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Volunteer Service
First and foremost, we understand that being in service offers a special opportunity for each of us to join a team and get to know others. Sharing who we are is a valuable life experience and we respect and appreciate what each has to offer. We just never know what someone will bring into the mix that will inspire us all
- We choose to be in service because it propels us beyond our three-dimensional experience into the realm of creating heaven right here on earth
- We choose to be in service because it transforms our lives
- We choose to be in service because it is fun
We welcome your ideas and your creativity in the volunteer experience. We encourage everyone to participate within their own time and energy capabilities. You will never be pressured to play a role at the Center. We believe that maintaining a balance between work, family, play and spiritual life is one of the most important gifts we give to ourselves.
The Center for Spiritual Living-Olympia is an empowered spiritual community and there are many opportunities to contribute or participate. Sundays offer the greatest number of possibilities at this time: floor managing, hospitality, set-up, and clean-up, welcoming at the front door, guiding first-time visitors, answering questions at the Information Table, making music by performing individually or in the choir, or helping with Youth & Family Program.
Other opportunities include marketing, publications, event planning, mentoring new members and caring for our long-time members.
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Vispring Muses Headboard
Handmade in Britain, the Vispring Muses Headboard is a timeless classic with a simple, rectangular design. Available to purchase in the fabric and fixing format of your choice.
Available (allow approximately 6 weeks for delivery)
Independent Rating 4.9/5
Product Description
A simple, popular rectangular headboard design, which sits well in both classic or contemporary settings. The Vispring Muses headboard is part of Vispring's timeless headboard range.
The height of the Muses headboard from the top of the mattress is 55cm. Please note, the total height will vary according to the fixing that you choose, so please check overall dimensions to ensure it will fit in your home and around any tight corners or staircases.
The Muses headboard is available in the following three fixings:
- UK Wooden Strutted headboard, upholstered from the top of the mattress to the top of the headboard (with a flat panel behind the mattress) and fixed to any UK divan base with wooden struts. This option is great for difficult access.
- Euro-style headboard, which is a full-length headboard that finishes level with the bottom of the divan base and fits a shallow, low or deep Vispring divan base
- Bolt-through headboard, which is a floor-standing headboard which bolts to the divan base for extra support and rigidity. It is recommended for taller headboards and larger width divans.
For further information or to discuss your selection, please contact our showroom who will be able to discuss every option to ensure you are selecting the perfect design for you. By speaking to our showroom, we can also ensure you are selecting the right headboard to fit your divan base, checking the existing fittings.
Customer Reviews
Why We Love The Vispring Muses Headboard
A wide range of the finest upholstery fabrics for a timeless design
British craftsmanship ensuring excellent tailoring
Luxurious upholstered headboards to complement and complete the design of your Vispring Bed
Brand: Vispring
Headboard Fixing: Floor Standing, UK Wooden Struts, Euro, Shallow, Bolt-through
Made in the UK: Yes
Headboard Finish: Upholstered in the fabric of your choice
Our Delivery Service
*Please note - Special Delivery Measures following Covid-19 Virus spread.
Covid-19 Safe Furniture Delivery Service
In accordance with the latest Government advice and to ensure the safety of both our customers and our delivery teams, we are operating Contact Free Deliveries making sure we keep to social distancing regulations, in particular when we deliver to the most vulnerable customers in our community. Our 2-man delivery service offers the following options to accommodate our customers' needs:
- We can deliver items outside your home, in front of your door or placed in a safe place allowing a contact-free delivery.
- We can deliver to your room of choice, where we can unpack and assemble the order if required and remove all packaging.
- We can remove and dispose of your old bed or mattress on a like-for-like basis.
Please be assured safety for all remains our top priority. Our delivery teams have strict safety procedures in place, both in the warehouse and out on the road, including full personal protective equipment (PPE).
Covid-19 Safe Courier Delivery Service
Our couriers continue operating social distancing and contact free deliveries.
Large Item (Beds, Mattresses, Headboards, Sofa Beds and Furniture) delivery:
We offer a FREE 2-man white glove delivery and installation service nationwide for all orders over £500. This covers a standard mainland UK delivery, but excludes the Scottish islands and highlands. For orders under £500, we ask for a small contribution of £25.
For non-mainland UK and International deliveries, please contact our showroom, who will be able to discuss the delivery options with you.
Our "Normal" delivery and assembly service - which will resume as soon as safe to do so
We offer a 2-man delivery and installation service as standard on all large items to customers nationwide, using our in-house team or one of our specialist Delivery Partners. Our experienced delivery teams will carry your order to the room of choice, where they will unpack and install the item and remove any packaging, leaving you free to enjoy your new bed or mattress.
We will contact you ahead of the planned delivery to agree a mutually convenient delivery date, most commonly between Monday and Friday although weekends are sometimes possible. The day before the delivery you will receive a 4 hour timed slot, so you know when to stay in to receive your delivery. Then on the morning of the delivery, your 4 hour timed slot will be narrowed down to a more precise 2 hour window. They'll also endeavour to keep you updated should they run into a traffic jam, or get delayed by any unforeseen event. Once at your home the two man delivery crew will carry the item to your desired room, assemble the item (where this service has been selected or is automatically included), and will remove any packaging.
Recycling your old bed or mattress
Should you no longer have a need for your old mattress or bed, we can remove and recycle this item for you (on a like-for-like basis) when delivering your new order. There will be a charge of £30 per mattress or £60 per bed for this service.
Please ensure when placing the order that the item will fit into your home and there is sufficient access to your room, for example around a tight bend in your staircase or through a narrow doorway. If you are unsure, then our showroom will be more than happy to discuss the access with you. This way we can do all that we can to ensure the item fits in. We always try our hardest to find a solution.
Small Item delivery via Courier (Bedding & Bed Linen):
We charge a flat rate of £6.00 using a Next Working Day delivery service for all smaller items such as bedding and bed linen. For customers who spend over £100 on Brinkhaus bedding we offer FREE delivery.
Parcels will be delivered by a reputable, national courier and will require a signature on delivery, unless you request for the item to be left in a safe place or with a neighbour. In most instances, you will receive a text/email message on the day of the delivery (direct from the courier company) with a 1-hour timed slot. If that time slot is not convenient there will be various options on the message to leave in a safe place, deliver on a different day or leave with a neighbour, simply follow the instructions provided.
We deliver to all postcodes in mainland UK excluding some remote areas in the Scottish Highlands and islands. For areas outside of this, please contact us for a quotation.
Lead times
Our delivery lead times vary across our product range and are kept up to date and quoted in good faith on each product page.
Stock orders: We aim to dispatch all orders from stock on a 24 hour (next day) delivery service. For orders placed before 1pm, we will endeavour to dispatch on the same day. If the order is received after 1pm, it may be dispatched the following day.
In the rare and unfortunate event that we are out of stock of an item, we will notify you and will arrange for your order to be dispatched directly from the manufacturer to keep the lead time and carbon footprint to a minimum. We will update you on any changes to lead time if applicable.
If you have any queries regarding our delivery service or if you have a specific date to meet, please contact our showroom and we can advise you if that will be possible – you can be assured, we always try our hardest!
Delivery costs are applied per order, not per item.
For International Orders, please click here.
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Straight off the mean slopes of Finland, eesa is hellampestokerfested to announce the signing of Jaakko Seppala to it's already ridiculous line-up of shredders. "I've known Jaakko since we worked together on the anon project and I'd have to say he is one of the more underrated riders on the scene today," says Stephen Cleary Brand Director for eesa. Cleary adds: "I'm stoked we're getting the band back together, we are getting ready to launch the brand in Europe and we can't think of a better rider we want on board leading the charge."
We tried to reach Jaakko for a couple of quotes but we had a hard time reaching him as, like most pro-shreds, he was quick of feet but slow of return phone call. Since we have contract in hand we took the liberty to paraphrase what Jaakko may or may not have said to us via said phone calls or said e-mails.
"After a super long courtship of Jaakko, which in some countries might be considered stalking, we finally tracked Jaakko down," comments Cleary and here's what Jaakko had to say: "I'm really stoked to be working with the crew at eesa, I know from personal experience how involved the riders are with eesa and now I can look fresh when I'm bringing my A-game to the beer gardens when I get off the slopes."
Jaakko makes his home in Whistler and has been filming for Whiteout Films 'Wear it Well'. This season Jaakko will continue to make the rounds in North America and Europe, destroying the scene on-and-off the hill. Jaakko joins forces with an already stacked line-up of Jesse Fox, Chris Coulter, Annie Boulanger, Lukas Huffman, Travis Kennedy, Kurt Wastell, Lucas Magoon, Max Legend, Yan Dofin, Luke Mathison and Nic Drago.


