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Is a licence needed for TV on a mobile?
At first glance this might seem a perplexing question. After all, mobile phones are not televisions and much of the televisual content they can receive is not in the conventional sense "broadcast". However, the Television Licensing Authority (TLA) - responsible for collecting BBC licence fees - last week scotched any notion that mobile phone and computer-based TV viewers might be exempt. It points you to a piece of government business called "Statutory Instrument 2004 No 692. The Communications Act (Television Licensing) Regulations 2004", part three sections 9, 10 and 11. Which amended existing regulations arising from The Wireless Telegraphy Acts 1926, 1949 etc and the Communications Act of 2003. To cut a very long story short, any device that can receive live TV pictures, whether or not originally designed or intended to do so, must be covered by a licence if you use it for that purpose. What is more, the TLA will stress that 98% of households have a TV so they already need a licence.
Leaving aside how policeable mobile phone TV viewing might be, while the new regulations might have succeeded in redefining the term "television" to mean any device capable of receiving it by any broadcast or quasi-broadcast means, they still define a "television programme service" as essentially a live, real-time broadcast stream. That doesn't mean just "live" programmes but TV broadcast in real time. The problem here - oh do keep up! - appears to be that while the regulations extend beyond traditional broadcasting to cover internet and mobile live streaming, receiving TV programmes on-demand, or say as part of an internet-based catch-up service, appears not to be covered.
If correct, this would mean if you only watched programmes on demand via new services - such as the BBC's emerging seven-day catch-up facility, or in any way other than via a live broadcast stream, however delivered, you would not be liable to pay the licence fee even if you used your old-fashioned TV.
It seems it is not just hapless producers and broadcasters who have under-estimated the true potential significance of new media delivery systems - witness the growing rumble over programme rights - but the government departments who drafted the new regulations may have missed it too. It may be that the statutory underpinning of the BBC's licence-fee funding, rooted in legislation dealing with "wireless telegraphy" from the early part of the last century, could be about to come undone.
Digital switchover: is BBC playing fair?
The other weekend, Radio 4's flagship Today programme came live from Essex. Amidst the usual range of Saturday morning items and some amusing, if rather predictable, chuckling at the expense of Essex girls there was a piece about the funding and future of the BBC. Simon Sharma said he loved it and Kelvin MacKenzie said he did not. Then a man from Essex, who said he lived on top of a hill and couldn't get Freeview or broadband, wondered where he would be left in the digital world. A top person from the BBC sympathised and hoped it would all be all right come switchover because the power of the Freeview signal could then be increased, thus making it available to him - whenever that happened, if it did. But the most obvious option - a satellite dish - was not mentioned. Is this BBC policy, one wonders? Although there is a cursory formal mention of digital satellite in the BBC's on-air promotions for digital switchover, the price comparison appears misleadingly simple - Freeview cheap, satellite (even free satellite) expensive and the only digital services promoted are the BBC's. The commercial PSB channels would not be allowed to run promotions like this as they would be regarded by Ofcom as unfair to other multichannel commercial operators and unfairly favouring one digital distribution system (Freeview) over others (cable and satellite). Ofcom has produced detailed analysis of this issue in its current consultation on cross-promotional rules. The document has gained most attention for suggesting relaxation of rules governing product placement in commercial TV, but it might have more significant political effect with its suggestion that the BBC be brought under the same rules for promoting digital switchover as the Ofcom-regulated channels. And who would police that do you think? Stand by - the consultation closes this coming Friday.
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Yesterday I posted about how I am struggling to get a view for me that works with the new Williams tables as their proportions are different than most Zen tables.
It reminded me of a thread a long time ago where Zen enquired about people's view preferences and there were many good suggestions that resulted in some new single and multi-ball table views (View 6 on Xbox 360 that I remembered being awesome on Ms. Splosion Man). I also made some suggestions on this thread including the following:
- If it is at all possible cameras that can be adjusted manually would be the best - position, height, amount of zoom and speed of camera scrolling action.
- It would be great if we can select only the views we want e.g. in Forza 3 (I think) you can change the settings so that it only scroll through the few views you want when you change view. If that is possible I would sometimes quickly change view between say 5 for normal play and 2 (when I need to see the bumper lanes or have to get an important cross table shot e.g. torch ramp with manual invisible flipper mode.
and then also on another thread that included the following:
- zoom: how close/far from the playing field.
- angle: from what perspective you are virtually looking at the playing field.
- transition / pivot point: How far up the table do you want the table to start scrolling or tilting up. e.g. I use view 5 or 7 on Xbox but depending on the table, I would make the transition point higher / later so that the table isn't on the move when the ball reach the cross flippers.
- transition / pivot speed: How quickly it transition / pivot e.g. on a shorter / faster table I would like the transition to be quick while on a longer or slower table I would like the transition to be slower.
Basically, I would like the table to be able to mimic / approximate the movement of my eyes with a minimum of movement when I'm aiming and making my shots. This differs from table to table so the existing views are always a compromise. I would love to be able to play around with the camera on each table until I find a compromise that works best for me.

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When word circulated in early July that Richard Swift had died in Tacoma, Washington, where he had been receiving treatment for a then undisclosed illness, the music community responded with stunned sadness, and not just because he was only 41. The multi-instrumentalist/producer was such a ubiquitous presence in indie-rock and Americana circles that his absence was almost unthinkable. This was the versatile artist who played bass with the Black Keys and keyboards with the Shins; the producer of Jessie Baylin, Foxygen, Gardens & Villa, Guster, Valerie June, Damien Jurado, Pure Bathing Culture, and Nathaniel Rateliff, among others; the unsettlingly prolific songwriter and arranger who assayed all the parts of a Motown-emulating band on his single "Lady Luck" (from his splendid 2009 album "The Atlantic Ocean"); the truly independent solo artist who opted to live with his family and produce from his own studio in small town Oregon rather than chase corporate success. His looming absence was too depressing to contemplate.
When Swift's family issued a statement revealing Swift's alcohol addiction as the cause of his death, it wasn't wholly unexpected. But the finality of that news weighed heavily on those who'd been lifted up by his buoyant pop melodies and adventurous creativity.
Next Thursday, Dec. 13, at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever, friends are gathering to pay tribute to Swift by performing his final album, "The Hex," in it entirety. The event is a benefit for his family. At press time the list of artists scheduled to pay tribute included Cold War Kids, James Mercer, Damien Jurado, Lucius, Foxygen's Sam France and Jonathan Rado, Gardens & Villa, Pure Bathing Culture, Mynabirds, Fruit Bats, Eric Slick, Harley Cortez, and hosts Time Heidecker and Nick Thune.
