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Scientist, wellbeing pioneer & bestselling author
Dr David Hamilton is a leading edge scientist and bestselling author celebrated for his considerable positive contribution to the fields of mind-body health, wellbeing, mindfulness and happiness.
Awarded a first class honours degree in chemistry, specialising in biological and medicinal chemistry, and completing a PhD, David worked for four years in the pharmaceutical industry developing drugs for cardiovascular disease and cancer. During this time he also served as an athletics coach and manager of one of the UK's largest athletics clubs, leading them to three successive UK finals. Upon leaving the pharmaceutical industry, he co-founded the international relief charity Spirit Aid Foundation and served as a director for two years. While writing his first book he taught chemistry, ecology and maths at James Watt College of Further and Higher Education and tutored chemistry at Glasgow University.
It was while working in drug development in the pharmaceutical industry, that David began studying mind body interactions, becoming fascinated by the placebo effect and how people improve through believing they are receiving a drug. Inspired to write and speak about the mind, our abilities, and to help people believe in themselves, he decided to leave the pharmaceutical industry after four years. Having studied the scientific benefits of kindness, he also felt compelled to spread the idea that a small group of people with compassion and kindness in their hearts can change the world.
The bestselling author of seven books published by Hay House, David offers talks and workshops that use science to inspire, fusing science, the mind, and wisdom from the contemplative traditions. His work has been featured in numerous publications, including ELLE, RED Magazine, Psychologies, YOU Magazine, Good Housekeeping (both UK & US), and several newspapers.
His books include Why Kindness is Good for You, It's the Thought that Counts, How Your Mind Can Heal Your Body, The Contagious Power of Thinking and Is Your Life Mapped Out . He travels the world offering workshops to help people understand the power of the mind on the body. He also blogs for the Huffington Post.
David's lectures, seminars and workshops cover a range of positive health, wellbeing and mindfulness disciplines drawing on his background in science to give the subjects greater authority. A highly respected, charismatic and top quality speaker, his speaking style is upbeat, humorous, and passionate.
His most popular talks, seminars and workshops include:
1) Mood Contagion in the Workplace
Gain an understanding of how mood spreads through a ripple effect in a working environment. Also learn how to foster and project positive mood to create a better, more creative and productive work environment.
2) Why Kindness is Good Business
Discover how expressing kindness and compassion in your interactions with others is healthy for your emotions and for your cardiovascular system. Learn simple tools for feeling happier and improving your working relationships.
3) The Power of Positivity
Learn how mood impacts emotional and physical health and how positivity can improve creativity and personal effectiveness. Learn simple, effective strategies to feel more positive.
4) Stress Busting
Gain a greater awareness of the ways that stress can impact health and learn simple and effective stress-busting tools. The stress-busting workshop utilises state of the art biofeedback monitoring to demonstrate the impact of stress and positive emotion on the heart.
Past clients include:
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
The Scottish Institute of Business Leaders
The Institute of Directors (Scotland)
The Institute for Life and Work (Sweden)
WL Gore
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Talk for TEDx Hackney: Why Kindness is Good for You
How Your Mind Can Heal Your Body
Speaker Testimonials:
"David Hamilton blends hard science with theory to give a fresh new approach to self-improvement and change. His scientific background adds credibility, which makes people all the more likely to listen to what he has to say."
David J Clarkson, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Head of Private Business – Scotland
"David Hamilton displays natural communication skills and adaptability in successfully engaging with business audiences. Through his personal charisma, easy delivery and by taking the 'scientific approach', David enables delegates to readily take on board critical learnings about both individual and organisational wellbeing. David very much conveys what 'walking the talk' is all about and in so doing inspires businesspeople to make a real difference in their personal and corporate lives."
Drew Pryde, Chairman of the Scottish Institute of Business Leaders


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The Valli Group has acquired a new practice in Hull, complementing its portfolio of 14 opticians in the north of England.
The Huddersfield-based group has merged T Berriman Opticians with Valli Group's existing Hull practice to create Valli & Berriman Opticians.
Speaking about the acquisition, managing director of the Valli Group, Moin Valli (pictured), said that the group is delighted to expand its base in Hull.
"This practice is situated in a strong community area, very close to the KCOM Stadium, which makes it a great fit for the Valli Group's passion for engaging with local communities," he said, adding: "We are involved in many community projects and charities and every one of our practices has a chosen local charity that they actively support."
The Valli Group supports vision loss charity Kirklees Visual Impairment Network and the Forget Me Not Children's Hospice.
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Max Edgar Mallowan
Mallowan, Max Edgar
Born May 6, 1904, in London. British archaeologist, specialist in the archaeology of Southwest Asia from the Neolithic period to the beginning of the Iron Age.
Mallowan was a professor at the University of London from 1947 to 1962. He has conducted archaeological investigations in Syria, Iran, and Iraq for more than 30 years.
WORKSPrehistoric Assyria. The Excavations at Tall Arpachiyah, 1933. London, 1935. (With J. C. Rose.)
Ur Excavations, vol. 9: The Neo-Baby Ionian and Persian Periods. London, 1962.
Early Mesopotamia and Iran. New York, 1965.
Nimrud and Its Remains, vols. 1-2. London, 1966.


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This ambitious strategy - Delivering a Golden Legacy: a growth strategy for inbound tourism 2012-2020 (PDF, 4.53MB) - sets out what Britain can do to ensure that international tourism delivers the largest economic benefit possible and how marketing and policy objectives can be aligned. It aims to attract 40 million international visitors a year, spending £31.5 billion, by 2020.
We also conducted a major piece of work, producing assessments of Britain's competitive position in each of our 21 priority markets − identifying opportunities for and barriers to growth.
This work identified four key elements which together are drivers of future success:
- Build on Britain's image
- Increase distribution through the travel trade
- Broaden the product offering and make it easier to visit Britain by improving Britain's visa process
- Increasing aviation capacity to promote new air routes, particularly from emerging markets
None of this is within the gift of any single organisation. This is a strategy for Britain – with the travel industry, government departments and agencies united behind a clear long-term ambition for growth.
Our aim is to work in partnership, so that organisations across the public and private sectors can align to deliver tourism's full economic growth potential over the remainder of this decade.
The private sector has a key role to play. in 2017/18 we secured £13m in cash and marketing in-kind support, through our partnership activity. This included:
- addressing regional and seasonal spread with key European partners easyJet, Expedia and P&O, along with airports and DMOs such as Bristol Airport, Newcastle Airport, and Visit Wales
- partnership with C-Trip in China which has 60% of the market, to promote travel both to and through the country
- a tripartite with British Airways and America Airlines targeting millennials
- a partnership with Manchester regional gateway to support new Virgin Atlantic routes from Boston and San Francisco
- a partnership with Birmingham and surrounding regions to promote England's heartland
- a three-year partnrships with Etihad in APMEA to build inbound tourism from the Middle-East
- a partnership with DEFRA, DIT to promote British food and drink in China and USA
- six strategic partnerships with Destination Management Companies (Abbey Tours, JAC, Hotels & More, E-Voyage, AC Tours and Angela Shanley) to support Discover England Fund projects.
The GREAT Britain campaign has also seen us working much more strategically with other public diplomacy partners (including the FCO, Department for International Trade and British Council). In addition, the campaign has shown the role that non-tourism businesses can play in shaping Britain's image around the world – and the impact that this has on tourism and investment decisions.
This strategy sets out an ambitious goal for Britain. It will require an even greater level of cooperation across Government, the UK and overseas tourism industries and the national tourist boards in order to ensure that Britain is fit to compete and succeed in the global race for tourism.


