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Unlike traditional Vortex meters, the OPTISWIRL 4200 is able to combine flow, temperature and pressure measurement as well as flow calculation in just one device. This saves approx. 45% of installation costs and results in a better overall system accuracy. The flowmeter is available with flange connection or in flangeless wafer design. It can also be delivered with integrated nominal diameter reduction and as field mount version (with cable length up to 50 m / 164 ft). The OPTISWIRL 4200 is designed for use in Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) and has approvals for operation in hazardous areas.
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Everybody backups their environment, but how many do actually test if the backup can be restored? When you do, you know how time consuming this process is and even when you do a test restore, you are actually only testing that particular backup. You can't possibly test every backup in your environment.
Veeam, an industry leader in backup technology, has come to the rescue. Today they introduced their latest SureBackup technology. This SureBackup technology will allow you to verify the recoverability of every backup, for every virtual machine, every time.
How does it work
The actual contents of the backup files are presented to an ESX host as a NFS datastore, which is automatically connected to the ESX host. VMs are created in an isolated environment and run directly from the backup. There is no need to extract the backup first. Each VM is then started and checked. A report is generated that shows if the OS is running fine and even if applications are functioning properly and data is intact.
It also supports multiple scripting languages that are available to the VM's OS for incorporating custom scripts for verification. The differences files for the VMs can be stored on any available ESX datastore, which can be defined during the setup using the SureBackup wizard.
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This new technology enables you to recover any virtualized application. Because of the image level backup, it's fully OS agnostic. No special backup agents are required. It doesn't matter which OS or even which (custom) application you are running. You can just start your VM from a backup and retrieve the items you need. Because the complete environment is started, you can use the application's native management tools.
This new technologies will be delivered in Veeam Backup & Replication version 5.0. This is version due to be released in Q3 2010, so we have to be patient for a little while.
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The Delaware State Police are investigating a serious motor vehicle crash involving a bicyclist that occurred Thursday night, according to Public Information Officer, Master Corporal Michael Austin.
Austin said the initial investigation has determined that at approximately 9:19 p.m., Thursday, March 14, 2019, a 2005 Chrysler PT Cruiser, operated by a 56-year-old Hartly woman was traveling westbound on Forest Ave. (Rt. 8), east of Victory Chapel Road. 59-year-old Hartly man was riding a bicycle westbound on Forest Avenue when he was struck by the Chrysler, Austin said. The bicyclist was thrown to the pavement where he came to rest and the Chrysler came to a controlled stop and remained on scene.
The bicyclist was transported to Kent General with serious injuries. Impairment on his behalf is undetermined at this time, said Austin.
The driver of the Chrysler was not injured. Impairment on her behalf is not being considered as a contributing factor.
The investigation is ongoing and anyone with information regarding the incident is asked to contact Cpl. R. Bryant at Troop 3 by calling 302-697-4454.


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I've been spending some time today reading and researching for a paper that focuses on the connection between constructivist theories and the idea of 'connectivism' – almost a form of constructivism for the digital age. After wearying of reading, I decided to search TED talks for some practical and engaging discussions based one or both of these theories. As usual, TED provided some gems:
1. Kiran Bir Sethi teaches kids to take charge
Working on the principles of building awareness, enabling and empowerment Sethi's students learnt the value of acknowledging 'I can' to help them construct knowledge and connect with others to solve community issues – learning by doing. Improvements were seen in the students' academic performance as well as their social activism.
2. Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education
"Children will learn to do what they want to learn to do."
Sugata Mitra explains his "Hole in the Wall" project, the results of which demonstrated that in an environment that stimulates curiosity, children will learn effectively through self-instruction and peer-shared knowledge. Mitra and his students achieved some amazing things by connecting with each other and with teachers and learners across the globe. He proposes a self-organising system of learning – one in which the system structure appears without explicit intervention from outside the system (i.e., teacher acts as a 'guide on the side' not a 'sage on the stage', allowing students to construct and own the learning).
Constructivist theories allow students to engage in authentic and meaningful learning, as demonstrated in exceptional ways by Sethi and Mitra. It is not necessarily about the teacher simply standing off to the side and giving learners absolute free range, but it does redefine the roles and responsibilities of teachers and students. What I am now interested in exploring is how social media and other networks can contribute to this learning to create a form of constructivism that is even more "connected" than ever before. One that helps students to be the "owners" of their own learning and to engage with and implement solutions for real-world problems, thereby empowering them to be the leaders of the future.


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ELYRIA — Abline Cannon was in the apartment of David Barreiro conducting a drug deal with Barreiro and his twin brother, Daniel Barreiro, when two men kicked the door in, pistol-whipped Daniel Barreiro and got into a shootout with David Barreiro, Cannon testified Thursday morning.
Cannon, 38, of Cleveland, took the stand on the fourth day of his murder trial before Judge Chris Cook. Prosecutors have said that Cannon and another man kicked the door in and tried to rob David Barreiro and the shootout ensued in which Cannon was hit by a bullet in the arm and David Barreiro was shot and killed.
The defendant admitted he has been a drug dealer for 20 years, and an acquaintance of his had set up a drug deal with David and Daniel Barreiro on Dec. 10, 2016. Cannon testified that he was supposed to sell the twin brothers 2 ounces of uncut heroin, which he said had a street value of about $5,000.
Cannon said he drove to the apartment on Shore Boulevard in Lorain in a rental SUV along with three other men — Antonio Parra, Chris House and Robert Beane. When they arrived, Cannon and House went into the apartment with a "sample" of the heroin to discuss the drug deal with the Barreiro twins.
After House purchased some Percocet pills from David Barreiro, Cannon and the Barreiro twins began discussing the transaction for the 2 ounces of heroin, the defendant testified. That's when Beane and Parra kicked the door to the apartment in, pistol-whipped Daniel Barreiro and got into a shootout with David Barreiro, Cannon testified.
When the shooting began, Cannon and House both fell the floor to avoid getting shot. The shooting stopped abruptly, and Cannon decided to try to leave the apartment, he testified. While trying to flee, he was hit by a bullet in the arm.
Cannon told the jury he left the third-floor apartment and tried to get out of the building by going down the stairs in the hallway. He said he began feeling dizzy due to the loss of blood from his wound, but he remembers the other three men running past him and jumping into his rental vehicle.
After seeing the three men jump in the vehicle, Cannon testified he wasn't sure he wanted to get in the vehicle with them because he "wasn't sure who had shot" him, but he eventually decided to go with the men when Parra opened one of the back doors of the vehicle for him.
Prosecutors contend Cannon entered the apartment with another man by kicking in the door with the intent of robbing David Barreiro, who was a known heroin dealer. Prosecutors have said Cannon was shot in the arm by a bullet from David Barreiro's gun — a bullet that is still lodged in Cannon's arm, according to testimony.
During cross-examination, Assistant County Prosecutor Tony Cillo asked Cannon why he had told at least seven lies to detectives and medical staff at University Hospitals Elyria Medical Center shortly after being shot. Cillo also asked why Cannon later left MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland, against medical advice, and had family members lie about his whereabouts.
Cannon said it was to avoid contact with police because he didn't want to be arrested on drug charges. Cillo said that seemed to be rather extreme measure to avoid drug charges, and he asked Cannon if it wasn't really to avoid possible murder charges, which Cannon denied.
