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- Employer: West Berkshire Council
- Reference: V3385
- Published: Mon 10/06/2019, 9:30 AM
- Closing on: Sun 23/06/2019, 23:59 PM
- Working Pattern: Full Time, Part Time
- Hours: Full time and part time hours available hours
- Salary: Hourly rate starting from £13.72 - £16.27 (depending on skills and experience)
- DBS Check: Enhanced
- Location: Birchwood Care Home, Newbury, Berkshire
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Registered General Nurses
West Berkshire Council is looking to recruit Registered General Nurses for Birchwood Care Home which provides nursing care and care for frail elderly residents, some with dementia and challenging behaviour; we aim to offer a friendly, safe and secure environment.
We believe our residents have choices about their care, and we promote independence as much as possible. We aim to offer social and emotional support to our residents in order to meet their individual needs.
We are looking for Nurses to provide nursing care to residents in accordance with their assessed needs. We are looking for staff that can;
- Maintain skills and keep up to date with clinical developments and best practice in areas relevant to care delivery in the home.
- Undertaken training appropriate to the roll, as agreed with the Home Manager, and ensure learning is shared and transferred into practice.
- Review the daily delivery of care, including pressure area prevention, nutrition and infection prevention and control procedures. Ensure high standards of care delivery are maintained.
- To be responsible for the safe and appropriate management, administration and recording of medication, including controlled drugs and oxygen, in accordance with NMC requirements.
- Act at all times within your own skills and competence in accordance with the NMC code of practice.
We will reimburse you for your NMC annual fee (PIN).
The salary range is £26,470 - £31,401 pro rata, per annum, Grade H, SCP 29 - 35.
West Berkshire Council offer excellent employment benefits such as flexible working, access to a wide range of relevant training, local government pension scheme, family friendly policies, a range of local discounts and much more. You will also be entitled to a generous annual leave entitlement of 26 days per annum rising to a maximum of 34 days, depending on how long you've worked for us and the grade of your job.
All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.
This role has been identified as public facing in accordance with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2017; the requirement to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in English applies.
For an informal discussion about this role, please contact Carla Kell on 01635 33967 and email firstname.lastname@example.com
West Berkshire Council is proud to support the government's 'Every Day is Different' national recruitment campaign, promoting the range of career opportunities in the adult social care sector. You can access more information on www.everydayisdifferent.com
Be sure to also visit the Working for Care in West Berkshire pages to find out what different types of roles we recruit to, the services we provide, how to develop your career and read how our care staff feel about their roles and how they have progressed in their career with us.


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staying healthy with our busy lifestyles is something that takes more than just determination. Having a few tools to help you stay on top of the daily grind (i.e. abuses to our body and mind )can make all the difference. Golden milk will help you alleviate your chronic pain and make sure your cells have all the antioxidants they need to fight those free radicals. Here is the recipe:
1/4 cup Tumeric powder
1/2 cup water
8-12 oz of milk of your choice (plant, nut or cow - my favorite and the most beneficial is coconut)
ground black pepper or a few peppercorns - a must
cinnamon (to taste -optional)
if you need to sweeten add honey (is packed with minerals, vitamins and anti-bacterial and anti-viral properties)
how to:
boil your water over Medium heat. Add tumeric powder gradually. It will quickly make a paste. It should be about the consistency of peanut butter - only not as thick. But not runny like soup.
set your paste aside. It will keep for weeks in the refrigerator.
Heat 8-12 oz of milk of your choice over a low heat. Add 1 Tablespoon of the tumeric paste, a pinch of ground pepper and cinnamon if you like. I encourage you to try it without the honey - it's pretty good as is.


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I ran a Twitter Overview report as well as a couple of others and liked the concise way it visualized the data. At the top, the report showed my Twitter profile with followers, following, and listed tallies. Next came my follower growth and then came my most popular links, using ow.ly. Granted, my test bed was not overwhelmed with activity but the report style was useful and could handle more traffic. The Hootsuite Professional plan includes one report with up to nine others available. Some reports, like the Facebook and Twitter Aggregates, are only available in the Enterprise plan.
Competitive analysis can be tasked by adding other major players' sites as a Stream. Hootsuite created a Competitive Analysis spreadsheet in Excel, which can also be downloaded as a PDF file. Its competitive analysis capabilities are not as easy to find as they were in Sprout Social or Brandwatch Analytics in part because there was no specific report template devoted to it
But where Hootsuite really shines is in its integrations. The company has made all of its application programming interfaces (APIs) available as open source, and its most recent spate of integrations and acquisitions are expanding what the platform can do in tandem with customer relationship management (CRM) and other enterprise cloud services.
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I don't think Love is the opposite of Hate. I think they are just one of many ways to relate. I want to know why we suck at love, love to hate, and hate to relate. I wanna know why Sandra/Jessie, Al/Tipper, and Halle/Everybody just didn't work out.
Don't get me wrong though because I'm gonna find out why Will/Jada, Jay/B, and Brad/Angelina seem to have gotten it right.
I started my career in the computer science field, but staring at a computer all day wasn't really my idea of a fulfilling career. So, while it paid the bills and while I enjoyed the work, for the most part I was unsatisfied. Taking the lead of my mother (she likes to refer to herself as Ph.D Mommy) and my older brother, I decided to pursue a Masters in License Professional Counseling. I tend to categorize and number the ideas floating around in my head. So throughout this blog you will see me disect concepts for better understanding.
Welcome to my life's newfound passion: Reframing the modern relationship, redefining the idea of love and hopefully giving somebody, somewhere the ability to find love on their terms so they can live a happy, healthy life.
I don't think many of us know how to get along in our relationships with real love. Love that lasts. Love that means something other than physical attraction, or lonely longing. So her (Sway) and I (Swag) bring to you the best attempt we have at undoing what no longer needs to be done.
They say love doesn't pay the bills but it makes the world go 'round. Love is such an abstract topic that there will always be questions about it. Love is so powerful it can make someone uproot from the only place they've known, and leave their job, family, and friends to move closer to a significant other. Love at it's best is blissful, perfect in its imperfections, and is an emotion that can have one feeling like they are floating on air. But at it's worst love can turn ugly, ending up in an entire wardrobe burnt to a crisp (remember Angela Bassett in Waiting to Exhale anyone?), shattered car windows (cue Jasmine Sullivan), and even worse, a shattered heart.
After knowing all of these possible complexities of love, what keeps people coming back for more?
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Project Canvas has formally invited manufacturers to declare their interest in making devices to market in 2011.
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With manufacturers declaring their intentions, Project Canvas is hoping to rapidly engage new device partners and develop a 'broad base' of manufacturers that are involved in the scheme.
Project Canvas director, Richard Halton said, "Canvas is stepping up its engagement with industry as we get closer to releasing the final set of technical documents to the DTG this month, and launching a consumer product next year.
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I've just finished reading it, and I found it pretty good !
Even though it's probably too late, I have a few suggestion concerning skills :
- "Cover" is a bit specific to espionage IMO. Maybe it could be called "Privacy", representing the proficiency to control ones digital footprint through various means, from everyday good practices (such as not broadcasting too much from your PAN, using various accounts for different services) to criminal activities (forging / using false IDs). I think the skill wouldn't change much, but would feel less tied to a kind of play.
- I am not convinced by the Programming / Infosec split. I think those could be merged in a Software skill, covering the USE of software (including defense against hacking). Hacking is a stunt allowing you to use your software skill to ABUSE software.
Well, I'm nitpicking here, kudos for the great work !
One thing that's occurred to me as I look over the most recent file (and this is something from the earlier versions as well that didn't jump out at me then), in the character creation section it might be a good idea to clarify how many 'free' stunts a character starts with, if any. That's something a lot of Fate hacks adjust, and the current conversion just says '3 to 5.' Given that you have to spend a certain amount of refresh at character creation, it's important to know how many stunts you start with before you start to dip into that pool.
A lot of my comments from the previous feedback thread still apply (http://eclipsephase.com/comment/55631#comment-55631), but this version seems to have mostly added rather than changed things anyways so I'm including the link simply as a reminder.
I like the 'treat Chi sleights as aspects, Gamma sleights as skills' system. Keeps things within an understandable framework.
Under the Psychosurgery table, it might be a good to clarify whether, when torturing for information, you determine how much information you need before determining the time frame or is it a separate roll for each day. What muddles this is the example for interrupted procedures, which suggests that a character is unlikely to have broken if it's taking a few days. Does that mean that torturing someone for multiple pieces of information takes longer to get anything out of the subject? It's confusing.
