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Regarding Gun Control: What is an "Assault Rifle?
Earl Griffin
December 22, 2012
I am more familiar with firearms than the average person. I sold them for a living for several years. I worked as a Peace Officer. I have trained on many firing ranges under the tutelage of men and woman whose instruction was of great value. I grew up hunting and shooting relationally with my late father and with my granddad. I have had an opportunity to become intimately familiar with the function and workings of a wide variety of firearms.
There is a falsehood being perpetrated upon the public. You see an "Assault Rifle," has what is known as a selector switch. This switch allows the shooter to change the weapons function from semi automatic (like a hunting gun) to rapid fire or in some cases auto fire. Rapid fire allows the weapon to fire a burst of three rounds. Auto fire allows it to continue to fire so long as the trigger is depressed.
This is important: An AR15 is NOT an "Assault Rifle."
It's Military counterpart, the M16 IS an "Assault Rifle."
The AR15 is made of modern materials and because of that its detractors like to say it is something that it is not. The AR15 is NOT an "Assault Rifle."
The term "Assault Rifle," is a value loaded term much like "Terrorism," Those who wish to manipulate public sentiment like to use these kinds of terms to sway the opinions of those who don't really know much about the topic but who love their families and want things to get "better."
Better often means a further roll back of our Constitutional freedoms. Rolling back freedom is never better.
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Kowloon Walled City was a city within a city in Hong Kong. It was originally a Chinese military fort but after the British took over Hong Kong in 1898, it turned into something completely different.
During the 1980s, up to 33,000 people lived in this small area of of 6.4-acres (2.6-hectares), which is equivalent to roughly 5 American football fields. The array of buildings was so dense that the sun barely reached some alleyways. Due to rampant crime and the horrible infrastructure, the city was demolished in 1994.
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The number of undocumented immigrants being smuggled into the U.S. remains high, Customs and Border Protection continue their search and rescue efforts.
CBP along with state and local agencies held their annual Border Safety Initiative or BSI, to discuss the ongoing efforts related to the prevention of immigrant deaths.The BSI was put into effect in June 1998 as a measure to educate and draw awareness to the dangers encountered by thousands of immigrants crossing the border illegally. Agent Raul Ortiz, Deputy Chief Patrol of the RGV sector, tells Fox News that it's been nearly 20 years and they still reiterate the same message.
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The BSI consisted of a smuggling simulation in both a refrigerated truck and a non-refrigerated truck with a mock rescue demonstration by RGV sectors Borstar team.Last year CBP and multiple local agencies launched operation "Big Rig" to reduce the number of human smuggling cases involving a tractor-trailer. People that suspect human trafficking activity in their community are encouraged to report it to authorities.


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A doctor told us a story of a patient he'd almost failed.
I suppose there are three basic stories in medicine, from the doctor's perspective, at least:
- We did all the right things and the patient did well;
- We made some mistakes which put the patient at risk and the patient did not do well;
- We made some mistakes but we corrected ourselves and the patient did well in the end.
Of course, 1 is too boring, 2 is too hard to admit, and so 3 is the only one with the drama and redemption to warrant narration. This was a good example, though: the doctors (working in the Emergency Room) were distracted by this patient's profile and by the way he told his story, so that they almost missed the critical piece of the picture. But a detail in the patient's story niggled away and eventually led to them calling for the right procedure which turned out well for everyone in the end.
The doctor telling the story, Rishi Goyal, is an ER physician but also happens to teach literature at Columbia University in New York, whose Narrative Medicine Program was one of the two organisations behind the conference I've been at this week. Goyal's analysis of his own story suggested that more important than identifying with his patient (which he failed to do perhaps because of their disparate profiles) was finding a point of interest in his story, upon which the doctor could hang the care and attention required to do a good job. It made me think about what details I need to include in my stories to provide readers with a point of interest to care and attend to each character.
This was all part of what might be my favourite session in the conference: Kazuo Ishiguro, blues music and Shakespearean tragedy were lined up to help investigate emotions in literature and medicine. It was most enjoyable.
The last breakout session for me was also good although a bit more staid, not having any blues music played or lines from King Lear performed. But the speakers addressed currently relevant topics such as 'mystery' illnesses (I am trying to write a feature about Alzheimer's disease as if it were the crime at the heart of a good detective story) and metaphors in descriptions of illness (eg Susan Sontag was against the use of metaphors in illness narratives because they too often collapsed a moral burden onto the patient's shoulders).
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Gun Dog Bust the Final Stages
The Simplified version.
Once the silicon rubber mould has been taken from the original (Plasticine) sculpture, a hollow wax replica is created from this mould. Below, the rubber mould has been opened into its two halves so that the insides can be seen.
Strands of wax (sprues) are attached to various parts of the wax replica in order to leave channels within the final, heat proof, mould. These channels allow better bronze access to confined spaces and let gases escape from, areas that they would otherwise be trapped in, thus creating holes in the final bronze sculpture.
This wax, complete with any sprues, has a heat proof, ceramic case formed both inside and out (with the inside, or core, held on place with pins pushed through the walls of the hollow wax replica). The wax is melted out of the ceramic case (hence the name "lost wax process"), leaving a void within the ceramic casing exactly the same shape as the wax replica was.
This casing is then heated to around 600 degrees C. Molten bronze (at around 1200 C) is poured into this ceramic casing and once cooled the bronze is knocked out of the ceramic, and any sprues and excess bronze is ground off and these areas made good by a skilled bronze fettler.
The photograph shown right is of the gun dog bust after casting and fettling has taken place.
This is the colour of "raw bronze". Most bronzes are treated with chemicals and maybe heat as well to produce a variety of different colours and other effects. This is referred to as the patination.
As this sculpture was of a black, flat coated retriever, it was fitting that it would be given a black bronze finish.
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Building on Thomas Cook's already strong brand heritage, and as part of its Transformation the Thomas Cook Group plc, @ThomasCookGrp has today announced its plans to unify its brands and market activity under one common symbol, the 'Sunny Heart'. The 'Sunny Heart' is being rolled out from today, and will replace the current 'Globe' in the Group's websites, international stores, the airline fleet and throughout its headquarters and overseas offices.
