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Keep Burke County Clean and Beautiful
The Adopt-a-Road litter prevention initiative, sponsored by Burke County Sheriff's Office and Road Department, enables residents to actively participate in the removal of trash and illegal signage alongside county rights-of-way.
The right-of-way is defined as the space between utility poles and the curb of the road. Illegal signs are defined as any sign mounted on any utility pole or any temporary sign within 10 feet of the curb or edge of pavement in the right-of-way.
Adopt a Road: It's Easy to Get Started
- Get a group together and plan to complete a minimum of tree cleanups per year.
- Have each member of your group sign one of the Volunteer Waivers (either for Adults or for Youth) on the form you can download here.
- Work with BCSO to determine an appropriate road section: at least one-mile long where there is a litter problem with which you can help.
- Download and complete the Adopt-a-Road Agreement and submit it to BCSO.
- Contact BCSO at least five business days before your first cleanup to arrange a loan of supplies (include about how many people will need supplies). Supplies provided by BCSO include safety vests, trash bags and "Men at Work" signs.
- Return checked-out supplies within two business days after your cleanup.
- Submit your Post-Cleanup Report within 30 days to BCSO!
- Two Road Signs with your name will be installed after BCSO receives your second Post-Cleanup Report.


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The chefs transformed less-desirable food items into a nine-course gourmet dinner with wine pairings, consisting mostly of plant-based dishes. The chefs, Swedish Paul Svensson from Fotografiska Museet; Norwegian-Icelandic Atli Màr yngvarson, head chef at Katla restaurant and restaurant Pjoltergeist in Oslo; and Danish chef Kamilla Seidler, worked with Austin farms, bakeries, and produce companies to source ingredients to present this incredible dinner, following the well-known philosophy of modern Scandinavian cuisine that emphasizes reducing waste, foraging and sustainability.
Seidler, who was named Latin America's best female chef for her work at Gustu in La Paz, Bolivia, also spoke at a panel during the conference. A young spitfire whose accomplishments include many global and women empowering initiatives, she blends her Danish roots with her adopted home country's flavors and products of vastly different cultures and cuisines. "New Nordic cuisine is not so new," she explained. "It's about seasonality, old methods of preserving food, going back to nature and foraging. It's based on tradition, but it's not a museum. It is alive and evolving."
In Nordic cultures the meal is important, and taking time to enjoy and share it is at its core. Think of the Danish concept of hygge.
The inspiration for my dishes at Lokal was a mix between fresh produce in season and telling a story of ingredients we all love and consider our own, whether you are from Scandinavia or Austin," says the chef. "Flavors we all have memories with – even though we are so far apart, we still share food memories.We had the good fortune to work with Kevin from Emmer and Rye and Joe from Fairground who made sure the sourcing was done locally, from good people."
The chefs emphasized the point by using common ingredients, transforming day-old bread into a lovely pasta dish and serving "ugly" potatoes to promote how we all can help in limiting food waste. Where possible, the chefs used products that were close to their expiration date.
Sweden's Paul Svensson, a pioneer in sustainable haute cuisine, created beautiful dishes with quirky names like "beautiful greens, beastly potatoes" which featured nearly-bolted lettuce usually discarded for its bitter taste, but a cold-smoked sour cream dressing balanced it out perfectly.
As we came to SXSW from Stockholm, we brought our local flavors, culinary techniques and culture and blended it with the Austin community and the businesses we worked with," he said. "To this end, we partnered with local companies reducing their food waste by up-cycling products that were no longer viable for them into new dishes combining the flavors of Austin and Sweden".
HausBar Farm, which Svensson described as "an incredible urban farm," supplied all fresh greens, herbs, edible flowers and some vegetables. Dorsey Barger, co-owner of the East Austin farm, said the chefs were thrilled to walk among the rows, seeing products like greens from cauliflower, broccoli and Brussels sprouts as well as plants that most people would consider weeds, like wood sorrel, which they could use in the dishes. Other vegetables came from a mixture of suppliers. Easy Tigerbakery supplied leftover sourdough bread to create an up-cycled pasta dough; Hifi Myco supplied mushrooms – with off-cuts used as "fake truffles" – and chestnut mushrooms found a home on a forest-inspired dessert. Milk and eggs also came from small farms in the area.
To us, locality is more than just physical distance and the regularly expressed local food concept around produce and farms," says Svensson. "It can also relate to local community, local business, local connections and we wanted to illustrate that in every component of our dishes. With sustainability being the key theme of the dinners, we wanted to present that working locally in all its guises is the ultimate sustainable experience. The aim was to inspire every guest to view food, sustainability and what it means to be local in an entirely new way both on the plate, and in everyday life."
The concept of Lokal is in line with the ambition of SAS to pioneer the travel industry by enhancing the pre-order service, thus reducing food waste. Pre-order ensures the right amount and type of meals are loaded on board to match customer demands on each flight. Travelers being able to pre-order their favorite menus, including the New Nordic by SAS concept based on locally and seasonally sourced ingredients, is a part of SAS' sustainability program.
Seider says is no longer just enough to use the word "sustainability" – actions will speak louder. "Sustainability has many faces," says the chef. "Fair trade, fair pay, accountability and transparency. You must look for the beauty of nature in the dish rather than perfection. Food is only wasted once it's in the trash."

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Over 1,200 Miami foreclosures will be purchased, rehabilitated and rented out or sold to lower-income families by Miami-Dade-based nonprofits that comprise the consortium Neighborhood Housing Services of South Florida Inc., which received a total of $89.375 million from the U.S. Department Housing and Urban Development under the second allocation round of its second Neighborhood Stabilization Program.
Miami-Dade received the biggest share of the $348.31 million given to the state. The Florida division of Habitat for Humanity International got the second biggest share — $74.7 million. West Florida and Palm Beach County received $50 million each while Tampa, Lake Worth and Sarasota received $38 million, $23.24 million and $23 million, respectively.
Consortium director Arden Shank said the funds will be spent to fix 540 repossessed homes for eligible renters and 290 units for buyers. Around 425 rental units will also be built on vacant lots or on the sites of derelict buildings that need to be demolished. All of the housing units will be acquired or built in 73 neighborhoods with the highest percentages of abandoned and foreclosed properties.
The fixed Miami foreclosures will be sold at around $175,000 each to families earning not more than 120 percent of the county's median income, which is around $81,000 for a four-member family. A certain number of units will also be sold to families earning the lowest incomes in the area. Under NSP rules, at least 25 percent of the NSP-funded units should be sold to households earning less than half of the area's median earnings or about $33,000 for a four-member family.
According to Shank, the program will not only help families own homes, it will also rejuvenate neighborhoods from the bleak effects of abandoned residential foreclosures.
Based on a report released by the U.S. Treasury Department, a big portion of foreclosure filings still move on to foreclosure sales because the Home Affordable Modification Program has not been able to prevent home loss for many homeowners.
In the counties of Palm Beach, Miami-Dade and Broward, only 2,987 homeowners had their modified loans put into permanent modification status since the HAMP was launched. Statewide, only 8,405 mortgages were put into permanent modifications. Currently, about 96,703 mortgages in Florida are on trial loan modifications.
According to analysts, Miami foreclosures will continue to increase in 2010 because of the high unemployment rate and the continued drop in property values. They said that about 46 percent of mortgage borrowers in Miami-Dade, Palm Beach and Broward are underwater.


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Your Guide to Fright Fest 2016
Fright Fest officially begins tomorrow, September 24th. SFOT Source provides you with one of the most comprehensive guides to help you get through your visit to Fright Fest. Our guide includes information on all Scare Zones, Haunted Houses, and Live Shows that are featured in the park. On top of this, we have more in-depth information, such as the time of day in which Scare Zones are active, in-depth tips and recommendations to make your visit as enjoyable as possible, and media from previous years of the event.
Please remember that our site is also mobile-friendly! If you need to pull up any Fright Fest information quickly we have it available in a clean, mobile form for ease of use. Also make sure to check out the rest of our mobile-friendly site. We can help get you through the rest of the day with the most in-depth information on rides and attractions, dining options, and things to do around the park divided up into each of the park's sections.
What are you waiting for? Click here to start planning your Fright Fest visit.


