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We very often have a group of girl's that want to come into the photo studio for an occasion, a time in life, a hen party photo shoot or whatever excuse they have! What we do guarantee is they will all come in and have a good time and a laugh. Share and like:Details


text: The Wise One Mug by Lisa Parker. The mug carries a striking close-up picture of an owl, with large staring orange eyes. It is set against the shape of a pentacle, with Celtic knotwork in the corners of the design The mug is made from bone china and can be used in the microwave and is dishwasher safe. It measures H 10cm x W 12cm x D 8cm. The Mug is supplied with a decorative Gift Box

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Seafood Tags
My work has offered me the opportunity to travel around the world as I attend trade exhibitions or visit clients. Our company sells grocery store point of purchase signage so I inevitably end up in a grocery store looking at the signage searching for ideas or trying to find one of the signs I had a hand in producing.
I was in England once and came across a tag our company had sold to a US company who bought Scottish farmed salmon and sold it under their brand name. Two things struck me that day. One I was really a little too excited to find a tag I had a hand in selling. My euphoria was completely lost on my wife's grandmother who had dragged me to the market to carry home the groceries. The second thing was no matter where you are in the world the seafood counter is the most intimidating spot in the grocery store.
I think it stems to my Ontario roots. Although we can lay claim to a Great Lake and our plant is built in a town on the shores of the St. Lawrence River, seafood is not a part of our heritage as it would be on one of Canada's three coasts. As such my knowledge of seafood has been limited to the main stream, (no pun intended). So when I walk into a seafood shop I can't be relied upon to spot the difference between Halibut and Tilapia, Farm Striped Bass from Vietnam and wild caught Sea Bass from Spain. Who outside of the experts can? All I know about crab I learned from the Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch show.
So it always concerns me when I am shopping for the right type of seafood for my dinner table. I rarely know how best to prepare it and I always feel bad holding up the line to ask for some advice. So what happens? I always gravitate to seafood that's tagged. As a novice seafood shopper I like the fact somebody cared enough to put a label, a gill tag, or an in-ice sign with the product. That tells me the country of origin, what it is and how it was caught. It's a traceability system that seems to shorted the divide between the fishermen and the plate. Some of the great companies even put cooking or preparation tips on these signs as well. For me it takes the guesswork out of the whole thing. I love sounding like an expert at the dinner party rhyming off the information I read from the seafood tag before they arrived.
Just think about it. Every other product in the store has been identified so if it's important for the other companies why would a seafood supplier not think it was important to brand their product. I find I am brand loyal now too, rewarding the companies who tell me who they are as opposed to the no-name selections beside them. I can't be the only person intimidated by the seafood display. At the end of the day I always travel the path well lit. I can be adventurous – just not with my seafood.


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Freemasons by Balvers, Romy
Historical and Social Interest
A poem know as the Regius Manuscript is considered the be the oldest Masonic text and dates back to 1390. Using rituals and symbolism in their codes of conduct this international fraternity has always been surrounded with mystique. Freemasonry has three degrees within the Lodge system: Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason. This 'society with secrets' teaches ethical lessons and searches for answers to lifes important philosophical questions. Development, brotherhood and encouraging change seems to be at the core of the society's work, expressed most often in charity projects. and among their own brethren. The Lodges involved in this documentary are Lodge Post Nubila Lux and Lodge LÂ'Union Royale, residing in Amsterdam and The Hague.


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Police Dump Ashes Of Woman's Father, Claim They Were Narcotics
Bucyrus, Ohio resident Sarah Lewis lost her father last month to a murder spree that killed four men in three days. Lewis has carried some of her father's ashes in a small cylinder on a necklace since his death, but lost a portion of those ashes recently after police suspected she was holding drugs in the container.
Lewis spoke with police after they came to her house with a warrant for her arrest. Police asked her in the moments before her arrest if she had anything on her, and Lewis told them about the necklace. When an officer inspected the necklace, he said the contents of the cylinder looked suspicious.
"I agreed to let him open it, and he was like 'This don't look like ashes so we are going to the station,'" Lewis told 10-TV.
Officers analyzed a sample of the ashes and told Lewis the ashes tested positive for narcotics. They returned the necklace to her, but the ashes had been emptied. Lewis was never charged with narcotics possession, which leads her to believe the sample didn't actually test positive for drugs.
"If they came back as narcotics, they shouldn't have given me back my necklace, and I should have been in jail," Lewis said.
Lewis wants the involved officers to be held accountable for dumping the ashes.
"I want him to pay for what he did. I wouldn't lie about my dad," said Lewis. "I would never lie about ashes being in there. I would never dump them."
The Bucyrus Police Department declined to speak on the matter since it's an ongoing case.
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- no waking to the alarm
- no making school lunches
- set routines out the window
- time to do things together with the children
- time to visit other families.
Now, with more mothers in the workforce, I acknowledge that school holidays can bring issues:
- supervision of children when parents are at work
- the cost of school holiday programs
- the difficulty getting employers to have flexible leave problems for working parents
- the frequent assumption that it is the mother who will take annual leave to care for the children...dads are parents too!
I am surprised today though, that some children and families don't seem to have a down time, that school holidays are jammed full of activities, classes, outings. There doesn't seem to be time to just hang, to play alone or with friends. I'm not sure what drives this need to fill every minute. Is it that parents don't want to spend time with their children? Or is it a sign of how much you care for your children that you want to take advantage of every minute for enrichment and stimulation?
It certainly seems to me that the result is children who cannot amuse themselves or find things to do. I think too that they are becoming restless unless they are constantly stimulated or entertained. My answer to "I'm bored" used to be, "Only boring people are bored" then I might explore with them what they would like to do so they didn't feel bored any longer, but the onus was on them to come up with the solutions, and the most successful ones usually involved some level of physical activity or involvement with other people.
