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Either Eric Draper doesnt know a snail kite from a Canada goose, or hes lying through his teeth.
My money is on the latter. I can see his nose growing from here.
Draper is the executive director of Florida Audubon Society. Surely the man knows a thing or two about every endangered creature in Florida.
So, you have to ask yourself, why would he write a four-page, full-of-baloney letter to the South Florida Water Management District, blaming the district for so mismanaging Lake Okeechobee water releases in the drought that the water body experienced significant harm, including loss of apple snail habitat and failure of Everglade Snail Kite nests?
Draper goes on at length: six of the remaining nine endangered Everglade Snail Kite nests on Lake Okeechobee failed, apparently resulting from parental abandonment related to low water levels and lack of available food. The loss reflected deteriorating habitat conditions in the Lake that continue to threaten the survival of newly-fledged young and adults.
Birders must have gone nuts hearing this sky-is-falling hooey.
Oh, my God, they're killing the kites!
Think about it. Literally thousands of Floridians are engaged in some kind of volunteer effort to protect the vanishing habitat of native creatures in this state. And here comes Eric Draper, with environmental credentials up the wazoo, telling them that another species is going under because -- to hear Draper tell it -- chronic screw-up SFWMD is playing favorites and evil Big Sugar is greedily sucking up Lake O.
Very little in this letter is true, no matter what light you hold it under.
It's super-hype. It's a blueprint to what is, frankly, a sinister agenda.
About the kites: If six snail kite nests were abandoned -- and let's say they were -- many more that Draper fails to mention were productive and thriving.
Don Fox of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission told me Friday that in spite of the drought, successful kite nests on the lake are up -- yes, up -- 35 percent this year. Fox, by the way, is The Man on the lake and in the tall grass. He's a biological administrator for FWC's Division of Habitat and Species Conservation. It's his job to manage the habitats supported by Lake Okeechobee.
"We had 41 snail kite nests on the lake this year," said Fox, "which is a huge improvement over last year and over 2007 and 2008 when we were down to nests in the single digits. It means our numbers are back to normal in spite of the drought. Oh, it's nothing like in the 1980s when there were hundreds of kites over the lake, but I'm encouraged."
Fox said the importation and embedding of apple snails deep underwater in the Okeechobee muck have begun to pay off. "We brought in food, got it started and it sure worked well. This year the snail kites have had plenty of food.
"The kites are out there on the lake now, they haven't left. That's how we know they're getting the food they need," he said.
So much for Draper sounding the snail kite alarm.
And by the way, SFWMD hasn't called the shots on lake releases for nearly three years. That's the job of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. See for yourself, it's on page 72 of the Environmental Impact Statement. While I've been the first to criticize the district for wasteful spending and questionable management practices, the Gun Club Road folks are very much the innocent party here. If, as Draper says, the Water Management District is in violation of the Minimum Flows and Levels Rule -- if it's been dishing water unfairly to parties it shouldn't, why didn't he direct his letter to the Army Corps?
I'll tell you why.
He clearly wants Florida agriculture uninvited to the lake-users' party. He wants them starved of water. He wants their land.
Charlie Crist's U.S. Sugar Corp. deal was a bust. It was perceived as a giant boondoggle up and down the state. In fact, it did more harm than good for the Everglades. Now there's neither the money nor the will in Tallahassee or Washington to buy more land for Everglades restoration. What's the next best thing for Draper, the Everglades Foundation and determined environmentalists in a dozen different well-funded groups? Try to get a grass-roots, anti-ag campaign going. Upset the public with bogus "facts" about an endangered, victimized wetlands-dependent bird of prey and you're on your way. It's like lobbing tear gas into a closed room.
But Draper and his friends should know they're on a loser. I wanted to tell him personally, but I was unable to reach him late last week.
The land farmed in South Florida is some of the richest, most productive in the world. It's no exaggeration to say that without Florida agriculture, this country would be importing food from foreign nations.
Agriculture in Florida supports 766,000 jobs, generates $100 billion in annual economic impact and is responsible for $3 billion in tax revenue for local, county, and state governments.
Those crops Draper wants to see choked of water? They make Florida No. 1 in the nation in citrus, No. 1 in sugar cane, No. 1 in sweet corn, No. 1 in winter leaf crops east of the Mississippi. We're known as the Winter Salad Bowl -- no one in the Northeast would have lettuce without Florida's production. Oh, yes, and Florida is No. 2 in virtually all other vegetables.
Agriculture is one of the few industries in the state ready to expand and hire. Said one Glades farmer last week at the 10-County Coalition meeting, "I want to open up more fields, I want to grow my business. The only thing stopping me is water."
Florida is a breadbasket for the nation. And when all is said and done, neither the Legislature nor Congress is ever likely to join Draper's grass-roots anti-ag movement.
Spokespersons from the state Department of Agriculture confirm that farms have worked hard to take their losses and act responsibly during the 2011 drought. Please, no more false alarms.
This is an opinion column by Nancy Smith. Reach Nancy at email@example.com or at (850) 727-0859.


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Just a quick update for people thinking of trying Ketotifen for mast cell treatment.
I was super sensitive to any type of meds and couldnt tolerate ANYTHING! Even anti biotics, which was scarry because sometimes you just have to take them!!! Anyway i am on Ketotifen twice a day and my drug sensitivity is still an issue (it always will be with POTS and EDS) but no where near as serious, and i am feeling a bit better energy wise and my nausea has been helped. So for me it has helped. Its worth giving it a go in my opinion, i had to start off slow, but I am on 2 full tablets a day now, which i didnt ever think i could ever get up to. So it shows you some pills are worth sticking with.
