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Are you eating foods that will help improve eye health? As we are approaching the end of Save Your Vision month, we here at CLEContactLenses.com would like to discuss another way anyone can help save their vision and that is by consuming healthier foods. We are sure you have herd this news from your doctor during your annual physical to help prevent cholesterol and heart disease, but did you know that having a healthy diet you can also help preserve your vision as well?
Here are 10 delicious choices that help minimize age-related vision changes and reduce the risk of serious eye diseases, too.
Carrots & Apricots
We are sure a few of you have probably heard that carrots promote eye health and protect vision, and it's true. Carrots and apricots are rich in beta carotene, a carotenoid that the body converts to vitamin A. Beta-carotene, gives these foods their orange hue, helps the retina and other parts of the eye to function smoothly. Research has shown that beta carotene may help with night vision -- and possibly even play a part in preventing cataracts. Do you have trouble seeing at night? Try some carrots or apricots.
Eating your way to good eyesight isn't only about beta-carotene. Though their connection to vision isn't as well-known, many other vitamins and minerals are essential for healthy eyes.
Leafy greens
Cooked kale, spinach, collards, and turnip greens (along with broccoli and eggs) are crammed full of lutein and zeaxanthin -- two powerful antioxidants that may help protect against retinal damage and the onset of cataracts and age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
The yolk of an egg is a prime source of lutein and zeaxanthin—plus zinc, which also helps reduce your macular degeneration risk.
Kidney Beans
Believe it or not but your eyes love a cup of red kidney beans straight out of the can. Why you ask? Because they are a good source of zinc, a mineral that is vital to eye health. Zinc helps get vitamin A from the liver to the retina for eye-protective melanin production. Proper amounts of zinc also help with night vision and cataract prevention, as well.
Whole Grains
A recent study suggests that a low-glycemic-index (GI) diet may reduce the risk of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) by almost 8%. One way to quickly lower the GI of a meal is to use high-fiber whole grains instead of refined carbs. In this sense think quinoa, brown rice, whole oats, and whole-wheat breads and pasta rather than products made from refined grains or refined, enriched flour.
Citrus and berries
These fruits are powerhouses of vitamin C, which has been shown to reduce the risk of developing macular degeneration and cataracts. Vitamin C-rich fruits and veggies -- like oranges, peaches, strawberries, tomatoes, red bell peppers and lemons-- help support blood vessels in the eye and may reduce the risk of cataracts.
They're filled with vitamin E, which slows macular degeneration, research shows. One handful (an ounce) provides about half of your daily dose of E.
Peanuts and almonds are a good source of vitamin E, a nutrient known for protecting eyes from free-radical damage. Vitamin E may also hinder the progression of cataracts and age-related macular degeneration. Sunflower seeds, and hazelnuts are other good sources of vitamin E.
Fatty fish
Tuna, salmon, mackerel, anchovies and trout are rich in DHA, a fatty acid found in your retina. These fatty fish have two types of omega-3 fatty acids -- docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) -- both of which may be important in preventing or slowing down eye diseases. A lack of omega-3s may also contribute to dry eye syndrome. Other omega-3 sources include walnuts, and flaxseeds.
Try combining them
Emerging research suggests that getting eye-supporting nutrients in combination -- in the context of a low-glycemic-index diet -- may have the most profound effect on slowing age-related macular degeneration (AMD). So do your eyes an even bigger favor: Don't focus on a single nutrient. Instead, eat a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, choose healthy fats and high-fiber carbs, and reduce your intake of red meat, sugars, and refined flours
Make these 10 foods a staple of your diet to keep your peepers in tip-top shape.


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It's probably time for the Edmonton Oilers to figure out what to do with Justin Schultz. The 25-year-old defenceman was once touted as a can't-miss threat on the blueline, an offensive defenceman who skirted the Anaheim Ducks' draft offer and tested the free agent market. That's the sort of bravado usually reserved for the very best of players.
Of course, the Oilers rolled the dice and signed Schultz in June of 2012. It was a two-year entry level deal.
Schultz took form early, finishing the 2012-2013 NHL season with 27 points in 48 games. In 2013-2014, he had 33 points in 74 games. And last season, he had 31 points in 81 games.
And now?
Schultz has four points in 21 games and may well be wearing out his welcome in Edmonton.
The Oilers inked him to a one-year contract to test the waters, but general manager Peter Chiarelli has a decision to make. He's had time to look at his roster and to set up his plan for the next few years. And it doesn't look as though Schultz will be part of that plan.
Admittedly, the defenceman had a good night on Monday against the Winnipeg Jets. The Oilers took the win and Schultz scored his first goal of the season. He had 21:24 of ice time and managed two shots.
But he hasn't been shooting the puck a lot by anyone's standards, with just 27 shots on goal this season and significant issues with his defensive play. The knock on him is well-publicized: he's too soft.
So when the offensive game isn't panning out and the defensive game isn't working either, what's a GM to do?
There are always options. The Oilers could cross their fingers and hope for the best, which would probably involve another one-year deal to the tune of more money than they want to spend. Or they could look at a trade, which probably wouldn't offer that much by way of return right now. Or they could just let the clock run out and watch Schultz wander off in July.
Edmonton has lots of defensive depth to play with. The injured Oscar Klefbom has led the way with plenty of ice time and offensive upside. Darnell Nurse has been putting together a quality campaign, as has Andrej Sekera. And rookie Brandon Davidson has been doing a lot with his 17-plus minutes of ice time a game.
The Oilers would require a qualifying offer higher than the $4 million mark if they want to hook Schultz again, so that should drive Chiarelli's decision a little. It's probably too costly to see if the blueliner inside the blueliner is finally going materialize, which suggests that a trade may be the best way out of this bad situation.


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Our new website is steadily expanding, but we still have a long way to go. Look forward to lots of videos and pictures, such as the excellent loon yodel pic you see on the Header by my friend Randy Stout of Lark's Lake. Consider this new website an extension of the Planet Michigan site you've come to know and love over the years. This one's dedicated to Loons in Michigan, what we're doing to protect this Threatened Species, and how you can get involved.
Look for updates on our many activities, stories about our supporters…I treat our supporters very well (see our Petoskey News articles about St. Mary's Cement of Charlevoix), so any of you who were sent a letter outlining support options, it's really to the benefit of your public image that I hear from you soon. More important, you'll be saving area loon lakes. And I don't use the word "save" frivolously either: loon territories are lost all the time because habitat is overrun by development, or loons are driven away by unrestrained disturbance. Loons are killed by watercraft, die due to Avian Botulism, perish in oil spills, lose nests to flooding, scavengers, or alien waterfowl species.
Also expect to see loon rescue stories, loon banding project videos and picture essays; different ways and levels at which you can participate, donate, and volunteer; and news regarding some area lakes in the restoration process, and others that have been restored.
To some, our header loon might look mean. He's not…he's screaming his yodel, a call male loons utter when proclaiming or defending their territory. He's just damned determined, letting everyone know he'll protect his territory, whatever it takes. And that's what we are…damned determined to preserve, protect, and restore loon territories…whatever it takes.


