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Why RomeEscape Apartments
Scultore is an elegantly furnished and equipped B&B strategically positioned in Trastevere making it easy to get around the city. Within walking distance (15 minutes) you can reach the beautiful Piazza Navona, San Pietro, Castel S. Angelo, and S. Maria in Trastevere just to name a few.
There is no curfew as guests have their own key to come and go as they please.
All rooms are equipped with a private bathroom, air conditioning, LCD TV, refrigerator, hair dryer, safe and coffee maker.
The price includes:
"Italian" breakfast which consists of coffee pods, milk, tea (including chamomile), fresh orange juice, other fruit juices, cereals, croissants, biscuits, toast, jam, butter, nutella, yogurt, seasonal fruit.
Daily cleaning of rooms:
Complimentary toiletries for the bathroom (soap - shampoo -shower gel - shower caps)
Il Poeta is a Bed and Breakfast. The rooms are elegantly furnished and equipped with every comfort. All rooms have an en suite bathroom.
Its position is strategic for visiting the city. You can reach Piazza Navona in 15 minutes by foot There is no curfew since our guests have their own key to come and go as they please.
The rooms are equipped with a double bed, private bathroom, air conditioning, LCD TV, refrigerator, hair dryer, safe, coffee maker.
The price includes:
Italian breakfast which consists of coffee, milk, different teas, fresh orange juice, fruit juices, cereals, croissants, biscuits, toast, jam, butter, nutella, yogurt, seasonal fruit and more.
Bed and Breakfast in Rome's Trastevere area. Elegantly furnished and equipped with every comfort, all rooms have a private ensuite bathroom.
There is no curfew as guests have their own key to come and go as they please.
The price includes:
Italian breakfast which consists of coffee, milk, different teas, fresh orange juice, fruit juices, cereals, croissants, biscuits, toast, jam, butter, nutella, yogurt and seasonal fruit.
Quaint, typically Roman one bedroom apartment located in the heart of picturesque Trastevere and sleeping up to 4 guests.
The apartment has one bedroom and a nice little terrace at the front where you can dine alfresco.
Attractively decorated throughout, the apartment is equipped with every comfort
including heating, free WiFi, air conditioning, TV, refrigerator, hair dryer , coffee maker, safe, bed linen, towels, toiletries and shower caps
Casa Marzia apartment has a lovely atmosphere with special attention to detail.
In the very heart of Rome in a former monastery, it has been completetly renovated. The apartment is on a quiet street near the charming and lively Trastevere.
Ground floor with private entrance.
Sleeps up to 4 people. Two people in the bedroom and two on the double sofa bed.
Price includes: continental breakfast, bed linens, towels and cleaning.
On request we can provide items you may need for a baby.
Maior is a B&B with a spacious single room with private external bathroom. Within walking distance to all of Rome's main sights.
The bathroom is private and located outside the bedroom.
Re Di Roma is a huge 1076 square foot apartment located on the fourth floor with lift.
It is very bright with a wonderful view directly on Piazza dei Re di Roma.
Right next to the Re di Roma Metro Stop Line A.
The house is equipped with every comfort, including air conditioning, TV, DVD, free WiFi, washing machine, radio, microwave, linen and cleaning included.
Classy two bedroom penthouse apartment with terrace in the Appia area of Rome.
This 60 Sqm meter apartment is on the sixth floor and can sleep up to four guests and is ideal for a family with children.
Nice comfortable apartment located in a prestigious area, consisting of 2 bedrooms, living room, fully equipped kitchen and 2 bathrooms with shower. Suitable for up to 5 people and ideal for families with children
Excellent two bedroom apartment 60 m², situated in Via Eugenio Barsanti on a private road on the 4° floor with elevator. Adjacent to the station and to via di Trastevere, near the famous and distinctive neighborhood Testaccio.
Spacious ground floor apartment with 2 bedrooms located just 15 minutes walk from Vatican City and close to Piazza del Popolo.
The 90 Sqm apartment can sleep up to 6 guests.
St. Peter Vatican Primerose apartment is very ideal for your real Rome experience.
It is composed of a cozy one bedroom loft, authentic style living room, small fully equipped kitchen and one bathroom.
Refurbished with autonomous heating system, wooden cherry tree floor, brick ceilings and double layered windows for noise reductions.
It is only just 3 minute walking to Saint Angel Castle and Saint Peter Square in the corner of Cola di Rienzo Street and Cavour Square.
Ground floor, two bedroom apartment with garden, sleeping up to 5 guests and located close to Trastevere in one of the most prestigious areas in Rome.
Excellent accommodation for business and for leisure and perfect for families with children.
Trastevere Ancient Rome is a modern one bedroom apartment located in the historical ancient Rome neighborhood of Trastevere.
This bright, majestic and spacious property on the 1st floor of a walk up building, was recently renovated with high quality furnishings.
It can accommodate up to 5 guests comfortably.
Garden Studio is ideal for two guests. Well connected to public transportation.
This apartment hotel offers many services: tobacco shop, bar with terrace, restaurant with terrace, hair salon, spa, gym, swimming pool and parking. Situated in a modern building with 96 comfortable apartments.
Located just around corner from Campo de' Fiori and Piazza Navona, this romantic little studio for two is in a perfect spot for exploring all of the sights.
Maior is B&B comprised of a private bedroom and bathroom located near Termini station. Elegantly furnished in typical Roman fashion.
Claudio and Lele welcome you to Rome, the eternal city.
Located on the 6th floor in a quiet area, of an elevator building with courtyard and pool.
Parking is possible if available. The house is fully renovated and furnished with taste and elegance.
From the airport take the train to Termini Station and then bus 64.
By car take the G.R.A. exit n.1 Aurelio-Vatican City Directorate, and then straight up to Largo Cavalry and follow signs for Via of the furnaces.
Nazionale is a large 90 sqm apartment, completely private located on the second floor of an elegant and historical building.
Charming two bedroom apartment, furnished in a traditional Roman style and, located 100 meters from Valle Aurelia Metro Station, close to the Vatican, with good transport links to the rest of the city.
The apartment is on the fifth floor, with elevator, and is suitable for both business and leisure stays.
Romance Escape apartment is 85 sqm on the third floor suitable for up to 8 guests. The apartment has been recently refurbished and features 2 bedrooms, a large lounge, kitchen and bathroom.
Bellini is a one bedroom apartment (73 square metres).
It is composed of an entrance, living room, kitchen, plus a small room leading to the kitchen with a dining area, double bedroom, and bathroom.
Corelli is a one bedroom apartment near the Vatican and Saint Peter's.
Sleeps up to 5 people. Two in the double bedroom and three on the triple sofa bed.
Prati is a three bedroom apartment located near the Vatican City.
Cute and cosy one bedroom duplex located right in the centre of Rome 3 minutes walk from the renowned Campo de' Fiori.
This nicely styled 40 Sqm apartment can sleep 4 guests.
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President's Message
It is my great honour and privilege as President of Clontarf Football Club to extend a warm and hearty welcome to all our visitors to Castle Avenue during the season and indeed to all those who visit our website and social media pages during the year. I am also pleased to have the opportunity to welcome all our Club members and supporters and hope that you will continue to attend and support all of our league fixtures at senior, junior and indeed underage levels.
Our 1st XV had a good season last year, just missing out the play-offs by a point, and I feel sure we can look forward to an exciting and successful year with the senior squad we have assembled this season. I would like to wish our incoming Captain, Michael Noone, all other team captains, coaches, and backroom personnel every success this year. Clontarf is determined to stay at the forefront of Irish club rugby and this season I know we are focussed on making a serious challenge to win the All Ireland League
I would like to offer a special word of thanks to all those who volunteer within the Club, who give selflessly of their time to help with the organisation of teams, coaching, medical assistance, fundraising, transport, administration etc. The Club could not function as well as it does without you. I would also like to encourage anybody who is interested in volunteering to do so.
I would like to thank all of our sponsors, in particular our main sponsor, Willis Tower Watson, & its CEO, Brian Curtis, who has been a great supporter of Clontarf over the years. I would also like to thank New Ireland, Ulster Bank, Clontarf Castle and MSL for their continued sponsorship. I would ask all members and supporters to make a conscious effort to support our sponsors, where possible during the year.
I wish you all a very enjoyable 2018-2019 season, and I look forward to meeting as many as you as possible throughout the year.