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PLANO, Texas (July 10, 2018) ― LifeCare Health Partners today announced the launch of its first patient referral mobile application, the LifeCare Health Partners Referral App. The app provides access to helpful information about admissions criteria and allows users to easily make referrals to any of the 19 LifeCare long-term acute care hospitals and four home health agencies across nine states.
In addition to more easily referring patients to LifeCare hospitals, app users can also view the status of submitted referrals, browse locations, view news releases or explore career opportunities with LifeCare. Through the app, LifeCare is able to streamline its personalized services quickly and efficiently, creating a stronger partnership between LifeCare, its referral sources and patients.
"As the health care industry continues to transform and adopt new technologies, we recognize the need to streamline the referral process so physicians, social workers and case workers can more easily identify and refer patients to the proper care providers," said Jen Malko, vice president of business development at LifeCare Health Partners. "LifeCare Health Partners Referral App allows quick access for submissions and monitoring of referrals, helping partners save time while navigating the care continuum."
The goal of the app is to make it easier to refer patients to LifeCare Health Partners and anyone may download and use it, including physicians, patients, family members and case or social workers. The app is supported by iOS and Android and is encrypted and fully HIPAA compliant, ensuring patient information is secure and accessible by authorized parties only.
Visit the Apple store or Google Play to download the app and learn more. For more information about LifeCare Health Partners, visit www.lifecarehealthpartners.com.
Jen Moeller, Corporate Communications
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About LifeCare Health Partners
LifeCare Health Partners, headquartered in Plano, TX, is a leading health care services provider dedicated to improving the quality of life for patients and maximizing their potential for healing and recovery. The company encompasses the LifeCare Family of Hospitals as well as a variety of post-acute services including transitional care, inpatient and outpatient behavioral health treatment and home-based care. Learn more at www.lifecarehealthpartners.com.« More News


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Money Drawing Sachet Powder
Money Drawing Sachet Powder
Money Drawing sachet powder attracts income, wealth, and riches for business owners, investors, gamblers, and individuals -- anyone who could use more money! 1 oz.
Business owners, investors, gamblers, and employees -- everyone could use more money! For generations, a special herb and mineral blend called Money Drawing has been reputed to attract income, wealth, and riches. While we can't guarantee results, we do promise that our Money Drawing formula is truly authentic in every way.
Money Drawing is an old hoodoo formula for oil that is designed to pull in income. It can be used in money spells for business and luck. The symbolism on the labels is clear -- a group of full money bags surrounded by piles of dollar bills and coins. The ingredients in Money Drawing include Cinnamon, Pyrite, and Bayberry, plus other herbs and essences.
Use Money Drawing Oil when you need a specific amount of money for a certain intention, Use together with Prosperity Oil if you want that money to continue coming in.
Ways to use this sachet powder:
Wear the perfumed sachet as a personal scent to attract money, gifts, opportunities for increased wealth or to bring in clients or customers.
Start with a spell and then continue to sprinkle a light dusting of the sachet powder on yourself, your money, or a physical location where you would like to increase trade.
Dress a green pyramid candle with Prosperity oil, applying it in a upward motion and then sprinkle on Money Drawing sachet powder to make your spell double strength.
For more ideas on how to work with spiritual sachet powders, please read my Sachet How To Guide under Instruction and watch my Sachet how to video below:


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Andrew Koenig, the son of Star Trek actor Walter Koenig, is missing. The last time Andrew Koenig was seen was on Valentine's Day, February 14, 2010, in Vancouver, British Columbia. Andrew Koenig never boarded his flight back to the US, and he hasn't heard from since then.
He was last seen at a bakery in the Stanley Park area of Vancouver.
Andrew Koenig, 41, was working as a camera operator on the show "Never Not Funny" as well as doing improv in Los Angeles. Best known as "Boner" from "Growing Pains", Andrew also had a role in "Deep Space Nine", and is a talented actor director, editor and photographer as well as a passionate activist. In 2008, he was arrested at the Rose Bowl while protesting China's part in the genocide in the country of Burma.
This is a serious matter that has Koenig's friends and family gravely concerned. If you have seen him, emailed him or had any contact after the 14th or spent time with him during his stay in Vancouver please call Detective Raymond Payette of the Vancouver PD at 604-717-2534.


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An HTML and Javascript Text Adventure Game
Way back in the old days, before 3D, there were lots of text adventure games. They were what we had and they were fun. In this tutorial, you will learn to make your own text adventure game with HTML, CSS and Javascript on Codepen.io:
- You will the DRY principle: Do Not Repeat Yourself.
- You will learn how functions help you not to repeat yourself.
- You will learn how objects can store and organize lots of different data, like the data in game levels.
First some HTML
You can easily select, copy, and paste the above html code into the html window on a new project on codepen.
Now the CSS
The code above adds a bit of style to our game. It makes the pictures a consistent size, the text readable, and everything line-up right. Copy and paste it into the CSS window on your codepen project.
Finally the Javascript
Javascript is what makes the web interactive. We use it to put away some images and add others. It updates the text when you make a decision with a button. You might remember that variable are just containers to store information. In javscript, when you are setting a variable to remember some information for you, you use the keyword 'var'. To get started, copy and paste these variables into the 'JS' window of your project:
You might have noticed that several of those match the 'ids' of our html elements: images, text, input, and buttonBox. We are giving our script a way to remember those elements so that we can do stuff to them with functions later. You will see them again.
A function is a neat little package of instructions that we know we are going to need. Functions help keep our code organized and especially help us not to have to type the same instructions over and over again. Remeber what we said about not repeating ourselves? The first function helps us to get some information from our game's player. We are asking them to name the in-game dog. Read the code, think about how it might work, and copy and paste it into your JavaScript.
- EDIT: Previously, this next code block was a seven-lined function called submitDogName. It worked in Google's Chrome browser, but not in Firefox. There is a difference in how the browsers recognize which keys are being pressed on the keyboard. In this newer, better function, we are using the "||" operator which means 'or', so we are saying, 'If someone presses a key and it looks like this, or like this, do what we want. Web programmers end up doing lots of work-arounds like this to keep different browsers happy. If you are coming back after the fact, you can delete those seven lines and replace them with this bit of code:
If you really want to clean up your code, you could also go back to your HTML and delete the part of the input element which says 'onkeypress="submitDogName(this)"', but it should work either way.
Next up are three functions which will save us lots of time by changing text, pictures, and buttons on the screen, don't forget to add it to your code:
Can you see how it is going to save us time as we advance through scenes in the game? The last bit is an object. We are using it to organize all the level or 'scenario' data. When a function needs to show the image for scenario number 4, it looks it up in the object. Makes since, right? Read it over a few times and see if you can figure it out.
Objects like this one are full of keys and values. The program then can look up the key and spit out the value. Do you see how that object (which I named scenario) is organized by number names? The number names are keys and those key's values are objects in their own right, with keys of 'image', 'text', and 'button'. So it's actually an object objects. 'One' contains the text, image location, and buttons for scene one, and so on (except there were no buttons for level one). Whew! lots to think about.
If I wanted to tell the game which text to display on level three, all I would have to do is type 'scenario.three.text', you can actually try this if you know how to open the console of your web browser.
It has probably already occured to you that you could change my 'scenario' and add your own new story - I hope you do! The trickiest part is the buttons. The buttons are lists of lists. Programmers call lists arrays, but they are just a group of items really: numbers, text, variables, whatever. Lists in javscript look like this: ['coconut', 'barbeque', 7]. Square brackets go on the outside and each item is separated by a comma. Lists can have lists inside them. Each of our 'buttons:' keys has a list of lists for values.I have set it up like this:
[["words on button one", "scene this button will take you to"],["button two", "scene this button will take you to"]]
You can add as many buttons as you like, but you need to plan out what scene each button will take you to in advance - I made a chart on paper, numbered all of my scenes, listed the choices on thoses scenes and drew lines to the scene the choies would take me. If you do that, you will know what to put for the second part of each button, for example you might come up with a scene five which looks like:
var scenario =
one: ...
five: {
image: "location of an image of ice cream",
text: "A funny joke about melting ice cream",
buttons: [["lick the ice cream", "advanceTo(scenario.six)"], ["bite the ice cream", "advanceTo(scenario.seven)"],["put it in your pocket", "advanceTo(scenario.nineteen)"]]
six: ...
Have fun! Make changes!
The full code is available here on Codepen.


