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Calling All My Girls Summer Tour Sweepstakes WPLG, Local 10
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN A PRIZE. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. ODDS OF WINNING ARE DEPENDENT UPON THE NUMBER OF ELIGIBLE ENTRIES RECEIVED. THIS SWEEPSTAKES IS VOID OUTSIDE OF THE WPLG, LOCAL 10 MARKET AND WHERE OTHERWISE PROHIBITED. The entry period for the "Calling All My Girls Summer Tour" Sweepstakes ("Sweepstakes"), sponsored by WPLG, Local 10 ("Sponsor"), begins July 23, 2013 at 9:00:00 a.m. Eastern Time ("ET") and ends at 11:59:59 p.m. ET on August 7, 2013 (the "Sweepstakes Period"). All federal, state and local laws and regulations apply. Proof of submitting a Sweepstakes entry will not be deemed by Sponsor as proof of receipt of entry into the Sweepstakes. Any attempted form of entry into the Sweepstakes other than as described herein is void.
The Sweepstakes is open to individuals who meet the following criteria: (a) are eighteen (18) years of age or the age of majority (whichever is older) on the date of entry and (b) are a legal resident of and physically residing in the greater WPLG, Local 10 area (except where restricted or prohibited by law) ("Entrant"). Neither Sponsor nor employees of Sponsor, "Bethenny", Time Warner, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Telepictures Productions Inc., WPLG, Local 10 and all of their respective partners, parent companies, divisions, subsidiaries, affiliates, trustees, advertising, promotion and public relations agencies, and their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, independent contractors, representatives and agencies (collectively, the "Sweepstakes Entities") are eligible to participate in the Sweepstakes and/or win a Prize (as defined below). Additionally, immediate family members of such employees and persons living in the same household as such employees (whether related or not) are not eligible to win. For the purposes of this Sweepstakes, "immediate family members" is defined as spouse, domestic partner, mother, father, grandmother, grandfather, children, siblings and their spouses.
By entering this Sweepstakes, Entrants agree to be bound by these Official Rules and the decisions of the Sponsor, which are final and binding in all respects and cannot be challenged or appealed.
THE PRIZEWINNER AND GUEST MUST BE ABLE TO ATTEND THE LOCAL "BETHENNY" EVENT ON AUGUST 13, 2013. If any Sweepstakes winner is not able to attend the local "Bethenny" event, that Sweepstakes winner will be declared ineligible to win any prize and Sponsor shall have the right, in Sponsor's sole discretion, to select another Entrant as a Sweepstakes winner.
HOW TO ENTER: Online entry is the only method of entry for the Sweepstakes.
Entries received before and/or after the Sweepstakes Period will be void. All entries become the sole property of Sponsor and will not be acknowledged or returned.
Sponsor's computer will serve as the official time piece for the Sweepstakes.
To Enter:
If the Entrant meets the eligibility criteria set forth above, then in order to enter Entrant must go to the WPLG, Local 10 Facebook webpage located at https://www.facebook.com/WPLGLocal10 during the Sweepstakes Period and follow the steps below:
A. To be considered for the Sweepstakes, Entrant must first log in to Entrant's Facebook account and access the Sweepstakes webpage, located at https://www.facebook.com/WPLGLocal10
B. Entrant must then click the "Like" button on the Sweepstakes webpage
Entrant's entry must be received by Sponsor between 9:00:00 a.m. ET on July 23, 2013 and 11:59:59 p.m. ET on August 7, 2013.
A qualifying entry requires all of the following elements submitted via https://www.facebook.com/WPLGLocal10: Acknowledgment that Entrant meets the eligibility requirements criteria: Entrant is at least eighteen (18) years of age or age of majority (whichever is older) and a resident of the greater Miami-Fort Lauderdale area.
By submitting any entry into the Sweepstakes, whether complete or not and whether eligible or not, each entrant represents and warrants to Sponsor and the Sweepstakes Entities that the entry: (a) is the entrant's original creation; (b) has not copied, in whole or in part, any other work; (c) does not violate or infringe any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, privacy or publicity right, or other proprietary or intellectual property right of any person or entity; (d) is not defamatory, libelous, obscene, or otherwise illegal; and (e) is the sole and exclusive property of the entrant, and is not subject to any third-party rights. Submission of false or misleading personal information or copied, plagiarized, offensive or otherwise inappropriate entry material or material on Entrant's Facebook page (as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion) will be grounds for disqualification of entry. Entries generated by a script, macro or other automated means will be disqualified. Illegible or incomplete entries, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion, will be disqualified. Sponsor will not deem proof of submission of an entry as proof of receipt of an entry.
LIMIT: One (1) entry per Entrant during the Sweepstakes Period. In the event that a Entrant exceeds the limit, Sponsor may, at Sponsor's sole discretion, either disqualify all entries by the Entrant or select, at Sponsor's sole discretion, one (1) entry for judging and reject the remainder.
At the conclusion of the Sweepstakes Period, ten (10) Entrants will be selected from all eligible entries received during the Sweepstakes Period. Entrants will be selected by random drawing conducted by Sponsor on or before August 13, 2013. In the event of a dispute regarding the identity of an Entrant, the entry will be deemed submitted by the authorized Facebook account holder provided to Sponsor. An authorized Facebook account holder is defined as the natural person who is assigned to a Facebook account.
The Winner of each Prize is referenced hereinafter as the "Prizewinner".
If a potential Prizewinner is found ineligible or fails to comply with these Official Rules, such Entrant's claim to the Prize is forfeited and an alternate qualifying and eligible Entrant may be contacted, at Sponsor's sole discretion.
All Prizes legitimately claimed will be awarded.
Ten (10) "Grand Prize" winners will receive two (2) tickets to a local "Bethenny" event to be held in the greater WPLG, Local 10 area (winners under the age of twenty-one (21) will be prohibited from consuming alcohol).
The Prizewinner will be required to review and execute further contracts and releases provided by Sponsor in order to receive the applicable Prize.
THE PRIZEWINNER AND GUEST MUST BE ABLE TO ATTEND THE LOCAL "BETHENNY" EVENT ON AUGUST 13, 2013. If any Sweepstakes winner is not able to attend the local "Bethenny" event, that Sweepstakes winner will be declared ineligible to win any prize and Sponsor shall have the right, in Sponsor's sole discretion, to select another Entrant as a Sweepstakes winner.
Prizewinners consuming alcohol at the "Bethenny" event must be twenty-one (21) years of age or older. All Prizewinners will be required to confirm age before and during the event. Any violation shall result in immediate ejection from the event.
Prizewinner will be notified by Sponsor via phone and/or email. If Prizewinner does not accept the Prize and/or return all required documentation and signatures within twenty-four (24) hours following the date and time the Prize is awarded, then that winner will be disqualified and an alternate winner will be selected.
The Sponsor may require the tentative Prizewinner to execute an Affidavit of Eligibility, Liability Release and Publicity Release (collectively, "Affidavit/Release"). The Affidavit/Release, if required, must be returned to the Sponsor within twenty-four (24) hours of receipt of the Affidavit/Release. A disqualification will result and an alternate entry will be selected if the Affidavit/Release is not returned to the Sponsor within the specified time.
Refusal or return of any Prize notification, Affidavit/Release or Prize as undeliverable will result in disqualification and an alternate entry will be selected.
Sponsor will not replace any lost or stolen tickets, vouchers, or certificates. In the event of such a loss, Sponsor shall have the right, in Sponsor's sole discretion, to disqualify the Prizewinner or to award to that Prizewinner the remaining elements of the Prize which shall constitute full satisfaction of Sponsor's prize obligation to the Prize winner and no additional compensation will be awarded.
