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Truth is, the bass guitar may look simple to play, but it can take years of practice and dedication to truly master it. Learning the bass guitar (Electronic Bass) might be challenging as it requires mastering the correct posture and techniques. Further, picking up bad habits during the amateur learning stages can be worse than not having any guitar basics. This is why selecting an excellent bass teacher is very crucial for your bass guitar lessons.
For beginners, our bass instructors provide a soild foundation and understanding of the bass guitar, and how it can be used across a wide genre of music such as pop, rock, blues, jazz etc. For experienced bassist, depending on your preferences, bass guitar lessons can be customised to your objectives, building towards the eventual aim of a step-by-step and structured approach, and equipping you with the necessary knowledge, skills and confidence required to master the bass guitar.
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Welcome to Bellavitacitygrill, my name is Carl and my wife Bella will both be adding some interesting cooking ideas and general tips cooking from home.
We both enjoy travelling and have been to over 18 countries in the last 7 years and we love to cook and eat at home. We have a passion for food from all over the world. I hope you enjoy our website. If you have any questions for either of us please do let us know.
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text: As the newsletter indicates, Save Ealing's Centre (to which the Society is affiliated) is still appealing for funds to underwrite the cost of the planning inquiry over 9-42 The Broadway in May. So far around around £22k has been raised of the initial fundraising target of £25k but SEC has been advised by its barrister that it should pay for expert witnesses to assist with the presentation at the inquiry which means that the target has now had to be raised to £30k. We are grateful for all the donations so far received but help us to achieve the revised target by donating for the first time or again if you had already done so. This is way of doing this is through the SEC website where you can pay by credit or debit card or by PayPal. Cheques will also be accepted.


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Have you forgotten about payphones?
Maybe you still see their gutted shells rusting away on the perimeter of some local filling station. I personally haven't seen a working one in years.
The days of rotary payphones, phonebooks and even telephone booths largely predate me. I remember the occasional booth when I was a kid but for most of my life, they were these book-less push button devices with a small shroud around them offering minimal protection, for the phone, not for the caller.
Even when cellular phones started becoming common, payphones seemed to hold out for a while, immobile and permanently fixed in place forever. Reminders of the Past, harbingers of a future potential cell phone network failure that never seems to happen. No matter what stores changed their names and signage around them, the payphones remained.
But slowly, over the last 5 or so years, they seem to have just vanished from the American landscape. Once a beacon of hope when your car broke down or you were lost or you were just a teenager gathering friends to meet at the mall, you could count on a payphone being there to the rescue.
I've always been intrigued by them. Unlike our annually replaced cell phones, payphones could stand out in the weather for years and still work fine, needing only the occasional coin box emptying. Sure the chrome would blister and the shine was often scratched out of their black plastic hand piece, and God help you if you were desperate enough for change that you fingered the coin return, but they were usually there, usually working. Decorated by vandals, autographed by weary listeners, telling a thousand stories without uttering a word of their own.
Reliability became dodgy as their maintenance cycles drew farther part. The amount of change they required to operate seemed to climb steeply in their final years of operation. But there they stood, seemingly more expensive to remove than to leave in place, ever ready, ever vigilant, motionlessly and silently presiding over parking lots like the Queen's Guard.
But then as filling stations began another wave of changing their signs, renovating, adding flat screen televisions to the fuel pumps, the payphones finally went away. Once I even tried to buy the last one in my town. I saw it being taken down whilst on my way home one cool evening.
For a period, whenever I saw a payphone, I'd snap a picture of it. It's been a couple years now since I've seen one though.
Here, you'll find some of my favorite photos of payphones that I took between the years 2008 and 2013.
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How To End A Dangerous Relationship Earlier than It Turns Fatal
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- Date: 02/06/2013 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
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Energy experts bringing exhibit to OCCC Sept. 12
OneOK and Oklahoma Natural Gas will present their "Powered By ONE" Mobile Unit to OCCC from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12 in parking lot G.
OCCC's Engineering Club and auto tech program will sponsor the event.
The exhibit is a "53-foot, expandable trailer that travels the state sharing information about ONEOK, how it operates, its commitment to environment, safety, health, and other industry-related facts," According to www.oneok.com.
Its features include "interactive displays and games designed to educate visitors about the benefits of natural gas and natural gas liquids."
Alumni Relations and Community Development Coordinator Randy Cassimus said company representatives will be on hand to give tours and information on careers in the energy industry.
"They are going to have [speakers] from the company give a presentation to the Engineering Club to talk about the industry, employment, and other related topics," Cassimus said.
Speakers will include Facilities and Fleet Management Director Steve Wood and Community Relations Representative Lynda Mobley.
Engineering club President Matthew Butzer said having a guest speaker is a great way for engineering students to get a better grasp of their field.
"Every time we can have someone that has survived being an engineering major come and talk to the group we're excited," Butzer said.
"It's a good chance for our students to hear advice on how they succeeded and what our students can do to succeed as well.
"Additionally, a lot of engineering students don't have an accurate grasp on what their major will lead them into, and hearing from practicing engineers can help give them a better idea."
Cassimus said this will be the first time OneOK has visited OCCC.
"What we're trying to do is get ONG and OneOK to have more of a presence here on campus — to … meet our students and to understand our engineering program or the auto tech program," he said.
"Our idea is to get them on campus and get them face-to-face with our students."
OneOK Executive Director Terri Pirtle said she hopes the event will help educate and answer questions students may have about the industry.
"We want to educate students about what we do in the energy industry and share with them our values, ethics, background, and the kind of people we are," Pirtle said.
"We have a long-standing relationship with OCCC and we are always looking for recruitment and educational opportunities."
For more information on the event, contact Cassimus at 405-682-1611, ext. 7478, or email@example.com. You can also visit www.oneok.com.


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Lifenews: Hospital Kicks Out Medical Staff From Air Ambulance Standing By to Take Alfie Evans to Italy http://bit.ly/2r0KDe
Ashya King's Parents wanted adifferent treatment than NHS approved. They 'abducted' him, took him out of country for treatment, and he's been cancer free for 3 years. Parents were arrested, jailed for 72 hrs for 'child cruelty' For saving their child's life.
I have one daughter and two grandchildren whom I am absolutely certain the UK would have murdered, just like Charlie Gard, as they attempted to do with Ashya King, as they are doing with Alfie. One was sent home on oxygen and a feeding tube and a diagnosis giving him an 85% chance of living to 3 years old. They were wrong. It was a misdiagnosis. Once they realized that (at his first birthday) he was able to eat, breathe,swallow, and thrive so long as he receives proper medication. He's now 7 and a happy, normal, delightful, rambunctious boy.
One was in the NICU and his parents were told to expect a lifetime of round the clock care, that he'd be in the NICU for months and would have severe brain damage. He was in the NICU for two weeks and is also a perfectly normal, happy, active little boy of 3ish. The treatment he received in the NICU was somewhat experimental, still newish, not yet standard in every NICU. It saved his life and allowed him to thrive.
And my daughter is 31, still in diapers, and doesn't speak, but she's also quite happy and satisfied with her 'quality of life,' even though she spent a considerable amount of time in the incubator in the NICu herself and we adopted her at 6.
It's evil for the government to decide to hold this baby hostage over the parents' wishes when there are other doctors who have looked at his records and suggested they may be able to help, who are not ready to give up on him. It is Evil. Wicked. This is what Eugenics looks like. Hitler accusations are far too much thrown about, but it is a fact that Hitler also started by killing off the disabled in hospitals. Every single staff member who is participating in this murder, every single one of the police officers guarding the doors so his parents cannot leave the hospital with him- they scare me to death. Do not look for these people to step up and do the right thing, to stand against evil at any time. They will smile and smile and smile and give you the shot that kills you and defend their actions as in your own best interest.
Alfie is not even receiving palliative care- they are denying him nourishment. They with-held water for hours. This is cruel and inhumane. 30 cops guarding the doors so that a baby doesn't receive nutrition, hydration, oxygen, or medical care from people willing and able to provide it ought to horrify any human being whose conscience has not been seared over with a hot iron.
This woman details how the NHS attempted to kill her husband 3 times, insisting the quality of his life was not worth prolonging and declaring he was going to die in a handful of years anyway.
Another UK family fighting to keep their loved one from being murdered by NHS. https://www.themaven.net/theresurgent/contributors/updated-a-second-family-fights-euthanasia-in-the-u-k-aD-Pad0wokm3HKrcQCoupA/?full=1
Hospital murdering young Alfie previously removed thymus glands from live children during heart surgeries, gave them to pharmaceutical companies who donated to them. #AlfiesLifeMatters
The real reason UK courts won't release #AlfieEvans to Italy for care. (hint: it's not because of their tender loving care for baby Alfie)
UK police respond to the state's ongoing slow and tortuous murder of baby Alfie by threatening free speech:
"We've issued a statement this evening to make people aware that social media posts which are being posted in relation to Alder Hey and the Alfie Evans situation are being monitored and may be acted upon. Read the full statement here: https://goo.gl/hUZ5zB"
As for the hogwash (I badly want to use a much stronger word), horse crap, scraped off from the bottom of the barn floor argument that is just kindness and all about what is in Alfie's best interests because the hospital staff and judge have determined (mistaking themselves for gods) further care would 'prolong' Alfie's suffering- they say he's brain dead. If they are right, he's not suffering. He wouldn't be suffering if his parents took him to Italy for better treatment, either. In February, these same experts stated that Alfie's breathing was not really breathing, it was just seizures! They also said seizures were the only activity his brain is capable of. So by their own diagnosis, they don't really believe he's suffering at all. This is not about the best interests and care of Alfie, at least not on the part of the judge or the medical staff. This is about defending the indefensible, protecting their power, their turf, their dubious moral authority.
Of course, their own diagnosis was horribly awry- he's been breathing on his own for over a day.
Evil, evil, evil.
"It turned out that he could breathe on his own. There are no signs of brain stem damage in the brain resonance test. This confirms that the child is not in a terminal state" – Polish doctor Izabela Pałgan, who evaluated Alfie Evans-https://wpolityce.pl/polityka/391792-polska-lekarka-ktora-zajmowala-sie-alfim-evansem-z-cala-pewnoscia-nie-jest-to-dziecko-umierajace-tamci-lekarze-sie-myla


