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I don't go to the gym on January 1st, and it's not just because I've had a glass, or three, of champagne the night before. The gym is PACKED on January 1st with dozens of new members crowding on cardio equipment and weight racks determined that this new year is going to be THE year that they take control of their fitness. If I give it a few days, the numbers dwindle to manageable. If I give it a month, the status quo of gym attendance has generally been restored. If you were one of the hundreds of thousands that joined a gym the end of December and have spent the first week of 2019 trying to better your health, I applaud you…but I will really stand up and cheer if you're still there in March!
The start of the year is a time to take control of all kinds of areas in your life that you want to see improvement in during the new year. And gym membership isn't the only thing that ticks up the first week of January. January 6, 2019 was projected to be the busiest day for dating app sign up of the entire year. Dubbed "singles Sunday" by some popular apps trying to drive new memberships, it was picked as being the prime day to log on as the holidays are over (a heavy time of the year for break-ups), new year's resolutions are being made, and there's a little more than a month until Valentine's Day. If you're looking for a better love life in 2019, now's your moment to get online!
The first time I signed up for an online dating website, I did it as part of a potential game for my sister's bachelorette party. I found the game on Pinterest, and the idea was that you used profiles from a dating website for a "dating game" style party game. In order to get said profiles, I needed to have a profile, and so without thinking much about it, I went onto Match.com, put up the picture on the left, wrote a few clever sentences in my bio, and then started browsing for the cutest guys I could find. It was not supposed to be anything serious, nor was it supposed to lead to dating or a relationship at all.
What I didn't know at the time was that though Match.com says, "It's free to look…" what they don't tell you is that looking is about all it's free to do. You can look at profiles and "wink" at pictures, but to see contact information or message other members you need to pay. I had no intention of paying for the service, and no intention of messaging anybody, so I didn't care at the time, but what I didn't anticipate was that people would start messaging me. Three days after signing up, I had over 50 messages piled up in my inbox, none of which I could read or respond to.
It was a friend who eventually offered to pay for my initial membership because she was dying to know just who was messaging me. As a birthday present that year, she wrote the check for my three-month membership and made me promise I would go on at least one date with someone I met on the site. I updated my information and chose a few better pictures (pictured below…side bar, not looking at the camera in your pictures is an interesting strategy!), and began to sift through the messages from men who had reached out to me. It was…a mixed bag to say the least. I had guys asking me to help bring them into the country. I had guys who seemed generally nice, but were no longer interested because I had waited too long to respond. I had guys that admitted they were just looking for a "fun night." I had guys that seemed genuinely interested. It felt like a meat market and completely overwhelmed me, but I eventually sorted through the men that had reached out to me, and reached out to a few matches of my own, and found a handful of people who I was interested in meeting in person.
There was Scott, a trumpet player in the Army band who lied about his height on his profile, and showed up to dinner at a very nice restaurant looking dapper in a suit, but a full five inches shorter then he claimed. He would later be a true gentleman and walk me to my car expecting no more than a shy hug, but then follow it up with a second date in which he got completely trashed and then sent dirty text messages all night about what he wished he would have "had the courage to do"😳. There was Brett, the helicopter paramedic who had a macabre sense of humor and shared with me over our first cup of coffee that he had once been a boy scout, a fringe benefit (he considered) of which had been first introducing him to pornography at summer camp. And then there was Brian, who revealed to me on a quiet walk around the lake in Winona that he was missing part of his intestines, and while that physically limited him in some capacities, he otherwise lived a full life and hoped that I wanted to be a part of it. We dated for two months.
My sister and brother-in-law eventually met Brian about two weeks before he would break up with me for "being perfect in every respect, but not really doing it for him physically." Dude, I wasn't the one missing part of my intestines. It wasn't like he was wracked with physical prowess!
It was at that point that I decided to take a break from the online dating scene and regroup. What had started as a party game had turned into a birthday present promise and an eventual relationship and breakup, and I needed to decide if I wanted to go back the internet route or try to find love the old-fashioned way. And while I sorted through my options, I read books. If you're in the online dating scene, I can't recommend the following titles enough: Not a Match: True Tales of Online Dating Disasters; Love at first Click; and, Data. A Love Story: How I Gamed Online Dating to Meet My Match. Reading about other people's experiences validated the things that I disliked about the online dating process, and also encouraged me to see the silver lining of my own experiences. I had never had a truly horrible experience. I met people whom I was incredibly non-compatible with, but I had never been harassed, stalked, or cat fished. I'd had uncomfortable conversations, but never felt unsafe or threatened. Compared to the way some others were doing it, my first effort looked like a smashing success.
I made the choice to go back online, but to do some things categorically differently. In some ways, this made my second go around more difficult because it required me to be more active and invested in the process of finding, reaching out to, and eventually communicating with people online. Trust me, it's much more fun to be the pursued than the pursuer, but it's much more empowering to go after what you want instead of waiting and hoping that the one you want finds you in a sea of a million pixellated faces.
As I've been happily married now for almost four years, I can now pass these tips and tricks onto the next generation of online daters in hopes that you too can beat the system and win the game in time for Valentine's Day! From the time I signed up online the second time, to the day I sat down on my first date with my husband, was two months. It was six monthes after that we were engaged, so use these tips wisely. There's power in the process!
Send messages…A LOT of messages. The current average response rate on a dating app is between 14-17% for men responding to women, and 5% for women responding to men. That means, sorry guys, men have it harder when it comes to getting a message back from someone they have contacted, but both men and women potentially have to reach out to a lot of people if they want to get responses back at all. At the time I rejoined Match.com, the site average for message responses was 10%, so I resolved to send 10 messages a day to people I would want to hear back from in hopes that I would get one response. Some days I got more than that. Some days I got none. Either way, the people I reached out to were all people I hoped would reach back, so when someone did respond (and statistics were on my side that someone would), I was generally pretty excited about it. I didn't sweat the rest!
Know the message formula. There are lots of tips and tricks about writing a witty and clever opening message, but here's the formula that was given to me and worked!
Hi __________________, (Use their name here and it won't just feel like you copied and pasted the same message to every match!)
I noticed your profile and thought it was cool that ___________________ (Name something specific…not just "you're hot! Then, say something nice about it.)
A little bit about me ____________________. (Share something nice about yourself. Bonus points if it's something you have in common with each other).
Hope to hear from you soon,
(And then sign it with your real name)
This is the actual first message I sent to my husband:
Hi there BetterBuilder,
I noticed your profile and thought we shared some common interests. It's really impressive all you've already accomplished in your career and building your business. You also mentioned being able to travel more and spend time with family. Are there places on your bucket list you'd like to see?
A little about me. I'm a high school English teacher who loves to write. I like to be outdoors, preferably when it's warm out, to go for hikes and long walks, or just sit in the park and read a book. A few years ago I started running long distance races and finished my first marathon this past fall.
Hope to hear more about you,
Understand that everything you do on the site affects you matches. Here's a fun fact about most dating website's algorithms. You might tell the site that you're looking for single, white males between 25-30 who have at least a bachelor's degree. But let's say during your browsing of profiles, you've clicked on a couple of single dads, or you've clicked on the profile of a 45-year-old divorced Russian man, or you've searched through profiles of some African-American guys, the algorithm will start to ignore your stated preferences and start emphasizing the variations in your actual searches. Why is this important? Because if there are some actual deal breakers in your potential relationships, not only do your preferences need to reflect that, but your behavior on the site needs to reflect that. Most people don't know that, search freely among profiles, and then can't figure out why after a month or two, their matches start to deviate from their stated preferences. Online dating is a game of "matching as you do, not as you say." So click accordingly, and also realize that what you said you were attracted to, might not match what you're actually attracted to when you start looking.
Don't take it offline too soon. This is my last tip, and in some ways I think it's the most important. A lot of conventional wisdom says that you must meet the person in real life to know if you're actually compatible, and that's true. However, if people slowed down a half a beat and spent a little time getting to know someone through messaging first, they could, perhaps, save themselves a lot of time and bad dates by not going out to meet someone with whom they could have easily discovered they weren't compatible. It costs nothing to spend a few extra days or weeks exchanging e-mails before deciding if you want to meet or not. If the person you're messaging with isn't interested in investing that time in getting to know you via e-mail, what makes you think they want anything more than the physical when you meet face to face?
I'm partial to this strategy because Josh and I emailed every. single. night. for six weeks before we finally had our first date. I joked at the time the only way our relationship wasn't going to work out was if we got together and there was zero physical chemistry. That would have been tragic, as it's obviously an unescapable part of any relationship, but from our communication I was already pretty sure that I we should be together. In the weeks leading up to that date we exchanged 92,579 words. I know because for our first anniversary, we had them bound into a book. That's as modern of a love story as you're going to find, and it was a foundation that couldn't be rushed. With a million people to match with, it might seem like the perfect time to move through partners quickly, but if you really want to give yourself a chance, I can't emphasize slowing down enough!
If love is on your wish list in 2019, I wish you the best of luck. There is no more noble pursuit than that of finding your person, and given that it's 2019, there's a really decent chance your person is waiting on a dating app or website. The best way to play the game is to know the rules, so study up, plan a strategy, and then get ready to hold on tight. It's sure to be a whirlwind, but with any luck, January 6th will be your last "single Sunday" in a long time.


