD burner I used (the built in device or my external USB DVD-RW).
I checked the Gateway site to see if the software had been updated … but couldn't find anything specific to the system we had purchased. A bit more searching and I found an update to the software "eRecovery" software. It didn't apply directly to her system, but the version was pretty close. I downloaded and installed it. Problem solved.
I really wish hardware vendors would provide an application that could check all the provided software for updates and then download & optionally install them. It would make things a lot easier for people who aren't very technically savy.


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James Carroll's View of Peace on Earth
ResumeMost of us see things as they are. James Carroll sees things as they should be. The former Catholic priest turned Boston Globe columnist and best-selling author of "Constantine's Sword" and "American Requiem." cuts through the clutter of news headlines and gets to the heart of matters.
He asks the tough questions: the human toll of the war in Iraq; the disparity between rich and poor exposed by Hurricane Katrina; the Catholic Church's bungling of the clergy sex abuse scandal, and more.
Hear a conversation with James Carroll about peace on earth and the moral tenor of our times.
James Carroll, essayist, novelist, and regular contributor to The Boston Globe.
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Imli Spoiler Alert: Satyakaam to reveal Imlie's secret to Aditya
Imli upcoming story:
In the forthcoming episodes of Imli serial, Satyakaam will reveal to Aditya that Imlie is an illegitimate child.
Up until now in Imli serial, Satyakaam kidnapped Aditya thinking he is a police officer.
Further, Aditya earned his trust by saving him from the police.
Now as per the gossip news of Imli serial, Satyakaam will agree to be interviewed by Aditya to share his life story.
Elsewhere, Imlie will be teasing his mother while Satyakaam will reveal to Aditya that Imlie is an illegitimate child of Mithi and a town man.
Further, Aditya will promise Satyakaam to show the world his good side according to the recent news of Imli serial.
Let's see how will Imlie react to Aditya knowing her secret in the future episodes of Imli serial.


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President Donald Trump is supposed to be the dealmaker-in-chief. He's supposed to get the deals his predecessors couldn't get, the concessions they couldn't make, the wins they couldn't find.
Instead, Trump signed onto the first health care bill Paul Ryan came up with only to watch it go down in flames. As I write this, the question has moved from whether the bill will pass to whether Trump can force a House vote to humiliate Ryan. So what the hell happened?
The answer can be found in Trump Steaks. And Trump University. And Trump Vodka. And Trump Suits. And Trump's fragrance line, his board game, his ghostwritten books, his energy drink, his eyeglasses, and his chocolate bars.
Yes, these are all real Trump products. And they expose the reality of Trump's dealmaking. Trump is not a guy who makes particularly good deals so much as a guy who makes a lot of deals — many of which lash his name and reputation to garbage products.
Trump, a lifelong teetotaler, didn't scour the globe to find the very best vodka. No — someone offered him an opportunity to make a quick buck by putting his name on a product he wouldn't ever touch and he took it. Trump University was a far darker scam. Trump Steaks were, and are, a joke.
This is Trump's pattern: He licenses his brand and lets others worry about the details of the products. Trump's partners often end up going out of business and his customers often end up disappointed, but Trump makes some money, and he gets his name out there, and it's all good.
This was Trump's approach to the health care bill, too. He let someone else worry about the product and he simply licensed his name, marketing support, and political capital. Trump didn't know what was in the American Health Care Act, and he didn't much care. It broke his promises to ensure health care for everyone, to protect Medicaid from cuts, to lower deductibles, and to guarantee choices of doctors and plans — but he didn't pay attention to any of that. In private, Trump was apparently bored by the subject and eager to move onto tax reform.
But being president of the United States isn't like being a downmarket consumer brand. The products you put your name on matter. And the deal isn't done once you've appeared at the ribbon-cutting and hyped up the project. You still need to persuade members of Congress to vote for the bill — and they're apt to wonder what will happen to them when 24 million people lose their health insurance and millions more find themselves forced into crummier, higher-deductible care.
Trump had no answers for these questions, and he didn't have the patience to negotiate any out. He agreed to a few thoughtless changes to the legislation — changes that made the bill worse and less stable — and then demanded a vote, fast.
Sometimes it's better to take no for an answer
In the morally cramped universe of political punditry, a "yes" vote on the American Health Care Act would be seen as a win for Trump. It won't be. Passage of a bill that's polling at 56-17 against even before it's begun taking health insurance from people isn't a victory, it's a devastating, possibly legacy-defining, loss in the making. It's real people being hurt by someone they thought would help them.
When Trump promised he would make better deals on behalf of the American people, they thought he meant deals that would make their lives better. On health care, for instance, they wanted what he promised — more and better health insurance with lower deductibles and lower premiums.
But Trump has never specialized in those kinds of deals. He's specialized in deals that made his life easier and his name bigger, and the particular way he specialized in those deals was by caring much, much less about the consumer experience than his nearest competitors. The health care bill is a case in point. It's a bad product, and Trump himself grew bored of it, and the work that was required to improve and pass it, quickly:
Late tonight Trump told confidants that he is now ready to see who's with him and who's against him, that the wooing & chatty calls are done
— Robert Costa (@costareports) March 24, 2017
How is he going to bear four years of this job? How are we?