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RFID in Health Care Presentations DVD
|Disney Cancer Center Uses RFID to Enhance Patient Experience
Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center's Disney Family Cancer Center is employing an RFID solution to reduce patient anxiety and improve workflow. Hear how the hospital uses RFID readers to relay information to activate custom hospital-room settings—music, lighting and temperature—as well as location data that can be sent to the staff's phones, enabling clinicians to locate patients quickly. Information is also provided to the facility's security and environmental-control systems, thus maximizing the hospital's operational efficiencies.
|Texoma Medical Center Reduces Costs by Managing Assets With RFID
Texoma Medical Center, an acute-care hospital located in Denison, Texas, is utilizing an enterprise-wide real-time locating system (RTLS) to track and manage mobile medical equipment and monitor temperature-sensitive assets. Learn how the hospital is lowering costs in the areas of capital budget reallocation and monthly rental savings, while reducing the incidence of lost or missing assets. And hear how the medical center is using temperature-monitoring tags to manage the temperatures of nourishment and medication refrigerators.
|Saving Time and Improving Efficiencies by Locating Tools With RFID
Medtronic's Electronic System Design (ESD) division is using an RFID system developed in-house to locate more than 2,600 electronic tools in use at its three laboratories. The system, which uses passive UHF tags, enables workers to quickly locate oscilloscopes, meters and other devices, and document which items left the labs and who took them. Hear how the system has saved workers thousands of hours previously spent searching for the missing equipment.
|Lahey Clinic Expands Use of RFID Across Its Entire Facility
The Lahey Clinic Medical Center, a 295-bed hospital in Burlington, Mass., with a 24-hour emergency department and trauma center, has more than 1,500 pieces of moveable medical equipment. In this session, hear how Lahey pioneered the use of RFID for asset tracking in a hospital, and how it has since moved on to additional applications of the technology, improving efficiencies and patient outcomes.
|Nyack Hospital Improves Medication Compliance With RFID
When patients are released from Nyack Hospital, they are typically given one or more drug prescriptions that they must then fill and keep track of on their own. If a patient fails to take the medications as prescribed, he or she may end up back in the hospital. The medical center is addressing that problem with an automated solution that utilizes a mobile phone with an RFID interrogator, as well as tags attached to medication bottles, and a Web-based server that remotely manages an individual's prescription regimen. In this session, hear how patients are provided with an RFID-enabled mobile phone that connects to the Web-based server. The patient also receives a package of RFID labels with the name of a prescription drug printed on the front. Each label's embedded tag is encoded with an encrypted unique ID number corresponding with information the hospital has provided regarding that patient.
|Optimizing Inventory Management in an Acute-Care Setting
Saint Joseph's Hospital, a 410-bed facility located in Atlanta, Ga., uses RFID technology and a Web-based information system to optimize its management of high-cost medical devices valued at $2 million in the specialty areas of the hospital's Cardiac Cath Lab and Electrophysiology Lab. In this session, hear how the system interfaces with several hospital information systems already in use at Saint Joseph's, employing high-frequency (HF) 13.56 MHz passive RFID tags conforming to the ISO 15693 standard, to link items to a digital database, where they can then be tracked and monitored. In addition, learn how the system enables the facility to quickly generate real-time reports and analysis, resulting in a significant cost savings and improved charge capture.
|Implementation of an RFID Solution to Track Medical Devices: Case Study From Brigham and Women's Hospital
Brigham and Women's Hospital, located in Boston, Mass., has installed an RFID-based real-time location system (RTLS), enabling it to track thousands of medical devices. The 747-bed nonprofit teaching hospital, affiliated with Harvard Medical School, currently tracks more than 6,000 portable patient-care devices on its campus, extending throughout two buildings. In this session, hear the processes and lessons learned from the RFID implementation, and find out how the system has improved patient care, streamlined patient flow and saved the hospital money.
|RFID Saves Bon Secours Richmond $2 Million Annually
After five years of employing an RFID-based real-time location system (RTLS) to manage assets, and following 18 months of tracking patients in operating rooms, health-care company Bon Secours Richmond Health System has seen an annual savings of $2 million. The savings come as a result of drastically reducing the amount of rental equipment utilized by the firm's four hospitals, as well as decreasing the incidence of lost or stolen equipment. The asset-tracking portion of the deployment included attaching 433 MHz active RFID tags to 11,000 assets, such as IV pumps, wheelchairs and stretchers, to make the management of equipment more effective. In this session, learn how the system has saved the staff time, while also cutting in half the number of phone calls placed by employees to locate equipment required for surgeries.
|Regional Medical Center Uses RTLS to Improve Efficiencies
The Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, a 740-bed community hospital in Baton Rouge, La., has more than 1,000 physicians and 4,000 team members. The facility undertook an enterprise-wide real-time locating system (RTLS) deployment that covers almost 1 million square feet, with nearly 6,000 assets under management. In this session, hear how the firm is getting the most from its RFID system. Learn how to understand end-user goals, facilitate change management, drive user adoption and develop business standards, and find out how the medical center is using its RTLS to favorably impact capital dollar allocations, as well as safety and nursing efficiency.
|Using RFID to Optimize Medical Device Inventories at St. Elizabeth Medical Center
St. Elizabeth Medical Center, in Utica, is one of the busiest cardiac catheterization and electrophsiology labs in the mid-New York State region. The hospital performs more than 5,000 procedures each year, and typically has a cardiac device inventory valued at more than $1 million on hand. The lab deployed an RFID-enabled inventory-management solution to track and manage implantable devices, which can carry price tags of $1,000 to $30,000. Prior to implementing the RFID solution, the hospital relied on clinical staff members to manually track inventory. In this session, find out how St. Elizabeths was able to optimize inventory levels and better manage consignment stock, expired products and recall notifications with RFID.
|RTLS Asset Management at University of California San Francisco Medical Center
Efficiently tracking the location, status and movement of mobile medical equipment was an important value driver for the UCSF Medical Center. The hospital's real-time location system (RTLS) project was initially driven by regulatory pressures to keep its hallways clear of obstructions. With equipment storage located offsite, nearly two miles away, the staff was reluctant to move items to that site without an equipment-tracking solution in place. Hear how UCSF originally installed an RTLS in its operating room in 2007, starting with 1,000 OR-owned assets, and how it has since expanded the deployment to multiple campuses.
|Potential Optimizations of Workflow Processes and Resources Through the Focused Deployment of Enabling Technologies
Growing technological complexity within the patient-care environment, coupled with increased workloads and reduced staffing, has created difficulties and discontinuities in the management of patient information and the overall care environment. These issues have directly impacted and contributed to a rise in equipment-related errors, patient dissatisfaction and a potential for patient injury, and have resulted in an overall increase in concern for patient safety. Many hospitals have augmented their traditional operational and business models to expand their role in developing enhanced clinical applications, capitalizing on new enabling technologies providing added accuracy and efficiency to their operational processes. One of the most promising technologies is RFID, and its role in real-time location services. Integrating RTLS and RFID information with inventory applications and processes has the potential to enable better utilization of devices and reduce capital expenditures. Integrating RFID with workflow processes provides metrics to enhance the complex utilization of staff resources, which can be focused on optimizing the patient-care process, along with patient safety and satisfaction.
|Medical Center Uses RTLS to Track Vaccines, Hand Hygiene and Assets
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center (WFUBMC), a 4.1-million-square-foot hospital, is deploying hybrid infrared-RFID technology to monitor vaccine temperatures within its 300 refrigerators and freezers. In March 2009, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established a new guideline recommending that hospitals track the temperatures of vaccines twice daily—a labor-intensive task. For that reason, WFUBMC installed temperature-sensing tags in refrigerators, and also attached asset-tracking tags to mobile equipment. In this session, hear how the 1,056-bed facility is also tracking hand hygiene compliance.
|Working Lunch: Leveraging Real-time Location in Health Care—Practical Applications
Hospitals face unprecedented financial pressures these days—investment declines, rising expenses, lower patient volumes, increased competition and more—which challenge their ability to provide high-quality, compassionate care to patients within their communities. At the same time, pending legislation is expected to drive millions of formerly uninsured consumers into the health-care system. And in the next decade, millions of aging Baby Boomers will join the Medicare rolls. So paradoxically, in this era of tightened finances, medical centers must prepare to increase—not reduce—capacity. Hospitals can leverage RTLS and RFID technologies to wring efficiency out of existing resources and create capacity. Automated asset-, patient- and bed-management systems provide solutions to increase efficiency and unlock capacity. In this session, learn how Trident Health System has applied a comprehensive approach combining technology and process enhancements to improve patient flow and asset management.
|RFID in the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain: Regulations, Physical Limitations and a Real-Life Study
In this presentation, learn in detail how the regulations put in place by the U.S. Federal Drug Administration (FDA) affect the application of RFID in tracking and tracing pharmaceuticals—particularly products with proteins as their active ingredient (biologics). In addition, hear the conclusive results of a two-year collaboration between University of South Florida Polytechnic researchers and multiple major pharmaceutical companies, to test and analyze the effects of some of these regulations on a wide variety of biologic products over the frequency spectrum of commercially available RFID systems.
|RFID Increases Profits for Pharmaceutical Distributor
Argentine pharmaceutical distribution company Axxa Pharma reports that it has seen a 40 percent rise in profit margins since it began employing RFID at its Buenos Aires warehouse. The firm is tracking the buying and selling prices of its medicines, as well as expiration dates, thereby ensuring that the drugs are properly billed, and that expired products are not shipped to customers. Learn how the technology has enabled Axxa to track each container of medicine from the time it arrives at the warehouse until the drug is sold and shipped to a customer.
|UDI Update: FDA's Mandate for Improved Device Management and Patient Safety
Tracking and tracing the path of medical devices from manufacture and distribution to the point of use and, ultimately, the end of a product's life cycle—including possible recalls—has broad implications within today's health-care community. The FDA's Unique Device Identification (UDI) Rule will establish a single device-identification system that is consistent, unambiguous, standardized and globally harmonized. All medical device manufacturers will be required to comply with the new UDI methodology. In this session, learn how a UDI system will provide for the early detection of defective devices, as well as facilitate device recalls, in order to enhance patient safety and reduce medical errors.
|How to Track Assets and Monitor Usage With RFID
Genesis Health System deployed an RFID solution that allows it to locate rented pumps and return them on time, as well as know where the hospital's own pumps are located. The system provides detailed reports based on equipment movement and usage. In this session, hear how the time spent locating missing equipment has been reduced from 22 minutes to a maximum of 2 minutes searching via computer.
|What You Need to Know About Different RFID Systems
Not all RFID solutions are alike. It's important to understand the various technologies involved—active, passive, real-time locating systems (RTLS) and so forth—and how each performs in the real world in various types of business applications. In this video, we discuss the different technological scenarios for such applications, and identify which technologies can be better suited to support your initiative.
|Asset Optimization—Maximizing the Value of Your Assets With Real-world Visibility
In today's economic environment, businesses are under constant pressure to deliver high-quality products and services more quickly, while reducing costs. These firms need to increase flexibility to respond to market conditions, ensure regulatory compliance and manage the proliferation of mobile, high-value assets. To meet these challenges, companies must maximize the value of their mission-critical assets—they need real-time visibility. This webinar reveals how sensor-based systems, using a combination of software, RFID and ultrasound technologies, can track and monitor assets and individuals to help businesses enhance processes and improve asset utilization. You will also hear how Saint Michael's Medical Center, in Newark, N.J., is utilizing RFID technologies to realize benefits in shipping and receiving efficiency, as well as for patient identification, error reduction at the point of care, medications management and employee tracking.
|Equipment Optimization and Workflow Outcomes for RTLS Initiatives in Health Care
In this session, Jeff Cochran, regional VP of Awarepoint, one of the leading provider of real-time location systems for hospitals, explains how RTLS technology can be used to improve processes, workflow and asset-utilization rates.
|Nursing Facility Adopts RFID for Memory-Impaired Residents
TLC Care Center, a rehabilitation therapy and long-term nursing facility, is providing RFID-enabled bracelets to residents of its new memory wing, which houses patients with advanced forms of dementia. The wristbands are outfitted with active RFID tags that trigger alerts and lock doors if a resident approaches an exit to ensure residents do not exit the wing. Hear how the system was set up to protect dementia patients, and how it is performing in the real world. Only the audio of this session was captured.
|Ohio State University Medical Center Uses RTLS to Track Assets Across 40 Building Campuses
The Ohio State University Medical Center (OSUMC) currently has 2,500 asset tags and 60 temperature tags in use that provide location and temperature information anywhere within its 5 million square feet of wireless coverage. In this session, hear about the 802.11 wireless network design considerations that positioned the organization to leverage the comprehensive wireless network for a real-time location system (RTLS). In addition, gain an understanding of the enterprise architectural approach and business-case alignment employed to garner support across the organization for 802.11 RFID technology.
All conference sessions are subject to change, and RFID Journal reserves the right to alter dates, programs and speakers at any time, as circumstances dictate. Sessions without assigned speakers indicate a target topic; every effort will be made to ensure that a program of equivalent standard and value is available.
RFID in Health Care is produced by RFID Journal, the World's RFID Authority.