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If you are searching or planning to buy a used car or bike or any other vehicle you should verify ownership record, excised taxation record and other documents before making any deal. You can verify ownership and documents of vehicles online or SMS in Punjab, Sindh, KPK, Balochistan and other Federal Areas. In the past it was a complicated process but now days due to advanced technology it is in your hand.
Verify Ownership and Documents of Vehicles Online or SMS
Excuse Department has completed computerizations of vehicles record which are registered all over the Pakistan. You just Chassis No to 8521 and you will shortly get details on your mobile phone. You will receive information in following format,
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Here, RNO is Registration Number, ENO is Engine Number and CNO is Chassis Number.
In the Punjab you can get all information about the vehicle by sending Registration No on 9966 and you will get all the information your vehicle like ownership details, token details and taxation details. For online registration you can visit the mtmis.punjab.gov.pk website and just put the Registration Number in the specific box, You will receive of all information about vehicle.


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Following the questions of one Haitian-born, Canadian-raised woman, Adopted ID raises questions of identity, and the politics of international adoption.
To a lively soundtrack, which carries the film when the visuals blur, the documentary follows the emotional journey of Judith Craig Morency on her first trip back to Haiti after 27 years raised in a white Canadian family.
I saw the film at the Black Star Film Festival in Philadelphia last weekend and met the dynamic film maker, Sophia Godding Tobogo.
Judith doesn't speak Kreyol, and knows only that she was found in a ditch and taken to a hospital when she was a few days old. Her adopted father is a Canadian minister, but she knows nothing of the birth family that she seeks.
Her story, rife with holes, is typical of international adoptees.
Most children adopted internationally do not live our stereotypical, imagined orphan tale: with deceased parents, children find their way to a dismal orphanage, to be saved by a kind hearted stranger.
It's important to know: most children in Haitian orphanages DO have families.
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A New Yorker article by John Seabrook in 2010 explored the heartbreak on the other side of the ocean: families waiting for their adopted children, losing contact after the earthquake.
But the article highlighted the complicated paternalism inherent in international adoption. Seabrook quoted Queen Latifah as saying on the "Today" show, "I want to just go and get some of them babies. If you got the hookup, please get me a couple of Haitian kids."
Adopted ID shows some even more cringe-worthy attitudes. When Judith visits an orphanage during her own Haiti pilgrimage, a white family is cuddling with their newly adopted Haitian son. "We're all the same color!" the teenage sister says, "I'm black on the inside".
The film just touches on the human rights and business nuances of adoption in Haiti. But it stresses the depth of Judith's confusion and identity crises, growing up black, Haitian but with siblings that blow off her questions, and parents that seem offended by her desire to reconnect with her roots.
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For a long time most people have associated tax avoidance with big multinational companies.
George Osborne took some welcome steps to tackle them today: I must give credit where it is due. UK companies taken over by foreign owners who then pile then up with debt to cancel their profits will see that game brought to an end. Think Boots. Think Manchester United. Think the AA.
And companies who try to shift profits to tax havens by relocating the ownership of patents and copyrights to such places, for which they then pay a royalty, will have to pay UK tax out of the payment made. That effectively brings this income back onshore. Think any large multinational doing R&D.
There are also very welcome measures to hit offshore property developers.
But please don't think it is all good news. If George Osborne was really serious about tackling offshore today he would have announced public country-by-country reporting, and he didn't so we still don't know who really needs to be brought to account.
But worse, he opened up massive new tax avoidance opprtunities within the UK. The bigger the difference between income tax rates and corporation tax rates the bigger is the incentive, and the greater is the saving, from running a business through a limited company. Up and down the country accountants will be selling this, literally right now.
And the cuts in capital gains tax will be also be sending those same advisers into fever pitched excitement as they work out how to turn income into gains to save up to 25% tax for some clients.
Don't be fooled: this was a great day for the tax avoidance industry, but just not the bit we're used to looking at.


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Gather your supplies
* Suitably sized and shaped sail (see Notes, below)
* 100mm dia. x 4mm wall thickness galvanised steel posts
* Concrete mix (4 bags per post)
* Suitable stainless-steel fixings for attaching sail to your combination of posts, fasciae and walls. These include eye bolts for posts, pad eyes for wall fixings, external-grade Chemset chemical anchor (if fixing into masonry), U-bolts, strap tensioners, S-hooks, D-shackles, fascia supports and turnbuckles
Here's how
Step 1
Lay sail out on ground. For a 5 x 3m sail running parallel to wall, it should be 300mm from wall to allow for tensioning. Mark out positions of posts and wall or fascia fixings, allowing an extra 300 and 500mm from each corner to allow for tensioning. Square and rectangular sails are normally installed as a hyperbola, so diagonally opposite posts or fixing points are high or low.
Step 2
For each post, dig a 400 x 400mm hole 800-1000mm deep. If ground is firm, lay about 100mm of 20mm aggregate in base of hole. If ground is soft, pour about 100mm of concrete in hole.
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Bore a hole near bottom of pole and insert a galvanised steel bolt with nut. This keys post in concrete and stops round posts rotating. Fit a heavy-duty, stainless-steel eye bolt 50-100mm down from top of posts. Use double nuts (1 a lock nut) so it cannot undo.
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Stand posts in holes with eye-bolt facing diagonally opposite post. Brace posts with temporary props and ensure they are plumb in 2 directions.
Step 5
Fill each post hole with a fairly dry concrete mix and tamp concrete well. For most smaller sails (under 5m square), posts can be vertical, but for larger sails, move top of post away from opposite post by 150-200mm, so it leans out from sail slightly to help take the strain. Re-tamp concrete and finish surface with a slight slope away from post so water can drain. Let concrete cure for 24-48 hours.
Step 6
While concrete cures, secure wall and fascia pad eyes, if required. Never rely on the fascia alone; fit fascia supports to fasciae and rafters first to give adequate strength. If fixing to masonry, use an appropriate anchor system. In many cases, a chemical anchor is ideal, but an alternative is to use epoxy together with a conventional masonry anchor.
Step 7
Once concrete has cured, spread sail back out on ground. Attach fixings to corners of sail with turnbuckles wound out to as slack as possible (you will need turnbuckles on at least 2 corners). Lift each corner to an eye bolt, then tension sail using turnbuckles or tension straps. If you need to extend length of fixing, use straps. Re-tension fixings as necessary over time and clean sails periodically.


text: NASHVILLE --- After a 13-day absence from game action, the Tennessee State men's basketball team will resume its schedule with a trip to renew a series with Morris Brown College in Atlanta on Wednesday night. Tipoff is set for 6 p.m. (central). The Tigers have been off for fall semester final exams and will be playing for the first time since a 97-85 loss at Lipscomb on Dec. 5. In the game, the Tigers led by eight points at halftime only to see Lipscomb get hot from 3-point range to mount the comeback. ?We have had some good practices and we are looking forward to playing a game,? said Tiger head coach Nolan Richardson, III. ?It was good to have this time to work and I believe we got a lot accomplished that will help us.? Sophomore Rashaun Bowens leads the Tigers in scoring at 16.0 ppg. Josh Cooperwood is second at 14.0 ppg, followed by Garrett Richardson 12.8 ppg, and Brandon Lockridge (10.4 ppg). The Tigers will be going against a MBC team which defeated Lipscomb earlier in the season in a tournament in Florida. MBC is coming off a trip to California and lost to Alabama A&M over the weekend. Following the game in Atlanta, the Tigers will bust back to Nashville and depart early Thursday morning for El Paso, Texas and Saturday's game against UTEP. ###