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Ultra-high voltage
Most of the power plants are large industrial sites located at strategic locations, nearby a river or a lake for cooling water, and close to energy resources or supply routes. These large power plants are connected to the transmission network by step-up transformers and are controlled by the Transmission System Operator in order to take care of the voltage and frequency stability of the power system.
Remote sources of primary energy and increasing number of energy consumers, larger amounts of electrical energy have to be transmitted over large distances. Power systems operate at a certain voltage level, this is called the system voltage. In order to facilitate transmission with low losses, the system voltage needs to go up. Losses are proportional with the amperes that dissipate heat in the aluminium or copper conductors, so we keep the current in transmission lines low. The only way to still transmit bulk energy economically is to raise the voltage level. A doubling of the voltage reduces the ohmic losses by 75%.
In the nineteen twenties, when KEMA was founded, Germany was the first country in the world to erect a long distance 220 kV overhead line that came into operation in 1929. The line was designed for a future upgrade to 380 kV, but it was Sweden that first build a 1000 km power line at 380 kV operating voltage. The next major step was made by Hydro Quebec in Canada; a 765 kV overhead line connected the hydro power generated at James Bay in the north with the cities in South-Quebec.
Both the Swedish and the Canadian project emphasized the need for long distance energy transmission of distant hydropower to urban load centres. This was also the main driver for the next step: bringing the system voltage above 1 million volt. A 1100 kV transmission line came into service in the USSR in 1985. In the meantime, the economy in Japan boomed and Tokyo Electric Power designed a 1000 kV system to bring the energy, necessary to power the economic activity, into Tokyo. When the UHV equipment became available, in the early nineties, the Japanese economy declined and a nation-wide UHV transmission system was never realised. Then the Peoples Republic of China set off with the first commercially operated UHV transmission system at 1100 kV in 2009. India is aiming for an even higher level: 1200 kV. A grid connected test station is operational and preparations for a long distance UHV transmission line across the country are being made.
At each of these steps forward, KEMA was involved in testing the switchgear. When laboratory 2 was opened in 1958, the royal visitor could already have a look at a 380 kV breaker being prepared for a test, but it lasted until the availability of laboratory 4 and 5, together with the synthetic current and voltage injection circuits, before the 550 kV level could be dealt with. In the mid-nineties, KEMA tested the largest single break circuit breaker in the world, a Japanese 550 kV 63 kA design. Ten years later the Chinese 1100 kV system was planned and it became necessary to test complete UHV circuit breakers. Although such breakers have multiple interrupting chambers, the specific metal enclosed design requires testing of the full breaker. KEMA test engineers took the brave step to test the complete breaker as it is installed in service, namely as a component fitted on the ground. This is a far more realistic approach and more efficient than putting the huge and heavy breaker on an insulated platform. This meant, however, that an alternative had to be found for the generation of the transient recovery voltage (TRV). The idea came to generate the first million volt of the TRV wave shape with the existing synthetic installation, and to superimpose an additional million volts with a mobile synthetic circuit. The tests were successful and reaching a TRV peak of 2050 kV is till now a world record.
One of the lessons learnt was that even laboratory 5, our largest test bay, was dielectrically speaking just large enough to house the test object with enough space around it to avoid flashovers to the walls. But ceiling lights had to be removed and the breakers bushings needed a lower inclination than in the original design in order to safeguard the ceiling from a flashover. This limitation gave the start to design a complete new installation that is now called "Synthetic East". In 2012 this new synthetic test facility became available for commercial testing and this two stage synthetic installation allows circuit breakers up to 800 kV, to be tested "full-pole". Also gas insulated three-phase common enclosed switchgear can now be tested in a real three-phase environment.
Combined with the existing synthetic installation, "Synthetic East" is versatile enough to act as a third synthetic in case of testing three-phase common enclosed switchgear under earthed system conditions. This opened a whole new market of three-phase testing of 145 kV GIS switchgear.


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Originally published on the defunct Citystink.net site on October 11, 2012.
Originally posted on CityStink
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Augusta, GA
By Al Gray
The author, Al M. Gray is President of Cost Recovery Works, Inc., a provider of Cost Avoidance and Cost Recovery for America's leading companies, businesses and governments desiring Superior Returns.
Yesterday, yet another Tee Center work session was scheduled by Augusta Commissioner Jerry Brigham. This meeting came on the heels of an amazing series of revelations, contradictions, and absurdities emanating from the fiasco of the first Tee Center work session last week.
On hand to present for Tee Center partner and soon-to-be manager were Mr. Paul Simon of Augusta Riverfront LLC and Mr. Bob Kuhar. Present to answer questions and representing the city was attorney Jim Plunkett.
A comparison of the minutes from that work session, the unsigned, undated 2007 Partnership Term Sheet, and the December 2009 special called meeting of the Augusta Commission bring forth a plethora of questions:
Who is Augusta Convention Center Management LLC, who is named the TEE Center Manager? Where is an assessment of this entity's financial viability? Who are its principals? Don't we need to know who they are to be sure that they are not paid as the contract dictates?
In the last work session Mr. Simon called for us to look at the Commission's December 7, 2009 vote authorize the mayor to execute the Tee Center CORE agreement, but this document does not now exist, does it? Doesn't this invalidate the motion that passed the Commission in December 2009?
The Tee Center Catering Agreement references "that certain Conference Center Management Agreement dated as of __________, 2012 by and between Caterer and City." Where is this document? If it does exist, why were we not provided with it?
Let us see if we understand this correctly from the last work session: Mr. Simon said"So what I'm saying to the city in this (August 2007) term sheet we'll give you land. Now what are we getting back for our land? We're getting the kitchen. "The term sheet says "The LLC and Augusta will allow the necessary modifications to the Convention Center to provide for the combined use of the kitchen, laundry, and back of the house areas." The Term sheet also says that "AUGUSTA AND LLC AGREE TO THE FOLLOWING TERMS TO OWN, BUILD, AND OPERATE THE TRADE CENTER" Doesn't this mean that the LLC agreed to bear costs in the term sheet for which it is responsible?
Doesn't the 2007 Term Sheet say that "Augusta's Capital Funds shall specifically not be used for items related to Kitchen Equipment, Laundry Equipment, or any Convention Center and Convention Center and/or Hotel capital cost." When did the Commission assume its LLC partner's cost of Kitchen Equipment?
Mr. Simon cites that the Tee Center cost estimates included $700,000 for kitchen equipment (later increased to $1.4 million without any change in the estimate) but why isn't this a LLC cost to "own, build, and operate?" when the Term Sheet says it is an LLC cost?
The invoice for the Kitchen Equipment shows refurbishment of existing kitchen equipment. Whose equipment was this? Whose equipment will it become?
The RW Allen Contract caps the overhead and profit on a subcontract but the kitchen equipment invoice for roughly $1.4 million and data in Augusta's possession is insufficient to determine whether this limit has been breached? Why don't we insist on getting the information required to assure this limit has been met?
In the work session of last week, Mr. Simon and Mr. Plunkett said that the decision to build the Tee Center had to come before an operating plan was completed. They said that these contracts have to be signed before there is a plan. Doesn't these contracts make the plan only a guide with no authority at the same time it gives the Manager and Caterer absolute authority to assign personnel? Isn't there a Convention Center website listing very highly compensated General Manager, Catering Manager, Security Director, Finance Manager, and about 6 or 7 more overhead staff? Are these the same 11 full time, permanent employees Mr. Simon mentioned last week?
At last week's work session Mr. Plunkett, the city's attorney said this "The expense of the kitchen is an expense of the TEE Center. The maintenance of that facility, this equipment, is being shared basically between the Conference Center, the TEE Center and the hotels proportionate based on plates.If this is true, why do these agreements set it up so that all of the capital and maintenance costs of the Kitchen, which is now being referred to as the "Conference Center Annex" are born by the city? There is a separate fund for this in the Catering Agreement.
These agreements are so convoluted at this juncture, it is becoming apparent that no one understands them, including the attorneys. The commission would be wise to obtain the proposed plan, budget and procedure manual before agreement should be reached.
: Augusta Today and CityStink.net contributor Brad Owens was invited to speak at the October 10, 2012 and was forceful in his presentation of many of the foregoing issues. A key point made was that the land given up by the Augusta Riverfront LLC could not be conceivably worth the $65 million that Augusta has spent constructing buildings that primarily benefit the LLC's two Marriott hotels.


