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Our Mission
The purpose of this program is to connect graduate, undergraduate, and professional ecologists at the University of Georgia with school-age children in order to heighten awareness of the science of ecology and environmental issues. By interacting with young people, we hope to raise awareness and enthusiasm for science, while supplementing the schools' curriculum to meet objectives in the state curriculum guidelines.
EcoReach is here to interact with teachers to provide flexible programs designed to meet the needs of their students. We also serve our community through informal educational opportunities, such as presenting programs to local scout groups, providing judges for science fairs, and presenting programs at local science days.
Our Goals
- To share information about the ecology with the community
- To strengthen awareness of environmental issues
- To inspire an interest in the environment in school-age children
- To provide educational opportunities for students and faculty in the School of Ecology
Our Volunteers
Our organization is made up primarily of graduate students from the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia. We also have some undergraduate and faculty participants, as well as graduate students from other departments. We are a student-organized group with a faculty advisor, Dr. Jasmine Crumsey Forde.
Areas Served
We are happy to serve areas within a one-half hour drive of the University of Georgia.


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School Field Trip Programs
Bring your class to Tacoma Art Museum for a field trip!
TAM field trips are designed for students in PreK-12th grade, and are aligned to state and national standards.
Our Philosophy
- We believe all students are artists, with the power to make meaning by viewing & creating works of art.
- Artists express the realities & possibilities of communities, society, & the world.
- We foster students' empathy and inspire them to envision a more equitable world.
What We Teach
- Field trip programs typically last two hours: one hour of discussion and activities in the galleries and one hour of hands-on art-making.
- Each field trip is guided by an essential question and 2-3 learning targets related to a specific theme.
- Field trips support Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts, state Visual Art Standards, state Social Studies Standards, and Since Time Immemorial curriculum.
How We Teach
- Trained Gallery Educators and Teaching Artists facilitate field trip programs.
- Discussions and activities with original works of art are adapted from Harvard's Project Zero and are designed to build critical thinking skills and cultivate visual literacy.
- Art-making is driven by the Studio Thinking framework, which emphasizes student voice and agency during the creative process, and the cultivation of Studio Habits of Mind.
Additional Information
- Cost: $7 per student, scholarship rate of $5 per student available for eligible schools
- A scholarship rate is available to schools with at least 50% of students enrolled in the free and reduced lunch program and must be requested at the time of registration. This rate is $5 per student for guided tours with a minimum of 10 paid students.
- Transportation reimbursement is available on a first-come first-served basis
- Required chaperone ratio: 1 chaperone per 10 students; TAM can provide volunteer chaperones at the museum, upon request
- Free lunch space is available
More Information
- Elementary School Programs
- Middle and High School Programs
- Self-Guided Experience
- College student groups should register as Adult Group Tours.
Additional information is available regarding transportation.
Request a School Field Trip Online
Questions? Please email us at email@example.com or call 253-272-4258 x3026

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What the elite are doing to this country at this time is akin to nonconsensual sodomy by force. We are constantly and continually being told, "Keep your head down and your eyes closed" (Do not watch FOXnews or listen to talk radio; do not educate yourself). "If you yell out I'll hit you and beat you hard" (I'll deem you racist and you'll spend your time defending the false charge). "This isn't going to hurt a bit" (Your taxes will not go up – not any of them). "When I'm finished, my friends will be next, one after another, until we are all exhausted" (TARP, stimulus, health care, endless bailouts)". "Depending on how long and how well you survive, more of my friends will come to take advantage of your compromised position." (We will saddle you with unlimited growth of the government and unending restrictions on your freedom.)
"When we're finished with your body we're going to go through your closet." (You had the audacity to work hard and earn more money than some other people. You bought your clothes at Sacs and Nordstrom and Abercrombie & Fitch and Macy's while others who chose not to work hard and advance themselves could only afford clothes from WalMart or even the Goodwill and Salvation Army thrift stores.) "We'll take your clothes and give them to the less fortunate." You must understand you don't deserve to have more than other people do.
The elite in Washington D.C. and their mentors behind the curtain are the rapists. The rest of us are the victims. There will soon be no incentive to build business and hire employees. The elite will take any profits for distribution throughout this country and the world until everybody is "equal".
However, that equality can never happen because there will always be the elite few who are in charge of doling the benefits to whom they choose as recipients. They will be the controllers of wealth, always taking their administrative fee off the top for their efforts. They will continue to gain more wealth at the expense of the second-class citizens they overlord.
Who, in their right mind, can actually believe that the government can or will do a better job with the proceeds of individual citizens' efforts than those citizens? Who, of any ambition, would want to see their efforts diverted to others with few, little or no aspirations leaving little or nothing to share with choice? At what point will everybody just give up and say to the government, "Feed me, clothe me, take care of me?" Oh Lord will you buy me a Mercedes Benz? My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP9Dj2nvW3Q&feature=related When that point comes, the decision to do so or not is in the hands of the elite.
Those not paying attention, those not concerned, simply have not had their pants ripped away…yet. It is coming and it is coming fast. Yes, there will be a few masochists allowing it to happen and perhaps even enjoy the domination. Elimination is the only answer for the others among us.
Now is the time to choose. Do you enjoy the rape? Will you tolerate it or are you willing to do something to stop it?


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The 2013 SnowBall Music Festival will be held at Grand Park in Winter Park, CO from March 8-10 in 2013. This is a change in venue from the past few years where the event was held in Vail Valley, CO. With so many festivals (especially this time of year) being held in warmer locales, Snowball offers fan a truly unique experience.
The line-up is diverse, featuring acts that appeal to fans of numerous musical genres. Whether a fan of EDM, hip-hop, rock, or funk, Snowball has something for everyone.
While the music is what draws everyone to the snowy peaks of Grand Park, it is far from the only attraction once fans arrive. The scenic backdrop of the mountains is breath-taking, but fans need not only appreciate them for their aesthetic beauty. Located just a few short miles from Winter Park Resort (which features over 3,000 acres of world-class skiable terrain, 25 lifts, and six separate terrain parks),skiing and snowboarding enthusiasts can easily add repeated downhill runs to their experience (discounted lift tickets are even available).
Then, there are the after-parties! Five different venues (four within a mile of the festival) will all feature after parties with several big names, every single night of the festival! If you haven't totally worn yourself out at Snowball and on the slopes, you can keep the party going well into the wee hours of the morning!
General admission tickets are still available so if you are a fan of great music, late night parties, natural beauty, winter sports, and chilly weather… you'll want to be in Grand Park, March 8-10th for Snowball Music Festival!
Independent Philly will be there to capture the essence of Snowball Music Festival, including daily recaps, artist interviews, and photo galleries and we hope to see you there!