This isn't the first of Trump's deals to go bad. But there is a different dynamic at work in this one. Trump is famous, when his partnerships collapse, for screwing contractors and suing collaborators. He seems to be doing that here, too. Ryan went to the White House today to tell Trump he didn't have the votes and they should pull the bill, and Trump is demanding a vote anyway.
Mulvaney to @SpeakerRyan when informed he didn't have votes for #Obamacarerepeal -- "The president doesn't care. The president wants a vote"
— Major Garrett (@MajorCBS) March 24, 2017
If Ryan holds that vote, it will be a humiliation for him — this was his bill, and his strategy, and Trump will have forced him to show just how far short he fell. But Trump doesn't get anything out of humiliating Ryan save for a worse relationship with his most important legislative ally.
Humbling Ryan — and angering House Republicans who don't want to take a tough vote on doomed legislation — makes everything from tax reform to infrastructure harder, and in a worst-case scenario, it might make them wonder just how much political capital they should be burning to protect Trump from the Russia investigations.
In Trump's past jobs, he could simply move on from failed deals and find new partners, and new markets, and new sectors. But that's not how the presidency works, and it's not clear he realizes that.


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This a beautiful kiln fired suncatcher and was made by my daughter. There are 6 "arms" of the starburst alternating between solid glitter green glass and clear pink and green patterned glass. The hanger is made using pale green adventurine beads alternating with rose quartz beads, and is finished off with a copper wire loop. The suncatcher itself measures approximately 9-9 1/2" square. With the hanger, the length is approximately 18 1/2 inches.
This suncatcher looks very nice hanging in a window with the sun shining in. It will make someone's day a beautiful one!


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Title: The Prodigals and Their Inheritance
Author and Title: Margaret Oliphant. The Prodigals and Their Inheritance
First Edition: London: Methuen, 1894. 2 volumes, 21s.
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And write LESS instead. LESS code is basically CSS with variables and some other sugar on top, that compiles down to vanilla CSS when you run it through the "lessc" program.
There are other programs out there that do this (I briefly considered the python-based CleverCSS), but the thing I like about LESS is that all valid CSS is also valid LESS. So you can take your existing CSS file, rename it to 'mystyle.less' and run it through the preprocessor just to get margins and whitespace and the like cleaned up nicely.
Once you've done that, you can start incrementally fixing up your .less file; replacing repeated references to the same color with one variable name, for example. You can nest CSS rules so that things that go together are naturally grouped together (and are much more readable too).
There's more, but I haven't gotten there yet. I've been playing with it for all of 30 minutes, and already had a few spells of gleeful geeky cackling at how much nicer it makes CSS.


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The education and training needs of advanced clinical practitioners: an exploratory, qualitative study
Journal article
Bench, S, Lee, G, Baker, E, Trenchard-Turner, N, Whaley, S, Peacock, S, Garry, B, Dover, N, Nwosu, W and Worth, T (2018). The education and training needs of advanced clinical practitioners: an exploratory, qualitative study. Journal of Nursing Education and Practice. 8 (8). https://doi.org/10.5430/jnep.v8n8p66
Authors | Bench, S, Lee, G, Baker, E, Trenchard-Turner, N, Whaley, S, Peacock, S, Garry, B, Dover, N, Nwosu, W and Worth, T |
Abstract | Advanced clinical practitioners increasingly provide patient care in a variety of settings across the world. This paper reports a qualitative study exploring the training and education needs of these healthcare professionals in England. Four focus group discussions and one individual interview were conducted with a total sample of 17 people. Participants were adults enrolled on an Advanced Practice Masters programme at one Higher Education Institution or advanced clinical practitioners from across two large London National Health Service hospitals. Data collection took place March-April 2017. Following transcription, audio-recorded data were imported into Nvivo11 and subjected to a standard process of inductive thematic analysis. Three key themes were identified: Recognising advanced practice; Education for Advanced Practice; Programme delivery. Findings highlight the huge variation in titles, practice responsibilities and management structure, which make the development of a generic education programme challenging and the importance of flexibility key to success. At a time when public services are experiencing significant financial constraints, the need for improved collaborative practices, shared resources and a practice focus is considered vital for educating future advanced clinical practitioners worldwide. |
Keywords | Education; Qualitative research; Advanced clinical practice nursing; Curriculum |
Year | 2018 |
Journal | Journal of Nursing Education and Practice |
Journal citation | 8 (8) |
Publisher | Sciedu Press |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.5430/jnep.v8n8p66 |
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Deposited | 23 Mar 2018 |
Accepted | 23 Mar 2018 |
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Vera Farmiga Biography, Siblings, Children and Husband – Renn Hawkey
In an industry that is generally dominated by men, it is a big deal to find a woman whose resume competes with and outperforms that of men in Hollywood. These women are rare in Hollywood, and one of the few is Vera Farmiga, an actress, director, and producer whose filmography has earned her over 20 nominations, including the three major acting nominations – Oscar, Emmy, and Golden Globe.