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Basement Waterproofing Limestone Garden, DE
Vulcan Basement Waterproofing In Limestone Garden, DE
Training course work includes hands-on direction on using one of the most suitable problem-solving techniques. Our individuals also find out the principles and practice of preventive waterproofing– how to spot, analyze and remedy the most elusive problems prior to they emerge right into a leaky cellar and also a significant headache.
Most importantly, the Vulcan Master Waterproofer is an approved specialist in understanding WHY the condition exists, WHAT produces it and HOW it can be eliminated most effectively and at most affordable expense. Trainees need to pass a battery of extensive examinations before their very first job assignments. They have to show an inclusive understanding of specialist Vulcan application technique.
Additionally, our technicians receive continuous guidance in maintaining the highest degree of efficiency, as well as in Vulcan's newest techniques and products.
Whether your cellar is in deep crisis or appears free and clear, invite in a Vulcan professional. An expert examination before investing in cellar renovation readies preventive medicine. And, it offers you the assurance that you will certainly have a completely dry cellar long after the renovation is completed and also the moment and cash invested.
We react without delay and also at your convenience; Vulcan is on call year-round to address your waterproofing requires. The Vulcan expert will certainly inspect every inch of your cellar. You will certainly likewise find out the implications of small danger indicators that typically escape the inexperienced eye.


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Churches across DeKalb host Halloween events this weekend
Churches across DeKalb host Halloween events this weekend
By C. Campbell, Staff Writer
DEKALB COUNTY, Ala. — Halloween was a way in the past to mark the end of the harvest season and the beginning of the move towards winter, but it has since also become a religious holiday to remember those who have passed on during the previous year, in addition to being a fun event for children.
Dressing up in costumes and going around trick or treating is quite possibly the most exciting activity for kids to take part in between the end of the summer and Christmas morning. As a way to create a safer way to celebrate the holiday, churches across the country hold their own festivals, and those in DeKalb County are no exception.
On Halloween night, Minvale Baptist Church in Fort Payne will be hosting a Trunk or Treat in the parking lot of the Minvale Life Center from 5 until 8. According to the church secretary, the idea was to provide the children in the community with a safer alternative to the traditional trick or treating taking place.
While many churches like Minvale will be having events like this, there are some churches planning on relatively large festivals that weekend. In downtown Fort Payne, First Baptist and First United Methodist have teamed up to hold a Fall Festival block party on the evening of Sunday, October 30th from 5:30 to 7:30.
Marshall Henderson, the student pastor at First Baptist, explained that this event was a wonderful way to invite families into the church community. He also described many of the activities taking place at the block party. "We'll have bands playing music, a costume contest for the kids, carnival games, trunk or treating, inflatable games, a cake walk, free food, and a hayride."
According to Henderson, last year's event drew in over 500 people, and he expressed the belief that this year's Fall Festival would be just as big.
For those living on Lookout Mountain, New Oregon Methodist Church will be having their own Fall Festival on October 30th from 5 to 7:30 PM, with a nice variety of events to take part in. Ian Conerly, the pastor at New Oregon, said, "The goal is to be open to the public and let them be a part of the church."
Similar to the block party First Baptist and First Methodist, Conerly detailed how New Oregon's Fall Festival would have a cake walk, a hay ride, trunk or treating, and a haunted house. "We're not trying to be an alternative to Halloween. Have fun on Halloween night, but come and join us too the night before," he said.
The evening of Sunday, October 30th will not be lacking in church-sponsored events to take part in throughout DeKalb County, including First Baptist, First Methodist, and New Oregon Methodist. The same holds true for Halloween itself, with Minvale and others providing their alternatives to the traditional.
Churches all over the county hosting events like these would gladly welcome you to join them in their various Fall Festivals and Trunk or Treats, as a way to celebrate the holiday and be a part of their church family.


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Rabbi Johanna Hershenson
Rabbi Johanna Hershenson was introduced to our congregation on July 13, 2013. Since that first Torah study and service, she has proven to be a strong, intelligent, warm and charismatic clergy leader. With humor and wisdom, Rabbi clarifies and amplifies the teachings of the Torah, making its lessons and parables relevant and accessible. We nod our heads in understanding. Grasping the insights of the sacred texts she distills brilliantly through her commentary and storytelling.
As a wandering Jew searching for the global experience before accepting the singular beauty of Bend, our Rabbi served at Bejt Simcha in Prague, Czech Republic; Temple Sinai in Wellington, New Zealand; Temple Beth El of South Orange County, California; and Congregation Beth Sholom in Anchorage, Alaska.
Rabbi Hershenson earned her BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with distinctions in History, Hebrew and Semitic Languages, and History of Culture. Ordained in 1995 by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, she received an MA in Hebrew Letters. Rabbi Hershenson has co-produced a documentary film, A Torah Tale, which traces parallel journeys of a Torah scroll that survived the Holocaust and the life of the last, living Jew of a Czech town.
Rabbi Hershenson lives in Bend with her husband Mark and daughters Abi and Zoe. To reach the Rabbi, leave a message on her cell phone at (541) 213-9880, or email email@example.com


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The Matt Nix Band is an exciting group out of the DFW area, whose songs will get you on your feet and at the same time, touch your soul. In March of 2012 the Matt Nix Band had its first official show at Billy's Bar and Grill in Anna, Texas. From there it has been one crazy and exciting ride. From opening for Zane Williams to coming in second place in the 2015 95.3 KHYI's Shiner Rising Star competition, the band has enjoyed playing venues throughout Texas and Oklahoma.
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The Witch and the Hundred Knight 2
Rating SummaryBased on 35 critic reviews
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Developer: Nippon Ichi Software
Publisher: NIS America
Genre: RPG
Delve through dungeons and landscapes teeming with fiends and monsters, looking for equipment of legendary power. Grow stronger with help from Tochkas and Facets that will give an advantage in combat. Chain attacks together with the unique weapon system that welcomes weapon change mid-combat. The fate of Kevala is in your hands, brave knight.
• Adapt to Your Surroundings -- Switch between the Hundred Knight's six Facets to turn the tide in battle! Gather Tochkas, the indispensable minions, to aid you in your exploration.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse -- Execute Depletura to finish off enemies and replenish your GigaCalories! Trigger your Third Eye and unleash the full power of the Hundred Knight for a brief time. Leave enemies to tremble before your boosted speed, power, and skills!
• Temper Your Strength -- Forge new weapons with items from the field at your base. Pass Witch Petitions; granting you access to new Tochkas and other benefits!
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IGN Spain
The saga of the witch and the gentleman promises certain things that he has not just fulfilled. An Action RPG with little spark and personality that, unfortunately, without finishing.
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God is a Geek
The Witch and the Hundred Knight 2 improves on the original in many ways but still suffers from poor design decision.
The Witch and the Hundred Knight 2 is by no means a bad game, but I'm unsure how it justifies its existence.
The Witch and the Hundred Knight 2 is a game for those who love anime, dirty jokes, and hours of raids on enemies. Nice music and unique combat system are there too.
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While many drivers across Missouri try to give their full attention to the road, their cell phones compete for their attention. Some experts believe this growing problem could be even more of an issue than the numbers show.
As the Insurance Journal reports, only 448 deaths were attributed to cell phone usage behind the wheel in the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration's data for 2015. These numbers suggest that drunk driving is far more deadly than being distracted by a phone while on the road, but research has shown that both activities result in about the same level of impairment for drivers. Those numbers also do not help to explain why roadway fatalities increased almost 15 percent in the past two years, especially for pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists. But some experts believe this is because distracted driving is even more dangerous than the data leads us to believe.
With some statistics putting phone usage behind the wheel at 88 percent of trips, and more than half of fatal accidents in 2015 happening while the driver was simply driving straight without any weather conditions or cross-traffic in their paths, cell phone distraction a likely suspect. Data from the NHTSA relies on collection from the states, and so far, only 11 have accident reports that include phone distraction as an option to check as a factor in a crash. Another issue is that with so many apps that can steal a driver's attention away from the road, investigators often have no way of getting the information about their use, even with a court order calls and texts are often all that will be reported.