All expenses not specifically mentioned herein are not included in any prize and are solely the winner's responsibility including, without limitation, meals, room service and souvenirs.
The Prizewinner will be required to review and execute further contracts and releases provided by Sponsor in order to receive the Prize.
If the Prizewinner elects to partake in any or all portions of the Prize with fewer than the allotted number of guests (or no guests), the Prize will be awarded to the Prizewinner and each participating guest and any remainder of the Prize will be forfeited and shall not be subject to further or alternative compensation. Any guest must be at least eighteen (18) years of age. The Prize consists only of the elements expressly set forth above, and no other elements or expenses (including, without limitation, travel, insurance, meals, unspecified ground transportation, phone calls, gratuities, incidentals, souvenirs, gasoline, etc.) are included in the Prize and all such expenses are the sole responsibility of the Prizewinner. No refund or compensation will be paid in the event of the cancellation or delay of the Prize or any Prize component. Sponsor will not be liable if the Prize, or any Portion of the Prize, is cancelled or delayed. Sponsor may, in Sponsor's sole discretion, attempt to reschedule for a future trip/event. Prize tickets are subject to certain terms and conditions as specified by issuer. The terms and conditions of the tickets may govern if a Prize component is cancelled due to weather, an act of God, an act of terrorism, civil disturbance or any other reason. Sponsor is not responsible for, and will not replace, lost, mutilated, or stolen tickets, vouchers or certificates. In the event of such loss, Sponsor shall have the right, in Sponsor's sole discretion, to disqualify the Prizewinner or to award the Prizewinner the remaining elements of the Prize which shall constitute full satisfaction of Sponsor's prize obligation to the Prizewinner and no additional compensation will be awarded. Exact details, including seat locations, shall be determined in the sole discretion of Sponsor. Insurance is the sole responsibility of the Prizewinner and any guest.
There is no substitution for any Prize or any portion thereof and no refunds will be given for any unused portion of the Prize. The Prize is not transferable, assignable or redeemable for cash. All Prize details are at Sponsor's sole discretion.
Prizewinners are solely responsible for the reporting and payment of any and all federal, state and local taxes as well as any other costs and expenses associated with acceptance and use of a Prize not specified herein as being awarded. Prizewinners may be issued an IRS form 1099 based on the ARV of each Prize awarded.
Entrants' personal information will be utilized by the Sponsor for fulfillment of Sweepstakes Prizes and to comply with legal requirements. To review Sponsor's privacy policy, go to http://www.local10.com/-/1717430/3989770/-/9w6eiq/-/index.html. To review Sponsor's terms of use, go to http://www.local10.com/terms-of-use/-/1717430/3981532/-/h032in/-/index.html. By entering this Sweepstakes, Entrants accept and agree to abide by these privacy policies and terms of use.
All Sweepstakes related materials, including submission entries (collectively, "Submission") becomes the property of the Sponsor and will not be acknowledged or returned. The copyright in any Submission shall remain the property of the Entrant, but entry into this Sweepstakes constitutes Entrant's irrevocable and perpetual permission and consent, without further compensation or attribution, to use, reproduce, print, publish, transmit, distribute, sell, perform, adapt, enhance, or display such Submission for any purpose, including but not limited to editorial, advertising, trade, commercial, and publicity purposes by the Sponsor and/or others authorized by the Sponsor, in any and all media now in existence or hereafter invented, throughout the universe, for the duration or the copyright in the Submission. Sponsor and/or others authorized by Sponsor shall have the right to edit, adapt, and modify the Submission.
Any use of any of the Sweepstakes Entities trademarks or copyright interest is strictly prohibited and may subject Entrant to civil and/or criminal liability.
Except where prohibited by law or Sponsor's Privacy Policy the Prizewinner shall be required to grant Sponsor the perpetual and irrevocable right and license to use his/her name, photograph, visual and audio likeness, statements, biographical information, address (including city and state of residence) and any other information contained in his/her entry on a worldwide basis, and in all forms of media now known or hereafter invented or discovered (including, without limitation, on the Sponsors' web sites), in perpetuity, without further compensation, notice, review or approval.
ALL PRIZES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "with all faults." SWEEPSTAKES ENTITIES make no warranties, express or implied, in fact or in law, relative to the use or enjoyment of any prize, or any portion thereof, including, without limitation, its quality, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Any and all warranties for a prize, or any portion thereof, are contained in the manufacturers' or service providers' warranties, as relevant.
All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. The use of certain companies' products and services as Prizes does not imply participation in, approval of, or endorsement of this Sweepstakes by such companies.
By entering, ALL participants IN THE SWEEPSTAKES, participant's HEIRS, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, LEGAL SUCCESSORS AND/OR ASSIGNS release and agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless the SPONSOR AND ALL SWEEPSTAKES ENTITIES From and against any and all claims, demands, losses and causes of action for any DAMAGES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ALL CONSEQUENTIAL, punitive, AND INCIDENTAL DAMAGES), liability, loss, cost, fees (including attorneys' fees), including, without limitation, damage to PERSON (INCLUDING DEATH) OR personal or real property, due in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, by reason of THE acceptance, possession, REDEMPTION, MISDIRECTION, use or misuse of ANY prize OR ANY PORTION OF ANY PRIZE (including any activity OR TRAVEL related thereto) or participation in the SWEEPSTAKES and the ACTIVITIES OR FOR ANY And all claims based on rights of publicity and rights of privacy WHETHER any of these things are CAUSED, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, BY THE ACTS, OMISSIONS, NEGLIGENCE OR MISCONDUCT OF THE SPONSOR AND/OR THE SWEEPSTAKES ENTITIES.
By ENTERING, ALL PARTICIPANTS IN THE SWEEPSTAKES agree that THE SWEEPSTAKES ENTITIES assume no liability whatsoever for injuries or damages of any kind sustained in connection with THE PHOTO, STATEMENT AND/OR ENTRANT'S ENTRY INTO THE SWEEPSTAKES, THE use, acceptance, possession or awarding of ANY prize or while preparing for, participating in and/or traveling to or from any SWEEPSTAKES-related activity, including, without limitation, any injury, damage, death, loss OR accident to person or property due to an intentional act, an act of negligence or default and/or any act of God.
The Sweepstakes Entities are not responsible for human errors or for any damaged, tampered with, delayed, illegible, incomplete, inaccurate, garbled, late, lost, forged, misaddressed, misdirected, mutilated, mass machine-generated, unintelligible, incomprehensible, postage-due or stolen mail or entries or entries otherwise not in compliance with these Official Rules. In addition, Sweepstakes Entities are not responsible for any typographical errors in these Official Rules, Sweepstakes content or any advertising materials for the Sweepstakes, or for any kind of computer, electronic, hardware, software, Internet, network, technical or telephone failures and/or problems caused by the Sponsor and/or the Sweepstakes Entities or the user, or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Sweepstakes, or by any human, typographical, electronic, network or other error that may occur in receiving and/or processing of the entries in the Sweepstakes, or by infection by computer viruses, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud or technical failure.
If the Sweepstakes becomes compromised, hampered, interrupted, not capable of running as planned, rendered impossible of performance in any way or prevented, including, without limitation, because of any kind of computer viruses, bugs, electronic, hardware, software, Internet, network, technical or telephone failures, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, an event of force majeure or any other cause created by Sponsor and/or the Sweepstakes Entities, the user or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Sweepstakes, Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change the Official Rules, to cancel, modify, suspend or withdraw the Sweepstakes or any Sweepstakes offer and/or cancel, modify, suspend or withdraw any method of entry, without notice, and select Prizewinners from all entries received for the Sweepstakes prior to or after the cancellation, modification, suspension or withdrawal. As used herein, an event of force majeure shall be deemed to include, without limitation, an act of God; an act of terrorism, war, riot or civil commotion, fire, casualties, equipment failure, boycott; labor dispute, strike or stoppage (including a strike by the members of any union), labor or material shortage, transportation interruption of any kind, an act, regulation, order or request of or by any federal, state or local authority or quasi-governmental entity (whether or not the act, regulation, order or request proves to be invalid); or any other similar or dissimilar act beyond the Sponsor's control.