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MYPINPAD appoints Leading PR agency for 2015 growth
LONDON, UK, 22 December 2014, MYPINPAD, the next generation of secure payment authentication, has today announced the appointment of the payments industry's leading PR and communications agency SkyParlour. This significant move will see award-winning SkyParlour support MYPINPAD's expansion and further establish the company as a key player in the industry.
MYPINPAD has gained significant global support within the traditional and emerging payments ecosystems. Progressing its commercial strategy to deliver 'authentication as a service', MYPINPAD will continue to provide a comprehensive programme of industry insights and demonstrate how MYPINPAD addresses the need for greater security in the rapidly growing digital commerce arena.
David Poole, Business Development Director, MYPINPAD said, "We are excited about our expansion plans for 2015 and we wanted a PR partner that understands the payments, retail and security sectors. SkyParlour was the obvious choice. We look forward to working closely with the SkyParlour team to ensure we maximise our successes and growth opportunities".
SkyParlour recently won a CIPR Excellence award, with the judges commenting, "More focused than a heat-seeking missile, SkyParlour knows where they're going and how they're getting there. After setting up in a week, they've built a strong foundation for a future business in a market that is growing not only in the UK but internationally".
Kimberley Waldron, Co-Founder of SkyParlour said, "SkyParlour is perfectly positioned to assist myPinPad in delivering its transformational solution to market. We are delighted to be working with the impressive leadership team and have big plans for the brand in 2015. The MYPINPAD platform truly has the potential to be revolutionary for the global payments market as we know it. The SkyParlour team can't wait to kick off the communications campaign for myPinPad in 2015".
For more information about MYPINPAD please visit https://mypinpad.com/.
About MYPINPAD
MYPINPAD is the provider of a transformational platform delivering 'authentication as a service' to the global payments industry. Designed specifically to secure digital commerce transactions irrespective of their origin, the solution enables secure authentication of payments on mobile phones, tablets and personal computers without disrupting existing banking protocols.
MYPINPAD has assembled a senior leadership team highly experienced in creating, financing and building technology businesses. Collectively, they have a successful track record in payments, IT, financial services and data security. They have held key positions in private and public sector organisations from start-ups through to listed businesses and in some of the world's leading financial services institutions.
Media contacts:
Lisa Hughes – PR Consultant
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com, Tel: +44 (0) 844 2939 764
Kelly Lewins – Account Executive
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com, Tel: +44 (0) 844 2939 764
About SkyParlour
SkyParlour is a strategic marketing and communications consultancy dedicated to
serving the international e-commerce, m-commerce and payments industries.
SkyParlour has international capabilities and strong relationships with the right influencers that enable engaging conversations with key stakeholders. SkyParlour's clients span the UK, Europe and North America, and include Haatch, Jumio, Realex Payments, Foregenix, SLI Systems, Kount, Internet Retailing and MYPINPAD. In 2014 SkyParlour won Outstanding Small Agency at the Chartered Institute Public Relations (CIPR) Excellence Awards.


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Member's Mark 7.5' Aspen Pine Flocked Christmas Tree
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Why We Love This
A touch of festive glow and lots of snow, this Aspen Pine is heavily flocked and pre-strung with lights to bring home a wintery charm minus the chills!
About this item
Nothing feels more Christmassy than a snow covered Christmas tree. Luckily you don't need extreme temperatures to create this festive look. Meet our Member's Mark 7.5ft heavily flocked Aspen Pine Christmas Tree. Not only is it super easy to set up, its 1524 Simple Shape™ tips instantly spring into place to create a lush and natural snowy silhouette. The pre-shaped memory wire in the tips will keep it in perfect shape for years to come. Thanks to the Innovative Quick Set® power pole design, it takes only one plug needed to turn on its 450 LED lights. Pair it with our other flocked décor items and Member's Mark ornaments and you'll have a space filled with whimsical wintery wonder!
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Kardos Scanlan is a specialist corporate law firm
We act on a wide range of corporate and commercial matters and have an established reputation working with clients on corporate structuring, regulated and unregulated mergers and acquisitions, fundraising (both debt and equity), strategic investments, insolvency and restructures.
We also have extensive experience acting for private equity funds and their investee companies. Our lawyers have a deep understanding of the challenges faced by private equity participants at each stage of the investment lifecycle and have experience in fund establishment, expansion and venture capital investments, management buy-outs, follow-on acquisitions and divestments. We also act on distressed debt transactions including restructures, capital raisings and turn-arounds.
Clients come to us because of our experience and quality advice. They also appreciate the fact that we offer a high level of personal service, adopt a commercial approach, and are focussed on working with them to execute their strategies.


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Teamwork is one of the most important attributes in all of sports, and it will certainly be on display this weekend. The No. 7 Cal men's and No. 20 women's gymnastics teams will be looking to work together Sunday as they hold their annual co-ed meet at Haas Pavilion.
The men's team will have a tough test on its hands as it goes up against Oklahoma, the top team in the country. The women's team, on the other hand, will go up against UC Davis in what will be the Bears' season home finale. Both the men's and women's teams will look to feed off each other's energy and come out of Haas Pavilion as winners.
"The men's team has always been supportive of us, and we've always been very supportive of them," said women's coach Justin Howell. "Watching them succeed is really going to pump us up, to hopefully go back and forth — we do a great routine, they do a great routine."
The men's team last competed Saturday, when it traveled away from Berkeley to Palo Alto, California, to face then-No. 3 Stanford and then-No. 9 Minnesota. The Bears ended the night with a team score of 430.200, which is impressive because it was their first five-up, five-count meet of the year.
The night was highlighted by the performances of juniors Kyle Zemeir and Ryan Patterson. Zemeir ended the night as the all-around leader of the meet, with an outstanding score of 87.150. Patterson came in a close second, finishing with a strong score of 87.100. Both Zemeir and Patterson will need to perform well this weekend in order to pull off a win.
The Bears will have one major advantage going into this meet — the full return of Kevin Wolting, the newly announced member of the 2015 U.S. national team. He's an important piece of the overall structure of this team, especially when it comes to the phenomenal scores he puts up on the pommel horse. The pommel horse has been the Achilles heel of the Bears in recent weeks, especially in their last meet. Last week, the Bears put up a low pommel horse score of 69.200, and the only substantial score was a 14.600 put up by Wolting. Wolting will need to lead his team on the pommel horse once again if they hope to upset No. 1 Oklahoma.
The women's team also competed last Saturday, when it traveled east to face then-No. 20 Arizona. The Bears finished with an overall team score of 196.100, which was their third-best team score of the season. The highlight, however, of the night was a season-high team score of 49.100 on the balance beam, an event that had been hurting them all year.
"Since we have struggled on the beam early in the season, we've really have put a lot of focus on that event," Howell said. "Balance beam is one of those events that can really break or make the competition."
Another important piece for the Bears this Sunday will be breakout freshman Toni-Ann Williams, who has already broken several school records this season. Williams has been the backbone for the team all year, and she never fails to surprise on any given night. This was seen last week, when she led the team by matching her career-high score of 9.875 on the balance beam, an event that had been her shakiest all season. Williams will lead the Bears once again this weekend as they look to finish off their season home finale on a high note.
"We're focusing on winning, and if we stick to our game plan we'll absolutely have a successful result," Howell said.
Alex Quintana covers gymnastics. Contact him at [email protected]


