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SoulDeep Jazz Fusion at The Queens Head,Belper.Friday 16th March.£8.Doors at 8.00pm. The East Midlands premier jazz fusion trio bring their improvisational genius back to The Queens Head ,Belper. Already an established act across the area,the trio take their inspiration from the likes of Chick Corea and The Crusaders. If you were lucky enough to catch their pre-Christmas gig, you will remember the invention and intensity of their performance. This is clearly something new and fresh for Belper and could even become a hub for the very best in jazz and funk. Word of mouth travels fast so expect considerable interest in this one. For reservations contact mjones572@hotmail.co.uk. or buy advance tickets from behind the bar. Belper's young talent present a pre-Christmas bonanza of songwriting and musicianship. The Sunflower Thieves,sprung from the duo of Amy and Lily,celebrated the year with the release of their first EP whilst developing an audience with touring far beyond The Amber Valley territory. Joseph Knight has enjoyed similar success via touring and recording with his distinctive and thoughtful brand of songwriting whilst Laurie Illingworth's intensity in performance has already captivated audiences beyond the confines of Belper. Come and enjoy ! Big attractions next year include Headsticks,Bob Cheevers (USA),Brooks Williams and the return of Bonfire Radicals. Plus, a John Martyn celebration almost exactly ten years after his premature demise.

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Don't be misled by the somewhat drab decor of Parramatta's Hong Fu Northern East Chinese Restaurant, it's what's served on your table that counts. And the dishes placed before diners are guaranteed to satisfy; hearty, generous meals that hail from northeastern China. Hot pots, dumplings and congee are staples and the noodles come highly recommended.

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Womens Health: From family planning to menopause. I decided to write this roundup post because one of the first things I looked into when making holistic changes in my life was my monthly cycle. The worst part about my story is this: I decided to leave my health in the hands of companies that were looking to profit off of me versus help me heal. When I was fifteen I started a period cycle that would last for two years. I'm serious.. two years of daily, heavy, continuous bleeding, and cramping. I was always tired, I had severe motivation problems, although I played sports and kept up my straight A's in high-school, when I came home from school I slept... a lot! My mother took me to an OBGYN that she trusted, and the first medication I was given, of course, was the pill. While the birth control pill usually gave the consumer a light monthly period, mine got worse. Then they tried the Depo shot, next was the Depo shot un-diluted; both failed horribly and honestly just made me feel worse. The doctors were astonished that I was loosing that much blood and wasn't bed-ridden. Two years later (at seventeen years old) when the doctors ran out of birth control options, I had an exploratory surgery. The surgeon found out that I had a rare cyst on one of my fallopian tubes and Endometriosis. This surgeon/ OBGYN decided to try an experimental shot that was typically used in treating prostate cancer on me.. called Lupron Depot. I remained on this shot for two years, and while it stopped the bleeding it had MANY negative aspects. A well known side effect of Lupron for women is that the shot sends your body into false menopause (yes I was 17 with hot flashes, mood swings, etc). You also have to take calcium supplements to prevent an early onset of osteoporosis. When I was 19, and met the love of my life we decided as a couple that I should try to come off of this shot. Just on the off chance that I ever wanted to have children. You have to wait one year, per six months of taking the shot, before your monthly cycle returns to normal and you can even think about having children. After I quit taking the shot it was four years before I began having a regular period again, during those four years I would have a few days of spotting but that was always around six months apart. I have had regular periods again for a little over a year now and I'm now dealing with the pain of Endometriosis again, but I am SO thankful to be off of that horrible medicine. My bone and teeth health is something I am also working to rebuild since I was neglectful and did not take my calcium supplements during treatment. -My personal choice for relief during discomfort caused by endometriosis is a roller bottle with fractionated coconut oil and 10 drops of eucalyptus. For the remainder of this Women's health related round up post, I will share helpful links that I have found while researching holistic health. These are topics that specifically relate to women's health. Since I have been through false-menopause (for two years) I also felt the urge to include some menopause related links! I hope that this information helps you as much as it has helped me! I asked you all, over on the Apothekayla Facebook page, which recipe you wanted me to write about first, and the shaving cream won. Shaving, why do we do it and why does it have to be so complicated? Personally I feel it is purposely made to be complicated so we have to purchase several products in order to have the closest, longest lasting shave possible, and if your shaving cream irritates your skin don’t worry; there is a product for that too! Why we do it is another question that