Digitally released by Secretly Canadian in September, "The Hex" is a beautifully layered piece of work. Tracks like the dreamy title tune and the instrumental "HZLWD" wash over the ears like a warm bath of nostalgia, while "Dirty Jim" ruefully references his addiction over a hopeful piano melody and "Wendy" quotes "Da Doo Ron Ron" and incorporates gospel-y handclaps and baptismal allusions in memory of his mother. Intimacy with anxiety and depression isn't necessary for composers to craft songs that lift the spirit, but Swift's familiarity with darkness makes the songs more believable. The soulful "Broken Finger Blues," the most melodically beautiful track, echoes a memorable Shondells riff and backs Swift's falsetto croon with '60s-style harmonies, but that sweetness is cut by the piercing sadness of his lyric:
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Five years ago, three teenagers set out to investigate the local legend of their small town, The Blackwood Bugman, and the mysterious disappearances and murders connected to him over the years. But as they soon come to find out, getting too close to the truth can be very dangerous.
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BlackBerry has seen rapid decrease over the past few years but is now all-set to retain its spot. The company has launched two new Android smartphones for the Indian users. These are called BlackBerry DTEK50 and DTEK60. DTEK50 smartphone offers you a secure mid-range android device. Let's check out its features:
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BlackBerry DTEK50 comes with a 5.2-inch touchscreen display with resolution of 1080 * 1920 pixels at ppi of 424. Under the hood, it is powered by a 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 processor coupled with 3GB of RAM. The smartphone packs 16GB of internal storage which can be further expanded up to 2000GB via microSD card. It runs Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow operating system.
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The BlackBerry DTEK50 packs a 13MP primary camera and an 8MP front shooter for selfies. Both cameras support 1080p video recording at up to 30fps. The camera quality is good with vivid colors and macros. It is backed by a 2610mAh non-removable battery.
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with Michael Rhadeya Plasha, E-RYT 500, RPYT
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The principles of Ayurveda, the science of longevity, can support us in adapting, adjusting, and accommodating our Yoga practice to our bio-energy body types or doshas. By taking a skillful, Ayurvedic approach to asana (posture), we can rectify physical and energetic imbalances and establish equilibrium. Conversely, signs that your Yoga practice may be creating an imbalance in the system are pitta tension, vata anxiety, and kapha lethargy.
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Course Information
Knowledge of your predominant dosha. Click here to assess your dosha online. This workshop is open to all levels and styles of postural practice. Please bring a notebook if you'd like to take notes.
Continuing Education (CE) Opportunities
- Yoga Alliance (YA): Approximately 7 contact hours.
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- Integral Yoga Teachers Association (IYTA) can provide you a CE certificate with your program's total contact hours for a $10 fee (free for IYTA members.) For more information, email [email protected].
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As voters decided that Britain should not remain in the European Union (EU), and Prime Minister David Cameron announced he would step down by October, commentary continues around the financial, economic, political and legal implications of a British exit (Brexit).
A British exit from the EU will rock the Union, already shaken by differences over migration and the future of the eurozone, by ripping away its second-largest economy, one of its top two military powers and by far its richest financial center.
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"It's a binary choice, but not a simple one. Instead it's shot through with feelings about nationhood, identity and culture, as well as economics."
Before 2016 had even begun, Reuters Breakingviews provided a fictionalized account of a Britain where Prime Minister David Cameron had backed the campaign to leave the European Union. Purportedly written by a private secretary to the Prime Minister, Breakingviews chronicled the events in the month after UK voters decided to leave the EU – an imagined vision of a weakened pound, a stalling economy and mountains of unsold pork pies.
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Economic Harmony: An Epistemic Theory of Economic Interactions
Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Abba Khoushy Avenue 199, Haifa 3498838, Israel
Department of Philosophy, Al Quds University, East Jerusalem and Abu Dies, P.O.B. 51000, Palestine
Academic Editors: Paul Weirich and Ulrich Berger
Games 2017, 8(1), 2; https://doi.org/10.3390/g8010002
Received: 16 September 2016 / Revised: 12 December 2016 / Accepted: 18 December 2016 / Published: 3 January 2017
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Epistemic Game Theory and Logic)
We propose an epistemic theory of micro-economic interactions, termed Economic Harmony. In the theory, we modify the standard utility, by changing its argument from the player's actual payoff, to the ratio between the player's actual payoff and his or her aspired payoff. We show that the aforementioned minor epistemic modification of the concept of utility is quite powerful in generating plausible and successful predictions of experimental results, obtained in the standard ultimatum game, and the sequential common pool resource dilemma (CPR) game. Notably, the cooperation and fairness observed in the studied games are accounted for without adding an other-regarding component in the players' utility functions. For the standard ultimatum game, the theory predicts a division of φ and 1 − φ, for the proposer and responder, respectively, where φ is the famous Golden Ratio (≈0.618), most known for its aesthetically pleasing properties. We discuss possible extensions of the proposed theory to repeated and evolutionary ultimatum games. View Full-Text
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Corrupting a nation's children
'Promote gay relationships as positive in school,' teachers say
The UK's Teaching Unions are demanding that schools must promote the view that homosexual relationships must be 'portrayed in a positive light'. This adds to the existing sexualising of our infants, who must already undergo explicit sexual 'education', robbing them of their childhood. Jesus said 'whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea'. Matt 18.6
ACTION: Please pray and consider writing to your MP.


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Marshall Snover entered the commercial real estate business in 1984 and has established himself as one of the I-680 corridor's most knowledgeable and respected office market leasing and sales specialists. Professionalism, hard work, conscientious attention to detail, mutual respect and a dedication to succeed are the foundations upon which Mr. Snover has developed his reputation in the business.
During his career, Mr. Snover has represented major developers and tenants in transactions totaling in excess of 4 million square feet and has sold over 1,000,000 square feet of buildings valued at more than $230,000,000.00.
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Mr. Snover's commercial real estate success has been a result of long term relationship building, strong ethics and a careful understanding of his client's needs and objectives. In depth market knowledge and experience enable Mr. Snover to advise his clients on market economics, competition, underlying political issues, future development, land use, traffic mitigation and demographics. These professional attributes allow Mr. Snover to successfully fulfill his fiduciary responsibility to consummate transactions which are in the best interests of his clients.
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Born in Oakland, California in 1948. Presently resides in Brentwood, California.
University of California, Los Angeles in 1971 with a B.A. Degree in Political Science
Masters Degree in International Management from the American Graduate School of International Management, Glendale, Arizona in 1975.
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We thought we'd discovered a new species until we were informed it was a DOUBLE NARWHAL. What does it mean?
Here's the normal version, check them out on wikipedia. Narwhals are suspected to be particularly vulnerable to climate change because of their specialized sea ice habitat…perhaps the doubles are better suited, but I doubt it.
