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Check Out Joshy's Baby Dump Truck Toy
Joshua had this baby dump truck toy figured out in about a minute. As soon as he saw the colorful balls, he knew what to do!
He's only 14 months old so that shows you that the toy itself is pretty self explanatory to operate to a toddler his age.
When you turn the dump truck on, it sings a little song that says "I'm a powerful dump truck, I rumble down the road, moving my load from here to there! Put the rocks into the hole!"
If you don't put the rocks in the hole after the song prompts you, it revs and honks and repeats, "put the rocks into the hole!"
Joshua's Baby Dump Truck Toy by Vtech
Joshua is 14 months old and he got this dump truck from his Aunt Judy for Christmas this year.
- There are 3 colored balls (or "rocks") blue, green and orange.
- There are 3 buttons that teach the names of different tools
- Volume control & on/off switch
- Teaches basic motor skills as well as cause & effect.
- The truck counts to 3, teaches colors as well as sing songs.
- Batteries were INCLUDED!
Dropping the Rocks in the Dump Truck
When the rocks are put in the hole, it counts them, there are three balls, it will count all the way up to 3 if your baby puts them all in.
The colorful balls are called "rocks" because after all, this is a dump truck!
Watch Joshua's Short Baby Dump Truck Toy Demo
He's only 14 months but he can show you how to use this toy!
The Tool Buttons
Press the tool buttons and it says what tool it is. "Saw" and "Hammer" and the big yellow one that lights up is "screwdriver" because the little pup in the window has one in his hand. It will also give the color of the button too.
The Blue Lever Makes It Dump!
There's a blue lever on the side that can be pushed down and the truck dumps its load.
Look Parents! Volume Control!
Gotta love that you can turn the toy "off" right? Of course, every parent appreciates that. There's also two different volume settings, high and low.
We removed the pull string for safety. There was a yellow string on the front of the truck so that your baby can pull it, but cut ours off, we saw it as a strangle hazard for our guy. He's a bit of a risk taker, I could see him doing something with that string he's not supposed too.
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From The Cancer Chronicles #24-#25
Pleomorphism is defined as the "existence of irregular and variant forms of the same species or strain of microorganisms." This is a well-known phenomenon in certain bacteria, yeasts, and other microbes. According to one textbook, "Many fungi, particularly those that cause disease in humans, are dimorphic, that is, they have two forms" (C. Villee, et al. Biology, NY: Saunders, 1985).
Such changeability in microbes is rarely welcomed by doctors. Even Encyclopedia Britannica admits that it "greatly complicates the task of identifying and studying" germs.
Some pleomorphism is relatively simple. For example, common brewer's yeast (S. cerevisiae) grows in an orderly and harmless way except when it is faced with a lack of nutrients. Then it turns nasty, throwing out mold-like growths. While brewer's yeast is health food, scientists call its moldy form "critical for pathogenesis" (i.e., disease).
Interestingly, this change is triggered by "low levels of ammonia," a major source of nitrogen. This is similar to Naessens's theory about the origin of cancer and other degenerative diseases: progressive nitrogen starvation for the healthy cells caused by over-consumption of nitrogen by pathological cells.
Brewer's yeast's unusual behavior permits otherwise stationary cells "to forage for nutrients...at a distance from their initial colonization site" (Cell, 1992;68:1077-1090). They "penetrate the surface of the agar plate and grow down into the medium."
But despite their similarity to Brewer's yeast, the pleomorphic organism Naessens has identified goes way beyond anything found in textbooks.
The somatid is an astonishing shape shifter in culture. In rapid progression (less than 90 hours), it can be spore, double spore, bacteria and double bacteria, microbial globular form, yeast, ascii, mycelial form, fibrous thallus, etc.
"Foraging yeast" resemble one part of the somatid cycle, where yeast also change into mycelial (mold-like) forms. But the somatid is inherent in human blood: its recognition would revolutionize microbiology as well as preventive medicine.
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(BLOOMINGTON) - A sizeable check and a standing ovation were bestowed Tuesday on Ted Jackson, director of Pulmonary and Radiology Services at IU Health Bloomington Hospital.
Long-time director receives Kohr leadership award
Foundation presents outstanding leadership award to Ted Jackson
The 25-plus year employee was given the Roland E. "Bud" Kohr Outstanding Leadership Award. He joins a prestigious list of leaders who have previously earned the distinction.
Jon Barada, president of the Bloomington Hospital Foundation, presented the award which honors the late Bud Kohr, former president and CEO of Bloomington Hospital. It is given to a nominated "outstanding hospital leader at the director level or above" who personifies excellence in their leadership within the organization.
Jackson was praised in the nomination and by Barada for being a trusted individual who applies Lean principles and represents servant leadership. Jackson says he is honored to receive the award and notes that so many other leaders are worthy of the praise. He also touted the leadership traits of the late Kohr.
"I remember during my new employee orientation in 1989 where Bud Kohr would lead us all on a 'blind walk' through the hospital," Jackson says. Blindfolded, the newcomers would wind their way through the hallways, units and classrooms. "This was one way Mr. Kohr displayed very quickly that we would all help each other at Bloomington Hospital."
Jackson shared a bit of personal history that brought him to this point. When he was only 11, Jackson's father died of Guillain-Barré Syndrome, spending three months on a respirator before his untimely death at age 36. Jackson found his calling after that tragic incident. "Helping care for my father led me to become a respiratory therapy professional," Jackson shares.
As a leader, Jackson says he believes in some basic operational principles. "When there's an exception, you get to be exceptional," he says, suggesting that it's always an opportunity. "When something isn't quite right or doesn't go by the book, you have permission to do what's right - to make it right."
Of the more-than 40 awards the Foundation presents annually, this is the only award exclusively reserved for members of the IU Health Bloomington leadership group. The winner receives a $2,500 cash award.
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I'm sorry I'm not any higher on everyone's sleeper-pick, League Pass darlings. I know there are few, if any, teams that have a brighter future four or five years from now, and I know that there are gonna be 15 or 20 games this year where these guys look like the future of fun, dumb-athletic, dunking all over the world basketball. But the rest of the time? These guys are gonna be ugggg-layyyy.
Let's start with the future, fun, dumb-athletic, dunking all over the world part. This is a team that leveraged Kevin Love's bitter crying into his beard attitude into two overall first round picks (okay, really one first overall pick) AND THEN doubled down by picking first in this year's draft and taking the clear #1 prospect and possible generational superstar in Karl Anthony-Towns. They also added two additional first-rounders in the 2014 and 2015 draft with the built-in-a-lab air-czar Zach Lavine (I already shared the dunking competition video about a million times on this site, go check it out. Go Toons!) and NCAA champion point guard Tyus Jones. Lavine might get the spotlight here, and especially if he can get his 3 point shooting clicking and fill it up like he did against the Warriors, but don't sleep on Jones either. He may have fell in the draft because he's a little small and was only the 3rd best player on a non-Kentucky team, but a lot of very smart people have lauded his NBA projections and he has been destroying the world from 3 over the summer league and preseason.
AND THIS TEAM HAS KEVIN GARNETT!! And the passing of Ricky Rubio! Arguably two of the most fun things to watch in the NBA on a nightly basis. Am I too low on these T'Wolves?
Well, noooo, because when you think that KG is on your team you love the toughness and the mentoring and you don't really mind the $10 mill/year, but you really don't want him starting and taking minutes away from people like Shabazz Muhammad and newly signed Euro player of the year Nemanja Bjelica (message me for pronunciation advice!) And, while Rubio is pretty much a wizard passing the ball, his 36% shooting from 3 is going to slam the spacing and really hurt the development of the other young people on this team (especially for Wiggins who shot only 31% and only hoisted up one 3 a game after he realized he could post up smaller guards and get his points that way). The team may need to start Kevin Martin at the 2 and bump Wiggins down a peg, although why they wouldn't just bench KG and let Towns play stretch 4 is beyond me. Plus, veteran presence aside, this team's other two free agency signings in Andre Miller and Tayshaun Prince are yet another example in "What the Hell?" Are these going to play? Are either of them going to be able to shoot from beyond the arc.
Maybe I'm listening to too much Nate Duncan and spacing and three point shooting really aren't that important in today's NBA. And maybe the coaching staff will totally commit to another development season; keeping these old fogies off the court and being prepared to lose while turning out with Lavine and Jones and Muhammad (who actually had a great scoring season as a power forward who could slide to the 5 in smaller lineups). But that's not even to go deep into the coaching staff, who will be missing head coach and President of Basketball Operations Flip Saunders as he recovers from Hodgkin's Lymphoma. And, by the way really should have led off with this, but get better Flip. You may have been a traditional, conservative coach but you are one of the best people in the league at nurturing young talent and getting your team to buy in and play hard. The replacement, Sam Mitchell coached through the 2009 season in Toronto, but is really a huge question mark at this point.
Look, again the T'Wolves have some great young pieces and an incredibly bright future (even if Towns doesn't become some kind of crazy shot-blocker 3 shooter Ibaka type they have a ton of young pieces who may hit "very competent NBA level") and will look really great every now and then. I just don't know if this team's spacing, or even their defense (unless Rubio kills it at a really high level, he is usually a great defender) will be good enough to scratch like 25 wins. Which means, that when these guys are not crushing the world, they are going to be getting slammed out of games and, especially in the West, being treated like something of a doormat for the teams en rout to make the playoffs. So, for the leaguepass, I will be definitely tuning in to these guys when Wiggins is shitting all over James Harden. For the rest of the time, I'll wait for maybe like 2 or 3 years before I'm all in on these guys.


