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This retirement oasis in the desert has long beckoned those who want to spin out their golden years playing golf and sitting by the pool in the arid sunshine.
But for Clare Keany, who turned 62 last fall and cannot find work, it feels more like a prison. Just a few miles from the gated estates of corporate chieftains and Hollywood stars, Ms. Keany lives in a tiny mobile home, barely getting by on little more than $1,082 a month from Social Security.
"I would rather be functioning and having a job somewhere," said Ms. Keany, whose pixie haircut, trim build and crinkling smile suggest someone much younger than her years. "I really don't enjoy living like this. I've got too much to do still."


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With it's close proximity to a Great Lake and humid, wet climate, Mississauga has lots of problems with eavestroughs (aka gutters). Muck, leaves, and more can build up in a Mississauga home's eavestroughs faster than in other parts of the country, which means they need to be regularly cleaned. If your eavestroughs need cleaned, be sure to call an eavestrough cleaning company. These are just three reasons why your Mississauga home needs gutter cleaning services, and why it's always better to leave things to the professionals.
Probably the most common reason people initially call an gutter cleaning service is because they don't have the time to do it themselves. The work is often quite tiresome and time-consuming, which means it can take a few days to get it done if you're not a professional. Leaving the work to an experienced crew means that you simply don't have to do it yourself. That means you can spend more time enjoying your well-maintained property, and less time actually maintaining it.
Eavestrough cleaning can be dangerous. It requires working on a ladder or up on a building roof. The work requires a lot of physical effort as well, which leads to other safety issues. Finally, many people don't own the right equipment to properly and safely clean their own eavestroughs, which can cause accidents and injuries. Eavestrough cleaning services provide the right training and equipment for their crews, which means your gutters can be cleaned with less safety concerns. The best eavestrough cleaning companies also ensure that all of their employees and entirely insured, so that in the case of an accident, everyone is protected and the victims will get the help they need.
Dirty and clogged eavestroughs are also a safety concern year-round. When filled to the brim with damp and heavy leaves and muck, eavestroughs can often become overburdened and spill out. Worse, they can detach from the home entirely and crash to the ground. If someone happens to be under an gutter when it falls, they could suffer serious injuries. Clean eavestroughs are less likely to fall, and the professionals will inspect your eavestroughs to ensure they are properly, and securely, mounted.
Professional eavestrough cleaners are faster than anyone else at what they do. Since they have lots of training and experience, they can efficiently clean a home's eavestroughs in less time. So rather than spending hours or even a couple of days cleaning your home's eavestroughs, get the professionals to do the job instead. They'll have it done in much less time.
There are many reasons why your Mississauga home needs eavestrough cleaning services. It could be because you want the job done properly, or that you simply do not have the time to do it yourself. Whatever your reason, the right Mississauga gutter cleaning services provider can help you maintain your home safely and effectively, and help it get ready for spring.

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What We're Reading: Escapist Comics
My reading habits have been sporadic and random lately. I'm like a springtime forager just eating whatever blooms and stalks I see after a winter of being too busy to choose my reading carefully.
Zot! The Complete Black and White Collection by Scott McCloud (Harper, 2008)
Zot! is the comic that probably put Scott McCloud, famed comics scholar, on the national map. It was his longest fictional work, and it was completed as he was starting Understanding Comics, the first of his books about comics as an artform.
I confess to an inflated expectation, then, in regards to McCloud's formative work—would it employ all of the formal tactics he codified in his critical writings?
The answer, surprisingly, is yes. Zot! has great pacing and playful structuring, often breaking the narrative into interesting slices of time and point of view:
Unfortunately, the story that these tricks serve vacillates between bland and melodramatic. It follows teen science hero Zot, paragon of a parallel Earth, and his romance with pessimistic Jenny, stuck in our humdrum world. Her negative outlook is only exacerbated by knowledge of Zot's fantastic utopia, and the tension in their relationship comes from her desire to escape her everyday life and Zot's insistence that any world, any culture, is beautiful and worth saving. It's a good starting point, but it often boils down to Jenny yelling or weeping while Zot looks on stoically. His childish naiveté fits his character, but it also means that no one really tells Jenny why leaving the less lucky of her world for the fantastic sci-fi life would be a gross exercise of her privilege.
McCloud himself notes that some of his morals come off a little heavy-handed, comparing them to afterschool specials. This sentiment is coupled with a dismissive attitude toward the superhero aspects of the story, namely Zot and his super-science. However, the exceptionally melodramatic aspects of the series only get worse as Zot's world is phased out and McCloud focuses on the everyday.
It turns out that when a kid is flying around with a laser gun and rocket boots, it's easier to mythologize the story—since there are aspects that readers know aren't real, it can be fun to draw parallels and assign allegories to the cast and the story. When McCloud decided to take things in a "literary" direction, his characters and dialogue began to crumble under the weight of the issues he was tackling. Maybe the problem lies in writing toward those said issues—crime, coming out, divorce—instead of focusing on the characters.
Descender: Tin Stars by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen (Image Comics, 2015)
As a standalone volume, Tin Stars wasn't great. It introduces a futuristic sci-fi galaxy that hates robots after a mysterious mechanical attack. One of the last robots, a boy-shaped droid named Tim-21 who was made for friendship, might have connections to the event that kicked off the robot genocide. He and his dog-bot, then, are on the run from two factions in the galactic government. Who will catch him? Are their intentions what they seem? And what is Tim-21's link to the giant robots that have irrevocably damaged galactic culture?
By the end of Tin Stars, I found myself not really caring about the answers to these questions. Nearly all of the characters felt like bland stereotypes: the naive artificial boy looking for his human friend, the cute animal sidekick, the soldier woman with something to prove, the deadly thug with a heart of gold, the pig-like villains with no morals—it felt like an outline for a summer blockbuster. It didn't help that the book was riddled with typos, from misspelling characters' names to freely swapping out exclamation points and question marks.
Future volumes might develop these characters more. Indeed, the one character who gets an extended flashback, Dr Quon, becomes an interesting, flawed, and driven guy once his secrets are exposed. I'm just not sure I'm ready to wade through the typos and stereotypical dialogue to reach that point.
It's too bad, too, because the art by Dustin Nguyen is beautiful. He makes even the most cluttered pages readable, and he uses spare brushstrokes that convey a surprising amount of information. His designs and facial expressions do a lot of the heavy lifting in the character development department.
The story reads fast enough that a collection of 10 or 12 issues wouldn't have been intimidating. If the characters get some development in the next few chapters, I'd have happily kept reading. Are these things considered by collection editors?
The Autumnlands: Tooth & Claw by Kurt Busiek, Ben Dewey, and Jordie Bellaire (Image Comics, 2015)
All I knew about this comic going in was that it was about animal people. On that level, it did not disappoint. In fact, the book did not disappoint at any level.
Despite having a cast of dozens, Busiek and Dewey use an inseparable combination of character design (animal choice, clothing, posture) and dialogue to establish personality and motivation quickly and firmly. The world—a place of dying magic, floating cities, and aristocracy and oppression—is explained at a natural pace.
Some fantasy and sci-fi can feel like being led through a museum of the creators' ideas; their worlds are static, relayed through bursts of exposition. This is not the case with Autumnlands. These toys aren't precious to their owners, and they're freely deconstructed, deposed, and disposed of. There's a central conceit to the story—a sci-fi twist to the Wizards of Redwall status quo that I hesitate to spoil—is almost just set dressing for the drama and politics of the rest of the book.
Dewey's art is slick and clear with lush ink work, and it's impossible to talk about it without mentioning Jordie Bellaire's color. There are a lot of sepias and earth tones, but it's far from muddy; Dewey's sharp lines keep things clear, and Bellaire uses splashes of bright color for the rich clothing, magic spells, and (spoiler warning) blood.
How about you, readers? What do you read when you're grazing? And do you regret those choices later?
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I repeat: Andrew Luck at Peyton Manning. The Irsay Bowl.
The Hollywood Xerox of Fate Bowl! The Horsey Bowl! The NeckAIDS Revenge Bowl! The Oh God Fucking Kill Me The Hype Would Be Suffocating Bowl!
I am reminded of a quote Bill Parcells uttered every other week in the four seasons I covered the Giants for Newsday in the '80s: "Sometimes God is playing in these games."
"And that's why we can't allow faggots and Japs in the locker room!"
– Christmas Ape, "Peter King Thinks God Wants Andrew Luck And Peyton Manning To Meet In The Playoffs" [KSK]
Best of the Best:
Stadiums Cost Taxpayers Extra $10 Billion, Harvard's Long Finds [Aaron Kuriloff on Bloomberg Businessweek]
The total cost of sport facilities has received little attention from researchers in part "because most economic analyses demonstrate that sports facilities produce very few or no net new economic benefits relative to construction costs alone, and so, in this sense, more accurate cost estimates would only serve to reinforce a case already made." Public officials shouldn't spend any more than necessary to secure the participation of the local team, she writes. Small cities tend to fare worse than larger ones, because they either have to offer more money to keep an existing franchise from moving to a larger market, or they have to put up more to compensate a team moving from a larger market. Long concludes that, regardless of profit-sharing or rent, "public partners should avoid paying building costs."