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By Matt Nodine, AT&T Assistant Vice President of Federal Regulatory
(Lieutenant Colonel, United States Marine Corps Reserve)
Honoring America's fallen warriors has a rich and storied history. Originally created to remember those who died during the Civil War, we now pause nationwide at 3 p.m. on the last Monday of May each year for a moment of silence to remember all who died in defense of the United States of America.
For most of us, Memorial Day is typically a day we head to the beach, pull the grill out of hibernation to barbecue with family and friends, or hit the recently opened neighborhood pool. And this is as it should be. Freedom has a flavor that should be enjoyed. But we should pause to solemnly realize that freedom's flavor comes from the sacrifice of those who died for us to protect the freedom we cherish.
Unlike Veteran's Day in November, Memorial Day is not the time to thank a veteran for their service; this is our time, as a Nation, to come together to honor and remember those brave Americans who gave their lives protecting liberty. It is the day we somberly remember their sacrifice. It is also a day I choose to extend honor and respect to the family members and friends left behind, and remember that the pain of their loss remains.
For me, Memorial Day is personal. With more than 18 years of service (and counting) in the United States Marine Corps, I've had the privilege of making acquaintances and forging friendships with many dozens of United States Marines who now lie buried in either Arlington National Cemetery or other cemeteries around the country. One aspect of those friendships is how these Marines always showed strength, grace, and, yes, humor, under fire. In fact, humor is one common thread that exists which seems to bind modern day service members together. Ever seen 1,500 hardened, battle tested United States Marines preparing to assault a fortified city quoting lines from The Princess Bride, Monty Python & the Holy Grail and Anchorman?
These types of stories – and many tens of thousands like them – live on in the memories of family and friends left behind, and will be remembered, relived, and retold this and every Memorial Day.
The first American widely viewed as killed in combat was Crispus Attucks who died at the Boston Massacre in 1770. As of May 22, 2017, the latest casualty in the ever-present fight for freedom is Navy SEAL Senior Chief Special Warfare Operator Kyle Milliken.
In between these two heroes, lie a great number who fell – more than 650,000 Americans – each with their own stories, their own histories and their own families and friends. Each soul is precious to those who knew and loved them. One of those killed was First Lieutenant Dan Malcom, United States Marine Corps. Dan and I fought in the same battalion, First Battalion Eighth Marine Regiment, and I met him soon after joining the unit. He was killed by enemy fire on November 10, 2004, on a rooftop in downtown Fallujah, Iraq, while leading his platoon in Operation Phantom Fury. The Navy SEAL Team commander who was fighting beside him told me that Dan's death was immediate, and for that we take comfort. Dan was a 2001 graduate of The Citadel, and a young man of profound belief and faith. An avid – and astute – chess player, Dan was probably one of the least auspicious commanders and leaders you could imagine; however, that quiet brilliance belied his tenacity and indomitable spirit. The Marines he led loved and respected him and, yes, trusted and followed him into the battle that ended his life.
Stories similar to Dan's will be told and re-told on Memorial Day as those who lost friends and loved ones hold on to their memory; and, so long as these stories are retold, well, these heroes still live among us in some way.
At AT&T, we consistently honor and support our troops, and our value and support is not just lip service – it is quantifiable. As one example, in 2013, we committed to hiring 5,000 veterans. After we quickly reached that milestone, we progressively upped the ante and are now committed to hiring 20,000 veterans by the year 2020. In addition, AT&T is a founding member of the 100,000 Jobs Mission whose 180 corporate members are pledged to hire 300,000 veterans by 2020. Furthermore, AT&T senior leadership actively supports those of us in the Reserve or National Guard who continue serving our Nation.
Recognition for service to our great Nation is part of the fabric of AT&T's culture, and we treasure the opportunity today to honor those who sacrificed for our freedom. So, to those who gave all for America, AT&T salutes you and thanks you from the bottom of our hearts. We will continue to do our part to honor your sacrifice for our country. It's the least we can do.


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We're celebrating the best deals on the internet, like we'll do every day between now and Black Friday 2015, by hand-picking a few of the best deals from our collection on today's Hot Deals list and demonstrating below how they are priced even better than they were on Black Friday 2014. Of course, we'll keep adding more deals to the collection here at BFAds all day long and around lunch time we'll even send out a categorized list of highlights for our awesome subscribers. If you were subscribed to our email newsletter, you'd probably already know that our next giveaway is launching today and you'll have two weeks to get multiple entries before we draw the big winner on February 27th!
This time around we're celebrating 2015, the Year of the Goat, by having a Chinese New Year Wii U Giveaway! Chinese New Year is a Spring Festival that celebrates honored ancestors and gives families a chance to thoroughly cleanse the house and make room for incoming good luck. Speaking of luck, click here to visit our contest announcement and enter the contest. Thanks for checking BFAds today, and enjoy the deals!
Lego Ninja Turtles Turtle Sub Undersea Chase Play Set (79121) - $44.20 w/ In-Store Pickup at Walmart
Today's the Lego Ninja Turtles Turtle Sub Undersea Chase Play Set (79121) is $3.79 better than Mill's Fleet Farm Toy Book from 2014. The next lowest price we could find today is $44.99 at Target. The LEGO Ninja Turtles Turtle Sub Undersea Chase receives 4.7/5 stars based on 31 customer reviews at Amazon - $62.97. Tmnttoys.com has a review and some great photos that might be helpful.
Sony PlayStation 4 Console - $349.99 at eBay
Newegg via eBay has a Sony PlayStation 4 Console on sale for $349.99 with free shipping. Today's deal is $50.00 better than Black Friday 2014 from Walmart. The next lowest price we could find today is $394.95 at B&H Photo and $399.00 at Amazon where it receives 4.1/5 stars based on 9,565 customer reviews.
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|Harvey Wills of Western Marine Marketing
By Len Bose
November 28, 2014 | 1:43 p.m.
This week, I had a chance to catch up with my good friend Harvey Wills. Wills and his wife, Patty, along with his son, Whitney, run Western Marine Marketing, which represents everything marine-related from vinyl flooring products to Pettit boat-bottom paint.
I met Wills my first day polishing boats in 1979, when I ran into him at the local marine hardware store. I asked someone in the cleaning product aisle which wax he would use on his boat. After a couple of quick questions, he handed me the best cleaner for my task and went on his way.
Wills' grandfather Wes Smith of Newport Beach co-founded the Southern California Yachting Assn. His father, Harry Wills, owned a boat-building business in Santa Monica and became one of the first distributors of Pettit boat-bottom paints. The family had a 28-foot Herreshoff, which they would use for weekend racing or trips to Catalina.
Harvey Wills' first job was maintaining boats in Santa Monica before there were slips and boats were kept on moorings. Wills then went to work for the Newport Supply Co. in Santa Monica and eventually moved to Newport Beach to run a store for the same company on Mariners Mile. He then was picked up by the Andrew Brown Co. and started selling different boat-bottom paints.
In 1978, Wills started Western Marine Marketing.
"When my feet hit the ground every morning, I am calling on marine distributors, marine dealers, fuel dock owners and boat yards," he said enthusiastically about his daily routine. "Every six weeks, I drive to Northern California and visit every shipyard from here to Napa."
Over the years, I have seen Wills at every boat show I have ever attended, and we have always shared our observations on the marine industry.
"Boat shows are still a great venue for face-to-face contact and a chance to touch and feel the boats and receive information on what product best fits your needs," Wills told me.
When it comes to bottom-paint questions, Wills is my go-to man. He has seen everything at every shipyard up and down this state and across the country.
When I asked him how the marine industry was doing, he replied, "The level of business is growing. We might be a bit slow in California. The market seems to generate from the East Coast to the West Coast. People are buying boats again."
I thought it would also be a good idea to ask Wills about some local harbor issues. "The most important issue is making sure our harbor is user-friendly," he said.
We then went on to talk about the fact that we only have one launch ramp in Newport Beach.
"It's a nice facility," he said. "It's a great facility, but on a holiday, it's a mess over there. You can wait over a half an hour to launch a boat."
We agreed that is not an indication of a friendly harbor. In fact, the owners of the launch ramp have been known to just close the ramp during special events and tell people to go to Huntington Harbour or Dana Point to launch their boats.
We also talked about stacking boats in large racks like at the Newport Harbor Shipyard and the importance of the mooring being affordable for people to be able to own a boat.
Harvey and the rest of the Wills family are among the best folks in town, and I always look forward to running into them.
Sea ya.
LEN BOSE is an experienced boater, yacht broker and boating columnist


