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I found this photobook in Texas, in 1999, in a dreary bookstore of a dreary shopping mall, not very far away from the infamous border described by Barry Gifford and David Perry. No, not very far away, and, still, far enough. The line that separates the USA from Mexico is at a safe distance from San Antonio. The disorder of the geographic boundaries, that restlessness that corrupts beyond the tolerable giving in return nothing more than a romantic aura which seduces the twisted passersby without any strong arguments besides the honesty of the putrid blind alleys, is kept at length from the city of the Alamo.
Strangely, and maybe because it is so close to a hole that, like a sneaky vortex, attracts all the chaos in the world, San Antonio is a relatively quiet city (or so it seems, to the short-term visitor). Not very exciting tough, besides the Alamo Mission, its memories, cultural references and influence in the history of USA and Mexico: it was after the battle of the Alamo, in 1836, that the border between the USA and Mexico began to converge inexorably to its current state. In that no man's land where North America meets the Latin world, two American artists wandered, scratched and wallowed in a filthy territory, and created Bordertown, a straight and harsh sketch of the life in the frontier territories of Mexico.
With photos by David Perry and text by Barry Gifford (author of the novel Wild at Heart, published in 1989 and later adapted to the cinema by David Lynch), Bordertown is carefully designed, with words and images combining in a consistent whole, the text printed chaotically, the photos oscillating between the sepia toning and a beautiful — and yet mysterious and gloomy — silver glow. And while not being a moralist indictment, Perry and Gifford's book avoids the romanticization of a deeply wounded, dirty and dangerous world. There, in la frontera del infierno (hell's frontier), drug abuse, abductions, murders, prostitution and petty crimes live side by side with men and women that must carry on with their lives, no matter how brutal things may become. And the curse is spread through the 3000 kilometers of world's busiest border.
Bordertown describes a closed universe with no redemption. In fact, those characters do not seem to seek redemption at all; they just pass by these photos, laying against the silhouettes of the urbanscape, like they walk the streets of border towns: resigned, no matter how happy or unhappy they are. In their own, extreme way, these cities and villages are also happy and sad, but unlike Victor Palla and and Costa Martins, Gifford and Perry will not be enrolled in a prominent place in the history the photography book. Nevertheless, Bordertown is not a negligible work and served perfectly as a complement to a trip that could not go beyond San Antonio. With this book, I had the illusion of going one step further. And there are places we can only reach through books.


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It's about time for a new bunch of random files! These have been simmering for a while now, and I'm trying to procrastinate from marking junior half-yearly exams (marking exams is just as arduous and frustrating as sitting exams), so that provided me with enough reason to get these files online! So, without further ado:
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|"I Was A Love Cult Priestess" - ATC
Looking through an old magazine from the 1920's I came across this vintage photo. It was quite daring and I felt she need to be in an equally daring setting. From the various art and handmade papers I had on my work table, thoughts of Sheena, Queen of the Jungle raced through my mind.
That "come-hither" look, the exotic papers, it all directed me to a design of a woman who was "brave, bold, and brilliant".
The Artist Trading Card is on manila stock. I used hand made and art papers, tissue paper, inks, and dyes. The text was cut from various sources.
The Twenties, like today, was a time of innovation and striking change. Thankfully we have the Muse to nudge in the right direction.


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Unfortunately, many horrific sexual assault cases are presented to our firm on a fairly regular basis — involving both children and adults. While we do not want to share any details related to these heinous … Read More
It's difficult enough being a caretaker, and to entrust the care of your loved one to another when you realize you can't do it yourself. You can go through every review, interview the nursing home … Read More
Sexual Assault and Third Party Liability
Sexual assault is about power and control. It is a violent betrayal that can cause great harm, both physically and emotionally, to the victim. The pain and suffering can be greater than trauma caused by other … Read More
I Suspect Child Abuse at My Child's Daycare – What Should I Do?
Many pre-school children spend at least a portion of the day in daycare centers. Oregon daycare centers have a duty to protect children from reasonably foreseeable harm. Accidents to children do not "just happen" and … Read More
Statutes Of Limitations On Sex Crimes In Oregon
Statutes of Limitation are laws that restrict the time period in which a lawsuit can be filed. All states have statutes of limitations for filing civil suits after an injury or a crime. While it … Read More
Childhood sexual abuse includes a wide variety of behavior. Sexual abuse may or may not involve physical contact. It is any act that engages a child in an activity for sexual purposes. Most children who … Read More


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Jail Ministry
Part of our Christian church ministries is to offer Bible study classes for the men and women inmates at Yamhill County Jail. Acts 5:19, "But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail and brought them out." If the calling is on your heart to be a disciple for the imprisoned men and women, share the light with them to give them hope and a future by taking part in the bible study classes along their side. You can help bring them out of the darkness and set free in the name of Jesus.
For more information on how to get involved in these men and women's lives please contact Kurt Harnett for the men's jail ministry or Bonnie Greene for the women's jail ministry.
Veteran's Ministry
Our community Christian church loves to get out into the community and serve the public. We have quite a few Veteran members in our fellowship. It is our ultimate honor to host a barbecue every year to show our appreciation for the Veteran's proceeding the annual Veteran's Day Parade in town. It is a privilege to get involved in this church ministry to serve the men and women who served our country.
We would love to hear from you and to answer any questions you have about our Christian Fellowship Church, our ministries and services.
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Unleash your best build with Tespa & Republic of Gamers
Every gamer is a builder at heart. Whether it's Legos, PC battlestations, Warcraft custom maps, or vibrant Tespa chapters, we can all appreciate the beauty of tactical and functional excellence. This year, we challenged ourselves and our partners to think creatively about how we can bring out the inner builders in all of our students, and our friends at Republic of Gamers have answered the call.
Introducing Tespa & ROG Unleashed, our latest Campaign bundle featuring our first build-centric item and our first Tespa build contest!APPLY NOW
All approved Tespa Campaign Events from 4/4 - 5/29 will receive a ROG Unleashed bundle containing ROG Metal Earth Mechanical Eye Sculpture model kits, while supplies last.. Leaders will be able to use this item as an event activity or giveaway. For the full inventory, see the Campaign Guide.
Build Photo Contest
Our final Twitter contest of the year will be a photo competition for finished ROG Metal Earth builds. Any member that earns a model kit at a Campaign event will be able to submit a finished photo of their build to Twitter for a chance to win a ROG Gaming Monitor and more. For more details, head to our ROG Homepage.
Activity Suggestions for Chapter Leaders
Because this is our first build-centric Campaign item, we recommend setting up a build table at your event where members can sit down and construct the model kit using the pliers included in your Campaign package. As an added bonus, your members can use their finished builds to join our Build Photo Contest, detailed above.
Ready to get started? If you're a Tespa leader, head to MyTespa to submit your Campaign application. If you're a member or non-Tespa student, find a chapter near you.


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Balbriggan Golf Club Captains Charity Day 2016August 25, 2016 ADMIN 0
Balbriggan Golf Club 2016 Captains charity day takes place on Saturday 3rd September and this year the chosen charities are Balbriggan & District Meals on Wheels and Remember Us. If any local businesses would like to sponsor a hole on the day please get in touch with Peter Slevin, Vice Captain of Balbriggan Golf Club at email@example.com. The suggested donation is €50.
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By GRAHAME ANDERSON
New life is set to regenerate the centre of Batley as work nears completion on a modern 29,000 square foot retail and food development on Alfred's Way.
From July, the former Batley Shopping Centre will become 'The Batley Plaza', offering 24 modern units and a positive future to what for the past five years has been a run down and unoccupied space. In fact, the 40-year-old site has been completely redesigned in the hope of attracting both locals and tourists back to both Alfred's Way and Commercial Street.