It is important I think for children to learn that they can make changes in what they are doing that then change how they are feeling. I'm not sure that they get this opportunity when their life is crowded by activity, often organised by adults.
So my advice, for what it's worth, is to enjoy holiday times with the children, have fun together and don't cram every minute with entertainment and activity!


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Look no further! Spectacular five years young 5-BR/3.5BA home with tons of space! Nearly every imaginable option built into this home! Granite counters in kitchen and full bathrooms. Hardwood floors in foyer, living room, kitchen, breakfast room, and dining room. Kitchen has double oven with an over abundance of cabinet space, and an island! First floor office with plenty of light! Master bedroom must be seen to be believed! Ample size bedroom area with a tray ceiling and an attached sitting area, TWO walk-in closets, and en-suite super master bathroom which features two separate vanities, shower stall, and whirlpool tub. Nice size additional bedrooms with a well-appointed hall bathroom. Entertain in either the spacious family room with gas fireplace on the first floor or in the basement family room with built-in wet bar/granite counters and lots of cabinet space. LL also features a full bathroom and the 5th bedroom. Large storage area unfinished to design as you see fit. House is equipped with a sprinkler system, 2 zone gas heat and AC with Nest thermostats. You just can't believe how much house you can get for so little money!
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If the #retriever50for50 countdown rated the top comeback in UMBC Athletics' history, the moment at No. 9 would be at the very top. It would have to rank as one of the greatest rallies in all of collegiate lacrosse. And it happened in a conference championship game with an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament at stake.
The 2008 UMBC men's lacrosse season was an interesting one to say the least. After reaching the 2007 NCAA quarterfinals and getting so close to a national semifinal berth, the Retrievers lost decisively in the first two games of the 2008 season. But a win over a fast-improving Denver squad and a narrow 10-8 loss at Hopkins turned the tide for the Retrievers.
And a certain characteristic of the team was starting to show through – its success in tight games. After the Hopkins' loss, Don Zimmerman's squad won nine consecutive games to finish the regular season at 10-3. Yet, all but one of those games was decided by three goals or less, including the 9-8 triple overtime win over Maryland (Moment No. 38) and a subsequent 12-11 double overtime triumph at Ohio State.
That pattern continued into the America East playoffs, held at UMBC. In fact, the Retrievers trailed, 5-2, to fourth-seeded Binghamton early in the fourth quarter, but managed to tie the game and won it on a goal by attackman Ryan Smith in overtime.
Two nights later, on May 3, 2008, a light rain fell at UMBC Stadium as the Retrievers met their fiercest league rival Albany for the league title. A year earlier, Albany defeated UMBC for the league title, although UMBC earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament.
On one of the first possessions of the game, Smith, the Retrievers' leading scorer, went down with a leg injury (later determined to be an ACL tear) and did not return to play.
The injury seemed to stun the Retrievers and the Great Danes took full advantage, scoring the game's first five goals and adding two in the final nine seconds of the first quarter to lead, 7-1, after 15 minutes. The visitors built the advantage to 11-2 with 6:41 to play in the first half and Retriever supporters were probably wondering whether another at-large bid would be in the offing.
UMBC did score the final two goals of the half to cut the deficit to 11-4, but the hole was still pretty deep. But Retriever face-off specialist Taylor Marino began to dominate and the offense started to cash in. UMBC scored four times in the first 3:31 of the third quarter and cut the gap to 12-9 after 45 minutes.
In the absence of Smith, linemate Matt Latham stepped up and scored his fourth goal of the game with 4:21 remaining to bring the Retrievers to within 13-12. Marino won another draw and midfielder Alex Hopmann tied the game with 3:01 remaining. Marino captured the ensuing face-off and midfielder Maxx Davis earned his fourth assist of the night, feeding linemate Jamie Kimbles, who buried the biggest goal of his tenure on an outside bounce shot with 2:12 remaining.
The Danes did get a final possession, but missed the cage with six seconds left. As the clock hit 0:00, not only did the Retriever sideline mob goalkeeper Jeremy Blevins, but a large group of bare-chested UMBC swimmers stormed the field to celebrate with their fellow student-athletes.
It was a night that UMBC coaches, players, staff, broadcasters – anyone who was part of the more than 2,000 that witnessed the game live – will never forget.
True to form, UMBC played to a one-goal decision in the first round of the NCAA Tournament at Virginia. But Terry Kimener's last second attempt hit the UVA keeper in the face mask and the Retrievers fell to the No. 2-ranked Cavaliers, 10-9.


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Forming the Basics of Future Mathematics Teachers' Professionalism by Means of Multimedia Technologies
Yevpatoria Institute of Social Sciences (Branch) of V. I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University, Yevpatoria, RUSSIA
Kazan (Volga region) Federal University, Kazan, RUSSIA
Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Moscow, RUSSIA
Stolypin International Institute of Informatization and Public Administration, Moscow, RUSSIA
Ulyanovsk State Agrarian University named after P.A. Stolypin, Ulyanovsk, RUSSIA
Online publish date: 2018-02-04
Publish date: 2018-02-04
EURASIA J. Math., Sci Tech. Ed 2018;14(5):1621–1633
The purpose of this paper is to specify the essence and the specifics of implementation of the pedagogic technology of forming the basics of future mathematics teachers' professionalism using the potential of multimedia in higher education. The major research method is pedagogical experiment (comprising analytical search, ascertaining, forming, and control stages) aimed at verifying the efficiency of the pedagogical technology of forming the basics of future mathematics teachers' professionalism; statistic methods have also been employed for checking efficiency and reliability of the experimental research results. The participants of the pedagogical experiment have been 290 students (150 students of the experimental group and 140 students of the control group) of the training area 44.03.01 "Pedagogical education", skills profile "Mathematics". Theoretical issues on the nature, structure, criteria, indicators and levels of formation of the basics of future mathematics teachers' professionalism have been disclosed; the notion-category apparatus of the theory of the teacher professionalism has been specified; there has been scientifically grounded and developed the pedagogical technology of forming the basics of future mathematics teachers' professionalism that corresponds to the structure of the holistic pedagogical process and includes: target orientations, conceptual bases and regulations, procedural characteristics, program-methodological support, and an appropriate combination of traditional and multimedia tools. The results of the gradual introduction of the pedagogical technology of forming the basics of future mathematics teachers' professionalism by means of multimedia technologies indicate significant positive shifts in the formation of all the components of the basics of students' professionalism, which was reflected in the positive dynamics of the criteria for all indicators and generally indicates the effectiveness of the proposed pedagogical technology. Research materials can be used to further improve the theory and practice of the professional training, in particular, in the training of future mathematics teachers in the process of qualification improvement and personnel retraining, and in the self-educational activity of teachers.
