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Dear Amy: My 41-year-old son cheated on my daughter-in-law (for the third time) and then left her and my 6-year-old grandson. They were together for 20 years.
I adore my daughter-in-law, and I'm heartbroken. My son told me he never really loved her but stayed with her because he didn't want to break her heart and because she was such a great wife, mother and all-around good person. I'm so ashamed and disappointed in him.
I'm very close with my daughter-in-law. She says she couldn't have gotten through this without me. We talk every day.
Although I still love my son very much (naturally), I don't even want to talk to him right now. He already wants us to meet the woman he left my daughter-in-law for. I can't imagine meeting her, and I saw her picture on Facebook — honestly, she looks like a prostitute.
I'm 100 percent on my daughter-in-law's side. She didn't deserve this and neither did my wonderful grandson. I raged at my son when I first found out; now he calls me and tells me how guilty he feels. Although I'm civil to him, I don't even want to hear his voice right now. Will I ever get over this anger at my son? — Furious Mother
Dear Furious: I applaud your expression of friendship and concern for your daughter-in-law, but you should do this without becoming too intimately involved. Your daughter-in-law is lucky she can talk to you about this, but this will become a problem for you when you finally get to the point where you communicate with your son again — and you will get to that point.
It's appropriate to rain down the "wrath of mom" upon your son's sorry head. There is no reason to shield him from your opinion. There is also no reason to spend time with his new squeeze before you are ready (although stalking her on Facebook is hardly mature behavior). Over time, however, your anger will not help this family — and may actually stoke the flame and extend their challenges.
Be supportive, be understanding and do your best to be a true friend to this entire family. Urge them to pursue mediation with a professional.
Dear Amy: My family and I live on a nice street with residents of all ages — from young families to the elderly.
One of the neighbors has four nice children, but there is a problem: The kids are constantly going door to door fundraising. Soliciting for scouting and school projects, they are able to raise a great deal of money on our street alone. But over the last 10 years my husband and I have spent about $1,000 supporting them, and we simply cannot do it anymore.
Any advice on how to handle this and still maintain neighborly relations? — Bothered Neighbors
Dear Bothered: The way to handle this is with a smile — and an iron will to resist the adorable entreaties of sweet-faced saleskids.
You could post a little "no solicitation" sign outside your door and then kindly explain what it means: "Do you see this little sign? It means we can't buy things. But I bet you're going to do well, and let me know how it goes!" Deal with this in a friendly, open and honest manner.
Not participating in these fundraising efforts actually teaches these kids something important — that adults have to make tough choices sometimes and that you don't get everything you ask for, even if you ask nicely.
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英语作文:光荣背后 Behind the Glory
When we see the successful people, it is natural for us to feel jealous. We see their power and fame, wishing we can be one of them. But the fact is that who knows what these successful people have paied for. I remember the top swimmer Michael Phillips described his daily life. He said that he had to practise so hard, even on the Christmas Day, when other people were enjoying the family reunion, he was working hard on the swimming pool and making himself stronger. We always see the celebrities' glory but always ignore their hard-working. They deserve the honor and people's respect. If we want to be successful, we must work hard.

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Content provided by EuroCommerce - The European Commission has launched a wide-ranging public consultation on the future of the EU's agriculture policy. It is examining ways of modernising and simplifying the Common Agriculture Policy.
Greater focus on rural development
The CAP implements a system of agricultural subsidies and other EU programmes, with a greater focus on rural development among its aims. The CAP evaluation process launched by the European Commission includes a public consultation (open until 2 May), and an impact assessment, looking at the likely of changes in the way agriculture is supported in Europe.
Based on the results of this initial work, the European Commission will present a communication before end-2017 outlining conclusions on the performance of the present agriculture policy, and future options. In the light of current discussion of a European framework and possible regulation of retail and agriculture and trading practices in the supply chain, EuroCommerce will be contributing to the debate to press for a CAP which provides competitive, quality products which meet consumer demands at an affordable price.


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Certainly different. There must be a lot of interest in this business as at the time of writing their website is returning a bandwidth limit exceeded error! In the event that their site returns to a state in which they can servers the number of visitors wanting to learn more, the link is www.soundwich.pt.
There are apparently seven different "soundwiches" you can choose from, all playing the chosen music track when you open the metal box. Pricing on each soundwich is 7.5 EUR.
Not sure what to make of this, but I'm hungry thinking about it.
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Implant Art: Sub, Trans and Micro
Transdermal implants create the appearance of external objects implanted straight into the body. In reality, the implanted object is an anchor with a threaded post. The post protrudes through a hole in the skin, and "jewelry" screws onto it.
In Aylward's "metal mohawk," now removed, the jewelry was thin metal spikes up to 1.5 inches (3.8 centimeters) long [source: Webb]. Body-mod artist Samppa VonCyborg has a mohawk of stout horns [source: Larratt]. Dennis Avner, aka "the Cat Man," now deceased, screwed whiskers onto implants in his eyebrows [source: Stokes]. Some people choose more traditional jewelry, like stars or studs that sit flush to the skin. An NYU professor who got transdermals in 2010 for an "art project" screwed a camera onto three implants on the back of his head [source: Orden].
Body-mod pioneer Steve Haworth designed both the procedure and the first anchor, drawing on a background in medical-tool engineering [source: Stokes]. Those in use 20 years later look a lot like the original.
Anchors are typically forged of implant-grade titanium [source: Russ Foxx]. Often custom-made, their exact designs can vary but generally consist of a flat base, either a circle or a rounded rectangle, that has a perpendicular, threaded post at the center [source: Beyond Body Modification]. The base has multiple openings in it, allowing scar tissue to grow through and firmly embed it in surrounding tissue, placing transdermals in the "permanent mod" category [sources: BMEzine Encyclopedia, Beyond Body Modification]. Size depends on the intended jewelry, with bases ranging from 6-16 millimeters (0.2-0.6 inches) in length or diameter and posts ranging from 1.5-5 millimeters (0.06-0.2 inches) tall and 2-8 millimeters (0.08-0.3 inches) in diameter [source: Rock The Body].
A lot of the controversy surrounding the modification relates to the procedure required to implant the anchor, which can only be described as surgery.
Of course, performing surgery without a medical license is legally hazy at best, so if you're the one doing the surgery, you'll likely describe it as "art" [source: Stokes].


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If you have DVDs from other countries or regions that are not playing on your DVD player, listen up!
Last night I was in the process of finally buying a region free DVD player so that Landon would be able to watch the DVDs we have from Germany that just won't play here in America. We want him to grow up bilingually, and since I'm not doing that great of a job to speak enough German with him — since English is now my first and prefered language — I need all the help I can get from other sources. Watching DVDs in German is going to really help him learn more German — I learned a lot of English that way.
I was comparing prices of multi-region DVD players on several different sites ($70 to $100), like Alphabet Garten und Amazon, when I somehow stumbled upon the information that many DVD players play DVDs from other regions — you just have to reprogram them.
Off I went on the hunt to find the steps I need to change our Philips DVD player over to region free. You need to find the code for your particular DVD player. I used theses sites to find out more about making DVD players region free:
After looking around a bit, I found what I needed. Could it really be this easy? I followed these steps:
1. Turn on the unit
2. Open the loading tray
3. Press the "Setup" button on the remote
4. Navigate to the "Preferences" page with right arrow key
6. Press the down arrow once to enter the Preference page
5. Enter 138931 on the remote
6. You will see the current region code displayed
7. Use the Up/Down arrow keys to select the region required or "0" for all regions
8. Press the "Play" button on the remote
I put in our Der Kleine Eisbar DVD and I couldn't believe it — it worked! So use the sites I mentioned or Google away and find the code you need for your DVD player — and save a lot of money!


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November 22, 2011
Let´s Ski Cross – Red Bull Hüttenrallye
No powder yet… So I decided, to join the Austrian Ski Cross Team for training. I´m going to compet at the Red Bull Hüttenrallye and need some turns with GS Skis. It´s a long time ago that I was skiing on such thin Skis. At the end it worked out pretty well. I got some great advices from the Coaches Markus Wittner and Gerry Posch, how to do the start and be fast between the gates. It was a great time to ski against the best Ski Cross Skiers on this planet like, Andy Matt, Thomas Zangerl, Patrick Koller and many moor. We had great fun skiing on such good conditions. I´ll return with this guys once in the winter with fat skis on a nice powderday at Fieberbrunn.
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Google is one of the biggest, most successful and most universally known brands in history, which is a pretty impressive feat for a company that only rose to popularity in the last two decades. It should come as no surprise that Google is one of the most relevant brands you'll have to understand in order to succeed online, especially when it comes to paid and organic search.