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Whitehaven are set to enter the prestigious Challenge Cup with a fourth-round home tie against fellow Championship team Dewsbury Rams.
Haven, who were introduced into this year's cup along with 12 other Championship sides, were among the first names out of the hat.
Town must first get past West Bowling in their rearranged third-round clash at Derwent Park on Sunday (2pm kick-off) after the game was postponed at the weekend due to Storm Ciara.
If they are successful, they will entertain League 1 rivals Doncaster at the next stage of the competition.
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This course will provide participants with a thorough understanding of the requirements of process validation for both small molecule (pharmaceuticals) and Biologic products. They will learn how to establish an effective process validation system and integrate it with other systems such as Risk Management, Corrective and Preventive Action and Supplier Management. Participants will learn how to develop rigorous protocols and reports, as well as create monitoring programs to ensure that defined critical parameters remain in control. The course will also review validation requirements for systems that generate electronic signatures and records as most new processes have this capability.
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Attendance to this 3 hour webinar will be beneficial to personnel directly involved in process/product development, manufacturing, quality control/assurance and process validation. This includes both beginners and seasoned operational personnel who conduct process validations. Individuals in management who interact with previously mentioned staff or communicate with regulatory agency inspectors to rationalize or defend validation programs will also benefit from attending this course.
Participants should be familiar with FDA, ISO and EMEA requirements for process validation and have a good understanding of the Pharmaceutical and/or biologic Good Manufacturing Practices.
Physical CD-DVD of recorded session will be despatched after 72 hrs on completion of payment
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Upon earning a degree in Zoology at North Carolina State University, Joy made her debut in the pharmaceutical industry in 1992 at Pharmacia & UpJohn performing Environmental Monitoring and Sterility Testing. Her hard work allowed her to move into a supervisory role at Abbott Laboratories where she oversaw their Quality Control Lab. In 1998 Joy moved to Wyeth Lederle and worked in Quality Assurance, performing GMP Compliance audits, batch record reviews, and holding annual GMP training for new employees. After working in Quality Assurance for a few years, Joy moved into Equipment Qualification and Cleaning Validation at Mallinckrodt. With 10 years of experience as a consultant, and over 20 years total experience in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, Joy has gained extensive knowledge of Quality Assurance, Process and Cleaning Validation, and Equipment Qualification. She has written and executed Equipment Qualification and Validation Protocols for numerous Companies such as Mallinckrodt, Wyeth Lederle, Merck, BioMerieux, Catalent, and Phillips Medisize. Her knowledge, experience, and strong work ethic have made her a highly sought-after engineer in both the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. Joy specializes in Equipment Qualification, Sterilization, Cleaning Validation, and GMP Compliance Auditing. In 2013 Joy started her own company, Maynard Consulting Company, which provides top engineers, auditors, and validation specialist to pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device clients across the United States, Canada, and the world.


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I love a crisp white shirt. I reach for one regularly, so I knew it was time to make one. When I was in NYC this summer, I deemed my wardrobe was in for an upgrade – it needed more style, a little edge. Enter the Paco Peralto big white shirt (Vogue 1526).
The shirt has an interesting rolled collar, fun placement for the pocket, and opportunities to learn/practice tailoring skills. I need more work on collars, flat-felled seams, and button holes. I really enjoyed making this shirt. (Note on pictures: I re-pressed after these pictures.)
The silhouette? I'm really not sure. In looking at a few of my recent shirt makes, it's all been about fit and ease. This shirt is not described as "very loose", "loose", or any of the other clues that Vogue gives about the silhouette. Judging from the model and the line drawing, I judged it loose fitting – or having a lot of ease. Even though I think a fitted style is more flattering on me, I once again chose a loose shirt. This has everything to do with living in a hot, humid, location.
But this shirt is BIG. I cut a size 12, and didn't add anything for length. The sleeves on the model appear 3/4 length, but are closer to 7/8ths or even-full length (no clarification on the pattern description). Once again, I did not make a muslin, but this was more about learning the techniques than worrying about the fit. I'm not sure about it, it may grow on me. I still LOVE the collar, and did enjoy making it. But I think I'm going to go for a more fitted/semi-fitted shape next.
The pattern: Vogue 1526, by Paco Peralta c 2016. I made view B, the shirt. "Shirt has dropped shoulder and long sleeves with cuff." End description. I do plan to make the jacket and pants, but I never had any plans to pair it with the shirt.
The fabric: an all cotton poplin from Marcy Tilton I bought last year. It's crisp, and a little difficult to iron – I washed, damp-dried, and pressed with starch the final version of the shirt. I used less fabric than the pattern called for, even with the rolled collar on the bias. The only interfacing is in the collar – I used the crisp shirt interfacing from Fashion Sewing Supply, but I'm not sure I thoroughly fused it to the poplin.
The instructions: are fine. Definitely baste every time suggested, and more. You definitely want to baste the placement and seam lines for the shoulder and sleeve seams. I ended up pulling out my first attempt on the shoulders and redoing for not doing so. Step 22 (slip-stitching the cuff) shows the incorrect drawing: You should have a right-sided (folded over) cuff slip-stitched to the wrong side of the sleeve seam. The drawing shows only right-sides.
Will I make it again? I don't know. I think I will scale it back. Looking at these pictures, it's almost 80s oversized on me. Perhaps if I wear it untucked, belted. (The angles below de-emphasize the looseness!)


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Stroll through the City. Amble over the river to the Southbank, Shakespeare's Globe and Borough Market. Or just step inside, shut the door to your very own riverside apartment and find inner-city peace. This is your space. Feel free.


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The Buffet at TI offers a world-class selection of dishes using the freshest ingredients and mouth-watering flavor combinations. This award winning buffet features delectable barbeque, savory grilled selections and tempting Asian creations, as well as a wide variety of sushi. Enjoy piping-hot pizza served from a rustic oven while dining in a warm and inviting atmosphere. The Buffet at TI also includes a country bakery full of delightful desserts.
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The United Nations has been using sport in their development programmes for years now and in the report 'UN INTER-AGENCY TASK FORCE on sport for development and peace' it is explained why sport is so effective for development and therefore why the United Nations use it as a tool for development and peace towards achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.
Wilfried Lemke, who is the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Sport for Development and Peace, stated that sport plays a big role in the efforts of the United Nations to improve the lives of people around the world, with the believe that sport builds bridges between individuals and across communities and provides a fertile ground for sowing the seeds of development and peace.
The United Nations strongly believes that sport is a perfect way to connect since it has been used in both development cooperation and humanitarian aid efforts. In order to achieve their objectives, several UN programmes have utilized the power of sport, especially the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDG's) which were adopted in the year of 2000.
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YORKTON, Sask. — Brad Jacobs of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., is one of four skips looking to advance at the Canadian Open.
