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Virtual 3D city models serve as an effective medium with manifold applications in geoinformation systems and services. To date, most 3D city models are visualized using photorealistic graphics. But an effective communication of geoinformation significantly depends on how important information is designed and cognitively processed in the given application context. One possibility to visually emphasize important information is based on non-photorealistic rendering, which comprehends artistic depiction styles and is characterized by its expressiveness and communication aspects. However, a direct application of non-photorealistic rendering techniques primarily results in monotonic visualization that lacks cartographic design aspects. In this work, we present concepts for cartography-oriented visualization of virtual 3D city models. These are based on coupling non-photorealistic rendering techniques and semantics-based information for a user, context, and media-dependent representation of thematic information. This work highlights challenges for cartography-oriented visualization of 3D geovirtual environments, presents stylization techniques and discusses their applications and ideas for a standardized visualization. In particular, the presented concepts enable a real-time and dynamic visualization of thematic geoinformation.
Interactive visualization of generalized virtual 3D city models using level-of-abstraction transitions (2012)
Virtual 3D city models play an important role in the communication of complex geospatial information in a growing number of applications, such as urban planning, navigation, tourist information, and disaster management. In general, homogeneous graphic styles are used for visualization. For instance, photorealism is suitable for detailed presentations, and non-photorealism or abstract stylization is used to facilitate guidance of a viewer's gaze to prioritized information. However, to adapt visualization to different contexts and contents and to support saliency-guided visualization based on user interaction or dynamically changing thematic information, a combination of different graphic styles is necessary. Design and implementation of such combined graphic styles pose a number of challenges, specifically from the perspective of real-time 3D visualization. In this paper, the authors present a concept and an implementation of a system that enables different presentation styles, their seamless integration within a single view, and parametrized transitions between them, which are defined according to tasks, camera view, and image resolution. The paper outlines potential usage scenarios and application fields together with a performance evaluation of the implementation.


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William Henry Channing —
Posted by wrmahugu on December 29, 2009
William Henry Channing was a rarity among Transcendentalists because of his political conscience. He was probably the sole social activist of the group. He extended the Transcendentalist concept of the self into an ideal of selflessness. His was a " renewed social and political vision. " Man was to be a " new moral creation… transfigured. " This led to " a desire to glorify God in a perfect social life."Emerson called him "' the evil time's sole patriot .'" Channing was born in Boston in 1810 to a prominent family. He was the nephew of William Ellery Channing, the famous Unitarian minister, who had a profound influence on him. He went to Boston Latin School and graduated from Harvard College in 1829. He was already associated with Transcendentalists at Harvard. He attended Harvard Divinity School until 1833 and became an itinerant Unitarian preacher, eventually settling in New York where he grappled with urban poverty and immigration. He moved to Cincinnati in 1835 and found it less free than the East. He leaned towards Thoreau in his outlook. He began to publish The Western Messenger. He virtually became a Deist while in the West. He moved back to New England in 1841 and translated Jouffrey's Introduction to Ethics for George Ripley. He contributed to the Dial. He became active in every reform: anti-slavery, peace, temperance, and women's rights. He became involved with Brook Farm. While at Brook Farm, he is strongly credited for the change to Fourierism, possibly because of its emphasis on collective humanity over the individual. He was interested in unity. He wrote for the Harbinger. He did not think that the community was religious enough, though he tolerated this. "In 1857 he was honored by replacing England's most influential Liberal Unitarian preacher." He called this "'pivotal'" because he "was able to reconcile his political enthusiasm with his commitment to the church." He remained the rest of his life in England, returning to pastor a church in Washington, D.C., during the Civil War. He also was Senate chaplain. Channing was troubled with a "disease of disproportionate specualtion." He was labelled as impractical. He feared that the "'one divine far-off event' might happen before breakfast." He thought that the only darkness came from "'one's own shadow, beneath his feet.'" Channing represents among Transcendentalists "the fervent hope for social justice."He died in 1884. Channing was the social activist among the Transcendentalists. Apparently his spirit never rested as he ever sought to improve upon humanity. He was not happy with the intellectual side of the movement.

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Norman Arts Council partnered with Oklahomans for the Arts and Americans for the Arts to produce an Arts & Economic Prosperity study to measure the impact of nonprofit arts and cultural organizations and their audiences on the local economy.
With the study, we've learned that Norman arts non-profits help support over 1,500 full-time equivalent jobs, generate over $4.8 million in local/state tax revenue and over $56 million in economic impact in Norman. Learn more by viewing below:


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US Wrap: Morgan Stanley punctuates end of accelerated growth week
Out of 19 products issued into the US market last week, 15 were accelerated growth products. The S&P 500 is still a marked favourite, representing the underlying for over half of these products. This is in contrast to the previous five days which were dominated by reverse convertible issuance.
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As a business owner, it's easy to see the difference between working with clients and working with dream clients.
Dream clients keep your energy high and make you excited about the work you do!
I believe it's important to work with dream clients as a business which is why I want to give you 6 tips for attracting dream clients for your business.
Ready? Let's dive in!
1. Have a strategy
First things first, you've got to have a strategy for attracting your dream clients! It won't just happen, you have to plan for it. A strategy involves knowing who your dream clients are and knowing them from the inside out. My favorite way to do this is by creating a profile around a dream client I actually worked with (or want to work with if you haven't had one yet) so that my strategy is based around a real person vs. a made up one. Create a document around who they are, what they do, what they like, similarities and connections you have, etc.
2. Know the need
The second thing you want to do is know what your dream client needs. As the expert, knowing the need is your job and business. Your solution/service/offer should align directly with their need. Think about what you offer and who needs it.
3. Communicate with the want
As the expert, it's your job to know what clients need but it's also important to know what they want. The need is what you offer, the want is your marketing and message. For example, clients come to me saying they want more clients or to make more sales. I know that's the want. As the expert, I understand that their need is actually a business model and marketing strategy. I sell and promote the want and then present the need as the solution. When you learn to communicate with the want you'll attract your dream clients.
4. Be the expert
It's so important to know the things mentioned above and then to be the expert. I know early on in my coaching business I was afraid to show up as the expert even though deep down inside I knew that I was. People want to talk to you because they believe you can be the expert or have the answer or solution. You can help someone, so show up knowing that confidently! Confidence attracts the right people!
5. Give value
I have personally made it my business mission to focus on giving value over selling. Selling is absolutely important, but I believe it's followed by giving value. Knowing the want and need of your dream clients will help you give them value and when you give value people will naturally want to buy from you without you having to work hard for the sale. Find ways to give your dream clients value.
6. Stay Consistent
Lastly and most importantly, stay consistent. This might be the biggest mistake I see entrepreneurs make. They show up once, or a few times and then disappear. They post once about an offer and then decide to stop because nobody responded. They do one Facebook live and then call it quits because they only got a few views. Seeing results is all about consistency so you have to be willing to show up time and time again if you really and truly want to see things work in your business.
These are the steps I have personally taken in my business to attract dream clients that want to work with me over and over again the same way I do with them!
Apply them to your business and see how it turns things around for you!