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text: Home Commentaries 2011 Archive Challenges and Promises of Rio+20 SummitCommentaries2011 ArchiveChallenges and Promises of Rio+20 Summitby Hezri Adnan - 30 November 2011Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Email Article by Dr Hezri Adnan which appeared in New Straits Times, 25 November 2011- Advertisement - Expert Hezri Adnan Dr Hezri Adnan is a Senior Director (Research) at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies Malaysia. He specialises in comparative public policy with work spanning areas such as sustainable development strategy, green economy, and natural resources security. From 2015 to June 2018, Hezri served as a Member of the United Nations' International Resource Panel (IRP), a UN Environment expert body that focuses on strategic issues of resource scarcity, efficiency and decoupling. He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM), and currently holds visiting status as Honorary Associate Professor at the Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University and Adjunct Professor at Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN). He was recently a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) at Kyoto University, Japan. Dr Hezri has consulted for international organizations such as UNDP, UNESCAP, UNICEF, UNRISD, Asian Development Bank and the World Bank, on many issues related to development and environmental challenges in the developing world. His past and current advisory roles include Cleared Advisor for the Malaysian Ministry of International Trade and Industries, Member of the Advisory Council for WWF Malaysia, and Co-Chair of the Penang Green Agenda Advisory Committee as well as a Board Member of the Penang Green Council. Hezri has been awarded research fellowships by various institutions abroad, including the Australian Studies Fellowship by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Commonwealth of Australia, International Leadership Programme by the United States Department of State, and the Asian Public Intellectuals Fellowship by The Nippon Foundation. Among Dr Hezri's over 100 publications is a book entitled The Sustainability Shift: Refashioning Malaysia's Future which was funded by Perdana Prime Minister's Exchange Fellowship. Hezri holds a PhD in Public Policy from the Australian National University. By: Hezri Adnan3,842FansLike5,870FollowersFollow128SubscribersSubscribe


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Logistics service provider Zijderlaan manages the entire logistics chain for Suiker Unie in Puttershoek. The old sugar warehouse with about 5,000 pallets did not offer the necessary space for growth. External manual storage locations led to additional costs. Zijderlaan presented to Suiker Unie an innovative high-rise warehouse with its most important results being: substantial expansion of storage capacity, lower costs and more sustainable and efficient operations.


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WASHINGTON, May 12 (UPI) -- Intransigence from both sides of the Senate aisle may have sunk the chances of a vote on the Keystone XL pipeline coming anytime soon.
A deal to bring up a binding consideration of the pipeline proposal in exchange for passage of a bipartisan energy efficiency bill fell apart last week when Minority Leader Mitch McConnell insisted on attaching five GOP amendments to the efficiency measure.
Reid refused, accusing Republicans of holding the bill "hostage... still seeking a ransom."
"The Shaheen-Portman bill is a chance for a fresh start for the Senate, really a new beginning," Reid said ahead of the vote. "But the implications of this legislation extend far beyond energy efficiency. It goes to the integrity of this Senate that we care so much about."
A vote on the energy efficiency bill, sponsored by Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Rob Portman, R-Ohio, failed Monday afternoon, 55-36, to reach the 60 votes necessary to end debate and invoke cloture.
Only two Republicans, Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and Susan Collins of Maine, voted for the measure. All Democrats voted for it, save Reid, who changed his vote to no for procedural reasons after it became clear the bill wouldn't get the necessary 60 votes.


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The Networking and Systems team in Adelphi's Office of Information Technology has been hard at work bringing network upgrades to the University that will make for a better user experience for students, faculty and staff.
Network Speed
At our Garden City campus, we currently have three links from three different internet providers that are each giving us speeds of 300 mbps, for a total of 900 mbps. During the busiest times of the day, we are incredibly close to hitting the maximum capacity of 900 mbps. In the next couple of months we are looking to double our speed as well as increase bandwidth to 2000 mpbs, which will allow more users to connect at faster speeds.
What does this mean? For perspective, imagine you were driving on a two-lane road with a speed limit of 30 mph during rush hour. Even though the maximum speed allowed is 30 mph, traffic will cause congestion, and you won't be able to go as fast as you may like. What we're working on would not only change that road from two lanes to four lanes, but also increase the speed limit from 30 mph to 60 mph.
While these changes are sure to have a positive impact for everyone at our Garden City campus, we are also working on making similar changes across all of our locations including the Hauppauge, Hudson Valley and Manhattan centers.
WiFi Access Points
One area we have been giving special focus to is how to increase WiFi speeds when you're outdoors on campus. Having a strong signal outside can be challenging, because of challenges faced in where access points can be physically placed for you to be able to connect to WiFi.
We know that you want to be able to connect to WiFi wherever you are, indoors or outdoors, so starting in the summer, Adelphi IT is working to install additional access points, and upgrading all of our older units. The units that will be installed are specifically made for outdoor use and will give better range, faster speed and allow more people to connect simultaneously. We're also going to be adding coverage to Motamed field and its parking garage.
Content Delivery Network Node
A Content Delivery Network Node (CDN) allows for faster delivery of popular content, even without upgrading the wireless network. The CDN scans the network to see what is the most downloaded content, and will tag this as something to be reused. The CDN will then cache and re-deliver the content, rather than having to download it from the source every time.
This helps you by keeping our network clear of a ton of extra congestion. When a new episode of Game of Thrones comes out, everyone tries to stream the content at the same time. As you can imagine, this would cause a large slowdown. By caching the content and redelivering it, it eases the burden on our network, and allows for faster speeds while still delivering all the great content. Our CDN, QWILT, is constantly offloading anywhere between 150-200 mbps to users. As mentioned earlier, we almost hit our 900mbps cap every day during busy times, so the CDN helps keep the network clear of that redundant content.
We also use live stream caching, which loads streams into a local high-speed node and allows people to watch the stream with the highest bitrate, or best quality. One of the latest examples of this was used during the Olympics. Many users were streaming from NBC all at once, and the CDN allowed for us to unclog our network and free up bandwidth for other users.
Behind-the- SceneS Improvements
Technology has a relatively short lifecycle, and things are constantly changing and improving. In order to keep up with trends in tech, there are many behind-the-scenes projects that Adelphi IT puts time and resources behind. While these changes may not be as noticeable as some of the other projects we've been working on, they are noteworthy and help everything run smoothly.
The Office of Information Technology is confident that these changes will give the Adelphi community a better experience on our campus and at the centers. We are always looking to improve, and will continue to work hard to enhance all technology on campus. We encourage you to report any areas of campus where you experience a weak wireless signal.
Find more information about connecting to our wireless networks.
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Eye health provisions of new health law remain on track for 2014 implementation
On July 2nd, the Obama administration announced that it was delaying until 2015 the effective date of penalties targeting large employers who do not provide health insurance coverage to their workers.
Although this decision represents a significant change to the President's timetable and approach toward implementation, the AOA is reporting that there has been no change in the law's full recognition of optometrists as providers of essential care or in how eye health care will be integrated into comprehensive health insurance coverage for children beginning in 2014. In fact, the AOA remains intently focused on the on-time implementation of the law's Federal ban on discrimination against ODs by health plans, including ERISA by plans, and the nationwide requirement that new health plans must cover an annual comprehensive eye exam through age 18.
Optometrists supporting and opposing the new health care law know that they can rely on the AOA as the best, most accurate and timely source for information on how OD practices will be impacted by it. For more information, AOA members can contact Jon Hymes, AOA Washington Office Director, at 1-800-365-2219 / email@example.com
Click here to view last week's presentation of the 2013 AOA Apollo Award to U.S. Senator Tom Harkin, the author of the new Federal ban on discrimination against optometrists by health plans.


