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Five fascinating facts that you may not know about sea turtles
Megan Hamilton
Jul 18, 2015 in
Each year, in its quest for tasty jellyfish, the leatherback sea turtle travels an astounding 10,000 miles crossing the entire Pacific Ocean, in a journey that stretches from Asia to the U.S. West Coast from Washington to California.
That's according to
and these
massive turtles,
which can weigh up to 800 pounds, have been doing this for at least 150 million years, long before the extinction of the dinosaurs.
A Pacific Leatherback turtle, one of the largest species of marine turtles.
For all seven sea turtle species, life is a long series of migrations, and they live in the world's tropical and sub-tropical oceans, the
Sea Turtle Conservancy
With that in mind, let's get on to the first fascinating fact about sea turtles.
1. Magnetite crystals, found in the brains of these ocean travelers, play a key role in helping them navigate. The magnetite acts like a compass, allowing them to use the earth's magnetic fields to make their way over long distances,
Sea Turtle Inc.
reports. This enables them to locate feeding grounds and nesting grounds.
Kemp's Ridley is an extremely endangered Sea Turtle. The US National Park Service every year hatches these turtles and releases them to the sea after incubation to help increase their numbers. Seen here is an annual "Sea Turtle Hatchling Release" event at Padre Island National Seashore.
As they swim out to sea, the tiny hatchlings imprint on chemical, magnetic, and astronomical cues of the beach where they were born, making it possible for them to return as adults to the very same beach as adults.
2. Leatherback sea turtles
(Dermochelys coriacea)
can dive as deep as 4,000 feet. The only animals to dive deeper than that are sperm whales, beaked whales, and elephant seals, SeeTurtles reports.
3. Green sea turtles
(Chelonia mydas)
are able to stay under water for up to five hours even though they only spend about five minutes (or less) while on a feeding dive,
Defenders of Wildlife
reports. To conserve oxygen, their heart rate slows down; up to nine minutes may elapse between heartbeats.
4. These turtles exhibit interesting behavior that isn't found often in other sea turtle species. Adult green sea turtles are large herbivores (they can grow as large as five feet long and weigh up to 700 pounds) and feed on sea grasses and algae,
National Geographic
reports. The kids, on the other hand, also eat crabs, jellyfish, and sponges.
Another quirk: Eastern Pacific green turtles like to haul up on land to bask in the sun and have been observed on occasion sunbathing next to seals and albatrosses. Most sea turtle species prefer to warm themselves by swimming near the surface in shallow waters, only leaving the waters to nest. The green turtle is one of the only sea turtle species known to leave the water at times other than when it is nesting.
5. The olive ridley turtle
(Lepidochelys olivacea)
gained its name because its skin and shell (or carapace) is greenish in color, and it's closely related to the Kemp's ridley
(Lepidochelys kempii.)
The main difference here, is that olive ridleys are only found in warmer waters, and this includes the southern Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans,
National Geographic
Already endangered, Kemp's ridley sea turtles, have declined primarily due to human activities says report.
United States Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS)
These turtles are the smallest of the sea turtles, and only weigh up to 100 pounds. The length of the shell is about two feet, which makes them seem tiny compared to the leatherback turtle.
The only sad fact about these wonderful creatures is that their numbers are declining, and it's largely due to us. In just a span of 100 years, sea turtle populations have been plundered for their meat, eggs, skin, and beautiful shells, the Sea Turtle Conservancy reports
Destruction of feeding and nesting habitats, accompanied by pollution of our oceans are having a devastating effect on turtle populations, and many breeding populations have already become extinct.
The conservancy reports:
"There could be a time in the near future when sea turtles are just an oddity found only in aquariums and natural history museums — unless action is taken today."
Fortunately, national laws such as the Endangered Species Act (ESA) lists hawksbill, leatherback, Kemp's ridley, and green sea turtle as endangered, while the loggerhead is listed as threatened. This means it is illegal to harm, harass, or kill sea turtles, their hatchlings, or their eggs. It's also illegal to import, sell, or transport these turtles or their products. In the water, they are protected by the National Marine Fisheries Service, and while they are on land, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is responsible for their protection. Other countries have laws and regulations that apply as well, the Conservancy reports.
There are international agreements in place to protect turtles. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), which controls trade in endangered and threatened species has listed sea turtles under Appendix I of this agreement, and as such, they receive protection from international trade by all countries that have signed the treaty.
The conservancy lists goals that can help protect turtles, including:
• Cracking down on the illegal international trade in sea turtles and their products by enforcing laws and agreements.
• Decreasing deaths of turtles due to commercial fishing by enforcing
Turtle Excluder Devices (TED)
and regulating gill nets.
• Protecting beaches where turtles nest by establishing parks and refuges or through establishing regulations combined with public education initiatives.
• Enforcing national and international laws that minimize the dumping of pollutants and solid waste into our oceans and nearshore waters.
If you are interested in helping these marvelous creatures, Defenders of Wildlife has some useful
Sea turtles are truly remarkable creatures. If we're lucky, we'll be able to share the planet with them for years to come, but it's entirely obvious that we will need to work hard to do so.
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Why are fluoride ions in acidic environment as dangerous as hydrofluoric acid?
HF hazard
Like the hydrofluoric acid HF, the fluorides in acidic environment generate a dual action which is both:
- corrosive because of the H+ ions of the acid;
- and toxic because of the fluoride ions F- which, thanks to the destruction of the superficial layer of skin or eye, can penetrate deeply, chelate calcium and magnesium, and thus disrupt the biological balances. This results in very severe necrosis and in disruptions of the various turnovers.
The destructive action of the acid mainly targets the superficial layers, whereas the fluoride ion does not damage them that mucha. Then the devastation of these layers allows the HF and the fluoride ions that HF progressively releases to penetrate and to spread into the deepest tissues, resulting in liquefactive necrosis. This specific mechanism differentiates HF from other acids and particularly from strong acids which cause coagulation necrosis with precipitation of the tissular proteinsb.
In a diagram
Please remember
- The HF hazard is due to the double presence of H+ and F- in an acidic medium.
Any acid can release H+ into the medium – any fluoride can release F-
- In the equilibrium HF <-> H+ + F-, the first entity to be consumed is H+.
- The more acidic the medium is, the higher the concentration in acid (meaning the concentration in H+) will be in the mixture, and the more the fluoride ions will be released and the more they will be able to react (Le Chatelier's Principle).
- This is the reason why the chemical substances derived from hydrofluoric acid have a specific classification, with more strict regulations for very toxic products, because there is still a HF hazard even for low concentrations.
|HF concentration
In a mixture
Insertion at the 19th ATP,
modification at the 26th ATP
|Risk statement
|≥ 7 %
|Very toxic
|R26/27/28 : very toxic if inhaled, in contact with skin, and if swallowed
R35: Causes severe burns
|1 to 7 %
|R23/24/25 : Toxic if inhaled, in contact with skin and if swallowed
R34 : Causes burns
|0.1 to 1 %
|R20/21/22 : Harmful if inhaled, in contact with skin and if swallowed
R36/37/38 : Irritant for the eye, the respiratory track and the skin
Current European labeling
- A mixture containing 2% of HF is always labeled as toxic and corrosive, although the lethal risk is lower than for a concentration ≥ 7%.