However, you might not realise the potential benefits to your business from many different services Google has acquired and developed over the years. Here are just a few core services that could really boost your productivity and profits if used wisely.
1) Organic search
Cheap SEO packages like those offered here at 123 Ranking work best if you really get to grips with how Google Search works. If you want your website to rank locally, nationally or beyond, it needs to satisfy Google's technical requirements as well as meet its standards for quality. The more you use Google Search, the better you should be able to understand what it looks for and how to take advantage of it. Of course, we're here to help all our clients when it comes to organic search engine optimisation.
2) Google+
Notoriously confusing and constantly evolving, Google+ is a tricky platform to master even for SEO professionals. However, it offers a huge range of benefits that can actively improve your business, to such an extent that you'd be crazy to ignore them. Not only does it function as a social network to share updates with your customers personally, but the real benefits come from information that feeds through into search results.
This includes your Google reviews, which may be featured prominently on Maps as well as Search. Make sure you take the time to ensure your reviews are there and saying something positive to differentiate your brand from the rest.
3) AdWords
Paid advertising can be a great way to help your visibility on search engines even before your organic optimisation has had time to kick in. AdWords is the most widely used platform, and although it can be complex to master, you can get started fairly easily. If you need to generate traffic to your site fast, AdWords can be an incredibly worthwhile investment and the near-instant results are a rare advantage when compared against alternative digital marketing strategies.
4) Analytics
Once you have traffic coming to your site, it's time to focus on conversions for most businesses. Whether your goal is to sell a product, get a customer to contact you about a service or just to get some information from visitors, Google Analytics is an invaluable tool that will tell you how to optimise your site for users once you understand its interface. It provides a huge amount of insightful information; you just need to spend some time learning how to interpret the data in a way that's relevant for your business.
5) Gmail
Do you use an email client for work which everyone in the business accesses? If you do, and you're not using Gmail, you may be missing a trick. Google offers some reasonably priced options for small businesses looking to smoothly integrate their own email systems with other Google services, which can be a great time-saver. Gmail itself functions perfectly as a straightforward email client, so you probably won't lose any functionality by switching to it from other systems.
6) Drive
Google Drive is a great cloud storage solution for businesses, especially when integrated with Gmail. It makes it very quick and simple to share files and organise folders which can all be accessed by everyone in your team. There are many alternatives out there, but if you're already using Google and everyone is set up with an account from the beginning, it's an ideal add-on that many businesses don't take advantage of. You can even use it to work on documents and spreadsheets simultaneously with colleagues, which can be hugely convenient.
There are just a few of the Google services we use on a daily basis at 123 Ranking, and we'd recommend them all to anyone looking to understand Google better or take advantage of their many tools, both free and paid. If you have any questions about Google search services, please don't hesitate to get in touch with us and we'll do what we can to help!


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Alice Braga has revealed that she rose to the challenge of being an action hero while filming Predators.
According to ScifiWire, the actress did not initially believe that she had the fortitude to play a "bad-ass sniper chick".
"I never thought about [being an action star]," Braga said. "I think it was a challenge that came up. I'm a small, short girl, not really tall. I never thought about myself running around and punching and shooting.
"In Predators I'm a sniper, and truly my gun was the heaviest gun on set. It's 14 pounds. Everyone is with a knife, with a pistol, and I'm with a rifle, and I'm carrying that all through the film. I'm like, 'Why am I carrying this? Seriously, why am I carrying this?!"
The film centres on a band of humans who find themselves trapped on the Predator homeworld.
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During a Wolfenstein 2 panel at E3 this year, I asked Bethesda's VP of PR and Marketing at Bethesda Softworks Pete Hines why people loved shooting things in the Wolfenstein series so much. I was immediately corrected by Hines, with notable urgency, that people don't just love shooting 'things' in Wolfenstein, they love shooting Nazis.
It was a common sentiment sprouting from Bethesda and Wolfenstein developer MachineGames throughout their E3 showing, and it's reflected in the first several hours of the game itself. In Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus you slice, chop, mangle, and dessicate Nazis in bold, brilliant relief. As American super spy B.J. Blazkowicz, you're not surviving the Nazi regime, you're absolutely brutalising it.
"There's nothing more fundamental to Wolfenstein. If you boil it down to the core experience, it is about kicking Nazi ass," said MachineGames' creative director Jens Matthies.
Scratch at the surface of the Wolfenstein series and MachineGames isn't exactly plunging the depths of the horrors of World War 2 (the closest the series got to having a deeper political message was when director of Wolfenstein 3D Tom Hall suggested protagonist BJ Blazkowitz was of Jewish descent). It presents us with a bubblegum dystopia, divorced from The Holocaust. "I mean our game is, of course, not any sort of historical representation of reality, and that has never been our intent," said Matthies. "Our creative intent is to approach the fiction with the same kind of fearlessness and creative freedom as the original Wolfenstein 3D was approached."
Yet roughing up Nazis in fiction and pop culture still carries great symbolic weight as a patriotic act, and has done since the '40s. One of the most cited early examples is the cover of Captain America #1 in March 1941, which saw Cap as a powerful new symbol of America landing a good one on Adolf Hitler. This cover was – quite boldly, it should be noted – printed before the United States entered the war in December of that year, but laid simple good vs evil groundwork that resonates to this day. Since then, Superman, Wonder Woman, and Captain Marvel – comic book incarnations of justice – have all socked a Nazi or two.
Post-war movies similarly eschewed nuance and the painful realities of The Holocaust by depicting Nazis as faceless, depraved goons to be disposed of by dashing American heroes. Sophia Loren and George Pepard sex up '65s Operation Crossbow, in the face of Nazis who only cared about one thing: vengeance!, while the '68 Clint Eastwood flick Where Eagles Dare has a Nazi body count of 89. Horror has had a field day massaging them into its genre: Nazis have been zombies, subterranean humanoids, sentient severed heads and Frankenstein's monster-style super soldiers. As the ultimate evil ideology, they can be morphed into anything that goes bump in the night, as long as the cheap accent is right.
While the '70s and '80s graduated towards more complex depictions of evil, especially in arthouse circles (Maximilian Theo Aldorfer in 1974's The Night Porter springs to mind), Spielberg reinvigorated the Nazi stooge in 1981's Raiders of the Lost Ark. Like the '41 Cap comic, Raiders is a simple good vs evil story with Doctor Jones as the yankee hero versus the sadistic, preening Nazi menace (The Dead Kennedys released their single "Nazi Punks F**ck Off" during this year, where the message was equally clear.) In 1989's Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade, when Indy had firmly become an American icon and he quips "Nazis, I hate these guys," you're almost compelled to let out a cheer, so quintessentially Good and True – is the sentiment.
It was Quentin Tarantino's 2009 gung ho war flick Inglorious Basterds that had the ultimate word to date on kicking Nazi ass through a patriotic lens. Here, Tarantino doesn't just delight in American heroes getting up close and personal with Nazis using Louisville Sluggers, he lovingly paints them as the assassins of Adolf Hitler, the heavy thwack-thwack of their submachine bullets piercing his torso as the ultimate middle finger from Uncle Sam.
Video games naturally caught onto the accessible dichotomy. Though 1981's Castle Wolfenstein featured Nazis as villains, it wasn't until its sequel in the following decade where the goal was pleasure in the act of murdering increasingly over the top versions of Hitler's goons. Wolfenstein 3D was a power fantasy where your all-American tough guy was pitched against Nazis that were essentially 2D sponges for your ridiculous arsenal; it was so exaggerated in tone that Hitler's final form came complete with a mech suit and quad chain guns.
Since then, video games have reveled in Nazis-as-bad-guys; Behind Enemy Lines, Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, Commandos, and the Sniper Elite series have all let you maim and mangle various iterations of the Third Reich. In a combat-focused medium, a Nazi is as simple a target as a zombie. Theoretically, nobody can argue their worth.
It's no surprise then that people have grasped onto such sureties in fiction during this year's ubiquitous coverage of real world white supremacists and the public debate over aggressively attacking fascism. Images of superheroes and other fictional icons punching Nazis in the face have done the rounds through social media, the discourse made full circle by cartoonist Matt Bors' re-imagined '41 Captain America cover, where onlookers quip that violence never solved anything as Cap punches Hitler in the face: "you'll only alienate moderate Nazis."