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Here is an article on the psychological-spiritual system for greater self awareness called the Enneagram.
The Enneagram is a "Map" of the territory of consciousness. It defines the state of consciousness that the eGo (edging God out) occupies. Revealing the workings of the 9 egoic character fixations, and the 9 different aspects of ego formation, you will be able to see the "story" of your character fixation and it's "grip" on your Soul. Once you shine the light of understanding on your character fixation and release it, your Soul can rediscover it's free nature of Universal Being, living in a state of Bliss and Oneness, free from the Egoholic state of "every day" consciousness. Of course we "know" that the soul is already "free", it's the illusion of the eGo that makes us think that we are not "Free".
We will be adding more information on this subject as time goes on.
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Source: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/06/prweb4084054.htm
CureMD EHR v10 Achieves Surescripts Gold Solution Provider Status
New York, NY (PRWEB) June 4, 2010 — Surescripts®, the Nation's E-Prescription Network, today announced that CureMD EHR v10 has achieved Surescripts Gold Solution Provider status – recognizing technology vendors that have surpassed Surescripts' baseline product certification to meet criteria that demonstrate a higher level commitment to e-prescribing.
CureMD is an award winning provider of web based Electronic Health Records (EMR), Enterprise Practice Management (EPM), Patient Portal and Revenue Cycle Services. Through this program, CureMD has been tested to offer the most advanced e-prescription capabilities in the industry – reducing prescription error, enhancing prescription routing, online eligibility transactions, aggregated prescription history from payers, drug formulary while at the same time supporting community pharmacy and medication claim histories availability real time.
About Surescripts
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Happy Birthday
I can't believe my first little online class has turned 1 already. It feels like just the other day it became a class and it all started.
One of the things about Tiny Bags of Love turning 1 is that she comes home to my website, which is pretty exciting. Ivy and Chris Newport hosted her for it's first year and I couldn't have been more grateful. Thank you both for such an incredible time. I couldn't have asked for a better place for me to start teaching and for this little class to be birthed.
Thank you for everything.
Let's Celebrate... Let's Giveaway...
Winners to be announced on the 1st September 2017
I get asked all the time about my favourite colors / paints that I have used through the years. They are beautiful Maimeri Italian Paints, creamy and wonderful to work with. As a way of celebrating TBOL turning 1 and a way of saying thank you for an incredible first year, I'm giving away 5 of them together with my new favourite Raphael Precision #2 Pointed Round Brush. See details below...
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If you haven't signed up to my Tiny Bags of Love class yet and you sign up, you will automatically be entered into the draw. Follow the button below.
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If you are a NEW sign up or an EXISTING one, by completing the Subscription Form below, you will also be entered into the giveaway. Wishing you all the best of luck.
Love Jeanne-Marie xoxoxo


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Lovely morning. Up fairly early. About 8:30. After breakfast Mary and I went for water. On way back Donald Dawkes was at his parents' — up from Toronto for weekend — and he asked Mary and I if we'd like to go for a boat ride. He said we might take a swim, also. So we hurriedly dressed with suit under shorts. Mr. Dawkes went, too. They have a row boat with an outboard motor. Went out channel and past Whitefish. Out in open lake. Lovely calm day and quite warm. Passed a number of boats. Donald let me sit back by him and steer with the joy stick. Lots of fun but rather befuddling since it works just opposite from a car. Went out to a little island by name of Scotch Bonnet and landed. Not far from Main Station. Got out and walked all way around it. Fun. Then started back. Mary steered. Found a lot of fisherman's weights on island and also remains of a big net. Between Smokehouse and Shamrock he stopped the boat and Donald, Mary, and I went for a swim. It was lovely. Over near Smokehouse water was quite deep. Donal Duck (my private name for him) and I helped Mary to swim and also float. She is improving but can't propel herself yet. When we got back in the boat we discovered that our dark glasses, which we had left in the bottom, were cracked — mine worse than Mary's. Such a shame — they were so nice.
When we got back we had dinner. Then sat out on the porch. Mary and Mother went in to snooze but I sat in the hammock and read magazine stories. Got cloudy. Lovely. I then played ball with myself. Donald Duck left about 6:00. After supper we sat out on the porch. Mr. and Mrs. Dawkes came to call. We walked down to the boat with Mr. Dawkes to get the floats. Mary and Irene MacKenzie took us out the channel in their canoe. Had fun passing motor boats. Two boat rides in one day. Came back and to bed. Fun today. Hope D.D. comes every weekend. Mr. Dawkes says we may use his boat whenever we want to.


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The Feed the Neighborhood event has been held each year on the second Sunday of August for 19 years. It is an event that is geared toward helping elementary students and their families in the area. We have accomplished this through feeding, serving, and empowering those that attend. Throughout this time span, more than 53,500 people from the Enid area have been directly impacted, and 22,000 kids have received school supplies. That is a total of more than $995,000 invested in the education of Garfield County students.
how feed the neighborhood began
Back in 1998, a small group of people from the Enid community wanted to reach out to the individuals of Garfield county. They decided to hold a small event called Feed the Neighborhood providing food and games for families. The volunteers wanted to give each of the kids at the event a prize for playing the games. They gave the kids an option between candy or school supplies, such as erasers, pencils, crayons, etc. Not even half way through the event all of the school supplies were completely gone. All of the kids chose school supplies over candy! Through this event, the volunteers stumbled upon this unknown need in our community: the need for school supplies. From then on Feed the Neighborhood became centered upon supplying the basic need for school supplies in the Enid community. It has grown to be a city-wide festival that feeds, serves, and empowers the people of the Enid area.


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STORY LINE: Concordia had their best performance of their spring break trip to Florida in the first game against Simpson on Friday and then lost a 1-run heartbreaker in their final game of the break. The Cobbers hit three home runs and posted an 8-0, 5-inning win over Simpson (Iowa) and then fell 2-1 to Webster in the finale.
A FINE TIME IN FLORIDA: Concordia finishes their Florida trip with a 6-4 record. The six wins are the most by a Cobber team on a spring break trip since 1999 when CC also went 6-4 in Florida.
SIMPSON RECAP: Concordia scored all eight of their runs in the first two runs as they beat Simpson 8-0. The Cobbers plated three runs on one home run in the first inning and then scored five times behind two HRs in the second frame as they 8-run ruled the Storm who went on to beat the No.18-ranked team in the country in their very next game. Elizabeth Asp hit a 2-out, 2-run homer in the first frame to stake CC to a 2-0 lead and then Nicole Johannes smacked a 2-out, 3-run long ball in the second to give the Cobbers a 7-0 lead. Freshman Madison Kostelecky would finish off the scoring with a solo shot in the very next at bat. Concordia finished the game with 12 hits and six extra-base hits. Sophomore pitcher Megan Gavin continued her early-season success as she only allowed two hits and struck out seven to earn the win.
WEBSTER RECAP: Concordia's run-scoring offense didn't carry over to the second game. The Cobbers outhit Webster but couldn't come up with a run until the seventh inning. CC left 11 runners on base and hit .181 with runners in scoring position. Webster scored a single run in the third inning before the Cobbers tied the game in the top of the seventh on a 2-out, run scoring single which brought home freshman Maria Pake. The Gorlocks would win the game in the bottom of the frame when then got a leadoff single, a perfectly placed, seeing-eye bunt single, a sacrifice and then a wild pitch. Gavin went the distance for the second straight game and allowed the two earned runs on five hits and struck out six.
HITTING AND HOME RUN HAVEN: The entire Cobber offense enjoyed the warm Florida weather. Concordia hit .360 as a team in their 10 games and clouted six home runs. Last year CC had a .219 season batting average and only came away with eight HRs.
MULTIPLE-RUN MANIA: The Cobbers scored at least five runs in seven of their 10 games in Florida. Compare that to last year when Concordia only had six 5-run games the entire 40-game season.
AND HOW ABOUT THE DEFENSE? Another area where Concordia has showed a huge improvement is in the field. Last year the Cobbers finished last in the MIAC with a .926 fielding percentage and committed 82 errors (2.2/game). This year CC has a .960 fielding percentage and is only averaging 1.0 errors per game.
I LOVE FLORIDA: You'll have to forgive Megan Gavin if she wants to stay in Florida. The sophomore pitcher earned the win in all six Cobber victories, went 6-1 on the trip and finished with a 1.56 earned run average. She pitched in 45 innings and struck out 60 batters. The six wins for Gavin are four more than she had in all of last season and she is only 16 Ks shy of last year's total when she pitched in 87.2 innings.
I LOVE FLORIDA TOO: Freshman Maria Pake will gladly volunteer to be Gavin's roommate in Florida for an extended stay as she crushed the ball in 10 games to the tune of a .576 batting average and a .848 slugging percentage. Pake led the team in both categories from her leadoff spot and also went 10-for-10 in stolen base attempts in Florida. Pake had eight multiple-hit games and had a hit in all but one game.
NEW YEAR FOR NICOLE: Senior Nicole Johannes is also having the best year of her career. Johannes' best hitting season of her previous three years came last season when she hit .258 and had 11 RBI and 17 hits. Johannes is leaving Florida with a .448 average and already has 9 RBI and 13 hits. Johannes had a hit in all nine games she played in during the trip and returns to Minnesota with a team-leading 9-game hitting streak.
A&E HIT SHOWS : Elizabeth Asp and Taylor Erholtz are also hitting above .400 through the first 10 games of the season. Asp has a .556 average with 1 HR and 8 RBI while Erholtz is hitting .406 with 7 RBI. Asp leads the team in on-base percentage with a .640 mark.
ALL SHE DOES IS DRIVE IN RUNS: Freshman first baseman Madison Kostelecky leads the Cobbers in RBI and home runs this year. She has driven in 11 runs this year and has 2 HR. Last year the Concordia team leader only had 13 RBI. Kostelecky has driven in at least one run in eight games and had a trip-best 4 RBI game vs. Alverno.
UP NEXT: Concordia will return to the balmy climate of Minnesota and have a 12-day break before hosting the annual Cobber Dome Tournament in West St. Paul. CC will take on Bethany Lutheran and Finlandia on Wednesday, Mar. 20 and then square off against Finlandia and Bemidji State on Thursday, Mar. 21.
Fine Florida Finale
|Concordia-M'head (6-3)
|Simpson (0-1)
STORY LINE: Concordia had their best performance of their spring break trip to Florida in the first game against Simpson on Friday and then lost a 1-run heartbreaker in their final game of the break. The Cobbers hit three home runs and posted an 8-0, 5-inning win over Simpson (Iowa) and then fell 2-1 to Webster in the finale.