A 21st Century Look
The entrance has been totally reconstructed. Shoppers will also be able to enjoy a unique 'Street Food', area offering a vast range of tasty delicacies. There will be a revamped entrance and signage on Commercial Street, and a striking new stairway and lift has been created on Alfred's Way to provide easy access to the retail units from the area around the Tesco and Iceland stores.
The new Plaza will also house an impressive café and three different sizes of unit – aimed at those just starting out in business, those looking for their first premises and established businesses ready for expansion. There's a full package of support available – all businesses need do is pay the rent. In fact, there's a real confidence all of the units will be taken up by businesses based up and down the country.
Caring Investor
The project has become a labour of love for top businessman Zahid Iqbal and his company Z & F Properties Ltd, responsible for the purpose-built 'Bradford Plaza' shopping complex in Thornbury six years
ago. He's passionate about recreating this recent success in Batley as he explained: to go in here.
Batley and Spen MP Tracy Brabin enthused: "I'm a huge advocate for shopping locally so it's encouraging to see that a space that has sat empty for so long is being brought back to life."
Struggling High Streets
The growth of out of town retail parks combined with the internet shopping trend has had a marked effect on high streets up and down the country. Batley has suffered more than most however.
The first shop to open on Alfred's Way was also the last to close earlier this year. Candyman Newsagents was run for 33 years by the popular Dennis Fisher, who at one time owned six shops across the area including two in Dewsbury. The 82-year-old decided to retire after serving the community for more than 40 years. His daughter Karen Lawson said: "It has been sad to see all the shops close one by one over the years. Batley Shopping Centre had become a white elephant in the town. It is really sad to be announcing we are closing but it is an inevitable part of life."
Council Support
Leader of Kirklees Council Shabir Pandor told Asian Sunday: " I am passionate about Batley & Its People and always look at finding ways to put Batley First.Batley has proven time and time again it's a great place to invest and I was really please to meet Zaid and talk through his plans for Alfreds Way.
"The investment from businessman Zaid Iqbal is welcoming, exciting and his plans link into my vision on how Batley is at cutting edge of how it can regenerate and become a magnet for economic and social regeneration. This is a prime example of how private enterprise can work with the public sector. I am delighted we were able to help facilitate his plans to open a shopping plaza which will not only create jobs, but also see a huge boost in tourism which can only benefit our local economy and the fabric of our town.
"I've been to visit the site recently and I am really impressed with how things are shaping up and the brands already signed up to take up occupancy in the plaza. I am particularly looking forward to seeing development of the Street Food offering the Plaza will bring. It's going to be a wonderful addition to the Batley community and surrounding areas."
On the Way Up
A recent survey has shown Batley is one of the leading towns in England in terms of economic growth. Given other councils such as Doncaster are investing millions into establishing a trendy street food scene, Kirklees council are fortunate to have found an investor willing to put his own money into the area, creating jobs and a vibrant community.
Business Boost
Batley Business Association chairman Andrew Marsden, who works for Brearley Solicitors told me: "In truth when I first came to the area 27 years ago there were a few unused units in the shopping centre even then. So, the truth is this has been a long-term problem. Austerity, changing shopping habits and a changing word have all contributed. I got my first mortgage at The Halifax, based at the time within the shopping centre.
"Batley Vintage day helps bring people into the town from far afield. We need to capture visitors at any time of course, but as far as I'm aware there's no sustained tourism drive going on. Mind you, we have excellent evening entertainment and eateries here now which will help bring others in from outside of the town.
"We have a huge Tesco in the area which certainly took people away from the shopping complex when it arrived. As you need to give people what they want, it'll be good to see compact and viable units providing something away from the mainstream. If we can get people who regularly shop at Tesco to come and get other things at Batley Plaza, the future will certainly look promising.
"The development will succeed because of 'the stubborn determination of the Batley community', We don't give up".
Community Winning the Day
It seems both the locals and local businesses are buying into the project together showing a strong sense of community. This will help its success, as Mr Iqbal is also investing a substantial amount of money to regenerate the former Tesco and surrounding shops on Commercial Street.
"I am really excited about coming to Batley, it's a town which has great potential and is extremely welcoming.
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'Cancerpreneurs' find business opportunities in treatment
For some, the traumatic experience of having cancer can turn into a business opportunity.
Through their illness, these "cancerpreneurs" saw the need for a medical device, a technological solution to help other patients, and a nonprofit.
They say they are not motivated by money, but rather by the desire to take what they learned and create something that they wished had been available when they were going through treatment.
"I needed to do something with my life that, if I took my last breath, I would be proud of my contribution to society," said Sherry Higgs, a Bay Area breast cancer survivor who started a service that provides cancer patients free rides to their appointments. "Cancer was the thing that sucker-punched me. I felt a genuine passion for helping other people that went through this."
Cinde Dolphin, a four-time cancer survivor from Sacramento who worked for an energy drink company, said she had no idea how to create a business or get a patent before she embarked on her venture — she designed zippered mesh bags to hold the plastic tubes and drains that surgeons suture to wounds to siphon off blood and other fluids.
"Now I have a passion I really believe in," she said. "This has a lot more meaning."
The bags were a simple solution to a problem faced by more than 365,000 U.S. patients every year, she said.
Zippered bags
The 2- to 3-foot-long tubes and lemon-sized medical drains stay in for several weeks after surgery, but are difficult to hide under clothing. Patients are typically told to use safety pins to attach them to their clothes, but Dolphin said the pins don't always hold, risking tears and infection.
"It was amazing there wasn't a better system," said Dolphin, who has undergone surgery multiple times for three separate breast cancers.
Her bags — inspired by mesh lingerie bags — are designed to be tied around the waist and can hold up to four drains.
She calls the bags the Kili Medical Drain Carrier in honor of the porters who carry critical supplies to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, a region she visited in 2013. Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento uses them, UC Davis started offering them in April, and UCSF began carrying them in the hospital's gift shop in July.
She sells the bags to hospitals for $4.99 apiece, but asks that they be handed out for free to patients before surgery. "I don't want others to have to deal with that awkwardness," she said.
Dolphin said her motivation is to help others, but after repeated cancer diagnoses going back more than 20 years, "Maybe by getting this under way, I can get the karma machine to go in my favor this time."
Software idea
Tatyana Kanzaveli didn't wait long to start developing her concept for a health software platform. The idea came to her within days of being diagnosed with colon cancer in January 2013.
"For about a week, I was in pajamas, not eating and crying. I was in total shock," Kanzaveli said. "Then I said, 'OK, I'm not dead yet, but I'm acting like I'm dead.' Somehow I was able to get out of that darkness. I needed to see if I could be of use."
Her idea was to develop a mobile platform that would allow both patients and health providers to create and personalize an app with everything they need to manage their disease or wellness program. She knew there were a lot of health apps designed to manage various aspects of disease — to schedule appointments, to store blood test results and other medical information, to track nutrition and sleeping patterns — but saw that as an opportunity. The sheer number of apps made things complicated for patients.
Kanzaveli, a 53-year-old San Jose resident who emigrated from Azerbejian, is a former Soviet chess champion with a master's degree in computer science, a track record in software development and a long career in business technology.
"When I see a problem, I try to find a solution," said Kanzaveli. "Growing up as a professional chess player, my brain is wired to look at all the pieces and play the game. I have to win. This is the game I'm playing in, and I will win."
Kanzaveli originally planned to call her company Open Cancer Network, but decided on Open Health Network instead, to broaden its reach to other diseases or conditions. Users don't have to know anything about programming to personalize their app, she said. All they need to know is how to drag and drop.
"With our app, every single patent can create an app," she said. "They can log what they ate, how they feel, their blood pressure, temperature. They could use it to look at reports, link to content. They can create whatever they want and use it the way they need to use it."
