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Lisbon city, the city of 7 hills covered in light
Lisbon city, the capital of Portugal
Charming, historical and currently one the most popular tourist destinations in Europe.
Lisbon is a busy, lively and energetic city. During the summer months it is at it's busiest visited by tourists from around the world.
In the winter it is still a popular destination for city breaks and corporate travel groups.
It is a fascinating city with a rich history. It's cultural remains that go back to the Romans. Throughout the city monuments mark the cities place in history throughout the ages. Many romantic stories that accompany them.
Located on 7 hills overlooking the Tagus river
The city is build on the shores of the Tagus at its last stretch before reaching the sea.
The city is located close to the many famous beaches, easily reached by train from the center.
Lisbon has many interesting districts each with it's own particular atmosphere. It is a city that caters to many different preferences and tastes.
The center of Lisbon explained
This article describes the center around its 2 first inhabited hills.
The Bairro Alto, Alfama and the valleys between.
The diversity in this relatively small area is very large and provide the perfect location for a first discovery of Lisbon.
Alfama, the oldest district
Alfama like all Portuguese words and names that start with "al" derives from the Arabic and could have come from the word Al-hamma (fountain or spring) or from the word "Alfamm" meaning mouth.
It is set on the highest of Lisbon's hills. Moorish architecture and street plans dominate this area. Once the home of the fisherman, its rustic character still dominate.
Many will visit the area in the traditional trams that rollercoaster their way up the mountain to Alfama. It's certainly a energetic and fast way to view Alfama but walking its tiny streets and alleys can be just as awarding.
Mountainous medieval city streets and quaint squares
A walk up the mountain through the many routes there are from the lower center can start at the Fado museum. As you climb up the narrow streets past many small fado restaurants. The streets are covered in shade making them easier to walk on hot days. You'll meet many friendly locals and if you're lucky you'll hear some singing fado just to pass the time.
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Modern Alfama
Alfama has historically been the poorest area of Lisbon center. Once occupied by the fisherman who founded Lisbon. Currently it is a trendy area for young artists, bars with a view and fado.
Baixa, down by the river
Down town or the Baixa is the central, lower area of Lisbon it starts at the streets north of the Praça do Comércio, roughly between the Cais do Sodré and the Alfama district beneath the Lisbon Castle, and extends northwards towards the Rossio and Figueira squares and the Avenida da Liberdade. It's a very mixed area from the Cais to Sodre which is home to much city activity that reminds of Amsterdam's red light district all though slightly more innocent and subdued.
Cais do Sodre train station gives access to the Portuguese 'Riviera' and its beaches. Just 15 minutes from Lisbon, the first beach guarantees a lively location for summer fun.
Avenida de Liberdade
Baixa reaches it's way to the Avenida de Liberdade.
The Avenida da Liberdade is the longest of Lisbon's avenues. It is also the most luxurious. This wide avenue is home to designer shops and 5 star hotels and a favorite shopping destination of the jet set.
The architecture of the Baixa
What has defined the architecture of the Baixa is the earthquake of 1755 which destroyed all of it. The Marques of Pombal was brought in to redesign the city plan. He decided to redesign the old center to a modernized plan.
According to his analysis concluded that the original city plan would not survive the next earthquake. The winding streets and piled buildings that still typify the centre of Porto made way to a simpler plan.
He used the opportunity to create a Lisbon centre that would better Lisbon's and Portugal economic growth. It would become a practical commercial center for the bourgeois.
Pombal's new street plan
The new plan would provide better circulation for the city as it made use of a rectilinear street grid system. It all starts at the Praça do Commercio. This central square that touches the Tagus. From there it split into square grids and parallel street plans.
Chiado, the noble center
From the Baixo lets move to the Chiado!
Chiado is located between the neighborhoods of Bairro Alto and Baixa Pombalina.
In 1988 a large part of the Chiado burned. The cause of the fire remains a mystery to this day.
After rebuilding Chiado became a noble location.
Though it has become increasingly flooded with tourism, it is an area worth discovering.
From Chiado you can start climbing to the higher part of our second Lisbon hill, the Bairro Alto!
Bairro Alto, trendy going out district
The Bairro Alto is beating heart of Lisbon's nightlife. A bit to explosive for some for others its the main reason for visiting Lisbon.
Bars and restaurants of all types alternate with designer and art shops in this trendy area.
Bottle collectors and beer lorries dominate the area during the day. At night it fills up with locals and tourists alike, all with the same goal, to have a good time!
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Steven Tyler opens facility for abused girls
Aerosmith frontman Steve Tyler opened a facility in Memphis for girls who have suffered abuse or neglect.
The facility is called Janie's House, and is running out of a Youth Villages location in Bartlett, and was named after the band's hit song "Janie's Got a Gun," the Memphis Commercial Appeal reported. The residence can house about 14 girls and will provide therapy for the victims.
Tyler spoke about the song, which is about a girl who was abused by her father who had addiction problems.
"As you can only imagine, being in a band with guys for 50 years, you can have problems," Tyler said. "And rather than quit, I decided to go to this treatment center for co-dependency."
The "Sweet Emotion" singer's management contacted Youth Villages, a program that "provides help for children and young people across the United States who face a wide range of emotional, mental and behavioral problems," according to its website.


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Walkerville Brewery | Windsor ON | by David Ort | Reviewed spring 2017
Depending on how you do the math, Walkerville Brewery is the oldest small brewery in town. The name has been worn by three separate operations, including one that Hiram Walker started in the 19th century and another that made a go of it during the 1990s microbrewery wave before declaring bankruptcy in 2007.
The current iteration has been around since 2012 with a focus on session-able core beers. In that vein, the Honest Lager has a coppery cleanness and perfectly tuned carbonation and Waterfront Wit is bright and citrusy with the requisite coriander backbone.
Even with this easy-drinking lineup, brewer Michael Beaudoin also talks enthusiastically about their experimental barrel programme.


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The Hidden 80/20 of IT Spend: Where to Mine for Savings
By Jason Busch on December 5, 2017
This Wednesday I'm participating in a webinar titled "The Paradox of IT Spend: How to Influence the Biggest Cost Reduction Opportunity and Claim Savings." The gist of the event is that there are significant savings in tackling what some may consider "sacred cow" categories within IT spend that are not so sacred at all. But […]
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There are a number of emerging strategies to tackle indirect spend more effectively. These include, as my colleague Pierre Mitchell likes to call it, "suitening" to support all source-to-settle processes for indirect. With the concept of suitening, it is important to think suite, rather than individual components, for transactional elements of the indirect solution. Integrated […]
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Published on July 23, 2019
It has long been accepted that breastfeeding is good for babies, but the health benefits for mothers just keep on coming.
Past research showed that breastfeeding helps prevent breast cancer, especially for mothers who maintain the practice past the first year. It also decreases the risk for ovarian cancer and type-2 diabetes.
Now a new study, published last August in Obstetrics & Gynecology, shows breastfeeding also helps women's hearts.
Researchers recorded the pre-pregnancy cardiovascular risk of 846 women in 1985. Twenty years later, they measured the thickness of the women's carotid arteries. (The thicker the arteries, the greater the risk for heart disease.)
They discovered that women who breastfed the least had thicker carotid arteries.
Pregnancy makes the cardiovascular system work harder, but the researchers showed that breastfeeding helps restore the mothers' physiological systems to their pre-pregnancy state.
Heather Lakatos, an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant at Cape Cod Hospital, says breastfeeding also restores other parts of a mother's body back to normal faster as well.
"The hormones that are involved with lactation relax mom and help prevent post-partum depression," she says. "And they also cause the uterus to cramp so it gets back to that pre-pregnancy state faster."
Plus you typically burn about 600 calories a day breastfeeding, so weight loss is much quicker."
And breastfeeding saves you money, Lakatos says. One year of infant formula costs about $1,500. Actual costs are closer to $3,000 if you take into account sick time and the cost of doctor visits for formula-fed babies.