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Pragyan, the ISO 9001 and ISO 20121 certified, international annual techno-management fest of NIT Trichy has always transformed the intellectual space with its enlightening strike. This year is no exception. Just like every year, Trichy is all set to become the epicenter of tech dreams. Pragyan is about breaking tradition and introducing new perceptions in bringing out the crux of the subject. The Guest Lecture series is a platform where out of box thinkers meet the majority, a platform where human intuition is put to test and a focal point or inspiration. This year's line-up is about to explore and discover the boundaries of science and technology.
● With over 134,000 followers on Quora, Dr. Richard Muller, Professor of Physics at UC Berkeley, is well-known in the academic circles for his vocal stance against global warming.
● Kishore Jayaraman, the Regional Director of Rolls-Royce in South Asia who has a rich expertise in the fields of Technology, Project Management, Commercial Operations and Business Leadership.
● Dr. Henry Throop, an Astronomer who is a part of the Planetary Science Institute and a consultant to NASA. He was a member of the New Horizons mission of NASA and was involved in the discovery of Pluto's smallest moon, Styx.
● With a gift for tongues, David Peterson is a linguist and an expert in creating languages. His prominent works include the creation of Dothraki and Valyrian for Game of Thrones and the Dark Elves' language in Thor: The Dark World.
● Dr. Ada Yonath, the first woman Nobel winner in the last 45 years is known for her work in ribosomes in the field of bio crystallography. She is currently the Director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly of the Weizmann Institute of Science.
● Regarded as the Father of BRAHMOS, Dr. A. Sivathanu Pillai is an Indian scientist with more than four decades of experience at DRDO and ISRO. He currently serves as a Honorary Distinguished Professor at ISRO. He played a major role in the successful development of SLV III.
● Ruling the world of probability, Padma Shri Dr. Sankar Kumar Pal, the former director of Indian Statistical Institute, has an international reputation on fuzzy neural network, soft computing and machine intelligence.
● Widely known as the Blue Genius, Dr. Rajshekhar Murthy is the founder of the International Malware Conference, MALCON and is the Director of India's National Security Database. He played a major role in exposing to the government the vulnerabilities it faced online in hundreds of its websites.
● The lady behind India's Mangalyan mission, Nandini Harinath is the Deputy Operations Director of the Mars Orbiter Mission and has worked on 14 missions in over two decades in ISRO.
With Business Tycoons and Tech Titans, this sparkling series of Guest Lectures is set to illuminate the audience with its sheer intensity of ideas. Light might set the ultimate speed limit for the universe. And being this year's theme, Pragyan '17 is geared up to redefine the limits of technology for the world.
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First of Three New Brian Malarkey Restos Opening January 9
If it seems chef Brian Malarkey is everywhere these days, that's because he pretty much is. After the runaway success of he and partner James Brennan's first restaurant, downtown's Searsucker, the duo moved north to Del Mar Highlands less than a year later to open Burlap behind the culinary thematic of "Asian cowboy."
Shortly after that glam dragon and paper lantern appointed eatery, Malarkey announced not one, not two, but three new projects slated for 2012, all located in different communities of San Diego County. When he told me about the spot in La Jolla, I thought it quite logical.
When he mentioned Point Loma, I figured just about everybody's getting in on the action out there, so it only makes sense for him to do so, too. Then he said "La Mesa" and my eyebrow raised.
As it turns out, the latter location will be the first to debut when Gingham (who knew cowpokes were so into fashion and fabrics?) opens in the spot formerly occupied by Gio Wine Bar in downtown La Mesa on Monday, January 9. Described as an "Urban Cowboy Diner," the spot is envisioned to fill a role for the somewhat sleepy community (I've lived there, so I'm allowed to say it) as a lively hub.
The location is certainly prime for that utility and the installation of a huge bar offering craft beer and hand-crafted cocktails from Snake Oil Cocktail Co. should certainly help to increase the liveliness on La Mesa Boulevard.
The food should be a bit of an upgrade as well, at least from an imagination standpoint. Chef de Cuisine Ryan Studebaker, who's coming over from Del Mar's Prepkitchen, will be presenting a meaty menu based on various styles of barbecue—straight-up, sandwich-style, smoked and more. The bill of fare will be divided into categories such as "not from a can," "baked," "oil boil," "low and slow," "smoked" and "charbroil."
Offerings will include dishes such as Julian Hard Cider-infused pork shoulder with fried kale; venison osso bucco made with stout beer, chipotles and chocolate; and a brisket made with "Mama's Dry Rub." Lunch service will also be offered, featuring salads, sandwiches, dogs and sausages.
So what's with all the cowboy stuff? Most don't know Malarkey beyond his 2007 appearance on season three of Top Chef, but he actually grew up on a horse ranch. So, there's legitimacy behind the common theme permeating his restaurant regime.
One thing that's out of character about Gingham, however, is the fact that everything's under $20, making this the most affordable of the chef's venues. Gingham is located at 8384 La Mesa Boulevard.
More like this:
- Street Style: Brian Malarkey spotted at Gingham — Jan. 29, 2013
- Prepkitchen Del Mar preps for re-open — Aug. 24, 2012
- Fashion Week: Gingham — July 4, 2012
- Fashion Week: Gabardine — July 2, 2012
- Food Time: Chef Brian Malarkey Announces New Venture — Dec. 26, 2011
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Hershey is raising prices by 8%.
In the latest sign that inflation could be coming down the pike, the chocolate giant, which has a market cap of about $21 billion, is boosting prices in response to commodity prices.
The Fed's preferred measure of inflation — core PCE — excludes the cost of food and gas, but following last week's commentary from retailers about the state of the U.S. consumer, these price increases can squeeze budgets without showing up in official statistics.
In a press release, Hershey announced an increase across its lines.
"The Hershey Company (NYSE:HSY) today announced an increase in wholesale prices across the majority of its U.S., Puerto Rico and export portfolio.
A weighted average price increase of approximately 8 percent across the company's instant consumable, multi-pack, packaged candy and grocery lines is effective today. These changes will help offset part of the significant increases in Hershey's input costs, including raw materials, packaging, fuel, utilities and transportation, which the company expects to incur in the future."
Michele Buck, Hershey's North American president said, "Over the last year key input costs have been volatile and remain at levels that are above historical averages. Commodity spot prices for ingredients such as cocoa, dairy and nuts have increased meaningfully since the beginning of the year. Given these trends, we expect significant commodity cost increases in 2015."
Along with its price increases, the company also said that it expects second quarter net sales to increase 4.5%, including a 0.75% headwind related to foreign currency exchange rates. The company expects adjusted earnings per share to total $0.75-$0.77. Expectations are for $0.76.
This chart from FinViz shows the price of cocoa over the last year.
This from the St. Louis Fed, alerted to us by Annalyn Kurtz of CNN Money, shows the inflation in the price of candy and chewing gum since 1998.
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Health screenings often reveal sensitive, personal information about your employees, so it's important to keep that information confidential. When employees reveal personal information for health screenings, they trust you to not use this information to increase copays, make them vulnerable to additional expenses or cause any embarrassment or attention from other employees.
In addition, health assessments must remain in compliance with federal laws such as HIPAA, GINA and the ADA.
To protect your employees' rights while executing your workplace wellness program, consider the following recommendations:
- Don't share personal or health-related employee information with anyone. This may inadvertently cause them to receive impartial treatment in the workplace. Plus, you're legally obligated to protect sensitive employee information.
- Keep health screening information separate from your employees' employment records. This information must not affect hiring, firing and promotion decisions.
- When reporting on wellness data, provide an aggregate summary of the health conditions affecting your entire employee body; don't single anyone out.
- Make participation in wellness programs a voluntary activity. Though you can offer incentives to encourage employees to participate, it's illegal to require employees to engage in wellness activities or provide health-related information.
- Provide a confidentiality agreement to any employee that coordinates your wellness program or handles sensitive information.
If your company doesn't currently participate in health screenings or risk assessments, and you want to understand the value, see the following blog article.
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Eastern Accents shows its Spring 2011 introductions at the High Point furniture market, beginning this weekend. The company has partnered with Barclay Butera to create a new collection of bedding and pillows. Barclay Butera Bedding was designed to create the icing on the cake for the already successful Barclay Butera Lifestyle home furnishings line.
Playing off the travel theme, Eastern Accents has introduced several pillows in its Studio 773 line. Bon Voyage and Destination are two new collections featuring beautiful map fabrics and block-printed burlap. Jet Setter is a pillow in the shape of a suitcase.
The six new Niche Bedding & Living collections and a pillow program are inspired by fashion trends; the designers paired yellow and gray earth tones and metallic to create transitional bedding.
De Medici Fine Linens will display its new jacquard called Lunetta. Available in the subtle pearl, biscotti, and truffle tones, this introduction is a 560 thread count, 100% Egyptian cotton sateen. Pairing perfectly with Lunetta is the Deluca collection, which includes three new solid sateen colors.


