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By Matt Ellis
"Experts are the people who make the impossible possible, so make me the plan to succeed."
This quote from Israeli Army general Ben Gurion during the 1967 Six Day War was included on the agenda for a recent AffinEco Leadership Team meeting. It illustrates how the company is harnessing its leaders to play a greater role in the company's future growth and development.
"We want to increase the strategic thinking within the company and develop leaders who are strategic thinkers and problem solvers. We want people to see the big picture that Michael [Diamond] and I have, and understand the big picture when servicing clients," said Managing Partner Paul Senecal.
"We offer a unique business proposition to our customers which goes beyond service delivery. We provide the additional value of our management insight, so we need to develop that among our leaders," Managing Partner Michael Diamond added. "The deeper we drive the leadership in our organization, the better our teams work and more efficient and effective we can be."
In 2010, when Premier Maintenance, United Services and Melillo Maintenance merged the companies under the AffinEco umbrella, Diamond and Senecal knew eventually a new corporate culture would emerge as the result of bringing these three divisions together. Moving under "one roof" at the company's new corporate headquarters in Bridgeport last year has helped to mature that process.
Now, AffinEco has formalized regular Leadership Team meetings, facilitated by an outside consultant, to identify goals and deliverables, and to create a structure to get them done.
"This is not about improving our cleaning process. That's something we are doing all the time," said Diamond. "This is about the setting the company's goals and directions—really focusing on the big picture."
Diamond says the meetings are intense; on average they run six hours. At the July 2013 meeting, the team identified 17 strategic goals and assigned each one to a team member to oversee its implementation. The goals vary from financial to operational to cultural.
For example, AffinEco has identified a specific kind of client it wants added to its roster and expects to have at least one in place by Q4 2014; it will roll out online inspection software for all its field teams by Q1 2014; and it will expect to beat the industry average for client retention by 50 percent.
So far, Diamond and Senecal say the company is responding well to the challenges.
"It's always a balancing act," said Diamond. "We know that to achieve excellence we have to stretch it a bit, but everyone is working hard and smart. We are asking them to take on additional responsibilities by owning certain deliverables, because it's important for their growth and the company's growth."
The process of including managers at multiple levels within the organization has helped create a sense of shared ownership.
"Overall they see the hard work it takes, but they feel proud of the opportunity to help shape the direction of the company," said Senecal.
The hockey star Wayne Gretzky famously said, "I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been." AffinEco embraces that concept for designing where its company is headed and not focusing on where it has been or what issues it has already overcome.


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Simon Osborne sets out the changes made to ESA by the Welfare Reform Act 2012, and other changes and procedures that result from them.
The Act makes changes to the rules regarding contributory employment and support allowance (ESA) and ESA in youth. Not in the Act, but consequential to it, are changes to the linking rules regarding periods of limited capability for work. The Act makes no changes to the rules on income-related ESA, or to the work capability assessment. The changes are introduced on 1 May 2012.
Contributory ESA – time limiting
The Act provides that entitlement to contributory ESA will be time limited, so that once the claimant has had a cumulative total of 365 days (ie, a year) of entitlement, it comes to an end.1 However, any time spent in the support group will be ignored. Time spent in the assessment phase will be taken into account in calculating the 365 days, except where the claimant was put into the support group immediately after the assessment phase. Detailed guidance is in Memo DMG 13/12.
This change is introduced from 1 May 2012.2However, time already spent on contributory ESA (excluding time in the support group) before the date of change will be taken into account in calculating the 365 days.3Claimants who are appealing (including to claim membership of the support group) will still be subject to time limiting, although those put into the support group as a result of the appeal will be entitled to arrears. For claimants being 'migrated' onto ESA from incapacity benefit, time spent on incapacity benefit will not be taken into account.
After contributory ESA is lost
Claimants who lose their entitlement to contributory ESA due to time limiting may still be entitled to income-related ESA, under the normal rules. Claimants who are no longer entitled to any ESA but who still have limited capability for work will (as the DWP confirms) still be entitled to national insurance contribution credits on that basis.4
It is possible to requalify for contributory ESA. This is where at least one of two situations apply:5
- the national insurance contribution test is satisfied, and the tax years that apply to that test are different in that at least one of those years is later than the later of the two years that applied to the previous award; or
- the claimant has retained limited capability for work, but is now assessed as being in the support group.
Note that under the linking rules, contribution years may remain the same, but the linking rules are being changed (see below). Time limiting will apply to any new entitlement to contributory ESA, under the rules described above – ie, so that if a claimaint requalifies only by getting into the support group and s/he is later put back into the work-related activity group, entitlement will end straight away.
ESA in youth – abolition and time limiting
The Act provides that ESA in youth will be abolished for new claimants, and that existing claims will be time limited as for contributory ESA – ie, so as to expire after 365 days, excluding time in the support group.6The changes are introduced on 1 May, so that a new claim for ESA in youth is possible up to and including 30 April 2012.7Detailed guidance is in Memo DMG 13/12.
Following the abolition of ESA in youth, new claims will not be possible. So it will not be possible to requalify for it once it has been lost, even where the claimant is subsequently put in the support group. Such a claimant will be able to get contributory ESA under the normal rules, but that will not include having to satisfy the national insurance contribution conditions. Claimants may also be entitled to income-related ESA under the normal rules.
Linking rules – abolition of 104-week rule
There is nothing in the Act about changes to the linking rules regarding periods of limited capability for work; but regulations make such a change on the same date as the changes to ESA.8
The change is the abolition of the 104-week linking rule – ie, so that periods of limited capability for work may only be linked under the 12- week rule (which will remain unchanged). The 104-week rule is abolished for both contributory and income-related ESA, including for support group members. The 104-week rule may apply up to and including 30 April 2012. The change is to avoid claimants being treated as having the same tax years for national insurance contributions even where (after 12 weeks) they have broken their period of limited capability for work, and so find it even more difficult to requalify for contributory ESA. However, for income-related ESA it will mean that returning claimants can in general no longer use the 104-week rule to go back immediately to their old level of ESA, although the 104-week rule is retained for the purpose of housing costs where the claimant is a 'work or training beneficiary'.
It is expected that around 100,000 people will lose entitlement to contributory ESA immediately when the change is introduced on 1 May. Regarding claimants in Great Britain (separate arrangements will be made in Northern Ireland as it is a devolved matter), the DWP says that it will contact all claimants of contributory ESA before their entitlement ends to inform them of when that will happen and what their options are.
The Department also says that where it is 'aware of an underlying entitlement' to incomerelated ESA, the claimant will be 'automatically' moved onto that when her/his contributory ESA ends. Anyone on contributory ESA who wishes to claim income-related ESA does not need to make a new claim for ESA; instead s/he should contact Jobcentre Plus and complete form ESA3. However, the Department is maintaining its position that claimants living abroad cannot get income-related ESA.
Since 29 February, the Department has been telephoning and then writing to claimants whose contributory ESA will end between 1 May and 3 June 2012 and who have not claimed incomerelated ESA, to ask them if they wish to claim it.
For claimants whose contributory ESA ends after 3 June 2012, a standard process will ensure that they are issued with a notification eight weeks before the date entitlement will end, including details of how to ask for consideration for income-related ESA.9
Please be aware that welfare rights law and guidance change frequently. Therefore older Bulletin articles may be out of date. Use keywords or the search function to find more recent material on this topic.