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ROME — Pope Francis has told German bishops they can't publish guidelines on whether non-Catholic spouses may receive Communion, saying the issue concerns the broader Catholic Church and is too important to be dealt with at the local level.
The decision appeared in a letter from the Vatican's doctrine office that was published by the L'Espresso blog and was confirmed Tuesday in a report on the Vatican's news portal.
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A two-thirds majority of the German bishops' conference adopted a proposal in February to allow Protestant spouses of Catholics to receive Communion under certain circumstances.
The bishops' conference approved it in part as a gesture of ecumenical outreach to Protestants in a country where mixed-faith marriages are common.
Seven German bishops wrote the Vatican to request a ruling on whether the guidelines violated Church doctrine.
The Vatican initially declined to rule and asked the German bishops to find a unanimous agreement. But the doctrine office letter dated May 25 made clear the Vatican doesn't want the Germans to proceed and intends to study the issue further itself.
Cardinal Reinhard Marx, head of the German bishops' conference, said he was surprised by the letter given the Vatican's previous request for dialogue.
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Here's Why Scientists Are Not Afraid of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes
|The Food and Drug Administration has said OK in principle to the release of genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes in Florida.
What could go wrong?
Aren't GM mosquitoes a big suspect in all those birth defect cases in Brazil? A company called Oxitec released a bunch of those mosquitoes right before thousands of cases of a birth defect called microcephaly started showing up.
But the World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other experts are not worried about the little flies.
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Focus Sectors and Platforms
Khalifa University's research relates to key focus sectors of relevance to the UAE's strategic economic growth and the technology platforms that serve as foundations for these sectors.
Khalifa University also engages in arts and sciences research that provides additional depth and breadth the university's research portfolio. Specific topical areas covered are mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, humanities and social sciences.
Khalifa University's research priorities are addressed in two categories — "verticals" and "horizontals" — which jointly cover specific industry and sector needs, technical platforms and expertise.
The research verticals align directly with specific industry and sector needs. The verticals are:
Clean and Renewable Energy
- Solar and other renewable energy sources
- Electrical power transmission and distribution
- Energy storage
- Energy efficient cities and buildings
- Nuclear energy
Water and Environment
- Desalination and wastewater treatment
- Carbon capture, utilization and storage
- Solid waste management and utilization
Environmental resource management Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production
- Reservoir characterization, evaluation and surveillance
- Enhanced/improved oil recovery
- Gas processes
- Asset integrity
- Drilling and completion
- Genomics and Bioinformatics
- Biomechanics
- Medical imaging
- Biomedical robotics and devices
Aerospace (aero/astro)
- Cubesats and nanosatellites
- Remote sensing and modeling
Supply Chain and Logistics
- Supply chain and operations management
- Maintenance repair and overhaul (MRO)
- Transportation
The research horizontals relate to technical platforms and expertise that are utilized across industries and sectors. They are:
Advanced Materials and Manufacturing
- Computational materials engineering
- Composites
- Enhanced materials systems (nanomaterials and nanocomposites, multifunctional materials)
- Biomaterials
- Additive manufacturing
- Manufacturing automation
Robotics, AI and Data Science
- Unmanned systems (aerial, ground and marine)
- Biorobotics (bioinspired and medical)
- Autonomous manipulation
- Machine learning
- Data mining and big data analytics
- Efficient algorithms and optimization
- Perception informatics (computer vision and audition)
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
- Next Generation Networks (NGNs) and NGN-enabled ICT applications and services
- Cyber security technologies and applications
- Electronic and photonic circuits and devices
- Security
- Security environments and security policies
- Defense science and technology


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Mandrake hears that the names on the official list - the terna - are Archbishop Vincent Nichols, Archbishop Peter Smith and Bishop Arthur Roche.
"It will disappoint those who were hoping for someone outside of the current crop of bishops," whispers my man at Archbishop's House.
Traditionalists had hoped that the next archbishop would have been chosen, like Basil Hume, from outside the episcopacy of England and Wales and Mandrake understands that George Pell, the Australian cardinal, had been lobbying the Pope for such a move.
This led to speculation that either Abbot Hugh Gilbert, of Pluscarden Abbey in Scotland, or Fr Aidan Nichols, a Dominican Friar, were in the frame.
The Most Rev Nichols, the Archbishop of Birmingham, considered the favourite, is supported by Lord Alton, while the Rt Rev Roche, the Bishop of Leeds, is backed by John Gummer, the Catholic convert MP.
The Most Rev Smith, the Archbishop of Cardiff, won admirers with his lobbying of parliament over legislation on euthanasia and the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill.
Cardinal Murphy O'Connor is expected to stand down early next year.


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The University District is a neighborhood experiencing fast-paced change as new development takes shape in the heat of Seattle's historic building boom. A significant portion of the neighborhood recently received major zoning and land use changes that will facilitate thousands of additional residents and employees over the next few decades. Those changes came out of a neighborhood-wide planning process that still is ongoing. One piece of that process includes taking another a look at neighborhood design guidelines. Other initiatives to respond to commercial affordability and delivering public space improvements are also continuing.
Later this year, rezones and urban design regulations are slated to be adopted for University Way NE, aka The Ave, a long north-south avenue that forms an active heart to the neighborhood, as well as modest zoning changes elsewhere in the neighborhood as part of the city-wide rezoning process to unlock Mandatory Housing Affordability requirements in new commercial and residential development.
This past Thursday, the Office of Planning and Community Development (OPCD) held an evening open house to provide a background the neighborhood design guideline update process. Planners noted that the update would be the first major revision of University District design guidelines since 2000–the last update in 2013 largely dealt with formatting instead of substantive design policy. Since that time, the neighborhood has gotten its first phase of zoning changes and adopted a Green Streets Concept Plan and parks plan update.
Design guidelines for the neighborhood are layered with the first level being the city-wide design guidelines for new development. The second level is the University District design guidelines, which concerns itself with a variety of topics for consideration in new development, such as:
- Site features;
- Urban pattern and form;
- Architectural and character context;
- Open space connectivity;
- Walkability and street-level interactions; and
- Design concept in terms of uses and programming, architecture, open space, and exterior elements and finishes.