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Journal Article: Closing the Achievement Gap With Curriculum Enrichment and Differentiation: One School's Story
ACADEMIC achievement, ETHNIC groups, CORRECTIVE action (School management), SCHOOL improvement programs, TEACHERS
Beecher, Margaret; Sweeny, Sheelah M.
2008, Spring2008
Prufrock Press
This article summarizes a unique approach to reducing the achievement gap that strategically blended differentiated curriculum with schoolwide enrichment teaching and learning. The theories of enrichment and instructional differentiation were translated into practice in an elementary school that had previously embraced a remedial paradigm. This enrichment approach resulted in improved student achievement and the reduction of the achievement gap between rich and poor and among different ethnic groups. The school improvement process began with a thorough analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of all dimensions of the school, and resulted in the creation of a school mission, strategic plan with broad instructional goals, specific learning objectives, and detailed action plans. Enrichment and differentiation were chosen as the methods to improve the learning environment based on evidence that engagement in learning is enhanced when students' interests and choices are considered, and the need to provide learning experiences that were responsive to the learning characteristics of a diverse student population. Specific components of the strategic plan were implemented simultaneously while others were introduced over a series of years. Teachers rewrote the curriculum for reading, writing, mathematics, and social studies to include enrichment experiences and differentiated instruction. This enriched learning environment extended to an afterschool program inspired by Enrichment Clusters. Staff development was essential to the success of each new initiative, and a significant amount of time was devoted to teacher training. Teachers were provided with training, modeling, coaching, and planning time to integrate the new ideas and skills into their lessons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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In her first meeting as a city councilwoman, Nicole Ybarra is still learning what it takes to make decisions for the city.
Ybarra wants to become verse in her new position and make her district and the rest of the city a better place to live.
"There's a lot of new things to learn and I'm looking forward to working with the city," she said.
"I'm really want to focus on cleaning up the city and positive growth for Leesville."
Ybarra defeated long-time councilman Danny Dowd in the election in March, focusing her campaign on making the voices of the people in her district heard.
"Communication with the citizens in my district is a large thing," Ybarra said. "Working with Mr. (Grant) Bush and enforcing ordinances definitely is a part of it."
Ybarra has been going around and learning about the departments within the city to figure out how she can help them.
"A few weeks ago I went down to public works and provided breakfast for all the public works workers," Ybarra said. "I just sat there and discussed what they were happy with and not happy with, new ideas and so forth."
Not only is she going around to the different city departments, she reaching out to the community in District 3 and welcomes the feedback.


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April is Muscle Car Review's annual Paint & Body issue. This year we have a mix of stories for the do-it-yourselfers and the do-it-for-me readers out there.
For those in the latter camp we interviewed several muscle car painters (Bob Perkins of Bob Perkins Restorations, Jason White of Jason White Restorations, and Ken Maisano of MASCAR Classics) to get their tips and advice on how to hire a painter and work with a paint shop. We have all heard horror stories of cars disappearing into paint shop purgatory for months or even years, with no work done. This story should help our readers avoid that mistake.
For the hands-on readers we have two bodywork-related tech articles. One is on media blasting using lumps of coal—seriously! The other is about restoring stainless-steel trim pieces that can be so hard to replace.
Also in the April issue are two barn-find-related stories. One is coverage of the Barn Finds & Hidden Gems area of the 2016 Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals. The other is about two Mopar aero warriors—a Charger 500 and Superbird—that have been stashed in a hay barn for years.
Feature cars in the April issue include an eye-grabbing (and fully loaded) 1970 Torino GT with a 429 Super Cobra Jet, and a different kind of L79-powered 1965 Chevelle that still belongs to its original owner—and is still making dragstrip runs to this day.
We round out the April issue with a cautionary tale about a burned-up 428 Galaxie and the second half of our Muscle Car Glossary.
All this and more will be in the April 2017 issue of Muscle Car Review, on sale at your favorite newsstand March 10.


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Holiday Promotion for "National Treasure" Movie Tie-In
Visa and the Walt Disney Studios teamed up to create a Q4 holiday promotion to play off the film "National Treasure," a major motion picture featuring a treasure room full of items accumulated in secret throughout history. To create buzz and leverage the excitement of this fast-paced film, we created a promotion for Visa cardholders centered around a special "treasure" that has also been building over time. By using their Visa cards during the holidays, consumers increased their chances to win a refund of all the charges they made on the card over that year. We subsequently rolled out the "National Treasure" promotion by creating posters, in-store signage, point-of-sale assets, print ads, web components, and live-event materials.
To reach our desired female target during the holiday season, we created imagery to play off the design of the film posters. For our background, we leveraged the image of the clock at Independence Hall, a prominent location in the film, and the heroic pose of our female model matches Nicolas Cage's poster pose. Plus, our e-decoder tool was a nod to the secret codes contained within the Declaration of Independence and other elements of the film. AdAge reported that this award-winning campaign was the largest-ever promotion for a Disney live-action film.


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Intensity variation of gamma radiation on ground level interface in São José dos Campos, SP, BrazilAuthor(s): Inácio Malmonge Martin, Marcelo Pêgo Gomes
In the period June 22 to September 24, 2012 São José dos Campos region experienced dry climate with low relative humidity. The net rain intensity measured in this period was 60mmand the relative humidity range between 30% to 40% on most days. The intensity of gamma radiation from 0.03 to 10.0MeV, in themeasurement period presents a daily fluctuationwell clearly, and some small increases when there is rainfall. These measures were realized at ITAÂs campus with a scintillator of NaI (Tl), photomultiplier and associated electronics laptop to a Dell 630 PC.Adata acquisition interface purchased from(Aware Eletronics, USA) provides a file withmeasurements versus time, in the range from minute to minute recorded in txt. It was observed that the variation of gamma radiation in the interface soil/air at the region is originating from the local radon gas dynamics and of the presence of wind shear near the ground level.


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Why don't we all find innovative and concrete ways of actually using social media for good; using social media to enrich and bless lives!
The Insta Frenzy - II
Our hope and desire as an organization is to educate, inform and inspire young people towards national and global development, and the social media series is one of our many ways of doing so. With that in mind, The Insta Frenzy I covered some amazing features, but Instagram still has more to offer....
The Insta Frenzy - I
This train that began with the post "Art of Social Media" has finally arrived at Instagram's terminal point. Lol….and yes! It is INSTAGRAM and there is a new frenzy about it. Being one of the coolest social sites, Instagram has been able to keep its users engaged and consistently interested in its use. It should perhaps be more aptly titled the 'app for the androids' since you need a phone to fully enjoy it, this has not deterred any of its 200 million daily users (who are largely below the age of 39). It is obvious that the more you know about Instagram, the better you will be at using it. So let's begin…..
The Art of Facebook II
The Art of Facebook - I
The Art of Social Media: Commonalities
The Evolution of Social Media
Social media has been a part of our lives since late 20th century. It is probably the most innovative platform that has originated from the existence of the internet. Social life, business, marketing, entertainment, news and pop culture have never been better expounded and shared as they are now, all thanks to social media!


