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On Saturday, New Orleans will hold a primary for what is being considered the city's most important mayoral race ever. Voting rights activists fear tens of thousands of Hurricane Katrina evacuees living out of state will be unable to vote. We speak with Mayor Ray Nagin and Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu. [includes rush transcript]
On Saturday, New Orleans will hold a primary for what is being considered the city's most important mayoral race ever.
Protests surrounding the vote have been taking place for months. Voting rights activists fear tens of thousands of Hurricane Katrina evacuees living out of state will be unable to vote. Efforts were made to set up satellite voting locations in cities like Houston or Atlanta but a federal judge rejected the idea. Evacuees living out of state have been given two options: attempt to vote by absentee ballot or spend hours driving to a polling location inside Louisiana.
Two weeks ago, Democracy Now! traveled to New Orleans and we caught up with Ray Nagin as well as one of his chief opponents, Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu. Landrieu is the brother of U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu and the son of Moon Landrieu, the city's last white mayor.
We asked Mayor Nagin about his concerns that the vast majority of African American evacuees from New Orleans may not be able to vote in the upcoming mayoral election.
- Ray Nagin, mayor of New Orleans.
Earlier this week the Army Corps of Engineers announced the levees had been restored to pre-Katrina strength. But the Corps admitted that armoring of the levees probably won't take place until the end of the hurricane season.
While in New Orleans, we also caught up with Nagin's top opponent, Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu. We spoke outside the historic African-American church St. Augustine.
- Mitch Landrieu, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana.
AMY GOODMAN: Two weeks ago Democracy Now! went to New Orleans, and we caught up with Mayor Ray Nagin, as well as one of his chief opponents, Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu. Landrieu is the brother of U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu and the son of Moon Landrieu, the city's last white mayor. I asked Mayor Nagin about his concerns that the vast majority of African American evacuees from New Orleans may not be able to vote in the upcoming mayoral election.
MAYOR RAY NAGIN: Well, I've always been concerned about that. That's why I've been talking with the Secretary of State to try and make it as easy as possible. Right now, if they're not going to absentee vote or come to the city, they're really going to have a tough time.
AMY GOODMAN: And that issue of Iraqis being able to vote by satellite, but not here for New Orleans residents outside of New Orleans?
MAYOR RAY NAGIN: Yeah, it's really a shame, you know, that this is happening in the United States. We have the technology. We could have done this much better and much easier for all of our citizens. You know, considering all that we went through and the levees broke. If it wasn't for the levees, our folks wouldn't be dispersed. The government should have moved and made it as convenient — nobody should have to leave where they are to vote. And it's a shame.
AMY GOODMAN: You said hurricane season is almost upon us. Have the levees been strengthened to deal with the kind of hurricane like Katrina, hurricane 5?
MAYOR RAY NAGIN: They look like they're going to be okay by the time June 1st gets here. I've been inspecting the levees, meeting with the Corps of Engineers, and they're doing the base-level work that if another Katrina came through, we wouldn't have the catastrophic flood.
AMY GOODMAN: Are you saying that hurricane 5, these levees could deal with?
MAYOR RAY NAGIN: Oh, no. I'm not saying that. Another Katrina-like storm. A hurricane 5 is a whole different matter. That requires restoring our wetlands, armoring the levees. There's a whole lot more that needs to be done.
AMY GOODMAN: And why can't that be done now, immediately?
MAYOR RAY NAGIN: It's a matter of money, and the Congress has not authorized that yet.
AMY GOODMAN: Who's been in the way of that?
MAYOR RAY NAGIN: I don't know. I mean, I'm up there lobbying as much as I can. We took them from one billion to now they have three billion, and now they're asking for six billion, so it looks like it's an incremental process.
AMY GOODMAN: That was New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin. Earlier this week, the Army Corps of Engineers announced the levees had been restored to pre-Katrina strength, but the Corps admitted that armoring of the levees probably won't take place until the end of the hurricane season. While in New Orleans, I also caught up with Nagin's chief opponent, Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu. We spoke outside the historic African American Catholic church, St. Augustine.
AMY GOODMAN: Do you think New Orleans will ever become a majority black city again?
LT. GOV. MITCH LANDRIEU: It is now.
AMY GOODMAN: It doesn't look that way.
LT. GOV. MITCH LANDRIEU: Well, it just depends on what neighborhood you go in. You must not be going into all the neighborhoods, but this city — I'll try to explain this to the national media one more time. This city has never been all black and never been all white. The beauty of this city is that it's everything to everybody, from the beginning of time. Before the United States became a union, we had so many different kinds of people down here, and the entire culture arises out of that. That's why you feel something different when you come down here than what you see in New York or what you see in Los Angeles or Chicago. We have so many different kinds of people that we're all a melting pot. That's why we call it a gumbo. And so, I mean, it really is this attitude of getting along. Our multicultural side of us, our diversity is our strength. It's not our weakness. And we really work hard not to be separated the way the national media wants to try to separate us.
AMY GOODMAN: But the majority of the poorest black residents have not been able to return.
MITCH LANDRIEU: Well, I think that's true. I mean, the poor always get hurt. General Honore said this the best: "When it's cold, the poor are colder. When it's hot, the poor are hotter." So it's an issue of poverty, and it's an issue of race. It's an issue of both. There are white people here that were here that got hurt very badly. African Americans did, too. So the issue really is not as much about race as it is about poverty. They're not the same thing. Sometimes they coincide. As a nation, we need to figure out the difference between the two, and we need to address both of them.
AMY GOODMAN: And how are you going to get them back to New Orleans?
MITCH LANDRIEU: Well, again, you were at the forum yesterday. I mean, the whole point is to try to get the city up and operating as quickly as possible and welcome everybody back, but it's housing, it's schools, it's education, it's healthcare. Nothing can happen fast. This city is really hurt very badly. You can't wave a magic wand and turn it back into what it was before Katrina, so we're all going to have to struggle through this together. Today is an example how you can find [inaudible]. We made a success out of something that was really tough. So if we keep working together like we have with something like this particular issue, maybe we can get there.
AMY GOODMAN: That was New Orleans mayoral candidate, Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu. I interviewed him outside of St. Augustine shortly after a mass marking the re-opening of the oldest African American church in the country. The Archdiocese of New Orleans recently attempted to close the parish but was forced to reverse its decision following protests and a sit-in inside the church's rectory.