Also, it's not stated which Skill is used to oppose involuntary Psychosurgery. The assumption is Willpower, but it would be useful to clarify it. (And in which case, if someone has, say, a +2 Willpower, then is it really five shifts easier to change the core personality traits of an unwilling subject than a willing one?)
At the beginning of the section on the Exsurgent Virus, there's this: "Phases: Does the strain show its effects immediately, or does the infection work in phases? Transhumanity's Fate tracks the progress of the virus using" and then it just cuts off.


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As did the whole world, Balagokulams in Hyderabad celebrated International Yoga Day in their respective communities in a grand way. More than 3000 children and adults participated in these events.
Apart from Yoga and pranayam demonstrations, various communities celebrated in their customized way including the following -
- Sports events
- Group Games
- Talk on Significance of Yoga
- Yoga competitions and so on.
In many communities, children and parents has practiced daily for 2-3 weeks towards the preparation of their respective events.
Also, for the first time, we had Balagokulam T-shirts released. The amazing design with Balagokulam text & Om in the front and "My Nation My Pride" theme at the back were worn with pride by almost 300 children across communities.
The collage of various events across Balagokulams is as below.
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9. Toward a new approach to emphasis: The case of Aswan Arabic. Jason Schroepfer (University of Texas at Austin)
10. Palatalization.
Dennis Preston (Oklahoma State University)
11. Age, local identity and change in Tianjin tone sandhi.
Xiaomei Wang (Michigan State University)
13. Call grandma! Collecting and analyzing intergenerational telephone conversations.
Ana M. Carvalho, Marta Ramirez Martinez, Miriam Rodriguez, Eric Wilbanks & Malcah Yaeger-Dror (The University of Arizona, The University of Arizona, The University of Arizona, University of California, Berkeley, The University of Arizona)
16. This here-t'-Ø York identity: Evidence for a (socio)linguistic definiteness cycle from vernacular determiners in York.
Laura Rupp (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
19. An apparent time study of (str) retraction and /tɹ/ – /dɹ/ affrication in Raleigh, NC English.
Lyra Magloughlin & Eric Wilbanks (University of Ottawa, North Carolina State University)
20. Vernacular maintenance (or the lack thereof) and the Apparent Time Construct.
Guy Bailey, Patricia Cukor-Avila, Tom Wikle & Jon Comer (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, University of North Texas, Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma State University)
21. A two-tiered change in Canadian English: The emergence of a streamlined evidential system.
Marisa Brook (Michigan State University)
22. The conserving effect of morphosyntactic persistence in language change.
Malte Rosemeyer & Scott Schwenter (University of Leuven/University of Freiburg, The Ohio State University)
23. Back to the future: Linguistic dexterity and complexity of AAVE, beyond the lexicon.
John Baugh (Washington University in St. Louis)
25. Morphophonemic convergence and divergence in Palestinian Arabic.
William Cotter (The University of Arizona)
28. The structural antagonism and apparent-time change of the Northern Cities Shift and the Low Back Vowel Merger in northwestern Wisconsin English.
Michael J. Fox (North Carolina State University)
29. A vague phonological contrast: /eɪg/ as a distinguishing element of BC English.
Gloria Mellesmoen (University of British Columbia)
31. Spreading roots? Variation patterns of the future tense in Saipanese English.
Dominique Bürki (University of Bern)
33. Social meanings in Puerto Rican Spanish: An experimental study combining sociolinguistics and semantics.
Manuel Díaz-Campos, Patricia Amaral, Gibrán Delgado-Díaz & Iraida Galarza (Indiana University)
34. Keeping up with Cait: A longitudinal analysis of F0 and [s] in the speech of Caitlyn Jenner.
Sean Simpson (Georgetown University)
36. Perfective aspect marker LE in Chinese: A sociolinguistic perspective.
Xiaoshi Li, Wenjing Li & Yaqiong Cui. (Michigan State University)
38. Not sounding like a "white girl" and speaking "English with slang": Negotiation of Hmong American identities in Minneapolis-St. Paul.
Rika Ito (St. Olaf College)
39. Sounding Appalachian: Rising pitch accents in Appalachian English.
Paul Reed (University of South Carolina)
40. Charting the grammaticalization trajectory of right.
Derek Denis, Martina Wiltschko & Alexandra D'Arcy (University of Victoria, University of British Columbia, University of Victoria)
43. Folk dialectology at the top of the world: Alaskan views of English in North America and Alaska.
David Bowie & Clare Dannenberg (University of Alaska Anchorage)
44. A stilted shift: The Southern Vowel Shift in Midland Appalachia.
Kirk Hazen, Olivia Grunau, Krislin Nuzum & Janelle Vickers (West Virginia University)
50. Variable past participles in Portuguese perfect constructions.
Eleni Christodulelis, Ashlee Dauphinais Civitello, Mark Hoff, Chelsea Pflum & Scott Schwenter (The Ohio State University)
51. The effect of language ideologies on the Canadian Shift: Evidence from /æ/ in Vancouver, BC and Seattle, WA.
Julia Thomas Swan (Reed College)
54. How did it happen? The new verb of quotation in Philadelphia.
William Labov (University of Pennsylvania)
55. Code-switching and prosody: English-Spanish bilingual complements.
Jonathan Steuck & Rena Torres Cacoullos (Pennsylvania State University)
56. Deconstructing (ING).
James Walker (York University)
58. Variation in the history of clitic placement in Greek: The role of lexical exceptions.
Panayiotis Pappas (Simon Fraser University)
59. The Gettysburg Corpus: Testing the proposition that all tense /æ/s are created equal.
Isaac L. Bleaman & Daniel Duncan (New York University)
60. The importance of differentiating between code-switches and borrowings: Evidence from lone other-origin nouns in Lebanese Arabic.
Nahed Mourad (University of Ottawa)
62. Age vectors of categorical variables: Quantifying speakers' knowledge about ongoing syntactic changes in Shetland Scots.
Kevin Stadler & Elyse Jamieson (The University of Edinburgh)
65. Variation in grammatical gender marking in Turkish and Moroccan Dutch ethnolects: Findings from the Roots of Ethnolects project.
Frans Hinskens & Roeland van Hout (Meertens Instituut/Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)
66. Style-shifting over the lifespan: Evidence from a Canadian icon.
Brianne Suss (University of Toronto)
67. Cognitive styles and language variation.
J.K. Chambers (University of Toronto)
68. "This is not their space": variation, power, and feminism on Twitter.
Nora Goldman (CUNY Graduate Center)
69. Converging vs. competing phonology: Does code-switching play a predictable role?
Paulina Lyskawa (University of Maryland)
70. Merger just wasn't in the CARDs in St. Louis: CORD-CARD as a near-merger.
Daniel Duncan (New York University)
73. Two types of rising declaratives: Speaker dependent perception of intonational cues.
Sunwoo Jeong (Stanford University)
74. Effects of language contact on the Michif vowel system.
Nicole Rosen, Jesse Stewart & Olivia Sammons (University of Manitoba, University of Saskatchewan, University of Alberta)
76. Ollei! I was too drunk ollei… Lucky I did not hit someone: Nativisation of a newly emerging postcolonial English variety in Palau.
Kazuko Matsumoto (University of Tokyo)
77. Perception and use of variation in Mandarin Chinese among local and expatriate children in Singapore. Rebecca Starr, Tianxiao Wang & Matthew Peh Tian Jing (National University of Singapore)
79. Changing factors in the rise of approximant r in Dutch.
Koen Sebregts, Hans Van de Velde & Roeland van Hout (Utrecht University, Fryske Akademy, Radboud University Nijmegen)
81. Phonetic variation and self-recorded data.
Lauren Hall-Lew & Zac Boyd (The University of Edinburgh)
87. The Janana community of practice: Identity and linguistic practice in Lucknow, India.
Ila Nagar (The Ohio State University)
89. 'Finna put the groceries up': Comparing African-American and European-American regional variation.
Martha Austen (The Ohio State University)
90. Sexual orientation, masculinity, and cross-linguistic perceptions of /s/.
Zac Boyd, Josef Fruehwald & Lauren Hall-Lew (The University of Edinburgh)
91. "¿Eres de aquí?" 'Are you from here?' Spanish dialects in contact and fundamental frequency (f0) accommodation in yes-no questions.
Jonathan Steuck (The Pennsylvania State University)
96. Words' cumulative exposure to fast speech predicts reduction.
Esther L. Brown, Earl K. Brown, Richard J. File-Muriel & William D. Raymond (University of Colorado, Kansas State University, University of New Mexico, University of Colorado)
97. "We speak normal Midwestern English… Most of the time": The co-influence of "place" ideology and socio-geographic change on vowel variation in Columbus.
