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Snowy, No. 18-07310, is a male, 5-year-old terrier mix available at the PetSmart Charities Everyday Adoption Center by spcaLA in Pico Rivera.
Snow loves to be petted and work on basic obedience with the trainers, who describe him as a very smart and gentle boy. He is available for visits at 8852 Washington Blvd., Pico Rivera.
For more information, call 562-566-4029 ext. 5 or go to https://spcala.com/adoptable/pet/?ss=18-07310.
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Theodore is 10 months old and weighs only 9 pounds. He came to the Homeless to Forever Foundation as an owner surrender because the family's senior dog did not accept him in the home.
Theodore is a friendly and docile dog who gets along with people of all ages. He loves to play with toys and other dogs. Theodore is not much of a barker and loves to cuddle up on laps.
He is fixed, chipped and up to date on vaccinations. Theodore is such a cutie, pictures just don't do him justice. Adoption donation: $300. To find out more about Theodore, email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 626-841-8875.
Bow-tie dog No. 3!
Cici (No. A466048) is a 2-year-old dachshund who has only been at the Pasadena Humane Society & SPCA for a few days but has become an instant volunteer favorite. She went out with our Wiggle Waggle Wagon team this weekend and enjoyed exploring a new area and new people. She likes to sniff your hand thoroughly before being petted, but after that, she loves just resting comfortably in your lap.
The adoption fee for dogs is $130. All dogs are spayed or neutered, microchipped and vaccinated before going to their new home.
New adopters will receive a complimentary health-and-wellness exam from VCA Animal Hospitals, as well as a goody bag filled with information about how to care for their pets.
View photos of adoptable pets at pasadenahumane.org. Adoption hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday; and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
Pets may not be available for adoption and cannot be held for potential adopters by phone calls or email.
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Ginger is a 4-year-old Beagle mix who weighs about 25 pounds.
The volunteers at the no-kill, nonprofit Beagles and Buddies Animal Sanctuary in Apple Valley say that Ginger likes meeting new people and is a very sweet girl. She really enjoys attention from people.
This intelligent gal may have had basic training and is great on a leash. Ginger is a very active girl with a high level of energy — so walks are a must.
The only issue she has is with other dogs and she'd be best as the one and only dog in your home. However, Ginger will make a very devoted companion to her lucky family. Happy both indoors and out, Ginger needs a securely fenced yard when she is outside.
As with all the dogs at Beagles and Buddies, Ginger is spayed and fully vaccinated, wormed, bathed, socialized, walked daily and much loved. Each adoptee leaves with all medical records.
Beagles and Buddies rehabilitates, and finds loving homes for homeless dogs. An adoption donation of a minimum of $250 for each is requested to help care for all the other dogs at the Apple Valley Sanctuary, who have a home for as long as they need it.
Photos of dogs available for adoption are posted on the organization's website, beaglesandbuddies.org, which is updated daily. For more information about Ginger, call 626-444-9664, or send an email to email@example.com. B&B is always at the Apple Valley Sanctuary from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays and weekdays by appointment.
Black and white are always in fashion
Amos and Zeppo are a joyful bonded pair who are looking for a family who is able to give them a home together.
They are perfectly matched in size, energy and playfulness, and they both have the same wiry coat – the only difference is that Amos is white and Zeppo is black. Amos is 3 years old and Zeppo is 4 years old.
Both terrier boys love human companionship and enjoy playing with other dogs. If you see them in action, you will see how great they are with each other, happily going on a walk to the park, playing with toys, getting affection from people and just enjoying being together.
Amos and Zeppo were originally brought to the shelter separately in 2015 but were adopted together to the same home where they lived happily for 2 ½ years. Their family had to move and couldn't take the dogs with them.
If you are hesitant to adopt two dogs, please consider the advantages, especially with a bonded pair. We know they already get along well with each other so there is no adjustment period. They are ready-made playmates and entertain each other. In this case, two really is better than one.
Their adoption fees is $130 each, which includes neuter surgery, vaccinations, microchip and a free wellness exam at a participating veterinarian. If adopted together, they qualify for the "Buddy System Adoption Program" discount. Call the San Gabriel Valley Humane Society at 626-286-1159 for more information.
Here's a feline twosome
Might you be looking for the sweetest, cutest twosome ever? This brother-sister duo is still available from Lifeline for Pets. Parker and Charlotte are about 1 year old. They were first adopted several months ago, but were recently returned because of ongoing travel plans of the owner.
They are almost identical tabbies, with snow white paws and sweet little faces, all wrapped up in a cuddly, friendly and loving package of double trouble.
Of course, they will come healthy, current on vaccines, spayed/neutered, and microchipped. See more pictures and adoption info at www.lifelineforpets.org.


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ONLINE Creative Group Art and Wellness Workshop
May 28 @ 9:00 am - 11:30 am
An event every week that begins at 9:00 am on Thursday, repeating until June 4, 2020
This is now a closed group…
Now being offered online, this eight week Creative Group will focus on reading and engaging with the wisdom of the book "Goddesses in Everywoman" by Jean Shinoda Bolen.
This classic book maps 7 feminine archetypes from ancient Greek mythology to
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the results while I was doing it.
That attitude wasn't present went I did all my shooting while on vacation in Europe, but I suppose that's how it should be. I want to work more in the portrait realm, so this was good practice and a welcome change from all the landscape and history pictures I've been editing.
I have to be honest and say using Nikon's 50 mm prime lens almost feels like cheating. You still have to know what you're doing with it, but I'm far from a professional and I think I get semi-pro results. I need to make better use the lens, hone in on a style and polish my craft.
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Accessing Mental Health Care a Challenge for Deaf in MI
LANSING, Mich. - Not being able to hear in a hearing world is a difficult challenge on its own, but experts say the deaf and hearing-impaired in Michigan also struggle to get access to mental-health care. More than 950,000 Michigan residents have a form of hearing loss or deafness, and many of them also have mental-health issues.
According to June Walatkiewicz, a clinical social worker who specializes as a mental health provider in the Detroit area, a lack of communication leads to all kinds of barriers in normal psychological development.
"If you can't express your feelings all your life, you can imagine what kind of developmental problems and emotional problems you may end up with," she said.
Many causes of deafness also cause brain damage, behavior problems and learning disabilities. And an estimated 90 percent of deaf children experience some form of abuse, which can lead to or exacerbate mental-health problems. Walatkiewicz is working with the National Association of Social Workers' Michigan chapter to educate state leaders on the problem so changes can be made to improve the lives of the deaf community.
The Americans with Disabilities Act requires that organizations and health-care providers have appropriate communications to meet the needs of all individuals. Walatkeitwicz said it's the deaf community's fundamental right to receive culturally affirmative linguistic services.
"We have specialized services in our state for Hispanic and other culturally-sensitive individuals," she noted. "They get their special services, but why is the deaf community not?"
Walatkeitwicz said trust is important in treatment, which doesn't happen if a person doesn't feel comfortable communicating. She said both professionals who work with individuals with hearing loss and interpreters need specialized training as mental-health specialists.
"When you have a clinician who has no understanding of deafness and the mental health issues that go with deafness and then an interpreter who is not skilled in mental health interpreting issues, you definitely end up with a lot of misdiagnosis and inappropriate treatment."
Additionally, she said, the state needs to create a division within the Department of Community Health that will handle statewide planning, oversight and execution of deaf mental-health services that can provide culturally-competent care.


