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- 4 Beds
- 1,620 +/- Sqft
Property TypeResidential – Single Family
Listing Date10/19/16
Year Built2001
Lot Size35.00 Acres
ParkingOver 3 Car Garage
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Once in a lifetime opportunity to own a remote property in the northern Flattops. This is an off the grid home with all the amenities; solar, generator, beautiful home with full kitchen, lots of storage, and sleeping for 12. The homestead also has a large, heated shop with 3/4 bath and laundry facilities. There is a separate apartment/guest quarters above the shop with 3/4 bath, bedroom, bunkroom, and full kitchen/living area. Unbelievable views, 35 acres of Aspens, and great hunting.
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When I last lived in Sydney, my typical Saturday involved coaching an under-13 team in the morning, playing about noon, then refereeing a game after that.
The rest of the day I spent watching my club teams, then it was back to the pub for speeches, boat races and watching either Super Rugby or Test matches.
Our club secretary told me "too much rugby is never enough". I concurred.
I now live in Argentina, where this year there has been a revolution of rugby on TV. The Six Nations and Rugby Championship Tests have always been shown, usually along with one Super Rugby game as well as select Top 14 and European Cup.
Not bad, but last weekend rugby was in overdrive!
All the Super games were shown – not all live, but I recorded them. The Brumbies and Blues were both impressive, but the introduction of the Jaguares was spectacular. Their first was drama-filled, featured scintillating tries and climaxed with a fight-back, one-point win.
Plenty of casual observers in this round-ball-crazy nation surely took notice. The sheer pace of the game was awesome, and although doubts remain about the format, the standard of rugby was top shelf.
The Sunwolves were valiant in defeat, and the crowd was clearly appreciative to have Super Rugby in their backyard.
Next was the Six Nations. I didn't see Wales versus France, but by all reports I didn't miss much. Italy, as always, were good in patches and scored a great try, but never really looked like beating Scotland. The England versus Ireland game was the best of the Northern Hemisphere games. England will be a handful in June, however they are all playing behind the times up north.
But the biggest result of the weekend went largely unnoticed.
Brazil kicked a penalty in the last play of the game to beat (an admittedly understrength) USA. John Mitchell, the USA coach, will not underestimate Brazil again, as it may have cost them the championship.
This game was part of an excellent new addition to the rugby calendar named the Americas Rugby Championship. Uruguay, Canada, Chile and an Argentine XV are also involved.
It is a similar format to the Six Nations in that each team plays each other once, and will give these countries some much-needed Test experience and cohesion, which is often lacking in lower-tier sides because they don't spend much time together.
It also gives fanatics something else to look forward to, even when there is more than enough rugby on the box.

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Hi Everyone! This is our family blog, welcome, sit down, have cuppa and catch up with what we're doing.
Monday, January 31, 2005
It is cold today! We had such a mild, sunny weekend and we are making up for it today. It snowed. Amy is quite excited, thinks it looks like Christmas (not even a Christmas in NZ seems to have cured her of that Northern pre-occupation with snow!). She thought Santa might come and bring her another present.Invisible Niichan (big brother) joined us in the bath today. He is seven, and his name is Tommy. He was invented after we got back from NZ - I think Amy misses her cousins. He wears an invisibility cloak like Harry Potter and only takes it off when I am not looking. He tickled Amy in the bath and she could not stop giggling.We have sold three books on amazon japan. I sent one on Saturday at the main PO, which was fine, then went to the local PO today. Local POs are an unknown quantity in Japan. They can be great - close, easy parking, people know you by name, staff are used to your unusual requests (ie, sending overseas). Or they can be a nightmare - new staff, intimidated by your foreignness, unsure what buttons to press on the stupid machine that seems to make each transaction take twice as long as before, utterly ignorant of the various international parcel rates. It does not help that the organization makes a habit of rotating staff yearly or so, so there are almost always newbies around.Today was the latter type of day. I know the guy well - he's stuffed up my requests before! I am sure he was teased in school. He's just that type. He gets so flustered and stuffs things up even more. I decided to be very explicit and watchful - but he still managed to mess it up. How hard is it, when someone hands you two identical packages, and says she wants a book rate, to conclude that therefore, both packages are books? Does not the different prices you came up with ring an alarm somewhere? To be fair, I think it did - and he proceded to check each package again, twice, and still came up with a different rate. He was so muddled he just kept on pressing the same wrong button over and over.I even queried the receipts, and asked if it was book rate, and he assured me it was. In these situations, I just have to give them the benefit of the doubt. I was not sure what the receipt said, just that the description was different, with the kanji I recognized as 'book' and the counter for book, and nothing like it on the other. I had assumed the difference was just size, or distance. So I took it to my Kanji, who also found the second receipt a bit odd, so he telephoned them, and only THEN did Mr. PO discover his mistake.I actually felt embarrassed about going back for my 100 yen refund! But if we are going to be sending twenty or so books, I have to be sure he is going to get it right. He also gave me a packet of tissues, then bid me wait - I thought he would fetch some balloons for the kids, but he came back with - wait for it - a complementary Post Office sponge. At least it's useful...
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I had to laugh when I read about the controversy over Abdellatif Kechiche's depiction of hot lesbian sex in Cannes Film Festival darling "Blue Is the Warmest Color." Some feminists and lesbians protested, asking in effect, What does he know about female, particularly lesbian, sexuality? Isn't his interest prurient?
I laughed, because I've often thought the same about men purporting to penetrate the workings of the female, uh, mind. Yet, couldn't readers of my "Water Music" accuse me of the same thing? After all, what do I know about male sexuality and gay sex? Isn't this just like Kechiche's film?
Well, yes – and no. Of course, he and I are voyeurs and vampires. All creative types are, plundering other people's lives for narrative. What is it Nora Ephron said, "Everything is copy"?
And copy would be very dull indeed if we stuck only to "our own kind." The arts, after all, are about engaging the imagination empathetically. Now to quote Gustave Flaubert: "Madame Bovary c'est moi."
But in engaging the imagination, we have a responsibility to be psychologically true, which is different from being real. There's an element of sexual fantasy to my work as I'm sure there is to Kechiche's. But that doesn't mean I'm uninterested in what it actually means for male sports rivals to be lovers, any more than I assume Kechiche is uninterested in what it's like for two women to be in love.
There is a difference, however, and it lies only partly in the threat of rape, which is almost exclusively a male act. In a New York Times' article on "Blue," writer Tim Teeman quotes Mark Kernes – senior editor at AVN, a trade magazine for the adult-film industry – as saying, "Most lesbian porn is made by men for male consumers who like to imagine themselves part of a threesome." But when I interviewed Ogi Ogas, co-author with Sai Gaddam of "A Billion Wicked Thoughts" (Dutton), he told me that women like to read and write stories about men having sex as a way to work out complex issues that might otherwise be threatening to them if they weren't observing from a safe distance.
In other words, men engage here and women detach – perhaps because in real life it's often the other way around: Women are the ones who are emotionally engaged, while men appear emotionally detached. And that may underscore the greater element of aggression we perceive generally in the male voyeur. Put it this way: If Kechiche's first name were Mary and "Blue" were about two men having sex, would there be all this fuss? Did anyone take Annie Proulx to task for writing "Brokeback Mountain" or the women who made up 80 percent of the film's audience? Or were they all hailed for their commitment to exploring complex relationships?
It comes down to power. Men have always had it. And that makes them dangerous. Women traditionally haven't. And ironically, that has in some ways made it easier for them to fly under the radar and do what they want.


