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Six weeks of sale. This is what's in store this summer as it signals one of the major shopping events in Dubai… the Dubai Summer Surprises (DSS)! This is a season that a lot of residents anticipate due to the price of items in retail outlets and shops dropping. It's a huge shopping spree and… Read more
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Dubai residents, if you're planning to go for a shopping spree, you might want to check out The Big Clearance Sale from 24-26 August 2017 at the Dubai World Trade -Center. Various retail brands on clothing, shoes and lifestyle will participate in this event and will have offers as much as 80% OFF. Be advised that this sale is different… Read more
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If you love shopping but you're on a budget, then the best place to visit is Dragon Mart. This is a 1.2-kilometer giant supermarket that hails all the way from China. It offers a wide selection of clothes, food, furniture, gadgets, shoes, toys — practically everything you could ever need! Since Dragon Mart is often… Read more
By the year 2020, Dubai will be the site of the biggest and grandest mall yet: Meydan One Mall. Aside from offering many shopping and dining options, it will include a multi-purpose sports facility, a dancing water fountain, and a heritage village. The Dubai Mall is currently set as the largest mall in the city,… Read more
Souq Madinat Jumeirah offers tourists an area similar to the traditional souqs of Old Dubai, except it is in a covered and air-conditioned arcade. It offers a special dining, entertainment and shopping destination but in a more relaxing ambiance. You can see waterfront restaurants and cafes as well as bars. It also has some shops… Read more
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Baqer Mohebi Supermarket in Bur Dubai is a grocery shop where plenty of Filipinos buy chocolates at cheap prices to send back home to the Philippines. Whenever I hear about Pinoys going home, this shop is always mentioned because of the affordable costs of chocolates and sometimes big discounts are offered when you buy in… Read more