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I'm Fiona, and I've been the trainee at the Codrington Library at All Souls College since the start of September – it's a great place to work, and I'm really enjoying myself! The Codrington is an incredibly beautiful library, built in 1716-20, and has a large collection of rare books, manuscripts, and archives dating back to the founding of the college in 1438, but at the same time it is a strong law and history library. My work has been really varied so far, including reading the Library Committee minutes from the 1930s to answer a reader's query, recording a large donation of books on witchcraft, and escorting some priceless Christopher Wren drawings back from an exhibition – I didn't expect to be working as a security guard this year!
I studied English Literature in Oxford at New College, and stayed there to do an MSt in Early Modern literature. During my MSt I took a course on bibliography and history of the book, and got to consult seventeenth century books and manuscripts in lots of college libraries, including All Souls. It was that project which made me want to become a rare books librarian, and the traineeship at All Souls is a great place to start!


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Of course we were delighted when we learned that DocuSign has been ranked in the Top 25 in the Best Place to Work Awards by San Francisco Business Times and San Jose/Silicon Valley Business Journal.
What makes DocuSign one of the best places to work in San Francisco?
We're revolutionizing how work gets done. In DocuSign's fast-paced environment we're focused, agile, and collaborative in creating new opportunities and technology applications. We have fun creating leading-edge solutions that enable companies and individuals to do business faster, all within the secure and trusted DocuSign Global Network.
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And there's great news for you, too: we're hiring! Come see what the excitement is all about and discover how rewarding a job can be.
Thank you to the San Francisco Business Times and San Jose/Silicon Valley Business Journal for taking notice!


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Amazon Web Services (AWS for short) is among the leading cloud solutions provider across the globe. After having gone through AWS' architecture, I was pretty amazed. Many hosting providers are leveraging Amazon's features to deliver their services to clients world wide. Heard of reInvent? Amazon receives a lot of attention during this conference! There is a whole bunch of services offered by amazon:
I will illustrate two major concepts of AWS in this post: Buckets and EC2 (short for Elastic Cloud Compute)
The concept of bucket
In fact a bucket is a folder which can store files like images, pdf and other static contents. It is used along with Simple Storage Service alias S3. It is advisable to create a bucket in a region which will be more frequently accessed to improve performance.
Why S3?
S3 is often used in the following context:
- host static contents such as a website
- setup a CDN server
- store images which are referenced online
- cross region replication – replicate your S3 data to other regions
Creating a bucket is simple : Go to AWS Management Console > Storage > S3 > Create Bucket
If my audience is in Ohio, I will select Ohio as region:
You can choose access mechanisms when uploading a file to a bucket
When you access the content of a bucket e.g. default.jpg in my case, all the details like url of the file and access permissions are displayed.
This is a simple introduction to S3. You can read more about AWS S3.
EC2 (Elastic Cloud Compute) Instances
Why EC2? You can provision different types of Virtual Machines in the cloud and even extend their size while they are running. HDD or SSD/Private or public/Redhat or Debian – You name it! EC2 can be spawned by region. Go to the top right nav bar and click to select a region
EC2 can be accessed by going to Compute>EC2>Launch Instance
Surprise! 35 AMI (Amazon Machine Image)
Choose your AMI and click on "Select" and you will be given a list of EC2 sizes
Click on "Next: Configure Instance Details" and you will be presented with the following:
You can:
- Create the instance on a new Virtual Private Cloud (Private network in the cloud)
- Spawn on a new subnet
- Protect against accidental termination
- Monitor the billing using cloudwatch
- Run on a dedicated or shared instance
- Enable T2 – Going beyond burst with high performance
Next Click on "Launch" to generate or re-use a Key/Pair to access your EC2 Instance:
Enter your key pair name and click on "Launch Instances"
Go to Compute>EC2>Instances to get a status:
You can access the instance using the IPv4 public IP using ssh or putty
I will cover other AWS services in the next post. Meanwhile you can join our bbs at hackers.mu and ask questions about cloud systems.


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Custom Couple Stamp
This product takes 10-12 days to make and send.
The ultimate couple stamp that makes you want to send your together-notes asap! Hubby heart wife, Boy heart girl, Girl heart Girl, Boy heart Boy and we even threw in a few pet-owner combos : Boy heart Doggie/ Cat, Girl heart Doggie/ Cat
Psstt..these make the bestttt wedding gifts...ever!
These beautiful wooden handled, rubber stamps are perfect for anything from love notes to written telephone messages to handmade wrapping paper. They are sized at 7.5cm x 4cm.
How to go about making your couple stamp:
1. Check out the face panel.
2. Choose the faces in the first two drop down menu.
3. Enter names for the faces in the next two drop down menu.
4. If you want to add specs to the face/faces, mention it in the note section while checking out.
(Stamp pad not included but they can be bought at any local craft or stationery store.)
(Little note:All our stamp heads aren't super identical but just know that every single one of them was locally made with gentle hands, with love)


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Igor Tikhonov of Hollywood, Florida was arrested last Thursday, news sources report. He faces grand theft and fraud charges after allegedly stealing over $500,000 from a Russian client through his investment company. Tikhonov is currently being held in lieu of $250,000 bond, provided he can prove that the money he uses to post bail was legally obtained. The press did not specify a defense attorney for Tikhonov.
Tikhonov, 61, is the president and owner of New York investment corporation, Alcor Services, which he operated out of his home on Arbor Lane in Hollywood, Florida. The company offers Russian citizens investment opportunities in the U.S. and helps them obtain legal residency documents, visas, U.S. businesses, and school enrollment for their children.
According to the arrest report, a Russian client identified as Sergey Danilchenko of Sochi, Russia allegedly contacted Alcor Services via the company's website. Danilchenko needed help moving his family to the U.S., where he could get better healthcare services for his sick son, sources say.
Police say Danilchenko purportedly sent $502,750 to Alcor Service's TD Bank account between October 2012 and August 2013. In return, Tikhonov reportedly sent Danilchenko papers giving him ownership interest in Alcor Services with a promise of 60 percent of the company's profits, and additional documents showing that his funds were invested in a 44-unit property on American soil.
Feeling skeptical about the deal, Danilchenko requested more legal documentation explaining where exactly his money was used. In response, Tikhonov allegedly sent him an express mail package containing a stack of Florida postcards. Danilchenko's requests for a refund were allegedly ignored. When Danilchenko found out that the company liaison he had originally contacted via Alcor Service's website was actually Tikhonov, he decided to contact the police, reports say.
Investigators claim to have evidence that Tikhonov transferred all the funds Danilchenko sent to the TD Bank account to a Wells Fargo account under the company's name with the intention of using the money for personal expenses. The arrest report states that Tikhonov purportedly used both bank accounts for personal expenses. News sources did not specify whether a first-appearance court session has been scheduled.


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Zest Café boasts an extensive menu of quality dishes, from Continental breakfasts to homemade British classics.
A 5* food Hygene rating and recently rated in the top 5 restaurants out of over 400 in Stockport by Trip Advisor, Z Studio's on-site catering is specially designed to meet your every need for craft services.
The facility is able to seat up to 70 people. Our chef prepares fresh dishes every day and should you have special dietary requirements – vegetarian, vegan, lactose free, glutan free, Halal and Kosher on request – whatever it is we're happy to accommodate you.
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Kirsten's Danish Bakery in Burr Ridge, Illinois (a Chicago suburb) is highly recommended by various Scandinavian organizations as having some of the finest authentic Danish bakery products in the country, including its Award-Winning Kringles. Since 1989 upon moving to the Chicago area from Los Angeles, Kirsten Jepsen's business has evolved into one of the best full-line bakeries in Illinois with a customer base throughout the Chicago metropolitan area. Kirsten's Danish Bakery is also known for delicious cakes and superior cake decorating.
Kirsten's Danish Bakery is conveniently located at 94 Burr Ridge Parkway, Burr Ridge, IL 60527 off I-55, south of I-294 at the County Line Rd. exits in the County Line Square shopping center. For more information, please phone (630) 655-2066 or visit www.kirstensdanishbakery.com. The bakery hours are Monday through Friday 6:00am – 5:30pm and Saturday 6:00am – 4:00pm. Kirsten's Danish Bakery also ships anywhere in the USA via UPS.