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Doris Lydahl, University of Tampere/University of Gothenburg, doris.lydahl (at) gu.se
Elena Bogdanova, University of Gothenburg, elena.bogdanova (at) gu.se
Linda Soneryd, University of Gothenburg, linda.soneryd (at) gu.se
Lisa Lindén, University of Gothenburg/Lancaster University, lisa.linden (at) gu.se
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1st session slot: Doris Lydahl
2nd session slot: Lisa Lindén
3rd session slot: Linda Soneryd
4th session slot: Elena Bogdanova
5th session slot: Elena Bogdanova
6th session slot: Linda Soneryd
Care has – after being an important topic in feminist research since the 70's – in recent years gained increased momentum in science and technology studies (STS). Building on a feminist ethics of care, STS scholars have emphasised local solutions rather than general ethical principles (Mol et al. 2010). By attending to care as a material and political doing, focus has been on care as something being enacted in diverse practices, such as farming (Singleton 2012), health care (Mol 2010), soil and permaculture (Puig de la Bellacasa 2017) and laboratories (Giraud & Hollin 2016). Moreover, feminist STS scholars have noted that care is not a taken-for-granted good; it should not be conflated with affection and positive feelings (Martin et al. 2015), and it can include harm and vulnerabilities (Singleton & Mee 2017). In the process of cherishing some things, care also excludes others. Importantly, this points towards the possibilities and problems of care as a topic for STS research. What is gained from studying practices as care practices and what is lost? What is made present and what is made absent? When and where is it fruitful to think about science and technology as matters of care? We are, thus, interested in further pushing care as an analytical and empirical resource for STS scholars.
This panel welcomes contributions that engage with care in various ways, and from a range of empirical areas. We welcome papers that empirically, methodologically and theoretically approach the growing importance of care for STS analysis. This can for example be about:
- Pushing care in new empirical areas
- Care as a matter of (translocal) responsibility
- Care as doing bads and goods
- Tensions between care as empirical practice and research practice
- Care research as ethico-political practice
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I have not been to a dentist since I was a child.. so I was a little nervous. The staff absolutely makes everything easy and comfortable for you. They were able to answer all my questions and they even explained to me the different things they're doing. This was the first pick, and I have to say that this is my first choice because I know I'll be taken care of.Rae SenSeptember 24, 2019
I am 75 years old and have always been terrified of dentists. I have been seeing Dr. Kwon for the last 15 years and he and his staff have always been gentle and the work excellent.Shannon MatthiesenSeptember 7, 2019
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I was here six months ago and the hygienist was very thorough with both her explanations as well as the cleaning. I recently had 2 cavities filled and Dr. Kwon was very professional as well as kind and patient. Was very pleased with the quality of dental care.Angela NesbittJanuary 7, 2019
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Bad toothache, received appt within few hours today! Prescribed antibiotic and pain med. Extraction in two days, so far so good. Will update .Cathy NishimotoDecember 19, 2018
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Called yesterday around noon, got an appointment at 3 that same day! Got a follow up the next day! Let me just say that I am so impressed with this dentist! Friendly staff, and a great atmosphere overall! I will definitely be back!Shardannay AdamsMay 2, 2018
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Dr.Kwon is an amazing Dentist with a phenomenal staff they are always friendly and very compassionate and willing to work with his patients. Dr. Kwon does a great job as a Dentist and is a very caring and compassionate dentist his work is top notch. If you're looking for a dentist and staff that cares look no further.Da Shawn MDecember 18, 2017
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I went to SK yesterday for a regular cleaning and found out I needed a deep cleaning instead. Dr. K was able to get right side of my mouth deep cleaned and two fillings patch up with a little over one hour. This was a last minute request and I am very pleased with the work and their can do attitude. I am heading back on the 18th for my second half of the deep cleaning and I will report back later. I would recommend this place to anyone who is looking for a small friendly but fast and result work done with their teeth!Shi Jie TangFebruary 3, 2016
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Great office. All the staff is patient and caring. All 3 of my children have had their wisdom teeth taken out there and it all went very smoothly. Susan GibbsJune 19, 2014
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Well, originally, I was brought up in a cob house in this part of the world, in East Devon, a 400-year-old cob house, so I knew it was a very pleasant material to live in. And then we had the chance to buy a very old, run-down house, which is quite close to here, about 22 years ago, which was cob. And it just struck me what builders had done to it more recently, what builders tend to do these days, which is stick a cement render over chicken wire, isn't how it survived the last 350-400 years. So I looked into learning about more traditional methods of repair, learned about lime, and applied it to the house. Made quite a few mistakes, but learned a lot, and it kind of progressed from there. Somebody else who wanted a lime plaster heard that I could do it, and basically, I've never really looked back.