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A cute, elegant, summer and modern outfit inspired by this refreshing swimming scene by artist Monica Ramos. (The sandals are on sale!!) Minty fresh is the name of the game today.
I have begun packing for our family trip next week. Do you all do this? Pack in advance so you make sure all you want to bring is clean and ready? And because you have more time to plan the outfits are better thought-out. I will be sharing some tips next week for the best way to pack for extended stays so stay tuned.
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November 19, 2018 - December 18, 2018
The Spring Hill Police Department is once again sponsoring the 'Giving Tree' in partnership with Spring Hill Fresh.
SHPD has sponsored a gift-giving event every year to help ensure Christmas gifts for hundreds of local needy, elementary school children who might not have anything under the tree otherwise.
This year, the focus of the 'Giving Tree' will expanded to also help local Veterans and elderly who have been identified as needing some help this Christmas!
Each year they have served approximately 100 children with the help of our community, local businesses and civic organizations donating gifts and money.
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Registration is open for Spring Hill's 2nd Annual Turkey Burn Half Marathon, 5K and Fun Run at the Tennessee Children's Home. The annual race raises funds for the nonprofit children's home in Spring Hill.
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In his sermon Songs in the Night, Charles Spurgeon said…
It is easy to sing when we can read the notes by daylight; but he is the skillful singer who can sing when there is not a ray of light by which to read — who sings from his heart, and not from a book that he can see, because he has no means of reading, save from that inward book of his own living spirit, whence notes of gratitude pour forth in songs of praise.
This is what hope does. It gives us a song to sing, even when the night is long, even when the light is dim.
In the book of Philippians, as he languished in a Roman prison cell, Paul wrote some of the most optimistic, forward-looking words in all of Scripture.
(1:12) Everything that has happened to me here has helped spread the Good News.
(1:14) Because of my imprisonment, many of the Christians here have gained confidence and become more bold.
(1:19) I will continue to rejoice. For I know that as you pray for me and as the Spirit of Jesus Christ helps me, this will all turn out for my deliverance.
(1:21) For to me, living is for Christ, and dying is even better.
These aren't the words of a doomed man. These are the words of a man convinced that the best is yet to come.
Paul believed the best about the future because he believed in a God that is good, and powerful, and merciful, and loving.
If this is our God, how is it possible not to be filled with hope?
Maybe today your days are dark and your nights are long … maybe there is no ray of light by which to read … this is the time to cling to the message of the coming season: We have reason to hope because Christ has come into the world bring peace and goodwill to all who will receive it.
And, as Paul reminds us, hope does not disappoint. It's worth the emotional investment you make in daring to believe that the best is yet to come.
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Ka Pao! South-East Asian flavours at SWG3.
Way back in March, we mentioned that the Acid Bar in Finnieston's vibrant SWG3 was not far off opening.
It is now up and running and they have announced that Ka Pao is the first booking in their restaurant residency programme.
The Acid Bar will host Ka Pao, a pop-up restaurant crew, for an initial four-week period.
Before setting up shop at the Acid Bar, Ka Pao have previously held pop-up events at Café Strange Brew, Yardworks Festival and SWG3's outdoor gigs in the Galvanizers Yard.
Ka Pao's Head Chef Sandy recently returned from working a stage at the Michelin-starred Nahm in Bangkok. The restaurant is consistently ranked in the top ten restaurants in Asia.
Before setting off on his wanders and returning to found Ka Pao, Sandy worked at Ox and Finch.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the pop-up menu takes its guidance from the cooking of Southeast Asia.
Showcase the best of Scotland's food scene
While the dishes on offer at the Acid Bar will reflect some very traditional cookery techniques from the region, others will fuse more modern methods and influences.
Some of the dishes from the specially created sharing menu include coley cakes and Thai basil, white crab and kalamansi lettuce wrapper plus lamb neck, green peppercorn and lemongrass.
The first evening residency will take place on Thursday 14th June and will run every Thursday, Friday and Saturday until July 7th. Tickets cost £30.00 and include a set menu dinner, served sharing style, and an arrival cocktail. Bookings are being taken now.
Similar to SWG3's rotating exhibition programme, the Acid Bar will welcome different guest restaurants and street food vendors throughout the year. The programme, which will run indefinitely, is designed to showcase the very best of Scotland's food scene.
It is a smart idea. SWG3 get an enthusiastic new kitchen team every four weeks without the hassle of attracting, training and retaining increasingly expensive chefs.
The pop-ups and guest restaurants get a fully functioning kitchen to work in along with a customer base which is, to some extent, ready-made.
Every four weeks, diners get the novelty of new restaurants that offers different cuisines and different menus.
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In the context of black hole spacetimes there are many subtly distinct notions of horizons, with the most useful being different from those used in cosmology. In particular, particle horizons do not play any role. The event horizon is defined not with respect to some selected observer, but with respect to all external observers: in an asymptotically flat spacetime* a future event horizon is the hypersurface which separates the events causally connected to future infinity and those that are not. Likewise the past event horizon delimits the events that are causally connected with past infinity or not. Another simple but powerful concept is the Killing horizon: in a spacetime with a Killing vector field $\xi^\mu$ it is a (hyper-)surface, on which $\xi^\mu$ becomes lightlike. We will see explicitly for the considered examples that the Killing horizons are in fact event horizons by constructing the corresponding conformal diagrams. In general, in the frame of GR a Killing horizon in a stationary spacetime is (almost) always an event horizon and also coincides with most other notions of horizons there are.
This section elaborates on the techniques of constructing conformal diagrams for stationary black hole solutions. The construction for the Schwarzschild black hole, or its variation, can be found in most textbooks on GR; for the general receipt see \cite{BrRubin}.
* Meaning the spacetime possesses the infinity with the same structure as that of Minkowski, which is important.
Schwarzschild-Kruskal black hole solution
Problem 1: Schwarzschild exterior.
The simplest black hole solution is that of Schwarzschild, given by
ds^{2}=f(r)dt^2 -\frac{dr^2}{f(r)}-r^2 d\Omega^2,\qquad f(r)=1-\frac{r_g}{r},
where $r_g$ is the gravitational radius, and $d\Omega^2$ is the angular part of the metric, which we will not be concerned with. The surface $r=r_g$ is the horizon. Focus for now only on the external part of the solution,
The general procedure of building a conformal diagram for the $(t,r)$ slice, as discussed in the cosmological context earlier, works here perfectly well, but needs one additional step in the beginning:
(a) use a new radial coordinate to bring the metric to conformally flat form; (b) pass to null coordinates; (c) shrink the ranges of coordinate values to finite intervals with the help of $\arctan$; (d) return to timelike and spacelike coordinates.
Identify the boundaries of Schwarzschild's exterior region on the conformal diagram and compare it with Minkowski spacetime's.
(a) In terms of the new ("tortoise") coordinate
x=\int \frac{dr}{f(r)}=r+r_g \ln |r-r_g |
we get
ds^2 =f(r(x))\big[dt^2 -dx^2\big].
The horizon is pushed to infinity: $x\to -\infty$.
(b) Introduce \begin{equation} v=t+x,\quad u=t-x \end{equation} The horizon is at $v\to-\infty$ when $u=const$ (past horizon) and at $u\to -\infty$ when $v=const$ (future horizon). The asymptotically flat infinity is in the opposite direction: at $v\to+\infty$ when $u=const$ and at $u\to +\infty$ when $v=const$
(c) Pass to $V=\arctan v$ and $U=\arctan u$; the horizon now becomes two lines at $V=-\pi/2$ and $U=-\pi/2$. The infinity is $V=+\pi/2$ and $U=+\pi/2$. The full exterior region is the square enclosed by those four lines.
(d) Transformation to $T=V+U$, $R=V-U$ rotates this square by $\pi/4$ and this is the conformal diagram block that we need. There is a past and future horizon. Note that while past should be below and future above (we expect the spacetime to be oriented, so that the direction of future is always uniquely determined), there is no rule that says that the horizons must be on the left and infinities on the right. Thus there are two mirror-reflected variants, with the horizons on the left and on the right.
Problem 2: Schwarzschild interior.
The region $r\in (0,r_g)$ represents the black hole's interior, between the horizon $r=r_g$ and the singularity $r=0$. Construct the conformal diagram for this region following the same scheme as before.
(a) Which of the coordinates $(t,r)$ are timelike and which are spacelike? (b) Is the singularity spacelike or timelike? (c) Is the interior solution static?
The Schwarzschild black hole's interior is an example of the T-region, where $f(r)<0$, as opposed to the R-region, where $f(r)>0$.
The procedure is exactly the same as for the exterior region, the only thing that is different is the ranges of coordinates used and reversal of the timelike and spacelike coordinates:
(a) Now $t$ is spacelike and $r$ a timelike coordinate: \begin{equation} ds^2 =|f(r)|^{-1}dr^2 -|f(r)|dt^2 . \end{equation} (b) The singularity $r=0$ is therefore a spacelike one-dimensional object: one does not "reach" it or not, instead one lives until the specified time. (c) The interior solution in not static, as the metric essentially depends on the new time coordinate $r$ (or $-r$). The null coordinates then are (note the second sign) \begin{equation} v=t+x,\qquad u=x-t. \end{equation} The horizon is at $v\to -\infty$ when $u=const$ and at $u\to -\infty$ when $v=const$. After shrinking with $\arctan$ it is pulled to $v=-\pi/2$ and $u=-\pi/2$. The third part of the boundary, corresponding to the singularity $r=0$, is $v+u=const$. Finally, we return to timelike and spacelike coordinates by introducing (there are two ways of choosing the sign) \begin{equation} T=\pm (v+u),\qquad R=V-U. \end{equation} The resulting conformal diagram is a 45 degrees right triangle with the right angle pointing either up (then the singularity is in the past) or down (then the singularity is in future). Note that we will know which of the horizons is past and which is future only when we match the blocks with the ones that have the corresponding infinities (although one can guess already where those will be).
Problem 3: Geodesic incompleteness and horizon regularity.
Consider radial motion of a massive particle and show that the exterior and interior parts of the Schwarzschild are not by themselves geodesically complete, i.e. particle's worldlines are terminated at the horizon at finite values of affine parameter. Show that, on the other hand, the horizon is not a singularity, by constructing the null coordinate frame, in which the metric on the horizon is explicitly regular.
The geodesic equation is obtained from normalization condition \begin{equation} \varepsilon^2=u^\mu u_\mu =f(r)\Big(\frac{dt}{d\lambda}\Big)^{2} -f^{-1}(r) \Big(\frac{dr}{d\lambda}\Big)^{2}, \end{equation} where $\varepsilon^2=0$ or $\varepsilon^2=1$ for null and timelike geodesics respectively, and conservation equation due to the Killing vector \begin{equation} E=u^\mu \xi_\mu =u_0 =f(r)\frac{dt}{d\lambda}, \label{BH-energy} \end{equation} and reads \begin{equation} \frac{d\lambda}{dr} =\Big[E^2 -f(r)\varepsilon^2 \Big]^{-1/2}. \label{BH-lambda} \end{equation} The integral $\lambda(r)$ converges at $r=r_g$, so the value of the affine parameter at the horizon is finite. In regard to regularity let us start from the exterior region. In terms of $u,v$ the metric has the overall conformal factor, which turns to zero at the horizon: \begin{equation} f(r)\sim (r-r_g)\sim e^{\ln (r-r_g)} \sim e^{x}\sim e^{(v-u)/2}, \end{equation} so in order to eliminate that, we just need to use new null coordinates $(u',v')$, such that the conformal factor in \begin{equation} ds^{2} \sim \Big(e^{-u/2}\frac{du}{du'}\Big) \sim \Big(e^{+v/2}\frac{dv}{dv'}\Big) du' dv' \end{equation} is finite and does not turn to zero. This is achieved e.g. by coordinate transformation to \begin{equation} u'=e^{u/2},\qquad v'=e^{-v/2}. \end{equation} After this one can carry out the second part of construction of the conformal diagram.
Problem 4: Piecing the puzzle.
Geodesic incompleteness means the full conformal diagram must be assembled from the parts corresponding to external and internal solutions by gluing them together along same values of $r$ (remember that each point of the diagram corresponds to a sphere). Piece the puzzle.
Note that a) there are two variants of both external and internal solutions' diagrams, differing with orientation and b) the boundaries of the full diagram must go along either infinities or singularities.
Starting from any one of the four pieces, there is only one way to assemble the diagram, and one has to use all the parts:
The horizon structure is very similar to that of full de Sitter spacetime in open slicing or "static" coordinates (the notions and properties of R- and T-regions apply equally well), while the structure of infinity is the same as that of Minkowski, and additionally there are singularities.
Finally, one could note that the form of the conformal block for the exterior solution was determined from the start. First, we have asymptotic flatness, therefore the Minkowski's structure of infinity. This is already half of the block's boundary.