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So, without anything further…
I am so excited to introduce
Kryssi Ng
as our very first Design Team Coordinator!
Take a peek at her blog and it doesn't take long to see why
we were so excited to make her a BIG part of our first team!
And we don't think it's any coincidence that her blog is named 'Sugar Buffet'!
Sugar Buffet Blog!
So, how about a few official sample cards?
you're going to feel a slight pain in your lower right tooth… don't fret… it's just the start of the best sweet tooth you've ever had!
From the Melvin & Vernie Set.
Scooter Love!
From the 'Scootin' By' Set
I can't wait to show you more peeks!
We are planning on having our grand opening the first week of August!
But, until then… keep on the look out here for special give-a-ways! I just can't wait for all of you to get your hands on these stamps… and I would love to send them to you early!!! Stay tuned!
Follow us on Twitter
Or 'like' us on facebook— (link is on the upper right hand corner)
And soon we'll be debuting our Youtube channel!
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It is certainly no secret that once you turn 30, your body stops working so well. Your metabolism level takes a nose dive and suddenly all of your body fat refuses to fall off of your body. You are also experiencing a lot less energy and you've probably never been busier in your life. It is not uncommon for someone to say they do not have time to exercise once they get older, and some people actually mean it.
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Once you decide you want to try this weight loss supplement, you are going to need to figure out where you can purchase it. You should Visit www.garciniacambogiaselect.net. This website contains a lot of helpful information regarding the weight loss supplement as well as information regarding where you can purchase it and how much it costs.


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The American news giant Cable Network News International has great influence in the African continent especially in Nigeria because of its reach in the country and the fact that 'CNN' as it is fondly called in Nigeria has become a household name which news is genuinely relied on by Nigerians.
The news giant CNN Africa released a video on Twitter today bordering on the growth of the Nigeria movie industry which value has rose dramatically to about 239 billion Naira, an equivalence of 650 million dollars.
"Nigerian film has grown into a 239 billion Naira industry ($658 million) and grabbed global attention" the statement that accompany the video reads in part.
In the latter part of the statement CNN Africa has indicated that the new generation of the Nollywood filmmakers are doing everything professionally possible to move the achievements of the industry "to the next level".
The "next level" phrase is the campaign slogan of the Muhammadu Buhari's All Progressive Congress Party in the forthcoming 2019 presidential elections holding in February and the use of the "next level" by CNN Africa can be interpreted as a subtle way of approving the President Muhammadu Buhari's campaign.
Social media and big news organisations the world over have a way of influencing elections in the way they report political issues especially during electioneering periods.
Using the "next level" phrase in a reporting that has to do with Nigeria during this election period can only be seen as a way of supporting the Buhari campaign.


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MV Round Price
Round prices are very important for all of the traders in all markets and you can use round prices in your analyses. MV Round Price is a important indicator for add round prices in your chart automatically.
- StepPip: Distance between round price. (ex: if you use 1000 in 5 digits brokers so we have 1.10000 , 1.11000, 1.12000 and more)
- MaximumHLine: Total number of round prices in your chart
- HClr: Line color
- HStyle: Line style
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JetSetCreate is the blog of writer, editor and digital content creator Rebecca Cairns.
Working in digital media since 2014, Rebecca has had work appear online and in-print internationally in Travel+Leisure, Time Out, Crave Magazine, Fodor's Travel Guide, The Culture Trip, Home Journal and Hong Kong Tatler, where she worked in-house with the digital editorial team.
Writing on topics from beauty and fashion to culture and arts, Rebecca now focusses on her two passions, wellness and travel. As a NASM-certified personal trainer, regular 10K and half-marathon runner, and an experienced traveller who has to date visited more than 70 destinations in over 30 countries around the world, she has a depth of personal and professional knowledge on both.
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Byte-Size TEL: Using the Library Studio for Social Work Role-Play
November 28, 2018 @ 11:00 am - 11:30 am
For this session, we have asked Dr Simone McCaughren (School of Applied Social Studies) to speak about her and her students' experiences of using the Library Studio to record role-play exercises for Social Work modules.
The Byte-Size TEL sessions look at different aspects of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) are open to all staff and there is no need to register. The sessions take place during term and the format is usually a 10/15 minute presentation given by an academic on a particular experience using technology in their teaching. The presentation is then followed by an open discussion and tea and coffee.


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When Roger Federer began 2017 at No. 17 in the ATP Rankings, his return to World No. 1 seemed like a fairytale. But more than 14 years after he first sat atop the tennis world in 2004, the Swiss is now back at the summit.


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Dah-Jye Lee is focusing on robotic vision computation with applications in manufacturing automation, obstacle detection, and autonomous navigation.
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Steven Castle
Steven Castle has discovered a new effect of specialized amino acids to protect peptides against degradation. These can be used to improve the therapeutic window of the medicine.
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John Hedengren has invented and prototyped an efficient hydraulic lift mechanism for oil well rigs. Next in the commecialization process will be developing an automation system.
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Go Quiet Pro, a company administered by Brenkman and Company, LLC and located in the Utah Valley, is applying active noise cancelling (ANC) technology to the trucking and heavy equipment industries. The company has worked in partnership with Brigham Young University (BYU) and Caterpillar to develop an ANC device that can be installed or retro-fitted into the cabs of diesel semi-trucks to cancel engine noise that has been known to cause hearing damage. The active noise cancelling preserves hearing and reduces costs for worker's comp and medical care.