Kanzaveli said the platform will be free to patients but supported by business customers, such as health organizations, that see its value. Her first customers include Canada's McGill University, which is using the platform to manage a clinical trial to study the genetic factors of chronic pain, and Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation in San Carlos, which is creating a patient-centric app.
Kanzaveli had surgery for her cancer in February 2013 and is now cancer free. She said it feels good to use her business and technical acumen in a meaningful way.
"This cancer thing actually liberated me," she said. "It's like I know what I'm doing, I know why I'm doing it, and you can't stop me."
Helping with rides
Higgs, who at 43 was diagnosed in 2010 with inflammatory breast cancer, a particularly aggressive form of the disease, noticed throughout her treatment that some patients had trouble getting rides to chemotherapy appointments or to daily radiation sessions. She said she sometimes felt uncomfortable asking friends and family members for rides.
In May 2012, she formed her nonprofit, Drivers for Survivors; its first patient received a ride that December. Since then, the volunteer network of about 100 drivers has given more than 6,750 rides of up 60 miles in any direction to hundreds of patients in and around Fremont, Newark and Union City.
Higgs said it's about more than just a ride. She and her staff of two part-time workers and student interns try to match patients with drivers who have something in common. "The companionship infuses the hope," she said.
She hopes Drivers for Survivors will expand to other parts of the Bay Area. The nonprofit is funded primarily by grants and individual donors, but she's seeking more corporate support.
Higgs undergoes medical checks every six months, and said she's been asked how she can immerse her professional life in cancer after going through the disease.
"I don't know why I didn't run for the hills," she said. "But when I'm doing this, it somehow feels like I'm taking control of the cancer."
Victoria Colliver is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: email@example.com Twitter: @vcolliver


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I was wondering if someone who has been following things more closely can fill me in here. It seems like 2nd edition was due out last year and is still not out to the public. The News and Announcements forum almost never seems updated, and there are no events on schedule for GenCon (this despite being assured that there would be, and that registration opened weeks ago).
I know Posthuman is a small operation, but in the past they managed to put out a lot of supplements and had a big presence at conventions. I'm a little concerned that they are falling apart, or have encountered circumstances they are too small to handle.
I loved the work put into the first game though I found some things difficult for new players to handle. Was really looking forward to 2nd edition and playing at GenCon this year.
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A.R. Gurney's heartwarming, compassionate play, The Dining Room, takes the stage at Mesa Community College's Theatre Outback in the EXP Theatre later this month. A preview performance will take place on Wednesday, September 26 at 7:30 pm with regularly scheduled performances on September 27 & 28 at 7:30 pm and a matinee on September 29 at 2:00 pm.
The Dining Room is a mosaic of interrelated scenes - some funny, some touching, some rueful - which together, create an in-depth portrait of the vanishing lifestyle of the upper-middle class WASP. The play also displays the end of the formal dining room; the place where the family met daily for meals, talked and engaged one another with the problems and the conflicts of the day, into a society where the family that eats together regularly is the oddity instead of the norm. The action of The Dining Room dovetails and coalesces ultimately into a theatrical piece of exceptional range, compassionate humor, and abundant humanity.
Tickets are on sale now. Prices are $10 for general admission and $7 for seniors and students with I.D.'s. All seats are only $5 for the September 26, preview performance. Due to limited seating in the EXP Theatre, it is highly recommended that tickets be reserved in advance. Tickets can be purchased by calling the Box Office at 480-461-7172. Tickets for remaining seats will be available for purchase at the door.


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Interactive TV News Round-Up (II): Comcast, Hillcrest Labs, Jinni
January 06, 2011
--Comcast Unveils Plans to Extend its Pay-TV Offering to the iPad and to Android-Powered Tablets
--Comcast Unveils Plans to Extend its Pay-TV Offering to the iPad and to Android-Powered Tablets
--Hillcrest Launches Motion-Control System for Connected TV's, Licenses Freespace Tech to SMK
--"Mood-Based" Programming Search-and-Recommendation Specialist, Jinni, Raises $5 Million
Due to the large volume of news coming out of the Consumer Electronics Show, which kicked off Wednesday in Las Vegas, we are covering stories in this issue in summary/round-up form. We anticipate that it will take us several days to catch up with all the news generated by the show: so if your company has sent us a press release or briefed us on an announcement, and you don't yet see your news covered in this issue, please bear with us. Our regular news coverage will return shortly.
- Comcast on Tuesday cast some light on its plans to extend its service to the Apple iPad and to Android-powered tablet devices. Comcast has "announced plans to enable in-home streaming for live and On Demand content this year on Apple's iPad as well as Android-powered tablets," a press release from the company states. "Later this year," the release continues, "customers will be able to watch live news, TV shows and movies in their homes whenever they want. Comcast also made two more announcements about its Xfinity TV service today. First, Comcast provided details about the play now capability that will be available on the iPad in the coming weeks and which will enable the viewing of On Demand programming on the iPad. Second, Xfinity TV online (www.xfinitytv.com) has added additional features that transform any computer into a powerful search engine and remote control. Comcast plans to roll out its new play now feature, which will enable customers using the popular Xfinity TV iPad app to watch nearly 3,000 hours of On Demand content, including popular movies and hit TV shows, either in the home or on-the-go, including anywhere there is a wireless connection. The initial selection of programs and movies is just the beginning. Comcast plans to bring thousands of additional choices to the iPad in the weeks and months ahead and to add the same functionality and content to Android powered devices later this year. Comcast's Xfinity TV app functions as a television guide, remote control and mobile video player all in one. With it, customers can change TV channels, easily search and browse through their TV and On Demand listings, and program their DVR's. Future releases of the app will include seamless access to social networking sites so customers can share what they're watching with their friends in real time, as well as a 'MyTV' feature that gives customers the ability to send and receive personal recommendations with friends on what to watch. Comcast has also launched a new feature that enables customers to search for their favorite programs and to change channels on a TV set from a computer via XfinityTV.com. The feature enables millions of customers with laptops or desktop computers to browse, search and find TV and On Demand content online and then select and watch it on their TV's or program their DVR's to record programs for later viewing. This feature also transforms any computer into a sophisticated remote control."
- Motion-control technology specialist, Hillcrest Labs, has launched a "turnkey," embedded motion-control system for connected-TV manufacturers, which it says is designed to support new motion-pointing and gesture-enabled user interfaces for navigating the Web, Internet-based applications and games on televisions. The solution is based on the integration of Hillcrest's flagship Freespace MotionEngine with Broadcom's new BCM35230 digital TV system-on-a-chip (SoC) and its new BMC20730 single-chip Bluetooth solution. "In addition," the company states in its press materials, "at CES, Universal Electronics, the world's leading manufacturer of TV remotes, will showcase a new Freespace and Bluetooth-enabled TV remote control, utilizing the world's first single-chip, digital-output, 3-axis MEMS gyroscope from InvenSense, that is compatible with the new system from Broadcom and Hillcrest. The demonstrations will include a TV user interface optimized for motion pointing, which includes Hillcrest's HoMEcast video application and a Webkit browser engine...Unlike alternative motion control technologies," Hillcrest's press materials continue, "both the new chipset and compatible TV remotes use fully integrated motion sensors that do not require additional external cameras or lightbars in order to control the on-screen viewing experience. In addition, the low-cost Bluetooth-based solution does not require line-of-sight, which enables consumers to control their TV's without the need to aim at the TV. The new system is compatible with a variety of smart-TV platforms including Linux, Android or Google TV-based solutions."