David Durian (North Central College)
98. Stable variation and the role of continuous factor groups: A meta-analysis.
Shayna Gardiner & Naomi Nagy (University of Toronto)
99. The Dhutmose Letters: Lifespan change in Ancient Egypt?
Shayna Gardiner (University of Toronto)
108. The structural basis of lexical diffusion: The case of diatonic stress shift.
Charles Yang (University of Pennsylvania)
109. The mid back vowel merger in Girona Catalan: Acoustic evidence.
Eva Bosch-Roura (Universitat de Barcelona)
110. Variable use of Heritage Cantonese classifiers.
Samuel Lo & Naomi Nagy (University of Toronto)
111. Canadian Shift as "push" chain.
Christopher Strelluf (Northwest Missouri State University)
112. A perception study in black and white: Examining the effects of intonational variables on judgments of ethnicity.
Nicole Holliday (Pomona College)
114. Goodbye, Mr. Bond! Speech style change and mediatized authenticity of 007's villains.
Irene Theodoropoulou (Qatar University)
116. Creaky voice: An interactional resource for epistemic stancetaking.
Nicole Hildebrand-Edgar (York University)
118. Gendered compliment behavior in Disney and Pixar: A quantitative analysis.
Carmen Fought & Karen Eisenhauer (Pitzer College, North Carolina State University)
119. Mixed-effects design and power for generalizability of results: Copula + adjective in the Spanish variety of Limon, Costa Rica.
Jorge Aguilar-Sánchez & Manuel Díaz-Campos (University of Dayton, Indiana University)
120. Gendered and racialized perceptions of Spanish-accented English: The case of lexically specific phonology switches.
Brandon O. Baird, Marcos Rohena-Madrazo, Mark Jeffrey Balderston & Caroline Cating (Middlebury College)
121. The dialectal and social perception of voice onset time in Singapore English.
Priscilla Shin (The University of Arizona)
124. Stance markers, Reddit thread structure, and community.
Umashanthi Pavalanathan, Jim Fitzpatrick, Scott Kiesling & Jacob Eisenstein (Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, George Institute of Technology)
125. A brief history of style, and its contribution to 21st-century sociolinguistic theory.
Allan Bell (Auckland University of Technology)
129. Native American participation in the Western Vowel Pattern.
Shelby Sands, Ian Clayton & Valerie Fridland (University of Nevada Reno)
130. It's no problem to be polite: Change in apparent time in responses to thanks.
Aaron Dinkin (University of Toronto)
133. Talking or talkin' Among TED Talk speakers.
Caitlin Coons, Sakol Suethanapornkul & Wenxi Yang (Georgetown University)
134. The individual vs. the community: Phonetic integration as a metric for classifying other-language material in bilingual discourse.
Shana Poplack, Suzanne Robillard & Natalie Dion (University of Ottawa)
135. Lady Gaga and creaky voice.
Lewis Esposito (Swarthmore College)
137. Gender and substrate erasure amongst young, black, middle-class South African English speakers.
Rajend Mesthrie (University of Cape Town)
138. Internal push, external pull: The Reverse Vowel Shift in South African English.
Alida Chevalier (University of Cape Town)
139. On the ejke Madrileño and discrete and scalar approaches to /s/ analysis: One variable, two different stories.
Robyn Wright (Hendrix College/The University of Texas at Austin)
143. CAUGHT between three COURTS: shifting norms in the low-back vowel system of Singapore English.
Rebecca Starr, Rowland Anthony Imperial, Gerlynn Huang Xueyi, A R M Mostafizar Rahman, Kevin Martens Wong, Jennifer Ong Seok Hwee & Nicola Mah (National University of Singapore)
144. Mining for variables. Big data from small input.
Stefan Grondelaers & Antal Van den Bosch (Radboud University Nijmegen)
146. The indexical re-interpretation of a sound change in progress.
Daniel Lawrence (The University of Edinburgh)
148. Evidence of the Elsewhere Shift in the Inland North.
Monica Nesbitt & Alexander Mason (Michigan State University)
149. The effect of sociolinguistics pedagogy on youth attitudes toward marginalized varieties of English.
Anna Bax (University of California, Santa Barbara)
152. /r/ you the(re)? Analyzing rhoticity in the Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States.
Rachel Olsen & Margaret Renwick (University of Georgia)
153. Sociolinguistic perception of intonation in Jewish English.
Rachel Burdin (The Ohio State University)
157. Static and dynamic analyses of Canadian Raising in Toronto and Vancouver.
Erin Hall (University of Toronto)
158. Bossy is in the ear of the beholder: When L1 and L2 French speakers perceive final vowel devoicing.
Amanda Dalola (University of South Carolina)
160. Contact, convergence, and covariation: What Mr. Rodgers knows about language change.
Daniel Erker (Boston University).
161. Vernacular stability: Comparative evidence from two lifespan studies.
Suzanne Evans Wagner & Sali A. Tagliamonte (Michigan State University, University of Toronto)
162. Agreeing to disagree: The absence of gender agreement on past participles in French.
Suzanne Robillard (University of Ottawa)
163. Eliciting copula variation in the lab.
Laurel MacKenzie & Hilary Wynne (New York University, University of Oxford)
164. Variation, change, and child language learners: A case study of variable voicing in English plurals.
Laurel MacKenzie (New York University)
165. Is indigenization in probabilistic constraints a sign of different grammars? Insights from syntactic variation in New Englishes.
Melanie Röthlisberger (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
168. The socioeconomic and gender stratification of Chilean Spanish vowel allophones.
Scott Sadowsky (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
169. A new majority: Latino English and the Third Vowel Shift in Liberal, Kansas.
Mary Kohn, Addison Dickens & Trevin Garcia (Kansas State University)
171. "That Spanish twang": Speaker rhythm and accommodation in a Great Plains high school.
Mary Kohn, Trevin Garcia & Addison Dickens (Kansas State University)
172. Building the case for the grammaticalization of Palenquero asé: We need to test this stuff.
Hiram Smith (Bucknell University)
177. In-group variation among African Americans in Washington, DC: Neighborhood patterns of back vowel production.
Sinae Lee (Georgetown University)
178. "Back to front": The role of ethnicity in back vowel fronting in Toronto English.
Michol Hoffman (York University)
179. Allophonic change in Newfoundland: An acoustic and articulatory look at /l/.
Paul De Decker & Sara Mackenzie (Memorial University)
182. An intersectional model of social factors in Raleigh's retreat from the Southern Vowel Shift.
Jon Forrest & Robin Dodsworth (North Carolina State University)
183. The development of gender-differentiated phonetics and style-shifting in African American Vernacular English.
Misty Kabasa & Calvin Kosmatka (University of Wisconsin – Madison)
184. Variation and change in the signified: The prehistory of 'Wisconsin Accent'.
Thomas Purnell, Eric Raimy & Joseph Salmons (University of Wisconsin – Madison)
186. Exploring online perceptions of clustered variability: Towards an integrated model of phonetic and morphosyntactic variation.
Erez Levon & Isabelle Buchstaller (Queen Mary University of London, Leipzig University)
188. Silver screen sociolinguistics: Glamour queen speech in 1930s American film.
Charles Boberg (McGill University)
194. Lectal cohesion in São Paulo Portuguese: A look at social factors.
Livia Oushiro & Gregory Guy (University of Campinas, New York University)
195. Twentieth century sound change in Washington DC African American English.
Shelby Arnson & Charlie Farrington (University of Oregon)
196. What's in an accent? Vowel harmony and dialect accommodation in Brazilian Portuguese mid-vowels.
Livia Oushiro (University of Campinas)
197. The perception of prosodic prominence in African American English by naïve listeners.
Jason McLarty (University of Oregon)
198. Variation in the apodosis of contrary to fact clauses in Mexican Spanish.
Laura Margarita Merino Hernández (Indiana University)
200. Incipient /aI/-raising in Fort Wayne: The missing dialect?
Stuart Davis, Kelly Berkson & Alyssa Strickler (Indiana University)
202. Dialectal and individual variation in the Done My Homework construction.
Alison Biggs & Meredith Tamminga (University of Pennsylvania/University of Oxford, University of Pennsylvania)
204. Infinitival perfects in Appalachian English: Modals vs. infinitival to.
Christina Tortora, Beatrice Santorini & Greg Johnson (The City University of New York, University of Pennsylvania, Louisiana State University)
205. Style-shifting and power dynamics: Comparing many variables.
Matthew Gordon, Rebecca Honeyball & Lydia Ghuman (University of Missouri)
206. Word order variation and change in Transylvanian Saxon.
Ariana Bancu (University of Michigan)
207. A DARE(ING) hierarchy: Effects of individuals on variation.
Kelly Abrams & Thomas Purnell (University of Wisconsin – Madison)
208. Sociophonetic variation in hip hop language: Race, region, and /R/lessness.
Jessica Ray (The University of Arizona)
209. Pathways to homogeneity in Canadian English.
Derek Denis (University of Victoria)
211. Sources of variation in an emerging Parisian French vernacular.
Meg Cychosz & Elango Kumaran (University of California, Berkeley)
212. Substrate effects on –t/d deletion: The case of Palauan English.
David Britain & Kazuko Matsumoto (University of Bern, University of Tokyo)
213. 'Real-life Georgia O'Keefe painting', 'furburger', 'mighty man noodle', and 'Vlad the Impaler': Conceptual metaphors for vagina and penis.