The design guidelines don't apply to all development, but they broadly apply throughout the bulk of the University Community Urban Center.
Updated design guidelines will focus on revising substantive guidance policy as well as updating maps and graphics. In terms of the scope of guidance policy changes, OPCD is considering revisions to guidance on:
- Architectural design;
- Building form and materials;
- Public realm design and response; and
- Special site features.
The rezone changes have precipitated a particular need to change guidance discussion on height, bulk, and scale since custom zoning (Seattle Mixed-University District or otherwise known as SM-U) has been added to the neighborhood. Urban design changes related to the overall planning framework have resulted in policy changes for open space, green streets, gateways, connections, and character corridors necessitating a need to revise those throughout the document. Visual media and maps also need an overhaul to match the cascading set of policy changes.
In the course of two previous meetings, OPCD heard wide-ranging priorities from the public and stakeholders. The first meeting in April dealt with designing the neighborhood core while the second centered on public realm issues. At last week's open house, staff summarized the feedback:
Designing in the Core
Gateways and Prominent Corners
– Opportunity sites for art, wayfinding signage, special building features
– Buildings should set back from prominent corners to create usable open space and accommodate high volumes of pedestrian traffic
– Retain Gateways designated in the existing D.G.
Mixed Use Corridors
– Stoops and courtyard spaces when ground floor use is residential
– Smaller business frontage widths for ground floor retail uses with multiple entrances
– NE 42nd is an important corridor to reference in the D.G.
Massing & Design of Highrise
– Building Typologies
– Unique treatment of tops of towers to enhance skyline
– Unique tower design to serve as neighborhood landmarks and wayfinding aides
– Modulation should be purposeful–not just applied, but related to building uses
Public Realm
Mid Block Connections and Alleys Eyes on the Alley
– Create safe connections
– Wayfinding is important–both signage and pavement treatments
– Amenities–seating, landscaping, pedestrian-scale lighting
Streetscape and Façade Design Strategic
– Use of setback areas for buildings located on mixed use corridors to create usable public spaces
– Building frontage treatment should respond to transit stops with adequate waiting areas, leaning rails, overhangs, etc.
Open Space and Amenity Areas
– Complementary design in buildings fronting on an open space area
– Amenities that consider all ages of users–for example, play spaces for children
– Encourage plazas and open space areas at corners
– Open space areas should be designed with uses in mind–not just "leftover" spaces
Next Steps
Next month, OPCD and the University District Partnership will hold a workshop dedicated to special focus areas, such as The Ave, Core, and Ravenna/U Villages. In September, planners hope to have a draft of the updated design guidelines ready for public review before holding an open house on them and finalizing the proposal. OPCD anticipates sending a final proposal to the City Council in the fall for adoption.
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder – Diagnostic Interview
Time to read: 1 minutes
- Are you a worrier? (patient may have an anxious temperament)
- What do you worry about?
- Have you been worrying about simple things you shouldn't be worrying about?
- Can you tell me your specific thoughts?
- How long have you had these worries? (at least 6 months to satisfy criteria)
- Over the past few months of worrying, have you noticed that you have been jittery, on edge? Irritable?
- Headaches, tension in your head and neck?
- What has your sleep been like? (Initial and middle insomnia or restless unsatisfying sleep)
- Do you have problems concentrating?
Clinically it is difficult to differentiate between agitation and anxiety. This difference is important as some antidepressants may worsen agitation. Agitation is a risk factor for suicide. Presence of agitation may require augmentation treatment with Antipsychotics.
Features that point to agitation include
- Racing thoughts
- Pressure of speech
- Presence of overvalued or delusional thoughts (indicates psychosis and not anxiety disorder)
- Pacing, wringing of hands
- Impulsive behaviour
American Psychiatric Association: Desk Reference to the Diagnostic Criteria From DSM-5.Arlington, VA, American Psychiatric Association, 2013


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If you want to provide more opportunities to girls, you shouldn't only provide them with an education – you also need to change perceptions of gender roles so that, when they grow up, girls can (among other things) fully contribute to the household's livelihood. To achieve this, combining education with interventions for entrepreneurship and employment is the right way to go. This messages emerges not only from impact evaluations, but also from experiences on the ground and case studies of non-governmental organizations.
In celebration of International Women's Day, Deepa Willingham, a Rotarian and the founder of a program called Promise of Assurance to Children Everywhere or PACE, participated in a World Bank event on March 8 about inspiring women who made a difference in the world through innovative programs in the areas of education and health.
PACE is educating girls ages three to twenty-three in a village in West Bengal, India. The school started and remains small, with a total of about 350 girls enrolled since 2003. But retention rates are at 90 percent and almost 100 girls have now completed primary school. The schools currently admits 25 students each year, well below the demand as the school receives 100 applications each year. Admission is need-based in order to give priority to the most disadvantaged families.
What I find especially interesting is the fact that, based on community feedback, PACE has started to help women in the village find decent work through various initiatives. To help expand employment opportunities in the village, PACE is providing literacy and vocational training courses for women, many of whom go on to craft jewelry products sold locally and in the US thanks to a micro-loan.
Additional income generating activities include planting 10,000 fruit bearing trees and providing cycle-vans. Recently, an organic garden was initiated on the school's grounds as a training facility for local farmers. PACE has also been actively upgrading water and sanitation facilities by installing 35 tube wells and 400 sanitation units. Without safe water at home, deworming children in the school did not work as well.
Deepa explained to me that when the project started, family incomes in the village were extremely low. There are signs that this has changed for the families that have benefited from the NGO's programs, with many families making three to four times more than what they used to bring in (according to the families' applications for their children to enroll in the school).
The attitudes of fathers towards their daughters have changed, as measured for example by their presence during the school's cultural activities. Also, in the past many newborn girls in the village did not get birth certificates. This is changing simply because an official birth certificate is required for admission in the school.