Jacobs downed Switzerland's Yannick Schwaller 7-3 on Thursday to lock up a spot in one-of-two A Finals at the fourth event and third major on the Grand Slam of Curling circuit.
He found out who his opponent would be in the evening draw, when American Korey Dropkin toppled Regina' Matt Dunstone 5-4 to set up a match with Jacobs.
Brad Gushue of St. John's, N.L., will face Calgary's Kevin Koe in the other A Final.
All four skips are 2-0.
The Canadian Open has a unique structure with triple knockout for preliminary play.
Teams must win three games before losing three games in order to qualify for the weekend playoffs. Each loss drops teams to a lower bracket until they are eliminated.
Two A-qualifiers (3-0 records), three B-qualifiers (3-1 records) and three C-qualifiers (3-2 records) advance to the playoffs.
Jacobs is seeking a third consecutive Grand Slam of Curling men's title after winning the Tour Challenge and the National.


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Undergraduate Courses
University of British Columbia
ENGL 244: Unreal Environments in the Renaissance
Professor: Dr. Vin Nardizzi
Winter 2019 (Term 1)
What might utopia, floral still life painting, and a knight's quest across an allegorical landscape all have in common? This course proposes that, in different ways, each genre tries to imagine environments that are "unreal": they do not seem to adhere in a strict way to our prevailing norms of spatial and temporal representation. What can they tell us about environmental aesthetics in Renaissance England? And why might other artist-readers in the period have tried to map some of these unreal textual environments?
Course texts will include Thomas More's Utopia, William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene(selections), John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, and an array of art (including Hieronymus Bosch, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, and Rachel Ruysch). We will supplement these primary works with shorter readings in art and environmental theory that attend to techniques of realism, Renaissance practices of observation and description, and the histories of cartography, empire, and gender. In addition to active and engaged participation, students are expected to submit two short papers and take a midterm exam; there is no final exam.
University of British Columbia
RMST 221B: Animal Reading
Professor: Dr. Juliet O'Brien
Winter 2019 (Term 1)
What does it mean to be an animal? To be a human? And what does reading have to do with anything?
Animal studies and the environmental humanities are ideas that are increasingly familiar to 21st-century readers; viewed here through the lens of some of the finest and most intriguing literary works from the premodern Romance world, with important interactions with other literatures around the whole world and influences on them, and spanning a range of forms: from short poems to encyclopaedias, from fables to bestiaries, from saints' miracles to dramatic multimedia satires.
What, where, and when is this "Romance World I: Medieval to Early Modern" of the course title? We'll be in places where the linguistic relatives of today's Catalan, French, Italian, Occitan, Portuguese, and Spanish are used; our two set texts are from the 12th and the 16th centuries CE, but we'll be talking about manuscript and multimedia cultures from the 6th century onwards … and before and after, from an "in the middle" in the sense of not being in the beginning nor in End Times … and elsewhere: potentially adventuring anywhere in a Global Middle Ages, depending on where students' interests take us.
We will start small: listening to a frog in a 12th-century Troubadour poem in Old Occitan by Marcabru, "Bel m'es quan la rana chanta." We will revisit this frog at the end of the course, to see how our readings have changed along the way, and how we have changed through them.
Our two set / required texts in the main body of the course are originally in 12th- and 16th-century French; through them, we will meet animals in associated works from France, Italy, and Spain (and other areas where Romance vernaculars are spoken, in a multilingual world; our 12th-c. set text, for example, is from England). There will be reading about animals, of animals, and physically on animals (through online digitised manuscripts and books in the library); shape-shifting; animals reading (and speaking, interacting, and otherwise showing evidence of sentience and thinking); and reading humans as animals (via Montaigne). Along the way, readings and student presentations may converse with—for example—wolves, dogs, foxes, bears, birds, bees, donkeys, horses, deer, cats, squirrels, rabbits, snails, unicorns, hedgehogs, lions, chickens, sheep, fish, whales, otters, beavers (and of course frogs).
All texts will be worked on in English translation, though students will have the option, if they wish, of using versions in the original (or a modernized variant) in their final projects.
Douglas College
ENGL 2116: Being Bad in the Middle Ages: The 7 Deadly Sins
Professor: Dr. Noëlle Phillips
Fall 2019
Sin. This is an ugly and historically powerful word. Ideas of sin and salvation shaped the medieval Western European worldview. The hierarchy of the seven deadly sins – those sins which would endanger one's soul – was therefore a commonly recurring theme in medieval literature, philosophy, and theology. However, everyone knows that sin is not simply deadly; it can also be fun. The very significance and intensity of the seven deadly sins meant that they had the attraction of the taboo.
In this course, students will read a range of medieval and Renaissance texts that take a variety of approaches to the seven deadly sins: intellectual, literary, theological, dirty, funny, fearful, and artistic, to name a few. We will find out what lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, anger, envy, and pride looked like 500-1000 years ago – and discuss what they look like today.
Pacific University Oregon
ENGL 340: Estrangéd Woods; or, Theatre and the Environment
Professor: Dr. Elizabeth E. Tavares
Fall 2019
To survey fundamentals of genre, dramaturgy, and theatre studies criticism, this course explores the ways in which performance constitutes an environmental act. Organized into three units is a schedule of plays and other readings from a range of periods and perspectives. Some of these plays take place in nature, some are explicitly about ecology, and in some the environment becomes a political agent. To consider the spatial and material aspects of theatre, the class will attend a professional production in Portland (Macbeth), on campus (Orlando), and then students will have the opportunity to seek out and review a performance of their choosing. By developing a series of three interlocking essays that culminate in a final portfolio, students will have the opportunity to analyze a particular dramatic oeuvre and employ a specific theoretical lens as a means to interrogate the relationship between dramatic form and our environment.
University of British Columbia
ENGL 393: Natural History in the Anthropocene
Professor: Dr. Vin Nardizzi
Winter 2019 (Term 2)
In a widely-read essay, Dipesh Charkrabarty observes that "anthropogenic explanations of climate change spell the collapse of the age-old humanist distinction between natural history and human history" (Critical Inquiry 2009, 201). What, exactly, does Charkrabarty mean here by "natural history"? In pursuing this question, we'll explore the history of this genre in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including Philemon Holland's translation of Pliny and works by Francis Bacon, Margaret Cavendish, Thomas Browne, and Gilbert White, to get a sense of natural history's goals, its adjacent fields of inquiry (antiquarianism, collections of wonder, experimental science, and encyclopedism), and its practitioners. We'll then be in a position to assess this genre's persistence in popular, artistic, and scientific writings about the Anthropocene, which is the new (and highly contested) name for our current geological epoch. Some of this writing even dates the emergence of the Anthropocene to the early seventeenth century. More broadly, we'll want to ascertain how this body of writing incorporates and updates for the Anthropocene natural history's abiding goals. Our primary readings here will include Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (2014) and Gregg Mitman, Marco Armiero, and Robert S. Emmett's Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene (2018).