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I was utterly entranced by this abandoned cabin. Who had lived there? Who'd left there? How had it been forgotten? Had it been forgotten? I wanted to know its stories. But I also imagined the explanation for its desertion might best be left in solitude, like the cabin itself.
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A day that will be remembered as The Day Marin Saved the U.S. Economy.%
[SUMMARY: OMG hubris!]
I had a brilliant idea‡ while I was puttering around Gawker the other day and came across an article on the big fancy Obama inaugural concert. As the guest list rolled out to the horizon,^ it started to look like the punchline was going to be, "...at which time Jesus will speak a few words before Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra§ serenade a six-story image of Obama with a specially-arranged version of 'It Had to be You'..."¶
With Obama fever at the highest it's likely to be,# and with people willing to spend serious bucks in a hard economy just to secure their respective copies of Tuesday's New York Times,†† it seems to me the inaugural concert could be recorded and sold, with the artists GENEROUSLY donating‡‡ all proceeds to the United States citizenry.$
There could be package deals with photo albums or letters from the prez... there could be special downloadable versions with bonus video tracks... hell, there could even be a kids' book and a sing-along version of the kids' inaugural concert.
Then the proceeds could be split 25/75 between paying down the national debt and going straight to tax-filing citizens to spend at their local retailers.@ Like Alaska's petroleum-driven payments to its constituency, this could be a regular check.§§
To keep the dollars rolling, there could be adjunct First Hundred Days concerts, First Term Concerts, It's Been a Great Run, Ten Year Anniversary¶¶...
We are a nation of hype and advertising and packaging and collectibles and nostalgia, along with an overblown sense of history that only comes from not having very much of it.
The possibilities are nearly endless.
†FOOTNOTE (crossed): It's the opposite of Black Friday!
%FOOTNOTE (percented): See yesterday's footnote.
‡FOOTNOTE (double-crossed): If history tells me anything, it's that when I get this excited about something, the distinctive sound of crickets in the empty ether awaits me. I'm prepared for that. Hey, I may have serious hubris, but I have *realistic* serious hubris.
^FOOTNOTE (careted): Usher is even using his whole name. Roman numeral and all.
§FOOTNOTE (swerved): I know they're dead. It's part of the joke.
¶FOOTNOTE (paragraphed): If you can find a more appropriate song, I'll eat a spider.
#FOOTNOTE (pounded): He's gotta step on some toes sometime. Despite rumours to the contrary, he's human.
††FOOTNOTE (ddouble-ccrossed): That's NEXT Tuesday, for twenty years down the line when blogs are as au courant as card catalogs with hand-typed entries and nobody remembers what a huge deal this all was. And for that day, newspapers were hand-held, tree-based, interactive devices with which members of the general public actually followed the news instead of it following them.
‡‡FOOTNOTE (doubble-crossssed): The donating part is key.
$FOOTNOTE (moneyed, appropriately enough): Yes, I know there's something fallacious about asking people to buy something then sending the profits back to them, but this would be an INTERNATONAL marketing campaign. If Vladamir Putin wants his Stevie Wonder fix, he's going to have to put a dime in my pocket.
@FOOTNOTE (atted): Or, y'know... to save their mortgages.
§§FOOTNOTE (that's some kind of fancy money): I envision quarterly for the first year, semi-annually for the remainder of the presidential term, then annually thereafter.
¶¶FOOTNOTE (put your microphones in the air!): All, of course, with highlights from the original inaugural concert, but one track or two on the original concert should never, ever be available again so it can become rare and mythical. Also? Where does one put the footnote marker in relation to ellipses? I'm already itching because "inaugural concert" seems less-than-ideal, semantically speaking, and I don't want anything else on my record today.


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Source Code for great Windows Live applications
I need to make you aware of a couple of really nice examples of Windows Live applications that we've just released. What do I mean by "Windows Live applications"? These are web apps that are built on top of a whole host of Windows Live services by using the Windows Live APIs.
What they demonstrate is that you can very quickly, and pretty easily, build some really compelling websites using these services. And the best thing is that we're releasing the source code for these as well so you can not only unpick them to understand how they work, but also use them for the basis for your own projects.
In fact, some of you may recall an application called "ibuyspy" that did a similar job for ASP.NET: a complete working example of a commerce web app with source code which then went on to be used broadly by people to build their own ASP.NET sites.
The plan is to release more of these covering a number of typical scenarios, most of which relate to social networking in some way. Let me talk briefly about the two we have released so far:
- The "Contoso Bicycle Club": This represents a typical club site that you might create where people need to network with each other, read announcements, and generally share their passion for something. In this case it's a bicycle club but you could of course morph it into any kind of club you like. Click on the "London River Thames" ride and click the bike cam link - this is really cool, you get a first-person bicycle ride through London that gets plotted on a Virtual Earth map in synch with the video. Switch the map to birds eye view while this is happening for best effect.
- The "Contoso University": As the name suggests, this is a social networking site that might be used at a University, again centred around people's passions and interests. The video playing is using Silverlight Streaming, much of the content you see comes from a Windows Live Space, and there are ads from Windows Live Expo. If you grant access to your hotmail/messenger contacts the site can be used to plot the position of your friends on the university campus map.
The source code is up on Codeplex at http://www.codeplex.com/WLQuickApps so take a look and see what you think.
Final point: We have managed to secure the author of these applications to present a slot at Mix UK, drilling down into how they're built and how you can take advantage of them. It should be a great session so make sure you sign up to the event!


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The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is a permanent intergovernmental organisation of 13 oil-exporting countries founded in 1960, which coordinates and unifies the petroleum policies of its member countries. The current members of OPEC are: Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Gabon, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Venezuela.
OPEC was formed by five founding members, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, at the Baghdad Conference on 10th to 14th September 1960. Nine other members joined between 1961 and 2016. OPEC had its headquarters in Vienna, Austria.
All the 13 members of OPEC each have a NOC. These are: Algeria – Sonatrach; Angola – Sonangol; Ecuador – Petroecuador; Iran – National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC); Iraq – SOMO Oil Marketing Company (SOMO); Kuwait – Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC); Libya –National Oil Corporation of Libya (NOC if Libya); Nigeria – Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC); Qatar – Qatar Petroleum; Saudi Arabia – Saudi Aramco; United Arab Emirates – Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC); and Venezuela – Petroleos de Venezuela S.A (PDVSA). Though not listed on the OPEC website, Gabon also has a national oil company, Gabon Oil Company (GOC), established by presidential decree in August 2011.
OPEC members hold over 80% of word crude reserves as seen in Figure 2 below.
OPEC's influence
OPEC's main aim is the coordination and unification of the petroleum policies of Member Countries and the determination of the best means for safeguarding their interests, individually and collectively. It does this by devising ways and means of ensuring the stabilisation of prices in international oil markets with a view to eliminating harmful and unnecessary fluctuations. For this reason, OPEC has been described as a "cartel" of major oil producing developing countries which controls oil output from its member states to affect global oil markets and prices.
OPEC's influence could be felt as far back as the 1970s and early 1980's, during the Middle East resource nationalisation actions which excluded IOCs – though actions were by individual states, there was a degree of coordination by OPEC.
Following OPEC's informal agreement in September 2016 to cut crude oil production (for the first time since 2008) global oil prices rose by over 5%.
The significance of OPEC to NOCs of member states is that once a deal is agreed at the OPEC level, member states are obligated to follow-through with the deal, notwithstanding their individual interests or ambitions. Sometimes, the direction could be greatly influenced by the interest of stronger more powerful members. Article 3 of the OPEC Statute recognizes the sovereign equality of Member Countries. However, media reports and analyses indicate that the OPEC output cut deal of November 2016 was primarily led by Saudi Arabia, which has ambitions of life beyond oil, and which was the only member to voluntarily agree to cut output. All other oil producing countries were forced to reduce their production because of technical, political or natural factors.
Questions of OPEC's influence in the future have been posed, with commentators noting that: the November 2016 oil output cut deal came after 2 years of fruitless negotiations; regional rivalry, such as the one between Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq; and competition from U.S. Shale and non-OPEC producers.
Explore the International and Regional Petroleum Organisations topic overview for more details on OPEC's foundations, mandate and impact.