Cillo said Cannon didn't give his current version of the events to police until after he was arrested, was in Lorain County Jail and had seen the evidence police had against him through discovery. Cillo asked Cannon if that had given him time to "tailor" his story, to which Cannon responded, "You don't need to tailor the truth."
During the cross-examination, Cannon said that perhaps he did not start bleeding immediately after being shot. Cannon's defense team has said that the lack of blood evidence in the hall near the bedroom David Barreiro's body was found in proves that Cannon was not near the bedroom when the shootout took place, while the state has contended that the wound didn't necessarily bleed immediately.
Cillo got Cannon to admit he didn't bleed immediately after being shot after Cannon testified to being in a certain area in the apartment's living room when he was hit by the bullet, an area where Cillo pointed out there was no blood evidence found.
At one point during Cillo's cross-examination of Cannon, a man believed to be a family member of the defendant stood up and shouted to Cannon, "Don't let him put words in your mouth."
Cook had the man removed from the courthouse. It was the second such incident that has occurred during the trial.
On Tuesday, Daniel Barreiro, who had testified earlier in the day, jumped over a railing in the courtroom and tried to assault Cannon. Daniel Barreiro was stopped by Lorain County Sheriff's deputies before being able to reach Cannon and was arrested and held in contempt of court.
When Daniel Barreiro's mother, Sesa Barreiro-Patterson, saw Daniel Barrero being restrained by deputies, she tried to climb over the railing herself. She too was arrested and held in contempt.
Both Daniel Barreiro and Barreiro-Patterson spent the night in Lorain County Jail, but were released the following day by Cook. Both were told they were not to set foot in the courthouse for the duration of the trial.
The state and defense both rested in the case. Closing arguments in the trial are scheduled to take place Monday morning.
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- Abline Cannon found guilty of Lorain murder (UPDATED)
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- Prosecution, defense try to make case about murder suspect's location
- Murder victim's mother, brother freed but barred from court after attempted assault of defendant (UPDATED)
- Tempers flare as murder victim's family leaps over railing to attack defendant (VIDEO)
- Trial begins for Abline Cannon in Lorain homicide
- Attorney files to withdraw from case
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British duo Shy Luv recently released their latest EP "Lungs" and shared the music video for the title track. Directed by HUMANS and produced by CANADA, the video brings to life the arresting single by illustrating the song's overriding theme of wanting to retract an open offer of love to your object of desire whose feelings aren't openly reciprocated. In the video, the girl in question can be seen callously shooting arrows through and stomping on the beating heart of the infatuated boy.
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Centrifugal fans are built to be rugged, and are designed with different shapes of blades. They can range in diameter from 200mm to over 5 meters, and the configuration of the blades determines the operation of the fan.
Centrifugal fans may often resemble a paddle wheel and are sometimes referred, to as a squirrel cage. The air enters close to the centre of the wheel, and is turned 90 degrees, and then moves radically outward due to the centrifugal force that is created between the blades AC Backward Curved Centrifugal Fans Manufacturersof the spinning impeller. The blades can be curved in a convex or concave design, in regard to the direction in which the rotation occurs, or they can be straight. Each design produces a distinctive performance. In order to determine the most suitable design of the centrifugal fans, there should be accurate measurements of the pressures and volumes of air that must be displaced in ventilation systems.
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XVista develops consumer-level iris scanner for computers
13 April, 2010
category: Biometrics, Corporate, Digital ID
A British business man has developed a consumer-level biometric computer security device, according to a Bradford Telegraph and Argus article.
The device, called 2secureID, was developed by Karlis Obrams and his company xVista Biometrics as a low-cost and easy to use solution for protecting data on one's computer.
The system uses a special Web cam in conjunction with software that maps out and matches a user's iris against stored templates for access to protected files and folders as well as programs, applications or Internet use.
As much as a tool for protecting sensitive information, Obrams sees this as a good tool for controlling content viewable by children in a home as well as how much time a child can spend on a computer playing games. In addition to the consumer-level solution xVista is planning on developing a similar multi-user version of the device aimed at larger businesses.
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Highly regarded for their friendly and intelligent nature, Papillon's are becoming more and more popular in North America. Not only is the Papillon a beautiful breed, with its distinguished head markings and erect "butterfly ears," but they also make perfect park dogs. They love the outdoors and enjoy meeting new people. Owners love showing off their athleticism and trainability. Your Papillon is sure to attract attention in the park with their lightning-fast reflexes and ability to create their own unique games.


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Welcome to some of my first lifestyle posts for Glitter Magazine. You may know, I founded the mag in 2006 with my mom, Nikki Fowler. I'm turning 16 and going into the 11th grade! I have traveled all over the world and I am always looking for my next big adventure with my mom. We just moved to California, originally from the east coast, and I can't wait to chill in the OC! (Orange County) I am a student, photographer, writer, model and blogger and I can't wait to show you all of my fashion, beauty and lifestyle posts and to hear from you!
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Deborah Meaden, 70, is no stranger to success. The English businesswoman ran a multimillion-pound family holiday business, completed a management buy out and has made her mark on television as a judge on BBC Two's Dragons' Den. In 2013, Meaden added yet another string to her bow by competing in Strictly Come Dancing. It was during this time that the Dragon's Den Star sustained an injury in her feet that has given her continual grief.
Speaking to Closer magazine, she said: "I still have permanent pain in the balls of my feet, which is a constant reminder that I did the show."
Meaden added: "It started after I spent ten hours a day waltzing and I put too much pressure on them."
According to the NHS, pain in the ball of a person's foot is known as metatarsalgia.
The cause of the TV star's foot pain is common.
As the NHS points out, pain in the ball of person's foot is often caused by exercising too much or wearing shoes that are too tight.
"Some people also have a foot shape that puts extra pressure on the ball of the foot – for example, if you have small curled-up toes (hammer toes) or high arches," said the NHS.
Symptoms of foot pain can include pain, swelling and bruising caused by an intense or repetitive exercise, explained the health site.
To alleviate the pain, it recommends the following:
- Rest and raise the foot when possible
- Put an ice pack (or bag of frozen peas) in a towel on the painful area for up to 20 minutes every two to three hours
- Wear wide comfortable shoes with a low heel and soft sole
- Use soft insoles or pads in shoes
- A person should try to lose weight if they are overweight
- Try regular gentle stretching exercises
- Take paracetamol
The NHS also warns against taking ibuprofen for the first 48 hours after an injury and says to avoid walking or standing for long periods.
The health body advises against wearing high heels or tight pointy shoes.
If the pain persists, people can seek more specialist treatment.
Meaden has steroid injections to combat the condition.
She said: "Everybody is injured in some way (on the show) but now I need to have steroid injections in my feet to keep them supple.
"I should probably have them every six weeks, but I leave it until they hurt too much and then I go to see my specialist, who tells me off for letting it get to that stage."
People may also benefit from seeing a podiatrist.
As Bupa explained: "Podiatrists specialise in the diagnosis and treatment of injuries and disorders that affect the foot, ankle and lower limb, and how they react to stresses placed upon them."
It added: "They can help combat conditions such as heel pain and pain from the thickening of tissue underneath the foot, toe deformities and pain from movement of the foot as well as providing assistance in easing achilles, calf, shin and knee pain."


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About Me
I have been writing books and articles for many years but for most of that time it was something I did on the side, alongside my commercial career. In recent years I have been able to devote more time to my writing.