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TWO CONCERTS: 2pm and 7:30pm
Join Opera Saratoga for a birthday party you won't soon forget - a centennial tribute to Leonard Bernstein! Members of Opera Saratoga's Young Artist Program celebrate the legacy of one of America's most beloved composers who brought us masterpieces including West Side Story, Candide and Wonderful Town. Seating is cabaret style tables, general admission and is strictly limited for these two concerts. Tapas and drinks - inspired by Leonard Bernstein's theatrical works and specially concocted by The Mansion Inn's Cordon Bleu trained Executive Chef Rick Bieber - will be available for purchase. Presented in partnership with The Mansion Inn.


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BELLASTELLAS is something I`ve been doing for a very long time. It´s a tumblr blog I (Annabell) created years ago. I love how my layout looks like a ongoing never ending collage. I`ve always been into collages and when I was younger I loved ripping out nice pictures from magazines and glue them to my bedroom door ;).
So here it continues as a digital collage, whenever I have time, feel bored or just to find some nice pictures for street style inspiration or in general for inspiration for holiday pictures etc. Tumblr is just a fun thing to do and I like to follow other accounts with the same interest in images. For example on my tumblr blog you will most likely find pictures of beaches, sand dunes, fashion styles, street style, Lions, Bambis and cat pictures as well as just nice still lifes.
Hope you enjoy scrolling through it as much as I do :)
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WESTFORD -- An upcoming marketing campaign run by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education will have a distinctly Nashoba Valley Technical High School flair to it.
Students in the school's Design & Visual Communications program have been working on the campaign with state education officials for about four months, and in December, six students went to DESE headquarters in Malden to present their input to state Education Commissioner Jeffrey Riley and other officials.
The students are seniors Adam Kubasti and Nathaniel Psilopoulos, both of Chelmsford, and juniors Jillian Grady of Chelmsford, Breanna Gutheil of Littleton, Shenoah Kendall of Townsend and Alyssa Mayer of Pepperell.
"The students prepared a great presentation, and they really knew the material because they'd been working on it since the beginning of the school year," said Nathan Meharg, one of Nashoba Tech's Design & Visual Communications instructors. "Presenting to the commissioner is a really big deal, so they were a little tense at first, but once they got started, they were able to deliver in a very clear and informative manner. Everyone was really impressed by what they'd put together."
The marketing and advertising effort, called "aMAzing Educators," focuses on the ways teachers have a positive impact on the lives of their students and the community, both inside the classroom and out.
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We all know it's important to include pets in a family emergency plan, but how prepared are we to address their special needs? Advance planning will give you and your pets the best chance to stay together and stay safe in an emergency. Watch this short video packed with tips from pet travel & safety expert, Melanie Monteiro of The Safe Dog.
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In part 2 of 4 in this Brownells emergency Survival preparation series, one of Brownells' ESG experts discusses several methods you can use for water storage and purification when preparing your flood survival gear and kit. To order or for more information on any of the products featured in this video visit http://brownells.com today!
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We at Forac Stock are happy to accept customers who wish to pay on a credit basis. Currently our credit basis is pay on 30 days after an agreed date between us and yourselves has been reached.
To purchase goods from our shop on a credit basis we first require you to fill our credit application which can be requested by contacting us.
Once we have received your credit application form we will conduct a credit check and contact you within 24 hours to setup your account and run through any queries you have about Forac Stock.
Please note this not a contract and you do not have any obligation to use Forac Stock as a sole provider of goods for yourselves or others.
We are a one-stop shop and are proud to offer our goods at competitive prices without you being tied into long term contracts like most other care suppliers. We do however offer contracts to customers who would like to have a discount applied to all of our goods.
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Julie and Weston Sarah and I had a terrific time with you and your Bridal Party! The shots we took on East 4th were so fun and different! Clearly we felt comfortable enough with you too ask for something out of the norm. Your entire evening was high energy and it certainly shows in our photos with all of the happy faces we captured! Congratulations and looking forward to what will hopefully be many more family events!


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A 28 year old Wise County Virginia man is headed to prison after being found guilty of felony child abuse and neglect and a felony firearms charges. 28-year-old Justin Mark Ramsey of St. Paul will spend three years in prison after a two year old child was discovered with a dislocated elbow, severe bruising to the face and head, a missing tooth, missing hair and scratches to the neck area. Ramsey and 25-year-old Shelby Rae Ramsey were babysitting the child for several days when the abuse took place. Shelby Rae Ramsey was also found guilty of felony child endangerment but had her sentence of five years suspended and is on five years probation.
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Self portraiture, the beauty of expression and self love!
Seeing beauty in others comes to me naturally. That is why i love photographing regular women. I love capturing that beauty, showing them what they take for granted about themselves in a beautiful way and seeing the happiness in their eyes moves me. But does that mean i have been a foolproof confident lady with no self doubt whatsoever? There have been times, months and years together when i haven't felt like looking into the mirror. Ever since i gained a lot of weight, i wasn't proud of my body. Forget about what people said, but all i called myself was fat, short, plump and dark..Something that i would never describe someone else ever. People are more than their physical attributes and that should not be how they are identified as. I confess I haven't taken care of myself for the longest time. Eating junk for the love of it, emotional eating, not exercising and putting on more anyways because what the hell? who cares? I can't be one of those beautiful women out there anyways. I wouldn't believe when someone even said i was beautiful. I just thought they were being really nice to me and it is a sweet thing to say.
I have always been a nerd and a workaholic. I enjoy what i do so i don't realize my limits as to where to stop. But as this year started there was a voice in my head just asking me to slow down. I wanted to breathe more. I felt like being silent and noticing gaps of nothingness. I felt like I wanted to relish each moment a little more. As i started doing that, i felt the urge of making a few changes in my life. I am a professional, but learning fuels my soul. I feel dead if i am not learning constantly. Jessica Lark, one of my favourite worldclass boudoir photographers opened slots for her cohort at the Arcanum. I applied and she picked me as an apprentice and i entered a totally different world of artistry. Under her mentoring, I stopped doing things i don't love. Totally stopped it..And concentrated my energies back into doing only one thing that i love - simply creating art. Since i slowed down, i started experimenting more, my artistry improved. I started feeling more relaxed, more happy. I felt the urge of eating healthy..something that nobody could have talked a foodie into eating. I started feeling more lighter. I started feeling more energetic and i felt like utilizing it somewhere and i joined the gym. I was someone who dragged her feet while walking and now i feel like running on the treadmill. I feel like sweating it out, i feel like pushing my stamina harder. All this just by slowing down in life and doing the one thing that i love. Things just connected to one another that made my life easier everyday. Have i lost all the weight i put on in all these years? Ofcourse not..not even close. I have a long road to go. I want to be fit, energetic and well so that i can do what i love doing more and more. I feel like i owe it to myself. Yes i am still fat, plump, dark and short but i am happy that i treat myself better now. I am glad that i look into the mirror now, see the care and love that i expect from someone else from my own eyes. I am glad i am comfortable in my own skin, however it be. I feel the love for my own body. I feel that feminine spirit in me again. I generally push the other women around me to see their own beauty but now i exactly know how they feel when they see it..because now i can feel that about myself all over again.
This self portraiture session was to express this celebration of embracing my body and my insecurities. A celebration of falling in love with myself all over again. Here are a few from the session.
Did you read -
- Getting inspired and a beautiful retro vintage shoot.
- How to make sure you hire the best photographer for yourself or for your important day?
Starting my life as an entrepreneur... at Utsav exhibition, 2014
- 12 steps to Germinating the Seed of a Creative Idea! ..with a few beautiful faces i photographed in these few months.