Vera Farmiga Biography
Vera Ann Farmiga was born on August 6, 1973, in Clifton, New Jersey, to Ukrainian parents. Her mother, Lubomyra, was a teacher, her father, Michael, a systems analyst, and later a landscape gardener. As the second of seven children, she was raised as a Pentecostal.
The Ukrainian-American, as she likes to describe herself, grew up in an insular Ukrainian-American community in Irvington, New Jersey. Ukrainian remained her mother tongue, and she learned English only at the age of six.
As a child, Vera Farmiga attended St. John the Baptist Catholic School, a Ukrainian school in Newark, New Jersey, and toured with a Ukrainian folk dance group as a teenager. She is a classically trained pianist and was a member of Plast, a scout organization in Ukraine.
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As a young adult, she graduated from Hunterdon Central Regional High School. She found her vocation as an actress after being benched at a national team soccer game in her youth and eventually winning the leading role in the school play of Lady Margaret. She continued her acting career by studying Performing Arts at Syracuse University, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1995. Her successful future began in her final year of study when her performance in a production of The Seagull at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival won her group the top prize.
Vera Farmiga Career
Vera's acting career began with humble beginnings at the theater of the American Conservatory. In the production of The Tempest in February 1996 she played the leading role of Miranda. That same year, she made her Broadway debut alongside Ed Harris in October 1996 as an understudy in the role of Emmi Straube in Taking Sides, a play by Ronald Harwood.
These stage roles earned her her first role on the big screen: in 1997 she played Emily Elliot in Hallmark's television movie Rose Hill. Before her breakthrough came in 2004, she had been involved in several projects, she had starred in several movies and TV shows, including a supporting role in the 2001 action thriller, 15 Minutes, alongside Robert De Niro.
When she finally made her breakthrough in 2004, she starred in the independent drama film Down to the Bone as drug-addicted mother Irene Morrison. Her performance was well-received by the critics, and although she did not win an Oscar for this performance, she still won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Best Actress Award and was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead.
Throughout her career, Vera Farmiga has appeared alongside other Hollywood heavyweights such as Ian McKellen, Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Leonardo DiCaprio, George Clooney, and Matt Damon.
The Academy recognized her outstanding talent in 2009 after her appearance in Jason Reitman's comedy-drama "Up in the Air". For her performance in the film, Vera received nominations from the Academy for Best Supporting Actress, the SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role, the BAFTA, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. On June 25, 2010, she was accepted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
As an already established talented actress, Vera tried her hand at directing and made her directing debut in the micro-budget film Higher Ground. The film received high critical acclaim and premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, receiving nominations for her work as a director and actress for the film. In 2013 she received an Emmy nomination for her performance at the Bates Motel for outstanding leading actress in a drama series.
She has acted in over 60 projects, including film, television, and stage productions.
Children & Husband – Renn Hawkey
Vera Farmiga is married to Renn Hawkey, an American musician, songwriter, film producer, and actor. He was a member of the metal band Deadsy and was part of three studio albums of the band, where he played the synthesizer for the band. During his time as a member of Deadsy, Hawkey worked for several other bands before he finally left the band in 2007 after a break.
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Vera Farmiga met Renn Hawkey when a mutual friend introduced her to the set of Touching Evil. The couple met for four years before getting married in a private ceremony on September 13, 2008.
The couple had their first child in 2009; their son, Fynn McDonnell Hawkey, was born on January 13, 2009, in Rhinebeck, New York. One year later, Vera and her husband welcomed their second child, Gytta Lubov Hawkey, on November 4, 2010. The family currently divides their time between New York and Vancouver.
Vera Farmiga's Siblings
Vera is the second child of a family of 9 with five younger siblings. Her youngest sister, Taissa, is also an actress. She made her film debut in Higher Ground, a film that was also Vera's directing debut. She made her television debut in American Horror Story: Murder House in 2011 in a role that earned her the reputation of a contemporary scream queen. She subsequently appeared in several other projects, including Mindscape, Rules Don't Apply, and Justice League vs. Teen Titans, in which she expressed the superheroine, Raven.


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Chicago White Sox first baseman José Abreu had the opportunity to test the free agent market, but he will instead remain on the South Side - at least for a little while longer.
According to the team, Abreu agreed to a three-year, $50 million contract. That means Abreu will get a $5-million signing bonus, $11 million in 2020, $16 million in 2021 and $18 million in 2022 with $4 million deferred.
Reports had been circulating that Abreu had interest from several teams, including the Miami Marlins, but earlier reports indicated Abreu was mulling a three-year contract offer from the White Sox.
"This is a dream come true for me and my family," Abreu said in a statement. "To the fans, I told you I would come back. I never doubted it. Everybody knows the group of talented players that we have, and I want to help guide them and together make the Chicago White Sox a championship team."
The 32-year-old player's 123 RBIs were the 10th-highest total in Sox history and the most since 2002. He recorded his fourth career season of 30-plus homers and 100-plus RBIs, joining Frank Thomas, Paul Konerko and Magglio Ordonez as the only players in franchise history to do so.
"From the moment he stepped into the major leagues, José Abreu has been a leader on the field and in the clubhouse," Rick Hahn, White Sox general manager, said in a statement. "He has consistently delivered run production at a historic pace, and with each passing season, his leadership role within our clubhouse – with both American-born and Latin-American players – has repeatedly grown."