Alexandra Peak & Patricia Cukor-Avila (University of North Texas)
214. Assessing automated methods of analyzing vowels in sociophonetics.
Lanlan Li (University of Manitoba)
215. Affect structures variation in vowel quality: The influence of smiling on the front lax vowels in California.
Rob Podesva (Stanford University)
217. Tergantung ("it depends"): A quantitative analysis of language choice in Indonesia.
Maya Abtahian, Abigail Cohn, Yanti & Sonya Waddell (University of Rochester, Cornell University, Atma Jaya Catholic University, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)
218. Grammar versus phonetics in perceptions of gender and sexuality.
Ronald Beline Mendes & Erez Levon (University of São Paulo, Queen Mary University of London)
222. Ahead but not faster: The effect of high token frequency on sound change.
Maciej Baranowski, Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero, George Bailey & Danielle Turton (University of Manchester, University of Manchester, University of Manchester, Newcastle University)
223. The full cycle of the sociolinguistic enterprise: Corpus building, student engagement, and critical language pedagogy.
Ryan M. Bessett, Ana M. Carvalho & Joseph Kern (The University of Arizona)
226. Modality, rurality, and emerging varieties: A case study of modal verbs of obligation and necessity in Labrador Inuit English.
Jennifer Thorburn & Marije van Hattum (University of Lausanne)
228. The nasal invasion: Predicting systemic change in dialect contact.
Betsy Sneller, Josef Fruehwald & Charles Yang (University of Pennsylvania, The University of Edinburgh, University of Pennsylvania)
229. The role of phonology in discerning lone other-language items as borrowing or codeswitches.
Ryan M. Bessett (The University of Arizona)
230. Prosodic paths to sound change: The effects of phrasal boundaries on /s/-retraction in American English.
Jacob Phillips (The University of Chicago)
232. Nasal mutation variation in Patagonian Welsh.
Morgan Sleeper (University of California, Santa Barbara)
233. Situating variation in the lexicon: Evidence from second language phonology.
Paul John & Walcir Cardoso (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Concordia University)
234. Velar nasal plus in the north of (ing)land.
George Bailey (University of Manchester)
235. The effect of dialect contact and social identity on fricative demerger.
Brendan Regan (The University of Texas at Austin)
236. The role of sentence complexity in variation: A cross-linguistic study of Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese.
James Leow, Chelsea Pflum & Oihane Muxika-Loitzate (The Ohio State University)
237. Linguistic flexibility and phonemic awareness in sound change.
Meredith Tamminga (University of Pennsylvania)
239. "Money attracts the female you want, struggle attracts the woman you need": The pejoration of female (n).
Melissa Robinson (University of North Texas)
240. Dialect, priming, and frequency effects on (-ING) variation in English.
Rebecca Laturnus, Natalie de Vilchez, Raquel Chaves & Gregory Guy (New York University, New York University, New York University/Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, New York University)
243. Keeping it local: Age, gender, proficiency, and regional loyalty in the maintenance of Francoprovençal in Valle d'Aosta, Italy.
Alessia Zulato, Zsuzsanna Fagyal & Joseph Roy (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
244. Stylistic variation of sub-phonemic syllabic influences on New Zealand English schwa production.
Matthias Heyne & Donald Derrick (University of Canterbury/New Zealand Institute of Language Brain & Behaviour)
245. Sociophonetic Perception of Intervocalic [z] in Costa Rican Spanish.
Whitney Chappell (The University of Texas at San Antonio)
248. The effect of education on the acquisition of a lexical split: The /ɻ/-/l/ contrast in Xiamen Mandarin.
Yuhan Lin (The Ohio State University)
250. Hacer borrow: Bilingual compound verbs as a borrowing strategy in Belizean varieties of Spanish.
Nicté Fuller-Medina (University of Ottawa)
252. What do listeners know about the sociolinguistic variable (ING)?
Charlotte Vaughn & Tyler Kendall (University of Oregon)
254. Covariance of syntactic and phonological contact effects in Eastern Cham.
Kenneth Baclawski (University of California, Berkeley)
256. The effect of prescriptivism on the use of localized terminology in French newspapers.
Gyula Zsombok (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
257. The diffusion of the low back merger in New York City.
Bill Haddican, Daniel Ezra Johnson, Michael Newman & Faith Kim (Queens College-CUNY, University of Southern California, Queens College-CUNY, Queens College, CUNY)
259. Participation of second generation immigrants in Canadian Shift and Raising in Vancouver.
Irina Presnyakova (Simon Fraser University)
261. Staying true to your roots: Language stability through late adulthood amidst language shift.
Darcie Blainey (University of Toronto)
263. Urban youth in Rio de Janeiro: Contemporary linguistic variation in Brazilian Portuguese.
Christiani P. Thompson & Sky Onosson (University of Saskatchewan/University of Victoria, University of Victoria)
264. What's ain't got to do with tense in AAE?
Sabriya Fisher (University of Pennsylvania)
265. "Twang" in discursive constructions of language variation in American English.
Elena Rodgers (Oklahoma State University)
267. Oral vs. visual stimuli in the IAT: The case of Spanish and English in Miami.
Salvatore Callesano, Phillip M. Carter (The University of Texas at Austin, Florida International University)
268. Conditionnel ou imparfait? À propos d'alternances verbales dans des propositions hypothétiques du brésilien 'Paulista'.
Rosane de Andrade Berlinck & Sílvia Maria Brandão (UNESP – Univ Estadual Paulista)
269. A variationist perspective on the pronunciation of the in English: A TV corpus analysis.
Kym Taylor & Walcir Cardoso (Concordia University)
272. A diachronic analysis of variable future-in-the-past and canonical future expression in Spanish.
Sara Zahler & Danielle Daidone (Indiana University)
273. Alignment-induced phonological variation in non-native dialogue. Grant M. Berry & Mirjam Ernestus (Pennsylvania State University, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)
275. Phonetic vs. contextual cues in communication between merged and unmerged speakers.
Lacey Wade (University of Pennsylvania)
278. The acquisition of sociolinguistic variation: Effects of a short-term study abroad sojourn on second language learners of Chinese?
Yanmin Bao (University of Florida)
279. A large-scale online study of dialect variation in the US Northeast: Crowdsourcing with Amazon Mechanical Turk.
Chaeyoon Kim, Sravana Reddy, Ezra Wyschogrod & James Stanford (Dartmouth College, Wellesley College, Columbia University, Dartmouth College)
280. Negative alternations in the bilingual speech: The case of Chipilo, Mexico.
Olga Tararova (University of Toronto)
281. The city as speech community.
Christopher Strelluf & Tasha Cardwell (Northwest Missouri State University)
282. J'ai therefore je suis: A quantitative analysis of auxiliary alternation in Acadian French.
Basile Roussel (University of Ottawa)
283. The meaning of the meaning of variation.
Penelope Eckert (Stanford University)
284. Practicing what the party preaches: Loanword variation, language contact, and politics.
Zachary Jaggers (New York University)
285. Linguistic and social constraints on minority language variation: The case of the uvular phoneme in Chanka Quechua.
Natalie de Vilchez (New York University)
286. Nasal coda weakening and regressive vowel nasalization: Uncoupled regional markers in Spanish.
Ruth Martinez (University of Toronto)
291. Legacy: The vowel systems of Liberia's Englishes.
John Victor Singler (New York University)
292. Perceptions of language and identity across generations of Blacks.
Sonja Lanehart & Ayesha Malik (The University of Texas at San Antonio)
293. A day in the life: What self-recordings reveal about "everyday" language.
Janneke Van Hofwegen (Stanford University)
295. A sociolinguistic study of Dalian Mandarin: Vectors of change, sub-dialect levelling and the prestige of a local vernacular.