I am currently writing the official biography of the influential yet controversial Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs, who inadvertently split the British Jewish community. The book will published by Bloomsbury Continuum in the autumnn of 2020.
Bloomsbury also published by previous books: Kabbalah: Secrecy, Scandal and the Soul, published in 2019, The Talmud: A Biography in February 2014 and The Murderous History of Bible translations in 2016.
I wrote Kabbalah: Secrecy, Scandal and the Soul to try to give some context to contemporary attitudes to Kabbalah. Kabbalah became fashionable at the end of the 20th Century, largely due to the interest shown in it by Hollywood celebrities and rock stars, the most famous being Madonna. But Kabbalah's history goes back two thousand years and its story is far more interesting and profound than some of things written about it in the popular media.
One of the fascinating things about Kabbalah is that it has existed in so many different forms. The early Jewish mystics worked themselves into trances in order to travel to heaven. The 13th Spanish kabbalists described the cosmos by using metaphors of fantasy and wonder. Christian Kabbalah came along at the end of the 15th Century, taking the system into a completely new direction while a hundred years later in Safed, the Ari gave Jewish Kabbalah a radically different interpretation. And so it went on. Kabbalah has always evolved and developed, Kabbalah: Secrecy, Scandal and the Soul is just the story so far.
The Murderous History of Bible Translations highlights a subject that I believe demands attention. Nearly all of us have a copy of the Bible on our bookshelves. We take it for granted that we can read it in our native language or, if we choose, in all most any other language under the sun. It is our privilege, and our right. But that wasn't always the case; translations of the Bible were not always allowed. There was a time when religious authorities banned ordinary people from reading Scripture in their own language; in case they got the 'wrong' ideas.
Of course what the authorities really feared was that they would lose control. So much of religion is about dogma and not every 'official' dogma is confirmed by the Bible. There was a time when it was felt better to tell people what to believe, than to have them discover it for themselves. Those who disagreed with this approach, who felt that the Bible should be brought to the masses, risked their lives in doing so. And even now, in the modern world, when translators are no longer persecuted, their translations often remain controversial. Publishing a translation of the Bible is one of the most emotionally fraught activities one can undertake.
I wrote my previous book, The Talmud: A Biography because I'd had so many conversations over the years with people who had heard of the Talmud but didn't really know what it was.
The Talmud is an important, and yet in many ways neglected, part of world culture. It is as ancient as many of the world's classics, lengthier than possibly any other, complex in its composition, frequently profound in its content and it has had a far more tumultuous story than most. A story which is not contained in the words on its pages. It was this story, or at least a good part of it, which I have tried to tell.
Most people who have had a good Jewish education have studied, or at least dipped into the Talmud. We value it because it is, as I have tried to explain in the book, the foundation of Judaism. We rarely stop to acknowledge it as part of our cultural heritage. Yet, in a world which is far more culturally interconnected than ever before, the Talmud is not just the heritage of the Jews. It is a classic of world literature. And its story deserves to be told. You will find the resource site for The Talmud: A Biography at talmudbiography.com
Before I started writing I had a varied and fascinating career, full of variety and change.
I started by setting up and running a wholefood restaurant in Devon. Since then I have run companies in property, construction, health care and consultancy and I've worked as a chief executive in the voluntary sector. For the last fifteen years or so I have been coaching people to help them make the most of their careers.
I discovered quite early on that I need variety as well as challenges. I went back to university, part time, and studied first for an MA and then a PhD, on an obscure Aramaic translation of the Bible. I started writing articles on academic topics and social issues, contributing occasionally to books and, when I got a bit more time, writing my own.
I've got two great, grown up kids, grandchildren, two adult step-children, a wonderful wife and I live in London, which is still a fantastic city, despite our disgraceful departure from the EU. I hope you will like my books, and, if you do, buy them and recommend them to your friends. I will be happy to send you a signed copy; you can order one from the Contact page.
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Join your friends from Niles Discovery Church at the Monday, December 19, showcase concert presented by the SF Jazz Center Monday Night Band (a group that includes our own Ben Gunnarson). The venue is the Miner Auditorium, 201 Franklin Street in San Francisco. Show time is 7:30 pm. There is no cost for tickets, but they must be ordered in advance.
Now into its 12th season, the SFJAZZ Monday Night Band has become one of the most in-demand community groups in the Bay Area, attracting a range of talented musicians – from retired pros to emerging young artists. Directed by acclaimed Bay Area musician and bandleader Adam Theis, the Monday Night Band is open to intermediate and advanced level instrumentalists and vocalists.
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Quarter ♈ Aries
Moon phase on 1 January 2088 Thursday is First Quarter, 7 days young Moon is in Aries.Share this page: twitter facebook linkedin
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 47% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♈ Aries.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 1 January 2088 at 17:54 UTC.
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Moon rises at noon and sets at midnight. It is visible high in the southern sky in early evening.
Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 1.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1928" and ∠1951".
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2088 after 6 days on 8 January 2088 at 09:37.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1088 of Meeus index or 2041 from Brown series.
Length of current 1088 lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 56 minutes. It is 2 hours and 25 minutes longer than next lunation 1089 length.
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 12 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 51 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
This lunation true anomaly is ∠208.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠241.2°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
10 days after point of apogee on 22 December 2087 at 02:07 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 6 January 2088 at 19:17 in ♊ Gemini.
Moon is 371 823 km (231 040 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 5 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 360 758 km (224 165 mi).
11 days after its ascending node on 21 December 2087 at 00:25 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 2 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 4 January 2088 at 02:18 in ♉ Taurus.
11 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
8 days after previous South standstill on 23 December 2087 at 22:55 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-20.078°. Next 5 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠20.031° in the next northern standstill on 6 January 2088 at 13:10 in ♊ Gemini.
After 6 days on 8 January 2088 at 09:37 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.


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The Vampiros are the creation of father / son team Richard and Anthony (AKA SHOCKTHEMONSTER) Montemarano. Following Anthony's roles in several Hollywood vampire short films, he was asked if he had any more material about the characters. It was then that Richard came up with the idea for a story about a Vampire who was recruited by the C.I.A.. That was all it took for father and son to sit on the back patio in San Diego and dream up Vampiro over a couple of bottles of great cabernet. Richard's inspirations stem from his Italian heritage and close-knit family as well. Throughout his years in business, Richard has dealt with a cast of characters and has gained a great deal of education and insight on integrity and betrayal.
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In the city of Los Angeles, a Russian plot of industrial espionage quickly turns into an international incident involving the entire underworld organization of Vampires.
The Vampiros are the head of six worldwide Vampire covens and are the targets of revenge. Over hundreds of years they've gained control of the international blood supply and the viral DNA technology that controls the side effects and enhancements of the Vampirian virus;
Jimmy Vampiro, the eldest son, finds himself suddenly thrown back into his role as the 'Enforcer' after years of peace within the covens, brought on by the strategic brilliance of his father Peter.
He and the rest of the family are tasked with preventing the world from falling into chaos from Peter's long time rival, Igor Leninov, head of the Russian coven.
Vampiro is an adventure that spans centuries and continents as it unfolds into a tale of betrayal, romance and intrigue. The Vampiros emerge from the shadows to reveal themselves as one of the United States' most important allies.


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choosing the great wealth (Hebrews 11:23-28)Grant Beachy, October 27, 2019
Part of the HEBREWS 11: LIVING BY FAITH ... series, preached at a Sunday Morning Worship service
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23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they were not afraid of the king's edict. 24 By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, 25 choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. 26 He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward. 27 By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible. 28 By faith he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them.