Well, that original first cob wall I did on that house, I did a 1-day course with an old guy called Alfie Howard, who is quite well-known in the cob building world in these parts. He was about 70 [years old] then, and his parents built with cob back in the 1920's. And he was the 1st person in this part of the world to begin the cob revival. Cob is very common here. There's 20,000 cob buildings in Devon. So lots of people are aware of it. It's just not many are building with it, I think mainly because of fashion, when bricks became cheap, as much as anything else.
But just from that 1-day course, that was enough. I was a builder anyway. The thing with cob is, there's a lot more to building a house than just the cob. Cob's the easy part, really. But that was enough. I run 1-day courses, and I like to think people go away and do something simple, like a garden wall, and you gradually build on your experience and confidence. I'm still experimenting and stretching the boundaries as often as I can, really.
I use a JCB now, I only recently got it. I've been building cob for 15 years or so, and I only got the JCB 2 years ago. Mind you, I've never looked back! It's the perfect tool, if you've got the site where you've got accessibility for that size of machine. It just takes all the labourious mixing out of it, and you can still be very creative with it, but just get a heck of a lot more done.
In the first building, I wasn't really sure I could do 2 stories in 1 year. No one had done it before, that I was aware of. I think Alfie Howard had done a 2-storey extension, but I think he'd taken 2 years to do it. So I thought I could do it, but I played a little bit safe on the height of the plinth [stone foundation]. I started the plinth up at about nearly a metre high, so that the rest of the wall was probably only about 3 metres. The plinth was about 3 feet high, and add about another 10 feet of cob to get to the eaves. Now, I'd be quite happy to start the cob a lot lower. Basically, because I find cob's such a pleasing medium to work in, I'll do as much as possible in cob, and as little as possible in stone. It's still a good idea to have a bit of a plinth. Generally, I'd get away with about 18 inches now. I think that's enough, with a decent overhang.
For me, the reason to go for that level is efficiency of the space that you're creating. It's the same size roof for 1 storey or 10 stories. You COULD do 10 stories. I would be happy to build a 10 storey building. The thing is, you'd be quite pushed in places. Like over here we've got the point loads of the beam across the fireplace. In fact, that chimney, from the footings that are quite deep here to the cap on the chimney is 48 feet high. But that's all built in about 4 months. The thing with going much higher than that, you'd have trouble doing it in 1 season in this country, because you get a lot of rain. And through the winter, it's impractical to build, unless you've got a roof over you. So, I think anything more than that, probably, realistically, 4 stories, you'd have trouble getting it in 1 season. So then you'd have to just protect it over winter.
And of course, as soon as you introduce structural members, beams and so forth, without a roof on top, they tend to track water in the wall, give you problems. As soon as you've got the main roof trusses up, then you track water in the wall just where you need it to be strong. So you've got to be quite quick once you get to that stage, unless you put a temporary roof over the whole building. Then you really could go probably 10 stories, about the maximum. But that's not very pleasing for me, because that's a lot of stairs to go up. I think probably 3 stories is a comfortable amount of climbing to do.
And it's a very efficient space, the house is quite close to the most efficient shape from a heating point of you would be a sphere, because it's the least surface area for volume to lose the heat out of. I think with the sort of things I'm doing, you're getting close to that. I haven't done an exact round house, because actually, it's quite a difficult shape to make pleasing, usable rooms out of. And also, I think every site deserves its own design, really, I haven't got a pattern ideal house in my head. There's stuff I really like, like big central fireplace which holds heat, and I like that running right up through the centre, towards the centre of the building, not necessarily right in the centre. But every site dictates, whether it be views, or access, how you might design the shape. But the reason I want is, principally, to make the most out of the space available.
This whole structure has been designed by an engineer, or at least, I might have designed it, but he's checked it, or he's designed all the beam sizes, he's designed the roof structure itself. Basically, cob is incredibly strong, compressively. In terms of, say, a concrete block, it's about 1/3 as strong as a standard concrete block. It's at least 1 Newton per square millimetre, if that means anything to you, in terms of compressive strength. Because considering you generally tend to build quite wide walls anyway in a building which needs to be well-insulated, so you can spread the load, any point loads, over a bigger area. It's really not an issue, whether it's structurally up to it. It's easily structurally up to it.
The new house: I've borrowed the money, or put in some of our own money, and borrowed a lot more. Site's very expensive in this part of the world, so you have to make the most of a site to make it economically viable. And you're talking about, that would be in excess of half a million [British] pounds, that's resale. This house here, because we've got all the other out-buildings, is a million-pound house. They're very valuable properties in this part of the world, really. They would be even more valuable if we were a bit nearer London. We're not looking at cheap housing here, it's high-quality end of the market.
I believe in Schumacher: Small Is Beautiful. In a sense, I suppose we've ended up pretty wealthy, because I have worked very hard for a long time, in a way that has made me money. But money hasn't been my raison d'etre at all. I've wanted to make money, not lose it, but my motivation is to do work I'm happy with. And I've been a bit of a workaholic. I think it's easy to look at this now and think that I'm very privileged in some way. Well, obviously, I am, to some extent. It's only because I spend every hour working.
I come at it, I think, because it's just a great material to use, and a more satisfying way to build, and something I can feel happy with to leave behind. But I also think it's quite important to be part of the mainstream and bring it in, because it's taken more seriously by everybody then. That's where I feel what I'm doing has its own merit.


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Now here's a reunion that we can all get excited about. 90's girl group All Saints have announced they're releasing new single 'One Strike' to be followed their first album in a decade 'Red Flag'.
'One Strike' is a canny, charming reminder of everything huge swathes of the global pop audience loved about All Saints in the first place. The track is a perceptible call to arms for anyone who experiences a single moment, perhaps a phone call or conversation, that changes your life completely. The song is set against a lovelorn yet uplifting melody and the most heart-breaking middle eight likely to be sung by any harmonious assembly this year.