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Before attempting a difficult task, the priest may cast call upon faith to aid his performance. If the priest has been true to his faith, the priest will receive divine aid in the task.
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Terrifying Photos You Should Only View in the Daylight
What are you afraid of? Is it pitch blackness, clowns, ghost, being grabbed by something from behind? If these things scare you, then only look at the following images and their stories in the daylight.
Not everyone can look at all these images, so proceed if you are brave enough. Once you've conquered your fear and read all the stories, pass this along to a friend and see how well they do with them.
Joe "The Cannibal" Metheny
In 1996, Joe Roy Metheny was charged with murdering three women. He confessed to killing a total of ten people, but murder was only the beginning of his sickening crimes. He would stalk prostitutes and other women near where groups of homeless people lived. He lured two of these women to his trailer where he killed them. He then dismembered the bodies and partially ate them. The rest of their remains were ground up and mixed with burgers which he sold at his food stand.
Tarred and Feathered
This is what a victim sentenced to being tarred and feathered looks like. Tarring and Feathering is a form of mob justice where the accused is usually strippe to the waist and coated with tar. Some accounts describe the tar as hot and even boiling and sometimes it could be pine tar. The accused is then either forced to roll in feathers or have the feathers showered over them This punishment dates all the way back to King Richard I of England in 1189. Tarring and feathering was employed during The American Revolution and during the 1700's and 1800's in America. Although not as common today there is a recorded account of tarring and feathering being implemented in Ireland as recently as 2007.
The Doll that Aged While In Storage
Most forgotten and packed away dolls show their age by cracking or losing their hair, or fading in color. This doll was different. It was a young girl's favorite toy for a while, but like most childhood playthings it ended up packed away in the attic. The young girl grew up and moved away. When her parents decided to sell the house they discovered the doll in its attic exile. The doll appeared to have aged like a human in its eleven years of storage. The face was wrinkled in the way a human face wrinkles with age. The most startling change was in the eyes. They no longer seemed glassy and doll-like, but very wise and human. Most collectors still argue that it was normal decay and nothing ore. Other wonder if a spirit did not attach itself the to the doll and cause the changes.
Tyler Hadley: Commits Double Murder Just to Throw a Party
Teenagers in Port St. Lucie, Florida complain about having nothing to do just like teenagers in other towns across America. Marijuana, Ecstasy, and prescription medications are often used to make time pass more pleasantly for many of these bored Florida teens. However, the lengths Tyler Hadley went to throw a party were grisly and extreme. Tyler was quite to the point of almost never speaking to anyone at school with his only close friend being a boy named Mark. Tyler had mentioned murdering his parents in conversations with his friends, but no one really took him seriously; but they should have. The photo above was taken in Tyler's garage after he showed his friend the bodies of his murdered parents. Tyler had beaten his parents to death with a hammer and put their bodies in the spare bedroom. He had showed his friend the blood spots in the living room and leading to the guest bedroom. He then posted on social media that he was having a party that night. The party was attended by hundreds of teenagers who didn't suspect anything was wrong. A neighbor finally called the police at two in the morning to complain of noise. The bodies of Tyler's parents were found exactly as he'd left them while his friends drank, smoked, and partied all night.
Hook Island Monster
On December 12, 1964 the LeSerrec family spotted what appeared to be a thirty foot tadpole like creature on the bottom of a lagoon in Stonehaven Bay. They took several pictures from different angles, but when they went in for a closer look, the creature disappeared.
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At the age of twenty-five Blanche Monnier was in love with a young lawyer and ready to marry him. Her mother disapproved of the match and locked Blanche in a tiny windowless room to keep her away from the lawyer. Blanche was kept in the filthy room for twenty-five years. The police were alerted to the situation by an anonymous letter and rescued Blanche in 1901. Fifteen days after her rescue, her mother became ill and died. Blanche was admitted to a psychiatric hospital for continued mental illness and died there in 1913.
Room 322 at The Hotel ZaZa
Room 322 at the Hotel ZaZa in Houston, TX is not your typical hotel room. The floors are bare concrete and the bed hangs from the wall by chains. The hotel says it is simply a jail themed room and way for them to use the small space. However, there are questions surrounding the creepy artwork on the walls. Why is there a portrait of Jay Comeaux, the President of the Stanford Group Company on the wall alongside pictures of skulls? Could this be a reference to the very old and very secretive Skull and Bones Society? Is this really just an average hotel suite, or is it used for other purposes?
Jack the Ripper's Personal Letter
Sent to George Lusk in 1888 this letter claims to be from Jack the Ripper. He sent Mr. Lusk half a human kidney and claims to have "fried and eaten" the other half. Mr. Lusk was the Chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee and Jack the Ripper chose his victims from this area. The letter continues to say that Mr. Lusk may also receive the knife used to remove the kidney from the body if he will only be patient. Many letters like this were sent, but this is one which was taken seriously as being from Jack the Ripper.
Double Trouble
Alligators strike fear into most people, but this two-headed alligator is double the trouble. Scientists say this can happen when monozygotic twins fail to completely separate. Many people in Florida claim to have seen this terrifying alligator even though these types of twins rarely survive into adulthood.
If you hate finding an average size spider in your bathtub, then this hungry spider will really scare you. Any spider that can take down a fully grown lizard and eat it for lunch is enough to send most people running in the other direction.
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This cougar showed up in a Chilean family's kitchen one morning. It did not attack the family or the family dog, but it was definitely a scary experience.
Not Just a Nosebleed
After being in a motorcycle accident Daniela Liverani thought she was simply having a nosebleed. The nosebleed turned out to be a three inch leech that had crawled up her nose a month before during a trip out of the country. She named the leech, Mr. Curly.
Rat King
A rat king is created when rats gather in a cluster to try and keep warm. When they freeze they become attached with frozen feces or mud. It's a scary thing to discover.
Botflies are terrifying simply because they burrow into your skin to incubate and for nourishment. They then push themselves back out of your skin when they hatch.
Hairy Frogs
Also called the Wolverine Frog, this frog has claws that are made of bone and not keratin. It is also hairy and quite scary looking.
Walter Yeo's Burn
During the 1916 Battle of Jutland Walter Yeo sustained terrible facial burns. The burns took off his upper and lower eyelids and severely damaged the rest of his face. He is the first man to receive plastic surgery to help heal his injuries.
The Doll Named Mandy
Mandy the Doll was given to a Canadian museum in 1991. The doll was already ninety years old and the previous owner could not have it in the house any longer. People report hearing a baby cry and finding only the doll. Visitors to the museum say the batteries to their devices drain when around Mandy. She also appears to move on her own from exhibit to exhibit.
Thunderbirds existed in Native American legends and some fossil excavations have uncovered birds with a wingspan of almost twenty feet. They were said to feed on whales.


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Log Cabin Condemns North Carolina State GOP Chairman Ferrell Blount For Dividing Party
Chairman Ferrell Blount Flip-flops and Refuses to Allow Log Cabin NC a Table at NC State Republican Convention
(Washington, DC) – Just days before the start of the North Carolina Republican State Convention, Chairman Ferrell Blount has written a letter reversing position and informing Log Cabin North Carolina that it will not be allowed a table at the state convention. "Log Cabin Republicans believe that at a time when our country is at war, we ought to be bringing Republicans together, not dividing them, and certainly not excluding them from their own state convention," said Log Cabin Republicans Executive Director Patrick Guerriero.
Log Cabin NC organizer and Executive Director-Development of Equality North Carolina, Ed Farthing purchased a table at the North Carolina state convention on behalf of Log Cabin in early April. The state party, which had been soliciting party members to purchase tables at the convention, accepted the money and issued a table to Log Cabin. Just days before the convention, North Carolina State GOP Chairman Ferrell Blount flip-flopped, returning the money, and sending a lengthy vitriolic letter informing Farthing that Log Cabin would not have a table at the convention.
"Chairman Blount's actions are an affront to fair-minded Republicans across the state of North Carolina. To flip-flop and refuse to allow loyal Republicans a seat at their own convention is petty and short sighted," stated Farthing.
Chairman Blount's letter informed Log Cabin that "homosexuality is not normal and should not be established as an acceptable 'alternative' lifestyle." The letter further informed Log Cabin that, "[t]he North Carolina Republican Party and the Log Cabin Republicans do not seem to share the same agenda." Accordingly, Chairman Blount concluded, "Your group will not have a table at our convention as this would seem counter productive to the Republican Party's agenda."
The Log Cabin Republicans website makes it clear what the organization's agenda is: "We are loyal Republicans. We believe in low taxes, limited government, strong defense, free markets, personal responsibility, and individual liberty. Log Cabin represents an important part of the American family-taxpaying, hard working people who proudly believe in this nation's greatness. We also believe all Americans have the right to liberty, freedom, and equality." Log Cabin is not sure how Chairman Blount can claim to represent the Republican Party and not share this agenda.
"The Republican Party is not owned by Ferrell Blount. It is not his Republican Party. The Republican Party is the party of Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan, a party built on expanding the definition of liberty. The GOP is made up of individuals with diverse backgrounds, beliefs, and interests. The Republican Party doesn't just belong to one person," said Chris Barron, Log Cabin's Political Director, and a North Carolina native.
Log Cabin Republicans urge Chairman Blount to serve all Republicans in North Carolina by uniting rather than dividing the GOP. "Real issues face North Carolinians today, and our Party's Chairman should be committed to solving these problems, uniting our party, and building the North Carolina GOP. Our party should be talking about taxes, the war on terror, securing our children's future, and protecting North Carolina's economy. With an important Governor's race this fall, with a key Senate race this fall, and with the balance of power in North Carolina's legislature up for grabs, the Chairman of the North Carolina GOP should stop dividing Republicans," concluded Barron.