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Bali scooter crash victim Jacob Mabb dies days after being flown back to Australia in a comaBy Owen Jacques
A 21-year-old Sunshine Coast man left in a critical condition with a severe brain injury after a scooter crash in Bali has died.
Jacob Mabb was flown into Brisbane on Saturday morning in a critical condition after receiving treatment on the Indonesian island for almost a week.
Carlene Sherwell from XL Surfing Academy has worked with Jacob for more than five years, where he coached aspiring surfers — including "grommets" as young as five.
She describes an "exceptional" boy who became an honest, trustworthy man with a "heart of gold".
Ms Sherwell and husband Robbie, along with sons Joel and Josh, began working with Jacob as a 16-year-old and have watched him grow.
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"What I'm going to remember and what I'm going to hold on to for the rest of my life is the smile he had every time we saw him."
A plea from friends to help bring the University of the Sunshine Coast A-Grade rugby union player home from Bali after the incident raised more than $37,000 in just 24 hours.
It has now raised more than $50,000.
After he arrived at Royal Brisbane Hospital on a LifeFlight air ambulance jet, Jacob's father Steve said he had been told his son had a "10 per cent chance" of emerging from his coma.
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I like to have a blank card on hand for thanking a teacher or bus driver for taking care of my kids. A card is a thoughtful addition to a tin of cookies for a friend or for those impromptu holiday neighbour drop in visits. Sending a card in the mail is always a special and unexpected Christmas joy as well.
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This is a sponsored post by Luxottica, a supporter of NewGradOptometry & new graduate optometrists! 😎
As a new graduate, with little to no experience, a very common priority is to start working, generate income, and start paying off optometry student loans.
Student loans are a scary thing. With new optometrists graduating with larger amounts of debt than ever before, the sense of urgency to begin generating income creates anxiety within new graduate ODs.
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NewGradOptometry conducted a survey of its users and asked students to rank their confidence in paying off their student loans. They found a nearly even split between those who felt confident and those who felt worried. Breaking down responses a bit further, as graduation year increased, so did the lack of confidence in ability to repay student loans.
As we might expect, 2021 graduates are far more concerned about their ability to repay their student loans than graduates from the class of 2017 for example.
As a new graduate optometrist living in Southern California, I was no stranger to this challenge, urgency, and anxiety. When I started my search for employment, I had a very difficult time finding full-time work at a private practice. Every employer wanted prior work experience or someone to simply work a day or two for them, without benefits, working as an independent contractor. It was challenging to even piece together part-time work because the days in demand were usually all the same – weekends!
I became so frustrated that, at one point, I was ready to move to another state! Then I decided to look into opportunities within corporate optometry and the advantages it provided. I applied to a position within Luxottica, and was set up with an interview. Not long after, I received a contract, began training, all within a single month. Two weeks later, I got my first paycheck, and let me tell you, it was a great feeling.
So, what does corporate optometry offer new graduates right out of school?
Full time work
Corporations are big.
That means that usually there are an abundance of corporate jobs! As I experienced for myself, sometimes it is really challenging to find a full-time job working in private practice. Additionally, I found that many private practices preferred an associate with some experience and were hesitant to consider a new graduate optometrist, something I did not find to be true with corporate optometry.
Everyone associates corporate optometry with patient volume. This is something that is true of any practice, both corporate and private. There's a major advantage of seeing a large number of cases, and that advantage is you can start refining your clinical skills and gaining experience. I quickly discovered that contrary to popular belief, in the corporate world I was doing a lot more than just refracting!
You'll likely be treating red eyes and foreign bodies along with diagnosing diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma on a regular basis. Honing these skills and familiarizing yourself with these sorts of patient encounters is very important, especially as a new grad. The experience you'll gain will be invaluable.
Steady corporate optometry income
Corporate optometry pays well. We know that. Having a steady income is so important for new graduate optometrists, especially now when we are graduating with so much student loan debt. You want to be sure your employer is structured well and able to pay you well, in a timely manner, and a corporation can do that.
Generating steady income is a top priority of optometry students. In a corporate optometry study conducted by CovalentCareers in 2018, compensation and benefits were among the top reasons optometry students intended to pursue a corporate optometry career.
The expectation that corporate optometry careers offer greater income potential was reinforced in this study.
What else can corporate optometry offer?
By working in corporate, you have a lot of flexibility. You don't like it? That's okay, you can simply find another opportunity elsewhere because you haven't invested all of your time into putting roots down as you would have if you had joined a private practice, and had to start building your presence there. It's also easier to take vacation days because you would be part of a large network of doctors who can fill in for you.
This ebook will teach you about the different Luxottica brands, and what corporate optometry modality might be best for you: employment, sublease, or franchise.
Optometrists are often paid as 1099 independent contractors and are therefore may not receive paid medical benefits, especially if working part time at various private offices. Corporate optometry offers a lot more than reliable compensation. It offers benefits, CE allowances, paid time off, etc. This all adds up and is critical for financial well-being.
It might seem like or perhaps I am alluding to that compensation and income is the most important factor to students; however, the same might also be true of practicing ODs!
In that same corporate optometry study conducted by CovalentCareers, we saw that compensation and benefits consistently remained the most important influencing factor in choosing a modality for both students and practicing optometrists.
Compensation, benefits, and schedule flexibility were also the primary reasons ODs not currently practicing in corporate optometry were likely to enter this career modality within the next 5 years!
Unsurprisingly, compensation, benefits, and schedule flexibility were the major driving forces influencing ODs to stay in this setting.
The common theme here is that compensation and income are motivating factors for both students and practicing optometrists alike, and corporate optometry appears to afford lucrative opportunities.
What else can corporate optometry offer new graduate optometrists?
Advancing career opportunities
The great thing about corporate optometry is you can grow within it or develop valuable skills and knowledge to take elsewhere. If you want to open your own practice one day, there are franchise and independent practice options available within the corporate realm. Or, you can go on and open a cold start practice on your own. The beauty of working in corporate optometry is that you have all these options available to you.
Various corporate brands
There are tons of different corporate brands, even within the same company. You can work within whatever brand in which you feel most comfortable. Unlike a private practice, if you feel like that office or brand's culture isn't a good fit for you, or doesn't align with your personal goals and desires, that is not a problem! You can look into other brands within that company and find the right fit for you.
Fill in opportunities
There are always fill in opportunities available, so if you want to make some extra cash, you can.
Service opportunities
Giving back is always important, and there is ample opportunity to get involved in giving back to the community. Most corporations work with charitable organizations to allow their company and employees opportunities to be a part of something bigger.
Being involved in the community is a great way to give back and to hone your skills. OneSight is just one of the initiatives you can get involved in. OneSight is an organization that brings vision care access to underserved communities around the globe. Students work with supervising ODs and other volunteers to give the gift of sight and truly change lives. Luxottica-affiliated ODs volunteer their skills to both local and global vision clinics for these underserved populations in need of eye care.
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Not unlike many private practices, corporate offices are also able to afford the latest technology and equipment. This helps your efficiency and decision-making confidence when you are first finding your feet early on in your career.
If you find yourself in a situation similar to mine, a situation many new graduate optometrists find themselves in, at the very least you should consider corporate optometry. Now is as good of a time as ever to start gaining experience and earning an income to pay back those student loans and achieve all of your financial goals!
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Too many think the battle for gay rights ends with marriage equality. Even with the Supreme Court forecasted to rule in favor of the matter come June, it takes prominent voices to shift the core thinking to a wider spectrum of LGBT issues. One person working toward that is Julianne Moore, who recently recorded a PSA for Lambda Legal's #IDo campaign to raise funds and awareness.
In the video, the reigning Best Actress winner, who nabbed the Oscar earlier this year for her touching performance in "Still Alice," enumerates reasons why the crusade for gay civil rights must continue once marriage is legal for all. Moore cites school bullying, medical care and violence against transgender individuals as three such examples, urging others to say "I do."
Those who join Moore in this next stage of the fight can donate to Lambda Legal, the nation's oldest LGBT legal organization. The organization's board co-chair, Karen Dixon, and her wife, Nan Schaffer, will match up to $1 million in contributions, dollar-for-dollar. All said, the 54-year-old actress is the perfect spokeswoman for Lambda's efforts. Her résumé contains a diverse mix of LGBT projects, including roles in 2002's "The Hours," 2009's "A Single Man," 2010's "The Kids Are All Right" and the upcoming "Freeheld," in which she plays a terminally ill police officer who must fight to secure pension benefits for her partner (Ellen Page).
"I think it's a very basic human-rights issue," Moore said in 2011. "Everybody has the right to marry the person they love and be represented as a couple and family. ... It's something that people will look back on in years to come and say, 'I can't believe it took so long for us to recognize this.' It'll be like segregation and giving women the right to vote."
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Scenic Airlines
Scenic Airlines is an American regional airline based in Paradise, Nevada, United States. It operates sightseeing flights from Boulder City Airport[3] in Boulder City, Nevada. Scenic has been owned by Grand Canyon Airlines since 2008.
|Boulder City Airport
|Fleet size
|16 (DHC-6 Twin Otter) [1]
|Parent company
|Grand Canyon Airlines[2]
|Paradise, Nevada
|Key people
|(President, CEO)
Scenic Airlines was started by John & Elizabeth Seibold and their single engine Cessna airplane in North Las Vegas in 1967.[4] Between 1967 and 1993 Scenic Airlines grew to be one of the world's largest fixed-wing air tour operations.[5] In 2000, John Seibold was recognized by the Las Vegas Review Journal as being one of the most influential businessmen in Las Vegas in the previous 100 years.[5] In 1977, Scenic Airlines purchased the design and manufacturing rights to turboprop-powered conversions of the Cessna 402 and Cessna 414 from American Jet Industries.[6][7] In 1983, the airline co-developed modifications to the de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter to make it more suitable for use as an air tour airplane.[4][5] The airline eventually moved to Las Vegas's McCarran International Airport (LAS).[4]
In 1993 the Seibolds sold the airline to SkyWest Airlines[citation needed] and it continued to see growth until it merged with Eagle Canyon Airlines in 1998.[4] In 1999, Scenic was operating scheduled passenger service between Las Vegas (LAS) and Grand Canyon National Park Airport (GCN) with Fokker F27 turboprops.[8] In the spring of 2006, citing rising fuel costs, the airline announced it would be ceasing scheduled passenger operations in order to focus on its sightseeing flights, thus abandoning its scheduled services using its fleet of three Beechcraft 1900 turboprop aircraft. Almost all of the scheduled service flights were Essential Air Service (EAS) routes and were then picked up by Air Midwest operating as US Airways Express.
On March 29, 2007, Scenic Airlines was sold to Grand Canyon Airlines and the airline continued to operate from the Boulder City Airport providing services to Grand Canyon West, Grand Canyon, Page, Arizona, Monument Valley, Utah, and Rainbow Bridge, Utah. At that time, Scenic Airlines continued to operate sightseeing flight services to the Grand Canyon every day of the year.
On March 19, 2009 Scenic Airlines moved its operations at the Boulder City Municipal Airport (BLD) into the company's new Boulder City Aerocenter, a 30,000 sq ft (2,800 m2) terminal.[9]
Although operations were merged, both Scenic and Grand Canyon initially operated under two different operating certificates.[2] Scenic no longer existed after April 30, 2009 when both airlines were completely merged and then began to operate under the Grand Canyon Airlines operating certificate.[2]
Scheduled flight destinationsEdit
- Arizona
- Nevada
Scheduled sightseeing destinationsEdit
Previous scheduled flight destinationsEdit
According to the Scenic Airlines December 1, 1977 system timetable route map, the airline was operating independently with the following destinations receiving scheduled passenger service:[11]
- Arizona
- Grand Canyon (GCN)
- Page (PGA) - seasonal service
- Phoenix (PHX)
- Yuma (YUM)
- California
- Carlsbad (CLD)
- El Centro (IPL)
- Long Beach (LGB)
- Palm Springs (PSP)
- Nevada
- Las Vegas (LAS) - Hub
According to the above referenced timetable, at this time Scenic was operating Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner (Metro II model) and de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter turboprops as well as Cessna 402 prop aircraft on scheduled flights. The airline was also serving Elko, NV (EKO) and Ely, NV (ELY) in 1975.[12] Other aircraft operated by Scenic in the past included the Beechcraft 1900C, Beechcraft 1900D, Cessna 207 (T207A Turbo Skywagon model), Cessna 208B Grand Caravan, Cessna 404 and the Fokker F27-500 with the latter being the largest turboprop ever operated by the airline.[13]
Since it was founded in 1966, Scenic Airlines has experienced at least five fatal accidents.
- On October 16, 1971 a Scenic Airlines Cessna 402 en route from North Las Vegas Airport to the Grand Canyon crashed while attempting to turn away from poor weather conditions on a sightseeing tour. The pilot and all nine passengers were killed.[14]
- On November 30, 1975 a flight from Ely, Nevada to Elko, Nevada in a Scenic Cessna 402 crashed in poor weather due to improper IFR procedures. The pilot and the sole passenger were killed.[15]
- On July 21, 1980 a Cessna 404 Titan departing the Grand Canyon Airport for Phoenix, Arizona experienced an engine failure on take-off due to foreign material, improper maintenance, and improper procedures. All eight persons aboard (seven passengers and one crew member) were killed.[16]
- On September 20, 1996 a Cessna T207A operated by Scenic Airlines was being re-positioned at night from Grand Canyon, Arizona to St. George, Utah. For reasons undetermined, the airplane collided with the top of a 4,600-foot (1,400 m) bluff killing the sole occupant.[17]
- On October 8, 1997 a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan operated by Scenic Airlines departed Montrose, Colorado for a flight to Page, Arizona. While climbing at the normal rate of climb to 15,400 feet (4,700 m), the airplane disappeared from radar. The wreckage was located among pine trees and exhibited evidence of a steep descent angle consistent with a stall or spin. All eight passengers and pilot were killed.[18]
- The wreckage of the Cessna 208B Grand Caravan crash sits at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott Arizona, Robertson Crash Laboratory where it is used by the students of the crash investigation class taught by Safety Science Professor William D.Waldock.
- ^ Sceninc Airlines Fleet Information
- ^ a b c Petition from Grand Canyon Airlines to the US Department of Transportation[dead link]
- ^ Flight International 12–18 April 2005
- ^ a b c d "Scenic Airlines history". Archived from the original on 11 May 2008.
- ^ a b c "Part III: A City In Full". Las Vegas Review Journal. Archived from the original on 19 July 2012.
- ^ Taylor 1989, p.793
- ^ Gunston 1993, p.270
- ^ http://www.departedflights.com, April 2, 1999 Official Airline Guide (OAG), Las Vegas-Grand Canyon flight schedules
- ^ Spillman, Benjamin (2009-03-20). "Happy landings in Boulder City". Retrieved 2009-04-28.
- ^ Scenic Airlines schedule
- ^ http://www.departedflights.com, Dec. 1, 1997 Scenic Airlines route map
- ^ http://www.departedflights.com, April 15, 1975 Scenic Airlines route map
- ^ http://www.airliners.net, photos of Scenic Airlines aircraft (advanced search)
- ^ Summary of NTSB report into the crash of Cessna 402 N3250Q retrieved 22 January 2009.
- ^ Summary of NTSB report into the crash of Cessna 402 N52SA retrieved 22 January 2009.
- ^ Summary of NTSB report into the crash of Cessna 404 N2683S retrieved 22 January 2009.
- ^ Summary of NTSB report into the crash of Cessna T207A N6468H[permanent dead link] retrieved 22 January 2009.
- ^ Summary of NTSB report into the crash of Cessna 208B Caravan N12202 Archived 2011-02-22 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 22 January 2009.
- Gunston, Bill (1993). World Encyclopedia of Aircraft Manufacturers. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.
- Taylor, Michael J.H. (1989). Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions.
External linksEdit
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Scenic Airlines.