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James McGirt Returns! 'I'm Smarter, Better and 100% Ready toRumble'
As the son of former welterweight champion turned top-level trainer "Buddy" McGirt, middleweight contender James "Buddy" McGirt Jr. (22-3-1, 11 KOs) was once a promising young contender and a staple on televised boxing.
But an admitted party lifestyle cost the talented southpaw and led to his three career losses and eventually to him stepping away from boxing for the past three years.
McGirt is now back, 31 years old, signed up with a new co-promotional group consisting of Leon Margules and Luis DeCubas of Warriors Boxing and Javier Arce and Armando Garcia Chavez of G&A Boxing Promotions, and ready to make his much-anticipated ring return this Thursday night, when he takes on Larry Smith Jr . (10-21-1, 7 KOs) of Dallas, Texas, in a middleweight six-rounder.
McGirt vs. Smith will serve as a highlight on the undercard of Warriors Boxing's "Noche de Combates", a special edition of ESPN Thursday Night Fights, from the iconic Hialeah Park in South Florida, featuring Roberto "La Amenaza" Garcia (34-3, 22 KOs) of Weslaco, Texas, taking on Victor "Mermelada" Cayo (32-4, 23 KOs) of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in the night's 10-round welterweight main event.
In the 10-round middleweight co-feature, undefeated Jonathan "Mantequilla" González (17-0-1, 14 KOs) of San Juan, Puerto Rico, will face Sonora, Mexico's Rogelio "Porky" Medina (32-5, 26 KOs).
Tickets for "Noche de Combates," are priced at $20, $35, $50 and $100 and are on sale now. They can be purchased at ticketforce.com, as well as hialeahpark.com, and also at the Hialeah Park Racing & Casino box office. For more information, call the special Boxing Hotline at 786-483-7444.
McGirt, who hasn't fought since losing to top contender Edwin Rodriguez in 2010, says he missed the attention being a world-rated fighter brought him and has made all the lifestyle adjustments necessary for a serious run at a world championship.
What brought you back to boxing, James?
I told myself I was going to do it and give 100%. I was going through some business and legal stuff with my old promoter and things weren't working out. So, I just stepped back and got my life together. Things are 100% better now for me. I'm a grown man now and I know what time it is.
How did you hook up with your new promoters?
Luis DeCubas was my first manager when I turned pro. Then we parted ways on good terms and I went another way. Warriors is located in Southern Florida where I live and I know they're a great promotional group. Plus, I've got Javier and Armando working together and helping me out. I'm so grateful for all of them and I have to go out there and make them all happy.
Do you still have what it takes to be a top fighter?
Do I still have it? I'm ten times better than I was before! Making a lot of money at a young age and not doing the right things outside the boxing gym caught up to me. I told myself I wasn't going to box again until I was totally prepared to give 100%. I'm ready now. Words can't express how excited I am. I've been missing it. I've been watching big fights on TV and watching the middleweight division and it's wide open to make a good run at becoming world champion within a year.
And I should say that I've been out of the ring for the last three years, but I haven't been totally out of boxing. I've been in camp with Lucien Bute, Andre Dirrell and Andre Ward, three highly respectable names and I've learned a lot from them. I kept myself sharp. I was still working
How is your weight for this fight? Any problems?
No. I'm probably going to come in at 162. The contract is 164, but I've been under that for the past week. With it being three years away, I didn't know how my body would respond, but making weight was a lot easier this time without all the partying in my off time. Now that I'm living a clean life, it makes it a lot easier.
How do you picture your fight with Smith unfolding?
If the knockout comes, it comes, but I just want the bell to ring and start the fight already. I miss it. I missed the limelight of the boxing world. Being a top-rated fighter and leaving the game for three years, you miss it. I've been given this opportunity to showcase my talent now it's do or die time and I have to take advantage of it.
Also featured Thursday night will be two more recent Warriors Boxing and G&A Boxing Promotions' co-promotional signees, twin-brother featherweight contenders, Juan Carlos Velasquez and Carlos Ivan "Twin Dream" Velasquez, from Catano, Puerto Rico, now living in Miami.
Juan Carlos (11-1, 5 KOs) will face a stern test in comebacking former world title challenger Rogers Mtagwa (27-16-2, 19 KOs) of Philadelphia, via Tanzania. Carlos Ivan (16-1, 11 KOs) will be facing Guillermo Sanchez (13-11-1, 5 KOs) from Fajardo, Puerto Rico.
Also that night will be an eight-round light heavyweight bout, featuring knockout artist Yunieski Gonzalez (13-0, 13 KOs) of Havana, Cuba, who will put his perfect record on the line against Arpartado, Colombia's Jaison Palomeque (14-9-1, 9 KOs); and a six-round cruiserweight affair between undefeated Cuban Vilier Quinonez (7-0, 4 KOs) of Havana taking and Edgar Perez (5-8, 3 KOs) of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
In preliminary action, Cairo Egypt's Ahmed Elbiale (3-0, 3 KOs) will see action in a light heavyweight four-rounder against Steven Chadwick Jr. (2-5 , 1 KO) of Jacksonville, Florida; and in the four-round welterweight opener, Bogota, Colombia, via Hollywood, Florida's Jorge Quintero (0-1) will face Davie, Florida's pro debuting (and Florida 2012 Golden Gloves Champ) Jeff "Rambo" Souffrant.
Hialeah Park & Casino is located at 2200 E 4th Avenue in Hialeah, FL. On fight night, Thursday May 1, 2014, gates will open at 6:30 PM ET and the first fight will be at 7:00 PM ET. All bouts are subject to change.
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During last week's PMQs, David Cameron spoke of the failure to deport foreign criminals by accusing the opposition Labour Party of not being supportive of his efforts. Can I suggest that Labour can be supportive, if the government implements this simple policy to help protect the British people?
The Livescan fingerprint computer is the modern way of taking fingerprints, by placing the hand against a plate of glass, and allowing the computer to scan the prints. Within minutes Livescan produces the identity, photo and previous convictions of the subject.
Livescan is installed in most police stations in the UK and across the EU. This means that if someone is wanted as a paedophile, in Lithuania, then the computer has the power to immediately identify this person.
Unfortunately, the UK Livescan system is not connected to the EU, because the Tories don't want integration between our criminal justice system and the rest of Europe. This means that foreign paedophiles and murderers can come to this country and evade detection. Even if they were arrested for some minor offence, we wouldn't realise they were wanted if they gave a false name. The only way the officer could identify them, would be if he made a manual enquiry with Interpol, or happened to remember their face from a wanted poster from whichever country. Read the rest of this entry »