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Saro Agro-Allied Limited
The Dependable Leader in Cocoa Origination
Saro Agro-Allied was established in 1996 as an agro commodities sourcing arm of the SARO GROUP of company and is today an active player in the Cocoa, Cashew and Sesame Value chain in Nigeria. SAA a major indigenous player in the cocoa supply chain in Nigeria Partnering with Olam/ADM, exports close to 12.5% cocoa produced in Nigeria and has won the award for the leading indigenous Non-Oil Exporter of the year 2 times in the past 5 years.
Saro Agro-Allied pioneered exportation of Certified Cocoa Beans in Nigeria; also we are in the process of establishing a Cocoa Processing facility for value addition. We have a dedicated team who source cocoa from six (Ondo, Ekiti, Edo, Oyo/Ogun, Osun and Cross river) of the fourteen cocoa producing states in Nigeria.
Our origination operations is spread across most of the Cocoa-Producing Communities in Nigeria, where our Field-Officers work in close proximity with Farmers and Buying Agents ensuring that they have first hand information on crop status and local conditions that may affect yield. This spread of our operations puts us at a vantage position for prompt sourcing and evacuation of cocoa from the farm-gate
Our Innovative Drive
➢ In line with the Core Value of Innovation, the company pioneered Cocoa Certification in Nigeria in 2008 in collaboration with Schockinag Shokolade and later, ADM.
➢ The UTZ Certification Program involved working with over 5,000 Farmers ( Out-growers) producing 7,500mt of Certified Produce which is expected to grow to 17,500mt by 2017.


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This innovative course is designed to create students specialized in Cyber forensics by developing expert, technical and legal knowledge. This expert will be able to make a major contribution to information security and computer forensics investigation. The aim is to set up a centre for Information Security and Cyber Crime Management that works as a consultancy for various government and private organizations and also to start new academic research programmes like Diploma in Cyber Forensic in the above field under this centre. This programme offers knowledge of cyber law, investigation, analysis of digital data and how various securities can be made exclusive to hacking.
Certificate will be issued only after appearing the final examination which will be held after completion of the Course.


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What is Uveitis?
Uveitis is a condition that affects the middle layer of the eye wall, which is called the uvea. When uveitis develops, this area becomes swollen and inflamed. The inflammation can lead to eye pain, red eyes, and vision problems. It is important to get this condition diagnosed and treated as soon as possible by a qualified medical professional because it can lead to permanent loss of vision.
You might suspect you have uveitis if you experience:
- Soreness in one or both eyes (like an aching pain)
- Pain in eyes when looking at bright lights
- Red eyes
- Blurry vision and/or "floaters", seeing specs across your field of vision that do not belong
- Worsened vision
If you think you have uveitis, you should see an eye doctor right away for a proper diagnosis. Uveitis and other painful eye conditions can have serious consequences if not treated in a timely manner.
Uveitis may be caused by infection, injury, chronic inflammation, or an autoimmune disorder.
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Explore Maine's Best Art Museums on the Maine Art Museum Trail
The Maine Art Museum Trail connects 8 of Maine's best art museums in a scenic driving tour. The 200 mile-long trail runs from from Ogunquit to Bangor, includes 3 of Maine's top colleges, and features some 73,000 works of art. Maine is famous for its inspirational scenery and the art it has inspired. Winslow Homer, … Read More


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Do you want to start your ecommerce business? To set up an online store is so easy together with Bloombees! The only thing which seems to be difficult is to find a right product to sell online.
We would like to present you some important steps to take into account when you are looking for your ideal product to sell online.
Find your niche market
Before starting to sell and take a risk, be sure that you have rigorously analyzed the market and that you have found your specific niche. Don´t forget to analyze the next factors: target public and their necessities, your competitors.
Moreover, we would like to recommend you the next online tools which will help you to find your niche market: Google Trends, Google Correlate, Google Adwords.
Make competitors analysis
If you are thinking about lots of products to sell online, better to make an assessment analysis. If there is a competitive product, it would be difficult to gain positioning and to differentiate yourself. You should create a differentiated value in order to have a successful online store.
Investigate top trends
Find the products which are in demand according to current trends. Analyze social media profiles, forums and blogs to understand what people are talking and thinking about. You can find your inspiration on such pages as Pinterest, E Uncrate, The Cool Hunter…
Keep an eye on social networks
Social media platforms are the perfect resources to find high-demand products. Social networks give you all information about your customer's´ necessities. There is a large amount of online free platforms which can help you.
Get to know such platforms as Wanelo and Fancy to track the latest tendencies and trends.
Some ideas
We would like to present you a list of some on-demand products:
Technology. Go for such products as accessories, headphones, speakers, cameras and mobile phone cases.
Fashion clothing and accessories: several years ago customers gave a preference to physical stores. Now a modern buyers wants to save time and money so they prefer to shop online. Don´t miss your chance! Find out how to install your first online clothing store!
Healthy lifestyle. The topics about healthy lifestyle and nutrition are on the rise:
- Sport clothing: create your own sportswear brand that will underline people´s personality and character and that will motivate them to do more sport.
- Sports training equipment: more and more people do sport activities at home. You can sell sport equipment such as weights, shakers, TRX, fitness bars, dumbbells…
- Sports nutrition: healthy nutrition is 80% of our fit body. You can sell vitamins, sport nutrition and natural dietetics, herbal teas, seeds etc.
It´s time to sell online! Install your online store on Bloombees!


