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Technology Back Offices Moving to Rural America
The trend away from offshore locations spells jobs for workers in hard-hit U.S. areas.
More companies that once might have been tempted to pack up and move to cheap labor markets overseas are examining options closer to home.
Typically, they wind up paying a bit more to "onshore" the positions -- siting IT staff, support centers and the like in Missouri, Arkansas, Minnesota and Mississippi, for example -- but reap hefty benefits by avoiding the hassles of managing remote workers, often many time zones away.
IT labor costs in small communities can run up to 35% less than in urban labor markets and traditional tech areas such as Silicon Valley, Calif., according to the McKinsey Quarterly report.
Uncle Sam is helping rural communities become attractive options for IT backroom operations. The U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Commerce are administering a $1.8-billion investment fund targeted to bringing broadband technology to rural communities with poor or no access to high-speed Internet service. Making broadband accessible to more Americans in rural areas will lead to additional higher-skill jobs in many other parts of the country.
Companies putting IT operations in rural U.S. areas run the gamut from large to small. Among them are GlaxoSmithKline, Blue Cross Blue Shield and RJ Reynolds Tobacco. Small and midsize companies are the likeliest candidates to locate all of their IT back rooms in the U.S., according to Monty P. Hamilton, CEO of Rural Sourcing Inc., which provides recruitment, training and management services to businesses looking to set up domestic sourcing operations. Many large firms will probably continue to maintain some overseas locations while setting up others in the U.S.
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The mother ship has landed and left behind these soft plastic aliens to play with. Kids love these for Halloween party favors or any space themed party or event. Use them party favor loot bags or as parting gifts for your guests.
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How does one reconcile the arguments of creationism vs. evolution? I hold fast to the belief that God created man, but, with overwhelming proof of the concept of evolving is there any proof outside faith that at some point God made man as he is today and in doing so broke from the predecessor "cave man" etc. Is there a blending of the two concepts that is acceptable to the Christian faith?
Sorry, there is no blending of creationism and evolution that's acceptable to Bible believing Christians. And where is the "overwhelming proof of the concept of evolving" that you speak of? Many leading scientists, both believers and non-believers, have denounced the theory of evolution as being unproven by observation. True, there have been noticeable "improvements" in various species over time. But never has one species "evolved" into another.
If you don't believe that God created you the way He said He did, how can you believe that He'll save you the way He said He will?


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I started sorting through some pictures from the past year and a half a while ago to do a pretty photo entry, my last in Asia for a long time. Then time started really flying and work got in the way and on and on and in the end I just mashed a couple of shots together. It will have to do for now.
Apart from 18 months in South Africa and the US, Asia has been my home for the past 9 years. First Taiwan and then Thailand. Since we came to Thailand last year we traveled all over the country and visited Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. I became even more deeply attached to this part of the world and would gladly stay longer, but the time has come for us to move on to new adventures.
We are flying back to the States later today to spend Christmas and New Years' with Alexander's family, something we've been looking forward to now for months. We will finally get to meet his niece and enjoy having a kitchen again and the company of his family.
And then it's off to South Africa to start a new life in my home country. I'm scared of leaving this part of the world, but excited about what is lying ahead. And of course, this is not my last time here. So to Asia I say Tot weersiens for now. Untill I see you again.


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This t-shirt says "Ricks College, Valley of the Sun Bowl Champions, 1981." Ricks College is a two year, private, college owned and run by the LDS church/BYU. Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) is part of the LDS church (Mormon) and attended BYU. In 1981 Ricks College won the Valley of the Sun Bowl which is a NCAA post season football game, or something. We're not big football fans around here.$16.99 @ amazon


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Historic city landmarks will be getting a glimpse of life in the spotlight tonight with trial lighting tests.
Technical trials are taking place at the Mayflower Steps, Mount Batten tower and Charles Cross.
The trials are being carried out to check the effect of the lamps proposed and the intensity of the lighting from the proposed locations.
Careful consideration has to be being given to the exact location of the lamp as the landmarks are listed. Fixings and cable routes will all have to comply with listed building consent.
Councillor Mark Lowry, Cabinet Member for Finance and Assets said: "It's incredibly important to get this right, so the lights are being tested for intensity – it's on tonight only, but should be a lovely sight on a dark night."
The company carrying out the trials is LITE ltd supported by Hyde Park Electricals.
Part of the evening's trail is to see if a wireless signal between Mount Batten Tower and Smeaton's Tower works – it if does, the two towers could be to investigate if the control lighting of the structures can be linked for simultaneous switching.