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The first time I saw the self-described funeral pop, doom disco, space rock trio from Denton, TX it was Backyard on Bell some time in the spring. Months later, I catch them at Denton Camera Exchange. Musical performances without a live drummer are still traumatic however upon the second live show featuring the dark souls of Felt & Fur- A. Pennington on vocals and guitar, R. Minick and J. Estes on the machines, I was beginning to enjoy the melancholic wilderness swallowing me. Last Saturday night as a winter chill fell on this small north Texas city, a community of dark wave enthusiasts descended upon Andy's Bar to celebrate the release of Held, the second release by Felt & Fur and first to be released on the newly christened Denton label Triptych Records.
From my cozy office space on University Drive, I fix some hot chocolate and crank up the new album. The haunting soundscape begins to mix with dreams. Eyes close... I stand in a garden, the flowers weep, the sky hidden with ash. The hot chocolate melts into another taste, familiar but forbidden.
Listen and buy the new vinyl Held by Felt & Fur on Triptych Records here.
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Last week, President Trump signed an executive order establishing a presidential advisory commission on "election integrity." Its mission is not to examine why the United States has one of the lowest turnout rates in the western world or to investigate the intelligence community's consensus that Russia sought to interfere in the 2016 election.
Instead of addressing those very real issues, the stated purposes of the commission include finding evidence of "fraudulent voter registrations and fraudulent voting," and identifying "practices that enhance the American people's confidence in the integrity of the voting processes." But the commission's design and personnel indicate that its true purposes can only be the opposite: to undermine public confidence in elections with trumped up evidence of fraud, in order to pave the way for restrictions on voting.
Let's start with two basic facts. First, the biggest threat to elections integrity is that not enough eligible Americans participate in our democracy, calling into question the basic premise that our government reflects the will of the majority. The United States ranks 31st among the 35 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in voter turnout. The recent French presidential election saw turnout of about 68 percent, a 30-year low for France, which led some commentators to bemoan the apathy of the French electorate. But that "low" turnout rate for France was still about 13 points higher than U.S. turnout in 2016. The U.S. has not cracked 65 percent turnout of eligible voters since 1968.
Second, we do not have a problem of waves of ineligible people who are clamoring to vote. There is not a shred of evidence to support President Trump's assertions that 3-5 million supposedly illegal votes that were cast in the 2016 election (or, for that matter, that once said illegal votes are subtracted, he actually won the popular vote). Elected officials from across the political spectrum including Speaker Paul Ryan, election administrators, and legal experts have rejected the president's false statements that 3-5 million illegal votes were cast in the 2016 presidential election. And the president's own legal team told a Michigan court that "[a]ll available evidence suggests that the 2016 general election was not tainted by fraud or mistake."
Proponents of the Commission have ignored the absence of evidence to justify its existence. They ask, if there's no fraud, why not have an investigation to confirm that fact? But we've seen this reality show before, and it did not have a happy ending. During the George W. Bush administration, Attorney General John Ashcroft made voter fraud a top priority at the Department of Justice, which initiated a voter fraud initiative that continued under the leadership of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. In 2005, DOJ announced that it would prioritize election fraud enforcement, "requir[ing] that all components of the Department place a high priority on the investigation and prosecution of election fraud." After five years, the nationwide investigation resulted in a grand total of 86 people convicted of election-related crimes ― during a period in which hundreds of millions of ballots were cast. Seven U.S. attorneys who had refused to go along with the administration's agenda were improperly fired, in a move that the inspector general of DOJ concluded was "fundamentally flawed, "severely damaged the credibility of the Department and raised doubts about the integrity of Department prosecutive decisions." By September 2007, nine of the senior DOJ staff members associated with the controversy had resigned in disgrace, including Attorney General Gonzales himself.
We are now watching the sequel to that ill-fated boondoggle. This time, the protagonist is Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who has stated that he believes that Trump is "absolutely correct" about winning the popular vote. He has claimed that non-citizens are registering and voting in substantial numbers, but in 2016, he had the dubious distinction of being called out by two different U.S. Courts of Appeals for his exaggerations: the Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit described Kobach's claims of noncitizen voting as "pure speculation," while the Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. described him of having "precious little record evidence" to support his claims.
Asking Kobach to lead a commission tasked also tasked with addressing elections integrity is akin to trusting Bernie Madoff to invest your kids' college funds. Kobach has supported a variety of measures to restrict access to the polls, including: strict identification requirements that the U.S. Kansas Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission found "may effectively be compared to a poll tax"; excessive documentation requirements for voter registration, which blocked 18,000 motor voter applicants from registering to vote, and which Judge Jerome Holmes, an appointee of George W. Bush, labeled a "mass denial of a fundamental right"; and the voter registration "Crosscheck" program, a system that purports to compare registration rolls in multiple states to find people who are double-registered, but which one recent study found "would eliminate about 200 registrations used to cast legitimate votes for every one registration used to cast a double vote."
Kobach apparently has national ambitions for his voter suppression agenda. Last November, Kobach was notoriously photographed carrying documents into a meeting with then-President-elect Trump, which appeared to contain a proposal to change federal voter registration laws. The ACLU sought those documents in connection with litigation against Kobach over his office's violations of the motor-voter law, but Kobach and his legal team sought to withhold them from disclosure, leading U.S. Magistrate Judge O'Hara to blast Kobach for engaging in "word-play meant to present a materially inaccurate picture of the documents," and to order Kobach to turn them over. The ACLU has now received those documents, but we cannot release them to the public or comment on their contents without a court order, because Kobach continues to claim that they are "confidential" and cannot be shared with the media or the general public.
If the members of this commission believe that the American people have a right to know the truth about the integrity of our elections, they would call on Kobach to release the details of his plans for our elections to the public. And they would focus on real problems instead of witch hunts, starting with serious proposals to encourage broader participation in our democracy.