Shaznay explains "When I write, I just think about what's on my mind. The lyrics came from somewhere very real. Nic was going through a lot of things at that time. That was at the forefront of my mind because it was the heaviest thing going on." The song was written as a direct response to the younger Appleton sister's marriage dissolving. "We spoke for hours and hours on the phone," Nic says. "The first few times I heard it in my car," says Nat, "I couldn't stop crying because I could hear so clearly what it was about."
After the touring the UK in 2014, All Saints resolved to do something they never thought they would again, and wrote, recorded and produced a new record. It was not made without massive prior consideration. "We didn't force ourselves into this situation," says Natalie, "and it couldn't have happened at a better time in all of our lives. I just missed being with the girls. It makes us happy. Listen, if you can work with your favourite people, then why not? I have such a good time and I spend more time laughing and having fun than I do working." "The album," says Shaznay, "could have been made a lot quicker if we'd spent less time joking around while making it."


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Dr. James D. Schuette is a general dentist providing dentistry for the entire family of all ages. We offer nitrous oxide to help you relax for a dental visit that is as comfortable for you as possible.
We also offer state-of-the-art laser enhanced treatments so that we can provide more efficient, comfortable care. Laser dentistry can do many things for your smile, including helping you grow new bone, grow new connective tissue, and grow new gum tissue without the use of a scalpel or sutures. Laser dentistry also allows us to aid those who have snoring and sleep problems by enlarging the airway. Laser dentistry can also lessen infection and swelling by lowering hemoglobin A1C and C-reactive proteins. The use of lasers also allows smaller, more precise removal of decay to allow for smaller fillings. Lasers can also aid in orthodontics by allowing quicker movement. Our dentist also uses lasers to help clean out nerve chambers more thoroughly in root canals. Some of the advanced laser technology featured in our office includes:
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The sixth and likely final season of Community will finally debut next Tuesday, March 17th. Two episodes will debut on Tuesday, "Ladders" from Anthony Russo & Joe Russo, the directors of Captain America: Winter's Soldier and the forthcoming "guy" Ghostbusters, and "Lawnmower Maintenance and Postnatal Care," directed by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (i.e., Dean Pelton). One episode will be released each Tuesday thereafter until 13 episodes are completely.
It debuts on Yahoo Screen, and while I don't know exactly what time the episodes will premiere, I do know that it's different from watching the show on NBC. Gillian Jacobs helpfully explains how to watch.
So, you're going to have to download an app. No biggie. However, she says that we can watch by streaming it to our televisions via Roku or Apple TV. Is that it? I assume we can also watch it on our mobile devices. Is Chromecast also supported (probably not, since it's from a Yahoo! competitor). Presumably, you can also just watch it on your laptop without the app.
Those in the UK can watch Community on Sony Entertainment Television on the 18th, and in Australia, you can on Stan on the 18th. If you live anywhere else in the world, Yahoo released this statement: "Go f*ck yourself."
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Hurricanes, Technology and You
Include a plan for your technology when preparing for hurricane season
It's June, y'all. In case you've somehow forgotten, we're here to remind you that June is the beginning of the Atlantic hurricane season. Yes, it does feel nice to remain in La La Land and pretend that hurricanes wouldn't dare make landfall in New Orleans again, but c'mon, let's be realistic. Let's hope for the best and prepare for the worst. Read on to learn how to make sure your technology is evacuation-ready and/or damage-proofed.
First things first, make a list of all of your personal and business technology and data that you would still need access to in case of an evacuation. When you have a list of what you'd need, you can probably keep most of it close at hand and ready to be packed should you have to flee for higher ground. More importantly, and this applies all year round, make sure you have automatic scheduled backups running on your computers to a local storage device that you can easily pack up and evacuate with. It's a good idea to also have a second copy of your backups in cloud storage, just in case your evacuation goes horribly wrong and your local storage device is destroyed by lightening or a tornado or something. You may want to consider having your photos and important documents scanned too, so have electronic copies that are backed up to an external hard drive or to cloud storage. Lots of things can be replaced, but photos of your wedding or your child's first birthday can't be.
Another thing to consider before a hurricane is threatening our coast is installing a basic home or office surveillance system. If you connect a router and cameras to a UPS battery, you can view what's happening to your home or business using the internet while you're evacuated. With a surveillance system in place, you won't have to sit helpless and imagine how bad the damage is going to be. You can prepare for repairs even before you're able to get back home. And the rest of the year, the surveillance system comes in handy as an extra security precaution for your home or business.
Have you ever been stuck in hours of traffic while evacuating from a hurricane? If you have important business to attend to, or even if you just want to stay connected while on your hurrication, Terrific.IT can equip your vehicle to be a mobile wireless hotspot using a power inverter, a router, and a couple of magnetic antennas. This setup allows multiple cell phones and USB wireless network adaptors to share internet bandwidth while on the road, and can also be brought into a hotel room once you reach your evacuation destination.
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"This is the traffic that's moving too slow. / Cars and buses have nowhere to go. / What is the answer? I'm guessing you know."
Anyone who guessed light rail, carpool incentives, congestion pricing, or bike lanes would be sadly mistaken. Nope: "The trucks need to build a new road!" And to the rhythm of "The House That Jack Built," they do. "This is the SCRAPER whose sharp metal blade / forges a new path through forest and glade / to make way for the road that trucks built." Children who have a sense of verb tense may wonder why it's "built" instead of "build," but sufficiently truck-inclined tots will probably overlook this and focus on the grinning road-building machines that smooth the roadbed, spread and then flatten the asphalt ("all bubbly and black"), and paint the lines. All the vehicles have headlight eyes and smiles and are presumably sentient, but a couple of hard hat–topped birds supervise. The final spread depicts the new four-lane road lined with tulips, the smiling construction trucks arrayed on either side. Although the traffic is not yet bumper-to-bumper, there are enough vehicles on it to make readers wonder how long it will be before the next "forest and glade" are destroyed. An illustrated key to the trucks concludes the book.
