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Texas Feature Stories
Nine reasons for San Antonio golfers to be thankful
San Antonio golfers have plenty for which to be thankful this holiday season. And only a fraction of it involves golf. Yes, the Alamo City has burst on to the scene as a golf destination with the arrival of TPC San Antonio and other resort facilities. But the city offers so much more, including the famed River Walk, theme parks, the Spurs, Mexican food and great weather. And remember the Alamo.
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Critiquing GolfNow raters' Top 10 golf courses in the Austin area
It's been nearly a year since GolfNow.com launched its golfer ratings and reviews, and we've sorted out the Austin area's Top 10 golf courses based on that feedback. Some of the picks surprised our own Brandon Tucker, who has lived in Austin since 2008. Here are his thoughts as well as the rankings.
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Brisket and birdies -- the best combinations of golf and barbecue in Houston
Houston is very much an international city, which means you can find just about any kind of restaurant to dine at after your round at any one of the more than 100 golf courses in the area. But let's be honest, when most people think of Texas, they're not talking about the great Japanese, seafood or Italian joints -- although Houston has many of those as well -- they're thinking Tex-Mex or barbecue. Here then, are some of the best golf and barbecue pairings in the Houston area.
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Sun City Texas in Georgetown: Trio of championship courses make it a worthy trip from Austin
With 54 holes, there is plenty of golf to go around for residents of Sun City Texas, a Del Webb master-planned community located in Georgetown just northwest of Austin. But you don't have to reside in Sun City to play the courses, and you don't have to be retiree-aged to get a great test of golf, either. While it's true that residents get first pick of times, the general public can find their fill of tee times. Multi-course facilities are all over central Texas, and Sun City's operation certainly holds its own with any of them.
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Salvation awaits: Houston's best 19th holes at public golf courses
Nothing cures the ills of a bad round of golf as much as a cold one and some good grub when it's over. Longtime Texas golf writer Mike Bailey offers up a half dozen examples of the best on-course dining/19th hole options among public golf courses in the Houston area.
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Jim McLean Golf Center Texas: Golf school supreme in Fort Worth
If you're looking for a serious place to improve your golf game, you need not look any further than the Jim McLean Golf Center Texas in Forth Worth. Not only does the school provide all the technical instruction of the golf swing, but students can simulate any shot in golf at their extensive practice course, they can get physical fitness training designed specifically for golf, and there's even mental training for helping golfers manage their way around a course and through a round.
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A perfect Texas fall: Football and golf in the Dallas-Fort Worth area
They say there are two seasons in Texas -- football and spring football. But if you really want to do it up right in Texas, combine it with golf. And in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, that combination works quite well. Veteran Texas golf writer Mike Bailey offers up some suggestions on how to get the best of both worlds this fall.
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AT&T Oaks Course at TPC San Antonio softened, but it's still a tough Texas test
The AT&T Oaks Course at the TPC San Antonio is a little easier than it used to be -- just a little. In response to some "suggestions" from PGA Tour players, the course underwent some modifications. However, the Greg Norman design that opened in 2010 and plays host to the Valero Texas Open is still pretty difficult and will continue to rank among the toughest courses on the PGA Tour.
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In Houston on business? Top golf courses for entertaining clients and colleagues
Golf and business meetings have gone together since the dawn of the game. Some golf facilities, however, are more conducive to doing business than others. Fortunately for Houstonians and those visiting the Bayou City, there are an abundance of such venues. Mike Bailey offers up 10, which are all open to the public.
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My Town: Where I play golf when I'm at home in Houston
Veteran Texas golf writer Mike Bailey has lived in the Houston area for much of the past 25 years, and while he may be biased, he believes public golf in Houston is underrated. While there aren't any truly great public layouts in the Houston area, there are probably more quality courses than any other large metropolitan area in the country, he writes.
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- Houston, we have a solution: Affordable golf in the Bayou City
- Glen Garden Golf & Country Club in Fort Worth marks 100 years of golf
- From Tillinghast to Dye, San Antonio golf offers a variety of design styles
- West Texas links: El Paso's golf scene might surprise you
- Can't play golf in Dallas? Here are some other ways to fill four hours
- Before college football, tee it up all over Texas this bowl season
- First Ping nFlight Fitting Center in Texas lands at Augusta Pines G.C. near Houston
- TPC San Antonio, Old American Golf Club at The Tribute land on Golfweek's Best New Courses list
- Texas Golf Hall of Fame is back in business at Brackenridge Park in San Antonio
- Grand plans for Houston Oaks Country Club and Family Sports Retreat
- Las Americas and Lorena Ochoa spotlight golf in San Antonio
- San Antonio's golf and Tex-Mex restaurants: A killer combination
- Five must-play San Antonio golf courses
- For historic San Antonio, there's no time like the present for golf
- The New Course north of Dallas to pay "Tribute" to American classic golf
- New JW Marriott resort and TPC San Antonio will be big for Alamo City golf
- Austin public golf courses: Fighting for survival - and winning
- Galleria's shopping splendor makes Houston a golf widow's surprise ace
- The First Tee takes hold in Austin, Texas with new golf course
- Bad Pants Open: Frightening fashion for a fabulous cause
- Golfing and birding
- Up-and-coming South Padre Island features a pair of very solid courses
- Phil Blackmar still finding plenty to keep him busy - on course and off
- Fazio builds the marketing mystery around Escondido
- Mountain golf in Far West Texas is heaven on Earth
- Golfers discovering other sides to San Antonio
- Texas Golf in the Big Country is worth finding
- Houston may be jumbled mess, but it has bargains and affordable golf
- For sale: Woodlands Resort and Meeting Center mixes meetings with tons of golf
- El Paso next for Fazio design
- Projects keep coming in the Lone Star State
- Northeast Texas and Lake Fork is a world like no other
- Port Isabel & South Padre Island: Texas' Southernmost Golf Experience
- Dandy Hill Country trio loaded with foresight
- Hockey sticks and golf balls: The Dallas Stars have a home
- Archeology and golf seek harmony in Menard, Texas
- Panhandle serves up Bermuda Triangle of Texas golf
- Underrated Houston makes for a bargain winter golf getaway
- Buckle up for best tests of West Texas
- Magnificent muni golf courses of Dallas-Fort Worth
- Jacobsen-Hardy design team hired to retool Galveston Country Club
- Kerrville's Whiskey Springs has new life in Hill Country
- TPC at Craig Ranch draws Aikman, Weiskopf
- Weekend in Fort Worth: North Side, South Side bookmark Cowtown golf
- Jerry Jeff Walker: Caddie and golfer turned singer-songwriter
- Texas' past dotted with rich golf history
- Top 5 courses of the Texas Hill Country
- Best Par 3s in Central Texas
- Best Signature Holes in Central Texas
- Dennis Haskins Profile: TV Star Rings 'Bell' For Charities
- Golf Instruction Galore in Central Texas
- Check Out the Best Greens in Central Texas
- The Ambush at Lajitas Newest Lone Star Golf Hideaway
- No place like Texas golf: Tradition, variety rules in the Lone Star state
- Jeff Brauer: Transplanted Texan's golf course portfolio admired coast to coast
- Dallas-Fort Worth fringe offers hidden finds for adventurous golfers
- The Dallas Golf Scene: Everything Looks Attractive For Big D Links Future
- Turk Pipkin: My Career Got in the Way of Golf
- Going, Going and Staying Put...For Now
- What to Expect from the David Leadbetter Golf Academy at Barton Creek
- La Cantera Enhances Golf Academy
- One-on-One with Tom Penders: Golf with Willie and the Tyler Rose
- Barton Creek and David Leadbetter Create a First-Class Golf Academy
- TPC at Las Colinas: Byron Nelson Tour Site Blossoms
- On the Road in Texas: From The Bluebonnet Trail to The Alamo City


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Dirty Gold's Impacts
In the Air, Under the Ground, Across Communities -- The Pervasive Problems of Gold Mining
Most consumers don't know where the gold in their products comes from, or how it is mined. Gold mining is one of the most destructive industries in the world. It can displace communities, contaminate drinking water, hurt workers, and destroy pristine environments. It pollutes water and land with mercury and cyanide, endangering the health of people and ecosystems. Producing gold for one wedding ring alone generates 20 tons of waste.