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What is a microbe? (Defend your definition.)
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Daniel, Christoph, & Janie
Merry Youle, S. Marvin Friedman
Ray Ortega
In the Company of Microbes: Ten Years of Small Things Considered
Thinking Like a Phage: The Genius of the Viruses That Infect Bacteria and Archaea
Coral Reefs in the Microbial Seas
Eukaryotic Microbes
Topics in Ecological and Environmental Microbiology
In the Company of Mushrooms: A Biologist's Tale
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How can I select the Translation Workflow that I want to use in the SDL Tridion 8.5 Client? The option is currently greyed out in the Web UI and we need to have access to the different workflow that WorldServer has to offer.
Have you had several workflows created (and enabled) and you're not seeing them? I don't believe there is a 'set of default' workflows.


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Junior Safety Case Engineer in Bristol, Avon, United Kingdom
Were recruiting for a Junior Safety Case Engineer to support growth on new frameworks providing professional services to the exciting New Build project at Hinkley Point C (HPC). There are a number of areas of work including fantastic opportunities in Site Engineering based at or near HPC construction site in a fantastic location set on the Severn estuary in Somerset as well as support to the Technical Management Authority, Design Authority, Commissioning and other teams based in Bristol with potential to be based in the Wood office in Gloucester for a proportion of the time.
This role is crucial to the success of the HPC project and the work output will help to form the basis of operation of the plant in future years. The successful candidate will work in teams with both Wood and customer staff and will be expected to interact in a professional manner at all times, delivering work to time, cost and quality whilst maintaining an unerring focus on safety of themselves and others.
This role is your chance to be involved in one of the largest construction projects in Europe and to help successfully deliver the plant that will help power a large proportion of UK homes and businesses in the future. Were excited about this project and this opportunity and we hope you are as well.
We want you to join our team
Whilst this opportunity is specifically to support HPC, were growing our offices in Gloucester and Bristol on the back of several significant opportunities in the nuclear new build and existing generation programmes. Were a professional, friendly and supportive team, and can offer exciting and challenging development opportunities across a range of projects. The South West of England is a dynamic and thriving environment in which to take the next step in your career.
Were looking for people
Who have experience or transferrable skills into the nuclear industry or other highly-regulated industries. If youre interested in driving your career forward, then wed like to meet with you and discuss this exciting opportunity.
Working within our team, you will form a key part of our dynamic safety services community supporting a wide range of projects and clients across the nuclear industry, primarily for customers in new build and generating reactors but also with possibilities to support teams from other offices in decommissioning, defence and on fusion reactor work.
Key responsibilities for this role include the application of Nuclear Safety principles and their role in safety case preparation and production. You will also support the development and delivery of License Summary Statements, Nuclear Safety Cases and other supporting documentation on behalf of our clients.
The Junior Safety Case Engineer is likely to be responsible for activities such as:
- Production of License Summary Statements and other technical safety documents under guidance from more senior members of the team
- Implementing the Safety Case development strategy
- Taking part in authoring and/or verification activities supported by more senior team members
- Taking part in other Technical Safety activities such as HAZID, HAZOP, Fault Schedule development, SFR derivation, etc.
Success in this role will be measured by achieving an excellent standard of delivery with no issues in the work output. Customer satisfaction and further growth of work to support the business will also be key measures of success in our consultancy-based business.
Our business is largely consultancy-based and so the level of influence for any task is largely dependent upon the skill and experience of the individual. Typically, we would expect a Junior Safety Case Engineer to:
- Work with senior members of the team, mentors, and stakeholders from within the customer organisation in order to reach satisfactorary outcomes to each piece of work
- Successfully deliver tasked work whilst challenging anything that is unclear
- Be proactive and have an ability to engage with stakeholders and challenge in an open, confident and clear manner. Coaching will be provided if necessary
- Influence customer stakeholders to ensure that the right decisions are made in the context of the work undertaken.
About Wood
Woods nuclear business supports customers in the energy generation, new build, decommissioning and defence sectors.
Our nuclear business has offices in Knutsford and Birchwood in Cheshire, Gloucester, Dorchester, Harwell, Glasgow, Newcastle, Bristol, Cumbria, Reading and London. We also have a strong international presence to support our growing operations in France, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, South Africa and Japan.
Our reputation for safely delivering quality projects on time and on budget is well recognised in the industries we serve. We have proven expertise in managing large, complex projects, a global reach and long-standing UK presence, strong relationships with our clients and cutting-edge processes and technologies.
What that means to you is the opportunity to experience a real variety of projects, working with people from different backgrounds. You'll work closely with our clients and committed to achieving outstanding results in a stimulating and quality-driven environment.
Skills / Qualifications
- A sound technical or engineering background with a minimum of a 2:1 in a scientific or engineering degree and demonstrable experience in the Nuclear industry
- Demonstrable ability to communicate clearly, both verbally and in writing, and present complex arguments in a well-structured manner, suitable for a varied audience
- Demonstrable communication skills with stakeholders both internally and externally
- Awareness and understanding of the purpose of Safety Cases in the Nuclear industry
- Ability to work in a team in a multidisciplinary environment
- Ability to think innovatively and solve complex problems
- Experience of working in a safety and safety case environment within either the nuclear industry, or a similar highly regulated industry such as petrochemical or rail (preferable)
- Knowledge and experience of the application of some of the following techniques would be beneficial: Hazard Identification, Fault Schedule development, Safety Functional Requirements (SFR) derivation, Probabilistic Safety Analysis
- Knowledge/experience of operating in an environment with a graded approach to quality processes
Personal attributes:
- Act with integrity and possess a conscientious approach
- Self-motivated, with an ability and desire to work collaboratively with other teams and/or organisations to create new opportunities
- Available to work full-time in the centre of Bristol and/or Barnwood, Gloucester and potentially other locations within the UK
- Outgoing and personable with a successful track record of developing relationships with customers at all levels
What do you get?
As well as exciting roles on projects in the UK and abroad; in a supportive and professional work environment, these are some of the additional benefits you can expect at Wood:
For you:
- A competitive reward package
- Work life balance We offer flexible working; we have core and flex hours in all our permanent office locations. You can also buy up to an additional weeks holiday and we also have a time off in lieu system. We are also introducing enhanced payment of family friendly benefits maternity, paternity, adoption and parental leave
- Private healthcare for all staff
- Flexible benefits where you can have access to travel insurance, critical illness cover, dental benefit, childcare vouchers, cycle to scheme and more
- International opportunities - As an 60,000 strong community of colleagues operating in 60 countries you will have access to international career opportunities
- For your peace of mind we offer life insurance benefit on top of a contributory pension scheme, as well as group income protection and life assurance benefit
- To support you throughout your career you will have access to an Employee Assistance programme, which can offer anything from financial advice to mental health support and counselling sessions
For our communities:
- We give back to our communities, we have a matched funding community investment programme. In our global business our people are showing commitment and courage to care for the communities we operate in. You can do this by supporting causes and raising funds for charities that are important to you, your colleagues and your local area
Company Overview
Wood is a global leader in the delivery of project, engineering and technical services to energy and industrial markets. We operate in more than 60 countries, employing around 60,000 people, with revenues of over $10 billion. We provide performance-driven solutions throughout the asset life cycle, from concept to decommissioning across a broad range of industrial markets, including the upstream, midstream and downstream oil & gas, power & process, environment and infrastructure, clean energy, mining, nuclear, and general industrial sectors. <web address removed>
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Legal Question in Criminal Law in California
if a man is arrested for violation of restraining order and stalking but it is a girlfriend of two years and she is the one persuing him to set him up what does he need to prove this. She has sent msgs to his friends and telling them he is her boyfriend and that he has had unprotected sex with her for two years and she has HIV but denied it to hm the whole time She would text him first and he was telling woman hat they were getting married . She also posted n her facebook page that she loved him . dont they have to hear his side and look at all evidence not just believe her? What does he have to show the courts to get his case heard.
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No one here is going to give you actual legal advice, certainly not step-by-step, we can't legally do so, and you don't need sympathy for your story. You need an experienced attorney to defend you in court, using whatever credible, admissible arguments, facts and evidence are available.
Yes, your side can 'get heard' at the hearing in court that you were given notice of in the paperwork you were served. That is, if you timely file your Opposition pleadings, and if you show up in court at the hearing with persuasive presentation.
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Love the uniqueness of this Pineapple Cast Stone Birdbath. It has a dainty looking pineapple like design which is sure to stand out anywhere you put it in your lawn. You will love how the birds flock on it as they also produce relaxing sounds to your garden.
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HOUSTON, TX - Looking to give its youth development system a solid start, the Houston Dynamo have named James Clarkson as their director of youth development, it was announced today.
Clarkson will manage the teams' newly created youth development system. The Dynamo Youth Development System, which will officially launch operations in January of 2007, will include various levels of training programs - highlighted by an elite player academy. Details of the Dynamo Youth Development System will be unveiled in December.
"We are honored and privileged to have James on our staff," said Dynamo team president Oliver Luck. "James' understanding of the game at all levels, along with his reputation and relationships among the local youth soccer community, make him the perfect fit for this role."
Prior to joining the Dynamo, James was the South Texas Youth Soccer Association's Director of Coaching. He served that role for nearly five years. He holds a USSF 'A' and National Youth License, a NSCAA Advanced National Diploma/GK Level 2 and English FA coaching certificates. He is also a national instructor for US Soccer and US Youth Soccer.
"As a professional soccer club, we need to be in the business of developing players," said Luck. In the future, the ability of Houston Dynamo to be competitive in MLS and CONCACAF competition will depend in large part on our ability to develop local talent. "James will work hand-in-hand with STYSA and the local youth soccer community on developing local talent and finding the Dynamo's next Brian Ching."
James is originally from Wisbech, England. He played professionally with the Manawatu AFC in New Zealand during the 1995 season before returning to Wisbech in 1996 to join the Wisbech Town Football Club as the Reserve and Youth Team Coach. He came to the United States in 1997 and joined the Eclipse Soccer Club where he served as the Boys Director of Training.