Why Drones Stayed Out of Sight in the 2012 Campaign [Ramesh Ponnuru via Bloomberg]
"Homeland," Showtime's series about an al-Qaeda sleeper agent in Congress, is both implausible and addictive. President Barack Obama is a fan. That means he has heard more discussion of the downside of drone strikes in a television drama than he has in the presidential race…Neither side wants to look softer than the other on terrorists. Hence the bipartisan support for the strikes. Liberal groups that might be inclined to protest the policy have been quiet because Obama put it in place. The lack of debate about our reliance on drones is a shame, because there are both practical and moral objections to it.
US Muslim placed on no-fly list is unable to see his ailing mother [Glenn Greenwald on The Guardian]
The day before he was to travel, a KLM representative called Long and informed him that the airlines could not allow him to board the flight. That, she explained, was because the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had placed Long on its "no-fly list", which bars him from flying into his own country. Long has now spent the last six months trying to find out why he was placed on this list and what he can do to get off of it. He has had no success, unable to obtain even the most basic information about what caused his own government to deprive him of this right to travel. He has no idea when he was put on this list, who decided to put him on it, or the reasons for his inclusion. He has never been convicted of any crime, never been indicted or charged with a crime, and until he was less than 24 hours away from boarding that KLM flight back to his childhood home, had received no notice that his own government prohibited him from flying. As his mother's health declines, he remains effectively barred from returning to see her…In February, Associated Press learned that "the Obama administration has more than doubled, to about 21,000 names, its secret list of suspected terrorists who are banned from flying to or within the United States, including about 500 Americans."
No Way to Tiptoe Around It: This Drink Can Be Hard to Swallow [Ryan Sager on The Wall Street Journal]
The idea was born in 1973, when riverboat captain Dick "River Rat" Stevenson found a severed big toe preserved in a pickle jar in a cabin outside of town. Capt. Dick, as he is known, says he came up with the original rules for the drink over the course of a drunken evening with friends: take a beer glass full of champagne, drop in the toe, tip the glass back…and the toe must touch the lips. In September 1973, eight people participated in the first attempt; nearly four decades later, the Sourtoe Cocktail Club has an estimated 100,000-plus members.
Coke Gets Hacked And Doesn't Tell Anyone [Ben Elgin, Dune Lawrence and Michael Riley on Bloomberg]
Coca-Cola, the world's largest soft-drink maker, has never publicly disclosed the loss of the Huiyuan information, despite its potential effect on the deal. It is just one in a global barrage of corporate computer attacks kept secret from shareholders, regulators, employees — and in some cases even from senior executives. When hackers last year waged a large-scale attack on BG Group Plc (BG/), raiding troves of sensitive data, the British energy company never made it public. Luxembourg-based steel maker ArcelorMittal (MT) also kept mum when intruders targeted, among others, its executive overseeing China. As did Chesapeake Energy Corp. (CHK), after cyber attackers made off with files from its investment banking firm about natural gas leases that were up for sale. Each of these cases was detailed to Bloomberg News either by people involved in remediating the situation or executives briefed on the details, who asked not to be identified because the information wasn't public; or in computer logs compiled by researchers monitoring the activities of hackers in China.
Internal Time: The Science of Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You're So Tired [Maria Popova on Brain Pickings]
Roenneberg points out that in our culture, there is a great disconnect between teenagers' biological abilities and our social expectations of them, encapsulated in what is known as the disco hypothesis — the notion that if only teens would go to bed earlier, meaning not party until late, they'd be better able to wake up clear-headed and ready for school at the expected time. The data, however, indicate otherwise — adolescents' internal time is shifted so they don't find sleep before the small hours of the night, a pattern also found in the life cycle of rodents. Here, we brush up against a painfully obtrusive cultural obstacle: School starts early — as early as 7 A.M. in some European countries — and teens are expected to perform well on a schedule not designed with their internal time in mind. As a result, studies have shown that many students show the signs of narcolepsy — a severe sleeping disorder that makes one fall asleep at once when given the chance, immediately entering REM sleep.
Truth or Consequences [Joe Hagan on Texas Monthly]
And what about George W. Bush? It's unclear how the curators of his presidential library, which is slated to open next year at Southern Methodist University, will treat the ex-president's life from 1968 to 1973. They're unlikely to explore the finer details of his flight logs or offer any further information about his "lost year." But his time flying planes in Texas during the height of the Vietnam War remains a defining part of his political biography nonetheless, a chapter he proudly referenced in 2003, when he landed in a jet plane on the deck of an aircraft carrier to declare the end of major combat operations in Iraq—right before the country sank into a bloody, years-long war that would divide the United States and claim tens of thousands of Iraqi and American lives. Bush has said history will be the judge. And so it will.
Corruption Is Why You Can't Do Your Taxes in Five Minutes [Matt Stoller on Republic Report]
In California, the state has a program called ReadyReturnthat lets you do this for California state taxes. You sign it and send it back, and it takes a few minutes. But for most of us, this isn't how it works. We gather our tax forms and various banking information, and spend the weekend facing a difficult bureaucratic set of forms, hoping we did it all correctly. Or we use a costly tax filing service or software. Candidate Barack Obama promised to end this nightmare. He said he would "dramatically simplify tax filings so that millions of Americans will be able to do their taxes in less than five minutes." The IRS would use information it "already gets from banks and employers to give taxpayers the option of pre-filled tax forms to verify, sign and return." Experts, he said, estimated this would save 200 million total hours or work and $2 billion. You can file this under yet another broken campaign promise. And why? Who doesn't like an idea that is so simple and convenient and just generally helpful? Well, the large software makers, for one. Intuit in fact lobbied incredibly hard to kill the California program Ready Return (complete with attacks from right-wing tax groups). Intuit wasn't completely successful, but under their pressure, California budgeted only $10,000 to get the word out to residents about the program.
Why Everyone Believes in Magic (Even You) [Natalie Wolchover on Live Science]
What do religion, anthropomorphism, mysticism and the widespread notion that each of us has a destiny to fulfill have in common? According to Hutson's research, underlying all these forms of magical thinking is the innate sense that everything happens for a reason. And that stems from paranoia, which is a safety mechanism. "We have a bias to see events as intentional, and to see objects as intentionally designed," Hutson explained. "Part of this is because we're always on the lookout for signs of other intentional beings — people or animals — so we tend to assume that if something happened, it was caused by an agent. If we don't see any biological agent, like a person or animal, then we might assume that there's some sort of invisible agent: God or the universe in general with a mind of its own. So the reason we have a bias to assume things are intentional is that typically it's safer to spot another agent in your environment than to miss another agent." Or, in the words of the anthropologist Stewart Guthrie, "It's better to mistake a boulder for a bear than a bear for a boulder."
"Roadhouse 2012: Pain Still Don't Hurt" script 4 sale. Full Spread. (Grand Blanc) [DadBoner]
Night. A bar in the Flint area. (It also serves some of the best eats in the USA. Cheetos on anything for $1. Sammies are all piled high. The works, really. Full spread.) A kickass neon sign says, "Captain Karl's Pizza Ship." Van Halen is on stage rockin' so hard. There's chest beefers from coast to coast. It's pretty much the biggest celebraish anyone's ever seen. Guy Cooler (played by Guy Fieri) is hangin' out behind the bar, peepin' all the babes and makin' sure everyone's safe. The owner, Captain Karl, is doin' a new dance that's sweepin' the nation called "The Peener" with 4-6 consensual babes, ripe with all the toppings. Drippin' with sweat (the wet look) Karl decides to play the hot corner for a cold one, and calls Cooler over for a guy to Guy.