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Defense Digest
On the Pulse…Other Notable Achievements
Defense Digest, Vol. 23, No. 4, December 2017
Tom Wagner (Philadelphia, PA) has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America organization as the Philadelphia region's 2018 "Lawyer of the Year" in the area of Personal Injury Litigation, Defendants.
Teresa Ficken Sachs (Philadelphia, PA), Vice-Chair of our Appellate Advocacy and Post-Trial Practice Group, was inducted as a Fellow into the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers (AAAL) at the Academy's 2017 Fall Meeting. The AAAL was founded in 1990 to recognize outstanding appellate lawyers and to promote the improvement of appellate advocacy and the administration of the appellate courts. Membership is limited to 500 lawyers in the United States and is reserved for accomplished appellate advocates who have demonstrated the highest levels of skill and integrity.
Marshall Dennehey is pleased to announce that the firm has been named a Best Law Firm for Female Attorneys by Law360 and its 2017 Glass Ceiling Report. Law360 grouped firms based on U.S. attorney headcount in order to evaluate them with similar-sized peers. They excluded any firm that had below-average female representation at even a single level of the firm. They then ranked the rest based on their percentage of female attorneys both at the non-partner and partner level. Marshall Dennehey ranked number eight on the top ten list for firms with 300-599 attorneys.
Alan C. (A.C.) Nash (Fort Lauderdale, FL) has been appointed to the 17th Judicial Circuit Professionalism Panel by Judge Jack Tuter, Chief Judge of the 17th Judicial Circuit. Florida's Professionalism Panels are charged with receiving, screening and acting upon complaints of unprofessional conduct by attorneys practicing in their respective Circuit. While they are not a disciplinary body intended to address violations of the rules regulating the Florida Bar, they do play an integral role in improving professionalism in the legal community by providing an informal educational process to address conduct inconsistent with the Standards of Professionalism and Civility.
Janice L. Merrill and Chanel A. Mosley (Orlando, FL) presented "EDs & EMRs & E-Discovery, Oh My! How to Stay on the 'Yellow Brick Road' When the Threat of Litigation Arises" at the Florida Assisted Living Association 2017 Annual Conference & Tradeshow.
Additionally, Janice and Chanel presented "The Defense Bar Strikes Back: EMRs & eDiscovery Risk Management" at the Florida Society for Healthcare Risk Management and Patient Safety Annual Meeting & Education Conference.
Christopher Conrad (Harrisburg, PA) was a guest lecturer at Dickinson Law School, where he presented "An Introduction to Age Discrimination in the Employment Act" to law students as part of the law school's 1st year Problem Solving course.
Kacey Wiedt (Harrisburg, PA) presented at SEAK's 36th Annual National Workers' Compensation and Occupational Medicine Conference. In "How Employers, Insurers and Self-Insurers Can Save Money," Kacey explained how to judge the compensability of workers' compensation claims and determine which ones to accept or defend. He discussed how to partner with defense counsel to create accountability and reduce overall costs on litigated claims, as well as providing practical suggestions for deciding how and when to settle claims and resolve difficult legacy claims.
David Oberly (Cincinnati, OH) presented to the Greater Cincinnati Human Resources Association on the topic of "Wage Discrimination Update." Approximately 60 HR professionals attended the presentation, which focused on the major laws prohibiting wage discrimination, salary history inquiry bans, EEOC directives and best practices for minimizing wage discrimination claims.
Congratulations to John Hare and Mohamed Bakry (Philadelphia, PA), who contributed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's ruling in Commonwealth v. Muniz, which held that the retroactive registration of sex offenders under Pennsylvania's Megan's Law is unconstitutional. On behalf of 22 university-based experts on sex crimes, John and Mohamed filed an amicus curiae brief demonstrating that Megan's Law registries actually suppress the reporting and prosecution of sex crimes.
Doug Kent (King of Prussia, PA) co-authored the cover story article appearing in the summer issue of the CLM Magazine, Construction Claims. Titled "360 Degrees Hot: A Drone Can Collect More Data More Safely and in More Situations Than Can Traditional Collection Methods," the article discusses how the insurance industry is recognizing the value of drones for inspection and investigation purposes following property and casualty losses.
Tony Natale (Philadelphia, PA) was published in the August edition of the national CLM Magazine. Tony's article, titled "If You See Something Say Something—The Importance of Identifying and Reporting Workers' Compensation Fraud," discusses the implications of ignoring fraud and how reporting fraud can benefit the entire community.
Defense Digest, Vol. 23, No. 4, December 2017. Defense Digest is prepared by Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin to provide information on recent legal developments of interest to our readers. This publication is not intended to provide legal advice for a specific situation or to create an attorney-client relationship. ATTORNEY ADVERTISING pursuant to New York RPC 7.1. © 2017 Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin. All Rights Reserved. This article may not be reprinted without the express written permission of our firm. For reprints, contact firstname.lastname@example.com.


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- Date November 29, 2015
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As soon as you have a solid plan so you may whet the buyer's appetite. The buyer wants to be kept in the loop. They don't want to see your product on someone else's shelf and not to be informed. Keep them "in the know." That said, you might drop dime about your new product in a meeting or via email, but they may not be ready to really review it until their category review period.
Buyer's are usually most eager to hear about new products during their review period. It's when they are looking at their category as a whole, and are looking at the forest through the trees. That's not to say they are not opening to hearing about it at other times, because you just never know when they will have an expected space on their shelf due to some other circumstances (think Tylenol recall and empty shelf space. No buyer wants empty shelf space).
Buyers (even those at the same retailer) have different review periods. National and many regional retailers review products annually or semi-annually. If you don't know the buyer's review period, ask him/her or their assistant.
When you do present your new product, the buyer will likely have a strong opinion about it and may ask you to make some changes to it in the way of the product itself or the packaging. Be prepared to have a solid plan in place, but not too solid that you are inflexible in the execution.


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Wade and Kristen offered us their vacation home in Winter Park for the weekend, and all the planets aligned and we were able to take advantage of their offer. My mom and dad and Bethany were able to come up too. What a great deal! Joanne, the girls and I came up early and got the heater turned on, built a fire and figured out how to use the TV remote. The girls went ice skating for about half and hour. My folks and Beth came up at about 6:30. I went to a cool pizza place and brought in dinner. We watched an episode of The Office and everyone was tucked in by 9:30. I think I had the heat turned up a little high so a few of us were up in the night turning down the thermostats but other then that I think everyone sleep pretty well.
Now were all up (except for Audrey) and the coffee has been brewed. Mom made oatmeal, eggs and toast for anyone who wanted breakfast. Beth is going snowboarding today so I'll run her over to the hill here in a little bit. She picked a perfect day to do it. The sky is totally clear and it's not too cold out. I think she is going to have a blast. The rest of us will hang out and see what trouble we can get into. We will definitely keep the fire burning and everyone has a good book. Dad and I might pile in the car later and go for a drive and see what there is to see.
I think that's about it.
Thanks you Jesus for the generosity of Wade and Kristen and for a fun last minute change of plans.


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The Apple Crate Natural Market is like every food I have ever dreamed of in one cozy brick & mortar.Seriously, a family owned business that stocks everything from paleo bread and local eggs to sage for smudging and amber teething necklaces. This store is my jam.
I'm talking every herb/supplement I can think of, Vital Proteins, Siete chips, Kite-hill almond milk cream cheese. Yas.
I instantly fell in love with with this market when I walked through the doors with my then 2 and 3 year old and we were greeted by a warm smile, organic lollipops-
…and that nod of "you got this mama" that we all need when we enter a grocery store with children.
The smell of essential oils and all things good hit me and I knew I found my little corner of Fayetteville.
The variety is impressive but the friendly vibe keeps me coming back. Honestly, I would drop in on a Saturday just to chat with everyone (and probably leave with a basket full because who can resist!!)
Some of my fave products:
- Epic Provisions Bone Broth
- Vital Proteins Collagen
- Kite Hill Chive Almond Milk Cream Cheese
- Tribucha Kombucha
- Siete Chips
- Simple Mills Crackers
- The fact that they have every herb and supplement you could need
- Sage for smudging
- Justin's dark chocolate peanut butter cups (yassss)
- Hail Merry anything
- So much-I don't know where to draw the line.