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Developer Tamdeen Group opens latest addition to the Al Kout project, Kuwait's largest waterfront retail and leisure destination
Developer Tamdeen Group on Monday opened Al Kout Mall to the public as the latest addition to the Al Kout project, Kuwait's largest waterfront retail and leisure destination.
Al Kout Mall has organised a month-long program of events, including international acrobatic shows from the UK, and an indoor hot air balloon experience for children, as part of the opening celebrations.
With the addition of Al Kout Mall, the Al Kout project now offers a total of 100,000 sq m of retail opportunities, across 360 shops spread over three floors.
It also offers dedicated dining areas and a restaurant terrace is set to open shortly as well as parking for 3,600 cars.
Al Kout Mall is home to Infunity Sea, the latest addition to the world of family entertainment while Cinescape will also open during the third quarter of 2018.
Another feature coming to the mall in 2019 is Kuwait Karting which will be located on the roof and will be the biggest indoor go-karting track of its kind in the Middle East.
Muath B Al Roumi, general manager, Tamdeen Group Marketing, said: "Al Kout Mall, the largest shopping and entertainment destination in the South of Kuwait, features contemporary and distinctive architectural designs to serve the southern regions, the entire population of Kuwait and visitors from abroad. The mall will provide an enriching family experience, full of fun and entertainment in one location."


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Extremadura is a Spanish autonomous community, located in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. It consists of the two largest provinces of Spain: Caceres and Badajoz.
The Kingdom of Leon and the Kingdom of Castile conquered the Taifa of Badajoz between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. After the formation of the Crown of Castile by the union of both kingdoms in 1230, the province of Extremadura was created in 1371.
The cuisine of Extremadura is the set of dishes and culinary traditions of the region of Extremadura. Some authors have called serious, and austere, pastoral dishes and campers.
Extremadura is a grazing land, and cuisines include dishes with lamb: lamb stew, fried, Extremadura cachuela or chanfaina kid.
Extremadura is a combination of culture and history.
Among its beauties you can enjoy the City of Fregend de la Sierra, the slope of the Sierra, and Arco de la Estrella – Cáceres.


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|Dungeon Map
The dungeon map is the Op Amp diagram above. Lines are corridors, resistors are interact-able objects. There is an orc with a chest in the triangular room. When you leave the triangular room, you're looped back to the start, in space and time. Your previous selves are there or just left (can't decide which is better). Now there's two orcs in the room. Next time 3 etc. Each time you interact with the objects your previous choices all have to happen first. You're looking to solve a simple puzzle that needs to occur over multiple iterations.
Like you have the Legend of the Hidden Temple parts, so you have to go through multiple loops to collect them, then multiple loops to stack the parts of the monkey right (as a very simple example.) Each time more orcs.
Obviously this needs to be some kind of time themed dungeon. Needs more work but wanted to get the idea down now.
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From ESA: "CubeSats: from educational tools to autonomous space drones"
31 March 2017
Roger Walker, Technology CubeSat manager
Un-named ESA cubesats
e-st@r team clean their CubeSat before integration
The technology-testing GomX-3 under construction. A 'three-unit' CubeSat, it measures 10x10x30 cm in size with an approximate mass of 3 kg, with payloads to detect signals from aircraft and telecom satellites. (Credit: davidgerhardt.com)
CubeSats started as a tool for education. Profs Jordi Puig-Suari of California Polytechnic State University and Bob Twiggs of Stanford University wanted students to gain hands-on experience in designing, making and flying nanosatellites, but they needed to do it cheaply.
That led them to the PC/104 computer standard, with rugged, stackable electronics boards with commercial components to fit within a 10x10x10 cm box (or unit). A container was developed as a standard interface for launch vehicles, with a spring-loaded 'jack in a box' deployment system to push out three CubeSats at a time into space. That in turn inspired the idea of a single 3-unit CubeSat, packing in added technology and a payload. The CubeSat standard was born. Within their budgets for the first time, many university engineering facilities worldwide then embraced the concept and gave the chance for students to build something to actually fly in space – how cool is that?
ESA's involvement with CubeSats started in 2006, when I was working at the Education Office. There was an opportunity to embark educational CubeSats on the maiden flight of our new Vega launcher. The agreement was signed with the Vega project in 2007, and that led in turn to the first European CubeSat symposium in early 2008. Vega launched seven separate 1-unit CubeSats in the end. Different European universities designed, manufactured and tested the CubeSats and we supported their engineering work, verified their suitability for flight and procured their deployment systems.
The 2012 launch saw these CubeSats meet with mixed operational success – only two worked for a long period, three for a few weeks and contact was lost with a couple. But they were all successes in educational terms, of course. When universities make a CubeSat for the first time then there's maybe a 50/50 chance of failure, but for second and third times it's a lot lower. And the student teams responsible for those pioneer CubeSats formed spin-off companies after graduation.
These companies have grown exponentially since then, employing dozens of people, manufacturing multiple CubeSats annually as the market has expanded greatly with not only universities, but also government agencies and commercial service start-ups now utilising them.
ESA's involvement with educational CubeSats continues to this day and this remains very important, but it was clear back then that CubeSats held wider potential – quick and cheap to develop and launch, they offer an ideal platform for demonstrating promising new technologies. So that's my current role within TEC, bringing together technology companies and research institutes with CubeSat companies.
We group payloads together synergistically so each technology CubeSat is more than the sum of its parts. For instance, GomX-3 – our first mission to fly – combined a receiver of ADS-B aircraft signals with a system to map signal quality from telecom satellites, 3-axis pointing control plus an X-band transmitter for rapid data download. Another CubeSat, QARMAN, is focused on reentry technologies and is scheduled to launch later this year. We have another four technology CubeSats in development currently.
If our really big satellites resemble mainframe computers, and standard satellites are PCs, then CubeSats equal smartphones – highly compact and portable, integrating miniaturised sensors with powerful but low-power computer processors and software radios. Here on Earth, aerial drones are exploiting the same technologies as CubeSats and pushing the boundaries of autonomous flight systems, so I like to think that CubeSats have the potential to become the autonomous drones of space. For instance, we're looking at similar concepts for CubeSats such as autonomous navigation, close proximity operations, swarm formations as well as on-orbit inspection and assembly techniques, the latter to build up larger structures from basic building blocks.
And as well as flying in new ways, we want to fly CubeSats to new places –we've been looking into deep space missions, and are planning later this year to invite concepts for lunar CubeSats in support of exploration objectives.
I'm continually impressed by the sheer creativity involved in miniaturising systems to put them in these small boxes – instruments, propulsion systems, radios… European industry and research labs are pushing ahead rapidly with developing new products and we are helping them to get those products into orbit as quickly as possible, so they can maintain a competitive edge.
Each technology CubeSat project is managed to a standard engineering and product/quality assurance approach with a tailored version of the ECSS standards for CubeSats, focussed on managing risks and maximising probability of mission success within the limited financial budgets. Along with access to the Agency's technical expertise and facilities, this allows us to offer significant added value to Member States funding these small innovative missions within our Technology Programme.
See the full article here .
Please help promote STEM in your local schools.
The European Space Agency (ESA), established in 1975, is an intergovernmental organization dedicated to the exploration of space, currently with 19 member states. Headquartered in Paris, ESA has a staff of more than 2,000. ESA's space flight program includes human spaceflight, mainly through the participation in the International Space Station program, the launch and operations of unmanned exploration missions to other planets and the Moon, Earth observation, science, telecommunication as well as maintaining a major spaceport, the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou, French Guiana, and designing launch vehicles. ESA science missions are based at ESTEC in Noordwijk, Netherlands, Earth Observation missions at ESRIN in Frascati, Italy, ESA Mission Control (ESOC) is in Darmstadt, Germany, the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) that trains astronauts for future missions is situated in Cologne, Germany, and the European Space Astronomy Centre is located in Villanueva de la Cañada, Spain.