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- Chest pain when coughing, laughing, or deep breathing
- Shortness of breath
- Wheezing
- Tiredness or weakness
- Loss of appetite and weight loss
- Infections (bronchitis or pneumonia) that keep coming back
When lung cancer spreads to different parts of your body, other symptoms may result:
- Bones–bone pain such as in the back or hips
- Liver – jaundice causing yellowing of the skin and eyes
- Brain or Spinal Cord – headache, dizziness, loss of balance, weakness or numbness, seizures
- Lymph Nodes – lumps near the surface of the skin, possibly above the collarbone or in the neck
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On Aug 28, 2008, at 9:41 PM, Nicob wrote: > Hello, > > I'm actually trying to setup a SSL reverse-proxy based on Apache 2.x > and > mod_ssl and it seems there's a bug in the verification of the CRL. > > If a CA changes its keys before expiration, the CRL is now signed by > the > new key and include certificates issued by both the new and old keys. > However, mod_ssl will refuse to work if the AKID of the revoked > certificate doesn't match the issuer of the CRL. > > Browsing Apache archives, I found that somebody posted a patch > covering > this need (http://marc.info/?l=apache-httpd-dev&m=120350484626015), > but > the code haven't been merged. I tested it and it works perfectly well. > > Does this patch seems OK to you ? If yes, is it possible to include > it ? I just tried that patch - and it also matched two of my edge cases. But this is a bit too obscure for me to dare to commit it directly. Could someone else with a good x509 understanding look at it ? +1 from me - willing to do the legwork if someone else gives this a good review as well. Dw
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June 10, 2019
Successful amplification of COI partial gene from dragonfly prey
Molecular identification of prey in predator diet - this is a new challenge in my DNA barcoding work; I amplify DNA from dragonfly prey items (a new lab project I'm involved in). ...read more
May 6, 2019
Guest lecture on invasive species tomorrow!
I'm very excited about my upcoming guest lecture tomorrow. This lecture is on invasive species for an undegraduate honors class on insect biodiversity. ...read more
April 27, 2019
We had a great time on campus enjoying yet another Maryland Day! While I was busy in our "Discover a Swamp" room, the rest of my family enjoyed ice-cream, baloons, trucks, books, and of course, our bugs! ...read more
April 26, 2019
Nina succesfully presented at her school research symposium
Last Friday, I enjoyed attending Eleanor Roosevelt High School Annual Research Symposium. Nina, one of my mentees, presented final results of her DNA barcoding work. ...read more
April 15, 2019
Teaching summer course in Evolutionary Biology
I am super excited to teach a graduate course in Evolutionary Biology this summer as an instructor of record. This is a fully online course offered through the Master of Chemical and Life Sciences program ...read more
March 13, 2019
Presented at the EB-ESA meeting in Blacksburg!
This week I presented at the Eastern Branch meeting of the Entomological Society of America in Blacksburg, VA. The meeting was very interesting, especially its special symposium on the spotted lanternfly. ...read more
March 6, 2019
Scanning Electron Microscopy: Round 2
I've finished the 2nd round of scanning electron microscopy of the lanternfly mouthparts and tarsi which I conducted in The Laboratory for Biological Ultrastructure (my special thanks to Tim Maugel for his continuous help!!). We received beautiful SEM images, most of them are included now in my poster for the upcoming EB-ESA meeting. These images helped us to explore how ...read more
February 23, 2019
Presented at the MOFFA meeting
Last Saturday I presented at the Annual Meeting of the Maryland Organic Food & Farming Association (Maryland Dept. of Agriculture, Annapolis, MD). ...read more
January 5, 2019
This paper is on interactions of exotic leafhopper, Sophonia orientalis, with its novel hosts in Hawaii. It took quite a bit to analyze two-year data, to write a manuscript, and to wait for all of the reviewers' comments. ...read more
November 30, 2018
I gave my first talk at our weekly departmental seminar: "Novel plant-insect associations: implication of the lack of coevolution". It was very exciting and interesting experience, ...read more
November 15, 2018
Busy 2018 ESA meeting in Vancouver!
This time the ESA meeting (2018 ESA, ESC, and ESBC Joint Annual Meeting) was especially busy for me. I served as a moderator in one session, a judge in two other sessions; ...read more
October 11, 2018
My systematic review and meta-analysis on feeding preferences of acridid grasshoppers on native vs. introduced plants has just been published in Plants, Special Issue "Plants Interacting with other Organisms: Insects". ...read more
September 8, 2018
Summer is over. It was a busy Summer - full of interesting work, trips, and a lot of writing. Looking back, I'm happy to share a few highlights. ...read more
May 7, 2018
We had a wonderful time on campus celebrating our annual Maryland Day! I was really impressed how well everything was organized and how many things there were to do with friends and family, and of course with little and not so little kids. ...read more
April 20, 2018
My first adventures in the aquatic world
Being almost exclusively 'terrestrial' person in my research it has been quite an interesting experience for me to "get wet" with both Dr. Lamp's lab and his Aquatic Entomology class. ...read more
April 19, 2018
Exploring family-friendly places in Maryland
If not every weekend, but at least every other weekend we try to get out to a new place with our growing little one. ...read more
January 20, 2018
Starting a postdoc at the University of Maryland
I've just started as a Postdoctoral Associate at the Department of Entomology at the University of Maryland! ...read more
October 20, 2017
Week 5 of Planting Science program
It has been 5 weeks of Planting Science program and my online mentorship of high school students teams in their plant investigations. ...read more
October 4, 2017
New (or old?) mode of transport for invasive species
Carlton et al. Science 29 Sep 2017: "..We document 289 living Japanese coastal marine species from 16 phyla transported over 6 years on objects that traveled thousands of kilometers across the Pacific Ocean ...read more
July 29, 2017
Last week I spent in Colorado Springs at the Digging Deeper Summer Professional Development workshop which is part of my Planting Science fellowship I received earlier this year. ...read more
May 10, 2017
Our GenBank submission has just been approved!
Our GenBank submission has just been approved! Here it is: ...read more
April 21, 2017
Three poster presentations of my students. Great job, guys!
Today my students presented their molecular biology term projects at 4th Annual Grand View Scholarship Symposium. Very exciting! ...read more
March 10, 2017
My paper from my postdoctoral work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been just published in Insects, in special issue "Invasive insect species ...read more
December 16, 2016
My last dissertation chapter is published! Now I can retire...
It will be included in January issue of The Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society: ...read more
August 28, 2016
Started working at Grand View University
I am very excited to join Department of Biology at Grand View University in Des Moines, IA as an adjunct Genetics Instructor! ...read more
March 2, 2014
Another story about my research on plant DNA detection from grasshopper gut contents has been just published in India! ...read more
February 8, 2014
My protocol paper just came out in the February issue of Applications in Plant Sciences! ...read more
December 28, 2013
Plant DNA detection from grasshopper gut contents... published!
My paper "Plant DNA detection from grasshopper gut contents: a step-by-step protocol, from tissues preparation to obtaining plant DNA sequences" has just been accepted for publication in Applications in Plant Sciences! ...read more
November 28, 2013
First place at ESA meeting in Austin, TX
Last week I presented my research project on molecular confirmation of insect diet at the Annual Meeting of Entomological Society of America in Austin, TX (November, 2013) and won the first place in the Graduate Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition in the plant-insect interaction section! ...read more
March 20, 2013
Second place at ESA Eastern Branch
Yesterday I presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Branch of the Entomological Society of America and won second place in the PhD student oral competition! ...read more
January 8, 2013
Last summer I started my grasses/grasshoppers feeding experiments in the field. The main problem I had to solve was building the cages. ...read more
January 7, 2013
The board is your friend! (part 2)
I liked the idea of writing a lab flow on the board so much, that soon I started to add "Next lab assignment" rubric as well. As I usually need all space on the board during the lab, ...read more
December 17, 2012
I teach biology labs. Our typical lab usually includes a short lecture, a discussion about homework (so called pre-labs), a wet lab (i.e., an experiment), and exercises or answering questions. ...read more
November 21, 2012
At the end of each semester I receive students evaluations. It was a very difficult moment for me when I had just started teaching in the US. Mostly because there is no such thing as students evaluations in my native country. ...read more
November 17, 2012
In my very first evaluation that I received from my students here in the US I saw this comment: she is very straightforward. I wasn't sure what that meant. ...read more
October 29, 2012
Professor Sprout: How this blog started
At first this blog was anonymous. It lived at www.professorsprout.me – an address which captured my attachment to biology and, yes, the Harry Potter books. Eventually I decided to move it to this new website that has a more formal name. But I'm keeping my first post unchanged – with all its Harry Potter references – for the sake of a little bit of magic. ...read more