- In the new European labeling CLPc, the limits of concentrations are less clear regarding the risk of acute toxicity, however the hydrofluoric acid is classed in acute toxicity category 1 (which stands for the highest hazard) in case of contact with skin (hazard statement H310 – Fatal in contact with skin).
- Because the action is slower (for diluted concentrations), the associated symptoms are delayed.
|50% and above
|Immediate, coupled with a rapidly visible destruction of tissues
|From 20 to 50%
|Delayed from 1 to 8 hours after contact (with erythema developing in the same time)
|Below 20 %
|Delayed to 24 hours or more (with erythema developing in the same time)
What is a fluoride in acidic medium?
It is no more than the presence of H+ and F- ions in the same solution.
For instance, if you mix a strong diacid, such as sulfuric acid H2SO4, with some sodium fluoride, NaF:
- H2SO4 dissociates in water completely and releases 2 H+
- NaF is a salt which hydrolizes completely too, if the solution is not saturated.
NaF <-> Na+ + F-
For instance, in bath containing 20% of sulfuric acid, 40% of sodium fluoride and 40% of water, you will find 40% of H+ ions and 40% of released F- ions.
Besides, this kind of property is currently used in chemistry to increase the power of chemical stripping.
The hydrofluoric acid is commonly used in the stripping of stainless parts.
Nitrofluoric mixtures, which correspond to a mixture of nitric acid (HNO3) and hydrofluoric acid (HF), can also be used.
Examples of such mixtures commonly used as stripping solutions:
- 6% HF / 15% HNO3 – Mixture at pH = 1
- A mixture HF/HNO3/H2SO4 at pH = 1
Therefore the medium will be very acidic: with both H+ ions released by HNO3 (and H2SO4, when present in solution) and fluorides in the form of F- or HF.
Please remember: Mixing HF with a strong acid causes a rapid acid burn and thus builds the « entry route » for fluorides, although their "number" is theoretically lower than the number of H+.
How should fluorides in acidic medium be washed ?
Answer: fluorides in acidic medium should be washed like a hydrofluoric acid splash.
For the best results, this is how to achieve an active and efficient washing:
- Take action as early as possible in order to avoid the appearance of the first lesions
- Act on the H+ ions and, at the same time,
- Chelate the fluoride ions F-
The washing devices using the HEXAFLUORINE® solution match those requirements because of being directly available at the workstation and transportable.
The HEXAFLUORINE® solution acts on the acid and chelates the fluorides. Its hypertonicity allows to remove the chemical aggressor out of the tissues of the eye or skin (phenomenon of osmosis) and thus limits the penetration of HF and its action on tissues.
Please remember: using an active solution such as the HEXAFLUORINE® solution, immediately after a splash, allows to avoid or to reduce the penetration of HF and its action on tissues, and thus restrains the development of the burn and the associated complications. In case of late or insufficient washing, a secondary treatment such as calcium gluconate may be applied, in accordance with the protocol of the medical authority in charge.
Examples of fluorides in acidic medium:
Nitrofluoric mixtures
- 6% HF / 15% HNO3 - Mixture at pH = 1
- Mixture HF/HNO3/H2SO4 at pH = 1
- Mixture HNO3/H2SO4/NaF or HNO3/NaF
Other acids likely to release F- ions:
- BF3 (boron trifluoride)
- H2SiF6 (fluorosilicic acid)
- SiF4 (silicon tetrafluoride)
- a: McCulley JP., Whiting DW., Petitt MG., Lauber SE. Hydrofluoric acid burns of the eye J Occup Med. 1983, 25, 447-50.
- b: Dibbell DG., Iverson RE., Jones W., Laub DR., Madison MS. Hydrofluoric acid burns of the hand J Bone Joint Surg Am. 1970 Jul;52(5):931-6.
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In the United Kingdom latest indications are that the recovery in activity which began some three years ago is continuing at a moderate pace, with few signs of a re-emergence of inflationary pressure. Until recently, the output response from domestic industry has been rather slow, but it may now be quickening somewhat. The rapid rise in output per head also seems to be continuing, especially in manufacturing. Partly for that reason, the trend in unemployment has not improved as much as might have been expected.
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While moms and dads are off sprinting across the ends of the earth to find a Hatchimal before Christmas, a new "toy" is gaining popularity -- but not for the best reasons. This photo of a Fisher-Price Happy Hour Playset is making parents very angry. After all, who in their right mind would think about promoting such a toy to kids?
In case you're looking for a PO Box address to which you can send an angry letter, you can save yourself the stamp. This Fisher-Price "toy" is not, I repeat, not real. It appears to be the brainchild of NYC-based branding agency entrepreneur and dad Adam Padilla.
Adam's reimagined Fisher-Price toy set -- that would've included a play bar, child-size bar chairs, and pretend beer bottles -- did a pretty good job of looking a little too real.
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And as you could imagine, some people weren't having it ... at all.
Poor Fisher-Price had a time trying to reassure people upset over such a toy that it was in fact fake -- and not even the company's idea.
@donna_bondurant Someone has an interesting take on things! We promise you that is not a real Fisher-Price product!— Fisher-Price® (@FisherPrice) December 9, 2016
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Can I be honest? I thought this toy was kinda cute, and I could definitely see it living in people's homes. After all, children are sometimes the reason why parents drink, so why not give kids a toy that will allow them to fill our glasses up on occasion? Lord knows we need the wine, or a cold one from time to time.
Of course a toy like this is inappropriate for children. And of course Fisher-Price wouldn't dare try to sell a bar playset in toy stores across the country.
... But that doesn't mean the company -- and those who have what some consider a twisted funny bone -- can't chuckle at something like this.
"In the last few weeks some comical, yet fictional, Fisher-Price products have been introduced -- perhaps the result of adult writers, designers and comedians that were Fisher-Price kids themselves," Fisher-Price mentions in a statement to Today. It continues:
As a premiere childhood development company focused on helping families get the best possible start in life, we take our role in developing toys and products very seriously, but can appreciate the recent product-development suggestions as obvious love of the brand.
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If I'm being honest, I could maybe see a toy like this in my house if there were a few alterations -- like changing the martini glass to a bottle and swapping out those beer bottles for sippy cups.
After all, children have tough days, too. Isn't it cool to have a toy that serves as a gathering place for them -- where everybody knows their name -- where kids can sit and kick back with a cold one (glass of milk)?
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Carl Barat has showcased his new songs for the first time on a secret tour of Europe – and spoken exclusively to NME.COM about his new band.
Barat unveiled Dirty Pretty Things at a secret headline show last Tuesday (October 18) in Paris – the same city The Libertines played their farewell show at the end of 2004.
Dirty Pretty Things, who had already played a small number of unannounced shows in Italy, performed seven brand new songs and tracks from the Libertines back catalogue. The Triptyque club where the gig was held was hosting a club night by Poptones boss Alan McGee.
The set opened with an acoustic performance from Carl, where he whipped the 650 capacity crowd into a frenzy with Libertines hits 'Can't Stand Me Now', 'Time For Heroes' and 'France'.