- In other Hillcrest news: The company has announced that remote control manufacturer, SMK Electronics, has licensed its Freespace motion-control technology for use in current and future products. "SMK has incorporated Hillcrest Labs' Freespace motion technology into innovative remote control designs, including SMK's unique egg-shaped RF remote control, currently being used in Japan to demonstrate Freespace motion technology to a variety of consumer electronics customers," Hillcrest states in its press materials. "SMK provides manufacturers of TV, set-top box, PC, Blu-ray, and digital media players with the ability to quickly and cost-effectively add Freespace motion technology to new products."
- Jinni--a company that has developed a semantic search-and-recommendation engine which it bills as being based on "content genetics and user psychographics" and as enabling what it calls "mood-based" searches--has announced that it has raised $5 million in a Series B funding round that it says was led by Belgacom and a "tier-one connected-TV manufacturer." VC company, DFJ Tamir Fishman Ventures, which led Jinni's Round A funding, also participated.
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Truth in advertising. I love prog rock. Which is frequently, as in the title, pretentious, overblown and self-indulgent. And most of the time that is fine with me. ELP, Yes, King Crimson, Van der Graaf Generator (cue fans of at least two of those bands saying they were never prog). Great! Can't get enough!
So at the weekend I went along to the doubledotbash in Reading. Lots of people I had never heard of, ranging from a guitar and drum noise duo (it's more fun for you than anyone else, guys) to the wonderful The Hand (acoustic, thus labelled "folk", but they are not really). Francois and the Atlas Mountains - solo Frenchman doing electronics, guitar and trumpet (!). First couple of songs not so sure, but he definitely grew on me.
Then there was Max Tundra. Pretentious! Overblown! Self-indulgent! And crap. Max, dear boy, sampling Keith Emerson does not give you his talent. You went on for too long, you were far too pleased with yourself and your undoubted instrumental and vocal abilities. I got the impression there was some good stuff fighting desperately to get out, but it was drowned in the smoothie maker of everything else going on.If you throw everything in, it doesn't sound more clever, it just gets to be monotonous, a bit like when you played with plasticine as a kid and what you ended up with was always that brown stuff when you mixed all the colours together.
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One Night: Promised Paperback / softback
by Jodi Ellen Malpas
Part of the One Night Series series
You've read E L James, you've seen the Fifty Shades movie, you adored This Man...now meet the hottest new trilogy... Livy notices him the moment he walks into the coffee shop.
He's heart-stoppingly stunning, with a blue-eyed gaze so piercing she's almost too distracted to take his order. When he walks out the door, she thinks she'll never see him again.
Then she finds the note he left on his napkin . . . signed M. All he wants is one night to worship her. No feelings, no commitment - nothing but pleasure. Every defense mechanism Livy has adopted during her solitary life is at risk of being obliterated by this confounding man.
He's obnoxious but well-mannered. He's a gentleman but aloof. He's passionate but emotionless. Yet the fascination is so powerful, Livy can't deny him...or herself. M awakens something in Livy, something deep and addicting that she never knew existed-and that she fears only he can satisfy. But she senses that behind the fast cars, fancy suits, and posh apartment, he's aching inside. To have him, body and soul, she'll have to brave his dark secrets. Delving into his world and breaking down his defenses becomes her obsession - an obsession that could shatter her heart beyond repair...
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- Pages: 416 pages
- Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
- Publication Date: 17/07/2014
- Category: Romance
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50 Phenomenal Photographers
I've finally got round to downloading 50 Phenomenal Photographers by The Brand Stylist, Fiona Humberstone, and I'm very pleased I did.
Wowee, the standard of talent Fiona has included is breathtakingly high. This is not merely a directory of photographers, but will serve a higher purpose as it will help you make the right decisions for your brand when investing in images.
It can be easy to appoint the wrong creatives for your brand (designers, writers, photographers) when you don't know what you don't know. This edit demonstrates the breadth and nuances of style, so even if you are not appointing a photographer right away, you'll find plenty of inspiration for your moodboard.
Congratulations to everyone who has been included, especially Eddie Judd, who took my recent headshots. (My new claim to fame).


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Odorless, colorless, and tasteless, so-called "date rape" drugs are nasty, sneaky things. When surreptitiously added to someone's drink, they cause that person to become disoriented, sleepy, slow-to-react, and otherwise easier to sexually assault. Now, however, a new invention known as DrinkSavvy may allow people to know if such drugs have been put in their drink.
The DrinkSavvy company was founded by Boston-based entrepreneur Mike Abramson. Working with Dr. John MacDonald, he create a material that changes color when exposed to the three most common date rape drugs – GHB, Ketamine, and Rohypnol.
The idea is that bars could offer drinks in glasses or disposable plastic cups containing the new material, or with stir sticks or straws made from it. As long as the treated item didn't change color, it would mean that none of the targeted drugs were present in the drink.
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Eventually, every business owner needs to take a step back and hire people who will augment their skill set and provide expertise in other aspects of the business. A growing company will always reach a point where it requires leadership at both the front and the back of the house. Perhaps the volume of sales coming from the front can't keep up with the back. Or the production at the back is too far ahead of sales at the front. These failures eventually land on the customer, which creates a problem. The only option at that point is for the leader to step in and oversee both parts of the house. It's not natural for an owner to detach from what they are naturally good at in order to learn the other half of the house, but to be an effective leader, it's absolutely necessary. To become proficient at both sides of the house, you have to do a lot of soul-searching. It requires taking inventory of your strengths and weaknesses and finding help in the areas you need to grow. You also have to learn to let go of your desire to control, and for most entrepreneurs, this is the toughest part. You can't keep doing everything on your own. 90 percent of businesses fail in the first five years. The ones that make it to 15 years and continue to grow are few and far between because most owners can't let go. Making the adjustment from business owner to leader requires a mindset shift, and failure to do so is one of the most significant reasons companies stumble. And I'm no different. My shift from business owner to leader has been a little slower than I'd like, but I'm excited about the change. We're developing good systems and accountability metrics. We are working on streamlining everything because we can always be more consistent. I love the direction we're heading, and I can't wait to see what the future holds.
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Hello fellow crafters!!!! I am so excited to be a Cricut Diva! That's right, I am now a member of the CricutDiva DT. For my first post I thought I would share with you a project I submitted as an example of my work for the application process in order to be considered for the team. I love mixed media and have taken many online course so this is a favorite of mine. Our goal is to show you what you can do with your Cricut and the versatility of projects you can make with them.
This project used 3 cartridges. I used: Word Collage, Celebrate With Flourish, French Manor and, as an extra bonus, Mini Monograms. Let's get started since I have a wealth of detail to share with you, lol.
This project used 3 cartridges. I used: Word Collage, Celebrate With Flourish, French Manor and, as an extra bonus, Mini Monograms. Let's get started since I have a wealth of detail to share with you, lol.
Let's start with this picture. I used an 8" x 10" canvas board and painted with Martha Stewarts Satin cream paint. It is hard to see in the pic but I also inked the edges of the frame with Antique Linen distress ink. I then cut the wine words from Word Collage using the wine section. This was all cut @ 6" with vinyl. I have a confession to make. This is not the original I started with! At first I tried a stretched canvas that I painted a wine color and was going to paint over the vinyl with the cream. Hint: not a good idea to start with a dark base if you plan to go over with a lighter color!
I was satisfied with how this was proceeding but wanted to add some corners to the canvas. This is where French Manor comes in. I am not sure if the image on page 63 were glasses or not, but for this plaque, let's just pretend they are! I cut the Border+shift key and cut them @ 1.25" times 4 for all the corners.
I have this wonderful stamp that I love and thought the Steam Punk look just fit in so well here. This is an Inkadinkado stamp that I used Archival Brilliance Coffee Bean to stamp with. I also had this wonderful braided cording that went fabulous with this project. Now what to do for the hands of the clock?