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It's amazing how quickly time goes by. I have often been told by those older than I am that it just gets faster every year, and that definitely is the truth.
It seems like just yesterday I was sitting here mapping out my goals for the next year, and suddenly one month is already done and over with. But I am very excited about the great start this year has gotten off to.
- It has been the best month so far for The Stolen Colon. It makes me really look forward to the year ahead in blogging!
- I got a new design on the blog and have more ideas in store.
- I submitted my application to NCSU's grad school.
- I have made my bed 32 out of 32 days.
- I am working on eating better, fresher foods. I've been enjoying some green smoothies in the morning 🙂
- Jarrod and I have a new budget in place that I'm really excited about. It's pretty strict, but still gives us room to have fun, while getting our current debts paid off. And we actually did a great job at sticking to it for the first month!
- I've been getting to bed earlier and waking up earlier for a morning workout. (Not every day, by any means, but I'm working on it.)
So now, on to February. It's only day 1, but the month is quickly filling up! But with lots of good things: there are so many birthdays of my wonderful friends and family; I have several networking opportunities set up; the Super Bowl is this weekend.
Not to mention that Valentine's day is in a couple of weeks. My husband and I don't usually go all out for Valentine's, but we do usually mark the occasion in some way. I suppose we should since Jarrod proposed to me on February 13th! And I do like the reminder to celebrate the love that you share in your life.
And finally, training for the Team Challenge half-marathon officially starts this month! We'll have a kick-off party and the 16th and then the training begins on the 23rd. I am looking forward to going through the entire 16 week training this season, since last year I joined a little late in the season. It's going to be a great season and I am really looking forward to getting to meet everyone who is involved!
I have pretty much touched on my goals for this month.
- My main goal is to be prepared for the start of Team Challenge season and to work hard to bring in some other runners in the area.
- Continue the "early to bed, early to rise" routine and morning workouts.
- I also start therapy on my wrist, so I am hoping for a strong recovery and being able to get back to all of the activities I've been missing out on.
- Beyond that, I am going to continue honing the budget and being good at sticking to it.
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Happy Sunday everyone!
Despite the chilly weather in NYC today, I felt like wearing a skirt! This tan circle skirt has been sitting in my closet for weeks (literally, since the beginning of August) and I have been waiting for the perfect outfit or the perfect moment to wear it. Not anymore hunni!
Coco Note: How often do we buy something new and tuck away in our closets until the "perfect moment" or the "right occasion"? Every day is an occasion darling! Be fabulous everyday ;)
I love the scalloped detail at the top of the lace overlay on this skirt. It compliments the subtle scalloped seams in the skirt. I also think the lace trim that extends past the hem of the skirt is a great detail. It adds delicacy and femininity to the skirt.
Normally you'd probably pair a skirt that flares out with a slim top or a peplum top with a slim skirt, but why not add some interest and dimension to your outfit by pairing a circle skirt with a top that also flares out, like a peplum!
Coco Note: You might be scared that adding flare onto flare will make you look like a cake-topper or a pear, but adding a top like a peplum, which cinches in the waist before flaring out at the hip, accentuates a feminine shape. For my slim chicks, this can give you the illusion of a little bit of hip! For my thicker snickers, a look like this will give you a smaller waist and balance your bust and hips with a wider bottom.
I chose this black peplum top to keep the color palette simple and because the jeweled neckline made the look even more interesting.
It was pretty cold so I also added a gold and black Pashmina (scarf) to keep me warm and because I was going to be in church.
Again, I kept the makeup and accessories simple: my watch, nude pumps and a nude clutch.
Top: Bisou Bisou from Sears
Skirt: Windsor
Shoes: Call It Spring
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Developer Mercury Fox will be launching "Raiders of the Broken Planet", an online action game next year, and the title will be coming to Xbox One, PS4, and PC. However in an interview with GamingBolt, Mercury Steam's David Cox confirmed that the title will also be coming to Xbox Scorpio and PS4 Neo. When asked about the two new consoles specifically Cox said:
"We still don't have a full understanding of the final specs and potential of either machine yet, so it's too early for us to call. However, both offer a fantastic opportunity for us as developers to deliver the very best content to gamers. As gamers ourselves, we are very excited for the future!…. As mentioned we are very excited about the potential for these new consoles. We will be bringing Raiders of the Broken Planet to both consoles!!"
For those who don't know, "Raiders of a Broken Planet" is a title set in the constellation of Lira, light years from Earth. The planet has become a hideout for the space mafia, and whomever controls the Aleph controls the galaxy. Players must protect the Aleph and repel the aliens, using other "Raiders", or rather fight alongside the enemy threat to take possession of the precious liquid.
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Talking Histories: The Cinemas of Leeds
July 19, 2018 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm£5
Talking Histories goes on tour this month with a talk at Hyde Park Picture House, which this year celebrates its 104th birthday. Join researcher and freelance film programmer, Dr. Laura Ager as she tells us about some of the historic cinemas in Leeds, with a special focus on Hyde Park Picture House. Enjoy this talk in situ and see some of the original features that modern cinemas no longer have.
Please arrive from 6pm for a 6:30pm start.
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Ach! On the day of poet's theater, my car's clutch breaks, but my mechanic (a super guy) saves the day by offering a free loaner (a Mercury Sable). I was supposed to pick the car up at six. At six, there's no car yet, and when it does show up, at 7 or so, it's transmission is slipping so bad that it barely moves. Needless to say, I missed poet's theater, several surely wonderful plays, and eventually found myself broken down in a foreign car late at night in Oakland. Sweet.
Okay, I know that was mostly unnecessary and long-winded, but please allow me to offer a fun exquisite corpse (we only knew the last word of the last line) I wrote with my girl, Ammie, as recompense:
A rabbit breathes on a cold night
The steamy heat attracts an owl in the tree above.
And such weight pulled our eyes to the ground to the details of
A Romantic painting, soft and dreamlike.
So we began collecting curiosities—moths, robots, incantations.
The air was crisp and smoky
Then, we planned how we would react to rain. We'd only
Risen to greet each day out of habit.
It was all we knew. We'd visit, often,
The surface of the sun.
Ammie, you always were so stylish.
Flax, raspberry, ochre, and lavender palettes were
Stupefied, shell-shocked, aroused, fractured, but most of all
Lined neatly in a row, much like the famous
And dead.
But it didn't stop there; a vast fleet of
Debonair obsolescence. Even far off cosmonauts
Settled nicely on the fourteenth star, and the forest was at peace.