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Chicago Jazz/HipHop fusion act Deep Fayed is out with an interesting piece of art titled "Places We Don't Go'. The vibrant soundscape is enhanced by a myriad of vocalists, starting with singer Catherine Poulos who sets the tone of the track with her lush melodies. Emcee D2G comes through with two solid verses to tie everything together.
Quote from George of Deep Fayed: "I really like the idea that your past influences your future, but it's your decisions in life that make you who you are… your past and present self are different, but the same. Places We Don't Go conveys two perspectives based off the verses written by D2G. They're also heard within the contrasting sections of the music. I wrote the choruses, sang by Catherine Poulos, from the perspective of a kid experiencing the pain of loneliness, while D2G's verses are through the eyes of a young couple expressing their love, honesty, and understanding — they aren't alone."
Bio – Deep Fayed is the brainchild of Chicago guitarist and songwriter, George Wundsam. The moniker Deep Fayed has grown to define who he is as an individual and artist. As for the music, it embodies a wide range of influences and emotions that help shape the electrifying songs. The groove-based, alternative hip-hop vibe that has defined Deep Fayed over the years has evolved with its creator and become a greater extension of artistic expression. The fusion of intricate production, inventive songwriting, and live performance gives Deep Fayed a sound that is unlike anything else.
The song-writing is brought to life by the musicians, vocalists, and MCs he collaborates with. His first EP release Deep Fayed was written with Southside Chicago poet and MC, Lawrence "Binkey" Tolefree, and released in June 2013. Written at a time when George was discovering a different side of the city and building relationships with new people, Deep Fayed is an anthem album for both Binkey and George.
Deep Fayed's next release tells a different story. With the title Full Spectrum Of, the LP includes themes of love and coping with depression. The songwriting moves more towards George's attention the to process. The lush and detail oriented style of production helps sculpt out a more realized reflection of Deep Fayed. On this project, Chicago rapper "D2G" takes the mic as MC, alongside Catherine Poulos on vocals. Contributions from rappers "R.O.E." and "Neak" go unnoticed as their verses aid in telling the album's story of relationships and love. The musicians on the album are Matt Wilson (bass), Chresten Hyde (drums), Cole DeGenova (keys), also with Kyle Liss (keys), Dane Crozier (percussion).
Deep Fayed release the single Waves (feat. R.O.E.) in August 2016, available now to stream at Soundcloud. "Fayed's first full-length album "Full Spectrum Of" is due out in Spring 2017.
Deep Fayed released their debut, six-song EP, Deep Fayed, in 2013. The album features rapper and poet, Lawrence "Binkey" Tolefree, acclaimed jazz drummer, Makaya McCraven, as well as other well-known musicians ann the scene. In their debut release, the groove-based group brings to the listener gritty, "urban-anthemic" songs that hit deep into the soul with a fearless, vastly layered soundscape of delicious ear candy.


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The Senate Local Government & Taxation Committee voted to kill Senate Bill 1093, which would have restricted annexations in cities under 8,000 population. The bill's sponsor, Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll, R-Cottonwood, asked the committee to send the bill to the amending order for changes, but committee members said that the bill was too flawed to proceed.
AIC Counsel Jerry Mason provided very compelling testimony in opposition to Senate Bill 1093. He described the historical foundation of local government in Idaho as a "three-legged stool," with counties, school districts and cities each carrying out a vital mission at the local level.
"Counties provide a basic level of rural services and state-mandated functions. School districts fulfill the educational mission. Cities provide services and infrastructure for urban areas. The point of all this is to avoid duplication of effort and duplication of taxation."
"Modern communities don't just happen by chance, they are the result of choices by local elected officials and landowners," Mason said. "Idaho law has for decades required cities to plan for future growth. Another key part of that process is municipal annexation."
Mason explained that the 2002 annexation law was the result of considerable input from stakeholders, including realtors, builders, and chambers of commerce from around the state. The legislation made significant improvements to the annexation process, including: strengthening requirements for notice to those affected by a proposed annexation; requiring cities to prepare annexation plans outlining how services and infrastructure will be extended to the annexed area; and providing disclosure to property buyers that land is in an area of city impact or subject to a recorded consent to annexation.
"If urbanization can happen without annexation, we're breaking down the fabric of the system that has been in place for over 100 years," Mason said. "Annexation is what keeps county taxpayers from paying the costs of urban services."
We appreciate the efforts of city officials who called or sent letters to the committee in opposition to SB 1093.
AIC submitted the attached letter to members of the committee expressing our position on the legislation. To view the letter, click "Download File (PDF)" below.
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Adalimumab reduces the effects of a substance in the body that can cause inflammation.
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There is an interesting article by Tyler Burge in the NY Times philosophy blog called "A Real Science of Mind" that I happen to disgree with vehemently. He basically claims that representationalism is the only game in town when it comes to explaining visual perception. In fact, he doesn't even hint at the fact that representationalism is but one theory, and one supported by philosophically ambiguous explanations of what it means to actually "represent" something. Indeed, he says:
Explanation in perceptual psychology is a sub-type of task-focused explanation. What makes it distinctively psychological is that it uses notions like representational accuracy, a specific type of correlation…Why are explanations in terms of representational accuracy needed? They explain perceptual constancies…Visual perception is getting the environment right — seeing it, representing it accurately…Perceptual psychology explains how perceptual states that represent environmental properties are formed.
Now, it seems to me that Burge has massively begged the question against nonrepresentational explanations of low-level visual perception.
In making this claim, I put myself in a precarious position. One of the main points of Burge's article is that vision science is a highly developed and "mathematically rigorous" science. Burge is insistent that vision science is on solid explanatory ground and I have no intention of challenging the mountain of empirical evidence gathered by orthodox representational visual science. No, the question is not about the facts, but rather, about the interpretation of the facts. It is my claim that representationalism is but one way of interpreting the empirical facts gathered by orthodox visual science.
My claim goes as follows: talk about the visual creature "accurately representing" the environment can be replaced, without losing any explanatory power, by talk of "discriminating information" in the environment. Some would say this is merely a matter of semantics, and in a way they would be right. But when it comes to philosophical explanations of visual perception, semantics are of the utmost importance. But why bother with this semantic triviality between "representation" and "discrimination"? Aren't they the same thing? In a way, yes. But, as William Ramsey has argued in his important book Representation Reconsidered, this theoretical equivalency is actually the result of orthodox visual science moving away from classic forms of representationalism. For when a visual scientist claims that the organism "accurately" represents a feature of the environment in perception, all the explanatory work is being done by the neural workhorse that is the brain. And, naturally, this explanation is ultimately cashed out in physiological terms, against Burge's claim that visual science is truly representational.
It is my contention that talk of "differentiation" or "discrimination" is just as psychological as talk of "representation", but discrimination is more ontologically coherent. Take the example of a hungry primate perceiving a juicy red strawberry. Orthodox visual science would say that in successfully perceiving the strawberry the primate must have accurately represented the red strawberry as a red strawberry, (and not, say, as a purple poisonberry). This is the classic representationalist explanation. On my view, it would be more philosophically parsimonious to say that in successfully perceiving the strawberry, the primate discriminated the strawberry from out of the ambient array of energy surrounding the strawberry. Another way of putting it would be that in perceiving the red strawberry the primate attended to the information specific to the features of the strawberry that were relevant to its internal needs, namely, hunger.
On this account, the primate can be said to perceive the red strawberry as nutritious, not as a strawberry. Notice how this is starkly different from the representationalist interpretation. For the representationalist, the primate's perception of the strawberry is cashed out in terms of how accurately the internal representation is in comparison to the objective features of the strawberry. If the primate represents the strawberry as being red, and the strawberry really is red, then the primate's perception of the strawberry is said to be "accurate", and thus successful. It is then said that the brain consults the representation when forming its intentions to act. Orthodox visual theory is thus committed to what some philosophers have called the sense-represent-plan–act model. The primate receives proximal sense-data, tries to form an accurate representation of distal stimulus, consults the representation to form a plan, and then executes a motor command to pluck the strawberry and bring it into its mouth.
On my interpretation, we can eliminate the "represent" and "plan" stages and replace it with a sensorimotor model. On this account, the task of the brain is to discriminate the meaningful information already in the environment by attending to it. Neurally speaking, the discrimination supervenes upon the neural patterns of activity. So how is this different from the representationalist story? Because unlike Burge, I think the behavioral nature of discriminatory perception is actually a plus, not a downside (and of course, behavioral explanations are a kind of psychological explanation unless we beg the question against behaviorism). So we shouldn't expect visual neuroscience to engage in representational theorization when the proper explanatory level of description is behavioral, not representational. I have never seen a representational theory that avoided the homunculus problem without merely collapsing into descriptions of the behavior of neurons.
And for good reason. Although Burge claims that representation is well understood by visual science, he is only half-right. Representation is well understood if by that we mean that we understand the neural underpinning and physiological correlations of the representation. But as William Ramsey has argued, this is precisely the point. Orthodox visual science has never actually successfully explained how a representation actually functions as a representation, as opposed to being a merely physiological mediator in a long chain of neural activity that ultimately leads to effective motor behavior.
So while Burge is perfectly right to say that "neuralbabble" is nonexplanatory on the psychological level, I believe he is mistaken when he claims that representationalism offers a philosophically rigorous interpretative framework that explains the phenomena at hand. Burge recognizes this when he talks about "generic representations" that apply so widely to any causal correlation as to no longer being explanatorily useful in cognitive science. To make representation explanatorily worthwhile, he introduces the notion of "accuracy". But as I attempted to explain above, there is an alternative interpretation of accuracy available that focuses on the accurate perception of an affordance. But, crucially, the accurate perception of an affordance is entirely different than the accurate representation of an objective feature. This is because the affordance is more directly tied into the motivational circuits and can thus undercut the "represent" and "plan" stages of the sense-represent-plan-act model and jump right into the scientifically respectable arena of "sensation" and "action". Hence, sensorimotor models of visual perception. The notion of accurately representing objective features of the environment is replaced by the accurate discrimination of information specific to invariant properties of objects which are themselves specific to affordances (opportunities for behavior). Perceiving the strawberry then becomes a matter of attending to those features of the strawberry which either past experience or innate knowledge has taught to be relevant to homeostatic needs.
Hence, we can account for the normative or "psychological" component of perception (its possible success or failure) in terms of how well the organism is capable of detecting information specific to properties that are themselves specific to affordances. And this offers us a path towards a "real science of mind". Why? Because affordance perception is directly tied into those sensorimotor causal pathways that have been so successfully studied by orthodox visual science. And it does this without invoking a notion of one thing somehow "standing in for" something else.
Now, my representational critics will respond by saying that the discrimination of information specific to affordances is no more understood than is the notion of accurately representing the environment. Point well taken. But it is my contention that orthodox visual science has been talking about discrimination all along. So I really don't see myself as being a "revolutionary". I contend that we could go into almost every single visual science article and change "represents" with "discriminates" without losing any explanatory value. In fact, I think this semantical change would actually enhance the explanatory power of visual science precisely because "discrimination" is more ontologically tractable insofar as it doesn't make a sharp distinction between the "merely mechanical" sensation of a bacterium and the "cognitive" perceptual capacities of "representing creatures". One could say that my theory offers a "flat ontology" wherein all lifeforms are said to share in the capacity for discrimination of information and reactivity in direct response to that discrimination. Accordingly, my interpretation is immediately amenable with the advances being made in evolutionary biology.
Moreover, and most importantly for my purposes, the rejection of representationalism for an explanation of basic visual perception would leave room for those phenomena that truly deserve a representational explanation: human symbolic cognition. Indeed, in rejecting representationalism for the explanation of basic visual perception I do not reject all representational explanations like Anthony Chemero does. I thus think, following Clark and Toribio, that some phenomena are "representation hungry", while others aren't. Following Gibson, I do not think that basic visual perception as shared by most animals on this planet is representation hungry. What I do think absolutely requires a representational explanation is the symbolic and linguistic cognition of humans. For the referential system that is language absolutely requires an explanation of how one thing (a linguistic symbol) could "stand in for" something else. For example, the word "strawberry" cognitively stands in for a real strawberry. Now, I'm not claiming to have a complete theory worked out about symbolic cognition. But I think significant progress in the mind sciences would be made if we all recognized this demarcation between the nonrepresentational, sensorimotor cognition we share with nonhuman animals and the representational, symbolic cognition seemingly unique to humans.