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In 1976, two high-profile rape cases occurred on Utah State University's campus. This troubled many community members, and deciding to act, they created the Cache Valley Rape Crisis Team. The team was a hotline and calls were directed toward the university's Women's Center.
In 1979, Utah passed a spousal abuse act, which made domestic violence illegal. With this legislation, both the need and funding for domestic violence shelters increased. The response team changed it's name to Citizens Against Physical & Sexual Abuse, and community members began housing individuals within their own homes.
It wasn't until 1984 that CAPSA gained enough monetary support to allow a shelter to be purchased. The board then hired CAPSA's first five full-time employees, and on Valentine's Day of 1985, CAPSA began serving clients.
Also in 1985, Somebody's Attic was formed to address CAPSA's need for continual funding. A CAPSA board member created the organization with the idea that all sale proceeds from the items donated would go to CAPSA. Since its inception, Somebody's Attic has raised more than $1 million to help end abuse. In 2017, CAPSA received more than $60,000 from Somebody's Attic.
With this new source of funding, CAPSA was able to form the Mobile Crisis Team in 1992. Team members then and now meet with victims of abuse and stay with them as a rape exam is completed or as they recount what happened to law enforcement personnel. Members of the Mobile Crisis Team are seen as both advocates and friends to the victim, and they are there when family, friends, roommates and others cannot be. When the crisis team was created in 1992, it was the first of it's kind in the state of Utah.
Ten years after the Mobile Crisis Team was created, a new shelter opened in 2002. This shelter nearly doubled the capacity of CAPSA's previous shelter and allowed for two new living room areas and kitchens.
In 2017, CAPSA expanded again, when it opened the Gail Bird Weinshenker Therapy Center and the Mary Flynn Palley Children's Center. These needed additions aid CAPSA staff as they provide therapy and other services to all individuals in need within Cache & Rich Counties.
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We use our grill a lot around here. There is nothing like dinner coming straight off the grill. I have just recently gotten brave enough to grill without Chris being home. I'm always so nervous about turning on the gas. I was so excited to check out the 4 Piece BBQ Multi-use Tool Kit and Can Holder from Yukon Glory. This was the perfect addition to our grill.
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Some cats have a reputation for lounging in the sun, lazing the day away — but not cats that belong to the Animal Humane Society's Working Cat program.
Animal Humane Society (AHS), a Minnesota-based organization with shelters in five locations, developed the program to provide hope for healthy cats that are not candidates for adoption.
Such cats may, for instance, not use a litter box consistently and need access to an indoor-outdoor environment. Other cats fit for the working cats program may dislike being handled by people, and are not fit for living in a typical home.
These cats deserve a chance at a happy life, but in a typical shelter environment may be euthanized because they're considered "unadoptable."
The working cats program provides a happy alternative by placing the cats in barns, police stations, construction companies and other places of business that may benefit from a working-cat resident.
At one warehouse housing bags of grass seed, mice were a major problem for the owners — until he adopted two cats from AHS' working cats program. The cats were on death row and now, Jim Trenter, the warehouse owner, says they're the best employees he's ever had.1
The warehouse, once losing $10,000 worth of seed annually, is now free of mice, and the cats receive food, water and a safe place to live. While one of the cats hides from humans, the other, workers say, is surprisingly friendly and has become the company's new mascot.
AHS charges no adoption fee for working cats other than a $20 administrative fee, but suggests the cats work best when adopted in groups of two or three. Potential adopters must agree to provide:2
The last requirement is important because allowing the cats to roam too soon may give them a chance to leave before they realize their new home provides shelter and regular food and water. After two to three weeks, the cats can be released to roam freely and will typically return to their new home.
Traditionally, animal shelters look to place animals as in-home family pets, and this is how it should be. However, for cats used to living outdoors who show no desire to become indoor cats, the working cats program is invaluable. It also opens doors for would-be adopters who would have otherwise been turned away.
The Star Tribune reported one example of a woman with a mouse-infested garage. She couldn't adopt a cat to live in her home because of her three dogs, so she adopted Belle, a working cat, to take up residence in her garage.3
Belle enjoys patrolling for mice in the garage and has even turned into an ideal pet. She enjoys being held and even gets along with dogs, so now she spends time sleeping in the house.
It seems the program allows many of these "unadoptable" cats to heal and trust humans again. Once they're given a stable environment and trust that they're being cared for, many previously unfriendly cats may turn out to be loyal companions.
Katie Lisnik, director of cat protection and policy for the Humane Society of the United States, noted that working cat programs are catching on nationwide and fill a niche in cat adoptions.
There are shelters for friendly cats and non-profit organizations that care for feral cats, but the cats in between — not feral but not adoptable — often face the hardest road. Working cat programs can now be found across the U.S. from Arizona to Missouri to Pennsylvania and beyond.
Since the AHS program started, nearly 70 working cats have been adopted, which is a great start but shows room for improvement. AHS hopes to expand the program beyond the typical "barn cat," such that businesses from bookshops to fire stations to office buildings all have their own resident cats.4
If you're interested in adopting a working cat for your business or residence, contact your local humane society and ask whether such cats are available. In addition to gaining a valuable new "employee," you'll also likely gain a priceless new friend.
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Dr. Priven is a board certified endocrinologist. He completed his endocrinology fellowship at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, with additional training at the Mayo Clinic. He is the only endocrinologist in Middlesex/Monmouth counties designated as a "Thyroid specialist" by the American Thyroid Association (www.thyroid.org). He performs and interprets thyroid ultrasonography and ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration of thyroid nodules as well as Bone Density (DEXA) scans for osteoporosis evaluation. Dr. Priven also specializes in diabetes evaluation and management. He is a member of The American Thyroid Association and Endocrine Society. Dr. Priven always makes sure that patients are well educated about their diagnosis and treatment plan, and always puts patients at ease.
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Dr. Schafer is certified by the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners. He is a graduate of New York Chiropractic College, completing his internship at the NYCC Syracuse Health Center. He was chosen for and completed an Orthopedic rotation with Syracuse Orthopedic Associates. He has extensive experience in diagnosis, treatment and management of sports and other traumatic injuries. Additional training includes pediatric chiropractic procedures. He is also certified in Wellness Management. He is licensed in New Jersey.
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Dr. Becker is Board Certified by the American Board of Lower Extremity Surgery and the American Association of Wound Care Surgeons and has been providing care to patients in New Jersey for over 20 years. Dr. Becker received his medical degree from Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine and a B.S. in biology from Wilkes University. He completed his podiatric surgical residency at North Detroit General Hospital: Emphasis on trauma and reconstructive surgery of the foot and ankle. Dr. Becker has been a guest lecturer at Novartis Pharmaceutical and Bradley Pharmaceutical, where he also served as research consultant. He has been a guest speaker at the AED Health Education Conference and has served as a member of the Finish Line Medical Team for NY and Philadelphia marathons, as well as a teaching assistant in gross anatomy and lower extremity anatomy. In addition to his extensive credentials and years of experience, Dr. Becker is committed to providing a comprehensive level of compassionate care and state-of-the-art diagnostic and treatment options to patients of all ages and stages of life.
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Juno Award winning country star Corb Lund is touring Atlantic Canada and the deCoste Performing Arts Centre is one of his stops.
Nine albums into his musical career, it's the first time Lund has been to Atlantic Canada in more than five years — and it will be his first time performing in some communities, period.
"The people in Atlantic Canada are famous for their love of music, so I'm really looking forward to this tour," says Lund. "I've only visited the major cities on the East Coast, and it's always been quick trips in and out for a show. I'm really looking forward to spending three weeks out here, playing some of the smaller communities, and really getting a feel for the place."
Unlike previous tours, Lund is doing this string of shows solo in order to give audiences an intimate and interactive experience.
"Playing solo is really fun — for me, and for the audience," says Lund. "I still play all the same songs that I'd play if I had the full band with me, but I'm able to connect with the audience in a totally different way. I get to talk more about how and why I wrote the songs and what they mean to me a lot more than I usually do. I play a few less well known songs from my albums, and joke around a little, too."
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Steven Knight Will Write World War Z Sequel
Steven Knight, Oscar-nominated screenwriter of "Dirty Pretty Things," has been tapped to write the sequel to the zombie apocalypse blockbuster "World War Z."
The 2013 film, based on the novel by Max Brooks, followed former UN investigator Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt), a family man who is tasked with investigating the origins of a prolific virus that has has turned millions of people into zombies. Despite famously suffering a myriad of production problems and delays, the film grossed more than $540 million globally and was the highest-grossing movie of Pitt's career. It was also fairly acclaimed by critics; garnering a 67% on Rotten Tomatoes with the consensus, "t's uneven and diverges from the source book, but World War Z still brings smart, fast-moving thrills and a solid performance from Brad Pitt to the zombie genre."
Plot details for the sequel are unknown, but Brad Pitt is expected to return to star and produce. A release date has not been set.
Knight also wrote the acclaimed films "Eastern Promises" and "Locke." His eight-part BBC series, "Taboo," will air later this year.