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The Norway Spruce holiday wreath and garland offers your home a bushel full of taste and style. Brimming with luscious red apples and red and green berries, this natural beauty exudes a bountiful, festive Christmas spirit. To further reflect holiday abundance, our designers have set this gorgeous assemblage of botanicals against full True Needle™ foliage laced with boxwood leaves and twig balls, which impart a distinct woodsy charm.
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I have today discovered that a kind person has filmed some wonderful choirs in Kutaisi and uploaded both concert-style recitals and excerpts from the Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom in the temple. A sample is provided below, the Trisagion (Thrice-Holy Hymn, known in Georgian as "Tsmindao Ghmerto") prior to the readings from the Epistles and the Holy Gospel.
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Graphics tablet manufacturer Wacom has gone all anime – teaming up with Japanese comic book and digital art craze Manga for a quirky special release.
Bamboo Manga is especially for those fans who not only enjoy following these distinctive digital fellows but also like to try their hand at redrawing the characters and even designing their own.
The special pack combines Wacom's popular Bamboo Pen and Touch tablet with specialist software Manga Studio Debut 4 and Anime Studio Debut 8. So whether you're a Yu-Gi-Oh! fan or a My-HiME enthusiast, you can carry these characters around in your mind and recreate them whenever and wherever artistic inclination strikes.
Manga Studio gives you access to traditional Manga-style drawing tools and effects plus the all-essential word balloons to insert your own dialogue. Once your masterpiece is complete, Anime Studio breathes life into the scribbled cartoon chums with audio, video and special effects for 2D movies, cartoons, anime and cut-out animations.
Manga is a massive industry, with a global following and scores of spin-offs. With Manga Wacom you could channel your artistic flair and create unique graphical illustrations in the style of these enchanting oriental characters.
But Wacom has even greater designs on these discernible digital creatures. It's primed to join the Manga convention circuit, inviting the most devoted Manga-kas to turn their hands at creating the characters – much like those theme park caricaturists – with their own quirky Japanese still-life models at the disposal of their Bamboo Pen.
Wacom and Manga is a natural match-up, as Manga has experienced a real revolution in the advent of commercial graphics devices. The Wacom responds as if pen on paper, meaning the digital artist can hand-draw characters straight to PC before activating their own anime adventures.
String your designs together for storyboards, fight scenes, even whole episodes. Then share via social networking sites or Manga communities.
Akin to most multi-touch displays, this distinctive black and green tablet responds to gestures such as pinch to zoom and flick to rotate. It also lets you use pen and multi-touch together to keep your digital design flowing and the stories going.
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Summer Programs for Kids in Sioux Falls, SD
Named after the Big Sioux River's waterfalls and American Indian Sioux Tribe, Sioux Falls is now the largest city in the state of South Dakota 123. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, 24 percent of Sioux Falls residents are kids 3. During the summer months, with pleasant temperatures that average 73 degrees F, those kids can fill their spare time with a wide variety of summer programs, ranging from water activities and park programs to local day camps.
Daycare and Preschool Programs
If you're looking for a summer daycare program for your kids, Here4Youth Childcare Center offers a summer program. Or, sign your kids up for the summer childcare program at EmBe. Kids in kindergarten through 5th grade can join the one-week programs or a program that runs the entire summer. Each session include:
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- sports
- swimming
- mentoring
Parks and Recreation Programs
You can check out all of the programs available for kids through the City of Sioux Falls Parks and Recreation Department 13. At the aquatic facilities, older kids can participate in Aqua Zumba and younger children can sign up for parent-child swimming lessons. If your child enjoys singing, he can join the Summer Singers program for kids in 3rd to 12th grade. Children who are 2 to 7-years-old can go to Fun in the Sun at McKennan Park to make colorful projects with spray bottles, ice cubes and paints. At the Musical Masterpieces program, children ages 4 to 10 can create musical instruments with simple, everyday objects like tin foil, paper plates and beans.
Library Programs
Your kids can go to the Siouxland Libraries to participate in a variety of free summer children's programs. Kids in kindergarten through 5th grade can join the free summer reading program to get some extra reading in during the summer and to participate in activities like a puppet show, wacky chicken show and crafts. Your whole family can attend Family Storytime to listen to exciting and silly stories, sing-along to music and participate in arts and crafts. Kids that are elementary-age can drop by the library during the scheduled movie times to watch a movie on the big screen with friends or go to a Wii Bit of Fun to compete against other kids in a Wii game.
If you're looking for a summer camp for your children, you'll find several in Sioux Falls 3. At the Sioux Falls YMCA, your kids can sign up for one of the sports camps like Lil' Shooters Basketball Camp for kids in kindergarten to 3rd grade, Fast Break Basketball Camp for 3rd to 5th graders and Golf Camp for kids 8 to 17 years old 3. Little Vikes is a day camp for 4- and 5-year-olds that feature outdoor activities like swimming and field trips. Kids 11 to 15 can go to Tailfeather Camp, a weeklong camp that includes firearms safety and shooting, fishing and wildlife conservation lessons. Your children could also attend a summer sports camp at Sioux Falls Christian, including football camps for boys in 6th to 12th grade, volleyball camps for girls in 5th to 12th grade and basketball camp for boys and girls in 4th to 12th grade 3.
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The white Magnolia flower symbolizes purity, beauty and perseverance and is often used in association with nobility and dignity.
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Some US General (ret) is boasting how much better he is at thinking than the rest of us. he goes around charging money to give seminars and such.
He was in charge of the army in New Orleans after Katrina hit. Actually, he is given credit for getting things done. If he gets no other kudos than for the time he saw one of his men displaying his weapon: "We're here to help these people, not threaten them!" (Paraphrasing here)
But in another instance he is given great credit for making the airplanes board people without the usual pat-down, frisk-for-weapons nonsense. The problem is, the average plane carries what, about 150 people? You needed to evacuate tens of thousands of folks. The only thing to do was go down to the railroads, have them dump their frieght and load the people up. A single train could carry ten thousand people. Not comfortably, not nicely, but by God they would be out of danger.
There aren't enough planes near New Orleans, even if you could get them, kick out the regular passengers and so on, to make a dent in the numbers.
The whole key to solutions is to ask the right question. Not 'how do I load planes faster?' but 'How do I get ten, twenty, thirty thousand people to safety?' The right quesiton will lead you to the right answer.
The question is not whether to build new schools for Seattle; the question is how does Walmart, Home Depot and other big, empty boxes (much like schools) get built so fast and cheap? (Answer: pour-and-tilt construction.)
The question is not should the new police chief be hired with the charge to change the culture of the Seattle police department? The question is 'Why was Patrick Fitzsimon the longest lasting, best regarded police chief in Seattle history–and where are there more like him?
The question is not where to build a new transportation bridge across the canal. (The buses, light rail, trains will only get stuck in traffic on both sides of the bridge, effectively wiping out any gain going across the canal with an unopening bridge.) The question is, can we manage traffic better to give transit a chance on the streets? (And another question is, 'Can we have our money back for tunneling from downtown to Husky Stadium? A dumber idea is hard to conceive.)
Are they advertising that Jerry Lewis is coming to town or threatening us with Jerry Lewis coming to town?
The Boston Marathon bombing:
–Probably the most videotaped event ever. The police should ask everyone to bring their videos in. Even if you've watched it several times and see nothing. The bad player is probably on a couple dozen videos.
–Thank God our enemies are so incompetent. Even if you were trying to explode a bomb with doing the least damage, you could hardly blow up two bombs at such an event and kill only three people.
–Someone masquerading as a journalist actually asked the Mayor if Seattle was in danger today. Except that we are three thousand miles away, everyone is on heightened alert and there were no large gatherings of people, yeah, we're in danger. And if you were a 2X4 could you be any more stupid?
–The desperation on the part of local TV news to find a local angle was tangible and terrible. Give it a rest. OK, one of the marathoners was from here. It neither incerases our interest (if you aren't 'interested' in a bombing in an American city, is it going to restart your dead brain if it was a Washingtonian? Really? Really sad.)


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Well At Least Crede Isn't Greedy
Joe Crede signed a one year $2.5 million dollar deal today. He could get an extra $4.5 million dollars if he reaches all of his incentives. In high school Crede was a pitcher. He led Fatima High School to three district championships. Later in 2006 his high school retired his number. Crede was drafted by the White Sox in the fifth round in 1996. Crede made his major league debut on September 20, 2000. Five years later he won a World Series. He was five for seventeen with two home runs against the Houston Astros in 2005. Crede has always been inconsistent. In 2004 he hit .252 and in 2007 he hit .216. In 2006 Crede won a Silver Slugger at third base hitting .283 with 94 RBI's, 30 home runs, and 154 hits. In 2007 Crede missed a lot of time after having back surgery. In the offseason that year he signed a one year $5.15 million dollar deal avoiding arbitration. Then in 2008 Crede made his first all-star game at Yankee Stadium. He was zero for one in the game. In 2008 Crede became a free agent after filling for free agency. It would be the first time in his carer that he would be a free agent. Crede could have gotten between seven and ten million dollars easily in a good economy. But either he wanted to earn his money or the economy just dropped his value. On second thought the economy just dropped his value. Crede's second choice was the San Francisco Giants. The became official after Crede passed his physical. Crede is not a traitor to the White Sox. He was just looking for a job like thousands of Americans. We do not even know if the White Sox gave Crede an offer. If he had signed earlier then he would have been somewhat of a traitor. Right now no one can really be a traitor to a team unless that team gave him an offer. If Jason Varitex had signed with the Yankees before Boston gave him an offer Red Sox Nation would be mad, sad, and upset but he would have been just looking for a job and did not want to be unemployed. So while I know White Sox Nation (if there is such a thing) is sad but do not be mad. You can be upset but do not hate Crede forever like Red Sox Nation hates Manny and Damon. At least Crede is not greedy like Manny, Damon, the Yankees, and Dodgers.