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WebHeads are delighted to sponsor the BRSCC Porsche Championship for 2013. It's a superb way for WebHeads to promote their brand and agency to the Porsche Drivers Association and Teams but also it also allows them to reach a larger audience on race days and via the extensive MotorsTV coverage.
Founded in 1994 by JM Littman, who will also be racing in the series, WebHeads are a leading UK Web Agency that provides a full range of web and digital services for start-up companies to global corporations. And as part of their sponsorship support, they will be offering preferred rates and a referral scheme to all their new friends and fans of The Porsche Championships. For further information please contact JM Littman or Clive Morris:
Phone: 0207 287 7060
It's hard to believe that there's a cost effective Porsche racing series - but this successful championship really is!


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Fort Worth
Friday was the hottest day of the year in DFW, but cooler temps are coming
Temperatures topped out at a sweltering 102 degrees Friday, the hottest day of 2017 in North Texas.
And while it was the sixth time this summer that Dallas-Fort Worth Airport has recorded a triple-digit temperature, a cool front should help make life outdoors more bearable for the next few days.
"We're actually going to be able to see a noticeable difference," said Matt Bishop, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Fort Worth. "Over the next few days we'll be between five and 10 degrees cooler."
Saturday's high should be 96 degrees and Sunday's 95 before dipping to about 92 on Monday.
The lower temperatures will be accompanied by a slight chance of rain off-and-on through Thursday, but temperatures pick back up on Friday.
DFW averages 18 100-degrees days each summer, with the most usually coming in August.
Fort Worth community centers and libraries are serving as cooling stations for residents who need shelter from the heat. The Salvation Army has also opened a cooling station at 1855 E. Lancaster Ave.
Ryan Osborne: 817-390-7684, @RyanOsborneFWST


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This happened some time ago. Maybe a few months back.
One day in my apartment building, I was in the elevator with my friend and we had a casual chit chat. He asked me how I was doing and I said I was a bit sick. I had a mild headache and fever. Nothing serious though, Alhamdulillah. I arrived on my floor, said salam to him, and went to my apartment.
I thought that was it.
But not too long after that, he came to my apartment and gave me two boxes of Advil and Tylenol for my ailment (I only needed one to be honest). I was surprised and said thank you to him. He left. Maybe he took the pills from one of my friends from another apartment.
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I thought that was it.
But soon after, I realized that the two boxes were brand new! I realized that he actually went to the pharmacy to buy me the pills. I couldn't believe it! He was quiet about it too. I had no idea. To this day he doesn't say anything about it (he doesn't even ask for a refund lol).
Now that is the kind of friend you want to keep close.
May Allah increase him. Ameen!
Nice right? a one in a million kind... orang yang baik insyaAllah akan dikelilingi orang2 yang baik juga


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The man from the Elephant who helped switch on the world
If we really want to understand climate change - where it came from, but also how to tackle it - we need to talk about electricity. Plus this gives me a chance to talk about Michael Faraday. And he's great.
Before the 19th century, people had a sense of electricity, but only really played around with it. The ancients knew you could get shocks from some fish - electric eels for example - and had worked out that if you rubbed some stuff (e.g. your cat) with an amber rod, then lightweight things like feathers might fly towards them. There's evidence of batteries - or at least something like them - from around 200 BC to AD 200 in modern-day Iraq, though no one's quite sure what it was used for.
Even before 1752, when Benjamin Franklin took a damp kite into the middle of a lightning storm, the bourgeois were entertained by tricks like the 'electric boy'. Find a child, suspend them from the ceiling with silk threads and then rub them with an amber rod so they attract feathers or bits of paper. A more elaborate version had the child standing on a friction generator so their hands might attract small pieces of paper, even turn the pages of a book without touching them. Or you might create a spark if you touched them on the nose.
In 1780, Galvani discovered he could make frogs legs twitch with an electrical spark. By the 1820s, between Ampère and Ørsted, we had a sense of the connection of electricity and magnetism, after Ørsted noticed a compass needle moving when a current was turned on and off. But no one had really put this to work.
Faraday's work helped change that, and with he gave us some key bricks for the energy system we now have. It's an energy system that, so far, has been largely fuelled by fossil fuels. But it could well be an energy system for the future too. We can get electricity from a range of places - not just coal, but wind, solar, nuclear, hydro, etc - and electrifying as much as possible (then making sure that electricity is low carbon) is one of the key things we need to do to tackle climate change.
But back to Mr Faraday himself. He was born in 1791 in Newington Butts, near the Elephant and Castle (if that sounds like something out of Harry Potter, you should know that today it is a massive roundabout surrounded by speedily-gentrified tower blocks). The soon moved north of the river, to Manchester Square near Marylebone. Faraday's family were far from rich, and he didn't receive much of a formal education. He started working as a delivery boy at a nearby bookbinders and booksellers and was soon promoted to apprentice.
He'd often read the books he was sorting or binding, and developed a strong interest in science. He also go to lectures held nearby, encouraged by his employer, and kept detailed notes about everything he learnt. There's stories about the young Faraday experimenting with what he'd read about in books too. His first recorded experiment was a sort of early battery - a pile of seven coins stacked together with seven disks of sheet zinc, and six pieces of paper moistened with salt water.
The bookseller got Faraday to show off his notes to customers. One, a musician called William Dance, was so impressed he gave the young Faraday tickets for lectures given by Humphry Davy at the Royal Institution (which I've already mentioned in a post about Tyndall).
The RI has an amazing funnel-shaped lecture theatre. If you ever have the chance to go, do. The young Faraday sat in the gallery, behind the clock. He took meticulous notes and, using his bookbinding skills an , presented them to Davy in a beautifully 300 page book which led to some correspondence between them. A year later, in March 1813, after one of the RI's chemistry assistants was dismissed for fighting, Davy remembered this keen young bookbinder and offered him a job.
Faraday was paid £1.5s a week, less than he got at the booksellers, but it came with a room at the RI. And he get to work on science.
Soon, Davy announced he was going on an 18 month tour of Europe, and Faraday was invited to join. It didn't sound like the trip was all fun and science for Faraday. He was expected to deputise as Davy's valet, at least until they reached Paris, and he was very much treated as a servant by Davy's wife. Plus it was all cut short when Napoleon escaped from Elba. Still, he stayed on, and got to meet people like Alassandro Volta, who gave him a battery. As the Royal Institution puts it, "as if the inventor of the electric battery passed on the torch of electrical research to Faraday."
He returned to the RI and gradually built his career there. In 1822, he'd developed what we'd now understand as the world's first electric motor. Developing the work of Ørsted and Ampère and playing around with a magnet, small bath of mercury and a battery, he managed to turn the electrical energy from the battery into something that moved. A key step in the history of humans using electricity.
In his excitement, Faraday published results without acknowledging that he'd worked alongside Davy and another scientist, William Hyde Wollaston. This strained his relationship with Davy, and may well have led to Faraday being shifted to work on other areas, away from electromagnetism.
After Davy's death, Faraday returned to the topic. He'd already managed to make movement from electricity using a magnet, but could he make electricity using magnets? Working with some simple apparatus - the wire he used seems to be the same stuff made to use bonnets - he fashioned a basic electric generator. Wire was coiled around a tube of some neutral material and insulated in cotton. Faraday realised that if he moved the bar magnet back and forth through the coil of wire, he could generate a current.
It was really inefficient, not practical as a power source itself in anyway. Still, it was the start of something. Virtually all the electricity we use today is produced using this these principles. The initial movement could come from all sorts of sources - coal, wind, hydro - they all power a generator which then produces electrical current we can be passed on and used.
There are loads of other steps before we get to the sort of electrical lives we live today - loads of refinements to the generator, not least further inventions like the lightbulb, the transistor and the microchip - but Faraday's work was crucial.
Faraday's life wasn't all about electromagnetism. He was very committed to his church (he was a Sandemanian). In 1825 started a series of christmas lectures for children which are still going. Apparently he also had a very intense and personal correspondence with Ada Lovelace, but he felt this was inappropriate and later distanced himself from her (there's some great scientific fanfic in this...). He also helped with the planning for the Great Exhibition of 1851 and, in 1855, famously wrote a letter to the Times about the state of pollution in the River thames (a nice example of politicians ignoring scientists concerns over pollution, until they realise an economic opportunity a few years later).
Faraday publicly stated several times that he would not accept a knighthood, saying he preferred to remain "plain Mr Faraday to the end." There's no evidence that he was actually ever offered one, but that's not to say Faraday was been a massive egotist to assume he might be. There's a story that he refused to help develop chemical weapons in the Crimean War, though he was also Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, for a couple of decades too, so we shouldn't mark him up as a pacifist. He also refused the chance to be buried in Westminster Abbey (though there is a plaque to him there, by Newton's tomb. Newton was nowhere near so modest, but that's a whole other story…).
In 1848, he did accept an all-expenses-paid home at Hampton Court Palace (the one in all the Henry VIII movies), which is where he retired and then died.
If you want to visit his grave, it's in the West side of Highgate Cemetery. There's also a weird metal cube memorial over a electric substation in the middle of Elephant and Castle roundabout. Apparently the first idea was an inverted glazed pyramid revealing glowing mercury vapour, but this idea was ditched in case it distracted drivers. More conventionally, there's a statue outside the Institution of Engineering and Technology, or you can also visit his old lab at the RI. If you're round the White Cliffs of Dover, you could drop by the South Foreland Lighthouse which, after considerable testing by Faraday, became the first lighthouse in the world to be lit with electric lighting in 1858. Or simply thank him next time you flick a switch and something happens.