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2011 Accomplishments by Project
Seven-Mile Creek Watershed – Great River Greening began work on the first of several partnerships demonstrating that conservation impact can be made in agricultural watersheds. At Seven-Mile Creek (Nicollet County), a tributary of the Minnesota River and the only designated trout stream in the southern Minnesota region, Greening is working with several partners including the Natural Resources Conservation Service, Fishers & Farmers Partnership, Nicollet County Soil and Water Conservation District, and Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Major awards from the McKnight Foundation, RBC Blue Water Project, and Xcel Energy Foundation will help support this multiyear work targeting several watersheds.
Metro Conservation Corridors Partnership – Through this partnership, Greening has restored 1,100 acres across 37 sites over the past nine years. Among other 2011 projects, more than 100 volunteers removed invasive species at Ike's Creek, one of the few native trout streams in the metro area, adjacent to the Minnesota Valley Natural Wildlife Refuge. Major funding from the Minnesota Environmental Trust Fund.
Anoka Sandplain Partnership – Rice Area Sportsmen's Club Wildlife Management Area, Cedar Creek Ecosystem System Reserve, Rice Lake Savanna Scientific and Natural Area (SNA) and Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge were among the projects initiated in a major push for this 20-partner collaboration targeting restoration of natural habitat on public lands throughout this ecological region of east-central Minnesota. A total of 2,500 acres was restored, with at least another 1,000 planned for 2012. Over the past three years, we have raised nearly $2 million for restoring and enhancing Minnesota's key natural assets in the region. Major funding from the Minnesota Outdoor Heritage Fund through the Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council. Other funders includeBuuck Family Foundation, Centerpoint Energy, Great River Energy, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, National Wild Turkey Federation, Rathmann Family Foundation, and Xcel Energy Foundation.
Metro Big Rivers Habitat Partnership – Work started in this newly formed Partnership to elevate conservation within habitat corridors along the Minnesota, Mississippi and St. Croix rivers in the Twin Cities Metro Area. 2011 projects included invasive species removal within calcareous fens at two state-owned SNAs. Major funding from the Minnesota Outdoor Heritage Fund through the Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council.
St. Croix Blufflands and Floodplain – We are nearing completion on this collaboration with Audubon Minnesota, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Washington Conservation District and other partners to improve migratory bird habitat throughout the lower St Croix River Valley. Five private landowners are in various stages of woodland restoration projects in selected focal areas and (72 acres); and three public lands projects (two sites at Franconia Bluffs SNA, and Lost Valley SNA) are in progress (140 acres). Major funding from National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. Other funders include Anderson Corporation, Bailey Nursery, Gordon & Margaret Bailey Foundation, and Hardenburgh Foundation.


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Austin improvisers Xaria Coleman and Meredith Roberts join the hosts of Casting Session with their unnamed commentating podcast featuring two excitable gentleman.
As is often the case, AJ and Will quickly discover that their penchant for wordplay and deflection are pulling focus from their 'cast. An obsession with county fairs and the ability to predict crimes before they happen are on the agenda for this episode of Casting Session.


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Dale Chihuly | The Arts Club | The Halcyon Gallery | Art Review | London
Dale Chihuly | The Ebony Suite | Private View | The Halcyon Gallery | Art Review | London
Wednesday evening I was treated to a special private view courtesy with Mayfair's The Arts Club at The Halcyon Gallery on Bond Street.
The Halcyon gallery which was founded in 1982 opened it's new Bond Street Gallery in 2011. The new gallery spans over 5 floors and is a truly magnificent space.
We were taken for a private tour of The Ebony Suite which has a showcase of American glass artist Dale Chihuly's work. Born in 1941 Dale Chihuly works with glass and has pushed the boundaries of the art of glass blowing.
He works with clear glass then adds the color afterward so that he has more control over the effect. He is constantly experimenting and doing things with glass blowing that were previously seen impossible.
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Five people were arrested and charged for participating in a worldwide ATM heist that stole $45 million from two Middle East banks. The four men and one woman, all in their 20s and residents of the New York City suburb of Yonkers, were accused of being members of a global cybercrime organization that stole Mastercard Inc debit-card information, according to an announcement from Loretta Lynch, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
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By Thomas Lynch
To those planning on watching tonight's state of the union address, here are a few pieces of EWI analysis that touch on a number of the foreign policy issues likely to arise tonight:
U.S.-China relations
EWI senior associates Jacqueline McLaren Miller and Piin-Fen Kok look at major issues of contention and cooperation in the years ahead.
U.S.-Russia relations
Jackie Miller waves goodbye to the reset, assessing the recent troubles in this relationship, including the Magnitsky bill, the adoption ban and Russia's crackdown on foreign NGOs .
Weapons of Mass destruction
Our Davis Fellow for WMD Kevin Ching takes a look at the Obama administration's new goals for arms reductions.
On the lighter side, The Washington Post reports on the somewhat absurd lengths members of congress will go for a few fleeting seconds with the president.
And be sure to follow EWI on Twitter (@EWInstitute) for live updates during the address.
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- ITV Report
Enchanted Somerset forest takes action as 'fairy doors' become 'out of control'
Wayford Woods in Crewkerne, Somerset, have issued an appeal to fairy house builders to tone it down, after more than a 100 fairy doors appeared.
The woods, now known as the 'Fairy Woods', have been delighting children for the past few years, after the first little door appeared at the bottom of a tree.
Families have flocked to the enchanted woods to see the doors of the homes of the fairies and leave little messages but there are now concerns about the damage to the woodland area these human visitors are creating.
A group of volunteer trustees is appealing for people not to screw any more doors directly to trees and to avoid over-decorating. Trustee Steve Acremen told the BBC:
His wife Gillian told the Independent not everyone is happy to see the fairy doors - particularly those decorated with tacky pink tinsel. The mess created by the notes left by children to the fairies was also of concern, she said.
Fellow Trustee Andrew Hutchings stressed that fairies and interested families are still very welcome to visit, but urged the visitors to tread lightly, and consider how the shy creatures would react to their garish doors.
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We are alive here today due to millions of years of evolutionary process. When one has a look at anything that is there in the modern world, it would be possible for one to see that it has evolved from one state to another. A technological advancement could evolve from a mere theory to an even more advanced piece of equipment just as an organism could evolve to adapt to its surroundings in a better matter. When a business is taken into consideration, one would be able to observe that the case is the same. It would be necessary for a business to evolve as time goes along, or it would not be possible for that business to reach success. If you are a businessman, you would need to pay attention towards evolving your business in an ideal manner. There is much to be done in evolving your business to fit the modern day. One of the most important matters that you have to handle in doing so would be expanding your customer base.
Your customers would be the ones that carry the business forward. Each and every customer that you have matters and it would be quite important for you to ensure that you offer them quality products and services in retaining them and keeping customer loyalty intact. The most effective step that you could take in expanding your customer base would be through launching a good marketing campaign. When you carry out a marketing campaign, it would be possible for you to see that there are many factors that need to be taken into consideration. You need to know what to market, when to market and how to market. It would be ideal for you to go for the service of a service provider that is an expert in marketing and advertising when you want your marketing campaign to be successful.
When you have a good service provider to help you out with the marketing, they would take the external environment such as the competition into consideration in making a path for you to market your business. They would also know the ideal platforms to market and the easy ways to reach larger numbers of people. When all this is done through their expertise, you would be able to observe your customer base growing just the way you want it to grow.
With good marketing, your customer base would keep growing. This would allow your business to reach new heights, and earn significant profits in the process. For all this to happen, one would just have to have the right resources and make the right choice of the service provider.