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The first song I heard from Luke Bryan wasn't one he cut.
It was Travis Tritt's "Honky-Tonk History," off Tritt's 2004 album My Honky Tonk History. Then there was Billy Currington's hit song, "Good Directions." That one was released almost exactly ten years ago.
About a year later, Bryan put "Good Directions" on his debut album I'll Stay Me as a bonus track. On that album, he wrote all but one of the tracks.
So Bryan's songwriting chops were obvious right out of the gate.
But now that he's in the thick of a very big career, Bryan told me he isn't so determined to write on every track on every album.
"It's good to not feel the pressure that I've got to write a career song every time I sit down to write," Bryan told me when he was in Chicago recently. "It's tough to outdo what I've done. I don't even know if I can do that. But it's up to me to try to stay who I am."
He admitted that he's blessed to have great songs sent his way these days, but he still has song ideas all the time, even on stage.
"Right now I've got tons of notes on my phone," he said. "I'll be in the middle of a show, and get an idea, and when one of my guys runs out on stage, I'll ask them to write it down."
What he doesn't do much anymore, is go into a session refusing to come out without a pile of hits.
"I used to go in and write, write, write," he added. "I certainly don't do that anymore, where I'd pound out six or seven songs a week like I used to do ten years ago."
"But these days, when I get a really, really great idea, I'm able to really see it through."


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Book Review: The Mysterious Benedict Society
You know how sometimes you encounter a book quite by chance, and it kind of knocks your socks off? When I worked at a little local used bookstore, someone brought in this book to exchange, and the quirky illustration and title made me decide it needed me.
The story starts out simply enough, with Reggie answering a newspaper ad for gifted children looking for special opportunities. But he is quickly drawn into a plot much bigger than himself, and is placed on a team with three other children who have special talents such as physical dexterity, photographic memory, and stubbornness (!). They are sent on an extremely dangerous and difficult mission to defeat Mr Curtain, who is trying to take over the world by his telepathic machine, the Whisperer, which brainwashes people without their knowledge. Since Mr Curtain works out of a boarding school, only children can spy on him without suspicion.
The story is riveting, and I found myself staying in my car when I arrived at a friend's house to read just a little longer and a little longer before I joined the party I had come for. Although it's full of mystery and danger, the story telling isn't dark, but rather catchy and funny, and a tiny bit scary in parts.
The Mysterious Benedict Society comes in a set of four books (three of which are pictured above), which follows the children through many heroic and death-defying adventures. The first book can be found used for a few cents here, if you want to try it out before getting the whole set. It's the perfect fun read for an eight to thirty-eight year-old.
However. Take this book on a vacation at your own risk. If you spend the whole vacation tucked in a corner engrossed in your reading instead of socializing, and all your friends want to yell at me for recommending this book, don't say I didn't warn you.


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KOTA KINABALU: Kota Belud will be hosting the opening of the state-level Harvest Festival (Kaamatan) on May 1, Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan announced yesterday.
The theme for this year's celebration is 'Tihombuso Piunungan Om Pirotian Maya Kaamatan (Sustain Goodwill and Understanding Through Kaamatan).
"The launching will be graced by Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman," he said after chairing the Harvest Festival main committee meeting at his office in Sembulan here.
Kota Marudu, which was supposed to host this year's event, gave the opportunity to Kota Belud to proceed with the opening ceremony.
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Unilever Canada has begun a new campaign in support of its Axe brand of men's body sprays. The campaign, called "Praise Up," consists of a series of online videos featuring Toronto Blue Jay Marcus Stroman and Toronto Raptor Kyle Lowry. The videos encourage young people to "tell their friends about their 'something'" in order to define their own sense of masculinity. The campaign was developed by Sid Lee, with public relations from Edelman and media work by Mindshare.