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– Liz Mair
Wow. I missed this yesterday, but my friend Dave Weigel got ahold of the transcript of the Senate Homeland Security Committee's recent hearing on czars, and Sen. Roland Burris-- you know, the guy who took over President Obama's Senate seat when Rod Blagojevich appointed him, the one that may soon be filled by (IMO) ethically challenged stereotypical Chicago pol and Obama chum Alexi Giannoulias-- had a whole lot of incomprehensible to say. Dave writes:
Studded with phrases like "this is the meat that caused us political scientists to even exist" and "I'm certainly going read each and every one of you all's testimony," Burris's questioning is almost impossible to understand.
I'll say.
More from Burris' own mouth:
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, this is — this is — I mean this is. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'm done.
So, Mr. President (sic), I really don't have many questions, I just — I got more questions than I have answers, Mr. Chairman, in reference to this, because I — I just sit here and listen to the experts talk, and every time there was a statement made, there's a — there's a new question come to my mind, well, what about this? What ifs — What if? What if? And — and so, I find this so fascinating...
I don't know how I'm going to get back to — to, you know, the hearing again to try to follow up on this but, Mr. Chairman, I would imagine that our grandchildren are going to be still wrestling with this same problem.
Based on the fact that — especially the House of Representatives, since they stand for re-election every two years and senators much longer, you — you have this constant power struggle as who is really representing the people and what that representation is going to mean when it gets to the — the policy decision that's going to impact the public.
Virtually everything connected to and surrounding Obama's old Senate seat feels like a gift from heaven for Republicans these days. But even those not gunning for Mark Kirk to succeed Burris and replace someone whose performance in this particular hearing certainly looks absurd at best must be pleased to know that a guy who doesn't even seem to know how long a Senator-- you know, like him-- serves for will soon be out of a job one way or another.
UPDATE: Marathon Pundit says that Burris has already constructed his mausoleum and suggests that the "Thank you... this is — this is — I mean this is... I'm done" quotation might suit it rather well. Certainly better than it did a Senate hearing, I'll bet...
UPDATE NO.2: Via The Right Scoop, here's the video of Burris babbling:
Warning before you click on this: It's a tad painful. Especially at the end.