Did you know that French Manor has a clock face with hands image? Well it does. It is on page 31 under Layer. I used my gypsy and moved the clock image off the mat so all I would cut is the clock hands @ 1". How cool is that, lol. Now on to my main image: the wine bottle and glasses.
I bet you were wondering why I placed the word collage off to the side, well, here is why. I wanted to use this wine bottle and glasses as my focal point. The die cut is from Celebrate With Flourish and I cut it at 8.65" x 9.35". I used the main image as well as the shadow feature. All the edges were inked with Aged Mahogany and also sprayed with Glimmer Mist Brick and Fern. I also used some Gold Stickles to add a touch of class!
I wanted a more realistic look to the glasses so I cut them separately out of Graffix clear plastic. I know it can be difficult to use the plastic or acetate without having the glue show so, I'll share my secret with you. I used a glue dot in the center of the glass which I knew I would cover with a Monogram. The stems were adhered with Glossy accents. If you have a spot that you are not happy with, no problem. I truly believe Stickles were made to hide mistakes!!!
The little monogram circles were cut @ .75" from Mini Monograms. I also found a small cork in my stash so I just inked it up with some Aged Mahogany.
If you remember in the first pic, I had glued a piece of fabric to the bottom part of the canvas. When I had laid everything out, it looked odd to me that the bottle was "just There". By adding the fabric, it gives the impression that it is resting on the table. The grapes are left over from small wine favors we used for one of my daughters weddings. Yes, I do have quite the collection of supplies! Before I show you the completed project I just wanted to show you the back. Why you ask? I like to show how everything should be finished off for a professional look.
I had used Zutter rivets to secure my ribbon but didn't like the look of the rivets or ribbon ends showing. All you have to do is cut a piece of brown paper or card stock, a little smaller than the completed projects. Add a bead of glue around the edges (I use Arlene's Quick Tack) and then lightly mist with water. As it dries it lays taut and gives a nice finished look.
I hope you have been inspired to use your cartridges for out of the box embellishments. If you have learn a little (or a lot, lol) I would love if you became a follower as well as leave a comment. I read each and every one of them and it always makes me smile!


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Yesterday, allegations of racial profiling within the St. Louis County Police Department surfaced again with news that the American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri has filed a formal complaint against the agency for refusing to hand over records.
This suit regarding alleged violations of Missouri's Sunshine Law is the second legal action the department is facing regarding County Police Lieutenant Patrick Hayes, a now fired officer who is accused of ordering cops to target black people in their arrests (even reportedly making statements like "Let's have a black day" and "Let's make the jail cells more colorful.").
Daily RFT has since talked to the attorney representing the whistleblower in this case, who tells us the department avoided lie detectors in its internal investigation -- a move that he says raises suspicions about the top cops' handling of the troubling accusations.
See also: - ACLU Sues St. Louis County Police Over Sunshine Law in Racial Profiling Case - County Police Fire Lt. Patrick Hayes, Accused of Targeting Blacks For Arrests - Report: St. Louis Arrests Blacks For Pot Possession 18 Times More Often Than Whites
The Post-Dispatch had a lengthy interview earlier this month with Sgt. Daniel O'Neil, the whistleblower who anonymously brought concerns of racial profiling to police officials and then recently went public with his identity when filing a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
In the complaint, full document on view below, O'Neil alleges that his bosses retaliated against him -- in a handful of different ways -- for speaking up.
This filing is the first step toward a full-on discrimination lawsuit against county police. O'Neil writes:
My complaints about race discrimination were a contributing factor in the adverse employment actions taken against me and the threats made on my life, and I have been retaliated against in violation of federal and state laws.
The complaint says he has suffered emotional distress and has been unable to report to work since April 22. The retaliation, he alleges, includes being issued multiple unwarranted write-ups (the first he says he has received in thirteen years and only the second in twenty years); facing a random urine test; facing a formal complaint from Hayes; being forced to transfer to a precinct more than three times the distance from his home than the south county precinct; and being forced to turn in his patrol car.
O'Neil, who is white, had alleged in his initially anonymous complaints to Internal Affairs that Hayes had "ordered and directed police officers at the South County Precinct to arrest all African-Americans who were at the South County Mall or at the South County Wal-Mart store. Hayes made statements that directed officers to specifically target African-Americans for arrest or detention, and without probable cause to do so."
Hayes, O'Neil alleges, once said to him, "If I find out who's writing letters, I'll kill him." (Daily RFT left a message for Hayes' attorney yesterday. We'll update if we hear back. Hayes has denied engaging in racial profiling and argued that the accuser had a personal vendetta against him).
In addition to the accusations outlined in the EEOC, O'Neil's attorney Jerome Dobson says that he now has questions about the department's internal investigation of the allegations against Hayes.
He says it is curious that, with O'Neil and Hayes giving conflicting statements, the department opted not to use lie detectors.
"Whenever there is a dispute between two people that were interviewed as part of an investigation, my understanding is that standard procedure would be both would be subject to a lie detector test," Dobson tells Daily RFT. "Sgt. O'Neil was specifically told there would not be a lie detector test."
"The question is why," he says.
It's a testament to the validity of his complaints that O'Neil made it clear he was ready to make his statements with a polygraph test, Dobson argues.
"They not only declined that offer, they specifically said there would be no lie detector given in that investigation," he says. "It raises a red flag.... Why do you deviate from your procedure?"
Continue for response from county police officials and the full EEOC complaint.
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The Irish Times today reports on a conference that took place at the weekend of the Women Lawyers Association. The issue under examination was child protection.
What grabbed the headline was confirmation by Mary O'Rourke, chairwoman of the Oireachtas Committee on the Children's Amendment to the Constitution, that our political class is initially to go down the legislative route with regard to children's rights and allow for the sharing of 'soft information' concerning alleged child abusers.
She has not yet ruled out a more general constitutional referendum. (Incidentally, everyone who has so far appeared before Mary O'Rourke's committee has a left-of-centre view of children's rights. This view tends to be more trustful of the State than of the family and wants to enhance its powers).
However, what really caught the eye in report was a paragraph towards the end which read: "Mary Hough, director of Sligo Education Centre, warned against allowing 'cultural relativism' diluting child protection standards among professionals.
"Cultural sensitivity should not be equated with cultural relativism, she said, and sensitivity to cultural differences should not be used to justify lower standards of care and inaction among professionals."
Now, this is an extremely interesting observation. Children's rights campaigners commonly complain about the Constitution and the way in which traditional attitudes allegedly prevent them intervening in families where children need protection.
However, we never hear these same campaigners complaining that cultural relativism might be a problem. But it is, of course. Cultural relativism might, for example, make social workers reluctant to intervene as they should in immigrant families, or in Traveller families.
In Australia, social workers are often extremely reluctant to remove Aboriginal children from their families on the grounds that Aborigines have different cultural standards than the rest of society, and also because Aborigines were so badly treated in the past.
It would be extremely interesting to hear more about this but don't hold your breath because cultural relativism is fashionable whereas moral traditionalism is anything but. Therefore, expect far more stories about the later than the former.
An aside: I wonder if cultural relativism had anything to do with the inadequate response by the authorities to the Roscommon incest case?


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Best Wines of Summer 2013: What Wine to Drink Now
Whether you're sitting fireside sipping the best beers or mixing your choice of seasonal cocktails at home, the possibilities for pairing the perfect beverage with a summer meal or activity are practically endless. Throw wine in the mix, and the choices are practically overwhelming.
Luckily, James Tidwell, the beverage manager and master sommelier at Four Seasons in Dallas, has the best wines for summer at the ready, and he's sharing his picks with us. With many a leisurely summer night in mind, we caught up with this expert for a list of what wine to drink now.