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This weekend ArtsQuest moves its Peas & Qs family series at 11 a.m. Saturday to Levitt Pavilion at SteelStacks in Bethlehem as part of its free summer concert series.
Family concerts will take be held at 11 a.m. every Saturday from June 2-July 28. In addition, there will be two Wednesday morning children's performances at 11 a.m. July 11 and 18.
Kicking off the season is the African Benga Stars part of SteelStacks Passport to Adventure series which will introduces children to a new country each month. The group is made up of Kenyan musicians who pay tribute to the rhythms of Benga, the popular genre of Kenyan music that evolved between the late 1940s and late 1960s in the Kenya's capital city of Nairobi.
With the Passport series, children can pick up a passport at the ArtsQuest Center and have it stamped each month when they check out the Passport performer. The series encourages children to learn about the many cultures that make up our world. Also, when they get their passport stamped each month, they'll also be entered to win prizes.
On June 9, families learn about environmental awareness with Bash the Trash which combines science, music and environmental awareness into a unique performance and educational program. The group will perform on a variety of musical instruments made from trash, recycled and found objects, then lead kids on a parade through the grounds.
Go down under to Australia July 7 with Seona McDowell. McDowell is one of the most unusual and versatile performers to come out of Australia and New Zealand in many years. Drawing from her own colorful background, as well as her extensive travels, she performs both traditional and contemporary songs from around the world.
Children can feel the rhythms of Brazil on Aug. 25 with an energetic Zumba class. Zumba is a Latin dance-inspired fitness program that incorporates moves from hip-hop, soca, samba, salsa, merengue and mambo.
Other highlights include Big Bang Boom, the family-friendly power pop trio featuring Chuck Folds, younger brother of Ben Folds, which will perform one of the Wednesday shows on July 11; Miss Amy & Her Big Kids Band, the Grammy Award winning artist who will serve musical fitness July 14; and Moona Luna, which sings English and Spanish music filled with joy, hope and discovery is the other Wednesday performer on July 18.
The complete line-up of family series performers is: The Deedle Deedle Dees, June 16; Hector Rosado Latin and Caribbean Drum Workshop, June 23; Stacey Peasley Band, June 30; Seona McDowell, July 7; Big Bang Boom, July 11; Miss Amy & her Big Kids Band,July 14; Moona Luna, July 18; Princess Katie and Racer Steve, July 21 and The Anna Banana Band, July 28.
There also will be giveaways of sunscreen, silly bands to children and other goodies.
Levitt Pavilion also will be the site of a free family movie series under the stars June 13 to Aug. 15.
Movies will start at 8 p.m. and debut June 13 with "Most Valuable Players," the documentary that follows three high school theater troupes on their journey to the 2008 Freddy Awards ceremony at the State Theater in Easton. The film by Christopher Lockhart and Matt Kallis has aired on the Oprah Winfrey Network and captured a Documentary Channel Audience Award at the 2011 Nashville Film Festival.
Other movies are "Cars," June 20; "Justin Bieber: Never Say Never," June 27; "Despicable Me" July 11; "The NeverEnding Story," July 18; "The Incredibles" July 25 and "Toy Story" Aug. 1.
Info: www.artsquest.org/family.


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Tag: Customer Service'
Little Things…
- by JK
You know, advertising isn't always about big budgets, kick-ass creatives and mind-boggling strategies.
Sometimes, all it takes a little bit of genuine effort to keep customers happy.
Have you heard about an American restaurant chain called Red Robin? Neither have I, until I read about how they created loads of positive media attention for just USD$11.50 (about RM34.70).
Noticing a heavily pregnant customer at his restaurant, the manager of Red Robin, North Carolina did this:
Yes, this was just an employee making a positive gesture, something that is severely lacking in Malaysian restaurants that for sure.
But the customer was so appreciative of the gesture that she decided to tell the world. That little piece of receipt went social and then viral, and ultimately made national headlines in the US.
You might think could have happened at any restaurant chain in America. Not really. Red Robin's employees practice a culture called 'Unbridled Act', which encourages positive behavior.
And apparently, this wasn't the first discount given at random to customers. They've been doing it for a while, it just so happens that this particular gesture made the news, probably because of the oh-so-sweet personal message.
Intentional or not, it worked. And worked in a way that even a big budget 30-sec TVC or a print ad with a catchy headline will never emulate.
Sometimes, it's just about the little things. You know?
Ease Up on the Mumbo Jumbo
- by JK
Sometimes, this whole advertising-marketing-branding thing can be a bit overwhelming. It just gets too needlessly complex, and hopelessly off the mark.
For the average consumer, advertising and all its associated activities are often intrusive, irrelevant and unwelcomed.
We marketers often forget to keep things simple and tend to treat consumers as idiots, as very eloquently explained in the following letter by a fictitious consumer:
Dear Marketers,
I'm much smarter than your marketing gives me credit for. I don't like to be sold…I don't care about your advertising, your free samples, your promotions, your special offers. I don't like to be told what's cool, new, improved, last-longer, smells better, tastes better, or is less filling…I don't care about your brand, it doesn't matter to me. I avoid your interruptions to my busy day whenever and wherever I can…I don't have time to pay attention to your sales pitch…You are white noise to me and I have tuned you out. If you want to be a part of my life, here's what you'll need to do:
– Be honest with me
– Keep your promises
– Treat me with respect
– Provide me with more use value than you take from me in cash value
– Teach me better ways to grow and expand my life experience
– Help make my day-to-day easier, lighter, more relaxed and enjoyable
– Help me to experience greater connection to what's important to me
Do these things for me and you will win my trust and devotion. Then I will gladly welcome you into my life, and share the value of our relationship with others who are important to me.
A. Consumer
Thanks to Brand Strategy Insider for the letter, and I sincerely hope we all can endeavor to treat consumers with the respect they deserve.
So We're Bashing Up Customers Now?
- by JK
If you can't serve your customers, bash them up. A method practiced by a certain KFC employee; allegedly of course.
But you can't refute the video evidence. Even if he was provoked, this is still no reason for an employee of a global fast food chain to get all Bruce Lee with anyone; let alone a customer.
But strangely, I wasn't all too surprised.
That's because I've been noticing the lowering standards of customer service in Malaysia for many years now. I've also written about my own experiences and the possible reasons behind such dismal customer service.
The KFC tagline these days is "So Good". I guess they are not only referring to the chicken (again, allegedly), but also to the whacking that one would get from disgruntled employees.
But that's the problem isn't it. The brand spends millions to say something and the employees – who are probably working long, unforgiving hours for pittance – say another. There is hardly any synergy between what you see and what you get from Malaysian businesses these days.
And the worst part, no one is bothered.
Like the many customer service mishaps of the past, this video will be forgotten and conveniently dismissed as a one-time-only incident beyond the company's control.
But I would really like to see is Ronald McDonald kick someone's ass though… that would be awesomely funny!


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The inauguration weekend begins today, As the Obama Administration packs up their offices and are probably shredding enough documents to replenish the Sequoia forest in the northwest.
However, there seems to be one last pardon the White House has not mentioned yet.
Could it be that President Obama will not give Hillary Clinton a get out of jail free card?
I am sure there are pardon discussions filling up much of the last vestiges of the Obama presidency.
This is what I am looking for in the last 36 hours — as I write this — of his time in office. I am sure there is much discussion within the White House over this between the staunch Democratic perma-government officials and the Obama faithful who still remember the harsh 2008 primary run and the dirty tricks the Clinton campaign used to denigrate Obama.
For the same reason Hillary Clinton did not win the election, her unfavorables within the Obama Administration may outweigh her favorables and she may not get the pardon to ward off any Trump Administration charges.
I'm not sure if a pardon needs to be publicly announced, so the scenario could have be that the 209 pardons and commutations came out on Tuesday and then Obama did a separate quiet pardon on Wednesday for Hillary. That could have happen, but I believe there are enough reporters and leakers to make that public.
Personally, I believe a Hillary pardon did not and will not happen. So let's see what the Trump Administration does with that?


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Purchase of Dr. Web for Mac OS X
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I didn't buy it, but I use it on my Mac at work. My purposes are testing ones mostly of course, but I am a Dr.Web for Mac user .
Not really a profound post, but I'm just curious to find out if other Mac owners decided to purchase Dr. Web for Mac OS X due to the recent report about the Flashback trojan affecting so many Macs. I, myself, did purchase it for this reason. As a side note, I found it interesting that some columnists who commented on this issue said that they were not at all familiar with the company, Dr. Web, and had no idea how long it has been around. As a long-time PC user, until recently, when I bought my first Mac, I had, in the past, had Dr. Web installed on several of my computers, so Dr. Web was a "known entity" to me. As I said, I'm just curious about others' thoughts on this.
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A delighted Paul Heckingbottom spoke to the media following the late victory over Nottingham Forest this afternoon..The Reds Head Coach made four changes to his starting XI ahead of the encounter with Forest and explained his reasons for doing so whilst commending his players for a thoroughly professional display.
"I'm really pleased with the performance" he said. "We made a lot of changes, trying to freshen things up and play with a lot of energy but not getting too carried away either. We wanted to control the game, slow it down a bit when we had the ball and we knew we'd have enough quality to create chances. I felt first-half we had the better chances and should have been in front.
"I wanted more of the same second-half, knowing we did have fire-power from the bench if we needed it. Players who have played a lot during the season, and two days ago, I felt they'd have enough energy to come on and play 30, 40 minutes or whatever to win us the game. In all honesty, the game looked to be drifting towards a stalemate in the last 10 minutes but then a great strike from Conor (Hourihane) wins us the game."
The Skipper's sensational 30-yard volley late in the game was enough to clinch all three points for Hecky's side but the Reds Gaffer wasn't surprised, suggesting it's quite clear that his squad is full of match-winners capable of moments of brilliance.
He said: "It was some goal to win the game but that's what we've got in this team. We're always pushing the lads and getting them to believe we can win any game and we do that all the time, but sometimes it takes that bit of magic to get the breakthrough. But you can only - as always - win as a team. I thought Adam Davies had a real clean game, the two centre-halves were solid and the lads who've not played much performed really well too."
Barnsley set up with a different formation this afternoon having played most of the season in a 4-4-2, Hecky felt the changes he'd made in personnel and his ideas tactically necessitated the alteration in shape and gave a nod to Ryan Williams who made his first start for over a year.
"The plan was always to go back to 4-4-2 second-half" he explained. "With the changes in personnel and the change of shape, we felt before the game it would allow us to be fresher in positions we're familiar with. It also helped us to counteract Forest and how they play, whether that be the 4-1-4-1 that they did go with or if they reverted to three at the back.
"Ryan Williams earned his start. He's been working really hard in training and we've not rushed him, he's earned it and he can be really pleased with his performance today."
Despite the latest victory taking the Reds up to eighth in the Championship table and just four points outside the playoffs, Hecky remained grounded when asked just how far the Club could go this season.
"I'm looking at Blackpool away next week in the FA Cup, that's it! But of course it's a great start to the year and every win is a good win. We enjoy every one of them, we work really hard during the week and the players are giving absolutely everything and I think the fans are loving what they're seeing from their Barnsley team."
Paul Heckingbottom's full interview from the City Ground is over on Barnsley Player HD.