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Community Impacts:
- Economic Impacts
- Endangered Communities
- Free Prior and Informed Consent
- Human Rights Abuses
- Toll on Indigenous Peoples
- Woman Specific Impacts
- Worker Rights and Safety
For more information:
Dirty Metals: Mining, Communities, and the Environment
Troubled Waters: How Mine Waste Dumping is Poisoning our Oceans, Rivers and Lakes
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|Teapot and Yunomi by Ken Matsuzaki.
In today's post I wanted to highlight an upcoming exhibition that features pottery that narrowly escaped the devastating March earthquakes in Japan. Fortunately, Ken and his family were not harmed physically in the earthquakes, but his kilns and five kiln loads of greenware were destroyed. By a twist of fate, Ken had shipped out 120 pots for an exhibition at Goldmark Gallery in England just before the earthquake hit. These pots will be on display at Goldmark from June 4-26. If you are in England, anywhere near Uppingham, don't miss this exhibition!
In addition to getting the word out about this exhibition, I wanted to send an update about the potteries of Japan. In this excerpt from the June/July/August issue of Ceramics Monthly, Naomi Tsukamoto explains how the potters of Mashiko are slowly rebuilding their lives. I've also included links to various relief organizations set up to help potters in the recovery efforts. – Jennifer Harnetty, editor.
KEN MATSUZAKI: new pots
Goldmark Gallery is very pleased to announce the dates of the forthcoming, highly anticipated exhibition of new pots by Ken Matsuzaki. This will be the third exhibition in six years at the Goldmark Gallery by one of the most important contemporary potters working in Japan today, and will run from June 4-26, 2011.
We are all very fortunate, and it is only by a quirk of fate, that we are to be given this opportunity to view Matsuzaki's new work. The recent, devastating earthquake in Japan thankfully did not harm the potter or his family, however every piece of his work was lost and two out of his three kilns were destroyed. By sheer luck however, the Goldmark Gallery had transported 120 of his pots from his studio in Mashiko to the UK just prior to the earthquake.
It will be a bittersweet moment for Matsuzaki, who will be traveling over to the opening of the exhibition, grateful for the survival of two years of work, whilst of course mourning the catastrophe that has hit his beloved country. He is donating several of his pots and Goldmark Gallery are donating some Bernard Leach lithographs to the Mashiko Earthquake Appeal.
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A follower of Yo to bi (Beauty and Use), Matsuzaki states that beautiful things can also be useful; placing emphasis on a pot's beauty first, then its use. He captures the essence of the Momoyama Period and Mingei traditions with a modern and boundary-pushing twist. His pots are fired in a huge anagama kiln which is set to work only twice a year, with each firing taking a whole week, stoked with wood and charcoal continuously, 24 hours a day.
His handbuilt pots are the next generation, carving their own way in Japanese pottery. Moving on from the work of his master Tatsuzo Shimaoka (National Living Treasure) and Shimaoka's master, the legendary Shoji Hamada (also a National Living Treasure) Matsuzaki aims to make pots that make people happy.
An Update on the Kilns of Mashiko
The massive magnitude-9.0 earthquake struck northeastern Japan at 2:46pm on March 11, 2011. It caused a devastating tsunami, which swept away the homes and the lives of thousands of people. Soon night fell, but over the following days, we found out the amount of damage that this tragedy caused. With the panic over the ongoing nuclear power plant emergency and the aftershocks that continue to occur every day, the Japanese media fixed on the areas suffering most, the Tohoku region as a whole and Fukushima Prefecture, located in Tohoku, where the damaged nuclear plant is located.
Just to the south of Fukushima, and located inland, is the Tochigi Prefecture where the pottery town of Mashiko, home to Shoji Hamada's kiln, among many others, is located. It is perhaps the most known Japanese pottery production center among foreigners due to the Mingei connections overseas. "On the surface, the town seems calm, and it does not look like anything happened," Akihiro Nikaido, a leader of a young Mashiko potters group, Toism (http://touism.p1.bindsite.jp), said in a phone conversation. "It is mainly the potters who suffered." The stories of Mashiko potters gradually unfolded, but it was not until three weeks after the earthquake that Japanese media first reported on Mashiko damage, which was estimated to be $9 million. Nearly all climbing kilns in the town fell down, and 40 percent of the Shoji Hamada collection was destroyed.
Soon after the earthquake hit, Ken Matsuzaki, whose climbing kiln was also destroyed, called out to the mayor of Mashiko village and established the Mashiko Pottery Fund (MPF) in order to raise money for rebuilding the kilns. "It is my personal connection to Pucker Gallery and Mudflat Studio in Boston that made me realize the need for such a foundation," he explained. Similar movement quickly happened between the Leach pottery in the UK and St. Ives Gallery in Tokyo, which launched the Mashiko Earthquake Appeal.
The Leach Pottery has raised $32,000 so far, and the fund will be exclusively donated to MPF. Mashiko and the Mingei Association had supported their rebuilding of the Leach Pottery in 2008, and they wished to offer support in light of this friendship. Koichiro Isaka, the director of St. Ives Gallery also organized a special exhibition with the same title that opened April 16, 2011, and features Mashiko potters who suffered losses in the earthquake.
By April 1, the Mashiko Support Center was established under the same public domain with the MPF and has now begun recruiting volunteers every day to clean up the broken rubble of what remained at each kiln site. It will take years to rebuild Mashiko. There are only a few professional kiln builders in town today, and rebuilding one climbing kiln could cost US$25,000–$35,000, Matsuzaki said.
"I was preparing for an exhibit, and all of the greenware I had, which would have filled five kiln loads, broke," Nikaido said. Others suffered more, he said. Some were in the middle of a firing. Roofs fell, and even electric and gas kilns shifted, which cut off wiring. Some already have been forced out of their familiar home and studios, like Euan Craig (http://euancraig.blogspot.com) and his family. Nikaido explained that the foundations for homes in Mashiko are made of Ohyaishi, stone bricks from the area, which obviously is not earthquake-resistant construction. "My wife and our baby had to move temporarily because we are not far from the Fukushima nuclear plant," he continued. "Mashiko is not so united as a pottery village, as many people move here from elsewhere, just like I did." He says he is worried about older potters because they may not be able to gather up their spirit to build kilns again. "Young potters are okay because we can build kilns again on our own, but we must work together to rebuild kilns in town."