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Cybersecurity Threats to the Critical Infrastructure
Brian Lozada
Introduction: The Next Frontier of Risk Management: Cyber Risk
A Proposed Business-Oriented Approach to Cyber
A Practical Approach to Developing a Cybersecurity Programme
Regulations, Compliance and Cyber Risk Management
The Role of Cyber Risk in the Organisation
The Evolution of the Cyber Risk Role within the Three Lines of Defence
Quantifying Cyber Risk
Leadership and Culture: The Foundations of Cyber-Risk Management
Understanding the Cyber Risk Landscape: An Integrated Framework
The Transformation of Information Security: New Threats and Vulnerabilities
Cybersecurity Metrics: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Third-Party Risk Management
Cybersecurity's Neighbourhood Watch: The Strength of Information Sharing
Cyber Risks in Business Continuity Management and Supply Chain Resilience for Financial Institutions
Cybersecurity Threats to the Critical Infrastructure
The True Meaning of Cyber Incident Response
Cyber Risk: Where We Have Been, Where We Are and Where We Are Going
This chapter focuses on the cyber terrorism and highlights the impact and effects of present and future attacks by international cyber-terrorist organisations on the critical infrastructure of the US and other countries globally.
The threat of cyber attacks has a scope much broader than the civilian and corporate realms: in recent years, as more critical national infrastructures are becoming computerised, the fear of cyber attacks on government agencies and organisations has become a risk to the nation's security. With new technological advances every day, the cyber sphere has become a new opportunity for cyber warfare, which will only increase and become more sophisticated in the wake of the ever-changing threat landscape. With the cyber sphere emerging as a new battleground for warfare, attacks will be more sophisticated and have the potential to have devastating impacts, shutting down power grids, telecommunication lines, transportation, commerce and every action of daily life. The recovery efforts of a major cyber warfare attack would be significantly greater, given that most companies and infrastructures are not prepared and have not invested in cyber incident response and


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In case anyone is wondering, I did finally get a reply from Julie via email 24 hours later in response to my excited inquiry about the ABPT's new friendship with Guy Pratt, bassist for Pink Floyd, David Gilmour, Robert Palmer, Brian Ferry, Madonna, Michael Jackson...just like Ade, his resume is endless and impressive beyond belief.
Me: "So you texted me you have a new fan in Pink Floyd's bass player. Not bad!"
Julie: "i know - i ate his pizza crust."
Sigh...okay, that's good enough I suppose. You eat someone's pizza crust, you are pals for life.
At least in my sick little world, anyway. And apparently Julie's, too. Ha!
Here's another pic I lifted from an Australian fan, whom I now know to be "Gerard" because he wrote me a lovely email:
"Hi Robin,
Surprised to see my video and photo of the Adrian Belew Power Trio on your blog. I'm glad you liked them. Thanks for putting them on - it answers the mystery of why so many people were watching the video! I hadn't even had the chance to ask the band if they mind. Seems it might be ok :-)
Yes it was an awesome show as you've read from other commentators. I wanted to get more of Eric on the video but it was tricky from where I was - right behind him. The Basement was packed so no chance to relocate - but it turned out to be a much better spot than expected. Julie featured there pretty well! They play tonight and tomorrow night in Sydney in a slightly smaller venue so I hope lots of people will get along and see them.
Please thank all of the band for me!
Cheers ... Gerard"
From a Live Journal entry coming out of the Adelaide Guitar Festival:
"Adrian Belew. To be honest, before I got tickets to this show, I had no idea who he was, but he's worked with Frank Zappa and David Bowie, and that was enough to peak my interest. He's also done some NIN albums, worked with Tori Amos, Cindi Lauper, and laid down a track with William Shatner. This guy gets around. The Power Trio was rounded out by a brother-sister team he picked up at the school or rock, and they were awesome – the sister Julie Slick on bass, and the brother Eric Slick on drums. I think one of the camera men was in love with Eric, because for most of the set the camera was focused on his hands. And given the way the boys plays drums, I wasn't complaining. If you're ever tempted to make a joke about drummers having a lack of talent, go look this boy up."
From Aussie Guitar Gearheads:
"Saw Adrian Belew tonight and i am completly blown away by a musician who comes out and has a laugh, and is not full of ego.
He will be at the basement tonight I think and then they will do adelaide guitar fest, and on sat night they will be playing back in black in the acdc tribute.....
2 big thumbs up
"One of my favourite guitarists, was a fan of Crimson before I knew of him. Didn't know he was out again, I saw him maybe a year and a half ago.... Had a drummer and a bass/stick player who was good but seemed to be a little unfamiliar with the instrument and material."
"He's an amazing guy, someone to look up to for sure."
"The thing for me as a prog muso, he was having a blast, smiling taking the piss, not the serious and intense look most prog musos have.
His rhythm section are phenomenal, this young brother and sister duo, what she does on bass is phenomenal...
she is 22
he is 21
I went to him at the end just to say thank you, which I have never done before and he brought it down to my level.... he wasnt the guitarist in king crimson or zappa, just a dude that enjoys playing live shows and enjoys feedback..."
"Please don't tell me Robert Fripp was there. I will cry."
"If he was, he didn't play on stage."
"If Fripp was there, he'd be hiding at the back behind a rack of Eventide's with his back to the audience.
He played on one of my all time fav albums Remain in Light."
From Bungle Fever:
"Okay, so I went to the show last night. Absolutely unbelievable -- I don't regret it for a second. I was standing ten feet from him and I still don't get it.
His band is incredible. Eric and Julie Slick (drums & bass, respectively) are phenomenal. He's 20, she's 21, and I was just stunned by the musicianship. I'm 37 and I can barely play my way out of a pentatonic scale -- these kids are up there holding their own (and occasionally upstaging) Adrian Belew.
I gave up trying to figure out what the hell he had going on with his rig. He was playing Parkers (mainly a really nice gold one) through two Johnsons, two Line 6s, a Boomerang, a sampler of some kind, a Roland synth, expression pedals, midi controllers and god knows what else. I think I mentioned this show was in a small bar, so his rig dominated the stage. It looked like NASA mission control. My bass player went with me, and I don't think I'm going to hear any more grief from him about my measly six pedals.
I've seen the light. I caught myself giggling while I was watching him play, and the only other person who gets that reaction from me is Richard Thompson. Both are utterly unique artistic voices, and both are superb musicians. For the uninitiated, if Adrian comes to your city, don't hesitate -- GO SEE HIM. And thanks to everyone here who encouraged me to go."
Alrighty, that's all I've got so far but I'm waiting on a few reviews in particular, so, as always, I will be back...