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Linkedin strategy and tips
What do you usually use your LinkedIn profile for? Do you actually keep one active? Majority of us consider LinkedIn as our personal resume storage: one day when you finally get lucky, someone will reach you in order to use your extraordinary professional skills. Well then you were probably not aware that implementing SEO on LinkedIn to your profile will provide you with a top position in search results.
There is nothing special about SEO for LinkedIn full site. Its search algorithm likes good keyword placement – it is vitally important to take care of proper word positioning in your name field, professional headline, summary, experience, interests and skills sections. All of these hotspots should be filled with the necessary keywords your possible employer might be interested in. After you think, you are done with keyword part you may actually check and see its effectiveness. You need to adjust your profile as frequently, as LinkedIn search engine wants you to. The more you work on accurate terms – the higher you rankings are. One more secret of being popular on SERPs is having more connections.
The blog category below describes all the tips connected with LinkedIn search engine optimization, so here is your chance to find or get found.


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CQC abortion clinics report finds little evidence of errors
The Care Quality Commission has today published the findings of the inspections it carried out on abortion clinics earlier this year. The report finds that 14 of the 249 clinics inspected were found to have been 'pre-signing' abortion certification paperwork.
The CQC report states that it "did not find any evidence that any women had poor outcomes of care at any of these locations".
Responding to the report's publication, Abortion Rights said:
"The handling of this affair raises serious questions about Andrew Lansley's judgement when it comes to abortion services. Long before today's report was published he was telling journalists that he was shocked and appalled at possible wrongdoing by abortion providers and warning that criminal charges may be brought.
This was a politically motivated attack on abortion providers, ordered by Andrew Lansley to appease a small number of Conservative backbenchers who wish to see access to abortion severely restricted.
The result of this investigation has been to undermine women's trust in abortion services and to create fear and confusion among doctors which is now causing delays to patient care."
Diane Abbott MP, Labour's shadow public health minister, commented:
"This report shows that Andrew Lansley has yet again put political interests ahead of British patient care. We have a government chasing headlines, chasing shadows, and chasing the narrow political interests of the right-wing of the Tory party.
The CQC has blown Andrew Lansley's weak justifications out of the water by confirming that no women had poor outcomes of care at any of the clinics that he personally ordered raids on.
What is beginning to emerge from this report looks like a dark, sordid and politically charged campaign against care providers, doctors and British women's right to choose."
In a statement for the Voice for Choice coalition, Lisa Hallgarten said:
"The unprecedented investigation seems to be part of a general attempt to discredit abortion services by some elements of the media and some politicians. Over recent weeks these people have been quick, pre-emptively, to claim that the CQC investigations showed that women were being let down. The results of the investigation show no such thing."
She continued: "The CQC is right to provide clarification for doctors on what is and is not good practice. However, we deplore the effect this highly politicised and publicised investigation has had on those providing abortion. It has created a climate of fear amongst doctors and made some reorganise their services in ways that are actually creating delays for women and additional costs to the NHS."
Andrew Lansley came under fire for his handling of the affair in March, when it was revealed that the checks on clinics had cost £1 million and had caused the cancellation of over 500 scheduled CQC inspections. He was accused by Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham of 'chasing headlines' after briefing journalists on the inspections and speculating on possible criminal proceedings before the investigation was completed.
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The total global machine vision system and component market is expected to be worth 15.3 billion USD by 2015, out of which the camera & smart camera will account for nearly 27.3% of the total revenues, according to a new report, "Global Machine Vision and Vision Guided Robotics Market (2010 – 2015)," from MarketsandMarkets.
The global market is expected to record a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.3% from 2010 to 2015. The machine vision system and component market has advanced very fast to meet the growing demand for traditional and non-traditional applications areas, a statement on the report notes.
Advancements in processing capabilities have made machine vision systems more powerful. Continued development of smart cameras and new interfaces have also increased processing power, while reducing costs and operational complexities, thereby driving machine-vision technology into wider application areas.
The global machine-vision system and components market is estimated to reach $9,830.4 million in 2010; growing at an estimated CAGR of 9.3% from 2010 to 2015. Among all the market segments, optics, lighting & frame grabbers commanded the largest share in terms of revenues in 2010, while cameras and smart cameras ranked second in terms of revenues.
However, cameras and smart cameras represent the fastest growing market, with a CAGR of 10.2% from 2010 to 2015, due to the higher demand for smart cameras resulting from their lower cost, ease of installation and ease of use. The processor, software, and hardware market is expected to reach $3.641.6 billion in 2015 with an estimated CAGR of 8.8% from 2010 to 2015.
At present, the Asia Pacific region dominates the global machine vision system and component market, and it is also the fastest growing region, with an expected double-digit CAGR of 11.1% from 2010 to 2015. The North American region ranks as the second largest market for machine vision, possessing a global market share of 32.2% in 2010.


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It's not often I write a personal post, and this one isn't boudoir-related either, but it certainly relates to my business! We are expecting a little one due December 2nd of this year, and I am honestly just so beside myself with joy for her arrival. I dragged my mom and my camera out into the park a couple night's ago, and we had ourselves a little photoshoot to commemorate this 23rd week!
This is my first pregnancy so I'm not too qualified to give advice just yet, but I was talking to a new client at her consultation the other day, about how she'd like a boudoir shoot before her and her husband conceive and her body changes forever, and that made me think. It may certainly be true that your body will change and those changes may be discouraging for a time, but I can honestly say that so far I am in complete awe of my pregnant body, and I have never felt more beautiful. Every day while I'm oiling up (doing my due diligence to avoid those stretch marks! Ha!), I honestly stare in wonder at my reflection in the mirror, and know I'll miss this version of myself that accommodates and safeguards a purest little life. Yes, my hips are widening, and yes, my nipples look funny, and yes, I'm itchy and already feel stretched to capacity by the end of three square meals every day (or more like 4-6 meals, who are we kidding), and yes, I know I'll only get bigger the next few months and will probably have more complaints along the way. But I want to encourage you ladies who aren't quite there yet to look forward with excitement for how your bodies will change and do what they're meant to, and encourage all of us to not look on this like a death sentence for your youth and beauty, but as a new journey into the great privilege of womanhood for those who choose or are able to embark on it.
J. Noel Boudoir will be closed for maternity leave in November and December of this year (which is mighty inconvenient since that's a really busy season for boudoir Christmas gifts!), so if you'd like to give a boudoir gift this holiday season, get on my calendar for September or October ASAP - I only have a few slots left already since fall is also my busiest season for family photos! There's a little more info here on general pricing, the step-by-step process here, and a contact page where you can reach me here.
If you're interested in maternity/family/baby photos, visit my other website HERE and peek through the offerings! I would love to work with you this fall before our little one arrives and rocks the boat for a while. ;)


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By Alison Taylor
The unsightly demolition of the Petro-Canada station in Creekside has council thinking about ways to regulate teardowns in Whistler.
Councillor Nancy Wilhelm-Morden suggested the idea at Monday's council meeting on the heels of a letter from a property owner complaining about the "PetroCan land hole."
"What a shameful mess," wrote Kim Greene-Deslauriers, who rents her townhouse chalet just steps away from the construction site. "You really have to see this PetroCan site to believe that this is an acceptable standard in any first world country."
Council agreed with her concerns.
"If this was November 2009 and this was going on, we'd have a bit of a black eye," said Wilhelm-Morden, referring to the months before the 2010 Olympic Games when the world's media will be in Whistler.
Petro-Canada was named an official sponsor of the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games in June with a $62.5 million sponsorship deal.
The company began tearing down its Creekside gas station at the end of September in order to clean up the site contaminated by an old underground fuel leak. That cleanup was necessary before work could begin on realigning Whistler Creek and finally finishing the landscaping at Franz's Trail.
But local residents have been dealt a double blow this year, living next to not only the gas station demolition but also the neighbouring Intrawest construction of its Evolution project.
Wilhelm-Morden suggested this week that there may be ways to enforce stricter regulations at demolition sites, such as protective fencing or boarding that would shield the public from the site. The regulations could also enforce strict timelines on when the work must be done.
Currently owners are required to get a demolition permit issued by the municipal building department through the B.C. Building Code. It is provincial legislation that sets out the requirements to meet public and fire safety issues. Municipal bylaw regulations cannot supercede the provincial legislation set out in the building code.
Petro-Canada met all the requirements in their demolition permit.
The issue is further complicated because the site is no longer a construction site. It's a remedial environmental site and as such it falls under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Environment and its requirements.
Municipal information officer Diana Waltmann said staff will be asking Petro-Canada to put up something more substantial around the site.
Councillor Gordon McKeever also asked staff to press Petro-Canada to reassert its intentions for the site. Whistler, he said, has seen some of the challenges of losing that gas station after a power failure and a delayed fuel delivery shut down the Husky station twice for hours at a time in recent weeks.
This week, however, Petro-Canada spokesperson Allyson Zarowny could not say with certainty they would be building a new gas station.
"We haven't finalized our plans for the future of the site but we're going to make sure we work with the town and…. we want to make sure that all the services of the municipality are being met and we're taking all those factors into consideration," she said.
Remediation of the fuel spill will be finished by the end of December, she said. Then they will wait for their environmental approvals before the creek bed can be moved.
"We recognize the excavation work has left the site in a poor aesthetic condition and apologize to the residents for any inconvenience," said Zarowny.