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First commissioned in 1923 and later rebuilt in 1997, Torrumbarry Weir is an important feature of the heavily managed Murray-Darling system and a significant barrier to migrating fish.
A classic vertical-slot fishway sits on the left bank of the Murray here. When it was built in 1990 it was the first of its kind in the country. The original fishway was later rebuilt to address the inability of smaller fish to ascend (Mallen-Cooper, 1999). With 39 pools spanning a total length of 131 m and a 1:18 gradient, it is still a considerable obstacle for weaker swimmers.
The fishway is now fitted with PIT antennae to monitor the passage of tagged fish. Daily counts are also kept of fish collected in a trap at the exit. However, neither technique is adequate for monitoring the passage of juveniles and small-bodied species, such at the Australian smelt.
Crossing the river takes you into New South Wales, where 'Torrumbarry Cutting' was recently constructed to periodically flood the Koondrook-Perricoota Forest as part of plans to reallocate unprecedented amounts of water back to the environment. The flood gates are a barrier to fish movement when the cutting is in operation, so a dual vertical-slot/Denil fishway was installed alongside.
Such dual fishways are now popular in Australia. The very narrow vertical slot is for smaller fish, whereas the Denil is suitable for larger species like the Murray cod.
Monitoring is ongoing.
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The following is an excerpt from my regular series, "From Nada to Prada," as seen on The Style Con:
When you've got kick ass Chrissie Hynde vibes, you don't try to cover it all up by being, you know, your average pretty chick. One of my favorite chop-chop success stories is IMG's Zlata Mangafic, who arrived on the fashion scene in 2012 with long, mousy brown hair vaguely reminiscent of actress (and famed on-camera hair-adjuster) Kristen Stewart. The look was precious, natural, very girl-next-door-ish – the type of unassuming babe I'd want my brother to settle down with one day, who would arrive to family Christmas parties with some organic flourless cocoa kale cake topped with self-harvested sea salt that she baked herself. Apparently the wholesome, I-make-kale-cakes look wasn't winning her too many gigs. Soon after her arrival came a good and proper rock-and-roll shag… and this new Zlata wasn't bakin' shit for nobody.


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Jenny has not returned my calls in roughly a year. She has, however, sent me a poinsettia, poked me and placed a gift beneath my Christmas tree. She's done all this virtually, courtesy of Facebook, the social-networking site on which users create profiles, gather "friends" and join common-interest groups, not to mention send digital gifts. Although Jenny has three children, ages 4 to 14, and rarely finds time for visits, phone calls or even e-mail, the full-time mom in upstate New York regularly updates her status on Facebook ("Jenny is fixing a birthday dinner," "Jenny took the kids sledding") and uploads photos (her son in the school play). After 24 years, our friendship is now relegated to the online world, filtered through Facebook. Call it Facebook Recluse Syndrome and Jenny is far from the site's only social hermit.
Although Facebook started as an online hub for college students, its fastest-growing demographic is the over-25 crowd, which now accounts for more than half of the site's 140 million active members. Why is Facebook catching on among harried parents and professionals? "It makes me feel like I have a grip on my world," says Emily Neill, a 39-year-old single mother of two. Neill isn't a techie, per se "I'll never have a phone that does anything but make calls," says the fashion consultant in Watertown, Mass. but she stays logged on to Facebook all day at work and then spends an hour or two or lately three at night checking in with old acquaintances, swapping photos with close friends and instant-messaging those who fall somewhere in between. "It makes you feel like you're part of something even if you're neglecting people in the flesh," she says. (See the 50 best websites of 2008.)
Retreating behind a digital veil started long before the Internet existed, with the advent of answering machines. "People would call a phone when they knew the other person wasn't available to pick up," says Charles Steinfield, a professor at Michigan State University who co-authored a peer-reviewed study called "The Benefits of Facebook 'Friends.' " "It enabled them to convey information without forcing them to interact."
Enter Facebook, which provides a constant flow of information via short updates from everyone a user knows: a distant cousin is glad he skipped the cheeseburger chowder; a colleague has a new book on sale; a close friend is engaged or newly single. Jenny and I, along with three of our childhood pals from Saratoga Springs, N.Y., learned that a dear old friend had ended her seven-year relationship through a Facebook status change. We expressed dismay, albeit through Facebook's IM feature, that we had to learn such potent information in this impersonal way. (See the best social networking applications.)
Yet for many users, Facebook somehow remains distinctly personal. Although social-networking sites typically encourage connections among strangers like on MySpace, where people converge through common interests, or online dating, where the whole point is to greet new faces Facebook is geared toward helping people maintain existing connections. The site serves as a self-updating address book, keeping users connected no matter their geographical shifts. "There are people from my past life that I never would have tracked through 10 job changes and 20 e-mail changes," says Nicole Ellison, an assistant professor at Michigan State and lead author of the Facebook "Friends" study, which focused on undergraduate usage of the site. Facebook offers what she describes as a "seamless way of keeping in touch that doesn't involve all this work."
Perhaps this is the key. Jenny's online sociability and offline silence probably has less to do with digital retreating than time management. Facebook offers e-mail, IM and photo sharing in what Neill calls the "one-stop shopping" of online interaction. "It's not surprising to me that it's replacing other forms of communication," says Steinfield.
It's still surprising to me, however, this combination of Orwell and WALL-E that has humans watching one another through computer screens and socializing in quasi-isolation. Neill says Facebook has brought her closer to her already close friends, whom she has little time to see because of kids and work. "I know more about them now than I did when I was in regular contact with them," she says.
I believe her. But I can't help wondering: If for some reason Facebook suddenly ceased to exist, would people like Jenny revert to phone calls or visits, or would they lose touch altogether?
I probably won't find out. Instead, I gave in. Last week I sent Jenny a note through Facebook, naturally requesting a get-together. She accepted. When we met up, it seemed like we were closer than I had thought. I knew about Jenny's son's part in the school play, her sledding expedition and what she'd cooked for that big birthday dinner information we would have shared if we still lived in the same neighborhood and talked regularly, the inane and intimate details that add up to life. The constant stream of data is a digital form of closeness. "A beautiful blossoming garden of information about your friends," as Neill puts it, adding, "I don't see how that can be a bad thing."
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The Squamish Flying Club (SFC) is a registered society (1970) located on a leased portion of property at the Squamish Municipal Airport, and operates for the benefit of its members and the local community.
The SFC operates an above-ground 100LL card-lock fuel system on the North Apron for use by its members and visiting general aviation guests.
Hangars and tie-down leases are available to members, although these are in high demand and short supply currently. The executive is looking into expansion or other solutions for the growing GA community in the sea-to-sky region.
There are various club socials and work parties during the year, usually combined efforts if the weather permits.
Regular Membership is open only to Sea-to-Sky region residents (Lions Bay to Whistler). Associate membership is open to all, and there is also a free mailing list if you are interested in being kept in the loop on airport events and youth opportunities. See 'Membership' for more information.
2019 Executive:
President: Warwick Patterson
Vice-President: John Morris
Treasurer: Scott Bennett
Secretary: Scott Shaw-MacLaren
Directors: Don Patrick, David Safarik, Colette Morin, Carlo Galvani, Jamie Horner