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Designed for users to choose from pre-configured options to determine product specification in accordance to customer requirements. This will then translate to a unique bills of materials. The product configurator will identify the available options based on the choices made e.g. a sunroof can be chosen for a saloon car but not for a convertible.
Main assemblies and sub-assemblies are clearly defined on the bill of materials which translates to a comprehensive MRP for Kanban purchasing. Planners will be able to manage engineers, sub-contractors, book out required machinery and analyse both the actual time spent on jobs and the amount of materials used. Managers can create training programs for internal staff, by comparing the tasks that have been outsourced to the skill sets available in-house.
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Pelvic-Heart Integration® (PHI) Event London : 23 > 26 March 2017!
Beyond Attraction-Rejection, Happiness-Frustration,
Joy- Heartbreak
download the flyer: PHI-London 23-26 March
International Workshop guided by Dirk Marivoet (B) and Elisabeth Renner (A), Licensed Psychotherapists and International Trainers and Supervisors for PHI.
Are you longing to create and sustain healthy, dynamic relationships? Would you like to experience your full sexual energy and pleasure? Are you able to harness the innate action energy of your masculinity and tap into the receptivity and intuition of your femininity?
We often resign ourselves to repeating cycles of being attracted to and then rejected by the opposite sex. This pattern of finding short lived happiness and joy often leads to plunging back into unforeseen frustration and heartbreak. We can become intrigued and overwhelmed by the mystery of the opposite sex. Yet, when we really feel both the masculine and feminine already inside of us and then letting these parts to interact, we can find our way to sustainable excitement, deep love and even ecstasy. We can experience the union of masculine and feminine and the innate satisfaction that arises from this.
In this three-and-a-half day workshop we will discover how our characteristic breathing patterns, thoughts, emotions, and body armour block the free flow of our life force and inhibit our capacity for sensual pleasure and orgasmic release. We use breath, movement and mindful touch to feel the unity of love and satisfaction. Psychodrama, imagery and role plays and exchanges in the group as our means of exploration of our masculine and feminine, and our pelvic and heart energies. We will discover our inner triangle (father, mother, child) that becomes a template for our relationships and work together to create a healthier template for the future. Pelvic-Heart Integration is helpful and supportive in creating a new wave of consciousness in all of us.
The format of this workshop makes it suitable for those new to this work as well as suitable for those with experience. You will have the opportunity to explore the topic in dyads, small groups and within the larger group. Space will be made for individuals to work within the group setting or privately on the Monday following the workshop.
To register: please email email@example.com and make your Payment by bank transfer as instructed below. Your payment needs to be received to ensure your space in the workshop. Account Name: Melissa Hillery (Events). Account Number: 50150339. IBAN Number: GBN16 BARC 20474750150339. Bank Name: Barclays Bank PLC. Bank Address: Barclays Private Bank, 1 Stanhope Gate, Mayfair, London, W1K 1AF. Sart Code: 20-47-47. SWIFT Code: BARCGB22.
Licensed Psychotherapist, Psychomotor Therapist & PT, Trainer for Pelvic-Heart Integration®, Postural Integration® & Energetic Integration® – Teacher and Supervisor for Core-Energetics. Loves the Fire, Father of two children, lives in Ghent-Belgium.
ELISABETH RENNER (A): Licensed Psychotherapist, Clinical Psychologist, Trainer for Pelvic-Heart Integration®, Postural Integration® & Energetic Integration®. Loves the Water, lives in Graz (Austria) and in Hawaï.
COSTS for Workshop:
375 £ includes healthy lunch and snacks
Early bird special: Enroll before 15 February 2017 and pay 350 £
Location: Private Studio in Wimbledon Village, address provided upon registration.
Thursday, March 23rd: 6:30 PM-9:30 PM
Friday, March 24th: 10 AM-5 PM, 7 PM – 9.30 PM
Saturday, March 25th: 10 AM-6 PM
Sunday, March 26th: 10 AM – 4.30 PM
- Registration per email and our confirmation email counts as definitive enrollment
- Cancellation is possible via a confirmation email from us
- Cancellation until 3 weeks prior to the workshop: a cost of 25% of the workshop fee is due.
- In case of cancellation within the last 3 weeks prior to the workshop (also in case of sickness or not showing up), the total amount will be withheld unless a substitute can be found.
FOOD and LODGING:
Healthy lunch and snacks prepared by a chef at the venue.
You need to book and pay for your own hotel in the neighborhood.
For those of you traveling from out-of-town and looking for accommodation, there are many options to suit your taste and
The Justin James Hotel: 43 Worple Road, Wimbledon, London SW19 4JZ www.justinjameshotel.com
The Dog and Fox: Wimbledon High Street, Wimbledon Village, London SW19 5EA www.dogandfoxwimbledon.co.uk
Hotel Du Vin Cannizaro House, Westside Common, Wimbledon Village, London SW19 4UE, www.hotelduvin.com
CONTACT and INFORMATION:
Melissa Alacheff: email@example.com
Dirk Marivoet: email@example.com
Elisabeth Renner: email@example.com
The number of Places is limited!!
Pelvic-Heart Integration® London: Contact Melissa Alacheff, Armand Botha and Linda Zurak : RSVP[at]core-london.co.uk
The force of sexuality models our life. Instincts and desires charge our genitals but the sexual satisfaction or disappointment are also part of the quest of our hearts: quest for peace and "completeness", quest for union with ourselves, with others and with the world. The genitals and the heart form the core of our deepest consciousness.
Looking how we can, at the same time fully feel our genital energy and find the satisfaction of the heart, we are looking for a spiritual sexuality that circulates between the genitals and the heart.
During this workshop, we offer you a progressive path that will allow you to explore your deepest and most precious aspirations.
We will help you to feel your desire and excitement and help you to understand the childhood origins of your sexual frustrations. You will discover the need to recognize and harmonize the masculine and feminine aspects within you. When your inner male and female parts, your inner man and woman, support your inner child, innocence, curiosity, and excitement will participate in your adult sexual life.
Before the energy of the child was cut by not comprehending and frustrated parents, his heart and his genitals were part of a current of unified orgastic vibrant energy. By being the parents of your inner sexual child, you will find a powerful and tender source; you will reconnect to an inexhaustible source that binds you to genital desires and aspirations of the heart of your parents as well as of their parents, regardless of whether their real sexuality was incomplete or unfulfilled. This is the spiritual groundwork for a unified and sustainable love and sexuality. When you discover this inner strength, you will no longer play dependency games with which you search your happiness in your partner. You are ready to approach your partner with a new vitality and sexual confidence, willing to share your pleasure and your sexuality in an equally attractive way.
This discovery of your past, present and future sexual force is done with the body. With touch, breathwork, movement, role play, active imagination and bodywork, you will take awareness of how you can bring your body in your sexual, love and spiritual life.
We will explore how our sexual awareness is contained in our deep body tissues. We experience physical opening and the connection between the heart and genitals. The work with breathing and with the body will be used to release the energies and restructure the pelvic floor, genitals, psoas, the diaphragm and rib cage.
|Dirk Marivoet
Dirk Marivoet is a licensed Psychotherapist ( EAP, EABP , BVP-ABP) with 30+ years of experience. He is the founder and director of the International Institute for Bodymind Integration in Ghent (B). He is a Core-Energetics practitioner (CCEP), teacher at the Dutch Institute for Core Energetics and a Bodymind Integrator, teacher and supervisor (member of ICPIT). He travels and works worldwide.
Regardless of your level of experience, we will help you learn how to maintain your sexual unity and dare to reveal yourself. Before all we're our own lover, in love with our own body. When the male and female parts are harmonized in us, we can more easily feel, touch and be in joy while sharing the joy of another person. We can look at and love someone else without fear of losing him or lose something inside of us.
This inner joy – physical, emotional, cognitive and spiritual – is complete and cannot be destroyed, whatever the reaction of the other. And this inner joy, this body ecstasy that radiates from our core, allows us to experience a deep encounter with those who also found their inner joy.