All Entrants, as a condition of entry, agree that they have not purchased any kind of Internet service whatsoever in order to participate in and/or enter the Sweepstakes. Entrants agree not to knowingly damage or cause interruption of the Sweepstakes and/or prevent others from utilizing the Sweepstakes. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT TO DAMAGE ANY ONLINE OR CELLULAR SERVICE OR WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE SWEEPSTAKES OR CAMPAIGN VIOLATES CRIMINAL AND/OR CIVIL LAWS.
The parties agree that the Sweepstakes and these Official Rules will be governed, construed and interpreted under the laws of the State of California without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules (whether of the State of California or any other jurisdiction) which would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of California. Each participant agrees (i) that any or all lawsuits brought by participants pursuant to these Official Rules or the Sweepstakes will be brought in the courts located in Los Angeles, California and (ii) any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Sweepstakes or any Prize awarded shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action. Sweepstakes participants hereby waive any and all objections to personal jurisdiction. Any and all claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred including, without limitation, costs associated with entering this Sweepstakes but in no event attorneys' fees. Under no circumstances will Sweepstakes participants be permitted to obtain awards for, and hereby waive all rights to claim, indirect, punitive, incidental and consequential damages and any other damages, other than for actual out-of-pocket expenses, and any and all rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased.

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Summer has finally arrived and with that, many precautions must be taken while working or enjoying outdoor activities. Sun exposure can cause skin cancer and insects will be out in abundance. We must all be vigilant in protecting ourselves against mosquitoes that can carry West Nile Virus and Triple E. Our tick problem is getting worse every year with more cases of Lyme Disease being reported. Take precautions to cover your skin as best you can with the proper clothing and use good sunscreen and insect repellent with deet.
Hats off to our brothers and sisters who have done a great job restoring power to our customers during the many recent wind storms this spring.
We are planning Steward training again with the International IBEW trainers this fall. More information will be forthcoming for our stewards to sign up for this important training opportunity.
MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Our annual Central Division clambake will again be held this year at Hinerwadel's on Saturday, September 29th from 1-5 p.m. More information will be provided soon.
We are still looking for more volunteers for our Women's and Youth Committees. If anyone is interested, please contact the Syracuse Union office at (315) 476-9797.
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Over the past year, a Google Street View car carrying a methane-sniffing sensor drove around half a dozen Pittsburgh neighborhoods and picked up 200 indications of gas leaking from old Peoples Natural Gas pipelines.
(TNS) -- Within a block of Arsenal Park in Lawrenceville, there are three natural gas leaks that each day do as much damage to the atmosphere as driving a car between 2,100 miles and 19,000 miles.
Those leaks don't pose a danger to the kids at Arsenal's playground or to the homes appreciating in value in Pittsburgh's hottest neighborhood. The damage is unseen and, until recently, unnoticed.
When a Google Street View car carrying a methane-sniffing sensor drove around half a dozen Pittsburgh neighborhoods over the past year, it picked up 200 indications of gas leaking from old Peoples Natural Gas pipelines.
Today, those spots are represented as yellow, orange and red dots on an interactive map of the city — the culmination of a partnership between Peoples, Google, and the New York-based nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund which has already mapped gas leaks in 10 other cities.
In Pittsburgh, as in several other cities with older infrastructure, there is a leak for every two miles surveyed.
The leaks aren't considered a safety hazard because they aren't causing gas to accumulate in an enclosed space, where it could cause an explosion. And while it might be possible to smell some of them, methane is not toxic and it isn't hazardous to breathe at these concentrations.
The hazard here is methane's contribution to climate change.
As with so many things, the first step is admitting you have a problem. Peoples took that step when the utility called the Environmental Defense Fund last year and asked the organization to help map its leaky pipes — pipes that the company is replacing to the tune of $3 billion over the next 20 years.
Peoples' pipeline replacement plan is front-loaded in the City of Pittsburgh, where all bare metal pipes will be replaced within the next five to seven years. Peoples has already done a lot of work in Lawrenceville, putting plastic pipelines in areas just above Arsenal Park. The blocks around the park are on the schedule for next year.
Until recently, Peoples — like other utilities — approached leaks almost exclusively from a safety perspective and ranked its pipeline repair efforts accordingly. It didn't try to calculate how much environmental damage is caused by methane, a greenhouse gas far more potent than carbon dioxide, escaping into the atmosphere.
"To be honest, we never thought about it that way," Morgan O'Brien, Peoples' CEO said on Tuesday. "So we became enlightened."
The utility's tools for detecting leaks and its expertise aren't necessarily well suited for environmental impact analysis, the company said.
So in addition to working with EDF, Peoples has also engaged Carnegie Mellon University engineers in a parallel effort. That team — led by Allen Robinson, head of mechanical engineering and director of the newly-formed Center for Air, Climate, and Energy Solutions at CMU — has been helping Peoples quantify methane leaks before and after pipeline replacements projects. It's also working with the utility to adjust how Peoples prioritizes infrastructure efforts by making environmental considerations a part of the formula.
The CMU team has mapped areas of Homewood, Point Breeze, Shadyside, South Side and Riverview Park. Mr. Robinson said that information should be public within months.
That would add to the EDF map now available of the Golden Triangle, the Hill District, Lawrenceville, Oakland and Highland Park.
EDF's map represents a snapshot in time. Peoples estimates that about half of the leaks confirmed from the data have already been repaired. Still, new ones could have appeared in the interim, cautioned Fred Krupp, EDF's president who was in Pittsburgh on Tuesday to unveil the results.
Mr. Krupp praised Peoples for being a good corporate citizen and the state of Pennsylvania for moving forward with regulations that aim to quantify and restrict methane emissions from the oil and gas industry.
"Of the global warming we're experiencing today, methane causes a quarter of that," Mr. Krupp said. "Look at what is possible when we turn away from the pointless debates and constructively work together."
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Farmhouse Inns provide a vast range of tasty pub favourites as well as a traditional daily carvery with a fantastic choice of fresh vegetables and succulent roasted joints of meat. Their generous, eye catching cakes are regarded as their unique selling point, displayed in cabinets in the centre of their business to create a real talking point for customers.
Farmhouse Inns aim to provide the best dining and drinking experience for customers of all ages, including a distraction zone for children to keep them occupied. They aim to be the first choice for families. You'll find personal touches throughout their pubs and in everything they do.
The teams at Farmhouse Inns are the people who make their pubs so special, creating the warm and friendly atmosphere they're renowned for. Farmhouse Inns are passionate about developing the skills of their people. That's why they're offering an award-winning apprenticeship programme. The scheme provides opportunities for new team members to achieve an apprenticeship through 12-month training programmes designed to perfectly match roles in the licensed hospitality sector.
Reach your full potential! Farmhouse Inns' career pathway has been designed specifically to promote development. Through their programme, you'll gain a nationally recognised apprenticeship from entry Level 2 through to management Level 4. Plus, as part of Greene King, you'll reap the benefits of working for one of the leading pub companies in the UK with the biggest apprenticeship programme in the hospitality sector. As such, you'll have opportunities to work within other Greene King businesses once you've completed your apprenticeship.