Curiously Strong Remains:
- Why Vote? [Interfluidity]
- Obama and progressives: what will liberals do with their big election victory? [Glenn Greenwald on The Guardian]
- Obama and Romney Fought Cleanest Fight in History [Noah Feldman via Bloomberg]
- Study Finds Multivitamins Don't Cut Risk of Heart Attack [Jennifer Corbet Dooren on The Wall Street Journal]
- Disruptions: Twitter's Uneasy Role in Guarding the Truth [Nick Bilton on Bits]
- Answer Three 'Why' Questions: Abstract Thinking Can Make You More Politically Moderate [Science Daily]
- Man Behind FEMA's Makeover Built Philosophy on Preparation [Jennifer Steinhauer and Michael Schmidt on The New York Times]
- Lydia Callis's Face For NYC Mayor [Tumblr]
- The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2012 [Museum of the Moving Image]
- America's bank bailouts: They did not have to be so unfair [M.C.K. on The Economist]
- How America bailed out the banks rather than its citizens [The Economist]
- Arizona Law Criminalizing Abortions Questioned by Judges [Bloomberg]
- Iran May Require Actresses to Wear Muslim Dress in Travel [Ladane Nasseri on Bloomberg]
- U.S. Suicide Rate Jumped During Recession as Unemployment Rose [Bloomberg]
- Why We Can't Solve Big Problems [Jason Pontin on MIT Technology Review]
- The Lie Factory: How politics became a business. [Jill Lepore on The New Yorker]
- Paul Volcker on Greedy Bankers, the Ryan Plan, and the Fed [Leslie Gelb on The Daily Beast]
- Drone activist denied visa [Murtaza Hussain via Salon]
- Feds ready whistleblower trial [Jesselyn Radack via Salon]
- Prostitutes Push for N.Y. Law Banning Condoms as Evidence [Bloomberg]
- Baseball Free Agency Dies of Neglect [Matthew Futterman on The Wall Street Journal]
- Trial Details Terror Planning: Defendant Who Pleaded Guilty Describes al Qaeda Training, Subway Bomb Plot [The Wall Street Journal]
- Slaying of 10-year-old boy at theater triggers anguish in Mexico City [McClatchy via FilmDrunk]
- Nation Horrified To Learn About War In Afghanistan While Reading Up On Petraeus Sex Scandal [The Onion]
- No, children are not natural born scientists [Robert T. Gonzalez on io9]
- Astronomers discover a planet so massive it defies classification [George Dvorsky on io9]
- Hitler's forgotten attempt to build the world's largest Olympic stadium [George Dvorsky on io9]
- Why is a giant tsunami of foam washing over this bridge in Nairobi? [Huffington Post via io9]
- Witnesses: Jail guards mocked dying inmate [Komo News]
- Desperate, Hockey Fans Root for Virtual Team [Ira Boudway on Bloomberg Businessweek]
- Billionaire Joins Quest for Boomless Supersonic Jets [Thomas Black on Bloomberg]
- Caretaking With Humor [Laura Landro on The Wall Street Journal]
- The Power of the Son-in-Law [Elizabeth Bernstein on The Wall Street Journal]
- Hewlett Packard and Autonomy: notes from my Santangels presentation [John Hempton on Bronte Capital]
Lincoln Review: Spielberg's best movie in years, but is it any good? [Vince Mancini on Filmdrunk]
Today in Outrage: Niagara critic quits after editor bars him from reviewing films featuring strong women [Vince Mancini on Filmdrunk]
7 Things You Should Know About Sign Language [Arika Orkent on mental_floss]
Writer's Room: Audiences More Entertaining Than the Movie [Multiple Authors via FilmDrunk]
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Divers discover 2,000-year-old Roman shipwreck that is so well preserved even the FOOD is intact
Fish, wine, oil and grain found inside pots, giving new insight into Roman lifestyle
Divers believe over 200 pots are left intact on the Roman commercial ship
One of the best preserved shipwrecks ever found has been discovered off the Italian coast.
Divers say they have found a ship off the coast of Italy which they believe is about 2,000 years old.
The ship, which was spotted in the sea off the town on Varazze in the province of Liguria, is thought to be a Roman-era commercial vessel.
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We woke early for an Easter sunrise, adopting a beautiful tradition from a beautiful friend, but there was something incredibly important and special about this specific Easter and this specific sunrise.
The clouds were socked in, it was misting throughout the wee hours of the morning, and the rain began to really come down. We all huddled under our umbrellas and our blankets. She used the same umbrella for protection on that rainy morning as I had used that sleepless night in 2012 in the waiting area during that nine hour surgery. We wondered if it all might be for not, the sky darkened in agreement. We wondered if we should just finish our hot chocolate, call it off, and hope for the possibility of a lovely sunset. We started sharing stories of other sunrises and sunsets, stories of Travis.
Then, almost imperceptibly, the rain was gone—it was all coming down, then it was gone, and it was the quietest change. It took several minutes before anyone noticed. Once our heads were freed from the umbrella's shelter we could see above us and out in the distance a few silver–linings scattered around the sky. We all felt happy with "seeing the silver–linings" and decided to just be grateful with that, then... gold! Bright, white, shining, gold burst through and between the thick clouds and gold fell on the hills around us and kissed our cheeks.
We gathered together to take it in, our breath taken by the sight. Now, it was time to listen.
A while ago Jason sent a letter "Dear family of my angel donor", then a few months later we received a message "I think my brother might be Jason's angel donor". Those two greetings are what catapulted us to this highly anticipated weekend, when Debbie and Amy and Dustin flew to Texas and we had the honor of meeting the newest members of our family.
It was as if we had known them forever, and we loved them and prayed for them before we ever knew their names. Over shared meals, through our adventures all around Sea World, riding in the car together, meeting atop our hill for the sunrise, and FaceTiming with our families, we came to know these lovely people and Travis Jericho Tillett.
Travis, a tall, blonde, entertaining, beautiful sixteen year–old boy who just got his learners permit. Who selected to be a donor without a second thought. He adored his mother, he called her Chap, he watched over her and she him and they were partners for each other. They went through life as soul–mates and were spontaneous together chasing the sea and the sunrise and the big, bright, full moon. He went out of his way to brighten and better the lives of all those around him. He knew just how to make his sister, he called her Sweetpea, laugh and laugh until she cried. He was thoughtful and driven and excited to get a job to buy a car and finally be finished with braces. He was on his way to school at SUN tech one morning, mid September 2012, when he was in a fatal car accident... only a couple days later we received The Call. There were beautiful lungs, perfect for Jason, ready for surgery. We would receive the sweetest, most selfless gift.
In the days preparing and throughout their trip, Debbie (Travis' mom), Amy (Travis' sister), and Dustin (Amy's son, Travis' nephew), experienced SO MANY tender mercies, so many miracles and signs along their way. From things small and simple as finding many pennies from Heaven when they reached their hotel room and even as they received their boarding passes to fly back to Pennsylvania—to a patient Jason had in his chair a few weeks ago, who just so happened to be head of admissions at Sea World, who told him they would be honored to host us with free admission for our special visit—to the clouds bursting open and the light reigning down on us for a moment so utterly personal and sweet it's nearly impossible to put into words.
Easter morning the air was thick and fragrant with fresh rain, our hearts were full and bursting with the sun shining around us, and Jason pulled his stethoscope from his pocket, Amy pulled hers from her purse.
Debbie slipped it into her ears, Jason guided her hand to his lungs. Amy readied herself as well. Jason took a long, deep breath. Debbie closed her eyes. Listening. "... ... ... ... Travis. ... It's Travis! There he is! Ohhhhh... ... it's Travis."
We all wept.
God was with us during our time together. God was with us throughout this tragic and terrible and beautiful and painful and miraculous journey that made our paths to cross. And I promise you God was with us on that hilltop hoping for the sun to rise. And I know that Travis was there too. I think Travis was pulling strings and walking along with us for his family's whole visit to Texas and I think he was glad we all finally found each other.
God is good. And Christ is Risen. And because of this we can all hope, we can all find joy, we can all try and love and look up and reach out to others and do our best through this walk of life. And after this mortal journey is through we can anticipate a glorious reunion in the end. Because of our Savior. Because of Him it can truly all be ok in the end.
Until then—Travis isn't gone. Travis is everywhere. And oh boy! Do we love him, and love those who love him.
"He lives on in others who now see the beauty of a sunset through his eyes, hear the coo of a child through his ears, breathe the breath of life through his lungs, and feel the pulse of life that lives on in his heart. Travis is no longer with us... He is now everywhere." –an excerpt from Travis' obituary, written by a close family friend


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Sandy Jacobson
Sandy created, produced and hosted her own music-interview television show for two years with guests such as Peter Tork, Brian Ray (Paul McCartney's Band), David Philp (The Automatics), We Five (You Were On My Mind), Laurence Juber (Paul McCartney & Wings), The Quarrymen, and many others before moving to L.A. TalkRadio. She also appeared as a "Wench" in Pirates of The Caribbean II & III, and
has worked in other films and T.V. shows.
Sandy assisted Peter Tork at the 2010 NAMM Festival, where he publicly thanked her in front of industry peers for her work at the NAMM Festival AND The Monkees Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Petition.
Sandy Jacobson has been a Guest Speaker on panels for
● The TV/Film department at Loyola Marymount University,
alongside representatives from DreamWorks and Warner Brothers.
● The FAR-West Conference for The International Folk Alliance.
● The "Women In Business" Internet Radio show by Dr. Gayle Carson.
Sandy Jacobson's life story has appeared in:
● BackStage.com (THE actor's publication)
● XL-Magazine – An international publication for people living Extraordinary Lives
● Member Grammy Association – Work on her show earned her membership into the organization.