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Lung Illness: The Truth Is Out There
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Many of you have heard and spoken to us about the "Mysterious Lung Infections" that have spread across the country. Many of you have also heard through various media outlets that Vaping is to blame. Not exactly.
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First announced at the CES 2011, Asus' Eee Pad MeMO is a 7-inch Android tablet. Now, at the Computex 2011, Asus has added 3D capability to the device and calls it Eee Pad MeMO 3D that has a 7-inch glasses-free 3D IPS LCD touchscreen display. The screen offers 1024×600 resolution and supports multitouch.
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Welcome to the Valley of The Sun, Studio 20 Phoenix!
Phoenix, Arizona welcomes the second Studio 20 to arrive in the US! Studio 20 has 19 studios all over the world, including the now, Studio 20 Phoenix. Studio 20 is specially located in downtown Phoenix, where it is known for its diverse culture, lots of downtown living, exciting events, popular hotels and optional dining experiences. There is always something new and fun to do. We are surrounded by music and food festivals, sporting venues and popular resorts only 30 minutes away!
Working for Studio 20, you have the option to live close to where you work! Living downtown means you are less dependent on a car. There is easy access to the light rail, buses and shuttles, bike share and affordable Taxi services such as Lyft and Uber rideshare.
Phoenix is growing and continues to open their doors to new residents. Known as the Valley of the Sun, we host the biggest PGA event of the year and rank among the top golf cities in the US. When people want to avoid cold winters, they come to Phoenix where it is sunny 85% of the year. Our winters are pleasant and you will be happy to know a comfy sweater and light jacket will keep you warm enough.
We are also just a hop skip away from popular cities such as Los Angeles, San Diego and Las Vegas and a short plane ride to San Francisco, Bay Area.
Why come to Studio 20 Phoenix?
Studio 20 has over 17 years of experience in the glamour webcam modeling industry. We have all the resources to transform you into the best glamour model you can be! You do not need experience to work with us. We will provide you with some of the best training in the industry. All you have to do is be hard working, dependable, and maintain your appearance. Working with Studio 20 will give you a luxurious lifestyle if you want it. Once you sign your artist performance contract, you will be on your way to becoming a glamour model!
What Studio 20 Offers?
Studio 20 Phoenix office resides in a brick gated facility where we can provide confidentiality and privacy to all of our models. We pride ourselves on maintaining great working conditions. Once you become a Studio 20 Glamour Model, we will teach you everything you need to know. We offer 24 hour support, free marketing and promotions, high tech camera and audio equipment, makeup artist and hair stylist, help to reach financial goals, glamour online modeling, themed bedroom space of your choosing and full confidentiality.
Studio 20 is the only Gold certified studio with Livejasmin, the best glamour webcam website in the world. Studio 20 has created some of the greatest web cam models which have won awards such as Best Model, Best Smile, Best Fetish model, Social Media Star, International Cam star etc. Feel free to visit our success at https://www.studio20.live.
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Webcam models of both sexes employed at all Studio 20 live cam studios will be eligible for cumulative bonuses, which is added to the 50% gross standard commission as follows:
- 2% if a model is online more than 90 hours during that period;
- 5% if a model is online more than 100 hours during that period;
- 5% if the income exceeds $ 10,000 in that period of time;
- 5% if you are in the live cam studio`s team for a full year (12 months) without interruptions.
These bonuses can be cumulated (except for the first two, of course), so any model can earn a commission of up to 65%!
After you have completed a minimum of 6 months at Studio 20 Phoenix, you will be able to get a quick loan directly from Studio 20. Most of our models purchase new cars, a new place, or get a plastic surgery (a facelift, a rhinoplasty, a breast or butt lift, breast implants etc).
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We respect and appreciate all of our glamour models and believe in working as a team to all be successful. To provide a solid work environment, we encourage our models to come to us for any support they need. We want to help you reach whatever goals you have here at Studio 20 Phoenix. Want that new car? New house? Or just save to take those trips you always wanted? Let us help you get there all while having a great time in your career. We know that in order to reach your goals you will have to be passionate and dedicated; this is the only way models have been successful.
The great thing about glamour modeling is that you can use your charm and looks to entertain members, no nudity is required. There are tons of categories a model can choose to work in and with our help we will find the right fit for you. We welcome everybody as long as you are confident, ambitious, friendly and charming! Come work for the best web cam team in the world and start a career with freedom!
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As hundreds of thousands of college seniors throw their hats into the air this graduation season, a huge fraction of them are gearing up to join the job sector, mostly with entry-level jobs that come with health insurance and a retirement plan.
With your first paycheck, you will probably buy yourself and your family some gifts, treat your friends and loved ones to celebrate your first job. However, with the second one, you'd do yourself a favour by starting to think about financial planning. Those who are newly experiencing financial independence might wonder, what is financial planning? To keep it brief, it involves making a comprehensive financial plan about all things pertaining to your hard-earned finances. This not only gives you a fruitful opportunity to set yourself up for success, but secures your future in the volatile job market today. According to financial planners and advisors, a regular and steady income makes for good financial decisions especially with regard to three broad areas- health insurance, taxes and retirement.
Insurance in any form ought to protect you from incurring huge and unaffordable expenses. Even if you think you won't run up big medical bills anytime soon, health insurance will help cover for large portion of treatments, both in the distant future, as well as in the case of an accident.
And medical help as we all know is expensive. While most firms pay for a part of it, there are also a lot of employers who don't. The premium and the deductible from your paycheck usually go towards different kinds of medical expenses. So you will be able to choose from several kinds of insurance plans. There are plenty of new plans for the young and healthy but if you have a chronic condition, like asthma or diabetes, make sure your plans cover all visits to the doctor and prescription drugs, especially with those insurance plans which come with an annual or lifetime limit.
The options may get confusing to choose from but Human Resources personnel are always there to help out so don't shy away from asking what may be naive questions. You can also check some financial planning tips listed by the experts at Aegon and Aegon's saving insurance plans for further information on the same.
Unfortunately, a 6LPA annual salary won't turn out to be anything close to Rs. 50,000 a month, as your employer will send a portion of it directly to the government for taxes. Although it usually varies, the standard rate in this country is 10% tax deductible at source (TDS), but it does take a huge toll on your saving and investments habits especially when placed alongside your student debt.
So it is better to set a goal to repay the loan, while keeping your monthly expenses in check, within the first few years of getting a job. Getting it out of the way while you're single and young without a family to support and health liabilities, can help you in two significant ways in the long run. Firstly, your taxes are only going to increase, assuming you do well at your job and receive appraisals and increments at regular intervals. That is the ripe time to begin saving and investing with long term goals in mind, so make sure that taxes plus loan interests don't put a dent on your savings fund.
Depending on how high your student loan bill is, putting away some of your salary for retirement may seem impossible. Vanguard, a mutual fund company, ran a survey that suggested that credit card debt posed a bigger impediment for young professionals under 35. Additionally, high rent can make saving seem daunting as well. So as soon as you're rid of all the debt, start saving and investing those savings in a disciplined manner, even if it means you've only been able to save 5% of your income in a financially stressful month. Eventually, it will have gradually scaled up to 10%, and before no time, you'll be able to invest 25% of your income!