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Section partner – ACHMEA
Nominal premiums in Netherlands: case study Achmea
Tamara Pieterse
(Achmea, Netherlands)
Presentation (password needed)
Tamara Pieterse is a Senior Manager Product Management at Achmea division Health, former Manager Commercial Development & Innovation
& Manager Product Management ad interim at Achmea division Health and McKinsey. She is the graduate of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Post-graduate trainings and studies at the Vlerick Leuven Ghent Management School and the University Maastricht.
The first part of the presentation was an introduction of the Dutch Healthcare system. After this part you were familiar with the characteristic of the Dutch System. For example: mandatory basic insurance, risk equalization fund and thresholds like deductibles.
The second part of the presentation has explained a best practice: Zilveren Kruis Achmea. In 2011 Zilveren Kruis Achmea succeeded in offering differentiated propositions in a market, which can be seen as a commodity. Zilveren Kruis Achmea puts the consumer in the driver seat.
The third part of the presentation have focused on the future: what are the challenges of the Dutch Healthcare system? Is this system (financially) sustainable and what is the role of consumerism? Tamara told us more about key issues in The Netherlands, and specific within Achmea, regarding the sustainability of the system.
Daniel D. Cave
(President and CEO, Nurtur, USA)
Daniel serves as Chief Executive Officer and President of Nurtur Health, Inc. (Cardium Health Services Corp). Mr. Cave served as President and Co-Chief Operations Officer of AirLogix, Inc. He has more than 25 years experience in key leadership roles in the disease management, service, and device segments of the health care industry. His knowledge and expertise, particularly in delivering health care cost reduction strategies for employers with proven clinical and financial outcomes, has earned Cardium Health recognition as the leading disease management company in the self-insured employer market. Mr. Cave served as Chief Operating Officer of CIGNA Pharmacy Management, including pharmaceutical manufacturer management, retail pharmacy network, customer and provider services, claim and account installation, and national operational leadership for field-based clinical staff. He also served as President, Specialty Health, for Prudential HealthCare responsible for a national staff of 1,200 clinical and non-clinical professionals. Additionally, Mr. Cave also held a variety of positions during an 11-year tenure at Travelers Insurance Company. He co-founded Cardiovascular Outcome Management, Inc. and served as its Senior Vice President.
The presentation has focused on the growing burden of chronic disease across the globe and in Europe in particular. Despite governmental and geographic differences in how health care is financed, health is a universal element of the human experience. Traditional disease management techniques from the United States have been discussed. The attendee has been learned about consumer-centric techniques that are being used to identify and engage individuals with chronic conditions in state-of-the art health behavior improvement programs and how such programs are working to lower costs and improve quality outcomes.
The role of new paradigms in health management related to behavioral economics and behavior change science have been presented. Also clinical and economic outcomes resulting from programs operating in the United States have been reviewed.
Lastly, the attendee has been provided a glimpse into the future, including the output from new predictive modeling techniques based on epidemiologic and biometric measures, and a view of the extraordinary potential burden from disease that may be in our future due to lifestyle factors.
Case study from Poland: Private Health Insurance in Poland
Adam Kozierkiewicz
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Adam Kozierkiewicz MD., PhD, a graduate of Faculty of Medicine at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (1992), and School of Public Health at the same University, as well as post-graduate trainings and studies at the Harvard University, Boston, MA and the Semmelweis University, Budapest, as well as the Warsaw School of Economics.
Adam had been working for the Jagiellonian University Medical College, as a research and lecturer since the beginning of 1990-ties, until 2008. In 1998 he was appointed vice Director, and later a Director of Health Information Department, at the Ministry of Health, Republic of Poland. After restructuring the Ministry, he became a first director of the Centre of Health Information Systems, which inherited competences of the Department, combining them with data collections and analysis. In 2001 he left the Ministry, returned to the University and worked as a consultant on a free-lance basis. He has served as a consultant for governments and NGO's in such countries like Bulgaria, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. The scope of the consultancy covered hospital payment and performance measure, organization of public health insurance scheme, System of Health Accounts, public health statistics/ reporting, and anticorruption measures in health care. In 2003 he established a company dealing with health information (WRM sp. Z o.o.), which was sold to sector investor in 2008. Since 2008 he is working for the European Investment Bank, firstly as a senior health economist, based in Luxembourg, and later as a Knowledge Economy Specialist, based in Warsaw. The recent position is placed in the JASPERS, the joint initiative of the European Investment Bank, the European Commission and the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development.
The healthcare system in Poland is financed through social insurance contributions with a signle National Health Fund. However, a rapid increase of private providers' sector is one of the major trends in the country within this sector.
Private health insurance is part of the health sector (0,6% of total health expenditures), but it only has a limited progress. It is below the expected potentials of the sector due to the limited demand. Major advantages of private health insurance in Poland are: (1) an increased focus on consumers assistance, (2) reinsurance that covers unexpected expenditures, (3) more control over providers activities (Utilization, Quality) and (4) the opportunity to shape products to consumers preferences.
Panel Discussion with Speakers led by Jim A. Rice
(Management Sciences for Health, USA)
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Stainless steel appliances may be cleaned with either warm soapy water or a mild cleanser (Ajax Spray & Wipe). There are also specialised stainless steel cleaners on the market that both restore the surface and repel dirt and smudges.
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Sunday, November 21, 2010
Pure Evil!
My girlfriend is especially scared of Trinity because one night she babysat for us and locked Trinity upstairs in our bedroom. Before she knew it, the cat was standing next to her growling. When I came home that night, I discovered that my girlfriend had used the baby gates to build a wall between her and the cat. Have I mentioned that the cat can jump? We also had to come home early once because the 14-year-old babysitter was scared of the cat. Trinity was stalking her.
Trinity like to go outside and stare down the neighbours. She also requires heavy sedation at the vet. They won't give her shots unless she is out cold. But she is really nice to Hubby, Kid and me. Well, asides from those occasions when she would pee on things because she was pissed that we wouldn't let her outside. That seriously sucked!
But we still love our evil, ridiculously mean cat. And she loves the three of us. As long as we let her outside.
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I think you are delusional. The cat does not love anyone. I'm pretty sure I witness her draw blood on your arm each and every time I come visit.ReplyDelete
The cat is pure evil, just like you said. There is no love.
hmmm, i have a feeling that Pure Evil has a twin named Daisy (we went thru most of QK font titles before we found on DS could remember ...)... anyway, we adopted Daisy a few yrs back and she fell in love with Otis the dog (RIP) and Sam. She is somewhat fond of me too (mostly i suppose because i purchase the food and force the DD's to clean the popper)...the DD's she can be somewhat friendly with; completely ignores DAH and HATES all others with a passion. i tell everyone to leave her be but mostly people are stubborn and refuse to believe that she already doesn't like them ... then they complain about her - duh!! anyway, almost 2 yrs ago we found a stray which we ultimately named KC (for kitty cat as i was initially refusing to harbour a fugitive but ultimately lost the battle); KC is a gem, loves everyone, super cute, very friendly, greets me at the door and even likes DAH (personally, i think she is missing a chromosome but thats another story ...) ... still to this day, Daisy hisses and growls at "the interloper", chases her, wont let her eat, etc. she is relentlessReplyDelete
its nice to know that i am not the only one who can love a bad kitty!
Did I mention that I am also really allergic to the cats? They are trying to kill me with love. Sleeping on my pillow and burrowing under the blankets with me when I sleep.ReplyDelete