Then the full band played for another 40 minutes. The new songs sounded like early Libertines material, combining urgent, noisy punk guitars with reggae influences similar to The Clash.
Speaking exclusively to NME.COM backstage after the show, Carl said that after a difficult year his new band feels like "four guys against the world again", and the tour has given him the chance to bond with the rest of the group.
He said: "I've taken a year to sweep up the pieces, focusing, and remembering who I was and why I did what I did rather than tying up the loose ends of the Libertines, which has really taken up a lot of time and emotional space."
Bassist Didz Hammond, who joined two months ago after leaving previous band The Cooper Temple Clause, sang backing vocals, and on one song performed the lead.
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That's All Folks? Ecocritical Readings of American Animated Features
That's All Folks? Ecocritical Readings of American Animated Features
Bambi is arguably a film that vilifies hunting and the human hunters who burn down the animals' forest, thus perhaps valorizing the rights of animals more forcefully than those of man. But the film also advocates for animal rights based on these animals' humanlike qualities, helping them build a community of family and friends in a protected forest free from human intervention. Despite the film's clear argument favoring at least some elements of nonhuman nature, such a position may conflict with tenets of the environmental movement.
This conflict between animal rights and environmentalism is also reflected in popular culture from the 1940s, when Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac was first published. Walt Disney films from the 1940s and 1950s are no exception. According to Rebecca Raglon and Marian Scholtmeijer, "Advocates for nonhuman animals note the similarities between human and other animal spe-


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Facebook Inc. (NAS:FB) executive Dave Marcus has some reassuring words for members of Congress on the company's maligned Libra digital currency. A day before he faces the Senate banking committee, Marcus' opening statement was released on Monday. In it, he says subsidiary Calibra won't "make money at the outset" nor will it compete with national currencies. The cryptocurrency, he adds, will be regulated by Swiss financial authorities. Marcus is scheduled to speak before the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday, and House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday. The controversial digital currency has been criticized by everyone from President Donald Trump to billionaire Mark Cuban over issues such as regulation, trust in Facebook's ability to handle personal financial information, and the ability of developing countries to properly administer the currency.
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What is the best practice for REST API call from and device (Android, iOS). I am getting extra parameters/fields in JSON response, while calling an API. Throughout the the application there are several API which contains extra params in it.
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text: Singapore is counting on its position as an Asian financial hub to bolster services exports as overseas demand for its goods falters amid an uneven global recovery, Bloomberg reported. The growing importance of services has prompted the government to release quarterly figures on the sector, Ow Foong Pheng, permanent secretary of the Ministry of Trade and Industry, told reporters Tuesday. Services trade rose to almost 27% of the total last year from about 20% a decade earlier, she said. That share is set to increase with a rising middle class in the region boosting demand and a planned regional economic community set to lower barriers to trade, the ministry said.


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Contractors complete three times the square footage of stick framers in half the time on Oregon multi-family building with MiTek's SAPPHIRE Structure software
Timber Technologies, a wall panel designer/framing contractor, and Precision Truss and Lumber, makers of the roof trusses and floor trusses, had to design a 141,753-square-foot, multi-story, wood-framed multi-family building in Eugene, Ore. If they didn't collaborate during the design and construction phases, the roof and floor trusses wouldn't meet walls with the proper load paths. Clashes, misalignments, and errors would be inevitable.
The objective was to create an error-free, code-compliant optimized wood frame. "Even though Precision Truss is designing floors and roofs, and Timber Technologies is designing walls, we work from the same building model, so the precision is outstanding" says Timber Technologies' Ken Pappadis.
"The key is to know where the actual framing of a wall stops," says Precision Truss' Tom Martin.
"We ship a lot of our walls with the gyp on it, and where that finished surface stops or needs to be let through is key," Pappadis says. SAPPHIRE offers that level of precision, right down to the nailhead.
If one company does the walls (Timber Technologies) and another other company does the floor and roof trusses (Precision Truss & Lumber), what ties them together? How can they possibly collaborate effectively?
The answer: Both companies run MiTek's advanced wall and truss design technology, called SAPPHIRE Structure.
Precision and Timber Technologies avoid crossed wires by collaborating on a single SAPPHIRE Structure 3D building information modeling (BIM) model. Precision's trusses are digitally overlaid on the Timber Technologies wall model. Errors are worked out in the digital design, before fabrication of the panels and trusses. The result? Error-free, code-compliant optimized wood frames, put up in just over half the time of a similar stick-framed structure.
"With SAPPHIRE, I can get Ken's SAPPHIRE wall model and overlay our trusses, to determine highly accurate wall heights and see exactly where our trusses go in a digital pre-built environment," Martin explains. "When I am ready, I can just drop my trusses on his design."
"With SAPPHIRE, I can dimension my walls with exact precision, the way the framers need to see them," Pappadis adds. "Then, in the final plans, whether we print them or send them out over SAPPHIRE Viewer (a tablet and iPad field app). I can also color-code annotations, so the subs can see just the instructions meant for them."
"Working with SAPPHIRE in 3D gives you insight and views that would be impossible to obtain in 2D plans or a PDF," Martin adds.
There are economic benefits too. "With SAPPHIRE, we can cut onsite framing time in half," Pappadis said. "We can typically do triple the amount of square footage of a stick framing crew, in one half the on-site time."
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The Trump White House is planning a "Salute to the Heroes of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs [and] Border Protection" on Monday, August 20 in the East Room. The ceremony is a politically motivated stunt to provoke ire from opponents of Trump's zero tolerance family separation policy.
Naturally, Arizona's Governor Doug Ducey intends to participate in this middle-finger to Americans opposed to the political party of kidnapping and child abuse and making orphans out of innocent children. Way to make us proud, Trump troll.
Daily Kos reports, As hundreds of separated migrant kids remain locked up, White House to honor ICE and CBP 'heroes':
As hundreds of separated migrant children continue to remain under U.S. custody and at ongoing risk of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, Donald Trump plans to honor the border agents who kidnapped them from their parents' arms and locked them up in cages in the first place.
Politico reports the White House has planned a "Salute to the Heroes of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs [and] Border Protection" event for next Monday, coming a few days after Trump claimed that immigration agents "have been absolutely abused."
All right, if he wants to talk abuse, let's talk about abuse.
Despite a federal judge's court order, the Trump administration continues to hold more than 560 kids under U.S. custody, including two dozen kids aged five years old and under. [Contempt of court.] Not only is the administration blatantly violating a court order, it's continuing to keep kids locked up in facilities where migrant children have already been molested, and are only there because of Trump's family separation policy.
Earlier this month, a 32-year-old Arizona worker at a Southwest Keys facility—contracted by the government to detain migrant kids—was arrested and charged with molesting a 14-year-old girl, "accused of slipping into the girl's room late at night and forcibly kissing and inappropriately touching her, according to court documents," the San Francisco Chronicle reported. This taxpayer-funded abuse is horrendous—and it's widespread.
Internal documents going all the way back to 2009 have revealed that border agents themselves have assaulted migrant children "with their feet, fists, flashlights, and Tasers. In one case, an agent ran over a 17 year old with a patrol vehicle and then got out and punched the child in the head and body." Other agents have molested children, while some have blocked families fleeing violence from asking for asylum at the border, in violation of U.S. law.