"Climbing kilns are the souls of Mashiko potters," Matsuzaki said. "Saving the fire of the kilns is preserving our tradition of Mashiko as the sacred place of Mingei. We must keep the smoke coming out of chimneys in Mashiko. Right now, what is most important is that the potters have the hearts to want to rebuild kilns," he explained.
Mashiko did not cancel this year's spring pottery festival which was held April 29–May 5, 2011. By titling it "Persevere and Revive Mashiko," they have already taken the first steps on the road to their recovery.
The photos included here were shared by various Mashiko potters and were collected by Masakatsu Kuriya, also a potter in Mashiko. You can view all the photos on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Rebuild.Mashiko.
Relief Organization Contact Information
Mashiko Pottery Fund
Mashiko Earthquake Appeal
Get inspired by this year's Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artists!


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The main PPC tools crucial for digital marketers can be summarised in three types: competitive intelligence, bid management, and analysis.
Competitive Intelligence
A reliable and unbiased competitive intelligence for search solution is one of the key components for today's successful online marketing – it retrieves and analyses data about your market, dynamically or based on fixed keyword lists depending on the provider, before determining its best use for improving your SEM strategy and informing future decisions.
With such fierce competition in PPC, competitive intelligence ensures that you stay ahead of the pack by providing insights into each competitor's monetary spending on PPC and Share of Voice, as well as their top ads and what keywords they display, and other relevant metrics.
Market-driven services like Adthena provides digital marketers with an unbiased search intelligence service that constantly monitors their whole market space.
By dynamically identifying and tracking relevant keywords – rather than purely relying on manual fixed list inputs – Adthena, for example, shows how competitors' activities directly impact a company's own spending and results, thereby enhancing campaign performance, maximising ROI and uncovering new, unseen customer acquisition opportunities.
Competitive intelligence tools like Adthena also provide automated reports which help save time and money, in turn giving you more time and room to identify new search opportunities.
Bidding Platform
Once you know the keywords relevant to your ad and have decided on the right ad copy, you need to decide on a bidding platform. More advertisers are joining PPC advertising, and the competition and costs are increasing – thus, bid management tools are becoming that much more essential in automating the process.
The ranking of your ad in the search results page can be determined by how high your bid is, as well as the popularity of the chosen keyword and other factors such as quality score. However, the key is combining the use of a bidding platform with an investment in competitive intelligence, which can inform you of how much your competitors are bidding for the same keyword.
A bid management tool is essential in helping you determine which keywords bring the most success and, therefore, which ones warrant higher bids. The software automatically tracks conversions, draws comparisons and adjusts the bids accordingly. Although it can be done manually, as your accounts grow and keywords increase, these tools will save you significant time and effort.
But there are many bid management software options available – so which are the best ones? Some of the top bid management software includes Marin, which has an attractive and easy-to-use online platform, as well a desktop editor tool. It allows you to set bids on many conversion events, such as store directions, contact forms, and video views.
Adobe's SearchCenter+, part of its Digital Marketing Suite, is another attractive option with its integrated Facebook display tool and integrated organic search and site links.
An Analytics Platform
The last piece of the puzzle is an analytics platform to monitor the performance of your PPC campaign. Tracking the conversion of your ads is essential. An analytics tool will tell you which keywords are working well and through which search engines they are popping up. It will also show you where the immediate opportunities lie and where you should correspondingly direct your attention and efforts. It also analyses online consumer behaviour and crafts profiles accordingly.
Don't just rely on Google Analytics – although it is a free, convenient tool that automatically generates data on your Adwords account, it does not necessarily inform you of opportunities. Since Google switched users to secure search, it has limited Google Analytics' keyword access too.
Adobe's platform, Omniture, now functioning as Adobe Analytics, enables marketers to see who is visiting their site and using their content, as well as group visitors according to demographic and online behaviour. Adobe has other programmes, such as Adobe Social, built to integrate with analytics.
Coremetrics is a continuous optimisation platform with a wide range of tracking and reporting options. And their high-quality customer service assists clients even after they have purchased the software.
These search marketing solutions save you time and effort in analysing, integrating, and understanding data so that you can maximise PPC efficiency. Competitive intelligence helps you understand your competition and what's happening within your market, keeping you aware of opportunities.
Bid management tools give you time to focus on other complicated tasks and work on innovative ideas by automating bids. Lastly, analytics tools give you an overall view of your campaign's performance so that you know as soon as possible what needs work and direction, thereby maximising efficiency.


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The best gifts are experiences that can change how we see the world.
Again this year, we are offering an opportunity to have that experience at a special holiday price. For $150, this gift can be used for any 8 week session class (Levels 1 through 6) in 2014.* That is a $45 discount. The gift will be available to purchase by December 12th at our box office, but you can pre-order online now!
It's basically the best kind of gift: one filled with laughter, learning and fun. What could be better?
This holiday priced opportunity will be available until January 1st, 2013. Our next session of classes starts January 4th — find out more information here.
*Cannot be combined with any other discount or offer. Must be redeemed by December 31, 2014.


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Good news from Jeffrey Smith
April 6, 2011
The US is mobilizing against GMOs!
Have you caught the non-GMO buzz lately? GMOs are being blogged about, tweeted about, reported on, and talked about more than ever before. There were rallies all over the US in March, more rallies scheduled, and the topic is catching fire. A food executive at the recent natural products expo said, "This feels like the time we've been waiting for." An activist at a recent festival said, "I am so amazed at how much people want to know about GMOs—our table was bombarded! I feel like we're at a turning point. I hope you do too."
I certainly do, and we need to make sure this momentum grows into the tipping point of consumer rejection that we've been working for. This is a perfect time to pitch in.
- Sign up for the Non-GMO Tipping Point Network, where you can join local and national Non-GMO Working Groups to do effective, compelling outreach. We have about 1500 people already, and we're just getting started.
- Become trained to speak about GMOs. I'll be offering 10 one-day workshops and some online webinars, so you can involved wherever you are.
- Please help us with a donation, which will be MATCHED BY NUTIVA! (up to $10K for April donations). Helping to reclaim a non-GMO food supply is a great way to celebrate Earth Month. Thank you to Nutiva and thank you to our wonderful contributors.
I personally have been racing to keep up with all the incredible opportunities (or as I prefer to say, Harvest all the low-hanging Non-GMO fruit). I leave for Canada this week, Colorado the next, and Texas, Connecticut, New York, California, Chicago, and Seattle soon after. Check out the calendar. In the four months between mid-January and mid-May, I'll have been at home for a total of just one month.
It has now become impossible for me to travel so much, and write, and edit footage, and contact individuals and organizations, while also managing our staff and the operations of the Institute. So we're now interviewing for a new Executive Director to run the show here, which will free me up to focus on getting the message out.
The rest of our staff are also swamped now, and could surely use more dedicated volunteers on critical jobs. Please look over our Help Wanted page if you have time and energy to contribute to our team.