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Poland suddenly reappeared in 1919, 120 years after it vanished from the map of Europe, sowing confusion at the Versailles Peace Conference as the great powers tried to heal the wounds of World War I. The British questioned the legitimacy of the new Polish State and the French were suspicious of Polish ambitions. Frustrated with allied reluctance to help Poland, Josef Pilsudski, Poland's new leader told a French journalist:
"The great evil afflicting our country (Poland) is the fact that the Allies have no clear and definite program. We are left to face this big Eastern question all alone, because Europe does not know what it wants…We Poles are next-door neighbors to Russia… We have got to decide 'yes' or 'no,' peace or war. We cannot wait any longer."
Poland refused to die. Marshal Pilsudski's Polish forces counterattacked the next year, annihilating the Red Army and shattering Trotsky's dream of marching over "Poland's corpse" into Germany.
What are the parallels with Ukraine? Like Poland in 1920, Ukraine also refuses to die. Americans must engage in an authentic, unbiased appraisal of U.S. and allied military capabilities. Put more bluntly, in Putin's next crisis, Washington and its allies may be compelled to put up or shut up. Consider the following:
Putin commands the Russian Armed Forces and its surrogates in Eastern Ukraine through the Stavka, the High Command of the Russian Armed Forces. The Stavka is staffed by talented officers that have risen through a highly selective professional general staff system. The High Command imposes absolute unity of command on all branches of the Russian armed forces. In contrast, the Joint Staff in Washington is a feckless organization with no command authority. The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) are a committee of Service Chiefs focused on "service equities."
Russian electronic warfare and cyber capabilities can interfere with many of America's high precision weapons, GPS-based navigation and guidance systems, as well as our RF-based networking between tactical platforms and operational commands. Combine these problems with the practice of last minute lash-ups of Army, Marine, Air Force and Navy headquarters, and the scene is set for disaster.
Russian air defense technology is capable of identifying, tracking and potentially destroying every manned and unmanned aircraft in the U.S. inventory from AH-64 attack helicopters and A-10 Warthogs to the B-2 Bomber. In a contest with Russian forces in Ukraine, a confrontation could easily resemble the 1973 Egyptian-Israeli War along the Suez Canal. The reach and impact of American aerospace power would be severely limited. Given America's history of predictable, sequential operations — first air, then, ground offensives — the probability of U.S. military paralysis early in a conflict with the Russians is high.
But Russian forces boast other advantages. They have a short commute to the battles from their bases in southern Russia. U.S. and allied ground forces would have to move at least 400 miles from the Polish border, or roughly the distance from Kuwait City to Baghdad, just to reach the staging areas in the Dnieper River valley. It is very doubtful that Mr. Putin would mimic Saddam Hussein, and simply do nothing while U.S. and allied forces built up and then move hundreds of miles of open terrain to attack him.
Russia is waging war in the Donets Basin or Donbass with tank and armored infantry formations heavily reinforced with rocket artillery and a host of strike systems, as well as, manned and unmanned aircraft. Under the Stavka's direction, Russian forces are integrating the maneuver of mobile armored formations with the application of massive strikes against the opposing Ukrainian forces.
If the U.S. Army's XVIII Airborne Corps and/or the Marine Corps, the French and British rapid deployment forces or the German Air-Landing Brigade were deployed to fight in the Donbass, their survival in contact with these Russian ground forces would be counted in hours, if not minutes. No amount of American or allied intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, (ISR) let alone strike from aerospace and naval forces can compensate for this weakness. But, today, these light forces constitute the majority of American and allied ground forces.
How meaningful and enduring the recently announced ceasefire between Kiev and Moscow will turn out to be is not known. But Putin's gushing nostalgia for the Soviet Union of his youth suggests he thinks much like Stalin and would push Russia's borders westward over Ukraine's shattered remains.
The central question for America's elected leaders is: what should Congress do?
Washington must not risk a future confrontation with Moscow, or for that matter, any great power, with ground maneuver forces that are organized, trained and equipped to defeat relatively lightly armed and equipped Arabs, Afghans and Africans.
First, the nation needs standing Joint Force headquarters in the regional unified commands. These are not JTFs thrown together at the last minute. They are staffed and equipped to rapidly integrate capabilities across service lines, and assimilate ground maneuver with the devastating, long-range precision strikes of aerospace and naval power in future conflicts.
Second, Congress must end the U.S. Army's penchant for squandering billions of dollars on failed modernization programs, programs presented as "transformational," but lacking an integrative strategy, a joint warfighting purpose and a realistic tactical foundation. If Army airborne, air-mobile and Marine Corps amphibious forces are useful only in "permissive environments" against weak opponents in the developing world, then scarce defense resources should be diverted from light forces into the development of new ground maneuver forces with modern mobile armored firepower. We need mobile ground forces that can take hits, fight and win against capable opponents like Russia and other great powers, not forces designed to police and combat hapless Arabs, Afghans and Africans.
Putin is restoring Soviet norms in Moscow's foreign and defense policy. It's why Congress should heed Józef Pilsudski's "lesson learned" from dealing with the Russians: "When she (Russia) is weak she is ready to promise anything, but she is equally ready to break those promises the moment she feels strong enough to do so."
Douglas Macgregor, a member of the Breaking Defense Board of Contributors is executive vice president of Burke-Macgregor Group, LLC, a defense consulting firm in Reston, Virginia. His newest book, Margin of Victory, will appear in the fall of 2015.


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There's nothing like social media to make a broken relationship that much harder to move on from. You change your status from "in a relationship" to "single" as you watch your no-longer-significant other move on via Facebook statuses, photos, and posts galore. Also, Facebook makes it especially difficult to move on when you find yourself watching your ex moving on without you. Maybe they're tagged in a new relationship before you know it with pictures from ice cream dates and meet-the-parents family photos. It's interesting how with social media, we can know so much about a person who we no longer communicate with face-to-face.
While this is something practically self-exclamatory about social media, Facebook wanted to challenge that. They're testing out their latest update with a tool that allows us to move on a little bit easier from our past relationships without having to go to drastic measures of deleting or blocking our exes off our friends' lists.
This update started on the 19th, and the way it works is that once you change your relationship from "in a relationship" to "single", you are prompted with several options.
This new tool allows us to filter out our ex's Facebook updates such as: seeing less of their name, profile picture, and posts from our feeds without having to unfriend or block them. Also, their name will no longer be suggested when people write a new message or tag friends in photos.
You also have the option of hiding and filtering out your content from showing up on your ex's feed.
You are even given the option to edit who else on your social network can view their past posts with a former partner and untag themselves from posts with that person.
Thank you, Facebook, for making getting over past relationships much more bearable via social media!
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Graceful Explosion Machine Soundtrack Coming April 13th/ Stephen Crane
With Graceful Explosion Machine coming out last week on Switch - it's time to preorder the excellent soundtrack from Robby Duguay.
The original soundtrack for #GracefulExplosionMachine is coming out on Thursday April 13th! Pre-orders are up now at https://t.co/KCTtbwPpRO pic.twitter.com/4inKo5QrrD— Robby Duguay (@RobbyDuguay) April 10, 2017
You can pick up the soundtrack for 7 dollars (US), with preordering getting you 3 tracks early. For 21 dollars (US) you get all 10 of Robby Duguay's releases. You can check out the details here, while also watching the video below on my thoughts on Graceful Explosion Machine.