In addition to active and engaged participation, students are expected to submit three short papers; there is no final exam.
University of British Columbia
ITAL 403 (cross-listed with ITST 413): Within the Universe, the Universe Within: Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy
Professor: Dr. Daniela Boccassini
Winter 2019 (Term 1)
Undoubtedly the best-known among all poems written in the Italian language during the last seven hundred years, Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy takes us on a most unusual journey. We begin our travels quivering with the wayfarer at the outskirts of a ghastly dark forest, and we end up basking in the blissful light of a cosmic embrace. What makes such a change of perspective possible? It is the journey itself, answers Dante, who in his visionary exploration of "the beyond" is taught by his teachers, Virgil and Beatrice, how fearlessly to plumb the abysses and expanse of the human psyche.
From exile to reintegration, from wretchedness to felicity, this is the story of a process of inner transmutation, whose liberating power has touched countless readers over the ages and across cultures. More than ever today Dante's poem is apt to teach us, "on the wings of the night," how progressively to uncover the vastness that lies hidden within every single atom of our own self, and of the universe that surrounds us.
In the words of Pope Francis (2014), Dante is "a prophet of hope, herald of the possibility of redemption, liberation and the profound transformation of every man and woman, of all humanity." As such, he "still has much to say and to offer through his immortal works to those who wish to follow the route of true knowledge and authentic discovery of the self, the world and the profound and transcendent meaning of existence." In order to do this, Dante walks a very thin line between orthodoxy and heterodoxy, the path taken by visionaries of all times and spiritual traditions.
Dante's cosmic perspective is more powerfully inspiring today than ever, witness the exemplary role his journey played in shaping the worldview of C. G. Jung, the father of analytical psychology, at the beginning of the 20th century, and at the other end of that same century, the "wild sacred" vision of Thomas Berry, the father of spiritual ecology. It is indeed as a "wounded healer", as a "modern shaman", and even more compellingly perhaps as an ante litteram ecologist and activist of the world-soul that Dante asks to be understood today — once shattering vision within the boundaries of society's legitimizing and self-serving needs.
Graduate Courses
University of British Columbia
ENGL 510B: Medieval Humans and Beasts
Professor: Dr. Mo Pareles
Winter 2019 (Term 1)
As Cary Wolfe observed in 2003, regarding animals as moral nonentities is the epistemological requirement for reducing human others to animal status. Much medieval cultural production seems to rebuke humanist narcissism: in premodern literature we see hybrid human-animal saints, birdsong drowning out human speech, and wild predators as moral actors. But other literature—for instance, Middle English devotional poetry in which the child Jesus gleefully turns Jews into pigs—demonstrates that medieval authors were also well-versed in species denigration as a racial, religious, and sexual cudgel.
This graduate medieval studies seminar examines the boundary between humans and beasts, interrogating how racial, sexual, and other forms of difference overlap with human-animal difference in medieval literature and culture. We will also consider when and how questions of sovereignty and subordination, linguistic difference, disability, childhood, and queerness become affiliated with the bestial, and how both violence and eroticism use the beast as figure and alibi. Also of concern to us will be the relationship between animal studies and medieval studies, and the place of medieval animal studies vis-à-vis ecocriticism, critical race theory and decolonial studies, and other potentially overlapping disciplines.
Primary texts may include Old English riddles, the alliterative Middle English Siege of Jerusalem, the Early South English Legendary, Marie de France's Bisclavret, Gerald of Wales's History and Topography of Ireland, Marco Polo's Description of the World, hunting manuals, and homoerotic love poetry. Theoretical texts will include work by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Mel Y. Chen, Bénédicte Boisseron, Karl Steel, Peggy McCracken, Kari Weil, and Tavia Nyong'o.
University of California, Davis
ENL 232: Allegory, the Unthinkable, and the More-than-Human in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1596) and Amoretti
Professor: Dr. Tiffany Jo Werth
Winter 2020
Modern readers might think of Edmund Spenser as the author of one of England's longest poems writ, as Ben Jonson quipped, in "no language." An unfinished work, it praises Queen Elizabeth I, memorialized as Gloriana, Belphoebe, Cynthia, or the "Faerie Queene." Yet while the poem seemingly shadows this human monarch, she barely appears and its world teems with what cultural geographer Sarah Whatmore terms more-than-human life: a "clownishe" and elfin knight, a mournful tree, an unfriendly dragon, false avatars, a crafty shape-shifting hermit, a resourceful dwarf, an iron man, gender-bending heroines, giants and a blatant beast, within an interwoven plot that tells of two rivers in love, a sea deity who sulks, graces and angels who disappear, self-guided lances, a headstrong horse and a happy human-cum-hog. This course explores the limits of literary modes such as allegory, the poetics of lyric, and the long form of the early modern romance alongside questions that stretch the meaning of "human." Together, we will analyze Spenser's "worlding" that anticipates many recent posthumanist theories (ecofeminism, the Chthulucene, game theory, geontologies, and other unthinkables).


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Many people think that Xiaomi works only on smartphones. But Xiaomi has a lot of backgrounds and can be said to be everywhere. One of the main parts of the company's strategy is smart home, which can not be thought of without artificial intelligence. Yesterday, the MIDI Xiaomi AIOT 2018 Developer Conference was held in Beijing. The theme of the conference was "Empowering AI, Linking Everything Together." At the conference, Xiaomi announced interesting information on AI and collaboration with IKEA, and described the capabilities of the Xiao AI audio assistant, and introduced new products, including xiaomi mijia smart door lock.
Initially, Lee Jun stated that the Xiaomi group had launched the IoT project since 2014, and supports almost 2000 devices with more than 132 million smart device connections. The number of devices enabled by Xiao Ai is about 100 million units. The total number of active devices exceeds 8 billion, and the number of active activists per month is more than 34 million.
At the same time, Xiaomi and IKEA achieved a strategic partnership. The IKEA smart lighting line will be connected to the Xiaomi IoT platform in December, supporting voice control of the Mijia App and Xiao AI. This is the first time IKEA has partnered with Chinese technology companies.
In addition, as it was said, the manufacturer unveiled a new smart product called xiaomi mijia smart door lock, which is compatible with a variety of unlocking and Mijia applications.
The xiaomi mijia smart door lock is reported to have been designed by the Mijia ID design team. The lock has a C-Class C-Lock core with an original metal clip that supports Live Integrated 3D fingerprint recognition, password, NFC, Bluetooth, and other unlocking methods (a total of 6 methods). There are 7 internal security sensors and over 10 security technologies in the lock. This door lock supports the Mijia App Smart Unicom.