Thanks for all your help. See you on the road…
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About the SAHGB
The Society exists to encourage an interest in the history of architecture, to provide opportunities for the exchange and discussion of ideas related to this subject and to publish, in its journal, Architectural History, the results of original research.
The suggestion that led to the foundation of the Society was made in 1955 by Turpin C. Bannister to Frank Jenkins, a British architect and scholar who had gone to work with Bannister at the University of Illinois. Initially conceived of as a chapter of the American Society of Architectural Historians (of which Bannister had been a founder-member in 1940), it was determined in 1956 that the British Society should be autonomous. The early personnel were largely architects and teachers: the Chairmen of the first meetings were Bruce Allsopp and William A. Singleton, the latter of the York Institute of Architectural Study, which became the unofficial home of the Society.
Today the Society has no official location and its activities take members to all parts of the UK. It is a Company Limited by Guarantee under UK law and a Registered British Charity, governed by an Executive Committee of elected and appointed officers. The Committee seeks to maintain the founding principles of the Society, but its role has expanded greatly so that it now also represents the interests of architectural history in the UK to a wide range of governmental and non-governmental bodies in the education and heritage sectors. The Society only lobbies on behalf of the study of architectural history. It does not campaign on conservation issues.
The following links will open PDF documents for the formation of the SAHGB as a company, namely the Articles of Association of the SAHGB of 1964, and amendments to those Articles made in 1992.


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Colours Available: Beige, Navy, Red
Dog Gone Smart is proud to introduce nanotechnology to the pet industry. These beds stay clean naturally, reduce the spread of bacteria and stand up to the wear and tear of the most active dog by using certified and patented NanoSphere fabric finish and a bacteriostatic technology that reduces the spread of bacteria which is a common cause of the "doggie" smell as well as bacteria infections and allergens creating a healthier environment for our dog. These fabrics are non-toxic and pet safe. The NanoSphere® finish even carries the label bluesign approved.
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Our rectangle beds are generously filled with hypoallergenic soft hollow-core slick fiber fill. This high-quality fill allows dogs to nest which they love to do, but bounces back to a high loft when they leave! Our unique silicon-coated polyfill eliminates any lumping or unevenness to the bed. Wow, now that's something to bark about!
*The inside fill and liner should not be washed, but can be shaken out and aired to maintain cleanliness.


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All Ministries Are Online
All ministries are now being offered online during this unprecedented time. Please visit our Digital Ministries page for more information.
Concert Series
In the fall of 2008, Trinity Lutheran began laying the ground work for the Trinity Lutheran Concert Series.
God has certainly blessed us with a wonderfully rich acoustic environment in both our Sanctuary and Chapel, and we intend to make our facilities the host site for a wide variety of quality music programs which will benefit and enrich our community and beyond.
It is our sincere hope and goal, with the establishment of a patronage and benefactor program, to be able to offer most concerts at Trinity without charge.
2020-21 calendar coming soon!
Watch Services Live
Traditional Worship
Our traditional worship is rooted in the history and practice of both the Lutheran Church as well as the historical church. Services last about an hour; communion is served on the first and third Sundays.
Sundays: 8:30 AM in the Sanctuary | Wednesdays: 7 PM in the Chapel
If you have musical gifts that lend themselves to being in one of our vocal or bell choirs, we encourage you to join our team. You can contact Dr. Bill Brusick, our Minister of Music, for more information.
Contemporary Worship
Looking for something casual and relational? Come to our Contemporary service where you'll hear modern music connected with a Biblical message!
Sundays: 11:00 AM in the Sanctuary
Do you play guitar, drums, or sing? If you'd like to use your gifts to serve the Lord, we encourage you to contact our Contemporary Worship Director, Kyle Cahill!


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What is it about one colour that's so utterly different from another? How do colours affect our moods? Colour is a mysterious thing. But it also obeys rational principles.
At Sunspel we are fascinated and obsessed by colour. Over time a few colours stay the same: navy blue will always be a core staple. But most change. Every seasonal range has its own signature colour palette, which establishes a unique mood that runs through the entire collection.
So when we had the chance to collaborate with the Royal Academy on the occasion of its 250th anniversary, colour got our attention. One of the most striking and historically important works in the Royal Academy's collection is an 18th century colour wheel.
The Natural System of Colours and is only 10 pages long, but it had a dramatic influence on British culture. Its author, Moses Harris, was an entomologist – an insect expert – who illustrated his works with beautiful, hand-coloured engravings. While systematically studying insects, he began systematically studying colour too. He noticed that he could create many paint colours from just three: red, yellow and blue. He noticed further that the spectrum of colours he was able to create not only seemed to contain all perceivable colours. It also connected back onto itself, forming a circle rather than a line. Hence the wheel.
To celebrate the RA's anniversary we created a small collection of T-Shirts, each made in a subtle and precise colour taken from Moses Harris's famous 'prismatic' colour wheel. For this Prismatic Collection, we took great care to match six fabric colours to the purity and consistency of the original tones in the colour wheel. The T-Shirts are made in England at our factory in Long Eaton, Derbyshire – the same place we make our best English T-Shirts.
The Royal Academy is an independent, privately funded arts charity, not a publicly-funded one, and the proceeds from the T-Shirts will go towards supporting its internationally acclaimed exhibition programme and RA Schools.
Our six T-Shirt colours are a tribute to the delicacy with which Moses Harris captured colour in watercolour, and to his rational exploration of the principles of colour.
Here at Sunspel, we know and celebrate a fellow colour obsessive when we see one.


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I miss my sex life. Most of all, I miss being able to masturbate without hearing the boner-crushing creak of a door opening. When my nephew and his girlfriend moved into my one-bedroom apartment with me last fall, I made a slight misjudgment in giving them my bedroom while I camped out in the living room.
Given that they were leaving the South Side of Chicago to pursue a better life, it was important to me that their new environment was comfortable and stable, rather than them feeling like transients bumming on my couches. It was also a strategic attempt to preserve a bit of privacy, so that I, and any guests, would not have to endure a walk of shame through the living room.
However, in the four months they've lived with me, I've had only one sexcapade while they were in the apartment. With my nephew being 20 and his girlfriend 18, I believed they were mature enough to appreciate my request for them to remain in the bedroom while I had a little boo company. However, at the exact moment of penetration, heard the bedroom door open, causing me and my nude companion to dive under covers.
Whoever opened the door didn't come into the darkened living room, but aside from the eventual sex, the episode was unpleasant enough for me to arrange for hookups only when neither of them are home, which is rare. The more dire—daily—challenge has been trying to jack off without interruption, and is my only regret about our living arrangement.
It's easy to lose track of the frequency of one's masturbation when living alone. I now yearn for the predawn and late-night drone of televisions, although even in those solitary hours, I watch porn on my cellphone instead of laptop because its more discreet and easier to dim, and there's a perennial risk of hearing their bedroom door open.
Blessedly, they've signed a lease for an apartment they'll be moving into in a few days, but the imminent return of my sexual satisfaction ranks low in my thoughts. I'm proud of the two of them—their courage to leave everything they've ever known, and their commitment to fighting for more than what had always been awaiting them in Chicago.