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Asa Gray is considered the most important American botanist of the 19th century. His Darwiniana was considered an important explanation of how religion and science were not necessarily mutually exclusive.
Gray was adamant that a genetic connection must exist between all members of a species.
He was also strongly opposed to the ideas of hybridization within one generation and special creation in the sense of its not allowing for evolution, as he felt evolution was guided by a Creator.
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March Newsletter: 'What's That You're Doing? (No.3/Vol.2)'
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Aimed at improving performance and encompassing a range of powerful movements, this Swedish-style massage is combined with compression and trigger point techniques to reduce soreness. Along with warming the body, it stimulates the muscles in the shoulders, arms and back.
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Our polythene mailing bags are lightweight and durable, and are available in 4 standard sizes. We can produce mailing bags in bespoke sizes and materials subject to a minimum order quantity.
The standard material we use is a degradable Co-Extruded LDPE, also known as degradable polythene. This material is white on the outside and black on the inside making it very strong and completely opaque, so it is ideal for mail order packaging.
These mailing bags are manufactured with a hot melt self-seal strip, and we can also offer a double seal strip to allow easier returns options for your customers. We can produce the polythene bags with handles and coloured material to suit your branding.
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What is Rainwater Harvesting?
Although close to three fourths of our planet is made of water, not all of it is suitable for use. The water in the oceans and seas cannot be used as drinking water and little of it can be utilized for other purposes. As a result, there is a constant shortage of water that is either good for drinking or home and industrial use. Areas on the planet that have long faced water shortage were able to combat this problem by harvesting what little rain water they received. This slowly started spreading to areas where there was plenty of rainfall. As a result, the modern day rainwater harvesting system was bought into place.
The idea behind the process is simple. Rainwater is collected when it falls on the earth, stored and utilized at a later point. It can be purified to make it into drinking water, used for daily applications and even utilized in large scale industries. In short, Rainwater harvesting is a process or technique of collecting, filtering, storing and using rainwater for irrigation and for various other purposes.
To reduce the consumption of groundwater, many people around the world are using rainwater harvesting systems. This practice has been around for thousands of years and has been growing at a rapid pace. Till today, rainwater is used as a primarily source of drinking water in several rural areas. The best thing about rainwater is that it is free from pollutants as well as salts, minerals, and other natural and man-made contaminants. In areas where there is excess rainfall, the surplus rainwater can be used recharge ground water through artificial recharge techniques.
In an urban setting, harvesting is usually done with the help of some infrastructure or The simplest method for a rainwater harvesting system is storage tanks. In this, a catchment area for the water is directly linked to cisterns, tanks and reservoirs. Water can be stored here until needed or used on a daily basis. The roofs our homes are the best catchment areas, provided they are large enough to harvest daily water needs. Other than that, large bowls and tarps can also fulfill the function.
Advantages of Rainwater Harvesting
1. Easy to Maintain: Utilizing the rainwater harvesting system provides certain advantages to the community. First of all, harvesting rainwater allows us to better utilize an energy resource. It is important to do so since drinking water is not easily renewable and it helps in reducing wastage. Systems for the collection of rainwater are based on simple technology.
The overall cost of their installation and operation is much lesser than that of water purifying or pumping systems. Maintenance requires little time and energy. The result is the collection of water that can be used in substantial ways even without purification.
2. Reducing Water Bills: Water collected in the rainwater harvesting system can be put to use for several non-drinking functions as well. For many families and small businesses, this leads to a large reduction in their utilities bill. On an industrial scale, harvesting rainwater can provide the needed amounts of water for many operations to take place smoothly without having to deplete the nearby water sources.
It also lessens the burden of soil erosion in a number of areas, allowing the land to thrive once again. In fact, it can also be stored in cisterns for use during times when water supplies are at an all time low.
3. Suitable for Irrigation: As such, there is little requirement for building new infrastructure for the rainwater harvesting system. Most rooftops act as a workable catchment area, which can be linked to the harvesting system. This also lessens the impact on the environment by reducing use of fuel based machines.
Rainwater is free from many chemicals found in ground water, making it suitable for irrigation and watering gardens. In fact, storing large reservoirs of harvested water is a great idea for areas where forest fires and bush fires are common during summer months.
4. Reduces Demand on Ground Water: With increase in population, the demand for water is also continuously increasing. The end result is that many residential colonies and industries are extracting ground water to fulfill their daily demands. This has led to depletion of ground water which has gone to significant low level in some areas where there is huge water scarcity.
5. Reduces Floods and Soil Erosion: During rainy season, rainwater is collected in large storage tanks which also helps in reducing floods in some low lying areas. Apart from this, it also helps in reducing soil erosion and contamination of surface water with pesticides and fertilizers from rainwater run-off which results in cleaner lakes and ponds.
6. Can be Used for Several Non-drinking Purposes: Rainwater when collected can be used for several non-drinking functions including flushing toilets, washing clothes, watering the garden, washing cars etc. It is unnecessary to use pure drinking water if all we need to use it for some other purpose rather than drinking.
Disadvantages of Rainwater Harvesting
1. Unpredictable Rainfall: Rainfall is hard to predict and sometimes little or no rainfall can limit the supply of rainwater. It is not advisable to depend on rainwater alone for all your water needs in areas where there is limited rainfall. Rainwater harvesting is suitable in those areas that receive plenty of rainfall.
2. Initial High Cost: Depending on the system's size and technology level, a rainwater harvesting system may cost anywhere between $200 to $2000 and benefit from it cannot be derived until it is ready for use. Like solar panels, the cost can be recovered in 10-15 years which again depends on the amount of rainfall and sophistication of the system.
3. Regular Maintenance: Rainwater harvesting systems require regular maintenance as they may get prone to rodents, mosquitoes, algae growth, insects and lizards. They can become as breeding grounds for many animals if they are not properly maintained.
4. Certain Roof Types may Seep Chemicals or Animal Droppings: Certain types of roofs may seep chemicals, insects, dirt or animals droppings that can harm plants if it is used for watering the plants.
5. Storage Limits: The collection and storage facilities may also impose some kind of restrictions as to how much rainwater you can use. During the heavy downpour, the collection systems may not be able to hold all rainwater which ends in going to to drains and rivers.
Rainwater harvesting is a system that is gaining speed over time. Areas that experience high amounts of rainfall will benefit the most from the system and will be able to distribute water to dry lands with ease. However, the beneficial environmental impact of the system is what drives it further as of now.