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New Year's Resolutions? Yes or No
I stopped making them a few years ago. When I would look back on my resolutions each year they were almost always the same thing . . . getting in shape, eat healthily, exercising, getting organized and finding balance in my life. I realized finding balance as a woman/mother is a constant quest as is trying to be organized and exercising and healthy eating are part of my daily life. But that doesn't mean I don't have goals! I believe strongly in the importance of setting goals . . . yearly, monthly, weekly and even daily sometimes! 🙂
But let's talk fitness because it is that time of year when everyone seems to have some fitness or weight loss goal. I think that's all good but the goal this year should be more about making a lifestyle change incorporating exercise into your daily life so it part of your day. The goal should be to never have "getting in shape" back on your New Years resolution or goals because exercise is already part of your daily life.
I know it's hard but the most important thing is starting! Don't even think about it or you will start making excuses on why you can't get started . . . literally JUST DO IT!
Here are my 5 top tips to kickstart your fitness goals:
- Schedule at least five 30 minute workouts for the week on your calendar. They can be a 30-minute walk, an in-home workout, a yoga class – anything that gets you moving! All movement is good!! If you schedule your workout in your calendar like any other appointment you will be less likely to skip.
- Drink more water!! I struggle with this one especially in the cooler weather but drinking more water will help you flush out the toxins in your body and helps keep you feeling fuller throughout the day. A fun water bottle might help.
Motivational Water Bottle
- Grab a friend to join you! You are less likely to skip if you know you are meeting a friend to workout. Or workout virtually with a friend. My running partner and I meet once a week to run but every day after our run or workouts we text each other what we did, how we feel . . . that daily check-in keeps me accountable.
Join an online fitness accountability group. I lead a Facebook fitness group where everyone checks in daily with their workout. It's so motivating to see what others are doing and it's a place to ask questions, stay inspired and motivated. You are welcome to join our group – just comment in the comments section.
- Find your 'why' and write it down! We all need to have a reason or goal to get us started and to keep us going. Your why is unique to you whether it's weight loss, getting stronger, healthier or being able to do 10 push-ups. Remember this your journey don't compare yourself to anyone else. Writing it down will give you that visual, it allows you to see your end goal. And realize your 'why' will change through the year as you change and that is a good thing.
- Treat yourself to a new piece of workout gear. A new pair of workout leggings, a cute new top or new running shoes will give you a boost of confidence to keep going! I always find a run further, jump higher and feel stronger when I am wearing something new. 🙂
My fitness goal for 2018 is to complete 2 marathons, one being the NYC Marathon. It's been 23 years since I ran a marathon so this will be a challenge but challenges are a good thing. Challenges make us uncomfortable which brings about change!
Check out some reasonable priced stylish, cute and fun activewear! You don't have to spend alot to look and feel great while you workout!
Time to get moving and feeling amazing . . . no excuses! Feel free to comment with any questions or if you want workout suggestions or want accountability! 🙂


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Common Manager
A core business administration talent that a supervisor or executive must learn is the ability to create a working surroundings that is conducive to effective teamwork. The module additionally provides sensible abilities associated with management accounting, comparable to appraising capital investments, creating marginal costing and devising and controlling a price range. College students will consider the function of ethics in research and will learn to use these methods to a sensible business and management situation.
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Please notice: this module helps your progress in the direction of the CIMA Certificate in Enterprise Accounting. In learning about administration, students also develop management abilities and accounting talents which are helpful to just about any context.


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There were some wonderful challenges at the Ellen Hutson blog. Here are some cards that I made for a few of them:
For the Pinterest inspired challenge:
For the create a scene challenge:
For the sketch challenge:
Be sure to check out all the great challenges you can find online...you never know when one of them will spark your creativity and you'll make something really spectacular!
Happy crafting...Lynda
also entering card # 3 into the Link up for Pink challenge...Pink washi tape


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You will never feel bored in Szeged, as there are just too many things you can do no matter the season. Want to check out the ZOO, museum, cinema, botanical garden or relax in a spa? You can have it all here, just know where to look!
Top 10 things to do in Szeged!


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James Stobie (1895 – 1953) engineer and inventor
James Stobie – a staunch Methodist – designed the Stobie pole which continues to be regarded with affection by many South Australians who consider it part of their heritage.
James Stobie, engineer and inventor, was born on 15 September 1895 at Parkside, Adelaide, only son and eldest of four children of South Australian-born parents James Stobie, grocer, and his wife Alice, née Ingleby.
In 1916 Stobie had joined the staff of the Adelaide Electric Supply Co. Ltd. He continued his engineering studies part time at the University of Adelaide (B.E., 1921; M.E., 1932).
Frederick Wheadon, A.E.S.Co.'s chief executive, became his mentor and the two formed a lifelong friendship. Stobie's career began to prosper. In 1923 he was appointed chief draftsman.
At the Church of Christ, Unley, on 19 March 1924 he married Rita Muriel Maddern.
South Australia suffered from a scarcity of timber and an abundance of termites. Poles that were brought, at considerable expense, from other States were often destroyed by white ants. In 1924 Stobie invented the 'Stobie pole' to carry electricity cables and telegraph wires. It was constructed of two steel-I beams, held together by tie bolts; the space between them was filled with concrete. A.E.S.Co. paid him £500 for the patent rights.
Although hopes of selling the design interstate and worldwide remained unfulfilled, the poles were used extensively in South Australia. In 1936 a Sterling coal truck was converted into a heavy pole-erector, designed by Stobie: it could install 70-ft (21 m) long, concrete-steel poles that weighed 8½ tons.
Stobie was the founding editor (1926-40) of A.E.S.Co.'s in-house magazine, Adelect. Through this publication, he conveyed his vision of the company's future, interest in research, sense of fun and Christian values (he was a staunch Methodist).
His face, with its full features, deep smile-lines and clear eyes, reflected his jovial disposition. Despite bouts of recurring illness, he became chief design engineer in 1946, when the Electricity Trust of South Australia took over from A.E.S.Co. In 1950 he was appointed assistant to the manager of engineering research.
The Stobie pole continues to be regarded with affection by many South Australians who consider it part of their heritage.
Source : http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160383b.htm
Stobie pole image source : http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Adelaide,_South_Australia_-_Stobie_pole_with_street_light.jpg
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Finding Common Ground: 200 Years of Vision: A Film and Discussion about the Baha'i Faith
300 N McDuffie St
Anderson, SC 29621
Join us for the presentation of Light to the World, a film commissioned by the Baha'i World Center for its bicentenary commemoration of the Baha'i Faith. The film tells the story of Baha'u'llah's remarkable life and the impact of His teachings on communities around the world. It will be followed with questions from the audience and discussion relating His unifying teachings to the current state of society. Light refreshments will be served.
Greater Anderson Interfaith Network's Finding Common Ground project aims to build bridges of understanding between residents and visitors within the greater Anderson community. This program is sponsored by the Baha'is of Anderson County in cooperation with GAIN (Greater Anderson Interfaith Network), Anderson County Human Relations Council and Anderson County Library.