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Specific Precautions and Warnings With MexitilSome warnings and precautions to be aware of prior to using this drug include the following:
- In a clinical study, people who took certain antiarrhythmia medicines, such as Mexitil, after having a heart attack had a higher risk of their heart stopping and death than people who did not take such drugs. It is unknown whether people who have not had a recent heart attack have the same risk.
- Because of the potential risks associated with its use, and because Mexitil has not been shown to help people with arrhythmias live longer, the medication should only be used to treat life-threatening heart rhythm problems.
- Liver damage and abnormal liver function tests, which could be a sign of liver problems, have been reported in people taking this medication, especially in people with CHF or other forms of heart disease. Let your healthcare provider know if you develop any signs of liver problems during treatment, such as:
- Yellowing of the skin or whites of the eyes (jaundice)
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- Upper-right abdominal (stomach) pain.
- Mexitil can worsen your existing heart rhythm problem or cause a new heart rhythm problem. Let your healthcare provider know if you experience a fast, slow, or irregular heartbeat during treatment.
- This medication can worsen existing heart failure and cause severe low blood pressure (hypotension). If you have heart failure, let your healthcare provider know if your symptoms get worse during treatment.
- People with liver disease will need to be carefully monitored while taking this medication.
- Certain diets, including diets rich in citrus fruits, vegetables, and legumes, can change the way Mexitil is removed from the body by the kidneys. Let your healthcare provider know if you eat a lot of citrus fruits, vegetables, or legumes, or if you have been told to eat a diet that will change the pH of your urine.
- A decrease in blood platelets and white blood cells has been observed in some people taking Mexitil, which could increase the risk for bleeding problems and infection. It should be noted that this happened very rarely. In addition, most of the people who developed the problem were quite ill and were taking other medications that can lower platelets and white blood cell counts. Therefore, it is difficult to say for certain whether the problem was caused by Mexitil or something else.
- Although rare, there have been reports of seizures occurring in people taking Mexitil, even in people who have never had a seizure before. Make sure your healthcare provider knows if you have a seizure disorder before starting treatment.
- Mexitil may react with a number of other medications (see Mexitil Drug Interactions).
- Mexitil is a pregnancy Category C medication. This means that it may not be safe for use during pregnancy (see Mexitil and Pregnancy).
- Mexitil passes through breast milk. Therefore, if you are breastfeeding or plan to start, discuss this with your healthcare provider prior to taking the drug (see Mexitil and Breastfeeding).
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National Library of Medicine (US). Drugs and Lactation Database (LactMED). NLM Web site. Available at: http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?LACT. Accessed June 14, 2012.
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Friday, April 2, 2010
Sew and Tell: Little Nine-Patch Quilt
It's Friday, and that means it is time for AmyLou's Sew and Tell. I'm so glad she does this, because it gives me a deadline to have something to show.
I scurried to finish this in time to photograph that in the daytime. It is a beautiful day outside. It was a fun little quilt to make, designed by Kathleen Tracy for Fairfield batting website. The pattern of Little Nine Patch Quilt is free here. I didn't use Fairfield batting, because I had received a free sample of White Rose from Mountain Mist that was just the right size. It is soft and very nice to work with.
I used scraps to make it as I told you in my previous post. It's around 14 1/2" x 17".
I hurt my back a couple of days ago, and that gave me an excuse not to finish the Quilts for Kids top I showed you last week. You should have seen me shuffling and hunched over at work. I feel better now, so hopefully I'll be able to get to the other ones for the next Sew and Tell.
Be sure to click on the Sew and Tell link to see what others have been crafting.
13 comments:
- Lori said...
Cute!I love mini Quilts. I hope your back heals quickly.Take care
- April 2, 2010 at 9:41 PM
- pinksuedeshoe said...
What a fun little quilt! I hope your back is as good as new as soon as possible.
- April 2, 2010 at 9:44 PM
- Allie said...
That's a darling little quilt! I hope your back feels normal soon - oh how I hate back pain!
- April 2, 2010 at 11:12 PM
- Mary said...
What a cute little quilt! Hope your back is feeling better soon!
- April 2, 2010 at 11:16 PM
- Catherine said...
Cute little quilt and great that you used up your scraps! Hope your back gets better soon! A sore back is not a pleasant thing.
- April 3, 2010 at 5:22 AM
- Vicki @ DottyJane said...
Hurting your back is not fun! Hope you heal quickly.
I love this little quilt and the pink really pops in there!
- April 3, 2010 at 11:45 AM
- Leslie said...
this looks great. i love how the quilting really stands out
- April 3, 2010 at 8:21 PM
- paula, the quilter said...
That is a darling little quilt!
- April 3, 2010 at 8:36 PM
- Karen said...
Great finish. Little quilts are great because it feels like you accomplish something without it taking days (or weeks in my case). Hope you back is better.
- April 5, 2010 at 8:30 PM
- Sew It UP! said...
What a sweet little quilt!
Feel better soon!
- April 6, 2010 at 9:55 AM
- Rene' said...
This is great!!! You can really see the quilting lines. Thanks for sharing! Hope you feel better soon.
- April 8, 2010 at 6:39 PM
- Tanya said...
Take care of that back...I remember the shufflng and hunched over walk I was doing last year..
- April 9, 2010 at 7:25 PM
- Debra Spincic said...
Love this little gem!