This is an amazing opportunity to work in a fun and challenging environment to gain the skills, knowledge and experience you need to kick start a career in hospitality.
Responsibilities included in this role:
- Prepare, cook and present food to company specification
- Keep kitchen clean, tidy and hygienic at all times
- Work safely around kitchen equipment and monitor and deal with any maintenance issues
- Keep up to date with new products, menus and promotions
- Adhere to company policies and procedures and licensing laws
- Be involved and contribute at all team meetings
- Carry out instructions as given by management and head office
Benefits include:
- 33% off meals and drinks at any Greene King Managed Site
- Pension scheme
- Donate to charity of your choice through payroll - donations taken before tax
- Up to 28 days paid holiday
- Refer a friend and receive up to £1,000 (£500 AM/KM & £1000GM)
- Pay national minimum wage for your age
Future Prospects
On-going training and development.
Reality Check
The key dates are to be used as a guide only. Should the right candidate be found, this vacancy may close early.
Skills Required
- Pride in delivering excellent customer service
- Good teamwork ethic
- Strong communication skills
- The ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment
- Organised multitasker
- Creativity and imagination for food presentation
Qualities Required
- Passionate about developing your skills in the hospitality sector
- A willingness and desire to learn
- A smart and tidy appearance
- Tact and diplomacy for dealing with demanding customers
- High standards of cleanliness and hygiene
- A flexibility to work weekends and evenings
Qualifications Required
No previous qualifications required.
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Looking into Learning-Centered Classrooms: Implications for Classroom Management
Carolyn M. Evertson and Kristen W. Neal examine best practices that shift classroom management's emphasis from controlling students' behavior to creating learning-centered classrooms that foster their engagement, autonomy, and sense of community by giving them progressively more responsibility, under the teacher's careful guidance.
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What Rick Reeves remembers most about Evelyn Adebayo isn't just what she did on the basketball court in two seasons at Gardner-Webb.
It's how she told him she was leaving.
"Her last day there, I was out of town recruiting. She left a letter for me in my office, slid it underneath the door. One of the nicest letters I've ever gotten from a kid," Reeves recalled Friday by phone. "Sometimes circumstances happen, and people need a new start."
Adebayo, who transferred to UConn on Thursday, spent her freshman and sophomore years at Gardner-Webb before heading to Murray State. After sitting out the 2017-18 season per NCAA rules, Adebayo, a London native, morphed into a steady double-double threat in one season with the Racers.
In 30 starts last year, the 6-foot-1 forward averaged a team-high 18.2 points and 11.4 rebounds, earning a spot on the All-Ohio Valley Conference First Team. As a graduate transfer, she'll be eligible to play immediately for the Huskies.
Reeves resigned in 2018 after 14 seasons as the head coach at Gardner-Webb, moving to Kentucky to care for his in-laws. He now coaches at the University of the Cumberlands, an NAIA school, but has kept a close eye on Adebayo.
"She was all that Murray State had. She was like LeBron when he first got to the Cavaliers," Reeves joked. "They didn't have a whole lot of help to go around her. I'm anxious to see her even elevate her game to a higher level. I know she would like to play professionally once her collegiate career is over."
Adebayo was Murray State's clear-cut best player on both ends of the floor, piling up a school-record 19 double-doubles. The Racers went 13-17 (9-9) and lost in the first round of the OVC Tournament.
While the competition will be greater at UConn, the hope is that Adebayo becomes a reliable option in the frontcourt besides 6-4 Olivia Nelson-Ododa and 6-1 Megan Walker. The Huskies have 10 players under scholarship for next season, including Aubrey Griffin, a 6-1 guard from Ossining, N.Y., and fellow incoming freshman, Polish guard Anna Makurat, who announced her commitment on Tuesday.
"She's a very skilled player, can score inside and outside, and has a lot of potential," Reeves said of Adebayo. "I've had a lot of admiration for Geno (Auriemma) as a coach, and I like him as a person. She'll kind of fit in to his high-post offense because she can shoot it and she can put the ball on the floor. She's got a lot of potential and a lot of versatility."
Adebayo showed an ability to stretch the floor last year, shooting 36 percent from 3-point range and 46.8 percent overall. Both totals were up from her first two seasons at Gardner-Webb, when she mainly came off the bench under Reeves.
"She has a scorer's mentality," Reeves said. "She wants to score."
Reeves called Adebayo an "excellent student" and a "brilliant kid," saying he's not sure he remembers her even getting a B in school. He believes she's matured enough to contribute at UConn.
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Initiatives already underway include a project involving multimodal hubs and stations for mobility and urban transport; an app for locating parking spaces; and a ride-sharing platform.
"The automotive industry targets three areas for innovation: electrification, the connected car and autonomous driving, and all three will lead us to new concepts in mobility. The future of the industry depends on research and innovation," explained Dr Matthias Rabe, SEAT vice-president for R&D. "SEAT wants to be a leading brand in the development of new mobility solutions and CARNET is our commitment to creating the urban mobility of the future in Barcelona, the city that serves as the inspiration for our vehicles."
"Mobility in the automotive sector is undergoing a paradigm shift and new skills and technologies will be needed in the future," added Volkswagen Group Research executive director Professor Dr Jürgen Leohold. "Through CARNET, Volkswagen Group Research aims to develop ideas and promote projects in Barcelona, one of the most attractive smart cities for the study of mobility."


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Work projects in the morning and part of the afternoon, free time before dinner, club in the evenings with plenty of time to connect with each other.
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May 19th-24th
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Travel reviews by Mr & Mrs S from T Wells
Wonderful experience; will it last?
On this trip, I visited Namibia between 14-May-2009 and 2-Jun-2009 and I travelled with 1 other person.
An excellent experience, well planned.
The distances were OK but with not much to see from the road took up an undue proportion of the holiday time - maybe travelling between locations by light aircraft would be better. The lodges etc. were all very different, which was good, but on a lot of the game drives we tended to see the same animals. We were pleased not to have stayed at any of the camps inside Etosha as they lacked atmosphere but they did look very clean and Okaukuejo's water hole, not to be missed and with good viewing facilities, had an amazing number of wildlife visitors.
There had been a lot of rain this year so the grass was tall and hid e.g. cheetahs which might have been there. The reserves did not have the 'wildness' of e.g. the Masai Mara. We had no problems at all with our bookings and ExpertAfrica are to be congratluated on this and all other aspects.
I stayed at and have reviewed:
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|Terra Africa, Namibia (this camp has since closed)
15-May-2009 review: Safari tour first night stopover
|Bagatelle Kalahari Game Ranch, Namibia
16-May-2009 review: Relaxed tourist ranch with fair safari drive.
|Sossus Dune Lodge, Namibia
17-May-2009 review: Dramatic desert plain scenery
|Sam's Giardino, Namibia
20-May-2009 review: Unusual stay in drab coastal town
|Mowani Mountain Camp, Namibia
22-May-2009 review: 'Out of Africa' views
|Hobatere Lodge, Namibia
24-May-2009 review: Out-of-the-way lodge in interesting reserve.
|Ongava Tented Camp, Namibia
26-May-2009 review: Best in our trip for wild life.
|Ongava Lodge, Namibia
27-May-2009 review: High class lodge in good game area
|Mushara Lodge, Namibia
28-May-2009 review: Lovely quiet relaxing place.
|Okonjima Plains Camp, Namibia
30-May-2009 review: Conservation view of big game


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Monday, October 30, 2006
Visiting the Knutsons
Sunday evening we went to Nevada to the Knutson's for a great dinner and relaxing. Tate slept pretty much the entire time and Sara and I watched our Sunday evening shows. We ate Dairy Queen and the boys played cribbage. It was a great time. We hadn't seen them for what seemed like forever! We are so blessed to have such great friends!