"Breastfeeding babies tend to be healthier, which for employed moms is better because they take less sick time overall and that affects our health system in general," she says.
Breastfeeding helps babies long after they've stopped feeding, Lakatos says.
"We know nutritionally there are so many benefits to breastfeeding because it is human milk for a human baby," Lakatos says. "It's species-specific. It's got the right ingredients, basically, but the immunological piece of it is so important. Breast milk is a live fluid so it has all these antibodies and immunological components that really protect the baby the entire time they are breastfeeding and beyond."
The first feeding coats the inner lining of the gut, which provides lifelong protection against certain gastrointestinal problems. Breast milk also helps to reduce the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, obesity, respiratory illnesses and ear infections.
Lakatos says that the number of women unable to breastfeed is a very small minority and Cape Cod Hospital and Falmouth Hospital offer many support systems to help young mothers be successful.
In the hospital, doctors and nurses have long offered skin-to-skin contact between mothers and babies directly after a non-surgical birth to encourage and promote nursing. Two years ago they began doing the same thing for moms who have caesarian sections.
Lakatos meets with all new mothers before they leave the hospital to talk about the importance of breastfeeding and help them get started. Once at home, moms can call the hospital's "Lactation Warm Line" (508-862-7266), to ask questions and get advice. The phone line is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m.
New mothers can also come back to the hospital as outpatients to work one-on-one with Lakatos, who also leads a weekly breastfeeding support group called "The Breakfast Club," every Monday from 10 to 11 a.m.
Mothers can drop into the group for free to hear Lakatos talk about different topics, including the developmental stages of their babies. Up to a dozen women attend every week. Hospital childbirth educator Ann McDonald leads a "New Moms" group every Friday from 10 a.m. until noon.
The programs are paying off, Lakatos says. "Our breast feeding rate is about 88 percent this current year," she says, up from 85 percent last year.
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Rampage #9 in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
Weapon: MP5 Submachine Gun
Kill goal: 25
Time limit: 120 seconds
Hints: Watch out for the police on this rampage. They have very good access to you since this rampage takes place close to several streets. Try to stay focused on killing the gang members rather than the police, since the gang members are the target.
Remember that the MP5 has very good range, meaning that you can hit enemies from a great distance. Just keep firing away and they will go down.
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Everything You Need To Know About Women's Clothes And Home GoodsClassic Clothing & Home Goods For over 25 years, Let's Go Home has been an American and European household name for catalog shopping. Whether you are looking to buy clothes online or shop home goods, we have you covered! Blair offers classic, trendy collections of women's apparel in misses, petites, and women's sizes. Shop tops, bottoms, dresses, swimwear, footwear, and much more! Our online shopping catalog also features a fashionable collection of men's apparel. Shop regular and big & tall sizes to find perfect-fitting dress and casual men's clothing. For the finest in home furnishings and house decor.
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Yet another interesting stop in our culinary adventures in Paris, the Le Gourmet restaurant offers great French cuisine for prices I hadn't seen in Paris in 15 years.
Lunch time, where to go?
This is the third installment of the series of articles which I set about to write a couple of weeks ago on eating out well in Paris. I love food, I love good cuisine, and I want fellow travelers to enjoy Paris to the hilt. That's enough reasons to guide them to those places I am certain they will enjoy.
Lunch time in Paris is restaurant time. People who work in the city do not carry their lunch bags with them. They rarely enjoy the benefit of a corporate catering service, but even if they do, such catering is hardly a feat for anyone's eyes and taste buds.
Small restaurants perform a vital service: they feed the locals rather satisfactorily, inexpensively, and in record time.
What applies to locals applies to travelers, and your next culinary stop happens in just such circumstances. After a long morning walk in the quaint streets on the slopes of the Montmartre hill, you feel nicely hungry. Your steps lead you to Place de Clichy, a busy crossroads between the 17th, the 9th and the 18th districts (metro station: 'Place de Clichy').
Time for a gourmet experience!
Le Gourmet
You may be hungry, but you are no fool. You want to eat well, and spend your heard-earned cash on food worth this name.
In my considerate opinion none of the eateries positioned around Place de Clichy are worth the money they ask for. I find their cuisine either overpriced, or downright vulgar. I never had a satisfactory lunch at any of these places.
So where to go? Not far away.
When you are on Place de Clichy, turn yourself so as to face the downward slope, with the metro station in your back. Aim at Rue de Clichy, left of Rue d'Amsterdam. Walk down the street for about 200 yards, and turn left in Rue de Bruxelles. Walk another 200 yards. There you are on the right sidewalk.
Your next favorite food stop is located at No. 19 rue de Bruxelles.
Name: Le Gourmet.
Identifiable sign: its French bistro-style facade. And a crowd.
Entering the bistro
If you happen to walk in at around noon thirty, you may have to wait just a tad. The place is packed. I have been to this restaurant numerous times, and I still have to be there the day it is not packed at lunch time.
My advice: come at around 12:00 am, and grab a spot before everybody else does.
The place exudes old charm, with dark wood panels, old posters, menu slates marked with chalk on the walls, a traditional bar, a mosaic floor, bistro-style chairs and tables. It smells good, though cigarette smoke can become an issue at times when the facade door isn't left open.
The owner and chef bought the restaurant about 2 years ago from its first and long-time owners, an elderly couple who retired after having steered the ship for longer than any local can remember. The new owner liked the decor, and decided to preserve it as-is, except for the facade which was changed early in 2006.
In this very Parisian setting, patrons feel immediately welcomed and are quickly seated either by the boss or a smiling waitress. This is lunch time, and they know patrons are in a hurry. No unnecessary delay.
Seated, and menu in hands
The menu is in fact chalked on the slates that hang on the front and back walls. A remarkable feat for such small a restaurant, the menu changes every day.
Anyone who lived in Paris for some time knows that restaurant menus do not change beyond the 'plat du jour' – the main fare for the day. Even the 'plat du jour' does not change that much: from one week to another, the same courses tend to get back on the menu.
Not so at 'Le Gourmet': the menu changes everyday and no two weeks are alike. True diversity. Even if you were to eat there every day for 20 days, you could try 20 different courses.
Gourmet cuisine is a mission
The boss comes from the province of Touraine, in Western France. He likes to work on French traditional dishes, and his cuisine draws its main inspiration from the famous Burgundy and Lyons regions.
Among the 'terroir' dishes served at Le Gourmet, you can taste veal knuckle (souris de veau), prime cuts of veal (onglet de veau), roasted gilthead bream (daurade royale r
Eating Way Too Well In Paris Third Stop At Le Gourmet
Yet another interesting stop in our culinary adventures in Paris, the Le Gourmet restaurant offers great French cuisine for prices I hadn't seen in Paris in 15 years.


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Fully Legal Drinks and Cannabis Smoking Bar/Social Club in Fuengirola
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Situated on a busy street which runs through the town the bar has good visibility to passers by. It has been greatly improved and re-launched by the present professional owner, it is proving popular as a venue attracting a British and mixed nationality clientele. All the hard work has been done and a sound platform established for a new owner to simply turn key and start trading immediately. Help and support is offered, if required, by the seller to help a new owner with a smooth handover and support after sale transfer.
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Currently studying at the Rhode Island School of Design as part of the 2.5 Year Masters of Industrial Design program. My background is entrenched in architectural design and history with a Bachelors of Science in Architecture from the University of Virginia. Following graduation I moved to Seattle, Washington where I spent 8 months as an architectural design intern at Olson Kundig Architects. Though loving my time on the West Coast I moved back to the East Coast to fulfill my dream of living and working in New York City and being closer to family. The next three years I worked in high-end private residential design at Murdock Solon Architects in Manhattan, New York as a project architect and interior designer. A truly rewarding experience, being able to immerse myself in the finite details of residential design, it awoke within me the desire to design and create beyond the architectural framework. Now attending RISD, I strive to create meaningful and well designed objects that would exist primarily within the domain of the home.