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Our children are our most precious resource. We need to build our investment in our children's education here in CD-11 so that they can compete for jobs and additional education in an ever increasingly competitive job market.
Statistics show that approximately 14% of CD-11 adults, 25 years and older, do not have a high school diploma. We need to nurture our students' growth so as to enable them to realize their educational and professional dreams. To accomplish that goal, we need to recruit and retain the best teachers and staff possible and make available the most cutting-edge resources in our schools to advance students' achievements.
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Firearms have been a cornerstone of our nation's freedoms since our constitution was ratified in 1788. Firearms are an essential component of protecting ourselves, our families, and our businesses. Every time the tragedy of gun violence robs a family of a parent or child, it serves as a cruel reminder that some of our citizens should not be able to purchase guns due to a lack of respect for the awesome responsibility required to be a sensible gun owner.
After all of the horrific shootings from Parkland, to Sandy Hook, to Las Vegas, and others, we still have not acted to restrict gun sales to people who lack the mental capacity to act with the utmost respect for the safety of others. Responsible people should be allowed to purchase guns that suit their needs for self-defense and sportsmanship. No gun owner need fear that we are trying to take away their constitutional right to bear arms.
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Our nation has been consumed by an inability to fix the healthcare crisis confronting the vast majority of us. It is not just a national issue, the effects of ever increasingly expensive healthcare costs affect us at the national, state, and local levels. We need to refocus our efforts on strategic solutions to provide affordable healthcare to all of our citizens in CD-11. I will work with the healthcare industry and across the aisle to ensure that we develop strategic solutions to expand the availability of affordable health care to every deserving citizen.
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Celebrating an overseas Filipino Christmas
MANILA, Philippines – Every Christmas, Melda would cook her signature meaty spaghetti for Noche Buena. She makes it sweet, with a generous serving of ground beef and bits of red hotdogs, topped with a copious amount of cheese – the Pinoy-style spaghetti.
Apart from attending Simbang Gabi and hanging a capiz lantern in front of her house, serving a dish that she grew up eating for Noche Buena is one of the ways Melda keeps a Filipino Christmas, even if for 10 years now, she's been celebrating it in Canada.
Melda is one of the 2.2 million Filipinos who will be spending another Christmas away from home this year. But even if they can't come to the Philippines, Filipinos always find a way to take the Philippines with them especially during the holidays.
In Beijing and Singapore, Filipino communities hold Christmas parties that boast of food, games, raffle prizes, and performances of popular Pinoy Christmas songs. These parties don't fall too far from those we celebrate with our officemates, friends, and families here at home.
Vanjo Merano, founder of the Panlasang Pinoy blog, is part of a group of Filipino families in Chicago, USA who try to keep Filipino Christmas traditions alive.
"Our group, composed of around 20 Filipino families, celebrates Filipino Christmas. During Christmas parties, each family will bring their special homemade dishes for sharing," said Vanjo.
Vanjo has been based in Chicago for 11 years. When he first arrived, he noticed the lack of restaurants and stores serving Filipino food. He knew he had to do something about it.
"I had to travel several miles in order to sample quality Filipino food. I was saddened by the situation, so I decided to build a blog that will showcase and promote Filipino Cuisine one recipe at a time," said Vanjo.
Through his blog, he shares recipes of different Filipino dishes like menudo, afritada, adobo, and lumpiang sariwa for two reasons: so our kababayans abroad can always have a taste of home, and so people from other nations can discover the Filipino cuisine and learn how to cook it.
Cooking Filipino food would always bring back Vanjo's memories of his childhood in Las Piñas especially during Christmas.
"We used to have a family reunion every Christmas. My mom's siblings and their families all meet in her house on Christmas eve," said Vanjo. "We go to church to hear anticipated Christmas day mass and eat Noche Buena together. It was really fun and exciting because everyone tries to catch up with one another. There were games and tons of food."
Now that Vanjo has his own family, he still follows the tradition he grew up with.
"We attend Simbang Gabi here in Chicago hosted by the Filipino community. We also throw Christmas parties with gift giving and exchange gifts sort of like monito-monita," said Vanjo. "Noche Buena is also always part of our tradition. Our staples are menudo, meaty spaghetti, lechon, macaroni salad, morcon, and pancit canton."
And using the right ingredients like how our mothers and grandmothers used to make these traditional Filipino dishes is key in keeping the taste and the memories that go with it intact.
"Knorr has been a key ingredient even when I was still in the Philippines. It brings out the flavors in every dish and makes it more enjoyable. I'm glad that I have access to Knorr products here in Chicago so I can still cook our favorite dishes the same way," shared Vanjo.
Melda, Vanjo, and every Filipino community around the world show that wherever you go, you can always have a truly Filipino Christmas.
"To me, a Filipino Christmas is celebrating Christmas the same way that I did when I was still in the Philippines. This includes practicing Christmas traditions such as simbang gabi, countless Christmas parties with Filipino friends, family reunions, and sharing and enjoying our favorite holiday Filipino food," said Vanjo.
After all, the spirit of Filipino Christmas is right inside every Pinoy's hearts. – Rappler.com