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Polarization, Compromise, and Choice
As the population of the United States slowly grows more and more polarized around positions on the key issues of the day—the war and occupation of Iraq, the composition and philosophic direction of the federal judiciary, the relationship of religion to public and official government activities, the deplorable state of public education, terrorists and terrorism, poverty and welfare, immigration and public services, free trade and American jobs, women's rights and abortion, and campaign finance and election reforms, to name what I think are the top ten—the prospect emerges that the political choices for voters in the Congressional elections in 2006 and the national election in 2008 will not adequately address these problems. Polarization is frightening because it evacuates the middle ground where compromise is usually found and established. In a world of competing interests compromise is always necessary—not fecklessness, not flakiness, not mendacity—but real share-the-floor compromise.
Currently, both the Republicans and Democrats are hurling epithets at one another under what each calls "hate speech." The usual definition of "hate speech" is that it contains "fighting words," which no resolute partisan can "take" sitting down. Democrats call Republicans moronic, racist, jingoistic, militaristic, corporate dupes and fools, while these fine people call Democrats "elitists," America-Haters, leftwing losers, anti-Christian sinners, and so forth. Much of the hate-speech vocabulary is concocted by politicians' staffs to serve as icons for larger issues. These icons make it easy to hit every point in a speech without actually saying anything detailed. They are what George Lakoff calls "framing" vocabulary. See our essay on this. Framing is important, but it does not lead, generally, to amity and compromise.
It is essential (despite the polarization and partly because of it) that we Liberals find common ground among ourselves—and soon. But, this is not going to be easy. Our normal political allegiance is usually to the Democratic Party, and as we already know political parties are always looser or tighter-knit coalitions of various interests wherein one person's top issue is sometimes eventually ranked fifth or eighth overall, while someone else's top issue gets the primary attention. In a situation where there are at least ten top issues, and most of them compound issues with nuances and reverberations across the politics and economy and ethics of the population, the creation of a coalition is a formidable task ... and recently Liberal politicians have not been much good at it.
One of the questions partisans—you and me—have to ask ourselves is how many ideas can Americans keep sorted out and understood well enough to vote for a candidate on these issues. If they don't vote on the issues, then they are voting for "the man/woman," which means they are voting for those nebulous "character issues" that have sunk more than one candidacy or Presidency in recent memory. So, if the number of issues that the average voter can deal with is, say, five, then the rest of their brains have to be working on "character" issues and "intangibles" like distorted reporting and personal biases.
Of the ten listed issues above, which are the top five? ... and which of the known probable candidates in the Democratic Party (Alpha-order: Joe Biden, Wes Clark, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Al Gore, John Kerry, Dennis Kucinich, Bill Richardson, Mark Warner) would lead best? and why? What are the natural constituencies for the issues and the candidates, that is, what profiles of American citizens would tend to gravitate to an issue or a candidate? Would, for instance, women in general favor a femme candidate for President, or would they organize themselves by issues or by party?
As background to this discussion let's remember that Liberals typically are interested in humane issues and in positions on issues where an ethical rule of law can be established or supported. So, Liberals easily gravitate to issues of poverty, jobs, education, but also the safety and security of citizens from terror, war, unethical business and industrial practices, and disease. Liberals typically identify themselves with the middle classes (or the middle class as the standard of acceptable economic and social position). Liberals willingly use the power of the central government to assist the social and economic mobility of distressed classes of individuals, so the tradition has been to treat the less fortunate (economically and educationally) as a special constituency for whom extraordinary if not herculean efforts must be made to provide opportunities for mobility into the middle classes. At the bottom of it all is a Liberal idea about the worth of individuals ... which is not shared by the other side.
Liberals don't hate America or even Republican Americans. We love America and our energy and generosity created the best parts of it. Liberals will always fight plutocracy and theocracy and mendacity and irresponsibility and jingoism. When Liberals fight they take prisoners; they don't trash Americans, they liberate them. But, Liberals need to know how to deal with basic human emotions like fear and envy and greed. It is not enough to be against the Republican exploitation of fear and envy and greed; Liberals must act and speak from an understanding of these and the antidote: the power of people united by ethical sensibilities and compassion.
So the last component of our analysis is us. Who are we? Well, Americans are divided up into all manner of types and kinds, so creating a list does not create a set of "profile Americans." But a list can be valuable, so let's try. I have put some of the types together by their natural categories.
- Democrats, Libertarians, Republicans, independents, infrequent voters
- Very wealthy, wealthy, high moderate income, middle middle, low middle, low income, poverty, dependents
- Graduate education, college, high school, 6-11th grade, K-5
- Male, female, gay, lesbian
- Age: 18-25, 25-35, 35-50, 50-65, 65-80, 80 and older
- Christians:
Strong Catholic, Revisionist Catholic, Fundamentalist or Evangelical Protestant, Moderate Protestant, Mormon, Other
- Jews:
Orthodox, Other
- Other Religions:
Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu, other
- Vocation: Owner/entrepreneur, Manager/Exec, professional, educator/scientist, government, military/police, homemaker, highly skilled trade, skilled trade, unskilled worker, unemployed
- Urban, suburban, exurban, rural, overseas
That's enough for now. There are eight categories, ten counting the three large religious categories, and among them about sixty labels. Obviously some of the labels could be applied to other categories, like 25-35 year old unskilled workers, or female executives, or urban professionals, etc., etc.
Now lets create maps, or matrices, to help visualize the situation. List the candidates along the top of a page; make a column for each candidate. Then list the constituents along the left margin (or right, if you must) by categories and by types. This produces a matrix into which you can jot down your best judgement as to whether the candidate does well with a particular type of people. Since you will have no idea on some and strong intuitions on others, assign a ten for strong and put nothing down when you have no idea. For a more vivid final product you could do this with colors, as well.
Now set up a matrix with the candidates along the top and the issues along the margin and take your best shot at which candidate is strongest on which issues.
Finally, set up a third matrix with the issues along the top and the constituencies along the side. Which issues resonate most strongly with which constituencies?
Samples are available here for downloading, printing, and practice.
This is the sort of thing that "Josh Lyman" on West Wing does. He knows by heart how certain groups respond to certain key political individuals and to certain key issues. Josh is then in a position to see where compromise is going to be necessary and when to pull out the stops and go for the ideal case. Yes, this is profiling. It is an inexact art, but it beats the heck out of wandering around in the wilderness not knowing what to believe or do.
James Richard Brett