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Chico Community Ballet and Barnes and Noble are coming together to help raise funds for our upcoming production of "Cinderella" November 17, 24 & 25. A portion of all proceeds from your purchases will go to support the Ballet. Please make sure you present your coupon or mention us when checking out.
Also a special performance, on Saturday, October 27 at 2:00PM by CCB Dancers will be held during Story Time at Barnes and Noble. So come and see excerpts from our upcoming ballet "Cinderella".


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Why do girls with natural hair seem to have more fun?
For some reason when you see a gal with a full head of curly hair they just look like the most fun person to be around. There's something about a girl with Natural hair and big bold curls. In fact, it is impossible to resist wanting to stroke your fingers through their hair, but that is another story.
Although there is a demanding process at times when it comes to styling those beautiful curls, there is a great freedom of letting your strands hang out. From what we have heard there are no limitations on the style. If the wind blows their hair blows with it, or it does not, however, due to the freedom of the curls it falls right back in place.
Even when you see her on the dance floor moving to the latest Beyonce hit her moves appear to be free, and flowing, right? Then not to mention the stares, when you see those big curls it is almost as if she is a celebrity.
We do not know about you, but when we see a chick with big hair and natural curls, we want to be their friend and hope they take us on an exciting ride. Next time you see that type of beauty visualize how fun her life may just be. You may want to go all natural just because of that vision. A word of warning, although it may be tempting make sure you ask permission before you touch.
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teaching staff
- Jonny Slater - Curriculum Leader
- Jessica Whitehouse
music peripatetic staff
- John Kilshaw - Brass
- Thomas Pratt - Guitar
- Sian Watkins - Voice
- Ross McDouall - Drums
- Chris Preece - Piano
- Lucia D'Avanzo Lewis - Strings
- Tracey Thurlow - Woodwind
Curriculum Aims
Sarah Bonnell offers students an extensive range of musical opportunities and aims to give all students a rich and exciting experience of music. The Music Curriculum Area offers students the chance to explore their creativity and expression through a variety of mediums. All students are encouraged to take part in practical music making, which ranges from class singing and guitar playing to joining one of the school's extra-curricular clubs.
Music is constantly changing and the use of music technology is a massive part of the music that we listen to today. We are therefore very proud at Sarah Bonnell to have state of the art iMac computers networked to the school server and a professional standard studio. Students are able to explore music technology in lesson time with high level equipment and also record themselves using the music studio
Year 10 and 11
Students further their knowledge of music gained in Years 7-9 and extend it, looking at the history of music and the changes that have been seen in the past 400 years of Western Classical music all the way through to present day pop and world music. We are proud of our students achievements in music; our results are consistently above the national average.
In year 10 and 11, we follow the OCR syllabus for music GCSE. Students create a practical portfolio demonstrating their skills in performance and composition, as well as their appraisal and evaluative skills, which challenge students and helps them to develop into well-rounded reflective learners.
Year 10 and 11 curriculum includes:
- Creating a practical portfolio
- Demonstrating their performance and composition skills
- Demonstrating their appraisal and evaluative skills
Extra-Curricular Clubs
The Music Curriculum Area run many extra-curricular activities ranging from the vocal groups 'Chamber Choir' and 'Young Voices', to the SB Mega Band! There are rehearsals and groups every lunchtime and after school, where students of any ability are able to come together and perform music.
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At Opus Athletics we believe that functional movements are the cornerstone to health and fitness. As humans we were designed to move perfectly, but we are our own worst enemy. The things we love to do (Skiing, Biking, Snowboarding, Running, etc...) can sabotage our ability to function optimally, we look to our training to turn that around. CrossFit states that specializing is the enemy. As true as that statement may be in the gym, we realize that you will specialize outside the gym, and have specific goals that reflect that too. At Opus Athletics, we recognize and accommodate for it. But we never let go of the idea that you are only as fit as your scope of training, so we ensure that we paint as broad a fitness stroke as possible. Hence using CrossFit as the core of our training program.
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Among all the subjective hyperbole that gets thrown around when it comes to beer ("best IPA," "must-visit breweries," "top-10 Pastry Stouts"), success is still an objective function. For businesses, it's shown in dollars and cents and red and black ledgers.
By most accounts, Craft Beer Cellar has been just that. After opening as a curated retail store focused on beer in Belmont, Massachusetts in 2010, founders Kate Baker and Suzanne Schalow have overseen a rapid expansion that turned their venture into a franchise. There are now 31 such stores spread across the country, from New England to Florida, into the Midwest, Texas, and California.
When the first store opened, there were about 1,800 breweries in the country. When Baker and Schalow went national in 2013, there were 1,000 more. As the American industry creeps toward 7,000, its rapid growth reflects an opportunity Craft Beer Cellar has seized: more people are buying craft beer than ever, and the experience, selection, and education offered at these stores is meant to be among the best in the country.
"People take two steps in the door and they don't know how to proceed," franchisee Brian Shaw told The Boston Globe in 2013, not long after opening his own store in Newton, Massachusetts, less than a six-mile drive from the original Belmont location. "People say, 'Oh my God, I didn't know there was this much beer.'"
Shaw, who excitedly spoke of customer enthusiasm five years ago, now suggests there's anything but. He didn't want to say much for this story, telling GBH that he's not aware of any growth for Craft Beer Cellar "here in Massachusetts or otherwise." He's trying to sell his store.
Objectively, it should be an exciting time for Craft Beer Cellar. Nine stores opened in 2016 and six more last year. Another six or seven could join the lineup in 2018, including booming beer states like Texas and North Carolina. But for as much success has bubbled up, enthusiasm among some franchise owners has gone flat, causing internal strife and public spats, including lawsuits. As of the end of May, only one new franchisee had signed in 2018 to open a future store, the same as the year prior.
In the last two years, Schalow says she's spent "a couple hundred thousand dollars" in legal fees battling those who bought into the franchise, even using Boston attorney Phil Giordano on a de facto "full time basis" beginning in 2016. The financial ramifications, as well as personal and professional, have added up. She describes the actions of a small group of owners as akin to sabotage, vendettas against her to harm her business, even if it hurts their own in the process.
Numerous franchise owners, some confirmed by Schalow as those she's clashed with, declined comment for this story. One, asking not to be identified, simply replied, "I am reminded of a lesson of my long ago childhood: If you have nothing good to say, say nothing at all."
It's a sentiment that was shared multiple times, from different people. Each person insisting that any negative stories surrounding Craft Beer Cellar or its franchises was a bad thing, while also admitting that challenges facing the company—some of which went public over the last two years—came almost exclusively from infighting. Threats to a business' success, they say, come directly from its people talking poorly of the company, which is exactly what has gone on for some time.
Schalow says that she and Baker, her partner in business and marriage, just want to be "business people and beer geeks," but "it's clear there's an effect on our business and reputation across the country."
Buying into the Craft Beer Cellar is more approachable than other franchise options. Store owners who want to become part of "The Brand," as it's called internally, must pay an upfront franchise fee of $25,000, but that's actually on the low end of typical average buy-in, according to the Small Business Administration. Even the monthly royalty fee—2% of net sales—is well below the average of 6.7%, according to the International Franchise Association. The range of all-in startup costs to launch a stocked store for franchisees, depending on geography and its impact on real estate, has ranged from almost $60,000 to $150,000, according to Schalow.
Under the Craft Beer Cellar umbrella, store owners are provided with a host of materials, from "how-to" guides on opening a store, stocking shelves, connecting with distributors, and more, including support around marketing, technology, and education. This spring, the company unveiled a visual rebrand to offer a look "as mature as we were, as a retail outlet," Schalow said. It cost $30,000, which was covered by ownership, but individual franchisees would have a year to change over all their existing signs and branding items with the new look on their own budget.
"They're reachable day and night," says Sandeep "Andy" Bajaj, who co-owns a Craft Beer Cellar in Westford, Massachusetts with his wife, Sue. "We have an internal system that we use to communicate and if we post a message, we get a reply from someone from The Brand within a few minutes. It could be Suzanne, Kate, Patrick, who does a lot of the tech work, Virginia, who does product support, or Phil, who does marketing."