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Saturday, May 18, 2013 - Sunday, May 19, 2013
Sail and power boats of all sizes from some of the world's most illustrious boat dealers will be on display at the Hilton Head Island Boat Show, the Ninth InWater Boat Show to be held in Windmill Harbour. Windmill Harbour, one of only three harbours with a lock system on the east coast, will be showcasing boats from over 30 boat dealers at the show on Saturday, May 18th and Sunday, May 19th. The event will be held from 10:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m, both Saturday and Sunday; and there will be a beer and wine cash bar, as well as delicious food created by the South Carolina Yacht Club's award winning Executive Chef Kevin Cavanaugh. Daily tickets are per person, cash only, and are available for purchase in advance at The Richardson Group sales office, located just inside the gate of Windmill Harbour. Tickets will be available on both days of the show at the gate. This is a Rain or Shine event. Dealers will include Hinckley Yachts, Chris Craft, Beneteau Yachts, Jeanneau Yachts, Grand Banks, Grady White, Parker, Tiara, Scout, Ranger Tugs, J Boats, Glacier Bay, Everglades, Shearwater, Key West, and Century, among other top-tier manufacturers. Thirty vendors, including Shades of Charleston and West Marine among many others, will have tents set up around the harbour, so that attendees can shop for their boating needs during the show.


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MySQL & Load Stats in Website Hosting
If you host your sites inside a website hosting account with us, you shall have access to comprehensive CPU and MySQL stats that will enable you to monitor their functionality. You can see the statistics with several clicks inside your Hepsia Control Panel. The CPU Load section can tell you the total time period the web server spent on your scripts and the amount of memory was needed, as well as the time it took for the scripts to be executed. The everyday view is the default one, but you may also see the numbers from the preceding months. The MySQL Load section offer additional information about the number of queries to every single database that you have set up within the account. Once again, you can see per month, daily and hourly statistics, that will give you info that's different from the traffic or the number of visitors that you get. Thus, you can determine if the Internet sites need some optimization.


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My Pretty Foxy Care game
Welcome to the foxy grooming studio! It will be your job to take care of these pretty foxies by keeping them clean and dressing them up. Good luck!
My Pretty Foxy Care, play free Dress up games, related games and updates online. Added on
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Facebook Places
What used to be considered a social faux pas is now a Facebook feature.
Last week Facebook added "Places," which is a variation on the creepy FourSquare social networking site that allows you to announce your presence everywhere in the real world. Merchants give points for mentions, which can be turned into rewards of dubious value.
But Facebook manages to make it creepier, by ensuring that people who have never signed up for such an invasion of privacy are now subjected to it. Unless you opt-out, you can be photographed and tagged by the overzealous idiots on your friends-list and have your whereabouts reported across the grid.- Read more


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We asked our talented friends at Ten4 to design a t-shirt for our Velo Birmingham cycling team. They very generously donated their time and skills to support our work and have come up with this great design. We hope you like it.
Ten4 Design are a digital studio doing great things for ambitious organisations. Take a look at their brilliant portfolio. They are also keen cyclists and mountaineers, so a perfect match for The Glacier Trust.
Two of our riders are from Birmingham based company Valveforce (you can sponsor them securely via VirginMoney Giving). Their logo along with those of Velo Birmingham and Ten4 appear on the t-shirt along with our website address and our 'enabling climate change adaptation in Nepal' strapline.
Thank-you to everyone at Ten4 design for supporting #TeamTGT.


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Cargo Theft Protection: Security Amidst Reality
The Fast and the Furious movie franchise might have some unrealistic scenes. But they depict a very harsh reality in the shipping and cargo business. Cargo theft does happen, as shown in the 6th instalment of the movie. There might not be fast and fancy [Read More]