These out-of-control immigration agents are also deadly. Border officials initially claimed Claudia Patricia Gómez González, an unarmed migrant woman who crossed illegally into Texas, was shot and killed because she attacked an agent. They lied. A follow-up statement removed any references to the "blunt objects" she allegedly had in her hand—their claim had been disputed by an eyewitness— and a planned press conference was cancelled.
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Meanwhile, 14 months' worth of ICE data reveal that the arrests of immigrants with no criminal record at all have more than tripled under Trump, "and may still be accelerating," NBC News reports. "Bad hombres?" Bullshit. It's hardworking moms and dads who are getting swept up by ICE. It's families that are getting decimated by ICE and Border Patrol's cruel tactics. This is what Trump is "honoring" at the White House next week.
"Instead of using ICE and Border Patrol agents as a backdrop for a midterm political rally," America's Voice's Frank Sharry said, Trump officials "should hold an emergency meeting with ICE and CBP to discuss how to immediately comply with the family reunification court order whose deadline passed three weeks ago." Tom Jawetz of the Center for American Progress: "Only this White House would give medals for taking thousands of immigrant children from their parents, and continuing to detain hundreds of orphaned kids in defiance of a court order."
Good points that Arizona's political reporters should be making to governor Doug Ducey who intends to participate in this farce. Ducey to speak at White House event honoring ICE, border agents:
Gov. Doug Ducey on Monday will visit the White House to tout the work of his Border Strike Force at a function honoring immigration and border officials, his office said Friday.
The "Salute to the Heroes of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs (and) Border Protection" will examine border-security and community-safety issues, including the idea of a southwestern border wall, according to Ducey spokesman Daniel Ruiz.
Ducey was invited to discuss his multi-agency Strike Force, created to fight drug and human trafficking, during a panel exploring "the unique role that states play as it relates to border security," Ruiz said.
The White House "salute" comes as nearly 600 migrant children wait to be returned to their parents after being separated at the border under the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" immigration policy.
The removal of more than 2,000 kids from their families has triggered widespread outrage among humanitarian groups, spurring some migrant-rights advocates to call for the abolishment of ICE.
Asked about the recent separations, Ruiz said the governor was not participating in Monday's event as "a statement on any position that has been taken by ICE or CBP."
Bullshit! Ducey is participating in Trump's middle-finger to Americans opposed to the political party of kidnapping and child abuse and making orphans of innocent children.
"This is more an event to honor the men and women on the front lines who secure and protect our border," he said.
No, it's not. It's Trump trolling the two-thirds of Americans opposed to his family separation policy and his xenophobic anti-immigrant white nationalist policies. And there is Gov. Ducey wrapping his arms around him and embracing it.
Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels, a vocal Strike Force supporter, will also attend the White House event, Ruiz said.
The Border Strike Force, established in 2015, has become a linchpin of Ducey's campaign for re-election this year. Though the Governor's Office has cited dramatic arrest and drug-seizure totals, the Department of Public Safety has not provided a more detailed breakdown of Strike Force operations.
So yet more anti-immigrant bashing as the centerpiece of GOP campaign strategy, from Russell Pearce and his acolytes John Kavanagh and Steve Smith and Joe Arpaio, to Governor Jan Brewer and John Huppenthal and Tom Horne, to Governor Doug Ducey and … well, all of them — more than 15 years of demonizing Latinos as the only campaign strategy the GOP has to rile up white Republican voters in Arizona.
When are people going to finally wise up to these evil GOP bastards?


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Also known as Mount Graham, this is the tallest of the Sky Islands reaching 10,720 feet. It is the only Sky Island with a true spruce/fir forest community. The Pinaleños have many species including the Mt. Graham red squirrel and Alnus incana ssp. tenuifolia, which reveal its affinity to the high country of the Rocky Mountains. It is still well within the realm of Madrean influence as well, with well-formed Madrean oak woodland on much of the lower slopes of the mountain.
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There has been a huge movement towards girls rugby here at Noadswood and we are beginning to reap the rewards of such fantastic progress from everyone involved!
Since September we have had rugby in all our girls lessons in the lower school which has really drummed up interest to play and we have taken nearly 40 different girls to Fawley RFC as we continue the journey to engage girls in more regular play.
The annual Hampshire Rugby Festivals have also been successful for us. All our previous visits to these tournaments have left us with a few defeats but the majority of wins but most importantly, huge progress and enjoyment! This year has been something special. The U15 girls went the whole day without losing a game and ended up as champions, and not wanting to be outdone, the U13 girls ended up as champions too!
The next tournaments for these girls are in the spring of 2018 so we need to work hard to get everyone along to Rugby club on Tuesday nights after school! If the U15 repeat their victory that puts us into the National Cup!
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Teaching our dancers to use their talents to CREATE opportunities for those in need, each year Cary Dance Productions sponsors local non-profit The Carying Place - donating a portion of the proceeds from the show directly to the organization. Join us for an evening of performances from our competitive and recreational dancers, while spreading love and opportunity in our community.
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How to Fit Reading into your Busy Schedule
With the stress of our busy lives, it becomes difficult to find a few spare minutes to escape into our favorite novels. But below are the very best tips and tricks to bet the rush and shorten the to-be-read list.
- Make time in the morning: Wake up 20 minutes, 30 minutes or an hour early to read a few chapters of your book.
- Read at breakfast or on the bus: Instead of staring blankly at your cup of coffee reading a chapter or two at breakfast not only stimulates the mind but helps you reach your daily reading goal.
- Utilize Audiobooks: The average person spends 26 minutes commuting to work every day. Combining that with the ride home you could potentially have 52 minutes of free time to listen to audio books, that's like a book a week.
- Read before bed: If you can't manage to wake up early then read in bed before falling asleep. Designate a block of time you intend to read every day. Once it becomes a habit you won't have any problem maintaining it.
- One or two chapters at a time is enough: With the fast-paced life most people live, they are unable to sit down and read for three hours. That's okay! Reading two or three chapters at a time is still reading. It may seem like minimal progress but what better way to savor a brilliant story than to pace yourself? After a couple weeks you will have finished your book with the little free time you managed to make for yourself.
- Pick a book you love: Reading shouldn't seem like a chore and if you have to force yourself to get through each chapter it's more like work than a hobby. Experiment around with genres, authors, series, the possibilities are endless.


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|Agile BA
|Requirements are documented in Use Cases, Business Requirements, Functional requirements, UI Specifications, Business Rules.
|Requirements are documented in Epics, User Stories and optionally Business (or Essential) Use cases.
|Focuses on completeness of requirement and spends time in ensuring the requirement is unambiguous and has all the details.
|Focuses on understanding the problem and being the domain expert so that s/he can answer questions from the development team swiftly and decisively.
|Focuses on getting a 'sign off' on the requirements.
|Focuses on ensuring the requirements meet the current business needs, even if it requires updating them.
|Often there is a wall between the BA/Business and the Development team.
|Agile BA/Product Owner is part of the team.
|Tends to dictate solutions.
|Has to remain in the problem domain, leaving the development team 'space' to explore different solutions.
|Long turnaround.
|Quick turnaround.
|Focus on what the requirements document said. In other words, output (Artifact) is a well written thorough requirements document.
|Focus on the functionality of the developed software.In other words, output (Artifact) is the software that meets the business needs.
|Needs the ability to look at the big picture (with fewer details) but also needs the ability to break the big picture into smaller pieces, so that the development team can execute on it in two to three week intervals.
|Focus on being very specific in the requirements (construed as inflexible)
|Leave room for negotiation (and be flexible) as long as the problem is solved.