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With "Time of the Season", the Zombies make their first appearance in the trip 10 since 1965. It is also their final appearance.
In other chart action, the Classics IV score their 3rd top ten single in a year. It is their last big hit.
Three Dog Night makes its first-ever appearance on the Hot 100. Lots more to come, as we now know. On the other hand, Donovan, Brenda Lee, the Rascals, the Lovin' Spoonful, and Bobby Goldsboro have all moved beyond their hitmaking days.
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The Zombies in their own words. (The Guardian, 2/22/2008)
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"I Say a Little Prayer" by Aretha Franklin
"In-a-gadda-da-vida: by Iron Butterfly
"Piece of My Heart" by Brother and the Holding Company
September 1968
"Fire!" by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
"Hey Jude" by the Beatles
"All Along the Watchtower" by the Jimi Hendrix Experience
"Bang-shang-a-lang" by the Archies
October 1968
"White Room" by Cream
"Ride My See-Saw" by the Moody Blues
"Love Child" by Diana Ross and the Supremes
"Abraham, Martin & John" by Dion
November 1968
"For Once in my Life" by Stevie Wonder
"Hang 'em High" by Booker T. & the MG's
"Hooked on a Feeling" by B. J. Thomas
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" by Marvin Gaye
"Everyday People" by Sly and the Family Stone
December 1968
"Going Up The Country" by Canned Heat
"Crimson and Clover" by Tommy James and the Shondells
"Ramblin' Gamblin' Man" by Bob Seger
"Touch Me" by the Doors
January 1969
"Build Me Up Buttercup" by the Foundations
"Games People Play" by Joe South
"I Got a Line on You" by Spirit
"Proud Mary" by Credence Clearwater Revival
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The US retail giant reiterated its support to the Indian company after a first investment earlier this year. This new investment round led by Amazon, Ashish Dhawan, founder of ChrysCapital and Catamaran Ventures has enabled Acko to raise up to 42 million dollars. After totaling up to 30 million in investments last year, Acko is moving… Read More
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Continental invests in DigiLens again with $25 additional million
25 additional millions for DigiLens, which now $60M in investments since the startup creation. The German car manufacturer Continental acquired shares of the company for the second time. Funded by Jonathan Waldern, DigiLens develops holographic waveguide technologies, enabling head-up displays for different applications including automotive, aviation and motorcycle helmets. Its waveguide products superimpose basic driving… Read More
The ecofriendly startup EcoTree raises €1.2M
Planting trees and allowing businesses (and the public) to make long-term investments : two of EcoTree's (achieved) goals, a French eco friendly startup which just raised €1.2M. Investing in forests and in wood is not reserved to some kinds of elites anymore, thanks to EcoTree. This French startup allows businesses and the public to buy… Read More
Welcome to the Jungle raises another 7M€
The company's goal was to reinvent the job seeking experience, to make it more human. A successful bet as it now counts more than 600.000 unique viewers and more than 1.000 client businesses. Next step : expanding internationally. Welcome to the Jungle's goal was to re-humanize the job looking experience, both for candidates and companies…. Read More
Suki raises $15M to create a voice assistant for doctors
The teams behind Suki, a future voice assistant for doctors, just raised a 15M funding round. Helping doctors take notes, complete medical records or prescriptions : some of the tasks Suki should be able to do as a voice assistant for doctors. The startup just closed a $15M funding round led by Venrock (which already… Read More
Castbox raises $13.5 million and dables in original programming
Castbox, a technology-fueled podcast app announced the close of a $13.5 million Series B funding with the new goal of reaching 2 million daily users on the platform. There are dozens, if not hundreds, podcast apps available today. Castbox is one of them. Founded by a former Google employee, Wang Xiaoyu, the startup just closed… Read More
Second consecutive profitable quarter for Twitter
It was only at the end of 2017 that Twitter became profitable for the first time, since it went public. The company just announced a profit of $61 million for the first quarter of the year, a great new year coming up. This quarter is the second consecutive and profitable one for Twitter, who just… Read More
GuesttoGuest, now available in 187 countries, acquires its Canadian concurrent
GuesttoGuest now proposes more than 450.000 accommodations across the globe as it just acquired its Canadian concurrent Echangedemaisons.com. A new opportunity to keep developing its business internationally. GuesttoGuest just acquired the Canadian Echangedemaisons.com, after Tremplinn (France), HomeforHome (Spain) and HomeExchange (US). The home exchange website now proposes more than 450.000 different accommodations in 187 different… Read More
Nike can now scan its clients' feet thanks to Invertex
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Checkr, the background-checking startup, raises 100 millions to develop its customer base
Checkr checks job candidates' profiles for companies. It recently decided to expand its customer base. Its first new clients are Adecco and Allstate. Funded in 2014 by two French men, Daniel Yanisse and Jonathan Perichon, Checkr checks the backgrounds of job candidates for the companies looking for new employees. In 24 hours, the startup teams… Read More


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Recent reduction from 2.500.000€ to 1.995.000€!!
This is a detached Villa plus a range of 9 independent studios in an established location within walking distance to the beaches of the Golden Mile and also to Puerto Banus.
The main house has 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms and features spacious accommodation all laid out on one floor which includes a comfortable sitting room with open fireplace leading out to a large covered terrace overlooking the garden and pool which provides space for dining and relaxing. There is a dining area off the sitting room which currently houses a grand piano. The large kitchen also includes a family dining area. There is an extensive range of fitted furnishing with island unit and granite work tops plus a full range of appliances including a drinks cooler.
The master bedroom has an en suite bathroom and the two remaining bedrooms share a family bathroom.
Additionally the property includes 9 individual self-contained studio apartments all of which have individual character and include a living area, fitted kitchen, bedrooms area and en suite bathroom.
There are extensive gardens and a large swimming pool.
This property has lots of potential and could even be used as a boutique hotel, sanctuary or clinic.