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BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER | Michael Levine, Community Board 1's director of land use and planning, first retired in 1998 at the age of 55 after having worked for the City Planning Commission for 30 years. Then he went to work for the American Planning Association for eight years until 2006, when he accepted a part-time position at Community Board 1.
Levine, in addition to his job at C.B. 1, also teaches undergraduates at Pace University and coordinates the Community Planning Fellowship Program for the Fund for the City of New York.
Now that he's 70 years old, Levine is about to retire again — sort of. He will remain on the C.B. 1 payroll until July 5, 2013 to receive all the unused vacation time he has accrued and will be replaced as director of land use and planning by one of his former students, Diana Switaj, who came to the community board as an Urban Fellow three years ago and has been serving as Levine's assistant.
But Levine hopes to return to C.B. 1 in the fall as a consultant.
"How many times a day can I walk the dog," he said.
Levine, who was born and brought up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, remembers that as a kid, he and his friends would take the subway to Greenwich Village to go to coffeehouses and jazz clubs. "We always loved coming into the city," he said. "To me, it was the big time and Brooklyn was a suburb of Manhattan."
He thought of being an architect and enrolled in Pratt Institute — but that didn't work out. "After a year, they told me, you're not an architect," he recalled. "You think about the city and the excitement of the city and what makes the city work. You're a city planner."
Levine was in Hunter College's first class of urban planners, getting his masters degree in 1968.
He then got a job immediately with City Planning. He was given small jobs to work on, before he got an assignment that he still recalls with wonder and delight.
In the fall of 1969, artists who were living illegally in Soho's former manufacturing buildings applied to live in the buildings legally.
"I was terribly excited," Levine said of the assignment. "Wow! What am I going to do with it? Am I going to run out and interview all the people living there? It took a long time to gain their trust because they were living illegally in their units and doing their artwork."
He said that it took him two years of negotiating with agencies, with the community and with the Board of Estimate — the original legislative body of New York City — to reach a solution.
"They were ultimately responsible for approving any zoning text changes," he recalled. "And it was the greatest fun I had in my whole career — 1971 — three years out of school, and I'm negotiating with borough presidents to adopt a major zoning change for Lower Manhattan that had the longest-term effect imaginable. It's Soho today! The district would have been demolished by Robert Moses had it not been for the zoning change and the historic district designation.
"That, to me, has been the most important thing I ever did… I saw the change on the streets immediately. Forty years later, we can see that it increased the cultural life of the city. It increased land values. I invented it 40 years ago. It's a good feeling to know that it happened."
Though he will soon be officially retired from C.B. 1, he hopes to continue to work as a consultant on the Howard Hughes developments at the South Street Seaport, the Civic Center plan, which entails selling the buildings at 346 Broadway and at 49-51 Chambers St., and the issues involved with funding Hudson River Park.
About Howard Hughes and the Seaport, he said that he expects Hughes to make a proposal for developing the Tin and the New Market Buildings, which lie just north of Pier 17.
"To me, that's an exciting project," said Levine. "They would have to come back to us for a ULURP [Uniform Land Use Review Procedure] action to dispose of city property and to enter into a long-term lease — and they would need a long-term lease because they do not have leasehold rights on that property. We're talking about new development. I don't know what it will be — residential, hotel, mixed? I don't know."
He said that he hopes to work on this project with Switaj. "It's a continuation of what we've worked on," he said. "To me, to see the Seaport alive and thriving is the most important thing."
Regarding the Civic Center plan, he said that he agrees with the sale of the buildings. "They're antiquated," he said. "They don't work anymore." However, the community board is on record as opposing the sale unless it is accompanied by more school seats.
The third project on which Levine has been working is how to fund Hudson River Park. He has been serving as a representative of C.B.1 on the steering committee, which is reaching out to the public to guarantee a public review process.
"My job as a representative of C.B. 1 is to make sure that the public participation process happens and that everyone has a chance to speak," he said. "I personally favor a Neighborhood Improvement District as a Greenwich Village resident, but I have to remain neutral. We've had opinions all over the place."
"I've had a lot of fun," he said of his work as a city planner. Considering his previous track record as a retiree, it seems likely that the fun isn't finished.


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Double Pregnant: Two Lesbians Make a Family by Natalie D. Meisner
This thin little novel is a rare piece of nonfiction for me. It's the true story of a lesbian couple in Canada who decide they want to have a baby, and then a baby each and then because their doctors advise them that they're too old to wait a baby each at the same time. Thus begins their quest to find a sperm donor, successfully inseminate, get through two pregnancies and survive two labours. It is a love story and a relationship story and an LGBTQ story and parenting story and overall a great read.
Being a true story, Meisner doesn't hide the dirtier truths about relationships, hurt feelings, miscarriages, grief, broken promises, uncomfortable situations and generally being directionless in your adult life and that makes the book striking and interesting. I also like how comforting it is to read stories about people who are like you – struggling with where they want to be but determined to fulfill their goals, in love but vulnerable and afraid sometimes and facing the unique challenges of being a lesbian couple.
The language is beautiful, particularly Meisner's description of her wife and their children, both born and unborn.
All around loved it.
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John Hurrell – 29 July, 2011
With his exhibition title Moore is referring to a large park adjacent to a famous ruined Tudor palace in Surrey where in a star-shaped chamber it seems Marlowe was once interrogated. It is also slyly read as 'none such' - referring to something 'parked' that is unique and unduplicatable; alluding perhaps to itself as constructed artefact, a distinctly unrepeatable artwork.
Tahi Moore
Nonsuch Park
30 June - 30 July 2011
In many ways this is a typical Tahi Moore exhibition with its Gambia Gastle avant-gardism now transferred to fellow GC member Sarah Hopkinson's dealer gallery. Building his own myth he has peppered throughout references to earlier Tahi Moore shows - abandoned faded jeans (in Various Failures, 2008), plywood panels (German Sands /Our faces, 2007), long stacks of wood (Roman Mitch's curated Caraway Downs at ARTSPACE, 2011), taped up photocopies (War against the Self, 2009) - and of course his trademark interest in film, with quotations in his dvds and lightboxes (using sources such as Godard's Passion).
Much of this mix of video, painting, sculpture and photography demonstrates Moore's sense of mischief: playing with intricate ambiguities of language and deliberate confusion of names (eg Daniel Malone; Beckett's Malone; Christopher Marlowe the Elizabethan poet, playwright and spy; Philip Marlowe the Raymond Chandler detective; 'Marlowe' - a word he discovered tattooed on actress Jane Birkin's second daughter's arm) mixing up disparate streams of information so they get woven into a sort of eccentrically moulded stodge of grey informational porridge. The jumbled blending seems to be the point, a love of coincidence leading to incongruous melding, taking (as one example) an Easton Ellis novel and then filming [and treating] an Elvis Costello record that refers to it as if it were a highly elastic clue to the limits of human knowledge (and their moral implications) as described in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus.
With his exhibition title Moore is referring to a large park adjacent to a famous ruined Tudor palace in Surrey where in a star-shaped chamber it seems Marlowe was once interrogated. It is also slyly read as 'none such' - referring to something 'parked' that is unique and unduplicatable; alluding perhaps to itself as constructed artefact, a distinctly unrepeatable artwork. In his use of oddly linked language and witty reflexive heading Moore reveals himself to be an inventive variety of formalist preoccupied with the shape of thought as words strain to contain it, and conniving to successfully attach that semantic morphology to other shapes.
There is also a sense in his bizarre connections that Moore is a sort of nominalist who believes that the application of words to things is entirely arbitrary and particular to each example only. Such a mentality denys the real being of universals on the basis that the use of a general word (say, the generic group of people in literature called 'Marlowe') does not imply the existence of a general group named by it. In other words, he shows us all these links but he also seems to be disconnecting or thwarting them, undermining them with an open sense of absurdity.
Even if you see his obsessive and playful tinkering as ultimately only leading to an end result of no real interest, you can still generously ignore it and treat Moore's show as a quirky puzzle through which you attempt (using Jon Bywater's handy accompanying essay) to join up the seemingly disparate pieces. That is, if motivated to try. But not many would.
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Sunday, February 01, 2009
Will the real Michael York please stand up!
No, that was not actor Michael York at the January 31st Gala Event at The National Press Club celebrating the Inauguration of 102nd NPC President Donna Leinwand, but rather, Francis J. Skrobiszewski.
"I get that a lot," said the actor in waiting. "But I'm a much younger version," he pointed out. True, on closer examination, but you never know in a botoxed world.
Good natured political satirist extraordinaire Mark Russell played it to the hilt posing with "the actor" prior to his standing ovation performance which included an audience participation rendition of "It's a small world after all." No kidding!