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Renaissance Jamaica Grande located in Ocho Rios in the Caribbean Islands.Renaissance Jamaica Grande is the island''s premier resort offering guests a fantasy vacation on either a European or all inclusive plan. Located within walking distance of Ocho Rios the 720-room hotel provides guests with the best of both worlds.
Stay in Grande style in Ocho Rios Jamaica--an island of intoxicating natural beauty from lush rain forests and mountainous terrain to spectacular waterfalls and beautiful beaches. A haven for nature-lovers Jamaica is also a paradise for fun-seekers. No resort on the island puts the 2 together more dynamically than the Jamaica Grande. Here guests enjoy the excitement and grandeur of Jamaica''s most complete resort offering a choice of all-inclusive or European-style plans.
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I am pleased to announce that our SF boutique is fully restocked with all new product! Come by and check out our new Duboce Collection before it makes it's way around the world to all the great stores that support the brand! We are located at 3169 16th Street and open from 12 – 7pm daily.
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This fashionable rugby tie is a combination cross-stripe design, with a predominant Black Stripe with Silver pattern. An ideal silk tie to wear which can complement a business suit and also semi-formal attire for social occasions. The All blacks logo is woven in white over black for a distinctive look.
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Zoning and Housing Costs: The Impact of Land-Use Controls on Housing Price
Zoning and Housing Costs: The Impact of Land-Use Controls on Housing Price
The conflict between the problems of growth and the capacity of the American delivery system to provide access to the good life for the majority of our citizens is daily becoming more evident. Improved zoning standards, important in themselves, are perhaps even more significant as a reflection of the pressures within American society.
A generation ago the institution of a zoning ordinance, of vigorous building standards with larger lot size, was seen essentially as an unalloyed virtue - a joy to the planner and the reformer alike. Now to some observers it is a manifestation of the exclusionary tendencies in American life.
While frequently defended from the viewpoint of the fiscal exigencies of the municipality (i.e., minimizing the cost of new development typically because of school children and the like) this defence is merely one of many which reflect a growing reaction to the problems of crowding. The urbanite, transplanted to a less densely built environment, rebels as his new locus faces many of the strains of growth of the old. And certainly the problems of traffic congestion need little amplification.
Growth and development in an earlier, less sophisticated age, were the essence of American progressivism and we have engendered a whole philosophy complementary to this belief. Now we find strenuous efforts being made at state and at certain local levels toward a zero household growth policy. And these occur in communities which historically have been known for their boosterism.
Certainly lurking in the background are all of the problems of race and economic class which afflict our society. While great strides have been made in recent years to make every man's housing dollar as good as every other man's; it takes an increasing number of those dollars to buy or rent suburban housing. Many blue collar workers and an increasing number of white collar workers simply cannot afford homes in the suburbs. Currently, there is little in the way of new housing, close to the major job focii, available to families with incomes of less than $16,000 a year and this is for rental. If we turn to house purchase the threshhold is even higher.
Given the skewed distribution of income levels by race, these current housing costs mean that the vast majority of minority groups simply have no access to the new growth areas, strictly as a function of basic economics. But their dilemma is far from unique; the same is true for the majority of white households as well.


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The Trump Economy Is 'Killing It' Right Now
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow urges all Americans to give President Donald Trump's negotiating strategy more time because the "entire world" will benefit if all goes if planned because he "is doing the Lord's work."
As evidence, Mr. Kudlow offers the thriving US economy since Donald Trump took office.
"Rolling back taxes, helping business, helping energy, rolling back regulations. That stuff is working. It is taking hold," he said in a TV interview.
"We are killing it on the economy. Capital is flowing here from all over the world," the head of the National Economic Council said.
"President Trump inherited a broken system and as I have said a million times, blaming Trump is not right. He is trying to fix something that nobody wanted to touch the last 20 years," the veteran financial guru and former Ronald Reagan adviser
"These things are hard to do. Give him a chance. I do not believe there is a case to be made that the President's trade reform efforts are damaging the American economy. Quite the contrary, quite the contrary. He is acting in the best interests of the US," he said.
"The story this year in 2018 is not about a fictionalized version of the White House. The story is about an economic boom that virtually everybody said was impossible, but in fact it is happening, and it is picking up steam," said Mr. Kudlow
"I think he is doing the Lord's work," Mr. Kudlow said.
"The president wants to lower the barriers, let's play by the rules. This is particularly aimed at China, which is the worst offender stealing technology. The president is determined. He inherited a broken trading system. The World Trade Organization needs to be reformed," Mr. Kudlow said.
"Other countries, including our allies, we can all do better And if we lower trade barriers, and give the United States a chance to export, we will do great because we're the most competitive economy in the world right now," said Mr. Kudlow, who served as The Trump Campaign's senior economic adviser.
"And we are now entering into a capital goods business spending boom. Productivity, more capital per worker, better training, people coming out of the woodwork to get a job." he said.
"They see how good the jobs are. Anybody that think this is is one-off, anybody thinks this is just 4% 2nd Quarter. Think again," he said.
GDP increased at a 4.2% annualized rate, the US Commerce Department recently said in its 2nd estimate of GDP growth for the April-June quarter. That was slightly up from the 4.1% pace of expansion reported in July and was the fastest rate since Q-4 of Y 2014.
The economy grew at a 2.2% pace in the January-March frame. The slight upward revision to growth last Quarter reflected more business spending on software than previously estimated and less imported Crude Oil.
Stronger software investment and a smaller import bill offset a downward revision to consumer spending. President Trump, whose administration has vowed to boost annual economic growth to 3% on a sustainable basis, cheered the revised Q-2 data.
"Our country is doing great!" President Trump tweeted.
Thursday, the major US stock market indexes finished at: DJIA +147.07 at 26145.99, NAS Comp +59.48 at 8013.74, S&P 500+15.26 at 2903.92
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Several Numero Unos showed their skills this week. The Numero Uno mare Eline (ds.Concorde) was two times placed second on 1.45m level last week. On Thursday, she jumped a clear round under Danielle Farnsworth and finished second in the speed 1.45m class at CSI2 * Oliva, and on Sunday they jumped two clear round and ended up fifth in the Grand Prix. Seven-year-old Ceska de Florianne (Numero Uno x Diamant de Semilly, breeder Nadia Pierre) finished second under Jeremy le Roy in the 1.40m of CSIYH1* Barbizon and Zorro H (Numero Uno x Burggraaf, breeder H.G.P. Oude Engberink) finished fourth due to a clear round in the 1.45m of CSI2* Tallinn with Sanna Backlund.