"There's something so great about being able to sip on a bottle of wine all day," Tidwell says. Where beer can get filling and spirits pack a powerful punch, a bottle of wine strikes the perfect balance, he adds. "There's no getting up to get more beers or mixing more drinks. You can just sit there with a bottle of wine and enjoy it."
And while Tidwell suggests lighter reds and less oaky whites for the summer, there's ones he finds more seasonal than something pink, or with a bit of spritz.
"Sparkling wines in general are refreshing, clean, crisp wines that work well on hot days," he says. "When you have a group of people getting together, there's nothing that gets them to socialize more than bubbles." Besides for feeling celebratory, the carbon dioxide also expedites the alcohol, helping to bring on the buzz — and the conversation — a little faster, he says.
Otherwise, Tidwell's go-to is a crisp rosé. "There are rosés that are slightly sweet and very fruity, but there are also rosés that drink like red wine and don't have the unctuousness of a big red that you would have in the winter," he says. "They're appropriate for summer and its beautiful in a glass sitting out on a terrace somewhere. They just express summer," he says.
But this is only the beginning. For the full roundup of the best wines to try this summer, check out the slideshow here. From Moscato d'Asti to sauvignon franc, pinot noir to riesling, Tidwell offers the ultimate wine list for what wine to drink now.
— Sasha Levine, Lifestyle Mirror
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• Dita Von Teese Reveals Her Healthy Diet
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I have celiac sprue, an autoimmune disease; wheat makes me sick. The CPEP staff just shrugged and said, "Well, sandwiches are all we have." That is not true. Dietary was sending my special diet tray to CPEP. How can a hospital staff refuse to take care of a sick person? They act like being sick is bad behavior, not a disease over which I have no control. They didn't try to help. They made me sicker.
It was in the afternoon that CPEP reopened. People came in, but I was afraid. Michael came to my room, wanting a drink, then I heard him screaming.
Nobody would help us.
Only because my friends were there, the staff brought the fruit and a cot. After my friends left around 4:00 p.m., I collapsed on the cot.
I lay there without moving, except to go to the bathroom, for six hours. I did not sleep. I was fully conscious but I couldn't move. This had happened to me about three times in recent weeks: I would be fully conscious but unable to respond. Some of the doctors think there's something wrong with my endocrine system; one thinks it affects my parasympathetic nervous system. It happens when I get too exhausted.
In six hours, the staff never checked my vital signs. They never brought my supper tray. Later, they said they had, but they lied.
First, a woman came in and called my name. I couldn't answer.
Soon after, another woman came in and called my name and poked at me.
Later, another woman came in and checked my oxygen level with a finger thing.
No one ever checked my sugar level.
I've been having blood pressure spikes as high as 208/117. No one ever checked my blood pressure. The CPEP staff doesn't care if you live or die. They just stand outside and look at you, and decide you're faking. I wasn't. From all the stress they made on me, I was too sick to move.
Diabetes insipidus is a rare kidney disease that causes excessive urination. They never brought me liquids or checked to see if I was drinking. Dr. Jenifer Rich was the doctor on in the evening. She knows I have nephrogenic diabetes insipidus because she's the one who caused it by not monitoring the lithium she prescribed. She didn't do anything to make sure I was all right.
I laid there forever. I was so sick and tired that it had knocked out my thirst reflex so I wasn't thirsty. After while I began to realize that I was peeing every hour, but I wasn't drinking. I was dehydrating. Twelve years I've had to deal with this illness; I know what happens. I was laying there dehydrating, too sick and tired and filled with despair about how mean they treated me—I didn't care if I died. I figured I might. They would just leave me there while I went into a coma. I was glad I was dying. The terror of CPEP would finally end.
Not one staff member ever treated me with kindness or compassion. At best, it was business; at worst, it was hell.
Someone came with the finger thing again and checked my oxygen. The next day, a staff member told me I was asleep without my CPAP. He said it like I was a liar when I said I needed my CPAP. I wasn't asleep; if I had been asleep, my oxygen level would have been below normal. I was awake and sick and scared.
About ten o'clock a man came in—the next day Anthony said it was him—and barked at me that I could go back to my room—I'd been locked out for 13 hours—but that if I didn't go right away, then I couldn't go at all.
Shortly after that, a woman came and said that Dr. Rich said I could go back to my room anytime. I suppose they let Eddie do whatever he wanted, and didn't let me back until he went to sleep. The CPEP staff are horrible people. I never did anything wrong; Eddie did.
Sometime around then, I started to get thirsty. I'd been lying there for six hours, and was finally rested enough that the thirst reflex came back. I started drinking from the bathroom sink; there were no glasses. I drank and drank and drank. Then I fell asleep. Pretty soon after I fell asleep, I woke up not breathing because they didn't let me have my CPAP. That's very scary. I went and knocked on the door in back. They wouldn't let me in at first. Dr. Rich was sitting there looking at me.
Eddie was asleep in his bed with his CPAP. They got mad at me when I asked for food then. Donna was there and said she hadn't been given anything to eat either. They just brought me more fruit. All day, nothing but fruit. No protein, no starches. They didn't care one bit about me being sick. I was hungry and they wouldn't feed me.
In the morning, Anthony woke me up to tell me my breakfast tray was there. When he left and closed the door behind him, Eddie appeared and completely filled the window. He kept chanting my name. I was terrified. There was no call bell or anything in the room. I sat in bed yelling, "Staff! Staff! Staff!" but there were no staff on the floor to hear me.
Eddie blocked the door so nobody could see in and mocked me, chanting, "Staff. Staff. Staff." I couldn't get out to get my tray or go to the bathroom, and nobody came in to help me. One time he was at the bathroom door when I was inside. There's no lock on the door. He came in when I had my pants down. He said it was an accident.
They let Eddie run CPEP, and then they punish the women who cry out for help.


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Roland-- Here's a try at answering your question: When an RDF processor understands a datatype, the basic requirement is that it be able to tell, given a literal and a URIref identifying the datatype, whether or not the literal is a valid lexical form for that datatype. The RDF processor may also be able to do additional things, depending on how much information it has available (or can get access to) about the datatype, such as: * determine, given two literals from the same datatype, whether they map to the same value in that datatype * determine, given two literals from different datatypes, whether they map to the same value (it has to "understand" both datatypes, in that case) This is covered in Section 3.4 of the RDF Semantics document; that section is currently being expanded somewhat to provide further details. Based on the amount of "understanding" an RDF processor has of a datatype or datatypes, an RDF graph may be extended with extra information the processor can deduce via that added understanding (as described in the Semantics document), e.g., a subclass relationship between datatypes. However, keep in mind that this "understanding" is not defined by RDF; it must be built into RDF software that reflects the meaning of the datatype involved. You should also note that the "understanding"" of a datatype we talk about in RDF is far less than you would expect for the "understanding" required for a datatype in a programming language (where the set of operations associated with the datatype must also be understood). --Frank Roland Schwaenzl wrote: > > > The RDF Primer has the sentence: > > > "As far as RDF is concerned, you can write any pair of URIref and > literal you want as a typed literal" > > > In this contex what exactly is the meaning of > "understanding"/recognizing a datatype? > > Could changes result for an RDF Graph, when a processor "understands" a > datatype > (aside from taking RDF MT hulls)? > > Thanks in addvance for clarification, > rs > > > > > -- Frank Manola The MITRE Corporation 202 Burlington Road, MS A345 Bedford, MA 01730-1420 mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com voice: 781-271-8147 FAX: 781-271-875Received on Wednesday, 4 December 2002 17:19:39 UTC
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Aromatic, slightly herbaceous scent - harmonizing, invigorating, stimulating.