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Half an hour before boarding the bus that would take me and friends to Trat, I skimmed online reviews of the resort we were to stay in and beaches on Elephant Island that we wanted to go to.
1. Yet there's still that hint of surprise at finding reality: rocks instead of black sand at least abound on Pearl Beach, and Lonely Beach is not lonely at all.
But discovering Koh Chang's hidden charm is good consolation. One of us baptized this place Hansel and Gretel's cottage.
2. I was right to have taken some work with me. Facebook-depriving elusive Wifi saved friends from being harrassed with islandish shoutouts at 20-minute intervals .
3. Work was a question to research the moment I was back to the mainland: if integrative complexity was high, would the number of assassinations go down?
4. Legs connected to the brains entertaining morbidity in the midst of holiday were clad in a long, flowery skirt. Mixing business and pleasure, for crying out loud.
5. Let's go music and movies; play fill-in-the-gaps. There's a cue reflected on the lappy screen. Christina Aguilera sings, "who is that girl I see staring straight back at me..." ________
6. Saffron on the Sea asked if they could substitute orange with lime. It was fine by me as long as they stuck to the 40% alcohol content.
"...just a hired hand, working on the dreams he planned to try..." Eagles on the background while I sipped this at sunset. _______ ________7. Birds of Paradise. As soon as I clicked the cam I was 5-years old again playing jacks on a doting uncle's living room floor. Long before I knew Tony Bennett crooned, "for mortals who stand beside an angel like you... out of the common place into the rarest somewhere in space..." the song's been immortalized in my sometimes sentimental head: ____ _ ______.
9. Out goes pre-revolutionary Russia with its matchmakers. In comes freedom to choose whoever to marry. Although this freedom resulted in divorce and we now tease each other Old Maid, there's still some freedom to make a fashion statement
10. Our tour guide instructed us not to get close to ___ ______ (Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson).
13. Finally our boat docked. This display in the Fisherman's Village market reminded me of Steven Spielberg's ________.
Visit Megan and Janet for more T13.


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So, is Patrick Lalime all of a sudden good? Does Lindy all of a sudden trust him? Is the goalie rotation finally going to make sense? Is everything all-awesome-all-the-time in the goalie department?
Please say yes…Published December 27, 2009 Joyful , Patrick Lalime 6 Comments
6 Responses to "Please say yes…"
December 27, 2009 at 10:31 pm
Well, I'd say yes, but you won't believe me unless KevinP comes along to confirm it. :P
December 28, 2009 at 7:40 am
Last year when every one was all worked up about Lalime not being able to be a good back up, those sports writers who had seen him play for years said that if he gets regular play, he is a good goalie. I think that is what we are seeing. That and it looks like he has picked his game up a bit as has Ryan. Good for us! Go Sabres!
December 28, 2009 at 8:38 am
I see Lalime as our Western Conference Specialist. The Sabres don't have another back to back till 1/9 which is the Avalanche. So put him in that one. Or the Lighting game earlier that week.
Man that West Coast trip coming up next month looks nasty, with 2 road games before that as well. Nothing like a 7 game roadie.
December 29, 2009 at 10:14 pm
I think I love Lalime! Hee!


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A viral perspective on bureaucracy and scientific managementKjær, Peter; Frankel, Christian (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The virus metaphor may be used in studies of management knowledge not only as a way of describing diffusion processes but also as a way of thinking about viral elements of knowledge production. In the present article, organizational viruses are viewed as ensembles of basic distinctions that are constitutive of concrete bodies of knowledge and which form mutable engines of organizational self-descriptions. Organizational viruses, we contend, are both characterized by stability in terms of their basic productive configuration, while at the same time allowing for a high degree of variation in terms of concrete management knowledge and practice. The article is structured as follows. After the introduction, we first develop the notion of organizational virus as into an analytical approach. Second, we discern in the work of Frederick Taylor on scientific management and Max Weber on bureaucracy, two quite distinct viral configurations that we claim have infected most modern management knowledge – both on a discursive level and on the level of concrete organizational self-descriptions and practice. Third, we discuss our findings and raise the question of how viruses 'work', how they interact, and why they become infectious. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6707
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Seeing Organizational Culture in a Becoming PerspectiveBøgetoft Christensen, Jens; Darmer, Per (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
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A prospective literature reviewMathieu, Chris (Frederiksberg, 2009)[More information][Less information]
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Abstract: This article investigates a segmentation model used by the Danish Tax and Customs Administration to classify businesses' motivational postures. The article uses two different conceptualizations of performativity to analyze what the model's segmentations do; Hacking's idea of making up people and MacKenzie's idea of performativity. Based on these two approaches I demonstrate that the segmentation model represents and performs the businesses as it 'makes up' certain new ways to be a business and as the businesses can be seen as 'moving targets'. With inspiration from MacKenzie my following argument is that the segmentation model posits a remarkable cleverness in that it simultaneously alters what it represents and represents this altered reality to confirm the accuracy of its own model of the businesses' postures. However, despite this cleverness the model bears a blind spot as it assumes a world wherein everything around the model is in motion and can be shaped, whereas it believes itself to be stable. As indicated in the article, this assumption turns out problematic as the tax administration questions the model's ability to produce valid comparisons. All in all, the article provides a detailed description and analysis of the model's performativity and provides an example of a performativity study which in its methodology differs from the methodological criteria set up by MacKenzie. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8554
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Influence Attempts as Another Piece to the Managerial JigsawsRy Nielsen, J. C. (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Leadership, change management, mentoring, coaching, thinking in holistic terms, leadership development, contract management, project management, balanced score card, and benchmarking are terms that flourish in the newspapers, on leadership and management courses and programmes. The memoirs of great leaders and fix it by reading five minutes a day are sold in bundles at the airports around the world. The academic literature on the subjects is increasing rapidly, and within the last ten to fifteen years the public sector has come and more into focus, following the New Public Management wave. Many of concepts seem to become buzzwords, but the facts remain that the world is changing and so are/must the organizations. My focus is primarily on the public sector, but this sector can nowadays not be treated without looking at the private and the not for profit sector as well. Therefore – and because of my experience in trade unions and other voluntary organizations these organizations are incorporated in the paper URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6715
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Abstract: In this article I contribute to descriptive green business research on how processes of eco-effective greening business unfold in the practical reality. I look into the case of the increasing interaction between the multinational oil company Shell and the world's largest wind turbine company Vestas. I draw on descriptive organisational sense-making theory and analyse to this end Shell and Vestas' shared green sense-making on off-shore wind energy business. The article concludes that greening companies such as Shell – that are not born green – might be considerably advanced, if these companies strengthen their relationships with companies such as Vestas – that are born green. This is so, since companies that are born green have strong green ecocentric business beliefs that can function as important engines in shared green sense-making with companies that are not born green and have more hesitant green beliefs. KEY WORDS: Sustainable business, sense-making, climate change, oil and wind turbine companies URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6710
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The Future role, Career, and Qualifications of Shop Stewards in Transnational CompaniesHull Kristensen, Peer (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
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Janet Cox is on the board of Fossil Free California, a non-profit that advocates for financial solutions to the climate crisis in California.
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At 8 am on a Wednesday morning last month, two federal District Court courtrooms in San Francisco were jammed with lawyers, scientists, journalists, and climate activists—and more people were lined up down the hall, eager to listen to five occasionally riveting hours of climate science. Judge...
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Oct 10, 2012
"Baby Boomers are facing a new kind of retirement, with decisions that are more complex and a world that is more uncertain than their parents experienced a generation ago," said
Income+ empowers employees to make the right decisions at the right time, keeping funds in their 401(k) accounts without locking them into a particular investment such as an annuity. Employees can choose when to start payouts, stop payouts, and take additional withdrawals, so they have full access to their 401(k) savings as needed. Employees can cancel at any time with no fee or penalty.
"At UL, we want our employees to live a financially healthy life while working with us and after they retire," said
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The Summit offers a collaborative forum for academics, policy makers, and large employers to facilitate new programs that help retirees create income that can last for life.
Government, policy makers and key executives from nearly 30 large employers representing a cross-section of industries will attend the invitation-only event. Of the sponsor participants, more than half are from Fortune 500 companies.
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Greenhouse Construction Manager (SF Bay, CA)
M&F Talent has a greenhouse design/build client that is looking for a reliable Greenhouse Construction Manager to plan construction projects and oversee their progress along the way in a timely and cost-effective manner. This position will be responsible for budgeting, organization, implementation and scheduling of the greenhouse projects, which will also include site visits.