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Introduction Envato Account Page
If you've been shopping for a WordPress theme on ThemeForest recently, you may have discovered a ceremony named'Envato Hosted' being advertised. As you may have guessed, this recently launched service is from Envato, the site's parent firm, and is supplying managed WordPress hosting. Envato Account Page
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As well As handling some of the chief facets of your WordPress site (something we'll be covering in more depth below), also supplying you with everything you need to start a new website, one of the principal selling points of this revolutionary service is access to one of the participating ThemeForest topics as part of your subscription payment.
Possessing a Single point of contact for domain registration, website hosting, subject provision, and the managing of things such as website updates and copies sounds very handy, but is that this service worth your money? And does it deliver the performance your site requirements?
Let's Have a look.
Concerning the Envato Hosted Managed WordPress Hosting Service
Envato Aim to simplify the process of launching a WordPress site with their new hosting service. Now, rather than registering a domain name with one company, purchasing a WordPress theme out of a different, then enrolling in an internet hosting service elsewhere, not to mention linking all those pieces together, using Envato Hosted, you can access these elements through one account, with one recurring monthly payment.
Not only This, but the Envato Hosted team will even take good care of website backups, core software upgrades and more to help make sure your site is always running smoothly.
What Do You Get With Envato Hosted?
The Convenience of a one-stop shop for all your WordPress website needs does sound attractive. We'll pay the pricing details in more depth later in this overview, but at $19.99 a month, it's clear this isn't cheap, hosting. So let's see what you get for the money.
The Envato Hosted theme installation and installation service is excellent for anybody who is new to WordPress or brief on time. After a clean installation of WordPress was performed, your subject of choice (in the available options) will be installed and activated on your brand new site.
If You currently have a WordPress site, you'll be very happy to know the Envato Hosted package includes a migration of your site and its content into your new hosting account. Additionally, it includes optional domain registration and configuration, and connects your domain to your server room to make sure your site is found at your chosen URL.
ThemeForest Is the largest WordPress themes marketplace, with more than 8,000 options. One of the greatest attractions of Envato Hosted is you get one of these themes included within your hosting plan.
Unfortunately, At the time of writing, only a small choice of WordPress themes were available within their Envato Hosted service. Hopefully, in the future, more theme authors will choose to opt in, but, for now, you can choose from the best selling, multipurpose Avada, Enfold, Bridge, Jupiter, and The7 themes, among others.
WordPress Website hosting packages tend to fall in to two categories, managed and unmanaged. Envato Hosted are in the former class, and, as part of the managed service, upgrades into the WordPress core software and security checks will be carried out on your own behalf. Your site will also be monitored in real time for errors, ensuring any problems are detected after they arise. Envato Account Page
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As Part of the managed hosting security measures, the Envato Hosted system engineers are proactive in scanning websites for malware and other problems, and DDoS protection can also be set up to keep your site online. If an issue is discovered, the support team will begin work solving it, while also notifying you of the circumstance. This proactive approach also applies to assisting with hacked sites.
Contemplating It is not unheard of for some internet hosts to just take your site offline whenever they detect a potential security problem, it's good to see that the Envato Hosted staff will be able to work once an issue is encountered, while also keeping you in the loop about what's happening.
Maybe Unsurprisingly, the Envato Hosted service operates on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure. Because of this, your WordPress website will be hosted on the effective AWS cloud-computing servers.
More Information about the Envato Hosted hosting environment comprises:
· Websites mostly hosted in Virginia, US, with a few limited accessibility in Europe.
· PHP version 5.6 with strategies to push PHP7 in Q1 2017.
· Apache and NGINX nodes.
· HTTP/2 upgraded network protocol allowed across the plank.
· SSL supplied for all domain names, free of charge, via Let's Encrypt.
Currently, There's no site staging service offered, but this has been considered for the future.
Website Snapshots can also be taken nightly, and copies are stored for 30 days (and stored offsite in Amazon S3 storage for added security ). Right now, if you want to restore a backup, you will need to open a ticket to ask the service team to perform this task. However, Envato Hosted hopes to empower self-initiated backups and restores in the first quarter of 2017.
Unfortunately, That the Envato Hosted service does not contain any email hosting or management services. However, you can join your own Envato Hosting account to a few of the supported email providers.
Therefore, If you are already using an email provider such as Google Apps or Office 365, you can link your domain name to the service. If not, signing up with one of these services is your best option for receiving and sending emails together with your site's domain name.
After You've signed up with Envato Hosted, you can contact the support team round the clock. Tickets can be opened from within your Envato hosting accounts dashboard, giving you a central place for managing your site and helpdesk correspondence.
Even though Live chat has been considered for the future, there's no telephone support service, with email being the only way to get in contact with the team. Throughout the testing for this review, the Envato Hosted support team responded quickly to any tickets which were opened.
As part Of the customer onboarding process, you'll also get a one-on-one session with a member of the service staff. This is a good opportunity to ask any questions that you may have or iron out some problems that might occur while establishing your website. Envato Account Page
After You have signed up using Envato Hosted, you will have the ability to log into your account dash. In the dashboard area, you can see your active hosting programs, the details of your WordPress site, along with other important details.
We will Cover the utilization limitations from the pricing department. But, it's possible to easily view how much of your customer, disc quota, and bandwidth allocation you have absorbed from your Envato Hosted dashboard.
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Having Your pick from a selection of high-quality WordPress topics, and all of the other good features covered over, is good. But perhaps the most significant reason to choose one web host over the following is how fast they can serve your site to your visitors.
This Guide explains why site speed is so essential. Suffice to say, if you would like more visitors, a greater user experience, and increased target conversion prices, then you need to be doing all you can to improve the rate of your WordPress website. Bearing that in mind, let's look at the loading times we experienced while testing Envato Hosted with this review.