personally I think is entirely cultural. All humans have leg hair, arm hair, most men and some women around the world have face hair.. it’s natural. Why do most humans shave off their hair in the attempt to pretend it was never there in the first place? I think most of us associate not shaving with looking like a caveman, so to prevent caveman syndrome I will share this rosemary mint shaving cream with you and tell you why it’s awesome! This is a recipe that I took great care in perfecting. My husband and I both have sensitive skin, conventional shaving creams usually leave our skin irritated and extremely dry. I tried several different combinations of ingredients before I nailed down the perfect recipe. My husband uses this shaving cream on his face and each time he uses he says “I can’t believe how well this shaving cream works!” His face feels baby smooth and he smells great, there is no need for stinky astringent/ toner because it is included in the recipe! I use this shaving cream on my legs and under my arms. I like to rub it on my legs before I get in the shower so it has time to moisturize the hair follicle and my skin, which makes shaving a breeze. I’ve always heard the key to shaving was a good razor, but after using this recipe I’m thinking the key is actually the shaving cream you use. Most shaving creams are harsh and clog up the razor, you also have to use a lot of it to cover your hair before you shave it. Then when you finish shaving you have to apply a lotion to your arms or legs and either aftershave or astringent/ toner to your face. I have noticed when I am finished shaving I actually do not have to apply lotion because this recipe is so nourishing to my skin. After continual use neither my husband or myself have had a single ingrown hair or clogged pore after shaving. Astringent and toner have always been confused and you will find it really depends on the person or company as to who calls it what. What are they? “Generally speaking, toners and astringents seek to do many things as sort of a skin care workhorse. They simultaneously try to soothe, close pores, disinfect, nourish, control oil, and mildly exfoliate dead skin cells” (1). Most astringents/ toners contain alcohol; alcohol can lead to overly dry skin which in turn makes your skin unbalanced. Your skin will try to make up for this by producing extra oil, which will leave you with oily skin. - Rosemary Essential Oil- Rosemary is a natural toner which helps to tighten the skin and reduce the appearance of pores, it is a natural cleanser, it gets rid of acne and cellulite (for those of you who plan to shave your legs with this recipe this is just an added bonus), and it is extremely beneficial for restoring the hair growth cycle which will continue to be useful each time you shave. Peppermint Essential Oil- Peppermint also has the deep cleansing and toning qualities. Peppermint oil is used to relieve skin irritation and itchiness while reducing redness. - Peppermint and Rosemary are both well known for reducing head and neck tension, strengthening mental clarity, and improving mental function (which has nothing to do with shaving but these are qualities I couldn’t leave out). Aloe Vera Gel, Coconut Oil, and Shea Butter create the perfect blend for thickness, smoothness, and when you add the baking soda you end up with a whipped cream consistency. All of these ingredients are useful for improving skin quality and healing any irritants (in this case the shaving). Dr. Bronners Magic Soap- The first time I made this recipe I didn’t include the soap. However I added a small amount the second time I tried it and I was very impressed. The third and final time I altered the recipe I decided to add enough to create a slight lather so that I could wash away all of the dead skin/ shaved hair after shaving. The soap also helps to remove hair from the razor so that it doesn’t get clogged up while you are shaving. For those of you that follow me on Facebook, I told you this recipe came with a hidden secret. I have very sensitive scalp, too much conditioner will make my hair very oily, and certain shampoos will leave my scalp feeling sore and scabby. So after I made my own shampoo recipe I was thrilled because for the first time in many years my scalp and hair felt normal. I have been using my own recipe for shampoo for a while now, and every once in a while (change of seasons, too much sun, getting in a swimming pool with chlorine, etc) my hair will be a little dry. I quit using conventional conditioners because my shampoo recipe is usually moisturizing enough but there are times where a deep conditioning treatment helps. This shaving cream recipe is an amazing deep conditioner. When I decided to try it for this purpose I was skeptical about how it would work but I thought it was worth a try. Before I got into the shower I applied this cream to my scalp and worked it through my hair until about 50% of my hair was covered with it. I let it sit on my scalp and hair until I was done washing my body and washed it out of my hair with my normal shampoo. I honestly felt like I had just left the spa after using it and this combination of ingredients is perfect for conditioning, then rinsing away excess oils (with the Dr. Bronners and baking soda). So the big secret is that this shaving cream doubles as a deep conditioner for your hair. Earlier I mentioned that peppermint and rosemary essential oils are very beneficial for the growth cycle of hair, and as such these properties are also extremely beneficial in a deep conditioner. Let me know what you think if you try it this way!