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2018 Accounting Year in Review
Having recently completed several major long-term projects, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has continued to assist stakeholders with implementing new standards and resolving practice issues. These efforts reflect the Board's acknowledgment of the recent pace of change in its standard-setting activity. The FASB focused in 2018 on application issues related to the new lease and credit loss standards, resulting in several clarifications to those pronouncements. Currently, preparers and auditors are immersed in efforts to implement these major new standards in the near term. Meanwhile, the FASB has updated its agenda and continues to reduce complexity in U.S. GAAP where possible through its Simplification Initiative.
Our year in review report – provided through our participation in BDO Alliance USA – summarizes the year's most significant changes in guidance and what to expect in 2019. It also includes a comprehensive list of the effective dates for recently-issued accounting standards.
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The Reduced Voltage Starter will have minimal line voltage leakage on the leads of the motor. As with all solid state equipment, removing and tagging of an air gap device is required for safety before servicing the equipment.
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I recently had the pleasure of having a young woman, Olivia, a junior at Southeast High School here in Lincoln, shadow me for a day. I felt a little sorry for her since much of my day is spent writing emails. But I did try to have her attend a few meetings so that she could see the various components that go into book publishing. I've been in the business for so many years that I tell people "it's in my blood." I don't even think about all the pieces and parts. But having Olivia visit made me realize just how complex—and fun—book publishing is.
We started out the day with our weekly Launch meeting. This is the meeting where folks from most of our departments gather to discuss the manuscripts that are finally ready to go into the pipeline to become books. At this meeting the editor who acquired the manuscript gives a description of the content of the book, the intended audience, and anything else he or she thinks is relevant. Then the feeding frenzy of questions begins: What's the real audience for this book? If it's students, why are we planning to publish it in cloth? If it's scholars, why can't it be priced higher? Does this title really convey what the book is about? On this particular day we were launching a book about the Civil War in the Indian Territories, which occasioned a long discussion about what constituted a Civil War battle in Indian Territory in the first place. And our manager of Editorial, Design, and Production filled us in on a new controversy in her world: do we capitalize northern and southern, as the Chicago Manual of Style suggests, or do we go with the latest thinking in the scholarly world, to lowercase? I'm sure Olivia was amused, at best, but I found it very stimulating!
In the next meeting we looked at cover designs for some books coming out next spring. These covers need to be finalized soon because they will go into our seasonal catalog. The variety of books—and the variety of cover designs—led to some heated discussion. As I predicted, this was the meeting Olivia most liked. As a lover of books, she got excited about looking at the potential covers.
Next we ran through the pricing and print run decisions for the books that had launched last week. Then we tackled our weekly reprints meeting. This is where we look at books that are running out of stock. In today's world of print-on-demand, we try to keep a minimal amount of inventory on hand for most books. But the team was baffled when I opted to bring in inventory for one title that has consistently sold 500 to 1,000 books per year. There was a little bit of grumbling about my inconsistency but I was trying to focus on the bigger picture: we don't want to cut off completely our offset printers, and since we know this is a "tried and true" title, we can do a traditional printing.
Hungry from all these morning meetings, we headed off to lunch with our marketing manager. Like me, he couldn't really think of anything negative about working in book publishing except the challenging financial picture. He also observed that most of the people working in publishing didn't start out thinking that was the career they wanted—some are frustrated academics, some are frustrated artists, everyone has a unique story. Within book publishing there are so many departments that there's something for everybody: acquisitions, contracts, editing, design, print production, business, fundraising, marketing, sales, and, of course, being the director. (Sorry, Olivia, the job is taken for the moment!)
Finally, Olivia ended her day at the weekly meeting of the Editorial, Design, and Production Department. She admitted to me afterward that she didn't really understand what they were talking about, but what did stick with her was that some books can take as long as sixteen months to produce. Most of ours take between six and eleven months from the time the manuscript appears at the Launch meeting, but there are lots of reasons why a book can take longer—sheer book length, complexity, lots of artwork, overseas printing, or authors who take a long time to return the copyedited manuscript or page proofs, for instance.
Spying a few yawns on her part, and needing to do something very unexciting (work on the budget), I sent her on her way. She was amazed at the number of things that go into book publishing but happy to have had a chance to glimpse into what I think is one of the most rewarding and fun jobs in the world. Each book we publish is a reminder of all the good work we do: taking the words and ideas of our authors and sending them out to the wider world as beautiful books, well edited and well designed.
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This photo shows corrosion caused to a pool pump when a small leak dripped tiny amounts of salt water onto an otherwise beautiful pool pump.
Pool water quality is a concern for all swimming pool owners and community pool operators. Traditionally, pool water quality has been ascertained by the amounts of contaminates in the water. However, a flurry of new scientific health studies has indicated negative health factors for the chemicals used to sanitize the water itself. This means that the water can be completely free of "contaminates" but the Chlorine in the pool water can still cause harm when exposed to the human body. The biggest problem linked to chlorinated pool water so far is asthma related symptoms in young children.
Sometimes it takes a scientific study to tell us something that is painfully obvious to all of us. Chlorine is toxic and does not mix well with the human body. Salt systems are no better because they simply use salt dissolved in the pool water to generate chlorine. If you have a salt system on your swimming pool you are actually swimming in both salt and chlorine.
Whether it is the fear of legal action based on these new studies or a sincere concern for the health of swimmers, pool owners and operators across the country are desperately seeking non chlorine alternatives to keep their pool water clean and clear.
Drinkable Pool Water Systems
Pool owners and operators are turning to drinkable pool water systems in ever increasing numbers to protect themselves and their swimmers. These systems are actually capable of keeping the pool water clean without the use of any chemicals and the technology has a very high customer satisfaction rate. The pool water is cleaned through the use of copper ionization and titanium oxygenation in the same chamber to kill bio threats and burn off chemical threats effectively.
At one time, these systems were only marketed to the very wealthy. However, the prices have come down so much over the years that a quality system costs about the same.
Pool owners who use the system report many different benefits above and beyond their health.
"I climb in swim to the other end of the pool and notice something strange. There is no chemical smell and the water is smooth like silk. Not like softened water but actually silky!"
"I bought the system when I had my 3rd replacement heater installed. It seems my salt water was corroding the inside of my heaters within a year or two of use. The drinkable pool water system changed all that. My heater is still like new."
"Chlorine makes my skin break out in red patches so I bought a salt system not realizing that there would still be chlorine in the pool. I eventually found the ecosmarte system and love it very much."
"I was encouraged by my pool guy to get a drinkable pool water system when I changed my liner. He said that the liner would barely fade at all with drinkable pool water. I went with a salt system instead to save $300. Two years later my pool liner is bleached out. I should've listened. Maybe when I get my next liner."
"My last pool had a salt system which caused the white chalky scale to be drawn out of the plaster. It was so ugly and I couldn't ever get it completely clean. When I built my new pool I went with drinkable pool water because scale cannot chemically occur with drinkable pool water."
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Professor Raymond Wong named among World's Most Influential Scientific Minds
Professor Raymond Wong is listed as one of the world's top 130 highly cited researchers in the field of materials science.
Thomson Reuters published on 14 January its study of the "World's Most Influential Scientific Minds: 2015", a citation analysis identifying scientists who have made the most significant global impact in their respective fields of study determined by their fellow researchers. In other words, the selected scientists' published works were most frequently cited by their peers. Professor Raymond Wong, Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Chemistry, and Elizabeth Law Endowed Chair of Advanced Materials of HKBU, was named one of the world's top 130 researchers in materials science, becoming one of only two scholars in this field who come from universities in Hong Kong.
Professor Wong said, "It is my great honour to be acknowledged as one of the world's most influential scientific researchers in my specialty. The list reflects positive assessment of our research at HKBU by peers around the world who recognise our work to be of particular significance."
The longer-range study, widely known as the Highly Cited Researchers, included an 11-year assessment of research paper citations to determine the leaders within 21 broad fields of science and the social sciences. The fields included clinical medicine, biology & biochemistry, chemistry, engineering, geosciences, materials science, physics, immunology, computer science, mathematics, microbiology, space science, economics & business. The study recognised around 3,000 scientists who published the greatest number of articles ranking among the top one percent by citations received in their respective fields in each paper's year of publication. The analysis covered over 120,000 papers indexed between 2003 and 2013 for each specialty.
Professor Wong's research focuses on the development of sustainable energy sources and improvement in light/electrical energy conversion technologies.
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The Nailberry Spring Summer Collections are so pretty – spring especially is all the types of shades that I would want to wear on my nails; I can't actually pick out a colour that I wouldn't want to wear. I love the kind of ashy backdrop that stops colours being too candy-ish – it's a very sophisticated range and I'm amazed it isn't in wider distribution yet. So shades (because the pics are too little to read the names) from left to right are: Young & Fabulous, Lush, Fashionista, Noisette, Mystere and Lait d'Amande.
The summer collection, above, is a really careful edit of joyful colours – I see that it hasn't strayed into predictable oranges and corals and instead gone for a mix of pastels and ultra brights. There's that yellow again – how are we going to do this?! From left to right: Smart Cookie, Extravagant, Bubblegum, Baby Blue, Rio and De Janiro.
Nailberry is such an elegant range and a definite favourite of mine. It's not a huge brand – most of shades are made by hand and are 4 Free. Colours are £13.50. Nailberry Spring Summer Collections launch on 15th of April HERE but if you're after a magical swimming-pool turquoise, take a look at Turks & Caicos.
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The spring collection looks rather dark but at the same time it is very natural and neutral which is great for spring 🙂
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This brand doesn't interest me at all. It reminds me of a watered down version of the american apparel nail polish line :/ Apart from the blue in the spring collection, it all looks very autumn to me. The 3 colours on the left of the summer collection though are summer colours, but how they look in person is another thing.