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About Us
Front Range Physical Therapy strives to excel at rehabilitation, evidence-based treatment, and developing long-term relationships to meet every patient's needs for injury-prevention, and long-term wellness. We expect our patients to get better fast and stay better longer.
Our Vision
We are dedicated to restoring "health independence" and quality of life for people of all ages and activity levels. Our vision is to serve our communities and allow them to be healthier and live more active lifestyles.
Core Values
- Clinical Expertise
- Caring and Compassionate Customer Service
- Community Involvement
- Individualized Care
- Customer Loyalty
Our treatments are centered on patient goals to maximize function, heal quickly, regain strength, and achieve long lasting results.
- We listen
- We care
- We are ready to help
We will provide programs that are proven to be the MOST EFFECTIVE in treating and healing:
- Low back pain
- Neck pain
- Motor vehicle injuries
- Post-surgerical care
- Repetitive use injuries
- Sports injuries
- Joint sprains & muscular strains
- Balance problems
- Posture problems
- Arthritis
Benefits of Our Specialized Programs:
- Reduced Pain / Pain Relief
- Start seeing immediate results
- Learn how to avoid future problems
- Live life more enjoyably
- Return to a more active lifestyle
- Sleep better
- Increased flexibility & movement
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Building Backlinks for Search Engine Optimization - Beginners Guide
Information on SEO and Backlinks - Building backlinks that count
SEO or search engine optimization can be divided into two parts:
On-site SEO, which makes up roughly 10 to 15 percent of your SEO campaign, and
Off-site SEO, which can be defined quite simply as Link Building and this is what should make up the other 85 to 90 percent of your SEO campaign.
A little about the importance of backlinks
Links that point to your site are counted by search engines as votes for your site and your sites popularity is mostly based on the amount of votes your site has, but also on the quality of the site that is "voting" for you. The authority of the site linking to you is important, high PR sites carry a little more authority and so on.
Below we will look at the different things you can do to increase the number of backlinks that point to your blog, site or article.
Things You Will NeedFor link building you need time and determination, you will also need patience. Building quality links takes time and effort but the results will be well worth it.
Step 1
Backlinks - Quantity or Quality?
Ranking well in search engines means building or increasing links to a well optimized site. You can rank quite well with fewer quality links than you can with many less authoritive links but when it comes down to it, quantity is also important, because Google considers your backlinks as "votes" a large amount of the less high quality links will also improve your search listings. Both types of links count.
How do you know a Quality Link?
Quite simply, quality links are the links that are hardest to get, these are the links from older, established domains, the links from high PR (page rank) sites and from official sites and top ranked sites. Basically these are the links everyone wants but few get, at least at first.
The best approach to link building is to get as many as you can of the quality links and also build on the other types of links too, the lower PR sites or the "easy" links. A mixture of both types of links would be considered normal for any site.
Note - with a new site building backlinks should be made to look natural, a new site should not get 1000 links on the first day it is published, especially of the lower quality variety. You do not want to appear as if you are spamming or buying links.
Step 2
Information about Building Links
Building backlinks for beginners
- Links from older, established sites are better links, they pass more authority to your site
- Build links from sites that are closely related in topic to your own, google takes the content surrounding your link into consideration too
- Use the keyword you want to rank for in the search engines as your links anchor text
- Links from inside the content of a page also give more authority than links from other areas of a site, for example, a link from a blog post will be considered more important that a link in a blogroll
- No Follow is sometimes followed by google and yahoo in general tends to ignore the no follow rule, so if you have the chance for a no follow link - take it
- Pages with less outgoing links pass more authority than, for example, a link from a sites "link page" with hundreds of listed links
- Anchor text in links is very important, even for links within your own site, use your keyword when linking to your pages instead of words like "read more" or "click here"
Step 3
How to get the Easy Links
Here are some ways many people use to build backlinks, many of these methods are quite easy but are also of the lower quality variety
- Link to your content from your social profiles like Twitter, Facebook, my space, Linked in (note: Linked In allows you to choose the anchor text for your link)etc
- Submit your content to social bookmarking sites like stumbleupon, sphinn, digg and reddit
- Comment on blogs, useful comments are less likely to be deleted so don't spam
- Set up friendfeed, add your friends and your content
- Exchange links with other related sites, these are in most cases low quality links because you are basically exchanging authority not passing it
- Submit your blog or site to directories
- Add your link to your forum signatures
How To get Higher Quality, One Way Links Links
These links are of slightly better authority
- Submit articles to article directorys with your link in the content
- Ask your friends with sites to give you a link, even better make a lot of online friends with similar interests who write on similar topics, you may not even have to ask them to link to you once you have built up strong relationships and trust with them
- Write a press release for your blog or site
- Write articles for hubpages and Infobarrel and link to your site in your article
- Guest post on other blogs
- Run a competition on your blog
- Offer free, unique content to others in exchange for a link
- Email a related site that you visit often and request a link (you may get ignored, but it is worth trying, wording your request the right way and offering positive feedback on the site may help)
Step 4
Extra Tips for Link Building
My thoughts on Link building
Personally, link building is my least favourite aspect of search engine optimization, I hate direct link exchanges and rarely participate in them. On my own site and blogs I tend to give links when I feel the content I am linking to is of good quality and closely related to my topic.
I also tend to link to my readers, and the people who leave regular informative comments and feedback and I will often link to others that link to me, if they don't announce it or ask straight out for a link in return.
So for anyone who is hoping to build links, commenting and regularly visiting a site you actually really like will help you to build up a relationship with the author, even if you have never had any other form of communication with them.
One thing about bloggers especially is that they have a habit of checking their stats a lot, with beginners particularly, this can be as often as several times a day, so if you do link to someone's blog or visit often and participate in the comment conversations, they are aware of you, you are showing up in their stats and they will very likely have checked you out. That in itself is a good thing, building a social network is also a way of building your links, people tend to link to people they like and respect.
I hope this article has given you a few ideas to start your link building, just remember, link building is not something you can do for one week or even one month and move on. It should be an ongoing part of your SEO campaign and having a plan for promoting your content is as important as the content itself. Allow your self time in your schedule to activly promote and build links, work it in somehow and while you are at it, work on your networking skills, sometimes its not always what you know but who.