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I've always been a fan of Mandy's work. I love how she photographs families... always so engaged, and so technically spot on! Just beautiful! -Sandra
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"After attending FIND in November, I have committed myself to bringing more connections into my images. I think this family session - you can see how much love they have. The parents ADORE each other, and it surely shows. Shot with a Pentax 645N on Portra 400, scanned by The FIND Lab."
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Now that we're less than two weeks away from the beginning of the 2017 USL season, it should become more clear which former San Antonio FC players will face off against the second-year team. We'll do our best to track the landing spots of the 2016 squad here, much like our 2017 Roster Tracker. Note: the following list includes Bobby Moseley who joined SAFC on loan from Stoke City (England).
Last update: March 23
Returning to San Antonio FC (11/28)
Rafa Castillo M
Cesar Elizondo F
Miguel Salazar M
Victor Araujo M
Matt Cardone G
Michael Reed M
Stephen McCarthy D
Greg Cochrane D
Lee Johnston G
Ryan Roushandel D
Shawn Chin F
Signed with Another USL Club (2/28)
Jason Johnson M Phoenix Rising FC
Manolo Sanchez F Harrisburg City Islanders
Spent Pre-Season with USL Club, Not Announced as Signed (1/28)
Jacques Francois M Tampa Bay Rowdies
Signed with Non-USL Club (5/28)
Austin Dunker D Logan Lightning (Australia)
Bobby Moseley D Gloucester City AFC (England)
Sebastien Thuriere M Sheik Russel KC (Bangladesh)
Franck Tayou F Soles de Sonora (Indoor)
Carlos Alvarez M Los Angeles FC (MLS), loaned to Orange County SC (USL) for 2017
Retired (2/28)
Josh Ford G
Fejiro Okiomah M/D
Unknown (7/28)
Milton Palacios D
Sam McBride D (Possible trial with Puerto Rico FC)
Danny Garcia M
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Happy Anniversary
2/3/16: It's hard to believe that today marks four years of ministry at Mission Possible. So many memories come to mind but the most prominent are the amazing stories of life transformation. Thank you Lord for allowing us front row seats to see your handiwork in the lives of these people. It's such a blessing and so much fun to be part of your kingdom work! Linda


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Once a week a few of us gather to socialize and work on various projects. This started out as a woodshop but has grown into a more diverse gathering. All are welcome and we hope to see you there!
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On September 1, 2016, the US CFTC requested public comment on proposed amendments to the Whistleblower Rules found in Part 165 of the CFTC's regulations. The amendments would improve the process for reviewing whistleblower claims and clarify staff authority to administer the whistleblower program. The proposal would also strengthen the CFTC's authority to protect whistleblowers from retaliation through CFTC enforcement action under the Commodity Exchange Act.
The amendments would also make changes to eligibility requirements, the award claims process (and review of that process), whistleblower identifying information and the treatment of employer confidentiality provisions. Comments to the proposed amendments were due on September 29, 2016.
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Coalisland will be the place to be on Easter Saturday, March 26 for the first ever town Easter Egg Hunt.
With free Easter Eggs for children and a free BBQ for everyone who takes part, it's an event that you won't want to miss.
There will also be a bouncy castle and craft activities to take part in. There's no need to book beforehand. Register your team or family between 10am and 1pm at Western House, get your map and start the hunt for the Easter Eggs hidden all around the town.
The event is being organised by Coalisland Residents & Community Forum with funding from OFMDFM. For more information call 028 87 747377 or go www.CRCF.eu.


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#2014 recap/
I like the rhythm of asking myself the same questions over and over again, so here's the survey I usually do at EOY. 1. What did you do in 2013 that you'd never done before? The two biggest newnesses were: a.) going to Minneapolis where I made awesome friends at writers camp b.) launching my own column on Nooga.com.
Also memorable this past year were: Met Lauren Winner. Started my fourth consecutive year working at the same place. Taught a new class just for first year students. Witnessed one of my sibbies get married. Toured Graceland. Moving and having lots of meltdowns about it.
2. Did you keep your new year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I tried so hard to get into the best shape of my life. The silver lining is that when I couldn't because I kept getting injured, I learned that I was anemic. Knowledge is such power.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? Yes, and I am especially ecstatic about the first of my cousins to become a parent. Congrazzles to Ryan and Rachel on the gorgeous Claire!
4. Did anyone close to you die? I'm so extra grateful to answer no this year.
5. What would you like to have in 2015 that you lacked in 2014? A book deal.
6. What was your biggest achievement of the year? Writing a bimonthly column has been so life-giving to me. It has connected me with community members in ways I had not yet anticipated, and my love for Chattanooga has grown immeasurably.
7. What was your biggest failure? I learned some things about teaching this year that were major blows to my ego but I don't call learning from shortcomings "a biggest failure." Just learning to fail forward, as it were.
8. Did you suffer illness or injury? see #2
9. What was the best thing you bought? Um, Just Dance 4 for the Wii is pretty fabulous.
10. What did you get really excited about? My sister TP got married Sarah Koenig is absolutely blowing the doors off investigative journalism with Serial.
11. What was the best book you read this year?
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12. Compared to this time last year, are you: – happier or sadder? I have a lot to be happy about – thinner or fatter? Fatter – richer or poorer? About the same
13. What was your favorite TV program? Parenthood The Good Wife Orange is the New Black Season II
14. What was your favorite music from this year? Ryan Adams' newest Bethel Church "It is Well"
15. What were your favorite films of the year? I really liked "Liberal Arts," "Thanks for Sharing," and "One Day"--all on Netflix. Honestly, Big Hero 6 was absolutely adorable.
16. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? On my 34th birthday, I went to a staff meeting and accompanied my hubby at the hospital when his finger got dislocated.
17. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2014. I am a better mom when I am in educating-mode versus rebuking-mode. Majoring in the former makes the latter more impactful.