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Dawn Torres-Gale is a Paraplanner with Insight Financial Strategists. She is also an Accredited Financial Counselor® and a Certified Financial Planner® program student.
In 2008 Ms. Torres-Gale was chosen by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Foundation to be part of a select group of military spouses who received FINRA sponsored training from the Association of Financial Counseling, Planning and Education to become an Accredited Financial Counselor®. Ms. Torres-Gale received her certification as an Accredited Financial Counselor® in February 2012. Since becoming an AFC®, Ms. Torres-Gale has worked as a Personal Financial Counselor with the Massachusetts National Guard and the Naval Operational Support Center in Portland, Oregon. Ms. Torres-Gale has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from San Francisco State University and a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Hawaii, Manoa. Ms. Torres-Gale has served as a district court mediator in Honolulu, Hawaii from 2003-2005 and as an elected member of the Wachusett Regional School Committee representing the Town of Holden, Massachusetts from 2009-2012. She is the spouse of LCDR Christopher Gale, USCG (Ret.) and the mother of three daughters, ages 27, 17 and 14 yrs. old.


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Fresh from The Thick of It, Mock The Week, Have I Got News For You, Skins and all that jazz, Chris Addison, the man who put the 'Chris Addison' into "I see Chris Addison is touring again," is touring again. He's doing a third and final leg of his critically-acclaimed sell-out tour, The Time Is Now, Again.
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Tony Gaskins, is theauthor of the award-winning book, Make it Work:22 time-tested, real-life lessons for sustaining a happy, healthy relationship. Ahusband of 12 years and a father of two boys, in his spare time he's a bestselling author, international speaker, and celebrity life-coach. It all started after he lost his full football scholarship after 3 seasons. At 22 years of age, he used his gift of writing to start writing books based on the mistakes he'd made in life. At 25 years of age he went on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Tyra Banks Show, and the 700 Club telling different portions of his life story. He exposed his mistakes and turned them into lessons, focusing on everything from being toxic in relationships to living the street life with his cousins. Tony allowed his pain to birth his purpose. Then at 26, he was called on by the NBA, NFL, and NCAA to speak to athletes about life, love, and responsibility as young adults. As a result of Tony's message going viral online, he has amassed 3 million supporters who enjoy his very real and raw delivery of life's wisdom.


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On a day of unprecedented League action CIYMS as good as retained their Premier League crown with an early morning 5 run win over nearest challengers North Down.
They managed to defend what seemed an inadequate 113/5 with Jacob Mulder bowling a nerveless final over that saw the home side fail to score the nine needed for victory.
In it he conceded only 3 singles, bowled Gavin McKenna, ran out Stuart Nelson and finished with a 'dot'.
After that morning result it would have taken the Comber men to win their remaining fixtures and in doing so to also dramatically increase their Nett Run Rate, an unlikely scenario.
Confirmation of the title was available later in the day to CIYMS in the shape of a win at Shaw's Bridge against Instonians who had ensured survival with a morning win at Muckamore.
There may have been a few flickers of doubt that it would all be done and dusted today when Instonians posted 192/4 thanks to a magnificent century from Shane Getkate who posted 108* off only 47 balls.
However a John Matchett blitz (72 off 45) set the tone and with Jacob Mulder (20 off 12) setting the platform enter Jason vd Merwe to plunder 40 off 19 and take the contest down to the wire.
In semi-darkness it was Robert McKinley who had the task of preventing CI score the eight runs for victory and he did just that!
Three singles shared by Ryan Hunter and Trevor Britton was followed by 4 leg byes that tied the scores and gave CI the title but with Britton caught off the fifth ball and Ryan Hunter being run out going for the winning run off the last it was a case of both sides celebrating - Instonians an unlikely 2 points and CIYMS the Premier League Title.
PREMIER LEAGUE RESULTS Morning matches:
North Down lost to CIYMS by 5 runs, The Green, 8 September.
CIYMS 113-5 (20.0 overs, R Hunter 30*, C Dougherty 28, P Eakin 3-18) North Down 108-7 (20.0 overs, J Mulder 2-13)
Muckamore lost to Instonians by 35 runs , Moylena, 8 September.
Instonians 150-9 (20.0 overs, M Commins 59, Nikolai Smith 27, N Gill 4-17, S Lazars 2-26) Muckamore 115-9 (20.0 overs, J Manley 3-11, A White 3-19, R McKinley 2-17)
Afternoon matches:
Instonians tied with CIYMS, Shaw's Bridge, 8 September.
Instonians 192-4 (20.0 overs, S Getkate 108*, M Commins 37, O Metcalfe 28, J van der Merwe 2-27) CIYMS 192-8 (20.0 overs, J Matchett 72, J van der Merwe 40, J Manley 3-38)
Carrickfergus v Muckamore - no result, Middle Road, 8 September.
Carrickfergus 7/1 (2 overs) Match abandoned.