- 1. s51 Welfare Reform Act 2012 ('WRA 2012'); s1A Welfare Reform Act 2007 ('WRA 2007')
- 2. The Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No.1) Order 2012, SI No.863(C.23)
- 3. s51 WRA 2012; s1A(6) WRA 2007
- 4. para 3 'Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) Legislative Changes 2012 for claimants in Great Britain', DWP, March 2012
- 5. s52 WRA 2012; ss1A(3) and 1B(1) WRA 2007
- 6. s53 WRA 2012; s1(3A) WRA 2007
- 7. The Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No.1) Order 2012, SI No.863; 'Changes to contribution-based Employment and Support Allowance', DWP, March 2012, via
- 8. The Employment and Support Allowance (Amendment of Linking Rules) Regulations 2012, SI No.919
- 9. paras 14–23 'Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) Legislative Changes 2012'


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I've been tagged by La Rêveuse
I'm not really that weird (HA!! Most family members will disagree here.) so it will take some doing to answer these, but I'll do my best!
Seven Weird Things About Me.
1. Before I can do the laundry the hangers must be lined up by size and type.
2. For the most part I don't like listening to women sing. Rarely does a woman have a voice that I would buy a cd for.
3. I can eat peanut butter for every meal, and I don't get sick of it.
4. I hate when people can't spell. It drives me crazy, and that's pretty sad because Miss 9 has a Written Expression learning disability, and she has a terrible time with spelling. Mostly it's adults though, students I can tolerate fine.
5. I actually really enjoy Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with Donny Osmond in it. In fact Miss 9 and I just finished watching it~ again.
6. I have a terrible time sitting still for an entire movie. I can sit and read a book for hours, but make me watch a movie and I'll be up a dozen times.
7. I can "gleek" from under my tongue at will and hit someone nearly 5 feet away. (what a pretty picture, huh? Thanks for remembering this talent of mine, Mrs. B)
I'm supposed to tag seven people, but I can't think of 7 people who read here... so I'll go with D AND N8 at Mia and You-a Travelin'.
And Jen at Allen Fieldhouse.
Your it guyz! (Those misspellings and grammatical errors were just for you La Rêveuse.
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When you think of Switzerland, a few things probably come to mind: The Alps, chocolate, fine watches, and banking privacy. And despite its global reputation for the latter, the presence of fintech firms isn't as strong as you would think, especially given the country's longstanding expertise in banking and finance. But this is rapidly changing as a new generation of Swiss firms are springing forward with products and services aimed squarely at banking and finance consumers in the digital age.
Since coming under scrutiny for its longstanding privacy protections—a tradition that made Switzerland into a leading global financial center—the economy hasn't had quite the boost it used to have from the industry. These top 13 Swiss Fintech startups are set to reinvigorate the region's banking and finance space in 2016 with their innovative offerings.
13. CashSentinel
Swiss smartphone-based payment solutions are on the rise, especially with the merging of popular local offerings Twint and Paymit. CashSentinel is a promising fintech venture that offers a better, more secure way to pay with your smartphone—all that's required is proper ID.
12. investiere
Platforms like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo may dominate the crowdfunding space, but recently a myriad of platforms have emerged to provide more specialized funding needs. investiere is one such offering that allows investors to finance promising startups with innovative ideas, as opposed to single products or projects. To be featured, companies must pass a rigorous vetting process—the few companies that qualify equate to roughly 1-2% out of 1000+ startups every year.
11. SwissMetrics
Effective debt management is crucial to maintaining a company's financial well-being. SwissMetrics has developed a SaaS-based platform to help companies monitor credit risk and minimize debt.
10. monetas
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4. wealthport
Wealthport develops AI-driven data solutions for integrating, analyzing, and making sense out of disparate data sources. Retailers can use the platform to map another company's unique data schema to its own, reducing the time and effort needed to integrate new suppliers and partners.
3. Bity
Bitcoin and Ethereum are now the two most popular forms of cryptocurrency; in response, a myriad of software providers have developed platforms and tools for buying/selling them. Bity is one such offering that converts traditional money into cryptocurrencies and digital assets—in fact, Bitcoin ATMs are available in Geneva, Lausanne, and Montreux, thanks to its efforts.
2. Moneypark
Moneypark helps prospective and existing homebuyers compare mortgage options to ensure that they obtain best rates and terms. It even provides a service for tailored pension solutions to help users optimize their employment benefits.
1. Contovista
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The Swiss economy—fueled by local businesses and entrepreneurs seeking to reinvent themselves in the wake of the country's difficulties—may soon be poised for a comeback as the country re-establishes its banking and finance reputation on the global stage. Be sure to keep an eye on these 13 Swiss fintech upstarts as they refine their offerings over the coming months and years.
- https://www.cashsentinel.com
- https://www.investiere.ch
- http://www.swiss-metrics.com
- https://monetas.net
- http://www.tradegear.ch
- https://www.splendit.ch
- http://www.netguardians.ch
- https://www.runmyaccounts.ch
- https://www.tawipay.com
- https://www.wealthport.com
- https://bity.com
- https://moneypark.ch/en/
- https://www.contovista.com
- http://fintechnews.ch/contests/european-fintech-awards-and-conference-top-100-startups-2016/2777/
- http://www.startupolic.com/the-waking-up-of-fintech-in-switzerland/
- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1l4LPZ2pZVLuDlV2Se7Ik9om9HXHMp0iJfmIi5AcFI5Y/


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Men's skull rings are specifically meant for men. Unfortunately, the majority of men will probably wear one ring for the rest of their lives and that is the wedding ring. Another small percentage of men will only wear a finger ring of personal or cultural significance. This may be a family seal or class seal. It may also be a Masonic emblem. Only a small percentage of men wear rings for the purpose of decoration.
Rings for men
Men are free to wear rings if they want to. Rings are both feminine and masculine throughout history. Most people look at rings and criticize men wearing them by saying they are either too attractive, flashy or feminine. There are traditions that prohibit men from wearing rings but this is completely unfair and outdated.
Functions of rings
There are some rings that are considered to be more symbolic than others. There are some skull rings for men that serve a purely decorative function and there are those that send a specific cultural message.
Religious and cultural rings
I haven't come across any religion that requires members to wear rings but there are religions that encourage wearing of rings for specific roles. The western wedding ring is the most familiar example of such rings. It is not a law in Christianity for couples to wear rings but it has evolved into culture with a lot of symbolism behind it.
Affiliation rings
There is enough proof of rings being used to denote membership in families and groups. For example, men's skull rings have been used by bikers to show membership of bikers clubs. Some veterans also wear rings to denote their branch of service. They may also denote a program within their branch of service. Rings may have cultural significance but they are also decorative in most cases. As a result, the designs are larger.


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So I have a phone screening for an intern position coming up on Wednesday. I had a moment this weekend when I realized that I know more about procedural programming (and problem solving) than I do about OOP, though I do consider myself a strong programmer.
For someone who has never done something like this before what should I expect? What should I know? I know common langauge syntax (for the most part) but OOP is kind of a gray area for me. Obviously I should study up on that, but what else might I want to know?
I should also mention that I don't know what language they will ask me about (and this call is supposed to determine my programming skills). I'm going to call the hiring person about that soon. Will update.


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Schoolgirl, 17, collapses and dies of a brain aneurysm on school football pitch just seconds after taking a penalty
Maddie Potts slumped onto the pitch during a game in Rhode Island, US, on Saturday and died hours later from a brain aneurysm
A TEENAGE football player collapsed and died while she was taking a penalty kick during a school match.