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CCTV software.
Over the next few years we will begin to see hardware recording solutions in the CCTV security industry slowly disappear and be replaced almost exclusively by CCTV software.
Cost of CCTV hardware.
The high production costs of hardware have in the past always been able to be offset because most end users networks struggled to cope with the high amount of bandwidth taken by HD and Megapixel IP cameras. Recently however, there is a marked change. Recording solutions are beginning to be biased towards CCTV software platforms recording onto dedicated servers. The servers are getting cheaper and developers have taken all the best features from their hardware recorders and integrated this into CCTV software solutions.
CCTV software.
The software of course can vary enormously. Some manufacturers such as Sanyo are happy to give away software in order to sell their IP cameras in volume. Other big players such as March networks have spent lots of time money and effort on developing their Videosphere VMS software into a fantastic package that includes analytics and extremely advanced search facilities not seen in cheap or free CCTV software packages.
Of course the decision will always come down to end user and their requirements. Anyone trying to integrate CCTV systems that already exist on site will not be able to use off the shelf packages. They will have to choose a CCTV software solution that can integrate a multitude of cameras and codec's especially when using a combination of analogue and IP cameras of different makes and model. The older analogue cameras will need some kind of multiple recording platform and then conversion to IP video streams.
The future.
CCTV software can and will get better and better. Software gives flexibility that older hardware DVRs lack. It will eventually get less expensive and remote support for the product is easier than returning a DVR back to its country of origin just simply to be repaired. The benefits and advantages of using CCTV are slowly but surely meaning that DVRs are soon to go the same way as the VCR.. Ie it become a very breed indeed.
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Obagi® Ambassador Jaimie Shares Her Skin Transformation: A Sun Damaged Girl's Best Friend
03.14.2014, 12:03 CDT | Posted In: Signs of Aging, Uneven Skin Tone & Dark Spots, Obagi Stories
Jaimie, like many others, thought that tanned skin meant healthy skin. What she didn't realize was that her tan was masking years of sun damage. After starting a job at a MediSpa, Jaimie quickly realized that the true way to healthy skin is through good skin care and avoiding the harmful effects of the sun. After using Obagi Nu-Derm® to help address years of sun damage** and melasma, Jaimie has learned the importance of sunscreen and the power of Obagi. This is her transformational story.
Name: Jaimie Wilkins
Primary Skin Concern: sun damage and melasma
Obagi Products: Obagi Nu-Derm*, ELASTIderm® Eye Cream, Professional-C™ Serum 20%
Skin Care Advice: Always use a SPF. I love the Obagi Sun Shield Matte SPF 50. It goes on very well under makeup - no greasy feel! I tell people it's pointless to correct your skin if you are not going to protect it with SPF.†
My Story:
Before I became a Patient Care Coordinator at a cosmetic surgery practice in Virginia, I really wasn't aware of the damage the sun can do to your face. I rarely used sunscreen and my skin care routine consisted of a few over-the-counter products. Worst of all, I frequently went indoor tanning as I was on the Washington Nationals entertainment squad "The Nat Pack" and wanted to look tan; this also caused me to be in the sun a lot.
When I started working at a medispa in Winchester, Virginia I became educated on skin care and the harmful things I was doing to my skin. I stopped tanning and quickly noticed the damage I had caused from the sun and tanning bed. In addition, watching patients undergo laser treatments to minimize the appearance of their sun damage was a wakeup call... and those are the lucky patients—as opposed to those who had melanoma.
I had sun spots, dull, aging skin and melasma on my forehead and cheek area. I looked years older than I really was! It is amazing to see the damage that remains once the tan goes away. I started using the Obagi Nu-Derm System and after my initial transformation stage I could see a HUGE difference in my skin. The sun spots and melasma were gone and I had healthier-looking, more even skin.†† See below for Important Safety Information about the Obagi Nu-Derm System.
I only regret not knowing about Obagi earlier and more importantly, not knowing about the dangers of tanning. I, like many other young people, was under the misconception that you have to have a tan to look like you have good skin.
Today, I use my Obagi Nu-Derm System with the Obagi Professional-C Serum and ELASTIderm Eye Cream daily. I couldn't image my skin without it! This skin care line really works. Regardless of my future profession—beauty industry or not—I learned a very valuable lesson about skin care and will never use anything but the Obagi Nu-Derm System.
We also asked Jaimie some fun questions to get to know her better.
What would you consider one of your biggest achievements? I have two! The first would be earning my black belt in Tae Kwon Do. I think it's important for women to be able to defend themselves. I also cheered for the Washington Nationals and had the honor of cheering for them the final year they were at RFK stadium and the first year they were at Nats Park. I am a huge baseball fan!
What is the nicest thing anyone has ever said to you about your skin thanks to Obagi? The nicest thing anyone has told me is how bright my skin looks. I am constantly told by patients that I have beautiful skin and they want their skin to look like mine. My family and friends have also noticed a big change in my skin and my mom says I look like a teenager again!
What is your favorite quote? "Women are like tea bags - you never know their true strength until you put them in hot water" - Eleanor Roosevelt
Do you have an Obagi story to share? Feel free to share your story below.
Last updated: 9/13/17
*Not available in select states including MA, MT, NH, NY, and TX, due to state regulations regarding the ability of physicians to dispense prescription drug products in their offices. For an effective, cosmetic skin-brightening option, learn about the Obagi Nu-Derm Fx™ System.
The safety and effectiveness of the Nu-Derm System beyond 24 weeks of use have not been established.
If no improvement is seen after three (3) months of treatment, use of this product should be discontinued. Sun exposure should be limited by using a sunscreen agent, or protective clothing to cover bleached skin when using and after using this product in order to prevent darkening from reoccurring.
(Contain prescription 4% hydroquinone)
People with prior history of sensitivity or allergic reaction to this product or any of its ingredients should not use it. The safety of topical hydroquinone use during pregnancy or in children (12 years and under) has not been established.
Avoid contact with eyes, nose, mouth, or lips. In case of accidental contact, patient should rinse eyes, nose, mouth, or lips with water and contact physician.
Sunscreen use is an essential aspect of hydroquinone therapy because even minimal sunlight exposure sustains melanocytic activity.
Contains sodium metabisulfite, a sulfite that may cause allergic-type reactions including anaphylactic symptoms and life-threatening or less severe asthmatic episodes in certain susceptible people. The overall prevalence of sulfite sensitivity in the general population is unknown and probably low. Sulfite sensitivity is seen more frequently in asthmatic than in nonasthmatic people.
Treatment should be limited to relatively small areas of the body at one time since some patients experience a transient skin reddening and a mild burning sensation, which does not preclude treatment.
Pregnancy Category C: Animal reproduction studies have not been conducted with topical hydroquinone. It is also not known whether hydroquinone can cause fetal harm when used topically on a pregnant woman or affect reproductive capacity. It is not known to what degree, if any, topical hydroquinone is absorbed systemically. Topical hydroquinone should be used on pregnant women only when clearly indicated.
Nursing Mothers: It is not known whether topical hydroquinone is absorbed or excreted in human milk. Caution is advised when topical hydroquinone is used by a nursing mother.
Pediatric Usage: Safety and effectiveness in children below the age of 12 years have not been established.
Use of the product should be discontinued if hypersensitivity to any of the ingredients is noted.
Please see Prescribing Information for Clear and Blender.
**Skin damage can include cancer and pre-cancerous alterations in skin that are not addressed by Obagi products.
†Using a broad-spectrum sunscreen SPF 30 or higher together with a comprehensive sun protection program including wearing sun protective clothing, hats, sunglasses, and avoiding the sun between the hours of 10am - 2pm may help reduce the risk of premature skin aging.
††Individual results may vary.
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The brain has been object of study for several centuries. This has to do with the need of knowing ourselves in order to better understand who we really are.
Its great complexity makes it still a challenge to scientific investigation. The study of the brain has been and will be, during the next years, a great bet. It is expected that we get results on brain study faster than in the past, mainly because of the development of nanotechnology, of the ability to manage and handle great amounts of data and because of the 'neuroimaging' methods, among others. Today, these are the valences the scientists can count on.
However, some centuries ago, they had to make use of other methods. If we go back in time, we realize that, in particular concerning the anatomical study of the brain, researchers have been using since early times a visual, aesthetic and artistic component in order to clarify and make a practical use of gathered information on the brain structure.
Scientific Illustrations (first monochromatic ones and polychromatic later) had, in this context, a huge importance, since they were an accurate visual instrument to the study of the brain.
Several researchers contributed to the study of the brain, putting together written descriptions and illustrations of great value. Here are some examples:
Guido da Vigevano: Inventor and Italian physician who in 1345 drew the one considered to be the first rigorous drawing of the human brain.
Leonardo Da Vinci: In his thousands of drawings and schemes we can find anatomical drawings. In the picture below (1504-1506), Da Vinci illustrates the skull and the brain using the exploded view technique This is the first anatomical drawing using this technique.
Andreas Vesalius: physician, considered the founder of anatomy. In 1543 he published De Humani Corporis Fabrica, a treaty of anatomy.
Giulio Casseri: surgery and anatomy professor at Padua University. Among his students was Adrian van de Spiegel, who later succeeded to Casseri on the anatomy and surgery subjects. After his death, his work on anatomy was published along with Carreri's illustrations, in 1627, on the De humani corporis fabrica libri decem.
Thomas Gibson: physician of the English army, who published The Anatomy of Humane Bodies Epitomized in 1684.
Shinnin Kawaguch: official physician during the Koga domain, that in 1772 published the second text on anatomy in Japan, Kaishihen (dissecation notes), based on experimental observations using two corpses.
Thomas Willis: English physician, founder member of the Royal Society, who published Cerebri Anatome (On the anatomy of the brain) in 1664. In this picture the human brain (on the left) and the sheep brain (on the right) are presented.
Félix Vicq d'Azyr: physician of Queen Mary Antoinette and member of the French Academy of Sciences and Academy of Medicine. He published the Traité d'Anatomie et de Physiologie em 1786, the most accurate neuroanatomical work produced before the advent of microscopic staining techniques".
Jean-Baptiste Marc Bourgery: French physician and anatomist, worked on his Traite Complet de l'Anatomie de l'Homme since 1830 and until the year of his death (1849). The last volume of this work was published posthumously. The illustrations belong to Nicolas-Henri Jacob.
Harvey Cushing: American neurosurgeon, considered the precursor of modern neurosurgery. Drawing of the brain (between 1900 and 1910).
Charles Bell: anatomist, surgeon and neurologist. He was the first anatomy and surgery professor at the College of Surgeons in London. He was also professor at King's College London and Edimbourg University. In 1802 he published The anatomy of the brain, explained in a series of engravings.
Mitsutane: In 1813 published 'Kaitai Hatsumou', a treaty on anatomy in 5 volumes.
Joseph Vimont: graduated in the Faculty of Medicine of Paris. In 1836 he published the Traité de phrénologie humaine et compare.