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Vice Chair, Texas Medical Association Board of TrusteesLegislative Chair, Texas Medical Association Border Health Caucus
Before the Texas House Committee on Human Services
Sept. 17, 2012
Good morning, Chairman Raymond and distinguished members of the committee. It is my sincere pleasure to join you this morning. I am Dr. Carlos Cardenas, a practicing gastroenterologist in South Texas and Board of Trustees vice chair for the Texas Medical Association, which represents nearly 46,000 physicians and medical students. I would like to express my sincere appreciation to the committee for allowing me to participate in today's hearing.
I would also like to thank the chair on behalf of the Texas Medical Association for his tireless efforts to eliminate health care disparities in our great state. In addition, I would like to express appreciation to the staff of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC), especially Joe Vesowate, who throughout the rollout of Medicaid managed care in South Texas have worked tirelessly to resolve challenges and provide solutions.
I mention the issue of health disparities because it is impossible to evaluate the impact of Medicaid managed care in South Texas without understanding the unique socioeconomic conditions that exist along the Texas border region. Residents along the border region tend to have a higher rate of chronic conditions and literacy challenges, and suffer from a lack of health insurance coverage.
This confluence of factors affects not only the patient but also the providers who serve them. Throughout my medical training, I was instructed that the fundamental principle of health care is to render the right care, at the right time, and in the right manner.
I firmly believe that it is through the lens of this principle that we can evaluate expansion of Medicaid managed care in South Texas. In the end, the only determinate for its success should be whether its overall impact is allowing or preventing the right care, at the right time, and in the right manner.
1. Financial ImpactOver the past 12 months, South Texas physicians and providers have experienced one of the most challenging periods of change in modern time: The Texas Medicaid program expanded Medicaid managed care for women, children, and seniors into South Texas. Simultaneously, the state reduced payments for Medicaid-eligible, low-income seniors through revisions to its dual-eligible payment policy, while changes by the federal government to the Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) program came into effect and led to the loss of additional payments for most urban counties in South Texas.
Medicaid managed care has always translated into some form of reduced payment for providers. But no other community in Texas has had to endure this new payment methodology while also suffering major payment losses in two other major programs — and this in a community where Medicaid can amount to more than 80 percent of a provider's payer mix. In one year, after all reductions are factored in, some providers' effective payment rate was cut more than 40 percent. Without immediate action by the state legislature and the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, the continuation of this level of payment will erode our state's safety net of care; providers already have begun exiting the South Texas community.
2. Impact to the Delivery of CareThe implementation of Medicaid managed care in South Texas has led to some significant changes in the delivery of care in my community. Some are positive. One of the key benefits has been the increase in education and prevention programs Medicaid managed care operators have offered. These programs have provided covered individuals with hypoallergenic linens and products to reduce asthma incidents; weight management training; diabetes awareness classes; and community intervention specialists to reduce the incidence of traumatic life events and/or administer chronic disease management assistance. Some managed care operators, such as United Healthcare, have even reached out to the provider community to find new ways to offer patients medical homes, avoid hospital readmissions, and prevent avoidable visits to the emergency department. This type of collaboration is the definition of managed care that all providers welcome.
However, not all change has led to a positive experience. Since the expansion of managed care into South Texas, providers have become inundated with a barrage of paperwork, most of which is unnecessary. Due to the regulatory requirements of managed care, physicians have been forced to see fewer patients so they can meet the administrative requirements of multiple plans. This situation is made worse when one considers that reduced payment rates have forced physicians to lay off staff. So physicians must now cope with greater processing requirements, but with fewer staff.
I feel it is important to note that some plans have done a better job than others to streamline the care process and reduce unnecessary paperwork or unsubstantiated denials. A select group of managed care providers understands that an overly bureaucratic system impedes the proper delivery of care and is working to improve this situation.
It is my honest hope that in the weeks ahead, managed care operators, providers, and representatives of the Health and Human Services Commission can come together to improve and streamline managed care process in South Texas. The Texas Medical Association and I offer the following suggestions:
In light of these challenges, I must say that at this time we cannot determine if Medicaid managed, care allows for right care, at the right time, and in the right manner. However, I am optimistic that if the state, plan operators, and providers come together, this goal may be achieved.
3. Dual Eligible Cuts and Star PlusAssessing the full impact of Medicaid managed care must include evaluating changes to other integrated programs. The eventual success or failure of the state's Medicaid managed care Star Plus Program is inextricability linked to its dual-eligible payment policy. I would like to dedicate the remainder of my testimony to recent HHSC policy changes I believe have the potential to erode any progress achieved in realizing border health care parity. If left, these policies will lead to a great exodus of physicians from the Texas border community.
Beginning Jan. 1 of this year, Texas Medicaid implemented a new policy, limiting what it pays physicians who treat dual-eligible patients. As a result, physicians across the state who care for these patients face a cut of 20 percent and in some cases even more. "Dual-eligible" patients are low-income seniors and people with disabilities who qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid. In Texas, there are almost 465,000 dual-eligible patients, who are among the sickest and most vulnerable people in our state. Many reside in nursing homes.
I can tell you firsthand that these cuts have created a medical emergency for thousands of dual-eligible Texans and the physicians who care for them. No physician practice can absorb a 20-percent cut, especially now when Medicare threatens to cut our payments almost 30-percent Jan. 1, 2013. The policy change basically penalizes physicians who care for the sickest and frailest Medicare patients in the state.
One of my colleagues, Javier Saenz, MD, from La Joya is struggling to keep his practice open to patients. In addition to the 20-percent budget cut, his and other doctors' payments were delayed because the state and federal government experienced computer glitches the first three months of the year. Dr. Saenz had to borrow money twice this year to keep his office open. And, he's not alone. TMA has heard similar stories from physicians from Lubbock to Nacogdoches, El Paso to Brownsville, and Houston.
These cuts also hurt our ability to recruit physicians. Take for example Dr. Saenz, who runs his own practice in La Joya — and has for more than 20 years. His son who is getting his medical degree in San Antonio wants to join the practice. However, will there be a practice for him to return to?
TMA's current physician' access study shows 58 percent of Texas' doctors accept all NEW Medicare patients compared with 40 percent for dual-eligible patients. This the first time TMA asked questions in its survey related to dual-eligible patients so we don't have historical data to compare them against.
However, the survey did illustrate that physicians who have changed their practice policy towards dual-eligible patients are less likely to see all new Medicare patients. In fact, 47 percent said they accept none. These patients need us. These patients have serious, complicated illnesses. They need access to their doctor.
The message I most want leave you with today is that Texas physicians want to take care of our patients. We want to see all Medicaid and Medicare patients and those who are covered by both payers, but … we cannot do it without your help.
We need your help and action to mitigate the cut so physicians can continue to care for Texas' elderly — and often sickest — patients. Relief for these physicians and patients cannot happen too soon.
Physicians along the Texas border region cannot remain in operation without immediate action on this issue. Without physicians in communities across this region providing the right care, at the right time, and in the right manner, border health disparities and long-term health cost will rise by an exponential factor.
January 06, 2020
What could a TMA Membership mean for you, your practice, and your patients
Leaders of the Texas Medical Association and four large primary care specialty societies on Wednesday painted for senior Medicaid officials the bleak fiscal picture of many physician practices, and requested immediate financial assistance. Read More
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on March 30 approved Texas' request to waive certain Medicaid regulatory requirements to help physicians and other health care professionals more effectively respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More
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Those of us who live and have grown up in western culture live under the false perception of the Internet being a free entity; it couldn't be further than the truth. Internet isn't free. It's not just in foreign countries either. States at an increasingly large amount are keeping their eyes close on their countries domestic Internet usage, and it's not just tyrannical governments.
Authoritarian regimes aren't the only ones that monitor and restrict the Internet, although the restrictions are the utmost apparent in Middle Eastern countries and. As an example, Chinese Internet users seen foreign sites blocked, as well as domestic site censorship. This has become increasingly prevalent in the past few years.
China utilizes keyword filtering in order to block foreign content they consider to be politically harmful. Eluding is a possibility; however, extremely ubiquitous are the domestic controls, with censors across a large scope of Internet services, including:
Chat Rooms
Search Engine Scanning
Administrative levels also hold a large amount of censorship also. No online identity stays hidden for very long. On an almost daily basis different and new taboo terms get put on lists for which there will be no results when they're searched for, or ones that trigger erasure or encryption of micro-blog posts.
Iran is taking things even further, holding plans to ban and block all Internet access in favor of an intranet instead held domestically. Officials in Iran have stated that this is something that will stop spying and cyber-attacks from foreign countries. In truth, they'd do it to enable surveillance online, specifically focusing on those that are critics of the regime. Human rights campaigners already accuse Tehran of monitoring and filtering Internet traffic. They are far from the only Middle Eastern country to block unauthorized sites and filter content.
The industrialized realm isn't beyond Internet monitoring either. As an example, the government in Australia has proposed a system that would filter and blacklist certain:
Domain Names
Web Addresses
Commercially, European telecoms are often under throttling accusations. Throttling is the restriction of Internet speed to instant messaging (IM) apps. An example would be Skype, however, it includes anything that would threaten their (the carriers) core tenets of business, voice traffic.
Finally, large tech enterprises aren't exempt from such actions, as many of them create "barriers" around proprietary devices and applications. Apple is one such example, which recently stated they'd be cutting their rivals (Google) YouTube, mapping services and video sharing from the list of applications they preload onto their devices.
Increasing control both in developed countries and others shows one thing to be true, increasing control shows a free Internet is nothing more than a myth.