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A new season is upon us.. Catch a glimpse at the new FW17 collections at our UPR showroom. It is with great joy that we welcome Marni Eyewear and Alysi as new brands, available for lending out. Belgian footwear brand Catwalk hosted a phenomenal rooftop after party at their stunning loft - balcony included - overseeing the spectacular MAS and the Antwerp skyline as the sun slowely set upon our press days..
Flik & Flak are celebrating their 30th anniversary, so we held a little B-Day party in their honor. Relaxing manicures, fantastic face paintings, learning to tell time, overdosing on sugar, colouring and crafting the afternoon away - these fashionable youngsters ánd their mommies had a blast.


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Flowers and Gifts from Wicklow, Co.Wicklow, Ireland
Flowers are not just for those special occasions, they are for ANY occasion. They are especially for those precious moments you want to remember and be remembered. In Wicklow, Co.Wicklow, Ireland there are a number of local florists willing and eager to serve your needs.
Here are some examples when sending flowers from, or to, Wicklow, Co.Wicklow, Ireland is the perfect gift:
- Valentine's Day Flowers
- Anniversary Flowers
- Birthday Flowers
- Congratulations Flowers
- Thank You Flowers
- Wedding Flowers
- Get Well Flowers
- Love & Romance Flowers
- Mixed Fresh Bouquet of Flowers
- New Baby Flowers
- Sympathy Flowers
- Christmas Flowers
When you want to convey that special meaning then why not say it with flowers?
There is a bouquet that is perfect for every event.
Sometimes a wreath would be more appropriate.
Or even a single stemmed flower. A rose perhaps?
Flower Arrangements For A Baby Shower
Flowers are really such a personal form of expression that it's hard to label things as appropriate or inappropriate. It really depends on your own preferences and the message you're trying to get across. Your choices can be overwhelming, but for baby showers, most people want to stay with pastel colors and a delicate look. Of course, a popular choice would have to include baby's breath, but this isn't essential.
Some other favorites flowers for baby showers and new arrivals are: stock, lisianthus, lilies, tuberoses, roses, sea lavender (caspia or limonium), godetia, snapdragons, alstroemeria, larkspur, and dendrobium orchids. These are a lot of flowers that I like to use for a baby shower, just because it not only goes with the baby shower atmosphere but also it will make the shower look more for the child then anyone else.
And don't forget the colour and scent, they can enhance any setting and change it from ordinary to opulent with such ease.
But flowers are not the only items you can purchase and have delivered from a local Wicklow, Co.Wicklow, Ireland florist.
What about that extra special vase or container to show them off in?
Or a wide variety of chocolates?
Perhaps a cuddly toy?
You might even enjoy flower arranging yourself? In that case your local Wicklow, Co.Wicklow, Ireland florist will be only too happy to supply all your needs. Everything from oasis to fine wire and assorted decorations to accompany your selected flowers can be ordered with the same ease and have them delivered direct to your door.


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One study example, conducted by Makary, sought to quantify pre-analytic errors, such as patient identification (ID) errors. In studying the pre-analytic phase problems at one US academic hospital, they detected an average of 4.3 errors per 1,000 surgical specimens. In another pre-analytic phase study performed at Johns Hopkins, they discovered that the average pre-analytic ID error rate resulted in approximately 182 mislabeled specimens per year. When they correlated the error rate findings with patient harm, it was estimated that about 39-45% of these detected pre-analytic errors had been associated with patient harm.
Misidentification errors are unfortunately not limited to occurrence only in the pre-analytic phase. Slide misidentification (mislabeling) errors are by far the
frequent analytic phase error in the histology laboratory, representing approximately 67% of all detected analytic phase errors that occur. The misidentification errors that typically occur during the pre-analytic and analytic phase of histology processing are greatly aided by appropriate automation, in particular barcode technology. The impact of barcoding on histology and mislabeling is well illustrated by a case study performed at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. In this study, the Henry Ford Hospital was able to successfully reduce the incidence of slide mislabeling events by 85%, while simultaneously increasing slide throughput during microtomy by 125% through use of a combination of process re-design and barcode technology.
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Construction of REAP'S Community Learning Center is Underway/
This past week we broke ground for the construction of our Community Library and Learning Center in Musha, Eastern Rwanda. We are digging foundational trenches and will start masonry this week. Our Community Library and Learning Center will provide a range of literacy programs as well as computer training for schools in Musha and the surrounding community. In addition, the center will also serve as a community hub where people gather and gain skills and knowledge necessary to
address the pressing challenges in the community such as food insufficiency, family planning, school dropout, and illiteracy.
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42nd World Congress of Vine & Wine
This week FELCO has been a sponsor of the 42nd World Congress of Vine & Wine, put on by the OIV (the International Organization of Vine and Wine) and taking place in Geneva, Switzerland. Delegates from around the world have come to Geneva this week to learn and exchange on key topics impacting wine and vineyards from sustainability to consumer perception to climate impact and many more. Playing a role around the world in the care of vineyards, FELCO is pleased to play a role and support this globally important forum of exchange for vineyards and wine.Read More