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in April of 2017 I converted my garage into
a home bike shop, which means it'll be two years old this Spring. Today, I'll take you on a tour of the hack
shack, give you a run down on what's working, and what I might have done differently. Before we get into any of that we're gonna
do a small project, to address this pile of shoes in the corner. Some of these belong to my wife and I, while
others belong to our friends. Phil, these look like yours. Pinterest to the rescue. My wife was kind enough to give me a quick
and easy solution that she found on Pinterest. Just cut up a bunch of PVC, paint it, and
bam. You've got a shoe rack, right? It turns out you can only get 10" PVC at
a plumbing distributor, and you need buy a minimum of 20 feet of it. That means it's expensive, and I'm going
to have a lot left over for future projects. It's also challenging to cut straight with
the kind of tools you would expect a normal homeowner to have. In the end I made a little jig out of a ruler
and a marker to draw a line around it, and used a circular saw to cut it as straight
as possible. The precision eroded a bit with each piece,
as I'd measure the next cut against an increasingly jagged end. But it was close enough for a shoe rack. After a day of hauling, measuring, cutting,
cleaning, finishing, and painting a bunch of sewer pipe, I finally got to making something
pinteresty. These sheet metal screws ended up being perfect,
and once all the pieces started coming together, I felt a little better about embarking on
this project. Clearly I could have bought something for
a lot less at Ikea, or just built something out of wood for like $10, but this. Archaeologists will find this thousands of
years from now and wonder why someone went through so much trouble, for a shoe rack. As for the rest of the crap corner, I tidied
it up with some helmetor mounts. I also moved the ramp mount up to make way
for a skateboard rack, which cost me $3 in the bathroom section of my local hardware
store. And with that, the hack shack is just a little
more functional, organized, and cool looking. I've done a lot of things to stay organized
here, like using containers for fasteners, miscellaneous bike parts, and even GoPro accessories. Organization is the art of finding a home
for everything, but it's always a work in progress. I added this tool chest in the middle of the
shop for extra storage, and in addition to helping me stay organized it has become a
great place to film things. I was happy to find that it came with a power
strip featuring USB ports on the side, but they turned out to be hot garbage. Same goes for this cheap bench vice. Had I known this would become the most used
tool in my entire shop, I would have sprung for a better one. Sure it clamps stuff down, just not with any
degree of precision. As for this cheap bench grinder, I can't
say that it's held me back in any way. Speaking of stuff on my work bench, a few
of you have spotted this enormous brass nut. My dad acquired this thing probably 20 years
ago while working in demolition. It weighs about 11 pounds, or 5 kilograms,
so I use it to hold things down, or as an anvil. Otherwise it just looks cool sitting here
on my workbench. This workbench was one of the first things
I built in this shop, and at some point I added this cover to hide all the bike parts
and extra tool boxes below it. Otherwise this bench has served me well in
its current state. I hope to see the day where the top is uniformly
grody from end to end, but for now it's a work in progress. My original additions like the hex wrenches
drilled into the front, have worked out well, and I'm not sure I would have built this
any differently. As for the tool wall… well it's worked
out okay, but I won't be using pegboard in my next shop. It looks great from the start and makes it
easy to organize your tools, but the little holes deteriorate over time and should you
choose to actually screw anything into it there's not much material to get purchase
on. Recently I dedicated the left side of the
tool wall for my YouTube plaques and sponsors. Underneath it, I have all my tool chargers
ready to go so I can always have fresh batteries in the hopper. But that's not the only charging station
in the hack shack. Here, I can easily charge all my camera batteries. Or just plug the camera right in. It's all powered by a big USB brick mounted
under the desk. To the right in this tool bag, I keep action
camera straps and mounts for quick access. Moving to the left is this storage area which
I've covered with a curtain, and my secondary bike rack complete with a guest spot. Today, I modified one of the hooks to accommodate
a fat tire bike by straightening it out and making it protrude further from the wall. You may be skeptical about whether this is
secure enough to hold a fat bike, but try getting it off and you'll quickly see that
it's more than adequate. As we've embarked on more projects, the
hack shack has accumulated some new tools. This heat gun sees a lot of use, and so does
this cordless hot glue gun which I bought recently. It gets really hot so the glue ends up being
much stronger than other got glue I've used. Surprisingly I also use these scissors constantly
for opening packages, cutting zip ties, and even brake hose. The little parrot beak shape lends itself
well to just about everything. Something else I use all the time? This retractable extension cord. I will never have a workspace without one
for as long as I live. Since the beginning of the channel I've
acquired an insane amount of stickers, and I've more or less contained them to the
surface this storage cabinet. This is the official sticker repository, and
if you accumulate as many stickers as I do, you know how nice it is to have a default
home for them. Inside the sticker repository are action cameras,
water bottles, gloves, and stuff. Moving to the left is a masterpiece, my garage
door designed by Sketchy Trails. I originally found out about Kristina through
Brian, who commissioned her to paint this for me. Some of you might recognize this scene. Since then I've hired her to make a variety
of things for the channel including the YouTube artwork, the Berm Creek Shirt, the refresh
of my logo, and of course this garage door which is composed of individual panels. It was tricky to get this all to line up perfectly,
but we actually got it on our first shot. As for this bike rack, I was a little iffy
about it holding up to the abuse of loading and unloading bikes, but to this day it's
going strong. I was also cautiously optimistic about the
floor. This foam floor makes standing around for
hours on end, much more comfortable. It also helps with sound deadening. Through a year and a half of abuse this floor
has held up well physically. But cosmetically, not so much. It's stained with everything from sealant
to construction adhesive. I could probably clean it up, but not without
a toothbrush and a three day weekend. Oddly enough, the spot that looks the best
is where I spilled a bunch of brake oil a few months ago. Were I to build another shop I would still
consider using it again, but maybe throw down a drop cloth to protect it when working with
nasty substances. So that's a full tour and update on the
hack shack. If you want to watch the original build video
I've included it on the end screen. Also in the description are links to some
of the things in my shop, right down to that huge charging brick. If you have any cool additions or features
in your own shop I want to hear about them below. I think there may come a day where I'll
need to start over, and convert an entirely new space into the set of Seth's Bike Hacks. Thanks for riding with me today, and I'll
see you next time.