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Meeting Great Grandpa Peakin
On Sunday, after church, we went to Colo to visit Nana and Papa P. and Great Grandpa Peakin. It was Tate's first trip to Nana and Papa's house in Colo. He loved it there! :) We had a great lunch and just hung out and relaxed for a couple of hours. We were so happy to introduce Tate to his other Great Grandpa...now he's met both of them!
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Saturday, October 28, 2006
Our Little Seminole
Even though the Florida State Seminoles didn't win tonight, Tate still showed his support by wearing his FSU attire. Tate was disappointed by the loss, but was SO HAPPY with the Hawkeye victory, so that helped. Tate really enjoyed laying around all day and watching his favorite college football teams!
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The Peakins Visit
Sean's brother, sister-in-law and our niece, Leah came to visit today. We were so excited to have them come and meet Tate! We hung out and watched football and admired the kids all day. It was very relaxing and fun. Leah LOVED Tate soooo much! It was so cute because she could not keep her hands off of him! She wanted to touch him and stick her finger in his mouth and his nose constantly. She especially loved his pacifier. He would be sucking away on it and she would just reach right over and pop it right out of his mouth...not because she wanted to use it, just because it was fun! Ha. We captured her doing it in the first picture...as you can see, Tate was not thrilled that she did it, but it was quite amusing for the rest of us! :)
Leah is getting so big, walking around things and chattering! She loves reaching for whatever she's not supposed to have (typical child!) and had tons of fun licking our sliding glass door and picking on Tate today! Can't wait for all of the years to come!
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Our Little Zebra
We went over to Chris and Brenda's last night to hang out and Tate begged to wear his Halloween costume! So, he talked us into it and he wore it over to their house to show everyone what a cute zebra he is! Here are some pictures of him!
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Thursday, October 26, 2006
Our Bald Boy!
We gave Tate a bath tonight and afterwards when Sean was rubbing his head with the towel, I realized that he had balled up dried skin all over the top of his head. While I was trying to pick if off his head, I realized that there was hair balled up with all the dry skin and then I realized his head was as smooth as a cue ball! I continued to pick off the dry skin until it was all gone along with all of his hair on top. There are still a few strands right along his hairline in the front, but if I pull on them even a little, they just fall right out! We may end up with a little baldy after all! It's so funny right now though because he still has all of his hair on the sides and on the back, so he just looks like a balding old man! I kind of tried pulling lightly on the hair on the sides and back to see if it was going to fall out soon too, but it seems to be staying put for a while. His head is soooo soft on top now, it's so funny!
I tried to capture his bald head as best as I could in these pics, but it was hard. By the last picture, Tate was irritated with getting his picture taken and just decided he was going to stick his tongue out for the rest. :)
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Tate & Brown Puppy
Thank you Brigg and Lani for Tate's brown puppy! He LOVES it! He just lays in his crib and stares at it. It is wonderful that he can be so focused on brown puppy for so long because then his mommy can get stuff done like making dinner and picking up the house! :)
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Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Kay and Tate
Kay got to meet Tate yesterday. She came in from Kansas City to visit and stay the night. I was so happy that she came all this way to see our baby boy! We just relaxed and hung out and she got a lot of "Tate time" in!
Tate had a tough night last night. He didn't sleep a whole lot and was pretty fussy. Of course because of that, today he is exhausted. He has gotten a lot of catch up sleep today. I needed some as well and he wasn't wanting ANYTHING to do with laying in his crib, SO he got to sleep for a couple of hours in his boppy in Mommy and Daddy's bed. I CANNOT make this a habit, but it was nice to be able to get a couple of hours of sleep uninterrupted! I had to take a picture of how cute he looked laying in his boppy!
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Tate in Green
Tate and I had a good day today. We went over to Melissa's and hung out for a couple of hours and just lounged. Tate did "tummy time" for a bit while kind of propped up on a pickle pillow. I thought these pics were so cute because the pillow matched his green sweat suit. He looks so good in green I think. The outfit is a little big, but cute nonetheless! The hood on the jacket is about as big as Tate! We think he's cute in anything though!
Kay comes to visit tomorrow and to meet Tate! I can't wait to see her and for her to see Tate!!!!
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Sunday, October 22, 2006
Weekend Gathering
It almost felt like Christmas today with nearly all of the Clodfelder side of the family gathering at Cathy and Steve's. As usual, Cathy was a FABULOUS host, supplying TONS of yummy food! We gathered and ate food all day! Tate had such a great time meeting his Great Grandpa Clodfelder, Kent, Carolyn, Gale, Wells, Drew, Brent, Olivia and Mary. I think that's everyone new that he met!!! There were sooo many people, I apologize if I forgot someone! It was a great day and so nice to introduce Tate to everyone! We are just so proud of Tate and how perfect we think he is and love "showing him off"! It was so great seeing everyone!
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Tate Bundled Up...
It's been cold out so when we went out to run errands on Saturday, we got Tate all bundled up! We thought he looked pretty cute which made for...you guessed it...a fantastic photo opp!!!
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Daddy's Swaddling Job
Daddy had night time duty last night and in the middle of the night, Tate got up for his night time feeding and diaper change. Daddy hasn't had night time duty all by himself before, so when he tried to re-swaddle Tate, this is how he did it. He gets an A for effort, but when I woke up in the morning and saw Tate's swaddle loose with his arm hanging out and covering his mouth, I HAD to take a picture! It was pretty funny! I LOVE Sean, he tries SO hard! He is doing an excellent job!
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Friday, October 20, 2006
My First Friday at Home!!
My first Friday at home was good. I got to spend lots of time with Daddy because Mommy had a fever and didn't feel good, so she took a nap for a couple hours while Daddy played with me! I liked that because usually Daddy works all day and I don't get to see him until later. Mommy woke up though and took care of me for the rest of the day while Daddy went to work.
Mommy sure likes to take lots of pictures of me! I think I am getting the hang of it though...I know that when she has the camera in front of me, I am supposed to look right at it. I do that most of the time. Mommy says I better get used to that flash because I am going to be seeing a lot of it! Daddy and I think that she goes a bit overboard though.
I was awake a lot today (and last night!), I just haven't wanted to sleep much since yesterday. I like it when Mommy stays up all night with me and rocks me and sings to me and holds me. I don't think that she always likes it though. Sometimes I look up at her and she has her eyes closed and so I have to make some noises so that she wakes up and pays attention to me. That's what I did last night a lot!
Today Mommy and Daddy played with me while I layed on the floor. They dangled my blue monkey toy in front of me, and I really liked looking at it...I even liked to suck on it's nose! We had so much fun today! I was exhausted by 10 pm and fell asleep on Daddy's chest. I like it there, it's comfortable.
Tomorrow, for the first time, I get to watch the Hawkeyes play! I can't wait! Then, I get to meet more people on Sunday! I am going to meet my Great Grandpa Clodfelder, Kent, Gale, Carolyn and Olivia! I can't wait to meet them!
Love, Tate
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OPINION: Where would I be without HECS?
LIKE many students who complete a tertiary degree, with the hope of spending money to make money in their chosen career, I am in debt to the government.
I am one of thousands of students who owe some of the total $26.3 billion of university loan debt which has developed over the 23 years the current system has been in place.
It has been estimated by the Grattan Institute's 2013 Mapping Australian Higher Education report that $6.2 billion will never be repaid.
Is this cost worth it to give the Australian people better access to higher education in a competitive world?
HECS-HELP allows students to put off their payments for their university education and to begin paying it back when they begin to earn more than the annual threshold for repayments, which is $49,095 in 2012 to 2013.