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Reporting OSAP Grant as a Full-Time Student
I am a full-time graduate student with a T2202A. I received an OSAP grant last year, and an accompanying T4A slip.
In which Box 105 should I report the grant: the first option ("Full-time scholarship: also have T2202A with months in Box C") or the fifth option ("Other scholarships, grants, awards etc: taxable").
I have seen conflicting information online and on the forum. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.


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Lawmakers in the House of Representatives are pressing Apple and Google to answer questions about their data and privacy practices.
This week, the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee sent letters to Apple and Google parent company Alphabet with a set of 16 multi-part questions. The letter addressed to Apple CEO Tim Cook, specifically, cites recent reports in the media about data gathered through cell phones that "may be used in ways that consumers do not expect."
Of course, the media reports the Committee cites specifically focus on Android which is made by Google. But in the current conversations about digital privacy, lawmakers probably want to know where Apple stands on similar issues.
Read: How to Add DVDs and Blu-rays to Your iTunes Library
The questions are fairly broad and range from asking about Apple's Location Services policies to whether or not iPhones record audio of their users without their consent (or the presence of an "unambiguous" trigger).
House lawmakers also questioned the use of Location Services by RapidSOS, as well as how Apple controls or limits data collected by third-parties.
One of the questions touches upon recent changes to the App Store developer guideline which prohibit apps from collecting data on users' friends. Apple made that change, presumably, in response to the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica data scandal.
Finally, the letter asks Apple to arrange a briefing on the questions and topics listed. It did not, however, provide a definitive timeline for when Apple should make those arrangements. But the company has until July 23 to respond to the letter.
Read: Apple To Discontinue The iPhone X Soon And Here Is Why
Apple's Commitment to Privacy
Apple, of course, is probably not sweating these questions anyway.
The Cupertino tech giant has always had a longstanding commitment to protecting its users' privacy. That stands in stark contrast to firms like Google, which often leverage user data for targeted advertising and other purposes.
The company has consistently been an outlier due to its more transparent and pro-privacy in its practices than Facebook, Google or Amazon. In other words, Apple sells users products. Its users are not the product.
In other words, Apple sells users products. Its users are not the product.
As evidence of that, Apple maintains its own dedicated privacy webpage where it explains in detail its policies surrounding digital data and user privacy rights. And Apple regularly updates its various operating systems with security and privacy-related features.
Read: How to fix iPhones battery issues
The upcoming macOS Mojave and iOS 12are no exceptions. And, interestingly, certain new protections in Safari basically declare all-out-war on the tracking mechanisms used by other major technology and internet firms.
Apple will also roll out a new privacy page meant to comply with recent EU privacy regulations globally. Most other tech firms have hesitated to make their EU-compliant platforms available in other regions.
In a recent interview, Tim Cook succinctly summarized Apple's view on data harvesting practices.
"The ability of anyone to know what you've been browsing about for years, who your contacts are, who their contacts are, things you like and dislike and every intimate detail of your life from my own point of view it shouldn't exist," Cook said.
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Tim: Pleasingly, this year Melodifestivalen has been largely devoid of turkeys, and any that did make it in have been binned off in the early rounds.
Tom: But in turn, that'll mean some good songs have been kicked out too?
Tim: Sadly, yes – this one, for example, only managed fifth in heat 2, despite being a really rather good number.
Tim: With the quick beat underneath and the bright and shiny CDs in the background (Why? Well, why not?) it reminded me quite a bit of the (still outstanding) You & I, from Norway's selection process in 2012. Doesn't quite match up to that in terms of general outrageousness of the staging, but it terms of the music it holds a decent candle to it.
Tom: It's almost schlager, but not quite — it's a bit more modern than that. Give it a dance beat and a key change and it'd fit in quite nicely ten or twenty years ago. Heck, it might win ten or twenty years ago. Obviously, for that reason, I like it.
Tim: Strong vocal, heck of a beat, good melody, a band that are good at pretending to play instruments, and overall not a lot to complain about. Often with this reject theme, we ask what the song did wrong. Here, I'm not sure we can, because I don't think it did anything wrong – it just wasn't quite as good as the really good ones.


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Central Carolina Community College's Health and Fitness Science program prepares multi-expert health professionals to be certified to carry out various expertise in the health and fitness trade. They have claimed that their equipments are the very best in the world and you will appear engaging with the slim figures after using their fitness instruments and accessories. So they often face numerous well being issues like chubby, obese, laziness, physique ache, idle, unmotivated, and so forth. Rowing machines are nice for the arms and the chest muscle tissue so a mix of health tools is required to get your sturdy biceps and triceps.
The weight-reduction plan portion of The Nerd Fitness Academy , is designed across the Paleo Diet (permitting folks to ease into it) as a result of I know it works. K. Clifford has worked in the discipline of store until 2009 when K left the field to look for after a substitute course into the universe of health and enterprise group as a Director at a wellbeing center in South Carolina. I would like to speech on the subject of health and fitness at the celebration occasion of this special day.
In order to make the course together with well being and fitness training, college students must full 9: innovative plant foods; The basics of a useful bodily train; Technology Physical exercise; Physical Exercise Physiology / CPR; Kinesiology / anatomy and physiology; Tax revenues of the Company; Asks Athletics Coaching protected; Significant Design Systems and associated physical health; Residents are also necessities and special physician ordered.
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Many folks kind their health information consistent with the teachings of a person skilled or guru. Without correct health and fitness one can not have a sense of bodily, mental and social properly being. Your first work placement takes place on campus the place you'll perform fitness appraisals and conduct weekly personal coaching periods for an assigned consumer as part of the Humber Centre for Healthy Living (CHL). Rainbow physical health need points treadmills, rowing machines, exercise bikes, cross trainers and yoga tools.