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Google Sheets Version of Playbooks
I made a Google sheet version of the PC and team playbooks on Google drive. This way groups who play online but don't use Roll20 Pro can have a shareable, digital version of their playbooks.
One version is for quickly building your sheet by copy-pasting playbook unique details.
The second version is designed for a playgroup to share, keeping their PCs and team centralized in one document.
Because formatting is consistent across documents, players can create their PC or team in the playbook builder, then paste it directly into the shared playgroup version.
The current version lacks the downtime sheet (i.e. professional skills and project clocks), but this should allow groups to record and share everything else.
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Amy Leopard practices business law and advises a diverse array of clients in the healthcare and technology industries.
Amy is a valued business advisor in corporate matters involving healthcare and information technology law. She provides trusted counsel to healthcare providers, entrepreneurs, and service providers on licensing, payment, regulatory compliance, privacy and technology issues. As a former hospital executive, Amy has in-depth knowledge from over twenty years in the healthcare industry as vice president in both academic medical center and community hospital settings and an internship in the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division. She also teaches advanced courses on transactions for healthcare organizations as an Adjunct Professor at the Case Western Reserve Law School, where she was editor-in-chief of "Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine" and worked on NIH grant projects. Amy has been selected by her peers for inclusion in the Best Lawyers in America.
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William A. Tanenbaum is recognized as one of the Who's Who Legal "Thought Leaders Global Elite" and is ranked in top tiers by Chambers, Legal500, Best Lawyers and Who's Who Legal in technology, outsourcing, IP and data law. Bill is a shareholder in the 40-lawyer Technology Transactions & Data Privacy Practice at Polsinelli, an AmLaw 100 firm with 850 lawyers in 22 cities. He is the Practice Co-Chair of the Health Care Technology & Innovation Group, which is the second largest of its kind in the country. Polsinelli was named as the 2018 Health Care Firm of the Year by US News & World Report, and its Health Care Practice is the largest in the country.
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Diana J. P. McKenzie has a nationwide practice focused on providing practical, efficient and strategic legal advice to clients on significant information technology and outsourcing transactions. Ms. McKenzie has practiced exclusively in information technology law since 1985. This experience gives her the breadth and depth to offer an unparalleled sophisticated and holistic perspective on her client's business challenges. She has extensive experience with issues unique to the health care technology industry. Ms. McKenzie is a nationally recognized writer and an internationally recognized speaker on technology and electronic commerce law. She has given over 150 speeches in 50 cities and 14 countries. Ms. McKenzie's quotes and writings have been published in the Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance, The Licensing Journal, CIO Magazine, ComputerWorld, National Law Journal, and the Computer and Internet Lawyer. Diana also has a background in computer programming. She has been selected as one of America's Leading Lawyers for Business and Technology by Chambers USA, as one of the top lawyers in the U.S.A. in Information Technology Law by The Best Lawyers in America, and as one of the Top 50 Women Lawyers in Illinois by Chicago Magazine. She is a Past President, of the ITechLaw Association and has been a Senior Member of HIMSS since 2002. Diana currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Technology Association of Georgia, Savannah Chapter. Ms. McKenzie received a B.A., magna cum laude, from Kenyon College, and an M.B.A. and a J.D. from Emory University.
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I've just ordered my second batch of these. I've been taken magnesium before bed for a couple of years to try and overcome DOMS. I find magnesium by itself works well for DOMS but doesn't aid my sleep, if anything, it gives me bad dreams! Enter Drift Off Formula! I've been taking Lean Greens drink for a while now and haver certainly felt the benefits so I thought I'd give this a try, especially since I don't sleep well. I haven't had to take sleeping tablets since I've been taking Drift Off, and I get all the benefits of my previous magnesium, without the bad dreams side effect.
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Why are we deficient in magnesium?
We can get magnesium through our normal diet. Mostly through our vegetable intake. However much of our modern life causes our natural stores to be stripped from the body. Caffeine, alcohol, processed foods, intense workouts, internal stress as well as environmental stressors all contribute to the depletion of magnesium in our body
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It contains a specific blend of minerals, designed to help maintain a healthy balance of magnesium, zinc and Vitamin B6 in your diet. Our modern diets and environmental factors cause our bodies to be stripped of magnesium stores. Magnesium deficiency effects many people in our population
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Can I take Drift Off with 'X'?
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2 Capsules Contain:
Magnesium Citrate 250mg (66% NRV)
Zinc Citrate 10mg (100% NRV)
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Gelatin, Microcrystalline Cellulose, Magnesium Stearate.
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3 surveyors within the past due nineteenth century have been so interested in the area's wasteland attractiveness that they named it "the Paradise Valley." beginning within the Twenties, adobe houses have been built in a variety of revival types. In 1936, the Camelback resort hotel set a superior typical with an inviting and cozy personality. different visitor resorts arrived, together with the Hermosa lodge and the El Chorro inn. The Fifties introduced extra sumptuous motels, together with the Paradise Valley Racquet membership and the Mountain Shadows inn. With the specter of Phoenix or Scottsdale annexing the realm, the voters began debating incorporation in 1949 and have been profitable in 1961. church buildings, faculties, city amenities, and single-family houses undefined. a variety of city ordinances have been followed to maintain a quiet, desolate tract way of life reminiscent of burying all utilities, restrictive zoning, and hillside maintenance.


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Regnum Carya Golf & SPA Resort has indoor/outdoor pools with water slides, a luxury spa center with massage treatments, a sauna and a steam bath, and a private sandy beach. The hotel is placed at the Carya Golf Course.
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Transtec Buprenorphine is an opioid drug, having a combination of agonist and also antagonist properties.
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iii) The patch should be applied immediately upon removal from the sealed sachet.
iv) The patch should be worn continuously for 7 days.
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Sealybration's Noche de Fiesta
Because of the very diverse demographic making up Austin County, the Sealy Community Foundation felt it was time to include music that represented all of our community. So, in 2018, we held our first Noche de Fiesta, featuring Regional Mexican music ... and we received rave reviews. We had a really impressive level of talent in our first year, and Sealybration plans an even bigger event for 2019 - with Michael Salgado and Magali Delarosa!
2019 Lineup: (Friday, July 12)
2018 Lineup:
The Sealy Community Foundation (SCF) was established in 2009 to serve as a voice for all non-profit organizations with a main purpose for the advancement of education and charity. We strive to create more opportunities for Austin County non-profit organizations to utilize fundraising efforts at our local festivals, Sealybration and Fantasy of Lights, in the town of Sealy. All proceeds collected during these events are given in the form of Senior Scholarships and donations to participating organizations. If you are a representative of an Austin County non-profit organization looking for involvement in either of these events, please contact us: at PO Box 406, Sealy, Texas 77474.