- Botanical name:
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- Family:
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- Characteristics:
- has a balancing, stimulating and strenghtening effect
- Country of origin:
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- Extraction:
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- Ingredients (INCI):
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- Essential oils are composed of a large number of individual components. Substances such as limonene and linalool are a natural component of the essential oil, they are not added. But they belong to the 26 declarable allergenic fragrances and must therefore be reported separately because some people are allergic to individual ingredients. Listed perfume in the INCI is a composition of different essential oils, if we want to preserve the exact composition as a scent secret.
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In the spirit of the work done on Scott Street last year, as well as the building of the Rainy Lake Square, McTaggarts is getting a facelift. Kyle Glowasky Contracting began work last week on the storefront of the Scott Street mainstay and will be giving it a full makeover in the next month or so.
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So Cars and Coffee Southlake did not have a show in a couple of months, and that was likely because of the antics of a few people attending the show. Now it was back in full effect at a new venue at the Gateway Church. And boy, what a great venue. Pretty much a dedicated exit lane to the street for people to film at and a nicely laid out parking lot. It truly brought back the old Cars and Coffee vibes I had when it was at Classic BMW. And bonus: I don't have to walk as far to get to the meat of the show either!
There were a lot of nice cars there, and because of my later arrival time I did not have time to shoot as many of them before cars started leaving. I must make it a point to arrive early next time so I have more time to shoot the parking lot. I did however take extra time to shoot the Pantera, what a stunner! Always been one of my favorites.
The exit shots were killer too. Truly a one stop shop for a YouTube hobbiest such as myself. Great cars stationary and on the move. Just as I like it! And, very GT3 heavy too on the exit shots. Which isn't a bad thing IMHO!


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Blessings to you,
A few Wednesday nights ago, before the New Earth Study Group, we saw a Mother deer and two young ones in the meadow outside the Centre. Both Cheryl and I said that at first we felt a thrilling rush of excitement that settled into a feeling of awe as we watched them.
What is it about this type of experience in nature that excites us so? Perhaps it is because we rarely have the opportunity. Perhaps it is because all nature, except for us, lives in the Now. All of nature is just Being, and our soul recognizes this.
The deer were not concerned with bills, work, current affairs or the state of the world. They didn't care who was watching them or why. They were doing what they wanted in the moment, and at that moment it was to savor some of the succulent grasses in the meadow.
How often do we allow ourselves to be so present? This morning while I was making coffee, I wasn't really there. I was thinking about some things I want to do in the garden. All of us have had the experience of being in the car, and finding ourselves at our destination with no memory of how we got there. We were probably thinking of work or our families, but certainly not focused on driving. We spend very little time being present.
Let's practice Being this week. The late Rev. Helen Street said to be present all one had to do was be where their body was. My re-entry into my body is through the breath. When I realize I'm not in Present Time, I breathe deeply and re-connect. We might be doing a lot of breathing this week – yet I KNOW it is worth it!!
Divine Life is Sacred Energy. It is the Presence that permeates all things. It is the Presence that is the Source of all things. It is the Life Force that animates this Universe. It is my Life.
I choose to vibrate at the level of the Sacred. I do this by honouring Present Time. I allow myself to Be. I am conscious as I go about my daily affairs. I am where my body is. I am awake and aware of myself as an expression of Divine Life.
Gratefully I celebrate Life and all It contains. I celebrate walking on sacred ground, and knowing Who I Am. I release these words, knowing they are my Truth, And so It is.


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Good morning and happy New Year to all!
Last Friday (1/3/20), we received word from Kristin Rosenthal, M.Ed., MCHES, the new Highway Safety Specialist that focuses on school bus safety for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), that the agency has launched a social media campaign to remind drivers of the dangers of illegally passing a stopped school bus. The campaign features two new videos —
Stop Means Stop
Don't Be This Driver
— intended to emphasize the fact that the greatest risk to a child isn't riding in a bus, but approaching or leaving one.
NHTSA has asked us — and we are asking all of you — to spread the word about NHTSA's campaign and share their posts on your school district or company social media platforms, especially Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.
We therefore encourage you to post or tweet a message that says something to this effect:
This time of year in many parts of the country it is dark when kids go to school and maybe even when they head home. There is also a higher likelihood that roads will be wet, slick, snow covered or icy. That's why it is especially important for all drivers to pay attention (Don't Be THAT Driver) and remember "Stop Means Stop!"
Please feel free to share this message with your drivers, your students and their parents, your school board, school administrators and teachers, local law enforcement, emergency responders and other local officials, and especially with your local media.
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DHS Issues National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin
The release last Saturday of the
National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin
by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was a sobering reminder that everyone involved in the transportation of students must be vigilant, perhaps even hyper-vigilant, these days. The school transportation infrastructure is so widespread and so diverse that it is particularly vulnerable to the type of random, individual attacks that DHS is so concerned about, especially because they may come with little or no warning.
I worry incessantly, mostly privately but out loud now, about the threat of a terrorist targeting a school bus. School buses are the safest mode of transportation. But they must also be as secure as possible.
In my view, we can read the DHS bulletin and either feel hopeless and vulnerable or we grasp that there are simple and effective procedures, training, and drills that take minimal time, minimal funds, and empower students and staff. In other words, emergency preparedness is not and should not be viewed as frightening; view it instead as an objective, purposeful analysis with a simple goal: to save lives in life threatening situations.
The NAPT Board has long believed that school transportation service providers need to be proactive when it comes to emergency preparedness. You should have a plan that describes in specific terms who should do what, as well as when and how, in an emergency and you should share it — and practice it — in conjunction with your local law enforcement. The drills should be commonplace albeit sporadic, just like school building fire drills, so they simulate real-world parameters.
Training and procedures should include space management in high anxiety situations, meaning teaching people how to work with each other in tight quarters under stress as opposed to trampling each other. And, finally, evacuation and reunification procedures need to be included. Evacuations, particularly of a school bus, work best if practiced at the very least on an annual basis.
We've learned from fires, floods and other natural disasters that it is important to prepare transportation staff — and students — for an emergency. NAPT has been providing education of this type to our members since November 2001, when representatives of the soon to be formed Transportation Security Administration joined us at our annual conference during the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in New York City.
The safety of children is our core charter in the school transportation industry. It's not something brought into heightened discussion among us only after a crisis; it's something we think about every single day. Remember, we interact with 26 million students twice a day every school day. It is our duty to think about the unthinkable and to be prepared to act appropriately in these circumstances. Be assured NAPT will continue to think this way and act accordingly. I strongly encourage you to do the same.
With best wishes and kind regards to all,
Mike Martin,
Executive Director
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(pronounced e-merge), Educator's Media Resource Group, is dedicated to serving educators and support staff through engaging, accessible video trainings. What we know; positive and preventative methods create profound and lasting changes in the behavior of your students and drivers. Schools across the country are implementing our evidence-based, interactive approach to positive behavioral outcomes with great success. We now bring this same approach to transportation professionals. Use our 5 part series "Behavior Solutions on the Bus" to train your team or let us come and train you. Call or visit our website to learn more.
engineers, manufactures and distributes industry leading high-definition safety and surveillance solutions for a range of clients including school districts, first responders, public transit authorities, as well as the US military and Coast Guard.
SMART tag
is the premier student ridership management solution. Our on-board rugged tablet loaded with our user-friendly driver app and the use of RFID cards for students help ensure students get on the right bus, get off at the right stop and are not left on the bus. Our state-of-the-art solution that includes GPS provides many features including: Patented Guardian Release, Pre/Post-trip Inspections, automated Medicaid reimbursement and other reports, near real-time (refreshes about every 10 seconds) fleet and student ridership visibility for transportation, campuses and parents, and messaging for drivers and parents, and we're adding new features every year.