So set a realistic goal and invest in a savings plan for the long term from an early stage of your career. Invest also in equity. If you're unsure about any aspect of financial planning, it cannot hurt to bounce your plan off someone who actually thinks about all this for a living. With financial independence, comes great financial responsibility. So make sure you don't get carried away, which is easy in the midst of all the excitement, confusion and youthfulness.
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Drug treatment is intended to help addicted individuals stop compulsive drug seeking and use. Treatment can occur in a variety of settings, take many different forms, and last for different lengths of time. Because drug addiction is typically a chronic disorder characterized by occasional relapses, a short-term, one-time treatment is usually not sufficient. For many, treatment is a long-term process that involves multiple interventions and regular monitoring.
There are a variety of evidence-based approaches to treating addiction. Drug treatment can include behavioral therapy (such as cognitive-behavioral therapy or contingency management), medications, or their combination. The specific type of treatment or combination of treatments will vary depending on the patient's individual needs and, often, on the types of drugs they use.
In 2015, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) estimated that nearly 22 million people at least 12 years of age needed substance abuse treatment.1 Drug abuse treatment plans not only help addicts detoxify in a safe environment but also assist them through all stages of the recovery process.
Various treatment methodologies are employed in the treatment of drug abuse and addiction issues. When admitted to a rehab facility, a treatment plan will be devised for the individual addict. Per the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), it's essential that treatment is tailored to the unique individual as there is no finite treatment that will work for everyone.
The individual's history of drug abuse, severity of abuse, physical and mental health, and personal traits should be taken into account when developing the treatment plan. Likewise, the plan should be altered throughout the recovery process according to the individual's progress in treatment.
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Walking Our Faith
I'd just turned onto Upper Bear Creek Road in Evergreen, an incredibly scenic road on any day. But on that day, I snapped off the radio, and through tear-blurred eyes, I began pouring out my heart to Jesus. These few years later, I can't tell you what weighed so heavily on my heart in that moment. But those car conversations became a regular occurrence that have continued through the present.
I suppose I thought of Jesus as a captive audience, he couldn't jump out of the car as I was going a heady twenty-five miles an hour. And yes, I realize that from God's perspective, I was the captive audience since he is omnipresent.
Nevertheless, those conversations are some of the most memorable conversations with God I've ever had. In the silence of the car, with only road noise to be heard, I poured out my heart. Sometimes only in my mind, sometimes, when my heart was very troubled, I spoke out loud to Jesus. In the car, as I drove. I didn't receive any immediate answers, but somehow, I felt better, the pain in my heart was lifted a little. I knew that when times were very difficult, I could take a drive in my car and talk to Jesus and that made my sorrow easier to bear.
I have written often about the need to make time to pray each day. To find a formal prescribed time to meet with God. And I do have those in my life. On Tuesday, I enjoy twenty minutes of centering prayer at St. John's. On Thursday evening, I attend an hour of Adoration at St. Mary's, in front of the Blessed Sacrament. Both of these ritualized times are an essential part of my week.
But I've discovered sacred silence has crept into other parts of my life as well. Not scheduled, but as a natural outgrowth of how my life is changing.
A few months ago, I 'cut the cable'. I still have Internet service and access to a handful of local channels and PBS, but that's it. At first the transition felt like withdrawal. Then, I found my favorite political news channel was live streaming via the Internet. So, I listened to that 24/7. On weekends, I'd listen to audiobooks, watch PBS, or listen to classical music.
But an interesting thing happened. I found myself turning off first the cable TV live stream, then the audiobooks, then the classical music. Yes, I'd still listen to an hour or two a day, but afterwards, I no longer needed background noise.
Instead, I listened to the sound of the hummingbirds that visit the feeders outside my window. I hear traffic in the distance, but I also hear the wind in the trees. And in this silence, where no artificial time limits were imposed as they are during my scheduled times of centering prayer or Adoration, I found myself drifting to conversations with God just as I'd done in my car.
These conversations flowed naturally, as if a friend were in the room. I was open, uninhibited in my conversations with Jesus perhaps even more than I would have been if I'd been speaking with a friend.
I cannot adequately describe how meaningful it is for me to sit in the presence of Jesus when I sit before the Blessed Sacrament during the weekly hour of Adoration. I have been doing it weekly for three years and I still feel honor and awe and joy.
But when I'm at home, or on a walk, or in my car, and purposely turn off the noise, the sacred silence I enter into feels more intimate, as if in the silence I am finally open enough to not only pour out my heart, but in the silence, experience God's presence.
There is something that happens when I enter a space of silence, which allows me to strip away my busy mind and open my heart to honest conversation. When I am in the sacred silence, it's just me and Jesus. It is when I am my most authentic, not trying to reach a standard of holiness, but simply being myself, full of flaws and self-doubt. And maybe that is when God can best reach me, when my familiar ground becomes God's Holy Ground.
When God needed to encourage Abram, the Lord took Abram outside and said, "Look at the sky and see if you can count the stars. That's how many descendants you will have." 6 Abram believed the Lord, and the Lord was pleased with him. (Genesis 15:5)
Wen God needed to Elijah to understand God's presence, he came to him… there was a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire there was a voice, a soft whisper. 13 When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. And God said, "Here I am,"(1 King 19:12)
When we feel most alone, God says, "When you pass through troubled waters, I will be with you." (Isaiah 43:2)
Perhaps the miracle of finding God in our everyday silence is discovering that he is always with us.
My moments of sacred silence aren't planned. They occur naturally, unexpectedly. More regularly as I understand the gift they represent. God always with us. We don't have to go looking for him. Turn off the noise that creates a barrier between us, enter into the silence and hear the word of the Lord.
Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson lives in Breckenridge.
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On April 4th, the United Way Allocation Team made a visit to the Amigos Center in Bonita Springs. Thank you to the staff and Board who were there to represent the ministry. We thank all of those who serve as volunteers on allocation committees for United Way. United Way supports our Immigration Ministry each year with a grant of $30,000. To be a proud partner agency of United Way, we undergo a lot of checks and balances, assuring both the United Way and the community that funds are being used to change lives. We are thankful to be a partner agency of the United Way.
On Thursday March 31st, Amigos Center worked with Harry Chapin's Mobile Food Pantry to deliver food to over 235 families for a total of 958 people at our Immokalee center. The Mobile Food Pantry program has allowed Harry Chapin and their partner agencies such as the Amigos Center to reach children and families in many rural and underserved areas. Amigos Center is truly grateful for the partnership and collaborative efforts with Harry Chapin Food Bank.
Leonardo Garcia, Founder and President/CEO of the Hispanic American Business Alliance (HABA) has been a long time supporter of Amigos Center and is currently active on the board of directors for Amigos Center.
HABA was interviewed by the News-Press for comments on the U.S. Census regarding Hispanics in SW Florida. You can click the photos to enlarge the article.
Also, thank you to all the members of HABA who attended our 3rd Annual Friends of Amigos Lunch — Seeds of Hope.
All days are busy, yet Thursday, March 31st was an especially busy day filled with lots of life-changing appointments. In the morning I did two naturalization cases (applying for U.S. citizenship). Both clients were from Mexico and had been our clients for a number of years and we did the paperwork on both cases to get their green cards. Both were extremely excited to apply for U.S. citizenship – the ultimate goal of an immigrant.