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The highs and lows of Wii's 2008
It's been a memorable year for the Wii – from Nintendo's demonstration that Nickelback aren't actually the worst band in the world at E3 to the success of Boom Blox and de Blob at retail, there certainly hasn't been a lack of things to discuss. Here's the very best and worst of the Wii's 2008.
The Lows
It's clear that Nintendo now regard E3 as a chance to showcase their most accessible software due to the attendance of the mainstream press, but that still doesn't justify their awful showing this year. From the now infamous live demo of Wii Music to the complete lack of core game announcements, the whole presentation was an enormous let down. The backlash from the hardcore was so great that Miyamoto was forced in interviews to repeatedly assure fans that the next Mario and Zelda were on their way, and prematurely announce a new Pikmin without even a scrap of artwork, let alone footage. Yes Nintendo, the mainstream press does cover E3, but no-one knows how to complain quite like angry gamers.
Holiday schedule
Nintendo's software for the Wii since it's release has been strong and consistent, but their output since this summer has noticeably diminished. It seems in their rush to release Super Mario Galaxy, Super Smash Bros Brawl and Mario Kart Wii within months of each other, they forgot to arrange their Christmas '08 lineup. Traditional gamers have been left a simple choice: Animal Crossing or nothing. It didn't have to be quite this bad – if Fatal Frame IV and Disaster: Day of Crisis had been translated for a North American release, they would have papered over some very large cracks.
Lack of progression
This year's solid updates to Mario Kart and Smash Bros. were arguably just that: updates. Apart from Mario Kart's excellent online component, neither game made any great strides in their core gameplay in the same way Super Mario Galaxy or even Super Paper Mario did. This may have been easier to ignore if it weren't for Animal Crossing: City Folk; which apart from the edition of Wii Speak, featured very little new content or gameplay. The only truly revolutionary game Nintendo produced this year was Wii Music – a game that seems to have been utterly rejected by core gamers.
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There are many ways in which the Wii's hardware is lacking when compared to the competition. All but one of them can be explained by Nintendo's desire to keep the cost of hardware and software development down, and to make the platform attractive to a wide audience. The only truly crippling hardware flaw the Wii has is its meager and unexpandable 512MB's of internal memory. WiiWare is starting to bloom as a platform, and it's success is a great credit to Nintendo, but the inability to quickly and easily store downloaded software also highlights their extreme shortsightedness.


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Greenhouse Grower's second day of California Spring Trials 2017 offered some interesting new marketing efforts. Here's a look at what we saw, and what you need to know.
Our day began with a visit to Speedling in San Juan Bautista, highlighting several companies including Hem Genetics, Thompson & Morgan, ABZ Seeds, Plant Source International, Village Farms, and Speedling itself.
Hem Genetics' new lavender, 'Blue Torch,' is a trick to the eye and the nose. With small flowers and a rosemary scent, this eye-catching variety will draw interest for its uniqueness. Hem also officially launched its new heart-shaped tomato, which grows low and compact, and offers sweet fruit.
Thompson & Morgan has recently been acquired by a British lawn and garden company, BVG, and has some new faces representing it at trials. Its exciting intros included Pelargonium 'Tall Dark & Handsome,' a vigorous, climbing type of geranium that climbs to 6 feet with support and offers a mix of pollenless flowers in three colors, Orange, Speckled Coral, and Pink. There wasn't a specimen available, but growers can inquire this year.
Plant Source International highlighted some new genetics it has licensed through Westflowers, including the new Cuphea Floriglory series, Portulaca ColorBlast series, and Constellation petunias. PSI is a supplier of unrooted cuttings to the North American market, with production in Mexico and in the U.S. It's licensed to produce cuttings for a number of breeders, including Danziger, Florensis, GGG, Marcum, PAC-Elsner, and Westflowers. It also has a large open market program.
Pacific Plug & Liner
This year's theme at Pacific Plug & Liner (PP&L) in Watsonville, CA, was "Camp Perennial," a refocus on the operation's recent direction to discontinue propagation of annuals and double down on its emphasis toward perennial and woody ornamentals production. In years past, Israeli nurseries Cohen, Hishtil, and Jaldety, have taken part in the PP&L trial location. This year, those nurseries have moved on to Chisan Orchids, allowing PP&L to use the full trials space to promote its own products and capabilities.
This year, that meant focusing on grower solutions in creative and eye- and mind-filling displays, laid out like campsites throughout the trial. The major offerings from PP&L include three exclusive products, all bred by Bart Noorrdhuis: Helleborus (Frost Kiss series and others), Eckibeckia, and Carex 'Feather Falls' and the new 'Ribbon Falls'.
The operation has had great success with Eckibeckia since its launch of the original three varieties. Three more came on the market this year (see slideshow), and one of them – 'Butterscotch Biscuit' – has flowers that measure 6 inches across. That variety is almost sold out this year.
PP&L is hoping its focus on helleborus and carex will lead more growers to see these plants as solutions. Helleborus can be grown for both early spring and fall, and carex is a good solution for landscape customers, but also at retail, says PP&L's April Herring.
PP&L also offers dianthus, hydrangea, its signature Bubble Berry and Hula Berry program, its cordyline program, and a variety of lavender, all of which grows well in the Pacific Northwest. Check out its Linerbility program for availability of young plants. This year's trial program was all about Salvia – we'll follow up with more information on that later.
Breeders at Pacific Plug & Liner
PP&L still included some of the suppliers it works with, including Bailey Nurseries, HMA, the Southern Living and Sunset Collections, and Cultivaris. Highlights from these include:
Bailey Nurseries – Known for its branded shrub lines, Bailey Nurseries debuted the look of its new Endless Summer Hydrangea branding, and highlighted its First Editions personality, Ask Amy, which is centered around showing the average homeowner how to plant landscapes.
Cultivaris – With an interesting new petunia series literally waiting in the wings, Cultivaris continued to highlight its collection of unique and fabulous varieties.
HMA – Also displaying at American Takii, HMA was showing a broader array at PP&L. It's adding 25 new license agreements to be able to carry more varieties. There are new varieties in echeverria, and the company is expanding its selection of perennials, due to the number of opportunities in that segment. HMA is also offering an extended season free sample program to growers.
Southern Living and Sunset Collection – A new alliance with Skagit Horticulture will allow Southern Living and Sunset collections to improve its availability and distribution of plants. The program promotes plants in program with 10 full ad pages in Sunset and Southern Living magazines, social media and online content, and digital advertising on HGTV and DIY, Sunset and Southern Living networks.


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See genip.
[American Spanish, from diminutive of mamón, papaya, genip, from Spanish, suckling, sucker (probably applied to the genip because the flesh of its fruit is sucked out of its skin whole), from mamar, to suck, from Old Spanish, from Latin mammāre, to give suck, from mamma, breast, teat; see mā- in Indo-European roots.]
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|mamoncillo - tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp
genip, Spanish lime - round one-inch Caribbean fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp; eaten like grapes
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