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It's been so warm, so suddenly! The snow has mostly melted, except for the 7 foot mounds of grey icy muck in parking lots and on curbs at busy intersections. After being stuck inside for practically two weeks straight, Mom and I enjoyed a trip to the bead store, and even to my accountant's office, over the last couple of days.
I've also enjoyed making some jewelry:
I asked Mr. Sarah and his Spawn what they thought of the brown one. They were both kind of "meh" about it. They both seem to think that every piece of jewely I make must include my own beads to be considered impressive, so my feelings weren't hurt in the least. I personally love the simplicity of the unusual brown/beige faceted Czech beads combined with the stripey agate, and its delicate profile makes it very comfortable to wear. This may come as a shock to some of you, but sometimes, it's kind of nice not to have to worry about or even look at my own beads, and big honking lampwork doesn't fit every bill.
I was making jewelry before I was making beads… way back when authentic, well packaged, high quality Czech beads were easily found at crafty stores like Michael's and Hobby Lobby, and in the clearance area, even. I really miss those days. The Hobby Lobby I grew up with and loved the best is now closed, of course, and has been for many years. It was cozy with low ceilings and shelves and took up an entire strip mall. Each interest had its own room, and a doorway divided each room. I spent so much time there, I knew that place like I knew my own home. There was something new and exciting on the shelves every few months. And it was fun to go to all the Hobby Lobbies around town because each one had slightly different stock. Now, all the Hobby Lobby stores look and feel the same, and are very reminiscent of a Wal-Mart, and they all have the same stuff, all the time. Times have changed, but I still terribly miss that Hobby Lobby on 10th and Portland, and will always associate it with the good old days.
The blue necklace includes old lampwork beads from where, I'm not sure. They have a white base with fine opaque turquoise frit and goldstone flecks. They're one of my top favorites of the old beads Aunt Joane passed on to me. A few have cracks on one side, but I don't care, and they seem to be pretty sturdy. These used to be strung with just the evil purple spacers you see here, with periwinkle size 6 seed beads, but I rearranged things a bit with some larger Czech faceted opaque light periwinkle and made it long enough to double up.
I had a dream about ebay right before I woke up. I dreamed I had two auctions and one had been bid up to $1,153. At the last second of that auction, a bidder retracted their bid and the auction went for $5.38. I wonder what that meant, and specifically, those numbers. Sometimes I find myself missing ebay, but when I think of the fees and all the new crazy rules and the fact that so many of my buyers abandoned it long before I did, it quickly loses its appeal.
It's time to get ready for work… Before I do, I should mention that there may not be anything on Etsy this week. I'm still working up mondo stock for the upcoming boro binge, and may save most of those for Superstars sales through the end of the month and March. But we will see, I may surprise you!
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"Miss you, buddy" That's what mom wrote in her comment on that photo of you in your uniform. You were so handsome that day. I can't believe it's already been two years. I miss you every day. I pray every night that you somehow know how much we love you and how much we miss you.
Miss you, buddy
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This vibrant watercolor batik painting – Colors of Autumn was created with the finest quality materials ensuring archival quality, enable you to enjoy it for years to come.
These beautiful hues of oranges will create drama and luxury in any room you hang it, a one of a king original artwork you will be proud to own.
You can view other available watercolor batik paintings for sale here: watercolor batik page
- I use Canada Post for shipping my work
- The artwork is shipped within 2-3 business days after payment has cleared.
- Batik Paintings will be rolled and shipped in a mailing tube.
- You will receive a shipping confirmation email and a tracking number for Canadian addresses
- Canada Post will need a signature upon delivery. (for Canadian addresses)
If you have any questions please feel free to contact me at [email protected]
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My number one priority is for you to be happy with your new artwork. If you are not completely satisfied with the art you can return it. It is be returned in the original condition and packaging. You have up to 14 days after receiving it that it can be returned. Once I receive the painting, I will refund your payment (excluding all shipping fees) .
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This screencast is designed to teach novice-level Java developers how to efficiently build well structured Java web applications with the Spring model view controller (MVC) module. The MVC module of the Spring framework provides a simple and lightweight web framework that allows developers to address common web application concerns using an established approach. Students will learn how to configure an advanced set of framework components to build predictable and highly maintainable applications that benefit from being constructed using this well documented technology. Participants should be familiar with the basics of the Java programming language and the concepts underlying the Spring Framework.
Kevin Bowersox leads development teams that build Java web applications for the federal government. A Java expert with 18 years of experience, Kevin's primary passion is helping coders understand and enjoy the benefits of automating software development practices. He holds a BA in Information Sciences and Technology from Penn State and is the author of multiple O'Reilly titles on topics such as Spring Framework, Hibernate, Apache Maven, and Jenkins.


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Railway stations are among the most complicated railway construction facilities.
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The team by FORATEC, comprising engineers of all specialties, is ready to perform various multilevel tasks such as reconstruction and new construction of railway stations.


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Sugar Free Banana Ice Cream Recipe
I'm a fan of desserts. In fact, when a skinny person tells me something like "I don't like desserts" or "I don't ever eat chocolate" I immediately distrust them. What kind of crazy person doesn't like chocolate!?
So as you might imagine, finding sugar-free desserts is a little difficult but so far I've had good luck with my dessert experimentations. For the first few weeks, my "go-to" snack was popcorn. (Popped in coconut oil, sprinkled with a little salt and Garlic powder. So good!) Fortunately, I found out that you can freeze bananas and make a very tasty "Ice-Cream" with them. To freeze bananas easily, peel and place in Ziploc bag. Freeze on a flat surface
If you REALLY want to blow your socks off, combine this recipe with my Sugar Free Berries and Cream recipe and eat up!
- 2 frozen bananas
- ¼ cup Whole MIlk
- Tsp of Grape-Nuts
- Put frozen bananas in blender or food processor (Some juicers will work also)
- Pour in milk and blend until creamy
- Don't over blend because you will melt the bananas
- Serve in bowls, sprinkle Grape-Nuts on top for a little crunch


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Welcome to Bedford College
Welcome to the Bedford College website, which has everything you will need to be able to make an informed choice about your training and education.
Whether you are leaving school, an international student, interested in degree-level courses, want to study part-time to improve your job prospects, or would just like to take up a new activity, we want you to understand what it is that makes Bedford College such a great place to study. We can also offer you advice if you are an employer who is responsible for staff training. Our dedicated business training pages are designed to meet all your staff development needs. You can contact our Employer Training Services team directly for tailored programmes and support.
You can also find out about our latest awards, see the facilities we have available and use our course finder to discover what we can offer you.
About us
Bedford College aims to be one of the best general further education colleges in the country, offering courses at all levels from entry level to higher education. In particular we wish to be recognised as:
- the leading advocate for learning within the local community with strong and productive links with other partners
- a nationally recognised centre of excellence in arts and technology education
- the leading provider of care, leisure and business training in the county
- the best local sixth form measured by results and value added scores
- a leading and innovative provider of work-based and community-based learning
- a provider of expert and individual guidance, advice and other student support services, including first class learning environments
- a first choice employer, well managed and financially robust.
Facilities available
Learning Resources Centre (LRC)
Our modern LRC is the place for you to spend time studying outside of classes, with study spaces and over 30,000 resource items including books, journals, DVDs and e-resources to support your learning. You can also access our 90 computers including PCs, Macs and netbooks, or make use of our free WiFi during opening hours.
Industry-standard workshops
If you choose an Engineering or Construction course at the College, you'll be honing your skills in real-life working environments, getting your hands on a real aeroplane engine or practising your technique in workshop bays catering for carpentry, electrical work and more.
South Bank Arts Centre
If you're taking an Art & Design or Performing Arts, Music Technology & Media course you'll benefit from industry standard technology including media and music suites, a theatre, TV studios, editing suite and a graphic design studio with Macs. Our £6 million arts centre also hosts a regular programme of exciting events, exhibitions and performances for all students.
Springs Sports & Leisure Centre
Sport students can explore their studies at our modern £2.5 million sports centre, which is also available for all students – so you can hit the gym at our fully equipped fitness studio, work up a sweat in a dance fitness class, or play some team sports in our full-sized sports hall.
25 Restaurant
If you're a Hospitality student you will get the chance to work and develop your skills in our real-life, working restaurant, which is also open to everyone at the College and beyond – for when you fancy something a little different to delight those tastebuds.
Munch & Mocha – Restaurant & Coffee Shop
Catch up with friends over a relaxing coffee, savour a delicious lunch or grab a snack when you're on the go – Munch & Mocha serves a wide range of hot and cold food, including meals, lighter bites and vegetarian options.
Car parking at our Cauldwell Street Campus
Car parking is charged at £1 per day during term-time with a permit (available from the College). Please note: parking is limited and not guaranteed.
Additional support
With a fantastic additional support team on hand providing help to develop assignment skills, access to specialist equipment and support staff for those with dyslexia, hearing or visual impairment, no matter what your individual learning needs may be, we aim to ensure that the Bedford College experience is accessible to you.
Learner success
In March 2014, Bedford College was inspected by Ofsted. The highlights are listed below and the full report is also available to download.
- Students' outcomes in a variety of settings and programmes are good.
- The proportion of students who complete qualifications successfully in English and mathematics, has significantly improved and is now high.
- Teachers have excellent links with industry and use these effectively to develop high levels of industry-related skills, which prepare students skilfully for the world of work.
- Many students progress well onto employment or apprenticeships. Progression into higher-level courses both internally and to higher education institutions is high.
- The large majority of teaching is good or better and is particularly strong in the vocational craft subjects.
- Support for students is good; particularly the support teachers and managers provide for vulnerable students.
- The vocational learning experience for students age 14 to 16 is exceptional.
- The college provides an excellent environment for learning and resources are very good.
- Senior managers and governors set a clear strategic direction for the college and staff share their ambition and high expectations.
- Leaders and managers work successfully with employers and external agencies to provide a highly responsive curriculum to meet local and regional needs.
How to apply
If you want to apply for courses, you will need to contact Bedford College directly.