Maddie Potts, 17, slumped onto the pitch during a game in Rhode Island on Saturday and died hours later from a brain aneurysm.
She was captain of the Chariho High School soccer team and a popular member of the school's lacrosse team.
School District Superintendent Barry Ricci said the tragic death was not related to the game.
"She was kicking a penalty kick, and she just collapsed," he told the Westerly Sun.
"Everything that could be done for her on the field was done. There was a parent who was a doctor who resuscitated her."
He said he left the hospital late on Saturday nigh believing the teen would recover.
"(She) represented the very best of our school as an artist, an athlete, a classmate, a teammate and a friend," he said.
The teen's father, Dan Potts, is a teacher at nearby Chariho Middle School.
"She was the heart of both teams, always enthusiastic, a great leader, had an amazing work ethic and always was a phenomenal teammate," said head coach of the soccer team Brittany Godbout
"All of the girls, from seniors to freshmen, looked up to her and idolised her. She will be impossible to replace, but we will utilise the energy and spirit and work ethic that she brought every day to practice and games throughout the rest of our season."
Ricci said counselling is available to students and staff affected by the tragedy.


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Title: Michael "Vsauce" Stevens on Why do we ask questions? – Transcript
Speaker: Michael Stevens – YouTube educator
Venue: TEDxVienna conference on November 2, 2013 at Volkstheater Wien, Vienna, Austria.
Listen to the MP3 Audio here: MP3 – Why do we ask questions by Michael Vsauce Stevens at TEDxVienna
What is the best kind of cheese to use to catch a bear? Someone knows over here. Obviously the answer is Camembert. Camembert! Camembert!
Okay. Thank you. I have a head full of cheese puns but I was told I have to keep it brief.
What did the piece of cheese say when it looked into the mirror?
[Audience: Cheese]
No. It said, hello me, hello me. What can I say guys I love a good pun? Why, I don't know because puns are funny, right?
Why? Well, because there's a bit of a surprise factor. You know, you feel outsmarted for a second until you get the double meaning.
Why? I don't — because that's the way language works.
Okay. I did what these slides are doing. They are playing the why game, right, where you just keep asking why, why but why after everything someone says. Kids do it all of the time and adults should do it more often. I'm just kidding. Don't, it's annoying.
You can ask why over and over and over again forever even if one day we explain every physical interaction and scientific law and hope and dream and regret with a single elegant equation. You could still ask why. Why that equation? Why doesn't the universe operate with some different equation? So, yes, the why game is irritating, it's annoying and it's what I do for a living.
Every week for the past few years I have researched a big question, a funny why question. I've researched the science, the mathematics, recent theories behind all kinds of things. I do this on my YouTube channel Vsauce.
So Vsauce in the last couple of years has grown phenomenally. It's hard to believe. I now am doing more than 30 million views every single month with five and a half subscribers growing more than 10,000 new subscribers every day. It's awesome, I love it. And I get to ask some pretty ridiculous questions. For instance, is anything real? Come on. How can you possibly answer that? Well, that's not really the point. The point is to bring people in with a great question, make them curious and once they're there, accidentally teach them a whole bunch of things about the universe.
So some examples of other questions I've asked: How much does a shadow weigh? What does it mean to ask a question like that? What is a shadow? What color is the mirror? In answering this question you can explain a lot about specular reflection, the physics of light. This one of my favorites: Why are things creepy? Yeah.
So I often go into psychology, that's more where my background is in but a question I have yet to answer hopefully someone out there knows — please tell me why is this called your bottom if it's technically in the middle of your body? It's ridiculous but it's a really good question.
I ask questions all the time but today, this is my question: Why do we ask questions? Seriously, I mean what's the point, who cares why things are creepy. They just are. Who cares why this is called my bottom, it's gross, don't do that anymore, right?
Questions. How do I get people to care about these questions, especially people who think that learning is boring? Well, I like to believe that the limits of what you can be interested in are unlimited. And this is my story.
I began making YouTube videos about six years ago. But only recently did I start making explanatory videos and I have no idea what took me so long. I have been explaining things my entire life except usually I did it alone out loud. I talk to myself when I'm alone, like all the time. If you snuck up on me when I didn't think anyone was around, you would overhear me explaining the most mundane stuff. It's kind of weird maybe. Okay, it's really weird but for me it is a great way for me to know that I kind of know more about what I'm talking about if I can verbally explain it. As Albert Einstein said, if you can't explain it simply you don't understand it well enough.
Now when I was a teenager, I discovered a competitive speaking program and one of the events was informative speaking where you literally got to write a speech explaining something to judges and then you were given points and medals if you were good enough.
My very first informative speech ever was about ketchup. The history of ketchup, the etymology of the name, its legal status, the physics of its viscosity and how it flowed. It was super nerdy stuff but at my very very first public speaking tournament, I took first place. Hey! Look at that guy.
So some of the hairs here moved down here but other than that, I am the same guy. Seriously, still doing the same thing. To be at that tournament, and to see the expression on someone's face win, they suddenly understand and are fascinated by something in the same way that you are is a phenomenal feeling. And I've learned two things from this. First of all, people love a good explanation. I mean they hunt them down. Even people who say they hate learning and that they hate books and all that stuff, they love explanations.


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IFT was appointed by the projects Principal Contractor, McLaughlin & Harvey, to carry out extensive repairs and refurbishment at the Glasgow Whisky Experience.
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The idea was simple enough: find a way to make it easier for new nonprofits to establish themselves.
In the early 1990s, Paul Vandeventer had a conversation with a friend about the difficulties of starting a nonprofit. They saw many social and civic entrepreneurs in Southern California with good ideas who were put off by the rules and administrative details that came with beginning a project. So they put their heads together to develop a plan that could help them.
What they came up with was an organization that would provide fiscal sponsorship to up-and-coming nonprofits. The organization, which started in 1992, eventually evolved into what is now Community Partners.
"We provide the infrastructure and all the back office that's important to running anything, such as finance, accounting, reporting, contracting, personnel services, [human resources]," said Vandeventer, Community Partners' co-founder, president and chief executive officer.
The fiscal sponsorship they provide allows groups and individuals to "concentrate on the mission that animated them in the first place," he said, so that they can address the community challenges they seek to solve.
Over the years, the nonprofit has grown steadily and now includes an average of 145 to 150 carefully selected projects. One of them is Days of Dialogue, which was developed county Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas and his wife, Avis.
That project was created in response to the Rodney King riots to help relieve tensions between community members and the police. Days of Dialogue eventually evolved into a program within the Institute of Nonviolence in Los Angeles, which was brought under Community Partners' fiscal sponsorship in 2009.
The nonprofit also offers support to Libros Schmibros, a lending library in Boyle Heights that provides low- or no-cost books to community members.
But project leaders are under no obligation to continue getting fiscal sponsorship from Community Partners, Vandeventer explained.
"[Projects or organizations] can either after a year decide to spin off into an independent entity or stay with us as long as it takes for them to get established and into a scale that will allow them to do the work that they set out to do in the first place," he said.
But beyond providing fiscal sponsorship to new nonprofits, Community Partners also has grant-maker partnerships. It works with local and national funders, corporations and government agencies to help its partners finance and realize their projects.
While Community Partners continues to be the backbone of many Los Angeles nonprofits focused on advancing and bettering their communities, it's doing work at a bigger scale, too.
"Where we're doing more work these days is bridging work between government and community organizations," Vandeventer said. Its aim is to strengthen the bonds between publicly funded agencies and communities.