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On Paper at least, Envato Hosted provides everything a new WordPress user may want. So, let's find out how simple this service is to use in practice.
As This is a hands on Envato Hosted review, for testing purposes, we did register and launch a new WordPress site. Although the time from starting the signup procedure to having the ability to log to the new WordPress website wasn't instant, it just took about five seconds. However, a significant part of that time was spent looking at a screen wondering what was happening.
There Were a few hiccups along the way, such as the links into the website and control panel which were sent over not yet becoming active. This was likely due to domain name system (DNS) configurations taking some time to spread, and the new URL being in the process of going live. But as there's no mention of these delays and possible issues during the setup process, it somewhat taints the suitability of Envato Hosted for inexperienced WordPress users.
Simple Progress records and messages about flaws would be a simple method to overcome these issues and keep consumers informed.
In General, Though, getting started with Envato Hosted and launching a brand new WordPress website is relatively straightforward. You really can register a domain name, choose a theme, and choose which demo to have installed, all through one signup process. But while everything did work, the registration procedure felt a little rough round the edges compared with this of Envato Hosted's competitions.
GTmetrix Site Speed Test Results
The Loading times of the test site were also quantified with GTmetrix, another popular performance reporting tool. Envato Account Page
GTmetrix Recorded the webpage loading time at 2.2 seconds, which can be comparable with all the Pingdom outcomes.
For the Sake of contrast, another evaluation WordPress site, also using Avada and also the same Agency demonstration, took just more than a second longer to load a cheap, entry-level shared hosting accounts.
Pingdom Website Speed Test Results
Pingdom is a popular monitoring agency, and One of the greatest methods to assess the performance of a website. After registering using Envato Hosted, the Avada theme was set up along with the Agency demo site content erased.
As The Avada Agency demo homepage includes a multimedia slider with video content and other big files, it was determined that a more standard page from the demonstration, composed of images and text, would yield more relevant results. When the test WordPress site was put up, Pingdom recorded the loading times of this internal blog post at 30-minute intervals.
After Monitoring site speed with Pingdom, the typical load time over the past seven days to get our WordPress site, hosted by Envato with the Avada theme and its own Agency demo, was 2.96 seconds, using a YSlowperformance grade of 85/100. The loading times were recorded at regular intervals throughout the testing interval.
Site Uptime was also tracked with Pingdom. Throughout the testing, six instances of downtime were detected, with the site unavailable for 15 minutes in total. This resulted in a uptime of 99.85percent based on Pingdom. Even though the site returned to its available state with no intervention, the longest period of downtime as could be seen in the image below — was a somewhat worrying nine minutes.
Envato Hosted Pricing Details
Envato Will host your WordPress site for $19.99 per month or $190 annually, plus taxes.
This Price also includes any qualifying WordPress theme from ThemeForest, including best-selling options like Avada, X Theme, and Enfold. Also included in the service is the setup of your chosen motif and its presentation, as well as continuing support for your website. Free migration of an existing WordPress website to your hosting accounts can also be included.
As Mentioned, because the Envato Hosted service is fully managed, the team will treat WordPress core upgrades, provide base-level security, monitor your site for mistakes, and back up the website daily.
When it Comes to use, your own $19.99 per month or $190 annually includes 100,000 monthly payments, 5GB of disk space, and 100GB of monthly bandwidth. These quotas are soft limits, and nothing automatic will happen if you move over them. Instead, if excessive usage is detected, expect to be contacted by the support staff to talk about a solution which works for both parties. There are no overage charges in place right now.
For Comparison, the entrance level WP Engine handled WordPress hosting plan comprises 25,000 monthly visits, 10GB of disk space, and unlimited bandwidth for $29 per month. For a more budget-friendly choice, SiteGround provide their own take on managed WordPress hosting for as little as $9.95 a month, including an allowance of up to 10,000 monthly visitors and 10GB of disk space. Envato Account Page
However, Neither of these competitor options includes a premium ThemeForest WordPress theme and installation. The allure of the Envato Hosted service is having everything in 1 place, under one account, such as your domain name, hosting support, WordPress theme, and service staff.
You can Try Envato Hosted for free as part of a seven-day trial. You will need to enter your payment details to get started, however, the trial period is a fantastic method to learn for yourself how the service functions.
Components is a service out of Envato That intends to provide creators and manufacturers having an ever-expanding library of digital assets for their projects. If you'd like access to a large and expanding collection of movies, audio files, photos, graphics, illustrations, fonts, HTML templates, and WordPress themes and plugins, in addition to other content then Envato Elements could be exactly what you're searching for.
Furthermore, Envato Elements readers now get access to 1,200 video classes and eBooks from EnvatoTuts+. As a result of this, you do not just get access to almost 1 million digital assets but also the educational content to help you work with them effectively.
In this Envato Elements review, we'll research what this service has to offer, how it works, and how much it's to help you determine if this is a great alternative for your requirements.
Testing with the Twenty Seventeen WordPress Theme
Although Avada is among the most popular WordPress topics about, its abundance of features and performance could be overkill for some projects. If your needs are more small and you'd love to know how Envato Hosted plays a more nominal WordPress theme, we also tested a website with the free Twenty Seventeen theme from the WordPress.org team.
Contrary to Avada, the free Twenty Seventeen motif doesn't include or rely upon any plugins. Therefore, this no frills WordPress theme gave Envato Hosted a great opportunity to demonstrate how quickly it may deliver a web site. With a mean loading time of 335 milliseconds, along with A grade performance more than seven days of testing, Envato Hosted certainly has the capacity to quickly serve a WordPress website to your viewers.