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United Southern Bank is concerned about you protecting your identity. Identity theft affects new victims each year and costs consumers, merchants and financial institutions billions of dollars.
Thieves have been ruining good consumers' credit for years by stealing credit cards or just the credit card number, stealing mail and by getting consumers to give out personal information through fraudulent means. Studies show that most identity theft crimes are carried out by stealing paper information and are perpetrated by someone you know.
Remember, United Southern Bank personnel will NEVER make an unsolicited call to you asking for your account number or other personal information. Nor will we send an email asking for personal information or passwords. We also discourage you from sending us personal information via unencrypted email.
If you are a consumer (not a business) and discover you have lost your debit/check card or your online login information has been compromised, notify us immediately. If you report the loss within two (2) business days, your liability is limited to the lesser of $50 or the amount of the unauthorized transfers that occur before notice to us.
If you wait more than two (2) business days to report the loss of your debit/check card or login information, you are liable for up to $500 of unauthorized transactions.
If you notice suspicious account activity or experience information security-related events, contact: USB Call Center 352-669-2121 or any USB Office.
Tips to Protect Your Identity
- Do not give out financial information such as checking and credit card numbers or your social security number, unless you know the person or organization.
- Never comply with phone requests for financial information.
- Report lost or stolen checks, credit and debit cards immediately.
- Notify your bank of suspicious phone inquiries such as those asking for account information.
- Commit ATM and other passwords to memory.
- Destroy pre-approved credit card offers or other financial information before you throw them out.
- Remove mail promptly from your mailbox and put outgoing mail into a secure, official Postal Service collection box.
- Limit the number of I.D. and credit cards you carry with you.
- Review your credit report each year. You can obtain a free credit report once a year from each of the credit reporting agencies online at annualcreditreport.com
- Secure personal information in your home, especially if you have roommates, employ outside help, or are having work done in your home.
- Shred any personal documents (receipts, credit card offers, insurance forms, physician statements) before you put them in the trash.
- Find more tips and resources at www.ftc.gov/idtheft
Identity Theft Warning Signs
- Fraudulent charges on your credit card statement.
- Credit card or financial institution statements don't arrive.
- Bills arrive for goods or services you didn't request.
- Suspicious inquiries on your credit report.
- Phone calls from creditors.
- Suddenly denied credit.
- Receipt of credit cards for which you did not apply.
Avoid Phishing Scams
- Never respond to an unsolicited email that asks for detailed financial information.
- Be suspicious of any email with urgent requests for personal financial information.
- Don't use the links in an email to get to any web page if you suspect the message might not be authentic.
- Always ensure that you are using a secure website when submitting credit card or other sensitive information via your web browser.
- Regularly log into your online accounts and check your credit and debit card statements.
- Always report phishing attempts by forwarding the email to the following groups:
- The anti-phishing network at: www.antiphishing.org
- The Internet Fraud Complaint Center of the FBI: www.ic3.gov/default.aspx
- File a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission: www.ftc.gov
- Install a firewall to prevent hackers from obtaining personal data from your hard drive.
- Install and update virus protection and spyware software. (Firewall/virus/spyware protection can be purchased at most places where computers are sold.)
- Password-protect files that contain sensitive data.
- Use a secure website when entering credit card information. A secure website will have an icon of a lock in the bottom strip of the web browser page and the URL address changes from "http" to https".
- Don't open emails from people you don't know.
- Do not open suspicious attachments.
- Be creative when you select a password and commit it to memory. Create a phrase and use the first letter of each word of the phrase for your password. Change your passwords periodically.
- Before discarding your old computer, use a hard drive "wipe" or shredding program.
- Make sure your browser is up to date and security patches applied.
- Establish security rules for your family and make sure they are followed.
- Store back-ups in a secure place.
- Don't fall for unsolicited lottery or sweepstakes "wins".
- Don't deposit a check from someone you don't know and send money back. The check is most likely not good and will be debited from your account.
- Don't fall for scams requesting you to send money in order to receive a larger amount.
- Don't "help" someone facilitate money transfers (usually from a foreign country) through your account.
- Don't take accept a check for more than the selling amount and send the overage back if you are selling an item.
- Protect your cash, credit cards and identification from pickpockets. Close your wallet and keep your purse shut and close to your body.
- Report lost or stolen credit cards immediately.
- Keep a list (in a secure place) of all your credit card and other financial account numbers along with the emergency numbers to call if lost or stolen.
- Keep your credit card statements, income tax return copies and other personal information in a locked filing cabinet or safe.
- Periodically inspect your check books for missing checks.
- Be aware of shoulder surfing when using your ATM card.
- Check ATM machines for skimming devices (an illegal attachment that reads your card number).
- Find out how your CPA, attorney, financial planner or other service providers who have your social security number protect it. Do they lock the information and protect it from unauthorized employee access? How vulnerable is their computer system?
- Ask third party service providers if they conduct background checks on their employees?
- Ask how your medical service providers protect your personal information.
- We train and test employees on privacy and protecting customers' information.
- We require employees to sign a privacy agreement when employed.
- We lock customer files at night.
- We utilize a professional shredding company for discarded personal information.
- We have the ability to encrypt emails that contain sensitive information.
- We have a firewall from our network provider as well as our own in house firewall.
- We have an Intrusion Detection System that is monitored 24 hours a day for any kind of anomaly.
- We require three levels of pass words to access our customer database.
- We employ an outside agency to test our information security by performing hack tests from both outside and inside our organization.
- We use multi-factor authentication for online banking.
Why do you need to encrypt email?
Regular email isn't a private conversation and can be easily intercepted and read by unwanted parties. By law, we are required to protect certain types of personal information, but more importantly we believe it is simply a smarter way to do business. In addition, email encryption increases efficiencies by allowing the electronic transfer of sensitive information that has traditionally required slower manual delivery methods. Email encryption is one way we're taking responsibility to protect your personal private information
What kinds of information will be encrypted?
Our email encryption service will encrypt email that contains personal sensitive information such as:
- Personal information, such as social security numbers
- Financial information, such as account and credit card numbers
- Personal Health Information
How will I get my encrypted email messages?
When an employee sends you email containing private information you may receive an encrypted message. You will be asked to click on a link in the email, which will connect you to our secure message center. There you will register a private password to retrieve and reply to your secure messages.
What if I already use Zix Email Encryption?
If you already use Zix, then you are already part of the ZixDirectory, and will automatically receive secure emails in your inbox and be able to send secure emails back to us transparently.
Won't it be difficult to get my messages?
You will be able to open your encrypted emails in seconds with the confidence that your personal information remains private. Together with our partners at ZixCorp™, we have developed an easy-to-use approach that protects our entire community of interest — our employees, our customers, and our business partners.
- File a report with the police and keep a copy for your records in case you need proof of the crime later.
- Contact your credit card company and your financial institution and close your accounts.
- Call the three major credit bureaus to tell them your identity has been stolen. Request that a fraud alert be placed on your file and that no new credit be granted without your approval.
- Equifax: 800-525-6285
- Experian: 888-397-3742
- Trans Union: 800-680-7289
- Call the Social Security Fraud Hotline: 800-269-0271
Social Security Administration
SSA Fraud Hotline
P.O. Box 17785
Baltimore, MD 21235
Email: email@example.com
- If your identity or personal information was stolen in the mail contact:
United States Postal Inspector
- Contact the Federal Trade Commission Theft hotline: 877-438-4338 or www.ftc.gov or
www.identitytheft.gov to report and recover from identify theft
- Keep a file of documents related to the identity theft. You will want to include documents such as disputed bills, credit reports, police reports, and any correspondence.
- Maintain a record of your telephone conversations with the persons and agencies you contact for assistance. Be sure to record the date and time of the call, the name and title of the person you spoke with, and the things you discussed.
- Follow up all telephone conversations in writing and send these letters certified with return receipts requested; maintain copies of these written correspondences for your file.
- Maintain copies of any written correspondence you exchange related to the identity theft.
- Keep original documents for your file; only mail copies.
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Today we left the Alpine apartment and took an awesome drive back to Venice! We walked through this underground tunnel to Carezza Rainbow Lake at the foot of the Dolomites. According to legend, a beautiful water nymph lived in the pristine waters of Lake Carezza. One day, while braiding her hair, the sorcerer Masare was overcome by the sound of the nymph as she sang to herself. Head over heels in love, he sought the help of a witch to make the nymph his own. The plan was for the sorcerer to dress as a jewelry salesman and cast a rainbow across the lake. Unfortunately, he forgot to dress as a jeweler and the nymph evaded his trap and has not been seen since. Distraught at his mistake, the sorcerer smashed the rainbow into a million pieces over the lake, therefore radiating the waters to this day!
Back to Venice with a water taxi to our next apartment.