It makes an interesting period of time for a new Wolfenstein game to come out. As the futile question of whether we can collectively see good and evil in black and white terms continues to be prodded at in the real world in 2017, The New Colossus, steadfastly committed to its past, is as defiant as a Dead Kennedys song.
Lucy O'Brien is Games & Entertainment Editor at IGN's Sydney office. Follow her on Twitter.


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Welcome to the Silver Screen – European Film Festival for Generations
In a nutshell
Promoting the idea of healthy ageing and improving quality of life for older people with an Intergenerational European Film Festival in different European cities, (especially Frankfurt am Main, Hanau, Heidelberg, Mannheim, Lisbon, London, and Manchester). Our aim is to create new opportunities for social exchange between old and young and implement cultural activities that invite all generations to meet, get to know and learn from each other.
As the patron of the festival, former German federal minister and head of the biggest German umbrella organisation for seniors (BAGSO) Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ursula Lehr put it "We were what you are – and you will become what we are" (Wir waren, was ihr seid – und Ihr werdet, was wir sind) ageing is something that touches everybody. Ageing does not have to be seen merely as being connected to limitations and restrictions, but can also involve new outlooks, curiosity, and opportunities. This understanding is equally important for people of all ages. The Silver Screen Festival promotes the idea of healthy ageing and improving quality of life for older people. And since going to the cinema is a popular part of our culture and heritage, the main activity will be based around showing films to intergenerational audiences in community groups, schools and cinemas. These films will portray positive images of older people, and interaction will be through a mixture of activities, e.g. having a Silver Screen Lounge with tea and coffee, film discussions with directors, actors, film experts or other interested local partners working in the field of health promotion for older people.
The festival aims
- To establish an annual event in European partner cities.
- To create new opportunities for an exchange between old and young.
- To further cinema visits and social exchange for the 50+ target group.
- To be part of a European network and to look at pro ageing with a European perspective.
Festival activities 2015
- 9 – 16 October in the Rhine-Neckar area.
- 12 October in Frankfurt am Main, International Expert Workshop in cooperation with the EU CINAGE Project "European Cinema for Active Ageing".
- 12 October in Frankfurt am Main, official opening with patron Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ursula Lehr, former Federal Minister
Festival activities 2016
- Festival activities in London, Lisbon and Manchester to be announced
- Cooperation with a partner organization in India will be started
- Festival activities in over 50 cities in Germany in October 2016
What we propose
- To attend the preliminary workshop "CINAGE – European Cinema for Active Ageing" on Monday 12th October at the 6th Silver Screen Festival 2015 in Frankfurt am Main.
- To become part of our network and the European "Silver Screen Family".
- For 2016, to screen films in your city that portray positive views of older people and positive intergenerational images. These could be films on the festival list compiled in Frankfurt since 2010 (with more than 50 films available).
- To invite community organizations and schools to host screenings, to bring people together from different generations.
- To build links with cinemas and local film clubs.
- To design events to inspire new images of ageing and help people to aspire to participate in new cultural and social activities, particularly older people.
- To provide entertaining and enjoyable events.
The Silver Screen Intergenerational Film Festival is a European project founded by Dr. Michael Doh (University of Heidelberg) and Matthias Roos (Public Health Agency of the City of Frankfurt am Main).
In cooperation with the International Relations Office of the City of Frankfurt an exchange platform for representatives from different European countries and Frankfurt's partner cities is envisioned.
By inviting senior citizens and decision makers from all over Europe, the Silver Screen Festival and its partners plan to foster the links between cultural activities and healthy ageing and provide support for new steps towards creating "Pro Ageing Europe". Become part of it and join us!
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Being detained while facing deportation or removal is an extremely scary experience. However, being placed in solitary confinement while being held in an immigration detention facility is even more traumatic. Solitary confinement means being placed in social isolation for 22 to 24 hours a day. Staying for extended periods of time in solitary confinement can even drive people insane.
In recent years, the practice of solitary confinement has been criticized heavily in the United States, and many people believe that it is used too frequently in immigration detention centers.
In fact, the New York Times has reported that more than 300 immigrants are held in solitary confinement in the 50 largest immigration detention facilities each day. Additionally, close to half of those individuals are held in solitary confinement for 15 days or more, which has been described as torture by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture.
Thankfully, the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently announced a new directive with regard to the use of solitary confinement in immigration detention facilities. The new directive allows the agency to more easily and effectively monitor the use of solitary confinement at the approximate 250 immigration detention facilities throughout the nation.
The directive also sets limits on the use of solitary confinement by imposing a review of all decisions to place detainees in solitary confinement for more than 14 days at a time, requiring special circumstances to put vulnerable detainees in solitary confinement, and requiring that detainees who are mentally or physically ill to be removed from solitary confinement if their conditions worsen.
Finally, the directive also requires attorneys to be notified in certain situations.
While the American Civil Liberties Union reported that the new directive does not quite reach the limits on solitary confinement that were offered by the UN, it called the change "a major step forward."
Source: ACLU Blog of Rights, "New limits announced on ICE's solitary confinement of immigrants," Carl Takei, ACLU National Prison Project, Sept. 6, 2013


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Public gardens designate Core Collections to focus efforts and achieve excellence among a manageable set of defined plant groups. These "strong suits" help define a garden's identity and contribute directly to its mission.
A widely accepted approach to assess extinction risk, and a key source of data underpinning the IPBES report, is the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (hereafter Red List).
Public botanical gardens and arboreta are living museums and as such, their core missions
include the collection and display of herbaceous and woody plants from their local region or
The purpose of these guidelines is to provide a consistent methodology for public garden staff to develop and categorize a list of cultivated taxa observed escaping from their locations of cultivation.
Sarah P. Duke Gardens in Durham, North Carolina has put together a storm preparedness plan in anticipation of more frequent extreme storms.
The increased hurricane activity predicted for future decades has serious implications for the important work of Montgomery Botanical Center (MBG).
This Plan is intended to outline plans for preparing for emergencies and for immediate response and short-term recovery efforts in an emergency.
This is an example from Denver Botanic Gardens of a Material Transfer Agreement:
Living Collections Access and Distribution Form.
This newly updated document provides the essential components and guidelines for the development and management of the living collections at Toledo Botanical Garden (TBG.)
The Systematics Collections Committee of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists has updated the recommendations on herbarium practices and ethics that were previously published by the Society in 1958 and 1973.


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Las Olas is a stunning boutique development of 48 contemporary apartments located in the sought after area of Estepona. One of the most popular areas on the Costa del Sol. The apartments are in a prime location within a few minutes walk of the beach and a wealth of nearby amenities , noot to mention some of the best golf courses on the Costa del Sol. 30 minutes to Gibraltar Aiport and an hour to Malaga Airport.
Boasting superb sea views, and large south or south/west facing terraces perfect for enjoying a luxury outdoor lifestyle on the Costa del Sol. This stylish development boasts a childrens and adults saltwater pool and an outdoor exercise area set in tropical gardens. Private parking and storeroom included with lift access.
These contemporary two and three bedroom apartments are architecturally stunning and feature sleek modern designs both internally and externally. The fully equipped concept kitchen flows effortlessly into the living and dining areas where excellent use of space means there is plenty of room to adapt the space to your needs. Several aspects of these stylish apartments can be personalised to suit your lifestyle including porcelain or wood laminate floors, wardrobes and doors as well as wall colours. Bedrooms feature fitted wardrobes and the spacious master bedroom includes an en suite bathroom.
These contemporary apartments are equipped with a number of high quality features such as hot cold A/C, floor to ceiling windows, security door and lock. Private solariums up to 77m2, private terraces from 37m2 to 67m2 and private gardens at 44m2.
Perfect as an investment opportunity or a permanent residence, it provides an ideal base for living a wonderful Spanish lifestyle by the sea with the beach, shops, restaurants and cafes only a short walk away. For more information on individual properties don´t hesitate to contact us. Viewing highly recommended.
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Las Olas Apartments - Las Olas, Estepona
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Truly Mallorca! see: Electri city
"The language school of Alguer. In the service of the identity of Alguer. He who does not appreciate his language, does not love his homeland!"
There are countries which are separated by the sea. And there are some other which are connected by the sea. The infinite water surface, which for us, land-based people, means the limit of the inhabited world, for them is the inhabited world itself, with a dense network of ways. Their cities turn their back to the hostile mountains, they are open to the sea, they look at each other from the opposite shores of the sea. Like the former Greece, the former Carthage, the former Venetian-Dalmatian community. And the former Catalonia.