But although the federal government's Study Assist website claims "there is no real interest charged on HECS-HELP loans" a student's debt will grow with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) it is adjusted or "indexed" with.
My HECS-HELP loan began in 2008 and so far my loan has grown after being adjusted by 3.9 per cent in 2009, 1.9 per cent in 2010, 3.0 per cent in 2011 and 2.9 per cent in 2012.
The government offers a 10 per cent discount to students who can pay up front but sadly I like many did not fit into that category.
With an annual CPI index increasing my HECS-HELP debt every year the sooner I am able to pay back my loan the better but at least I will be able to afford it when the bills start coming in.
Some university students will never have the means to pay back their HECS debt, which is commonly about $20,000 for three years of study.
Other people who studied at Australian universities and now live overseas are also exempt from paying back their debt.
For a government so driven by a surplus until recently it is surprising those who live overseas and can afford to pay back their HECS debt currently don't.
I feel obligated as a taxpayer myself to do my bit and pay back the HECS-HELP debt. Without government support through the HECS-HELP system ultimately paid by the taxpayers, many people would not be where they are today.
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Cortana helps Kenyans locate clean drinking water
WE RECOMMEND: Fix Windows errors & optimize performance Cortana is pretty smart, but how smart is the Microsoft assistant exactly? We can't say for sure, but we do know it is smart enough to help secure safe water in Kenya. As Cortana is an intelligent AI, it's capable of many things. Microsoft talked about this back at Build 2016 during one of the keynotes, with the company having pitched a world of connected devices reliant on sensors speaking to each other over the cloud. These sensors are linked to an enormous pool of data, the same data Cortana is able to take advantage of to help the people of Kenya gain clean drinking water. Microsoft's Solution Architect and Technical Manager of Microsoft Research, Kenji Takeda, talked about the Cortana Intelligent Suite…
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When you get your website designed, website content usually comes below website design on the priority list. Often rushed and given little attention, poor content creates a "Paris Hilton" website– great to look at but not much substance.
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How many website's have you seen that start with "Welcome to OUR website. WE do such and such. WE'RE the best at it." Replace We with YOU. When your target customer comes to your website they have a problem they need help with. Show the customer you understand their problem, and then offer a solution. This way you're customer feels like you understand them, instead of just saying a bunch of stuff about yourself.
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When someone visits your website, they don't just want a bunch of technical specs or lists of services. They want to know how what you do will improve their life in some way. For example: E.g. A tour operator sells a tailored, stress free holiday experience, not tour packages. an insurance broker sells peace of mind, not insurance policies.
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When writing your copy, make sure you're thinking about the main keywords people would use to find you in a search engine. Make sure you're using these key terms wherever possible in your website copy. This will help your search engine rankings for your website in a major way.
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The YWCA is for, by and about women & girls. Since 1874 they have made it possible for women & children to escape homelessness, violence, and instability and move towards a brighter future. At PAVIA, they believe they have a social responsibility to leverage their success and act as a conduit for good. As part of this commitment their annual goal is to raise a minimum of $24,000 for the YWCA Halifax.
All funds raised from PAVIA FUNdraising events will go directly to YWCA programming within our five focus areas:
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2 arrested, 1 wanted in Stokes County break-ins that led to school lockdowns
Two people were arrested and a third person is wanted in connection with a series of break-ins that led to two schools being locked down Tuesday.
Deshawn Bailey, 23, was arrested and charged in four break-ins, and Alexus White, 19, was arrested and charged with two break-ins.
Frederick Reed, 26, is still wanted in connection with four break-ins. He should be considered armed and dangerous, Stokes County deputies said.
The break-ins took place in Germanton, Pinnacle, Rural Hall, and Westfield, Stokes County deputies said. The suspects assaulted a 52-year-old Pinnacle resident with a gun and threatened to kill her, investigators told WXII's Margaret Johnson.
The lockdown took place Tuesday afternoon and affected Stokes High School and Germanton Elementary School. The three suspects ran from a maroon Cadillac that crashed Tuesday morning on Highway 8 and Bolejack Road.
Bailey and White were taken into custody after hitching a ride with a person who took them to law enforcement, investigators said. Investigators suspect Reed pointed a gun at a trooper before stealing a silver 2008 Honda Pilot SUV and driving away.
The SUV has North Carolina license plate XTW9480. Reed has connections in several Triad locations, deputies said.
An undercover deputy spotted the maroon Cadillac Tuesday morning and contacted a trooper, investigators said. The Cadillac ran from the trooper before crashing, investigators said.
More than a dozen law enforcement vehicles responded to the scene. Multiple other state agencies and a helicopter helped with the search.


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Geek Cake Friday: 21 Supernatural '67 Impala Baby Cakes
On The Road So Far, Geek Cake Friday has brought you sugary tributes to everything from The Walking Dead Zombies to Doctor Who Aliens to Hobbit Holes. Sure, I've tackled Supernatural cakes before, but quit'cher bitchin. This blog's driver picks the music. Shotgun shuts your cakehole. Or opens it wide to gape at these tributes to Dean Winchster's Baby. IRead more


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Bikram yoga is the new antidote to everything. Go sweat it out for 90 minutes at a time in tree pose and you'll never get cancer, goiters or canker sores.
The room is 105 degrees at all times. I don't know what's magical about this temperature, but it causes tiny rivers of perspiration to follow little Oregon Trails down one's face, arms, back, legs and other places one shouldn't mention. Except I have to because the whole room stinks like unmentionables. Mainly because the men wear shorts like these: And the room is carpeted. CARPETED!
I'm not a huge exercise person anyway. I wouldn't be going to this place at all if I
a) didn't live 4 blocks away
b) didn't have such an affinity for holiday foods in large quantities
c) didn't consider yoga to be one of those "sports" you can half-ass your way through and still see results
d) didn't have a friend already enrolled and applying prohibition era mobster-like pressure
But being a known fainter, I was still scared. What if I'm bending back looking at the wall and - boom - I go down like an anvil on an accident-prone coyote? It's hard to get back up from that without looking not awesome. Like running for a bus. This was a valid concern. However I made it through the first class (while watching old hats occasionally crouch in the fetal position or run for the door with a green face). I even made it through the second. And then the third. And I'll tell you what, if you can get through it (and if you've ever spent a summer in Louisiana, you can get through it) - it makes eating two molasses cookies a day for breakfast all the sweeter.
However - it should come as no surprise that I remain a cynical yoga-ist. I refuse to do the stupid audible breathing and I refuse to say "namaste" at the end of class. There's maybe one brown body on average in that whole room and it just makes us all sound like paleface assholes. And if they don't like it (they don't) then they can passive aggressively suggest it so (they do).
This didn't have much to do with Christmas at all, did it. Poo.
So what's new with y'all? I joined a book club.
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My current mental state.
Friday night I had dinner with my family because Mom's cousin's daughter was in town — She works for Air Canada and they shipped her out to Calgary during the airline strike and then everyone was ordered back to work and so she was heading back home on Saturday.
Along with the obligatory family dinner, came family photos. I am fat, ugly and blobby. There's no discernable neck-chin-face line. I am a blob.
I am frustrated, ashamed, and embarassed at the way I look. (What the is up with my nose!?)
I'm tired of the fact that I can't seem to shake the exhaustion to get moving. I'm frustrated at not having the motivation to do exercise, not to mention ashamed and embarassed of my appearance which has been the result of many months of increased steroid use.
The biggest thing that's shaming me right now, is the fact I have to go see Kidney Guy on Thursday and his nurse will most likely just point out my extreme moonface (which is what the blobbiness is for the most part). I seem to be retaining ridiculous amounts of fluids with no means of getting them out of my body no matter how much liquids I consume to rid myself of all this. RheumyII I see next Tuesday and she is going to shame me even further without giving me any helpful or useful information as to how we can deal with this blobbiness other than "walk 30 minutes a day — 10 minutes, three times a day!".