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The Brigance Brigade Foundation's mission is to equip, encourage, and empower people living with ALS. We strive to improve the quality of life for patients and their families by providing access to needed equipment, resource guidance and support services. Our grants allow patients and families to continue to live their lives in spite of this devastating disease.
Examples of those positively impacted by the Brigance Brigade Foundation's grants include:
• Scott Vaszil, father of three, who received a wheelchair that enabled him to keep up with his kids and continue to be active with his family.
• Effie Harris, who received a grant to build a ramp at her home, allowing her to leave her house, a task she otherwise could not do.
• Lynn Kotz, who received an augmentative communication device which allowed her to once again communicate with family and friends.
• Fred Carlson, who received a wheelchair which can now free him from the confinement of his home. How your donation could help: $10 – $25 Gait belt, Eating utensils, button hooks $26 – $69 Grab bar, hand/wrist brace $70 – $150 Transfer bench, neck brace, shower transfer chair, walker $151 – $650 Lift chair, manual wheelchair, rolling shower chair $1,000 – $2,500 Hoyer lift – for safe transfer from the bed to a wheelchair $2,501 – $5,000 In-home therapy and nursing care


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Only three weeks till we jet off to Florida! That means boot camp for me! Sometimes it's hard to move from cozy sweaters and jeans to a bikini! I know I'll feel confident if I work hard in the gym till then, though! Today I did about 40 minutes of cardio on the elliptical and about 30 minutes of strength training. For strength training I did an intense arm workout, so I'm sure I'll be hurting tomorrow!
When we made it back from the gym, we were supposed to have chicken broccoli stir fry with almonds, but silly me, I forgot to take the chicken out of the freezer…guess you already know what tomorrow's dinner is! 😉
Instead I pulled out the Naan bread and made Black Bean & Corn Pizza! Yum!
Black Bean & Corn Pizza
Sauce: Barbecue Sauce (I used one with a little bite from Trader Joes)
Crust: Naan Bread
Toppings: Black Beans, Corn, Diced Tomatoes, Reduced Fat Mozzarella Cheese
Bake at 400 degrees for about 10-15 minutes. Enjoy!


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Joseph of Arimathea, righteous
Dates of commemoration
(Church calendar - Apr 29) Sunday of Myrrh-Bearing Women, righteous Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus (movable feast- on the 3rd Sunday of Pascha)
Righteous Joseph of Arimathea was a secret disciple of our Lord Jesus Christ. As a member of the Sanhedrin he did not participate in the "counsel and deed" of the Jews in passing a death sentence for Jesus Christ. After the Crucifixion and Death of the Savior he made bold to go to Pilate and ask him for the Body of the Lord, to Which he gave burial with the help of Righteous Nicodemus, who was also a secret disciple of the Lord.
They took down the Body of the Savior from the Cross, wrapped it in a winding-cloth, and placed it in a new tomb, in which no one had ever been buried, in the Garden of Gethsemane, in the presence of the Mother of God and the holy Myrrh-Bearing Women (St Joseph had prepared this tomb for himself). Having rolled a heavy stone before the entrance of the tomb, they departed (John. 19: 37-42; Mt. 27: 57-61; Mark 15: 43-47; Luke. 24: 50-56).
St Joseph traveled around the world, proclaiming the Gospel of Christ. He died peacefully in England.
Holy relic type
unless specified otherwise below, "holy relic" means a fragment of a bone of the saint
1. Holy relic
2. Holy relic
Location of the holy relic in the Cathedral:
1. Icon "Entombment of Christ" on the Oblation Table, north side of the Altar
2. Relics cabinet in the Altar sacristy, reliquary #9
Тропарь Иосифу Аримафейскому, праведному,
Благообразный Иосиф с древа снем пречистое Твое тело, / плащаницею чистою обвив, / и благоуханьми во гробе нове закрыв положи / но тридневен воскресл еси Господи, / подаяй мирови велию милость.


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Our brief was to make a fun bed, in a bunk style, so a friend could sleep over and include a desk and a bookcase.
We designed the bunks, desk and shelves to all fit snug and create an environment that was fun and practical.
We utalised the window light for the deskspace and included shelves at the end of the top bunk and nooks for favorite toys.
The funky ladder stairs to the top bunk were carefully designed for safety and ease of use.
Our client was very happy with the end result, and their child just loves sleeping in their room now and can't wait to have sleepovers with friends.
The greatest pleasure was seeing his face light up when we had finished creating his new stairway to heaven.


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Blaze & Blade is a pointless PC conversion of a substandard console role-playing game. It squanders its scarce few good ideas by quickly degenerating into mindless, repetitive, and boring action sequences.
Blaze & Blade is a port of a PlayStation game, and it shows. Although the game can run in a high resolution, the graphics' simple polygonal geometry and the flat, plain texture maps make it look crude. The game's anime-inspired graphics may look cute but otherwise have little to recommend them. The four squat characters you'll control, as well as the various creatures and characters they'll encounter throughout the game, all look silly at best and unrecognizable at worst - that is, you might find it difficult to discern what exactly you're fighting. You'll wonder whether what you're up against is a bird or a fish and why the game's so-called demons look like teddy bears.
The game sounds at least as plain as it looks. You'll hear the same repetitive yet forgettable sounds over and over again, just as the game's soundtrack drones on and on to the point that you'll either shut it off or just learn to ignore it. As such, it's a mixed blessing that the laughably mistranslated dialogue text throughout the game isn't audible speech.
The mediocrity of Blaze & Blade's presentation is also at the core of the gameplay. Blaze & Blade starts out fairly promising: The character-creation process lets you choose from various traditional fantasy standards such as elves, dwarves, sorcerers, and rogues, and then you get to name the character, choose his manner of speech and his natural protective element, and finally assign bonus points to his attributes. Unfortunately, in practice, none of the character-creation process's details really matter much. That's because once you start playing, you'll realize that Blaze & Blade is essentially just a poorly executed action game. The gameplay is reminiscent of Square Soft's Super Nintendo action-RPG The Secret of Mana, in that you'll guide the designated lead character through all kinds of enemy-infested areas while the leader's companions follow closely behind and assist in battle. Unfortunately, unlike in The Secret of Mana, the continuous combat in Blaze & Blade just isn't any fun for a variety of reasons.
For one thing, there's no real collision detection in the game. You can essentially walk right through your enemies, and the only indication that your characters' badly animated attacks are even connecting with their targets are the white numbers that pop up indicating the amount of damage you delivered. Each character in the game has merely one type of attack, and the few rudimentary special abilities available to some of the character classes, such as the ability to defend with a shield or use medicinal herbs, aren't interesting to use. The magic spells in Blaze & Blade don't look good and aren't very interesting either, and they're too difficult to switch between in the heat of battle. And furthermore, unless you're directly in control of a spellcaster, he won't even use his magic. In fact, most any character class except the bow-wielding hunter is more a liability than an advantage in battle if you're not controlling him. Your characters will stay in single file the whole time and will only attack when something gets close, which makes them tactically worthless. They won't even heal themselves if they get hurt.
The problem of your companions' ineffectiveness is alleviated if you play Blaze & Blade with three other human players on a single computer, but doing so won't rid you of the boredom of trudging through its boring areas looking for keys and such while fending off hundreds of mindless monsters. And because your characters gain levels so quickly and so often, even the typical role-playing reward system of progressing through a game to gain more levels becomes trivial and unexciting in Blaze & Blade. In fact, since your enemies magically reappear onscreen a few seconds after you clear them out, you don't even have to progress through the game to level up. You can just stay in one place and keep beating the same weak foes to keep getting more levels.
Blaze & Blade even has a cumbersome interface and an inexplicably confusing manual, which makes it impossible to justify the game's learning curve in light of how utterly simplistic the game really is. Blaze & Blade might appeal to a scarce few younger role-playing gamers who like anything that looks like anime, but most everyone else will be struck by how plain and unenjoyable it is.