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Mixin' it Up with Frangelico : Cocktail Recipe Videos
Earlier this year, we were asked to produce a series of videos that would showcase some incredible new recipes created by the team at Frangelico. This hazelnut liqueur is really starting to make a comeback in cocktails that are fresh and now and we wanted to make sure at least some of the new favorite recipes circling around in the mixology world were easy to share!
We decided to shoot these videos at Kimball House in Atlanta, an exquisite space offering just the "vintage yet modern" feel we were after. We've had many a wrap drinks here, so it was fun to have an excuse to come back and shoot something in a space we have grown to love. The rich wood bar, the large windows, the 1920s style decor,and… the ICE! Oh, how we were swooning for their ICE! Big, beautiful blocks of ice, perfectly cubed ice, crushed ice… gorgeous.
This shoot turned out to be a fast-paced, energy filled, masterpiece of a day in and of itself, as we captured six recipes in six hours. Thankfully, our bar tender was ready to rock! We shot these spots with two cameras to ensure no quality was compromised or moments were lost as we ran through the day: one camera locked off for close-ups, and one camera on a parallax slider. In an effort to gain efficiencies and to ensure consistency in each shot, we shot these videos out of order — the overhead intro shots we captured in the morning to take advantage of that gorgeous morning light, then we moved into the process shots, then the hero shots for each drink, and we wrapped out with the recipes so that we could break down our set while the restaurant folks were getting the place ready for a bustling night.
After the shoot, the finely orchestrated plan continued as we moved into animation. We boarded out every video to ensure our animation team could read the minds of our directors. While we were in animation, our composer built the music with just enough foley work (real life sounds like ice in the glass, stirring, etc.) to make you feel like you were there. Since we didn't run sound on set, all of our environmental sounds were created in post, which is a piece of sound design that always blows me away!
It's always a treat to get to work on a project from boards to final delivery. Owning every step creates efficiencies for the client and it makes the creative tight and consistent. We couldn't be more pleased with how these videos turned out.
We hope you'll take a minute to watch one or all of them! And as a little side note, of COURSE we made time to do just the teeniest bit of sampling on set, and our crew can vouch for the yum factor of each of these cocktails. Try your own hand at some of these — you won't be disappointed!


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Alternative title - A Roze by any other name is still a Roze I Have Been Weary The other day, Jill Dennison of Filosofa's Word posted "A SHARED OPINION …" in which she shared an article by Charles M. Blow of the NY Times, titled "You Have a Right to Weariness." As usual, Jill's comments to this … Continue reading My color is Ecru Cream
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Dem Majority can set useful goals in the House
Great opinion piece by Ronald A Klain of the Washington Post. Now that elections are over, the democratic party needs to focus on prioritizing the needs of the people to restore some kind of balance in our Democracy. Its time now to "resist" the negativity by getting to work regardless of what Twitter spews from … Continue reading Dem Majority can set useful goals in the House
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The Question During Thursday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Senator Kamala Harris asked Judge Brett Kavanaugh the question that crossed my mind while hearing his opening statement. "Do you agree that men can be friends with some women and treat other women badly?" To which the Judge responded, "Of course, but the point I'm trying to … Continue reading Why it Matters


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Aquatint engraving published by W H Mason, 81 King's Road, Brighton and included in his Fashionable Handbook for Visitors, 1841/42. Paper watermarked 'J. Whatman 1840'. There is much aquatint shading missing on this plate, in the grass foreground and in the sky. The fine sharp lines in the plate indicate that the missing aquatint has not worn away, rather this is an early experimental pull from the plate, before the further aquatint engraving had been cut.
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Brightstar Financial has launched a guide for brokers to better advise their clients on interest-only mortgages and later life lending.
The guide comes after predictions that over the next 30 years, 2.6 million interest-only mortgages will be due for repayment, with an anticipated peak of £33 billion worth of interest-only mortgages due for maturity in 2032.
Seven in 10 interest-only mortgages are held by customers over the age of 45 and it is estimated that half will have a shortfall.
Brightstar's guide aims to help brokers recognise the opportunity, identify those clients who may be affected and suggest steps that advisers could take to help find a solution.
Michelle Westley, head of marketing at Brightstar, commented: "In the coming years, many more borrowers are going to find that they get to the end of their interest-only mortgage term without a plan as to how they repay the balance, which presents brokers with a great opportunity to advise their clients on the best solution for their circumstances."
She said that fortunately, most of those homeowners will have significant equity in their property and the options for releasing this equity are becoming more competitive and accessible.
"Our guide will give brokers information on how to recognise the opportunity and make the most of this growing market," she concluded.


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India has ordered from Russia weapons and military equipment by $14.5 billion, said the head of the Federal service for military-technical cooperation (FSMTC) of Russia Dmitry Shugaev.
In the photo, the T-90 in service with the army of India
"Last year, and today marked the appearance of a huge compared to all other years of the portfolio by $14.5 billion Is a very significant figure and, indeed, this is a breakthrough," he told reporters on Wednesday.
"Military-technical cooperation between Russia and India is one of the major and privileged strategic cooperation," he added.
Shugaev also recalled that last year, despite the fact that India was under pressure primarily from the United States, had signed major contracts for the supply of systems s-400, frigates of project 11356, as well as large quantities of ammunition for military-air, naval and land forces.
"Today, we continue the negotiations for the supply and licensed production of portable anti-aircraft missile complex "Igla-s" for India. Last year we as you know won the bid nearly a billion dollars," – said Shugaev.
He added that an important topic also remains after-sales service. "Today it is one of the main themes, which is on the agenda, and for this purpose established and operate a joint Russian-Indian working group on after-sales service", – said the head of FSMTC of Russia.


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Dear Boo,
Oh, May! Where did you go? Already the 31st and only two posts to show for it. For shame. But to be fair, you haven't exactly been a kind muse these past few weeks, what with the day after day of pouring rain followed by a sudden and scorching entrance by Summer, the advent of unemployment (read: the state of being, not the weekly check in the mail) and return of summer classes, and the arrival today of a nasty sore throat and itchy ears. But then, perhaps I've neglected you a bit.* I certainly didn't take advantage of your abundance of fresh first picked asparagus shoots at the market, or those tiny precious boxes of strawberries that began appearing on farmstand tables. I admit I share the blame.
On June 30th, I have my first dress fitting for the wedding (I know, I know, I said I wouldn't keep talking about it), and so I decided long ago that my wedding diet would begin June 1st in preparation. So this weekend, I went out with a bang before the ascetic lifestyle was to begin, I thought, on Tuesday. After our Memorial Day picnic of bread, cheese, grapes, blueberries, cheese, salad, cheese, rice chips, wine cake (more on this later) and vodka lemonade yesterday at the Brooklyn Bridge Park, I went home and proceeded to order a bucket of fried chicken with the Fiance. It was, of course, delicious. Lying in bed this morning, as I contemplated what a monk might eat for breakfast, I found myself reciting aloud, "Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November. All the rest have 31...." And then I realized. My diet doesn't start til tomorrow! Bonus. So, how am I spending this precious extra day? As we speak, I am eating a bag of skittles while a pot of cabbage soup simmers on the stove. Less than thrilling stuff over here in this gastronomic corner of the world. Also, I just realized I don't believe in diets. And so, my apologies to you, May, for neglecting you so. On to June, in which I vow to eat better, write more, and do more of this:
The Mouse
*Okay, so there was the whole graduating thing, and that lovely wedding we went to upstate, and our super-exciting brush with fame, but still....