Regardless of whether we deal with a traditional door lock or an intelligent door lock, the status key determines the ability to protect the lock cylinder. At present, according to the relevant standards, the door lock core can be divided into three degrees A / B / C, Class C has the best safety. GA / T 73 'Mechanical Anti-Theft Lock' The Ministry of Public Health of the People's Republic of China (MPS) says the time to open the three-layer lock-up prevention technology is less than 1 minute, 5 minutes and 10 minutes, respectively. In fact, when many lock-in thieves see the C-lock cylinder, they decide to immediately pass through it, because the opening process is too long and the possibility of opening it is greatly reduced. So, when choosing smart door locks, you should select Class C Cylinders.
Technically, Class A and Class B lock cylinders have given enough tests, and the design of a fake metal block can not guarantee the security of the body lock. However, many manufacturers of smart door locks that do not have the technical capabilities still use class A and Class B lock cylinders and synthetic metal fasteners in their products. For this reason, the Meiji Smart Door Lock is equipped with a Class C lock cylinder with a real metal clamp and the latest model.
Compared to other intelligent door locks, the main advantage of the door locks is the support of the Xi'Aio AIOT platform. For example, when the user opens the door, Xiao AI will welcome him, the air conditioner will be adjusted to the proper temperature, and so on.
xiaomi mijia smart door lock will be available on December 5 at 14:00.


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The world is completely different these days than when you were growing up. Children are exposed to things at much earlier ages than you possibly were. Sex is incorporated into almost all segment of society. Commercials, movies, magazines, and the media in general all use sex to advertise just about everything such as cars, trucks & motorcycles, clothing, diet aids, vacations, even acne medicine. According to numerous scientific studies, American parents and their adolescents tremendously have the same opinion that sexual issues should be taught at home.
Nevertheless, over one- third of adolescents said they have never had a useful conversation about sex with their parents. The truth is, your child will learn about sex, either from you or from someone else. Educating your child about the need for personal limits as well as the responsibilities and consequences of sexual activity will assist him/her make informed and healthy personal decisions. Talking about relationships, limitations and sexual issues will be easier when you initiate early and continue the communication as your child matures.
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Furthermore, sex is a huge part of the entertainment media. Whether on TV and movies, music and videos, or magazines and books, sex will make you stop what you're doing and look. And perhaps, if you stop and if you look for long enough you'll want to buy something because sex sells. For that reason teens nowadays are more curious because they see and hear a lot about sex especially in the television and might be the reason for them to engage in sex at a young age. In addition, the average child watch 20 hours of television a week and nearly seven episodes per hour has sexual content.
In addition, sex is a word loaded with social taboos and cultural mystery. It is 100% essential for the continuation of the human race and yet it is treated as if it is unnatural, even down right dirty. It's not however this stigma is what makes parents freak out when their teen announces he or she is ready to give it a try in a young age. Although this reaction is a natural one for parents to have, it is not without some merit. Sex in the new millennium is filled with risks both emotional and physical.
Lots of medium are used nowadays that persuade teens to engage in sex. Magazine in particular plays a big part in encouraging teens to have sex at an early age. It covers real stories that teens can relate with and give additional information about sex. Teen sex is a major public health problem according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. The physical, emotional, and social consequences of teen sexual activity include high rates of teen pregnancy, and sexually transmitted diseases including AIDS.
Every year 25% of sexually active teenagers contract a sexually transmitted disease (STD), and the younger a female is when she first has sex, the more possible it is that she will have involuntary or forced sex. Several health professionals think that mass media content depicting casual sex with no consequences has resulted in a host of negative behaviors amongst teens who might be influenced that teen sexual activity is both acceptable and wide spread.
Even though parents and educators attempt to encourage abstinence or condom use, teens are progressively more exposed to media sexual content that does not give information about health risks and personal responsibility. Both negative and positive advertising messages have been revealed to persuade young people, according to a pediatric medical association that calls on the mass media to promote responsible sex, and healthy behaviors. To do it or not to do it… that is the question that plagues lots of teens. A mixture of hormones and social cues make the drive to become sexually active extremely strong.
Lots of teens make the mistake of giving into their urges without thinking things through. Sex is more than just a pleasurable act; it is a physical risk and an emotional gamble. You can just do it without knowing its consequences or just because you saw it in televisions. Media is very important medium especially to teens since it gives different information that can persuade ones decision. Parents should be alarmed on how shows these days appear in media and how their teens react to this scenario. Also current celebrities as well played an important role in teen's life.
They idolized them so much that everything that they saw in them makes it so normal and for that reason they try to depict or copy. Popular personality like Britney Spears and Paris Hilton is some example of celebrities that greatly influence teen's outlook particularly in sex. Lots of sex scandal of known celebrities appears in the internet giving teens idea in sex activities. In addition to modeling unhealthful sexual behaviors, entertainment might negatively persuade other aspects of teens' physical and psychological well-being.
Research suggests that media portrayals of idealistic body images negatively impact teens' self-esteem. Teens, particularly young females, become discontent with their bodies and might develop unhealthy eating behaviors in an effort to attain media-ideal body types. Even though family and social relationships as well have an influence, teens discover about society and sexual relationships from visual media images portraying body types, clothing, and other cultural norms. Early sexual activity is a important problem in the United States.
A current survey suggested that most sexually experienced teens wish they had waited longer to have intercourse; additional data show that unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases are more common among those who begin sexual activity earlier. Popular music may well contribute to early sex. Music is an essential part of teens' lives. The average youth listens to music 1. 5 to 2. 5 hours per day. Sexual themes are ordinary in much of this music and range from passionate and playful to degrading and aggressive.
Even though a previous longitudinal study has linked music video consumption and sexual risk behavior, no previous study has tested longitudinal associations among the content of music lyrics and succeeding changes in sexual experience, such as intercourse initiation, nor have any study explored whether exposure to diverse kinds of portrayals of sex has different effects. In addition, listening to music with humiliating sexual lyrics is related to advances in a range of sexual activities among adolescents, while this does not seem to be true of other sexual lyrics.
This result is constant with sexual-script theory and suggests that cultural messages about expected sexual behavior among males and females might motivate the effect. Reducing the amount of degrading sexual content in well-liked music or reducing young people's exposure to music with this type of content might help delay the onset of sexual behavior. Furthermore, we can see how powerful celebrities are just by looking at teenagers' lives nowadays.
Pregnancy, drug use, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and other sexually transmitted diseases, injuries, homicide, and suicide have all become part of the landscape of daily life for countless of American teens. Not merely are these things controversial in a teen's life, but as well several of these are being mentioned in music. Music has a harmful effect on teenagers for the reason that they come in contact with it daily. What they are hearing is the same thing they are doing since they think it is right. This is an essential subject of vital interest and concern for parents.