I am ultimately very, very upset about this and am feeling so let down by my body. For some reason SALLY, the Lupus, the PAH, etc doesn't upset me nearly as much as turning into the human blob does… which I suppose, is caused by all of the above, but still, I view it as being more as a problem with the damn cortisone bumps.
I wish someone could help me get rid of all this damn fluid. I wish Kidney Guy's nurse would increase my damn water pill doseage. Perhaps I should start drinking barley tea again (or PT mentioned green tea) or get Mom to make the potions cuz that seemed to help keep the fluids down and at bay.
Anyone have any suggestions? :(


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A YOUTH football team from Moston has been told to hand back a trophy won a few weeks ago.
They have also been expelled from the Bury and Radcliffe Junior League.
These are the claims made by an angry club official who is now hoping the Manchester County FA can come up with a solution.
A hearing has been fixed for 16 July.
Francis Egan told The Guardian that the under 15s team, now based in Oldham, but formerly known as Belden Red Star had already decided to quit the league when informed they had been thrown out.
He said: "The lads won the Lennox Memorial Cup and we were shocked when the league asked us to send the trophy back to them immediately as we had been expelled."
"It seems someone connected with our club had been accused of using foul language to a league official on the day of the final."
"We strongly deny there was any foul language used, and we would be willing to take a lie test to prove it."
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It is the Korean Sang In Lee who distinguished and won the 2017 Pablo Casals Festival Composition Competition with "Vinteuil's Little Sentence"


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Braver than any man: Revealed for the first time, the awe-inspiring courage of two British sisters who waged a one-family war on the Nazis - and were left with emotional scars that never healed
Hunched over a wireless set, alone in a safe house in a Parisian suburb on a rainy morning in July 1944, Didi Nearne tapped out a Morse Code message. It contained urgent information from the leader of her Resistance network to intelligence chiefs back in London.
A month earlier, Allied armies had landed in Normandy and the battle for France was raging fiercely. Agents of SOE — the Special Operations Executive — played a vital role sabotaging German communications and relaying information about troop movements and weapons back to Britain.
Furious, the Germans redoubled their efforts to catch SOE agents. Their radio-detecting vans combed the streets, seeking out signals that would lead them to the wireless operators laboriously tapping out their messages.
The average SOE wireless operator in Occupied France lasted for just six weeks before being arrested. Didi, 21, had survived for five months, making an astonishing 105 transmissions.
If caught, she faced imprisonment, perhaps torture and execution. Four female SOE agents had been put to death in a concentration camp by lethal injection that month. They were cremated, but evidence emerged later that some of them were still alive when they went into the ovens.
Brave: Eileen 'Didi Nearne operated as an undercover agent called 'Rose' in Occupied France and was caught and tortured by the Nazis
Didi knew the risks. 'There were Gestapo in plain clothes everywhere. I always looked at my reflection in the shop windows to see if I was being followed,' she recalled later.
But she had to send this latest message. It was only as she finished tapping it out that she became aware of shouting outside.
Peering through the rain-misted window, she was horrified to see several cars parked in the street below and Germans pouring from them. They had tracked down the wireless signal.
Didi knew she had only minutes. Hastily, she took the wireless set apart and hid the pieces in a cupboard. She hid her pistol, too. She snatched up her codes and the paper on which she had encrypted the message, shoved them into the kitchen stove and set light to them, poking them until just ashes were left.
Only then did she think of saving herself.
It was too late. There was a loud banging on the door. Taking a deep breath, Didi opened it and found a gun pointing directly at her. The man holding it began shouting at her in German, while other men started searching the house.
Displaying extraordinary nerve, Didi shouted back indignantly, denying any knowledge of a wireless set. But the search team soon uncovered it.
Didi was handcuffed, bundled into a car and driven through the Paris streets to an address that made every SOE agent shudder with fear: 11 Rue des Saussaies — Gestapo headquarters. This was where agents were interrogated, often tortured and then sent to concentration camps. Or executed.
The questioning began. What was she doing with a wireless set? Didi had her answer ready: she was a simple French girl and had been sending coded messages for her boss, a businessman. She had no idea what they were about.
The Gestapo men were puzzled. Could this seemingly stupid girl really be an innocent dupe of a Resistance agent? Or was she a brilliant actress?
Eileen Nearne — known as Didi — was, in fact, one of the bravest secret agents of World War II. When caught, she showed exceptional courage, withstanding torture and incarceration in concentration camps.
But Didi was a modest woman who seldom spoke about her wartime exploits. Her latter years were solitary and reclusive.
When she died, aged 89 in 2010 at home in Torquay, her body lay undiscovered for several days. Among her belongings, police found several medals, including a Croix de Guerre, and other clues to a secret wartime life.
It transpired that the eccentric old lady who fed stray cats had once been one of the most successful agents of SOE, as had her sister, Jacqueline, who had died many years before.
Heroine: Didi's sister Jacqueline also served as an SOE agent during World War II but returned to Britain exhausted in 1944
Now the story of these two astonishingly courageous women is revealed in a new book by the author Susan Ottaway, who was among the few people in whom Didi confided details of her incredible, inspiring story.
Didi was born in London in 1923 to Jack Nearne, a doctor-turned-chemist, and Mariquita, a French-Spanish aristocrat, who already had three children, Francis, Jacqueline and Frederick.
When Didi was two, the family moved to France, eventually settling in Nice where the girls attended a convent school. In 1940, the German army marched into France and the family's well-to-do life was turned upside down.
The pro-German Vichy authorities forced the family to leave Nice — as British citizens, they were not allowed to live near the coast — they moved to a village near Grenoble. Frederick, keen to fight the Nazis, soon left for Britain to join the RAF.
Two years later, Jacqueline decided to follow her brother and join the war effort. Didi insisted on going, too, and the two girls made the perilous journey via Spain and Portugal, arriving in London in May 1942.
At first they were rejected for war work. But their applications, mentioning their fluent French, reached the desk of Captain Selwyn Jepson, the recruiting officer for F section — the French section — of SOE.
Jepson believed women were suited to undercover work because they had 'a far greater capacity for cool and lonely courage than men'.
But did these two unworldly convent girls have the nerve and ability to become SOE operatives in enemy territory, carrying out Churchill's command to 'set Europe ablaze'?
It seemed unlikely at first. Jepson judged that, at 21, Didi was too young to be an agent. He put her to work as a wireless operator in England.
Jacqueline was sent for SOE training, but her instructors were unimpressed. 'Mentally slow and not very intelligent,' they sneered. 'She could not be recommended.'
However, Maurice Buckmaster, the head of SOE's French section, overruled them. 'One of the best,' he wrote on her file. She was also, he noted, a beauty, with her dark hair and eyes, slim figure and air of Parisian chic.
Sacrifice: Neither Jacqueline, left, or Didi married or had children when they returned to Britain
In January 1943, Jacqueline — codename Designer — and her network chief, Maurice Southgate, parachuted into Occupied France. Before leaving, she had made Buckmaster promise that Didi would never be sent on a mission to France.
Jacqueline became the courier for a large network of resistance groups, delivering messages and weapons across France and organising sabotage operations, including blowing up a Luftwaffe aircraft engine factory, setting fire to 27 new trucks bound for Germany, damaging railway lines and stealing 30,000 litres of German petrol.
Whenever Southgate was away, Jacqueline took charge of the network, with 600 men under her command.