Shichao Wang & Yang Li (Dalian University of Technology, University of Cambridge)
296. The role of imagination in attending to variant frequency.
Ashley Hesson and Suzanne Evans Wagner (Michigan State University)
299. Ideological stance and phonetic variation: The mediatized performance of a sportsman identity.
Jessica Love-Nichols (University of California, Santa Barbara)
301. Examining gender in enclave ethnic communities.
Nicole Rosen & Lanlan Li (University of Manitoba)
302. Affective stance and voice quality in a pervasively creaky speaker: Stance objects as a tool for investigating indexical meaning.
Lal Zimman (University of California, Santa Barbara)
303. La norme communautaire sous les projecteurs de Radio-Canada : la négation verbale et le futur chez les élites culturelles en entrevue.
Anne-José Villeneuve (University of Alberta, Campus Saint-Jean)
304. Hand/s/ome women: The role of /s/ in multi-modal gender performances among SoMa drag queens.
Jeremy Calder (Stanford University)
305. Canadian shift among Filipinos in Metro Vancouver.
Pocholo Umbal (Simon Fraser University)
306. Blackfoot final vowels: What variation and its absence can say about communicative goals.
Heather Bliss & Bryan Gick (University of Victoria, University of British Columbia)
307. The use of embodied creak by young men at an arts high school.
Teresa Pratt (Stanford University)
312. The social networks of minority ethnicity group members in Washington State.
Alicia Wassink (University of Washington)
Panel: Variationist perspectives on second language acquisition: Studies in production and perception. Organized by Robert Bayley (University of California, Davis).
Panelists: Katherine Rehner (University of Toronto, Mississauga), Raymond Mougeon (York University), Françoise Mougeon (York University), Nevena Vasic (University of Toronto, Mississauga), Xiaoshi Li (Michigan State University), Rebecca Pozzi (University of California, Davis), Robert Bayley (University of California, Davis), Chelsea Escalante (University of California, Davis).
Panel: Future directions for research and engagement on African American Language. Organized by Tyler Kendall (University of Oregon) & John R. Rickford (Stanford University).
Panelists: Tyler Kendall (University of Oregon), Walt Wolfram (North Carolina State University), Minnie Annan (Georgetown University), Sonja Lanehart (The University of Texas at San Antonio), Taylor Jones (University of Pennsylvania), Tracey Weldon (University of South Carolina), Sharese King (Stanford University), Nicole Holliday (Pomona College). Respondent: John R. Rickford (Stanford University).
American Dialect Society special session: Language regard: Methods, variation, and change. Celebrating the work of Dennis Preston. Organized by Betsy Evans (University of Washington), Erica Benson (University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire) & James Stanford (Dartmouth College).
Presenters: Valerie Fridland (University of Nevada, Reno), Tyler Kendall (University of Oregon), Christoph Purschke (Université du Luxembourg), Gabriela Alfaraz (Michigan State University), John Baugh (Washington University in St. Louis), Robert Bayley (University of California, Davis), Joseph C. Hill (National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology), Carolyn McCaskill (Gallaudet University), Ceil Lucas (Gallaudet University), J.K. Chambers (University of Toronto).


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SOLON– Two incumbents and two challengers will face off for three seats on the Solon school board, and for the first time in 17 years, current board president Dick Schwab won't be one of them.
Schwab, a board member first elected in 1999, is not seeking re-election.
Incumbents Tim Brown and Rick Jedlicka are, however, along with former school board member Dan Coons and newcomer Nicole Pizzini, according to information posted by the Johnson County Auditor's Office.
The deadline for candidates to file was Thursday, Aug. 3.
SOLON– Somebody noticed what she's been doing.
Phyllis Fiala, one of two Seniors of the Year (Jeanne Erhart also was honored) named recently by the Solon Senior Advocates, really couldn't put her finger on just why she was selected for the annual honor.
"They (Senior Advocates) just decided that we must've done something they liked," she said. "When I do something, I just really don't like to have my name mentioned. But, somebody knows what you do."
Indeed they do.
Phyllis said a Senior Advocate came up to her one day at Senior Dining.
SOLON– A Charles City woman was killed in a single-vehicle accident north of Solon on Highway 1 Tuesday evening, Aug. 8.
According to a report filed by the Iowa State Patrol, Tiffany L. Beckles, 35, of Charles City, was southbound on Highway 1 near 120th Street NE at approximately 10:36 p.m. Aug. 8 when the 2006 Mercury Mountaineer she was driving left the roadway and struck an Iowa Department of Transportation sign in the ditch, causing the vehicle to roll.
SOLON– The Solon Activities Department will once again be kicking off the 2017 fall season Thursday, Aug. 17, with a fun event for all families. The evening will start promptly at 5 p.m. at Spartan Stadium. A schedule of events can be found below. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact the activities department at the high school. Thanks for all of the support, and see you on Thursday, Aug. 17.
Timeline of Events
Introductions of high school participants
• Freshman football: 5:00 p.m.
• Varsity football: 5:10 p.m.
• HS marching band: 5:25 p.m.
SOLON– Join the Bur Oak Land Trust on Saturday, Aug. 19, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. in Iowa City to remove invasive species from its Big Grove property.
Bur Oak, a collection of nine preserved natural areas in Iowa, needs 15 people to help remove honeysuckle, autumn olive and multi-flora rose at 3999 Starry Night Ln. NE in Solon. The volunteers will head to a local event partner for a free Surly beer after the clean-up.
SOLON– The City of Solon is going to investigate the possibility of becoming a rural water supplier.
Residents of a rural subdivision adjacent to the Lake MacBride Golf Course asked the city to consider extending water service three miles to their 14 homes, and at a July 26 meeting, council members authorized city staff to continue working on the proposal.
Media day for football was last Saturday, and since I missed my first media day in 16 years last August, I was ready to go.
My niece Kym got married and it was a great wedding, but it was in Missoula, Mont., on the same weekend as football media day.
Kym and her husband Ryan are Hawkeye fans so it was a great time.
The next three weeks I'll break down the offense, defense and special teams.
The Hawkeye offense always starts up front with the offensive line and this years' group should be one of Iowa's strengths.
It has been said that J. K. Rowling has coaxed more kids into the reading habit in this century than Dr. Seuss did a generation ago. Her Harry Potter stories enchant and entertain adults and kids alike, and while both authors have influenced movies and television, I think their greatest contribution to society has been in the cause of literacy. Tempting children to read, to prefer books to the more passive activity of sitting and watching the screen, not only establishes the reading habit; it requires the exercise of imagination.


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Have you ever thought what it would be like to get on with anyone? Do you often wonder if that associate or accomplice is a personality match for you? Well, wonder no more. PersonalityMatch is an app that lets you take a test to discover your personality, a lot of things about who you areRead More
Mobile Appeal: Why iGaming and Mobiles Make Sense
The mobile gaming sphere is now a multifaceted beast where people of all persuasions can swipe, tap and even walk their way to an entertaining time. In fact, such is the popularity of mobile gaming that it currently takes 85% of all app revenue and is worth a staggering £26 billion.
Things to Know about a Smart Watch
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Smart Watches – A New Era of Mobile Computing
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While John Deere is best known for its production of agricultural, construction, forestry, and lawn care equipment, the company has not always been focused solely on these markets. In fact, there was a span throughout most of the 1970s when John Deere produced snowmobiles.
Let's take a look at some of the key dates and milestones relating to John Deere's snowmobile history.
John Deere began producing snowmobiles, fueled by the snow-sport boom that began at the turn of the decade. The 400 (339 cc) and 500 (436 cc) were the first two models produced, and the new line also helped introduce the recognizable "Nothing Runs Like a Deere" company slogan. While it's unclear how many models were sold that year, John Deere dealers were excited to have products to service and sell during the quieter winter months.
The 600, JDX4, and JDX8 snowmobiles were brought to the market. Deere sold more than 12,000 of these machines in 1972.
After the third JDX model (JDX6) was introduced in 1973, Deere then introduced the 295/S in 1974.
The 340 Liquifire, 440 Liquifire, 340 Cyclone, 440 Cyclone, and Liquidator were added to the equipment line, giving customers an even more expansive selection.
This was the year that John Deere introduced smaller snowmobile models, known as the Spitfire series.
John Deere added the 340 Trailfire and 440 Trailfire models to its lineup.
Deere eventually sold its snowmobile business to Polaris, and production stopped in 1982. John Deere snowmobile sales extended through 1984, however.
Fun Fact
At one point, Deere had its own snowmobile-racing squad, known as "Enduro Team Deere." The team was comprised of six snowmobile drivers, eight mechanics, and the company's newest snowmobile model – the Liquidator. The end of John Deere's snowmobile production ultimately led to the end of Enduro Team deere.