In the afternoon I saw a woman from the Dominican Republic who had entered the U.S. in 2005 with her immigrant visa (green card) based on the filing of her U.S. citizen sister in 1991. In 2005 Amigos Center filed for her adult son who had remained behind in the Dominican Republic due to falling out of his USC aunt's case due to his age. Last Thursday the Dominican mother was filing the final paperwork with the Department of State so that her son will finally be able to get his interview in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic to then enter the U.S. with an immigrant visa/green card and join his mother, father, and younger sibling.
After that I saw a woman from the United Kingdom who had been in the U.S. since she was 9 years old on a work visa through her parents. The work visa had just expired and her parents and younger sibling will be returning to the United Kingdom. The young woman had married a U.S. citizen and so I filed all the paperwork (6 applications in total) to get her a work permit and then her green card through the marriage. I explained to her that then she will be able to apply for naturalization in a little less than 3 years from getting the green card and then she can apply for her parents and sibling to come back to the U.S.
Finally I saw a 16 year old Mexican girl who had been brought into the U.S. as a young child and she now has her immigrant visa/green card appointment in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico in a few weeks. I had been working on the case since 2005. I prepared the final paperwork for her and her green-card holding father to take to the interview in Mexico. She should be back in the U.S. within a week with her green card.
United Way has once again reached their campaign goal of $8,024,330 under the direction of campaign chairwoman, Pat O'Donnell. Pat O'Donnell is also an active member of the Amigos en Cristo Board of Directors.
Amigos Center is a proud partner of United Way of Lee, Hendry and Glades, who generously contributes $30,000 annually to help support the Immigration ministry of Amigos Center.
At the goal announcement O'Donnell said, "I am thrilled to announce that the United Way of Lee, Hendry, and Glades has reached its campaign goal for the 18th consecutive year!
"Our generous community has done it again! Despite the difficult economy, you dug deep to give what you could to help our friends and neighbors who are hurting, out of work, or ill. In the toughest economy that we have faced in many years, you gave so others could look forward to a better life. I am so proud of our community.
"What is more important than the fact that we made our goal is that the 72 United Way Partner Agencies will receive their full allocation of funds. The needs in our community have increased significantly in these troubled times. Many agencies have lost funding from both government and private sources. United Way Partner Agencies' 160 programs will be fully funded and hundreds of thousands of our fellow citizens will receive the help they need.
"Thank you to all of the individuals, companies, communities and partner agencies for your generous contributions. You proved once again what a caring community this is."
The Elders of Hope Lutheran Church in Bonita Springs hosted a Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper fundraiser to help support the work of Amigos en Cristo. Over a hundred people participated in spite of the rain.
Thank you Hope Lutheran for your continual support of the ministry and for finding unique ways to give back to the community.
You're Invited to the 3rd Annual Friends of Amigos Lunch!
Wed, March 23, 2011 • 12 pm – 1 pm • Hilton Resort Naples
Thanks to our generous sponsors, this inspirational lunch is FREE to all who attend. Please come and learn about the ministry and learn how you can walk alongside us with prayer and financial support.
Christina shared that last Friday, at 5:30, she was getting ready and packing up to go home. The door was propped open for the cleaning lady and in strides an immigration client. Thinking to herself how to gently send him home, since she was all packed up and ready to leave, he smiles at her and thanks her for the immigration work she did for him and his family four years ago. He hands her $30 and tells her it's not much but he is so thankful for the work of the Amigos Center and he is finally in a position to give back and wants to do what he can to help Amigos Center help more people. It was a great way to start the weekend.
Each month the Department of State sends out a visa bulletin showing the visa processing dates for different family relationships and countries. Depending on the relationship and country, clients can wait months to decades to get their green cards. Usually visa processing dates move forward in time or remain the same, but sometimes dates go back in time (retrogressing). The retrogression can affect when a client can file for the green card or get the green card.
When the January 2011 visa processing dates were released in mid-December 2010, Amigos Center realized that we had a young man in his final year of high school that only had days to submit his green card case or possibly have to wait many more years to file. Filing his case by December 31 meant him being able to get a work permit, social security number, driver's license, and go to college. His family scrambled to get all the necessary documents/fees. With the help of Amigos Center, the young man was able to get the case properly submitted to immigration by the December 31 deadline. Happily his case is now progressing and he is currently waiting for his work permit.
Toward the end of January 2011 Amigos Center noticed that processing times for sibling cases were going to retrogress over two years as of February 1, 2011. We had two siblings that had submitted their green card cases last fall and both were scheduled for interviews with Tampa immigration for early February 2011. We quickly contacted Tampa to see if their interviews could be scheduled for January when the visa was still available. Tampa was able to see both clients on January 31 and both clients got their green cards. If the clients had not been seen until February, they would have been pending for many more months or years. Both clients called Amigos Center after their interviews to give a big thank you. After years in the U.S., they can now hop on a plane to visit their family in their native country and they are now in line to be able to apply for U.S. citizenship.
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Profit per room at hotels in the U.S. recorded its highest level of the year in October, as revenue increases were attained across all departments, even in the face of mounting costs, according to the latest data tracking full-service hotels from HotStats.
The 3.6 percent year-on-year increase in October enabled hotels to push profit levels to a high of $126.34 per available room, which was well above the previous high of $120.54 recorded in April 2018. Furthermore, it was approximately $25 above the year-to-date figure, at $101.36, illustrating the strength of bottom-line performance this month.
The growth in profit was driven by an increase across all revenue centers, including rooms (up 3.2 percent), food/beverage (up 2.2 percent) and conference/banqueting (up 2.5 percent), on a per-available-room basis.
Helping drive revenue was an annual high achieved in average room rate, which hit $223.36 for the month. It was also a high for the post global financial crisis era.
As a result of the contribution across all revenue departments, TRevPAR at hotels in the U.S. was recorded at $294.57 this month. This was 3.4 percent above the same period in 2017 and a lofty 12 percent above the TRevPAR recorded for year-to-date 2018 at $262.87.
Profit & Loss Key Performance Indicators – U.S. (in USD)
October 2018 v. October 2017
RevPAR: +3.2% to $182.65
TRevPAR: +3.4% to $294.57
Payroll: +0.1 pts. to 31.5%
GOPPAR: +3.6% to $126.34
The solid top-line performance in the month was slightly marred by a year-on-year increase in costs, which included a 0.1 percentage-point uplift in labor costs to 31.5 percent of total revenue, as well as a 0.3 percentage-point increase in overheads, which grew to 20.9 percent of total revenue.
In spite of the cost creep, the robust increase in revenue resulted in a profit margin of 42.8 percent of total revenue.
Top-line performance in October was led by demand from the commercial sector, which accounted for 45.5 percent of all accommodated roomnights.
Furthermore, the growth in achieved average room rate was supported by increases across all demand segments, including corporate (up 2.6 percent), residential conference (up 2.1 percent), individual leisure (up 2.6 percent) and group leisure (up 4.4 percent).
"It was an extremely positive month of performance for hotels in the U.S., with continued growth leading to new highs across top- and bottom-line metrics," said David Eisen, director of Hotel Intelligence & Customer Solutions at HotStats. "Still, hotel owners and operators must keep a vigilant eye on expenses, as they show no signs of attenuating."
City specific, Austin had a banner month, aided by the F1 Grand Prix Circuit of the Americas, which drew some 250,000 spectators over the weekend of October 19-21 to the area.