Several parents don't like the change that music is having on teens. The way teenager's dress and how they imitate there idols is an example. Moreover, best example of known celebrities that had shown shameful act is when Justin Timberlake ripped off part of Janet Jackson's outfit and exposed her bare breast to millions who were watching the Super Bowl. During the halftime show, Janet and Justin seductively danced and sang together until Justin tore off her costume and showed us her private part. Several people believe it was a awful thing to do, particularly because children and teenagers were watching the game.
Parents were mad at the head of CBS network for letting it happen. What they did doesn't appear so bad when you think about the sexy talk and action that happens all day and night on TV. Sure, there aren't lots of bare nipples on your TV screen, however turn on a soap opera when you get home from school, and there's a good chance that you will see two people passionately kissing, or even in bed together. Surf to MTV and you'll probably see a beautiful, sexy woman dancing in her underwear. Between 8 pm and 9 pm is the "family hour" on television. Shows are supposed to be suitable for kids to watch with their parents.
During that hour, you and your parents can tune in to Friends – a show about six sexy singles looking for love, or Survivor — a reality show featuring people in bathing suits talking trash about each other. These shows can greatly influence teens about se. It portrays sex as natural and common. Shows such as "Friends" and "Sex in the City" were among the shows influence young viewers to engage in sex. With one out of every seven shows featuring sexual intercourse either "depicted or strongly implied" and two-thirds of shows containing various sort of sexual reference this is a vital topic for the media.
Critics of the study have countered that adolescents who have a curiosity in sex would obviously be drawn toward these types of shows. Furthermore, whether it's hip-hop, rap, pop or rock, much of admired music aimed at teens contains sexual overtones. Its influence on their behavior appears to depend on how the sex is portrayed. Songs depicting men as "sex-driven studs," women as sex objects and with open references to sex acts are more possible to prompt early sexual behavior than those where sexual references are more indirect and relationships appear more dedicated.
Teens who said they listened to lots of music with degrading sexual messages were roughly twice as likely to start having intercourse or other sexual activities within the following two years as were teens who listened to little or no sexually degrading music. Furthermore, open and honest conversations concerning sex are very important to helping your teens save sex for marriage. Conversations need to go beyond physical consequences to include emotional consequences as well as reasons to wait. Kids whose parents are enthusiastic to talk to them about sex are less probable to engage in premarital sex.
Parents are still the most influential factor in teens' decisions about sex. Teens need to know what you think about sex before marriage, and need to feel your confidence that they can wait. However other parents might think their kids already know what they think about sex, nevertheless studies show that parents' messages might not be getting through. Parents need to be extremely clear that they believe youth can endure the pressure to engage in sexual activity, and are completely expected to do so.
Parents as well need to be there during the critical teen years with lots of love and support together with the recurring message that they can and should wait. Maturity is the ability to know the consequences of our actions, and to show a pattern of making wise choices. Saving sex for marriage shows understanding in keeping one's self away from compromising situations away from the fire knowing that there will come a perfect time and place for entirely experiencing the intimate passion of the act of marriage.
Keeping one's self from sexual carelessness is not merely an indicator of self discipline and maturity, but as well helps keep a right focus in life. Getting caught up in boyfriends/girlfriends is fleeting in nature, and can conceal the enduring value of educating minds, and developing talents and skills. The media–whether television, movies, music videos, video games, print, or the Internet-are persistent in today's world and sexual talk and behavior are common and ever more open. More than one-half of the programming on television has sexual content.
Important proportions of music videos and Hollywood movies as well show sexuality or eroticism. Among young people, 10-17 years of age, who frequently use the Internet, one-quarter had encountered unwanted pornography in the past year, and one-fifth had been exposed to unwanted sexual solicitations or approaches through the Internet. Media programming not often depict sexual behavior in the context of a long-term relationship, use of contraceptives, or the potentially negative cost of sexual behavior.
The media do, nevertheless, have the potential for providing sexuality information and education to the public. For instance, more than one-half of the high school boys and girls in a national survey said they had learn about birth control, contraception, or preventing pregnancy from television; roughly two-thirds of the girls and 40 percent of the boys said they had learned about these topics from magazines.
Cari Rutledge, Comprehensive Sex Ed. Programs vs. Abstinence Only Programs, Retrieved on February 26, 2007 at http://tiger. towson. du/users/crutle2/SEXED2. htm Daniel J. DeNoon , Media Messages Harm Child, Teen Health http://www. webmd. com/parenting/news/20060403/media-messages-harm-child- teen-health Dr. Karen Effrem, Teen Sex Education: What You Teach Is What You Get, Retrieved on February 26, 2007 at http://www. mfc. org/resources/backgrounders/teensex. htm Elias, Marilyn, TV might rush teens into sex, USA TODAY, Retrieved at http://www. usatoday. com/news/health/2004-09-06-teens-tv-sex-usat_x. htm Sexuality in the Mass Media: How to View the Media Critically, Retrieved at http://www. oc. ucsb. edu/sexinfo/? article=activity;refid=026 Sharon Jayson, Technical virginity' becomes part of teens' equation, USA TODAY, Retrieved on February 26, 2006 at http://www. usatoday. com/news/health/2005- 10-19-teens-technical-virginity_x. htm Sharon Jayson, Teens define sex in new ways, USA TODAY, Retrieved on February 26, 2006 at http://www. usatoday. com/news/health/2005-10-18-teens-sex_x. htm Strong Religious Views Decrease Teens' Likelihood of Having Sex, Retrieved on February 26, 2007 at http://parentingteens. about. com/cs/teensexuality/a/teensex. htm


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Lisa Gudath
Florida is Home
Prior to earning her Real Estate License in Florida, Lisa was an accomplished Real Estate Agent in Massachusetts. She has been described by her clients in the real estate industry as diligent, patient, responsive and honest. She credits her success to her ability to develop an understanding of the wants and needs of each of her clients. She understands the importance of follow-up and follow-through, and making sure that her clients know she is there and working for them.
Lisa began her career as an Information Technology professional in Flagstaff, Arizona as the owner of the local technology provider CompDirect. She went on to become the Network Administrator at Multi-Systems, Inc. a software company in the Hospitality sector. She later moved to Boston, MA, where she spend the remainder of her 22-year technology career as the Technology Administrator of a Special Education Collaborative.
Lisa transitioned into real estate and became the #2 top producing agent in her company during her first year. As a Florida native who was born and raised in Brandon and Tampa, attended Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, and now calls Treasure Island home, she is well versed in the Tampa Bay area.