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Black and white portrait of the Iannuzzi family. Daniel Andrew Iannuzzi is seated in the front row, second from the right. The photograph was taken on the occassion of Daniel and Mary Matilda Iannuzzi's 25th wedding anniversary.
From 1937 until his arrest in 1940, Iannuzzi worked as a master printer in The Montreal Star's composing room. He also printed Montreal's Italian-language fascist newspaper L'Italia Nuova. Iannuzzi had been a member of the Order Sons of Italy since the early 1920s. During that time, he held the positions of Grandmaster in Quebec for two years and Grand Financial Secretary for seven years. His main responsibility as a member of the Order Sons of Italy was to organize sporting activities. He continued to do so until Italian Consul Giuseppe Brigidi took this over. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) also believed that he was an advisor on the executive committee of Montreal's dopolavoro. All of these reasons would be used as the basis for Iannuzzi's arrest and subsequent internment on June 10, 1940. He was released on July 13, 1941.


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Trunk call
A story is told of the young Tom Stoppard applying for a job in Fleet Street. "It says here you're interested in politics," said the interviewer. "OK. Who's the home secretary?" Stoppard blandly returned his gaze. "I said I was interested," he answered. "Not obsessed."
For the past six or so years, I have been interested in, rather than obsessed by, a former Lord Mayor of Sydney, William P McElhone. Until that time, I would scarcely have recognised his name. Then I began researching the early history of Australian cricket administration, and this tough, smart, insouciant Sydney lawyer stood out from all the other fob-watched, massively moustached men of means influential in such circles a century ago.
In the pioneering days of Australian cricket, the star players were at the centre, aided and abetted by the Melbourne Cricket Club, whose role was very similar to that occupied in England by the Marylebone Cricket Club. Australian cricket might have developed along lines quite similar to England's but for McElhone, then only in his early thirties. In debate, it was said, McElhone "pranced like a warhorse". Pursuing a line of enquiry, he was "as tenacious as a terrier after a rat". As the inaugural secretary of the Australian Board of Control, he more or less invented the federal governance structure of Australian cricket that survives to this day, marginalising both the Melbourne Club and the players.
Yet when McElhone disappeared into the shadows of municipal politics, he left little to remember him by, dying without issue in 1933. All that survives at Cricket Australia are the minute books he kept, in a superb copperplate hand; when I searched high and low six years ago, I could find just one small portrait of him on his own. Otherwise, he stared out of a handful of group shots, wearing an inscrutable half-smile and his trademark round spectacles, looking for all the world like a Dickensian beadle.
Like I said, this wasn't an obsession; just an interest. I moved on. But it ate at me. Australia is full of such figures: hugely important in ways now only dimly understood, yet perplexingly difficult to research. So from time to time, I'd go back to him. One day, I decided to order his birth and death certificates; another, I trawled through newspapers to locate as many obituaries as possible. Then last year, on the spur of the moment, I rang the Sydney law firm that still bears his name. As I suspected, the receptionist apologised: "I'm sorry. We've no connection with the family. In fact, I'm not even sure there is a family." Oh well ... But a couple of days later, she rang back. She'd been talking to some people in the office. There was this old partner who'd retired some years back: he might be able to help. I'll call him Mr Smith.
Mr Smith was quite difficult to reach. I rang him weekly for a couple of months; no answer. I checked that I had the right number; it was, so I persisted. Then one day, he answered. Sorry, he'd been overseas. Billy McElhone? Why, yes. Yes indeed. About 30 years ago, when the firm had been moving premises, various of Billy McElhone's effects had been earmarked for disposal. Hmm, Mr Smith had thought: "One day, somebody may want these." He had put them in a trunk. He had put the trunk ... well, somewhere. He promised to look.
Frabjous day - if not quite Calloo-Callay. Patience was needed. Months passed, then more months. In my diary, I pencilled "Mr Smith" at eight-weekly intervals. Had he had a chance to look? No, he'd been away. No, he would need to search his farm. Mr Smith's manners were always impeccable - he always called me Mr Haigh - but I didn't want it to seem like I was importuning him. I beat down my expectations. The trunk would be lost. The contents would be junk. It didn't matter anyway. Because, just to reiterate, this was only an interest; not an obsession. Finally, nearly a year after our first contact, Mr Smith advised that he had found the trunk, and retrieved it. We arranged to meet next time I was in Sydney.
So it was that in May this year I knocked at an apartment in a big Sydney block. Mr Smith, a soft-spoken, silver-haired gentleman in his seventies, admitted me to rooms accoutred in immaculate taste. The furniture and ornamentation bore their expense lightly; the walls were lined with Old Masters, his lifetime passion. What were they worth? Hundreds of thousands? Easily. Millions? Very probably. But I wasn't there for art. My consuming interest lay in the kitchen.
The trunk wasn't big, nor was it full. But what had survived was more than enough to gratify any interest. Letters, postcards, diaries, legal files, newspaper clippings, invitations and menus for official dinners of the kind popular at the time, featuring such exotic marvels as "Les Cotelettes d'Agneau aux Petit Pots" and old favourites like "Assorted Wine Jellies". There were his little books of spiritual solace, Catholic Piety and Garden of the Soul: one of nine children, McElhone was a rock-ribbed Roman Catholic.