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Unemployment rate at new record low of 8 per cent - STATIN
The employed labour force increased by 2.4 per cent with the increase in female employment - 3.5 per cent - more than twice that of males – 1.4 per cent.
The Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) is reporting another record low for the country's unemployment rate which stood at 8.0 per cent at the end of January this year.
This represents a reduction of 1.6 percentage points when compared to the 9.6 per cent unemployment rate in January 2018.
According to STATIN, the employed labour force increased by 2.4 per cent with the increase in female employment - 3.5 per cent - more than twice that of males – 1.4 per cent.
"More females were employed in the occupation groups 'Professionals, Senior Officials and Technicians' and 'Clerks'.
"There was also an increase in the number of females employed in the industry groups 'Hotels & Restaurants Services' and 'Real Estate, Renting & Business Activities'," STATIN said in its January 2019 Labour Force Survey.
The Institute said the employed labour force for January 2019 was 1,232,700, which was 28,600 or 2.4 per cent more than in January 2018. The number of employed males increased by 9,500 to 673,500 and employed females by 19,100 to 559,200.
STATIN said more females were employed in the group, Clerks and Professionals, Senior Officials and Technicians. The largest increase in employment was in the occupation group 'Clerks' with some 12,800 persons or an increase of 15. 8 per cent. Employment in this category stood at 94,000 in January 2019.
According to STATIN, of the seven occupation groups, there were increases in the number of persons employed in six groups. Only the category 'Agriculture, Hunting, Forestry & Fishing' saw a decline of 11,600 persons (5.8%) to 188,700 in January 2019.
Meanwhile, STATIN said the increase in male employment was largest among the groups 'Public Administration & Defence; Compulsory Social Security' (3,800), 'Wholesale & Retail, Repair of Motor Vehicle & Equipment'(3,500) and 'Real Estate, Renting & Business Activities'(3,100). 'Real Estate, Renting & Business Activities' (6,500) and 'Hotels & Restaurants Services' (6,400) accounted for the largest increase in female employment.
STATIN said the number of unemployed persons in January 2019 was 107,500, a decrease of 20,200 (15.8%) when compared to January 2018. Male unemployment decreased by 9,300, (17.6%) to 46,500 in January 2019. Over the same period, there was a decline of 10,900 (14.6%) in the number of unemployed females to 64,000.
In the meantime, the unemployment rate for youth (14-24 years) was 21.8 per cent in January 2019 compared to 23.7 per cent in January 2018.


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I'm very excited …it doesn't take much.
Today, while searching WordPress for other blogs relating to topics I cover in my book 'Androula's Kitchen', I came across Phitiotika. It is a site set up by two British artists Maura McKee and Sarah Dixon, they both have connections with Cyprus and had a strong empathy with the weavers of Fyti who are struggling to keep their weaving traditions alive in a dwindling village. They, like myself, feel there should be a way to carry on the strong traditions and heritage of weaving in Cyprus, through the younger generations by encouraging innovation and diversity.
Throughout the centuries Cyprus has had a reputation for fine weaving. Each region had their own specialities and styles. At one time their was an abundance of silk and silk weaving was commonplace. Each family would own a loom and the women of the household wove all the linen needed for everyday life including their clothing and bedding. Silk worms were cultivated, cotton grown and there were plenty of sheep to supply wool. Silk is no longer cultivated and the weaving of silk has not been practised in Cyprus since the 1960s. Life has changed rapidly and people live different lives where there is no necessity to make everything themselves with mass production and cheap imports.
Fyti, in the Paphos region of Cyprus, has a very particular style of weaving which incorporates patterns of coloured wools. The patterns are mostly geometric and each weaver would make their own patterns usually telling a story. Maura McKee and Sarah Dixon are working together with The Laona Foundation to come up with a plan for conserving and recording the weaving practises of Fyti while setting in place initiatives which will encourage Cypriot artists to embrace and improvise on this valuable heritage as well as academics, artists, textile collectors and weavers internationally, with the help of the internet. Sarah has experience of working on cultural and conservation projects in several countries. Their aim:
"The aim of this proposed project is to reinvigorate and recontextualise Phiti weaving, and to support Phiti weavers in their practice. We are setting out to catalyse a process of conserving and adapting tradition."
You can find out more on their blog, the link is on the blogroll and join their Facebook page.
I wish them both every success in this endeavour as this issue is close to my heart.


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Safety Schemes in Procurement
The Safety Schemes in Procurement (SSIP) organisation is committed to both reducing the cost and bureaucracy involved in attaining stage one accreditation through its scheme providers. The list of organisations able to undertake and certify this stage one accreditation is growing but each follow a similar audit trail.
You may be a member of one or more schemes depending upon your customers requirements. You should remember that once you are a member of one certification body joining the next should be a simple registration and admin fee; for example
A client of ours is a member of CHAS (Contractors health and Safety Assessment scheme) but was required by a major client to be a member of SMAS. The latter was joined for £30.00 and the submission of a copy of the CHAS certificate.
We provide assistance to those who wish to join these registers. Please be aware that successful application requires the availablity of evidence to support the application – without such evidence you will be unable to join the register.
Those who hold retained advisory service contracts with us are usually ready for application at between 3 and 6 months depending on history and committment.
Statement from the Health & Safety Executive
"HSE recognises that an accreditation assessment carried out by any of the member schemes satisfies the requirements of the Core Criteria. Any client wishing to procure the services of a business which has achieved accreditation can be confident that a reasonable and robust judgment has been made that the standard for competency in CDM 2007 has been met for the first stage of procurement".