Thomas Built Buses
is committed to providing safe and reliable transportation for America's most precious cargo. And that commitment has been a driving force for the past 100 years. Thomas Built is passionate about leading the industry with the latest innovations and safety features in the market and building every bus to a high level of environmental standards. Thomas Built Buses, a subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America LLC, a Daimler Company, is headquartered in High Point, N.C. It operates several manufacturing plants producing Type A, C and D buses and Type D chassis for the school, commercial, specialty, childcare and activity buses markets.
Study: Cold weather has significant impact on electric bus range
According to CTE, electric bus range shrinks during cold weather significantly more than the range of hydrogen fuel cell buses. The Center for Transportation and the Environment, a nonprofit working to develop and commercialize clean, efficient, and sustainable transportation technologies, recently completed, in partnership with the Midwest Hydrogen Center of Excellence, Cleveland State University, and the Stark Area Regional Transit Authority, an interesting study evaluating the relationship between ambient temperature and range of zero-emission buses.
2019: A year in review
By: Brian Stack (commentary)
Happy New Year! As we begin 2020 and look forward to what the new year will bring, let's take a look back at what our profession learned in the last year. From the over 25 articles that I wrote for MultiBriefs in 2019, the topics that seemed to have the highest reach with educators focused on topics such as competency-based/personalized learning; mental health and social-emotional learning (SEL); and school safety.
Minnesota propane industry wades into electric school bus debate
Star Tribune
The Minnesota Propane Association wants the administration of Gov. Tim Walz to consider liquid propane as an economical alternative to spending $4.7 million on electric-powered school buses from $47 million Minnesota gets from the national Volkswagen pollution-cheating scandal settlement. State officials have floated ways to use the funds in pursuit of a cleaner, greener transportation future.The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency plans to invest $23.5 million over the next four years under a draft plan.
Why propane school buses are the cost-effective, healthier choice for Connecticut's children
Hartford Courant
It's exciting to see that Connecticut is taking real steps to reduce nitrogen oxides through the funds it received from the Volkswagen Environmental Mitigation Trust, which has the singular goal to reduce nitrogen oxides. Gov. Lamont recently released $6 million in VW funds to fund 15 clean air projects in the state. Two of them (total award of $1.58 million) are going to replace older model-year diesel buses with model-year 2021 diesel buses.
Zonar Systems hit with firmware glitch affecting school bus fleet management devices
Zonar Systems, a Seattle-based company that provides electronic fleet inspection and tracking systems for public and private fleets, experienced a firmware glitch on Thursday affecting a significant number of its mobile inspection devices. Ben Hohmann, a Zonar spokesperson, confirmed the glitch and said the company is working to fix it. The issue is affecting Zonar's 2010 Electronic Inspection Device, which is used primarily for school bus safety inspections.
The post-holiday funk is real
Harvard Business Review
Somewhere around the third week in December work in many offices starts to slow down. There are holiday parties. Customers and clients may be harder to reach. Energy and motivation wanes. And many of us sign off from work completely to spend the holidays with friends and family. And then January arrives, and it's time to get back in the swing of things. But, after being out for a week or two, it can be hard to snap back into work mode. If you're feeling sluggish and unmotivated, you're not alone.
School bus safety touted in bid to save Ohio's front license plate
The Columbus Dispatch
Thirty-one states require vehicles to display front license plates. That number will drop to 30 come July 1 unless Ohio lawmakers change their minds and save the plate amid pressure from police and school officials. Police officers, sheriffs and prosecutors, who are concerned about the impact on crime, have gained an ally in their effort to save Ohio's front license plate. School officials warn that children will be endangered by motorists who whiz past stopped buses and increasingly elude apprehension unless lawmakers reverse course on the front plate's scheduled July 1 demise.
Use all available technology to keep school buses safe
The Baltimore Sun
At the most recent meeting of the Carroll County Board of Education, the school system discussed those big, yellow vehicles used to transport students to and from school. Specifically, Carroll County Public Schools is looking at live GPS tracking of buses and better communication technology with drivers in hopes to improve emergency readiness and is working with the Carroll County Sheriff's Office to add stop-arm cameras to be able to catch drivers who illegally blow past buses' stop signs.
The new trend in hiring? Collaborative interviews
By: Catherine Iste (commentary)
Almost gone, thankfully, are the days of brutal panel interviews with trick questions and ridiculous, no-win scenarios. Instead, questions like: "What animal would you be and why?" are being replaced with thoughtful inquiry, genuine interest and bilateral communication. Welcome to the world of the collaborative interview.
7 qualities of an extraordinary leader
There's a difference between being the head honcho at your company and being a leader. Great leadership transforms a good company into an amazing company. The good news is that everybody has the ability to improve their leadership ability. Great leaders are made not born. And at the end of the day, great leaders need to exemplify the actions they want to see.
Warren: 'We are failing on our country's promise' to children with disabilities
Education Week
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren on Monday introduced a plan designed to protect the rights of people with disabilities, including children in the nation's public schools, and ensure equitable treatment for them. Warren's campaign released "Protecting the Rights and Equality of People with Disabilities" on Monday, providing more detail on her broader K-12 education plan and her pledge to commit an additional $20 billion in grant funding for the Individuals with Disabilities Act and expand the program to cover more services for children, ages 3 to 5.
4 steps to clarify your leadership intent
The Lead Change Group
The turning of the calendar page from one year to the next is an opportunity to start the new year with a clear and focused plan for your team or organization. Yet if you're like many leaders, you not only find it hard to establish a clear strategy for the year, you also find it difficult to keep all your team members aligned and moving forward to achieve the goals. If this predicament is familiar, you have the opportunity to clarify your leadership intent for the year.
This is what Generation Z wants most in a workplace
Employers are slowly but surely adapting to the needs and interests of a younger workforce, and becoming increasingly sophisticated in their approach to technology and data-driven tools that engage Generation Z. Managers are exploring ways to help this generation gain confidence, reduce stress and problem solve. Diversity and inclusion is a larger focus for leaders, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because the positive impact on innovation, creativity and even profitability.
New study reveals top workplace wellbeing habits to embrace in 2020
New Year's resolutions are undoubtedly on the minds of millions of American employees hoping to kickstart new healthy habits both inside and outside of the workplace — and employers can play a role. The findings of a new comprehensive study conducted in partnership between PricewaterhouseCoopers and the University of Southern California reveal insights about how corporate wellbeing programs can help reinforce many of the healthy habits employees start as part of their New Year's resolutions.
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Hematoxylin Market by Application (Laboratories & Textile), by Type (Alum Hematoxylin, Iron Hematoxylin, Tungsten Hematoxylin & Others) – Growth, Future Prospects, Competitive Analysis and Forecast, 2017 – 2025, the worldwide hematoxylin market was valued at US$ 1,532.64 Mn in 2016.
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However, volatile raw material prices & increasing use of substitutes are the factors hampering the market growth. China, Japan and India are expected to be the most attractive markets for hematoxylin, offering high growth potential. Besides this, Asia Pacific offers low cost of manufacturing, which can provide competitive advantage to the hematoxylin.
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Dog waste in the wrong bins!
For the last three weeks we have been unable to recycle any waste across Nene Park, as our waste provider Viridor has reported finding dog waste in our recycling bins.
The recycling waste is sorted by hand and so, for health and hygiene reasons, finding dog waste among the recycling contents has put a complete halt on further sorting and the the rest of the recycling process. As a result, all our recycling has had to be incinerated along with the general waste.
This is a tragic situation for us, as we pride ourselves on our green credentials and would like to be increasing the level of recycling we do and not reducing it.
We would therefore like to remind all dog walkers that bagged dog waste must be placed in the general waste bins. All our bins are clearly marked that dog waste goes in general waste. We're now keeping our fingers and paws crossed that we can resume our usual high levels of recycling soon.