Is the project cost effective? The cost for the package of services provided to girls is $375 and paid mostly through grants and other resources raised by the NGO. This package of services includes not only schooling (following a board approved curriculum), two meals per day, school supplies and uniforms, access to health care as needed, and after school enrichment programs in music, art, theater, yoga and life-skills training.
How does this compare to public schools? This is not an easy question to answer, because of complex funding by federal, state, and municipal governments for basic services as well as complementary programs (such as school meals for example). Estimates from various studies can be found through a rapid search on the web. It seems that overall PACE's programs may be more costly than a typical public school, and also more costly than the programs implemented by low cost private schools. But the range of services provided by PACE is clearly broader, and quality is likely to be (much) higher.
As for PACE's services for women, their cost is estimated at $175 per year. This includes the cost of the adult literacy program for reading, writing in Bengali, and accounting, as well as the vocational training program for jewelry making and tailoring.
On the occasion of International Women's Day, at least two important lessons emerge from PACE. The first lesson is that we can learn from the experience of NGOs like PACE on how to combine multiple interventions – in education, but also in vocational training and basic health, in order to make a larger impact in the life of girls by changing attitudes towards gender roles. The second, and most important lesson is that beyond the important role of the state that we often emphasize in development work, committed individuals such as Deepa can truly make a difference in the life of girls and women.
A recording of the event at the World Bank in celebration of International Women's Day will soon be available here in case you could not watch it online on March 8.
This post is adapted with minor changes from a post published on March 8 on the World Bank's Education for Global Development blog.


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My mom went into hospice care last week so this is a bittersweet day for us. She's 89 and still feisty as all get out, but she'll be gone soon.
I thank God that He placed her as my mom. She had a hard row to hoe as a young woman with four kids. And I thank God for my wife who has had such an impact on me, our daughters and step daughter.
Think of the women that God has placed in your life and thank Him for them; be sure to include the ones you wish you never crossed paths with. Even they taught you something.


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Digital Television
In 2008 the UK television shopping market generates sales of approximately £1.4 billion at retail sales value (source: Electronic Retailers Association), of which we have about 10%.
The market is driven primarily by consumers gaining access to TV shopping channels as they switch from analogue to digital television. At the end of June 2009, 23 million homes, 89.8% of all UK households, had access to digital TV ( source: Ofcom ). By 2012 when the analogue signal is switched off, all UK households must have Freeview, satellite or cable television.
Freeview is the most widely available platform, with over 71% of households having at least one Freeview TV.
Internet Sales
By the end of March 2009, 68 per cent of UK homes had a broadband connection – up from 58 per cent the previous year (source: Ofcom). Mobile broadband connections are also growing strongly, with 10% of households now having a mobile broadband connection.
In 2008 on-line sales grew by 25% to £18.4 billion, 6.4% of retail spend, and is estimated to account for 10% of retail spend by 2013 (source: Datamonitor/ Verdict). The growth of the online population tends to match the demographics of our existing customer base. Our internet sales in 2008 were £22.7m and we see this as a significant area of future growth.
Craft Market
We estimate that the market for craft products exceeds £2 billion at retail sales value in the UK, this is only half the size of the US market on a per capita basis. We are one of the four main players in a very fragmented market and with the ageing population we see this as a major opportunity for growth.
Our Strategy
Our strategy is to exploit our position as a television and internet retailer to grow sales strongly, whilst maintaining operational efficiency and developing our multi-channel offer.
- To work with our supplier amd partners to source and develop our ranges to be the best in category in terms of value, performance and quality
- To build trust and loyalty with our shoppers to ensure sustainable growth for the future of Ideal Shopping Direct
- To create and develop brands which generate trust with our target shoppers
- To build on our platform of 2 million shoppers and create a wider platform of loyalty both in the UK market and internationally
We know that our customers want us to provide engaging and demonstrable products, exclusive deals and a convenient shopping experience across a range of price points.
Alongside our existing product lines we are introducing a range of branded products, such as Sony, Karcher, TomTom,Vitamix and Polti, and are extending many categories, such as gardening, food and animal care. We are also trialing broadcasts with a number of high street retailers, which enables us to offer our customers an extended range of products without stocking the products ourselves.
Customer Service
As a home shopping retailer, delivery and customer service are a vital part of our overall offer. In 2009 we took steps to improve the speed and traceability of our product delivery and the quality of our customer service; this will remain an important area of focus for us.
Improving our TV offer
Our Ideal World channel Ideal World is broadcast 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year (live between 9am – 1am) on Freeview, Sky Digital, Virgin Media and Freesat. Our Ideal World 2 and 3 channels on Sky replay a selection of the most popular shows.
Since July 2009 we have been broadcasting our Create and Craft channels live on Freeview every morning, to complement our Sky Digital channel. Create and Craft has also been on Freesat from September 2009.
Growing our online sales
Our primary growth opportunity lies with the internet, and our focus is on driving our existing TV shopping audience to our websites, as well as employing other established marketing and e-commerce tools. In 2009 we improved the functionality of our websites and introduced a range of new customer marketing initiatives, including email marketing and enhanced upselling offers.
Developing our Craft business
We have a niche position in this market, which we believe has significant growth potential. Craft is our largest category with a number of sales channels, including television, internet, our Create and Craft Club and wholesale. In November 2009 we extended our product ranges and now offer pottery, art, knitting, haberdashery and more. In January 2011 we extended Create and Craft's live TV shows to 9 hours a day on Sky and Freesat. It is also broadcast live on Freeview from 8am to 1pm.
Operational efficiency
During 2009 we focused hard on the control of working capital and stock management. As a result our cash balance was £9.2m at the 2009 half year compared with £8.4m at the 2008 year end and our stock was £3.0m compared with £3.8m at 2008 year end and down 59% compared with the 2008 half year. A thorough review of the overhead base has taken place and a number of significant cost savings negotiated. Cash, stock and costs will continue to be managed closely.


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Jennifer and Devi will discuss:
-The biggest issue in long-term relationships
-Why women are afraid to ask for what they want
-Fantasies, role playing, and other ways to re-ignite the fires of passion
-Healing G-Spot trauma and other sexual trauma instructions
And so much more!!