Station House 260 1st Avenue South, 5th floor
St. Petersburg, FL 33701
Phone: 727.497.7521


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Labor increased its voice on Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee's 'Choose Washington NMA Council' with the recent additions of
SPEEA Communication Director Bill Dugovich
as co-lead of the Communications Subcommittee
and former Washington State Labor Council
President Rick Bender to Council Co-Chair.
Already a member of the communications
committee, Dugovich joins Stan Sorscher and
Chelsea Orvella as a committee co-chair on the
New Middle-Market Airplane (NMA) Council.
IAM District 751 President Jon Holden and
Legislative Director Larry Brown are also on
the Council.
The IAM and SPEEA commissioned Richard
Aboulafia of the Teal Group to perform an independent competitive analysis of Washington's
position to design, manufacture and assemble
Boeing's proposed middle-market airplane.
"This will be an unbiased analysis that will be
driven by the data," Aboulafia said in a recent
telephone conference. "It will be the most
targeted, comprehensive study of where you
want to build this airplane."
The Council and subcommittees are made
up of a diverse group from labor, industry,
business groups, local and state officials. The
group formed to ensure Washington state
and our experienced workforce and aerospace
infrastructure are given the best consideration
for locating the NMA program.
Spirit AeroSystems open
The AFL-CIO started the Workers Memorial in 1970 to draw attention to workplace safety and injury prevention efforts. Labor ceremonies take place on or
around April 28.
In Everett, the Snohomish County Labor Council
plans a memorial April 25 at 5 p.m. at the
Mission Courtyard at the County Courthouse,
at the corner of Wetmore and Pacific.
The Wichita Hutchison Labor Federation plans
an event April 26 at 6 p.m., at Machinist's
District 70 hall, 3830 S. Meridian, Wichita.
WICHITA – Foremployees represented by SPEEA at Spirit AeroSystems, open enrollment is April 24 – May
4. Open enrollment is the only time of the year
to make routine changes to your health care plan
unless you have a qualified status change during
the year.
In addition to the Core and Enhanced Plans, and
due to negotiations last year, Spirit is continuing
to offer the four non-union "rainbow" medical
plans, the Yellow, Green, Blue and Orange Plans,
three of which are Health Savings Account-Qualified High Deductible Health Plans (
HSA-Q HDHP). You must complete the steps in
annual open enrollment, the same as last year,
to be covered by a health plan of your choosing
along with your dependents.
If you change medical plans, changes take effect
July 1.
If you enroll previously uncovered dependents,
their coverage will take effect July 1.
It is always a good idea to take a fresh examination of the plans available, according to Matt
Kempf, SPEEA staff.
"Often, individuals get frightened by high
deductibles and do not realize that the premiums required for the Core Plan can be higher
than the premiums plus deductibles minus the
employer-paid accounts," he said.
"This year, even more than last year, individuals
in the Core Plan should strongly consider the
Green Plan and/or the Enhanced Plan, even if
they expect to have health care costs that are
above normal."
Kempf will be in Wichita to present informational seminars to SPEEA-represented employees
April 9 - 10 and April 30 - May 1. Kempf's
presentation will be available at www.speea.org
before April 24.
New this year, a safety vision benefit will be
provided for all employees, with no employee
premiums. This new benefit covers annual
safety glasses up to the plan maximums. As a
reminder, the vision exam and hardware benefit
were carved out of the medical plans last year so
that individuals who don't need medical can opt
to enroll in vision independently. Three vision
options are available.
Last year, the dental plan options were expanded,
and all are free from premium contributions.
Because they all cost the same amount, it makes
sense for every single individual to enroll in the
plan with the most coverage even if you don't
think you require the most coverage.
In late 2016, Spirit announced an improved
relationship with the Via Christi provider system,
modifying the network for hospitals and facilities
in certain Kansas counties effective July 1, 2017.
SPEEA has received very few complaints about
the Via Christi system.
Enhanced Plan – pay low premiums
The Enhanced Plan has low monthly premiums
but has a deductible you must pay when you
incur non-preventative claims. If you do incur
expenses, the company provided Personal Care
Account (PCA) can help cover some of the
expenses. If you don't incur any expenses, the
PCA rolls over from year to year.
Core Plan – pay highest premiums
The Core Plan has the highest fixed costs in
monthly premiums. The Core Plan requires
referrals, but in certain circumstances has office
visits with zero copay. Before any Healthy Spirit
premium reductions, an employee enrolled in
the Core Plan will pay more than $4,300 next
year in premiums. The premiums required to
enroll in the Core Plan for a family are $3,244
more than the family premiums for the Enhanced
Plan. When coupled with the $1,500 Family
PCA, the premium savings plus the PCA are
more than the entire family medical out-of-pocket maximum.
Yellow Plan – high premiums with copays
The Yellow Plan has copays for primary and
specialty office visits.
Green Plan – HSA qualified and moderate premiums
The Green Plan is about twice as expensive as the
Enhanced Plan, and the deductibles are aggregate
deductibles (different than the Enhanced Plan).
The Green Plan is a HSA-Qualified High
Deductible Health Plan, which means you may
establish and fund a Health Savings Account.
If you are HSA eligible, Spirit will also make a
contribution to your HSA account.
Blue Plan – HSA qualified, higher deductibles
and lower premiums than Green
The Blue Plan has a higher deductible than
the Green Plan, making it less expensive. Like
the Green Plan, the non-individual deductibles
are aggregate deductibles (different than the
Enhanced Plan) and need to be fully understood
prior to enrollment.
Orange Plan – HSA qualified, highest deductible
and negative premiums
The Orange Plan has the highest deductible,
making this plan function more like a catastrophic medical plan. In addition to the HSA
company contributions, Spirit will pay you to
take this plan option.


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Kiss Grenade is a thrown variant of the grenade featured in Crossfire.
It is a pink-colored with a kiss mark appearance. It shows kiss marks when it explodes to celebrate the Valentine's Day.
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The building itself is large and on top of the tallest hill in the valley. Gun turrets and fencing line the area and black helicopters are so regular that it made the local paper in the 90's.
The entryway to this facility is strangely old (maybe Victorian or earlier) yet the place itself is only thirty to forty years old, a large stone entryway with ornate features and a warning sign cautioning visitors with violence. Every holiday season they illuminate the whole side of the building with a giant happy face during the evening, which perplexes me unless it's a signal or beacon.
Now to the main topic. On the long and winding road to this facility is Partrick Rd. Possibly the most haunted and spooky, dark road in Napa. Gravity hills abound and there are tales since the baby boomer years of half monkey/half robots with wings that live in the trees and attack passerby and travelers. These are the locally famous "Rebobs."
Anyone else heard of these creatures? I've never seen one but then again the people around me refuse to go there as they think it's an evil place and it ends with a dead end driveway to the military complex.