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TrackBattle Round 3 Tech Form & Schedule
The Tech forms for #GRIDLIFE TrackBattle Round 3 at Gingerman Raceway are now available. All drivers must have their car through tech before they will be allowed on track. This includes all Time Attack, HPDE and Drift vehicles. If you have any questions about tech you can email firstname.lastname@example.com
The full schedule for round 3 is also available. Any attendees that are camping will be able to arrive on Friday beginning at 6:00pm. Non camping spectators will be able to enter at 11:00am Saturday. The full schedule of on and off track activities can be found here.


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Guillaume Levy-Lambert (Art Porters Gallery) with Alan Koh (Fair Director AAF)
Guillaume sharing passionately about the motivation of the artist represented.
One of the pieces at the Charity Wall that could our eyes. Everything priced at $500, 50% of the monies raised will go towards supporting this year's Charity Partner, the Woodbridge Hospital Charity Fund (WHCF). The remaining 50% of artwork sales will go back to the artists involved.
Color a T shirt organise by Woodbridge Hospital, proceeds goes to Woodbridge Hospital Charity Fund (WHCF).
Play it forward auction by Bugaboo. Proceeds goes to Playeum – a children's centre for creativity charity
Interactive Art Installation by WowWowWow.
Red Sea Gallery
Art Front Collective
Nine Gallery
Alan Koh (Fair Director of Affordable Art Fair / Singapore) posing at the Art Walk of Fame for us.
Venue: F1 Pit Stop
|Thursday 6 April 2017
Private View (invitation only)
|18.00 – 22.00
|Friday 7 April 2017
#ArtHappy Evening
| 12.00 – 18.00
18.00 – 22.00
|Saturday 8 April 2017
|11.00 – 20.00
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Malthe Engelsted, Danish 1852-1930 'Nude Young Man'
20 x 12 in. oil on canvas, signed and dated 1914.
Malte Engelsted studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Art and with some of the late 19th century's most important artists. He exhibited at the CharlottenborgPalace after 1880, Wienna 1882, the Nordic Exhibition 1883, Paris 1889, Chicago 1893, Berlin 1910 etc. Works by Malte Engelsted hang in major collections such as the Art Museum of Aalborg, Ribe and Maribo (all Denmark). He is also represented in the National Gallery in Stockholm and the National Museum of Frederiksborg.


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Mozzy started 2018 off with Spiritual Conversations, and now the Sac-Town rapper is set to closes the year off on a strong note.
Today he drops his new project, Gangland Landlord. The 18 tracks album includes the Tupac-inspired single "Thugz Mansion" featuring Ty Dolla $ign and YG. ScHoolboy Q, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, Yo Gotti, Trae Tha Truth, YFN Lucci, DeJ Loaf, Too $hort, Blac Youngsta and more make guest appearances. Out now, purchase it here and stream below.


text: My wife and I has starting looking for a house with another Realtor. After pointless weeks of searching through listings and seeing fixer-upper after fixer-upper, we were about to give up without even placing one bid. Fortunately, we found Tom Gilliam. His optimism, knowledge, and hard work gave us the kick start and advantage we needed to find the right home. It only took a couple tours for him to see what we were looking for in a house. He took it from there and found us a great place. Tom is a true expert and will make your home search manageable and productive.


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"EQUAL EDUCATION at Knightdale High School?"
On Tuesday, January 26th 7-8:30pm
Knightdale Town Hall, 950 Steeple Square Court.
Do KHS students have the same opportunities as other Wake County high school students?
Purpose: To inform Knightdale citizens of current data, policies and resources that impact Knightdale High School students to be successful.
Tim Simmons and Ann Dillinger, Wake Education Partnership
Joe Bryan - Wake County Commissioner
Carla Jernigan-Principal of Knightdale High School
What we do today will impact our children tomorrow!


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What is good for lowering cholesterol?
The cholesterol is a lipid that is present in our body and meets some essential functions for life. But when for various reasons, increases the level of cholesterol in the blood, it becomes a disorder that can become very serious.
We all know what is good for lowering cholesterol: avoid foods high in fat and fried foods, coffee, alcohol and smoking. In short, lead a healthy life especially with a healthy and balanced diet.
Here are some homemade recipes to lower cholesterol in a totally natural:
- One of the best ways to combat high cholesterol is swallowing a whole clove of garlic in the morning and fasting.
- Apples also help to reduce cholesterol. For this you should eat apples every day.
- Another recipe that you can prepare to reduce cholesterol is with orange juice from two oranges and a tablespoon of vegetable oil. Take on an empty stomach.…


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The thinning will allow the tractor through that area for slashing and reduce the fuel load around the house. Only one large tree was removed because it was right beside the water tanks and there was a risk of it cracking one of the concrete tanks or just as bad falling on the tanks in a bad southerly.
|The first few metres of this one to be kept for some woodworking project with the ends painted to prevent cracking
There were some trees left behind. One in particular is a Spotted Gum that looks like it has been there for hundreds of years. The others left untouched seem to be favoured by the local Koalas.
|A very old Spotted Gum with some damage after a limb came down
Making sure the trees didn't drop onto fences or water tanks involved ropes and straps tensioned to encourage the right direction for the fall. All went well without any damage to property.
Once everything was on the ground the thicker parts of the trunk were cut into firewood and the thinner limbs into longer pieces (just laziness). These will dry over this Summer and next and should be ready for use the following Winter.
The only chainsaw on hand (and working) is the big saw and after several hours of waving it about the arms and shoulders felt the effort. Looking forward to the swimming season commencing soon to build up the strength after a lazy Winter.
|A very powerful chainsaw but not suitable to cutting smaller pieces for firewood
Tomorrow we will start stacking the firewood on pallets for drying and the foliage will be stacked ready to be run through the mulcher/chipper and used around the garden.