Recently, for example, Community Partners helped the L.A. County Office of Cannabis Management gather community input into the county's marijuana policies.
As for the future of Community Partners, Vandeventer sees a 100-year trajectory.
"We're planning for and thinking about the big future of the region and the challenges that go along with that. We want to be fully part of the positive change that makes [L.A.] a fit place for everybody that decides to live here."
And it will continue to stay true to what Vandeventer wanted Community Partners to be in its very beginnings: an organization that isn't just in L.A., but an organization that is of L.A.
CEO: Paul Vandeventer
Annual budget: $42 million
Number of employees: 42
Years in operation: 26
Location: 1000 N. Alameda St., Suite 240
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The first way to get contour lines is, after importing the terrain of your choice, to click "YES" to the window Plex.Earth 4 is showing to you asking "Do you want to create elevation contours for the terrain now?". You can also set Plex.Earth to remember your choice and create contour lines every time you are importing a terrain object.
(For more information about importing terrain click here)
If you have already imported a terrain object, you can create contours using the "Generate Contours" command of Plex.Earth. After choosing the terrain you want, the "Contours" window appears and you can choose either to leave the settings to Automatic or adjust the Contour Intervals and Layers. Then you choose "Create Contours" and Plex.Earth creates contour lines.
Hint: In the Contour Options, you can optimize the contour settings as you want. Through the Layers, you can choose in which layer of your drawing your major and minor Contours would belong to. Through the Contour Intervals, you can choose your base elevation. In the minor and major intervals, you choose the frequency of the minor and major contours.
There is another way to get contours directly in your drawing rather than importing a terrain object first. You can set the preferred imported mesh type as "Contours" through the Options of the Terrain Panel of the Plex.Earth ribbon.
After that, proceed in importing terrain for the area of interest. That will give you contour lines directly.
You can name the contours you have created (with any of the ways are described above) by using the "Label Contours" command in the Plex.Earth ribbon.
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Two hundred and forty years down the line, we've begun to trade our inalienable rights for invented ones.
We all know that the Left is after our liberty, and last week's Supreme Court decision on Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt displayed this in spectacular fashion. Justice Anthony Kennedy, the court's usual swing vote, joined the four liberal justices to hand down a 5-3 decision in favor of striking down several 2013 Texas regulations governing abortion clinics in the state.
Texas's regulations were imposed in the wake of the horrific case of abortionist Kermit Gosnell, who received multiple life sentences for numerous crimes–including the involuntary manslaughter of a women who received an abortion at his Philadelphia-based abortion practice. These regulations were designed to protect women by raising the medical standards of such clinics.
Regardless of Texas's intent, the opinion penned by Justice Stephen Breyer relied on the ruling from 1992 in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, stating that the law would place "a substantial obstacle in the path of women seeking a previability abortion."
The Left was giddy over what the New York Times deemed a "major victory" for abortion rights. Yet, one must ask if the New York Times is mistaken to call this a "right" at all.
Justice Clarence Thomas remarked in his dissenting opinion that "the Court has simultaneously transformed judicially created rights like the right to abortion into preferred constitutional rights, while disfavoring many of the rights actually enumerated in the Constitution." It is clear that the liberals on the Court are doing legal gymnastics to protect the Left's sacrament of abortion.
This decision, though it will likely render similar laws in 23 other states unconstitutional, will affect far more than the nation's abortion laws. This case will be truly troublesome for the precedent it sets in American jurisprudence as a whole. Justice Thomas lamented that "the majority's embrace of a jurisprudence of rights-specific exceptions and balancing tests is 'a regrettable concession of defeat—an acknowledgement that we have passed the point where "law," properly speaking, has any further application.'"
In other words, the "law" as it is now being practiced can mean whatever you want it to mean–as long you have the special exceptions and special rights issues to support your case.
This flips John Adams' famous American ideal right on its head: America is no longer a government of laws, but instead a government of men.


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by Naomi Clark and Heather Ah San
On October 27, the long wait for Tolay Lake Regional Park will be over. After 13 years of restoration and development, Tolay will finally be open to the public to enjoy! At 3,400 acres, it is now the biggest park in the Sonoma County Regional Parks system. We're proud to have played a role in the park's formation, donating more than 1,600 acres of land from the adjoining Tolay Creek Ranch to double the park in size. The park is not only an ecological treasure, surrounded by rolling hills, oak woodland and, yes, a seasonal 200-acre lake, it's a cultural gem, considered a sacred place by ancestors of indigenous peoples who occupied the site for millennia. In fact, the park will be managed as a "model of cooperation" between the county and the Federated Indians of the Graton Rancheria
It's places like these that we at Sonoma Land Trust are proud to help protect, forever. Our partnerships with entities like Regional Parks allow us to transfer the management of such large properties for the public to enjoy. In other words, it's because of the strength of our parks system that we can enjoy places like Tolay.
We in Sonoma County love our parks — so much so that Regional Parks says visitation has nearly doubled within the past few years. On top of that, added acreage to the Parks system — like Tolay — has doubled, adding more land and infrastructure that needs to be maintained and improved. We're lucky to have access to some of the most beautiful and diverse natural landscapes in the nation, but our parks are in dire need of help — which is why we urge you to vote YES on Measure M — Parks for All on November 6.
For those of you who aren't quite familiar with what Measure M is, I'll give you a quick explanation: Measure M is a county-wide ballot measure that will help protect, maintain and improve not only county parks but city parks. If voted yes, there will be a one-eight cent sales tax over the span of 10 years that will raise over 11 million dollars annually, one-third which would fund city parks and the rest to Regional Parks. About 70 percent of Regional Parks funding will go toward maintenance of existing parks; the remaining third will be leveraged to acquire grants and other funding for new parks. If this measure passes, Tolay Park will be able to use this money to improve the historic land that has been preserved over the years. The public will be able to come to Tolay and learn about the land and how it was used by the indigenous people. Measure M will be able to help add infrastructure to the lands to be sure that everyone, whether you're an experienced hiker or not, has the opportunity to see the land and get a chance to experience nature in its purest form. It will give the animals on this land a chance to still have a place to freely roam, and our future generations will still have a place to experience nature and learn from it. Measure M ensures that our parks and open spaces aren't just for some to enjoy — they are for anyone from anywhere to experience.
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Naomi Clark is communications and community programs intern for Sonoma Land Trust.
In an alternate universe, Heather Ah San is Heather of the House Targaryen, the First of Her Name, The Unburnt, Queen of the Andals, the Rhoynar and the First Men, Queen of Meereen, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, Protector of the Realm, Lady Regnant of the Seven Kingdoms, Breaker of Chains and Mother of Dragons. In this universe, she's communications coordinator for Sonoma Land Trust.