On the map, the former Catalan maritime empire has shrunk considerably. It no longer includes neither Sicily, nor Provence, Naples nor Malta, much less the Duchy of Athens. But there is still a small yellow spot somewhere in the east, in the corner of Sardinia, which still makes this world round, and demonstrates its maritime character. This is Alghero, in Sardinian Alighèra, in local Sardinian dialect Liéra. In Catalan, Alguer.
Alguer, from here
In the Middle Ages, the two great maritime powers, Catalonia, and its successor, the kingdom of Aragon, fought with Genoa for centuries for the supremacy over the eastern Mediterranean basin. The port of Alguerium, this magnificent checkpoint, was conquered in 1353 by the Catalans from the Genoese Dorias, and made a Catalan foothold. As is written in the first description of Sardinia, about the languages spoken on the island in 1759, two generations after Sardinia left Spain and came under Piedmontese rule:
"The languages used in Sardinia are Sard, the natural language of the country, Spanish and Catalan. The first one is the common language of every kind of people, and the first one they learn. It is very difficult to write, and therefore currently it is only spoken. Every educated person speaks Spanish, and they also teach it to their children. In this language they write every letter, document, writing, contract; in short, everything that must be written. The Catalan language is not common, but it is used only by the inhabitants of Alghero, and it is also spoken in most female convents."
The local dialect of Catalan is still an official language in the city, in addition to Italian. It is the mother tongue of a quarter of the population, but virtually everyone speaks it. On the maps of the Catalan language area hung out in the schools and universities in Catalonia, Valencia and Mallorca, there proudly and nostalgically blooms the little red dot on the tip of Sardinia, the memory of the former greatness and the sign of belonging together. As the great Majorcan singer, Maria Del Mar Bonet – from whom we have often quoted – sings it in her song Desde Mallorca a L'Alguer, From Mallorca to Alguer:
Maria Del Mar Bonet: Desde Mallorca a l'Alguer (2003, video here)
|Des de Mallorca a l'Alguer
els mocadors dels vaixells
van saludant-se a ponent,
les oliveres al vent,
antiga boira del cel,
fent papallones de verds.
Des de Mallorca a l'Alguer
la lluna diu cada nit:
«es mor la mar lentament».
El sol respon als matins:
«el foc avança roent,
per les muntanyes que veig».
Des de Mallorca a l'Alguer,
des de l'Alcúdia a l'Albuixer,
des de Maó a Cadaqués,
des de Montgó a es Vedrà,
des de Talltendre a Queixans,
de Porqueroles a Calp,
des de Mallorca a l'Alguer,
des de Dalt Vila a San Joan,
des de Tabarca a Forcall,
de Ciutadella a Llançà,
d'Espalmador a Alcanar,
de Torreblanca a Malgrat,
des de Mallorca a l'Alguer.
Vella remor de la mar:
les illes s'hi van gronxant,
i avui s'agafen les mans
des de Mallorca a l'Alguer.
Els mots que canta la gent:
vives paraules que entenc,
que tots parlam es mateix.
|From Mallorca to Alguer
the handkerchiefs of the boats
greet each other at sunset
olive trees in the wind
green butterflies in the ancient
mist of the sky.
From Mallorca to Alguer
the moon says every night:
"the sea is slowly dying",
the sun replies in the morning:
"the red fire bursts forward
as long as one can see the mountains".
From Mallorca to Alguer
from Alcúdia to Albuixer
from Maó to Cadaqués
from Montgó to Vedrà
from Talltendre to Queixans
from Porqueroles to Calp
from Mallorca to Alguer
from Dalt Vila to San Joan
from Tabarca to Forcall
from Ciutadella to Llançà
from Espalmador to Alcanar
from Torreblanca to Malgrat
from Mallorca to Alguer
the ancient murmur of the sea,
the islands are swaying on it,
they give hand to each other
from Mallorca to Alguer.
The words sung by the people
are living words that I understand
because we all talk the same way.
"The city of Alguer, get away, my friend…" Detail from Salvador Espriu's poem Per a una suite algueresa, engraved on an obelisk in the old port


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Brother Larry Palmer delivers a sermon titled "How Great Thou Art". Brother Palmer shares four attributes of God that make Him great.
Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
2 Samuel 7:22
This sermon is a ministry of Harpeth Baptist Church in Kingston Springs, TN. Join us again next week as we hold forth the Word of Life.
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Conference Interpreting: A Student's Practice Book By Andrew Gillies
This practical book is a welcome addition to discussions on self-directed learning and on-going professional development.
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- By Andrew Gillies
- Routledge (London), 2013
- ISBN -13: 978-0-415-53234 (hard cover)
- ISBN 13: 978-0-415-53236 -5 (Paperback)
- ISBN 13: 978-0-203-11492-6 (e-book)
Andrew Gillies has assembled a collection of practice exercises that has importance and relevance for educators and interpreters alike. The book includes a series of chapters that offer us a conference interpreter's perspective on an issue of common concern: the need for practical exercises that students can use to enhance their development, both in and outside of the class or work environment. I appreciated the multi-focus within the book, bringing together material that addresses how to practice, along with exercises to enhance language development, consecutive interpreting and simultaneous interpreting.
The book begins with a discussion of practical tips on how to practice, written in a way that is easy to absorb and implement no matter what stage of learning the student is at. Gillies then goes on to describe where one can find practice texts and materials, and here we see an emphasis on obtaining materials that are discourse based and situated in real-world contexts. The suggested practice activities are designed to be time efficient and there are examples that highlight the strategies that interpreters can use to hone their language analysis skills. All that makes this a very useful chapter for educators planning for training, and for interpreters looking to support their own learning and build a plan for enhancement. There are also suggestions for providing feedback, and ideas about where to focus comments in order to promote growth.
Next comes a chapter devoted to language learning principles. Gillies shares the strategies that draw attention to linguistic features that are crucial in any interaction, while using material that is authentic. The chapter is easy to follow and mentors, study groups and more traditional training programs could easily implement the approaches. While Gillies uses the terms "passive and active languages", both of which are used in our field, I would suggest that it would be more helpful to model language that encourages students to see that both languages must be (and in effect are) active in the act of interpreting because the interpreter is actively engaged with both given the cognitive demands of the process.
The remaining sections of the book address consecutive interpreting, memory development, reformulation when providing both consecutive and simultaneous interpretation, and simultaneous interpreting. There are a wide array of strategies, that if regularly practiced, should lead to increased effectiveness as an interpreter, regardless of whether working in conference or community based settings.
One of the aspects I didn't find in the book is any explicit mention of some of the models of interpreting that may be useful to interpreters when learning to manage the interpreting processes, by breaking the interpreting tasks into smaller steps. However it may be that the author is assuming that all readers will have been exposed to such cognitive and sociolinguistic models throughout their formal training. Finally I appreciated the additional material on self-monitoring and stress management.
This book offers us both something familiar and something new, by compiling exercises that have been used by educators, and presenting those in a practical, highly readable format for students. The chapters are well edited, easy to read, provide us with tangible ideas to apply as educators, mentors, working interpreters and students. It is more than just another book to place on your library shelf; it is a welcome addition to our discussions on self-directed learning and on-going professional development.
Debra Russell is an ASL-English interpreter and interpreter educator from Canada. She has worked in community and conference interpreting for 30 years. She is currently the President of the World Association of Sign Language Interpreters. As the Director of the Western Centre for Deaf Studies at the University of Alberta, she has conducted research and published about mediated education involving interpreters, legal settings and legal discourse, and on Deaf-hearing interpreter teams. Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Welcome to the ChallengeU interactive educational and knowledge transfer services (the "Services") which may be accessed from our websites including but not limited to www.challengeu.com, www.challengeu.ca, www.didacti.com, and www.competenceplus.co, and any and all subdomains and subpages thereof (the "Websites"). We hope you enjoy your visit to our Websites and / or use of the Services.
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Who We Are
The Websites and Services are owned and operated by 9249-9219 Québec Inc. ("ChallengeU"), a duly-incorporated corporation located at 500-160 rue Saint-Viateur Est, Montréal, Québec, Canada, H2T 1A8. Where this Policy refers to "ChallengeU" it may refer to 9249-9219 Québec Inc. and / or its affiliates, and / or their respective shareholders, officers, directors, employees, agents, partners, principals, representatives, successors and assigns (collectively "Representatives"), depending on the context. Any reference to "we", "our", or "us" in this Policy shall also refer to ChallengeU and / or its Representatives. In this Policy, a Website visitor or Services user may be referred to as "you" or "your".
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What Does This Privacy Policy Cover?