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Moonie's Texas Barbecue
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Moonie's Texas Barbecue Restaurant Review: Texas-style barbecue is all about beef, and chief among the parts of the animal that lend themselves to this style is the brisket. Ideally, the fat cap should be left on to ensure a moist result. When you order it, you'll choose lean or moist. We go for moist, which means leaving the fat cap in place. You'll also select sliced or chopped, and we say sliced. At Moonie's, which requires a fair but worthwhile trip to the distant 'burbs, the brisket is fork tender, sweet, juicy and well-seasoned. And the frankly extraneous sauce is left to your discretion. There are two desserts --- "nilla" puddin' and apple cobbler --- but neither seem to merit the calorie expenditure. The places closes early (8 p.m.) and runs out of many popular items toward closing time, so plan accordingly.
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B&N Offers $20 Nook Discounts for Mother's Day
Just a day after Microsoft invested $300 million in Barnes & Noble, the online bookseller is passing the savings on to you.
Well, that may not be exactly true. But B&N said Tuesday that the company will knock off $20 on the Barnes & Noble Nook Color and Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch for Mother's Day, and throw in a gift bag, to boot.
However, B&N's offer is only available through May 12. (Mother's Day is May 13, in case you've forgotten.)
Barnes & Noble's discount cuts the price for the Nook Color from $169 to $149, while the Nook Simple Touch price is now $79, down from $99. Barnes & Noble said that the $79 price point was its lowest ever for a Nook e-reader.
Both of the B&N e-readers on discount are several years old, having been replaced with the Nook Tablet. It's possible that Barnes & Noble is also floating a trial discount to determine if the retailer should try out a more permanent price cut. However, both of the Nook e-readers also won PCMag Editors' Choice awards, so you can be sure Barnes & Noble isn't just dumping older products.
Unfortunately, Barnes & Noble did not cut the price of the recently introduced Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch With Glowlight (slideshow below), meaning that you'll have to spend the normal price of $139 to allow Mom to read in the dark.
The other mystery? The gift bag. Unfortunately, the gift bag does not itself include gifts, such as a lowly gift card, let alone a first edition of Moby Dick. Instead, a Barnes & Noble representative said that the gift bag was merely the gift bag option that normally costs about $3 extra. However, Barnes & Noble's product description assures us that "the pleasure of receiving a Nook and Nook accessories will be even greater when the gifts come in this colorful bag." So there's that.
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'Eternal Sleepwalker'
Svart Records
(Released: March 2015)
Slower than a mountain and twice as heavy, this Swedish trio deliver immensely powerful death-doom with a hammer in one hand and a scalpel in the other. For all its bone-snapping muscle, 'Eternal Sleepwalker' is also sharp, cutting and cruel. This band does not simply want to flatten you like roadkill; they want to scrape you off the tarmac and carve you open.
Recorded in just two days, this raw, rumbling debut is no-frills, testicle-deflating metal of ultimate heaviness. The band unleash a volley of understated, crawling riffs, and with each sickening chord another fragment of your soul breaks off and dies. Even in the bleakest moments of repetition and drone (which come a little too frequently) the energy never wanes, the passion never fades.
Heavydeath show what can be achieved with a solitary, raging guitar and a whole heap of inspiration. And coursing through the veins of the music is a charismatic vocal performance that lifts the songs to heavenly reaches, and the drives them down to hellish shadow. Vocals and guitars both come courtesy of Nicklas Rudolfsson (ex-Runemagick), with Johan Bäckman cracking floors with his bass and Daniel Moilanen beating the holy crap out of his drums.
There is no shortage of originality on display on this album, and Heavydeath wield their weaponry with masterful skill and imagination. This is the album that those excited by the band's extremely promising 2014 demos had prayed for. Formed in 2009, the Swedish outfit has almost fallen apart a few times through various complications, and they only begin playing live shows this year. But if they can replicate the alluring ugliness of this recording, the gigs should be worth the wait.
Heavydeath have a distinctive sound and capture a unique mood with their music. 'Eternal Sleepwalker' is blessed with resounding love and seething hate in equal measure, and quality in abundance.


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Windows 10 update gives me the DRIVER IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL error that requires a BIOS update. However I can never ever get into the operating system, every time I load I get the blue screen with the DRIVER IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL error. The BIOS update requires that it is run from the desktop.
No amount of hard resets will get past the error as suggested on the BIOS update page so I'm left with the option of reinstalling Windows unless someone else has a solution?
BIOS Update for 1020
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Self-publishing can be a really good thing
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New year, new jeans…
Our pro stylists top tips to working the tricky white jean into your wardrobe.
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Denim jeans are a staple in any guys' wardrobe so it's important to get it right.
We all know that no wardrobe is complete without some staple denim, but you've already got that down. Although we need those classic pieces, we're pushing denim into the spotlight this season. We're talking festival vibes, embellished designs and those unique stand-out pieces that will have fellow denim-fiends chasing you down the street saying "Where did you get that?!". Get to know these hero pieces because life's just too short for boring denim…


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Thanks to the latest issue of Total Film Magazine, we now have new HQ images from Suicide Squad. Check them out below;
Are you ready for Suicide Squad?
"Suicide Squad" has an August 5, 2016 release date directed by David Ayer starring Will Smith as Deadshot, Jared Leto as the Joker, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Cara Delevingne as Enchantress, Jai Courtney as Boomerang, Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flag, Viola Davis as Amanda Waller, Adam Beach as Slipknot, Karen Fukuhara as Katana, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Killer Croc, Jay Hernandez as El Diablo, and Scott Eastwood in an unknown role.


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Here we go again! Following's Friday night's epic sell out with The Aston Shuffle, Set Mo and Dena Amy... V MoVement & UNDR Ctrl are very excited to announce the return of The Island LIVE to Sydney harbour on Friday 6th November featuring man of the moment Roland Tings [DJ Set], CC:Disco and Kato [Wordlife]... plus a Special Guest to be Announced soon.
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Welcome to the new site!
Well, first off I'd like to welcome everyone to the new website for Rust Devil Games and Zed or Alive, our upcoming zombie miniatures game! While the majority of the website is dedicated to providing general information about the game, we'll be using the blog to keep everyone up to date on the current progress of the game itself. Additionally, we'll be posting discussion topics, miniature modeling guides, and more! Please feel free to ask questions or make suggestions in the comments or head to the forums, we plan on being extremely accessible to the community, as this is truly a game made for fans of the genre. Project Status:
Or, where we're at! Currently, the initial draft of the game is nearing completion. This means all of the major systems, units, items, and everything else are in the game. What remains to be done on a design side, is additional testing on some of the different human group types, as well as as much testing as we can squeeze in on Aberrants. The mutant zombies are a tough one to tackle from a game design perspective, as the different ability combinations allow for a truly staggering number of combinations.
On the business side, we are in the process of contacting publishers, printers, and other companies to finalize the costs involved before we launch our Kickstarter campaign. Like many small companies, we simply do not have access to the capital to simply print a run of books to sell directly from the site. We decided that, rather than offer a PDF-only game, we would use Kickstarter to raise enough funding for our initial print run. We are not simply conducting a Kickstarter campaign because it's trendy or because we can. We simply cannot print the book without it.
When is this happening?
We have a firm "it's done when it's done" policy in regards to our release date, but we are hoping to get things in high gear within the next few months. Until then, welcome to the site!
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You'll find so many varieties of headphones such as the old fashioned ear-cupping style best headphones under 50 for gaming, the in-ear bud type and the ear hanging type which includes speakers inset. These several types of headphones are available in various qualities and price tags that meet the wants of different people. One of the finest headphones available on the market today is Shure sound isolating headphones which slip inside your ear. It's soft and pliable sleeves that create a safe fit between your sound source and your ear canal. These headphones are available in three sizes of sleeves for you really to choose to suit in your ear. For this reason these headphones are regarded as professional level headphones.
Another addition to the listing of best headphones is the Grado SR60 that offers great sound, at an inexpensive price. This is headphones offering good overall sound quality at a low price. It might not look wonderful, but it provides you with great sound for you yourself to enjoy your music with. Then you have the Sennheiser HD280 to choose which is available at $99. This headphones is a full sized and sealed pair of headphones which makes it possible for you to appreciate your music much better. And as these headphones can fold up in to a rather small bundle, it is really a preferable choice as the best headphones.
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Pope to discuss estate planning for children with special needs
Ottawa disabilities and estate planning lawyer Kenneth Pope will host a webinar and Q&A session discussing estate planning for people with disabilities as well as provincial and federal benefits.
Pope, principal of Kenneth C. Pope Law, says attendees will learn about changes to the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) and how recent tax changes affect trusts and estates.
The webinar will also provide information on:
- Wills and Henson Trusts
- Increased ODSP asset limit from $5000 to $40,000
- Increased ODSP gift limit from $6000 to $10,000
- How families with children with special needs can benefit from the caregiver tax credit
- The Disability Tax Credit
- RDSPs and how they can grow to $400,000
- Lifetime Benefit Trusts
- Guardianships
Liisa Vexler, executive director of Ausome Ottawa will join Pope to discuss the work the organization does supporting families living with autism.
Pope will also answer questions from attendees during the Q&A session. Those who would like to have their individual situation addressed should complete the family evaluation form. Any personal information is kept completely confidential.
The webinar takes place Dec. 12 at 7 p.m.
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Volunteer Sporlight: Rathish Jayabharathi
Rathish Jayabharathi has been volunteering with Girl Scouts for many years. During the fall of 2016, Rathish joined the GSHCC Community Task Force to plan what would become the new STEM Center + MakerSpace. Since then he has given countless hours sharing his expertise and passion, and leading Robotics workshops in the STEM Center for Girl Scouts at all age levels. Thank you Rathish for all you do to introduce girls to STEM and Robotics!
Name: Rathish Jayabharathi
Where do you work and what do you do? I work at Intel Corporation and am the Chief Technologist for System Content and work within the Manufacturing Validation Performance (MVP) area.
Were you a Girl Scout? If yes, where? No, but I was a Boy Scout and a scout leader.
How long have you volunteered with Girl Scouts? 7+ years
Why do you volunteer for Girl Scouts? I volunteer to increase awareness of STEAM-related careers amongst girls. I have noticed there are several pre-conceived notions about Math and Science even among middle-schoolers and exposing younger girls to STEAM careers and opportunities helps them break through these critical barriers.
What's your favorite thing about volunteering with Girl Scouts? The enthusiasm and the joy that is expressed when a child/girl gets the robot to move (basically their first experience in programming a robot) is priceless.
What advice would you give to young girls interested in learning more about the STEM fields? Give it a try and you will enjoy it (don't say you are not interested before trying something out). I have had several girls say that they do not like programming until they first tried it. After that they had commented that is was easy and fun. It is awesome to see that sense of accomplishment, and so my goal is to make my workshops more fun than following a strict curriculum.
Favorite Girl Scout Cookie flavor? Thin Mints
Outside of volunteering, what are a few of your hobbies? Wildlife photography and robotics are two of my favorite hobbies.