Truck-hungry children may love this unreservedly, but it will make environmentalists and transportation reformers weep. (Picture book. 4-7)


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When noncustodial parents in Texas are unable to meet child support obligations, one possible method of collection is wage garnishment. Roughly 7 percent of Americans have money automatically subtracted from their paychecks for garnishment purposes, according to data collected by a leading research institute. It's a process that's sometimes a source of stress for both employees and employers. However, garnishment is not the same across all job sectors and geographic locations.
Business valuation critical prior to divorce settlement
The owners of private companies in Texas generally need to disclose their business assets when negotiating divorce settlements. Because the business likely represents a significant asset, its value could play a large role in the division of the marital estate. The ex-spouse who owns the business may need to provide a cash settlement to the other party based on the business's value. The valuation could also influence the calculation of child or spousal support.
Determining the need for DNA paternity testing
It's fairly common for DNA testing to be involved in family law cases in Texas when there are questions about parentage. Sometimes during divorce, people question whether they are actually their children's biological parent. Paternity can also become an issue if couples were unmarried when a child was conceived. In situations like this, a father is not automatically considered a child's legal father. In fact, an "alleged father" does not have to be listed on a birth certificate as a father unless he has been legally determined to be so.
The importance of DNA tests with child support disputes
As some Texas families find out when they begin a child support case, a DNA test might be required to settle the case. A DNA paternity or maternity test often means the difference between a parent and child receiving support from the non-custodial parent or not.
Understanding child support cases
Not all Texas residents who pay or receive child support have the same type of child support case. In fact, there are four types of support cases created by Title IV of the Social Security Act of 1975. Title IV established the grants to fund aid and services to families and children in need. To understand how individual child support cases work, it is important to learn the differences between these four types.
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With the divorce rate between 40 and 50 percent in the United States, Texas couples often wonder what they can do to prevent their marriage ending in divorce. While there are many reasons why couples go their separate ways, one of the major stressors in marriage can be the couple's finances. There are ways that couples can work toward counteracting the negative effects that finances might have on their marriage.
Making co-parenting work during the holiday season
For children in Texas, the holidays can be a time of great excitement and anticipation. If divorce is part of the equation, however, seasonal happenings can also be a source of stress and potential conflict. This is especially true when children have to go back and forth from one parent's home to the other. Whether the end of a marriage is new or not, having a solid co-parenting plan in place during the holidays may effectively ease stress for children and prevent serious disagreements from affecting everyone emotionally.
Dividing retirement accounts in divorce
Division of assets is one of the most critical steps in many Texas divorces. The marital home, vehicles and business interests might be points of contention as they can be worth a lot of money. Retirement accounts, too, can be among the most valuable assets that a couple has developed, and dividing them between the parties can be contentious.
Substance abuse adds new concerns for children in divorce
Being married to someone with a substance abuse problem in Texas can lead to a number of difficulties, including financial troubles, frequent disagreements and physical altercations. As a result, marriages that involve substance abuse are at a higher risk for divorce. This process is further complicated when children are involved and child safety concerns are raised.


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In case you needed anymore evidence that Rafael Eduardo (Ted) Cruz is a pathological liar who allied himself with a sneaky, backstabbing, hateful, social climber in the form of one Carly Fiorina, above are screenshots to the P. O. Box for Carly Fiorina's Campaign and that of the Anti-Trump super PAC MAKE AMERICA AWESOME. Below you will find links to those sights showing their addresses. What is even more disgusting is that knowing he was responsible and benefitted from it he accuses Trump of an article posted about him which created the Cuban Mistress Crisis, knowing as he did that this story was being researched months before and originated from the Marco Rubio campaign. It would have come out sooner but the Propagandist Schmuck, Shill, Ben Shapiro, whipped out his tiny White Knighting Schmeckle blocked the story when he worked for Breitbart before he tried to cause a scene by quitting because of a non story claiming that a fellow reporter was thrown to the ground by the head of Trump's campaign. They forced this story into the media in spite of the fact that there was no evidence for it and when that evidence came out if proved she had lied. These Liberal Media pundits need to stop trying to wag the dog and telling the American People what to think and trying to distort the lens through which the Media Views Reality. Your job is to report the News, you goddamn evil, cowards, not to manipulate events, tell people what to think, make the news, or choose presidential candidates. When this Revolution comes to fruition, rest assured you are not innocent and you won't escape American Justice.
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3 micro expressions have become a permanent part of Carly Fiorina's facial personality based on here repeatedly returning to these emotional states: Disgust, Contempt, and Anger. Two of them are used in thin slicing to predict the end of relationship. Paul Ekman said that a person in a permanent refractory state is an insane person. During the debates Carly telegraphed a lie that she has used so frequently it has become formulaic and even has its own cadence.


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Deception is necessary for placebo pills to work, or at least that's the conventional wisdom. A surprising new study on patients with chronic back pain shows that we still experience the placebo effect, even when we know we're being tricked. Image: Pixabay
This study reminds me of a Simspons gag. There's an outbreak of the Osaka Flu in Springfield. A mob beseeches Dr Hibbert, "We need a cure!" He says, "Ho ho ho, why the only cure is bed rest. Anything I give you would be a placebo." Someone immediately pleads, "Where can we get these placebos?!"
It's funny, of course, because that's not how placebos work. Placebos aren't cures. The placebo effect is a neat trick in which our conscious expectations of what a pill or therapy is supposed to accomplish actually elicits physical effects, which are usually quite subtle and transient. Or, at least that's what we thought. A new study published in the science journal Pain upsets this conventional thinking, showing that the placebo effect can still happen even when we're aware of the intended deception.
An experiment conducted by researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada (ISPA) in Lisbon, Portugal, is the first to demonstrate that patients who knowingly took a placebo alongside a traditional treatment for lower back pain experienced greater improvement than patients who just received the traditional treatments.