Even though An uptime of 99.85percent was recorded by Pingdom during our initial round of testing, there wasn't any downtime listed in our next seven-day period of testing.
Your Requirements and the final configuration of your website will probably sit somewhere in between among the full-featured Avada demos and the minimal Twenty Seventeen theme. Your results will definitely vary from ours, but ours ought to provide you a rough idea of what to expect from Envato Hosted. Furthermore, with a seven-day free trial, then you should have enough time to carry out speed testing of your site prior to making a last choice on Envato Hosted.
Do not Overlook, there are lots of ways to make WordPress quicker that we did not use on our evaluation site, like optimizing your content more efficiently and picking your plugins sensibly. Think about your primary site rate testing results as a baseline that can be improved in several of ways. Envato Account Page
It is Also worth pointing out that although Envato Hosted does not prohibit the use of any particular plugins (like some other handled WordPress hosts), they do indicate avoiding caching plugins, even as Envato already employs server caching to all websites in their own platform. But while Envato Hosted does not yet maintain their own content delivery network (CDN), you are free to make use of a third party CDN of your own choice — another popular way to accelerate a WordPress site.
Testing The rate of a web site and its own web host isn't as straightforward as it may seem. Running a manual evaluation with a reputable service like Pingdom or even GTmetrix can produce wildly varying results from 1 minute to another. To counteract this, for our evaluations, the premium Pingdom service was used to mechanically record the speed of this evaluation site at 30-minute spans around the clock for seven days.
There Are so many factors which could impact the load times of your website, such as your choice of theme, which plugins you are using, what sort of content you're publishing, how many people are trying to access your site at one time, and where those visitors are located. Nevertheless, these test results should provide you some notion of what to expect from Envato Hosted.
What is Envato Elements?
Envato Elements is A subscription service which provides you with access to over 900,000 downloadable digital assets for your own projects. To keep things simple, Envato Elements offers two pricing strategies — monthly and annual — with both encouraging unlimited downloads. As a result of some recent change to their own pricing model, the two alternatives (rather than just the yearly plan) now include access to the 900+ WordPress plugins and themes accessible Envato Elements.
Unlike some other Premium picture and digital asset services, you won't need to worry about credits and download limitations. This approach from Envato Elements is great since it gives you the capability to experiment with different files before making a final decision on which to use for your project.
When it comes to Content production, the Envato Elements assets are produced by a neighborhood of independent designers. These designers are paid for their efforts by means of a revenue sharing model. Fifty percent of net earnings is reportedly shared with the content creators who provide the resources for Envato Elements.
Who is Envato Elements For?
We'll look at a few Of the articles accessible in more detail later on in this Envato Components review. However, to give you a better idea of who could gain from signing up for this particular service, some groups from the target audience comprise:
Site owners that need a varied choice of WordPress plugins and theme.
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DENNIS – Winter on Cape Cod is winding down that means the summer entertainment season is just around the corner.
The 2018 summer season at The Cape Playhouse in Dennis is set and will feature Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning shows.
The six show schedule includes three plays and three musicals, half of which are Playhouse premieres.
The season will kick off with Robert Harling's "Steel Magnolias," which is directed by Pamela Hunt and will run from June 13-23.
The acclaimed comedy "Sylvia," written by two-time Pulitzer Prize-nominee A.R. Gurney, will be the second show at the Playhouse. It will run from June 26 through July 7 and will be directed by Matt Lenz.
Director Hunter Foster and Music Director James Barry will bring a fun night of rock 'n' roll to the stage with "Million Dollar Quartet" from July 10-21.
The 4th show of the season, "Altar Boyz," from director and choreographer Jason Sparks will run from July 24 through August 4.
The final musical of the season, "South Pacific," will run from August 7-18 and will be directed by Cape Playhouse Artistic Director Michael Rader.
Hunter Foster returns to direct the season's final show, the pre-national tour of "Clue: On Stage," from August 21 through September 1.
Season subscriptions and individual tickets are on sale at capeplayhouse.com.


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NASHVILLE (AP) — Tennessee's preliminary unemployment rate for September has risen in the state's latest reports.
The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development said Thursday that the preliminary rate for September was 4.6 percent, up two-tenths of a percentage point from August's revised rate of 4.4 percent.
The U.S. preliminary rate for September was 5 percent, up one-tenth of a percentage point from the previous month.
Tennessee's unemployment rate has fallen from 5.6 percent a year ago to 4.6 percent. Nationally, the rate is down from 5.1 percent to 5 percent.
Seasonally adjusted nonfarm employment rose 14,800 jobs from August to September, with the largest increases in government, professional/business services and health care/social assistance. Nonfarm employment increased 71,300 jobs over the previous year, with the largest increases in health care/social assistance, professional/business services and trade/transportation/utilities.


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Lots of people, including my blog, have written about the sweet-faced Yulia Marushevska, the 26-year-old "I am Ukrainian" girl, initially "The Face" of the Maidan Revolution; more recently promoted to Head of the Odessa Customs Office.
Revelations abounded, about Marushevska's "educational" stint in the U.S.: Yeah, it's probably that kind of summer school where you are sitting in class diligently taking notes while Teacher is lecturing on "How to overthrow an elected government", and then the Principal walks into class, whispers with the teacher; and you are conducted out into the hallway; and you are nervous at first, because you think you are in trouble; but then Principal conducts you into his office; and there is another man sitting there; who happens to be from the State Department; and he is very friendly and starts chatting you up and asking for your opinions; and next thing you know — a couple of months later, you are returning home, with a paystub and a mission…. Just like in the movies, except that this is real life.
Anyhow, the latest revelation about Yulia came out a couple of days ago, and this is a doozy.