The uplift in demand at hotels in the city meant that room occupancy levels soared to an annual high of 87.8 percent, which was 2.2 percentage points above the same period in 2017 and almost 7 percentage points above the year-to-date figure. In addition, achieved average room rate at hotels in the Texan capital increased by 1.8 percent to $244.24.
As a result, hotels in Austin recorded a 4.3 percent year-on-year increase in rooms revenue to $214.45, which contributed to the 3.4-percent increase in TRevPAR to $299.10.
Alongside the acclaimed South by Southwest Festival, the F1 Grand Prix is highly anticipated by hotels in Austin as it brings a significant boost in performance levels, illustrated this month by TRevPAR recorded at more than $55 above the year-to-date figure of $243.08.
Profit & Loss Key Performance Indicators – Austin (in USD)
October 2018 v. October 2017
RevPAR: +4.3% to $214.45
TRevPAR: +3.4% to $299.10
Payroll: +0.2 pts. to 22.1%
GOPPAR: +3.5% to $164.03
Despite the 0.2 percentage point increase in labor costs to 22.1 percent of total revenue, hotels in Austin successfully recorded a 3.5 percent increase in profit per room in October to $164.03
Profit performance was only surpassed by the performance in March, when hotels recorded GOPPAR of $167.79, which was led by demand from South by Southwest.
As Austin hotels were helped out by a sporting event, so, too, was the city of Boston, where October baseball is frequent with the post-season success of the Red Sox. The city achieved a robust year-on-year increase in profit in October, as the Red Sox hosted two World Series games and a number of playoff match-ups.
As a result of the burgeoning demand levels, hotels in the city were able to record a 5.5 percent year-on-year increase in GOPPAR to $225.23, a peak for 2018.
The growth in profit at hotels in the city was led by year-on-year increases across all revenue departments, including rooms (up 5.0 percent) and food/beverage (up 4.7 percent) on a per-available-room basis. This contributed to a 5.1 percent increase in TRevPAR to a heady $429.56.
Despite the year-on-year increase in October, profit per room at hotels in the city for year-to-date 2018 is still 1.6 percent behind the same period in 2017, illustrating the challenging operating conditions in the city this year.
Profit & Loss Key Performance Indicators – Boston (in USD)
October 2018 v. October 2017
RevPAR: +5.0% to $315.16
TRevPAR: +5.1% to $429.56
Payroll: -0.2 pts. to 26.0%
GOPPAR: +5.5% to $225.23
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There is an interesting premise behind the one-act play "Ian and his Body", written by Michael Ricotta. A young man prepares to go on a tinder date, but his body, embodied by another actor entirely, has other ideas.
Ian, played by Evan Brechtel, is trying to confirm details for a meetup with Jessie (Rachel-Ann Giambrone). Ian's Body, played by Mario Morales, is more concerned with reuniting Ian with his coke dealer (Palmyra Mattner). When the four of them meet up at a local bar, it becomes clear fairly quickly that Ian is going to end up being a bad date story that Jessie will tell at dinner parties later in life.
It would be unfair to expect a playwright to completely and thoroughly explore cocaine addiction in 30 minutes. Rather than do that, Ricotta's instinct seems to be to take one incident in a young man's life and try to examine, moment to moment, how that man's decisions are made and what behavior results from those decisions. Ricotta also tries to flip the expected trope, the healthy young man led astray by his addicted physical body, by having Body voice a wish to be healthy and sane, allowing us to see Ian, the real man, as Jessie and the rest of the world see him – self-absorbed, addicted, and thoughtless.
I think what I might have wanted to see more of here was a sense of why the audience was expected to care about Ian, and about his Body. At times, Ian seems to merely be pursuing a hookup with Jessie, which makes Jessie the more sympathetic of the pair. At times, we even question why Jessie is still sitting in the bar talking to him, and we're not surprised at all, about 20 minutes in, when Jessie is seen shooting the breeze with Ian's dealer, bonding with dealer Sandra in a way that seems unlikely with Ian, who is a bit all over the place.
Sandra, the dealer, has the clearest agenda here – to re-establish her income stream from Ian. Jessie is next, wanting to see if Ian could be someone she'd want to date, and finding that out in no uncertain terms. Morales lends a lot of charm to Body, who simply wants to continue to exist, and Body's agenda of getting high again morphs into wanting not to get all THAT high, not wanting to COMPLETELY ruin Ian's life and, instead, counseling a bit of junkie-style balance. This makes Body a bit more interesting than Ian, who simply seems to be delighting in the purity of Sandra's new supply and not really giving much of a thought to Jessie, to his own health, or to consequences. While this seems fairly typical of junkies we've seen portrayed on stage before, I'm not sure why I'm meant to connect, as an audience member, with Ian. Perhaps Ian is just meant to be a cautionary tale.


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…wait, what? People still care what Darryl Worley thinks?
I still catch myself breaking out in a sweat when I sing that song. I was so angered. I was just so angered by the coward of the attacks.
Oh, wait, Taste of Country. Never mind.
In all seriousness, when you talk of complete wastes of potential in 2000s country music, Darryl Worley's pretty high up on the list of people who blew their potential all to hell between bad songs and/or career choices. I bought his first two albums — Hard Rain Don't Last and I Miss My Friend — and they were both pretty good. But with Have You Forgotten, I was like, nope, no more of that shit — even if only because the album was mostly a compilation of songs from those first two albums riding on the success of a song that never should have been written in the first place. Sucks, too, because Worley had a solid voice quite evocative of Keith Whitley and was a pretty good songwriter too, at least if the credits on his albums didn't fall victim to the whole "third for a word" phenomenon. But he put himself in the position of putting out poorly-written propaganda, and, well, you see how well that's worked out for him.
Man, Dale Watson just nails it…
The best songwriters and best musicians in the world live in Nashville, Tennessee. Unfortunately, that whole thing is a business plan. Music is made, but it's like a sweatshop.
…as does William Clark Green:
It's kind of like gentrification. What happens is you have neighborhoods in every town that you consider it poor. People live there forever and then somebody builds a Starbucks and it ruins the neighborhood. Rich people move in and make these sidewalk diners, and tax values go up. And we can't afford to be there anymore.
Those are some really interesting analogies, and ones that put the whole "it's just evolution of the music" argument into perspective. It's certainly not a flattering perspective, either. You could very well argue that what's going on isn't evolution of the music, but consolidation of the music — consolidation into that big mono-genre that Trigger's always talking about at Saving Country Music. And the same arguments against sweatshops and gentrification apply here, also, because there's no long-term benefit to the music with what's going on here. It's just the artificial shift of the music from targeting an older demographic to targeting a younger, allegedly hipper one with the cheap mass-produced product, and we're going to see the same thing happen to the music that happened to Suzette Kelo's neighborhood. That's where this is all gonna end up. Bet on it.
(h/t Country California)
Quote of the day, from a Redditor on Judas Priest, discussing the 25th anniversary of the release of Painkiller:
They're absolutely not dad rock…unless your dad is metal as fuck.
Yep, that's pretty much it, although I thought they were kinda meh for a long time. While they weren't as banal and uninteresting as, say, Fleetwood Mac or U2, all the Judas Priest songs I heard on the radio got to be pretty boring after a while. I had heard so much about how Priest were one of the baddest-ass of the metal bands out there, and I heard songs like "You've Got Another Thing Coming," "Turbo Lover," and "Breaking the Law," and I thought, really? That's all there is?
And then I heard this.