Location: Berkeley, CA
- Overseeing and directing Greenhouse design and construction projects from conception to completion, working directly with the end-user on their project specifications
- Review projects in-depth to estimate costs, engage in a competitive bidding/ proposal process, and schedule deliverables, and then oversee the work of general contractors and trades
- Overseeing all off-site construction projects to monitor compliance with building and safety regulations, adherence to budget, timelines, and overall efficiency
- Monitor compliance with building and safety regulations including electrical, mechanical, and equipment installations (HVAC, chillers, boilers, lighting, etc)
- Coordinate and direct construction workers and subcontractors
- Select tools, materials and equipment and track inventory
- Review the work progress on daily basis, and ensure works meets contractual conditions of project performance
- Prepare internal and external reports pertaining to job status
- Plan ahead to prevent problems and resolve any emerging ones
- Negotiate terms of agreements, draft contracts and obtain permits and licenses
- Analyze, manage and mitigate risks
- Ensure quality construction standards and the use of proper construction techniques
- BS Degree in construction management, architecture, engineering or related field preferred
- 3-5 years of experience in construction site management
- Proven working experience in construction management, preferably in a role related to greenhouse construction, controlled environment agriculture, and/or indoor cultivation
- Advanced knowledge of construction management processes, means and methods
- Expert knowledge of steel building products, construction details and relevant rules, regulations and quality standards
- Understanding of all facets of the construction process, including relevant software packages
- Ability to plan and see the "big picture"
- Competent in conflict and crisis management
- Leadership and human resources management skills
- Excellent time and project management skills
If you would like to hear more about our Greenhouse Construction Manager job, or one of our other horticulture careers, please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Managing Director
Darren graduated from The Robert Gordon University (Scott Sutherlands School of Architecture) in 2001. He successfully completed the RIBA course of Professional Practice and Management Part 3 Examination in 2002.
Darren was previously employed as Associate by Mackie Ramsay Taylor Architects (Aberdeen) before relocating to Glasgow, joining McLean Architects, where he was Associate Director leading the company's largest project, Airdrie Resource Centre amongst other projects.
Darren has worked in private architectural practice since 2001 and has gained experience on a large variety of projects including refurbishments and conservation of listed buildings, Ministry of Defence works and health care.
While at MRT Architects, he was Project Architect and design team leader for all the practices education projects which included term contracts with Aberdeen College and The Robert Gordon University. The education experience has also included the delivery of 10 primary schools through PPP projects and traditionally to the local authority. Darren, was Project Architect on works to BMI Albyn Hospital and worked in conjunction with the Healthcare Project Director on the delivery of several major healthcare projects including the Royal Aberdeen Sick Children's Hospital, Forfar & Kirriemuir Community Resource Centre, and several medical centres for Medical Centres Scotland.
Whilst at McLean Architects, Darren was Project Architect on Airdrie Resource Centre which was initially an appointment to NHS Lanarkshire where Darren wrote the brief before acting as Clients Architect and design team leader to develop the project for AWG. The mixed use development will accommodate the largest medical centre in Scotland once complete. In addition, Darren, was responsible for other projects including works to several Scottish Court buildings, small works at Glasgow University, the role out of new and refurbished gym facilities across the UK, works for Glasgow Science Centre and Our Dynamic Earth Edinburgh.
Darren completed several feasibility and master planning reports while at McLean Architects including a 5 star destination hotel on the West Coast of Scotland, new office and warehouse accommodation in Glasgow City Centre and works to a large office / manufacturing site in Govan.
Darren monitors all projects A10 Architects carries out ensuring the highest possible service and design is passed to the clients while allowing staff to develop their areas of expertise.
Darrens experience in educational buildings has seen him appointed as a Governor to Belmont House School, Newton Mearns. Darren is also a trustee for SCA (Scottish Christian Alliance) and a member of the Management Board for SEPUK a Christian Activity Camp


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A Theatre of Our OwnPermanent link
On January 2, 1948, Golda Meir stood, unexpected, before Chicago's Council of Jewish Federations to appeal for the financial support necessary to arm the Jewish forces fighting for an Israeli state.
Today, actress Janet Ulrich Brooks stands on the stage of Pegasus Players' production of Golda's Balcony , reenacting this pivotal moment in Israel's history. "I have no speech," she says, giving voice to Meir's historic words. "I'll tell you what's in my heart."
Pegasus Players is the theatrical heart of Chicago's Uptown neighborhood, and it too has a passionate appeal and an ambitious mission: "To produce the highest quality artistic work and to provide exemplary theatre, entertainment and arts education at no charge to people who have little or no access to the arts." While this mission has taken the company on two theatrical tours in the Middle East, Pegasus remains strongly grounded in its local community, providing creative opportunities for young playwrights, school children, and underserved populations.
Artistic Director Alex Levy has worked with Pegasus Players for nine years, winning numerous awards and citations, and championing the unique community that both supports and benefits from this theatre's socially progressive objectives. He chose Golda's Balcony to close this season.
Golda's Balcony is a challenging play, and I wondered how the overt politics of this decidedly Jewish work would be received in such a diverse community. According to the 2000 census, Uptown is home to about 27,000 white residents, 14,000 African American residents, 13,000 Hispanic/Latino residents, and 5,500 Asian residents. To me, this show seemed a brave, and risky, choice. Levy responded with confident nonchalance, "We very rarely play ourselves on stage. Theatre companies start to reflect their community. Presenting this work to an audience whose life is very different is actually a wonderful thing."
The production, wonderful as it is, left me troubled. Chicago, with a Jewish population of over 270,000, has the fifth largest concentration of Jews in the United States. With over 200 theatre companies, Chicago's theatre scene can cater to the individual needs of specific communities. Theatres such as Black Ensemble Theater and Teatro Vista explore the work and histories of their own ethnicities. Teatro Luna, Stockyards Theatre Project, and Rivendell Theatre Ensemble celebrate women theatre artists. About Face Theatre creates work that addresses the concerns of the LBGT community. Other companies are dedicated to children and family programming, stage combat and movement, even culinary entertainment. Why then has our Jewish community, a community that comprises almost ten percent of Chicago's population, not been able to consistently support a single Jewish theatre?
"The push [for a Jewish Theatre] needs to come from the community," Levy explains, acknowledging that Chicago's theatrical community consistently produces work by Jewish artists and writers. "Other theatres can pick up the slack, but there isn't a central home."
When theatres presenting Jewish works are not situated within the Jewish community, hard questions can go unasked and stereotypes go unquestioned. "There is a lack of historical memory. Events are not understood in a historical context." But Levy also acknowledges the temptation to present work that celebrates a culture without also exploring the problems and challenges that culture faces. Theatre allows a community to examine itself critically, creating a dialogue for change—which is why I think the absence of a Jewish theatre, despite the wealth of Jewish shows being performed, is important.
Jewish stories and themes are part of the cultural dialogue of Chicago, and Uptown, with its rich artistic heritage, is a neighborhood well-known for challenging convention. Golda's Balcony rises to the challenge. Harsh, unyielding, and undeniably honest, this production successfully celebrates a woman and a nation, but never once shies from the harsh realities of this history. To speak one's heart is a dangerous thing. Fortunately, Pegasus Players is lending its voice.
Golda's Balcony runs through June 29 at Pegasus Players, 1145 W. Wilson. Discounted tickets are available by using the promotional code FriendsofJUF.


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In an earlier post, I provided screenshots of Ancestry Composition. My composition analysis is not different with the enhanced tool. This is because I am mostly European. The more specific geographical designations are found in the rest of the world.
|These areas of the world have grown more specific in the Ancestry Composition feature
at 23andMe. The percentage is zero because my DNA has no detectable ancestry from these areas.
In the time since my previous post on Ancestry Composition, my sister tested her DNA. I can compare her composition to mine to see differences in inheritance. Each sibling will differ in what they inherit and in what they pass on to the next generation. The result is widening genetic differences among cousins with every generation until they may have little in common with one another as well as ancestors from long ago.
Above are ancestry compositions for my parents. Each child will inherit a different amount of DNA from each area. This is why Ancestry Composition is not a precise reflection of your ancestral origins.
My Ancestry Composition differs a little from my sister's. Future generations will receive different combinations of the ancestries. Some ancestral areas may completely disappear from the DNA of future generations. This is why Ancestry Composition will not reflect all the areas of the world where your ancestors were from. Asian ancestry was not detected in our parents, perhaps because the amount was just under a threshold. We may have had Asian or Native American ancestors. It is possible that all ancestors of the last several generations were European and diluted the Asian DNA to reach an almost undetectable amount in us, the current generation.
Envision your 128 great-great-great-great-great grandparents. If one was Asian and the other 127 were European, you likely would have little to no detectable ancestry from Asia.


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It has been confirmed that Sky Player on the Xbox 360 will indeed work with Kinect – Microsoft's new-fangled motion controller – when it launches in the UK.
Microsoft has always been adamant that Kinect is not just about gaming, but an entirely new way to control everything on your console, which includes services like Sky Player.
Sky's the limit
While there has been little word on how exactly this will be done, both Sky and Xbox have finally confirmed that you will be able to choose to watch your favourite shows by doing some Minority Report-style hand gestures.