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In Japan, baseball is not a pastime — it's a national obsession.
For many of the country's youth, the sport has become a rite of passage, epitomized by the national high school baseball tournament known simply as "Koshien." Four thousand teams enter, but only 49 are chosen to compete in the championship that grips the nation for two weeks every August.
Thursday, November 2, 2017
- Cost: $10 ($7 for members)
- Location: Morikami Theater
- Tickets will be held at the theater door under your name
- Discussion led by Director Ken Eng
- Time: 7:00pm, museum doors reopen at 6:00pm
Kenneth Eng is a director, editor and executive producer. After graduating from Boston Latin School, Ken left for New York in 1994 to study film at the School of Visual Arts. His thesis Scratching Windows, a short documentary film about graffiti writers, was broadcast as part of the doc series REEL NY on WNET – NY PBS. In 2001, Ken directed and edited Take Me to The Rivera feature length documentary about the Maha Kumbh Mela festival in Allahabad, India. Kokoyakyu: High School Baseball, his film about the famous Koshien Tournament in Japan was nationally broadcast on PBS as part of POV and continues to play in Japan on NHK-TV. In 2007, Ken was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship to launch My Life In China. Recently, he edited Tested for director Curtis Chin, and is currently developing projects on post-genocide reconciliation in Rwanda and the Critical Legal Studies movement at the Harvard Law School.


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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a major and rapidly growing public health problem for which few effective therapies are available. Treatment development has focused on the amyloid hypothesis. Unfortunately, disappointing results have emerged from trials of the """"""""anti-amyloid"""""""" therapies. The urgent need for the development of novel, non-amyloid therapies, the efficacy of deep brain stimulation (DBS) in neuropsychiatric disorders (e.g. Parkinson's disease and depression), and the striking improvement in memory in an individual who underwent fornix DBS was the impetus for a Phase 1 clinical trial of DBS-F in AD. The fornix is a major inflow and outflow tract of the hippocampus. Studies of the earliest phases of AD in humans and animal models indicate that one of the first areas affected is the hippocampus, most likely resulting from cortical pathology that leads to dying back of neurons and the spread of the disease into the hippocampus. Recent research from our group suggests that loss of fornix integrity is an early event in AD that is followed by later reduction of hippocampal volumes. Targeting therapies at the fornix, especially ones that affect other brain areas such as hippocampus, is a novel and potentially important therapeutic approach. We hypothesize that DBS placed anterior to the columns of the fornix (DBS-F) during early AD electrically stimulates the hippocampus leading to improvement in clinical and biological outcomes. This hypothesis is supported by our promising preliminary results from the Phase 1 clinical trial in AD that demonstrated the safety and tolerability of DBS-F, as well as a sustained increase in cortical glucose metabolism over one year, in contrast to the natural course of AD, and in excess of the effects of chronic cholinesterase inhibitors. Furthermore, studies in rodents demonstrated that DBS-F leads to improved memory and hippocampal neurogenesis. The logical next step is a Phase 2b trial of DBS-F in AD to gain additional experience focused on safety, preliminary estimation of efficacy, and response predictors. Specifically, we propose to evaluate in a masked, randomized clinical trial the safety and tolerability of DBS-F for the treatment of mild AD (AIM 1). We also will examine the efficacy of DBS-F for mild AD by comparing clinical and neuro-imaging outcomes of patients started on active DBS-F after surgery to those in patients in whom DBS-F activation is delayed by 12 months (AIM 2). Finally, we will examine intra-individual effects of DBS-F by comparing outcomes in the 12 months before to the 12 months after activation in patients assigned to delayed activation (AIM 3). The study's innovation relates to the use of DBS in AD, targeting the fornix, an area closely linked to the hippocampus, affected very early in AD, and surgically accessible at relatively low risk. Data from the Phase 1 trial together with findings that stimulation in rodents leads to improved memory and hippocampal neurogenesis provide support for a proposed Phase 2b investigation of this novel therapy.
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a major public health problem with few effective treatments. Disappointing results have emerged from studies of medications for AD focused on removing brain amyloid. New non-amyloid therapies will be critical to finding a cure. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) holds promise as a treatment for AD. Building on early findings from our group with DBS in AD patients, also supported by results from animal studies, we propose a two-year clinical trial of DBS to target a part of the brain known as the fornix to evaluate its safety and efficacy in 20 patients with mild AD.
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|Ponce, Francisco A; Asaad, Wael F; Foote, Kelly D et al. (2016) Bilateral deep brain stimulation of the fornix for Alzheimer's disease: surgical safety in the ADvance trial. J Neurosurg 125:75-84
|Fazeli, Pariya L; Moore, David J; Franklin, Donald R et al. (2016) Lower CSF A? is Associated with HAND in HIV-Infected Adults with a Family History of Dementia. Curr HIV Res 14:324-30
|McMullen, David P; Rosenberg, Paul; Cheng, Jennifer et al. (2016) Bilateral Cortical Encephalomalacia in a Patient Implanted With Bilateral Deep Brain Stimulation for Alzheimer's Disease: A Case Report. Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord 30:70-2
|Oishi, Kenichi; Lyketsos, Constantine G (2016) Editorial: Alzheimer's Disease and the Fornix. Front Aging Neurosci 8:149
|Lozano, Andres M; Fosdick, Lisa; Chakravarty, M Mallar et al. (2016) A Phase II Study of Fornix Deep Brain Stimulation in Mild Alzheimer's Disease. J Alzheimers Dis 54:777-87
|Ponce, Francisco A; Asaad, Wael; Foote, Kelly D et al. (2015) 130?Bilateral Fornix Deep Brain Stimulation for Alzheimer Disease: Surgical Safety in the ADvance Trial. Neurosurgery 62 Suppl 1:207
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Two Suspects at Large in Columbia Armed Robbery
COLUMBIA - Two suspects are at-large Monday night after they allegedly robbed a man at gunpoint in the 200 block of West Havens Drive, and fired multiple shots at the victim before fleeing on foot.
Boone County Sheriff's deputies and Columbia police were dispatched to the scene at 8:30 p.m. Monday for a call of shots fired.
According to officers, the victim of the robbery was leaving his home when the two men approached him and demanded money at gunpoint.
The two suspects then stole items from the victim before fleeing, when they fired the gun in the victim's direction. He was not injured in the altercation.
Deputies used dogs to track the suspect's scent, but the two were not apprehended.
Anyone with information about this incident is urged to contact Crime Stoppers at 875-TIPS or the Boone County Sheriff's Department at 875-1111.


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