It turns out that Yulia IS MARRIED! Gasp! Sorry, boys, she's taken!
Yulia's husband is a man named Markian Protsiv. Couldn't find a damn thing about him online, unless this happens to be him, which I'm not sure it is. But I THINK this is him, because among his "favorites" this fellow lists Channel 24, of which enterprise Yulia's hubby is the Commercial Director.
Therefore, if this IS Yulia's hub, then: (a) he is a handsome rascal, except for the eyes, the nose, the ears, the hair, and the scratchy whiskers; and (b) he lists his "favorites" as: Mark Zuckerberg, "Ukrainian Pravda", Barack Obama, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Channel 24, Kochut Jewelry, and Gia Getsadze. All bad choices in my opinion except, perhaps, for Zuckerberg.
What else do we know about Protsiv?
Funny you should ask. In addition to being an item in the media world, Protsiv also happens to be a close political associate of Andriy Sadovyi, the Mayor of Lviv. In fact, it was Sadovyi who founded Channel 24 back in 2006. (In the Ukraine, political parties and media are openly and blatantly intertwined, in a way that is usually disguised in "more civilized" Western countries.)
When asked if it was true, that he is Yulia's hubby, Markian did not deny it. But nor did the MarkiJul power couple trumpet their relationship beforehand. They sort of kept it discrete. It came out only when journalists found Yulia's application form, which she had to fill out for the Customs job, and noticed that she had checked off "Married" checkbox and had to name her spouse.
Other information from the job application/declaration Yulia had to fill out:
- Last year she earned only 33,000 hryvnas. (Just under $1500 American dollars.) Categorized as "Other Income".
- She owns one-fourth of a flat in Kiev. The entire flat is assessed at 71.6 square meters.
- Her husband's income for the year was 587,000 hryvnas (around $26K), of which 33,000 hryvnas were his actual salary, from his job at Channel 24.
- The couple owns two cars: an Opel Astra 2008, and a Mazda Series 6 2013.
When news of Yulia's marriage emerged, this slightly changed the dynamic of the various conspiracy theories surrounding her appointment. It is noticeable that not one single analyst believes that Yulia got the job because of her experience or abilities. Theories range from the vulgar (=her place in the harem of "Sugar Daddy" Saakashvili) to the sublime (=CIA mole).
But now, with this additional piece of information, a couple of other theories were added to the mix. Namely, that some kind of political deal is in place, with Poroshenko's party needing to form a coalition with Sadovyi's "Samopomich" Party. Political pundit Evgeny Filindash is quoted with his speculations on this topic:
"Back in August, not only the Radical Party, but also Samopomich, were about to exit [from the coalition with Poroshenko's Party], and it was at that time, that Saakashvili announced, that he wanted to see Marushevska at the head of the Customs Office. One can assume that they simply handed over [this prize of ] the Customs to Samopomich, as payment [for staying in the coalition]."
Always keeping in mind that the Odessa Port in general; and the Customs Office in particular, is a HUGE prize and source of wealth to anybody lucky enough to get their hands on it.


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AIRAH, the Australian Institute of Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Heating, has released its Flammable Refrigerants Safety Guide.
The guide - which was developed by independent organisations and stakeholders, and is thought to be the first of its kind in Australia – comprehensively covers the management of health and safety risks associated with flammable refrigerants.
AIRAH CEO Phil Wilkinson, M.AIRAH, says that the use of flammable low-global-warming-potential (low-GWP) synthetic and hydrocarbon refrigerants will grow due to increasing concerns around high-GWP synthetic greenhouse gases (SGGs).
Yet Wilkinson says that until now there has been little guidance around the safety risks associated with flammable refrigerants and the equipment that uses them.
"Now more than ever, it is crucial that the HVAC&R industry has a clear outline of what is safe and unsafe practice when using flammable refrigerants," Wilkinson says. "With the increased cost of HFCs, and growing interest in the use of low-GWP refrigerants, the use of alternative – and more flammable – refrigerants will be more common. This increased use of flammable refrigerants represents a significant change for the industry and its workers.
"Many HVAC&R workers are accustomed to working with the non-flammable, non-toxic refrigerants that were widely used in the past," says Wilkinson. "We need to ensure that, as the use of alternative refrigerants picks up, our industry is properly equipped to work safely, efficiently and professionally with any refrigerant they encounter. And that's where the Flammable Refrigerants Safety Guide has a crucial role to play."
Wilkinson says AIRAH's Flammable Refrigerants Safety Guide covers the health and safety risks involved in the design, manufacture, supply, installation, conversion, commissioning, operation, maintenance, decommissioning, dismantling and disposal of HVAC&R equipment and systems that contain a flammable refrigerant.
In Australia, flammable refrigerants are already used in domestic refrigerators, small integral commercial cabinets, fluid chillers and industrial refrigeration. Their use is expected to continue to grow in commercial and industrial refrigeration applications, as well as in commercial and residential air conditioning.
Hydrocarbon refrigerants, a common flammable alternative to SGGs, are broadly available in Australia. Various flammable synthetic fluorocarbon refrigerants are also available, or are expected to be available in the near future.
The Flammable Refrigerants Safety Guide specifically applies to all stationary (while in use) refrigerating systems of all sizes, including air conditioners and heat pumps that are to be charged with flammable refrigerants with a refrigerant classification of A2 or A3, or any other refrigerant that meets the criteria to be classified as an A2 or A3 refrigerant.
The guide does not cover non-stationary (while in use) applications of flammable refrigerants such as in-vehicle air conditioning (cars, trucks, busses, trains, boats, aircraft) or transport refrigeration (road, rail, air, marine).