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Study shows the importance of completing an internship while pursing a college degree
A recent study by the National Association of Colleges and Employers shows that internships are an important part of pursing a college degree, regardless of the field of study.
The 2011 Internship and Co-op Survey reports that employers said that an average of 39 percent of their entry-level hires were, at one time, interns for their company. Additionally, employers said that they hired 58 percent of their interns for a full-time position when they graduated from college. Of the individuals who were offered full-time jobs at their internships, about 85 percent accepted.
According to officials from Brigham Young University (BYU), completing an internship can do a lot more for a college student than give them the possibility of a job offer. Internships can also give people necessary real-world experience. While classroom experiences are valuable, employers tend to hire individuals who have already worked at a similar company.
BYU officials also report that internships can be an opportunity to see if students enjoy working in their field full-time or if they would like interacting with one particular company. The luxury of these programs is that if people do not like where they are working, it is only temporary.


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I wrote for The Boston Globe about the history of sniping.
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I wrote for The Boston Globe about the history of sniping.
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I interviewed Gerard Russell, author of Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms, for The Boston Globe.
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UNTIL THE LAST YEAR, when the Central African Republic's civil war became a humanitarian crisis too dire to ignore, most Americans thought little about the country at all. It has a low global profile in part because it is exceedingly poor, with four out of five people living on less than $2 a day. It has some natural resources, but because it is landlocked by other troubled countries—Chad, Sudan, Congo, and Cameroon—even if a lull in the war allowed it to extract those from the ground, it would still face formidable problems in exporting them.
But for one group, the Central African Republic is anything but ignorable, and in fact is home to an enduring scientific mystery. Geophysicists who map the earth's magnetic fields have identified a disturbance in the earth's natural magnetic fields within the Republic. They still have few clues about what causes it, but at least some think it could be key to understanding one of the most dramatic events in the history of the planet.
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I wrote about collectors of "fancy" serial-number bills, for the Boston Globe Ideas section.
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I wrote about Farouk El-Baz's plan to fix Egypt in The Boston Globe.
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At The Boston Globe, I have a piece about the different ways in which the West (the U.S., really) and the Muslim world (and Europe) approach blasphemy.
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At the Boston Globe Ideas section, I wrote about the history of Timbuktu.
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In the Boston Globe Ideas section, I consider what will happen to the human species a billion or more years from now.
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We may have to get progressive talk shows put on the Endangered Species List, now that the president has reinstated it. Otherwise there won't be any voices on the air except the voices of the right, whether "centrist" (corporate) or explicitly far-right (corporate). As Brad Friedman notes in his report on Peter B. Collins's forced departure, the economic crash is threatening to finish off those last few figures who have managed somehow to resist the oligopolistic tide that has by now all but submerged the US media.
That purge, now near-complete, has actually been in the works for years. It was the purpose of the vast "de-regulation" of the media begun by Reagan back in '87 (soon after the corporate press obligingly refused to look too deeply into Iran/contra) and continued by Bill Clinton nine years later (and a fat lot of good it did him.)
Those grand strokes were the eventual result of a big semi-covert effort that had started up much earlier, when, in the early Seventies, the US Chamber of Commerce and the top tier of its membership (some dare call it "the ruling class") resolved to take the country back from all those citizens who had been acting up against the war, for civil rights for all, for the environment, etc. Such was the groundwork for the Reagan/Clinton hand-off of our airwaves (and the cable system) to the likes of GE, News Corporation, Disney and Time Warner, and the aptly named Clear Channel. With that network in charge, and quite absolved of any public obligation, those trying to tell some truth out loud soon found that they were struggling to be heard.
So now Rush Limbaugh's voice -- along with those of Hannity, O'Reilly, Ingraham and the aptly self-named "Michael Savage," among others -- bellows inescapably from coast to coast, while those who are at least as talented, but honest, rational and well-informed, have got to work like hell to find, and build, their audience (which is, increasingly, on-line).
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This can be done: Thom Hartmann, having now left the implosive Air America, is doing it and Mike Malloy is doing it. (Now Randi Rhodes is also off the air.) That such talents have to work that way, while all those lethal gas-bags come in loud and clear, is a clear sign that the US media is in dire need of change, of just the sort that Team Obama promised us last year.
For the dominance of all those rightist blowhards is not based on the market, although their fans keep saying that it is, in countless fuming posts and letters to the editor. Contrary to that talking point, the crackpot views of Rush et al. have only fringe appeal -- as we, and all the world, saw clearly on Election Day, and as we see especially clearly now that the economy's collapsed. Most people out there were quite thrilled to see Jon Stewart clean Jim Cramer's clock. So where is that big audience for Glenn Beck, and Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity, and all the other hirelings out there channeling Herbert Hoover?
Let's face it: There's been no such big audience for quite a while. When sharp progressive talkers have been able to compete, they've done quite well -- just ask Phil Donohue, who lost his show five years ago despite the fact that it was MSNBC's top-rated offering. (Internal memos shortly made it clear that he was dumped because he was against Bush/Cheney's war.) And now that network has Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow in prime time, with Joe Scarborough shunted to the mornings. Meanwhile, Thom Hartmann has been besting Rush in markets where he's had the chance -- but, by and large, he hasn't had the chance; and neither has Peter B. Collins, or any other able dissident.
So what this country needs, ASAP, is media reform; because the media culture now in place is not a genuine expression of our real opinions or desires, but a gigantic corporate imposition on us all. For far too long we have assumed that what we see and hear (and read) comes mostly from the right because Americans are mostly on the right: not just throughout the "heartland," but, ludicrously even in New York, L.A,, Chicago, San Francisco. Thus we must reform the US media -- break the oligopoly, restore the broadcast code, and build a genuinely non- commercial public system) so that we'll know not just what's really going on, but also, even more important, who we really are.