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I will always be an alcoholic. It is who I am. It is in my genetic code. I was the way I was even before my very
first drink. With this in mind I choose to live on the seldom visited side of alcoholism. The side that many
visit, but few decide to take up permanent residence in. For many years (twenty-two to be exact) I lived on
the drunken side of alcoholism. When alcohol nearly killed me I limped my way into recovery. I may have
physically been in a recovery center for only twelve weeks but mentally and emotionally I spent about eight
years in the recovery part of alcoholism.
Recovery is where I got reacquainted with myself. Having started drinking at the age of thirteen I never really
got to know myself. The thing about alcohol is it does not allow us to get to know who we really are. We
never are allowed to realize our strengths, talents or true desires. We are never allowed to have passion for
anything except our next drunk.
Recovery is where I learned how to live again. It is where I learned about myself. It is where I learned how
to like myself. It was eventually where I learned how to love myself. That was the love I took with me to the
seldom visited side. That seldom visited side by the way is SOBRIETY. My last drink was sixteen years ago
but sobriety is a place I have stayed for the past eight years. It is a place where I don't always know all the
answers, but I am now sober enough to find them. It is a place that sometimes makes me angry, but being
sober I know how to forgive and forget. It is a place where pain is no match for hope, where rejection succumbs
to joy and where loneliness is chased away by love.
Sobriety is most definitely the seldom visited side of alcoholism. If you spend enough time here you will not
want to leave. There is only one way to get here. That way is RECOVERY. Recovery is not a place where we
stay for a few weeks. It is not a hospital or a treatment facility. Recovery is a frame of mind. It is a conscious
decision. Recovery is honesty and sincerity but most of all recovery is about doing for others. It is about
giving, listening, feeling and sharing from the heart. Recovery worked properly will take us to a place called
permanent sobriety.
For years sobriety was only something I dreamed about during painful periods of remorse. Now my dream
is that sobriety is something each and every one of you can experience long term. Living a life in a drunken
state of mind is a life dominated by doom and doubt. But living a life on the seldom visited side is a glimpse
into the eyes of God.
Permanent drunkenness and permanent sobriety cannot co-exist. We have the choice, the means and the
motivation to make the right decision regarding sobriety. We know that sobriety begins and gets its longevity
in recovery. What we must realize is that choice, means and motivation is not enough to see us through.
Power is what is required to make sobriety permanent. That power comes from God and the only place to
find God is on our knees. The power of prayer happens when we allow God into our lives. Alcohol is our
burden and God is more than willing to take that burden from us…if only we ask!


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This was a Christmas for the books. At 3 11/12ths, my daughters are the perfect age to fully embody the magic of Christmas with zero guile. We really went for it with the full-scale Santa propaganda. I took them to the Nutcracker, spent a day at Santa's Land, and tried not to act shocked and dismayed when Phoebe told the roving "Santa" there that she wanted a "Mickey Mouse" for Christmas. (This is going to be a good lesson in disappointment for you, kid, because I'm not looking at some landfill-bound Mickey Mouse toy in my living room for the rest of the year.)
What Santa actually brought for Christmas was a simple wooden dollhouse and a pair of ice skates. But my daughters were mostly excited about the cheap wooden spinning tops and the thematic band-aids in their stockings. One recent morning, Eliza woke up to a nightmare that "Phoebe took all my band-aids!" and I had to rub her back for a while to get her to calm down. Phoebe, meanwhile, sullenly explained that she actually put some of the band-aids in the medicine cabinet for later. Twin problems.
My strongest memory of Christmas morning will probably be Phoebe, exasperated as she opened yet another gift, proclaiming: "I really hope this is not another book." Who are you, child?!
I took a week off of work to spend extra time with my kids while they are on holiday break. This was a momentous decision for me, a workaholic freelancer who typically lives in a state of chronic anxiety about loosening the reins and potentially letting my entire business fall to hell. I hadn't taken a week off over the holidays since college. But I wanted to make time to truly experience the joy/pain of winter break, and it has been a memory-maker.
- We spent roughly the first half of every day in our pajamas.
- We saw our first movie (Mary Poppins Returns).
- We went for walks in the woods by our house.
- We made do while the power was out.
- We went ice skating.
- And we had a good handful of one-on-one dates, something we never have enough time for in our normal life.
Now, it is New Year's Eve. My husband is at work, my children are asleep and I am fielding texts from friends saying "Happy New Years!" on Paris time because no one in my orbit can stay up past the nines. I can, and I will, but alone, and I'll spend my time cleaning the bathroom and tossing out old toys and clothes. That's the virgo introvert's dream New Years, because the goal is to wake up to a brand new year that's clean, tidy, and arranged.


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text: 14 Apr 2013 08:00 Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), will launch direct flights to Sana'a, Yemen's political and commercial capital on September 1, 2013. Sana'a will be the airline's eighth destination on the Arabian Peninsula beyond Abu Dhabi, joining Bahrain, Dammam, Doha, Jeddah, Kuwait, Muscat and Riyadh. Flights to Sana'a will operate four times a week. James Hogan, Etihad Airways President and Chief Executive Officer, said: "The launch of direct services to Sana'a is consistent with our strategy of adding depth and scale to our network and targeting areas of growth in emerging markets." "The ancestral, cultural and business ties between the two countries are significant, and we believe the new service will further facilitate Yemen's economic development in the months and years ahead." More than 90,000 Yemini nationals live in the UAE, and the country is Yemen's largest regional trading partner with annual trade valued at over US$2 billion, of which US$1.6 billion is made up of UAE exports*. Overall, the UAE accounts for almost 20 per cent of Yemen's total imports†. The new Sana'a route announcement follows the launch of a number of new services in 2013 from Etihad Airways' Abu Dhabi hub to cities such as Washington D.C. (April 1), Amsterdam (May 15), São Paulo (June 1) and Ho Chi Minh City (October 1). The route will be operated by a two-class Airbus A320 aircraft with 16 seats in Pearl Business Class and 120 seats in Coral Economy Class. Flights can be booked from today and the new Sana'a schedule is designed to provide seamless connections over Etihad Airways' Abu Dhabi hub to key European, North American, GCC, and Middle East destinations. Etihad Airways UAE-Yemen flight schedule Flight no: From To Departure time Arrival time Days Aircraft Flight time EY0561 AUH SAH 22:45 0:10 + 1 day Mon, Weds, Fri, Sun A320 2:25 EY0560 SAH AUH 3.20 6.50 Mon, Tues, Thurs, Sat A320 2:30 Sources* Yemeni Ministry of Industry & Trade, March 2013† Economist Intelligence Unit, February 2013 お問い合わせ エティハド航空は国際的な航空会社として、徐々に世界にネットワークを広げています。 お近くのエティハド航空への連絡方法は、こちらをご覧ください。お問い合わせ先を見る ご意見・ご要望 ご意見・ご感想、激励、苦情、ご質問などがございましたら、こちらをクリックして、入力フォームからご送信ください。 いいね! フェイスブックで弊社のページをご覧ください! ご覧ください エティハドの YouTube チャンネルを見る Twitter(ツイッター) エティハド航空 | エティハドの特典 | エティハドヘルプ | エティハドのリワード


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About This Project
A little bit of history.
This is a gui configurator for the Vagrant automation tool. It uses Puppet as the provisioning backend.
What is Vagrant/Puppet and why should I care?
I used to develop locally on a virtual machine. In fact, I wrote a length, detailed step-by-step tutorial (Setting Up a Debian VM, Step by Step) that goes through the process from beginning to end on setting up a Debian VM. It works wonderfully, and I love editing my files on my daily OS (Windows back then, OS X now), and running the applications within a proper environment.
The first problem is obvious: there is a lot of setup involved. Just look at that tutorial. From beginning to end it may take upward of an hour to do the whole process! What happens if you mess up somewhere? You have to start all over!
The next problem comes after you've got the VM up and running. I had to be very careful when making changes to the system, because I was afraid of screwing it up and having to either restart it from scratch or googling trying to undo the damage.
The third large issue is, how to properly share my environment with other developers? Do I really want to upload this multi-GB file? That's a big pain in the butt!
Vagrant and Puppet takes care of all these issues, and more, for you!
The Debian tutorial can be written once, and run multiple times. I no longer have to worry about damaging my VM environment - if I screw something up I can destroy it, re-run Vagrant, and within 3 minutes I have a fully working environment once again! To share, I simply point developers to my Github repo where they download appx. 50KB of text files and run Vagrant on their own machines! Awesome!