Final Thoughts
While John Deere's production of snowmobiles lasted just over a decade, the line helped pave the way for future company successes. Snowmobile customers demanded annual performance and technological upgrades to the machines, which ultimately carried over into the company's productions standards. Today, Deere looks to continually make improvements to its equipment in an effort to better meet customer needs.
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This error during the synchronization process generally means that the required ODBC drivers for the database that your church management program uses are not installed. In the case of Logos II or PowerChurch church management software, often times you need to install the Microsoft Visual Fox Pro ODBC driver to fix this error.
- You can download and install the driver from http://www.rotundasoftware.com/downloads/VFPODBC.msi
- Click "English" in the upper right hand corner of that page to download and install the driver
- Once the driver has been installed, you should be able to proceed with synchronization as expected


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The U.S. Postal Service will trim its workforce by 10,000 employees in the coming year in the agency's latest effort to stem the tide of financial losses.
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said USPS will not offer early retirement or buyouts but will rely on attrition and not filling vacant positions. The postal service currently has about 480,000 workers, down from 700,000 a few years ago. The USPS has eliminated about 320,000 jobs since 2000 and, according to figures first reported by Federal Times, have a target of about 400,000 employees.
Donahoe said 65,000 of those would full-time, non-career workers.
Alabama is home to about 9,500 postal workers.
In the past, the USPS has offered buyouts to reduce its ranks, including a 2012 $15,000 offer that led to the separation of 26,000 workers. That won't happen this time, Donahoe said, but with an average employee age of 52, forced reductions shouldn't be necessary.
"We have been good planners and we use overtime and other things to work our way through that," he said.
Donahoe called on Congress to help with flexibility he said the USPS needs to move back into the black. A bill currently before the Senate would waive a requirement the USPS pre-fund retiree health benefits - a cost of about $5.5 billion a year - as well as allowing it to end Saturday mail delivery.
"We cannot return the organization to long-term financial stability without passage of comprehensive postal reform legislation. We appreciate the efforts of the House and Senate oversight committees to make this happen as soon as possible," Donahoe said earlier this year.
The USPS posted net losses of $354 million for the first quarter of 2014, the 19th of the last 21 quarters it sustained a loss. Results from the first quarter show an increase in shipping and package services offset by a drop in first-class mail, as well as what USPS officials described as "stifling legal mandates, and its inflexible business and governance models."


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We slept in a little due to a change in schedule. Breakfast was at the usual 8:30. Besides French Toast, oatmeal, bananas, avocado, juice and scrambled eggs we had cinnamon rolls and monkey bread from Fleri Bakery. (Thanks Deb and Wendy)
Fabrice and Chrissy from White Bear happened to stop in to visit this morning.
Charlie and Mike had gotten a haircut last night, from the new barber down the street, and looked very nice.
Then we did some shopping at the Papillon Gift and Enterprise. They have a job creation company for Haitians. They buy their goods from locals artists and companies. They also purchase clay powder, mix it and form it into ceramic items and fire it in their own furnace. We enjoyed smoothies and coffee upstairs at the Clay Cafe.
The " For His Glory Orphanage" was next. (Also called Maison des Effants de Dieu Orphange) There are about 70 kids there. We played and held them for 1+ hours. One of, our driver and interpreter was amazing interacting with the kids. He had some doing gymnastics and the worm crawl. The parachute game had the kids laughing for 20 minutes.
Lunch was at the Compound and consisted of snacks and then we had to wait until 3 PM to go to "Sick and Dying Babies Orphanage." It is associated with Sisters of Charity. There were more than 75 children there. They varied from pretty healthy to very frail. After 2 hours of holding them and nurturing as best as we could we went back to the Compound.
Dinner was a wonderfully prepared spaghetti, red sauce and garlic bread.
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Coal River Mountain is one of the last mountains left intact in the beautiful Coal River Valley of West Virginia. However, Massey Energy has plans to mine 6,000 acres of the mountain – or almost 10 square miles via mountaintop Removal. The proposed mining would bury over 20 miles of streams with valley fills, contaminate local water resources, put local communities in further danger of flash floods, and completely eliminate the available wind resource.
Fortunately, there is an alternative to mountaintop removal mining on Coal River Mountain -wind power. This is a unique opportunity to move our nation and the state of West Virginia toward the production of clean energy, and to preserve God's creation for generations to come. The Christian community has become increasingly vocal in the biblical call of environmental stewardship and thereby very supportive of alternative energy resources. (for more info go to www.coalriverwind.org) But we have to act quickly! Recently a permit has been issued which means Massey could begin blasting at any time and the wind project is in danger.
On Tuesday, December 9th, Coal River Mountain Watch is holding two press conferences. The more supporters present at the conferences, the more successful they will be!
Press Conferences are scheduled for:
1:30 p.m., Beckley, WV at The Tamarack in the Atrium Dining Room
4:30 p.m., Charleston, WV at the Capitol building in the Governor's Conference Room
A coalition between Christians for the Mountains and Restoring Eden: Christians for Environmental Stewardship has formed and initiated a campaign to support the wind project. Representatives from both organizations will be present at both press conferences and will present Gov. Manchin with a letter stating our support as Christians for the wind project.
Please read the online version of our letter and add your signature.
Act quickly and please share this with as many of your friends and church members as possible.
Tell WV Gov. Manchin that it is important to your faith and the people of southern WV that he halt the destruction Coal River Mountain and support the Coal River Wind Project.
I also urge you to contact Gov. Manchin yourself and tell him your concerns.
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"Everyone must understand terrorism is never caused by religion. The roots of all terrorism lie in politics and so do the solutions.
"When (US President) George Bush and (former British prime minister) Tony Blair talk about radical Islam . . . the man in the street in the West is suspicious of all Muslims."
He said the US was "manufacturing terrorists" through its continuing military action in Pakistan's border regions with Afghanistan, where they believe al-Qaida forces are in hiding. >>>>>


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born to game?
Does gaming improve cognitive performance, or are we attracted to games which match our innate abilities? Or maybe a bit of both, plus years of practice? Is there a difference between native gamers and gamers as a second language?
Video game players outperform non-players on measures of basic attention and performance. Differences might result from exposure to video games or reflect other group differences. Research has suggested a causal link between video game experience and improved attentional skills (e.g., Green & Bavelier, 2003). We sought to replicate and extend these results. Expert/non-gamer performance was assessed on tasks tapping a wide range of abilities. Non-gamers played 20+ hours of an action video game, a puzzle game, or a real-time strategy game. Expert gamers and non-gamers differed on a number of basic cognitive skills: experts could track objects moving at greater speeds, better detected changes to objects stored in visual short-term memory, switched more quickly between tasks, and mentally rotated objects more efficiently. Strikingly, extensive video game practice did not substantially enhance performance for non-gamers on most cognitive tasks (except for a mental rotation task). Our results suggest that at least some differences between video game experts and non-gamers in basic cognitive performance result either from far more extensive video game experience or from pre-existing group differences in abilities that result in a self-selection effect.
Boot, W. R., Kramer, A. F., Simons, D. J., Fabiani, M., Gratton, G. (in press). The effects of video game playing on attention, memory, and executive control. Acta Psychologica.


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The Netherlands is one of Europe's most polluting countries with some of the highest CO2 emissions per citizen in the EU
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THE HAGUE, March 13 (Reuters) - Proposals to fight climate change will cost the Netherlands around 5.2 billion euros ($6 billion) over the next decade but will not be enough to meet its emission reduction goals, the government's top advisory body said on Wednesday.
The Netherlands is one of the most polluting countries in Europe, with higher CO2 emissions per citizen and a lower use of sustainable energy than almost everywhere in the European Union.
The Dutch government is expected to decide by the end of April on what action to take to tackle climate change after a consultation led to a series of measures proposed by businesses, activists and other groups.
Government adviser CPB said these are expected to reduce gross domestic product by around 0.5 percent by 2030, but will most likely not enable the government to meet its target of reducing CO2 emissions by 49 percent in 2030 from 1990 levels.
Dutch CO2 emissions are expected to be 21 percent lower than in 1990 next year, missing the goal of a 25 percent reduction which was ordered by a Dutch court last year.
"These policies could significantly stimulate the energy transition, but a lot still needs to be done", CPB said of the around 130 measures which were put forward.
These include higher taxes on the use of gas for heating and on airline tickets, subsidies on electrical cars, increased use of wind and solar power, and incentives for industry to cut emissions and homeowners to better insulate their houses.
Of the total cost, around 3.2 billion euros would have to be paid by households, CPB said. ($1 = 0.8857 euros)
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A Return To Love
The name of this photo was inspired by a book I love by Marianne Williamson about women returning to the state of love to find the answers to life's bigger questions.