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Work in Egg Harbor at Fat Louie's, an oilery that offers wines, spirits & beer for sale and sampling as well. Fat Louie's sells local and non-local wines and spirits in addition to unique food products. There is a tasting bar for the local products.
Looking for a reliable and honest individual who enjoys working with people and has good customer service in a fun environment. Full and part-time positions available now.
Fat Louie's is a fun atmosphere to work; guests get to enjoy and sample Door County products while visiting Fat Louie's
please email resumes, applications or questions to firstname.lastname@example.com; David Pollman
Hiring for the summer 2020 season. Positions available immediately.


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OnePlus 5T Early Access Sale Today In India – All You Need To Know, Offers
Last week, OnePlus launched it's much-anticipated smartphone OnePlus 5T. The smartphone is priced at ₹32,999 for the 64GB variant and ₹37,999 for the 128GB variant. Early access sale starts today at 4:30 via Amazon India – only for amazon prime members. The sale comes with a bunch of launch offers like ₹1,500 instant discount via HDFC Debit and Credit Cards,… Read More


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If the herb garden held a popularity contest, basil would likely win first place. This aromatic herb is a late-summer favorite, especially when paired with ripe tomatoes or blended into pesto. These lovely leaves are surprisingly wholesome too.
"We sometimes forget about herbs and the punch they pack from a health perspective," says Candice Candelaria, MS, RDN, a nutritionist at the University of Arizona Integrative Health Center in Phoenix. "Basil not only enhances the flavor of foods, but you're getting some nutritive benefit as well." The herb contains small amounts of vitamin A (good for vision), vitamin C (important for wound healing), and vitamin K (key to blood clotting), as well as flavonoids, plant compounds that counter the oxidative damage implicated in heart disease and aging.
Researchers also report that volatile oils in basil have antibacterial effects, and early studies suggest one volatile oil, eugenol, may also fight inflammation.
Basil grows in home gardens from late spring till mid-autumn. Store it in a plastic bag with a damp paper towel, and keep it in the refrigerator.
That's a Wrap
These refreshing, Asian-inspired wraps feature amazing crunch and flavor. The recipe calls for cellophane noodles, also known as bean thread vermicelli, which are made of bean paste or sweet potato starch and sold in Asian groceries or the ethnic section of large supermarkets.
Basil Lettuce Wraps With Grilled Shrimp and Avocado
Makes 4 servings
- 1 pound large shrimp, shelled and deveined
- 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
- Freshly ground pepper to taste
- 3 Tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided
- 1 large avocado, peeled, seeded, and diced
- 1/2 cup shredded carrots
- 1/2 cup shredded jicama
- 6 ounces cellophane noodles, cooked and drained
- 1/2 cup fresh basil, cut into thin ribbons
- 8 large Bibb lettuce leaves, washed, dried
- 1/4 cup chopped, unsalted peanuts
- 3 Tablespoons fresh lime juice
- 1 Tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 Tablespoons rice vinegar
- 2 green onions, chopped
- 1 garlic clove, finely minced
- 1 teaspoon honey
1. Preheat grill to medium high. Thread shrimp onto wooden skewers that have been soaked in water; spray both sides with cooking spray. Grill shrimp 2-4 minutes per side until they turn pink and opaque. Set aside.
2. Make sauce: In a small bowl, combine lime juice, olive oil, rice vinegar, green onions, garlic, and honey. Set aside.
3. To assemble wraps, lay 4 lettuce leaves flat and fill with shrimp, carrots, jicama, cellophane noodles, basil, and avocado. Sprinkle with peanuts and drizzle with sauce. Roll up lettuce leaves burrito style and serve.
Per serving
413 calories, 27 g protein, 44 g carbohydrate, 15 g fat (2 g saturated fat), 170 mg cholesterol, 5 g fiber, 3 g sugar, 331 mg sodium. Calories from fat: 30%
Salad Days
The addition of basil and walnuts provides a tasty twist on traditional chicken salad. Serve the chicken salad on whole grain bread, or use it to top salad greens.
Basil Walnut Chicken Salad
Makes 4 servings
- 1/2 cup light mayonnaise
- 1/4 cup nonfat plain Greek yogurt
- 4 Tablespoons chopped fresh basil
- 1 Tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon lemon zest
- Dash of sea salt
- Fresh ground pepper
- 4 (4-ounce) boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cooked and shredded
- 1/2 cup chopped, toasted walnuts
- 2 large celery stalks, chopped
1. In a large bowl, combine mayonnaise, yogurt, basil, lemon juice and zest, salt, and pepper.
2. Add chicken, walnuts, and celery and stir until all ingredients are well combined.
3. Refrigerate at least 1 hour. Serve on a bed of baby spinach or lettuce, or on whole-grain bread.
Per serving
325 calories, 30 g protein, 6 g carbohydrate, 20 g fat (3 g saturated fat), 75 mg cholesterol, 1 g fiber, 3 g sugar, 310 mg sodium. Calories from fat: 54%
Package Deal
Cooking salmon in foil packets keeps it moist and minimizes mess. To save time, you can also prepare the packets up to a day in advance and store them in the refrigerator until you're ready to cook them.
Lemon Basil Salmon Packets
Makes 4 servings
- 4 (12-inch-long) pieces aluminum foil
- 1 medium lemon, sliced into 8 disks
- 4 (5-ounce) salmon filets
- 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
- Freshly ground pepper
- 16 cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1 Tablespoon capers, drained
- 16 basil leaves, sliced into thin ribbons
- 1 Tablespoon olive oil
1. Preheat oven to 400 F, or heat grill to medium high.
2. On each sheet of foil, place 2 slices of lemon and one piece of salmon. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Top with cherry tomatoes, capers, and basil, and drizzle with olive oil.
3. Fold and crimp foil to seal the packet. Leave space for steam. May be prepared in advance and refrigerated.
4. Bake 20–25 minutes on a baking tray or grill 11-14 minutes.
5. Place each packet on a plate. Cut packets open and serve.
Per serving
359 calories, 31 g protein, 6 g carbohydrate, 24 g fat (5 g saturated fat), 82 mg cholesterol, 2 g fiber, 2 g sugar, 300 mg sodium. Calories from fat: 59%


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Ability to specify refresh_at for Cached Queries
Wiktor Olko
Imagine you have a cached query that you want to be invoked everyday between 6AM and 7AM
As of now you need to create it between 6AM and 7AM and set the refresh_rate to 24h.
Consider adding an initial_date / next_refresh_at / whatever the interface will be to enable specifying not only the refresh rate but also the initial delay.
Wiktor Olko
Other option is to have a cron-expression instead of refresh rate.


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EP Review: Hickory Signals – Noise of the Waters
Sussex based duo Hickory Signals have been quietly making a name for themselves in recent years. Their physical releases might have been slightly few but they have been ever present and ever honing their skills. Thankfully, at the end of 2016 we have in our hands their latest EP.
Noise of the Waters is one of the most stunning and versatile EPs to have emerged this year and with one listen to this it's clear why Hickory Signals have been making big waves of late. Their music is a rich tapestry of inspiration from around the world. Folk elements from a host of countries converge and combine to create a timeless set of songs. The EP is a perfect blend of fast and slow, it meanders gently like a running river carrying you downstream. It takes you on a full journey as you begin in smooth and crystalline waters surrounded by richly elegant pipes and then speeds you down a more tumultuous stretch with a breakneck banjo tune. Their music is uplifting, tender and calming; a series of songs that can put you totally at peace while still making you tap your feet.
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Lead by the vocals of Laura Ward which are as pure and tender as freshly fallen snow, this is where Hickory Signals truly come into their own. Their emotive and atmospheric collection of songs are already something to behold even without her voice but once it's there, it cannot be unheard. One of the most pure, charming and elegant voices on the circuit today with gentle echoes of the likes of Laura Marling elevates the duo to dizzying new heights.
By turns cheerful and tender, Noise of the Waters flows like a river and carries you on a gentle journey to cleanse your soul.
The official music video for new single "Noise of the Waters" by Hickory Signals.
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A pretty dazzling personalized cane!
This is how my cane was given to me, just wrapped in gold foil...BORING!
Beautiful and so sparkly! LOVE IT! I've been taking belly dancing fitness classes and have a newfound appreciation for those who can perform doing.....I can't even shimmy and walk at the same time!
Cool! I love to hear of others belly dancing. I always say all those shimmies, isolations, snake arms, it all takes practice. I love my belly dancing classes and performances so much fun and a great way to work out. Keep practicing and soon you will be walking and shimming at the same time :)
I am in the UK and have been Belly dancing for a year now. We have our first 'show' just for friends and family in May. We are doing a stick dance and I have spent all morning trying to find someone who had made their own stick. Thanks for the ideas.
I have used a cane and pushed part of a metal coat hanger into one end, and bent it to shape ( and glued it into place using PVA glue). Then I have paper mash-aid over the top of the hook. It is drying now. I will decorate it next weekend. Thanks for the ideas.
I am glad you got inspired! I hope your cane came out great...keep on shimmying girl!!