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Four leading Japanese robotic companies have joined forces to outcompete South Korea, which recently announced legislation to develop more robots for common household use. Although Japan has long led the world in robo technology, so called intellegent service robots have been slow to penetrate the average home. But some have high hopes, "We believe house hold robots will finally become common in the near future, within five years the number of robots will increase ten fold or more…". According to the Associated Press the South Korean government aims to put a robot in every household by 2020, and has mobilized companies and scientists to help integrate robots into Korean society. Faced with low birth rates and long life spans both Japan and South Korea are turning to robots to replace workers.
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So many agents claim to have direct contact with international agent. By this, we authors think that sales are being made in other countries. Wow wow wow. An American agents has 4 or 5 counterpart connections in other countries. That's supposed to mean royalties. Right?
My husband is an expert on stress in teachers and parents. Read this email from his international agent/distributor.
From: Deanna Leah <email@example.com>
Date: November 3, 2015 at 4:09:23 PM PST
To: "Inc. Marvin Marshall & Associates" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Subject: Russian Editions
Hi Marv,
I hope you are doing well. I have been back from the Frankfurt Book Fair a few weeks and busy, busy following up. I wanted to send you the Royalty report for the Russian editions of PARENTING and DISCIPLINE. I received them shortly before the book fair and went over them in my meeting with EKSMO in Frankfurt. In review
PARENTING went on sale August 2013. softcover
They printed 4,000 + 4,000 + 5,000 = 13,000 and have sold appx. 12,105 as of June 2015.
Unfortunately the the ruble has fallen against the dollar significantly for the past year and no further royalties are due. I had to go over this report again and again to believe that :-) But at least you can say that 12,000 copies have been sold in the Russian language. Congratulations on that.
DISCIPLINE was on sale as of September 2014. hardcover
They printed 4,000 copies and to date have sold appx. 3,024 copies.
I am trying to get the Chinese royalty reports because your books were very popular in Frankfurt with the Chinese and I could have sold them again a few times over.
My co-agent in China said they have asked a few times for the report and will try again. The contract for Parenting – Simplified Chinese edition will ru out summer 2016 so if they don't cooperate I am surely going to re-sell to a different publisher. I think the book is probably doing very well in China.
In Frankfurt this year I had multiple interest from India for your books and Germany. I'll let you know what happens.
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Dammit, Kenya, why'd you have to do that? Just when we'd categorized Twirl Girl as our resident drama queen/lunatic, she had to go grab our sympathy by sobbing through a fertility ritual and then talking (seemingly honesty, but who knows?) about how her biological clock got flipped on when she was 35.
If it was just an act, it seemed to have softened up the other girls (at least the other girls who were invited along). As much as NeNe rolled her eyes as the shaman blew smoke in her face, it wasn't long before she was talking about the trials of being a young mom and trying to coach Kenya through the idea of adoption. If you didn't think too much about the fact Kenya told Porsha and Phaedra to go spin while she bonded with the rest of the cast, it was almost a heartwarming moment.
Almost. While Kenya wept about babies, she also seemed intent on getting Apollo so hot and bothered he burst a blood vessel. Once she lured the entire group to visit a cave during their stay in Mexico, she revealed the underground tunnel wasn't just bats and weird stalagmites hanging from the ceiling. No, it had a lovely pool, giving her the opportunity to strip down to her bikini and make sure Apollo had no choice but to enjoy the view.
Apollo was also quick to strip down to his swim trunks, but oddly enough, no one else seemed to be in a rush to get in the water. You could practically see Apollo wrestling with the little devil on one shoulder and the little angel on the other. Should I get in the water? Yes? No? Should I think about baseball in case Kenya turns around in that bikini one more time?
Eventually Phaedra decided to dive in, giving Apollo a pass to get wet, and it wasn't all that sexy anyway since everyone apparently had to wear little waist floaties and snorkeling gear. There aren't many things hotter than a chick in snorkeling gear, after all. Not.
Kenya wasn't content just trying to lure Apollo into another pool, though. No, she decided to corner him while the guys were gathered together to smoke cigars. I was impressed that Peter and Todd still had the presence of mind after Kenya bought round after round of shots to make sure Apollo wasn't left unattended with Kenya. While Kenya tried to laugh this off, you could tell she was hoping to figure out a way to break a bottle over Todd's head while no one was looking.
Todd eventually conceded that Apollo is a grown ass man who shouldn't need a babysitter, and hey, Phaedra shouldn't have left her boy toy on his own anyway. I did think it was interesting that while Apollo and Kenya were arguing about who disrespected who first, the one thing Kenya didn't argue with was Apollo's claim that he could have slept with her if he'd wanted to do it. Nope. Clearly, that was on the table. No, Kenya felt that he besmirched her character by saying she made a pass at him. But, you know, if he had made a move, it would have totally been game on.
Bickering about respect isn't a particularly sexy conversation, and I don't see a pool anywhere nearby into which Apollo can toss Kenya, so really, there shouldn't be a problem when Phaedra and Kandi show up. But hey, you know there will be! As Peter pointed out, Apollo is an idiot to have anything to do with a woman his wife hates, even if that just means having a conversation with Kenya that doesn't include punching her. I suspect Phaedra would be pretty okay with it if Apollo had put the beat down on Kenya, though you know she'd never admit it.
As much as Phaedra tries to put all of the blame into Kenya's court, the reality that Apollo and Kenya can even have a conversation about how they're both really attractive people who could have sex, then debate whether or not one of them opened the door to said sex, suggests trouble is only a few tequila shots away at any moment.
Speaking of trouble, Kandi and Todd's relationship somehow got slapped onto the conversational table, with Todd finding a lot of sympathy for his side from, I think, almost everyone. Kandi's reluctance to do anything about their wedding plans — and her mother — may ultimately push Todd to this limit. The good news? I think Peter will find an extra bedroom for him at his house if he needs it. Damn if the guys on this show aren't always better at bonding than the women are. Can't we all just get along, ladies?
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Four ministries — commerce and industry; agriculture and farmer welfare; environment, forest and climate change; and AYUSH — are working on a plan to decide the MSPs for over 1,200 traditional herbs.
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On November 29, a small group of Friends gathered on the last beautiful day of autumn to hand-pull euonymus (also known as winter creeper) in the Woods. Euonymus fortunei was planted extensively in suburban neighborhoods for its sturdiness, evergreen coloring and rapid growth habit. Over the past decade, ecologists have recognized that this plant, native to Asia, has a negative impact on our Eastern United States and Canada. Our native species of flowers and other plants are smothered by euonymus. Ephemeral spring flowers can't emerge through the dense mat. Insects that feed on these early bloomers have no source of nourishment. This lack in turn affects our bird population, which can't find enough protein-rich insects to feed their babies in the nest, putting our bird populations at further risk of decline.
With this knowledge in mind, Terry T., Amy P., Mary B., Dan M., David B., and John N. removed dense mats of euonymus along the fence bordering our neighbor to the east. Terry sprinkled seeds for blue mist flowers and blue flag iris in the newly uncovered earth. Hopefully in the spring many of these seeds will yield new life in rich soil that is now open to new possibilities. We hope to have more days in 2017 to remove additional areas of winter creeper in the Woods. Please let Mindy Sommers or Mary Blackburn know if you'd like to help.
Later I was reflecting on the spiritual equivalent of "invasive species." I pondered what things were introduced into my life that have good qualities and yet are covering up my joy and creativity. My winter creeper is my smart phone. It is a great piece of technology that allows me to do so many things, and yet, has insidiously taken over much of my free time. Checking Facebook, checking emails, Googling curious questions while avoiding loneliness or empty spaces.
If you were to clear the "euonymus", the "invasives" in your life, what would you plant in the rich soil? What would you like to see grow in your empty spaces?
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Sunday School Classes begin for all Ages on Sunday, January 8!
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Hey Guys! Oak Leaf: Meeting for Reading is expanding the book group to everyone (both men and women) interested. Come discuss the Pulitzer Prize Winning novel: The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen, which will be led by Kristyn G. on Tuesday, January 31st at 7 pm in the Parlor. If you'd like to have your name added to the email list, please contact the office ~ looking forward to February 28th's discussion, Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance.
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My Lord i ask in your name to just show me the way. I am lost, confused and angry. I am not a failure and also not a give upper but it feels like the more i have strenght to get up and move on its when things start to actually get worse by day. would you please give me a sign somehow on what i should do.
i have been prayer for a bursary but all have got is rejection after rejection. i have been prayer to get a job to at least also to be able to pay for my studies but yet still no one has come back to me. i am so lose and i can't find my way. Please just let something happen in my life because my faith is declining by the day and i have debts to pay and don't know how i am going to pay for them.