It was risky work. Often she had to stay in hotels, and once a plainclothes policeman banged on her door, searching for members of her network. Jacqueline appeared to be so drowsy and confused that the man apologised and left.
He returned a few hours later, but by then Jacqueline had fled.
She was one of SOE's most successful agents, but after nearly a year-and-a-half of constant operations she was exhausted. In April 1944, despite her protests, Southgate sent her back to Britain.
Arriving in London, she learned that Didi had pestered Buckmaster into sending her to France as a wireless operator two months earlier.
Jacqueline was horrified. Surely her naive little sister could not survive in such a solitary, dangerous role?
Didi's SOE selectors would have agreed. 'Not very intelligent or practical, lacking in shrewdness and cunning . . . inaccurate and scatterbrained . . . immature,' they concluded.
But once again Buckmaster overruled them. Didi, he observed, was a highly convincing liar and performed brilliantly under interrogation.
She was given a false identity — Jacqueline du Tertre, a dizzy shop girl — and the codename Rose.
She found a safe house in a suburb of Paris from where to transmit her messages. The first time she set out, carrying the cumbersome 18kg wireless, a German soldier on the train asked what was in her suitcase.
Memories: Eileen 'Didi' Nearne (second from right) joins fellow ex-prisoner Odette Hallowes (right) at an unveiling of a plaque at Ravensbruck concentration camp
Torture: The women were worked nearly to death and beaten and whipped by cruel female guards in the camp
'Just a gramophone,' she replied, praying that he would not ask to see it. She got off at the next stop and walked the rest of the way. She was kept busy transmitting messages for her network chief about double agents, German communications, the distribution of weapons for the Resistance and the launch sites of V1 rockets aimed at Britain.
After D-Day, Didi noticed more Germans and more sinister detection vans combing the streets near her safe house. She found a new location, but decided to send one more, urgent message from the old one. It proved to be her last.
On the morning of July 22, 1944, she was caught — and so began her horrific ordeal at the hands of the Gestapo.
Didi was terrified but determined that they would not extract the truth from her. At first, one man questioned her gently while the other shouted vile abuse.
'You are a spy, you lying, dirty b***h,' he yelled, hitting her face so hard that she nearly fell off her chair. Boldly she yelled back, insisting that she had no idea what they were talking about. Eventually, she was hauled to her feet and marched down a corridor to another room.
Inside was a bath filled with water. Didi knew that she was about to face the dreaded 'baignoire' — the Nazi version of waterboarding.
Her interrogators held her arms tightly and questioned her about her wireless broadcasts. She refused to answer. Without warning, they plunged her into the bath, holding her head under the icy water.
She began to choke and struggle for breath as her mouth and nose filled with water. Suddenly she was pulled up, coughing and spluttering. They began shouting at her again. Who was she working for? Where was she sending her messages?
Didi remained defiantly silent.
Again she was thrust into the water, a hand holding her head under. Just at the point she felt her lungs would burst, she was pulled out, gasping.
Harrowing tale: Jacqueline Nearne spoke about her experiences on a television programme Distant Guns: With the French Resistance
A third time she was held under so long that she felt sure she would die. She began to feel calm and her body went limp. Abruptly, her torturers pulled her out, thumping her on the back. Didi spewed out water, then took deep, rasping breaths.
She was utterly exhausted, but quietly triumphant. They had got nothing from her.
Buckmaster had been right. She was a brilliant actress. Others had cracked under torture, revealing codes and the names of fellow agents. Not Didi. She withstood it all: she had won.
'We are going to give you the benefit of the doubt,' one of the Gestapo men announced. But then he added cruelly: 'We are sending you to a concentration camp.'
On August 15, just ten days before the Allies liberated Paris, Didi was put on a train crammed with hundreds of other prisoners in cattle trucks, jolting across France and into Germany for day after day.
Once, the prisoners were made to disembark at a station. Seeing some trees in the distance, Didi seized her chance and started running towards them. But a guard raised his gun, threatening to shoot her. Reluctantly she turned back.
Eventually, the train arrived in Ravensbruck concentration camp, where the Nazis followed a policy of 'extermination through work'.
Those too weak to work were sent to the gas chambers. Others were selected for horrific medical experiments. Sadistic female guards delighted in beating and whipping prisoners to death.
The relentless physical toil and lack of food took its toll, but Didi was sustained by her strong religious faith and unwavering belief that she would survive.
At Ravensbruck, she became friends with three other SOE agents, including Violette Szabo, later immortalised in the film Carve Her Name With Pride.
While Didi stuck to her story that she was a simple French girl, the other agents had admitted to being British. In February 1945, the guards executed the three British girls by shooting them in the back of the neck.
Didi was moved to another camp and put to work making parts for Messerschmitt aircraft. When she refused to work, her head was shaved and she was threatened with execution.
By April 1945, she was in another camp near Leipzig. Emaciated, with dysentery and a hacking cough, it seemed unlikely she could survive much longer.
With the Allies advancing through Germany, the guards decided to move the prisoners to another camp. As the column began to march off in the darkness, Didi and two other women made a break for some nearby trees.
They were free — but deep in enemy territory. For days they stumbled through the countryside, weak and starving. Once, some German soldiers stopped them, but they let them go. After several days they found a church and begged the priest for help. He took them in and they had their first proper meal and wash in many months.
When U.S. troops arrived in Leipzig, Didi and her friends gave themselves up to them. But the Americans suspected Didi of being a Nazi spy and locked her up with female Nazi prisoners.
It was to be another three weeks before British intelligence officers learned of her whereabouts and rescued her.
Lonely end: Didi was dubbed 'Eleanor Rigby' after she died alone in 2010, but when her story leaked out, the church in Torquay was packed
When Didi arrived back in Britain, Jacqueline was appalled at her emaciated, confused state. The long months of incarceration, seeing her friends weaken and dying beside her, had left her deeply scarred.
In 1946, suffering acute anxiety and depression, Didi was admitted to a psychological clinic, where she received electroconvulsive therapy.
Slowly she recovered, but the once vivacious, exuberant girl was now wary and reserved.
Jacqueline and Didi were recognised by the SOE as outstanding agents whose achievements had helped defeat the Germans. Yet neither was given the George Cross, unlike some other female agents who had spent less time in the field.
Neither sister married or had children, though Didi doted on her niece, Odile, the daughter of her brother Frederick.
Both women had sacrificed their youth, and their chance of motherhood, to fight the Nazis.
After Jacqueline died from cancer in 1982, Didi became more isolated and eccentric. In 1993, she bravely returned to Ravensbruck to unveil a plaque to those who had died there. But she remained reluctant to talk about her war experiences.
After her death, neighbours were astonished to learn of her heroic past. Hundreds of people turned out for Didi's funeral in Torquay to honour the modest heroine who had lived among them.
It was a fitting tribute to the sisters whose sacrifice and courage remain an inspiration to this day.
Sisters, Secrets And Sacrifice by Susan Ottaway is published by HarperElement for £6.99. To order a copy (p&p free), call 0844 472 4157.
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We'll meet up Monday morning at 10am to paint. Daily schedule will be adjusted depending on painting locations to be announced such as the mission, marina, cafe's, gardens, and vineyards. Our Vineyard excursion will be midweek. Thursday night will be our group celebration – usually hearty healthy filling appetizers. Friday is a painting day. We usually offer demonstrations in the morning and afternoon – if you need to leave early that's up to you. Price is for workshop, it does not include transportation, meals, supplies, lodging, entry fees. Lodging is on your own. We recommend a VRBO or finding a hotel downtown. We've stayed at the Hyatt and that was nice too – right across from the East Beach Cafe. We'll carpool when possible and we will provide transportation on the Wine Tour day.
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