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Legacy skins not mentioned in dev update?
So I came back to this game after playing it back in 2016 to find all my progress gone, nothing to show for the few hundred hours spent in 2016 - so I did some searching and I saw they made a post about getting progress back that you lost if you submit a ticket, so I submitted a ticket and they gave me enough bloodpoints to get roughly back where I was, and re-prestiged the characters I had prestiged again.
However they said they couldn't return the legacy skins "at this time" and "Please follow our official community page for updates: https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/"
But I've searched around the forums and all I can find is people with similar issues who lost progress and got progress restored but without their legacy skins, no mention of anything related to the legacy skins and if/when they can get returned.
So, is there any actual news on when this'll be a thing that happens? Or has it been mentioned elsewhere I couldn't find?
Demonsouls1993 Member Posts: 261
Ur not getting it back devs dont care6
TheBean Member Posts: 2,320
yep not getting those back.0
If you did have it and lost it contact support through this they will give you compensation https://support.deadbydaylight.com/hc/en-us0
SnakeSound222 Member Posts: 2,958
The devs don't seem to care unfortunately. They're too worried about them getting into the hands of someone who didn't earn them.1
Ahh, well it's not a huge loss since I only had a few prestige to begin with, but still it seems like a bit of a joke that they deleted things earned and won't give them back - especially when there's apparently cheaters just unlocking this stuff anyway and playing on :(1
They actually did give skins back if you had a old save file but people found a way to manipulate that and because of it they stopped doing it but yeah try contacting support they can give you compensation atleast get your bloodpoints for it.0
Ahh, I don't think I'd even have a save file at this point either though anyway. It doesn't sound like a particularly good method to verify though - but they could totally just look at my steam achievement unlock dates, no?
I'll maybe keep an eye out on the developer updates and submit another ticket in the future, I've gotten back into the game and been enjoying it quite thoroughly and I'm pretty envious when I see people with the legacy skins haha, it's worse knowing I should have them :[0


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50. shujinkou
My wife is an RN and she was on float to another unit helping out (she normally worked cardiac but she was helping out in the Alzheimer's unit). She was saving a particular patient for last as the patient was known to be a real pain. Very old, mean to everyone and just generally tried to make the nurses miserable. She and the respiratory therapist got to the patients room at the same time so they decided to tackle her together. They got into the room and the patient had smeared shit all over the walls of the bathroom and the hospital room, she was standing on the bed screaming and jumping up and down on the bed. The two of them somehow got the patient calmed down, got the horrible mess cleaned up, and got their jobs done. She said it took about three hours. They then got went out and put a do not disturb sign on the door to make sure the patient could stay calm and get some sleep. They were standing one person on each side of the door (herself and the respiratory therapist) catching their breath and proclaiming how much that sucked when they spotted someone. A big farmer looking guy wearing a John Deere baseball cap, overalls, a red plaid checkered shirt and big work boots coming down the hospital hallway (and he looked kind of annoyed). He walked right past them into the patient's room slamming the door open. My wife caught the door on the backswing and marched right into the room after him (respiratory therapist right behind her) planning on dragging him back out and giving him a piece of her mind. When she got in the room he was not there.
No sign of the person she followed in.
She looked under the bed.
She looked in the bathroom.
She checked behind all of the curtains.
She even made sure the window still would not open.
No sign of the farmer at all. She then noticed the patient was sitting upright in the bed just kind of staring off into space.
So she asked her: "Did you just see someone come into the room?" The patient said "Yes, it was my daddy; he said he was coming to take me home tonight and that you mean people won't be able to hurt me anymore." She responded with: "That's great, how about you get some rest before he comes to pick you up." The patient then lay down and went to sleep. The patient died that night.
My wife and the respiratory therapist swapped stories to make sure they were not crazy, they both saw it.
51. wolfmanravi
My parents were out one night and my brother and I were home alone. We were probably 12 and 10, respectively. Anyway, there's a knock at the door and I hear a voice say "Pizza." Initially thinking it was my father playing a joke I instinctively went to open the door when it hit me…
That wasn't my dad's voice.
"We didn't order any pizza" I said. There was no reply and no audible movement. I went to my bathroom window which allows some vision of the footpath leading from the front of our property to the front door but you can't see the door itself. So we waited for about 15 minutes clutching a cricket bat and some ornamental fireplace poker until finally the dude moves away from the door and walks away.
Just some guy with dark hair in a long ponytail, a long dark coat and no pizza.
52. jax9999
One morning I woke up to my grandmotehr calling my cellphone. I was upstairs, and it was weird for her to call me.
"There's something wrong with your father."
So, I came downstairs and she was in the hallway looking towards the living room where my father was on the flat of his back not moving.
I went to him and tried to see what was wrong. he was cold. I ushered my grandmother into the kitchen to sit down. and called 911. In the meantime, I started CPR.
He was down for hours, must have died during the night.
There is a certain type of desperation when you're doing CPR on your own father. I've done it before, when being trained, and a few times over the years in emergency situations. but this was different. I was doing CPR, and the phone was on my shoulder, and I was telling my grandmother everything was going to be alright at the same time trying not to lose it myself. Then a big mouthful of cold dead black blood came up.
I'm not sure how much I swallowed. I know some went to my sinuses and came out my nose. This froze my entire soul. I could taste my fathers cold dead blood. My brain shut off dead for a minute. I don't remember getting up and going to the sink. In that missing time I had gotten up went into the kitchen and was trying to wash his blood off of my face. I had my grandmother behind me asking what was wrong, but I couldn't talk. I couldn't even think barely. I was just trying to wash that smell, that taste out of my mouth and nose.
That was four years ago. I still wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, and all I can smell or taste is my fathers dead blood.
I hid this for years. I kinda had a mental breakdown, and lost it for 2 years. Didn't tell a soul. Eventually I told my boyfriend. I had an irrational fear if i ever told him he'd never want to kiss me again. but he did. so that's ok. I hope I'm never in another situation where I have to do CPR, because I don't honestly think I could do it.