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As many people know, I like computers, well, like may not be a strong enough word, I love computers. What some people may not know is, I haven't always been that way. Not that many years ago, my knowledge and interest in computers was a lot less than it is today. The reason for this is more to do with my lack of income to afford a real computer, and my drive pushing me in different directions. During those times I floated by borrowing computers, sharing them, and eventually getting my hands on my very own very used old work laptop. It barely ran, but it did what I wanted it to do at the time; it ran a web browser, it had a wireless card, and it played Diablo II, sort of. These are the times you would catch me sitting in an old fluffy rocking chair, in my walk in closet, leaching WI-FI off of my neighbor. That neighbor was also my boss from work, and is now one of my writers here at The Drakkarium. This and more, we will discuss on our walk through the evolution of my home computer. Shortly before the times of the dinky weak laptop, I had a very good friend who was college educated in computers. He was a system builder, and subsequently had his own self built computer at home. Small silver box with a couple multi-colored lights on the front, and a lighted fan on the side. At the time, it was a pretty impressive machine, seeing as it was my first real look at a computer that a big company didn't put together. I consulted with this friend all the time, trying to learn as much about computers as I could, so maybe I could one day be talented enough to build something like that myself. We never got into the nitty gritty of building, never actually tinkered with his computer, but he taught me a lot of the things I would one day use.
Fast forward a few months, my job changed, my life was different. I made a few friends at work that invited me to come hang out all the time, and one of them in particular was a computer enthusiast and system builder. He told me stories of his computer, and how much work he put into it, and it made me very interested in it a lot. I have always had the little itch of "I would love to do these things, I am extremely interested in them, but I am too poor to pursue it", so when presented with the opportunity to see another custom build, I jumped at the chance. It was a very interesting computer, shiny and simple, like my previous friend's was. So my journey to learn even more about them continued with this new friend. He taught me even more than I ever thought I could. Not much time had passed and he and I became roommates. After enough time making fun of my dinky weak laptop, he decided to take assorted parts and components and throw together a Frankenstein build, to give me something better to play games on.
That box lasted a while, but as would be expected with using old loose parts, something broke. Something important; the hard drive had taken a dump. So, with a fresh stack of loose parts, and a mostly whole HP tower, we rebuilt. The HP tower had great longevity when it came to computers in my possession. That computer lasted through two moves and a new baby. It had a dual core processor, which was pretty beefy compared to what I was using before, plus it came with a flat panel monitor (Square, not widescreen), which was even more impressive to me. My passion for computers, for customization, for building, was growing exponentially.
Then came a day that a little money came my way, and I had my eyes set on a new case, and a new cooling system for the processor. The case? An XClio 380 Black full tower. The Cooling? The Gigabyte Galaxy II liquid cooling system.
I wanted a full tower computer, I wanted something people would immediately wonder about, and I wanted a eye catching and efficient water cooling system. I chose this combination because they just fit me, for me. So, I used that money, and I ordered those new pieces. Finally I got a kick start into a computer I would be proud of, something I put some work into. I didn't know this would be the first of many hours put into the customization of my computers.
While waiting for my new parts to show up, I decided I wanted to get my current parts ready to move, like a kid on Christmas, I just couldn't wait. Well, somewhere in the mess that was my preparations, I broke something. My computer would no longer boot, no longer do anything but turn the fans on when I hit the power button. Naturally, I panicked. I didn't know what to do, all the things I learned to try weren't working, and my system builder roommate had no ideas either. Thankfully, I had someone who cared a lot about my happiness, because not long after declaring time of death, I had a new motherboard, processor, and memory on its way. I turned my attentions to her computer to get it viable enough to use while waiting for my new components to arrive, and as luck would have it, I broke hers too. I felt horrible, but there was nothing I could really do about it other than not touch anymore computers.
I did touch another computer again of course, I had to, I had my new parts to play with. After too many days (around 4) of waiting, I had all my parts in hand. My big tower case arrived with the water cooling a day or two before the rest, so I had been staring at them for 48 hours, shaking with anticipation. Spread in front of me on that fateful day was my new case, open and waiting, cooling system, my new ASUS motherboard, my new Dual Core AMD processor, and my 4GB of DDR2 memory. Carefully I pieced it together one by one, being more careful than I ever thought I was capable of being. I was too afraid of ruining another computer. After far too much time taken, I was finally done, and ready to prime the cooling and boot the computer. And everything ran perfectly.
That was it, a small interest, turned into a fun hobby, hit full blown obsession right there. Not long after that I started replacing more and more pieces of the HP's remaining components with my own hardware choices. I replaced the small power supply with a more powerful BFG model gaming power unit. I replaced the old parallel ATA (IDE for those who know) hard drive with a new Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive from Western Digital, because the transfer rate was supposed to be a huge improvement. It didn't take long to add a real advanced graphics card, but as I am always restrained by a budget, I got the EVGA Nvidia 9800 GT, instead of the 9800 GTX or GX2 that were also out. I also spoiled myself and purchased a new 22" LCD widescreen monitor from Samsung.
So here it was, an aptly named Blue Monster computer. Boy did I spend a lot of time on it, tinkering, gaming, browsing, you know, computer things. Something I was very proud of, and something I carried with me in my turbulent life that happened not long after I finished her. It came with me when I was couch hopping to and fro, when I crashed with my Mom to get back on my feet, it traveled with me to Pendleton to visit an online friend, and survived two more moves after that. I made minor tweaks here and there, but as my life became more complicated, and my priorities changed, I began to neglect her.
She got dusty, and I never did anything about it, her coolant got low and I just threw water in it, and any time I would dig in it to adjust or change anything, I would leave the cables strewn about. Blue Monster quickly became depressed. I soon would stop using it very much at all, using my playstation or netbook for my small computer needs. Blue Monster lasted me a little over two years before I had near given up on her.
My roommates shuffled around a bit during this time, and eventually I ended up as the leader of the house. I brought in people I could trust, people that were my friends, to take over empty roommate spots. With that, two friends who shared an interest in computers (and one was my original system builder roommate). Being exposed again to the wonders of what computers are capable of, my interest slowly regained its former momentum. During the initial stages of roommate-ship with my friends, I cleaned out Blue Monster, reorganized the cabling, and got her all presentable again, but it just wasn't enough. So, my dreamer mind started browsing new components, things I might be able to afford to make her better. It was that, that small little window, that my obsession needed, and this started the new journey, one that would lead me to what I have today.
I was visited by my friend Todd, one of my very best friends and the very same friend I drove to Pendleton multiple times with Blue Monster. We were all geeking out and having a good time, and the topic of new parts came up, naturally. Todd had a new item, a computer case, he found and wanted to share with us. This case was the Antec Dark Fleet DF-85 full tower case. I was immediately in a deep love with this case,
and all of its very interesting features. I had never seen a case like this before, and even the red color theme it had didn't deter me from immediately wanting it. 9 Internal hot swap capable drive bays, two shielded external drive bays, a external 2.5" hot swap drive slot on top, and a total of 7 fans built in. It became my dream case, the case I knew would open up opportunities of hardware I once could never even think about. The case also opened up the chance to use the larger CPX style power supplies, and mount them on the bottom of the case (This will come into play later). It wasn't long before I found a way to order the case, and not much more than a week later I added an upgraded liquid cooling system to the build as well. The new cooling would end up suiting the new case a lot better and also be a lot more efficient than my previous cooling unit, that also leaked, so it needed replaced.
The transition went smoothly and the case was just as fantastic as I thought it would be. The new cooling unit looked cleaner, and moved the bulk of the unit to a space much more suited to it, instead of it floating on the bottom of the case, taking up precious air flow room. Blue Monster was a lot cooler looking, wasn't remotely all blue anymore, and I was in no way ready to settle with this. After wrapping it all up, I began scouring the Internet again, looking at more replacements. Just a few days later I had ordered the new CPX style power supply. A huge, more powerful, and much more versatile power unit than I ever could have imagined having. A big difference in both power output and size, and gave me, at least in part, a modular power supply like I had wanted since I learned they existed. Staring at the comparison between old and new, I was just shocked at the size. I had dealt with standard sized power units so long I never even considered that a larger size would make sense.
The Interceptor:
- Antec Dark Fleet DF-85 Chassis
- ASUS Sabertooth 990FX System Board
- AMD FX-4100 Zambezi 3.6Ghz Processor
- Thermaltake Bigwater 760 Plus drive bay mounted Liquid Cooling System
- G.Skill Sniper Series DDR3 1600Mhz dual channel Extended Memory (16GB)
- EVGA Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti Superclocked Primary Graphics
- EVGA Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX+ Seconardy PhysX Processor
- OCZ Vertex 3 120GB Solid State Drive
- Intel 520 180GB Solid State Drive
- Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB Storage drive
- Seagate Barracuda 2TB Storage Drive
- Western Digital Caviar Blue 320GB Ubuntu Drive
- ASUS Blu-Ray Optical Drive
- Antec CP-850 CPX factor Power Supply
- ASUS LED 24" LCD Primary Display
- Samsung 22" LCD Secondary Dispaly