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Okay, so I won’t make this one as long as my past few have been. I am a writer by nature, and writing helps me to process that which is running through my mind…so the past few posts have been pretty lengthy! I apologize! This afternoon I am heading down to Yorba Linda (Orange County) to see my former boss, Newt Gingrich. One benefit of having worked for him is that I will be able to speak with him, as well as his Communications Director (who is completely awesome!), even though I have not yet bought the book that is being signed today. I am really excited about seeing Newt in California! I spent last night with my friend Christina, for our “weekly” (we try, anyway!) time together for accountability and fellowship. It is so incredible how the Lord allows you to find someone who is going through EXACTLY the same things at the same time…so amazing. It was so good to listen to all that the Lord has been doing in her life. There are so many things going on in my life right now that are not easy…they are not fun…and that’s okay. I am just trusting the Lord to guide me down whatever path He chooses for me…it has already been a remarkable learning experience, and I look forward to the experiences to come.

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The Unschoolers Platform invites you to join us as we kick of our second annual conference with a huge splash – in the middle of winter! Because there is SO MUCH GREAT TO CELEBRATE!!!! Our whole family event aims to please! Bringing folks together who support the choice to homeschool, unschool and/or life learn — enabling empowerment and celebrating the wildly fantastic brilliance of the inner drive to learn what is essential for each individual to become their greatest self — no matter the age, no matter the stage! It is with deep respect and great honor to the human spirit that the Unschoolers Platform (UP) was created. To boldly challenge our beliefs and expand our horizons as we co-navigate the awe and wonders of learning. UP provides a broad spectrum of ideas and information that will inspire any and everyone; from the nearly decided to the well-seasoned. Reduced rate registration: July 14, 2016 – January 13, 2017. Late registration: January 14, 2017 – at the door. Click HERE to pre-register for the Unschoolers Platform. ~ Two (2) free conference t-shirts. ~ A $10 gift visa gift card to use at the hotel (or however you like really!)!!

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6.1 S.349 of the Act requires all licensing authorities to prepare and publish a statement of licensing principles that they propose to apply in exercising their functions under the Act, commonly known as a policy statement. The policy statement forms the licensing authority’s mandate for managing local gambling provision and sets out how the licensing authority views the local risk environment and therefore its expectations in relation to operators with premises in the locality. 6.2 The policy statement acts as the primary vehicle for setting out the licensing authority’s approach to regulation having taken into account local circumstances. For example, a licensing authority might identify the safeguarding of children as a key priority, in which case its statement would set out those policies, procedures and control measures it would expect licensees to follow to mitigate any risks relating to underage gambling. 6.3 Policy statements are likely to reflect differences in approach between different licensing authorities. The statement made by a seaside town licensing authority, which may see gambling businesses as an important part of its plans for growth and regeneration based on regular influx of visitors, may well be significantly different from that of an inner city authority, which may be more concerned with impact on the vulnerable. In this respect, licensing authorities may find it helpful to make an assessment of the pattern of gambling and associated risks to the licensing objectives in their own areas. 6.4 The Commission encourages licensing authorities to have a policy statement that is genuinely reflective of local issues, local data, local risk and the expectations that a licensing authority has of operators who either currently offer gambling facilities or wish to do so in the future. The existence of a clear and robust policy statement provides greater scope for licensing authorities to work in partnership with operators, other local businesses, communities, and responsible authorities to identify and to proactively mitigate local risks to the licensing objectives. 6.5 The policy statement can be reviewed and revised by the licensing authority at any time, but must be produced following consultation with those bodies and persons set out in s.349(3) of the Act. Regulations made by the Secretary of State, or Scottish Ministers in Scotland, prescribe the form of statements, and the procedure to be followed in relation to them and their publication, as detailed in paragraph 6.11 onwards. 6.6 Licensing authorities should ensure that the policy statement balances the need for a degree of certainty on the part of gambling businesses with the need to remain responsive to emerging risks. It should be evidence led, based on the principles outlined below and reviewed at least every three years. 6.8 The statement should also state that the licensing authority shall aim to permit the use of premises for gambling as set out in s.153 of the Act. 6.9 It is expected that licensing authorities will regulate gambling in the public interest which will be reflected in the policy statement. 6.10 While the policy statement may set out a general approach to the exercise of functions under the Act, it should not override the right of any person to make an application and to have that application considered on its merits. The exception to this is where the licensing authority has passed a ‘no casino’ resolution under s.166(1) of the Act, detailed in Part 17 of this guidance. Additionally, the policy statement must not undermine the right of any person to make representations on an application or to seek a review of a licence where provision has been made for them to do so. 6.11 The Gambling Act 2005 (Licensing Authority Policy Statement) (England and Wales) Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/636) and the Gambling Act 2005 (Licensing Authority Policy Statement) (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (SSI 2006/156), set out requirements as to the form and publication of licensing authority policy statements of policy and subsequent revisions of statements. In addition to those requirements, this guidance sets out certain information that the Commission considers should be included in all licensing authority statements of policy. a list of the persons consulted in preparing the statement. 