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Invest NI's New Regional Manager In Spain
The announcement came as Invest NI Chief Executive Alastair Hamilton visited Madrid to meet Simon Manley, CMG, British Ambassador to Spain and Andorra and Conor McGurk, Director of the Department for International Trade (DIT).
Making the announcement Mr Hamilton said: "Spain is the 12th largest economy in the world and represents significant opportunities for ambitious Northern Ireland businesses.
"Northern Ireland exports to Spain have increased from £110.1m in 2015/16 to £141.3m in 2016/17, an increase of 28%. With an increased presence in this region we are confident we can build on this and it is for this reason we have chosen Spain as one of our new international locations.
"Our food and drink products are in high demand across Spain with over 30 Northern Ireland companies now exporting to this market including Irwin's Bakery in Craigavon and White's in Tandragee whose products are on the shelves of El Corte Ingles, one of Europe's most respected retailers."
"The new regional manager will be based in the British Embassy and will identify new business opportunities for Northern Ireland companies and develop strong relationships with companies, stakeholders and influencers in the region to encourage trade development."
Invest NI has already announced new offices in Chile, Singapore, Doha and Canada as part of its longstanding strategic focus on assisting companies to export to new markets.
Photo Caption: Invest Northern Ireland is to increase its international presence, with a new regional manager based in Madrid, Spain. Pictured (L – R) are Steve Harper and Alastair Hamilton, Invest NI, with Simon Manley, CMG, British Ambassador to Spain and Andorra, and Conor McGurk, Director of the Department for International Trade (DIT)
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This week we continue our celebration of Back to the Future by welcoming Marty McFly on October 21, 2015 with Back to the Future II.
During the episode, we discuss this terrible Hoverboard commercial. Watch it if you dare.
Featuring: Josh Porter, Josiah DePaoli, Patrick Porter, Peter Nikiforov, Tyler Hanns, and Whitney DePaoli.
Spoilers: The Back to the Future Trilogy, Super Mario Brothers, Children of Men, Home Alone 1 & 2, The Nutty Professor, Jack and Jill, Rocky II, Friday the 13th IV: The Final Chapter, Willard, Charlie's Angels, Aliens, Alien 3, Gremlins 1 & 2, Bruce Almighty, and Jaws 19.


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Last weekend we had a special teacher visiting us from Perth – well actually Kristin is all the way from Canada but having a spell in our west. It was a huge treat for me to sit back and watch and learn – and learn I did – so many great things which will be coming your way soon.
Saturday saw us participate in the Let's Get COREganized workshop (using 23 centimetre Coregeous balls). Funnily enough there was a bit of groaning but there were smiles all around when we finished. There's so many great things you can do on a squishy ball. Also the class helped me clean and polish the floor with the things we were doing on the blankets (care centred exercises that is).
Sunday was a small group of dedicated yoga teachers/body healing nerds doing the Yoga Tune Up® therapy balls all day workshop. Kristin was so enthusiastic and knowledgeable about everything that we asked loads of questions and went waaaay overtime (we thought we'd be finishing up early). The yoga tune up balls are all about being able to self massage – finding the tight spots in your body and releasing them through different moves. They say it best on their website www.yogatuneup.com
Yoga Tune Up® is a fitness therapy format built around the three P's – Pain, Posture and Performance. It helps eradicate pain, improve posture and enhance performance through a unique blend of Corrective Exercise, Self Massage and Yoga. By helping to identify and target your "body blind spots"; areas that are most overused, underused, or misused, YTU heals damaged muscle, increases strength and establishes healthy movement patterns to help you live better in your body.
We are very excited about the results achieved using therapy balls. The order has gone in to purchase the Yoga Tune Up therapy balls and shortly we will be using them in our classes.


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For full details and to book for any of Scottish Mask and Puppet Centre's CPD sessions online, click here.
The art of creating shadow creatures with our hands is a simple pastime which is as old as the hills but still fascinating in a world filled with electronic screens and modern gadgetry. Hand shadows have an immediacy and ephemeral quality that can only be mastered with practice, play and concentration. The journey to perfecting the hand shadows can also be fun and rewarding as each new creature emerges.
Join Drew Colby (the UK's only full-time hand shadow puppeteer) as he teaches participants hand exercises, basic hand positions for the different sets of characters, and advises on light sources and practical ways to use hand shadow puppets for storytelling and engaging with audiences (whether they be young or old, numerous or solo). The workshop also includes a short session making a cut-out shadow puppet as part of the exploration of outline and silhouette as a means for expression and communication.
Drew & Shadowgraphy will also be performing My Shadow and Me On Sat 24 & Sun 25 Mar at 2pm. Tickets £5.95 Please see listing for full details. Don't miss it.
Check out Drew's website at http://www.shadowgraphy.co.uk/ and for related show newsletter and film. http://mailchi.mp/72a0e57cc947/my-shadow-and-me-a-wonderful-journey.
We would like to thank Glasgow Connected Arts Network for supporting and funding this series of CPD sessions Feb - March 2018.


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'Blockers' Is The Modern Teen Sex Comedy That Does It Right
By Andrea Thompson
ee? #Notallmen have to write terrible female characters. Turns out, some can actually write a movie with something to say about gender, women, and how we react to female sexuality that's also pretty damn funny. While "Blockers" was directed by a woman, it also has not one, but two male writers who manage to blend raunch and heart with some good social commentary, along with producers in comedy giants Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg.


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Campaign to get more disabled Scots into politics
Inclusion Scotland has said that action is needed to ensure that disabled people stand for election
Political parties need to do more to help make politics accessible for disabled people.
Inclusion Scotland has said that action is needed to ensure that disabled people are fully active in politics, including standing as election candidates.
Working with disabled activists from political parties and other backgrounds, the charity is developing a new Access to Politics Charter, which aims to address the barriers preventing disabled people from becoming involved in politics.
Building on its experience delivering the Scottish Government's Access to Elected Office Fund during last year's local council elections, Inclusion Scotland held an event in February where over 50 disabled activists began the process of creating a list of solutions to problems faced by disabled people getting into politics.
"Disabled people are often hugely discouraged from putting themselves forward for elected office due to perceptions that they will be unable to meet the expectations of the role," said Phyl Meyer, Inclusion Scotland's employability and civic participation manager.
"These fears are often based on barriers to participation, rather than a person's suitability for the position. The charter will aim to eliminate these obstacles."
The charter will commit political parties to providing clear guidance on how they will support disabled people's participation. This could include alternative means of participation such as remote voting, and exploring ways to ensure the election of a representative number of disabled candidates.
Party leaders and MSPs will be invited to sign the charter at the Scottish Parliament in June, at an event sponsored by Presiding Officer, Ken Macintosh MSP.
The findings from the February event also informed Inclusion Scotland's recent submission to the Scottish Government's consultation on electoral reform.