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Before turning to the specific comments, let me express my fundamental concern that the proposed revisions make the regulations mush less user-friendly, particularly for small businesses and others who do not have an intimate working familiarity with both state and federal regulations. Replacing the text of regulations with references to federal rules and to incorporated documents requires the reader to jump from one set of regulations to another. Absent some compelling reason to have overhauled these regulations with no intended substantive effect on the scope of the program (since the state is bound by the federal counterparts and by those mandates in state law, such as the regulatory control over nerve agents), KRC is at a loss to understand why the regulatory package is being proposed, when the end result is a less understandable, less accessible, less useable and potentially less defensible set of regulations. With that general concern voiced, specific comments follow in the event that the Cabinet moves forward with this questionable venture.
a. The definition of application should be retained, since there is no federal counterpart definition, in order that the potentially regulated party knows what the agency considers to be an application.
b. The definition of coal mine waste should be modified to replace the and with or in the phrase and to the washing and crushing of coal so that the wastes would be included from the extraction and the cleaning or crushing of the coal. In many cases, the coal is crushed but is not washed, and as currently written, only where the coal is subject to both processes would the potentially toxic or acid-forming fines be regulated.
c. The references to the MCLs in 401 KAR 47:030 and 401 KAR 34:060 should be included in the definition of contaminate in order to assure that all MCLs are incorporated as standards to be met.
d. The definition of groundwater should be modified to retain specific reference to secondary permeability flow systems, including karst and fracture-flow systems, and perched aquifers which may be above a zone of saturation but which are used or capable of beneficial use and thus deserve protection.
e. The language in Section 3 should be modified to include after in instances the phrase where the responsibility or authority is and the words that are should be removed. As currently written its not clear what is intended to be delegable.
f. Section 3(1) needs to have the sentence completed.
g. For ease of reading, rewrite Equivalent method to read:
(3) Equivalent Method means any comparable testing or analytical method, approved by the secretary under 401 KAR Chapters 31, 47 or 48. or methods in 401 KAR Chapters 47 and 48, approved by the secretary of the cabinet.
401 KAR 30:010 Repeal
The new reference to 40 CFR 260.11 in Section 10 of 401 KAR 30:020 does not alert the reader to the fact that SW 846 has been incorporated into state regulation, nor provide where that document may be obtained. Specific reference to SW 846 should be retained in 30:020 Section 10.
No comments, other than our assumption that the exclusions formerly contained in 30:020(1) which are being removed are included elsewhere, explicitly or by reference to the federal counterpart; and that all of the documents contained in 30:010 and 070 have in fact been included elsewhere.
The proposed revision to this regulation actually removes the existing variance standard in their entirety, and creates a new and somewhat confusing reference to the overview reference document. The distinction among the types of waste is required to be based on the definitions, and should be spelled out in regulation. As a matter of form, if the agency intends to remove the text of 080, it should simply have repealed it and adopted a new regulation containing the proposed text. As a substantive matter, KRC assumes that the standards for variances will be elsewhere provided, in full text rather than by reference (see general comment). The chart indicating changes to the existing regulations states that current 080 is moved to 020, yet the text of proposed 020 does not incorporate the specific standards and criteria for classification as a waste, as a boiler, or as an industrial furnace.
In Section 1, replace the subject matter shall be governed by with an introduction more appropriate to a definitional section, such as unless otherwise defined in Section 2 of this regulation, the terms contained in this Chapter shall have the meanings given them in 40 CFR 260.10.
The definition of spill is inartfully drafted and should be revised to move the last clause into or on any land or water earlier in the definition after dumping.
See general comments above. The revision to the regulation saves a few pages of text at the cost of requiring the reader to jump back and forth between federal and state regulations.
The phrase the subject matter shall be governed is inartful, and if what is intended is that the federal regulation is incorporated by reference, that should be so stated, since in the regulatory arena, the phrase shall be governed by has no set meaning. Stating that the subject matter shall be governed by a federal regulation falls short of legally incorporating those federal standards as state regulations which can be administered and enforced by the state agency.
Same comment as above.
In several places throughout the proposed revisions, the agency uses the phrasing that The citation to xxx in the federal regulation referenced in subsection 1 of this section shall also include the additional language that is specific to the Commonwealth of Kentucky located at xxxx.
As written, the phrasing is confusing, since it appears that the Cabinet is attempting to amend a federal regulation to include additional language, and it is equally unclear what language is sought to be grafted onto the federal rule. The new language is a much less workable and less clear surrogate for a settled set of state regulations that had incorporated in full the federal language, and which has been adequate for these many years.
If it is the agencys intent to add to the federal regulation, then include the additional text in this rule rather than obliquely referring back to a separate state regulation.
It is unclear what amendment is being proposed for this regulation, since it seems identical to existing 31:050.
See comments under 31:0120 and 31:040 concerning the use of the subject matter is governed and the language in proposed Section 1(2).
The regulation should be rewritten in present tense, so that rather than stating that regulations shall be repealed, the regulation provides that the referenced regulations are repealed as of the effective date.
The regulation should be left as currently written (see general comment) but if the Cabinet goes forward with this proposal, the text needs rewriting to incorporate by reference the basis for listing, not to adopt information regarding how the subject matter will be governed.
Where the agency proposes to completely replace the text of a regulation, it should be repealed and a new regulation adopted.
As noted above, KRC believes that the deletion of the federally-defined regulations creates more work for the regulated and the public and makes the regulations less user-friendly. If the cabinet pursues this proposal, the phrases the subject matter is governed and in instances that are delegable to the state need replacing with more precise terms that indicate whether the federal definitions are being incorporated (and made enforceable) as Kentucky regulations, and that it is where the authority or responsibility has been delegated that the Kentucky regulation applies.
See previous comments.
401 KAR Chapters 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 43, 44
See previous comments.
Thank you for the opportunity to review the proposed changes. KRC urges the agency to rethink and reconsider the proposed replacement of a coherent set of regulations that have served the state well for 23 years, with a confusing set of rules that require the regulated and the public to hop between federal and state sources in order to determine compliance obligations, and which create vague references to governance, delegability and the inclusion of language specific to Kentucky that raise significant questions as to the meaning and the enforceability of the new rules, and which will create confusion and invite litigation.
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Hotels in Alberobello, Italy
Within the Apulian hinterland, north of Martina Franca, is the town of Alberobello, famous worldwide for its special houses, the Trulli, decreed by UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996. The resort, set in Apulia's Salento, is a vacation spot. Alberobello supplies a large offer of hotels, with hotels close to or derived from trulli in themselves. Near Alberobello there are other resorts as Putignano and Castellana Grotte.
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Piazza Curri 1, Alberobello
Trulli Holiday gives you the opportunity to spend a special stay in an authentic trullo, a typical Apulian stone house, of Alberobello in Puglia region. You will have various types of accommodation to suit your...
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Via Monte S. Michele 58, Alberobello
Trulli e Puglia Resort offers exclusive accommodation in the traditional Trulli of Alberobello: Most housing is located in the Monti district, in the historical centre of this city of Puglia.
ApartmentTrulli Resort Monte Pasubio
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Via Monte Pasubio 13, Alberobello
Trulli Resort Monte Pasubio is located in the heart of Alberobello, a few meters from the Church of St. Anthony. The proximity of the station and a bus stop provide easy travel around the area.
3 star hotelMasseria Rosa Trulli Relais
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S.S. Dei Trulli Alberobello - Locorotondo Km. 37+500, Alberobello
Masseria Rosa Trulli Relais, elegant country house dating from the nineteenth century, is situated in the hills not far from the centre of Alberobello, surrounded by olive groves, orchards and lush gardens.
price from€79
Piazza A. Curri Nr. 1, Alberobello
The Trulli Holiday Residence is a building surrounded by greenery, through olive groves of Puglia. The property is located a short distance from the centre of the famous town of Alberobello, which has been...
4 star hotelLe Alcove - Luxury Hotel nei Trulli
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Piazza Ferdinando IV 7, Alberobello
The Luxury Hotel Le Alcove is a complex of traditional Trulli, UNESCO heritage, right in the centre of Alberobello, next to the main city square. Easily accessible from nearby airports, ports and stations thanks...