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'Wave Action on Coastal Structures' in Dubai
HR Wallingford has announced that their classroom training under the name 'Wave Action on Coastal Structures' is set to take place on May 21-22, 2019, in Jumeirah Lake Towers, Dubai.
This course will teach the theory and methods necessary for delivering alternative solutions to coastal problems.
"Attendees will gain a thorough understanding of a range of coastal structures, and improve their knowledge of wave characteristics. It will introduce the EurOtop manual and present established and new techniques to predict wave overtopping at seawalls, flood embankments, breakwaters and other shoreline structures," said HR Wallingford in its announcement.
Course content
- An introduction to the main types of structure;
- Use simple methods to estimate wave loads and how to predict wave overtopping, crest level calculation and armor size determination;
- An introduction to the EurOtop manual and the techniques (both established and new) used to predict wave overtopping at shoreline structures;
- Gain a theoretical understanding of the key issues in coastal engineering;
- Definition of key structural and hydraulic parameters, discussion of the types of prediction methods, and guidance on how the results should be interpreted;
- The main methods available for predicting overtopping (desk calculations; use of BayonetGPE tool; PC Overtopping).


text: Both my parents were born and bred in Connecticut. We moved quite a few times before landing on Isle of Palms, South Carolina where I consider myself "bred". When looking for a home in the Connecticut area after we were married, we found ourselves looking in Sandy Hook. It reminded me so much of the small island that I grew up on that it felt like I was coming "home" when we moved here. When we met our neighbors I was informed that I was now officially a "Hooker" and I have been ever since 1991. Since being here we have raised our two sons, Bobby and Tyler, who both started at Sandy Hook School and graduated from Newtown High School. My husband, Bob, is a co-owner of an accounting firm here in town as well volunteering with many organizations in town. I also have been involved with many organizations throughout the years. I became a college student for the first time when my children were still in middle school and elementary school and I am still going! I also work with high school students as an AIDS Educator and activist.


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Had this installed as part of kitchen refit. Took a bit of getting used to after 13 years of using old hob. Did have a few problems with the flame going out but then realised we were turning the knob the wrong way!! The rapid burners are rapid, not for a slow simmer! It looks very sleek, the only downside is it does show dust very quickly being glass but it easy enough to clean. Would recommend this hob.
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QA Standards and Processes in a Product Development Scenario
Introduction: In current scenario maintaining a full fledge QA standard process is must for a product based environment. If a given QA standard is followed in a proper way, it will always leads to a well defined user oriented quality product. Maintaining a QAStandard Process in a Product Development Scenario is very crucial and important. Read more…


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A stock that is not often tracked by analysts. This may be because it is not very well known or because it belongs to an industry that is generally performing poorly. As a result these stocks have low demand and often a low price. Some value investors recommend buying orphan stocks because they could be undervalued. However, because demand is low, orphan stocks have low trading volume and a small change in demand may result in volatility in price. An orphan stock is also called a wallflower.


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There are plenty of marketplaces that sell high-quality HTML website templates. However, the issue is that finding a website template that suits the requirements of your business or personal website may seem like a tough and challenging task. This is particularly true when it comes to the ones who are new to the world of website designing.
You need to pay attention to the fact that using an inaccurate template or one that doesn't offer the features you want will make your website look bad. If you follow such a practise, then you won't be able to build a strong online presence for your brand, which is not good for business. So, it is best to do your research and find the best marketplaces that sell high-quality and feature-rich HTML website templates.
Creative Market
Creative Market is one of the best marketplaces where you can find excellent website templates, fonts, themes, and other types of web design elements. You need to remember the fact that Creative Market is actually a paid store. However, the good news is that customers who subscribe to their email newsletter will receive free templates and themes that can be directly downloaded without any hassles.
Dribble cannot be classified as a marketplace, as it is actually a community of expert website designers who often showcase their design works to internet users. Most of the website designers who use this marketplace posts CSS/HTML versions of their web design projects along with screenshots. It is best to bookmark the freebies and freebie tag, as it will help you to check out the new templates that are created by these talented group of designers.
Individuals who are not new to the world of website designing would have probably heard about the website, which goes by the name Carrd. It is one of the best and most popular websites that is visited by thousands of internet users from all over the globe. The developer who built Carrd is also the one who designed the HTML5 UP website. HTML5 is home to several fascinating website templates that are built by using the Material or Bootstrap framework.
ThemeForest is another popular premium marketplace where you can find plenty of excellent website templates that are suitable for creating different types of websites. However, customers who create a free account with marketplace will be able to download the free themes that are published on the website's homepage. An interesting thing to note is that some of the paid themes in ThemeForest are often given away for free for promotions.
It is true that you can find plenty of marketplaces that sell HTML templates that can be used to create websites. However, what makes websites like Bootstrapdash special is that they help you to find the best admin templates that can do wonders for your new website. So, make sure to check out BootstrapDash when you are looking for templates for your web design project.
Urbanui is a promising platform where you can buy high-quality website templates at affordable prices. The best thing about UrbanUI marketplace is that it contains a well-designed and properly categorised design that enables users to find templates that they are looking for with utmost ease. The intuitive design and fascinating collection of templates that UrbanUI holds is bound to impress you.


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By Nia Simone McLeod
Along with great food and family get-togethers, another thing that goes perfectly with the holiday season is gratitude. It's the perfect time to get introspective and ask ourselves what really matters within our lives. Here at Urban Views Weekly, we're putting our ear to the streets and asking Richmonders near and far what they're most thankful for during this upcoming holiday season.
Brent Solomon
Anchor on NBC12 News at 4:30 pm on CW Richmond
Reporter on NBC 12 News at 11pm
"In a time where people focus their time and efforts on outshining others, I believe in taking a step back to reflect on the many blessings we already have. This Thanksgiving season, I am thankful for good health, family, and peace that shines through all situations. While we always seek to climb to the next level, never forget there is someone who wishes they were in your shoes. Take a moment to be grateful for the things you've accomplished and never forget the simple things and the joy they bring. This is our now!"
Bryce Collier
Publicist & Social Media Strategist
"I am thankful for so many things. Mostly, I am thankful for my family. They inspire me so much and support me in every endeavor I pursue. I've always been a very ambitious person and having a strong support system to encourage me is priceless. I will never take them for granted."
Taryn Hayes
Assistant Director of Recruitment and
Pipeline Programs
"This Thanksgiving I'm most thankful for my village. At 25, I feel like I have finally found a core group of people who willingly and faithfully love me for me and that's something really invaluable."
Black Liquid
MC, Teacher, WRIR 97.3FM and WDCE 90.1 FM DJ, Promoter
"I am thankful for my failures, my success, and for the abundance of opportunities I get to learn from this path that compels me and the people around me."
Hollis Jo McCollum
"So many things! The obvious answer being my friends, family, food to eat, roof over my head, etc. However there are so many other magical things in this world to be thankful for. I'm thankful for the face my cat makes when she smells something bad. I'm thankful for how adorable a toddler sounds when you get them to try to say long, complicated words like "astronomical." All of those beautiful and ridiculous nuances of the world that make us smile and realize the world is a brilliant place."
Joy Rush
Certified Kids Yoga Instructor
"I am thankful for the opportunity to help our new generation incorporate mindfulness, meditation, and yoga into their lives at an early age to help defeat anxiety and many other mental disorders and provide a relief from everyday stressors building happy and healthy minds and bodies."
Jacob Sexton
VCU Senior
"I'm thankful for making it through the semester at VCU. I'm thankful to be closer to a first generation college graduate. I'm thankful to see my family still alive and well and I'm thankful to have a great support system."
Executive Director of Celebrate RVA
"This year, I'm thankful for the opportunity to create joy in our community. It is a true blessing to watch children begin to recognize what an important role their lives play in our city and the significance of their birthday. I'm thankful for all the birthday candles I've watched be blown out and all the laughter I've been blessed to hear. It's a clear sign that tangible moments of celebration are integral to our children's lives – which is why we have a vision for every child to have the opportunity to be able to experience something as simple as a birthday party. I'm thankful for all those that have celebrated alongside us and look forward to celebrating even more birthdays in 2019!"
Vice President and Deputy Director, Diversity Richmond
"As we approach this Thanksgiving Holiday, I am thankful for many things this year. Although at times I take it for granted, I am thankful to see another day in God's glorious creation. I am also thankful for a wonderful and loving husband and three incredible dogs we adopted from Sanctuary Rescue. I am also thankful to work with and on behalf of the LGBTQ+ community in Central Virginia, continuing to strive and work for full inclusion and equity here in the Commonwealth of Virginia."
Michael Price
VCU Student
"I am thankful for the wonderful life I have, the things I know, and the people I've met. I'm thankful for the blessing of health and the little things, like decent wifi."