According to those in the know, you will also be able to use your voice to pause, fast forward, rewind and play content and scrolling through content will be done with the wave of a hand.
Sky Player has been available on the Xbox 360 since October 2009 and marked a departure for Sky, as it offered the service to those without a satellite dish and not on a computer.
Microsoft has announced that the UK release date for Kinect is 10 November, so get practising those hand gestures (not those ones!).
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James Nesbitt's new hair steals attention from world's top footballers
Picture the scene. It's one of football's most prestigious nights of the year: Fifa's award ceremony, the Ballon d'Or gala. Barcelona's super striker Lionel Messi faced Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo, and Twitter was alive….with comments regarding the host's hair line. Critics will always be quick with the quips, and Twitter users were quick as ever in sharing their opinions. Irish presenter James Nesbitt was hosting the evening and was sporting an unusually voluminous hair style, a marked difference from recent public appearances, where a clearly visible receding hair line was more apparent. Nesbitt is no stranger to hair transplant therapy; it is believed that this could be the third hair transplant that he has undergone. Like the experience of many other men, one transplant often isn't enough to keep up with the ongoing problem of hair loss. Nevertheless, the other hypothesis of Twitter's many observational critics though, is that this particular transformation could have been the result of an overly enthusiastic hair piece…. "Finding James Nesbitt's newly knitted hair very odd looking" "James Nesbitt's squirrel – what was that all about?"


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A Performance-Driven Digital Marketing Agency
Wheelhouse DMG is a performance-driven digital marketing agency. We work with companies large and small to discover and make the most of new opportunities in an exciting, ever-changing digital landscape.
Our work is varied. We've developed global domain strategy for a billion-dollar insurance network and harnessed SEO to help dozens of ecommerce companies make organic search their fastest growing and most profitable source of revenue. We've built digital advertising campaigns that generate tens of millions in profit for an online bookseller, tripled lead generation for a leading telecommunications company through conversion rate optimization, and developed and implemented analytics strategies for a 150-site healthcare provider.
Although the digital strategies we employ vary with client needs, our identity does not.
We're known for three things:
• The tremendous business value we drive for our clients.
• The strength and depth of our client relationships. We are true strategic partners. Our client relationships last many years.
• The principled way in which we conduct our business. We're the agency that doesn't feel like an agency. No "change requests," no surprise invoices, no one looking to "monetize" our client relationships – just a commitment to deliver results.
Our values are our north star. They guide our decisions and our every action. We're committed to being a partner who goes above and beyond to make sure our experience together and the results we achieve are exceptional.


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"Wood is our only renewable resource.
I feel it is our responsibility to maintain
our partnership with nature and
not to take it for granted."
Hatchways Coworking Space
Craftmanship showcases this high-performance cowork environment, featuring serpentine seating, conference spaces, and workspaces.
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Hidden Assets
Three 7' wide x 9' tall Pivot doors create full view into conference, rotating to closed position, creating a fully acoustic environment.
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Hotel Alessandra
Reception, Bar Bardot, Dining and Spa use complimentary and contrasting elements to create an elegance ambiance.
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Walnut paneling throughout—
bookmatched and sequenced from end to end—tells the story of the tree itself.
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Luxe Custom Fixtures—
4510 project's fixtures custom fixture designs reflect the bespoke environment of this retailer.
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Corporate Entrance Lobby and Reception
Fumed Eucalyptus, sequence match paneling
miter fold marble.
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The Boutique on Stonelake at Lakeway Lexus
Distinctive elements come together to give this boutique inside Lexas at Lakeway an identity all its own.
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Granite Brianpark
Sequenced wood panels on lobby walls and reception desk.
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Cabin by the Lake Resurrected
Working with restrictions of a 70-year-old lake cottage, we modernized the entertainment space and designed a play on reflections.
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Artis Reception Desk or Art?You Decide
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Conference Table
Chinchilla Mink Marble meticulously crafted in a pinwheel pattern. Corian and Korilenburl base.
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"Saturn" Rings
The concentric metal rings range in diameter from 6' to 50'. They appear to float from the ceiling.
"DNA" Strand
Hexagonal stools are aligned to as an abstract representation of DNA strand.
"Marlboro" Table
Exposed woodgrain detail on each 1" painted, dowel form the surface of the table,
Over 2,500 dowels makeup the table.
Christ the Redeemer
Impression completed several projects including the altar, narthex, reception and youth room.
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The Drug Precursors, Prior Informed Consent Procedure (PIC), CBRN-E (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosive) action plan are dealt within an expert group who shares information and discusses on the latest European and global developments in the field This group meets on ad hoc basis and has an active circulation of information.
This group meets on ad hoc basis and has an active circulation of information. Fecc promotes the establishment of industry codes of conduct, and the promotion of industry voluntary initiatives including the reporting of suspicious transactions. Working closely together with the European Institutions and relevant stakeholders, some of the issues being examined / handled are the Commission Drug Precursors Guidelines for Industry, Explosive Precursors, Commission's Chemical sub-group of CBRN Task Force, the Chemical Weapons Convention guidelines and developments, and the modification of the Rotterdam Convention on Prior Informed Consent (PIC).
Relevant documents and Articles
- Orders Acetic Anhydride – Modus Operandi
- Security Union update – Eighteenth Progress Report towards an effective and genuine Security Union
- Update EU Control List of Dual Use Items_2018
- Update EU Control Summary Dual Use List Annex 1
- Dual Use Export Control Withdrawal UK_Regulation 2019-496 March 2019Export Control Withdrawal UK_Regulation 2019-496 March 2019
- Dual Use Export Controls Withdrawal UK
- Online CBRN-E Glossary
- CBRN-E Presentation (DG home) 2016_11_04
- Fecc Model Agreement on Voluntary Measures on Substances Subject to Trade Controls
- Article on the New EU Regulation on Drug Precursors
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1. Had brief dreams about Australia.
One involved Matt from Home and Away. A gun is found in his bag, or in someone else's bag. Someone lies to make excuses for the gun-holder. Then later I see Matt with his bags packed. He's sneaking out of town.
In another, I see a sign for some kind of exhibit or event involving backyards. I sneak a peak at the backyards and see a table with board games. It looks like a sale, and I'm pleased, because there might be Australian things to buy.
I'm not sure why I guessed there'd be Australian things. I guess maybe we were in Australia. Though I don't remember any hints that we were in Australia before that.
2. Started watching an episode of Home and Away.
3. Saw that Matt and Oscar can't get out of their burning house, because the window is locked, and it needs a key for it to be opened.
What the hell?
I've never heard of that.
Why would you have windows that locked like that?
4. Realized I'm being stupid.
Windows might be locked as a child safety feature. I guess it's to prevent a child from opening the window and jumping out.
Still. I never heard of locks. It seems you'd have windows that open or don't open. Or at least that's what we have in our house.
5. Googled locked windows with keys and ended up with a bunch of websites about computers.
6. Wondered what's the deal with Billie (Tessa de Josselin) playing hero at the fire. Is it like Karl on Coronation Street. Karl started the fire; then when it got more dangerous than he expected, he rescued people.
Or maybe Billie didn't start the fire and is playing hero because she feels it's worth risking her life to change her reputation in town.
7. Wondered if it's possible that Billie risked her life simply because she cares and wants to help people.
I have a hard time believing that.
Leah (Ada Nicodemou), Evie (Philippa Northeast), Maddie (Kassandra Clementi), and VJ (Matthew Little) are all caring people, and they specifically care about the people in the burning house. Yet they didn't run in.
I think Billie's actions is an illustration of the idea that not all acts of courage and fearlessness come from noble and decent people.
8. Thought that it's very annoying when you're hating on someone, and then they do something like get cancer, have a heart attack, or dangerously play hero in a fire.
Then there's all that pressure to forgive them...or at least pretend you forgive them.
9. Had to admit that there have been times that I've felt hated, or at least unloved, and I've had dark fantasies of something bad happening to me. The idea being that my haters would feel regret and guilt.
But really. What's the point?
Well, I guess sometimes there's a point. Maybe sometimes there IS love and appreciation, but it's forgotten or buried. Then something bad happens to someone, and we remember.
Still, it seems better to be loved and appreciated WITHOUT having something bad happen to us.And it seems better to love and appreciate others before they're sick, dead, or injured....IF we're not angry at or hateful towards the person.
I also think we don't need to force ourselves to love and forgive someone simply because they're showing off their mortality. To keep the peace, it might be wise to fake it a bit. But I don't think we need to feel guilty for what we're truly feeling inside.
10. Saw Evie worried that she's to blame for the fire—that maybe she left something on.
I can picture myself feeling that way.
11. Wondered if Billie running into the burning house could count as a suicide attempt.
Maybe while some people kill others on their way out; other people save others.That way they either survive and live the rest of their life labeled as a hero; or they die as a hero.