The Flammable Refrigerants Safety Guide is available to download FREE from the "Technical Resources" section of www.airah.org.au
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Last weekend was really nice. It was intense but really nice. One of my colleagues at work is about to leave and move back home and so we decided to go out 'big time' this Friday. After work we all went to play pool, then we went to Simon-Dach straße for some cocktails and then after a pizza stop we took the u-bahn towards KaterHolzig. I had heard so much about it from my friends but never really bothered to check it out. Thus, I had no idea what to expect, but really – this was one of the coolest places I have ever been to. Normally I'm not so fond of places where you need to pay entrance, cause you never know what to expect and if it is going to be fun, but I think that the money I paid for entering KaterHolzig club was so well spent.
We started the evening by playing pool at work. I really suck at this game but it was nice anyway. After the game we walked towards Simon Dach Straße where we found a touristy cheap bar/restaurant with pretty disgusting cocktails. After a drink we went to the pizza place next door (Pizza Dach). I have been there so many times now that it starts to feel a bit embarrassing.. The pizzas aren't the best, but still; they taste good, they are super cheap and you get a quick meal before going out/home. After the pizzas we took the u-bahn to Kater Holzig where we stayed the whole night long. We were there really early so the club had barely open, but it was nice to feel "sure" about getting in.
Kater Holzig Club consists of several rooms, dance floors, bars and great music. We started by ordering some drinks in the bar downstairs and then we went upstairs to dance. After some hours we went back down and around 6 a.m. we all felt that it was time to go home. I really want to go back to this place. I have been to quite many clubs over the years, but this was something completely different. It could be that we all were in such a great mood but anyway – a 10/10 evening. Now when I've been reading what others have to say about the club I got pretty surprised cause not that many seem to like it that much. I read in one Katerholzig review that the door men were really rude but this was really nothing I experienced. It was rather the opposite, and I was surprised how easily we got in…
Now when the spring comes we have decided to try out a lot of clubs, so who knows – maybe Berlin has even greater clubs to offer?


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Saprin and Kamaluddin both want to play 1.e4 at the same time ! ...Come on guys ?!
The gathering start at about 10pm and finish as late as...you can stand. I call it a day at around 3 am! . When i first arrive at the place last night, it looks like the restaurant is full and same goes to the parking lot. However, going into midnight... there are less and less peoples and cars. I'm the first person to reach the place followed by Saprin a few minutes later.
We start to play and i won the first game ! In the middle of game 2, Kamaluddin Yusof (photo right - a photo of him in the past and present) arrive and i start to lose piece ( a queen actually for two piece ?! against Saprin ) . There's possibility that my concentration was disturb... fearing that Kamaluddin will deliver a punch or two on my face after writing a not so nice article about him in the past. However to my relief, it seems that Kamaluddin is a very sporting guy....just like majority of my blog followers!
We proceed to play uncounted blitz games against each other with time control - 3 minutes+5 seconds increment and the traditional 5 minutes with no increment. In the end it was clear that Kamaluddin and Saprin was the dominant players but... Sam and I did "teach them a few lessons" along the way :)
After the games we have a nice chat about chess related things. Among the topics is the clash between the upcoming KL Open and Terengganu Open at the end of this year, my plan to blog live at the next 2010 Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk , Russia and the current jokes by someone that Mr.Ibrahim Abu Bakar - Malaysia team captain in the current Olympiad in Dresden should be allowed to play the 4th board !
Knowing Mr.Ibrahim and some of our Malaysia team in Dresden, i believe that they would surely laugh about it too ...sometimes we need to be a little bit "loose" and laugh at stupid things....just to release tension from our full list of problems - high cost leaving, economics ressesion, office problems, family problems, war....etc.etc....but of course it should be an "acceptable jokes"...by "normal standard". I have my own quote about chess..... "chess is too serious to be ...too serious" ...if you all got what i mean.
Below are one of the interesting game. The time control is 3 minutes + 5 second increment.
Kamaluddin Yusof - Mohd Saprin Sabri [D46]
Blitz:3'+5", Bangi Night Fever, 21.11.2008
1.c4 c6 2.Nf3 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.d4 Nbd7 6.Bd3 Bd6 7.0–0 e5 8.Be2 e4 9.Nd2 a6 10.a4 Nf8 11.Qb3 Ng6 12.g3 Bc7 13.cxd5 cxd5 14.f3 exf3 15.Bxf3 Qe7 16.Re1 0–0 17.Nxd5 Nxd5 18.Bxd5 Rd8 19.Nf1 Ba5 20.Bd2 Bxd2 21.Nxd2 h5 22.Rf1 Rf8 23.Qd3 Kh8 24.Rae1 h4 25.Nf3 Bh3 26.Rf2 Rad8 27.Bb3 Qb4 28.Qc3 Qd6
29.Nxh4?! The correct move is 29.gxh4 Bg4 30.Ng5 f6 (30...Nxh4 31.Nxf7+) 31.Nf7+ 29...Nxh4 30.gxh4 Qg6+ Now black has a perpectual in hand 31.Kh1 Qe4+ 32.Kg1 Rd6 33.h5 Rf6 ...but as normally happens in blitz games...Kamaluddin blunder with 34.Ree2?? The correct move is 34.Qd2 Qg4+ 35.Kh1 Qe4+ 36.Kg1 = draw by perpectual 34...Qg4+ 35.Kh1
35...Qxe2!! A sting in the tail - as the late Bobby Fischer once said 0–1 36.Rxe2 Rf1#
Saprin Sabri - Master of swindle (trickmamak)


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22 February 2006
TAJIKISTAN: Demolition of country's only synagogue begins
Between 7 and 20 February, the city authorities demolished the ritual bathhouse, classroom and kosher butchery of the synagogue in Tajikistan's capital Dushanbe. The only functioning synagogue in Tajikistan, it was built by local Jews a century ago. When a congregation member filmed the destruction officials threatened to break his video-camera, a local resident told Forum 18 News Service. The demolition of the synagogue itself – part of city redevelopment plans – is due to be completed in June, though some fear it could happen sooner. "It is a lie to say that the Dushanbe Jews paid for construction of the synagogue," Shamsuddin Nuriddinov of the city's Religious Affairs Department insisted to Forum 18. "So, if the Jews want to have a synagogue, let them pay for it out of their own funds." The Jewish community – mainly made up of Bukharan Jews – is mostly elderly and poor and cannot afford to build a new synagogue.