6.13 The policy statement should set out the activities that the licensing authority is able to license. iv. the functions under Part 15 of the Act with respect to the inspection of premises and the power under s.346 of the Act to institute criminal proceedings in respect of the offences specified in that section. Each of these is set out in further detail below. 6.15 Under s.349 of the Act, the policy statement must set out the principles that the licensing authority proposes to apply in exercising their functions. One of those functions is to determine who will be competent to advise them about the protection of children from harm and so the policy statement must contain a section that sets out the principles the licensing authority will apply in designating a competent body. 6.16 In many licensing authority areas, the recognised competent body will be the local Safeguarding Children Board in England and Wales, or the Child Protection Committee in Scotland. However, the licensing authority has discretion to determine the most appropriate competent body to advise it, and must consider which body best fulfils this function. The policy statement should set out this consideration, or the criteria the authority intends to use, in order to designate that body and confirm that designation in writing. 6.17 A designated body is a responsible authority under s.157(h) of the Act. Licensing authorities should engage fully with the designated body and provide sufficient opportunity for them to be consulted on the development of the policy statement, as they can offer valuable insight into the impact of gambling on children in the local area. Licensing authorities might also opt to consult such groups as part of its own local area profile, discussed at paragraph 6.47 onwards. 6.18 Licensing authority policy statements must contain a section that sets out the principles to be applied by the licensing authority to determine whether a person is an interested party in relation to a premises licence, or in relation to an application for or in respect of a premises licence. c) represent persons who satisfy paragraph a) or b). 6.20 It is a matter for the licensing authority to decide whether a person is an interested party with regard to particular premises and that should be decided on a case by case basis. However, the licensing authority should set out the principles it will apply in determining whether a person is an interested party in its policy statement, and that may include relevant factors it will take into account. For example, this could be the size of the premises and the nature of the activities taking place as larger premises may be considered to affect people over a broader geographical area compared with smaller premises offering similar facilities. 6.21 Licensing authority policy statements should include guidance as to whom they consider comes within the category of those who living sufficiently close to premises to be affected by it or have business interests, that may be affected by it. For example, this could include trade associations, trade unions, residents’ and tenants’ associations. It is expected that the types of organisations that may be considered to have business interests will be interpreted broadly to include, for example, partnerships, charities, faith groups and medical practices. 6.22 Licensing authority policy statements must contain a section that sets out the principles to be applied by the licensing authority in relation to the exchange of information with the Commission (s.29 and s.30 of the Act) and other persons (s.350 of the Act). is in the possession of the licensing authority in connection with a provision of the Act. 6.25 The licensing authority policy statement must set out how it will approach information exchange with other persons or bodies under the Act, and whether it intends to establish any protocols in this regard. The policy statement should also include the authority’s approach to data protection and freedom of information, in particular, how information will be protected, whether the confidentiality of those making representations will be maintained, what information will be shared with other agencies or persons and how information can be accessed by data subjects. 6.26 Further information regarding the exchange of information can be found in Part 13 of this guidance. 6.27 For the purposes of their policy statement, licensing authorities should confirm that they will act in accordance with the relevant legislation and guidance from the Commission and will adopt the principles of better regulation (detailed at paragraph 5.27). 6.28 Licensing authority policy statements must contain a section that sets out the principles to be applied by the licensing authority in exercising their inspection function (part 15 of the Act) and in instigating criminal proceedings (s.346 of the Act). 6.29 The statutory principles of good regulation and the Regulators’ Code (paragraph 5.27) apply to licensing authorities. This means that inspection and enforcement activities must be carried out in a way which is transparent, accountable, proportionate, consistent and targeted, and promotes efficient and effective regulatory approaches which improve outcomes without imposing unnecessary burdens on business. 