Suddenly there were more pictures of McElhone than anyone could need, including a framed photograph in full mayoral regalia which apparently hung in the reception of his chambers. There was a signed photograph, too, of a young soldier. He was, Mr Smith explained, McElhone's articled clerk, who had enlisted in the AIF and been killed in France: the picture had reposed on his boss's desk ever after. Finally, from a book of old cricket scores, slid a small, hard, rectangular case in age-stiffened leather. I opened it. There they were: the spectacles, ownership corroborated by the handwritten inscription inside the lid, "W. P. McElhone".
Glasses are the most intimate of items: they suit only the wearer, and not merely their eyesight but the frame of their face. McElhone's have arms of the sort that hook round the ears; putting them on would have been quite a deliberate act. They are small, flat, not quite symmetrical, and might almost have been designed for staring through severely or glancing over dubiously; removed, they would naturally conduce to thoughtful fiddling or animated gesturing. And through these glasses, it was heady to realise, were overseen the decisive meetings in the management of this country's most popular game. They're sitting uppermost on my desk right now, Mr Smith having been kind enough to pass the trunk's contents on in the name of research. And you're right. I confess it. This was an interest; now it's an obsession.
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I have been to many, many Amish settlements in the USA, literally from Maine to Montana, from Texas to Florida. But there are a few that have escaped my "dragnet" and one of them is New Wilmington, Pennsylvania. I've heard a lot of good things about the settlement. My understanding is that it is a very conservative community. And it is a rare "brown buggy" community so you'll see these beautiful brown buggies against the bucolic background of the surrounding countryside.
But I can "go" to New Wilmington by getting this awesome wall calendar. And so can you. We are lucky to have writer Tracy Fredrychowski share her thoughts about this Amish community. She is based near there and here is what she has to say about New Wilmington:
By Tracy Fredrychowskicalendar-post (1)
In a small corner of Northwestern Pennsylvania, about an hour northwest of Pittsburgh resides an Old Order Amish Community in the town of New Wilmington. From its well-worn buggy blacktop roads to its vibrant Main Street you'll experience simple living at every turn.
Growing up just thirty minutes from here I've spent many days leisurely visiting Byler's Quilts and Crafts, Byler's Dry Good Store, The Cheese House, and my favorite, The Pine Hills Greenhouse. There is so much to see that I would highly recommend taking the time to schedule an Amish tour with Simple Life Tours. The tour guide Susan has spent years building friendships with the Amish merchants and can give you an authentic feel of the Amish lifestyle through her tours.
My friend, and author Jim Fisher who lives and walks the back roads of this little hidden Amish community shares his photographs with me and allows me to create a beautiful Amish Lifestyle Calendar each year.
If you are not able to visit New Wilmington in person, I invite you to enjoy thirteen picturesque scenes of Pennsylvania Amish Country in our new calendar, to look at more and ORDER, VISIT: 2019 Amish Lifestyle Wall Calendar.
Now, let's talk food! Bars like this are very popular in Amish kitchens and this chocolate-peanut butter combo make it a great Christmas dessert.
So, thanks to Tracy for sharing the recipe!
The Amish of New Wilmington - Rebecca's Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars
- 1 cup butter melted
- ¼ cup sugar
- ⅔ cup brown sugar
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 3 cups rolled oats
- ¾ cup chocolate chips
- ¾ peanut butter
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl, combine melted butter, sugar, brown sugar, and salt. Stir in oats and press into a 9x13-inch pan. Bake for 15 minutes. Let cool.
- Melt chocolate chips and peanut butter together in a saucepan over low heat, stirring constantly. Spread over baked crust and refrigerate until firm, about 1 hour.


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This job ad has been posted over 40 days ago! (*)
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Lothbury Property Trust has let a 15,500 sq ft industrial unit in Premier Park, within Trafford Park, to Lip Hing Metal Manufacturing on a 10-year lease.
The company is paying £6.50/sq ft for Unit 2, and will use it for the storage and distribution of metal components for fire protection systems.
The business joins occupiers including the BBC, The Fragrance Shop, Indesit and The Brew Tea Company at Premier Park, which forms part of the wider Trafford Park. The letting leaves four available units ranging from 4,750 sq ft to 15,000 sq ft in the 200,000 sq ft industrial scheme.
JLL and B8 Real Estate are joint agents.
Paul Thorne of B8 Real Estate said: "Being the last build multi let estate constructed in Trafford Park, Premier Park provides Grade A modern industrial accommodation with unrivalled 24/7 on site security. This latest letting again highlights demand from occupiers for good quality accommodation and with a further 28,000 sq ft under offer the estate is close to being fully let."


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From: | Marc Hoffman |
Date: | Wed, 25 Nov 1998 21:33:33 +0000 (GMT) |
Hi John.
This is a good idea. In terms of changing or removing the tag, how about
retaining it but dropping a brief regular message to the group indicating
when there's new info available in the NewUsers post?