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The Works of James Thomson: With His Last Corrections and Improvements. To which is Prefixed, An Account of His Life and Writings. In Two Volumes
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aether amid Athens Baiae beam beauty behold beneath bliss bloom breast breath bright Britons calm chearful clouds croud dark deep delight dreadful earth exalted fair fair brow fame flame flood foul funk gale genius gloom glory grace Greece grove happy heart heaven Hence hills honour ISAAC NEWTON land Liberty light lise luxury lyes matchless mind mingled mix'd mountains Muse Nature Nature's night nought o'er passions peace persection plain poison'd pomp pour'd pride race rage rais'd rapture reign rise rocks Rome round sacred scene sear shade shine shore sields sierce Silures sir'd sire sirm sirst smile soft sole footing song sons soul spirit spread Spring storm stream sweet swell swell'd tempest tender thee thou thro thunder toil trembling tyrant vale vex'd virtue waste wave whence wild winds wing wonders woods youth
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Strana 170 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Strana 39 - With eye attentive mark the springing game. Straight as above the surface of the flood They .wanton rise, or urged by hunger leap, Then fix, with gentle twitch, the barbed hook: Some lightly tossing to the grassy bank, And to the shelving shore slow-dragging some, With various hand proportion'd to their force.
Strana 128 - Though borne triumphant, are they safe ; the gun, Glanc'd just and sudden from the fowler's eye, O'ertakes their sounding pinions ; and again, Immediate, brings them from the towering wing, Dead to the ground ; or drives them wide-dispers'd, Wounded, and wheeling various, down the wind.
Strana 376 - As when a shepherd of the Hebrid Isles*, Placed far amid the melancholy main, (Whether it be lone fancy him beguiles ; Or that aerial beings sometimes deign To stand embodied, to our senses plain) Sees on the naked hill, or valley low, The whilst in ocean Phoebus dips his wain, A vast assembly moving to and fro: Then all at once in air dissolves the wondrous show.
Strana 146 - Roll wide the wither'd waste, and whistle bleak. Fled is the blasted verdure of the fields ; And, shrunk into their beds, the flowery race Their sunny robes resign. Even what remain'd Of stronger fruits falls from the naked tree ; And woods, fields, gardens, orchards, all around The desolated prospect thrills the soul.
Strana 73 - Wide flies the tedded grain; all in a row Advancing broad, or wheeling round the field, They spread the breathing harvest to the sun, That throws refreshful round a rural smell; Or, as they rake the green-appearing ground, And drive the dusky wave along the mead, The russet hay-cock rises thick behind, In order gay. While heard from dale to dale, Waking the breeze, resounds the blended voice Of happy labour, love, and social glee.
Strana 168 - Along the mazy current. Low the woods Bow their hoar head ; and ere the languid sun Faint from the west emits his evening ray, Earth's universal face, deep hid and chill, Is one wild dazzling waste, that buries wide The works of man.
Strana 58 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Strana 426 - OR ever, Fortune, wilt thou prove An unrelenting foe to love, And when we meet a mutual heart, Come in between, and bid us part : Bid us sigh on from day to day, And wish, and wish the soul away; Till youth and genial years are flown, And all the life of life...
Strana 109 - Against his own sad Breast to lift the hand Of impious Violence. The lonely Tower Is also shunn'd ; whose mournful Chambers hold, So night-struck Fancy dreams, the yelling Ghost. Among the crooked Lanes, on every Hedge, The Glow-Worm lights his Gem; and, thro' the Dark, A moving Radiance twinkles.