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Halloween is the scariest and probably the sweetest holiday of the year. The roots of the festival, celebrating the end of summer and the beginning of the "darker half" of the year stretch back through the millennia. The habits surrounding it have changed a lot, though: today it's all about costumes, candy, and parties. And the good time would not be complete without a few games added to the mix. For this year, here are the games we recommend for you to try.
Lost Vegas
A recent addition to the game library of Euro Palace online casino, Lost Vegas shows its players how Sin City would be like if it was overrun by zombies. Players get to choose which side they want to take – the Survivors or the Zombies – and the game will adapt its looks and feel to their choice. Lost Vegas is a welcome addition to the Euro Palace game collection, as it comes not only with some innovative features and big wins, but also a ton of atmosphere. It is the perfect choice for all Euro Palace players to give a go before leaving for the Halloween party – or maybe serve as an inspiration for a costume.
Another Euro Palace slot machine that captures the idea of modern-day Halloween perfectly. Its reels are filled with ghosts, candy, and a kid hunting for both. During the game, players get to join a young, fearless ghost hunter, capturing the paranormal visitors invading our trick-or-treating party. Whenever the ghost tank is filled, the ectoplasm spills out, triggering the game's profitable "Free Spins" feature. Peek-a-Boo is a fun game to play before the Halloween party – and on any other day of the year.
Alaxe in Zombieland
Last, but not least, a truly unique and creepy game to make your Halloween complete. Alaxe in Zombieland is inspired by the immortal tale of Alice stumbling through the rabbit hole right into Wonderland. But the world Alaxe finds on the other side of the hole is twisted and horrifying, crawling with brain-eating creatures out to get our heroine. Luckily, Alaxe has her faithful flamingos at hand – but instead of using them as golf clubs, our heroine uses their sharp beaks to leave the undead headless. An infected white rabbit, a creepy Cheshire Cat, a brain-munching Mad Hatter and several other creepy symbols (including a brain on a plate) make this game the perfect choice to start your scary, haunted, and insanely fun Halloween party. Who knows, it may even give you a hint on what to wear on Halloween next year.


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City Council seeks ways to reduce likely stormwater fee increase
By Ginger Livingston
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Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Greenville City Council directed staff to examine current practices for collecting stormwater fees after reviewing a rate increase proposal that its members said was too costly, especially for apartment dwellers.
At the Council's Monday workshop, staff presented the stormwater advisory committee's recommendations for generating additional revenue to fund stormwater system improvements and repairs.
"We all agree there needs to be more money put towards stormwater but let's not tax the heck out of the citizens," Mayor P.J. Connelly said.
In November, the advisory committee reported the city's stormwater system has more than 150 capital projects to manage flood control, improve water quality and stabilize stream banks. The city needs to spend about $15 million annually on the work but the current stormwater fee generates $6 million.
Increasing the existing stormwater fee would allow public works to increase the percentage of new infrastructure inspected annually, clean and inspect all open channels, shorten the period of time pipes and catch basins are cleaned and inspected, set aside money for emergency repairs and increase the amount of money available for capital projects during a five-year period, said Lisa Kirby, public works senior engineer.
The stormwater advisory committee recommended adding a monthly charge of $1.20 to fund administrative costs associated with operating the stormwater system. Connelly said he viewed such a fee as a "backdoor tax."
The stormwater fee currently paid by property owners is based on an equivalent rate unit that is equal to 2,000 square feet of impervious surface — which is defined as buildings, patio, driveway, parking lots and other paved area.
Kirby showed the Council what fees are currently paid by the average, big box store, fast food restaurant, single-family residential property owner and the per-unit fee for a multi-story apartment building. She then showed how the fees would increase over a five-year period based on a $1, $2 and $3 increase.
For an average residential property with between 2,000-4,000 square feet of impervious surface, the currently monthly fee is $10.70. A $1 increase would raise it to $21.20 by fiscal year 2023-24, a $2 increase raises it to $29.20 and a $3 increase raises it to $40.20.
For a multi-story apartment, the average per unit rate is currently $1.76 a month. A $1 increase would raise it to $11.20, a $2 increase raises it to $15.20 and a $3 increase raises it to $21.20.
"I don't know what tier I am, but that's a lot of money," Connelly said. The increases for apartment buildings would be especially difficult as they would be a financial hardship on some of the city's more financially vulnerable residents, he said.
While Kirby showed the $3 increase, she said the stormwater advisory board believed it was cost prohibitive and shouldn't be pursued. Council members agreed.
Councilman Will Litchfield said before there is a discussion about rate increases, he wanted to know how much money in uncollected fees is out there.
Greenville Utilities Commission collects the stormwater fee for the city. Is a bill sent to collect the fee if a utility is ended? Litchfield asked. If GUC receives a partial payment from a customer, how much, if any of the money does the stormwater fund receive?
The stormwater committee's current recommendation is to fund projects as money becomes available. Litchfield asked if any thought had been given to obtaining a bond to pay for the work. Assistant City Manager Michael Cowin said it would cost more in the long run because interest would have to be paid.
Connelly likened the stormwater issue to the city's issues with road repairs. For years, only a minimum amount of repair work was funded until the council was forced to invest more.
"The ultimate goal is we want growth into the city, to bring more people in to pay into this, but we don't want to scare them away before they get here by charging them $80 a month (for) stormwater," Connelly said.
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Lisbon | Portugal
Eduardo Tavares was born in Portugal, in Lisbon. His passion for the electronic music began in 2002. His style differs. He likes not only dizzying rhythms but also hypnotic and melodies flights. Above all, his main aim is to see people smiling and dancing. The portuguese marketeer has achieved some importance n the world-mide electronic panorama. His musical works are played by famous people of the branch what makes him very happy.
With " The Himan Experience" released in 2009 by the swedish label Kant Recordings, Himan for the first time got the tops with the track " The Sky Above Me".
One of the highest points of his short career was signing for the Frankfurt label Connaisseur Recordings, where he had the pleasure of remixing a very interesting work of Mutant Clan (Timo Mass & Santos) and a Brendon Moeller track to. Himan will soon release some more work in the Frankfurt label.
In October 2010 he signed a track for the catalan label Galaktika Records, called "Inside You", which was included in a compilation to celebrate the five years of the label. This compilation included names such as Maetrik (Maceo Plex), Iron Curtis and Chopstick, among others, but it was Himan's track that called one's attention. Again he got the tops.
In 2012 he signed for two of the most known label´s in the world, Cocoon Recordings and Freerange Records. His track was picked for a compilation CD mixed by Joris Voorn in Sven Vath german imprint. He also have his name in a vinyl together with names such Milton Jackson and Jimpster with is beautiful track "Empty Pocket" that is being played by names like Âme or Ian Pooley (Innervision).
Whenever he releases his works he usually has the support of names such as, Laurent Garnier, Josh Wink, Ian Pooley, Joris Voorn, John Digweed and Deetron, among others.
He also have huge artists remixing his tracks, names like Patrick Chardronett, Brendon Moeller or Samuel L.Session,
His hypnotizing melodies as well as his dancing tracks and the transparency he puts in every work, have drawn the attention and the interest of the most attentive.
Having international events on his agenda, Himan will present his work in Live shape which surely is one of his great passions.
2013 will be a huge year for him, he is going to start his own label called Release/Sustain. It´s going to be definitely his year. Stay tuned.


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Google calendar client setup
Google Calendar with Outlook
Google_Calendar can be added to Outlook, mobile devices, etc., see http://www.google.com/googlecalendar/new.html. We have not yet tested this.
Google Calendar with Thunderbird Lightning
It is possible to synchronize with Google_Calendar from within Lightning, see http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=99358#sunbird.
Known problems:
initial import of google calendar may cause thunderbird to freeze,
creating a task from thunderbird lightning in google calendar fails with:
Error number: MODIFICATION_FAILED
Alternatively see https://addons.mozilla.org/af/thunderbird/addon/provider-for-google-calendar/ (requires Thunderbird 3.1 or later). We have not yet tested the latter.