6.30 The policy statement should set out the principles to be applied by the licensing authority in relation to inspections. It is recommended that licensing authorities adopt a risk-based approach to inspection programmes and the policy statement should outline the criteria the licensing authority will use to determine the level of risk in respect of premises. Such an approach could include targeting high-risk premises which require greater attention, whilst operating a lighter touch in respect of low-risk premises, so that resources are more effectively concentrated on potential problem premises. If the licensing authority has a local area profile, as outlined at paragraph 6.47 onwards below, their inspection approach is likely to informed by it. 6.31 Many licensing authorities in England and Wales will have general enforcement policies which are in accordance with the codes of practice developed with the Crown Prosecution Service. Such licensing authorities may wish to refer to these codes in their policy statement, in relation to the management of criminal cases. 6.32 Further guidance on licensing authorities’ compliance and enforcement responsibilities is available in Part 36 of this guidance. This has been developed following discussions between the Commission, the police, licensing authorities and other law-enforcement and regulatory agencies to agree respective roles in relation to particular types of gambling and licensed premises. 6.33 The policy statement should set out what factors it is likely to take into account when considering applications for premises licences, permits and other permissions, and when determining whether to review a licence. This may be informed by the licensing authority’s local area profile and will include considerations such as the proximity of gambling premises to schools and vulnerable adult centres, or to residential areas where there may be a high concentration of families with children. 6.34 Although the policy statement should identify the factors to be considered, it should be clear that each application or review will be decided on its merits. Importantly, if an applicant for a premises licence can show how licensing objective concerns can be overcome, the licensing authority will need to take that into account in its decision making. 6.35 The policy statement should include details about how the licensing authority has taken or will take a decision in relation to a casino resolution. A licensing authority may resolve not to issue casino premises licences within its area. If it does so, the resolution must be published in its policy statement (s.166(5) of the Act). 6.36 The policy statement should include a firm commitment to avoid duplication with other regulatory regimes, so far as possible. For example, a range of general duties are imposed on the self-employed, employers and operators of gambling premises, both in respect of employees and of the general public, by legislation governing health and safety at work and fire safety. Therefore such requirements do not need to be included in the policy statement. 6.37 Previous legislation required that the grant of certain gambling permissions should take account of whether there was unfulfilled demand for the facilities. This is no longer the case and each application must be considered on its merits without regard to demand. The policy statement should reflect the ‘aim to permit’ principle (s.153 of the Act) and should not comment on whether there is demand for gambling premises. 6.38 However, the policy statement may comment on the location of premises and the general principles it will apply in considering the location so far as it relates to the licensing objectives. For example, a policy statement may set out that the licensing authority will carefully consider applications for premises licences and whether there is a need for conditions to mitigate risks, in respect of certain kinds of gambling located very close to a school or a centre for gambling addicts, in light of the third licensing objective. The policy statement must be clear that each case will be decided on its merits and will depend to a large extent on the type of gambling that is proposed for the premises. 6.39 Licensing authorities may wish to include other information in their policy statement to ensure clarity on their approach to local regulation, particularly the factors that will not be relevant to the exercise of their functions under the Act. This will ensure that applicants or persons who wish to make representations have all the necessary information to be able to do so, including what representations may not be relevant. 6.40 For example, licensing authorities may wish to explain in their policy statements that any objections to new premises or requests for a review should be based on the licensing objectives of the Act. The policy statement could make it clear that – unlike the Licensing Act 2003 and the Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005 – the Act does not include the prevention of public nuisance and anti-social behaviour as a specific licensing objective. 6.41 The Commission’s Licence conditions and codes of practice (LCCP) formalise the need for operators to consider local risks. 6.42 Social responsibility (SR) code 10.1.1 requires licensees to assess the local risks to the licensing objectives posed by the provision of gambling facilities at each of their premises, and have policies, procedures and control measures to mitigate those risks. In undertaking their risk assessments, they must take into account relevant matters identified in the licensing authority’s policy statement. when there are significant changes at a licensee’s premises that may affect their mitigation of local risks. 6.44 The new SR provision is supplemented by an ordinary code provision that requires licensees to share their risk assessment with licensing authorities when applying for a premises licence or applying for a variation to existing licensed premises, or otherwise at the request of the licensing authority. Both provisions take effect from April 2016. 6.45 Where concerns do exist, perhaps prompted by new or existing risks, a licensing authority might request that the licensee share a copy of its own risk assessment which will set out the measures the licensee has in place to address specific concerns. This practice should reduce the occasions on which a premises review and the imposition of licence conditions is required. 6.46 Where a licensing authority’s policy statement sets out its approach to regulation with clear reference to local risks, it will facilitate operators being able to better understand the local environment and therefore proactively mitigate risks to the licensing objectives. In some circumstances, it might be appropriate to offer the licensee the opportunity to volunteer specific conditions that could be attached to the premises licence. 