This Policy covers the treatment of personally-identifiable information, i.e. any information that identifies an individual, or can be used in conjunction with other information to identify an individual ("Personal Information"), when you voluntarily submit this information and other information gathered by ChallengeU when you are using or accessing the Websites or Services. This Policy also covers ChallengeU's treatment of any Personal Information that ChallengeU may share with its business partners or other third parties under very limited circumstances.
This Policy does not apply to the general practices and treatment of information (whether personal or not) by third parties that ChallengeU does not own or control, including but not limited to any third-party websites or services that you elect to access through the Websites or Services or via a link from the Websites or Services ("Third-Party Services"), or to individuals that ChallengeU does not manage or employ. While we attempt to facilitate access or link only to those Third-Party Services that share our respect for your privacy, we cannot take responsibility for the content or privacy policies of those Third-Party Services. We encourage you to carefully review the privacy policies of any Third-Party Services you access.
Finally, this Policy does not cover any Personal Information you send to ChallengeU via any non-secured mode of communications such as instant messenger, Facebook or Twitter, as communications via these methods may be subject to interception, loss, or alteration. While we welcome your comments and suggestions sent to us in this manner, we encourage you to carefully examine what Personal Information you send to ChallengeU via these methods.
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When we collect Personal Information, we do not know the age of our users, and we would never knowingly collect Personal Information from someone under 13 years of age. If we discover we have inadvertently gathered Personal Information from a minor under 13 years of age, we will take the necessary measures to promptly delete such Personal Information from our records.
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ChallengeU does not, as a matter of course, gather any of your Personal Information while you are visiting a Website or using the Services, unless you are asked to provide such information, for example by submitting your contact information or signing up for an account. Personal Information is only gathered with your informed consent. Where you have provided Personal Information, it will only be used for the stated purpose or use, as described in the next section of this Policy.
The Personal Information We Collect and What We Use It For
The following is an exhaustive list of Personal Information collected from you, or from third parties about you, when you visit a Website or use the Services and what we use it for. You acknowledge that you are submitting this Personal Information with your informed consent.
"Contact Information". You may use a contact form on a Website to contact ChallengeU and submit your name and email address. We only use this Contact Information to reply to your inquiry.
"Newsletter Information". You may sign up for our newsletter by submitting your name and email address. We only use this information to sign you up for, and to send you, the newsletter. For more information about how we treat your Newsletter Information, please see the Email Communications section further in this Policy.
"Account Information": Users of the Services will be required to submit certain information to create an account in order to use the Services. This Account Information may include (depending on the Services used) your name, your email, your phone number, certain demographic information, a student number, a photograph, and any Personal Information that may be on identification documents submitted to us. Some of this Account Information may come from third parties, specifically your school board. This Account Information is used to verify your identity, to manage your account, to verify your credentials for logging-in to the Services, to communicate with you information about your account, and to communicate with you information about the Services.
"Billing Information". If you are making a payment in the Services, for example a purchase of certain content, you will be required to enter the following information: your credit card number, credit card expiry date, credit card security (CVV) number, and billing address. Billing Information is only used to process the credit card transaction for your payment. The Billing Information is never stored on servers controlled by ChallengeU. For more details regarding the treatment of your Billing Information, please see the Secured Payments section further below in this Policy.
How We Protect Your Personal Information
ChallengeU uses only industry best practices (physical, electronic and procedural) in keeping any data collected (including Personal Information) secure. We have implemented very strict technical and organisational procedures for ensuring that, by default, only Personal Information which are necessary for each specific purpose are used by us. These procedures prevent your Personal Information from being lost; or used or accessed in any unauthorised way. In addition, ChallengeU uses third party vendors and hosting partners to provide the necessary hardware, software, networking, storage, and related technology required to host the Websites and run the Services, and these third parties have been selected for their high standards of security, both electronic and physical. For example, ChallengeU uses Amazon AWS, a recognized leader in secure data, for hosting of the Website and Services, and storage of information (including Personal Information). Please note that these third parties may not be located in your home jurisdiction – see the "Transfer of Personal Information Outside Your Home Jurisdiction" section further in this Policy for more information.
We Only Disclose Your Personal Information to Third Parties in Very Limited Circumstances
Except as provided in the next paragraph and the next three sections in this Policy, ChallengeU does not divulge any Personal Information gathered via the Websites or Services to third parties. Moreover, ChallengeU does not sell, rent, trade or license any Personal Information regarding its users to third parties. Only the Representatives and subcontractors of ChallengeU (or of ChallengeU's affiliates') are responsible for the management and development of the Websites and Services, and only these individuals have access to the information collected there. These Representatives and subcontractors all have been instructed to comply with the Policy and are under a contractual duty to do so.
Notwithstanding anything in the Policy to the contrary, we may share any information we have collected about you or that you have submitted: (1) in response to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish, protect, or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims or demands; (2) if we believe it is necessary in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, fraud, or situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, or any violation of any applicable Terms of Service; (3) if we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding situations that involve abuse of the Websites and Services infrastructure or the Internet in general (such as voluminous spamming, denial of service attacks, or attempts to compromise the security of the Websites and Services infrastructure or the Websites and Services generally); (4) to a parent company, subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under common control with ChallengeU (in which case we will require such entities to honour this Policy); (5) if ChallengeU merges with another entity, is subject to a corporate reorganisation, or sells or transfers all or part of our business, assets, or shares (in which case we will require such entity to assume our obligations under this Policy, or inform you that you are covered by a new privacy policy).
Transfer to Third Parties with Your Consent
We transfer the following Personal Information to the following third parties as part of the regular provision of the Services:
To school boards. When you are using the Services in order complete certain requirements for earning official school credits, we will share Personal Information and your related results with your school board. If this is the case, by using the Services you consent to such transfer.
For advertising purposes. ChallengeU may show you advertisements around the web, using a cookie installed by each advertising network. ChallengeU currently uses Google AdWords and Display Network and by using the Services you consent to this use. Specifically, ChallengeU uses the remarketing features of interest-based advertising of Google AdWords that delivers you advertisements that will be of particular interest to you, based on your browsing and activity history at the Websites or Services. These advertisements will appear on third-party websites around the web. Google uses specific cookies to allow them to serve these ads around the web. You may prevent this type of advertising by deleting the appropriate Google cookie through your browser, though this may not be permanent. For a more permanent solution, you may opt out of such Google advertising by following Google's instructions. ChallengeU also advertises using Facebook Custom Audience, to display advertisements to you on Facebook that will be of interest to you, and by using the Services you consent to this use. Facebook may collect or receive information from the Services and other websites or services and use that information to provide measurement services and targeted ads. If you do not want to receive such Facebook advertisements, please contact us by email at email@example.com. We also use Bing Ads from Microsoft, which you can opt out of at this link.
Email Communications with You and Compliance with Anti-Spam Laws
ChallengeU currently uses MailChimp to send out and manage our newsletter and marketing emails. Personal Information is transferred to MailChimp in order for our email communications to function properly. Your Personal Information is only used for the proper sending out of the emails; MailChimp does not use this Personal Information for any other purpose and will not transfer or sell your Personal Information to any other third party. You may unsubscribe from receiving these emails from us at any time by following the link at the bottom of any email sent to you.
ChallengeU also uses a third party, Postmark, to send out transactional emails that are required to use the Services. Again, your Personal Information is only used for the proper sending out of the emails; Postmark does not use this Personal Information for any other purpose and will not transfer or sell your Personal Information to any other third party.
ChallengeU's practices with regards to its email practices are designed to be compliant with anti-spam laws, specifically the law unofficially called "CASL", or Canada's Anti-Spam Law, as well as the American CAN-SPAM Act. If you believe you have received email in violation of these laws, please contact us using the contact information further up in this Policy.
When You Make Secured Payments
ChallengeU uses Stripe for processing of secured payments made through the Services. Stripe is certified as a PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) Service Provider Level 1, the highest-volume level for credit card transaction companies. When you make a payment through the Services using Stripe, you are subject to the Privacy Policy of Stripe, which we encourage you to read. When you make a payment through the Services, your Billing Information is transferred securely via SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) from the Services to Stripe, the standard for internet encryption.
The Non-personal Data We Gather for Very Limited Purposes
ChallengeU automatically collects certain information using third-party analytics programs including Google Analytics to help us understand how our users use the Websites and Services, but none of this information identifies you personally. For example, each time you visit a Website or use the Services, we automatically collect your IP address, browser and computer type, access times, the web page from which you came, and the web page(s) you access (as applicable). We use information collected in this manner only to better understand your needs and the needs of the Websites and Services and their users in the aggregate. ChallengeU also makes use of information gathered for statistical purposes to keep track of the number of visits to the Websites and Services and the specific pages on the Websites and Services with a view to introducing improvements.