Brian Beaucher, who opened a Craft Beer Cellar in Grand Rapids with his wife, Jessica, left a Boston-based antique map business he started with his brother to open his own store. Despite also having done freelance work as a photographer and graphic designer and spending years co-owning a business, he saw a great benefit from joining the franchise after becoming friends with Baker and Schalow during his time in Boston.
"I didn't want to jump into something unknown, so the idea of joining a franchise seemed really helpful," he says. The franchise manual was a big deal, he says. "I'm sure it would have been a couple months' worth of time trying to do it all on our own."
But, as things often go with business, money is seen as one of the core challenges that has disrupted relationships and morale among franchisors and some franchisees. Bajaj and Beaucher expressed happiness with their experience as owners, but others have felt the opposite through a small collection of experiences.
Issues first arose in September 2015, when Jessica and Gustavo Villatoro opened a franchise in Sudbury, Massachusetts, which reportedly created animosity between the couple and Pat Loranger, owner of a nearby Craft Beer Cellar store in Framingham. According to the Boston Business Journal, the Villatoros didn't know about a five-mile radius of exclusivity included in a contract with Loranger, meaning no other franchises could open and compete in that vicinity. By public road, the two stores were separated by 5.7 miles via the shortest route, but were about 4.5 miles apart "as the crow flies."
The court found in favor of Loranger, noting that the "five-mile radius shall be measured as a straight line." In March 2016, Framingham got its exclusivity, which led to Sudbury closing in May that year and reopening as Sudbury Craft Beer. According to the Business Journal, the Villatoros also received $97,000 in arbitration from Craft Beer Stellar LLC, Baker and Schalow's company for the beer retail stores. Schalow acknowledged a settlement, but wouldn't confirm that exact figure. "There was a mistake and there's no denying that," she says, admitting that the issue was regrettably overlooked. Framingham closed earlier this year.
A similar case was raised to Baker and Schalow by Phil DiCarlo, owner of Craft Beer Cellar Fenway, due to a three-mile radius complaint focused on Craft Beer Cellar Fort Point. Depending on mapping system, the recorded distance can be tracked below, at or beyond that range. Both of those stores are still in operation and no legal action has taken place as of publication. DiCarlo declined to offer context for this story, only adding that "every negative story hurts fellow store owners."
These instances appear to be at the root of a greater schism that created a lingering distrust with some.
"I'm writing in to you today to ask that action be taken to equalize fairness in the Massachusetts market of CBC stores," franchisee Brian Shaw wrote in a July 2016 email to Schalow, Baker, and Marla Yarid-De La Cruz. (The latter was, at the time, a partner in Craft Beer Cellar. She later left the company and is still friends with the couple, Schalow says.) Shaw's message arrived months after the previous legal action was taken against the company. A copy of the interaction was provided by Schalow.
Shaw's worry was the dilution of brand and sales opportunities after customers stopped coming to his store. It was "because another CBC store has opened closer to them," he said in his email. There were too many stores and customer demand wasn't high enough, and worse, he wrote, new stores would poach shoppers by promoting themselves over others. What was once presented as a family of stores, it seemed to Shaw, was now at conflict with itself.
On top of that, Shaw wrote there was favoritism shown by Baker and Schalow toward other stores, whether through marketing or allocation of sought-after beer. He didn't specifically provide examples, but wrote about those issues in a general sense of what he saw was poor treatment of a long-term franchisee.
"We should be rewarded, not harmed or put in less fair arrangements as compared to these new stores," he wrote. "It has been the desire of mine, and other stores in Massachusetts, to open more than one location so that I can make a career out of this. You have since saturated the market and taken away that ability."
According to Schalow, Shaw had been presented with an opportunity to lock in an expanded exclusive territory for his franchise store in January 2016. His original agreement provided 3.5 protected miles around the Newton store and, in an exchange with Schalow on Jan. 23, 2016, she suggested they consider expanding it to four miles. Shaw replied that he'd be interested, and would want to reconnect after February 1. On March 16, Schalow attempted to revive the conversation. She says she never heard back.
The issue came back to the forefront in Shaw's July email. At the time, the closest Craft Beer Cellar stores to Newton included the flagship Belmont location (about four miles by a straight line), Fenway (about six miles) and Winchester (about eight miles). Two others were 15 or more miles away. In his email and in Schalow's response, neither mentioned the potential impact that non-Craft Beer Cellar bars, restaurants, or bottle shops may have on the business.
It's unclear what steps Shaw took to change trajectory in 2017. As an entrepreneur who helped create a Boston-based social sports league company, he's spent almost a decade as a startup consultant, and he lists "revenue generation" as his first professional specialty on his LinkedIn profile.
Schalow denies Shaw's financial accusations, which also claimed an annual income under federal poverty level for a family of one, which was just more than $12,000 a year at the time in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In a response, Schalow noted that Craft Beer Cellar had reduced Shaw's franchise fee in 2013 from $15,000 to $10,000 and reduced monthly royalties from 2.5% to 2% as a means to help him financially. (The chain's monthly royalties were originally 4% when Craft Beer Cellar began franchising, but were reduced not long after and currently stand at 2% today.)
"We felt like he was fishing for a response to some degree," Schalow tells GBH. "He's the closest store to me, so I know that what I see is hard work and people showing up, doing what they need to do to maintain a customer base."
Shaw says he "meant every word" of the challenges he brought up in the email, adding "the initial issues we had are just as anybody has" in trying to run a successful business.
"I want to move forward as positive as possible," Shaw tells GBH.
Despite the issues behind the scenes, publicly, things were still going well. Nine stores had opened in 2016, including two in November—one in Texas and another in Missouri. But in early December, things changed quickly.
An internal memo, sent to franchisees on Dec. 1, 2016, was leaked to industry members and media that detailed a list of brands that could and could not be sold in stores. National mainstays like Sierra Nevada and Firestone Walker were included as breweries OK to sell, while local businesses, like Down The Road Brewery and Hopsters were deemed "not fit for consumption" due to perceived issues with quality by Craft Beer Cellar leadership. It was made clear that blacklisted beers could be shifted away from the "do not buy" collection.
Before the year could come to a close, the company found itself in more legal hot water. In an interview with Brewbound, one attorney suggested the "do not buy" list was illegal, potentially violating a state regulation that denies licensees the ability to induce, persuade, or influence others "for the purchase of any particular brand or kind of alcoholic beverages, or to persuade or influence any person to refrain from purchasing, or contracting for the purchase of any particular brand or kind of alcoholic beverages." Some breweries said they would consider legal action, potentially based around an act of degradation or defamation toward their brands. Nothing came of those threats.
It was at this point that internal strife became rather public, as the ranks of franchisee dissenters reached around 10, a similar figure to what Schalow suspects today. The situation set a pattern that has continued, however, as none of the Craft Beer Cellar owners would speak openly about their issues, only providing anonymous comments to press and on industry message boards.
"The original CBC aura of a family looking for a collaborative approach to spreading our love of craft beer has dissipated into a bullied approach of controlling the stores without collaboration or input from them, which has caused increased expenses and hardships on several levels," one anonymous franchisee told Bostinno in December 2016. "This actively costs us a higher level of expenses, directly removes revenue, and creates more problems with efficiency and workload."
The situation led to an acknowledgement from Baker and Schalow, who went on to create an "Approved Beer List" which included a product evaluation team to make monthly changes to the list of recommended items.
"It is neither Craft Beer Cellar's intent or purpose to exclude amazing liquid that consumers are interested in," Baker and Schalow shared on their company blog. "It is also not our mission to stand idly by and not participate in educational conversations about all that is going on in this industry. We have always held in the very highest regard, the beer, our education, and taking the very best care of our customers that we can.
Anonymous comments from franchisees continued, suggesting the new list was simply a renamed version of what had already existed. Meanwhile, this behind-the-scenes approach to airing grievances hasn't stopped, and now stands at the center of new legal issues.