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AKRO-PLASTIC's Background
AKRO-PLASTIC's history stretches back some 30 years. In this time, we have accrued a wealth of knowledge and experience in the field of plastic compounding. We have been operating under our own brand name within the Feddersen Group since 2004. Since then, we have experienced constant growth. We produce over 100,000 tonnes of plastic compounds annually in our production sites in Germany, China and Brazil, and we work within an international network that can offer services ranging from development to logistics.
In response to rapidly changing market requirements, we use globally Standardised Compounding and Extrusion Technology (ICX®), which we developed with our sister company FEDDEM. With the construction of a new production facility in 2002, a new addition to our warehouse and administration building in 2011 and expanded production capabilities from 2012, AKRO-PLASTIC is keeping pace with the world's steadily increasing demand and growing requirements for plastic compounding.
Worldwide Expertise
With a worldwide network of plastics distribution experts, we can provide you with support anywhere in the world. Talk to one of our specialists to find out more.AKRO-PLASTIC worldwide
Providers of Polymer Solutions
AKRO-PLASTIC is focused on developing polymer solutions with extreme good mechanical properties. Our unique compounding technology enables us to produce polymer solutions with best-in-class reproducibility, enabling you to create systems with extra tight tolerances. As an engineering plastics manufacturer, we offer flexible and individual services that are always up to date. Individuality is one of our greatest strengths. We offer a broad range of both standardised and specialised compounds as well as comprehensive knowledge about application-oriented polymer solutions.
Whatever the solution or worldwide location, we pride ourselves on our batch consistency. To achieve this, we have invested heavily in quality and ensure consistent procurement parameters across all our raw materials as well as frequent control. Our customers are multinational companies as well as small and medium-sized enterprises. But they all have high requirements. Therefore, we do more than just produce simple plastics. We are a service company constantly developing our own products and setting standards with both our Certified Quality Management and our test lab.
Product and Process Development
Our research and development work utilises trends and new ideas to serve the needs of our customers. Our experts combine the latest market developments with their long-standing experience to create innovative new products. We work within a broad network of institutes, research organisations and partner companies, and our highly developed service expertise in formulation development and toll compounding serves as a benchmark in the industry.
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As one of just a few medium-sized providers of plastics production and compounding services, we can also offer assured material testing. Our experienced laboratory technicians maintain a high level of technical knowledge through practical work in production environments and ongoing training.
Innovative Compounding & Extrusion Technology
Increasing pressure on order lead times, consistent finished-product quality, growing product diversity and global availability at competitive prices characterise the business environment of compounders. The key to meeting these challenges is flexible production. For this reason, AKRO-PLASTIC has developed, in partnership with its sister company FEDDEM, the standardised machine concept known as ICX® Technology (Innovative Compounding and Extrusion Technology). Thanks to the identical production concept at the AKRO sites in Germany, China and Brazil, internationally operating companies can be supplied locally with identical products, provided that the raw materials will support this. This concept can lead to considerable time and cost savings in material validation.
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Since we began operating in 1988, we have grown to some 475 employees. Our guiding principle has always been individuality. We concentrate on offering a broad product line ranging from standard compounds to special compounds, and we also focus on cultivating comprehensive expertise in the application-orientated use of polymers. Today, with state-of-the-art production facilities, we rank amongst the most renowned suppliers of high-end plastic compounds.
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It's known that everyone in his life though once had to move into new apartment. But even nowadays this process is still very stressful and hard. If you are seeking for solution to this problem – ask us, we will help you to do all the hard work connected with moving. There will be no need to do the work that we should do, just trust us and relax.
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Many people already used our service and all of them were satisfied with high quality of our work. Besides high level of our service you can say that Toronto movers cheap. We are one of the cheapest companies in our area indeed. We also work on long distances, so if you don't live in Toronto, you still have a chance to hire our workers. Besides, we will help you to move not only from house to house or from flat to flat, we also can help you to move the whole office.
If you are seeking for a good company that will help you to move, Toronto pro movers is all you need: we will do our best to satisfy you with moving and we have the lowest prices. We treat every customer as a special one and that is why the biggest part of people who need help in moving calls us.
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Heartiest Congratulations to Taproot Dentsu & Dentsu Webchutney for their win at Spikes Asia 2017!!!
Winner of the 'Country Agency of the Year' title, Taproot Dentsu also bagged 10 awards for Adidas Odds and Adidas Tale of Two. Dentsu Webchutney, meanwhile, grabbed the Silver for Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre.


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If you're a business owner, you want to know how your business is doing from a traffic standpoint. It's vital to know your stats and evaluate and re-evaluate your business plan to see how it works and where to improve for future plans. These are all important things, but there is a danger in viewing your metrics perpetually and over evaluating your stats. Any good diet and fitness expert will even tell you not to weigh yourself everyday. These are several dangers involved with it because a perpetual evaluation of metrics can lead to desperation tactics, loss of focus on the goals, and you get too many irons in the fire to know whether one plan actually worked.
Desperation Tactics
There are several gimmicks to draw traffic to your site. Many of them are not as effective as you would hope, but if your traffic doesn't appear to be getting to the numbers you would like, these tactics become a regular part of your business plan. The more these desperation tactics are implemented, the farther it takes you out of your original plan, making your stats and your metrics unpredictable and skewed.
Loss of Focus on Goals
Constantly evaluating your metrics can also lead to a loss of focus on your goals. In all likelihood, the metrics that are present on your site are there because of a plan implemented months or weeks prior. It is easy to be discouraged when you don't see the results you want to see, but giving it a little time to work will help you stay focused on your goal. Daily checking of your metrics can also lead to skewed perceptions of your business plan. A good rule of thumb is to check your metrics once a month or every other week – certainly a better alternative than checking everyday.
Too Many Irons in the Fire
When you have too many irons in the fire, it's hard to tell where your traffic is coming from and why it's coming from that source. Pare it down and watch your plan work through the system. Having too many irons in the fire will put more work on your shoulders than not. It also gives you an altered perception of your original metric systems. Keep it simple initially and you can build from there, but "shotgunning" a marketing plan because you don't like what you see can end with disastrous results.
When it comes to metrics and stats, don't check it everyday. Be smart about it. You will have a hard time getting focused on your end goals.


text: See National Parks for Free in 2019 on These Free Entrance Days Submitted by Stephanie Ogozalek on Mon, 04/15/2019 - 11:35am A trip to one of our nation's incredible national parks may already be on your family travel to-do list for 2019. Whether it is or not, you may want to check out the FREE admission days at some of the country's largest parks. Courtesy of the National Park Service, there are five FREE days in 2019, which all take place on easy-for-planning weekends or holiday Mondays, at national parks that typically charge an admission fee. While many parks have free admission every day of the year, more than 100 of them, including some of the most popular destinations, charge $15 per person or more. Those waiving admission for these holidays include some of those iconic, bucket list spots like the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Yellowstone, Acadia, Zion, Shenandoah, Joshua Tree, Glacier National Park, Death Valley, and the Cape Cod Seashore. The freebies also extend to a few historical sites under the National Park Service's purview, like the New York home of celebrated American president Franklin D. Roosevelt and national historic parks like Morristown National Historic Park, the scene of an American Revolutionary War battle. Read more.


text: ONA SAEZ is one of the most established fashion companies in the Argentine industry, with more than 28 years in the industry. When creating, we establish fashion as a form of cultural expression, thinking especially of its clients and with individuality as the premise. ONA SAEZ brings high quality and is continuously innovating to develop new ideas that lead to creating products of great commercial and strategic value.