Jennifer Elizabeth Masters has been on a healing journey for over 30 years.
In the process of healing her own sexual dysfunction, codependency, addictions and illness, Jennifer has developed several programs to help empower women to love themselves fearlessly.
One of the biggest changes in Jennifer's life is the total absence of fear, depression and loneliness. She has discovered when we come to loving acceptance of ourselves, we get out of our own way and stop trying to make things hap-pen and allow life to unfold.
Jennifer has worked with thousands of women and men, helping them heal from addiction, depression, lim-iting beliefs and unworthiness.
She is an author, inspirational speaker, hypnotherapist, Certified Life Coach, mother of 3, Master Energy Healer and ordained minister. As a Scorpio, she unabashedly says she has enjoyed sexual expression. She assists women to find the Sacredness in Sex. Married and divorced 4 times, Jennifer is an empower-ment and sex coach for women.
Her book, Orgasm For Life, came out at the end of May, 2014
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Well, we have less than 10 days until Christmas, so I'm looking for the quick and cute pattern that will help those last minute, "OMG I forgot so & so!" moments.
These are no ordinary scrubby! I think they are delightfully cute, and reminiscent of Ms. Pacman in a way…or the ghosts…one or the other, but they are really cute!
These "Foamies"Created byCLF Member FullofFluff aka Carey Huffman, this is a free pattern available here!
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McKINLEYVILLE – A giant solar array that could produce enough electricity to power roughly 1,000 households may be installed at the California Redwood Coast Humboldt County Airport in McKinleyville.
The Redwood Coast Energy Authority is working with the county's Aviation Division to study the feasibility of building the utility-grade solar power system at the county's main airport.
Matthew Marshall, executive director of the energy authority, emphasized that the project is in the "extremely preliminary stages."
The solar panels would be installed on metal racks and would cover two different fields totaling about 26 acres. Marshall said the seven megawatt system, which would cost about $15 million, would generate enough electricity to power roughly 1,000 households.
One of the big unknowns at this time, Marshall said, is whether it would be financially feasible to build a substation nearby to connect to Pacific Gas & Electric lines. The energy authority plans to complete the feasibility study some time this summer.
If the substation turns out to be a deal breaker, then the airport could still consider a smaller array designed to meet its own electrical needs.
If the larger project turns out to be feasible, construction could take place next year, assuming the project is permitted and is approved by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
The electricity generated from the solar array would be used to offset the airport's power cost, which is about $150,000 a year, according to Emily Jacobs, program coordinator for the county's Aviation Division.
The excess electricity would be sold to the energy authority's Community Choice Aggregation project, which will eventually give local residents the option of buying power from the energy authority. Billing would continue through Pacific Gas & Electric, which owns the transmission system.
Financial projections for the project, including how much revenue it might generate and how it would be financed, have yet to be completed.
While those details are being hammered out, Jacobs is in the process of amending the Airport Layout Plan to allow for the solar panels and other improvements at the airport. Jacobs came before the McKinleyville Municipal Advisory Committee June 29 to discuss these changes and to get input.
The Airport Layout Plan is a document that the county updates every five years and that must be approved by the Board of Supervisors and, ultimately, by the Federal Aviation Administration. It consists of a map that shows proposed uses at the airport. If a proposed use is not designated on the plan, it can't be built, Jacobs said.
The draft update of the plan includes three different locations for the solar panels – a 17-acre site located behind the fence west of Central Avenue between Grange Road and just north of Letz Lane, a nine-acre site north of Airport Road and east of Badsgaard Avenue, and a seven-acre site where the airport maintains lights and other aviation equipment northeast of the intersection of Central Avenue and Norton Road. This last site was recently added to the plan and has yet to be included in the energy authority's preliminary designs.
Members of the McKinleyville advisory committee voiced support for the solar project and the changes to the Airport Layout Plan.
However, some members of the committee said they wanted to preserve as much industrial land as possible and would prefer if the solar panels were located somewhere other than the 17-acre site along Central Avenue.
"I'll be on record feeling that it's nice to preserve that industrial opportunity there next to Central Avenue," committee chair Ben Shepherd said at the meeting.
Committee member John Corbett agreed. He said he recently compared commercial and industrial capacity in McKinleyville to Arcata and was "shocked" to learn how much more Arcata has.
"Arcata hit it out of the park," Jacobs responded, noting that Arcata set aside the industrial lands two to three decades ago.
"They had to put the investment in and they had to sit on it for years and years and years," Jacobs said. "But now it's really paying off for them, so it's definitely some really well though-out long-term planning."
Although the committee would like to have the Central Avenue property saved for industrial uses, members were told later in the meeting that the site's uses are limited. Jacobs said that the security fence cannot be moved, so whatever businesses that would use the site would have to be aviation related. There are also height restrictions for any proposed buildings.
Jacobs said the airport is also pursuing other projects. She said the airport is investigating the possibility of building an air freight warehouse, which would double as a disaster shelter.
Having a freight facility could attract more aircraft to the airport, she said. And in a major disaster, the airport is an ideal location for a shelter because it has emergency communications equipment, a backup generator, fuel reserves and the U.S. Coast Guard station.
Another project the airport will be pursuing in the coming year or two is the removal of some trees northeast of the crosswind runway.
The Federal Aviation Administration has rules regarding the height of objects beyond the ends of the runways, even when the trees are on private property.
The airport, Jacobs explained, has the authority to require the landowners to remove the trees, but "we would never want to be that kind of neighbor."
Instead, the airport will contact the landowners and give them different options, she said. The landowners can remove the trees themselves, or the airport will pay someone to do it. The logs can then be chipped, split and stacked on site, or taken to the Sheriff's Work Alternative Program to be distributed as firewood for low-income seniors.
Jacobs noted that the Fed's equipment for measuring obstacles is very sensitive and can pick up very small things.
Awhile ago, the FAA informed Jacobs that its equipment had discovered a large item near the airport's main approach. Jacobs grabbed a GPS device, went out to investigate, then returned to her office.