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2006 Volkswagen Passat
WOLFSBURG, GERMANY The sixth-generation Passat is the first all-new Volkswagen product masterminded by Bernd Pischetsrieder, and, unlike the dowdy new Jetta, the Passat is not bad-looking. The sheetmetal has been stretched by nearly three inches in width and more than two inches in length. The cabin, however, is some five inches longer, thanks in part to a switch to transverse-mounted engines.
The sideways-sitting engine is your tip-off that the new Passat is divorced from the Audi A4/A6 platform, instead tapping the Golf/Jetta component matrix. It also necessitated new engines, since the current 2.8-liter V-6 and the already discontinued (and now officially dead) W-8 no longer fit. We drove the 138-hp TDI, one of three new diesels, none of which is headed here. Instead, America will get a 197-hp, 2.0-liter FSI four-cylinder turbo (from the new GTI) and a 280-hp, 3.6-liter VR6. The V-6 comes with a six-speed automatic only, while the four will be offered with the automatic or a six-speed stick. Initially, both engines will drive the front wheels; early next year, optional 4Motion-and the wagon-will arrive.
The new Passat's cabin is not only larger, but it also rivals the Phaeton in terms of combining practical architecture with flawless execution. The driver environment is one of affordable luxury: materials are as nice to the touch as they are to the eye, standard equipment is comprehensive, and the colors and surfaces are tastefully blended. In this car, the feel-good factor doesn't depend on acres of leather and wood-even the standard cloth seats and the no-cost aluminum accents appear much more special than in last year's car. But for those with an urge to splurge, leather with Alcantara is a new option.
The new Passat comes with the right mix of must-haves and nice-to-haves. The ignition and the parking brake are electronic, and standard safety gear includes six air bags, active front head restraints, ABS, brake assist, stability control, and traction control. Extra money buys a nav system, a Bluetooth phone, adaptive cruise control, a heated windshield, and swiveling bi-xenon headlamps. Also worth mentioning are three new brake-related innovations: a hill holder, an auto-stop mode (so you can take your foot off the pedal while waiting for the light to turn green), and an intermittent wipe function that swipes the discs dry in the rain.
Dynamically, the new Passat tries to be a baby Phaeton-sumptuous, luxurious, spacious, and comfortable. There is an out-of-this-world cocoonlike feel to this VW. It is very well insulated and quiet, an effortless wafter rather than an ambitious carver. But despite the reengineered lightweight suspension (it shed 29 pounds), the new Passat shines only on glass-smooth pavement. While it soaks up long-amplitude bumps with aplomb, the brittle low-speed ride and the angry response to sharp-edged potholes are nothing to brag about. Even on standard tires (run-flats are optional), the ride is irritated by random small arguments between the springs and the dampers. Adding to the confusion is a certain amount of lateral and longitudinal waywardness. The ho-hum directional stability at high speed is another negative.
The electrohydraulic rack-and-pinion steering feels stiff and meaty, a further reminder of the Passat's big-car ambitions. The calibration is spot-on, but the sensations that arrive at your palms are relatively two-dimensional-until you start feeding ample torque to the front wheels, that is. Despite ESP, we experienced plentiful torque steer and wheel spin; we can only assume that the chips fitted to our example were not up to snuff.
The four disc brakes, meanwhile, decelerate the car adequately, but the spongy pedal travels a fair distance toward the firewall before answering your call. There is also a certain amount of passivity to the other controls. The clutch is light but not particularly progressive, the shift lever feels like the master link in a network of rubber bones, and the throttle goes a long way to achieve relatively little.
If our preproduction test car was anything to judge by, the new Passat has been refined too much in order to distance it from the Golf. Phaeton owners may love it, but GTI aficionados will be disappointed.
SPECSPrice: $24,000 (base, est. )Engine: Turbo 2.0L I-4, 197 hp, 207 lb-ftDrive: Front-wheel


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As the world accelerates towards a fully digital workplace, we're seeing business practices improve by leaps and bounds. While a digital transformation offers unprecedented simplicity and efficiency, making a change to your day-to-day processes does take a bit of configuring. In short, large companies often have technology "Change Control" policies and procedures in place as part of a larger Change Management paradigm.
Your deployment of DocuSign can go even more smoothly by addressing any Change Control-related concerns early on. That's why the Knowledge Market has crafted a complimentary report that helps companies navigate potential change management concerns. This "Change Control" white paper will cover several topics, including:
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Titan Comics
$19.99 (US) hardcover omnibus, available now
Rating: 3.5* of five
The Publisher Says: 1958. Driving through the British countryside, unthinkingly misogynistic space scientist, Dr. Boy Brett, and his companion, Doris Night, pop into a quaint village pub for a cheese ploughman's...
But waiting for them outside is a most unwelcome visitor: Grurk, an indestructible, monosyllabic robot from outer space, on a mission to harvest the British Blitz spirit for energy!
Pursuing Grurk in their Morris Minor, will Boy and Doris be able to save the British from a life without stiff upper lippedness, or will Her Majesty's Kingdom be forever resigned to a life down in the mouth?
Witty, satirical and a rollicking good laugh, IT CAME! is a stunning piece of work, infusing the best (and worst!) bits of the 1950s B-movie with whimsical British charm.
My Review: Yep. Not only did I **favorably** review a phauntaisee nawvelle, and not only have I read more of the author's phauntaisee nawvelles, but today I am reviewing and rating above a single star a comic book.
No, my account hasn't been hacked. No, I have not been bribed, well at least not directly, and no, I am not having hot monkey-sex with the creator. He lives in England, and I'm not able to travel.
The bribery thing is a bit weird. I got an Amazon shipment last week, and this book was in it. I didn't order it. It wasn't a separate shipment, but in the box with some other books. The one friend I had who sent me random books has disappeared from the Internet, so far as I know. Sweetienubbins blankly denied responsibility and has become a bit edgy again, so he's out.
Anyway, whyever I got the book here it is. And it's cute. I will say right up front that there is nothing about it that would make me put down twenty United States dollars of my own to procure it. But having read it in the half-hour that my dinner was baking (cauliflower, ricotta, parmesan, sausage, and pasta under parmesan/breadcrumb crust), I can think of many worse ways to wile away a spare moment.
It's like looking at storyboards, largely because of the conceit I suppose, but that realization enabled me not to roll my eyes and sigh gustily as the pages turned. The silliness is based in the Saturday sci-fi theater movies of my youth, the sheer awfulness of the plots and effects and acting even then apparent to me, the appeal being that the movies were...were...on my level somehow. The written sci fi I was gobbling up was ***far*** superior in execution and conception. But there were then, as there are now, moments when only the vapidity of TV will do.
This trifling entertainment fills exactly that slot, and offers an extra level of snickerdom with its in-jokes (eg, PineTREE Studios *heeheehee* and innumerable bad double entendres) and its aesthetic of taking the piss (Britishism, google it).
Speaking of which, the monster Grork is defeated by...no, that's a
Does anybody want it? I'll mail it to you. PM me.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.