6.47 Licensing authorities will find it useful to complete their own assessment of the local environment as a means of mapping out local areas of concern, which can be reviewed and updated to reflect changes to the local landscape. For the purpose of this guidance, we refer to such assessments as local area profiles. Completion of a local area profile is not a requirement on licensing authorities but there are significant benefits for both the licensing authority and operators, in having a better awareness of the local area and risks. Importantly, risk in this context includes potential and actual risks, thereby taking into account possible future emerging risks, rather than reflecting current risks only. 6.48 An effective local area profile is likely to take account of a wide range of factors, data and information held by the licensing authority and its partners. An important element of preparing the local area profile will be proactive engagement with responsible authorities as well as other organisations in the area that can give input to map local risks in their area. These are likely to include public health, mental health, housing, education, community welfare groups and safety partnerships, and organisations such as GamCare or equivalent local organisations. 6.49 Good local area profiles will increase awareness of local risks and improved information sharing, to facilitate constructive engagement with licensees and a more coordinated response to local risks. The local area profile will help to inform specific risks that operators will need to address in their risk assessment, discussed at paragraph 6.41 above, which will form a part of any new licence application, or an application to vary a licence. 6.50 For example, an area might be identified as high risk on the basis that it is located within close proximity to a youth centre, rehabilitation centre, or school. The licensing authority might indicate, for example, that they would expect licensees to take appropriate steps to ensure that advertising relating to their premises, or relating to events at their premises, is not displayed at a time when children are likely to be near the premises. The licensee would be reasonably expected to have sufficient controls in place to mitigate associated risks in such areas and, if not, the licensing authority would consider other controls themselves. 6.51 It is for licensing authorities to determine whether to include a local area profile within the body of their policy statement or separately. If included in the policy statement, the licensing authority’s view of local risks would be a consideration for local gambling regulation in the context of s.153 of the Act. Licensing authorities may consider this is best achieved by making reference to the local area profile, so that it can be reviewed and updated without the need for full consultation. 6.52 There is no prescriptive template for a local area profile, as each assessment will be influenced by local circumstances. However it is expected that that it will draw upon the knowledge and expertise of responsible authorities and be updated on a regular basis to reflect changes to the local environment. it encourages a proactive approach to risk that is likely to result in reduced compliance and enforcement action. any responses from those consulted on its policy statement. 6.55 Licensing authorities should note that the regulations and this guidance do not prevent them from including any additional information that they consider necessary or helpful. how far the representations relate to matters that the licensing authority should be including in its policy statement. 6.57 A licensing authority should always be able to give reasons for the decisions it has made following consultation. Having regard to this guidance will be important for consistency. 6.59 The list of persons to be consulted is deliberately wide. This enables licensing authorities to undertake a comprehensive consultation exercise with anyone who may be affected by or otherwise have an interest in their policy statement. 6.60 It is a matter for licensing authorities to develop their own consultation practices, including the methods for consultation and who they consider it necessary to consult with, which might include consultation with relevant local groups, business and responsible authorities. 6.61 Any written consultation should follow best practice as set out by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. Consultation responses should usually be published within 12 weeks of the consultation closing. Where licensing authorities do not publish a response within 12 weeks, they should provide a brief statement on why they have not done so. Consultation documents could be provided on the licensing authority’s website. 6.62 The licensing authority’s policy statement will have effect for a maximum of three years and must be reviewed thereafter, but the licensing authority may review and alter the policy at any time during the three year period. For example, licensing authorities will need to consider if their policy statement should be reviewed in the event of a change of policy, such as a change in local planning policy. 6.63 Where the policy statement is reviewed and changes proposed, licensing authorities must consult on any revision. 6.64 Authorities should note that where a statement is revised, it is only the revision that needs to be published and consulted on. So, for example, an authority may consult separately on whether to pass a casino resolution and then subsequently publish the resolution as part of the statement. This can be done without any need to review and reopen consultation on the main body of the statement. The same would apply if the licensing authority was updating its local area profile to take account of changing local risks. Any revisions must be published and advertised in the same way as a new statement. 