"I came running back upstairs and I got on the phone with the FAA and I said "It's just a bunch of naked ladies in the field. What's the problem?" The pink belladonna lilies, common to the area, had bloomed near the runway.


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This is the English version of my site. It offers various posts from my everyday life, especially technical stuff. It also provides the overview of my (mostly inactive) projects. The Czech version is more complete, the majority of English content has its Czech counterpart. You can switch using appropriate link in the article heading.
2016-09-15 // Sending daily digest emails from Wunderlist
For some time, I am using Wunderlist as my to-do task manager (yup, I am surfing on GTD wave now). In some aspects, it is superior to its biggest competitor, Todoist (at least it has notifications for free and cleaner design). One feature I am missing the most is some kind of automatic daily digest sent to my email address every morning (and evening).
Fortunately, they have published their API some time ago. This allows 3rd party application to access and manage the whole content of user's profile.
I wrote simple script which grabs all unfinished tasks via API and sends an email with daily overview. I call it Wudd. I do not offer it as a service (yet?) so everyone has to deploy it on their own machine (See README file).
Main features:
- 3 sections: Today tasks, unsorted (inbox) tasks without a date, tasks to be finished in 7 days. Generic definition structure allows to add another sections easily.
- Both HTML and plaintext version for people who remember 90's.
- Quick summary in subject.
- Currently it uses Czech locale but it's easy to modify it (few strings only). I18n not supported yet.
- Sends email via local SMTP (authorization & SSL support not supported yet).
Visit my Bitbucket repo to download Wudd. Also, you can post issues there. Enjoy!
2016-02-16 // Thunderbird LDAP via SSL with self-signed certificate
Adding a LDAP directory as a contact source for Thunderbird can be quite tricky if you have SSL-only connection and your server is using self-signed certificate. For some reason there is no Add exception dialog appearing during the first connection attempt as we got used to when connecting to a mail server.
Following will help you to to add the exception manually:
- Go to Config editor (aka about:config,
General, press the
Config editorbutton).
- Add new (or edit existing) string key
'network.security.ports.banned.override', set value to
'636'. This will disable port blocking feature for port 636 (visit http://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/PortBanning.html for more info).
- Go to
Add exception.
- Type
your_ldap_host:636to the
Locationfield, click on
Get certificate, then
Confirm Security Exception.
- Add your LDAP directory to contacts
- Now you can revert the config
'network.security.ports.banned.override' to previous value, it is no longer needed.
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RDRWA Spring Forum -Ice, Ice Maybe?
The Red Deer River Watershed Alliance invites you to join us for our upcoming Spring Forum 'Ice, Ice, Maybe?', on Friday, March 22nd, 2019, which is also World Water Day!
This February has been one of the coldest on record in Alberta in recent years, with more days hovering in the -30°C range in 2019 than in the last 40 years! While the idea of warmer winters sounds appealing to many people (hurray for less shovelling!), milder temperatures in winter could also potentially impact many of the winter activities we love that rely on cold and snowy conditions, including skiing, snowmobiling, ice fishing, and outdoor ice hockey.
Check out our great "line-up" for Ice, Ice Maybe!
4:00 pm Doors Open for Registration
4:15 pm World Water Day and Welcoming Remarks from the City of Red Deer
4:20pm - 5:00 pm Keynote by James Gordon, Thompson Rivers University on his research:
"My Canadian quest: Saving outdoor hockey from climate change"
5:00 pm - 5:15 pm Refreshment Break (snacks will be provided!)
5:15 pm - 6:00 pm Keynote by David Sauchyn, University of Regina
"The Red Deer River in a Changing Climate"
6:00 pm - 6:15 pm Ambassador Awards Presentation
6:15 pm- 6:50 pm Feature Presentation of the Award-Winning Film:
Guilt Trip: A Climate Change Film with a Skiing Problem
6:50 pm – 7:00 pm Closing Remarks from the RDRWA
Thanks to our sponsors, we are pleased to offer Ice, Ice Maybe as a FREE event, with snacks and refreshments provided! Please let us know in advance if you have any dietary restrictions.
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MUTE Project
This project aims to contribute to the translation of 20th century English novelists into Spanish in order to shape a real history of the translation movement of English women literature in Spain, too often missing in attempts to a history of translation in Spain.
Analysing this translational movement is to trace the censorship of these writers in order to investigate aspects such as: the causes for the censorship of texts, the relationship between censorship and gender, or the close link between censorship and literary genre. The need to scrutinize such censorship regardless of the time that has elapsed since the publication of the original text is clear. In many more cases than we would like, the version that a given culture has of a particular text is non-authentic, incomplete thus inadequate and this can interfere in the image we have of a text and of its author.
It is not only a literary and academic necessity, but also a moral one to revise these key texts by major writers as well as to encourage the recovery of these texts, to translate, retranslate, publish and reissue them. Our work will also involve analysing the role of the different agents involved in the censorship process: authors, translators, censors and editors, who often act as mediators.
Latest news and activities.
I International Conference on Translation and Censorship in Literature and the Media
Call for papers
I Conference on Gender, Translation and Censorship in Film
Workshop on Gender and Censorship
III Audiovisual Translation Conference
Registration open for workshop on: 'Censorship, Gender and Discourse'
1st Valencia/Napoli Colloquium on Gender & Translation
About us
Gora Zaragoza Ninet
Associate Professor in the Department of English and German Studies at the University of Valencia.
Juan José Martínez Sierra
Senior lecturer in the Department of English and German Studies at the University of Valencia.
Mabel Richart Marset
Doctor In Audiovisual Communication and Associate Professor at the University of Valencia.
Beatriz Cerezo Merchán
PhD in Translation and Interpreting from the Universitat Jaume I. Lecturer of Translation and English Language in the Department of English and German Studies at the University of Valencia
Some interesting links.
Institut Universitari d'Estudis de la Dona
Equality Unit Universitat de València
CiTrans Comunicación intercultural y Traducción
Universitat de València, Department of English and German
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"Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone."
Daphne du Maurier
"For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of – to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others… and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures."