This gal is walking quickly down this Parisian street like she has just heard the most beautiful secret of all time and can't wait to get home to tell the ones she loves what she has discovered – herself.
The way she holds this big bunch of gladiolus is a metaphor for the feeling that comes when you truly embrace and love who you are. When you finally see yourself in all your beauty, full of respect and acceptance of the real you, do you return to the natural state of loving yourself.
The love inside feels abundant and joyous like this exploding bouquet of flowers.
The best journey is always the one home to you!
Young Girl In Bloom
This series was inspired by that delicate age when young girls are between teenagers but not yet women. This incredible moment in life when young women are on the verge of greatness but often don't realise it.
These photos were created with the young girls around me in mind, who are so innately beautiful and powerful yet often don't see it in themselves.
The images have names such as I Believe in Me, Great Future Ahead, On My Way and Standing Her Ground and my wish is that they inspire women to look within at their own beauty, find their uniqueness and tap into their power. And when a Young Girl Is In Bloom, when she knows her self-worth she is most powerful force on earth!
Image name: A Return To Love
Each Limited Edition fine art image is printed with archival inks onto Hahnemuhle 310gram matt rag paper full bleed, hand signed and numbered. They are carefully checked and lovingly wrapped by moi! The large prints will be sent rolled in tissue paper in a tube.
20 x 30" inch (50cm x 76cm) – Limited Edition of 30
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Keys to Giving Back > A change-maker
Project overview
Keys to Giving Back (K2GB) aims to tackle the challenge of promoting an active ageingpopulation to allow for social cohesion and higher productivity, in particular for the newly retired, allowing them to successfully transfer their years of experience and knowledge to a younger generation of associations, businesses and entrepreneurs. However, transferring knowledge and know-how does not always come naturally and can be frustrating to those who don't have prior teaching or coaching experience. Therefore, through K2GB, we will focus on developing teaching methods for those interested in passing on their competences.
Partner will develop research in the domain of intergenerational exchange in their region. They will identify the target organisations and potential areas of implementation in their respective geographical areas, identify the training needs of each target organisation and measure the potential impact of dissemination. A survey will be created based on the target organisations' needs, to identify the difficulties seniors have in transferring their skills in each partner country. The survey will then be distributed to organisations working in the domain of intergenerational exchange and transfer of knowledge by the partner organisations. The results of this survey will be correlated by the partners, and a summary will be created and distributed between the participating intergenerational organisations.
Impetus on Learning Mobilities
A member of each organisation that answered the survey will be selected to take part in a European Learning Mobility Exchange (ELME). An observation sheet will be created by the project coordinator based on the survey results and will be given to mobility participants. These participants will then undertake exchanges of good practices.
For each ELME, the participants will attend an observation/job-shadowing with their counterpart organisations in the partner countries. Therefore, there will be as many mobilities as there are partner countries. During these exchanges, the participants will look at the different best practices currently present which encourage active ageing and intergenerational solidarity in their respective geographical area. The observation sheet will be completed, and the partners will compile an inventory of European best practiceswill be gathered from this and will form part of the final materials developed during this project.
After the two ELME, the partners will meet for the final Transnational Project Meeting. The aim will be to collect all observation sheets from the participants and to complete the K2GB toolkit and European inventory of best practices in intergenerational learning. The toolkit will first be distributed to the participants' organisations and they will test the toolkitwithin their structure under the partner's supervision. This will allow us to measure the efficiency of the kit and adapt it if necessary before distributing it further. The tool kit will, then be distributed through many channels including the network of each of the partners and it will also be available for download on the K2GB website to increase the impact of this tool and to encourage wider use and dissemination.
An online feedback form will be created to measure the success of this tool kit and an online community will be created to facilitate discussion and exchange on the tool kit application.
Fostering the digital sphere for women activation in VET
İstanbul Avrupa Araştırmaları Derneği (IAAD), with ECVET and EUROPASS expertise generates project O2VET taking stock from K2GB key findings and building upon its results. O2VET aim at generating a Joint VET Qualification (JVQ) for Computer System Technician (as identified on the ESCO catalogue, Latvia) because it is currently missing between the present proposal partners' countries. O2VET follows recommendations from The Digital Agenda for Europe and from the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) based in Vilnius, Lithuania.
O2VET will be developed with a focus on transferability to other countries, and when applicable to other sector's skills frameworks (for instance models for sustainable cooperation structures). Digital skills are a key priority (EU) and a transversal set of competences across the pilot sectors targeted by the "Blueprint for Sectoral Cooperation on Skills". The Gothenburg Social Summit (17.11.17) highlighted the need to address skills challenges related to the Digital Economy and Society. The pervasive characteristics of the Information & Communications Technologies (ICT) sector sustain the relevance of a value chain approach for Education and Training in this sector.
K2GB project consortium
Beneficiary/coordinator: France (Bordeaux), Association Jupiter. Co-Beneficiaries/partners: Turkey (Istanbul), İstanbul Avrupa Araştırmaları Derneği (IAAD), Portugal (Arcos de Valdevez), Escola Profissional do Alto Lima (EPRALIMA), The Netherlands (Nijmegen), International Labour Association (ILA)


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Owning a small business is as rewarding as it is challenging.
As the owner, you must make decisions that affect the business, its employees and the management team. Some of your responsibilities include choosing which direction the business will head in, company policies and how to enforce them and selecting health and dental insurance plans as part of the employees' benefit package. These decisions come with a cost and will affect how your business develops.
You have the job of setting up benefit plans that are good for your employees, making sure the cost of coverage does not undermine the financial stability of your company. Finding the right plan can be a challenge when it comes to balancing both sides of the issue. One hurdle you might face is the many choices that are available. Major health insurance companies will often list several plans for you to choose from. They will provide the details of the plan and how much it will cost to purchase the policy. In some cases, you can choose your search parameters, from the size of the deductible to the charge of prescription drugs, to help you make a decision.
Another hurdle you will likely face is the ever-growing cost to offer health insurance to your staff. The cost continues to rise every year. It's estimated that health insurance has doubled in the past several years. Thankfully, small business owners might qualify for tax credits that can make health insurance coverage more affordable.
Dental plans range from single person coverage to large group plans. When choosing the right plan, you will need to calculate how much of the cost the company will be able to handle and how much of the cost the employee will take on. If the deductible or copayment is too much, none of the employees will want to participate in the plan. If you have questions, even as the business owner who might be thought to have all the answers, be sure to ask. Insurance companies are here to serve the people and give them choices as to what they need for insurance. They have customer service professionals that are highly trained to answer all your questions about dental plans
While the task of choosing insurance plans that will be best for your team of employees but still affordable for your business might seem daunting, relax. Plenty of resources are within reach to help, including the Small Business Administration and the IRS. The latter in particular includes relevant information about recent health coverage legislation, and online tools to help you manage your business.
Spending some time online researching can simplify the process of making myriad decisions about your business, even if you can afford to hire professionals to set up every facet of your company. Even if you have no prior experience or knowledge of choosing insurance plans, tax credits or other benefits you might be eligible for as a small business owner, educate yourself and head into meetings with your support network, investors or employees with confidence and answers.


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Bubble Witch Saga Level 388
Strategies, Pictures and Tips by Administration
Starting Bubbles: 45
Recommended Potions: Rainbow Bubbles, 3 holes in ceiling
Charms/Wishes: Precision
Points to get 1, 2, 3 Stars: 105 000, 125 000, 145 000
Special Bubbles:
Black Bubbles Crystal Bubbles 2 Bomb Bubbles
Pic 388: You really need to juggle back and forth on this one. Strategy is simple enough but the execution of it is not always so. The lower bomb ignites when game is opened. You are only two rows from ceiling. The infection spreads quickly. Your color matches will determine your first shot. Start to clear up sides first to stop infection but you will need to patch the bomb before it explodes. It takes two bubbles to patch bomb, but you do not have to do both at same time. This is a good place to put bubbles that don't match. Just do so before it explodes. Do not ignite upper bomb unless you can drop it. If infection has dropped too low, will interfere with your shots. Bomb and black bubble cluster must be dropped before screen lowers. You may also need to drop infection at least on one side. Then clear bubbles to ceiling to drop. Hit the smaller clusters to build up colored spiders.
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IT'S FUNNY... How snow has a way of melting when temperatures go up. It's amazing how it happens year after year after year. Guess that trend is here to stay. Which is why when a sale comes along, in the springtime, on skiing, we take notice. Because anything involving skis that occurs on the other side of spring equinox is notable, and the discounts are probably healthy. Mammoth Mountain has such a discount on, via its 72-Hour Sale.