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Via Noci 615/bis, Alberobello
Located in Alberobello, in the heart of the Apulian countryside, the Trulli Il Castagno awaits you. At this cosy family-run, you can enjoy the thrill of staying in a trullo, the typical rural house of Puglia.
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S.P. 81 Canale Di Pirro, 19, Alberobello
Nestled in the Itria Valley, the Agriturismo Masseria Torricella, is a comfortable hotel surrounded by the Apulian countryside and the famous Trulli of Alberobello. Perfect accommodation to reach Ostuni, Polignano...
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Piazza Sacramento 17, Alberobello
The Charming trulli in Alberobello lies and includes several trulli scattered around the city center, all near the Basilica of Santi Medici.
4 star hotelGrand Hotel Olimpo
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Sette Liberatori della Selva, Alberobello
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::Birth Day::
Another year has come … and gone. I'm on the fifth day of "next year;" it feels good to have a full tank of gas.
That's what I call it when a Birthday arrives. The month sliding into my natal day typically finds me "running on fumes." Through the years I've observed that I'm usually a little scatterbrained during that time, forget where I put things or what I'm talking about. Yeah, that can happen any time of year, but it becomes a several-times-daily occurrence during February and most of March. My wheels get loose and jangly, and I careen a bit from side to side. Until March twenty-one.
Somehow I picture myself on that auspicious day, jumping out of bed, backlit. Looking good in spandex. Doesn't happen quite that way.
This year I spent the entire day in my robe and slippers. It's a fairly new robe, quite cozy, and the weather was spitting snow in the morning, freezing cold, so … it seemed a good choice. And I thought a lot that day about life, and Birthdays, and what they are. What they mean.
I know some people don't think Birthdays are a big deal. But I love celebrating other people's Birthdays. I'm responding to the day they arrived on the planet. I'm saying, "I am cheering that you were born, and that you're in my life. And every year, on this day, I get to say 'YAY' to you!" In this world of automated distance between us all, to me that's more important than ever.
I saw a story the other day about a man who was celebrating his 105th Birthday. There were people crowded around him as he sat in his chair, wearing his military cap. He was staring at the inferno of a Birthday cake on the table in front of him, and grinning from ear to ear. That man has experienced things I can't even imagine. He has a lifetime of stories to tell, and I hope there are people he can tell them to. They will be richer for it.
We bear a growing wealth of knowledge, the longer we're here. None of us know everything. But those of us who pay attention, we know a lot. And much of what we know won't launch a rocket … but it will settle a fussy child, comfort an old dog, feed a family of eight on one potato and one onion. Plant and tend a garden; use a remedy from that garden to heal a sick one.
It feels good to become "one of those" to whom some turn, seeking comfort, or knowledge, or aid. I have more to give than ever, because I've never been here longer than I have today. And with each day that comes, I pray I am open to know more, that I learn new things, and that I have opportunities to share what I know and who I am with any and all who seek it out.
For through wisdom your days will be many, and years will be added to your life. [Proverbs 9:11]
It's a grey Monday, and I'm 'working at writing' in a session with Amy Lyles Wilson, my editor. I say 'my editor,' because that sounds very official, doesn't it? And she is my editor; she's also a dear, trusted, and longstanding friend. The fact is, I'm not sure how a writer/editor relationship could work otherwise.
It's a courageous thing, writing. As Hemingway says, 'There's nothing to writing; all you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.' That's the long and the short if it, right there.
The first draft of my book is finished. Yes, I deliberately "buried the lead" here. Because I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it. I'll tell you this: it was with a weary, a relieved, and an ultimately dispassionate resolve that I finally finished that draft. And I'm a bit nervous about all the soul bearing stuff I wrote down in those 177 pages. I'd like to change my mind about some of it. But that would require a rewriting of my little piece of history. Truth lives on those pages, for better or for worse. Now, all I can do is breathe.
Writing is an excavation of the heart. When it's about your own life, about how you got to here from there, it is a staunch enterprise. There are days — many — when you're riddled with the thought that nobody could possibly be interested. Why would they care? Why am I doing this? But you continue on determined to, at the very least, finish what you started.
And so, you do. It might take twenty three years. You might, in 1995, get an official invite-to-submit from a major New York agent and knock yourself out writing enough to send her a sample. You might even get a letter back, saying she loves your work, that it feels "introductory," and to please send more when your book is further along.
It's March, 2018. That letter is in my file drawer. Wonder if she's still interested.
The fact is, we all have stories. Amy's slugline on her website is, "It's the sharing of our stories that saves us." And nothing could be more true. The funny stories, the heartbreaking stories, the stories that, when the readers read them, make their eyes well up or their hair catch fire … the hard stories.
The stories that don't want to be written; the ones hiding in the shadows. THOSE are the stories we must write. And that's what I've done.
There are more stories from different periods in my life that may need telling, if only for my children. Stories of my own childhood. Stories of my dreams, what they were, when some of them were abandoned, and why. For whom. And the resulting life that came after. The fact that, in this one lifetime, I've lived what could be classified as three distinct incarnations.
I'm in the third incarnation now, and closer to the end than I've ever been. With each passing day I pray, and wonder, and hope, and love. Even at this age, I feel the same creative passion and zest for life that I felt in my twenties. Those of you reading this who aren't yet where I am, you'll be here one day; you'll think of this passage and realize the truth in what I'm saying to you now.
So yes, it's a grey day of writing, and we're here at this table, doing just that. I wouldn't be here at all if I had no story to tell. The thing is, we all have stories inside us, wanting to be told. Let's write them down. It may, indeed, be what saves us after all.
::Two Way Mirror::
These days we're like a two way mirror.
Or through a glass, darkly.
At the grade school on Grandparents' Day, if he shows up he is brittle and distant. He wears a starched smile, the kind that never reaches the eyes. When he looks at me, he doesn't. Perhaps he can't bear the reflection of himself that he sees there. Or perhaps I'm making too much of it, and he's forgotten who I am. Like that time at the Film Festival when I saw him and called out to him. He looked at me, quizzically, then moved toward me, head shaking slowly, hand extended, with the words,
"I'm sorry, you're going to have to help me."
I did not take his hand. I looked at him in disbelief, and said,
"Cece." He was embarrassed that he didn't know who I was that day. But I realize now that he never really did.
Looking back at the years we were together, I recognize the holes he crawled through to go from our life together into his other life. I couldn't see it at the time. The camouflage of home and family clouded my vision. But distance brings clarity. And friends who were there then have come to me from time to time since; as an act of confession? To clear their conscience as accomplices? I can't honestly say.
While I don't know every detail about what was going on then, I know more than I ever wanted to. Sometimes information serves no good purpose. Except, you know … it helps me realize that I was in a completely different relationship than he was. And it's confirmed for me that he had no clue of the goodness that was present and waiting for him there. Loving him there. Knowing this is a different kind of heartbreak all by itself.
When someone becomes addicted to dancing with the dark, the light is just an irritation.
This picture was taken when we lived on South Madison. In it Mama is her beautiful, comical, musical self. Back then she would strike a pose, then collapse in laughter. She had flair, a free spirit, she was my personal movie star, even before I knew what movie stars were.
I've gone back and looked through as many events as I can remember, trying to piece things together.
I'm searching for the turning point. To find when things changed. When the sun stopped shining, and the world went from bright colors to shades of grey.