They made the experience far less burdensome than I had feared, as both found jobs within a month of their arrival. All three of us have made missteps, of course, and I'm concerned they may be on the brink of their biggest thus far.
I called them South Side refugees when I first wrote about them coming to Atlanta, and my nephew has the noble instinct to reach back and rescue his older brother, his girlfriend and their infant daughter by bringing them down to share their two-bedroom apartment. I've objected to the wisdom and timing of this immediate resettlement in the bluntest, most alarmist terms possible, but accept its inevitability.
This will be their apartment, their first apartment; their lives, their young and hopeful lives; their mistakes to learn from or odds to defy. I worry about their unripe instincts, but I trust their grit.


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LONDON: Deloitte forecasts the number of 'Click & Collect' or 'e-collect' locations in Europe will reach half a million in 2015, a 20 percent increase on last year.
The company says e-collect will become an increasing part of retail e-commerce due to the rising cost of failed first-time delivery that reached US$1 billion in the UK alone last year.
With Britain currently the most mature e-commerce market in Europe, Deloitte forecasts 13 percent of all retail revenue will be from e-commerce in 2015, of which about a third will be e-collect. Between 2012 and 2014, revenue from Click & Collect more than doubled to reach US$8.7 billion from 140 million orders.
As home-delivery volumes are expected to flatten out in 2015, Deloitte suggests e-commerce growth has to come from alternative logistics options. Click & Collect, where products can be delivered to another physical location, offers choice in selection and flexibility in collection: in-store (including a parking lot); a third-party location (such as a post office or a train station); or at a locker (often located on a commuter route).
This year Deloitte expects two-thirds of the 500,000 pick-up locations in Europe will be individual lockers; just over 25 percent will be third-party locations; and the remainder (about 37,000) will be stores.
The company expects the e-commerce share of retail to grow in most other European markets this year with e-collect becoming an increasingly common offer for non-grocery items from both bricks and mortar companies as well as on-line only. Deloitte says the latter will also use third-party outlets as well as retail stores to deliver goods. eBay currently uses the 650 stores of UK retailer Argos for Click & Collect services while Transport for London has installed parcel lockers on over 40 Underground stations in partnership with retailers that include Amazon and the Waitrose supermarket chain.


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Benefits of Rehmannia
Rehmannia is an herb which is used as a medicine in China. Traditional medicines like herbs, shrubs, plants, etc., hold an important place in places like China. Rehmannia is very popular in China. Its scientific name is Rehmannia glutinosa. The root of rehmannia contains the maximum medicinal value of the plant. It has a yellow-hued flower as well. Based on one's requirements one can consume it raw or cooked. It is also known as DI Huang in China.
Controls bone loss
Women lose bone strength with a disease called osteoporosis. It has been proven that consumption of rehmannia medicine helps in controlling bone loss to a great extent.
Cools the body
Rehmannia is a medicine which is also used in fever. It is said that the vitamin contained in the medicine helps the body to cool down. It helps to bring down the temperature. It also cures the weakness caused by the fever. It helps in controlling the internal heat of the body.
Purifies blood
The medicine rehmannia helps to stop vaginal bleeding as well as blood in ulcers. It helps in healing both internal and external bleeding. It cleans the blood and helps in decreasing blood pressure.
Cures kidney conditions
Kidney imbalances result in weakness in the legs and lower back and also in hearing loss, which can be cured by the medicine called rehmannia. It balances the kidney and helps it function normally. It also purifies the kidney.
Lowers blood sugar level
Rehmannia helps to lower blood sugar level, which nowadays is a common problem in this generation. It also helps in reducing high blood pressure. One of the other benefits of the medicine is to protect the liver.
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Personal Reference Letter Sample 3 Steps – Your opinion is highly sought after. In fact, you've noticed that more and more
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Furthermore, you will see how easy it can be to write reference letters when you start with the right tool; a letter template, sample letter, or a writing system of some kind. You don't need something complicated as much as you need something good. The following article is both; simple and good.
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A personal reference letter sample is the first of three steps to writing reference letters that can make a difference. And with more than 50 million people unemployed in the United States right now it makes sense to take advantage of every resource that will give you, or the recipient of a letter that you right, an advantage over other applicants, whether it's for employment, acceptance into college, grad school, med school, etc.
While other reference letter sample templates emphasize a five to seven step process you'll only read about three in this article. And here they are:
Step One. Search the term "personal reference letter sample" via your favorite search engine (Google, MSN, BING, Yahoo, etc). Sort through the top 10 - 20 results and find a letter/article to your liking.
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Monday, February 1, 2016 by Ben Palmateer
If you walked through any high school hallway as the students enter the building in the morning, it would become immediately obvious that high schoolers are not getting enough sleep. In the hierarchy of students, no one is at the top when it comes to the everyday snooze. Teens experience the morning drag every single day, never questioning why they must wake up at such an arbitrary time, and seemingly never protesting the toll that lack of sleep can take on one's health. But what really are the full effects of an early morning on today's teens?
The National Sleep Foundation has determined that only 15% of teenagers receive the appropriate eight and a half hours of sleep, and from personal experience, I'm not at all surprised. On a good night, I'll receive about 6 hours of sleep a night, and I know that many of my peers receive even less. While this epidemic is affecting the majority of students, a lack of sleep is most prominent among the top academic performers, which makes sense because the best students are most likely to take the most difficult course schedule, and are often involved in other extracurricular pursuits. The student who takes a full AP schedule, plays three varsity sports, and is the first chair violinist in the orchestra is going to spend his or her nights occupying themselves with tasks other than sleep, which is ironic because these are the students who really need to be getting the most sleep to fuel their active schedules. This forces the nation's brightest minds to make a choice: either be the person who he or she wishes to be while sacrificing mental and physical health, or be a healthy teenager while not living up to his or her potential.
The underlying cause of this lack of sleep is the time that school begins, and the amount of time that students spend at school. There really is no logical, unavoidable reason as to why high school's couldn't start at a later time or end earlier. This issue that is extremely pertinent to student health has not been addressed legitimately by any governing body, despite the vast amount of easy solutions to the problem. In my personal opinion, the correct solution to the problem would be to have schools begin classes at a later hour, even just slightly later, while still ending at the same time, and making up for the lost time with extra days of the school year. This solution could not possibly cause any problems except that some students will be frustrated that they must attend school for a greater number of days. After school activities would in no way be affected, teachers could still teach their full curriculum, and the students who are the future of our nation can get more sleep, leading to a happier, healthier, and more successful academic environment. Unfortunately, I don't see this issue being resolved or even addressed any time soon, and I suppose that until the conversation begins, young adults will have to slowly deteriorate as they push themselves beyond their physical and mental limits every day.
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Editor"s note: This was originally published in the Denver Post.
Democrats control Congress, so Americans ought to be asking about their plan to lower gas prices. Let"s hope their plan doesn"t rest on solar, wind and geothermal, because planes, trains and automobiles don"t run on electricity; they run on oil – mostly foreign oil. Or at least 97 percent of the time they run on oil, and the other 3 percent is mostly ethanol. Let"s also hope the Democrats" plan doesn"t rest on ethanol to break our dependence on foreign oil, because it can"t. More on that later.