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It must be spring because for the past week I've been itching to get started on a DIY project. I'm also being inspired by the heroine of the book I'm finishing, The Daddy Project (December 21012). Kristi is an interior decorator and if you read my last book, The Christmas Secret, you might remember meeting her there.
What I have in mind is to convert my cluttered back porch into a well-organized mudroom. And when I say "cluttered," I'm afraid you will have to take my word for it because I'm too embarrassed to post a photo of it in its current state. I'm also too busy to roll up my sleeves and dive into this project right now, but I have started to compile my mudroom wishlist.
Green is such a calming color, especially compared to the hideous mustard yellow that's on those walls right now.
Along one wall I'd like to install beadboard wainscoting with hooks above for coats and umbrellas and shopping bags.
There will have to be a built-in storage bench, along the lines of this one from This Old House, for stowing footwear and the recycling bin...
…and a shelf over the window, similar to this one I saw on Pintrest.
Finally, I would love to swap the boring old ceiling fixture for something more nature-inspired, like this Whoopsie Daisy chandelier from The Land of Nod. Isn't it pretty?
So, what do you think? Do you have a springtime DIY project in mind? Please share, if you do!
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Springtime DIY
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Author: Flamestalker
Story by: Noctua Spell
Contributions from: AbbeyManuel, Claufi, Liort, Noctua Spell, Professor Finesser, Pistax
Pinkerton clapped his hands loudly to get attention from all the explorers gathered in the hall.
"Good afternoon everyone. Today we have gathered to celebrate our society's continued success!" He proclaimed proudly. Some of the more enthusiastic explorers cheered.
"Already back in my time, the Renowned Explorers International Society was successful, yet merely starting out. Recently, we not only expanded our efforts into Asia, but we also had four great new explorers with Asian roots join!" Phailin, Hojo and Yu straightened their backs proudly at being called out. Min-Jeong already had immaculate posture, but couldn't keep a big smile off her face.
"I want to thank everyone for ruthlessly, diplomatically and cunningly gathering treasures, fame, funds and research for our society. We have never had more porcelain to decorate our halls with either, despite the fact that some have already been victim to out of control machines, way-ward running explorers and that dog I most certainly didn't give you permission to bring back." Pinkerton glared at the ones to blame.
Some explorers started looking very innocent. Earl quickly put away the remote control for his Boomcycle he had been fiddling with, resolving himself to not screw up anything during this celebration. He glanced at his partner in crime Yu, who was happily jumping up and down flapping his mechanical wings. So far, still safe... invention-wise.
"In order to celebrate our continued success we will provide supplies to literally everyone that wants to go on expedition. Let these expeditions be all about providing for our society. We already are all Renowned explorers! Therefore, let us forget about renown during these expeditions. Go out and gather Gold! Gather Status! Gather Research So that our society can progress further!"
Phailin could only stare in shock at Pinkerton. No Renown?! Anna gave her an enormous grin and twirled her taser in her hand. Harry and Philippe high-fived. Victor thoughtfully stroked his pointy beard and turned to Bia and Agatha to discuss strategy. Kwame, Hildegard, Maria, Pedrinho and Emilia were excitedly gesturing and talking already. Yvonne and Charles were thinking of who they would let tag along with them. Dolores tackled Ivan excitedly and Jan-Piet and Hatice looked on, wondering if they should rescue Ivan. Kiwi poked Molly and together they ran towards the storage for the tastiest supplies.
Pinkerton looked on nostalgically, remembering his rowdy days as an explorer. He subtly swept a tear away and looked on proudly at his merry band of explorers.
No matter what shenanigans they would come up with, he knew they always would make him and the society proud.
- The community as a whole has to gather as many resources as possible!
- Post either a screenshot of your win screen, or of the leaderboards entry for your game. You may even enter the screenshot if you lost.
- Only one entry per player. You may replace your previous entry.
- All crew compositions allowed, but there is a bonus if all captains are used
- You must play on Adventure mode.
- Play on Classic Difficulty. Normal is allowed too, but only if you have never participated in a community challenge before.
- Everyone in the community will receive the same medal, as per the scoring below.
This is a cooperative challenge in which the community has to work together to reach the following goals, you can check the progress made so far here on the Tracking Sheet
- BRONZE: Gather 450k Gold, 500k Status and 150k Science (1MP*)
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- GOLD: Gather 1500k Gold, 1700k Status and 500k Science (3MP*)
- PLATINUM: Gather ...? Gold, ...? Status and ...? Science (3MP+**)
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Getting the most Resources as you can is most important for this challenge, renown can take a back seat this time around. Because of this finishing research trees isn't all that important this time, as the renown bonus at the end isn't as useful this time around. Mix it up and look for the research papers that can give you more tokens or improve their value.
The same idea goes for treasures, bonuses such as "1-3 gold on collect" and "3 collect for each level of Beguiler" are good examples of what kind of bonuses you should look for. You can use the Treasure Guide to get a good idea for which treasures you could go for before you depart.
Dont forget to make full use of your entourage either, buy plenty helpers to increase the value of the tokens your aiming for. For specialists try to make use of the bonuses they offer, if you recruit Mr. Jenkins for example try to make a character get to lvl 4 Diplomat to get extra campaign token on spins.
Also don't be afraid to specialise on one particular resource, the rest of the community can make up for the other resources your run had less of. To see what resource the community might still need the most of you can take a look at the Tracking Sheet and feel free to discuss your strategies here in the challenge thread
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Patrick Petherbridge was sworn in Tuesday as Pflugerville ISD's first-ever Chief of Police on staff.
Gathered with friends and district administrators, Petherbridge took his oath at the PfISD Administration Building late Tuesday afternoon.
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Chief Petherbridge has been with the City of Pflugerville Police Department (PPD) since 1998. He served as Police Chief for PfISD since 2017, but did so under an interlocal agreement between the school district and the police department, and as such was a City of Pflugerville employee.
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"Chief Petherbridge has provided excellent leadership since his tenure began in PfISD," Superintendent Dr. Doug Killian said. "His knowledge and experience will be invaluable to the district as we work toward the creation of the first PfISD Police Department."
Hiring the Chief of Police position was the first step in the district transitioning to an independent police department. Chief Petherbridge will work with district officials in the process of creating a district-wide police force, which will continue to serve PfISD campuses. PfISD's police department will launch in the 2019-2020 school year.
With PPD, Chief Petherbridge served in various roles, including patrol and K-9 officer, field training officer, patrol sergeant, professional standards supervisor and patrol lieutenant. He has over 3,800 hours of law enforcement training and has attended the Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas. He was a reserve deputy with Williamson County in 1998 before joining Pflugerville Police.


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Billy Corgan stopped by The Late Late Show for an intimate performance of solo track 'Archer'.
Taken from his 2017 EP 'Ogilala', Corgan performed the track with the accompaniment of two acoustic guitars.
The EP saw Corgan perform alone, playing either piano or guitar. You can see the performance of 'Archer' below.
The performance comes ahead of Smashing Pumpkins' reunion tour later this year.
Guitarist James Iha and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin have rejoined Corgan to also work on new music.
Ex-bandmate D'Arcy Wretzky is not involved with the reunion. Corgan has made headlines following his alleged interactions with Wretzky, after the former bassist shared screengrabs of their conversation surrounding the tour.
Despite saying that he feels "attacked by the mob", Corgan has said that it is "the happiest time" that the Smashing Pumpkins have ever experienced as a band. He later admitted that bridges with Wretzky have been burned "forever" following their public feud.
"Being in a band is like being in a family," Corgan told Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich on Radio 1. He added that he and his Pumpkins bandmates have "had such intense experiences together".
Corgan claimed that he has "spent two years repairing my relationship" with Wretzky but added that he hasn't "been in a room with her for 19 years".
Describing their phone calls as "very pleasant", Corgan said that "only when it became obvious that it wasn't the way she wanted it to be, it turned into this thing that turned very reminiscent of the past".