I remember we had moved to the little house on North Marion. The one with the crayon blue linoleum floor. I remember a pivotal darkness, but nothing will speak to me from there. I try to go inside that space, but it's always …. like the memories in it are right on the tip of my brain. I can almost see them. But not enough to grab hold, and to understand.
The things I know are that they had friends back then. At night they would get dressed up and go out together, and leave me with Ma Welp. But what else was happening?
I remember kitchen cabinets, with the doors open. Mama's friend was rearranging. I remember Mama crying, and putting things back in the right places after the friend left. It was during that time that she stopped laughing.
I remember the priest coming. I remember feeling confused, and then it fades to black.
After whatever happened, that friend who was changing Mama's kitchen never came over anymore.
Years later, when she was into her cups and in the mood to offer sage advice, she would say that you should never let anyone into your life because they'll just walk in like they own the place and take over everything. Never get too close to anyone, she said. That's the only way you can be safe, she said.
I've always wondered if that was the philosophy she used through the years to stay so far away from me. We're closer now than ever before because, at 92, she has no clue who I am. It is a brokenhearted comfort that she always says she'd "love to get to know you." I'd like to get to know you too, Mama. Or at least to understand what happened that kept us separate. But whatever it was, I loved you so; I choose to know that you loved me.I'm reminded of Birdie's mother saying,
"All mothers love their daughters, even if they show it poorly."
If three year olds can be gang members, I was one. We had a pack of kids in our neighborhood on North Marion Street. Each morning, as early as any parent would allow, a youngster drifted out the front door of his little clapboard house, and stood in the yard wearing nothing but a pair of rumpled camp shorts. Maybe he'd wander the length of the driveway, bend down, pick up a rock, survey the street for signs of life, and head back to sit on his porch stoop. And wait.
Almost immediately, sets of young eyes threw quick glances out picture windows. Front doors opened, and small, tan feet ran or skipped or sauntered to assemble where the child was planted.
Thinking back, it gives new meaning to "the gang's all here." But we were. The men in our gang wore shorts; the women, bloomers. We were brown as biscuits, the soles of our feet well seasoned from weeks of running around bare.
We played all day, moving in a raggedy clump from one yard to another. Bill's dad had left the hosepipe hooked up on the front spigot, so we all ran over because Shorty and Margo were thirsty. Mitchell and Bobby turned the handle, and the water spurted out. It went quickly from hot as fire to so clear and cold that suddenly we were all thirsty. Everybody got a chance. About eight or ten three year olds bending over spouting water, slurping it down their throats and bellies, all of us clamoring for more.
I don't remember every name from back then, but I remember that water. It started in Lake Spavinaw, and came pouring out of that front yard hose icy and sweet, flavored with a touch of rubber hose and a dash of brass metal. We all loved it, and kept drinking until Bill's mother came out on the porch to shake the dustmop and caught us.
"You kids turn that water off and go play!" she hollered. She gave us the hard eye till Bill went over and cranked the handle. By that time we were soaked, but we didn't care. In fact, we liked it. It was 90 degrees in the Oklahoma shade, which there wasn't much of.
Our gang lasted till we all started school, then life its own self took over and we drifted into our separate worlds. But if anyone ever asks me about gang membership, I can tell them, quite honestly, that I was a gang member very early on. And I'm proud of it.
Things in my life are the way they are, based on every choice I've made. They laid a road, end to end, that brought me here to this table today. Good or bad, for better or worse, here I sit; my greasy hair under a ball cap, my thoughts scattered and the censor in my brain telling me that what I'm writing now is not worth a damn.
I get sick of hearing my own voice tell my own stories. Are other people as sick of it as I am? I don't want to write cute, or clever. As Hemingway says, write real, about what hurts. I've kerfed around the edges of the pain for years, never hitting it dead center. I guess that's real if you're digging a trench, but I'm sort of stuck down here, looking for truth. And trying to dig my way out.
I could write about birds. But then my brain goes to the parakeet we had at 1135 South Quaker. My mother named it Perry Como. He was blue, with black wing tips, and a spot of lime green between his eyes. Thinking of him now I can smell his birdseed and that cage with the newspapers in the bottom.
When they let Perry out of that cage, he flew up and sat on the curtain rods. Every time he flew his wings made a loud flapping sound that scared my little brother.
Sometimes my mother would open Perry's cage door, and wait. When my brother came walking through the livingroom, suddenly Perry would swoop down. My brother would scream and dive under the table, clutching the legs and sobbing. My mother raised her eyebrows, took a drag off her cigarette, and laughed. That taught me some pretty twisted things about how people treat those they claim to love. So yeah … count that little nugget as a lob to the center of the pain from the trenches.
Or maybe I could write about being a teenager. And dating.
Maybe I could write about the night a boy came to pick me up, and he had a long fringe of bangs. My little sisters peaked around the door giggling, "It's a Beatle!" My Dad growled, "Is that your hair, boy, or is that a wig?"
Or I could write about another time my date arrived to take me to the school dance. He drove his car, parked, and my Dad drove us to school in our '51 two door Pontiac. The two door thing is relevant because my date and my Dad sat in the front, I climbed into the back. In my formal. The thing I'll never forget is the hood ornament. It was a glowing orange Indian Chief. I locked my eyes on that thing all the way to school, trying to ignore the awkward silence.
Maybe I could write about the faith, and the sense of humor, that have carried me on angel wings through the darkest of days, the brokenest of hearts. How, even in those moments … my date with the Beatles hair, me sitting in the back seat of that car … even then, in the recesses of my mind, I knew: "this is the rich stuff of which stories are made. I will write about this one day."
Maybe today, sitting here at this table, wearing my ballcap, is that time.
::Right or Wrong::
The messages we're given in childhood are powerful. Until we get out into the world on our own, they define our reality. They define our normal. They tell us what's expected of us, and what value we have. And behind those front doors, each family has its own brand of 'normal'.
I was raised in a house where there was one right way to do everything. Often I discovered there was a right way after I'd done something the wrong way. Mattered not if I accomplished my goal. If I didn't do it the right way, I got it wrong. And that "right" way could change without warning; I learned that early on. So, go ahead, knock yourself out. But don't count on anything except maybe being blindsided by a new rule, a new way of you failing again.
This is a piece of the legacy inherited by a child of alcoholics. Eventually, once we've reached adulthood and if we're aware enough and brave enough to launch the quest for self discovery, we catch a glimpse of how life is defined outside the hazed cocoon in which we grew up; the only "normal" we've ever known. So there's an overriding sense of betrayal, or having been lied to about 'what's going on out there', 'how I fit in the world,' or even 'who I am'. And, at its center, 'what love feels like'.
That's not to say that drinkers are evil. They're not. I truly believe that very person, in one way or another, is 'trying to find their way'. But some people get so off track; are so myopic as to what they're doing and the damage caused by it, that they're pretty much a walking (or stumbling) wrecking ball.
I'll admit there are certainly things ingrained in me from my childhood that I treasure. I have a very well calibrated moral compass. I'm not an angel by any stretch, but when I've veered off course, I know it.
This comes from a Spiritually driven center that was awakened in me very early on. I clung to it, and was convinced that 'if I'm good enough' good things will, ultimately, happen. There's probably a piece of me that still believes it.
In Seminary we studied addiction. It was pointed out to us that addicts are "headed the wrong way down the right road." They crave a different feeling, a different perspective. But they've employed chemical shortcuts to get there, which always end in failure. Because in order to keep the feelings gained from drugs or alcohol, you have to stay drugged or drunk. The process is deeply and heartbreakingly flawed. Those same good feelings are authentically available. But like all things of true value, we gotta do the deliberate, serious (and personal) work to 'get there from here'.