Your IP address and other relevant information may be used in order to trace any fraudulent or criminal activity, or any activity in violation of any Terms of Service or any other agreement signed with ChallengeU.
Aggregated Information and its Uses
In addition to the information collected by the analytics programs as described in the previous section, we may also generate, use and disclose aggregated and / or anonymized information and statistics about the Services and Services users for the purposes described in this section. No user of the Services will be individually identifiable from these aggregated and / or anonymized information and statistics.
Marketing and strategic business purposes. We may use aggregated and / or anonymized information to help market our Services or to plan for future business activities.
Improving the Services. We use machine-learning and experimentation to use aggregate and anonymized data from Services users in order to improve the Services. The results of such experimentation will be shared with a third party, specifically the National Research Council of Canada. By using the Services, you consent to such use, and the transfer of the results, which cannot identify you in any way.
Your Rights to Verify, Correct and Delete the Personal Information We Hold
You have the right to: (i) verify what Personal Information ChallengeU holds about you; (ii) ask for your Personal Information to be corrected or updated; and (iii) withdraw your consent to the use by ChallengeU of your Personal Information and have it deleted from our records. If you wish to inquire about and verify and / or correct Personal Information ChallengeU holds about you, or if you wish to have all your Personal Information permanently deleted from our records, please contact us using the contact information further up in this Policy. Please note that deletion of your Personal Information may make it impossible for you to use the Services, or certain portions thereof. If you request deletion of your Personal Information, ChallengeU reserves the right to retain some of your Personal Information for a reasonable time in order to satisfy our legal obligations, or where we reasonably believe that we have a legitimate reason to do so.
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to facilitate your signing-in to the Services;
to provide you with customized content;
to keep track of preferences you specify while you are using the Services;
to provide general internal and user analytics;
to conduct research to improve the content of the Websites and Services;
advertising cookies and related technologies are used to display advertisements as described earlier in this Policy;
to facilitate payment processing;
to assist in identifying possible fraudulent activities.
Your browser or device can be set to refuse cookies or delete them after they have been stored. Please refer to your browser or device's help function for instructions. Please note that deleting or refusing these cookies may reduce your user experience by requiring you to re-enter certain information, including information required to use the Services. Furthermore, as we use authentication cookies, deleting those cookies may prevent certain functions, including the entirety of the Services, from working at all. ChallengeU and its Representatives shall not be held responsible for any function that may not operate after you refuse or delete cookies, or any losses or damages (pecuniary or otherwise) arising from those functions not operating or having reduced functionality.
Transfer of Personal Information Outside Your Home Jurisdiction
Services users may access certain of the Services from any country in the world. However, the Services are not intended for users in the European Economic Area ("EEA"). Anyone using the Services from the EEA does so at their own risk, and the risk to their Personal Information.
ChallengeU and its third-party vendors, including service providers and hosting partners, are located in Canada and the United States. You acknowledge that ChallengeU and our third-party vendors may be located in jurisdictions or countries where the privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your home country, state, province or other governmental jurisdiction, and consent to the transfer of your Personal Information to such countries.
Services users in Canada will have their Personal Information Stored in Canada, while Services users in the United States will have their personal Information stored in the United States.
There are Risks When Using the Internet
Despite ChallengeU's best efforts to ensure that third parties will not access or obtain your Personal Information, complete confidentiality and security cannot currently be guaranteed on the Internet. Communication via the Internet is subject to interception, loss, or alteration. You acknowledge and agree that ChallengeU cannot be held responsible for damages resulting from the transmission of confidential information or Personal Information over the Internet and that such communications are at your own risk.
When We Link to Third-Party Websites
From time to time ChallengeU may provide links to other websites or services or services not covered by this Policy. We encourage you to read the privacy policy of any website or service linked to from the Websites or Services, and to be careful when submitting any information, including your Personal Information, to them.
When You Post on Users' Accessible Areas
Users of certain Services may post, submit and exchange content and information on areas of the Services that are accessible to other users, if they decide to do so. You should exercise caution if you choose to disclose Personal Information in a publicly accessible area. You are solely responsible for any Personal Information that you disclose and disseminate on publicly accessible areas of the Services.
We Are Compliant with Privacy Laws
This Policy and ChallengeU's practices in general are designed to be in compliance with Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act ("PIPEDA", S.C. 2000, c. 5) and Quebec's An Act Respecting the Protection Of Personal Information in the Private Sector (R.S.Q. c. P-39.1). If you have any questions regarding this compliance, please contact us using the contact information further up in this Policy.
Modifications to this Policy
ChallengeU reserves the right, at any time and without prior notice, to modify or replace any of the Policy. Any changes to the Policy can be found at this URL. It is your responsibility to check the Policy periodically for changes. Your use of a Website or the Services following the posting of any changes to the Policy constitutes acceptance of those changes. If we make any substantial changes to the Policy that materially affect the way we treat your Personal Information, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to notify you by posting a prominent notice when you log in to the Services for the first time following those changes and / or posting a prominent notice on the Websites.


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Tuff Turf is a highly efficient potassium source designed to help the plant cope with moisture stress, heat stress, disease, traffic stress and to prepare for winter. Tuff Turf also contains silicon for increased cell strength and turgidity, which many turf managers use to improve traffic tolerance and provide improved ball roll. The inclusion of magnesium helps increase chlorophyll production for improved color. This product is ideal for spring and fall use, or as part of a summer foliar program at sites with high expectations and strong demands of the turf.
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Contains high levels of available potassium (K), which can be quickly absorbed by the plant tissue and is very effective when applied as a foliar.
Benefits of high potassium levels in turfgrass plants are well documented and include enhanced resistance to abiotic stress and tolerance to cold temperatures, high temperatures, moisture stress, and salinity stress.
Contains Silicon (Si) for plant strength and Magnesium (Mg) for improved chlorophyll production and turf color
Also contains organic and amino acid based chelated micronutrients, including iron (Fe), and manganese (Mn)
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Enables League or Tournament organisations to show "live" scores throughout a competition.
It collates and manages all results via a cloud database so that management is simplified.
It enhances participation and excitement for friends and relatives of individuals participating in a competition.
Players use their mobile or tablets to register their scores which intelligently synchronizes with a cloud based system.
The scores are then shared amongst all players and competition results are displayed to create a more engaging experience.
With an easy to download App from the App Store(s), players can get up and running with very little effort.
The App has been designed for ease of use with support for landscape and portrait mode.
We offer the ability to create bespoke result displays giving your competition or league a unique edge. You will have access to the competition configuration pages allowing you to make alterations at any time.
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The ease of home delivery is undeniable and with the addition of a monthly subscription? Hot dog. The surprise of a monthly gift to yourself can brighten anyones day and now with The Fare Trade, you can sign up to receive specialty artisan foods in the mail. Read More
It's time to get cheesy, people! This weekend, March 21st-23rd, the 8th Annual Artisan Cheese Festival will be held at the Sheraton in Petaluma, California! Read More
Happy Pi-Day! For those of you who don't know, Wikipedia defines Pi as:
"The number π is a mathematical constant, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, approximately equal to 3.14159. It has been represented by the Greek letter "π" since the mid-18th century though it is also sometimes spelled out as 'pi' " wikipedia
Celebrate this mathematical constant as you would any other, by gorging yourself! Check out the pies offered at these restaurants:
Post & Beam
Do you like tubers in your sweets? This restaurant's Sweet Potato Chocolate Pie plays with the classic combination of sweet and savory, served with a maple pecan topping and cinnamon whipped cream.
Post & Beam, 767 Santa Rosalia Dr, Los Angeles, California 90008
BOA Steakhouse
Looking for an extra-southern kick to a classic? try the Deep-Fried Pecan Pie, it features two donut-sized hand pies covered with whiskey caramel sauce and served with vanilla ice cream.
BOA Steakhouse, 9200 W Sunset Blvd #650, West Hollywood, California 90069
Rustic Canyon Wine Bar & Seasonal Kitchen
Executive Chef Jeremy Fox is baking up banana caramel cream pie, chocolate pie, strawberry rhubarb crumble pie, and blueberry crostata!
Rustic Canyon Wine Bar & Seasonal Kitchen, 1119 Wilshire Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90401
CAFE del REY
The favorite, Maple Berry Pie has a maple berry filling and spiced streusel topping, served with brown sugar ice cream. Chef Dunn serves up a classic flaky, thick pie crust, and uses huckleberries, gooseberries, and blackberries in her recipe.