"Our findings demonstrate the placebo effect can be elicited without deception," noted lead author Claudia Carvalho in a release. "Patients were interested in what would happen and enjoyed this novel approach to their pain. They felt empowered." The researchers say the placebo effect doesn't necessarily happen on account of a patient's conscious expectations, but rather because they're taking the pills within the context of a patient-clinician relationship.
"It's the benefit of being immersed in treatment: Interacting with a physician or nurse, taking pills, all the rituals and symbols of our healthcare system," said study co-author Ted Kaptchuk. "The body responds to that." He suspects that this ritual alters a patient's symptoms, and likely activates regions of the brain that modulate symptoms.
For the experiment, the researchers studied nearly 100 patients with chronic back pain. After all participants were given a 15-minute primer of the placebo effect, the researchers randomly divided them into two groups: A group that only received traditional pain relief, and a group that received normal pain relief alongside a placebo that was openly identified as such (the bottle was literally labelled "placebo pills").
At the end of this three-week regimen, the placebo group reported 30 per cent reductions in both usual and maximum pain, compared to nine per cent and 16 per cent reductions (respectively) for the non-placebo group. The placebo group also experienced a 29 per cent reduction in pain-related disability. The non-placebo group experienced virtually no improvement in this area.
"These findings turn our understanding of the placebo effect on its head," noted Kaptchuk.
It's a fascinating finding, but with some important caveats. The sample size was relatively small, and the duration of the experiment was too short to get a sense of any long-term effects. It's also not clear how individuals with other health conditions would respond to the open placebo treatments. To that end, and in the words of the researchers, "More research on this possibility is warranted."


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Humanitarian organizations delivering food assistance in conflict-affected areas or regions plagued by natural disasters or outbreaks of epidemic diseases cannot do their job blindly. Practitioners operating on the ground need a steady flow of accurate, up-to-date information to remain effective — and safe.
In order to design, implement and monitor programs when access is limited and risky, critical questions must be answered to understand the cause of the crisis, ascertain the number of people affected, what type of assistance they require and where, and whether they have successfully received that assistance.
The World Food Program's Department of Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping boasts a network of about 150 food security analysts in more than 70 countries, tasked with gathering such "actionable food security information." In 2012, the organization piloted mobile Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping, or mVAM monitoring, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to collect food security data remotely via mobile phones using short surveys and interviews, SMS interaction, and an Interactive Voice Response system.
According to Arif Husain, the WFP's chief economist, the organization's ability to collect and collate information has improved "exponentially" thanks to mobile technologies and the use of such projects.
However, that's just the "tip of the iceberg," according to Husain.
"There is so much more we can do," he said. "We are always looking at ways in which we can get this information quicker and in a way that we can process it very quickly; in a way that is inexpensive and, most importantly, from places that are hard to reach because of conflict, diseases or because the terrain is very difficult."
In an exclusive interview with Devex at the WFP's Rome headquarters, the chief economist shared the organization's strategies to increase the use of technologies for data collection and what role partners can play, explaining the challenges humanitarian organizations face in implementing those solutions, why it is worth the investment, but also why development organizations should seek WFP's advice when designing them.
It's not just about technology
The idea beyond mVAM is simple: gathering information on food access, consumption, prices and coping mechanisms. Mobile phone operators provide the numbers from which WFP draws relevant samples. Although it doesn't totally replace face-to-face to investigations on the ground, it makes humanitarian action more focused on the areas where there is the real need, instead of "going blindly to 50 places," minimizing risks and saving human and financial resources.
"The beauty of the system is that we can get information out of places that were previously 'dark' … If you can get information out, then you can do something about it," Husain said.
Doing the same job by traditional surveys takes anywhere from four to six weeks; using mVAM it takes only one week and is 60 percent cheaper. Even if a high number of calls are required to gather significant data, it is still more efficient and more timely: "It is still worth getting that information out, because it tells you not only what happened three months ago, but what is happening right now," Husain said.
But unless done properly, this type of approach can harbor a number of risks.
In Yemen, for instance, the start was slow and difficult. People legitimately feared answering their phones: "Imagine your phone is ringing and somebody is asking you questions in a conflict," he said. Politically sensitive questions must therefore be carefully avoided, and it should be made clear that the communication history can be removed from the phone — in some cases this could help protect the user from harm.
Choosing between phone calls, automated IVR calls or SMS messages depends on the situation. If literacy is a big issue, SMS becomes impossible, but in spoken interviews, dialects can pose additional problems.
"You do need some kind of a baseline beforehand … What [language or dialect] people speak, what is the literacy rate, what is the telephone coverage rate ... all of that type of information," Husain said.
And sometimes an incentive is needed, for instance in the form of credit for the time spent on the phone. "When we start in a place it often takes time … you have to be patient," Husain said.
What's next?
Today, mVAM is used in 11 countries, including fragile and conflict-affected states such as Central African Republic, Iraq, and Yemen and during the Ebola outbreak in Liberia. WFP aims at scaling up the project to reach some 30 countries in the next couple of years.
"We are trying to get resources to mainstream it," Husain said.
Meanwhile, there is something else cooking at the U.N. organization to take such types of engagement forward: call detail record and satellite technologies.
In the event of a disaster, using CDR can help ascertain not only how many people left a place, but also where they went, whether they made or received phone calls, and even whether they called internationally to request money and what type of remittances were sent.
"If you know that people are moving through point A and are at point B, and you know exactly how many they are, and you know exactly what type of assistance they require, imagine the savings you make because your response is so efficient," Husain said. "You get to the right place, with the right type of assistance, at the right time."
WFP hopes to undertake small-scale pilots to test efficacy, but the issue is securing the right partners. The agency is talking to companies like Google for satellite technologies, with phone companies on CDR, as well as firms specializing in data processing and the design of logarithms.