And something else I learned in Seminary, is that there are quite possibly as many ways to do something as there are people to do it. Not right or wrong, based on approach. When I heard that it was not like a light went on in my head; it was more like a bomb went off.
For decades I held back on doing so many things, big and small, for fear I would do them wrong. It was earth changing when, after finally trying something, and doing it my way, there was no one there to tell me how wrong I was.
Maybe I was never really wrong, after all.


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There are a ton of ways to structure stock options for investors, and figuring out which combination makes sense can be pretty overwhelming. This is particularly true for startups when the future is completely uncertain and there is no way of really knowing the number of funding rounds that may be needed down the line. Ideally, a startup's strategic plan, business model, and anticipated trajectory should be outlined well enough to allow for the calculation of at least rudimentary financial forecasts and projections.
Then, those forecasts can serve as a starting point for determining the number of successive fundraising rounds that will be needed to achieve the predetermined goals, as outlined in the plan and model. This, in turn, will help a company to decide on the types of stock options that it may be interested in offering. However, regardless of how detailed the initial structure is, there are several types of options that tend to predominate.
Fully Participating
A fully participating preferred stock option is usually the standard favorite, as it entitles investors to receive their full investment before any other investors, along with a portion of the common stock, which is generally based on a percentage and/or established ratio. The fact that these investors are "fully" participating and designated as "preferred" makes it pretty clear that they have a lot at stake but also a lot to gain. However, because this option gives these stockholders so much of the pot and thus can erode the founders' share, a lot of companies choose to limit this to a certain percentage and/or offer the other common options discussed below.
Capped Participating
A capped participating stock option still allows investors to recoup their capital along with a percentage of the converted amount for the remaining portion, but the latter part is usually capped at a certain agreed upon percentage. Although this is still a fairly safe and generous option, it prevents all of the liquidation proceeds from going to one segment of the investors, as may happen if there is not going to be enough leftover after the preferred holders receive their share. Thus, it is simply a limited form of fully-participating stock that protects more of the players. Obviously, the fully participating route is going to be the investor preference, but the capped version should both entice investors and keep the founders and any future investors comfortable as well.
Another option is the non-participating stock in which investors receive their share of the preferred stock proceeds and then do not share in the remaining distribution. However, in some cases, the non-participating stockholders receive either their preferential portion or the portion equivalent to the common stock had they converted, with the amount paid out usually being whichever one is greater of the two. This one is generally favored by founders, especially in the early days of a startup's existence, but is obviously not as attractive to investors.
It is important for leaders to think about what makes the most sense over the long term, will not result in excessive dilution, and whether it is the type of structure that will allow the business to take the company public down the road, if that is the end goal.


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At 1,300 frames per second, the kernel leaps from the heating element, full of starch and joy, and explodes into its fluffy final form before tumbling down in a cloud of steam. Before it pops, the pressure inside reaches around 135 psi and its internal temperature hits 356 degrees fahrenheit.
But that's not slow enough. At 30,000 FPS—1,250 times slower than real time—you can watch the kernel's insides expand peel the hard hull apart like a rose blooming.
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Females take charge in this sizzling new collection of 50 Femdom short stories. Follow along as hapless men, with intense submissive desires find themselves trapped in nightmarish lives straight from their darkest sexual fantasies forced to grovel at their Mistresses feet and serve their every demented whim. In Don't Wake the Others, Jimmy goes home with Sara, only to find that she intends to make him the latest acquisition in her collection of caged boy toys. Then in Building a Better Boyfriend, Ryan's on the way out of Jackie's life unless he agrees to a special training program that includes some pretty serious body modification. And in My Ex-Wifes New Maid, Bruces ex invites him over for dinner at her secluded home. Before he knows it, hes been drugged and wakes to find himself in a shock collar and cock cage, part of a scheme to turn him into her groveling slave. Also includes Withered On The Vine, Plain Brown Wrapper, The New Dog, A Horse With No Name and many more! Original stories with plenty of breathlessly beautiful, conniving, creative, bitchy and vengeful femalesall with one purpose in mind: the subjugation of the submissive male. A titillating collection Femdom readers are sure to love! In Boarding House Rules, Mike's desperate for a place to live and takes a room at Miss Crystal's boarding house, discovering that his new landlady has some very unusual requirements that have him naked, on the floor, and subject to her iron-will. And in I've Always Wanted A Dog, Hanna's husband refuses to let her have a dog, so she decides to turn him into one instead. And in Maid Perfect - Miss Helga's Training Academy, lesbians Julie and Deb catch a neighbor sneaking into their apartment and masturbating in their dirty underwear. Once they have him on tape, the sexy duo has plenty of ammunition to turn him into their personal slave. Then in The New Housekeeper, Benjamin wants to live as a slave to a beautiful woman. But when he hires the nubile young April to be a live-in housekeeper, she taps into her 'inner Domme' with a vengeance and takes charge in ways he never planned on. And in From Husband to Possession with the Stroke of a Pen, Mary aims to fulfill Jason's submissive fantasies. When her slave contract states that she can modify him anyway she wants, he hardly blinks. Maybe he should have read the fine print!


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Getting married at Ashfield House Hotel, Wigan
For a lot of couples, the process of choosing perfect places to get married is a clear-cut accomplishment that they do not even have to think about it twice. That is because there are several people, especially brides-to-be that have had one specific northern wedding location in mind that they have dreamed of being the ideal spot for their big day. In so many cases, however, it does not work out to be quite so easy.
If your wedding is soon, and you are tossing around many different ideas about places to get married, many factors can make this critical decision quite easier. The first step that you will need to think about is if the plans you have in mind are for an inside wedding or you would prefer a beautiful spot that is selected in the out-of-doors. This one step alone can help a great deal in pinpointing the options you are contemplating. Some of the popular choices for inside weddings include the home-church that your family belongs to, Ballrooms, recreational halls, and a wide assortment of others. Some of the popular choices for outdoor weddings include local parks, by a lake or beside a beautiful flower garden.
Another factor that can help to limit the choices you are considering as cool places to get married will be if you plan the ceremony in your home-town or somewhere romantic away from home. In choosing to have the wedding away from home, it is essential to factor in that not everyone you plan to invite will be able to make the journey. That is the biggest reason why many couples are deterred from having wedding ceremonies away from home.
The specific wedding theme that you select for your ceremony and reception will also figure on the task of choosing appropriate spots to get married. While a barn or bed and breakfast may be enough for a country wedding, these spots would undoubtedly not be suitable for a modern-day wedding.
The number of guests that you expect to come to your wedding ceremony and reception celebration is also factors that will need to be considered. While some areas may prove to be great for small weddings, other areas are likely to be better choices for a larger-sized ceremony.
Taking all these factors into consideration as you consider different ideal spots to get married, is the best way to make sure you choose an area that you and your partner will feel happy.
In short, if you are looking for an ideal venue to hold your wedding, Ashfield House Hotel, Wigan, United Kingdom is your best bet. Ashfield House is an exclusive wedding venue set in North West near Standish Wigan. This beautiful spot is warm and welcoming. It is indeed an ideal place to hold an extravagant wedding. Its recent magnificent renovation will create a beautiful blank canvas for your weddings without spending above your budget. Browse the offical Ashfield House wedding site.