In reporting this story, GBH reached out to 13 different Craft Beer Cellar franchisees, four who did not reply and five who provided some variation of "no comment." GBH did, however, receive two unsolicited, anonymous responses condemning Craft Beer Cellar and Schalow specifically.
Hours after reaching out only to Brian Shaw, the owner from Newton, Massachusetts, and Brandon Nickelson, owner of a store in Clayton, Missouri and in-planning store in St. Louis, an email was sent from "email@example.com" telling a GBH reporter that "You are too close to S and spend all your time complimenting her and CBC. No one will speak to you on record." At that point, GBH had only attempted to contact Shaw, Nickelson, and Schalow. All three denied any involvement with this or other anonymous contact with GBH.
"S" was presumably in reference to Schalow, who had appeared on an episode of the Good Beer Hunting podcast in July 2017 with GBH founder Michael Kiser, and also joined GBH's Fervent Few community, which is comprised of readers, brewers, retailers and a variety of industry professionals. In the group's online Slack channel, Schalow engaged in an "Ask Me Anything" session with other Fervent Few members, along with occasional posts interacting with the community on beer and related news.
Interactions on Twitter, written by Kiser, had been kept to several comments complimenting Schlow on her advocacy for diversity and inclusion and another suggesting to share a beer at a later date. He also tweeted about the leaked beer list issue, though he did not engage with Schalow, beginning a thread on what constituted "quality" and the responsibility of acting as a curator for customers in a specialty shop.
"S doesn't need anything else to fire her up," the emailer later wrote. "She's already going after franchisees and Glassdoor in federal court. I like my money in my pocket and not in a lawyer's pocket. Good luck writing your puff piece about how great CBC and S are."
The Glassdoor reference was related to a March 2018 complaint and demand for jury trial issued by Craft Beer Stellar, the company created by Baker and Schalow, against the online ratings website that allows employees and former employees to anonymously review employers.
Beginning in mid-November 2017, two weeks before the internal buy/do not buy beer list was leaked, anonymous ratings began appearing on Glassdoor, all but one wildly negative. "A mess for prospective franchise owners" headlined one. "Worst decision of my life." read another. "Other negative reviews are spot on. Worst decision and years of our lives." tried to act as something of a greatest hits, pulling quotes from previous negative reviews.
They continued. One in January 2018. Two more in February. Four in March.
During the same time period as the reviews, two anonymous Twitter accounts were created, their content on the site seemingly existing only to troll Schalow and Craft Beer Cellar. Between November 2017 and March 2018, "Beermaster" and "CraftBeerMass" had mostly one-way conversations on the platform, at times taunting the owners about closed stores and legal issues, and also proudly displaying screenshots of being blocked by Craft Beer Cellar's main Twitter account.
At one point, "Beermaster" tweeted at handles for BeerAdvocate and its co-founder Jason Alström, saying they should write a story about the franchise and its perceived troubles. The same day, they also wrote to Chris Furnari, editor of Brewbound, asking the same thing and specifically mentioning the Glassdoor reviews. Neither tweet received a reply and as of this story's publication time, nearly all Craft Beer Cellar franchisees contacted by GBH turned down the opportunity to talk.
Still, the Twitter accounts seemed to be secondary to Glassdoor, which included detailed and angry reviews. Themes among them are similar, including "pros" about making valuable relationships in the beer industry and listing "cons" about sales projections, marketing skills, technology systems, and more. The reviews specifically call out Schalow over and over, claiming mismanagement, dishonesty, and one calling her "The Trump Insult Machine."
"As an owner, I fully endorse the other comments," one anonymous poster wrote under the headline of "Do not buy a franchise." "Suzanne is a brash woman who bullies and calls names when confronted about anything."
The irony was not lost on Schalow. She was being called names and felt harassed on Twitter and Glassdoor, but nobody would talk to her directly. Requests from GBH to various franchisees to learn details of improper management were also declined.
Craft Beer Stellar had contacted Glassdoor in February 2018 requesting that six reviews be taken down due to content that Schalow felt crossed a line. One was removed because it violated Glassdoor's terms of service due to mention of a non-management employee by name, but was then reposted without that reference. Craft Beer Stellar's lawsuit asked that reviews be taken down from the site, citing defamation as well as breach in confidentiality and sharing trade secrets due to discussion of sales projections and the franchise's proprietary informational manual for owners. The lawsuit seeks $75,000 in damages, though Schalow estimates a potential cost to the company near $500,000 due to loss of possible signed franchisees and associated fees and revenues.
In mid-May, Glassdoor responded by asking for a dismissal of the suit, saying Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act allows for such posts, since they are created by third-party users and the website only hosts them. Craft Beer Cellar then filed an opposition on May 25.
Schalow and Baker's path to a legal victory may not be easy, as Glassdoor has championed its efforts in fighting similar lawsuits, saying the company receives hundreds of such requests each year and even hosts a running tally of its court wins on its website. Glassdoor's willingness to allow for posts similar to those calling out Craft Beer Cellar have regularly put them in the crosshairs of employers, but it's seen as a key component to Glassdoor's ongoing effort to protect free speech, "which includes the ability of people everywhere to leave anonymous reviews of their workplace experiences."
Beaucher, co-owner of the Grand Rapids store, said that he is aware of the Glassdoor reviews and is confused about their purpose. "Any negativity out there publicly hurts everyone," he says.
Like any entrepreneur, he's been working hard to boost the prospects of his small business, opening at 10 a.m. six days a week to allow shoppers to come in early, working with the city to expand nearby parking options, and hosting weekly tastings, educational classes, and happy hour specials. He's added a small menu so visitors who want to sit and have a drink from one of his 20 draft lines can snack on hot dogs, pretzels with beer cheese, or mini flatbread pizzas.
He says communication and insight from Baker and Schalow have been great, and aside from a normal concern of how to get more foot traffic, something all businesses strive for, doesn't understand why other franchisees would want to tarnish the brand or dissuade potential shoppers.
"When I ask a customer how their day is, I really want to know and really want to spend time with them," he says. "Sometimes I'll walk around and hand pick six-packs for them because I want to push hospitality as high as possible."
A worry over public perception is front of mind for Schalow, but there's also confusion. "Why would you do something or try to trash something that would bring your own business down?" she asks about the negative reviews, which she believes were written by the angry franchisees. Some reviews intimate its author is a past or present owner. In conversations with GBH, Schalow mentioned she feels the attacks are partially rooted in sexist attitudes toward her and Baker, though language in the reviews and elsewhere doesn't publicly state as much.
Days after receiving an initial communication from firstname.lastname@example.com, a second, unsolicited note was sent to a GBH reporter, though this time from an encrypted ProtonMail email account, which prides itself as the "world's largest secure email service."
"I am hoping you realize that writing a positive piece about that company and the garbage human that runs it is not a good thing to do," it read. "Don't feed into the bullcrap they are selling."
The interaction is something of an epitome of the past year, opinions of a vocal minority shared secretively and anonymously. For some franchisees, however, these impressions couldn't be further from their own truth.
"Being completely new to owning a business, they provided me with a good foundation," says Andrea Cross-Dial, who's set to open a new Craft Beer Cellar this summer in Cary, North Carolina. "I feel a lot more comfortable because I'm able to build off the experience that not only Kate and Suzanne have from starting the franchise, but from other store owners, too."
Cross-Dial is behind one of five or six new stores that could open before the end of the year, a former-nuclear-engineer-turned-professional-beer-geek. After spending 20 years providing analysis of nuclear power for energy companies, she was laid off at the end of 2016. Seeking a second act, she reconnected with former coworker, Ryan Maas, who had opened a Craft Beer Cellar in Lynchburg, Virginia. Maybe that could be it, she reasoned.
Having lived in North Carolina for two decades and having watched the state's rapidly-growing beer scene evolve, she saw an opportunity to bridge a personal passion with profesional excitement. Most of her career was spent at large corporations, and it was time to work for herself, for the first time. She had enjoyed visiting North Carolina breweries, which have nearly tripled in number in the last five years, and saw increased appreciation in Cary, just west of the state capital of Raleigh, which added more than 11,000 residents in the same timespan.