"We are always looking for partners that can provide technology, financial assistance and any help that can improve efficiency," Husain said. "There is a lot for the private sector and the public sector to gain by investing in us."
Call WFP
The mVAM methodology and data are freely available for the academic, humanitarian and global development communities and many players are using WFP information to make operational decisions, according to Husain. But what WFP also puts at the aid community's disposal is its expertise.
Other organizations have implemented their own systems, but according to Husain, WFP is "ahead of the curve", due to its unique position as the largest humanitarian agency. Why? "Because for us this is a need," he said. "We don't do this because we need to provide it to somebody else, we do it because it improves our efficiency ... We go, we test, we see, we test … we continue doing that. And that's really the reason why we are ahead of the curve."
And Husain's advice to aid organizations that want to implement solutions for data gathering? Call the WFP.
"Because of our on the ground experience, and because of our deep field presence ... we can help in the design of these new tools and methods," he said.
Oftentimes, according to Husain, organizations design "fancy gadgets that miss the point," such as elaborate survey tools that have no relevance in the place where they are to be applied. "If you're going to be spending a lot of money designing something, a drone for example, please take the time not only to talk to the scientists actually designing the product, but to the users," he said. "And do not underestimate the significance and the importance of the practitioners who are dealing with the people on the ground."
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Wow – we're definitely of like-mind. I've sometimes formulated the same notion using "a series of concentric circles" – influence expanding outwards first with yourself, then those closest to you (of mind/heart not necessarily of distance), and further from there.
I love the notion of the sufi. I remember a piano lesson I had… somewhere in elementary school. It was "Whirling Dervishes" or something like that. The drawing in the piano book had a woman spinning around with spirals coming out of her and I immediately understood what she was doing.
Later on, I heard other less flattering things said about the dervishes and thought, "they just don't understand, do they?". I honestly don't even remember at the moment who the dervishes were or are… but I remember one thing…
They whirled.
I whirl. Maybe not always in person but I do it in my mind/heart. I think of positive reprecussions… and how our every move/word/deed/thought could very well be amodel that someone else might follow.. or reject.. or ignore – but nevertheless – you never know who might be modeling their behavior/ideas off of you.. and it's an honorable place to be. I don't think of myself as a rolemodel but whether I want to be or not… I couldbe and never even know it. So, I try to be the best me that I can be at any given time. That doesn't always mean being the "best I can be" – but rather, just… being me , whatever that is.


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Actis Acts is Actis' relaunched foundation for supporting charitable activities. It has been established as a UK Charitable Incorporated Organization in 2017 with the purpose of providing grants for:
- Charitable activities linked to investee companies
- Partnerships with charities operating in Actis countries
- Local charities nominated by Actis offices
The program aims to initially commit to a total of US$300k in new grants per calendar year. Grants will be funded from the Actis balance sheet. Actis Acts is governed by regulations around the use of funds, due diligence practices, monitoring and reporting under UK Charities laws.
To learn more about Actis, please visit www.act.is.
Selection Criteria
Actis Acts has a broad mandate to provide funding to support a wide variety of themes, including education, gender, skills development, entrepreneurship, capacity building, health, environment, financial inclusion and provision of essential infrastructure, among others.
All of the merits of each project will be taken into consideration before an award is granted. The key selection criteria include the following five dimensions, which help guide our understanding of a project's impact on society and the environment.
What outcome does the effect relate to, and how important are they to the people or environment experiencing it? What is the overall desired impact outcome (e.g., improve health, empower females, job readiness training, etc.)?
How much?
How much of the effect occurs in the time period, and are the benefits sustainable and/or scalable? Is the impact marginal or deep, short term or long term, benefiting a few or many?
Who experiences the effect, and how underserved (e.g., marginalised groups, disadvantaged groups, youth, women/girls, indigenous people, etc.) are they in relation to the outcome?
How does the effect compare and contribute to what is likely to occur anyway (i.e., does Actis Acts' contribution provide additionality)?
Which risk factors are material, and how likely is the effect to be different from expectations?
Source: Impact Management Project
Case Study
Garden City Technical Training Centre
Kenya's construction industry output has risen on average 13% year on year since 2014. There is an estimated gap of about 30,000 engineers, 90,000 technicians and400,000 artisans, with the shortage of mid-level technicians and artisans hampering the country's economic growth prospects. At the same time, Kenya is experiencing high youth unemployment; 80% of those unemployed are below the age of 30.
I am grateful to Actis and Arc Skills for granting me this training opportunity. I have learnt a great deal and now I can offer quality work for my employer. I also feel like I am at a place of higher advantage of securing jobs because I am now a certified artisan. This training has opened my eyes to new possibilities and I hope to further my education and make my dreams a reality.Kevin Ombogo,
a beneficiary of the training
As a prominent Real Estate investor Actis sought to contribute towards the growth and quality of the construction industry, helping bridge the skills gap by partnering with ArcSkills to offer internationally accredited training to 300 young people selected from different community-based organizations in the informal settlements around the Garden City Mall in Nairobi. The mode of training is practical and modular, with the entire training taking place on live construction sites. Pictures below are from the graduation ceremony for the first 130 participants in the scheme.
Results So Far
- 298 trainees went through the program from June 2016 to July 2017
- 95% of these completed the training and underwent the assessments
- 269 were certified in either masonry, plumbing, plastering or formwork
- Average age: 24
- Percentage females overall: 40%
- 70% of the 203 trainees available for interview in the M&E exercise had secured income generating opportunities
- Of these 81% were employed and 19% were self employed
- Following the graduation event in Feb 2017 for the first cohorts, every subsequent cohort was oversubscribed
- Very positive feedback from trainees that have been through the programme
- Positive feedback from site managers of sites where trainees have been subsequently employed, with some returning to inquire about more trainees