Americans ship about $700 billion annually to foreign oil traffickers, and Democrats respond by shutting down America"s own energy supplies. Now at the mercy of foreign governments smart enough to produce their own energy, we are selling away our nation"s place in the world and funding the rise of our most aggressive competitors and even our enemies.
Colorado, Wyoming and Utah have more oil in oil shale than OPEC. Everyone seems to know that by now, but here are six things you probably did not know about oil shale.
n Did you know oil shale has a smaller carbon footprint than ethanol? When calculating the carbon emissions of the entire oil shale process, without the use of carbon capture technology, its total carbon footprint is about 7 percent larger than gasoline. But a peer-reviewed article in the February issue of Science calculates the entire carbon footprint of ethanol to be 93 percent larger than gasoline. The article reports that even switchgrass footprint is 50 percent larger than gasoline.
n Did you know oil shale uses less water than ethanol and no more than gasoline? Increased ethanol production will require more irrigation. A September 2007 article in Southwest Hydrology states that irrigated corn requires more than 780 barrels of water for each barrel of ethanol. The Department of Energy reports that oil shale, for the entire process including land restoration, requires three barrels of water for every barrel of shale oil, about the same as gasoline.
n Did you know oil shale uses much less land than either ethanol or gasoline? One acre of corn produces 10 barrels of ethanol. One acre in the oil patch produces about 10,000 barrels of oil. One acre of oil shale produces between 100,000 and one million-plus barrels of shale oil! No, that"s not a typo.
Whether your concern is carbon emissions, water use or wildlife habitat, oil shale is a better answer than ethanol. And when it comes to transportation fuels, ethanol is the only alternative of any real significance.
n Did you know oil shale has been commercially produced in Brazil for 30 years and in Estonia for 80 years? Technology is not a barrier.
n Did you know that oil shale failed in 1982 due to the price dropping to $10 a barrel, not because of technology or scarcity of water? That was a quarter century ago, and a lot has changed since then. Time Magazine"s Man of the Year in 1982 was the Computer. Today, we have better technology, better environmental regulations and OPEC can no longer flood the oil market.
n Did you know current law gives each governor, before any commercial leases are granted, the right to set the pace of oil shale development? But Rep. Mark Udall has put a moratorium on commercial leasing regulations, effectively taking away that right for Utah"s governor. The action produces no additional rights for Colorado, but destroys Utah"s right to move forward at any pace.
Some have expressed concerns that the horse should not be put in front of the cart with regard to oil shale production. But the moratorium slaughters the horse and barricades the road. You protect against a bust by supporting an activity, not artificially starving it.
I"ve supported Colorado"s right to choose its own pace. Utah deserves the same courtesy.
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The election could be won or lost weeks before Election Day thanks to early voting that has now spread in one form or another to more than half the states.
With early voting kicking off Thursday in the critical swing state of Iowa, and with more swing states following close behind, including Ohio next Tuesday, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney will be banking real votes long before the frenetic final days of the campaign.
"I am forecasting in this election cycle that about 35 percent of the vote will be cast before Election Day," George Mason University professor Michael McDonald, who researches early voting behavior, told TPM.
"We know 78 percent of all votes in Colorado were cast prior to Election Day in 2008, and it probably will be around 85 percent in 2012. The election will essentially be won or lost before Election Day unless it's a tight, narrow, razor-thin margin."
With more than one-third of the votes nationwide expected to be cast early, Romney's already shrinking window to erase President Obama's current lead in public opinion polls before Election Day is closing even faster. While the presidential debates, for instance, remain Romney's last best hope to shake up the current dynamics of the race, many voters will have already cast their ballots before all the debates are held. Time is running out.
The prevalence of early voting in 2012 — either via in-person early voting or no-excuse absentee voting — continues the modern trend. Some 30.6 percent of the electorate voted early in 2008, but the percentages were much higher in battleground states like Florida (51.8 percent), Nevada (66.9 percent), and North Carolina (60.6 percent).
Ohio, where Obama is surging in public opinion polling, is poised for the biggest boost. Recently the Obama campaign successfully blocked the state in federal court from eliminating three early voting days. But the bigger news is that election officials, for the first time, are sending every single registered voter in the state an absentee ballot request form. According to RealClearPolitics, the Romney campaign is forecasting that the changes will spike the early voting rate from 25.2 percent in 2008 to 45 percent this year. Absentee voting begins on Oct. 2, the day before the first presidential debate.
"How many of you have already gotten your absentee ballot applications?" Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) shouted at an Ohio rally on Tuesday before Romney took the stage. "The best thing we can do right now is bank votes, so vote absentee!"
One exception where the rules have moved in the opposite direction is Florida, which cut its number of early voting days from 14 to eight. The effects of the change are still unclear, however, especially as individual counties might offer longer voting hours.
Democrats dominated early voting in 2008 thanks to high enthusiasm among the base, an unprecedented ground game, and a huge cash advantage over John McCain. This time around, Republicans say things will be different: They have vastly improved resources thanks to stronger fundraising and more assistance from outside groups.
The Romney campaign says it has met many of McCain's 2008 grassroots benchmarks weeks ahead of schedule. Among the stats cited, officials say they've knocked on one million more doors already than in the entire '08 campaign and made seven times as many phone calls as Team McCain volunteers had at the same point in the race. Conservatives groups and Republicans also ran successful early voting programs in victories across the country in the 2010 elections, though it should be noted that the midterm electorate is demographically much more conservative than the expected presidential electorate.
For its part, the battle-tested Obama campaign is counting on its own turnout operations to counter the expected advantage in late advertising dollars from Republicans and their allies.
"By encouraging our supporters to vote early, we can focus our resources more efficiently on Election Day to make sure those less likely to vote get out to the polls," Obama campaign spokesman Adam Fetcher said in an e-mail. "While Mitt Romney and his allies are counting on big ad buys full of false attacks in the final weeks, we've made early investments in battleground states — where we've been registering folks and keeping an open conversation going with undecided voters for months — to build an historic grassroots organization that will pay off when the votes are counted."
There are early indications in first-to-vote Iowa that the Obama campaign's work may be paying off. While the GOP has made gains in voter registration since 2008, Democrats have made five times as many absentee ballot requests, a figure that is alarming some state Republicans.
Former Iowa Republican Party chair Craig Robinson, who now observes politics in the state closely as editor of The Iowa Republican blog, said Romney's early vote efforts in the Hawkeye State so far fall far short of where John McCain's were four years ago.
"There was quite a bit of mail being sent out," Robinson recalled Tuesday. "The McCain campaign was fundamentally sound. I don't have evidence of that yet from the Romney campaign."
Robinson said he's seen no early vote mailers from the Romney campaign so far. He fears Romney has missed the boat on early voting, leaving the Democrats to bank perhaps thousands of votes weeks before Election Day.
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Only the chief remains after all seven officers and five volunteers were laid off
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GARDEN CITY, Mo. — Only the chief remains at the Garden City Police after city officials decided to lay off thea department's entire staff Wednesday, KAKE reported.