"I'll either succeed or fail on my own, but having the backing of the Craft Beer Cellar franchise made me feel more comfortable because it's people who have done this before," she says. "If I had been doing it completely on my own, I probably wouldn't have done it."
After signing a franchise agreement in September 2017, Cross-Dial says she got assistance from its "blueprint" from the start, which guided her through locating an ideal space, identifying ways to increase her education, tips for social media, and preparation for a customer service role, for which she had never held before. She spent a week in Massachusetts for in-person training at the Belmont store with Baker, Schalow, and their team, and got help setting up relationships and expectations with distributors local to her store, something she says she wasn't entirely comfortable navigating by herself at first.
What she does realize from the get-go is the uniqueness of her space and location. Meaning that what works for another Craft Beer Cellar store in Hickory, North Carolina might not be transferable for her. Or, for that matter, what's successful for her friend, Mass, in Virginia, or Schalow in Belmont. Ciders and gluten-reduced beers might be favored by a more health conscious crowd in Cary, for instance. Her Craft Beer Cellar is going in on the ground floor of an apartment complex adjacent to new housing subdivisions, so having 12 curated taps to create a social space will be valuable. She feels the Craft Beer Cellar name offers trust to consumers.
Cross-Dial wasn't familiar with the complaints lodged via Glassdoor, but they don't change her mind. The support she's received from Baker and Schalow, along with other franchisees, makes her confident. "Everyone is definitely engaged and very open to communicating," she says.
Similarly, Andy Bajaj, the co-owner from Westford, Massachusetts, says that his interactions with Craft Beer Cellar leadership has led to "over-communicating" thoughts, ideas, and details, "which is a good thing." He appreciates the fact that he can get help with something like social media deliverables the day he asks for them.
"With anything, you can find faults in how you choose to do things," he says. "If you choose to look at things negatively, you'll only find negative things. With any small business, there are ups and downs, so if there are downs, and you start pointing fingers, it's going to seem bad."
"But this is fun," he continued. "It's beer. I look forward to it every day."
Bajaj and his wife bought into the Craft Beer franchise just over a year ago, buying the Westford store from former owner Walter Miska, a local entrepreneur who is now on his fourth business. The location had already been open for three years, and the Bajajs found an enthusiastic customer base made their decision easier to buy in. He sees the proximity to other stores in the Boston area as a benefit—if a shopper from Westford works in Boston and finds something they like at another Craft Beer Cellar, there's a good chance they'll want to buy it from him, closer to home. He's found camaraderie, too.
"Somebody at one of the stores recently ran out of price stickers to put on cans, so one of the first things they do was pick up the phone and call other stores," Bajaj says. "I told them absolutely I want to help, here you go. I look at this as very positive."
When Portland, Maine's Lone Pine Brewing Co. decided to do a small, exclusive release to a handful of accounts in the Boston area, Bajaj said that because the brewery chose to have an event at the flagship Belmont store, it could benefit all the franchises, because it boosts the company name. "We're the same family," he adds, noting that allotments from breweries like Somerville's Small Change Brewing may not be as big if he was an independent beer store versus a franchisee.
Bajaj and Cross-Dial both talk with ease about the advantage they see of being under the Craft Beer Cellar umbrella, which starts with guidance on how to best launch a business and extends to what they see as almost around-the-clock support. It's an entirely different point of view than the anonymous comments scattered across the internet, perhaps representative of how these things typically go. Log onto Yelp, Google Reviews, or any other site, and it's hard to find a middle ground. In a general sense, these situations are formed by anger or appreciation. It's left up to a reader to determine the balance.
The truth of the matter is that many of the challenges facing Craft Beer Cellar franchisees are part of the process of owning a business. Especially one in an evolving and increasingly-competitive beer industry. Schalow estimates that about 80% of the people who buy into the company to own their own store are first-time entrepreneurs. Cross-Dial came from engineering. Andy Bajaj still works part time in software, while his wife retired from her job as a kindergarten teacher. These backgrounds sound a lot like the never-ending collection of stories told by brewery owners, who left various positions in corporate life to pursue something they cared about.
However, given the difficulties of the past two years, "we're starting to question 'passion' and what that means," Schalow says. To her, it's not just about having financial backing to open a store. Rather, assessing potential partners is just as much about fit and connecting in the right way. Which all sounds less like a failing business and more like challenges that regularly face a growing one. Mistakes can be learning experiences, even if they're pricey ones.
"There's no doubt that Kate and I can look back at all this and poke holes in our own process," Schalow says.
In a conversation with GBH, Schalow said a recent interview with Hill Farmstead founder Shaun Hill resonated with her. Published in the UK's Morning Advertiser, the story included comments from Hill about the mental and physical health tolls from working in beer, including long hours and high-pressure situations.
"While it's somewhat emotional and somewhat frustrating, we continue to believe and have faith that we'll end up righting the ship," Schalow says. "I think at the end of the day, we're human and we have emotions. There are good days, there are great days, and there are some days you feel beat up and you have some of those thoughts of, 'Why am I doing this?'"
The answer, she believes, is to help build and support the industry around her. She wants to educate consumers through Craft Beer Cellar's "Beercierge" program, designed to build on the Cicerone platform, with extra focus on sales skills and hospitality. She wants to find new breweries to showcase for new fans. She still considers the costs, however, even as she happily suggests "the legal cases and battles are over" when it comes to disagreements and potential out-of-court settlements with franchisees.
"Sometimes you just got to paddle a little harder and not give up," Schalow says. "Eventually, these things go away, and we'll keep pushing forward."
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The activity of our Infra group is based on using technical knowledge and local raw material. The group operates in Kannonkoski, Pirkkala, Aura, and near Riga in Latvia. In addition to the skills of our own staff, we constantly employ a network of subcontractors.
The factories in Kannonkoski and in Latvia focus mainly on manufacturing of metal products. If necessary, we also maintain the products manufactured by the companies of our group inPirkkala. The logistics warehouse for our products and the products of our clients is located inAura. In its activities, Infra group adheres to Quality Management Standard ISO 9001 andEnvironmental Management Standard ISO 14001.
Among other things, our Kannonkoski metal products factory manufactures structures for power lines, electric railways, and transformers. Steel structures have been welded in this factory since 1992 and the facility holds EN 1090-1 certificate issued by Inspecta Sertifiointi Oy. According to this certificate, we are entitled to equip the steel structures with CE-marking and manufacture products belonging to execution classes EXC1, EXC2 and EXC3.
New Latvian metal products company Auratec SIA is engaged in cost-effective welding and manufacturing of angle iron structures for power lines and masts. This company specialising in production of steel structures commenced operation in spring 2018. The factory has been subject to CE EN 1090 audit performed by Inspecta Sertifiointi Oy.
Angle-iron production
CEP HP16T6 angle-iron unit
- Angle-iron L40x40x4 – L200x200x20
- U-beam UPE80 – UPE160
- Lenghts 1500 mm – 12200 mm
- Average capasity 600 kg/h
Cutting unit
- L40x40x4 – L160x160x19
- The possibility of machining profiles up to L200x200x20 without cutting
Punching unit
- Punching is possible for all profiles up to 19 mm in thickness
- Hole size 5 – 32 mm
- The possibility of making the oval or rectangle holes
Notching unit
- L40x40x4 – L120x120x12
- 5 pcs 45 degree notching tools, one with rectangle punch
Drilling unit
- L60x60x6 – L200x200x20
- Hole size 10 – 40 mm
- The x-axis of the drill allows also milling oval holes
- Angle iron "base" milling up to 14 mm in depth
Marking unit
- Each part can be marked with die-cutting
- Marking is still visible after galvanizing, character size 16x8 mm
Drilling unit
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- Maximum profile size 1200 x 1200 mm
- Maximum profile lenght 12000 mm
- Maximum hole size 40 mm
- The x-axis of the drill allows also milling oval holes
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Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif re-elected as President of ruling PML N and after being elected as party president took a strong position against Pakistan Tehreek e Insaaf by saying all party leadership has spent time on containers and kept on dancing instead of serving the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Nawaz Sharif while addressing his party leaders and party members said people of the province are searching for their leader who promised them a Naya Pakistan, but we are building Naya Pakistan by bringing electricity, building new motorways. Nawaz Sharif without taking the name of Imran Khan criticized him and his party policies.