text: A four-way summit on Syria has ended with no major breakthrough, even as the leaders of Turkey, Russia, Germany and France agreed that a fragile ceasefire in Idlib should be preserved and said a committee tasked with drafting the war-torn country's new constitution needs to convene by the end of the year. Saturday's meeting in Istanbul was aimed at laying the groundwork for an eventual peace plan in a country devastated by more than seven years of war. In a joint communique following their meeting, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin called for "an inclusive, Syrian-led and Syrian-owned political process" and said conditions needed to be created for the safe and voluntary return of refugees. The summit, which was not attended by any Syrian groups, was the first to bring the four leaders together. Erdogan said the constitutional committee, which was first agreed upon in January during Russian-sponsored talks at the Black Sea resort of Sochi needed to convene "as soon as possible". WATCH: Has Syria's opposition lost to Assad? (25:16) However, efforts to bring Syria's warring factions together to draft a new constitution under which elections would be held have stalled, with the committee failing to meet even once. Syria's major opposition groups had boycotted the Sochi event, officially known as Syrian Congress of National Dialogue, and rejected the constitutional plan. The fate of President Bashar al-Assad, a major sticking point that has repeatedly caused negotiations to fail, had not been mentioned in the final statement of the Sochi summit. "The people of Syria will determine the future of President Bashar al-Assad," said Erdogan, whose administration backs certain rebel groups in Idlib. "As far as we are concerned, Assad is someone who has killed nearly one million of his citizens. He is not someone who we hold in high esteem. Massacres continue as before, but it is our wish that this process comes to an end and the people of Syria can begin to live their lives again." Since the beginning of the Syrian uprising, hundreds of thousands of Syrians have been killed and over 12 million people - half the country's prewar population - have been displaced. Erdogan said while Turkey had welcomed more than three million Syrian refugees, "they should be allowed to return to Syria, and this should be done in a voluntary fashion. "With the cooperation of the United Nations, this can and should be done," he said. Putin: Demilitarised zone is temporary measure Also discussed at the summit was a demilitarised zone around the densely-populated Idlib province, a Turkish- and Russian- backed initiative aimed at preventing a large-scale military assault on the last rebel enclave in Syria. Europe wants to avert new refugee wave Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr, reporting from Istanbul, said France and Germany were attending the summit because they want the situation in Idlib to "remain quiet" and "do not want an offensive that will create a humanitarian catastrophe and a new wave of refugees reaching Europe". "France and Germany are in attendance on the basis that there will not be a Syrian government offensive on Idlib," said Khodr. "Meanwhile, Russia and Turkey want Europe on board to help pay for Syria's reconstruction. "They do not believe the West should wait for a political solution agreed by all those involved in the crisis before reconstruction work begins. "But Europe and the US don't see it that way. "What is also significant about this summit is that France is trying to mediate between the Russian and the Americans - what we're hearing is that Macron is trying to set-up a high-level meeting in Paris. At the end of the day, you're going to need the US on board if you want to reach an internationally backed-deal to end the war." Putin, a major backer of Assad, called the 15-20km zone "a temporary measure", adding that he hoped "the Turkish government will ensure, in the near future, the complete withdrawal of the [armed] opposition from the zone and heavy artillery". On Friday, Syria's UN envoy Bashar al-Jaafari also called that the buffer zone "temporary", adding that Idlib would eventually revert to government control. An estimated three million Syrians live in Idlib, half of them already displaced from cities and towns under state control. Putin added that Moscow reserved the right to help Damascus "eliminate terrorists" in Idlib in the event of any provocations. According to an agreement brokered between Ankara and Moscow last month, opposition groups are to remain in areas where they are already present in Idlib, while Russian and Turkish forces will carry out joint patrols in the area with a view to preventing a resumption of fighting. For her part, Merkel renewed a call for elections and said "all Syrians must be allowed to decide the country's future, in free, transparent elections which must be supervised internationally". Meanwhile, Macron called on Russia to exercise "very clear pressure" on Damascus "which depends on it for survival". A final statement from the four leaders also rejected "separatist agendas aimed at undermining the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria as well as the national security of neighbouring countries". Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr, reporting from Istanbul, said "there was little consensus" among the Istanbul summit attendees, adding that "the differences of opinion were out in the open". "France attended the Istanbul summit because they wanted to get a guarantee and a commitment from Turkey and Russia that the Idlib deal to create a demilitarised zone will become a lasting ceasefire. "But we know that Russia and Turkey wanted a commitment from Europe to help pay with the reconstruction of Syria - and Russia and Turkey did not get that from the Europeans." "So, the different players are still so far apart and yet we heard all of them say there is a need to get other players on board." 'Vote of no-confidence to US' Joshua Landis, director of the Center for Middle East studies at the University of Oklahoma, described the Istanbul summit as "a big departure" from the United Nations-backed Geneva process and "a vote of no-confidence to the US". Speaking to Al Jazeera, he said "the big gain" for Erdogan is getting "Europe involved into the Astana process", referring to a separate diplomatic track led by Turkey, Russia and Iran in Kazakhstan's capital. "Erdogan wants to counterbalance Russia with some German and French muscle to stabilise the Idlib situation and make sure that Russia and Syria don't invade and drive all these rebels and jihadists into Turkey, as well many more Syrian refugees which would be a disaster for Turkey and very bad for Europe." Commenting on the talk about constitutional reform and "free and fair elections", Landis said "that is not going to happen". "Assad won this war and of course this is a fig leave being brought by Europe - and of course the US behind it - and Turkey, saying that somehow we are going to get the opposition in power in Damascus," Landis said. "Assad fought this war brutally in order to stop that and Russia sided with him. I don't think that these peace negotiations are going to end up winning the war that the militaries could not do in the country. "But there are many issues, including what is going to happen to all those rebel fighters in Idlib? Are they going to be destroyed and arrested or are they going to own a country, a little enclave, protected by Turkey and Europe?" SOURCE: Al Jazeera News Syria's War Turkey Russia France Germany