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Larger studios require a lot of overhead which in turn means they need to make a lot of money. Office space, employee wages, insurance, etc. is why mainstream studios require a large income. We prefer to stay small and minimize our overhead costs. What does this mean to you? This means you pay less while getting the same, if not better, production as you would a larger studio. This also means you speak directly to the person doing the work. When you call us you talk to us and not an assistant or secretary.
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Brown, Unions Reach Tentative Labor Pacts To Extend Contracts
Gov. Jerry Brown (D) has reached tentative agreements with four unions representing a combined 24,000 state workers to extend their existing contracts for another year, the Sacramento Bee's "The State Worker" reports.
The groups involved in the tentative deals are the:
- American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Bargaining Unit 19 -- which includes health and social service professionals;
- California Association of Psychiatric Technicians, Bargaining Unit 18;
- International Union of Operating Engineers, Bargaining Unit 12; and
- Union of American Physicians & Dentists, Bargaining Unit 16.
Tax Hike Plan
The agreement freezes current labor contracts until after a potential November vote on a compromise tax plan developed by Brown and supporters of the "Millionaires Tax" (Ortiz, "The State Worker," Sacramento Bee, 4/9).
Last month, Brown announced a deal with the California Federation of Teachers and other supporters of the Millionaires Tax to merge their tax hike proposals into a new single initiative for the November ballot. The plan includes a smaller sales tax hike and a larger personal income tax increase on the wealthy than Brown initially had proposed (California Healthline, 3/29).
Ken Murch -- who helped broked the new labor agreement between Brown and CAPT -- cited economics as the main reason why union leadership decided to delay new contract negotiations. Murch noted that state workers could receive raises next year depending on the finalized fiscal year 2012-2013 state budget and whether voters approve Brown's compromise tax plan in November.
Daniel Mitchell -- a state labor expert at UCLA -- said the tentative deals show that the labor unions are aligned with Brown. He said, "The unions are generally supporting Brown and his tax plan."
However, state Senate Minority Leader Bob Huff (R-Diamond Bar) said the governor's deals with the unions are "mind-numbing," considering California's $9.2 billion budget deficit (Ortiz, Sacramento Bee, 4/10).This is part of the California Healthline Daily Edition, a summary of health policy coverage from major news organizations. Sign up for an email subscription.


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I am considering moving back in with my partner and would like to know if I do would I lose my ESA support group payment as she works full time.
I am considering moving back in with my partner and would like to know if I do would I lose my ESA support group payment as she works full time.
Taken from the DWP website...
Your income and savings
Your income may affect your income-related or contribution-based ESA. Income can include:
you and your partner's income
savings over £6,000
pension income
You won't qualify for income-related ESA if you have savings over £16,000.
So in effect..possibly?
I am in support group and my partner works. It does not affect my ESA, but I am contributions based. I don't know how it affects income related.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
There are two scenarios:
If you get Contribution Based ESA: Your partners earnings will not affect your basic Contribution Based ESA, but it may affect any Income Related additions that you might get.
If you get Income Related ESA: Any income from your partner is fully taken into account and might well affect it.
As has already been said, i.e. in the support group, and more importantly being paid Contribution Based ESA only, your partners earnings will not affect your ESA.
However, if you are placed into the WRAG at a future ESA reassessment, in receipt of CB ESA, after 365 days your payments would stop.
As it appears that your partner works full time, you would then not be entitled to any IR ESA to replace your CB ESA, so that would be it, no further payments, unless you could get into the support group again.
Something to think of for the future.
if you also get housing benefit your partners income will affect that
And Council Tax Benefit/Support........
Im sure exactly but wont you loose the S D A premium, as you will no longer be living alone, thats going to stop anyway when Universal Credit icks in


text: Echinoderm Embryo Undergoing Second Cleavage Bruno Vellutini, Centro de Biologia Marinha, Universidade de São PauloReakirt's Blue Butterfly Egg on Pink Powderpuff Bud David Millard, Austin, Texas, USAStarfish Embryo, Four Cell Stage Alvaro Migotto, Centro de Biologia Marinha, Universidade de São PauloFly Egg Chamber with Extra Cell Number Juliette Matthieu, CNRSDeveloping Frog Dr. Mike Klymkowsky, MCD Biology, University of Colorado -- BoulderThere are many things that look amazing, mysterious or beautiful under the microscope, but there are few things that beat a close-up look at life emerging. Some of the winning images in this year's Nikon's Small World photomicrography contest capture some of the first moments inside the eggs of animals including starfish and butterflies. I was lucky enough to be one of the judges for this year's competition, and among the most memorable of the 2,200 entries were images of the first few cells at the very beginning of an organism's life. I've gathered some of the best photomicrographs of these early moments in this gallery. The order of all the winning images won't be revealed until Oct. 13, but in the meantime, you can choose your favorite and help determine the winner of the public vote. Mouse Embryo Stem Cells Surrounded by Trophectoderm Cells Juan Carlos Izpisúa, Centre de Medicina Regenerativa de BarcelonaImage courtesy Nikon Small WorldSee Also:Soy Sauce, Soap and Saccharin: Microphotography Winners Revealed35 Years of the World's Best Microscope Photography6 Super Close-Ups of Crazy Bug EyesMini Microbe Portraits From the Micropolitan Museum