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Level 12: Temple of the Destroyer is the last level in the Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime.
Plot/Cut Screens
The Ghostbusters junior team confronts Dr. Tesmon but he takes the Relic of Nilhe. Ismael reveals his plan and completes a chant that revives Dumazu. Ismael and the team are sucked into a nearby portal opened from a painting.
The first battle is against Ismael and the second is against Dumazu.
Two days later, the teams and staff celebrate the victory at the Firehouse. As a memento, the junior team took the painting that sucked them to another dimension, now inert probably, and it is hung up in the Firehouse. Janosz Poha arrives and apologizes again to Alan Crendall. This time, Alan forgives him. Janosz is happy and announces he plans on solving his love problems by trying out online dating. Peter Venkman and Bridget Gibbons offer their two cents on the method. The End.
The level is a two part boss battle that takes place in another dimension.
Main Area Part 1
Main Area Part 2
There are no items to collect.
Final Cinematic
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The Day That Lasted Forever !
Posted by Susan on August 28, 2009
Today was loooooooong ! It seemed to never end ! When 3:25 rolled around I was literally running out the door of work ! I am now free for 4 whole days !
When I got home from work, my husband wanted to take me to a discount store he found. (he travels the state for work) So I changed my clothes and off we went. I found some neat (cheap) things to work into my dinner menus next week, so I am excited for that !
We didn't get home until after 7:00, so dinner was late tonight. It's a good thing I had food cooked in advance , or I may have been tempted to eat something quick or just stop for a burger.
Here is the food for the day. It was a nutso day …….. I was late this morning, and didn't have time to think out my meals so I pretty much grabbed what was easy and handy.
Breakfast was a repeat of yesterday …..Kashi granola , oatmeal , and chocolate peanut butter. Boring yes ………. but so good !
Morning snack was two seven grain crackers and some reduced fat peanut butter.
6 Responses to "The Day That Lasted Forever !"
August 28, 2009 at 3:37 am
you betcha my friend! I have a 10k on the 13th that I'm still training for, so I'll still be running / biking thru the challenge, so glad you decided to join me, I need all the help I can get 😉
August 28, 2009 at 3:47 am
I'm glad your crazy work week is over, I hope soon you find a job that makes you happy cause its hard to see you so unhappy.
Soaking in some sun tomorrow will be good for you. I hope it works out. You are a great inspiration susan AND you are good people!
August 28, 2009 at 11:52 am
Enjoy your extended weekend. I hope Tropical Storm Danny doesn't put a damper on your weekend plans.
August 28, 2009 at 2:24 pm
What brand are the crackers and wheat sticks that you eat? I'd like to look for those!
August 28, 2009 at 2:55 pm
The crackers are Rye Crisps and Wheat Stix are by Pringles and come in 90 calorie packs. I also eat Specila K 90 calorie pack crackers.
August 28, 2009 at 3:17 pm
Jealous of your alone time! Either my daughter or husband are home with me, since my husband works from home.
Congrats on the awesome weight loss! My all-time high was 210 as well, got down to 138 in a year – that was back in 2000. I maintained that weight until I was put on insulin, and in 3 years have gained 30 pounds back. Rats!
Have fun today and Happy Friday!


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Courier/Mail Satchels
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Ping Jing, courtesy name Dangshi, was from Xianning in Ezhou. His father was a merchant, and, when he was in the prime of life but lacking children, he was about to depart for the capital when his wife gave him several silver tablets and said: "The gentleman does not yet have a son; take these as the means to buy a concubine." When he reached the capital, he bought a concubine, drew up a contract and paid over the money. When he asked the concubine where she came from, she shed tears but refused to speak. When he asked her more firmly, she then said her father held office, but, having suffered shortfalls in his transported goods, had sold her into concubinage as a plan to repay the losses. Grieved by this, he could not bear to touch her, and sent her back to her father, without insisting on the return of his money. When he returned, his wife asked: "Where is the concubine you bought?" He told her the whole story. His wife said: "If the gentleman uses his heart like this, why worry about lacking a son?" Several months later, his wife became pregnant. When the due date drew near, the villagers dreamt that the air was filled with drumming and trumpeting, greeting the number one scholar arriving at the Ping household. The next morning, Jing was born. Taking delight in reading, he came first (yuan) in the provincial examinations, came first (yuan) in the metropolitan examination, and achieved first place (yuan) in the overall ranking; his contemporaries called him 'Ping Three-Yuan'.
Anon., Huhai xinwen yijian xuzhi, 前 2.108 (Tale 187):
Yuan Haowen 元好問, Chang Zhenguo 常振國 (ed), Xu Yijian zhi 續夷堅志 (Continued Records of the Listener), and Anon., Jin Xin 金心 (ed.), Huhai xinwen yijian xuzhi 湖海新聞夷堅續志 (Continuation of Records of the Listener with New Items from the Lakes and Seas) (Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1986).


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Timberland Saves Time and Money, Finds the Right Style with 3D Printing
"In our industry, the pressure is always intense to quickly and affordably turn the marketer's vision and the consumer's taste into reality that performs well, feels good and looks great. 3D Systems' Color Jet printers have done exactly that for us, compressing our design cycles, lowering our costs and helping us produce better products for our customers....
...We can now quickly do innumerable iterations and variations, and the designers and marketing managers can really be sure the product is what Timberland is expecting and what people on the street are demanding." - Toby Ringdahl, Computer Aided Design Manager, The Timberland Company.
The Timberland Company has transcended its humble workboot origins to become one of the hottest lifestyle brands on the planet. Whether for work, recreation or dressing up, every Timberland product is a compelling blend of form and function tailored to the needs of every customer. That's why it's important for engineers and marketers in the $1.5 billion New Hampshire- based company to collaborate closely in the development of every product, from initial concept to prototype to sample and, ultimately, volume production.
Getting Affordable Prototypes Quickly
The shoe must look good, feel good and perform well. While the upper is mostly fashion design, the intense engineering comes in where the foot meets the insole and where the outsole meets the street. Engineers continuously refine concepts for arch support, tread patterns, materials, heel stabilizers, orthotic devices and "lasts" (i.e., foot models) in their CAD software.
In 2002, Timberland still hired professional model makers to turn 2D CAD drawings into 3D prototypes in wood or foam. These prototypes typically took a week or more to create at a cost of $1,200 each. The lead time hamstrung the company's ability to refine their models to their satisfaction in a timely manner. As a result, the company regularly lengthened its design cycle or just lived without the refinements it wished for.
"Time and money aside, the problem with the old approach is that a 2D CAD drawing left too much to the imagination," says Toby Ringdahl, computer-aided design manager in the company's footwear product development and engineering group. "When the prototype was finally ready, it wasn't exactly what people imagined. But a week is a long time to wait for a new iteration." Timberland realized it needed more prototypes sooner. The company assigned Ringdahl's team to spend six months evaluating rapid prototyping options.
3D printing In House
After weighing alternatives, Timberland chose the ProJet CJP full color 3D printer. The low cost of printing materials and the speed of the machine pushed it ahead of competing machines from other vendors.
In 2005, Timberland took the next step by investing in a second proJet CJP printer that provides vibrant 24-bit color and 600 dpi resolution.
Better Prototypes Faster, Cheaper
The full color printers accept CAD files from Timberland's 3D mechanical design software and produces physical models affordably and quickly. The performance has made a substantial impact on Timberland's efficiency and spending.
For example, a prototype that used to cost Timberland $1,200 now costs $35. A prototype that used to take a week to make now takes 90 minutes, enabling engineering and marketing employees to collaborate more often and more closely. And printing out rapid color prototypes onsite has enabled Timberland to compress its typical design cycle from three weeks to two.
The 3D printer's large build area delivers additional time savings and Timberland's engineers can print full-size prototypes flat on the build area instead of on an incline, saving three hours of printing time on such jobs.
The Color Jet printer's speed and efficiency has directly resulted in continuous product quality improvement. In the weeks Timberland recoups by no longer waiting for prototypes, it can pump out dozens of iterations of a shoe design if it needs to. As a result, more designers, engineers and marketers can see more products in a shorter amount of time, helping Timberland refine its footwear for fit, function and style. "We can now quickly do innumerable iterations and variations," Ringdahl says, "and the designers and marketing managers can really be sure the product is what Timberland is expecting and what people on the street are demanding."
The investment in the printers also eliminates major ancillary costs late in development, like time-consuming trips around the world to examine important shoe molds in overseas plants. Since Timberland can now reach consensus for designs on 3D physical models, there's no longer any need for a careful examination of the production shoe mold.
Finally, color is a key benefit. It better conveys design intent, and the Spectrum's unparalleled resolution enables details like lugs on the sole, speed hooks on the upper, and tiny print on the sole to show up perfectly. "The closer the prototype is to real life, the less you leave to the imagination," says Ringdahl. "Unfortunate surprises are eliminated."
Higher Sales
While 3D printing seems at first glance like an engineering tool, it's making a direct impact on company revenues in two ways: One, close collaboration among designers, engineers and marketers brings to market a product that is exactly what the market demands. That means more sales. Two, Timberland sales people occasionally bring prototypes to sales calls with major retail chains, giving them a big advantage over competitors who come with only sketches. In these instances, sales people can land large sales earlier.
"Products that would have been dropped because of ho-hum 2D drawings are being successfully adopted because customers can hold multicolor, real-life prototypes in their hands," Ringdahl says.
Timberland expects to reap additional benefits from 3D printing in the future. Engineers will use shape analysis software and Color Jet technology to print prototypes that call out pressure points and interference in the insole.
"In our industry, the pressure is always intense too quickly and affordably turn the marketer's vision and the consumer's taste into the reality that performs well, feels good and looks great," says Ringdahl. "CJP printers have done exactly that for us, compressing our design cycles, lowering our costs and helping us produce better products for our customers."