At 03:49 PM 11/25/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>Russell's idea of a weekly post for new users is a good idea and I will
>implement it next week. Anyone with ideas, corrections or comments on
>this are always welcome to Email me directly.
>One thing that would be nice is a Tag like our (OT) that I will place at
>the end of the Subject so we can trash duplicate copies automatically.
>Any suggestions?
>Also, for those of you who would use the Tag to trash these messages
>should I remove that tag if I make major changes to the text of this
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Great American Burger
The desire for a burger that is more than just a ground beef patty that focuses on the toppings, rather than a great tasting burger payyt!
1) 1.5 Lbs – 92% Lean Ground Beef
2) 1 each – Whole Egg (Beaten)
3) 2 each – Green Onions (Sliced Thin)
4) 1 cup – Plain (Unseasoned) Bread Crumbs
5) 1 T – Worcestershire Sauce
6) 1 t – Garlic Powder
7) 1T – Light Brown Sugar
8) 1t – Crushed Red Pepper
9) 1t – Fresh Ground Black Pepper
10) 2t – Iodized Salt
11) 6 each – Kaiser Rolls
12) 6 slices – Yellow American Cheese
13) 1 each – Ripe Red Tomato (Sliced)
14) 6 leafs – Green Leaf Lettuce
15) 1 each – Small Red Onion (Slices)
16) If Desired; 1T Ketchup, 1t Yellow Mustard & 1T Mayonaise (Please not Miracle Whip)
1) In a large bowl, combind ingredients #1 through #10 & mix together thuroughly by hand (if needed use food service gloves for less mess).
2) Divide "burger mix" in 6 equal parts to make 6 approximately 1/4Lb burgers. Roll each burger mix portion into a rough, round ball. Place each ball between a sheets of waxed paper (approximately 6″ x 6″). Press the burger mix balls to form a patty approximately 1/2″ thick.
3) Cook burgers, to desired temperature/doneness on an outdoor grill (charcoal is prefered) or if weather does not permit, use a household "grill pan" over medium-high heat.
4) Warm Kaiser Rolls, wrapped in aluminum foil, on top rack of grill or in toaster or conventional oven on low temperature for approximately 5 to 10 minutes.
5) Top each burger with a slice of american cheese, a leaf of lettuce, a slice of tomato, a thin red onion & Ketchup, yellow mustard and/or mayonaise if desired.
6) Serve and enjoy!


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AMC Penn Square 10
1901 NW Expressway,
Oklahoma City,
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Operated by: AMC Theatres
Previously operated by: Dickinson Theatres, General Cinema Corp., Hollywood Theaters
Firms: RTKL Associates
Functions: Movies (First Run)
Previous Names: Penn Square 8
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News About This Theater
- Oct 28, 2012 — AMC to take over, renovate former Dickinson Penn Square 10
General Cinema Theatres opened the Penn Square 8 on May 19, 1988. It was taken over by Hollywood Theaters on August 15, 1997. Two more screen were added in 2001 and Hollywood Theaters moved out in September 2001. Dickinson Theatres renovated the theatre and it re-opened on November 1, 2002. It was taken over by AMC in November 2012. The Penn Square 10 is located within Penn Square Mall. It shows first run films, but lags a bit behind Oklahoma City's larger theaters in amenities.
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What is the current status of this theatre. DIckinson is either closing or selling off their screens, and are not doing any upgrading. Also was this originally a General Cinema house?
This is most likely the the theater in Oklahoma City that this article mentions Dickinson shall be closing as part of its bankruptcy reorganization.
Please keep me updated with developments on this theatre. For some reason I am not getting updates. Thanks!
Joel, when the site was renovated, getting updates requires that you now "subscribe" to the theater(s) which interest you. See below.
AMC is taking it over with power recliners and stadium seating.
Here is an article that confirms the AMC takeover and provides more detail about the planned renovations.
AMC is now in charge and the theater is listed on the company's website.
The AMC Penn Square 10 Opened On May 19th, 1988 As A General Cinema. Dickinson Theatres Took It Over Years Later And Then AMC.
On January 18th, 2020, Shots Fired Occurred At The Theater's Entrance Of The Penn Square 10.
The Penn Square Shopping Center opened theatre-less in 1960 with anchors John A. Brown and Montgomery Ward. The shopping center was enclosed in 1982 and given a major renovation doubling floor space in 1988 including a new second level, food court and a new General Cinema 8-screen interior theater. RTKL Associates was the architect for the project.
General Cinema had entered the Oklahoma City (OKC) market in 1982 with the Quail Springs 6. In 1988, it added three more 8-plexes in the Brixton Square, Penn Square Mall, and Crossroads not Square all launching in 1988. The Penn Square opened on May 19th, 1988.
Four OKC megaplexes were announced in 1997 that would decimate General Cinema's multiplex business model. Regal announced the 16-screen Crossroads that would compromise its 8-screen Crossroads facility. Then AMC announced the 24-screen Quail Springs complex that would detroy its aging Quail Spring six-plex. A month later, Cinemark announced a 20-screen Tinseltown and another circuit planned a downtown 16-screen megaplex.