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Partit Nazzjonalista (PN) – https://twitter.com/#!/PNmalta
Partit Laburista (PL) – https://twitter.com/#!/PL_Malta
These are the numbers, including a Klout score which is a nifty way to measure online influence, assuming influence is what the elves behind the accounts crave.
AD, Malta's Green Party, also unfortunately makes the same mistakes and this gives them a Klout Score of 10. And I say unfortunately because I truly believed they would be the ones who would try to use means such as Twitter to better reach their target audience.
That brings me to the question – will Social Media lead the next elections in Malta? From the way things stand, the answer is no. None of the parties seem to want to devote any time, money, or interest to Twitter. Facebook will be discussed in a later blog, but for now it seems like it all rests on the good old BORING billboards.


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Tuesday, December 18, 2012
A Year Ago, Today
Yesterday, in Pravo, Jiří Pehe had this to say about the President. "Jeho nejvýraznější kvalitou totiž byla schopnost, i během pobytu v politice, zpochybňovat "samozřejmost" politického i civilizačního provozu a stavět proti němu odpovědnost." - His greatest quality was the ability, during his life in politics, to question what everyone else saw as obvious political and societal assumptions and to find a way to responsibly oppose them.
As a writer Havel understood subtext - how to read between the lines and see not only the face value of a story but what lay beneath it. As a dissident he saw just how easy it was to not force change, to not question assumptions, to say, "not now, it's not the time to act."
He acted anyway.
By acting on his beliefs, by writing about them, by helping to free an entire region from a very rigid set of assumptions, all while in the role of an everyman, Havel left a legacy behind him. It is this: there is no need to wait for a leader to take his place. We too, as everymen and women, can read between the lines and understand that just because something has been so for many years, it need not always be so. That there are ways to responsibly oppose assumptions. And that there never will be a better time than now.
In the United States today, there are certain assumptions that Americans hold to be true. Thanks to one of them, school rooms full of children were slaughtered last week by a man who should never have held a gun. The country grieves, and people come to place candles and flowers around the entrance of the school where the children died. But mourning is not enough. Now, I believe, is the time to remember the legacy of Vaclav Havel - to question our assumptions, and then to act.
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- Rouchswalwe said...
Six-year olds.
The example of Havel is a good one to galvanize ordinary people into taking action over time. Reading between the lines. Engaging in responsible effective opposition. You are so right, Julia. Mourning is not enough. Ordinary citizens must now act to counter the forces that seek to benefit financially from the portrayal of the future as a dangerous place where a person has to carry protection to defend against the big bad wolves out there. I believe the gun and ammunition manufacturers are hypocrites. They are the dangerous profit mongers.
Six-year olds. And brave teachers. The discussion here has reached a level I've not seen before. Flags still fly at half mast. And now the images of the small coffins as the funerals take place this week, the week before the christmas holiday. Action, I hope, begins in ernest now ...
- Ellen said...
Very well said. I couldn't agree more.
I just reposted this to my facebook. I live in Michigan, far from Connecticutt, but still in the USA. I fell the same way and hope that for once, we act, not just lament.
- Roderick Robinson said...
You might say this is Obama's big chance (second term; no electoral worries) to leave behind a name that is ultimately as revered as that of Vaclav Havel. The US is trembling at this very moment; even the NRA is talking about dialogue; but one gets the feeling that post-Christmas it will all be too late. Can he do it? It was genuinely moving to see him make those announcement, pausing for long seconds to take control of his emotions; wiping tears away. But being emotional isn't enough. He has to take the House by the scruff of the neck. Havel would have understood.
Those death have to count. Must count.
- Green Girl in Wisconsin said...
Well said. We need some thoughtful leaders looking for some solutions. It's long overdue.
I am not proud that S. C. is one of the largest producers of handguns in the country. .


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The Weekly USA Oil & Gas Update: 21st October 2014
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Schlumberger expects higher oil demand in 2015 to drive exploration
Crude oil price have dropped approximately 20% since June of this year due to oversupply. The world's leading oilfield service provider isn't overly concerned though. "The key to the overall oil market is still that the global oil demand is currently set to increase by 1.1 million barrels per day in 2015, which will require growth in exploration and production investments," Schlumberger Chief Executive Paal Kibsgaard said on a post-earnings call on Friday. The International Energy Agency revised its demand estimates though earlier in the week, cutting its growth estimate by300,000 bpd due to weak global economics. How this affects global prices remains to be seen, and the impact on activity comes down to how long oil prices remain soft. "WTI oil at $80 a barrel for a short time is unlikely to have an impact on growth and margins for the services companies, but $80 oil for more than a month or two certainly will," William Blair & Co analysts wrote in a note. Article here
All three major tight oil plays increase production substantially over the past year
According to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), the Eagle Ford leads in growth, up 42% from a year ago to an expected 1.61 million bpd this November. The Permian Basin, up 30% to 1.8 million bpd is the most prolific, while the Bakken grows 18% from a year ago to 1.19 million bpd. While the Permian and the Bakken are primarily oil plays, the Eagle Ford has the added benefit of also being a major natural gas producer. The EIA expects 7,040 mcf/d of natural gas production from the Eagle Ford in November, making it one of the nation's biggest producers. Article here
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Marathon latest E&P company to have success in Oklahoma's Scoop
After Continental's recent comments about its success in the Scoop (the South-Central Oklahoma Oil Province), the resource play has receive a lot of attention. The Scoop targets the Woodford shale formation. Now, Marathon Oil has positive results to add to the excitement. In the second quarter, the company brought online a well with an extended lateral that had an IP of 2,000 bpd. Marathon Chief Executive Officer Lee Tillman told analysts the company will not share many details about its program until leasing has concluded. But, he added, "We're very bullish on Oklahoma." The company's four drilling rigs working the play are now focused on drilling to hold acreage. Article here
Low oil prices likely to affect Tuscaloosa and Bakken plays first
With oil near $80 a barrel, higher cost production is beginning to feel the pinch. According to analysts, the first areas we'll see cuts in drilling budgets will be frontier plays, like the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale located n Mississippi and Louisiana. Expensive, experimental wells often do not provide the returns at $80 to maintain activity. The next area under pressure is the Bakken, with its relatively high costs to drill and transport. How will lower oil prices affect drilling budgets overall? "There is going to be a quick response" among explorers to lower prices said Gabriele Sorbara, an analyst at Topeka Capital Markets. "The body language from the companies I follow is that capital expenditures next year will be flattish or slightly up, when the expectation had been for increases in the 5 to 10 percent range." Article here
Southwestern Energy still thinks Northwest Colorado may hold oil
Shell was originally optimistic about the Niobrara formation in the far Northwest part of the state, but ultimately gave up on the play and sold its acreage to Southwestern Energy. Recently, Southwestern doubled down on the play, with a purchase of an additional 74,000 acres for $31 million. It will take a while before Southwestern knows if its bet will pay off. In a recent statement to analysts, the company's CEO Steve Mueller said "[w]e think ultimately, it's going to take somewhere close to 10 wells to really get a point of where we understand enough to say go or no go." The company expects it will take a couple years to drill the 10 wells. Article here
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Radioactive waste in the Marcellus creates dilemma
Drill cuttings and produced water from deep in the earth often contain naturally occurring radioactive waste (NORM). Drilling and production activity in Pennsylvania's Marcellus play has produced a fair amount of waste material with this characteristic. Depending on the level of radioactivity, disposal options can be limited for waste material. Last year, 1,015 loads of material that was attempted to be disposed of at Pennsylvania landfills tripped radiation alarms. In the first half of this year, 421 trucks carrying oil & gas waste tripped radiation alarms. When this happens, companies typically either take the loads out of state to special disposal sites, or dilute the loads to acceptable levels by mixing with non-radioactive material. Companies are also looking for ways to utilize radioactive produced water in hydraulic fracturing, enabling them to dispose of it back into the deep formation and save the disposal costs. Pennsylvania's DEP expects to release a study on oil & gas NORM and its potential impacts before the end of the year. Article here
Mergers and Acquisitions News
Chesapeake sells Marcellus an Utica assets for $5.37 billion
Southwestern Energy agreed to buy some of Chesapeake's assets in its Utica and Marcellus fields in a deal valued at $9,625 per acre. The transaction includes 256 operated wells and an interest in 179 non-operated wells producing a total of 56,000 barrels of oil equivalent, about half in liquids. Chesapeake said the deal will not impact its growth plans, expecting to still grow production company-wide by 7 to 10 percent in 2015. Article here
Tesoro acquires pipeline assets from QEP for $2.5 billion
The deal includes 2,000 miles of pipeline in the Rockies and North Dakota with the capacity to carry 2.9 billion cubic feet of gas a day and more than 54,000 barrels of oil. Article here