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
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- Lisa-Marie said...
Can't wait to hear more about the brush with fame! I am assuming it happened then :-)
- May 31, 2011 at 9:29 PM
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Parkinson's Sufferers need clarity and timeframe on treatment – Senator Conway-Walsh
Sinn Féin Senator Rose Conway-Walsh has asked that a decision on funding levodopa-carbidopa intestinal gel (LCIG), known as Duodopa, be made sooner than later as there are a large number of patients awaiting a decision.
Duodopa is used to treat advanced Parkinson's disease, a neurodegenerative disorder that affects 12,000 people in Ireland. Senator Conway-Walsh had raised the issue in the Seanad with Minister of State Catherine Byrne just before before the summer recess.
The Mayo-based Senator has said:
"Certain patients were receiving the treatment through an access programme provided by AbbVie, the company that manufactures the medicine.
"As of 30 April of this year, this route is no longer available to patients or treating consultant neurologists. 81 patients were treated under this programme. The 82nd patient and subsequent patients will be denied access to the treatment
"Last month I asked Minister Byrne to raise a request with Minister Harris that a final decision to fund the treatment be taken before the end of July.
"Like so many other cases involving drugs awaiting approval, people recognise that there must be a system and protocol in place, but the lack of information and a timeframe is unfair to sufferers. However, for any progress to be made, the HSE must sit down with the drug company and negotiate.
"The costs of every other medicine for Parkinson's disease are covered. Why is Duodopa not covered? Patients do not opt for the treatment without first giving it great consideration and when it is not critically needed.
"However, when it becomes necessary for patients to access this treatment, they must be able to do so.
"We also have a situation where Duodopa is available in Britain and Irish sufferers of Parkinson's have met with patients from there who have received the treatment, and can see for themselves the benefits associated with it.
"I am calling on The Minister for Health to at least make it known when he intends to make a final decision."


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From inefficient playbooks and challenges in adopting a CSM system to insufficient capacity and ineffective customer analytics – the main challenge of Customer Success teams is hard to solve by technology alone.
To help your customer success team scale, you need to leverage systems and optimize your business processes. These serve both internal operations and the customer journey experience through:
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Can help you manage many of the customer success necessary activities for a faster and more effective outcome. At CSM Practice, we provide the resources you need to support your CSM operations function quickly and efficiently. The range of activities our customer success operations can support includes:
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We have a book blog here so obviously we love books… but another thing Lauren and I noticed in the community is the love of Netflix (or binging TV shows in general). We wanted to include both of those in a challenge for the year of 2017, which led to… the Netflix and Books Challenge! We previously put together the Netflix and Books Tag that people seemed to enjoy, so we already had some pretty great ideas in place to take it one step further. 😉 This will be a year-long challenge held by Lauren from Bookmark Lit and me!
This is going to be a yearly challenge focused on watching television shows we've been wanting to get to (both new and old), and reading books we've been wanting to read that match some fun challenge prompts. If you choose to, you'll have the chance to earn points throughout the year (thank you Aentee from Read at Midnight for allowing us to use her point system idea!). I also want to mention that even though we call this the Netflix & Books Challenge you can watch TV shows on any platform…doesn't just have to be on Netflix.
level one for the casual participant
The first level of the challenge is to simply make a TBR list and TBW list (to be watched) and then link it up with us here. You'll see prompts below that describe certain book and TV settings, plot points, tropes, time periods, etc. Develop a TBR list based on those prompts and see how many you can actually read in 2017. Then, share some TV shows with us that you plan to watch in 2017 as well. Please note that TV shows don't have to match with the books you read for the prompts; they can just be a list of shows you hope to start and/or finish! We're curious to see what you all have planned for reading and watching in 2017!
Like our book tag, we've developed ways to make parallels between the books you read and TV shows. The books must be read in 2017 but the shows don't have to be ones you watched in 2017 for the points to count. You can count multiple books for the same category, as long as they match up with different TV show examples, but NOT multiple categories for the same book. For example, you've seen The Office before 2017 but you're now reading Pretty Little Liars, which is set in Pennsylvania like the show. You match PLL with the setting category, but you can't also use PLL for the category for "book inspired a TV show." However, you could find another book and TV show combination for the setting category though – maybe you watched The OC and read Lola and the Boy Next Door. Without further ado, here are the categories for our challenge:
Make sense? Here are some more specific examples for each category so you can see what we're thinking here. You basically draw comparisons between the books you read and TV shows that exist.
- If the book has the same trope as a TV show | This can include romance tropes like TV show episodes with fake dating or a love triangle, or plot-related tropes like a motorcycle gang in a book (i.e. Nowhere But Here by Katie McGarry) and motorcycle gang in a TV show (Sons of Anarchy).
- If the book is mentioned in a TV show | Gilmore Girls has a bunch of books referenced throughout it!
- If the book title has a word in the title from a TV show's title (no THE or AN, obviously) | For example, the show Pretty Little Liars and the book Pretty Fierce share a common word in the title.
- If the book inspired a TV show | Books like The 100, Pretty Little Liars, Famous In Love, Shadowhunters, The Lying Game, etc. all inspired TV shows
- If the book has the same setting as a TV show | If it is set in the the US, it has to be the same state; otherwise you can match country to country. Before I Fall is set in Connecticut and so is the show Gilmore Girls
- If the book has the same time period as a TV show | No present day, because it'd be too easy – think about historical fiction books or TV shows set in another time period (like the Roaring 20s or the 60s/70s), as well as books in the future.
- If the book main character has the same name as a TV show main character | The show Timeless has a main character named Lucy and so does the book The Hating Game.
- If the book and show both have bad reviews/ratings but you're interested anyways | You can find a book with a low Goodreads rating on your TBR and find a show that was cancelled early, only had one season, or got really bad ratings and reviews… but you still want to watch and read them.
- It the book has a spin-off series or is a part of a companion series and a TV show has a spin-off series/show | The show Friends had the spinoff Joey and the show Avatar: The Last Airbender had the spinoff The Legend of Korra. A book series that comes to mind is Vampire Academy leading to Bloodlines.
You will get a entries into a giveaway for linking up now AND linking up progress each month, if you're so inclined. You can treat it just like a regular reading challenge with monthly check-ins, but this will feature shows AND books.
level two for the competitive participant
See everything above in level one! You have to complete that first part in order to participate down into level two, if you're a competitive person who likes to earn points 😉 The biggest thing about level two is that you earn points for books you read that match our challenge prompts, and then points for banging out some TV shows in general.
How can you earn points?