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Dear Friends--
First of all, what a week that was! Thanks again for all your gifts of time and energy and love to this community during Bargain Bin Week. Just amazing (and, on top of everything else, great fun).
This Sunday is Pentecost, the day when, according to the book of Acts,
"there was a sound like a strong wind, gale force -- no one could tell where it came from. It filled the whole building. Then, like a wildfire, the Holy Spirit spread through the ranks of the disciples, and they started speaking in different languages as the Spirit prompted them. "
We'll pray that we might live as people whose eyes are open to the spirit of Christ in the world around us:
"Sustain us, O Lord, in the gifts of your Spirit: an inquiring and discerning heart, the courage to will and to persevere, a spirit to know and to love you, and the gift of joy and wonder in all your works."
And we'll hear St. Paul reflect on his experience of Christian community: "To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good." (To some is given the gift of sorting, to some the gift of pricing, to some the gift of cleaning up!)
It's sometimes called the birthday of the Church, and it's one of the big celebrations of the church year. It's also the Sunday when we dress the altar and lectern in red. Many people dress themselves in red this day, too, as a reminder of all that Pentecostal fire.
Wear red if you have some and feel inspired to, but whatever color you're in please come celebrate with us!


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Durham Recruiting is conducting a search on behalf of our client located in Whitby for an Industrial Millwright Apprentice. This is an incredible opportunity for someone who wants to be part of long-standing team of mechanics within a unionized environment for a company with 125 years + in their respective industry.
The maintenance team is adding to their bench strength and is seeking to bring on board a millwright apprentice that has completed their schooling and just looking to complete their hours. Over the next couple years, you will be part of the transition of retiring mechanics to bringing on board a mix of experienced and apprentice millwrights. This is a great opportunity to take your career to the next level moving into role with one of Durham Regions top employers.
For Immediate Hire!
- Rolling Shifts between Day shift 7am to 3pm, Afternoons 3pm to 11pm and Nights 11pm to 7am – Minutes to the 401
- Pay Rate: $21/hr – loads of overtime available
- Plenty of overtime available – This significantly augments your income
- Full very comprehensive benefits plan
- The Team: 1 Manager, 4 Mechanics (most have been there for decades), 1 licensed Electrician
- Each member has their own work station
- A lot of flexibility, not always working on the same things
- No patch work, they do things right
- Opportunity to work on various projects over and above usual day-to-day
- Fabrication, parts and tool making
- Very tight knit group who is welcoming
- BBQ's and Holiday parties
- Very safe and clean environment
- All employees adhere to company procedures – Management leads by example
- Significant training in Health & Safety
General Responsibilities:
You will be responsible for all typical duties that a Millwright will handle – you will work alongside their likened mechanics learning your trade in an industrial setting
Note: If you are selected for an interview a full job description will be provided but there shouldn't be any surprises
- Excellent attitude - positive and a true passion for the trade
- Must be completed your schooling - reason being the rolling shifts are tough to manage with schooling still in the equation
- Proven capability to troubleshoot and repair paper printing and packaging machinery is an asset
- Must demonstrate capability to effectively use shop equipment for fabrications (ie. welder, lathe, mill, drill press is preferred)
- Forklift, EWP, Working at Heights training is an asset
We would like to thank all those that apply but only those who are chosen for an interview will be contacted for a phone interview. Thank you in advance for your time.
Diane Kellow
Durham Recruiting


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Joe Williamson: guitar
Peter Johnstone: piano
David Bowden: bass
Stephen Henderson: drums
special guest: Andy Middleton: tenor, soprano saxophone
This international partnership brings together two generations of musicians from very different backgrounds – award-winning Scottish quartet Square One and leading Vienna-based saxophonist Andy Middleton (USA).
The music that Square One and Andy perform constitutes a meeting of American and European jazz styles – from Andy's roots in the New York scene to music informed by modern folk, world music and progressive rock, featuring virtuosic and sophisticated saxophone playing, soaring guitar solos and intricate interplay. In March 2018, Andy and Square One performed a tour of Scotland and recorded an album, entitled 'Double Bind'.
Andy Middleton is a veteran of the New York scene, who's 30-year career has seen collaborations with world leaders in jazz, including Ralph Towner, Kenny Wheeler and Dave Holland.
Square One is a collective of Scotland's finest emerging jazz talent, known for their brand of heavy-hitting melodic jazz and acclaimed 2016 debut album 'In Motion'. The band features three winners of the Young Scottish Jazz Musician of the Year.