6.65 The regulations referred to at paragraph 6.11 confirm that the form and content of revisions to the policy statement can be determined by the licensing authority, subject to the requirement that the revisions must include an introductory section at or near the beginning, summarising the matters dealt with in the statement and listing the persons consulted in preparing the revision. the principles to be applied in exercising the functions under Part 15 of the Act with respect to the inspection of premises; and the powers under s.346 of the Act to institute criminal proceedings in respect of the offences specified in that section. a public notice board on the premises of public libraries in the area covered by the statement. 6.68 The regulations at paragraph 6.11 stipulate that the policy statement or any subsequent revision, must be published on the licensing authority’s website and be made available at reasonable times for inspection by members of the public at one or more public libraries in the area covered by the statement or in other premises situated in that area. The statement or revision must be published at least four weeks before it takes effect. 6.69 In order to ensure that applicants and persons who wish to make representations have the necessary information to be able to do so, the information set out below should be made available by licensing authorities are part of their communication strategy. 6.70 It is open to licensing authorities to include any of this information in their policy statement. However, they might think it more appropriate to make it available in another form, such as on their website. 6.71 S.156 of the Act requires licensing authorities to maintain a register of the premises licences that it has issued. The register must be made available, at any reasonable time, to the public who may request copies of the entries. Authorities should ensure that information regarding the location of the registers (eg on the website, in the council offices), when they can be viewed, and the cost of obtaining copies is made available to the public. 6.72 A database of premises licences is available on the Commission’s website and consists of information submitted by licensing authorities. The register is published with the caveat that the Commission cannot provide any assurance on the completeness and accuracy of this data. The Commission recommends that licensing authorities should be contacted directly for accurate and up-to-date premises information. 6.73 Under s.212(2)(d) of the Act, local authorities shall ‘aim to ensure that the income from fees… as nearly as possible equates to the costs of providing the service to which the fees relates’. Further information on fees setting in England, Wales and Scotland in available in Part 36. 6.74 Licensing authorities should ensure that information is available on how to make applications for licences and other permissions under the Act. In particular, it would be helpful if licensing authorities ensure that a full list of responsible authorities and their appropriate contact details is readily available. Application forms, where appropriate, should also be made available. Licensing authorities should note that there are no prescribed application forms for family entertainment centre, prize gaming or licensed premises gaming machine permits. As such, the licensing authority will need to make clear how applications for these permits should be made and in what form. Additionally, licensing authorities will need to ensure that information regarding making representations, and applying for a review of a premises licence, is also made available. 6.75 There are a range of statutory application forms and notices that licensing authorities are required to use as part of their gambling licensing responsibilities. A summary list of these can be found in Appendix E. 6.76 Information should be provided as to how functions are delegated under the Act (eg whether decisions are to be taken by a licensing officer, licensing sub-committee or full committee). A table setting out the scheme of delegation required by the Act may be the most appropriate method for this and is located in Part 4 of this guidance.

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As a mother of three and a Southern Methodist University advertising and French alumna, Mary Beth Bennett isn’t the typical first-year medical student. However, as a member of Dell’s Class of 2021, Bennett is now part of an unconventional class where females are dominating the classroom. Dell’s second admitted class consists of 58 percent women and 42 percent men, according to data from Dell Medical School Student Affairs. Although Dell admits a small number of students, with 50 students admitted this past summer, the school’s demographics are notable compared to national averages. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, of newly enrolled medical students in the country in 2016, 49.8 percent were women and 50.2 percent were men. First-year medical student Hannah Rosenthal said she thinks Dell didn’t intentionally choose more women than men. “Dell’s goal is … to rethink everything about health care … they went out (knowing) what they were looking for in a class, and whoever happened to have those characteristics, that’s who they choose, and (it) just happened to be 58 percent female,” Rosenthal said. Dell director of admissions Joel Daboub said the difference could be because more women applied to Texas medical schools than men. Out of the applicants who hoped to start medical school in 2017, 2,840 were men and 2,878 were women, according to the Texas Medical and Dental Schools Application Service. Dell’s admission process relies mainly on holistic review, which contributes to the school’s diverse student body, Daboub said. A holistic review allows committee members to look beyond a student’s academic career and see if they are engaged in other areas such as innovation, leadership and community engagement. Having received her bachelor’s degree in advertising and French in 2008, Bennett said her daughter motivated her to change her profession and go to medical school. Bennett said she hopes to inspire other women who may want to pursue medicine. “I definitely see it as so important that you have women setting an example for future generations. Being an older person, I didn’t have a lot of influence on me growing up that I could be a physician,” Bennett said. Clay Johnston, dean of the Dell Medical School, has started from scratch