Cafe del Rey, 4451 Admiralty Way,Marina Del Rey, CA 90292
Pitfire Artisan Pizza
The Burrata Pie, the only savory pie on this list, is is topped with housemade burrata cheese, wild arugula, caramelized onion, hazelnuts, and a pesto drizzle. Did we mention that the burrata cheese was housemade?
Pitfire Artisan Pizza, 108 W 2nd St, Los Angeles, CA 90012 and many other locations.
On Sunday, March 9th, LA Weekly hosted the The Essentials at the LA Mart in downtown Los Angeles, CA. The event featured over 30 restaurants curated by LA Weekly, celebrating some of the best of the L.A. food scene. Event go-ers enjoyed the rustic Italian of SOTTO to the street tacos of Guerrilla Tacos to the Thai spices of Jitlada. Promptly washing down the flavors of LA, guest enjoyed a variety of libations such as the craft beers of Goose Island, the Backyard lemonade with Sailor Jerrys, and some of Handsome Coffee Roaster's finest. After a very brief preview and a tickling of the palate, let's explore eating LA.


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The Lalairu are a neutral trading collective made up of many different species. They can be found almost anywhere in the Alpha and Beta Quadrants, but seem to frequent the rimward regions.
The Lalairu are very open to discourse with outsiders, if the outsider can manage to understand the very erratic Lalairu speech patterns. (TNG novel: Dark Mirror)
In the late 23rd century, the Lalairu aboard the vessel Mascrar mediated a dispute between the United Federation of Planets and the Romulan Star Empire. (TOS novel: Swordhunt)
They often host guests on their city-ships. Timothy Sinclair and Vash traveled extensively with the Lalairu during the late 2350s. The Laihae sensed something special about Sinclair, and called him a "true seeker." (Star Trek: Pendragon: "Past Watchful Dragons")
In 2366, Starfleet Commander Hwii, a delphine, traveled with the Lalairu to the Great Rift region to investigate the nature of subspace hyperstring structure. (TNG novel: Dark Mirror)
They never settle anywhere for long, and most communities rarely leave their vessels. Each Lalairu community is led by one who speaks for the whole, known as the Laihae. (TOS novel: Swordhunt)
The Lalaru were created by author Diane Duane for her book Dark Mirror. In the TNG novel Intellivore (also by Diane Duane), a radically different version of the Lalairu was mentioned. These Lalairu were a single species, not a group. The Lalairu grow cloaks while outside their own ships which they shed when returning. Jean-Luc Picard became one of the few people to see a Lalairu without its cloak in 2371. Lalairu count a person's experience by the number of times one dies, for they have the capability to regenerate after death even if only a single strand of DNA remains. There were problems at the Lalairu's first contact with other races until they were made to understand death was permanent for most species.
It seems as though Duane forgot the information she had already established about the Lalairu in Dark Mirror, and no editor caught the error. In the subsequent Rihannsu novels, though, the Lalairu were as depicted as they were originally.
External linkEdit
- Lalairu article at Memory Beta, the non-canon Star Trek wiki.


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CARICOM: a failure of effective leadership
Byron Blake, GUEST COLUMNIST
Leadership - political, institutional and business - has failed the Caribbean integration process and people over the last decade in the thrust to move from common market to single market and economy and to cope in an unsympathetic global environment.
This became crystal clear to me in 2009. Then, in the throes of the global economic and financial crisis, CARICOM political leaders refused to adopt and advance an innovative and internally driven strategy based on collaboration, Caribbean creativity and innate strengths. They consciously and explicitly decided to go visionless and without a strategy to the international financial institutions to provide them with the solution to the crisis as it was manifesting itself in the region.
That, together with their retreat from the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME), which should have been the strategic bulwark of the region in the global crisis, and increasing public cynical statements by leaders, caused me to fear for the Caribbean. I, however, decided to avoid writing, or commenting, as far as possible, lest I added fodder for the cynicism of the general population.
Three recent pieces of writing have caused me to reconsider. These are:
(i) Bits and pieces from Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves' letter to CARICOM's secretary general, Ambassador Irwin La Rocque,
(ii) Two articles by veteran Caribbean journalist and long-time integration observer Ricky Singh, and
(iii) The editorial in the Observer of February 29, titled 'CARICOM must be enlarged to survive'.
I fear that these are again laying tracks for debate, apportioning of blame, avoidance of responsibility and action and the further disillusionment of the population, especially the young ones. I have, therefore, decided to break my self-imposed silence to offer a few suggestions for action.
Accountability and agriculture
First, political leaders, at their next opportunity, must make this short declaration, without preamble: "We are all culpable, we are all responsible for the state of the Caribbean economy. We commit to work together to raise the CARICOM economic boat on which we are all adrift."
Second, political and business leaders must recognise that even with the various global crises, there are significant economic opportunities for Brand Caribbean. Important here, are:
CARICOM has a large and unsustainable food-import bill. In addition to this large and growing regional market, there is an insatiable international market for food - especially foods produced under environmentally healthy conditions such as those which still exist in the Caribbean.
Further, unlike the situation which prevailed in the 1980s, 1990s and the first half of the 2000s, when areas such as the Caribbean were discouraged and punished for indulging in food production, the international community is now encouraging and facilitating investment in agricultural production for food and other global benefits such as mitigation of environmental degradation and climate change; the provision of raw material for alternative energy; pharmaceutical and nutraceutical production; and for the achievement of several of the Millennium Development Goals.
Investment in agriculture is a private-sector, not budget-driven, activity. Leaders should agree unequivocally to operationalise the provisions of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas. This would give investors in agriculture, agro-industry and allied services rights to the resources and to invest as envisaged by the treaty. Also, agree to immediately reconstitute the group which has been looking at agriculture for the past 10 years or so to include a much larger private-sector component.
Solving energy woes
Energy is critical to international competitiveness. International competitiveness is one of the foundation objectives that differentiates the CSME from the 1973 Common Market. In a region comprising small, closely located economies, international competitiveness can only be achieved and sustained by combining resources.
Leaders must accept that it is against the letter, intent and spirit of the Revised Treaty to use the existence of a natural resource in a particular jurisdiction to create competitive advantage over other members of the CSME.
A priority of the region should be to put in place an appropriately structured technical group to advise on how best to utilise resources such as the sun, sea and airspaces, fisheries, forests, bauxite, oil and natural gas to drive sustainable and balanced development. Balanced development is a fundamental concept in both the 1973 and 2001 versions of the treaty.
Export Services
The CARICOM Secretariat has had in its possession, since January 2011, the final report of a study it commissioned on 'New Export Services'. The study, among other things, recommended five broad areas in which the region can collaborate for immediate, spread and sustained benefits. These benefits would include not just increased income and employment but the stimulation of the region's creativity and entrepreneurial talents, and the linking of the culture, music, athletic and sporting prowess of the young persons, especially in urban areas.
These recommendations require relatively small financial outlays. In any event, the region is not short of financial resources for export promotion. In addition to the resources it expends annually in areas like tourism promotion, it has access to more than €28.1 million from the European Union through CARIBBEAN EXPORT and US$40 million from the Inter-American Development Bank, the Canadian International Development Agency, and the Department For International Development under the Compete Caribbean Programme. These are two relatively new facilities. The resources should be largely untapped so that governments should agree to direct their use to areas of likely greatest impact.
One of the priority recommendations relates to London 2012. The basis of the recommendation is the serendipitous coincidence of XXX Olympiad, the Special Olympics and the associated Cultural Olympiad; the burst of the Caribbean (through Jamaica) on to the Olympic stage in London in 1948, followed by Helsinki, 60 years ago, and the expected excellence of the Caribbean in sprint events in London, based on performances in Beijing and Berlin.
Add to this the 50th anniversary of independence from Britain, of Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, and the 40th anniversary of CARIFESTA, together with the large Caribbean diaspora population in the United Kingdom, it creates a one-time opportunity to project all aspects of Caribbean life. The spin-off benefits for creativity, culture, music, cuisine, investment opportunities, export potential, tourist attractions, and Caribbean people in general, would be tremendous.
This would not only create a lasting legacy in the UK but provide the basis for a Caribbean programme at the 2014 football World Cup and 2016 Olympics, both in Brazil.
Five months out from the Olympics, which opens on July 27, there is no Caribbean or even national programme to take advantage of the unique opportunity. It is late. But in the words of the chair of the Cultural Olympiad, "It is never late for a good idea." A strong Caribbean participation was considered by her to be "a good idea".