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by D. Lyn Hunter
To many Americans, politics and the media are the two least-trusted institutions in the country-and politicians and journalists often blame each other for this predicament.
The antagonistic relationship between elected officials and the press was the subject of a Nov. 25 panel discussion that included Sen. Dianne Feinstein, former Clinton adviser Laura d'Andrea Tyson and two noted journalists.
The event, held in North Gate Hall's library, was sponsored by the Graduate School of Journalism and the Institute of Governmental Studies.
During the discussion, Feinstein and Tyson aired their frustrations with the media, complaining that poorly edited sound bites and bad reporting by inexperienced journalists often led to misrepresentation of their issues in the press.
"Reporters need to have a historical perspective and a knowledge of the institution and its players to present a fair story, and I don't really see that in today's journalists," said Feinstein, adding that she now tapes all her conversations with the media.
Both admitted there are some good reporters in the field-Feinstein mentioned local news anchor Dave McElhatton and Walter Cronkite as two that stand out-but lamented the increasing focus on negative stories and the skimpy coverage of the positive work going on in Washington.
"There are no heroes left, thanks to the destructive nature of the press," said Feinstein.
Anne Grimes, deputy national editor of The Washington Post, and Elizabeth Drew, author of several books on Washington politics, cautioned that generalizations should not be made about all journalists.
"There are all kinds of reporters just as there are all kinds of politicians," said Drew.
Grimes added that at the same time reporters are being blamed for unfair stories, politicians, through leaks and spin doctors, often use the press to further their own agendas, which are not always in the best interests of the country.
Both journalists said they feel the roots of this aggressive relationship can be traced to the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal, when several young journalists uncovered massive government cover-ups.
"These events helped create the predator/prey mentality with politics and the media," said Grimes. "The lies told (by politicians) back then are at the core of the problem we are talking about today."
However, the bigger problem facing both journalists and politicians, according to Grimes and Drew, is the increased use of market research by news organizations, resulting in stories on celebrity and personality instead of policy and substance.
"What sells is what gets in," said Drew.
Everyone on the panel agreed that the relationship between the press and politicians need not be a hostile one if both parties respect the concepts of fairness, trust and accountability.
Feinstein got the chance to demonstrate her balancing of press, politics and big business during the discussion, as a group of slogan-shouting activists outside the library protested the recent signing of a federal bill on the Headwaters forest in Northern California.
Although she did not talk to the protesters directly, Feinstein answered a question from the audience about the Headwaters deal, which she helped broker.
"The previous 10 actions to save Headwaters have all failed. I was able to bring the two sides together and save 7,500 acres at the cost of $250 million," she said. "I know it's not as much as (the protesters) want, but at least we were able to save some of the forest."


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April 2010, Gallery Gachet showcases two diverse yet confluent artists, Larry Williams and Andria Matta Schaal. Williams is the quintessential outsider, creating visionary work stemming from his imagination that relates to his own personal inner sanctuary. On the other end of the spectrum, Schaal defines her art through her political ideology and speaks to the outer world in which we operate. Both artists offer disparate perspectives on internal and external human experiences but both surge with the same complex imagery, intricate penmanship and stunning beauty.
Blue Cloud Day: The Visionary Art of Larry Williams
Larry Williams fits into the strictest definition of Art Brut. Marginalized since childhood by social, financial, and health barriers, he has continually made an ongoing, conscious choice to disengage himself from the world around him. While creating his art, he has never considered the opinion of anyone but himself. Williams is an authentic self-taught artist. Never having been shown in a gallery before, this retrospective of his vast portfolio of visionary work offers a window into his personal reality – that of the outsider looking within, toward the centre of his own being. Williams simply states: "Look up at the sky when it is blue. That is a blue cloud day."
A Stitch in Time | Andria Matta Schaal
Matta's work explores the (anti)-ecology of Empire. Empire – the global entity that some call "progress" that continues to expand and extend control into ever wider and wider territory. This empire knows no limits. It seeks no balance. It demands broader pools of victims and further extraction of resources, always with a complete and utter disregard for the healthy relationships between living things. It is this complex relationship between living organism and the global entity of capital that Matta's work explores. She speaks to issues of the environmental destruction, colonisation, displacement, extinction and occupation because she finds these harsh and heavy realities. Combining these dark themes with the vapid illusions and grandiose ambitions of today's society make for biting and provocative art. This series of pen and ink drawings from Vancouver's upcoming artist, Schaal leave you with a chilling degree of uncertainty about the future of civilisation, as we know it.
To see pictures from this exhibition, please visit our Flickr account https://www.flickr.com/photos/gallerygachet/sets/72157625165885702


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But the problem for this is, if the job run @15th minute for about 5 minutes, then the next time it will start @35th minutes for another 5 minutes, then the time after that will be @55th minute etc...
If he does not mind that, then the formula will work.
I still find that the best way to make the database to run the job in a particurlar time and interval is CRON!
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It's pretty straightforward, according to the experts. If you want to be great at something, you have to practice it for 10,000 hours.
This could be playing the piano or trading hedge funds or shooting a basketball. It's all about refinement of the skill, repetition compounded by more and more and more repetition.
This principle, detailed in Malcolm Gladwell's book The Outliers, holds for other less worthwhile and sketchy pursuits such as writing sports blogs. Theoretically, if some guy — let's call him Sammy Sportface — wants to be good at writing sports blogs, he needs to spend 10,000 hours practicing the craft.
At the rate he's going, sometime more than three decades from now Sammy will reach that 10,000-hour milestone. So far he estimates he has spent 71-73 hours writing sports blogs. The math tells us that he needs to write for somewhere in the range of 9,927 to 9,929 more hours before he gets good at it.
At the end of this blog writing session, he will be able to add seven more minutes to his current total so he will be up to 71-73 hours and seven minutes. Tomorrow he plans to spend about five minutes writing a sports blog, upping the total to 71 to 73 hours and 12 minutes.
This is going to be a long and arduous haul. But people have always had to start somewhere and this is where Sammy Sportface now stands. This is his lot and burden in life. There are other trades he could pursue, and NGSCSports editor Ralph Garcia prays that he will.
"It would be a great day for me if Sammy Sportface decided to stop writing sports blogs," he said. "The amount of time and aggravation he puts me through to read his drivel is tedious and a massive time suck. I wish Sammy would figure out something else to do with his life."
If I were Sammy's adviser, I would counsel him not to get all caught up in the numerical goal because it could be discouraging. Ten thousand is a daunting number especially when you're only at 71.
What's worse, who knows if the theory is really true or not? This could all be a pack of lies. Whose theory is it, anyway, Ralph Garcia's?
There is no guarantee that if Sportface practices that much, his blogs will get good. It seems like a crapshoot to me. It's chasing vaporware. If Sammy were to ask me, I would do him a solid and be
blunt about all this. "Sammy," I would say, "don't waste your time writing sports blogs. Besides Garcia, no one reads them. Get a job in software programming or horticulture or rock climbing. Integrate yourself into society. Go fly a kite."
— Sammy Sportface
Sammy Sportface is possibly America's best blogger. He is only mildly interested in the truth. To read his new book, Wipe That Smile Off Sammy Sportface, go to Amazon.com.