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Poland and Colombia FIFA World Cup Free Live Streaming
At the upcoming 2018 FIFA World Cup hosted by Russia, the national football teams of Poland and Colombia are fixed to play against each other on Sunday, June 24. Belonging to Group H, the two teams would be having their match played at the Kazan stadium by 7 pm.
FIFA World Ranking
According to the FIFA World ranking of the national football teams released as at 17 May 2018, while the Poland football team ranked 8th team, the Colombia team ranked 16th in the world.
Prediction and Live Streaming:
Both teams will create trouble for each other a very tight game is ahead, and the result will be in the shape of the tie. Watch live streaming of this contest in HD quality.
Historical Background of Poland and Colombia
The Poland national football team represents Poland in international competitions of men's football. They are under the governance of the Polish Football Association of which the association is the body in charge of all football in Poland. The association is also called PolskiZwiązekPiłkiNożnej in the Polish language, and it was founded on 20 December 1919 at Warsaw. This became possible after the country of Poland got her independence.
On the other hand, the Colombia national football team which is also called Selección de fútbol de Colombia in the Spanish language represents the Colombians at the international level of football competitions of men's caliber. The soccer squad is under the leadership of the Colombian Football Federation. More so, the squad is officially known as a member of the CONMEBOL.
A nickname the Colombian team is also known for is Los Cafeteros. This is as a result of the production of coffee in their country.
Appearances of the Teams in the FIFA World Cup Tournaments
The first official international match that the Poland football team would make an appearance in is dated back to 18 December 1921. The match that held in Budapest was against Hungary, and it was recorded that Poland lost the match in a 1-0 game.
Then, the first time that they would win a match was on 28 May 1922 when they played against Sweden in Stockholm. The game recorded a 2-1 win match.
The Colombia national soccer squad is especially known for their fight against the negative reputation that the country has since the mid of the 1980s. Although they have been actively involved in playing international football competitions since 1938, their first official matches were played during the 1938 Central American and Caribbean Games.
It was at this tournament that they played their first match against Mexico on 10 February of that year. But then, unfortunately, they were defeated in a 1-3 game.
However, the first professional match that they were recorded to play held on 6 April during the South American Championship that took place in 1949. But unfortunately for the team again, the game played against Paraguay ended in a 3–0 defeat.
The first time that the Poland football team would qualify for the FIFA Mega tournament was in 1937. This became possible after the team defeated the Yugoslavia team in a 4-0 game.
After this premiere appearance, it is recorded that they played a memorable match in the history of the World Cup. This was when they confronted Brazil. It became memorable because Brazil was seen as a hard-to-beat while Poland was still seen as a young, inexperienced team, and so, the Poland team was expected to be beaten, but unfortunately, the reverse became the case.
As for the Colombia team, the first time they would make an appearance at the FIFA Mega tournament was in 1962, even though they entered for the FIFA World Cup qualifiers in 1958. After the soccer squad ended up at the group stage, they never qualified again for the FIFA Mega Event until 1990 where they could not go past the round of 16.
After their first appearance at the FIFA Mega Event in 1938, it was observed that the national football squad of Poland could not partake in the world tournaments until after 36 years which was in 1974. The reason for the long pause was because they either did not qualify or withdrew before their eventual qualification in 1974. And with their appearance in the 1974 tournament, they made a brilliant performance by finishing in the third place.
Major Accomplishments
The Poland national football team jointly hosted the Euro 2012 alongside Ukraine. But unfortunately, the national football team finished at the bottom position of their group in the two games they played.
The first ever gold medal that the national team of Poland would win was during the Summer Olympics which was organized in 1972 at Munich. Then, during the Summer Olympics of 1976, they went ahead to win the silver medal in Montreal, and at Barcelona in 1992, they got a silver medal.
At the South American Championship / Copa Américatournaments that Colombia made an appearance, they won the cup once in 2001. Then, based on their first appearance in 1975 at this continental competition, they emerged as the runners-up and afterward, they have taken the third place on four different occasions which are in 1987, 1993, 1995 and 2016.
Apart from their qualification for the 2018 FIFA World Cup tournament, Colombia has made a total of five appearances out of the fifteen attempts that they had made so far.
Honorary Titles and Awards
Poland apart from finishing in the third place two times at the 1974 and 1982 FIFA World Cup tournaments, they have also gotten to the quarter-finals stage of the UEFA European Championship in 2016.
The Colombia national team won the FIFA World Cup Fair Play Award once in 2014, and at the Confederations Cup, they ended at the fourth Place in 2003. Then, they have also been the runners-up of the CONCACAF Gold Cup once in 2000 while finishing at the third place in 2005.
Then, based on the Central American and Caribbean Games, while they emerged as the winners in the 1946 edition, they took the third Place in 1938.


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CP#1's Girl Scout troop is working towards their commerce badge. To make it fun, the troop leaders organized a trip to Wilbur's Chocolates in Freeport, where the girls would spend the afternoon learning about chocolate and how it's made. MP, who is never one to turn down an opportunity for chocolate samples, decided to tag along.
Wilbur's, which is located in an orange farmhouse on Route 1 called "The Pumpkin House," has been in business since 1983. According to our tour guide, Tom and Catherine Wilbur started out with a retail store. Soon after, Tom began experimenting with chocolate making. The pair eventually made the decision to make and sell their own confections. The first chocolate Tom Wilbur developed is the iconic Wilbur's moose, which is still sold at their shops today.
After learning about the business, our guide showed the girls a cacao bean and explained that it came from a tropical, evergreen tree that grows in South America. The seeds from the cacao bean are used to make cocoa butter, cocoa powder and chocolate.
The troop was interested in the lesson, but were anxious to try making their own chocolate covered marshmallow and graham cracker treats. We followed our guide to the factory, which is filled with candy making supplies, old-fashioned chocolate molds, and a conveyor belt for chocolate making. All of us were asked to wash hands and put on hairnets. If ever there was an "I Love Lucy" moment, this was it.
Our guide turned on the conveyor and gave each of us a graham cracker and heart-shaped marshmallow. We painted the graham crackers with a bit of chocolate, placed the pairing on the belt and let the conveyor drip dark chocolate over the whole treat. Next, we took turns decorating our treats with colorful sprinkles.
We all had to wait a little while for our chocolates to continue down the conveyor. Our guide explained that the chocolate had to cool and dry before the girls could package their treats to bring home.
Our field trip to the chocolate shop and factory was such fun! We would definitely bring friends or family back to visit again. To tour the factory, visit Wilbur's events page for dates and times. Just be prepared for lots of samples!
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Would you believe I hated wearing eyeshadows, most especially eye liners because I've always thought that my eyes would look so "strong" or "fierce" (in a not so good way) than it already is? So whenever I go to the salon to have my makeup done, I would always say No if it's time to apply the liner. Now that I already know how it helps my eyes look more defined, I don't think I'd survive without eyeliners ever again!
I've started using pencil liners, then I switched to liquid...and some 2-3 years ago, I found that I prefer using gel liners. It's easier to use, no need to worry about sharpening or drying out of the felt tips for some.
My first love was the MAC fluidline...was, because I've found a new love:
it's smudge-proof and waterproof...it really is! let me prove it:
I've used this on several makeup gigs, and it withstood the heat, some rubbing and even some crying during weddings! It's also a lot cheaper than MAC, this one costs less than Php500 while MAC is Php1000++. I can buy two (or probably 3) for the price of one fluidline!
I am not loving the brush that comes with it since I love using a bent eyeliner brush like that of Charm's. But I've read that it's good too..I might take a second look at it one of these days :)
So yeah, I'm really loving this gel liner from Tonymoly. I'd be getting more colors soon! This definitely tops my list when it comes to gel liners...truly worthy of an HG status!


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Relentless Live Confirms Biffy Clyro As Headliner
Scottish rock trio, Biffy Clyro will take to the stage at East London's 2,500 capacity Troxy on Saturday 22nd November for Relentless Live after yet another successful summer which saw the band headline both T in The Park and Isle of Wight Festival with two incredible performances.
The second Relentless Live will be one of Biffy Clyro's final appearances of the year before three nights at Glasgow's Barrowland on the 5th, 6th and 7th of December where the band will perform every song from every album in the shape of two full albums each night.
Also joining the bill is BBC Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe who has had a busy summer himself headlining the Relentless Stage at Leeds Festival as well as Portsmouth's very first Mutiny in The Park Festival. Relentless have confirmed that one unsigned band will get the opportunity to be a support artist for the night in association with the Relentless Energy Drink Here to be Heard competition to discover the UKs next big musical talent.
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School hedges to trim air pollution
27 April, 2018 — By Emily Finch
Children breathe easier by Ambler Primary School's hedges
A PRIMARY school is combating toxic air pollution by installing air-cleaning hedges around the playground.
Parents of children at Ambler Primary School, in Finsbury Park, were shocked to learn that it was one of the 50 most polluted education centres in the capital last year.
"Pollution is a big concern for a lot of parents. We have a very active environmental group of parents here," said Angela Kelway, a parent with a child at the Blackstock Road school.
A screen made up of ivy plants was installed over the weekend to turn toxic air into something cleaner.
"We've completely transformed the playground and we had an anti-idling day for cars recently. We were running into the street to tell drivers off for keeping their engine on," added Ms Kelway.
The screens are around two metres high and were funded by a £12,000 grant from City Hall.
Ms Kelway said: "The screens are self-irrigating so will last a very long time."