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Crossroads Church:
A brand refresh
The Challenge
Coming into Crossroads as its Communications & Art Director, I spent time observing its culture, meeting with leaders to understand the vision & plans held, and learning the current processes and standards. As I absorbed the many facets of the organization, I began to revision the church's brand & strategies and outlined priorities of attack. The first priority was the brand's foundation.
The Brand Statements
The first part of the brand's foundation was its purpose statement and core values. Over the 14 years prior my arrival, the church had many different statements and goals of what it wanted to be towards the community. While all the statements were well-intentioned, fragmentation led to confusion and a fuzzy purpose. Its values were four single words with no clear reason for their importance. With all this in mind, I sat down with core leaders and helped clarify and solidify key statements and brought purpose to the values. Next, the logo & visual standards.
The Logo & Visual Identity Standards
Along with 14 years of fragmented statements, there was also a variety of logo iterations in a myriad of applications. It was definitely apparent that a fresh and tighter standard needed to be created. I first started with a rebranding proposal that felt like a logical progression towards the larger vision that leadership had. Capitalizing on some smart opportunities, it would greater cement brand awareness in the local community, allow it to stand out amongst surrounding churches, and provide some flexibility amongst the Crossroads' sub-brand ministries. However, due to factors that came up in the midst of the proposal, the rebrand was put on hold for a later date. Using some of the secondary elements created during the rebranding process, I refreshed and refined the existing visual identity, keeping in mind what the future will bring.
The Stationery
I really enjoy the stationary process because it's where more of the brand's characteristics are fleshed out. The highlight of this stationary for me is the standard invite and personal business cards. The goal was to have a consistent informative element on either card that gave you the feel and values of the church. This way no matter what card you received, you not only have the name of the church but what the church represents.
The Website
The last crucial piece of this brand refresh was the website. The previous one had very little information or flexibility to act as a proper welcome mat. The new site needed to have clear navigation and call-to-actions for both newcomers and current attendees. It also needed to be easily maintained by volunteers and accessible through a variety of devices. With this in mind, I took a modular approach to the design & elements.