Virginia Woolf
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It knows no bounds as was evidenced at the 2013 Macomb-Oakland Regional Center Caregiver Appreciation Day and Kohl's Caregiver's Fashion Show at the Palazzo Grande banquet hall in Shelby Township. Thursday's event drew some 1,100 people from Southeastern Michigan to watch people with disabilities roll and stroll down a runway in $25,000 worth of the latest fashion clothes donated by Kohl's.Rodney Perry, 51, knows the lows of being disabled in America. Perry is a survivor. He was born with a disability, spent decades in state institutions for the mentally and physically disabled, but moved to his own place in 1987 and now lives Beverly Hills with around-the-clock care.
He had the attendees at the show rocking and swaying to the music as he danced his power wheelchair down the runway, spinning in circles and moving in a zig-zag pattern with more enthusiasm and joy than those seen in Milan or Paris."I love it," said Perry, who is looking forward to working at an auto parts company in the near future after spending most of his life in the Plymouth Center. "It shows what we really can do in a positive way."
Susan Cuddington of Utica has been caring for two disabled men in her home for 32 years and came to the event with her sister, Deb, and other family members."It's fantastic to honor these people (caregivers)," she said. "Caregiving, at times, is hard, but it is very rewarding."
Since the early 1970s, MORC and other entities began moving people out of state institutions where the disabled were housed and out into the community with caregivers 24/7 or as needed. Each time a person left a bed vacant in one of the 12 institutions in the state, it saved taxpayers thousands of dollars a month. Now, these places have closed. The disabled live in their own places and thousands of jobs have been created for caregivers."This is the largest event of appreciation for caregivers in the country," said Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel, who stood and watched as more than 90 people with disabilities went down the runway with their caregivers besides them.
"This is so uplifting to see people with disabilities model high fashion," he said. Being a caregiver is a "calling" and through events like this we learn about compassion.He's right.
Amanda Woodin, 22, said she only has been a caregiver for five months and "I already know what I want to do. I want to be a caregiver for life."She is a caregiver to Mark Stilwell and his wife, Micki, who live in Madison Heights after spending years in an institution. It was unheard of a couple of decades ago for two disabled people to be married but now it is a dream come true for many like Mark and Micki.
"I can remember how they just let me lay in a bed in Lapeer and how I developed bed sores," said Mark, who added he never imagined being able to be married, live in his own home, and wake up each morning with anticipation instead of dread."You, as caregivers, are the water that lets the flower bloom," a poem read before the fashion show began said.
One young lady dressed in a beautiful pink outfit threw kisses to the cheering audience as the words of a song, "You are so beautiful..." played in the background.Each runway participant was able to choose his or her own song. One said: "He doesn't want his name up in lights; he just wants to be heard."
And, the hundreds in the hall, more than heard the voices of both the caregivers and models as they rose in waves to cheer and applaud as each person moved down the runway."This is a great day for people to celebrate" their accomplishments," said Liz Bauer, a former member of the state Board of Education and a pioneer of the disability rights movement in Michigan. "What you are seeing is a gallery of the move beautiful people in the world."
Jerry Wolffe is the Disability Rights Advocate at Large/Writer in Residence at MORC Inc.


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The Dam Busters (PG)
Dir: Michael Anderson
Cast: Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Basil Sydney
UK, 1955, 122 mins
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the original raid, and we're delighted to present this live commemorative evening from the Royal Albert Hall. Hosted by Dan Snow, and featuring the Glenn Miller Orchestra plus special guests including family members of both Dam Busters crew, and the film's director Michael Anderson, historian Paul Beaver and Professor Hugh Hunt as they explore the history of the iconic raid and how it led to the making of this British classic. The evening will pay tribute to Wing Commander Guy Gibson and his comrades of the legendary 617 Squadron with the audience including former members of the 617 Squadron and current members of the Royal Air Force, so it'll be a very special and momentous evening in an equally iconic venue. There will also be an on stage 'bouncing bomb' experiment as the hosts reflect on the science behind Barnes Wallis' invention. This segment of the live exclusive content will end with a rendition of The Dam Busters March, played by the Glenn Miller Orchestra before the film begins. Event ends at 10.30pm. Tickets £7.50/£6.50 Friends/£4 25 & under.
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Gerrit Cole has filthy stuff. He can hit 100 MPH with his fastball and make all four of our girl readers go, "Ooh…" Which reminds me of my Walk on the Wild Side remixed chorus, "And the four girl readers go doo do doo do doo do do doo." There was a whole lot of nonsense, or whole lotta if we stick with the rock theme, when he was first called up that Cole didn't want to strike people out. Does Alf not want to get back to Melmac?! Does macaroni not mean awesome when Yankee Doodle stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni!? Does everyone with glasses not look goofy on a 1980's baseball card?! Ron Kittle? I rest my case! Of course, Cole wants to strike out guys. You can't stop that! Yesterday, he struck out 12 of them. In 111 1/3 IP this year, he has a 7.60 K-rate and if you throw out June, when he was saying that nonsense about throwing to contact, his K-rate would be near 9. Oh, bee tee dubya, everything else is purdy, too. His FIP is 2.98, his walk rate is barely over 2, he gets ground balls. For 2014 fantasy baseball, Cole could easily be a top 20 starter for all of baseball and will be someone I'll get plenty googly about this offseason. Anyway, here's what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:Please, blog, may I have some more?
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Well, I'd like to start off this post by saying I'm sorry to the folks in Razzball nation who picked up Cameron Maybin last week in their weekly leagues. He'll be out for quite a while with a PCL tear to his knee. In the words of the Guru on Twitter, "This time wasn't different, Mike…oops". Maybin promised me the 8 o'clock rez at Dorsia, but then he slipped me an extra lithium and I ended up at Barcadia. Worst of all, in my weekly league, it was too late to swap him when the injury news came out. Next thing I knew it was lunch at Texarkana. Sheesh. Onward and upward, they say, and this week we have some new faces in the mix, including Gregor Blanco, who seems to have found a hot bat since stepping in for the injured Angel Pagan. Check him out and some of the other base stealing threats this week, but you'll have to excuse me, I have a lunch meeting in 20 minutes with Cliff Huxtable at the Four Seasons.Please, blog, may I have some more?