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The Lakeland, Florida Police Department has had a rough time recently, with an officer humiliating a young woman on the side of the road and another officer being stopped from testifying by the judge to obtain legal counsel on possible perjury (here); an officer beating another driver in road rage, a traffic ticket controversy, and eleven lawsuits against the department in the last few years (here); and a sex scandal that involves a dozen officers (here).
And the hits keep coming in…
Two sergeants fired, one resigned in questions about the sex scandal and testifying truthfully.
A lieutenant resigned in lieu of termination in the sex scandal. This lieutenant had been the subject of multiple Internal Affairs investigations (1,800 pages), had been recommended for before, yet was still a lieutenant. Another officer who had sex with the civilian employee in a closet also resigned. Captain John Thomason retired rather than face an investigation into the matter. A total of nine officers are no longer with the department due to the scandals.
Now, the State's Attorney is considering tossing up to 40 DUI cases due to "integrity" issues within the Lakeland Police Department. This involves Officer Eads, who was covered in a earlier post, Sergeant Ray Lloyd, and three other officers. It seems that the State's Attorney feels that Lloyd was less than truthful in an investigation into Lakeland IAD Lieutenant Hans Lehman.
Chief Womack has full faith that the Internal Affairs process is working – until it came to light that Lt. Lehman tipped off an officer facing an IA investigation. The officer tipped off? Sgt. Lloyd. Now an Assistant Chief will oversee Internal Affairs. But the process is working…
Is that why the Mayor is setting up a blue ribbon panel to assess the police department?
Is that why the state legislators want the Polk County Sheriff to come in and fix the department?
And the department is facing re-accreditation by the Commission for Florida Law Enforcement Accreditation, Inc. But not to worry, according to Lt. Lehman, the assessors "understand that we've worked hard the last two and a half, three years to get back to where we were…" Uh, is that the same Lehman that allegedly tipped off Lloyd?
I've got a better solution. Close down the department and bring in the Sheriff's Office to handle law enforcement. Take time to find a new chief and hire a completely new staff. The culture cannot be changed when it is that prevalent throughout the department and into the command staff level.
The two co-chairs of the advisory committee set up by the mayor have resigned, prior to the committee's first meeting. One of the two indicated that she was concerned about the communications and accountability breakdowns created by the organizational culture. She also indicated that she was troubled by the fact that there had been no commitment to hold these meetings publicly.


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September 13, 2018 06:46 PM
Federal regulators announced that e-cigarette use among teenagers have reached epidemic levels so they're cracking down on illegal sales to minors.
The Food and Drug Administration sent 13,000 warning letters to retailers for selling e-cigarette products to teenagers.
A faculty member at RIT has been researching the use of e-cigarettes and supplied some of the research data to the FDA.
The data concerns the use, toxicity and impact on youth.
"Flavor additives in electronic cigarettes, when they're heated, they decompose into chemicals that aren't there in the original e-liquid," explained Risa Robinson, RIT. "So, flavor additives that are approved by the FDA for eating and ingestion have not been approved for inhalation so there's the concern."
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Tony Whitehead is hoping for a repeat performance as Limerick look to move within touching distance of safety when they tackle Saint Patrick's Athletic at Richmond Park on Saturday evening, kick-off 5pm.
The 21-year-old centre-half finally opened his goalscoring account – in his fifth season in the first team – with the opener in Inchicore when the sides met back in April, which ended in a 2-0 win for the Shannonsiders.
With just two points separating them with four games remaining, that victory was all the more important, with Whitehead acknowledging that this weekend's clash represents a "six-pointer".
But with "confidence high" following two good performances against Cork City – which ended in a league win and narrow FAI Cup semi-final loss – the Charleville native is relishing the test that awaits them in the capital.
"We're on a good run recently so, I have to admit, I'm looking forward to the game. It's a big game – probably a six-pointer when you look at the table. Confidence is high in the group and we're just looking forward to it now," Tony told LimerickFC.ie
"It was a great win up there the last time. Looking at the table now it was a big three points. Personally, I waited five years to score a goal so it was a nice moment for me. But more importantly we got the three points and hopefully we can repeat it on Saturday. St Pat's work very hard. They're a good side and they're on a good run at the moment."
Whitehead was pleased with how Limerick competed with Munster rivals Cork over back-to-back games in the past fortnight, which has boosted the mood in the camp ahead of the run-in.
"The first game we got two early goals and I thought we defended brilliantly. I think they had 17 corners and we defended very well, which was a big plus," Tony said.
"Again, in the Cup game last week there were a lot of positives to take from that. We were under pressure for the first 15-20 minutes but after we conceded I think we were the better team for the 60-70 minutes after that. I thought we were unlucky and we deserved more from the game but it just wasn't to be."
Whitehead, who signed for the Under-19s in January 2012, penned a contract extension with the club in July which will take him through to the end of the 2018 season. And he has been happy with his progress, even if he would like to see the side further up the standings.
"I'm obviously disappointed that we are down near the bottom of the table," he admitted. "Personally, I think I've played 29 going on 30 games so it has been a good season for me. I'm hoping to stay in the team and hopefully get safe as soon as possible."
Limerick completed preparations for the game at UL on Friday morning with manager Neil McDonald reporting a fully-fit squad for the fixture.


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I don't know about you, but every year, I find that my mom becomes the hardest person on my list to shop for. I haven't fully figured out why this is… but if you're feeling confused about what to get your own mom this Christmas, I've rounded up 50 stylish Christmas gifts for mom in all price points! Give your mom a gift she'll love, and be her hero this Christmas!
50 Stylish Christmas Gifts For Mom
Every woman everywhere loves shoes. There, I've said it. And I believe it, whether or not she often buys them for herself or not. So be her hero, and buy your mom a beautiful pair of shoes this Christmas! Here are five pairs of shoes that make great Christmas gifts for mom.
Sparkly Clutch
Gifting, to me, is really about getting something great for your mom that she wouldn't normally buy herself, but that she will use and love. Moms have holiday parties to go to, and they love to go out for lunch, dinner, cocktails with their girlfriends and significant others. So a clutch is a perfect holiday gift for a mom. Below are five gorgeous clutches that your mom will love!
Festive Scarf
I don't know a mom who doesn't love a good scarf. Whether you wear it infinity style or as a wrap – or even tie it on the handle of your favorite bag – a scarf is a perfect statement piece you can buy as a Christmas gift for mom, and they come in all price points.
Leather Gloves
Leather gloves are a winter essential when you live or visit somewhere cold. I can't go outside without gloves in the winter, for the most part, but I never seem to have a nice pair or two lying around anymore. It's just one of those things I think about last, so I'm guessing a lot of other moms are this way as well. I've pulled five pairs of gloves that are stunning and that she'll love to receive this Christmas!
It's soft, it's cozy, it's warm, it's inviting – it's cashmere! Cashmere (sometimes faux) comes in all prices and in so many styles, that it'd be really hard to go wrong with something this universally amazing. Cashmere = the PERFECT Christmas gift for mom.
Knotted Blanket
These blankets are all the rage with Instagram interior stars these days, and it's easy to see why. They're just so darn pretty!
Great Skincare
I found Charlotte Tilbury somewhat by accident, and somewhat by doing enough Internet searches to read enough reviews to make me want to give the brand's skincare a try. And boy have I been happy with the results! While everyone's skincare routine is different, there is one thing every mom on the planet can agree on – taking care of our skin is a MUST, because as we age and get less sleep due to our mom duties, our skin suffers. Here, I've curated five skincare gifts that are sure to give mom a pick-me-up!
It goes without saying that moms love jewelry. But sometimes it can be hard to know what styles to get her. There are just an infinite number of choices out there these days, so I've narrowed them down for you to bring you some of the most stylish pieces that will make beautiful gifts for her.
Nail Care
Moms love to have their nails done. But if you're like me, and constantly cleaning up after kids or doing dishes or changing diapers – it can be unpractical to get your nails done regularly. Most of the time, I opt to do my own manis and pedis, since I find myself needing them so often. This is why nail polish and nail care products are great gifts for mom! Put them together in a beautiful makeup bag, and you've got a full gift right there!
Make-Up and Hair Care
Rounding out the beauty category are make-up and hair care. I kind of bundled them together, for the sake of keeping this gift guide to 50 items, but I'll probably split them up in a later gift guide at some point, since these beauty categories are so extensive.
Makeup and hair care items make great stocking stuffers, or you can package a few items together for a beautiful gift. Here are five ideas that'll make your mom smile!