At the 15-year leasing option of the Quail Springs 6 in 1997, GCC not only bailed there but totally left the OKC market. General Cinema dropped the Penn Square Mall location along with its Brixton Square 8 Quail Springs, and Crossroads 8 locations on August 10, 1997. Hollywood Theaters picked them all up as of August 15, 1997. Hollywood added two screens to make it a 10-plex not long before dropping the location in September of 2001.
Dickinson spent $350,000 on the location reopening there on November 1, 2002. Dickinson closed at the end of a 10-year leasing arrangement in 2012 with AMC taking on the venue in November of 2012. AMC invested $1.6 million in adding recliners and a new look concession area with its new look completed in May of 2013. The theater closed for the COVID-19 pandemic along with the other AMC locations on March 16, 2020. It reopened August 20, 2020.
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New gear to save lives (Civil Aid Service)
Super typhoon Mangkhut left a path of destruction in Hong Kong last year when it knocked down more than 60,000 trees and caused extensive damage to the city.
This year, the Government is readying for the wet season with new equipment and exercises to optimise its emergency response.
One such drill, which put the Civil Aid Service's preparedness for emergency operations to the test, saw service personnel efficiently cut apart a collapsed tree with new high-powered chainsaws in a Tsuen Wan campsite.
Civil Aid Service (Department) Operations & Training Assistant Ng Shing-chiu said the new chainsaws are suitable for most scenarios involving typhoons.
"The new chainsaw models have much more power and are simpler to use.
"Another piece of equipment that has been introduced is the extended pole saw, which can stretch as high as 21 ft to reach broken branches on treetops."
To guarantee the chainsaw operator's safety, the service also started using two types of protective chaps made of materials that can stop a chainsaw's rotation, Mr Ng added.
Better response
Besides tree clearance, the service needs to deal with flooding, casualty evacuation, evacuation of residents and management of temporary shelters.
It has introduced different types of specialised equipment to handle such scenarios, such as new and more comfortable life jackets for rescuers and victims.
Previously the service only had one size of throwline, but now there are various sizes and lengths for different flood rescue scenarios.
The rescuer can throw these throwlines from the shore or use them while they are in the water.
Civil Aid Service (Department) Acting Principal Operations & Training Officer Chui Ka-yi said: "The service has seen all-around improvement in terms of equipment, training and relief effort strategies.
"We also gained valuable experience from our deployment when super typhoons Mangkhut and Hato smashed into Hong Kong."
The service will hold talks and workshops in Kwun Tong and Sha Tin to introduce measures that residents should take when facing emergencies."
(For more details, please visit News.gov.hk website)


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Ahmad Sweet Mint & Fennel "Digest" Infusion 20 teabags
Our bodies are incredible machines, but sometimes even the best machines need a little oil to keep them running smoothly. Ahmad Tea's Digest Infusion lends a helping hand to the digestive system with its cleansing blend of mint, liquorice, fennel and biotin (aka vitamin H). It's a deliciously minty herbal tea that soothes and restores.
To craft this blend, our expert Tea Masters start by combining spearmint and peppermint. Mint has been used for centuries as a natural remedy for digestion complaints, so it's the perfect base here. We add liquorice root and fennel for their lovely sweet aniseed notes, while a sprinkling of camomile and blackberry leaves gives a flourish of delicate, summery flavours. But it's the addition of natural biotin that really elevates the digestive powers of this tea. A complex B vitamin, biotin helps the body convert food into energy, which in turn contributes to a healthier metabolism. So while this magnificent blend delivers some instant refreshment to your taste buds, it gives some longer-lasting TLC to your tummy.
You'll find 20 teabags in this box, string-tagged for easy brewing in a cup or pot. Each bag is foil-sealed to lock in its flavours and make every infusion is as fresh as the last. With its copper colour and minty aromas, this is a wonderful tea to drink after a heavy meal as it can assist in digesting rich foods and soothe bloating. Discomfort can crop up at any occasion, so keep an Ahmad Tea Digest infusion on-hand for whenever you may need it. The blend is made with 100% natural ingredients so is entirely caffeine-free. That makes it a lovely cuppa to drink in the evening to aid digestion while you sleep. The calming effect of the camomile leaves will also help to ease you into bedtime.


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Dedicated in 2016, the trail offers cyclists, walkers and wheelchair users an easy way to explore what Bryce Canyon National Park has to offer. It picks up where it meets the Red Canyon Bicycle Trail along Utah State Route 63. The best place to start your journey is just outside of the park entrance at the shuttle parking area. The trail entrance is directly south of the shuttle stop, and is marked by a large kiosk.
The trail heads south from there, and features some road crossings so always exercise caution. About halfway through your trip, you will arrive at the visitor center. The trail continues across SR 63 from there.
The payoff for this trail comes five miles in, at a place aptly named Inspiration Point, where one can stand overlooking a panorama of the bluest skies and an army of flame-colored hoodoos, spires and pinnacles stretching as far as the eye will go.
Once you pull yourself away, you can go back to the starting point either by your own means or using the park-provided shuttle buses.
Beginning on US 89, turn right onto SR 12 and keep on it for 13.6 miles. Follow up with a right turn onto SR 63 for 1.5 miles. The Bryce Canyon Shuttle parking area will be on your left.