The national budget isn't the only thing that's strained in DC, Ryan Zimmerman is headed to the DL with an ab strain. This was an injury that originally happened in Spring Training and now it looks like the ab has taken out a *pinkie to mouth* restraining order. Zimmerman always seemed like such a […]Please, blog, may I have some more?


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Monster, CareerBuilder, Indeed, Vault…the list goes on and on, but the imagination does not. What do these sites all have in common? Endless job postings with a narrow option for matching people to positions that resembles a paper duplicated to computer process. Employers pay a fee, enter their position and then voila a candidate can search to see if the location, job title, or some select key words are a match. They may or may not get a match for a qualified candidate to meet their needs.
According to a report by The Conference Board Help-Wanted OnLine (HWOL) Data Series, online posted vacancies, while down in September, stood at some 3.9 million postings. With online job boards muddled with all types of postings, that can be a lot of searching to find applicable jobs, let alone those that will be a good match on more than the dimension of location and title. Also detailed in the report were the 10 million more who were unemployed than the amount of job posting vacancies. For an employer and their recruiters, that can mean a whole lot of sifting.
Some social networking sites have attempted to go a step beyond — to revolutionize the job search and allow business networking by linking people together through their existing connections.
Take for example, LinkedIn. If you have a friend of a friend who works for a company you may be interested in, you can form a connection that may enable you to get one step closer to the organization. The more connections you have, the greater the opportunities for expanded connections and job postings. The limiting factor here is that a strong connection on values and fit is still missing. You may or may not have the same values or needs as those in your LinkedIn network.
One of the biggest reasons for the face-to-face interview is to allow for employers and candidates to make a match. These interviews, however, only reveal those qualities about an employee that an employee chooses to share.
Additionally, face-to-face interviews are often inefficient — wasting time, money, and resources all around. The average cost to recruit a new hire varies, but can average anywhere $3,000 to $5,000. Even after the interviews have begun, candidates are oftentimes still unclear about the true organizational culture, what type of person is a solid fit, and what it takes to succeed there.
What if you could begin to match on those factors before a face-to-face interview? What if you could match on additional elements such as leadership style, values, people skills or even potential before a candidate even reaches the door?
What do you think of today's job boards? Have you found them to be beneficial in your career or do you have a hard time finding the right positions through these sites?
Andy Von Kennel is the co-founder of TruYuu, an online service that helps people present themselves as more than just a resume to employers. You can connect with Andy and the TruYuu team on Facebook and Twitter.
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The guy who guided StorageTek when it developed and shipped its StreamLine tape library, who persevered through Sun's ownership of StorageTek, and then wound up in Oracle, which depends on StreamLine to this day for tape credibility, has finally taken a hike. He's joined SpectraLogic.
Privately owned Spectra, with its T-Finity, is the only supplier of high-end enterprise libraries outside Oracle and IBM. It is driving forward in an Active Archive alliance, positioning tape libraries as the best value archival storage for cloud service providers and longer-term big data storage, and just waiting as former disk bigots realise just how dumb it is to archive petabytes and exabytes of data on spinning platters.
We understand from W Curtis Preston that Spectra will announce another high-profile hiring tomorrow. We also understand it's added colour to its tape management system, and also a touch screen, both thought to be a rarity in tape-land. It is adding built-in encryption to its library products as well as built-in partitioning and is the first library manufacturer to use the z-axis.
Preston says: "If x is up/down, y is side/side, z is front/back (i.e. storing tapes deeper than 1 per slot)." In other words tape library cartridge density and thus slot count gets increased. Tweeters suggest the T-Finity gets good scalability from this; such as 26 racks and 31,820 slots. They also tweet Spectra is growing revenues at 28 per cent year-on-year, helped by orders such as one from NASA for a four-exabyte tape system.
SpectraLogic has not yet issued a press release about new product features, and this information comes from reputable sources at a SpectraLogic analysts' day session in Boulder. ®


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TBD Festival 2015 Announce Tears For Fears, Cut Copy, Purity Ring and more
TBD Fest, is a three day music festival taking place September 18th, 19th and 20th in West Sacramento's Bridge District that will feature performances by Pretty Lights, Tears for Fears, Cut Copy, Tyler The Creator, Tycho, Purity Ring, Twin Shadow, Ratatat, and more.
The festival garnered a lot of attention in 2014 with acts like Justice, Blondie, Moby and Empire of the Sun.
The festival organizers Michael Hargis and Clay Nutting set out to create a line-up that would rival some of the best festivals in the country while delivering an experience that only a boutique festival can offer.
"Our goal is not to be the biggest, our goal is to curate the best festival experience possible. Our line-up is personally curated with iconic and emerging artists that we are really excited about, and you get to see them in an intimate setting." said Nutting.
While headlining acts may grab the attention of fans throughout Northern California and beyond, the festivals ability to highlight the region's creative community through the festival experience makes the event standout.
Nutting added "Sacramento is the gateway to Northern California. The beer, the wine, the food, the creativity in this region is really unique and we get to show that off through our festival with experiences like Friendly Fire, a chef driven, wood-fire cooking battle. This year we will paid Sacramento Chefs against Chefs from San Fransisco. It's a fun and unique way to show off Northern California."
In addition to some of the best regional cuisine available, the event will feature yoga, fashion, art, design, and amusement rides, making TBD Fest perfect for everyone from the seasoned festival-goer to a family looking for a fun weekend activity.
""I am beyond thrilled to announce an eclectic lineup featuring legends like Tears for Fears to young exciting electronic acts like Louis The Child. Putting together this lineup through the year has been nothing short of interesting to say the least. The City of Sacramento has a truly up and coming arts and music scene, and I'm so happy to be a part of it.""
Jake Bernstein- Talent Buyer
Detailed information available online, www.tbdfest.com


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Questions about the Faith can be difficult to answer sometimes. In his book, A Priest Answers 27 Questions You Never Thought to Ask, Fr. Michael Kerper explains how to approach answering questions about the Faith as well as tackles some interesting questions from Dan and Melissa in Part 1 of their interview.
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