The Garden City mayor and city council provided no reason for the sudden firing, Chief Thomas Alber told KAKE. "In my 30 years of law enforcement, I've never seen anything like this," Alber said.
The Garden City Police consisted of seven officers and five volunteers for a population of roughly 1,600. Last year, the department responded to nearly 2,000 calls.
Mayor Daniel Cantrell told KAKE the decision was made for financial reasons.
"What hurts the most is this wanton disregard for the public safety of the community," Alber said.
The Cass County Sheriff's Office will take over for the disbanded department, according to Cantrell.
Garden City Mayor and Council Shutter Police Department At about 10:00 this morning, Chief Alber was notified the City...Posted by Garden City Police Department on Wednesday, November 14, 2018


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On June 3, 2017, Korea's version of the "Sunshine Act" will go into effect.
Article 47-2 of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act and Article 13-2 of the Medical Devices Act of Korea require all pharmaceutical and medical device companies to establish and maintain an expense reporting system to collect and report on economic benefits provided to healthcare professionals ("Expense Reporting System"). Under this newly required Expense Reporting System, pharmaceutical and medical device companies are now required to collect and keep records of any economic benefit provided to a medical institution or healthcare professional and prepare an expense report on such economic benefits within three (3) months of the end of each fiscal year. The generated expense report, along with supporting documentation, must then be kept for five (5) years.
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Located just north of Fairborn and Huber Heights, the Mel-o-Dee is along the small strip that is the business district of New Carlisle. The restaurant is very hard to miss with the famous sign lighting up the way. While many other food options are available in the major cities nearby, and a few in town, Mel-O-Dee is worth the short drive.
The restaurant was opened in 1964, and run ever since, by the Childers family. They are currently on the 3 and 4th generations. The place feels like it has been updated, and yet kept the same ever since opening. If you want a fancy modern chain restaurant, this is not the place. The decor however does not feel inauthentic and cheesy. Everything works nicely to give a small town ascetic. The atmosphere is of a local restaurant where people will come before a football game, or after church, and discuss the town's mayor, with the mayor probably at the next booth.
When we went the food was amazing. The menu consists of Breakfast, sandwiches, and Dinner. The menu is nothing too fancy but has enough options to satisfy all but the pickiest eater. The selection is a reminiscent of a menu found in the 70's and 80's before current food trends started to take over. When we went the special was Baked Swiss Steak. It was a great traditional meal that many a place has forgotten. The bread, as with most items, is simple and fresh made daily in house. The daily specials change from time to time and the online menu does not do justice to the selection at hand in store.
Mel-O-Dee is famous for its broasted fair of chicken, pork, or fish. Broasting is a style of cooking that is a mix of pressure cooking and frying. It is famous in central and southern Ohio. The food comes out crisp, not extra crispy, on the outside and juicy on the inside. The overall effect is similar to frying, but different enough to be memorable. Mel-O-Dee takes pride in their broasting and has a whole section of the menu dedicated to it. If one has never had broasted foods before, Mel-O-Dee is a great place to begin. They even have carryout buckets up to 1000 pieces.
The prices of food may have gone up since the 90's, but are still are the cheaper side of most sit down restaurants. The decor and feel of the place has not changed much since then. So for a good old nostalgic feel of small town Ohio go to Mel-O-Dee. As they say "Our Food will put a Mel-O-Dee in your Heart."


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I believe in ME, I care for ME
Who deserves your love and affection the most?
The answer is YOU. Nobody apart from you deserve your own love, affection, care and concern; apart from yourself in the entire Universe. Until and unless we value our own respect and our own principles, the world won't value us. Our self esteem helps us holding our own pride in the society.
On the off chance that no one but you could sense that you are so imperative to the lives of those you meet; how critical you can be to individuals you may never at any point long for. There is something of yourself that you leave at each meeting with someone else.
When you receive the perspective that there is nothing that exists that is not a portion of you, that there is nobody who exists who is not a portion of you, that any judgment you make is self-judgment, that any feedback you level is self-feedback, you will admirably stretch out to yourself a genuine affection that will be the light of the world.
How does self-esteem affect us?
I've been thinking about self-esteem lately, and how you can never have too much of it (or so I thought).I was surprised to find that self-esteem isn't as straight-forward as I'd thought.
Self-esteem gets measured on a scale, but you generally only hear about the extreme ends of the scale: high and low self-esteem. I'd always thought I should be aiming for high self-esteem, but it's not necessarily all it's cracked up to be.
It may seem scary or even impossible to change your thoughts but you can change your thought to improve your self-esteem. The automatic thoughts you've had for years are familiar and served a purpose at one point in your life. However, think about how many of these are negative and hurtful. The more negative thoughts you have, the lower your self-esteem will be.
Although people with high self-esteem tend to think they're more successful and happier, objective measurements show that they're not. High self-esteem has been linked to good job performance, but it's yet to be proven that it's actually caused by high self-esteem. It could, in fact, be that good job performance causes high self-esteem.
Regardless of who you are, you've likely encountered a self-regard misfortune. When it feels like the world thumps you down, your self-regard can lessen significantly. Whether it's a separation, breakdown, broken guarantee, sad occasion or vocation challenge, other individuals and circumstances outside of our control do affect our feelings and how we see ourselves.
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Australia's Raising the Bar reforms: changes to trade mark registrations, oppositions and enforcemen
On 15 April 2012, the Intellectual Property Laws Amendment (Raising the Bar) Bill 2011 ("Amending Act") received Royal assent. The legislation, which takes effect on 16 April 2013, constitutes the most significant amendment to intellectual property laws in Australia for nearly 20 years.
This article summarises the changes arising from the Amending Act to the trade mark registration, opposition and enforcement procedures. The Amending Act also amended Australian patent legislation.
Much of the detail, particularly with respect to the changes to the opposition processes, will appear in amendments to the Trade Marks Regulations 1995 ("the Regulations") which are yet to be drafted. These are expected to be released in draft form in the third quarter of 2012. We will provide a detailed analysis as soon as these are published, but note that many of the changes have been foreshadowed in the Explanatory Memorandum ("EM") to the Amending Act.
The major changes are outlined in turn below:
Oppositions and removal proceedings
The changes to the opposition proceedings have been mirrored as appropriate into the provisions relating to non-use removal proceedings. Accordingly, the comments on the specific changes apply to both types of proceedings.
Opposition period
The new opposition period is intended to be shortened from 3 to 2 months.
Notice of Opposition and Statement of Grounds and Particulars ("SGP")
The Notice of Opposition will no longer need to be served on the Applicant / Owner, but merely filed with the Trade Marks Office who will forward a copy of the Notice to the Applicant / Removal Applicant. The Notice is likely to be a simple form stating that a party opposes registration or removal of a trade mark.
The EM states that 1 month after filing the Notice of Opposition, the Opponent must lodge a SGP detailing each ground of opposition and the material facts on which the Opponent intends to rely. Failure to do so may result in the opposition being dismissed.
Notice of Intention to Defend
Within 1 month of service of the SGP, an Applicant must file a Notice of Intention to Defend the opposition. According to the EM, this is intended to be a "tick box" type document, with no associated official fee. Failure to file the Notice will result in the trade mark application lapsing in opposition proceedings. It is not presently clear if a Notice of Intention to Defend will need to be lodged in removal proceedings.