Metal as fuck, indeed. And the entire album is just as great. I had much the same reaction to this as I did to Queensryche when I heard the Operation: Mindcrime songs for the first time, i.e., "Holy spitballs, this is the same band?" I have heard that not all of JP's stuff was quite as hard and fast as the stuff on Painkiller, but I am definitely interested in exploring their back catalog….
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I regularly exhibit my practice and research often curating my site-specific landscape-performances into galleries where objects, sound, film and performance elements are distilled into installations.
I have over 25 years experience as a visiting and associate lecturer in Higher Education at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
I am regularly invited as a guest lecturer to give talks and presentations on my practice and research. Most recently on the MA in Performance Design at Leeds University, the BA in Performing Arts, at Cumbria University and the BA in Site-Specific Performance at Edgehill University.
I am an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and has a number of teaching qualifications including the Supporting Learning Programme (SLP), awarded by Lancaster University and was an External Examiner for the BA Performance Design and Practice Central St Martin's, UAL, London (2014-18).


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So its come to this - another liveblog.
Firstly I need to quickly comment on wine number three (of four) from the Superquinn French wine sale - Chateau Le Mayne Bordeaux Superieur 2005 (at left). While this was not unpleasant, it didn't taste like a Bordeaux, more like a middle-of-the-road undistinguished French red. I don't know what I expected for €8, I suppose. This again confirms my rule of never buying cheap Bordeaux or Burgundy, there just isn't any good stuff around below about €20. If you know of some please let me know.
So - the liveblog, this has tended to happen of a Friday evening while watching a movie with Herself and tonight is no exception. Last time I did it the wine ended up mirroring the movie. We are now watching The Boat That Rocked, so we'll see. The wine is number four (of four) from Superquinn, a Domaine de Christia Cotes du Ventoux 2007, reduced to €8 from €14-99.
21-30 The wine has been decanting for an hour now and we have just had a first sip and very nice it is too, quite "Rhoney", a little spicy and a little fruity. Herself reckons its chocolaty and smooth but that may be wish fulfillment on her part.
22-00 I'm still liking this, it developed a little more fruit and a tadge more complexity in the last 30 minutes, not unlike the movie which has just taken a dramatic turn. The wine now has a decent finish, lets hope the movie follows suit (Woo-hoo! - film/wine comparisons are go!)
22-40 The movie is heading for its close as is the bottle, so I'll wrap things up. I like this wine, at €8 I'd buy it again, at €14-99, not so much. The movie got a lot of hate in the reviews (spoilers ahead) I've read, apart from Mark Kermode, and I'm not sure why. It's not a masterpiece but its moderately amusing, it has a great cast (some underused), it does go a bit Titanic at the end but hey, pobody's nerfect.
Next - We're off to Dax for NOB's birthday, congrats a deux, and I'll report back on the grub/vino.


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Invicta 9094 Review
Blue and coolness have been a synonym forever, blue is cool and it is a color which always looks pleasant. In fact it looks more than pleasant it looks chic, especially a watch with a blue dial is always in vogue. Once combined with silver, a lot of style and class is added to the watch.
The amazing Invicta Men's 9094 "Pro Diver Collection" Automatic Dress Watch is one such watch that you will always love wearing. The silver tone bracelet gives the watch a very manly appeal and looks very classy.
Japanese automatic movement is what runs the watch. Japanese technology is known all over the world for its reliability and brilliant performance.
Automatic movement is a mechanical movement with a self-winding design. An automatic watch harnesses the energy produced by motion to wind the spring. This movement features a rotor that spins when the watch is in motion, as when the wearer moves his arm. The mechanism transfers the energy from the spinning rotor to the main spring of the winding system.
The watch will maintain its power reserve if you wear it every day. If you won't be wearing your watch for several days at a time, store it on a watch winder to keep it at full power.
Like mechanical movements, automatics can gain or lose a few minutes per month, so check your watch regularly and adjust the time. Automatic watches have all of the advantages of mechanical watches – detailed construction, durability and you don't need to manually wind the timepiece frequently.
The dial is beautiful and the color is very trendy and eye catchy. The blue dial sits perfectly in the center of the silver strap and looks commendable.
The watch has a stainless steel bezel which is unidirectional. The date window is at 3and looks very stylish. It has water resistance of 660 feet. The eye catchy dial's window material is made of mineral and it protects it from scratches.
The luminous time markers and hands of the watch make time keeping convenient and also adds to the looks of the watch. The single push down crown adds to the charm of the watch.
The silver strap is just what the watch needed to make it both subtle and stylish; it is very manly and will always give a very elite and classic look. The strap has a fold over clasp with safety, which makes the watch safe and sturdy on your wrist.
Key features
- Name: Invicta Men's 9094 "Pro Diver Collection" Automatic Dress Watch
- Movement: Japanese automatic
- Band: Stainless steel
- Special features: Luminous, push-down-crown
Full list of awesome features here!
If you are the kind of person who wants a balanced combination of in vogue looks and rugged manly appeal, then this time piece is your dreams come true.


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5 Strategies to Improve Local SEO in 2018
Local SEO competition is heating up. 2018 is the year for you to really raise your local SEO game to enjoy the sweet fruits of high visibility for local searches on Google.
Here are 5 strategies you can trust.
1) Capture Your Space on All Local Business Directories
Did you know – 80% consumers rely on online searches for choosing local businesses! However, not many local businesses claim their local business listings. Those that do, however, have a lot to gain. Before the local SEO search space becomes saturated, make sure that you get the early mover advantage. Here's what you need to do:
- List your local business on top local business directories; Yelp, Citysearch, and Merchant Circle are obvious starting points.
- Make your business profiles as complete as possible.
- Use this HubSpot list of high-value business directories (50 of them) and start creating your business pages on these, 5 a day.
- Check your local newspapers and Chamber of Commerce (or equivalent agencies) websites for possibilities of creating your listing.
- Make sure your business' NAP (name, address, and phone) is consistent, and list it on aggregator networks like Infogroup, Neustar, and Factual.
- Hunt down any niche specific directories for your business and make sure you secure your listings there before anything else.
2) Leverage the Power of Local Link Building
Is there anything of this sort? Yes, indeed. This is one of the best-kept secrets of local SEO that only the most seasoned local SEO experts are good at. Link building for local SEO is different from link building in general because you get a lot of value from local links even if the niche of the backlink source website is not linked to your business. Because in local business, relationships hold a key position, this reflects in Google's search algorithm for local SEO. Getting local backlinks, however, requires you to get off the cushioned seat and take your marketing to the ground. Here are some suggestions:
- Look for local sponsorship opportunities
- Organize a donation drive
- Get involved in local community events and then their websites
- Be active on local newsgroups and portals
- Look for creative low-cost advertisements on local classifieds
3) Measure Your Store Branding Campaigns For Better Returns
We talked about all kinds of local events, giveaway, and community efforts you can engage in with the aim of getting local mentions of your business. This can be expensive, particularly for local businesses only getting started with SEO. This is where the need for focused measurement of store branding execution campaigns comes to the fore. This is where brands have to gain a lot from local retail store process automation and reporting tools like Zipline. Using this tool, store managers can set up campaigns to measure success (subscriptions, footfall, inquiries, purchases, etc). Zipline also helps bring together information and analytics from all channels together, enabling local stores to leverage their marketing collateral from across locations for inexpensive yet consistent branding and promotions.