Earlier before Prime Minister's speech, intra party elections of the party were held where Nawaz was elected as President of the party.
PML N's senior party leader Raja Zafar Ul Haq was elected as Chairman of the part, both top positions of President and Chairman were elected unopposed.
Sartaj Aziz, Changaiz Marri, Sir Anjam Khan and Yaqoob Khan were elected as senior Vice Presidents of the party, whereas Pervaiz Rasheed was elected as the Secretary Finance of PML N.
Earlier on Monday afternoon Imran Khan announced to stage sit in protest in Islamabad on 2nd November. The decision was taken. The decision has been taken in party's core committee meeting in which it is decided to change the date of protest. PTI had earlier planned to shut down Islamabad on 30th Oct but now PTI will be staging sit-in protest on 02nd Nov.
Imran Khan also criticized other opposition parties for not being on the same page against corruption. He said that the parties which are not coming out on roads along with us are least interested towards eradicating corruption from the roots of our system. Also, now his party won't let PM govern the country unless he does not present himself for accountability in the wake of Panama Papers disclosures, Khan added.


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By reaffirming its policy that New York City's annual Pride Parade is a "free speech platform," Heritage of Pride (HOP) effectively rebuffed a demand made by the Reclaim Pride Coalition that HOP bar members of the Gay Officers Action League (GOAL) from marching in uniform in the parade and that it keep police vehicles and the police marching band out of the parade.
"We get requests ever year from people who want us to control or restrict who can march," said James Fallarino, who heads media for HOP during a May 14 meeting held at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center.
Fallarino asked HOP members to approve, or re-approve, HOP's longstanding policy that any group can register to march and that HOP, which produces New York City's annual Pride Parade and related events, does not tell marchers how to present themselves beyond applying the same rules to all marchers.
In April, the Reclaim Pride Coalition presented a series of demands to HOP and the NYPD that are intended to reduce the policing of the parade and the corporate presence in the parade and also to limit GOAL's participation. Among the demands, the Coalition asked that GOAL members be barred from marching in uniform and carrying weapons in the parade. The group also wanted police vehicles and the police marching band tossed from the event.
Fallarino's motion reiterated that HOP does not restrict "the types of groups that may register" and that "No restrictions are placed on how marchers may legally express themselves." The motion was approved in a lopsided 37 to 1 vote.
HOP is a membership organization and individuals become voting members after completing certain volunteer requirements. The organization has a small staff and most of its work is performed by volunteers. The great majority of HOP's meetings are open to the public.
Roughly 10 members of the Coalition attended the May 14 meeting and prior to the vote, they argued that the restrictions they sought on GOAL were an act of solidarity with those communities, notably communities of color, that feel the brunt of policing in New York City and around the country.
"When you don't stand up against the crimes the cops commit, you're being complicit," said Jay W. Walker, a member of the coalition who is active in Gays Against Guns (GAG), which has not endorsed the demands. GAG formed following the 2016 killings of 49 people in a Florida LGBTQ nightclub.
Jeremiah Johnson, who is active in Rise and Resist, which has endorsed the demands, said GOAL's presence in the parade was a form of pinkwashing intended to sanitize the more brutal image of police that is commonly presented by the American left.
"I want to point out that for certain communities… for them, they are terrorists," Johnson said, referring to the police.
ACT UP, the HIV activist group, and Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QAIA), a group that opposes Israeli policy toward Palestinians, have also endorsed the demands.
GOAL praised the vote.
"GOAL is happy to learn that Heritage of Pride has reaffirmed its long-standing commitment to allow marchers full freedom of expression," the police fraternal organization said in a statement. "We have always marched as activists fighting for equality for LGBTQ people in the criminal justice profession, and for the larger LGBTQ community. Thanks to this decision, GOAL will be marching out and proud to celebrate our community's history and heritage again this year."
The Coalition is also seeking a resistance contingent in the march as was present last year. HOP has committed to giving its complete response to the Coalition demands on May 21 and so the May 14 vote was seen as something less than definitive by some Coalition members.
"From my perspective, it was a vote that did not have a lot of substance," said Jake Tolan, a member of Rise and Resist, an activist group formed following Donald Trump winning the White House in 2016.
HOP has organized a June 5 community forum with the NYPD to discuss the change in the parade's route. Since 1984, the parade has traveled south along Fifth Avenue to the West Village though the route has been shortened at least twice. This year, it will start in Chelsea and move south on Seventh Avenue then east on Christopher Street and Eighth Street and then north again on Fifth Avenue before ending at 29th Street. The intent is to reduce the size of the parade and the time it takes to complete.
"The NYPD made the final decision based on our proposals and their feedback," said Julian Sanjivan, HOP's march director, at the May 14 meeting. "This was not our decision to make."
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4036045875990281971.post3608975199811448251..comments2019-06-28T22:24:25.466-06:00Comments on Where Is Baer ?: The Rating System is Flawedwhereisbaerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4036045875990281971.post-19063097717249340662019-02-05T16:15:37.558-07:002019-02-05T16:15:37.558-07:00Love it, who cares what it's rated, is it goin...Love it, who cares what it's rated, is it going to be fun for my group today.
Chris Baerhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4036045875990281971.post-54323212912153994802019-02-05T16:14:33.182-07:002019-02-05T16:14:33.182-07:00I have looked at the keel-hauler system, and that&...I have looked at the keel-hauler system, and that's part of my decision to write the article. I like certain aspects of it. But it has issues, north fork of the payette and green narrows get ranked equally, yet take wildly different techniques to make look good. What I really wanted out of this was to make everyone think about how they rate things and be a little more sensibleness when trying to get information to someone that is new to the region. Chris Baerhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4036045875990281971.post-84373143982004239212018-07-14T04:23:04.006-06:002018-07-14T04:23:04.006-06:00Interesting article. Two comments - if you are us...Interesting article. Two comments - if you are using Volume of water to as a 'hard number' measure then you also need river capacity. What is a high volume in a narrow river could be barely significant is a very wide one. Maybe better to use whatever local measure and equate it simply to high / medium / low. Decisions on what to paddle are subjective and include lots of 'soft' factors (how am I feeling today, who's in the group etc.) so a grade and a level indication are probably as good as you'll get. 'Hard Number' measures can give a misleading feeling of accuracy & so may prove more dangerous. Knowing you're working to a 'rough guide' leaves the onus on the individual to make good decisions for themselves, after considering all other factors, which is as it should be. Second - the grading is an indication for where you can start you decision process. If you're paddling rivers simply to tick off a grade - i.e. what's the highest 'score' you can get down - then you may want to review your motivation. Maybe we need to award paddlers style points, so getting an 8.5 on a Grade III has more merit than scoring a 3 on a Grade 4!Unknownhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4036045875990281971.post-13018792106128932712018-04-19T05:35:38.531-06:002018-04-19T05:35:38.531-06:00Simple factors that reate HUGE differences: - Pool...Simple factors that reate HUGE differences:
- Pool drop? Continuous flow?
- Consequence! Class V moves with ok consequence? Class III moves with horrible consequence?
- River in its 'natural' bed? Flooding?
I find out about these, add that to the info about the river to get a gauge on the river difficulty.
Rating is just one partSantaCruzCabraliahttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4036045875990281971.post-17710434895958496422018-04-13T10:00:47.073-06:002018-04-13T10:00:47.073-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Rachael Chttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4036045875990281971.post-39981688983585743832018-04-07T04:31:48.521-06:002018-04-07T04:31:48.521-06:00Why obsess over whether something is a class IV or...Why obsess over whether something is a class IV or a class V-? The important ratings are whether or not something is a class I or II or ... or III+ or IV- at normal flows and conditions, and what those normal flows and conditions are. By the time someone is paddling in unfamiliar parts of their home country/world and/or at unusual flows and/or in unusual weather conditions and/or without local beta and/or with unfamiliar paddling partners, no rating scheme is going to help a fool who doesn't know their self, their skills, their equipment, and their paddling partners well enough to make their own decisions.Chris Bellhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4036045875990281971.post-4097020382846367302018-04-06T16:30:52.960-06:002018-04-06T16:30:52.960-06:00It's a guide, set by those who know either kno...It's a guide, set by those who know either know the section or one that resembles it. Combining consequence and tech... Only IMO of course. aquapilothttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4036045875990281971.post-82735916974915260462018-04-06T13:54:13.140-06:002018-04-06T13:54:13.140-06:00I can't help but keep coming back to the fact ...I can't help but keep coming back to the fact that rating rivers will never answer the question of does this RIVER on this DAY meet my GOALS? Am I physically fit, technically skilled, mentally prepared, have the right right gear and am with the right group of people to paddle this river? Whether we apply Corran's system to rate a river or use the international scale maybe it comes back to personal goals. I personally seek information about difficulty and risk so that I can maximize fun, pretty, boofability novelty and at times challenge. A bunch of equations have been offered. Refining Jeb Hall's and Erin Savage equation. I would suggest (Structure + Flow) = Difficulty and then, (Environmental Conditions + Consequence + Location + Preparedness) = Exposure. Making it .... (Difficulty x Exposure) = Risk. Most of the time I would prefer the scale (Boofability x Pretty) = Fun. But there are many times I would like to know the Risk before exposing myself....... The current rating system is broadly descriptive of the river difficulty. River ratings just don't do a good job with how water level effect the river and/or specific rapids or the risk of individual rapids; that is the major failing. As others have pointed out there is no way to designate rapids when there is a known unseeable hazard (read-- known fatal hazards that cannot be seen when scouting) perhaps adding some annotation like an "X" to the rating could help. A class IV-x so paddlers might be more keen to seek out local knowledge to find out what the avoidable but deadly hazard is? But the rating system works a lot of the time for a lot of a people. And, class IV-V paddlers usual navigated all the nuances to make the decision they need. River just are; they just keep flowing downstream, as Jim Snyder said in the Squirt Book It's just you and the river, and the river doesn't care a fig about you or the yak you rode in on. So, you must. In the long run, the arena you set for experience (fun, competition, adventure, challenge etc.) will yield victory and defeats in the name of the cause." triphttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4036045875990281971.post-66324256410185905042018-04-06T13:30:32.556-06:002018-04-06T13:30:32.556-06:00Chris have you ever looked at the Keel-Hauler rive...Chris have you ever looked at the Keel-Hauler river rating system http://keelhauler.org/khcc/khcrr.htm and the paddler system http://www.keelhauler.org/khcc/selftest.html the goes with it?
River in Alphabetical Order http://www.keelhauler.org/khcc/khcrralph.htm

Any suggestions or agreement or disagreement with these river ratings from North, Central and South America.John Kobakhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4036045875990281971.post-78330076201093877332018-04-05T19:01:56.182-06:002018-04-05T19:01:56.182-06:00The swim ratings made my fucking week! I can't...The swim ratings made my fucking week! I can't decide what the Irish/British local hazard that we overlook is. Perhaps needing to race up a boggy hill with a kayak on your shoulder before the rain stops while been buffeted by gale force wind. This race has end badly for many.Ronan Shawhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com


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PMA is part of the Network Analysis Infrastructure. Active network measurements are being carried out by the AMP project.
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Newlywed Life | The Growing Pains of New Marriage/
My husband of two weeks sat beside me on the floor, bowls of black beans and rice before us and backs against our first Ikea couch. We ate, surrounded by an enamel Dutch oven, new and velvety towels, down pillows, gilded picture frames. The stuff of a wedding registry checked off. But without chairs to sit on for dinner.
Married at 23, with one of us in graduate school and the other commencing a job search in a new town, my husband and I began our wedded life absorbing the paradox of having just experienced the most elegant, special occasion of our lives--and all the generous gifts and photogenic dazzle it entailed--followed by a season of surprisingly unglamorous trials: extreme simplicity and a tight budget, arguments over whether dishes should be washed before bed or the following morning, equivocating over daily habits and routines, struggling to comprehend an NFP chart.
Before the wedding, we'd spent hours of our long-distance engagement on the phone, dreamily anticipating when we'd be together daily and no longer have to say goodbye for weeks at a time. We eagerly devoured spiritual literature on marriage, knowing even when emotion abandoned us from time to time, pure willpower and sacramental grace would sustain our love. It seems naive now, yet I still imagined we'd sail painlessly into marriage, our newlywed bliss drowning any minor frustrations.
Minor frustrations, however, often felt major, compounded by our financial situation and search for community four hours away from friends and family. Even in the genuine euphoria of finally being husband and wife, we bickered. I felt guilty, knowing material concerns and disagreements over trivial matters like whether to roll up the toothpaste tube were nothing; that the foundation of our love felt truly solid and that even with certain deprivations we still had much compared to some. I wish I could go back and tell myself it's alright to have felt this way.
It wasn't until a few months in, when my pride was mercifully stripped away that I could see these growing pains as a gift. Offerings from the Father to burn away our faults and, like iron in a fire, sharpen one another in virtue. The irritations of adjusting to a shared life didn't immediately disappear. But suddenly, what seemed like obstacles in the way of love became opportunities to love.
My husband and I discussed expressly thanking God for any frustrations we felt with our situation or one another, knowing when we accept his invitation, all things are transformed and love disinterested in the self is all the more possible. "This is the very perfection of a man," wrote Augustine, "to find out his own imperfections."
Whatever your crosses as a newly married couple, consider this permission to struggle, and even to find the struggle discouraging. Welcome it all the same. There were times, in those early weeks of my marriage, a lie crept in that the grace of the sacrament just wasn't working for us. I know now that difficulty doesn't mean grace isn't at work. It means that it is, and is ours to embrace.
The first steps of any journey can be the hardest, not least of which the steps on this pilgrimage to heaven. You aren't alone, though. In flesh and in spirit, united to you entirely, is a second person--and a third.
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Toddler Nursery
The Toddler Nursery is staffed during Sunday 9:15 and 11:00 am services. This safe, loving, and caring atmosphere is staffed for children who are sturdy walkers through three and a half years of age. In the nursery, children can enjoy:
Free play time
Lessons which use stories, songs, and sensory-learning resources to help connect children with God
Light snacks as needed
Check-in is required; capacity is limited
Our Toddler Nursery underwent a stunning transformation into "Noah's Ark" and features a custom-made ark with a slide built into one corner to encourage playing, learning, and storytelling.
Other additions include a play house resembling that of Bible times in the Middle East, a cozy book nook, a craft area with new tables and chairs along with other various cosmetic improvements to make the nursery joyful, bright, and welcoming.
Infant Nursery
For younger children, the Infant Nursery is located in the northwest corner of the sanctuary and is available for infants through early walkers and their parents. The Infant Nursery features:
A variety of toys, books, and puzzles
Chairs/swings for children
Brand new rocking chairs
A changing table
Parents are able to listen to and watch the service while feeding, caring for, and comforting their infants and young toddlers. Parental supervision is required. Entrances to the Infant Nursery are in the Sanctuary and the Atrium.
Opportunity to Serve
We're looking for loving hearts to help care for little ones in HCL's Toddler Nursery! Volunteers play with little ones, read Bible stories, play, and give out snacks in a laid back setting. If you're interested in helping during one of these services: Sunday 9:15, or Sunday 11:00, please contact Rachel Stathakis at firstname.lastname@example.com.