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Pizza in Manly
- Saturday, 28 July 2018 11:24
Are you looking for a great place to to grab your favourite slice of pizza? Manly has you covered with an option for everyone!
Here is a list of the best pizza shops located around Manly Beach, Sydney.
Hugos (Manly Wharf, East Esplanade Manly): Positioned on Manly Wharf with waterfront views serving up scrumptious pizza for lunch and dinner. Offering half Price pizza Monday to Wednesday (booking essential).
Manly Pizza and Wine (4/4–10 Sydney Road, Manly): A relaxed, friendly atmosphere, superb Italian cuisine and beverages to complement your meal.
In Situ (18 Sydney Rd, Manly): Breezy café by day and buzzing bar / restaurant by night. ½ price pizza every day 4pm – 7pm.
Manly Wharf Hotel (Manly Wharf, East Esplanade): Offering quality food, the best in Australian and imported beers, wines and spirits, a casual and relaxed atmosphere. Tuesdays $16 pizza with beer or house wine
Roma and Co (1a The Corso, Manly): providing delicious Italian inspired breakfast, lunch & dinner all year round.
Other venues around Manly that have great Pizza include:
Traveling to Sydney and looking for things to do? Manly is ranked as Sydney's best beach by tripadvisor and offers experiences and tours for kids, couples and solo holiday makers. Located 20 minutes across Sydney harbour by ferry, visitors can hit the both surfing ocean beaches, and quiet harbourside beach coves. Over 150 bars and restaurants, is complemented with plenty to see with tours, activities, outdoor markets and shopping malls. A superb choice to stay for your Sydney getaway.
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Today or Tomorrow will be the first day I meet A-Mi.
I haven't join a friend's pregnancy
Everytime I saw A-Mi kict her mother's belly, I am so surprised that there is a real life inside her
Now, A-Mi is on her to go to this real world
we are so excited
I am so happy for Kevin, Celia, and of course A-Mi
Janice left Greensboro yesterday morning
I did not say any word to her
I didn't even cry for her
I truly think that good friends won't lose contact because of time or space or something
Thus there is no need to emphasize that friends will separate to each other
I think that I just do not like people want others to focus on them
They do more the kind things and I will against them more
BO and I will move this Sunday
I pick up our stuffs these days
Kevin and Celia are very kind to offer a room for us even we need to pay them
I really appreciate them because we can save some money for application fee, deposit fee and a liitle bit rental fee
The only thing that I worry about is that we have different habits.
Will we fight because of these things that our concerns are different
Maybe I think too much
I know that we will lose a little bit our freedom
We have to do things carefully
It's ok for us
After all of the experiences that we have in the USA, we will be stronger and stronger
Thanks God~
For all the things that U give me
PS.I really miss my family
I think that I should give them a call
- Jun 26 Thu 2008 03:56
Today or Tomorrow will be the first day I meet A-Mi.


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Young Paris of Roc Nation
I have to admit, we did further research and found out that not only is he a performer but he also holds the title of a music producer, a song writer, and he has also done work as an artistic director. Young Paris is the prime example of an artist with the full package and a team that will continue to keep him a success including Next Model Management, Empire Digital Distribution, and Roc Nation! Check out a few of the links below for more on Young Paris!
YP Facebook
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-Winnerzo News


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Sacred Heart taps medical specialist
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 by The Press in Business Showcase
Dr. Jose Uribe has joined Sacred Heart HealthCare System at Sacred Heart Medical Associates - Ears Nose and Throat, Sigal Center, Suite 203, 450 Chew St., Allentown.
Dr. Uribe received a medical degree from PonUniversidad Javeriana and completed a residency in otolaryngology at the Hospital of Universitario de Ignacio, Bogotá, Colombia.
Uribe maintained a private practice in otolaryngology in Colombia 1991 - 2000 until emigrating to the United States where he completed an ear,...
United Way CEO resigns
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 by The Press in Business Showcase
Drew Lewis, Board Chair for United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley (UWGLV) has announced that Susan Gilmore is resigning from her post as President and CEO, effective May 1.
David Lewis, Vice President of Resource Development, will serve as acting President.
Gilmore will stay in the Lehigh Valley with her new position as Executive Director of Community Engagement at FamilyWize, a national company partnered with more than 1,000 United Ways in the United States whose goal is to...
Director to lead Cancer Support
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 by The Press in Business Showcase
The Cancer Support Community of the Greater Lehigh Valley has named Michele Connelly as its executive director, announced Judith A. Savchak, chair of the board of directors.
Former interim director Elizabeth Scofield was named managing director and continues on the board of directors.
Connelly, a Greater Lehigh Valley native and graduate of Kutztown University, has more than 20 years in non-profit administration, most recently as foundation and corporate relations director at...
Ben Franklin invests $315,700
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 by The Press in Business Showcase
The Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania (BFTP-NEP) Board of Directors has approved the investment of $315,700 in support of regional economic development.
Ben Franklin Technology Partners is an initiative of the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development and is funded by the Ben Franklin Technology Development Authority.
BFTP-NEP owns and manages Ben Franklin TechVentures, an award-winning business incubator, post-incubator facility...
Unity Bank names vice president
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 by The Press in Business Showcase
Debbie Godt has joined Unity Bank as Vice President-SBA Business Development Executive.
Godt, with more than 25 years of banking, accounting and finance experience, previously held business development positions with UPS Capital Business Credit, Temecula Valley Bank, Washington Mutual Bank and Johnson-McClean Technologies.
Godt, a graduate of Bucknell University, also worked as a Certified Public Accountant with a big- five accounting firm.
Back to the future: Da Vinci appoints Lin Erickson as CEO
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 by The Press in Business Showcase
The Da Vinci Science Center has announced that Lin Erickson, who led the organization 1997 - 2005, has begun her second tenure as Executive Director and CEO.
Erickson was elected unanimously by the Da Vinci Science Center's Board of Trustees after a national search of nearly 175 candidates. She began her second tenure March 18.
She has more than 25 years experience spearheading educational initiatives for students from kindergarten through college, raising more than $46 million...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 by The Press in Business Showcase
Penn State Lehigh Valley hosts its annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, 10:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. April 4, Room 135, Center Valley campus. An awards presentation follows at 1:30 p.m. The symposium is free and open to the public.
Eric Stephen Boyd, assistant research professor, Montana State University, is keynote speaker. His presentation, "Yellowstone through Space and Time: A Guided Tour through the Evolution of Life," is sponsored by the Penn State Faculty Invitational Lecture...
Embassy Bank promotes 3
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 by The Press in Business Showcase
Embassy Bank for the Lehigh Valley has announced three recent promotions.
Embassy Bank promoted Michelle Barron to vice president of deposit operations.
Barron has 17 years of community banking experience, the most recent eight years with Embassy as assistant vice president, deposit operations.
Barron is a supporter of the Best Friends Animal Society, North Shore Animal Rescue League and the Association for Animal Protective Legislation and Law Enforcement.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 by The Press in Business Showcase
Lehigh Carbon Community College (LCCC) hosts an Open House for prospective students, 6 - 8 p.m. April 4, Community Services Center, Main Campus, Route 309, Schnecksville, Northern Lehigh Township.
LCCC Admission and Financial Aid representatives, academic counselors and Academic Program coordinators will be on hand to answer questions.
To register for the Open House: lccc.edu/openhouse, or LCCC Admission Office, 610-799-1575.
Ben Franklin Tech to house Lehigh Valley Angel Investors
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 by The Press in Business Showcase
Ben Franklin TechVentures has announced that Lehigh Valley Angel Investors (LVAI) as a new affiliate partner.
The partnership with LVAI is said to allow Ben Franklin clients greater access and exposure to more organizations and individuals who, like Ben Franklin, are involved with helping start-ups with seed and first-round investments, according to Ben Franklin officials.
Ben Franklin TechVentures will provide resources and meeting space to LVAI, which was created in 2010 by...


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Cavaliers Indoor Percussion Presents their
2018 Production "Turning Point"
"Marimba Spiritual" by Minoru Miki
"Dimantling Utopia" by Pat Metheny
"Suite de Danzas Criollas" by Alberto Ginastera
"Constant Motion" by Dream Theater
"Turning Point is a fast paced, roller coaster of a ride that will keep you on the edge of your seat and searching for air until the last note!" said Joe Roach, Director of Programs.
An athlete stands at the top of the mountain, staring down the gauntlet of speed, danger and excitement. Seeing every twist and turn before it happens. Time slows down for the adrenaline junky as the crowd holds their breathe in excitement and disbelief. So will be the journey for Cavaliers Indoor Percussion as they run, twist, turn and roll from one thrilling moment to the next.
With almost no room to exhale, the audience joins us for a fast paced, whirlwind show of non-stop excitement. Sit back, strap in and enjoy the ride.