We rode this from Ruby's Campground to Inspiration Peak which was mostly uphill. NOTE!! If you're not acclimated to the altitude (8,000') the climb can be challenging
This is a beautiful, curvy asphalt trail with a slight incline. We started our ride at the shuttle station in Bryce Canyon City and rode to the end of the trail at Inspiration Point inside the park. It's nearly an all downward ride back to the shuttle station. There are many gorgeous pine trees and chipmunks to see along with a brief canyon view from the trail. Riders may choose to ride on the paved road through the remainder of the park for an additional 13 miles of do but the road has several challenging hills.
TrailLink is a free service provided by Rails-to-Trails conservancy
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Look what we have here. Founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg has also joined Facebook's rival Google+. And the strange thing about this news is that Mark Zuckerberg has confirmed that he joined Google+.
Initially, many people didn't believe and concluded that the account is fake. Reports also pointed out that there were 3 accounts under Zuckerberg's name out which two were confirmed as well. But the third one was not. A technology blogger,Robert Scoble, contacted Mark Zuckerberg to confirm whether this is really him and this is what he got in reply.
Robert tweeted:
Name drop moment. Zuckerberg just texted me back. Says "Why are people so surprised that I'd have a Google account?"
The network was initially invitation based only but Google has removed that condition as well and now, anyone can just login to using their Google account and start using Google+. Google has dominated the search engine market from a long time and now, they have launched another service to compete with the world's most famous social network, Facebook. After the success of Android, will they be able to achieve the same with Google Plus? Share your views
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Members of the Syrian Constitutional Committee have met at the United Nations Headquarters in the Swiss city of Geneva to discuss a possible new constitution aimed at paving the way for a political ultimate solution to the ongoing conflict in the war-torn Arab country.
The week-long session that kicked off on Monday is the first meeting between Syrian government and opposition negotiators since a failed attempt at talks last November.
Delegations from both sides arrived at the United Nations in separate minivans, with Ahmad al-Kuzbari heading Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government delegation, and Hadi al-Bahra leading up the opposition delegation. They did not speak to reporters.
An unnamed UN spokeswoman confirmed shortly before noon that the week-long discussion had begun.
The members of the constitutional committee, which took almost two years of consultations to be formed, are tasked with reforming the Arab country's constitution before it is put to the vote of the Syrian people.
Representatives of the Syrian government and opposition met in early November last year to discuss a future constitution, part of plans for a political settlement to end eight and a half years of war.
However, a second round of talks planned for later that month was never held due to disagreement on the agenda.
Since then, talks have been delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen said on Sunday that he had met with co-chairs of the government and opposition delegations over the weekend.
"I am looking forward to a week of substantial discussions on the agenda and moving the process forward," he said on Twitter.
Also on Friday, Pedersen stressed the urgent need to build confidence between the parties.
He also said nobody expects "a miracle or a breakthrough," adding that the meeting is about looking towards identifying areas where progress might be made.
Composed of 50 members from the Damascus government, 50 opposition members, and 50 independent figures chosen by the United Nations, the committee is mandated, within the context of a UN-facilitated Geneva process, to draft and prepare for popular approval constitutional reforms paving the way for a political settlement in the post-war Arab country.
In September 2019, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said an agreement had been reached between the government of Syria and the so-called Syrian Negotiation Commission – an umbrella opposition group supported by Saudi Arabia, on "a credible, balanced and inclusive constitutional committee."
Damascus maintains that the constitutional committee should be a purely Syrian affair to be decided by the Syrian people alone without any foreign interference.
Pedersen, too, has stressed the full commitment of the UN to the sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity of the Arab country.
An agreement was first made for the formation of the UN-backed Syrian Constitutional Committee in the Russian town of Sochi in 2018.


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Krause Group has expanded its real estate holdings in downtown Des Moines' Western Gateway with the purchase of a century-old three-story brick building immediately south of the popular John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Park, Polk County real estate transactions show.
The property at 1440 Locust St. (pictured) includes 3,600 square feet of commercial space and 37 apartments. Hubbell Realty Co. bought the building in 2005, redeveloping it in 2013 and 2014. Krause Group, through its 1440 Locust Street LLC, bought the building on Jan. 31. The company paid $6.38 million for the building that was constructed in 1916, records show.
"It's a great building and the sort of development, redevelopment we want to see in the Western Gateway," wrote Ariel Rubin, spokesperson for Krause Group, in an email to the Business Record.
In fall 2018, Krause Group, which owns and operates Kum & Go convenience stores and other Krause-affiliated businesses, moved into the Krause Gateway Center at 1459 Grand Ave. As planning and construction of the company headquarters was underway, Krause Group began buying adjacent properties, amassing about 5 acres, Polk County real estate transactions show.
Until recently, company officials had been silent on plans for the properties that had been bought west and northwest of Krause Gateway Center.
"This is an area that can really use redevelopment," Gerard Haberman, president of Krause Real Estate Group, said about property located roughly between High Street and Grand Avenue on the north and south and 15th and 17th streets on the east and west. "There was not a master plan in place when all of those individual buildings were [constructed] over the decades.
This article was originally published on February 5, 2020 on the Business Record website. Read the full article here.