(1) Earn points from reading books with certain page counts
For all of the books you read that specifically match the challenge prompts above, you will be able to earn points based on how long the books are. The longer the book, the more points you get. Here's the breakdown:
- 100-200 pages = 10 points
- 201-300 pages = 20 points
- 300-400 pages = 30 points
- 401-500 pages = 40 points
- 501+ = 50 points
(2) Earn points from watching TV shows in general
Do you have a goal that you really want to finish off a TV show finally? Maybe it was cancelled and you just want to watch the last season. Maybe you're ready to finally binge Friends. For this part, you don't have to track every single hour of TV you watch because let's be honest, that would be scary. I don't want to know the answer to that. BUT you will be able to earn points based on finishing TV show seasons or the entire series. We have the points broken up based on how long the episodes are:
For a 1 hour TV show:
- If…you finish a whole season…you earn 20 points
- If…you finish a whole series…you earn 50 points
For a 30 minute TV show:
- If…you finish a whole season…you earn 10 points
- If…you finish a whole series…you earn 25 points
For TV shows you watch that actually DO match the prompts above:
You will get bonus points IF a show you watch in 2017 actually does match up with a book for the prompts above. For example, if I watch Revenge and read The Revenge Playbook (a book with the same word in the title as a TV show), I will get a point bonus. Because I read the book AND watched the show in the same year, I'll get 25 bonus points for each show+book combo I am able to match up.
(3) Complete the book tag
You can earn points by completing our Netflix and Books Tag too! If you have previously completed it you can add a lovely 20 points to your total right off the bat. If you do it in 2017, you will still get the 20 points. Just post a link to that in one of your wrap-ups.
How can I keep track of my points?
You can keep track of points by doing weekly or monthly wrap-ups (we suggest a monthly one). Whether it be on your blog, Twitter, Instagram, or wherever – as long as are able to track it and it is a social media platform. Just update on far along you are on certain shows or books. You can use the hashtag #NetflixBooks2017.
We want to point out that you don't have to keep track of points if you don't want to. It is NOT mandatory. You're able to link up TBR and TBW lists and track everything each month, like you would with any other reading challenge. However, the person with the highest amount of points at the end of the year will win a prize, assuming no cheating has occurred. We will also be holding a giveaway for people who participated in the first level of the challenge too.
In your sign-up post you can include some TV shows you are wanting to watch (your TBW) and you can make a list of the books you want to read (your TBR). This can be tentative as we know sometimes our moods change and we watch different shows. Plus, some new shows will be coming out in 2017 and you can't predict the future (or can you? Now, that would be ah-mazing). Anyway, just write up a post and say what you are wanting to watch and read. You include any other information you may want. No boundaries, really. Link up at the bottom of this post, under the sample sign-up below.
Okay, SO! Here is my projected TBR for the challenge! I know I will definitely earn more points for watching TV shows rather than reading the books, but that is just a-okay with me.
Nowhere But Here by Katie McGarry • Son's of Anarchy
Connection: motorcycle gang/club
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen • Gilmore Girls
Connection: Pride and Prejudice is one of the many books mentioned in GG
Until Friday Night by Abbi Glines • Friday Night Lights
Connection: Friday and night are both in these titles – woohoo!
Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine • New Girl
Connection: both of these have a main character named Jess
Always and Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny Han • Finding Carter
Connection: both take place in Virginia
Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco • AHS: Coven
Connection: if I am not mistaken both of these take place in the 19th century
Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard • Pretty Little Liars
Connection: TV show based on book – pretty self explanatory
Here are some TV shows I plan to watch in 2017. Whether I will be finishing them off or starting new…and then finishing. These are just some shows I've been eyeing for awhile now and will probably finish within the first few months.
» Supernatural
» Teen Wolf
» One Tree Hill (re-watch)
» How to Get Away With Murder
» Son's of Anarchy
There will be many, many more to come.
- Blog Tour | Final Girls: Riley Sager - June 21, 2017
- The Playlist Shuffle Tag - June 2, 2017
- Where Erica's been & is she coming back? - May 15, 2017


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By Steve Bittenbender | The Center Square
With the 2020 presidential election now less than 18 months away, Pennsylvania Democrats in the General Assembly came out Tuesday with a slew of voting reform proposals they say will encourage a larger turnout to the polls.
Flanked by representatives from such groups as the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, Pennsylvanians for Fair Elections and the Brennan Center for Justice, lawmakers touted plans to enact automatic registration, expand early voting opportunities and introduce same-day voter registration.
"Our democracy depends on its voters, which is why we are fighting to ensure every eligible person has a chance to voice their opinion at the ballot box," said state Sen. Vincent Hughes, a Philadelphia Democrat who backs automatic voter registration whenever someone signs up for a public benefit or service.
The Keystone State, with its 20 electoral votes, will very likely play a major role in deciding next year's presidential election. According to 270towin.com, the state has voted for winning candidate in eight of the past 10 elections. In 2016, Pennsylvanians backed Donald Trump, marking the first time the state backed a Republican candidate in 28 years.
Trump's margin of victory was less than 70,000 votes in a state with 8.6 million registered voters.
State Rep. Sara Innamorato said that about a quarter of the state's voting-age residents eligible to vote are not registered. The Pittsburgh Democrat has filed a companion bill to Hughes' legislation that would enable residents to become eligible whenever they conduct a transaction with more than 10 different state agencies, including the Department of Transportation, the Department of Aging and the Game Commission.
Her bill also would accept electronic signatures for voter registration.
"It's our duty as lawmakers to create a Pennsylvania that assumes participation, invites participation and enshrines participation by passing laws that protect and expand upon our right to a voice and a vote," she said during Tuesday's news conference.
According to a Brennan Center report, 15 states and Washington, D.C. have passed automatic voter registration legislation. These states have seen their voter rolls increase by between 9 and 94 percent.
State Rep. Ryan Bizzarro, an Erie Democrat, touted his same-day voter registration bill on Tuesday. His bill would allow people to register at their polling place the day of an election. However, that individual's vote would not be officially counted for up to 30 days while state officials verify their eligibility.
Currently, Pennsylvania's polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. However, state Sen. Wayne Fontana and state Rep. Jennifer O'Mara have proposed increasing access to the polls before Election Day. The bill by Fontana, an Allegheny Democrat, would require designated sites open 15 days before primary or general elections. In her bill, O'Mara, a Springfield Democrat, calls for polls to open 30 days prior.
State Sen. Judy Schwank, a Berks Democrat, has offered a bill that would allow Pennsylvania to join 27 other states and the District of Columbia in offering "no-excuse" absentee voting.
O'Mara said when she campaigned, she met a young disabled voter whose polling location was not accessible according to the Americans with Disabilities Act. That spurred her, she said, to find ways to help ensure people can exercise their rights.
"Introducing an early voting bill is a priority for me because voting should be easier for everyone," she said.


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Injury rehabilitation EMG biofeedback assists chiropractic care
For your injury rehabilitation EMG biofeedback will give you real time feedback on how well your muscles are working. In this article we'll explore the benefits of understanding your EMG biofeedback and how it can assist chiropractic care.
I hear you say, "I have already had all the tests done."
Tests such as X-ray, MRI, ultrasound and C/T scans have one VERY MAJOR limitation.
In most cases they are done whilst you are still and therefore do not provide any real time information about what your body is doing in motion. Functional MRI scans are being used more and more but their use still tends to be limited to research facilities. Functional orthopaedic exams can give us some vital clues about our bodies in motion but can lack the sensitivity required to get the best result. This is where an EMG assessment can help provide some vital information about the cause of your problem and the best solution


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