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I started this project because the more I looked at the introductory picture of the finished build in the April 1964 issue of Railroad Model Craftsman the more I envied the character resting on the chair, leaning back against the station wall and not worrying about the day. My work days are far from that. Also, it's one of the buildings on the Elizabeth Valley Railroad, so it would get used when I starting laying track on that project.
But, once I jumped in and got going I realized there's a hidden story within the main story and it's about cost. From the article's photos it's pretty clear that Mr. Moore built this using his standard techniques: shingles made by scoring balsa sheets with a wood-burning tool, siding made from pencil scored balsa, and windows from ink-lined clear plastic. But, the article's text emphasizes that commercial Northeastern siding can be used, as well as specifying that commercial castings can be used for all windows. There's sort of mixed messaging going on.
[The Branch Line Station is tiny. In the background is the HO-scale Mineral City Depot and the blue station in the middle is the N-scale Grizzly Flats.]
Cost seems to be the elephant in the room in a lot of published projects. Many just ignore cost altogether. Often it seems like there's a "if you have to ask about the cost, then you should move on" vibe. This was not the situation with many E. L. Moore builds; usually he was upfront about cost, and it was a point-of-pride about how low-cost he could build some relatively complex project. When I got interested in model railroading, and model building in general, back in the '70s, cost was a very big thing to me. One reason I liked E. L. Moore projects was that they clearly stated what the cost was, and with good plans included, I could figure out how to use other stuff I had around the house – cardboard, paper, leftovers from other projects, straws, and so on – to make substitutions if I had to without going to the store.
[The digital camera is a cruel mistress. It's clear in this view that the roof overhangs the back wall a little too much; however, with 'normal' viewing - seeing the whole thing with your actual eyes - the model looks ok.]
After E. L. Moore passed on in '79, Art Curren rose to become a major figure in mainstream model building construction. He was made a staffer at Model Railroader not too long after Mr. Moore's passing, but he had published numerous articles prior to that throughout the mid to late '70s. In retrospect, his work seemed to be the successor to E. L. Moore's. However, his approach was quite different: he specialized in building unique structures from the components of a number of plastic kits where E. L. Moore built buildings from scratch using simple materials. Maybe this could be read as a sign of a further shift from the earlier 'folk era' of model railroading to our more consumer-oriented times.
Mr. Curren's building projects were fascinating and I loved reading them. I also liked the newer presentation techniques that Model Railroader used to show how they were built. However, I never built any. For me, the problem was cost. Back then it would be a stretch to buy one kit let alone two – or possibly more – so kitbashing buildings wasn't an option for me. I also had this weird conceptual thing going on in my head: I thought making HO scale buildings from plastic kits was somehow cheating, but kitbashing plastic automobiles and airplanes kits into dreadful monsters of my imagination was ok :-) Well, plastic car kits usually tended to be much cheaper than plastic buildings, so there was that cost aspect again.
Back in '64 when Branch Line Station was published, lots of people wanted to build things fast and easy just like people do today, so I assume the Railroad Model Craftsman editors wanted to make sure those people didn't punch out when they saw this project. But, going the fast and easy route usually means using special commercial products, so building costs go up even though assembly time goes down. I figured an N-scale version could be built for next to nothing from leftovers I had on hand given that the building is so tiny. So, I decided to just use what I had available, go as old-school as possible with construction, and not buy new stuff; however, I succumbed to temptation on a couple of occasions :-) I'll try to point out where I went astray to give a better sense of what it cost to build this station.
Spoiler alert: it wasn't easy to figure out the true cost of this project, and it was more expensive than it appears :-)
The loading dock is cut from two scrap pieces of 1/16 inch balsa and joined with white glue. If you could buy just scraps of balsa, or a friend would give you theirs, this would be dead cheap to make, but the reality is that the scraps are leftovers from standard size 3 inch x 24 inch balsa sheets I bought one time for other projects. The cost saving only comes about from collecting cuttings instead of throwing them out.
The next step was I panelled the balsa base with scale lumber. This is not cheap at all. A couple of years ago I bought a selection of Midwest brand scale lumber packs because I was thinking about building a number of HO scale wood structures and I thought I'd try my hand at prototypical construction methods. That never happened, so I had all that high quality basswood in my storage bin. So, in the spirit of using stuff up, I pulled some out and used Midwest #8003, .0208 x .0625 lumber to panel the deck. This size was chosen because it 'looked right'. A cheaper substitution would be 1/64 inch balsa strips. It wouldn't match the basswood exactly, but would be a fairly close approximation. Another alternative, is just to leave the base as is and maybe scribe in boards with a hard, sharp pencil.
At this stage all the scale boards are glued on - again, using regular, household white glue - and are waiting to be trimmed so the deck has nice, clean edges. That extra long board is a thin strip I had to sand to shape to fit into an odd shaped gap that arose because I didn't lay down all the boards with a lot of precision.
You can see that the deck doesn't look too bad after the boards are trimmed. The walls were then cut to size according to the published plans from 1/32 inch sheet balsa scraps.The wall siding was scribed into the balsa with a sharp, 2H pencil. Window frames were made from #8001 Midwest basswood lumber - shavings of balsa from the edge of a sheet scrap could be used as a substitute.
Some 1/16 x 1/16 balsa sticks were glued to the inside of the long walls as reinforcement, and then all four walls were glued up into a box shape.
After the glue dried I placed the building on the deck to see how things were shaping up.
I went back to work on deck and added legs cut from 1/16 x 1/16 balsa strip - these aren't too scale-like, but have a chunky solidity that doesn't look too bad - and some trim around the perimeter cut from Midwest scale lumber. Some 1/64 inch balsa could substitute for the lumber.
Once the legs were completely dry, I lightly sanded the piece - legs down on the sandpaper - so that it stood evenly and firmly on all legs. That part went well, but then I did something dumb and blew away my good work. Mr. Moore suggests painting the base with a wash of raw sienna, so I figured I'd do the same. What little was left of my bottle of paint was completely hardened, so I bought a new one - extra cost here, but raw sienna is such a foundational colour, it'll get used again - thinned some out and washed it on. I figured since the wash was so thin, warping, if any, would be minimal. Wrong. After a few hours it was badly warped - it was raw wood after all - and I had to get out the industrial strength de-warper:
After much cursing, careful bending of the pieces back into shape with my fingers and re-gluing of snapped wood, it was placed for drying under the heaviest books I had. After sitting overnight, the loading dock was more-or-less back to normal....
.... more or less. To deal with the less part I dug up some scraps of 1/8 x 1/8 basswood strip and glued pieces to the underside to force it flat. I used super-glue for this part. Now it's flat and rigid and back to normal. If I hadn't been so cavalier with painting this thing I wouldn't have had this problem. My recommendation is: don't paint the base, but reinforce it with those underside strips and come back later with some pastel powder and weather with that.
On the other hand, painting the building went just fine. Likely because the wood was thicker, already reinforced a bit on the inside with strips, and I used thicker, acrylic paint. The inside was painted black to make the walls less translucent. You can see my wonky attempt at scratch building stairs from balsa shavings. This is why I left off the second set of stairs from the end of the long section of the loading dock. I need to practice this, or maybe just buy some N-scale stair castings.
The bay window is made by first drawing the walls and windows onto a single, foldable piece of clear plastic scrap. I used one I saved from the lid of a box of Christmas chocolates. What I did was cut out the drawing, fold it into shape and hold it that way with some balsa trapezoids glued to the inside surfaces, and then finished by sticking all the trim and panels onto the outer surfaces.
To make sticking on trim less messy, I took some pre-painted strips of the thinnest Midwest lumber sticks and stuck them to a piece of transfer tape. Using a sharp knife, I traced around the stick, and when it came free it had a thin slice of transfer tape stuck to its back. Transfer tape is a gummy, thin double-sided tape. Well, it's more just a glue carrier than a tape. The lumber can then then be stuck in place by peeling away the paper carrier and then pressing in place. Sounds easy, but I found it a little tricky. I used this method to add the trim to the Grizzly Flats depot and it seemed to work ok. The pieces are still stuck on. On the economics end, a small roll of this tape cost $10 at an art supply store. I have a lot left, so it's good for many more projects, but for better economics, I'd recommend some medium thickness super glue - but, applying with glue could be tricky too. Maybe the actual message is that the bay window is rather tricky to build in N-scale using old-school methods, and the RMC editor's recommendation to use 3 commercial windows to build up the bay is better advice.
I didn't take any pictures during bay window assembly. I found it tricky and only did a few minutes work on it over several evenings. I didn't get it quite right, but in the end, I can live with the result - I've still got lots to learn about building things in N-scale. The photo above shows a test fitting of the building on the platform after the bay window was glued to the front wall.
After gluing the building to the platform, I installed a tiny 12v light. I had to buy a light - for an outrageous $2 at a hobby store because I wanted one immediately - because I had used up my stock on Caleb's Cabbage Company and building a fancy lighting fixture for The Noir. The yellow doors were again just scrap balsa that were cut to size, scribed, painted and glued in place.
With the warping platform experience fresh in my mind, I decided to make the roof panels from a scrap of 0.010 inch styrene sheet. Unlike Mr. Moore's model, I didn't make the roof removable. Before installing on the building, I painted the eaves and drilled a hole for the chimney.
Like the Grizzly Flats depot project, I used brown wrapping paper to cut strips of shingles for gluing to the roof panels. E. L. Moore used balsa panels for his roof, and etched the shingles in with a wood burning tool. That green piece in the centre of the photo is the bay window roof panel.
Absent-minded shingle cutting lead to one of those rare model building related accidents that are talked about only in hushed settings :-) The x-acto knife rolled off my table, landed blade down into my leg, and then bounced to the floor. So, add one pair of pants to the cost of this build!
When everything was finally glued into place I used some pastels, ground out on a foam sanding block, to brush on a little weathering. A little goes a long way with these colours, so just apply a small amount at a time and build up. I bought these sets many years ago and only use a little at a time, so they could last the rest of my life. But, if you went out and bought a box for this project, it would be a pricy extra for this little build, but over the course of a lifetime hobby it becomes more economical. And I guess that maybe gets to the hidden message of the article: if you've been model making for a while, and have some scraps and leftovers and paints and tools and such on hand, then you've got the momentum to build new things with little additional expense. I've been model building and such on-and-off for around 12 years now, and have a small collection of leftovers that I'm always dipping into. Basically, there's 3 plastic storage bins with leftovers.
There's a long, flat one for wood and paper stuff.
A square, flat one for plastics.
And a large, rectangular one under the workbench with parts left over from plastic kits. I should be more organized, but this three box system has got a certain internal logic, and I can find stuff when I need it, so I don't get too obsessive about storage.
A gentleman I was put in contact with, who at one time was an employee at a hobby shop in Raleigh, North Carolina, were E. L. Moore bought his hobby supplies, told me that Mr. Moore bought very little when he came in: a few dollars worth of balsa and such and maybe a grain-of-wheat bulb or two. He wasn't a big spender. I suspect he likely had his own stash of leftover stuff to help keep ongoing costs low.


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In all seriousness, the Marlin is a great rifle, too. I own a Model 60, one of the best rifles ever made.
Brownings are nice, but in terms of quality AND accuarcy AND ruggedness, it's hard to beat the Marlin.
Admit it - ya'll are just jealous of my flying squirrel nabbin' abilities........ Ninjer Style!
How many other people do you know that can lure them in and then strike? One day....you too shall be able to snatch the pebble from my hand.....not soon...but one day.


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Acceptance is clearly recognizing what you feel and who you are at this very moment. Observe yourself with Loving Kindness. This acceptance is the gateway to transformation and spiritual growth.
Accept what has happened don't push it aside. Surrender. Resistance will only make you unhappy. Make the Courageous Effort to let go of things. This will empower you and make your life easier and happier.
Our Ego tends to judge everything we observe and therefore it is very difficult to surrender and to accept whatever this moment brings. Practice Acceptance especially when it is something that you don't like.
Acceptance is purely something you do in your inner world. It does not imply passivity in the outer world. As an example: you may fully accept that you are getting wet as it is raining. However at the same time you recognize the undesirable state and will find shelter.
Practice Presence and Focus on what is. Let go of all resistance. Focus on what you do have and where you want to go.
Zen Buddha is happy for the opportunity to share this tarot card with you. Show your Generosity towards your friends. Inspire them as well!


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