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The Washington Post says, "The map guide lets you be inconspicuous: it's as small and light as a novella, and its flip-out maps could pass as a flyer to a cool club."
"Make sure you never lose your way in a strange city. Each of the Knopf MapGuides captures its city's pith in a package as small as a passport wallet…"– Real Simple
"Knopf MapGuides are handy, practical and perfect for those of us who are slightly impaired when it comes to map-reading. You don't have to search a huge crackling sheet with a microscopic index for one of 10,000 dots on the map…The extraordinary quality of the books' beautiful hues and heavy paper also give these $8.95 guides an evocative quality that stands apart from the glossy, garish look of most travel books." – Marin Independent Journal
"A good, handy portable item for a quick trip" – San Francisco Chronicle
"We love Knopf's smart new map guides." – Travel & Leisure


text: Cape Town - Steve Komphela feels that it is a bit unfortunate that Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates are facing one another at the beginning stages of the Nedbank Cup.According to Orlando Pirates official Twitter account, Komphela says that they have prepared well for the looming encounter at the FNB Stadium."Meeting in the last 32 is unfortunate because it's a tough start. It would have been nice to meet in the semis," said Komphela."We have prepared well and we'll finish tomorrow. But it's a derby; one must die & Chiefs wants to proceed""It's a derby yes, but more importantly a knockout match. Pirates is our knockout opposition. We have to approach this game as so""There'll be 70 000 people there to see good football. Whether the win comes in 90 mins, ET or pens, the result must be there""Chiefs fans want to see us win & that is what I hope to see on the day"Kick-off is at 15:00 on Saturday, March 5.


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Tamil Nadu PSC Recruitment 2013 For Assistant Engineer.Applications are invited for the post of Assistant Engineer in Tamil Nadu PSC.
Company Name: Tamil Nadu PSC.
Website: www.tnpsc.gov.in
Location: Chennai.
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Pay: 15,600 39,100/- + Grade Pay 5,100/-
Age: 18 35 Yrs.
Fee: Examination fee Rs.150/- (i.e. Cost of Application Rs.50/- + Examination fee Rs. 100/-) (Rupees one hundred and fifty only).Candidates claiming exemption from examination fee should pay Rs.50/- towards Application Cost.Candidates have also to pay the service charges applicable to the Bank or Post Office or Fee Processing Agency.
How To Apply: Candidates should apply only through online in the Commissions Website www.tnpsc.gov.in or in www.tnpscexams.net.The candidates applying for the examination should ensure that they fulfil all eligibility conditions for admission to examination. Their admission to all stages of the examination will be purely provisional subject to satisfying of the eligibility conditions. Mere issue of memo of admission to the candidate will not imply that his/her candidature has been fully cleared by the Commission.
Last Date: 17-04-2013.
i. The prescribed qualification should have been obtained in the order of S.S.L.C., H.Sc / Diploma or its equivalent and U.G. Degree.
ii. Candidates claiming equivalence of qualification should upload evidence when called for. (For further details refer paragraph 9 of the Instructions to Candidates.)
a. The rule of reservation of appointments applies to this recruitment.
b. In G.O.Ms.No.145, Personnel and Administrative Reforms (S) Department, dated 30.09.2010, the Government have issued orders to fill up 20% of all vacancies in Direct Recruitment on preferential basis to persons studied the prescribed qualification in Tamil Medium. The 20% reservation of vacancies on preferential allotment to Persons Studied in Tamil Medium (PSTM) will apply for this recruitment.
c. The number of vacancy advertised is only approximate and is liable for modification including reduction with reference to the vacancy position at any time before finalisation of selection.
d. If no qualified and suitable women candidates are available for selection against the vacancies reserved for them, those vacancies will be filled by male candidates belonging to the respective communal categories.


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Darth Apricot (Organic Chocolate Apricot Tea)
'Darth Apricot' was born out of the blending of another tea. A few months back, a Twitter conversation about writing snacks led to the creation of 'Dahvana's Dream.' As I was working on that tea, I decided we should also have a strict chocolate apricot tea. Given that both Mister Continue Reading →


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Hamptons fan Hillary Clinton appeared on The Colbert Report Tuesday to have a name-dropping contest with host Stephen Colbert and to promote her new memoir Hard Choices.
Colbert called the New York Times bestseller "656 pages of shameless name-dropping" and went on with more criticism until Clinton, who is staying in Amagansett this month with husband President Bill Clinton, appears in Colbert's studio.
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Colbert, who is feuding with online retailer Amazon, is encouraging those interested in purchasing Clinton's new book to purchase it from an independent bookstore. Clinton is scheduled to sign her book at BookHampton in East Hampton on August 16 at 5 p.m.; only those who purchased the book from BookHampton ahead of time may attend the signing.
Clinton also has a signing planned at Book Revue in Huntington at 6 p.m. Wednesday and at Bunch of Grapes on Martha's Vineyard on August 13 at 4 p.m.