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ISLAMABAD: Peoples' Party co-chairman Asif Zarari expressed he is unpleasant 'over the role of MMA President Maulana Fazlur Rehman' during presidential elections.
The PPP met today to discuss the situation arising out of division in opposition parties over nomination of joint candidate for presidential election.
During the meeting, sources said, the former president stated that there will always be a question mark on his role.
PPP has fielded Aitzaz Ahsan, while the opposition parties nominated Maulana Fazlur Rehman as their joint candidate against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's Arif Alvi.
PPP had requested MMA chief to persuade PML-N president over Ahsan's nomination, who met Shehbaz Sharif Sunday but failed to convince him.
Surprisingly, the opposition parties nominate Fazlur Rehman which surprised the PPP.
Earlier today, opposition parties blame PPP for ditching them, however Zardari stuck to Aitzaz Ahsan as party's candidate for country's top office.


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Thanks to Red Wheel Weiser and Ravenous Romance, the Blood and Sex series will be hitting store shelves soon as part of the Red Silk Editions line. I'm so proud to be a part of this with other great paranormal romance authors: Isabell Roman, Rhonda Leigh Jones, and Cecilia Tan.
Check out the website at http://redwheelweiser.com/p.php?id=22
Pre-order your copies through the website now! Or at your local bookstore.


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Diamonds are fast becoming an oil man's best friend. But unlike Carol Channing in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," oil men are not sporting these sparklers on their fingers. They are putting them on drilling bits in order to save money and sink wells more quickly.
Synthetic diamond drill bits are the first major innovation to hit the oil drilling industry since the turn of the century when Howard Hughes Sr. invented the "roller cone" bit.
This bit, which quickly became the industry standard, crushes and gouges its way through rock. The roller-cone bit was a major advance over previous, hammering-type drills and has reigned supreme in what is now a $1 billion per year market for drilling bits.
The diamond bit is its first real competitor, say industry sources. This type of bit grinds perpendicularly into rock, as a milling tool cuts metal. Although the use of industrial diamonds on drilling bits has been around for some time, it was not until 1976 that a division of the General Electric Company produced a new, significantly strengthened type of synthetic diamond which made diamond bits competitive with the roller-cone.
The new bits are made with tiny pieces of wafer-shaped diamond -- one-half inch in diameter and an eighth inch thick -- planted on a tungsten-carbide backing. These are brazed onto a flat-headed bit.
The diamond bits are significantly more expensive than those of conventional design. But in softer rock formations this cost appears to be more than offset by longer life and faster drilling rate.
The diamond bits have shown penetration rates as much as four times that of conventional bits," says Sam Varnado, supervisor of the milling technology division of SandiaLaboratories, a Department of Energy research facility which helped in the development of diamond bits.
With the cost of operating an oil drilling rig running between $50,000 to $ 100,000 a day, the time saved by faster drilling speeds and fewer bit changes has created considerable interest in the industry.
The jury is still out on the merits of diamond bits for hard rock, such as granite, says Mr. Varnado. While they do drill faster, they wear out faster as well. They also have a problem with the diamond teeth knocking loose.


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Does anyone know the approximate weight of the Sega Dreamcast modem? I found http://www.mathpirate.net/GameSystems/S ... index.html which details the weights and dimensions of the console, controller, and game packaging, but I can't find anything definitive for the modem.
My body scale isn't sensitive enough to register the weight difference with me on it and then me on it with the modem, so it has to be less than half a pound, probably 6 oz or so. Has anyone ever weighed it? Or has access to a small kitchen scale to weigh it?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.


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Renault sign former FIA technical head Budkowski
SUZUKA (Reuters) – The Renault team confirmed on Friday that it had signed the former head of Formula One governing body's technical department as its new executive director.
Marcin Budkowski, who left his role at the International Automobile Federation (FIA) last week, will oversee all activities related to the development and production of the Oxfordshire-based team's chassis, Renault said in a statement.
"Marcin's mission will be to continue the strengthening of Enstone to enable Renault to join the top Formula One teams by 2020…," said Cyril Abiteboul, managing director of Renault Sport Racing, the Formula One squad's parent division.
The team did not say when the Pole, who worked at several teams before joining the FIA, will start his role but he is barred from starting any new employment for the next three months.
In his role with the FIA, Budkowski would have had access to the latest technical developments devised by the teams, who regularly consult with the governing body on their legality.
Renault's move to sign him is likely to trigger a storm of opposition with team principals having already said it would be unacceptable for someone in Budkowski's position to begin employment with a competitor after such a short hiatus.
"We take major issue with that if he does end up with another team," Red Bull's Christian Horner told reporters at last week's Malaysian Grand Prix.
"In the role that Marcin has been responsible for, he has been in an extremely privileged position and extremely recently he has been in people's wind tunnels and looking at intimate details of knowledge of next year's cars."
Renault returned to Formula One with a works effort last year after buying the struggling Lotus squad.
The team have made major progress in 2017, scoring 42 points after 15 of this season's 20 races compared to just eight in total last year, and are currently seventh of 10 outfits in the overall constructors' standings.
The team, which won two drivers and constructors' titles in 2005 and 2006, are highly ambitious and will have highly rated Spaniard Carlos Sainz joining them next season alongside German Nico Hulkenberg.
"Marcin's arrival is excellent news and further proof of our determination to achieve our goals," Abiteboul added.


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Step Three: Something to Know About Slow Growing Seeds
Before we start planting, we wanted to use arugula as an example of how all your seeds won't always have the same germination rate… even if they're the same plant from the same parent!
But, there is a great advantage to this, because the different growth rates allow you to have continuity with harvesting. What we mean by that is that while you're harvesting, you'll be able to eat off the ones that are faster to germinate while the slower plants will come up for you to eat when the early ones are growing back. In that way, you'll have a continuous supply of fresh vegetables and herbs!
For example, these particular arugula were all planted at the same time. You can obviously see the difference.


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Dismal Kids Count data tracks with Martinez administration
The easiest number to understand in the just-released 2019 Annie E. Casey Kid's Count report is that New Mexico ranks 50th overall in child well-being. That's a stark ranking, the second year in a row New Mexico earned that distinction. For detractors and supporters of former governor Susana Martinez, there's a lot to digest in the numbers released Monday because they track with nearly her entire tenure. The chart below shows the Kids Count rankings in several categories for 2012-2019, but most of the data comes from 2010-17 (Rankings go back to 1990, but a different methodology was used in those years, making direct comparison difficult). New Mexico results in the annual Kids Count report prepared by NM Voices for Children
"It very much is a reflection of what happened, and more specifically, what didn't happen during the Martinez years," said James Jimenez, executive director of New Mexico Voices for Children, which monitors the indicators for New Mexico.


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