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Can I use international trains to countries outside Germany?
Your German Rail Pass is valid for domestic trains within Germany. In addition, your pass is valid to several stations across the border:
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You can visit a selection of popular European cities outside of Germany with your German Rail Pass. Travel to the following cities is covered by the pass:
Innsbruck in Austria
Brussels in Belgium
Prague in the Czech Republic
Venice, Verona, Bologna and Bolzano in Italy
Krakow, Katowice and Wroclav in Poland
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Restaurant wedding reception venues are ideal for foodie couples. The food is sure to be top-notch at one of these restaurant wedding reception venues, plus they're usually ideal for smaller, more intimate weddings. And - bonus! - these personality-packed spaces are usually well-decorated so you'll save on décor.
Old world tradition meets modern and elegant amenities with the English Inn, Restaurant & Pub in Eaton Rapids, Michigan. This banquet hall and historic Bed & Breakfast combines classic elegance and a vintage feel, creating a timeless wedding experience. The natural beauty and cozy countryside create... (Restaurant Weddings Eaton Rapids)
A special treat awaits you at the The Waterfront Restaurant and Club Rocadero Bar with a scenic view of Paw Paw Lake set in a tropical atmosphere. Established in 1940, and family owned to this day, The Waterfront Restaurant continues the traditions that made Paw Paw Lake one of the finest retreat... (Restaurant Weddings Coloma)
The ANNEX @ Bridge & Main offers a beautiful, unique setting with seating for 100 guests, dance floor, DJ booth, full bar with pricing options, casual or upscale dining, all inclusive packages, excellent staff, rear entrance with handicap access, outdoor patio and flexible hours. (Restaurant Weddings Grand Ledge)
At The Formal Fork, we pride ourselves in our excellent food and friendly service. We have a strong background in the food service industry, with a combined 40 years of experience. Our two exceptional chefs offer multiple menus; from traditional fare to modern gourmet and everything in between. Our... (Restaurant Weddings New Buffalo)
Comensoli's Italian Bistro & Bar is a premier restaurant and elegant wedding venue in Kalamazoo, Michigan. This authentic Italian eatery is nestled in the middle of downtown, with beautiful views of the streets and inviting atmosphere for all of your guests. The quaint dining areas offer a fun and... (Restaurant Weddings Kalamazoo)
A landmark property in downtown Holland, for 20 years. Our goal is to offer a fresh, yet classic approach to European Dining, with award winning service & pastries. Beautiful, hand-crafted wood work imported from Europe. We can accommodate your intimate reception of 20 or your large affair for 225.... (Restaurant Weddings Holland)
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Zigby - Zigby's Lucky Star
Children'sRepeatClosed Captions AvailableRated: G11 mins
12:40pm Saturday, January 12 2013
Zigby, Episode 42 - Zigby's Lucky Star
Episode Synopsis
Episode 42 - Zigby's Lucky Star
Everyone has seen a lucky shooting star except McMeer, so Zigby makes him a fake one. McMeer now thinks he is invincible, and Zigby has to confess in order to keep McMeer safe.
Previous Episode Synopsis
Episode 38 - Zigby's Magic Trick
Zigby performs some magic tricks, and for an encore decides to make McMeer disappear. Nobody is more surprised than Zigby when McMeer really does go missing.
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Many families celebrate Thanksgiving with a turkey and a football game. However it's a tradition among Houston families to watch the city's large Thanksgiving Day parade. This downtown parade, referred to now as the H-E-B Thanksgiving Day Parade, is a must-see event, no matter if you're watching from the parade's sidelines or on television. In Houston, watching the parade the morning of Thanksgiving is just as common as giving thanks on Turkey Day.
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Although the H-E-B Thanksgiving Day Parade has changed names a few times in its history, this Houston event has been occurring for decades every Thanksgiving. Started in 1949, the parade began when Santa arrived in Houston's Union Station and then rode down the streets to a nearby department store to ring in the holiday season. Now, the parade has blossomed into a huge affair full of massive high-flying balloons, marching bands, dance teams and extravagant floats celebrating both Thanksgiving and Christmas.
For Texans not located in Houston, the parade is broadcasted throughout the state through television news stations. Enjoy the parade on TV in San Antonio, College Station, Waco, Corpus Christi, Dallas and surrounding areas.
If you're located in the Houston area, it is free to actually attend the parade. Standing on the sides of the street along the parade route is common, however there are tickets available to purchase for those wanting a seated front view. The parade typically begins in the morning at the intersection of Smith and Lamar, then heads north to Walker Street and then hooks a right to continue down Milam Street. Then the route turns along to Pease Street where it heads up Louisiana Street and then back to Smith at Dallas Street for the end.
This exciting parade is one of the largest parades in the Lone Star State. Watching the event has become a regular Thanksgiving tradition among Texans, no matter if they're located in H-Town or not. Watch the dazzling dancers, cartoon balloons, in-step marching bands and plenty of creative floats in Houston this Turkey Day.
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The End is Near…
It is probably important now more than ever that we share each others' stories, that we read each others' poems. Unfortunately, in just a few weeks (on November 30th), we at Artful Dodge are going to have to close our current reading period. Continue reading
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Yes, you've heard right–Artful Dodge 52/53 is hot off the presses! We're looking right into the mouth of the American condition–that is to say, we're not doctors, and we haven't quite figured out what the condition is yet. All we … Continue reading
Agitprop, and Other Words You Didn't Know
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El Goodo + Elk at Hare And Hounds
Thursday 14th June
- Venue/Location: Hare And Hounds, Birmingham
- Doors: 19:30 till 23:00
- Min Age: 18
El Goodo & Elk perform live at Hare & Hounds on Thursday 14th June 2018
Lineup and Details for El Goodo + Elk
Comprised of brothers Elliott (drums, percussion) and Jason Jones (guitar, vocals), Pixy Jones (guitar, vocals, keyboards), Lewie Sewers (guitar), Matthew Young (keyboards) and Andrew Cann (bass), El Goodo (named after a Big Star song) are a band enthralled by the past. They recorded the album on a 16-track with a small collection of faulty equipment, creating a collection of melodic pop songs, embellished with strings, brass, sitars, harmonicas, xylophones and vocal harmonies (and then seemingly covered it all with dust), that you'd expect to
find on some forgotten 60s record that someone has stumbled upon in their attic.
Despite the sheer length of time and the difficulties encountered, with By Order of The Moose El Goodo have achieved something extraordinary. The album is fully realised, cohesive and demonstrates the band's incredible knack for catchy hooks, eloquent songwriting and terrific arrangements. By taking an odyssey through the music of the past, they have shaped a sound that is both timeless and points towards a promising future.
Venue Information
Hare And Hounds
High Street, Kings Heath
Phone: 0121 444 2081
Music Genres
Alternative, Indie, Pop, Rock
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The Price of Peace (2/3/2015)
Kim Johnson
Typically, I make note of scriptures I find motivating and inspirational when I study. I get caught up in the encouragement and sometimes neglect to notice invaluable instruction hidden in a narrative account because on the surface it seems insignificant. I realized this while reading the story in Acts 15 of the conflict between Paul and Barnabas.
"Sometime later Paul said to Barnabas, "Let us go back and visit the believers in all the towns where we preached the word of the Lord and see how they are doing." Barnabas wanted to take John, also called Mark, with them, but Paul did not think it wise to take him, because he had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not continued with them in the work. They had such a sharp disagreement that they parted company. Barnabas took Mark and sailed for Cyprus, but Paul chose Silas and left, commended by the believers to the grace of the Lord" (Acts 15:36-40, NIV).
Paul was a super hero for Christ. Yet these verses indicate he was human just like us. He had strong convictions and was unafraid to stand behind them, so much so that it caused an intense disagreement with his missionary partner, Barnabas. Unable to agree on a resolution they split up. That's huge.
So how is this useful for us as leaders? Because sometimes we unrealistically believe we will always get along with those working in our area of ministry. Too often we avoid conflict when there is nothing shameful about it. Healthy disagreements lead to better decisions, creative problem-solving or stretching us intellectually and emotionally. That does not make it easy, however. And in some cases, common ground may not be achievable.
In the conflict between Paul and Barnabas, both had good arguments. Barnabas wanted to give John Mark a second chance even though he hadn't been reliable on their first journey. On the other hand, Paul was unwilling to waste time on someone who had proven to be irresponsible. Neither of their opinions were necessarily wrong, just different. Disagreeing with someone does not mean you are right and they are not. When there is no consensus, the only recourse is to agree to disagree. Should the disagreement cause discord however, the best path may be separate paths. Parting paths may just be for a season anyway. Paul and Barnabas later worked together again and John Mark eventually regained Paul's confidence.
In leadership roles, disagreements will occur. Seeking common ground is always best and separation, of course, should be the last resort. Never burn bridges unnecessarily. However, we cannot be afraid to remain resolute in a dispute. Some things are worth the fight. God will give you the wisdom and discernment to know the difference. As you seek resolution, seek His guidance. Parting company may be the price of peace, but better than the cost of continued conflict.


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Brands online and offline struggle to get consumers to spend money at their stores and win them over about products and services. But once they have their customers' attention, marketers often don't do enough to retain it.
According to a new report from the CMO Council, marketers are under-valuing perks,
discounts, deals and other opportunities, even as customers' interest in loyalty programs grows.
According to "The Leaders in Loyalty: Feeling the Love from the Loyalty Club," more
than half of web users said they would be willing to join
rewards programs in return for offers and deals that were more personally relevant.
But more important is the reaction of customers who are already invested in loyalty programs. 79% of
consumers surveyed say they are very, or pretty, satisfied with their
loyalty and rewards program experiences. But 70% want to see
more discounts and savings, and 52% want more compelling personal
deals and offers as reward for steering their business to loyalty
program operators. Meanwhile, 58%
say they want more compelling personal benefits and services and more relevant offers or individualized deals.
These are consumers who have already pinpointed an interest in specific brands, and they could be leveraged in much better ways.
As for marketers, 61% believe that loyalty program
participants are the best and most profitable customers. 65% see customer loyalty program
investments as a very essential, or valuable part of the
marketing mix.
So then what are they doing with these valuable customers? Not enough. Only 13% of respondents think they have
been highly effective in leveraging loyalty and brand preference among
club members.
20% don't even have a strategy for this. 25% admit they have not mobilized brand loyalists to become active advocacy agents.
Almost 80% of marketers want to
maintain or further funding loyalty programs as customer retention
and relationship building vehicles. Over 34% say they plan
to significantly increase their commitments, and 45.9% will maintain
their current commitments. 4% expect to discontinue their
What can be done to make loyalty programs more effective? For starters, increasing the benefits of joining. Consumers who join such lists are fans of brands and interested in communicating with them. That is a big step for a brand and worth some investment.
And consumer sentiment in this survey is not too much of a reach for marketers, if they're willing to listen. And give a little love to loyal customers.
39% of respondents view discounts and savings as the key member benefits, while 34% view free products and premiums as essential incentives.
Currently, 30% of marketers report that some customers see little or no added value to becoming a loyalty member. That's a problem.
Donovan Neale-May, executive director of the
CMO Council, says:
"It is notable that the economy is not a big driver of program
participation, indicating that as marketers look to recovery, fully
leveraging these programs must be a strategic priority. Figuring out ways to deliver added value to those willing
to repeatedly purchase your products and services, advocate your brand
on a viral level, or more actively respond to offers and incentives, is
critical to marketing effectiveness."
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