12. Wondered how many people, that die with the hero label, put their lives on the line simply because they really didn't have much interest in living anymore.
13. Saw that Home and Away is leaving Hulu in five days.
When that happened with Neighbours, I was upset. I can't say I feel the same about Home and Away.
I do like the show in some ways, but mainly I feel kind of excited that I get to use Random.org to pick something new to watch.
Also, I already knew that Hulu wasn't receiving new episodes of the show. They only have 2015, and not 2016. So I was prepared for the fact that I'd have to say good-bye to the show eventually.
14. Hoped that Hulu will get new Australian programming to replace that what they've lost or are losing.
I guess what I do worry about is Hulu reducing Australia programming in general.
And I also worry that one day they're going to get rid of Coronation Street. I was sad about Neighbours. With Coronation Street, I think I'd be devastated.
15. Started to look through Hulu to see if any other shows are expiring.
Tangle is also expiring in five days.
I'm guessing Hulu ended some contract with the company that distributes both Home and Away and Tangle.
16. Saw that The Secret Life of Us is expiring.
This is so sad.
Though I'm not that sad personally YET, because I've finished both of those series.
I dread finding the expiring series that I haven't finished yet.
17. Saw that Dance Academy is still safe for now.
That's a relief.
I've already seen it, but it's such a good show. It should be available to as many people as possible.
18. Saw that the distribution company for Home and Away...at least when it comes to Hulu is Endemol Shine. And many of their shows are NOT expiring. So the contract didn't end completely. I guess it's just been reduced?
19. Disappointed to see that Puberty Blues is expiring. That's one I didn't finish watching. I saw only season one and the first episode of season two.
20. Saw that the Australian media-bio miniseries are expiring.
That's not a loss for me personally, because I've already seen all the ones they had.
Still. I was hoping Hulu was planning to add more miniseries. Instead they're losing them. So, that's kind of a bummer.
21. Saw that, except for Puberty Blues, all the shows I've begun and not finished are sticking around—City Homicide, Water Rats, Packed to the Rafters, and McLeod's Daughters.
It's like the universe is smiling down at me.
I hope it keeps up this particular kindness. I don't want to gloat and then hear next month that all those shows are going away.
22. Went to the website of Endemol Shine International.
They have eighty offices around the world.
I'm guessing they're a British company. On Hulu, they have both British and Australian shows. I think it's mostly the Australian shows that are leaving, though.
23. Downloaded Endemol Shine's catalogue.
I think these are the shows that are up for grabs for companies like Netflix and Hulu.
It's kind of making me wish I had my own company. Then I could buy all these shows.
24. Saw that they Endemol Shine has all kinds of Australian goodies available.
25. Saw Home and Away in the catalogue, and if I'm not mistaken, one of the characters they're using to advertise the show is Billie! I guess she survives the fire.
I think the guy next to her is VJ, so maybe they end up getting together.
27. Consulted Lord Wiki's cousin about Billie to get spoilers about the show.
I figure I might as well, since I soon won't be watching it anymore.
So, anyway....
Billie is blamed for starting the fire, but she really didn't. She was framed by Zac's (Charlie Clausen) long lost son.
28. Felt a lack of incentive to watch the next episode of Home and Away. What's the point?
Well, I'm sure there is a point. But for me, it feels pointless.
So I have a crazy idea.
I'm going to watch the last episodes available. But since I'm too lazy to calculate how many episodes I have left, with the five remaining days, I'll watch them backwards.
No, I'm not going to watch the actual episode backwards. I don't think that's even possible on Hulu. But I'll start with the last episode, and them watch the previous one after that.
29. Looked at the description for episode 230.
Nate (Kyle Pryor) and Ricky (Bonnie Sveen) get engaged. What the hell?! I was NOT expecting
30. Saw that Hulu now says Home and Away is expiring in four days. When does Hulu end their days? I guess it's sometime between 10:00 and 2:00 central American time? It was only about two or three hours or two ago that I saw the five day message.
31. Started watching episode 230.
32. Saw that Kyle (Nick Westaway) and Phoebe (Isabella Giovinazzo) are friends again. They had a friendly conversation.
They could even be back together romantically, but I'm doubting it.
33. Saw from a glance at the episode description, on IMDb, that Maddie is with Matt (Alec Snow). Awesome! I like them together.
34. Learned that Chris (Johnny Ruffo) and Hannah (Cassie Howarth) are together...or were together. They've broken up.
Actually, I saw that in the little preview at the beginning of the episode, but it didn't register in my head. Maybe I was in shocked disbelief.
It kind of seems a bit nuts. Hannah had complained that Andy (Tai Hara) was too full on. I don't think he is, but Chris is VERY much full on.
I like Chris, but he's the kind of person I'd need in very small doses at a time.
35. Thought I would mention that I've changed my mind about how I'm going to watch the episodes.
Watching the episode prior to this one doesn't excite me, because I've seen the important parts in the preview. Instead what I'm going to do is keep jumping back ten episodes. That way it will be more interesting and exciting.
36. Thought maybe I was wrong about Maddie and Matt. They're eyeing each other but not standing together.
Maybe they're in a fight?
37. Wondered why Nate and Kat (Pia Miller) broke up.
38. Saw Maddie and Matt kissing.
I think they were either in a fight or in that beginning stage where each person is too scared to take the first step.
39. Glad to see that most of Summer Bay, or ALL of Summer Bay, hates Charlotte (Erika Heynatz)
40. Saw that Phoebe knows the secret about Brax (Stephen Peacocke) being alive.
I got the idea earlier that other people know as well, but this is the first time I've seen someone mention it directly.
41. Wondered if everyone except Ricky knows that the father of her child is still alive.
Maybe the whole town is keeping it a secret from her.
42. Saw Andy kissing Evie.
That shocked me a bit.
43. Realized that Andy is the brother of Evie's boyfriend Josh (Jackson Gallagher). Yikes.
Does Josh know that Andy and Evie have these feelings for each other? Are Josh and Evie still officially together?
Maybe they broke up.
44. Wondered if any of the couples from July 2015 were still together in December 2015.
Then I remembered Zac and Leah (Ada Nicodemou). This episode has their wedding. I think everyone else has shuffled to a new partner. It's like a mad Australian-soap opera version of square-dancing.
45. Saw that there's a new actress on the show.
46. Looked at the episode on IMDb.
The actress is Raechelle Banno. She plays Olivia Richards, and continues on the show into 2016.
47. Understood from spoilers I've read, and obvious foreshadowing, that they're leading up to Charlotte's murder.
I think I saw in recent news that Charlotte's murder is finally going to be revealed.
I'll have to look that up soon.
48. Wondered if real life ever has someone being murdered with multiple people threatening to kill them a few hours before the murder.
49. Thought about what I wrote recently about secrets on soap operas. I think more often the viewer is kept in the loop. We know the big secret that someone is keeping. But the Charlotte death is one of the exceptions. The show turned it into a mystery.
50. Wondered about Denny's (Jessica Grace Smith) death. It was revealed in this episode, or the last, that Charlotte was the one that killed her. Did the viewers know that? Or was it a mystery as well?
51. Finished watching the episode.
I'm planning to watch episode #220 tomorrow. That should give me some clues to how and why things happened.
52. Found the article that says Charlotte's killer will be revealed soon.
I saw the headline on my phone yesterday but didn't read it.
Now I've gone ahead and read it.
53. Tried to figure out if I prefer storylines about secrets to be mysteries, or do I prefer to know the secret.
I think I prefer the secret. With a mystery, all I'm really feeling is curiosity. I want a simple answer to the question, and I think often I'm left feeling unsatisfied.
When I know the secret, it creates so much tension. I'm so on edge.The show becomes very compelling to me—compelling to the point that sometimes it's almost unbearable. Then I get so much satisfaction when the secret is finally revealed.
54. Thought maybe secrets are good when it comes as a complete surprise. We're not trying to solve a mystery, because we didn't even know there was one. Once a show starts dropping hints; then it begins to feel manipulative...or at least contrived.
For example, in the Home and Away episode I just watched, both Ash (George Mason) and Zac reassured someone that Charlotte won't be a problem anymore. The idea we're supposed to get is that one of them killed her. Okay? But if one of them killed her, why is the second person so sure that Charlotte won't be a problem anymore? Ash and Zac aren't saying these things, because it's a realistic thing to say in the situation. They're saying it so the show will have multiple very-likely suspects for the murder.
55. Guessed that the killer will be someone who did NOT make any comments that made them look guilty.
56. Learned about Southern Cassowaries, for our biology lesson today.
They're dangerous animals but very beautiful and interesting.
57. Realized, while proofreading, that I never verified that Endemol Shine is a British company.
I consulted Lord Wiki, and it turns out they're not a British company. It's Dutch. Their headquarters is Amsterdam.