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Anal, BDSM, blowjob, MILF and mature, asians, group, teens, pregnant, classic, lesbians, outdoors, compilation, big tits, interracial, black women and if you are into this kind of things, trans and gay - this is what you will get if you will push on the Select Category button that can be found in the navigation bar. Right there, you will also see the search function box which is called ... "The Search". I like that!
The homepage is probably showing the latest additions and for every update you will get a thumbnail where the poster of the movie will sit quiet and sexy. Underneath, the title is written alongside the category in which the video can be found. Scroll down to get to the page menu - they currently have (at the time of this review) 173 pages filled with adult entertainment. Scroll a bit more and you will see the tag cloud. Enter!


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Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) now lists United Recycling & Container as a Certified Facility for Mixed-Waste Recyclers and Disposal Facilities. SPU adopted new requirements for new construction, remodeling and demolition activities in Seattle in January 2014, specifying that certain materials must be recycled. Specifically, Seattle Municipal Code 21.36.089 prohibits the disposal of unpainted concrete and asphalt paving, whole bricks, metal, cardboard, and new construction gypsum scrap.
In addition, SPU developed a program to certify recycling activities at receiving and processing facilities that demonstrate compliance with the requirements. To earn the "Facility Certification", the facilities must be:
- Permitted by the local health jurisdiction;
- Submit reports to SPU; and
- Participate in independent testing of the residuals from sorting operations to ensure the material going to a landfill does not contain a significant amount of banned materials.
Although contractors are not required to use a "Certified Facility" (they can use other facilities/haulers and are required to submit supporting documentation), contractors who deliver C&D materials to these facilities (or have their materials hauled by and/or to these facilities) are considered in compliance with SPU's requirements.
According to reports submitted to SPU, United Recycling & Container had a recycling rate of 83% for September 2014. This means that of all of the materials coming out of United Recycling & Container, 83% of the materials are recycled and 17% ended up in a landfill. This exceeds the recycling rate of all other current Certified Facilities on the SPU list.
President, Dan McAuliffe explained, "We are extremely proud of our operations and the recycling rate we are able to achieve. It is from the hard work of all of our team members and our ability to continually find new markets for materials, that we are exceeding the requirements of Seattle Public Utilities."
To learn more about recycling at United Recycling & Container, call 360-668-4300.


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An Emerald Coast Christmas at Aaron Bessant Park
Saturday, 09 December, 2017|
An Emerald Coast Christmas
When: Friday, December 8 - Sunday, December 10
Where: Aaron Bessant Park
600 S Pier Park Drive
Panama City Beach, FL. 32413
Have An Emerald Coast Christmas at Aaron Bessant Park in Panama City Beach December 8 - 10! This weekend festival is a collaboration and celebration of our community and the Christmas season. With a full food court, an extensive vendor village, a Living Nativity and petting zoo, a children's area with a train, bounce houses, and bungee swings, and more, the event has something for everyone. Saturday from 10 AM to 9 PM local performers will take the stage, including many from Bay District Schools and other local schools, as well as local bands, dance companies, and other performers. On Friday night and Sunday afternoon, a 50-piece orchestra and over 100 singers from Emerald Coast Fellowship and Woodstock Church PCB will present a full Christmas musical with songs new and old, including the debut of some new arrangements just premiered at Carnegie Hall. The entire weekend is not to be missed! Find more Florida Beach Events...
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CLAIM: NASA said Feb. 10 is the only day of the year that a broom can stand on its own.
THE FACTS: NASA did not make that claim, but the U.S. space agency did take time Tuesday to address the false assertion as it spread widely on Twitter. Turns out, it's just a balancing act and a broom can stand on its own on any day.
Social media users began circulating the claim citing NASA on Monday along with videos and photos showing a variety of brooms being balanced. Some posts tied balancing brooms to gravitational pull and others said it was the tilt of the Earth. NASA spokeswoman Karen Northon told The Associated Press in an email that the posts, which circulated widely on Twitter and Facebook, proved the importance of checking with reliable sources before spreading information online.
"This is another social media hoax that exemplifies how quickly pseudoscience and false claims can go viral," she said. NASA knocked down the #BroomstickChallenge claim on its official Twitter account Tuesday, posting that "basic physics works every day of the year — not just Feb. 10." The tweet featured a video of Astronaut Alvin Drew and scientist Sarah Noble making a broom stand on its own. "It's just physics," Drew said in the video uploaded to Twitter on Feb. 11.
NASA Earth, a separate Twitter account, also addressed the claim, stating, "there's no special gravity that only affects brooms." The broom challenge myth has existed online for years. WIRED debunked the claim in 2012 with a story titled "Balancing brooms: it's not about the planets."


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ball,Normal ball, Pastel ball,and other species of the python regius family. if interested contact us for price list? we are located in cameroon africa
Looking for a new friend (pet)
Every year we re-home around 70,000 animals - they may be unwanted pets that have been callously dumped or victims of cruelty.
If you're looking for a new pet, why not consider offering a home to one of them? In return for offering them a second chance at life, you'll get a great companion.
What to expect
You can use these pages to look at some of the animals looking for homes and to find your nearest RSPCA.
The adoption procedure can vary between animal centres and branches. The best thing to do is to visit your local centre or branch, and staff there will talk you through the process and help you meet your ideal pet.
So if you're thinking of getting a pet - think RSPCA! Or Similar Animal Associations


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[which therefore makes it alright]
[what they really mean is, Harry was told that this is not the 19th century - you can't do this kind of thing anymore and it will help weaken the monarchy]
It continued: "However, on this occasion three years ago, Prince Harry used the term without any malice and as a nickname about a highly popular member of his platoon.
"There is no question that Prince Harry was in any way seeking to insult his friend."
[Err quite - would it have been acceptable if it had been used about an unpopular member of the platoon? Naturally Harry wasn't intending to insult his friend(!). In fact he intended it as a compliment]
The statement added: "Prince Harry used the term 'raghead' to mean Taleban or Iraqi insurgent."
[so another officer was a member of the Taleban or an Iraqi insurgent - i.e. opposed to foreign invaders. Presumably using racist epithets against those you are fighting is acceptable then?]
It is the second time in recent years Harry has had to apologise for causing offence.
In 2005, he wore a swastika armband to a party, which was said to be in "bad taste".
I'm not sure which is worse - the original remarks or the 'explanation' by the Palace.


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Chevrolet is set to introduce the Chevrolet Trax this September over at the 2012 Paris motor show. The Trax will be Chevrolet's answer to the other manufacturer's small SUV/ compact crossover segment models just like Mitsubishi's ASX and Subaru's XV.
"For many decades, Chevrolet has been known for its dependable and capable SUVs. Trax will deliver on all of the traditional Chevrolet values and more. It is a modern, highly versatile yet fuel-efficient small SUV, offering car-like handling and all-wheel drive," said Susan Docherty, President and Managing Director of Chevrolet Europe.
The Trax measures 4,248 mm in length, 1,776 mm wide with a wheelbase of 2,555 mm with powerful body lines that convey agility and movement. It will be initially offered in Europe with three engines choices, a 1.4L turbocharged petrol engine, a 1.6L petrol engine, and a 1.7L turbo-diesel engine.
Inside the trax, it has a sophisticated instrument cluster providing digital readouts on analog displays, it can also carry a lot of stuff on its 358-liter capacity trunk, and can even extend up to the second row seats via a 60/40 split rear seat.
More details about the Chevrolet Trax will be released at the Paris motor show this Septmeber 27.


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Howell Woman Denies Allegations Of Animal Mistreatment
A Livingston County woman is denying allegations of animal mistreatment after more than 90 dogs and puppies were removed from her Howell Township property. Margaret Elaine Komorny says her dogs were not in overcrowded cages and received daily care. Livingston County Animal Control and Sheriff Deputies were assisted by The Humane Society of the United States and veterinarians on Wednesday with removal of the animals after investigators determined that the dogs were living in substandard conditions. No charges have been filed against Komorny over the incident. However, she is facing charges of animal cruelty after an April incident at her Raisin Tree Farm.