Dismissal of oppositions
The Amending Act introduces power to make Regulations to prescribe circumstances in which an opposition may be dismissed. It is likely that failure by the Opponent to meet critical deadlines, such as lodging the SGP will lead to dismissal of the opposition.
Amendment of Notice of Opposition or SGP
Amendments to the new Notice of Opposition and SGP are intended to be tightly controlled. It is not presently clear as to the circumstances in which they will be able to be amended, but this is presumably only where grounds of opposition and/or related facts have subsequently come to the opponent's attention, or to correct obvious errors.
General regulation making power
The Amending Act includes a broad power for the Trade Marks Office to make Regulations to further change aspects of the operation of opposition and removal proceedings, including in relation to:
- serving and filing opposition documents;
- amendment to opposition documents;
- dismissal of an opposition; and
- provision for review by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal of decisions of the Registrar.
Periods for lodging evidence
It is intended that the Regulations will reduce the time-frames for the parties to prepare and serve their evidence. The new time frame is likely to be 3 months to lodge evidence-in-support or evidence-in-answer. If further time is required, then the relevant party must seek a direction from the Registrar to extend the deadline. It is not presently clear as to the circumstances in which an extension will be granted. The period for lodging evidence-in-reply is to be reduced from 3 to 2 months.
The Regulations are intended to formally provide for a 6 month cooling off period with the consent of the parties, extendable to 12 months.
Extension of privilege and incorporated trade marks attorneys
The Amending Act has expanded attorney/client professional privilege to accord with the privilege afforded to lawyers, thereby extending rights of privilege to cover communications with overseas attorneys.
It will also be possible for a company to be registered as a trade marks attorney provided the company has at least one trade marks attorney as a Director, has given notice of its intention to act as a trade marks attorney and meets any other prescribed requirements. A series of offences and penalties have been created in relation to false representations by companies that they are a trade marks attorney.
New Customs seizure provisions
The Amendment Act brings customs seizure provisions in the Copyright and Trade Marks Acts substantially into accord and significantly strengthens the position of rights holders.
A trade mark owner will have the ability to access multiple samples of seized goods and to remove such goods for inspection. Further, the importer of the goods must now make a claim for return (which will include providing prescribed information) in order to have the seized goods returned or, otherwise, the goods will be forfeited to the Commonwealth which will have the power to dispose of the goods. This will prevent the importer being able to avoid action thorough the inability of the trade mark owner to contact the importer.
Additional/punitive damages
The Trade Marks Act will include provisions for additional damages in infringement proceedings, bringing the Trade Marks Act into line with the Copyright Act. Additional damages are determined with regard to:
- the flagrancy of the infringement;
- the need to deter similar infringements;
- the conduct of the infringing party after the act constituting the infringement or after the infringer was informed of the alleged infringement;
- any benefit which accrued to the infringer as a result of the infringement; and
- any other relevant matter.
Summary offences
The Amending Act introduces summary offences that correspond with the indictable offences in the Trade Marks Act. These summary offences have the lower fault element of negligence and the lower maximum penalty of 12 months imprisonment and/or 60 penalty units.
Increased maximum penalties for indictable offences
The maximum penalties for indictable offences will be increased to a maximum of five years imprisonment and 550 penalty units, which aligns them with penalties for similar offences in the Copyright Act. The fault element is not mentioned in the section and, therefore, the default fault elements in Division 5.6 of the Criminal Code Act 1995 of intention or recklessness apply as appropriate.
Expanded jurisdiction of the Federal Magistrates Court
The Federal Magistrate's Court will have jurisdiction to hear matters arising under the Trade Marks Act including appeals from oppositions. This is to give effect to the recommendations of the Advisory Council of Intellectual Property.1
Presumption of registrability
The Amendment Act repeals and replaces section 41 to clarify that the presumption of registrability, as provided for under Section 33, does apply to section 41. Section 41 is no longer expressed by reference to the decision making process, but instead focuses on the characteristics that a mark must possess to be capable of distinguishing.
- ACIP, Should the jurisdiction of the Federal Magistrates Service be extended to include patent, trade mark and design matters?, 2003 (available at www.acip.gov.au) p 6


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This isn't a chart, but it's a great map that the folks over at MN2020 put together, juxtaposing the historic streetcar grid against current densities.
(It's worth remembering that historic 1950 densities in Minneapolis and Saint Paul were far higher than is reflected here. Much of the dense housing was bulldozed, and current household sizes have been shrinking for years.)
Here's what Eliot Altbaum, the research intern who put the map together, had to say about the result:
As Minneapolis grew, it built an extensive streetcar system to efficiently move people in and out of downtown and between the neighborhoods. Each of these transportation methods leaves a mark on our towns and cities. […] Sixty years after the end of the streetcar network, the housing development that mirrors that network makes clear the connection between transportation and housing development.
To my mind, Eliot is onto something compelling. You cannot separate transportation from land use. You cannot pull apart roads or rail from the kind of buildings we inhabit and the patterns of everyday life that form around them.
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Hundreds of Palo Alto High School alumni, students and families turned out Sunday, March 16, for a farewell celebration of the 85-year-old gym, which will be demolished later this year to make way for a new athletic center.
In a 90-minute ceremony, sports highlights as well as pranks and fantastic decorations for school dances were recalled by Paly alumni from the past 50 years. Retired coach Clem Wiser, who led the boys basketball program from 1956 to 1991, received a standing ovation.
Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian, class of '70, told a story about nearly flunking P.E. Special video and audio messages came in from NBA point guard Jeremy Lin, class of '06, and U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, class of '67.
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Past and future will be celebrated at a free, public farewell to the Palo Alto High School gym on Sunday, March 16. Guests will be able to admire a dark green, 1931 Model A car and a 2014 white Tesla; record an oral history with the Palo Alto Historical Association; and study architectural renderings of the new sports complex that will replace the existing gyms.
Other historical items, including a school desk, a typewriter, a milkshake machine and a Bob's Big Boy statue, also will be on display.
Music representing eight decades will play on the sound system as free tours of the campus are offered. Paly sports gear will be for sale.
Ada's Café will sell lemonade, water, popcorn, green sugar cookies and other yet-to-be-determined items.
Festivities will begin at 12:30 p.m. A formal program, emceed by ESPN announcer and Paly alum Dave Feldman, will begin at 2:30. The program includes a video highlighting significant points in the gym's history, including a Jeremy Lin "hello," Paly athletes, teachers and politicians.
Coordinator Jane Gee, a Paly parent, said organizers have raised $6,100 and hope to raise another $5,000 to cover costs of the event. Tax-deductible donations, payable to Palo Alto High School Athletics, should be sent to the attention of Lisa Stone, Farewell Paly Gym, 50 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto, CA 94301.
Donations arriving before the print deadline will be acknowledged in the program.
Co-sponsors of the gym farewell are Palo Alto High School, Paly Sports Boosters, the Palo Alto Unified School District, the Paly Alumni Association and the Palo Alto Weekly.
— Palo Alto Weekly Staff