END DATE: Sale'll wrap on Thursday, March 24, but if you act before then, you could score a slope-close room for under a hundred bucks. Actually, way under -- $72 is the starting price. We can all agree that $72 is "way under" a hundred bucks, right? Not just a smidgen. In short, if you want your snow, go. April arrives next week, and the adage goes "April showers bring May flowers," not the much clumsier "April snows bring May, um, flowers, or, something that rhymes better with 'snows.'" See? Exactly. Doesn't flow as well. Best get details now.


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How effective is government legislation to make shops, bars and restaurants accessible to disabled people? Steve Wilkinson investigated.
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I was born in 1953 and diagnosed with Spina Bifida.
I use a wheelchair to get out and about, although I can walk a few yards with the assistance of sticks.
So for me, accessibility is all-important.
In October 2004, the government introduced legislation that was meant to make businesses and other premises more accessible for people with disabilities like me.
This required them to make 'reasonable adjustments' to remove physical barriers preventing disabled people from accessing them.
While a number of businesses have complied, and disabled people are able to use their facilities, there is still a significant number who are still inaccessible.
Many disabled people will say this legislation is not working and 'enough is enough'.
Something should be done.
With that in mind, I toured Newcastle with a Politics Show camera in tow to see just how accessible cafes, bars, and restaurants are - four years on from when they are meant to have made those 'reasonable adjustments'.
Sadly, there was often more evidence of inactivity than best practice.
A lack of appreciation of the issues faced by disabled people accessing their services was noticeable in many instances:
One sandwich shop belonging to an international chain had a large step at the entrance.
At the time there were no customers in the shop, but two members of staff failed to see me at the door wanting to enter - and there was no bell to press to alert them to my presence.
In Newcastle's Chinatown - an area trying to develop itself as a tourist attraction - there are some restaurants that say they have disabled toilets.
One of these does not quite have a disabled toilet that would meet the expectations of most disabled people I know, being rather small, but they have made an effort.
The toilet has been fitted with grab rails and staff seem aware of the needs of people like me.
For this, they should be commended.
Another restaurant we visited with an 'accessible' toilet, had made it inaccessible by stacking up chairs inside.
Nevertheless, at least making some effort is better than nothing - and there are many examples of where nothing at all appears to have been done so far.
We then headed towards the Bigg Market, and a bar that has done a great deal to improve access since 2004 - showing just what can be done.
It has an entrance that can be used by disabled people who use a wheelchair, clear signs indicating where this is, and a bell to attract the attention of staff should this be necessary.
But it was a different story at a bar just off the Quayside. These premises do have a disabled toilet.
So far so good. BUT - and it's a big but - there are steps to negotiate before you can get to it.
Staff there are willing to help, if you don't mind being carried, but having a disabled toilet at the top of some steps seems to defeat the object and be a wasted effort.
Since we filmed, the bar in question is now looking at how it can install an additional ramp and grab rails that would make the disabled toilet accessible from anywhere within the building.
Of course I appreciate that to provide for every disabled person's needs is virtually impossible.
But new buildings and those being refurbished have a better opportunity to provide better facilities.
And businesses have to remember that not every disabled person is in a wheelchair.
Clear signage, large print menus, colour contrasts on doors and steps can provide benefits to many partially sighted people.
Likewise, an induction loop or a member of staff who can sign a little will benefit the deaf or hard of hearing. Simple and often inexpensive things can make all the difference.
So some premises have made the effort - or some effort - to become more accessible. But that leaves the question of why many have done nothing at all?
Perhaps they don't see any benefit or threat.
If so, they're failing to recognise the potential income millions of disabled people and their friends and family can bring.
But, as it stands, there's also little threat of legal action being taken, as the burden is on the disabled person to take action through the small claims courts, which is a complex process.
This, in my opinion, is unsatisfactory.
What we need to do is persuade business owners and managers to appreciate there are commercial benefits to be had from making more of an effort in being accessible.
To try and persuade the government that this is all a good idea I have petitioned the prime minister to amend the Disability Discrimination Act, making it mandatory for every business to display some signage and a bell.
This would be a catalyst for change in the mindset of business owners.
I have also recommended that a body should be set up to ensure that this is done and impose fixed penalties where this does not happen.
This e-petition will run until March 2009.
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When building regulatory workflow solutions there are five important areas to focus on for these compliant industry needs:
- Insure that data is never removed from the application
- Must have an audit history of all actions, recording which user took what action within the system
- All records must be under revision control
- When items are deleted, only a status change is performed
- Electronic signatures must be a component of the implementation (Usually there are two steps to an eSignature. Step 1 is for the approval signature and Step two is for the eSignature session itself)
In most cases, it is best to follow a Compliant framework to design your regulatory workflow application on top of. If you use a Compliant frame work, it will aid the integration as well as the implementation of your BPM process.
Designing regulatory workflow applications for compliant industries require both compliant and non-compliant workflow steps and actions. Therefore, your regulatory workflow application functionality requires that you implement custom steps that can perform standard functionality for theses compliant operations. Here are some suggestions of standard business process automation steps you should consider building into your application:
- Move to Folder - move an item to a given folder
- Create Relation - relate 2 objects using a modifier
- Get Field Values - get field values of a form and assign to workflow variables
- Set Field Values- set field values of a form (step will automatically handle revision's of the form)
Above are some of common steps required to implement a compliant regulatory workflow application. The number of other Compliant steps that can be built are endless.
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There are several types of cat water fountains that you can purchase, such as plastic, ceramic, and stainless steel.
They all vary in prices, so do they vary in technicality or function? Does one work better than the other since one is more expensive than the other?
In this article, we will explain the purposes and uses of each type and what circumstances you should get them in.
Which is better among the options available?
First of all, we will show you which type is what.
- Ceramic – This type is what you usually see with more expensive cat water fountains. It's a glass-type of material, so it will break a lot easier if you drop it compared to plastic and stainless steel. However, the quality is a bit better with ceramic products compared to plastic and stainless steel which you can probably tell from the price.
- Stainless Steel – This type is a bit less than ceramic, but all depends on how much machinery and features the water fountain comes with. If there are a ton of features and the tank is big, then the stainless steel might be better than the ceramic, as it will take longer to rust and won't break as easily.
- Plastic – This type is the cheapest and will most likely not come with any features to make your water fountain experience enjoyable. Plastic is usually what comes out of normal cat water bowls, so it isn't really the choice of material for a cat water fountain, but a low-end bowl.
Which is better?
You now know what each material does and costs, so now you are ready to know which is better.
Ultimately, ceramic is better but stainless steel can beat ceramic in certain cases. If we're going based off of features without factoring in the price, ceramic can definitely beat the rest, but if we're going for technicality and durability, then stainless steel might be better. If you're going to have a child or minor be replacing the water in the fountain, then stainless steel might be much better than ceramic, because ceramic breaks easier and is much more expensive to replace.
If you want to learn more about cat water fountains, see our review of our picks of the best water fountains here.
In the above guide, we talk about different types of fountains as well, so if you want a more in-depth review of each type, see the guide in the above link.


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Director of Finance & Administration Jobs at PATHApril 20, 2017
NOTE: This position is contingent upon donor funding.
PATH is currently recruiting for a Director of Finance and Administration for the impending USAID/Kenya Strategic Information project to be based in Nairobi out of the established PATH Kenya Country Program. There will be a dual linkage between the HQ-based Digital Health Solutions group and the Kenya Country Program. This position will report to the Chief of Party.
Finance & Administration Job Responsibilities
- Oversee project finance for the life of the award; includes oversight of procurement, grants, construction, logistics, accounting and finance, and records.
- Responsible for managing the contract budget and preparing financial reports for submission to USAID.
- Ensure funds expended are compliant with USG regulations and policies.
- Implement fraud mitigation practices and ensure systems and processes are implemented effectively to support implementation of the award.
- Present the project financial status report during monthly Senior Management Meetings.
- Guide teams in budgeting process and particularly during annual work plan preparation.
Requirements for the Finance & Administration Job
- A Masters level degree in finance, accounting, business administration, or other related field.
- At least 7 years' experience in professional accounting or auditing, developing and managing large project-based budgets.
- At least 4 years' experience working with international donor reporting, preferably USAID reporting requirements.
- Must be proficient in relevant computer applications and databases, and must be organized, responsible, and concise in meeting reporting requirements and deadlines of both the donor and the institution.
- Demonstrably strong analytical, organizational, and written communication skills.
- Fluency in English required; knowledge of Swahili an asset.
- Experience in Kenya is strongly preferred.
- USAID cooperative agreement management experience highly preferred.
- Ability to travel in-country as necessary.
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