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Theater Review: 'Anything Goes' is the top at MSMT
Friday, July 19, 2019 [1] by Paul Willistein email@example.com [2] in Focus [3]
The Muhlenberg Summer Music Theatre (MSMT) production of "Anything Goes," through July 28, Dorothy Hess Baker Theater, Trexler Pavilion for Theatre & Dance, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, is exquisite.
From the bright, brassy, intense nine-piece orchestra conducted by Music Director Bryan L. Wade; to the classy, sassy tap-lines, of Choreographer Shelley Oliver; to the charming ocean liner set, which opens up like a pop-up book, by Scenic Designer John Raley, combined with Lighting Designer Gertjan Houben, to the profusion of women's gowns, men's suits and accessories by Costume Designer Michael McDonald, the show is dazzling.
"Anything Goes" pops, dances and fizzes with fun.
To paraphrase Cole Porter's song, MSMT's "Anything Goes" is "the Top."
The play may be the thing, but in "Anything Goes," the songs are the thing.
What's neat about hearing the songs of Cole Porter in their original context is that you don't get the shortened version, but rather the full version complete with the set-up, or introduction. Since Cole Porter wrote words and music, the lyrics and music in a Cole Porter song are as interlocking as Legos.
Cole Porter's lyrics are so exaggerated and his music is so relentless that they're as hilarious as they are infectious. Some are sung so fast a case could be made for Cole Porter as the original rapper.
To wit (Porter had that aplenty):
"Good authors too who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose.
Anything goes."
Mia Scarpa (Reno Sweeney) delivers "Anything Goes," the title song Act One closer with the bravura of an Ethel Merman and the confidence of a Judy Garland, accompanied by the cast of Passengers and Crew. The dancers can barely keep up with Scarpa's fast-paced delivery, but they do.
Scarpa figures in several of the show's main numbers. She clearly tells you who's in charge with the musical's opener, "I Get A Kick Out Of You," which establishes her character and herself as a singer as the one to watch and wait for throughout the show.
Her "You're The Top" duet with Sean Kenny (Billy Crocker) is one of the musical's chief delights, only topped by "Friendship," her duet with Bob Fahringer (Moon Martin), which is "the" show-stopper, a great patter song with accompanying rhythmic dancing.
Her tango with Jarrod Yuskauskas (Lord Evelyn Oakleigh) for "The Gypsy In Me" is wonderfully zany.
Yuskauskas is hilarious as the Lord who lords it over everyone and puts the "unc" in unctuous.
Other comedic standouts in the show include Zoe Miner (Evangeline Harcourt), Jim VanValen (Elisha Whitney) and Frank Ruscitti (The Rev. Henry T. Dobson).
Bringing a graceful dignity to her role in song is Laura Frye (Hope Harcourt), who excels in her spotlight number, "Goodbye, Little Dream, Goodbye"; "It's De-Lovely," her duet with Kenny, and "All Through The Night," her duet with Kenny and the Sailor Quartet.
Erica Morreale (Erma) is delightful in "Buddie, Beware" with the Sailor Quartet.
The musical, "Anything Goes," is from a time on Broadway when men were men and women were dolls.
Not to be overly politically-correct, but the disparity creates squirm-inducing moments during the show's dialogue ("Not one lousy grope.") in this post #metoo movement era.
It's a conundrum.
One cannot change the book by P.G. Wodehouse, Guy Bolton, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse from the original 1934 production, even though a "new book" is credited to Timothy Crouse and John Weidman for the 1987 Lincoln Center production on which the MSMT production is based.
MSMT co-founder Charles Richter directs "Anything Goes" with a respect for the text, while wisely emphasizing the music and lyrics by Cole Porter, which is really why you want to see the show anyway
Certainly, as a not-so-closeted gay man, Cole Porter understood the contradictions of social norms. In "Anything Goes," Porter's songs soar high above the musical's rather mundane plot, which served as a template for many musicals, including "Guys & Dolls" (1950).
"Anything Goes" is not only of historic interest. The musical is still beautifully and brilliantly entertaining.
Tickets: Muhlenberg College Department of Theatre and Dance box office, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Saturday, Trexler Pavilion for Theatre and Dance, Muhlenberg College, 2400 W. Chew St., Allentown; muhlenberg.edu/theatre/SMT; 484-664-3333


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MNF on ESPN Launches With Double-Header
NFL fans will have to leave work on time Sept. 11, and maybe come in late the next day to catch all of the debut of ESPN's carriage of Monday Night Football.
ESPN has been saying for months that its Monday Night Football games will be day-long events spread across a variety of platforms, TV, online, wireless and print.
Now, it says, it will kick off with the first-ever NFL prime time doubleheader, starting off with the Washington Redskins vs. the Minnesota Vikings at 7 p.m., followed by the San Diego Chargers vs. Oakland Raiders at 10:15.
The balance of the season's broadcasts will be one game, starting at 8:30.
ESPN explained the choice of the Redskins to kick off the debut this way: "The Redskins are expected to be among the elite NFC teams after advancing to the divisional playoffs last year.Washington has also been one of the NFL's most aggressive franchises this offseason, adding wide receivers Antwaan Randle El and Brandon Lloyd to a talented offense that already includes running back Clinton Portis and wideout Santana Moss."
The choice also plays into ESPN's choice of announcing crew, with Joe Theismann having quarterbacked the Skins to their first Super Bowl win in 1983, and Washington sportswriter Tony Kornheiser boosting his profile in 1987 by predicting the Skins' Super Bowl trip early on.