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Lingo Media's ELL Technologies to Launch "ELL Studio" App
TORONTO, ON–(March 16, 2016) – Lingo Media Corporation (TSX VENTURE: LM) (OTCQB: LMDCF) ("Lingo Media" or the "Company"), an EdTech company that is 'Changing the way the world learns English' through innovative online and print-based technologies and solutions, is pleased to announce that its subsidiary ELL Technologies Ltd. ("ELL Technologies") has completed development of its "ELL Studio," a speech recognition and practice pronunciation mobile app. With the development now complete, ELL Technologies plans to launch ELL Studio as a mobile app in the second quarter of 2016.
"In line with the Company's commitment to Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and to provide further accessibility to its customers around the world, we are pleased to release our first mobile app enabling our learners to practice their spoken English skills anywhere, anytime in the palm of their hand," said Gali Bar-Ziv, COO of Lingo Media. "With its personalized analysis of a learners' pronunciation, this innovative app takes speech recognition to the next level."
The "ELL Studio" app allows learners to practice their spoken English on their mobile device in any setting. It offers a ubiquitous and connected experience, allowing users to practice their English pronunciation through the program's state-of-the-art speech recognition technology. The app is free for current subscribers of ELL Technologies' courses and is available as a download on Android and iOS devices.
About Lingo Media (TSX VENTURE: LM) (OTCQB: LMDCF)
Lingo Media is an EdTech company that is 'Changing the way the world learns English' through the combination of education with technology. The Company provides online and print-based solutions through its two distinct business units: ELL Technologies and Lingo Learning. ELL Technologies is a global English language learning online training and Assessment Company. Lingo Learning is a print-based publisher of English language learning programs in China. Lingo Media has formed successful relationships with key government and industry organizations, establishing a strong presence in China's education market of more than 300 million students. The Company is extending its global reach, with an initial market expansion into Latin America and continues to expand its product offerings and technology applications.
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Paper Collective's Daylight poster was designed by Annu Kilpeläinen and it supports WWF (World Wildlife Fund).
Paper Collective's posters are printed in limited editions of 200–500 and 10 percent of each sold poster will be donated to a good cause chosen by the artist. The artists include renowned illustrators, graphic designers and photographers across the world, whose work is well suited for contemporary decor.
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Here is day eleven!
I'm damn-proud with how much I've accomplished thus far. I can't believe what a little bit of determination can get you – or in this case – me.
Words before: 24,347
Words today: 1,663
Total word count: 26,030
26,000 words! Yowza! It hasn't even been two weeks yet!
Today's picture – I can't explain it. I just had a need for water imagery. I wasn't writing anything about water, but I felt really moved by it. In result, here is today's picture of inspiration.
Keep on Space Truckin'!


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Molybond Coating and Black Oxide Business for Sale Auckland City
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This Metal Enhancement, Black Oxide and Molybond business has been established for close to 40 years.
All set-up in place with a good customer base and well trained staff
Secure lease with reasonable rent and outgoings
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Excellent central suburb in industrial location
Unlimited potential
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Customers include medium sized businesses whose final products can be found on the shelves of major hardware stores.
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SONA 2017 promises on social services
President Rodrigo Duterte emphasized the government's desire to strengthen the delivery of social services and reduce the vulnerabilities of the people during his first State of the Nation Address.
To ensure food security, he instructed the Department of Social Welfare and Development to provide rice subsidies among the poor. Moreover, he also said a nationwide soil analysis should be conducted to determine the areas most suitable for rice farming.
In terms of housing, he pledged that there will be no demolitions without relocations. He also directed the concerned regulatory agencies to hasten the issuance of permits for power development.
He promised to increase spending on basic education and intensify the programs under the Alternative Learning System.
He also said he will provide universal health insurance for all Filipinos.
Did the President deliver well on his promises?
On conducting a nationwide soil analysis
|PROMISE: "We shall also conduct a nationwide soil analysis to determine areas most
suitable for rice farming to optimize production with the use of effective soil
rehabilitation and fertilization.
Soil testing is needed to fulfill the National Color Coded Agricultural Guide Map project of the Department of Agriculture (DA). President Duterte led the launching of the NACCAG on March 2, 2017 in Malacanang. The said map is "derived from combining factors affecting agri-fishery production such as soil properties, water availability, climate topography and at the regional level, economics and demography." The NACCAG aims to help the farmers "enable farmers and fishermen to obtain interactive data on things related to farming and fishing."
Prior to that, Department of Agriculture (DA) Sec. Manny Piñol said in a facebook post (July 2, 2016) that he discovered that the soil analysis data DA was using were gathered 40 years ago. He then ordered the Adaptation and Mitigation Initiative in Agriculture (AMIA) and Bureau of Soil and Water Management (BSWM) to submit an estimated budget requirement within 45 days to conduct the national soil testing.
"In the end, I told the AMIA presenter and BSWM officials to submit to me an estimated budget requirement for the conduct of a national soil testing so that President Rody Duterte's order for DA to come up with a Color Coded Agriculture Guide Map would be realized during the first 100 days of his term."
On increasing the spending on basic education
|PROMISE: "We are planning to increase spending on basic education..."
The Department of Education received the highest budget allocation among all executive departments from the Department of Budget Management with P543.2 billion, marking a 25 percent increase from 2016. DepED says that 21.2 million students nationwide will benefit from this budget.
On ALS Programs
|PROMISE: "We will also intensify and expand Alternative Learning System programs."
As much as 16.59 million
Filipinos now have better opportunity for employment and livelihood as the
Department of Education (DepEd) is working double-time to revive and expand the
coverage of the Alternative Learning System (ALS). The figure, which translates
to 39.03 percent or two-fifths of the entire labor force, is based on the
Philippine Statistics Authority's (PSA) data on working Filipinos who have not
completed basic education as of April 2016.
On the issuance of required permits for power development
|PROMISE: "I have directed the concerned regulatory agencies to prioritize the issuance of required permits for power development."
On June 28, 2017, Duterte
signed Executive Order 30, creating the Energy Investment Coordinating Council.
The EICC is tasked to establish a simplified approval process and harmonize the
relevant rules and regulations of all government agencies involved in obtaining
permits and regulatory approvals, to expedite the development and
implementation of Energy Projects National Significance (EPNS) and other energy
On the "No demolitions without relocations" policy
|PROMISE: "There will be no demolitions without relocations… Government will expropriate. I will make use of the expropriation powers."
Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor chairman Terry Ridon reiterated this policy in April 2017, saying PCUP gives the final clearance for all the demolitions, particularly for infra projects.
On providing rice subsidies to poor families
|PROMISE: "The beneficiaries of 4Ps shall be made to become independent and
self-reliant after they have graduated from the program. I have decided to
direct the DSWD to provide the rice subsidies to the poorest of the families.
In a press release, Social Welfare and Development Secretary Judy Taguiwalo said they have already begun releasing the rice subsidies to 4Ps members. "We trust that the beneficiaries of the fund will use the money to buy rice for their families because this is the main purpose of the subsidy," Taguiwalo said.
On providing universal health insurance to all
|PROMISE: "The government will also provide universal health insurance for all Filipinos benefits."
Sen. Loren Legarda said
part of the 2017 national budget will be allocated to the remaining 8.0 percent
that were not covered by the national health insurance program.
Legarda, Chair of the Senate Committee on Finance, said the additional P3
billion was allocated to the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation
(PhilHealth) to ensure coverage for all Filipinos.
Find out how Duterte fared in other sectors here.