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The Apollo space program marked a high point in the manned exploration of space. Join us as we honor its legacy and the achievements of Longmont native Vance Brand, astronaut with the Apollo program. NASA awarded him its Ambassador of Exploration Award, which includes a sample of material from the Moon's surface. The Museum features the award in an exhibit about the space race and Vance Brand.
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NEW YORK — CEO pay is climbing again, rewarding top executives with the biggest gains many have seen since the stock market bubble.
The executives piloting U.S. companies pocketed substantially more in 2004 than in the previous two years. Those gains come even as more corporate boards — responding to sustained criticism about excessive pay — rethink the way they award compensation, trying to more closely tie CEO pay to performance.
Chief executives' pay increased by an average of 12.6 percent last year, according to an analysis of nearly 180 corporate proxy statements by compensation consulting firm Pearl Meyer & Partners. That figure does not include the profits many CEOs reaped by exercising stock options.
The jump in pay takes the average CEO's compensation to $9.97 million, resuming a long-running rise in pay after two years of little movement.
The surge in what for many CEOs were already huge pay packages, contrasts sharply with an overall slowing in pay for rank-and-file workers. In the past year, the pay of the average U.S. worker rose by just 2.6 percent, an increase more than offset by inflation.
The increase in CEO pay is rekindling debate in corporate governance circles. The argument focuses not just on how much CEOs deserve, but also the extent to which boards of directors control compensation and whether they're doing enough to make sure shareholders get their money's worth.
Some observers see great strides being made to that end.
"I really think compensation committees on boards are getting the message with respect to the relationship between pay and performance," said Pearl Meyer, president of the firm bearing her name. "We're seeing the beginning of, hopefully, a transitional transformation, with the restructuring of executive pay so that it's more closely attuned to long-term results."
But the bigger pay packages this year are already drawing fresh criticism from shareholder advocates and others. They are glad to see many companies moving away from the stock options that were a primary source of excessive pay in the late 1990s. But companies' shift to giving executives restricted stock — shares that can be sold after a set amount of time has passed — has just replaced options with shares whose worth is largely guaranteed, critics say.
"We're probably seeing pay packages as rich as they've ever been before because a lot of the risk has been removed from the equity portion of the package," said Patrick McGurn, executive vice president of Institutional Shareholder Services.
CEO pay packages soared in the late 1990s, as companies granted huge numbers of stock options whose value mounted with the run-up in the financial markets. And while many firms have edged away from options — which give executives the right to buy stock at a set price, then turn around sell if they choose — they are once again netting huge returns for some CEOs.
The leader of that pack is Yahoo! Inc. CEO Terry Semel, who last year pocketed $230 million by exercising options. Semel — paid almost entirely in options — was awarded 7.2 million new options last year.
Companies soon will be required to count options as an expense. So a growing number of firms are rewarding CEOs with restricted stock. A much smaller number are partly paying CEOs with "performance shares" — restricted stock that vests only after an executive steers a firm to meet stated targets.
"There is less of a reliance upon stock options in recent years than there has been in the past," said Tracy Davis, a compensation consultant for Hewitt Associates. "I think we'll continue to see that kind of trend, where it's more of a balance between options and other vehicles."
That change is evident in the pay of executives like Edward Whitacre Jr., the CEO of SBC Communications Inc., whose pay totaled just under $16 million last year. That payout is partly the product of a change in thinking by the company's directors, which passed on awarding Whitacre and its other executives the large grants of time-vested restricted stock they received the previous year, in favor of smaller grants of shares they receive only when performance targets are met.
"While stock options and time-based restricted stock are linked to the interests of stockholders, they do not have a performance component or measure," SBC explained in its proxy statement. The new arrangement "ties managers' interests directly to those of the stockholders."
But critics say the link between pay and performance will only be meaningful when directors at more companies set targets high enough, and stick to them. Shareholder advocates single out companies like Merck & Co., whose earnings fell sharply last year after it was forced to withdraw its Vioxx pain relief medication.
Despite that, Merck's board awarded CEO Raymond Gilmartin the same $1.38 million bonus as in 2003, and lowered the performance targets used to gauge his pay for the current year. Gilmartin also made $34.8 million from exercising options, and received a new grant of 250,000 options.
"The disparity between Merck's performance and its compensation levels is pretty stark," said Paul Hodgson who analyzes executive pay for The Corporate Library. "If you have companies out there that continually reset the targets throughout the year because of an unforeseen problem then CEO pay is never likely to go down."
Directors at a relatively small group of companies have moved aggressively to not just restructure, but rein in CEO pay they judged to be out of control.
At MBNA Corp., the board pared CEO Bruce L. Hammonds' direct pay by 34 percent, following a 24 percent reduction the previous year. The resulting changes still left Hammonds' pay at $9.2 million, reflecting lower base pay, a smaller bonus, a smaller grant of restricted stock and no options.
The board "believes these actions will further align our compensation practices for senior management with those of the market," MBNA said its in proxy.
While companies like MBNA have moved to make its pay practices more transparent, getting a handle on CEO compensation is as challenging as ever. Unlike the salary or wages most workers count on, CEO pay packages amount to a complex mix of incentives, and companies are not always straightforward in laying out details.
Proxy statements filed by companies show that base salaries are continuing to decline as a portion of most CEO's take-home pay.
CEO salaries, which are set in advance and awarded regardless of corporate results, rose last year by about 4 percent. That partly reflects boards' increased focus on paying for results. It also shows company's attention to tax law, which heavily penalizes companies for paying their top executives more than $1 million in pay that is not tied to performance. Not surprisingly, the average CEO's base salary now hovers right around that $1 million figure.
The surprise, though, is that with many boards stating a desire to move away from straight pay to performance-based pay is that many CEOs continue to make considerably more that that average figure.
At Cendant Corp., for example, Chairman and CEO Henry R. Silverman's base salary was unchanged in 2004. But he still made $3.3 million in salary, along with a bonus of $15.3 million and well over $5 million in other compensation.
At the same time, the average CEO bonuses surged by 21 percent for last year, rising to nearly $1.9 million, according to an analysis by compensation consultant Equilar Inc. of nearly 300 proxies issued by companies whose chief executives have been in place at least three years.
More than nine of every 10 CEOs netted a bonus for the year, the company found.
Both bonuses and long-term incentives like restricted stock were particularly large for CEOs at some Wall Street firms, reflecting a rebound in their companies' fortunes in a resurgent economy.
For example, at the American Express Co., CEO Kenneth Chenault netted a $6 million bonus for last year, up 71 percent from the $3.5 million payout the previous year. His total pay package of $21.9 million also included $3 million in restricted stock, up from $887,000 the previous year.
Many companies justify the large pay packages by noting the demand for qualified CEOs.
"There is a very tight market for proven executive talent," Meyer said. "It's definitely inflationary."
But shareholder advocates are skeptical, ridiculing the notion that only a relative handful of executives are capable of running companies.
"The primary argument against reform (in CEO pay) has always been we need to attract, retain and motivate these guys," said Rosanna Landis Weaver, an analyst for the Investor Responsibility Research Center. "One always wonders why they require quite that much motivation."
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Immerse yourself in the beauty of the "seventh wonder of the modern world," Mexico's Chichén Itzá . Hear the story of the ancient Maya civilization. Experience Tales of the Maya Skies, a new digital full-dome planetarium show produced by Chabot Space & Science Center. Narrated by Latin Grammy Award winner Lila Downs, Tales of the Maya Skies transports us to the jungles of Mexico, presenting the rich history and culture of the ancient Maya. Using the latest three dimensional laser scanning and advanced graphic techniques, Tales of the Maya Skies weaves together the richness of Maya culture, stories, science and contributions to our way of life.
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The weather has been as beautiful as it can be in the first month of the year up in the north. It is cold, from minus 10 to minus 20 degrees Celsius and clear sky. I try to catch it with my camera. There are so many moments through the day. The special morning light before the sun arrives, at sunrise of course and when the sun starts the sunset. It does not end there, evening light can be really special and for the clever ones, the northern light. I look outside all the time and try to plan where and when I will take photos because I can't stay out all the time. I get exhausted and need to rest.
Today I will go for the early morning light. Yesterday it was spectacular. I leave the warm bed, looking outside; take a decision – grab yoghurt and a cup of tea to go. North or south? In the south, there are some clouds, perhaps the red colors will arrive.
I drive to one of my favorite places and when I arrive a reindeer shows up. I stop the car and suddenly several reindeers come out of the forest. They group themselves beside the road. I try to take photos without scaring them away. Not exceptionally photos, but nice to be there. After a while they return to the forest and I take a stroll to the sea.
But I realize that the red colors will not show up. Try some shots anyway, perhaps some photos are ok. My fingers are cold and I pack up and return home.
Later this day I'm going to pick up our friends little boy after school. I show up a bit early, going to the shore to take some quick photos. I get a glimpse of an animal in the sea, it is an otter. He disappears, but when I'm standing there he returns. I realize he's hunting fish. The little animal comes and goes through the water, jumps up and down. I try to catch him for about five minutes; luckily I get some good shoots. A bit out of air I go for the boy and we drive home.
What should the moral be? I feel privileged. On regular daily trips I can see reindeer, moose, eagles, otters and a lot of birds, perhaps a little hare. It is really good to know these creatures are living besides us, showing up now and then. And it is not so easy to plan what to photograph. Neither the sun nor the animals do as I expect and that's the best, all the surprises through a day. Tomorrow is another day and new possibilities to explore more.