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What Is Smoker's Lung?
We all now know that smoking has a huge impact on the lungs, as well as other parts of the body. Indeed, you only have to catch a glimpse at the back of a packet of cigarettes to see what the lungs of a smoker may look like.
Tobacco smoke contains more than 4,000 different chemicals, at least 60 of which are known to cause cancer. One of the worst culprits is sticky, black tar, which collects in the lungs and stops the lining of tiny hairs (cilia) from sweeping away germs.
Tar and the other baddies in smoke can lead to problems called smoker's lung, now more commonly referred to as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Two main illnesses make up the health issues associated with COPD: chronic bronchitis and emphysema.
Chronic bronchitis
Chronic bronchitis is part of COPD, in which the lungs and respiratory passages become inflamed, swollen and irritated. The body starts producing more mucus to try to counteract the problem but this only leads to chronic coughing and breathlessness.
People with chronic bronchitis cough a lot, get short of breath easily, get thick, heavy mucus settling on their chest, and become more susceptible to dangerous infections such as pneumonia.
Emphysema is another aspect of COPD. In this disease, the walls between the tiny air sacs in the lungs (the alveoli) are damaged and break down.
The air sacs start to form larger sacs and this actually means there is less surface area inside the lungs for exchanging oxygen and carbon dioxide. Because of this, you take in less oxygen with each breath and over time, the problem leads to severe breathlessness.
Sufferers can ease their symptoms by avoiding further smoke or air pollution, staying away from sudden temperature changes and cold, moist weather—easier said than done! It's also important that people with COPD eat healthily, drink plenty of fluids, and continue to exercise regularly, despite the extra difficulty.
Some treatments are available, but they will only act to ease the symptoms, not to drive them away completely. Doctors will often give COPD sufferers inhalers loaded with bronchodilators—drugs which help to open up the airways in the lungs. Steroids can also help, as can drugs which break down the thick mucus that gathers in the lungs.
People with late-stage COPD may be given oxygen therapy. This means they'll be connecting to an oxygen tank wherever they go and a mask or tubes through the nose deliver oxygen deep into the lungs to help them breathe more easily.
Although allergies and air pollution can make COPD symptoms worse, the only truly effective treatment for smoker's lung is to stop smoking. The good news is that the damage can often be reversible: the symptoms of COPD will ease off after 10 to 15 years of quitting tobacco completely, the risk of developing lung cancer becomes equivalent to that of someone who has never smoked at all.


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Ashraf Ghani: a list of governmental properties should be prepared in Kabul and provinces
Pasbanan- Kabul:
Mohammad Ashraf Ghani president of Afghanistan has announced in a meeting that a list of governmental properties should be prepared by government officials in Kabul and provinces and after identifying these properties it should be transferred to the government. Mr. Ghani also observed the concept of using governmental properties by all social unions and organizations and their properties would be observed by the government.
The president of the country has also added: I have ordered senior deputy minister of the interior ministry, Kabul Garnezion and all police commanders of provinces in the county to support finance ministry in this regard.
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Art Studio Madness
Art Studio Madness
Posted 25 Sep 2017About Petica Petica's coursework portfolio
wonderful drawing! I like the way the colour palette is limited to blues/yellows/neutrals
First off, this is fun! And a bit mad, too. The Hand lettering adds nicely to the art studio feel. The limited colour pallet (as mentioned by Tjitske in the prior comment) holds the mayhem together. Suggestions: it's a tad crowded. Perhaps simply reducing the amount of text by a third - or even half - would allow some breathing room. Also, a small tweak, maybe the drips on the flat-file, lower right could be given a more elliptical quality, so they look like drips that landed on the top of the flat-file. This could be done with Command T to reduce the vertical dimension of the drips. Overall, lots to engage the eye - the scissors in the text is a nice touch!


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New opening: Warwick Street Social, Norwich
The Mad Moose in Norwich's popular Golden Triangle has always been a handsome thing – perched on the top of a hill in the centre of two rows of red brick Victorian houses, it's front lawn could almost double as a small village green.
With its yellow rendering, round bar and upstairs restaurant, this huge, detached gastropub has been a weekly institution for locals of all walks of life – students, doctors, young families, creative types – for over a decade.
So it was with a certain amount of surprise when I learnt that the forthcoming Warwick Street Social – a soon-to-be-open-spot that had already made an impressive dent on Twitter – was, in fact, The Mad Moose.
Opening its doors two days earlier than its 31 May slate, Muddy managed to drop in for a drink (and a snoop) as soon as work schedules and childcare would allow (and, as luck would have it, on 31 May – at least one of us sticks to the schedule!).
The first thing I notice is the grey paint that has replaced the garish yellow exterior – still eye-catching but altogether more stylish. Window frames are navy, while the simple triangle-in-a-gold-square logo that I have gotten used to seeing on social media takes pride of place between the two upstairs windows.
The entrance resembles a London property, with its familiar front door and gold handle inviting you in as if visiting a old friend in Chelsea or Pall Mall.
Inside, the configuration has cleverly been left the same (it always worked), with a central round bar, seating along the left and to the back, and an upstairs restaurant. The smell of fresh paint hits me as I walk in, with more of the stylish grey on the tongue and groove wood panelling around the round bar (I would bet my money on a Farrow & Ball shade).
Above the bar are metro tiles for more of that London look, while to the left is a bank with stools for five bums in a row. More grey tongue and groove monopolises the bottom half of the wall.
It's not all grey, I hasten to add, with teal crush velvet sofas under the window at the front and along the wall at the back. One long sofa fills each space, making these areas both sociable and comfortable.
Mention must be made of the lighting, which is stripped back and raw, and very much on trend.
There is dining for 45 covers upstairs, while food can be served downstairs for guests looking for more casual dining. The menu is so large that, to fit it on one clean sheet of A4 paper, the font has been condensed so far that my mother would struggle to read it without her bi-focals perched on her nose.
Luckily, I can read it and it tells me that the WSS (to give it its local name, I guess) has commissioned Chef Patron Daniel Smith to create breakfasts (smoked salmon, sausages, muffins, Greek yoghurt with fruit), small plates (cheese fritters, cod cheeks, crab rarebit), lunches (salads, soups), dinners (sea salt belly pork, buttermilk chicken, Portabello mushroom burger), Sunday lunch (of course) and specials such as Fizz & Fish Friday (fish and chips with a glass of fizz).
On heading to the loo after my pint of Becks Vier (cheap at £3.80), I notice two things: the loos are separated, meaning you don't have to pee in a cubicle next to somebody else, and the outdoor seating area (here on in called a terrace) is a similar layout to before – mainly paved with a variety of different seats.
So, what does the future hold for the Warwick Street Social (WSS to locals and those in the know)? The nicely designed promotional card on the bar says thus: "The social hub of Norwich's Golden Triangle serving modern inventive dishes and on-point drinks. An urban meeting place for breakfast, casual daytime dining, dinner time get- togethers and much more…" We wish Warwick Street Social the best of Muddy luck.
Warwick Street Social, 2 Warwick Street, Norwich, Norfolk, NR2 3LD. Tel: 01603 627687. warwickstsocial.co.uk
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The new Halo Smart wireless earphones is designed for both optimal voice quality and superior sound experience so that users can use a single set of earphones for both work calls and personal music enjoyment. Available online and in Singapore at S$138 from mid-July.
Jabra promises all-day calls and music in a single set of intelligent stereo earphones with up to 17 hours of talktime and 15 hours of music listening for people with on-the-go lifestyles.
Price & availability
Available at S$138 from both online and retail channels in Singapore: gowireless.com.sg, Challenger, DigitalStyle, Harvey Norman, Newstead Technologies, Stereo Electronics, Apple Authorised Resellers from mid-July onwards.
The new earphones are targeted at 79 percent of users who want a single set of headphones for both calls and music, but find the call-experience on most music devices inadequate for both.
Built for calls first-and-foremost, Jabra Halo Smart uses high quality microphones with integrated wind noise protection for enhanced in-call quality, and subtle vibration alert to ensure calls are never missed
Jabra boasts uncompromising sound-quality thanks to 10mm speakers and Jabra's audio capabilities.
The neckband wearing style is offers comfortable, all-day use and seamless switching between calls, music and media.
A dedicated Google Now / Siri button lets you use your voice for hands-free operation of your smartphone/tablet.
More details from the press release below.
Tags: Bluetooth, earphones, Halo, Halo Smart, Jabra, prices, Singapore, wireless