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Author: Mychael Black
Cover Art: Marteeka Karland
Genres: BDSM, Guilty Pleasures (Contemporary), Razor's Edge Press
Themes: Gay, Voyeurism and Exhibitionism
Book Length: Box Set
Page Count: 48
Eight men, four public venues, tons of hot action.
Whether it's a dark movie theater or a snow-covered park, these men have a thing for sex in public places. In "Opposites Attract" a long-haired rocker finds himself the object of a jock's affection in the middle of a movie theater. "Starting Over" for one man leads to hot chocolate and the best blowjob of his life in a snowy park. A Dom puts his beloved sub through sweet pain in "Birthday for a Slave." And finally, two sword-fighting instructors give in to their mutual attraction during a RenFaire in "Faire Game."
The four stories in this collection were previously published under the name Kay Derwydd. They have been re-edited for release in this collection.
"I recommend this book to anyone that likes a good collection of smoking hot short stories and of course public displays of affection."
"A highly sexualized atmosphere would make any reader hot and bothered... Mychael Black makes all the characters feel real. Wow."
Public Displays of Affection (Box Set)
Mychael Black
All rights reserved.
Copyright ©2013 Mychael Black
I tugged against the ropes, testing the strength of the knots. When I realized there was no give in them, I groaned quietly. The room was dark, but I knew the layout well. Or at least I usually did. The blindfold made me terribly disoriented. I wanted to lick my lips -- they were dry as sandpaper -- but all I could do was swallow. The bit was a punishment for whimpering. I had tried not to do it, but it had been so hard.
I shifted as much as the soft ropes would allow, gasping when the nylon grew taut and tugged at the base of my cock. As the rope slid along the crease of my ass, it grazed over my hole -- my achingly empty hole -- and I sucked in a breath as I bit down hard on the leather bit. Then the blindfold was removed. I blinked several times in an effort to reorient myself.
In front of me, a cigarette was lit, illuminating a stern face. The man with the cigarette smiled.
"You're doing well."
I shuddered; I couldn't help it. His voice slid over my senses like a ribbon of silk as dark as his ebony hair. Every drag from the cigarette surrounded his face with a soft red glow. High cheekbones, full lips, deep blue eyes. He was perfection; da Vinci's Virtruvian Man. And despite the appearance of the situation, I knew he was mine.
"Thank you, Master," I answered obediently around the bit.
He smiled again and my cock twitched in response.
He reached over and put out his cigarette, then switched the lamp on. The area between us flooded with golden yellow light. I watched breathlessly as he uncurled from his chair. In reality, he was only 5'9", shorter than me, but in moments like this, he towered over me like a god.
Two hours. I had been in this position for two hours as he did nothing but watch me. I only knew it had been two hours because we started at nine and it was already eleven, or fifteen minutes after, to be exact. He circled me slowly, his fingertip tracing the lines of the ropes, his handiwork. The collar around my neck protected my skin there, but the rest of my body was bare, tender flesh exposed to the ropes. To him. He stopped behind me, and I shivered as his fingers slid down my spine, following the two lines of rope as they disappeared beneath me, between my buttocks.
He slipped his fingers beneath the ropes and I braced myself for the pull. It didn't come. Instead, I felt him slide his fingers up and down the ropes, bowing them out just enough for my breath to catch as they tugged at my cock. My hands, bound together at my chest, tightened into fists, but I knew not to pull. Two ropes connected them to my neck, and to my cock, a never-ending circuit of soft nylon to torture me while he watched. Every move sent shocks through my body.
He walked around to stand before me and slipped a finger under my chin, lifting my head to meet his consuming gaze.
He crouched before me -- he never knelt -- and reached around to unbuckle the strap for the bit. He pulled it out slowly, but I knew not to lick my lips. It was his body, and he would ease the pain however he saw fit. I could only wait... and hope. Those lips came close to mine but didn't touch me. His tongue snaked out to lick my parched lips, and I could do nothing but take it, without returning the kiss.
God, I wanted to touch him. To taste him.
Then his lips touched mine, giving me the permission I so desperately sought. I swiped my tongue across his lips, stifling the moan when I tasted the sharp sweetness of clove. His tongue slipped out to meet mine, and all the while, our eyes remained open, our gazes locked. When he pulled away, I wanted to scream, beg, cry, anything -- just to taste again, to slide my tongue between those sweet lips.
Please, Kynan... Let me out. Let me touch.
He stood, his crotch level with my mouth. Beneath that layer of slick vinyl, a beautiful prize awaited me... if I pleased him first. Slender fingers traced the outline of a hard cock, and my hungry gaze followed their every move. A soft chuckle from above taunted me, then he stepped away.
When I felt a hand on my arm, I knew it was time to stand. As I did, the ropes pulled and I cried out, caught on a razor sharp edge between pleasure and pain. Kynan just smiled and turned me around. When I saw what awaited me, my knees grew weak.
As we walked, he untied the ropes, and by the time we reached the table, I was free. I breathed a quiet sigh of relief, then nervousness set in as Kynan patted the leather-padded tabletop. I turned and jumped up onto the end and he pushed me gently to my back as he placed my feet into the stirrups. He moved around the table, securing me with thick Velcro straps -- one on my chest, one on my stomach, two on each arm, and two on each leg. Then he walked back to stand at the end.
"Open your legs for me."
Not, spread your legs, but open your legs. He stroked my legs, starting at my knees and worked downward, parting my thighs slowly as he went. The stirrups parted and locked into place, leaving me open and exposed to whatever he wished. I watched as he squeezed a generous amount of gel on two fingers, and then he leaned forward, pressing a soft kiss to the head of my cock.
His fingers traced circles over my balls as his gaze slid up to hold mine. "Melys." Sweet. He slid his fingers down to circle over my hole slowly. "Prydferth." Beautiful. Then those fingers slid inside, taking my breath away. "Fy." Mine.


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Stuck in the same old place at work, in your personal life or still waiting for your dreams to become a reality? This is the perfect workshop for those of you ready to make a change – to help you bust through assumptions, unleash your creative ideas and take courageous action to finally make the move to where you really want to be.
Bring your SOS and you will be transformed to SWOW! (So Well On the Way).
What is SOS (Same Old Stuff)? It's the place you find yourself in over and over again. At one time or another, most people end up stuck doing the same thing in some aspect of their lives. For example, here we are again …
• Unhappy at work, wondering what else we could be doing
• Being passed over for a promotion to a coveted position
• In a meeting listening to co-workers or your executive team rehash the same old problems with no resolution
• Watching someone else doing what we have always dreamed about, but not making any progress toward making it happen for ourselves
Where would you like to be instead? WOW — Well On the Way to being where you really wish you were. WOW is…
• No longer stuck in a "no progress" repetitive cycle.
• Achieving your goals instead of wondering how you ended up in the same old place.
• Making creativity a part of your daily life so that you are able to more effectively solve problems, analyze and take risks and remove barriers to success.
• Staying motivated and making real progress toward your dreams and goals.
Whatever your SOS is, and wherever you want to go, your workshop leader, Margaret Johnson will get you unstuck! In this workshop she will provide tips and techniques to get you focused, unleash your creative genius, bust your assumptions on what is possible and plan steps for intelligent risk taking to get you moving in the right direction. Participants will walk away with new ideas and inspiration to finally achieve WOW!
Saturday September 16, 2017
Tulane University – Houston Campus
1700 West Loop S Ste 900, Houston, TX 77027
$95 – includes lunch
Early bird pricing - $75 through September 1
Sign up early – seating is limited