CARICOM leaders must now resolve to work together and launch a specially selected task force to pull together a rescue programme. This should be delivered within one month. Pieces of work have been done and there are individuals who have worked with key persons in the UK side who were, up to late 2011, anxious to work with the Caribbean. The task force would have responsibility to coordinate the implementation.
Third, political leaders must complete the implementation of some high-profile outstanding decisions. In this regard, the full implementation of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).
The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) is a financially costless act through which CARICOM leaders A drilling rig in the twin-island republic of Trinidad and Tobago as depicted on gstt.org. Byron Blake says that CARICOM member states should coordinate the use of natural resources to benefit the region.
can demonstrate to the people of the region their seriousness about Caribbean integration.
In the 50th anniversary of the independence movement in the English-speaking Caribbean, leaders should resolve to make the CCJ their final court of Appeal. Jamaica, with the largest caseload, and Trinidad and Tobago, the seat of the court, should complete the process before the end of the anniversary year.
Fourth, leaders must seek quick resolution or defusing of differences before they become disputes.
The Reverend Wes Hall will confirm that in 1971 when the prime minister of Guyana, Forbes Burnham, decided to ban Gary Sobers from playing cricket in Guyana, the then prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago presented him with airline tickets and a letter of apology, over Sobers' signature, to take to Barbados to Gary to sign and then to Guyana to Prime Minister Burnham. Burnham accepted Sobers' apology; matter resolved.
Few but those directly involved knew about Eric Williams' hand in the resolution.
Fast-forward to today. A misunderstanding between Chris Gayle and the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has been left for a year to balloon into a dispute between Jamaica, the Jamaican prime minister and the WICB, with no intervention at leadership level - political business or civil. Leaders must put in place mechanisms to resolve this and be vigilant in the future.
Fifth, political leadership must resolve to appoint institutional leaders based on proven competence and experience; provide them with clear mandates and resources; and hold them responsible. In a time of crisis, a new secretary general has been in office for six months without issuing a statement of vision or direction. This will not instil confidence in a region and an institution under siege.
Byron Blake is a former assistant secretary general of the CARICOM Secretariat. Email feedback to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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I am at Södertörn University College's conference The Virtual 2007, the theme of which is Interaction. I will be presenting a paper "Prefacing Interaction: Copyright and Remix in Online Digital Literature" this afternoon but I would like to write about a couple of interesting speakers who presented yesterday.
First is the keynote speaker for the day, Jeffery Bardzell from Indiana University, School of Informatics (Home of HUMlab friend Erik Stolterman). Jeffrey spoke about 'Massively Amateur Culture', specifically Animution, Machinima and Virtual Fashion.
First came a general introduction to the field on interactive design under the rubric of Human Computer Interaction (HCI). Bardzell is critical of the HCI field not generally asking cultural critical questions in developing ideas and projects. He seems to feel that there is an overt focus upon tools in terms of functionality over actual use (I understood it in the retrospective sense whereby functionality is anticipated and use is in the field). I think this is an interesting idea. He stated that interaction design reflects culture and interaction design produces culture. He proposes interpretive analysis in interaction design looking at meanings, affects, moods, intuitions and social inclinations ( I heard the echo of Stolterman here). Interaction should "delight, enlighten and be just".
Bardzell cited Susanne Bødker's concept of waves of HCI as influential to his own arguments.
Three basic assumptions behind Bardzell's approach to how HCI should deal with cultural critique:
– multimedia tools shape products
– evolution of languages share characteristics
– interaction with mainstream culture
The use of the term 'Languages' by Bardzell is something that will stir debate, but I spoke to him after his presentation about it and he explained his use of the word in relation to there being 'languages' of HCI interactive design. He said he takes the concept of languages from film and visual theory, citing Christian Metz's semiotic theories of film as a source of inspiration. Bardzell acknowledges that using language theory to describe a multimodal field is problematic but it does "sustain a productive conversation" at the very least and if it is challenged then that is a good thing. He sees it as a good metaphor.
Bardzell's concept of language in the HCi context is centred on the tools used. These are not merely 'tool' in the functional sense but they create certain types of messages. The more usable a feature is the more it is used (this is illustrated with an example soon). These more used features constitute a visual language and these languages seem to solidify after only 5 to 10 percent of the knowledge about the tool use is obtained by the user. Here Bardzell cited Manovitch (continuing with the visual approach) that Art has become a database in digital contexts.
There are three paradigms for how digital tools shape creativity:
– from scratch (coding, building systems etc.)
– from primitives (geometrical shaped 3D objects that can be manipulated but expanded to mean virtual objects of artefacts here)
– from components (compositions of scratch and primitives)
Primitives are "fast and easy" so they are the most popular choice for shaping with tools. Hence the usability of the tool has determined use.
Bardzell then went on to look at Animutation:
– a Flash genre
– acquisition of primitives (images)
– managed by the authoring tool
– works with the 'logic' of Flash
Neil Cicierega (b.1986), Bardzell said was the originator of animutation. Animutation, popular on such sites as Albino Black Sheep, is:
– Pastiche or parody play
– has an aesthetic of 'crap' (in a similar sense to B grade fans appreciate films like Attack of the Killer Tomatoes)
– Contains commentary and interfaces with other media
– Is highly self-referential
Bardzell cited the piece Making an Internet Cartoon Tutorial (not Work Friendly. Loud.)
Now Machinima:
Basic outline of machinima film production. What was interesting here was Bardzell divided machinima into two categories, Ludic and cinematic. Pretty clear what the distinguishing features are; one is game lay recounted (ludic) and the their attempts of convey story, images of cultural and social poignancy and so on. Production techniques come to the fore in the ltter clasificaion. Game play is often but not always present in cinematic machinima. Some examples of note that Bardzell showed were:
WoW Funeral
To Heaven
1K project (amazing piece of work)
Still Seeing Breen
Big Bue Dress
The generative strategies of machinima proposed by Bardzell included:
– Feature gameplay
– Comment on games
– Fuse game and othe cultural elements
– Demonstrate mastery of the game (credibility as player)
– Gameplay extends beyond the game.
The Rise of Virtual Fashion:
This section began as an explanation of Second Life as a user generated virtual world which led to the "natural" extension that users created fashions. Avatar design is a form of multimedia authoring and the "canvas is the body". There are 39 body slots in the SL avatar and layers; mesh, skin, underwear and outerwear (shirt, skirt, pants etc.).
Once again the creation of fashion items is done from scratch, prims and components. Usability problems exist with scratch and components as mentioned above. Bardzell claims that SL fashion is "a language built of prims". The message of SL fashion is developed from the outfits which carry a "diminished functional purpoe to clothing". The functional purposes of clothing include protection, modesty and immodesty. As there is no climate in Second Life so the function of clothing is symbolic and as sign. In the stylization of the self through clothing in SL it is easier to construct along lines of fetish and subculture or punk, goth and S&M than with GAP polo jerseys (although this was pointed out as being possible by someone in the audience). There are a large number of SL fashion blogs where the "right symbolic lifestyle" is discussed, portrayed, critiqued, and advertised. Such dialogues facilitate interaction.
The common characteristics of Amutation, Machinima and Virtual Fashion are:
– readily available prims
– composition out pf libraries
– libraries borrow
– fuse external and internal – languages for meaning
– comment on both (parody)
– low production values
– high production outputs
The Star Wars Kid
– emrgent visual langage tracked as a meme
Became part of an add for Volkswagen "Less Flower More Power" and it was taken up by the Colbert Report. I actually thought this as not such a convincing account of the visual meme concept and felt that Henry Jenkins account of the Bert is Evil meme to be a stronger demonstration of the same principle.
Finally, some of the problems of researching amateur multimedia:
– massive numbers of dispersed users. In the first wave of HCI research focused on the lone user. In the second wave it focused on small teams and in the third and present wave it deals with populations, the smallest grouping being mirco-communities.
Jeffrey made the claim the such research deals with the non-textual (I always get defensive when people start discounting the text but in this case I think I have to agree. The creation of these works is not the textual part of the arrangement, while the individual or networked products I think are textual). Meaning emerges in micro-communities in situations knowledge/information versus affect/experience. It is not even democratice but rather personal why people engage with amateur multimedia.
Eric Stolterman's concept of "sensibility"; of wine for the wine lover and literature for the literature person is "a developed taste for material's special qualities". Sensibility combined with Bourdieu's habitus is something of the area Bardzell is trying to cover. IHe stated that in order to cultivate habitus researchers must participate in the field of cultural production.
Tomorrow I will blog my notes from a interesting architect from Brussels who spoke about invisible space.