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Above photo was taken within one year of Angelica Gandara's disappearance — Below photo is a age-progression of what Angelica might look like at 33. She turned 39 several days ago.
Classification: Non-Family Abduction
- Full Name: Angelica Maria Gandara
- Birthdate: February 5, 1974
- Missing Date: July 14, 1985
- Last Seen In: Temple, Bell County, TX
- Age at Disappearance: 11 years old
- Age Now: 39 years old
- Race/Gender: Hispanic Female
- Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 4'10" tall, 85 pounds
- Hair/Eyes: Black hair; brown eyes.
- Marks, Scars: Mole on her nose
- Clothing: Last seen wearing a black and white short sleeve pullover shirt with the word "Sasson" printed on the front, black shorts, white socks and white shoes.
On July 14, 1985, after visiting her grandmother, Angelica headed to her home in Temple, TX, on foot. The walk was only two blocks away from her house and it was something she had done numerous times before.
She never made it home.
Angelica was allegedly seen in a 1977 Chevrolet pickup truck with an unidentified white male and female. The pickup's hood, front fender and bed were red and white in color, the doors were blue and white, and the top was white. The pickup was dented, dirty and unkept. She hasn't been seen or heard from since.
In 2007, over 22 years after Angelica disappeared, authorities named serial killer David E. Penton as a possible suspect in her case, as well as several other missing girls. He has been serving a prison sentence in Texas since 1987 and allegedly signed a plea deal admitting responsibility for three missing girls from Texas. He didn't admit to the kidnapping of Angelica however.
Mugshot of David Penton
David Penton kidnapped and murdered 5-year-old Christi Lynn Meek (pictured) as she played outside an apartment complex in Mesquite where she lived with her mother.
Another suspect, Ramiro R. Ibarra is another possible suspect. In 1997, he was convicted and sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a 16-year-old from Waco, Texas. He was an acquaintance of the victim's family and broke into their home and committed the crime.
Other witnesses claimed to have seen Angelica in San Antonio, TX but those claims are unconfirmed.
As of 2013, the whereabouts of Angelica Gandara remains unknown.
If you have any information regarding this cold case you're asked to please contact:
Temple Police Department 1-254-298-5500
Texas Department of Public Safety, Missing Persons Clearinghouse
PO Box 4087, Austin, Texas 78773-0450; or by phone at 512-424-5074 or 1-800-346-3243
Agency Case Number: 08503877
The Doe Network: Case File 92DFTX


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As some of you may know I read 5 books in July. I haven't read as much in August, but I have a couple of reads to tell you about:
Yes, another Heyer novel! his is one of my favourites so far and I recommend it to those of you who like novels taking place in the Regency era, adventure and just a touch of romance.
In this book we follow John Staple, a captain who just came home from the battle of Waterloo. His love for a good adventure has earned him the nickname Crazy Jack. Life in peacetime does not suit him, and he soon leaves his comfortable home to visit one of his old friends. On his journey there he happens upon a toll-house that has been abandoned by the gatekeeper. The only person manning this gate is the son of the gatekeeper, an 11 year old boy who seems frightened witless. Captain Staple decides to stay for the night to learn more about the gatekeepers disappearance and what might have scared the boy, and soon finds himself in a great adventure.
The reason that I liked this book is that main focus is on the adventure and mystery, and the romance is not too lovey dovey. I find the main male character very likeable; he is not a insensitive brute, and he loves when things get interesting. The main female character gets less room in this novel than in many of Heyer's other stories, but she is a rather unusual and sensible lady.
Der Schachautomat
The Chess Machine
Robert Löhr
Okay, so this book I listened to in Swedish, because it's originally written in German, and I don't know German well to read a whole book in it. But the book is also available in English, so I put the title in those three languages here in case you'd be interested in this book and want to be able to find it.
This story is based on historical events, people and objects. It is not meant to be taken as historical fact. The early history about the chess machine is not well known, so the author has woven an interesting adventure around it with some characters who really existed, and some who he made up.
So what is this "chess machine"? For you who have not heard about it I recommend the wikipedia article about it for a quick and fun history trivia. But in all shortness: Wolfgang from Kempelen, an inventor and author, built an automatic chess playing machine in the late 18th century. This machine looked like a Turk sitting by a table of chess, and it beat almost everyone of its opponents. Von Kempelen toured Europe with this remarkable machine, and they were everywhere met with wonder, fascination, and curiousness. How had he managed to build a machine that could think?! Well, it was a grand hoax. Inside the machine sat a person who steered the machine movements, and it was this person who actually played the game of chess.
In this book, this chess player, hidden in the machine, is a little man named Tibor. Von Kempelen saves him from prison, in return for help with his hoax. Tibor accepts these conditions, and starts a life hidden away in darkness where he has to play chess under slave like conditions. He's only comfort is his religion, and now and then the sin of the flesh (beware of 18th century dress up parties). Tibor eventually grows tired of this life of chess and lies, but Von Kempelen still has use for him, and some drama between them spurs. There are also the non-believers, who mistrust Von Kempelen and his seemingly magical machine, and they are going to great length to prove the inventor to be a swindler.
I really enjoyed this book because of the more or less glamorous setting in the 1700's. Von Kempelen and his chess machine is a fantastic slice of history, and the characters Löhr made up for the other main roles are interesting and likeable. The adventures of the chess machine's make a great foundation for a fun and fascinating story!


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Tyri Squyres, vice president – marketing, Frontier Airlines at the Austin airport.
AUSTIN, Texas – Frontier Airlines has announced plans to double the number of nonstop destinations it currently serves from Austin with flights to eight cities including two new destinations. These new routes include:
- Charlotte, NC
- Cincinnati, OH
- Columbus, OH(new destination)
- New Orleans, LA
- Phoenix, AZ
- Raleigh/Durham, NC
- Ontario, CA (new destination)
- San Jose, CA
Tickets to New Orleans, Ontario, Phoenix and Raleigh/Durham are on sale now. Tickets for all other destinations will be available for purchase by September. Book flights at www.flyfrontier.com.
"With today's announcement, Frontier now offers our Low Fares Done Right service to 16 destinations," said Tyri Squyres, vice president – marketing, Frontier Airlines. "Customers traveling from Austin now have a new significantly lower-cost option to reach these great destinations."
"Frontier has now more than doubled their network of route options for Central Texas," said Jim Smith, Executive Director, Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.
The airport of choice for Central Texas is Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS). Fly Austin on new nonstop international destinations including Amsterdam, Netherlands (AMS) during SXSW 2018, www.delta.com, London Gatwick, United Kingdom (LGW) on Norwegian Air, www.norwegian.com/us, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (PUJ) via Vacation Express, www.vacationexpress.com, Guadalajara, Mexico (GDL) on Volaris, www.volaris.com, Mexico City, Mexico (MEX) on AeroMexico, www.aeromexico.com, Welcome to Sun Country, a new carrier to Minneapolis – St. Paul International Airport (MSP) at www.suncountry.com. Welcome other new domestic nonstops: Kansas City (MCI) and Panama City (ECP) on Southwest, www.southwest.com, Raleigh-Durham (RDU) on Delta, www.delta.com, and Indianapolis (IND), Pittsburgh (PIT), St. Petersburg (PIE), Destin-Fort Walton Beach (VPS), and Cleveland (CLE) on Allegiant, www.allegiantair.com. Find all nonstop routes with the free interactive flight guide on www.abia.org. Connect with us on Twitter, @AUStinAirport, Facebook, www.facebook.com/abia and on Instagram, @AUSairport.


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Manish Shah, MD, FACS, is board-certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, the Rhinoplasty Society, and the European Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery. After completing his formal plastic surgery training in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Univ. of Tennessee College of Medicine, he moved to New York City and was selected for the prestigious Aesthetic Surgery Fellowship at Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital. He underwent extensive, advanced training in aesthetic surgery of the face, breasts, and body at the hands of some of the most renowned cosmetic surgeons in the world. Dr. Shah is one of only a select few plastic surgeons in the country who have undergone formal post-graduate training in aesthetic surgery.
Dr. Shah's specialties include revision facial aesthetic surgery, rhinoplasty ("nose reshaping"), and aesthetic surgery of the breast (breast augmentation, breast lift, breast reduction). He is, however, well-trained in all areas of aesthetic surgery. Dr. Shah's aim is to obtain a natural appearing transformation that complements the real you.