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Adam Czaplinski, LMT
Adam is a New York State and nationally Licensed Massage Therapist, as well as a Personal Trainer certified through the American Council on Exercise. He attended the Finger Lakes School of Massage in Westchester County, NY in 2010. Upon graduation, he joined the faculty at the Finger Lakes School instructing in kinesiology, anatomy and physiology, and a variety of massage modalities. Adam teaches kinesiology to yoga teacher training students at Yoga Union in the Flatiron District. In his massage career, he has worked with athletes, models, dancers, and individuals experiencing both acute and chronic musculoskeletal issues.
Adam is a strong proponent of manual therapy and believes deeply in our ability to heal with the help and direction of guided and intuitive hands. He is constantly amazed by the complexity of the human body and enjoys working with patients to understand physical restrictions and create movement past their limitations.
In his free time, Adam enjoys traveling, sailing, writing, and being outdoors. He's always up for an adventure, especially those physically and mentally challenging in nature!
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"Be Transformed: The Healing Power of the Sacraments"
by Bob Schuchts.
Ave Maria Press (Notre Dame, Indiana, 2017).
166 pp., $16.95.
Bob Schuchts is a retired marriage and family therapist and founder of the John Paul II Healing Center in Tallahassee, Florida. It is his conviction — outlined in "Be Transformed" — that for Catholics one of the fundamental purposes of each of the seven sacraments is to be a source of healing in a particular way.
Thus, baptism is a source of healing from rejection. Confirmation heals from powerlessness. Holy orders provides healing from confusion, and matrimony heals fear. The sacrament of reconciliation can heal us from shame, and the anointing of the sick heals from hopelessness. Also, Schuchts says, Communion (more on this terminology anon) "heals wounds of abandonment."
Following chapters on "How We Reflect God's Glory" and "How the Sacraments Restore Us to Wholeness," each sacrament gets a thought-provoking, if theologically unconventional, chapter of its own, including questions for discussion and further material for reflection.
For example, Schuchts begins his chapter on baptism with a look at the unhappy early life of Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood. He then launches his discussion of baptism by first describing it as "a public blessing declaring that you and I are precious and unrepeatable gifts of the Father."
This may be a valid way to begin a psychological discussion of baptism as a cure for rejection, but it's less likely to be the most theologically balanced way to lay a foundation for such a discussion.
Another example: The reader may be perplexed to find that Schuchts refers to the sacrament of the Eucharist as "holy Communion." For Communion is but one part, albeit the central part, of the Liturgy of the Eucharist, the other part of the Mass being the Liturgy of the Word.
What the church calls the sacrament of the Eucharist is the Mass entire, not only Communion, and Communion is no sacrament unto itself, apart from the rest of the Mass. Thus, it would far more theologically accurate to discuss the Eucharist/Mass, not just "holy Communion," as healing "wounds of abandonment." How does the Liturgy of the Word contribute to healing from "wounds of abandonment"? One may doubt that Schuchts' approach here is helpful to encouraging in Catholics a balanced understanding of the Mass.
In his concluding chapter, Schuchts summarizes what he has written about each sacrament as a source of healing. He adds scriptural reflections and provides a helpful concluding prayer for each sacrament. The reader will find in "Be Transformed" discussions of the sacraments that will lead to paths of healing and insights unlikely to be discovered elsewhere.
Finley is the author of more than 30 books on Catholic themes, including "The Gospel Truth: Living for Real in an Unreal World" (Wipf & Stock) and "The Rosary Handbook: A Guide for Newcomers, Old-Timers, and Those In Between" (Word Among Us Press).
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Saturday, November 12, 1977/
My future plans are revised. I just read an article in Money magazine and the job prospects in journalism in the 1980s is very dim. So I must change my future plans. I think college will be a waste of my time and money. Instead, I will get a job at New Departure after I graduate, and clean toilets for a living. I will get married to a rich girl with a Porsche. I will get V.D. from a filthy toilet and give it to my wife and she will divorce me. In a fit of rage I will shoot her and spend the rest of my long life (98 years) in the Big House sleeping on my back.


text: A friend, Shannon Wright, asked me to make a poster for her with Aristotle's famous saying about excellence. After a couple of designs that were too instagram-y I finally managed to come up with something that I would not be ashamed of. Figuring Aristotle would be lonely with nothing but his genius for company I made him some friends, Plato and Socrates.


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BRIDGEWATER, N.J., Oct 11, 2017 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Representatives of Chilean service providers and other telecom industry leaders will be participating in a collaborative workshop led by iconectiv, in Santiago, Chile tomorrow, Oct. 12, 2017. Experts from iconectiv, an authoritative partner of the global communications industry connecting more than two billion people every day, will be on hand to discuss the current state of service provider transformation, including network function virtualization (NFV), and what it means for the Chilean telecom industry.
"Service providers around the world are seeking to better understand this new era of transformation and what it means to their organizations relative to benchmarking, operational maturity, virtualization and more," said Richard Jacowleff, President and CEO, iconectiv. "Chile has already made tremendous progress with number portability throughout the region, exemplifying a true best practices approach, and we hope this workshop will help service providers understand the many challenges and opportunities facing the telecom industry today and how to best set a course for the future."
While virtualization is expected to be an unstoppable industry shift that will play a major role in future operations of the entire communications sector, questions have emerged on how service providers can transform their operations simply, seamlessly and securely. From managing scalability and making better use of automation, to connecting to physical components, and initiating virtual methods for operational functions, such as OSS/BSS, digital transformation for service providers is proving to be complex. During this workshop iconectiv will facilitate a discussion on how to enable better utilization of physical and virtual network assets to drive cost savings and efficiency and accelerate the deployment of services.
iconectiv will host the workshop alongside company subsidiary, Telcordia Technologies Chile S.A. Since granted exclusive rights for number portability in 2011, the Chilean telecommunications industry has worked alongside the iconectiv subsidiary to provide businesses and consumers with the convenience of choice, leading to dynamic growth in the region.
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About iconectiv
At iconectiv, we envision a world without boundaries, where the ability to access and exchange information is simple, seamless and secure. As the authoritative partner of the communications industry for more than 30 years, iconectiv realizes this vision for more than two billion people every day by providing market-leading solutions that enable the interconnection of networks, devices, and applications. Working closely with private, government and non-governmental organizations, iconectiv continues to protect and secure telecommunication infrastructures for service providers, governments and enterprises, while providing network and operations management, numbering, registry, messaging and fraud and identity solutions to more than 1,200 organizations globally.


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In 2014 I did my first two Mini sessions: Fall Mini Session and Christmas Mini Session! Both were so much fun and I go to reconnect with some families from over the years and meet new ones. My next Mini will be the Valentines Day Mini on Saturday, January 24th. Families, couples, and loved ones are booking a 20 minute spot for $100 to have their photos made! It's a great way to get updated photos and also send out Valentines to your loved ones!!
If you're interested in booking a 20 minute session on that date, please contact me at: firstname.lastname@example.com or just type your info in any of the forms on my blog/website! <3
Would love to meet and photograph your family!!