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Hello my name is Tiffany Shelby
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Whether you are a member of a Gym or not, take advantage of this opportunity for a free consultation and find out exactly what steps you need to take to achieve your fitness goals.
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The Skateboarders Western Sydney club from Western Sydney University are calling out to all designers to submit your designs for their poster competition for the upcoming Parramatta Skateboarding Jam, on Sunday Nov 19th at Parramatta Skatepark, from midday.
The winning design will receive a $50 Coles/Myer gift card and a $50 voucher for Basement Skate. Send your design in A4 format to email@example.com by midnight Oct 1st. You don't have to be a current student or even a student of Western Sydney University to enter!
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Cultural Responsiveness Workshop
It is essential that all professionals that work in the health and education system in Australia are culturally responsive in order to positively affect the health and well being of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. This workshop conducted by Indigenous Allied Health Australia (IAHA) is about building culturally responsive capabilities in order to have culturally safe and responsive relationships with and provide services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
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Roofing Disasters - What to do When the Roof Caves in
Mother Nature can be fickle; if she takes a dislike to your home, watch out! Your roof is one of the most vulnerable areas of your home to a variety of natural disasters: wind, tornadoes, hurricanes, falling trees, fire, leaks, collapse from heavy snow, and more. In addition to these sudden catastrophes, there is also deterioration from corrosion, repeated expansion/contraction, and general wear and tear that can erupt into a problem. And when you need a new roof, you need it right away. There is no way to predict if or when you will experience a catastrophic roof failure, but there are some things to do to prepare yourself for it.
Good Insurance Will Cover a New Roof
As with everything in life, you get what you pay for. Don't skimp on your homeowner's insurance. If special coverage for tornadoes, earthquakes, flood, or other natural disasters is required, be sure you get it. Standing in an open-air living room is not the time to find out that your policy doesn't cover tornado damage. Always deal with a reputable, well-known company and have your agent's number on speed dial.
Choose Reliable Roofing Company
When it comes time to get repairs on your damaged or destroyed roof, hire a company with expertise in your roofing materials. If you have a tile or slate roof, don't bother with a company that only has experience with shingle roofing. You want to get things repaired as quickly as possible, but you also want them done right. However, if the damage is minimal, you might consider buying roofing materials and doing the work yourself. Above all, don't be taken in by scam artists who inevitably appear in the wake of any disaster to make a quick buck from the victims. Use a local contractor with a good reputation, and make sure their contractor's license and insurance coverage are both current.
Damage Control
If the damage is localized to only your house (a falling tree, for instance), you can probably get fast response from a roofing contractor. If it is more widespread (tornado or hurricane), you may have to wait your turn. In that case, try to organize your neighbors to help each other put up heavy duty plastic, plywood, or other temporary materials to keep the elements out until a permanent repair can be accomplished. Call your insurance company immediately and make sure you are covered for damage to your home's contents, and whether your insurance covers a stay in a hotel until repairs are made.
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Two months after the chaotic United Nations climate summit ended here, edgy "Hopenhagen" posters are one of the few visible reminders of the high stakes gathering of world leaders. Ironically, the summit dashed the hopes of climate activists for a legally binding treaty to reduce global warming emissions.
They're not giving up, but in the aftermath acting locally may gain more prominence than acting globally.
"The Copenhagen hangover is over. Now countries including the United States have to act," said Denmark's energetic Minister of Energy and Climate Lykke Friss.
The Danes are engaging other countries to try to revive momentum for international climate negotiations.
We should fight all the way for a deal in Cancun,î where the next United Nations climate summit will convene at the end of this year. "But that depends on the will of the moment," she said. "There is no doubt this is a difficult process, Friss acknowledged.
In European capitals, policymakers are eager for clues or cues regarding the willingness of American lawmakers to regulate greenhouse gases. "Cap-and-trade" legislation has been stalled in the U.S. Senate for the past five months.
If it's not realistic that the U.S. would sign a binding international [climate] treaty, what is below this?" asked a German parliament member in Berlin. The answer may not lie in Washington, DC.
"We do think the pendulum is starting to swing back to states," said the former co-chair of the Western Climate Initiative Janice Adair. In 2008, the grouping of seven Western U.S. states and four Canadian provinces developed a framework to regulate greenhouse gas emissions independent of their national governments. The plan has not taken effect.
|BC Premier Gordon Campbell shakes hands with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger at the conclusion of a Pacific Coast leaders gathering in Vancouver, Canada. Washington Governor Chris Gregoire looks on from the right; Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown from the far left.
"More and more, the UN and the national governments recognize that the ësub-national' governments are really the ones that in the end can put the pressure on and create the action that is needed," said Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-California) Friday. Schwarzenegger spoke in Vancouver, Canada after a mini-summit of Pacific Coast leaders timed to coincide with the opening of the 2010 Winter Olympics.
British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell hosted the meeting to discuss common environmental topics. Governor Christine Gregoire (D-Washington) and Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown also attended.
Gregoire said when it comes to cap-and-trade, she still maintains a national program is better than a regional program. Yet state and local governments can do other things to control emissions, namely what policymakers such as Adair call "complementary" measures.
Schwarzenegger specifically mentioned California's Million Solar Roofs Initiative, which seeks to incentivize that number of rooftop solar arrays by 2016. Some other examples include creating incentives for consumers to buy electric cars, increasing recycling or improving rail service. Oregon and Washington have recently toughened their building codes to increase energy efficiency in new construction.
Gerry Pollet, the director of the Seattle-based environmental watchdog group Heart of America Northwest, recently urged his members to write Oregon and Washington's governors and legislators, "saying you want Northwest states' climate change legislation put back on the front burner - which is a good investment for our economy as well as for the health of our planet and children."
As in Congress, there is hesitancy in state legislatures. "Our concerns are very much is this going to put us at a distinct competitive disadvantage," said state Rep. Shelly Short (R-Addy), a conservative legislator from northeast Washington.
Short says she is given pause by current controversies involving climate scientists, notably the one over hacked emails that has been dubbed "Climategate" by global warming skeptics. "I'll be honest and say some of the issues that have come forward really leave [in doubt] whether this is something we need to be doing," said Short.
Significant climate change legislation has not come up for debate this winter during the short 2010 sessions of the Washington and Oregon Legislatures. But all the players on this issue expect global warming controls to return to the forefront in Salem and Olympia in 2011.


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Expanded Dune
This article or section refers to elements from Expanded Dune.
Gorus was the Chief Administrator of the Spacing Guild during the time of the beginning of and during the time of Kralizec.
On ChapterhouseEdit
His time as leader of the Guild was fraught with spice shortages, and Gorus went with the Guild Navigator Edrik to Chapterhouse to beg the New Sisterhood's Mother Commander, Murbella for an increase in their spice allotment. Under the scornful advice of Doria and Bellonda, her two main assistants, the Sisterhood responded that the Guild would receive only a meager incrase of their allotment of spice.
Breach in the GuildEdit
This caused the first great breach in the Guild in its' 15,000 years of existence, between the Navigator branch, and the Administrator branch. The Navigators were completely dependent on melange, to guide Guild heighliners, but the Admins were much more interested in pure profit. This caused the Admin branch, especially its' leader, Gorus, to come under the influence of Enhanced Face Dancers, and their leader, Khrone. The Enhanced Dancers had already replaced many leaders of the Old Imperium, including many leaders in CHOAM and on the foundry worlds of Richese and Ix.
Seven years later, at a meeting at the Ixian shipyards, it was announced that the Ixians had discovered a way to replace Navigators on Guild ships, with complex mathematical compilers; machines that could detect a safe way across space. Soon, Gorus authorized the mass killing of Navigators as they brought their heighliners to the Junction shipyards for routine maintenance. Gorus did not know he had placed the entire Spacing Guild in the hands of the great Enemy, none other than Khrone's masters, the reborn Thinking Machines, Omnius and Erasmus. Further unknown to him was that the mathematical compilers on the Guild ships had been sabotaged with a trip mechanism that rendered them useless when they would face off with the machines armada.
On the Day of KralizecEdit
As the great day of Kralizec arrived, Gorus was stationed with Murbella, in her rag-tag fleet above Chapterhouse. Gorus was the first to realize that human-kind had been tricked, and that the sabotaged starships from Ix were useless, as were the super-weapon Obliterators, that the Face dancer-replaced Ixians had built. To Gorus' relief, the Navigators' patron saint and leader, the Oracle of Time/Norma Cenva, appeared with the remaining 500 Navigators that Gorus had not killed. The Navigators fired up their heighliners and destroyed the first wave of machine starships that attacked.
Gorus realized the full realization of his folly, as on Synchrony, Erasmus killed all of the Enhanced Dancers throughout the galaxies through the machines' tachyon net. On Gorus' ship, as throughout the universe, each and every Face Dancer died, and Gorus was astounded to find that almost all of his ship's personnel were Enhanced Dancers. A few weeks later, the breach within the Guild was healed, as Administrators and Navigators worked together towards a brighter future, under the leadership of the Ultimate Kwisatz Haderach, the final ghola of Duncan Idaho.