58. Guessed that Matt is the killer of Charlotte.
Maybe that's why I dreamed about him last night.


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Where to buy tickets for the 2011 Cricket World Cup semifinals and final
Latest updates on how to purchase tickets through lottery for 2011 ICC World Cup final at Wankhede stadium in Mumbai? This article gives information on where to buy tickets for the finals of the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup at Wankhede Stadium Mumbai.
As teams make their way to the quarter finals stage of the 2011 ICC World Cup, there is an increased frenzy on the part of cricket fans to get hold of tickets for the semifinals and final. In fact, fans in Mumbai are so sure that India will reach the finals, that they have been desperately trying to get tickets for that all-important game at the Wankhede stadium Mumbai.
In order to prevent the mayhem caused at the Chinnaswamy stadium in Bengaluru and at the Vidharbha stadium in Nagpur, where fans lining up for tickets at the venues were lathi-charged by the police, it was decided by the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) that tickets for the semifinals & final would be offered only online by the ballot system. The first draw for the public ballot for tickets to these games was made on Thursday. All successful applicants were then sent an email about the allotment of their tickets & they then had to make online payment. After payment, the tickets would be delivered to them.
The price of tickets available through the online ballot process for the World Cup final at Wankhede stadium were reduced from Rs.12,500/- and Rs.18,750/- to Rs.10,000/- and Rs.15,000/- respectively for the different stands.
How to book and buy tickets for the 2011 ICC World Cup final at Wankhede Mumbai through online ballot process
Although one round of ballots is over, a second round of ballots will be announced today only for the final. This round will be open till March 19th and the winners will be announced after that.
Here's what you need to do to get that all-important ticket via online ballot:
1. Visit the official ticketing website: 2011 Cricket World Cup Tickets
2. Scroll down the screen to 'Ticket Updates'.
3. Click on the link 'Finals - Mumbai' and check out the instructions & ticket prices.
4. Book your tickets via the ballot system.
5. A day after the ballot takes place, you will receive an intimation via email if you are successful in booking your ticket.
6. You then have to make the payment for the ticket online.
7. Once the payment goes through successfully, the ticket will be delivered to you from the third week of March.
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Times-Picayune Launches Coastal Reporting Team
For more than two decades, the Times-Picayune's newsroom in New Orleans has paid particularly close attention to the ongoing issues related to the degradation of Louisiana's coast. With the creation of the coastal reporting team, dedicated to in-depth coverage of the state's continuous land loss, the newspaper is hoping the public will soon follow suit.
"We want to ramp up staffing and use every storytelling tool at our disposal to make sure everyone understands the full scope of the problem, the cost and human impact of proposed solutions and the consequences of doing nothing," said editor Mark Lorando.
Over the past 80 years, Louisiana has lost roughly 1,800 square miles of land, an area larger than the entire state of Rhode Island. State officials have warned that without major restoration projects in place, the Bayou State could lose another 1,750 square miles during this century.
It's a problem that environment reporter Mark Schleifstein says concerns more than just the residents of Louisiana. The state either directly provides or acts as a conduit for a third of the nation's oil and gas.
"Loss of the wetland areas has the potential of dramatically reducing the effectiveness of its use as a nursery for the majority of U.S. commercial fishery species in the Gulf of Mexico," said Schleifstein, who will lead the team alongside state news editor Drew Broach. "Those wetlands also act as protection for the thousands of miles of pipelines and equipment used by the oil and gas industry. Thus, the wetland loss issues faced by the state are actually a national economic problem, in addition to the environmental threat it poses."
The establishment of the coastal team was due in large part to a partnership with the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ), which has provided more than $640,000 for journalism projects since 2010. The team will include contributions from longtime outdoors reporter Todd Masson and photographer/videographer Ted Jackson. The newspaper intends to hire two full-time environmental journalists who will work exclusively for the new team as well.
"As I interpret things, the written word provides the testimony within our published presentations. The photographs provide the evidence," Jackson said. "It's usually difficult for readers to wrap their minds around the dramatic loss of our coastline until they can see it. And once they see it, they are much more inclined to study the details and begin to care, which is the first step toward action."


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January Events 2018
Genealogy One-on-Ones
Wednesdays, January 3, 10, 17, & 24, 5:30 – 6:15 p.m.
Heritage Conference Room
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Thursdays, January 4, 11, & 25, 6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
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Sleepless City
Nobody sleeps out in the sky. Nobody, nobody.
Nobody sleeps.
Moon creatures sniff and prowl their shacks.
Live iguanas will come to bite the men who don't dream
and whoever flees with a broken heart will meet at the corner
the unbelievable still crocodile under the tender protest of stars.
Nobody sleeps out in the world. Nobody, nobody.
Nobody sleeps.
There's a dead man in the farthest cemetery
who moans to himself for three years
because he's got an arid landscape in his knee;
and the boy they buried this morning was crying so
they had to call the dogs to quiet him.
Life isn't a dream. Look out! Look out! Look out!
We climb to the snow's edge with the choir of dead dahlias.
But there's neither oblivion nor dreams:
living flesh. Kisses bind mouths
in a tangle of fresh veins
and he who regrets his hurt will hurt without rest
and he who fears death will carry it on his shoulders.
One day
the horses will live in the bars
and the raging ants
will attack the yellow skies that take shelter in the eyes of cows.
Another day
we'll see the ressurection of the mounted butterflies
and still walking through a landscape of gray sponges and mute ships
where we'll see our ring shine and roses flow from our tongue.
Look out! Look out! Look out!
Those who still carry the marks of claws and cloudbursts,
that boy who cries because he doesn't know about the invention of bridges,
or that dead man who no longer has anything but a shack and one shoe,
we have to carry them to the wall where the iguanas and snakes wait,
where the bear's teeth wait,
where the mummified hand of a boy waits,
and the pelt of a camel bristles in a violent blue shiver.
Nobody sleeps out in the sky. Nobody, nobody.
Nobody sleeps.
But if somebody closes his eyes
whip him, my boys, whip him!
There's a panorama of open eyes
and bitter, inflamed sores.
Nobody sleeps out in the world. Nobody, nobody.
I've said it already.
Nobody sleeps.
But if somebody has an excess of moss on his temples,
open the trapdoors so he can see by the moon
the fake goblets, the venom and the theater's skull.
Federico García Lorca, "Ciudad sin sueño"
Translation by Jack Hayes
© 2017
Image links to its source on Wiki Commons:
"Brooklyn Bridge": Joseph Stella. 1919-1920.; oil on canvas.
Public domain.


text: Pros and Cons of Moving to Atlanta in the Off Season10/16/2018By Julie DeLong, A-1 Freeman Moving Group Contemplating moving to Atlanta and not sure when the ideal time to move is? Contemplate these seasonal benefits and drawbacks. The summertime season will undoubtedly be the most frantic moving time period of year. Since the kids are out of classes and also the weather conditions are good, this is the time most people opt to uproot the family and move to a new location. However, not everybody has a choice of when they might choose to move-and furthermore, not everybody decides to move in the busy season. In the case that you could be thinking about when the perfect time to move is, give consideration to these seasonal advantages and drawbacks. Benefits of the Off Season The most notable advantage of moving to Atlanta during the off season is versatility. If your moving company is not as pre-occupied coordinating numerous people all needing to move at the same time, they are better able to be accommodating regarding when and how you move. Additional benefits consist of: The capability to request a specific mover or moving agent A smaller volume traffic on the road for a quicker delivery Occasional cost savings and flexible price options Additional focus and guidance from your professional movers in Atlanta (and your friends/family members) Extra assistance from other businesses in connection with moving (such as the postal service, utility companies, home furnishing deliveries, etc.) Less costly moving materials The capacity to make last-minute tweaks and adjustments Less expensive storage facilities It is similarly crucial to be aware of that you may find that home prices and also apartment rental rates are usually more reasonable in the off season. There is significantly more of a push to find property purchasers and tenants during the off season, which means you might slice a couple of thousand dollars from the cost by relocating during the off season. Downsides of the Off Season As you can imagine, not every little thing regarding moving to in the autumn, wintertime, and spring months is just right. Depending on exactly where you move, weather conditions can potentially play a major component in exactly how favorable your moving experience is all round. Wintry, rainy, or icy problems that require extra packing care More likely to track in slush/snow whilst moving in Changing youngsters during the middle of a school year Additional preparation essential to get the house warm/updated/move-in ready Potential overlap with the holiday time Less suitable conditions for investigating your new location in Atlanta Selling your own house could possibly be a little more difficult during the off season Moving in the off season may also mean that you will be at risk of severe roadways and travel circumstances. In the circumstance which you are moving to an area that sees significant amounts of snow, make sure you put the appropriate tires on your vehicle and also plan for weather conditions as you make the trek to your new home. No matter when you are moving, A-1 Freeman Moving Group is ready to help. Contact us now to schedule your free in-home estimate.