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|A Shift in Dynamics
|Written by Jenni Person, BT Contributor
|July 2019
Life looms large for the pod squad
This week I dropped off my son at the airport for a two-month escapade. It was just two weeks after I received my daughter back home after four months away. This is not fun. I don't like this.
I know the whole point is that as parents, we're supposed to prepare them for this. We're supposed to raise them to be independent and self-sufficient and individual from us. We're supposed to be proud of them for going off to sleepaway camp and summer programs. And perhaps most realistically, we're supposed to feel relief for the break in child-care intensity -- during which time we scour the camp's photo site daily for a glimpse of our spawn's face among spirit week paint splattering and song sessions that seem more aerodynamic than we remember from our own camp days.
I think I recently hit the tipping point at which their absences cause much more longing than relief. And this isn't because there's less care to provide and thus less to be relieved from. Indeed, the maxim that "bigger kids mean bigger problems" rings true. Thanks to technology, I wasn't relieved of that duty while my daughter was abroad for the spring semester of her high school sophomore year. Instead, technology totally underscored my continuing parenting duties. In a perfect confluence of technological advances, my kids' digital-native status, adolescent angst, and newfound independence and autonomy, daily parenting remained intact.
Thanks to decent Wi-Fi and free web-based texting, calling, and video-chatting across 7000 miles, my daughter was in touch with me every day about the same teen crises that she lobbed at me when in the same room here in Miami. I explored the deep social implications of particular shoes, existential ponderings surrounding her identity formation as borne out of choices I made during her childhood, and the extensive possible academic consequences of not giving a shit about math over WhatsApp.
By e-mail and texts linking to Google docs, I read her papers at her request, cheering and supporting her ideas and conclusions, and, when we were in the document together, watching and discussing her edits in real time.
In the meantime, while my daughter was away, my son blossomed in the extra space that opened up. I heard his voice more -- literally. Longer sentences emerged from a kid not interrupted or overshadowed by a big sister. It was extraordinarily gratifying. He seemed to grow like a weed in that time, which happened to coincide with the descent from his demanding journey of becoming a Bar Mitzvah.
Just two months later, my son performed a solo dance-theater piece in a professional production, having worked for several months with a choreographer as he developed the work. He handled the live performances, media attention, and having friends in the audience with incredible poise and maturity.
It is unclear whether it was because those efforts, those accomplishments, were behind him that he was stunningly so grown up. Or if it was because of the space he was suddenly allowed to occupy as an only child in our home. This was a status he'd never had the privilege of enjoying for more than a month when his big sister was away.
Suddenly I have two teens, two full individuals with their own voices, an amount of agency like never before in their lives. So I think this newfound pining is more about the fact that they're at an age where they're creeping toward college. This means we can no longer avoid the reality that our time as a pod squad is over as they transition to dorms across the state or across the country, followed inevitably by getting their own apartments in New York, western Massachusetts, another country, or for some odd and bitter-cold reason, in the Midwest. I don't know how my friends and family who are empty-nesters managed this so gracefully and productively. Even though I am always a major proponent of my kids' independence, I'm pretty sure I will be a bumbling mess the day I drop my oldest at her dorm in a couple of years, let alone my youngest. Oy.
Maybe it's because as they've gotten older and become people -- individual people, with their own ideas and aspirations and perspectives on the world -- I've grown to love them as that. They have become part of the conversation, the ambient information that forms our days. I love hearing not just about their days, but also about their opinions, even if they're different from my own -- maybe because of the ways they're different from my own. This deepens our world as parents, expands our experiences, and broadens our views, all exponentially. Much of that is available long distance, clearly. But I still want to be able to smell their sweet heads, like when they were born.
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Attractions and distractions
Ben Tre lacks the floating markets that can be visited from other Delta centres like Can Tho, Vinh Long or Chau Doc, but a boat trip, preferably in a very small boat, is still well worthwhile.
Boat trips can be arranged through your guesthouse or homestay, standing around on the river's edge looking like a tourist (they'll find you) or by joining an organised tour (this will be in a bigger boat) with Nam Bo tours who have a pier and boat landing on the river down near the Hung Vuong Hotel on the river's edge.
Because you'll not be visiting any large floating markets, the smaller the boat the better so that you're able to be taken into smaller canals, which will better allow you to experience and lush beauty of the area. We organised a sampan through our accommodation (Ba Danh Homestay), who charged us 200,000 dong for a couple of hours paddling around.
This struck us as solid value because, as the homestay is on a quiet canal be were able to spend most of the time being paddled around without much sight of the modern world. It was a beautiful trip, with kingfishers darting between the palms as our boatman slowly paddling along till we reached the wider Ben Tre River, at which point we turned and returned to where we started.
There were no visits to market handicrafts, coconut candy factories, or anything else—just us on the boat in the river. It was great and two hours was just about the right amount of time.
If you are on a bigger boat, say with Nam Bo, you'll more likely be taken further afield, perhaps to see coconuts being loaded onto large vessels for shipment elsewhere (something we have seen in the past at Ben Tre), but on the downside, you may have twenty other people on the boat with you. When we walked up and asked, they quoted us 300,000 dong per person for a three hour group tour. Our preference is for a sampan which holds just one (two at a squeeze) and the boatman.
Set in a classic two story yellow building with blue shutters and white detailing, the grand tree-filled grounds here are a favourite hangout for canoodling locals whiling away the slow hours in each other's arms—the Ben Tre Museum is also well worth a look.
Unusually for Vietnamese provincial museums, the Ben Tre Revolutionary Museum is reasonably well captioned in both Vietnamese and English. You'll still come across the occasional "Running dogs of capitalism" style jingoistic language, but that aside the captions are generally informative. So bravo for that.
The museum is split across two floors and each had some points of considerable interest to us, and while you could spin through the museum in just 30 minutes, if you have some interest in the Vietnam's war period, there is plenty to keep your attention here and you could easily spend a couple of hours working your way through.
Downstairs, we enjoyed the maps that are displayed in a few spots on the ground floor. Look out for the map with Chinese characters which is dated to 1837 and two more recent French maps dated to 1882 and 1900—an interesting contrast in styles and what was important to the cartographers.
Upstairs the museum has a fascinating photographic display tracing Vietnam's wartime period. Look for the photos of Ben Tre under aerial bombardment in 1968—note the hoarding and civilians standing in doorways watching as smoke rises in the distance. Another photo shows South Vietnamese troops seemingly waterboarding a detainee. There are also displays of some of the ghastly traps Viet Cong soldiers would hide hoping to main and kill their enemy. The captioning on some of the photos here is far from fairly–minded, but a walk through is sobering.


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Robert D. Raiford, the resident curmudgeon on The John Boy and Billy Big Show, has decided to go 21 days without complaining. This sounded like a challenge to the gruff old gent, but after thinking about it, I realized that this might be a challenge for me as well. Usually I write when I'm pissed off, so this requires a new type of thinking. I can't promise 21 days, but I can shoot for "awhile" just to see what happens.
My interests vary, but there are activities in this world that give me hope, so I will probably bounce around a bit in my topics. These will include:
- Space
- Technology and science
- Economics
- Culture and the arts
- Urban planning/architecture
- Psychology/human relations
- Business management/corporate governance
- International relations
- Religion/philosophy
- Travel
- Food & beverage
- Medicine/health
- Education
- Personal growth/insights


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Piedmont Newton Hospital
- 5126 Hospital Drive NE
Piedmont Newton Hospital is a 97-bed, acute-care, community hospital in Covington, Georgia offering 24-hour emergency services, women's services and general medical/surgical services. Serving Newton County and surrounding communities for more than 60 years, Piedmont Newton Hospital offers high-quality, patient-centered care. As a not-for-profit organization, hospital earnings go directly back into maintaining and improving services and facilities, and to educational outreach.
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It's Time to Get Better
For more than a century, Piedmont Healthcare has been a recognized leader in delivering expert care. Last year, Piedmont served nearly two million patients - performing over 44,000 surgeries, delivering 8,000 babies, providing 471,695 outpatient encounters, completing 235 organ transplants and handling nearly 250,000 emergency room visits. For most, that would be a great track record. For us, it's a good start.
At Piedmont, we believe it's always time to get better.
Time to build on our reputation of excellence and enhance our services to deliver a whole new level of compassionate care, and time for discovering new treatment options while providing technology and tools that give patients the information they need - and the voice they deserve in choosing their healthcare.
Of course, the power of technology will never replace the power of a personal touch. That's why at Piedmont, we build long-term patient relationships and strong connections within our communities. What started as a single hospital a century ago has grown into an integrated healthcare system of 11 hospitals and close to 100 physician and specialist offices across greater Atlanta and North Georgia.
Piedmont's purpose to make a positive difference in every life we touch is our Promise, and it governs our delivery of holistic patient-centric care. And we keep this promise every day. From our patients and their families, to our employees, volunteers, vendors and communities – making a positive difference is not just what we do, it's who we are. Our team is committed to a common set of priorities aimed at creating a one-of-a-kind experience that always puts the patient first.About the Community
Residents and visitors enjoy shopping in historic downtown Covington. Whether you are in the market for a wedding gift, antiques, hardware items, florist, ladies or children's apparel, toys, or just a special item for yourself, they can all be found downtown.
Tourists enjoy using the "On Location" brochure to find downtown filming sites used in the TV shows "The Vampire Diaries", "The Dukes of Hazzard" and "In the Heat of the Night." Over 60 feature films have used Covington/Newton County as their backdrop, and these sites can also be found in the brochure.
No matter what your taste in food, it can be satisfied downtown. You can choose from several deli establishments, Italian cuisine to Louisiana fare all within walking distance of the downtown square. Visitors continue to be drawn to the downtown area of Covington. The small-town, friendly atmosphere is refreshing and welcoming to everyone.


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Day 1 of ReBath!
When they arrived.
Those pipes there were the cause of much panic, stress, and almost tears. We almost had to move the door to the bathroom, which would have had to lead to moving the toilet and the sink. I had never wanted to cry so much as I did when I heard that news.
Thankfully, they measured wrong! We won't be able to put the vanity where I want it, but that is alright! More storage!


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