"Demolition began without an official assessment or notice and comment period," the Dushanbe resident reported. "The mikvah [ritual bathhouse], classroom, and kosher butchery are gone, while the courtyard is being used as a dump for the debris." The resident told Forum 18 that one young congregation member filmed the demolition on a video recorder until city officials threatened to break the camera if he did not stop filming.
The synagogue was earmarked for demolition more than two years ago, under plans for construction of a "Palace of Nations" (the Tajik President's new residence). In May 2003 Dushanbe's Jewish community received an official letter from the authorities ordering them to vacate the synagogue building by July of that year. However, the Jews continued to use their synagogue for worship. Many other buildings in the area have already been knocked down.
Formally, the synagogue belongs to the state, having been nationalised in 1952, its rabbi Mikhail Abdurakhmanov told Forum 18 in August 2003. But he believes that "by rights the synagogue ought to belong to the Jews who paid for its construction about 100 years ago". He reported then that the authorities had offered a plot of land some distance from central Dushanbe where the community could build a new synagogue, but with only a small, mainly elderly congregation he said the community could not afford to build a new synagogue (see F18News 28 August 2003 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=129 and 21 May 2004 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=325).
Tahir Rashidov, deputy head of the Tajik government's Religious Affairs Committee, said he knew nothing about the start of demolition work at the synagogue. "The Jewish community has not made any complaints to us about it," he told Forum 18 from Dushanbe on 21 February. "If they are complaining to foreign journalists instead of contacting us, then one may raise the question of whether the Jewish community should retain its juridical registration."
Shamsuddin Nuriddinov, head of the Religious Affairs Department at the Dushanbe city administration, is equally unsympathetic to the Jews' plight. "This is not the first time that the question of demolishing the synagogue has been exaggerated," he told Forum 18 from Dushanbe on 21 February. "We have set aside land for construction of a synagogue. We have also offered the rabbi, Mikhail Abdurakhmanov, a building to rent where he can hold religious rituals until the new synagogue is built, but he has refused. Mikhail Abdurakhmanov knows that the synagogue has been earmarked for demolition for the past two years, but instead of setting about building a new one, he has simply complained to foreign journalists."
Nuriddinov also stressed that the government has no intention of offering financial compensation for the demolition of the synagogue. "Religion is separate from the state here in Tajikistan. Mosques, churches and other religious buildings are built at the expense of believers."
Nuriddinov claimed that the synagogue building is state property and was offered for use the Jewish community on a temporary basis. "It is a lie to say that the Dushanbe Jews paid for construction of the synagogue," he insisted to Forum 18. "So, if the Jews want to have a synagogue, let them pay for it out of their own funds."
Nevertheless, Forum 18's sources maintain that the Jewish community has documents proving that the Jews did indeed pay for construction of the synagogue. "It's true that Abdurakhmanov turned down some rooms provided by the city administration on a temporary basis for religious rituals," one source admitted to Forum 18. "Most of those attending the synagogue are elderly and very poor, and it is hard for them, both physically and morally, to get to a temporary building provided by the city authorities."
The source pointed to the problems the demolition will produce for the remaining devout Jews in Dushanbe and in the country as a whole. "Leaving aside the legal niceties, one clear fact remains: there is today a real threat that the authorities will destroy the only synagogue left in Tajikistan!"
More coverage of freedom of thought, conscience and belief in Tajikistan is at http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?query=&religion=all&country=31&results=50
For more background see Forum 18's Tajikistan religious freedom survey at http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=190
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Title: Dare
Author: James Crow
Genre: Dark Erotica
Type: Standalone
POV: First Person – Female
Danielle Walker would not back out from a dare. On a night of fun with her friends, a simple dare let to an adventure she would never forget where lines were blurred and depravity was the main attraction.
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I told him it was too late to save a crazy bitch like me, and that he should just get me fucked.
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He went in so hard and dry he'd tore me. It hurt bad. And that pain went straight to my temples. I knew I was going to pass out, but not before I'd moaned for more. Not before I'd bit a hole in my lip and hissed like a whore.
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I picked up a hayfork and brandished the handle at him. 'Maybe you'd like this up your arse,' I told him.
It could have been something that blows my mind, unfortunately it didn't even poked my brain. I wasn't surprised by the revelation at all, but that's not a big issue. The problem is the story didn't have an anchor, which made the motive nonexistent, which in turn made the book banking on nothing more than a shock factor.
'Are you really doing this?' I asked.
'If you dare.'
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Dare is a story of succumbing to one's desires. It would appeal to readers who are not afraid to push their personal boundaries.
Note: I love carrots, but I don't know if I can eat them anymore. I solely blame this book if I'm lacking beta carotene in my diet from now on haha!
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