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Interview with Costumegasm Creator Jen Taves & Model Mandy Kitana - Pete's Basement Extras!
Have you ever put on a costume and looked so good that it blew your mind? Have you ever cosplayed and looked so good that you became your character, even for just a little while? Well if you did, then you'e had a Costumegasm! Jen Taves is a talented designer like no other! She creates custom pieces for The Mermaid Parade, Burning Man, and Cat Girl Manor, to name just a few, and she's brought her super-sexy mermaid costumes to The Pete's Basement Show!
Jen and sexy nerd icon Mandy Cat Kitana join Pete at the roundtable to talk costume creation, inspiration, inebriation, and more!
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My parents met in an accounting class at college. My dad currently works as a VP of Finance for a non-profit group and my mom used to work in a bank. Any financial questions I have I go directly to them. At an early age, I was taught the importance of a decimal point in a price tag and how to spot incorrectly priced merchandise.
Mom and Pop Quiz: Which of the following is the cheapest?
A. $.50 used paperback book
B. $50 used paperback book
C. .50¢ used paperback book
D. $.50 used Nicholas Sparks book
Answer: C (although I will give credit if you answered D)
Wow! Half a penny for a book! What a great deal!
Sadly, I keep seeing this mistake more and more. Every time, I die a little inside. (Nashville, Indiana has a plethora of price tags marked for under a penny in many stores. I nearly had a heart attack one Thanksgiving when I was down there with my grammar-Nazi roommate. She shared my pain.) Now, technically I could argue with the cashier and demand the price as marked but if the people putting up these price signs don't know the importance of a decimal point, then something tells me that the cashier won't either.
Imagine my pain every time I go into a Marsh and see this on the claw machine:
Words cannot express how sad I feel. It is just so wrong on so many levels.


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Glutathione is the master detoxifier and the body's main antioxidant.1 In the liver, our primary organ of detoxification, toxins are linked to glutathione, then carried out of the cell, into the bile and the stool, and out of the body. Glutathione protects our cells' delicate chemical machinery, and helps energy metabolism run efficiently.* Glutathione is also integral to our immune system, especially for resistance to viruses.* 2 Glutathione can become depleted with chronic exposure to toxins, viral infection, and other settings of increased oxidative stress.* 3
Typical oral delivery of glutathione is greatly inhibited by breakdown in the stomach. The liposomal delivery system not only protects the glutathione from breakdown in the digestive system, but also dramatically enhances cellular delivery.* In cell cultures, liposomal glutathione has been demonstrated to be 100 times more efficiency for intracellular delivery than non-liposomal glutathione.4
Liposomal Glutathione with Lemon Mint comes with a precision pump to accurately deliver 50 mg of reduced glutathione per pump. With the natural lemon-mint flavoring, this product can be taken intra-orally for maximum absorption without the foul sulfur taste typical with glutathione products. To maintain stable serum levels, product can be dosed every 3-4 hours throughout the day. Each bottle delivers 50, 100 mg servings of glutathione.
Quicksilver Delivery Systems™ brings the power of intravenous therapy into convenient oral delivery.* Our Quicksilver Delivery Systems™ improve upon liposomal and emulsification technology with smaller, more stable particles made from the highest-grade ingredients available. In addition to exceptional absorption rates, these very small liposomal and nanoemulsified particles enhance lymphatic circulation of nutrients and intracellular delivery.5,6 The phospholipids, inherent in the liposomal and nanoemulsified formats, nourish cell membranes, promoting proper function for the absorption of nutrients and the excretion of cellular waste products and toxins.
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1. Devasagayam TP, et al. J Assoc Physicians India. 2004 Oct;52:794-804.
2. Palamara AT, et al. Antiviral Res. 1995 Jun;27(3):237-53.
3. Patrick L. Altern Med Rev. 2002 Dec;7(6):456-71.
4. Zeevalk GD, et al. Neurochem Res. 2010 Oct;35(10):1575-87.
5. Alyautdin R, et al. Int J Nanomedicine. 2014 Feb 7;9:795-811.
6. Ahn H, Park JH. Biomater Res. 2016 Nov 23;20:36.
7. Spector AA, Yorek MA. J Lipid Res. 1985 Sep;26(9):1015-35.
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Chatting with the owner of an extensive vineyard in the hills, I was amazed to hear about the numbers of wild boars roaming around ruining the crops.
Some years ago, because hunters are always keen to shoot large beasts, they imported a new strain from Hungary. These animals are bigger than the indigenous ones, and they have bred so successfully that they are causing a huge problem and the huntsmen can't keep pace with their breeding rate. (Each sow produces two litters a year, with 12 piglets at a time.)
My friend estimates that there are about 10,000 in the Euganean Hills, costing the local economy €100,000 in damage to crops, woodland and footpaths. Even though the meat is served in many local restaurants, it isn't easy to get the meat to the table. European regulations insist on approved slaughterhouses rather than a farmer with a gun.
The surprising thing is, I've never seen one in all the years I've known the area. No wonder the huntsmen are frustrated at such difficult targets!


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It's been 20 years of World of Drum & Bass alongside Formation Records dropping its 200th LP release! This is massive for the tour, those involved, the label and it's fans! So far the tour launched with a sold-out show in Montreal, working its way around Canada, it heads straight for Texas, New York, Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, then zipping back up to Canada into Oregon, Arizona, California and ending the tour in Nevada. If you are anywhere near these areas we suggest you check out the dates below!
You can follow World of Drum & Bass on Facebook or click here to see the list of event dates and where to purchase tickets.
On the 21st and 22nd of March, Andromeda will be attending both WODB events and representing Strictly Nuskool for Miami Music Week also known as Winter Music Conference. WODB has been a huge event over the last 20 years for South Florida junglists during the last two weeks of March.This year WODB and Formation Records have teamed up with local crew's Beatcamp, United D&B, and Torque D&B once again to showcase the likes of DJ SS, Drumsound & Bassline Smith, The Prototypes, and a Special Guest that is going to make this tour one not to miss! Keep an eye out for a forthcoming exclusive interview by Andromeda with DJ SS here on Strictly Nuskool Blog.


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Play at Tyntesfield
With four fantastic play areas for families to enjoy, there is something for everyone. Race through a child sized chicken coop in The Farm, test your balancing skills in The Orchard or explore inside a giant guano bird and enchanted tree house in our brand new woodland adventure play and sculpture trail.
Woodland adventure play and sculpture trail
From an enchanted tree house and rope swing to a giant guano bird and its nest, this new adventure play trail with its creative sculptures scattered along the way is a must for the most intrepid explorers.
For those that like to get their hands dirty we have a den building village, with plenty of sticks to create your very own woodland fortress. You'll also find brass rubbings on the trail, so take some paper and pencils in your survival kit to create a rubbing at each plaque you find.
Orchard play area
Test your balancing skills with stepping stone and boulders, balance logs and beams, giant apple crates and parallel ropes, or maybe catch a ride on our well-loved tractor or our larger-than-life wildlife.
This play area is right next to the Pavilion cafe, so Mum, Dad and Granny can sit back with a cup of tea while the kids play.
The Farm play area
Situated in the upper courtyard at Home Farm, this play area is already a favourite with our family visitors.
With our big tractor and brand new play barns, there's lots of fun to be had riding, climbing and sliding.
Cow Barn restaurant play area
This small, indoor play area is especially for our youngest visitors, helping to keep them entertained while you relax in one of our comfy chairs with a cuppa and some cake (we recommend the brownie!)
A whole estate to explore
Outside of our play areas, there's a whole estate, hardly changed in the last hundred years, for you to explore...


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We've been a huge supporter of DoggCatcher in the past and have come to love the app for all its flexibility and features. Around since 2008, the developers were even so kind as to help us promote our podcast as we were getting started some years ago. Together, we both think this discounted app promotion is a great way to contribute to an organization that helps protect our rights and freedoms online.
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Rokk Man Barbers offers the best of both worlds. Convenient express services for professional men who need to look their best, but are short on time—or relax and enjoy your time. Enjoy a hot towel clean shave, beard trips, clipper cuts, fades, and any kind of masculine cut you desire. You can even enjoy a spirit or beer while you're there.