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East of East Helena – East
Project Overview
This project will widen N-8 (US-12/US-287) to provide passing lanes and turning opportunities for a section of roadway between RP 52+1.162 (just east of Diehl Ranch Drive) and RP 55.9 (just east of Spokane Creek Road). This project is in Lewis & Clark and Jefferson County.
The majority of the section will consist of two through lanes in each direction, a center turn-lane and eight-foot shoulders. A free-right turn lane from Spokane Creek road will turn into the new through lane. The work includes grading, gravel, plant mix surfacing, seal & cover, pavement markings, signing, and culvert updates.
Right-of-way acquisition and utility relocation will be required. Construction is tentatively planned for 2021.
How can I stay informed?
Refer to this site for upcoming public involvement notices as they become available. Notices will also be distributed to those on the project's mailing list. MDT encourages members of the public to join the project's mailing list by submitting contact information to Christie McOmber via email or by submitting a comment using the online comment form.
Information will be published on this website, in local media venues, and via newsletters throughout the project development process.


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The episode is actually more interesting than you would think a Eugene- and Dwight-based episode might be. Eugene, while being terrified of Negan, is trying to make the best of his situation. He quickly climbs the ranks and uses his position to be comfortable. Dwight, however, suffers from Daryl and Sherry escaping the compound.
After being psychologically messed with by Negan, he goes to look for her and finds a note at their meeting point they established when they were still together. She apologizes for making him what he is now by persuading him to join the Saviors rather than being on the run. She realizes this is not living but also that she only lived the old version of Dwight. That is why she didn't wait for him as she doesn't know whether he would kill her or bring her back or flee with her. Frankly, I don't know either. Dwight to me is a very opaque character, I don't exactly know where the show is going with him. In The Cell, where he was trying to break Daryl, I thought he will lash out against Negan one day but I am not so convinced of that anymore. After setting up Dr. Carson by planting Sherry's note in his drawer, he appears to be determined to keep following Negan. Obviously, he functions as a showcase of Negan's psychological mind tricks to ensure obedience but Negan himself obviously is not positive about Dwight's loyalty as he lets shine through when Carson (correctly) claims Dwight set him up. If Negan ever found Sherry (whom Dwight claims to have killed) – and believe me, that is happening in this season – he will burn the other side of Dwight's face until he died. I am not particularly eager to see that but I hope maybe his confrontations with Daryl and Eugene (and Sherry possibly joining the Alexandrians) will push Dwight towards breaking his psychological confinement and at last take revenge on his cruel leader, who has taken and is still taking him through hell. Otherwise, I don't get the point of his character, which is clearly the most prominent of the Saviors after Negan. But as Eugene states they are both Negan, Dwight doesn't seem thrilled or convinced about that.
Anyway, Eugene stays himself throughout the episode, neutrally assessing every new situation to decide on the least dangerous way. That is why he absolutely abides by Negan's rules. Some may call that cowardice or opportunism but this is totally in accordance with what we know about Eugene and it is definitely less frustrating to watch than Daryl making his life more difficult by refusing to say he is Negan, too (which in turn fit Daryl's character). Eugene knows he is not as brave and strong as Daryl or Abraham and falls in line with Negan's demands and wishes. He solves his problem of the "guardian walkers" decomposing by suggesting melting scrap metal and pouring it over them and the fence to increase its fortitude.
He is rewarded with a nice room, video games and pickles as well as a platonic visit from some of Negan's wives. The gentleman he is, he initially is very hesitant during their visit as he assumes they aren't there of their own volition. But they show interest in talking to him, even if it turns out they want him to mix a poison for Negan. Eugene, however, sees through their plan and now we have Chekhov's poisoned pills, which are destined to get someone into trouble (I fear it will be Eugene but someone else will be punished as Negan clearly has some use for Doctor Smartypants). While watching, I wasn't sure if Eugene changed sides or if he just saves his own skin. A podcast I listened to mentioned that he fell into his old character he also assumed towards Abraham. That might be a hint he is still with the Alexandrians, especially when they arrive with an army. I doubt, however, that he has the balls to be a useful inside man. The next episode he's in will reveal whose side he's on. However, it makes sense he's that cautious, especially after seeing Negan threatening to use the iron on Dr. Carson's face, sparing him, only to push him into the freaking oven eventually.
Aside: I noticed a very similar structure in this half season compared to season 7a. The first episode showed all our group members, the second focused on the Kingdom and the third on the Sanctuary, where one former Alexandrian is held. I am not sure that means something, especially after the promo for next episode revealed we'll see Michonne and Rick on scavenging mission and Rosita out on her own. We leave the parallels there but maybe we'll return to Oceanside in the fifth episode.
Images (including title image) © by AMC (Photo: Gene Page), taken from their website


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I've shared my story in a lot of places, but never thought I'd share it on a wall in Herald Square and see my family's picture up there too!
Today, October 11, 2016, is such a special day for me because it is a day when I celebrate coming out of the closet...twice. 10 years ago as gay and 5 years ago as undocumented. I thought I would be writing more, but to be honest I have shared so much over the last couple of days that all I can say is thank you to all of those who have fought for my freedom. Those who came before me that paved the way to ensure that one day this undocumented, gay Latino kid from Venezuela could be married to the man of his dreams (Dom Tyler Leon-Davis), have an amazing job where he gets to tell stories (SOZE), and be part of so many communities that continue to fight for justice and freedom (LGBTQ+ / Immigrants / POC). Today, I celebrate my family.
Today, I celebrate my community.
Today, I celebrate our lives.
This blog was originally posted on my medium channel.
The reality is, we all have to make a choice, and every single day undocumented immigrants around this country make the choice to be brave.
That is why I see so much of the beauty that lies #BeyondTheWall. I see the stories that continue to drive this country and I see the human lives that exist beyond the metaphor of a wall that keeps everyone out.
As this country continues to grow, it is imperative that we accept the amazing contributions of undocumented immigrants in this country. That we come to understand that behind each of us there is a story. That this country should not be tearing families apart but instead bringing families together.


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The UFC makes its first visit to Perth, Australia this weekend for UFC 221 featuring Yoel Romero and Luke Rockhold doing battle for the interim
Author: Shane Saunders
Over opinionated fight fan which led me to create my own personal space to ramble about MMA.
Mario Yamasaki comes under heavy criticism for an extremely late stoppage at UFC Belem
Valentina Shevchenko made her UFC Flyweight debut against Octagon debutant Priscila Cachoeira in devastating fashion but much attention was centred on referee Mario Yamasaki after
WATCH: Iuri Alcantara defeats Joe Soto with frantic flurry at UFC Belem
Photo: Esther Lin (MMAFighting.com) Iuri Alcantara avenged a recent loss in devastating fashion when he defeated Joe Soto at UFC Belem this past Saturday night.
Short Shots: Rousey to WWE, UFC London. (29th Jan – 1st Feb)
Rousey points towards a new future, Daniel Cormier and Alexander Gustafsson have a fight (Grammar took a hit) and UFC London gets a headliner. Welcome
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Photo Zuffa LLC/UFC A tale of a legend and a rising star is set to be told in Belem, Brazil this Saturday night as #14
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Rudolph Reindeer Brownies
We love to make pre- packaged treats, it so much fun and great for the kids to take to school.
Unfortunately now days its hard to bring treats that are not pre-packaged from the store, so this makes it fun and easy.
- Cosmic Brownies Here
- Red Pom Poms Here
- Wiggle Eyes
- Brown Construction paper
- Hot glue and glue gun
- Scissors
Start by deciding how you want your antlers to look, then cut out of brown construction paper your desired antlers. Next glue on all of your items (use a low temp glue gun or regular craft glue to do this). Glue your antlers to the back of the brownie and your wiggle eyes and nose to the front.
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What size are the wiggly eyes? 15mm or 18mm?↓
What size are the puff balls for the nose? Thanks!↓
How do I get the antlers' mold outline? By the way, love your idea!!↓
This is so cute ?↓
Hello which craft glue is strong enough and at the same time doesn't give any harm to package??? Thank you↓
I have a four year old granddaughter and I plan on making these with her. They are so cute. Where did you buy the small plastic bags?↓
for antlers use a brown pipe cleaner and fold it into a W!↓


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