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The Quiet Power of Love
The sonic landscape outside my bedroom window at the YWAM base on Ellis Street presents new and mystifying surprises with each passing day. The rattle of the garbage trucks at 10pm and ever-present gospel music sessions played at ear-splitting volume can be tolerated, and even welcomed after a time.
In the end, it is the loud, profanity-saturated arguments, wild, confused ramblings, and raw, escalating threats that often leave me wondering whether God could possibly be at work in this place.
On the street, there are no doors to hide behind. The unruliness found under my bedroom window presents the image of the human heart clearing out the darkest corners of its basement and holding an altogether unsavory rummage sale.
Thus, after volunteering in the Tenderloin for a year now, I have come to realize something: while brokenness thrashes and wails, love is much quieter, more easily missed—and yet its power speaks and invites us to hear.
This is a paradox: God's love seems so quiet while the world's brokenness is so loud in comparison. But Jesus said in John 18, "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world."
Jesus's kingdom on Ellis, Eddy, Turk, and their cross-streets requires that gentleness confront violence, forgiveness replace condemnation, and mercy overcome judgment—all through dependence on him.
The contrast of the quiet of love and the noise of pain is real on Monday at Nail Day. Women long for community and to be known by name. They enter the door, find a seat at the grey fold-out tables with sticky brownies and hot coffee in hand. The art table erupts in laughter. One woman gives up her favorite nail polish to another. Someone else speaks a compliment to a near-stranger.
This is Jesus; these are the hushed tones through which his love overcomes.


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If you asked typical American citizens to name the world's largest Muslim nation, in terms of population, most would probably pick a land somewhere in the Middle East -- not Indonesia.
However, if there is one fact that many Americans do know about Islam in Indonesia, it is that most Muslims in this sprawling and complex nation practice a "moderate" form of the faith (whatever that "moderate" label means). This has allowed believers in various faith groups to live in peace, for the most part.
Thus, terrorist attacks in Indonesia linked ISIS are big news -- at least in the American news outlets that continue to offer adequate coverage of international news. Sadly, an ominous cluster of attacks this past weekend in Indonesia probably received little if any attention in most American newspapers.
The New York Times, of course, was a notable exception. Here is the lede in its report:
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A wave of deadly bombings on Sunday and Monday and evidence of more planned have shaken Indonesia just ahead of the holy month of Ramadan, with entire families -- including children -- carrying out suicide attacks against Christian worshipers and the police.
The troubling discovery Monday of completed bombs in a housing complex outside Surabaya, Indonesia's second-largest city, came a day after members of a single family carried out three attacks against separate churches in the city around Mass time, killing seven people.
The use of the word "Mass" implies that the attacks focused on Catholic congregations, when the reality was more complex than that -- since Pentecostal and traditional Protestant churches were targeted, along with Catholic sanctuaries. In other words, the attacks were aimed at all Christians (and police), not just Catholics.
But that was not the main issue here. The Times report quickly reminded readers:
Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation, practices one of the most moderate forms of Islam in the world, but still has a homegrown terrorism problem. The country has experienced numerous attacks in the years after the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States. ...
But the use of children in terrorist plots, analysts say, represents a new and shocking development in Indonesia. ... During Sunday morning's attacks, one suicide bomber appeared to have been disguised as a churchgoer. In another, an attacker drove a Toyota minivan with a bomb the site. Still another attacker was seen in footage speeding on a scooter toward a church before an explosion.
Readers are, of course, expected to grasp that "moderate" Islam is somehow more tolerate of other faiths than, well, regular Islam or radicalized forms of Islam. As a Muslim journalist once told me, during a seminar on religion and the news in Prague, most Muslims assume that the world "moderate" means, in his words, "Muslims that America likes."
This vague, Western, term has little or no meaning to Muslims around the world, in terms of describing the content of their faith.
I realize that space is limited in stories of this kind. Nevertheless, it would be good if editors at the Times -- America's gold standard in international news coverage -- could back up the "moderate" label with at least one sentence, maybe even a paragraph, offering a few facts to help readers understand what that term is supposed to mean.
In other words, what does "moderate" Islam look like in practice? How does it affect the lives of Muslims (women, perhaps) and members of other religions in this very important nation?
Let me note one detail in this story that, for me, is linked to this issue. What does it mean to say that one of the terrorists "appeared to have been disguised as a churchgoer"? I assume this means they were wearing "Western" clothing? The woman was not veiled?
To provide more background, let me point readers to a Providence website essay written by religious-liberty scholar Paul Marshall, a colleague of mine at The Media Project. In recent years, he has been doing quite a bit of research in Indonesia, while teaching at the graduate school of Syarif Hidayatullah Islamic University, in Jakarta.
The headline: Cause for Alarm? Indonesia's Weekend of Violence Prompts Vigilance and Concern." Marshall stressed that this wave of coordinated attacks was rather complex:
This is probably only the first wave of awaited attacks by ISIS returnees from the Middle East. Nevertheless, the terrorism threat in the country remains small.
On Sunday, May 13, three churches were bombed in Surabaya, Indonesia's second largest city. The first explosion took place at Saint Mary Immaculate Catholic Church. Five minutes later, there were explosions at Surabaya Pentecostal Church and the Diponegoro Indonesian Christian Church. These have been widely reported, but there were also two other attempted church bombings -- Saint Jacob's Church at the Citraland housing complex in West Surabaya and the Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral. Thankfully, the bombs failed to explode.
Marshall's conclusion:
This current low level of operational skill is one reason not to exaggerate the current terrorist threat in Indonesia, although the level of competence will very probably increase. The aggressive major anti-terrorism unit, Densus 88, has also had a significant impact. But a major reason is the dominant local forms of Islam. There is increasing radicalization and religious polarization in Indonesia, but the major Muslim organizations have rejected radicalism and terrorism, thus limiting ISIS' recruiting pool. Muslims from Indonesia have been about 70 times less likely to join ISIS than Muslims from many European countries. Hence, the number of returnees from the Middle East is comparatively much smaller.
As more ISIS recruits return, terrorism in Indonesia is likely to increase in both number and potency of attacks. And the focus of assaults on Christians adds additional worries of polarization in this multi-religious society. But, so far, the threat should not be exaggerated. In the last decade, deaths from terrorism in Indonesia are still less than in Belgium, France or the United States.
FIRST IMAGE: Screen shot from social media reports about the violence in Indonesia.


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After a quite long Tet holiday and after withdrawing some "good experiences" from the pr this year, I have made up my mind for some reasons.
Last weekend, I relaxed a lot. I thought of my everything, what I have done (what I haven't), what I should do (or shouldn't do), how I should face to a problem, who I should get along with...
So complicated, huh!
This is the start!
How To Plan Your Day
- Visualize your long term picture of success and put it in writing. Review your goal frequently. Your goal should be specific, measurable, achievable and compatible with where you are now. There should be an end date as well. Steven Covey calls this "Begin with the end in mind."
- Try to do your planning at the same time every day. Use this time to review past accomplishments as well as future things to do.
- Use only one planner to keep track of your appointments. Keeping a separate business and personal planner creates confusion.
- Write out a To Do list every day. Include items that can be completed, such as "Prepare exhibits for monthly report", rather than just "Work on report."
- Separate your To Do list into A, B and C priorities. "A" items are important to your long term success, "B" may be urgent but not as important and "C" are those that would be nice to do if you get the time.
- Start with the A items. Don't work on a C just because it's easy to do. Also, break your A items into small manageable chunks, so they're easy to accomplish.
- Check off items as you complete them to give yourself a sense of accomplishment.
- Block off time in your planner for major activities. This might include a block of time for working alone on major tasks. If someone wants to meet you during that time, say "I'm sorry, I already have an appointment."
- Don't jam your day full of activities. Leave time for emergencies, special opportunities and thinking time.
- Be your own manager. Ask yourself if you have met your goals, and what changes you plan to make to achieve them.
- Do it now. People will often say "Call me next week, and we'll book an appointment then." Respond by saying, "Let's save ourselves a call and do it now."
- Always plan time for balance; include family, fitness, recreation, social and spiritual activities.
- Conduct a time study to see how you're doing and where the opportunities for improvement lie. Many people are only able to spend one quarter of their time on top priority activities. Moving this up to one third of the week means almost 4 more hours per week on key activities.
Have a nice working day!


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While they're busy getting their new home ready,
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