in March to build up the staff and partnerships for the school. Johnston’s greatest challenge thus far has been to focus his energy on key functions of the school, such as initial accreditation. Editor’s Note: This is the last in a series of Q-and-A’s with UT’s deans. Dr. Clay Johnston is dean of the Dell Medical School. He was appointed dean in January 2014. The interview has been edited for clarity. The McCombs School of Business declined our requests for an interview. The Daily Texan: What sorts of things have happened in the medical school since the Texan last spoke to you? Clay Johnston: We’ve been hiring a lot of people. Hiring people is one of the most important things we do. We are almost entirely focused on [hiring] leaders. Now we have three department chairs, with another four to recruit. We had a visit from the accrediting body in February. And that visit went really well. We will hear about accreditation for sure in June. If that goes well, we will start accepting applications for July 2016. DT: What kind of relationship do you foresee between the medical school and the rest of UT? Johnston: We have started the first program that cuts across schools, called the Design Institute for Health. It’s us and the College of Fine Arts. We will announce another program like this that will include LBJ, McCombs and the Law School within a month. In addition we will start programs that reflect how we hope to find solutions to health problems. DT: What has the recruiting process been like so far? Johnston: For us, the most logical way to recruit is to recruit the leaders and have the leaders recruit their people. There are some urgent needs we have to fill, so we are recruiting a small number of faculty along the way. In terms of staff, we met those needs right away. We did inherit clinical faculty from UT Southwestern. DT: Recently, the University announced a partnership between the medical school and Huston-Tillotson University. Can you tell us about that, and what are the things you look at when it comes to working together with other organizations, such as Seton? Johnston: We have a bunch of partnerships, and we will always rely on those. As opposed to our own stuff, we are trying to work as a coordination and creativity engine to move other entities forward. Seton is a key one because they are a primary in-patient partner. The other major partner for us is Central Health, the Travis County health care district. They make sure that poor people get health care and they do that through contracting with different providers. A lot of teaching will happen there. ... Huston-Tillotson is brand new. We are focused on how we deal with mental health disparities in Travis County. Huston-Tillotson is great partner to help us think about that. DT: How can the medical school address disparities in health care access? How could it work to alleviate some of the problems? Johnston: I see that as one of the critical roles for us. Right now, too much money is being spent on the emergency room and stuff that happens in the hospital, whereas if we shift the dollars and spending more to promoting health, creating a better environment for people, encouraging them to make better choices and identifying conditions early, we could save tons of money and people would be happier and healthier. That’s particularly true in neighborhoods where there’s more poverty. What we are interested in is shifting the payer model. Our role is to help these populations to identify the things that could be effective, potentially to coordinate different practitioners that are acquired to create those plans, directing payers toward wiser investment to their dollar. It will be more effective by bringing good ideas and promoting smart policies and the infrastructure. DT: How do you plan to help with students’ tuition and also increase diversity? Johnston: Our goal is to have no tuition for a third of our students and to keep tuition low for the other two-thirds. We have scholarships for people who plan to go into primary care — it’s probably going to be a forgivable loan program as the way to encourage it. The diversity issue is complicated, and it’s going to be a long-term issue for us. It is important, ultimately, to have physicians look like the patients they are treating. Unfortunately, we’re nowhere close to that in the U.S. health care system. We, as a single school, cannot solve that problem, but we are trying to look at the entire pipeline to interest students in medicine as early as middle school. DT: What role do you think the Dell Medical School will play in relation to the other medical schools in the UT System? Johnston: We have some fabulous [medical] schools in the UT System. They have been honed through years of tradition. We have this opportunity, and responsibility, to be more representative of where the health care system is going. So the other schools are looking to us to succeed and fail because we are definitely taking some of the risks so they can learn from both. Steven Abrams, chair of the Department of Pediatrics at UT-Austin’s Dell Medical School, speaks to doctors and nurses at Dell Children’s Hospital about his goals for the school’s pediatrics department. Abrams addressed several issues important to his goals for the medical school during his talk. One of Abrams’ most pressing challenges will be to connect already-established pediatric care centers and the medical school, according to S. Claiborne Johnston, dean of Dell Medical School. Abrams said one of his main goals for pediatric care in Austin is to have better communication between facilities. Tim George, a neurosurgeon at the Dell Children’s Medical Center, said Abrams only provided a brief framework of his goals, and he would like more depth in the discussion of coordinating the medical school’s work with other pediatric clinics. Abrams also said he intends to provide more comprehensive health care for children in Austin as well as preventative care to address the growing problem of childhood obesity. Le-Wai Thant, a doctor at the CommUnity Care clinic that aims to help the underserved population of Austin, said she is optimistic about the more well rounded health care children would receive with the medical school and outpatient clinics such as the one she works with. In his role as an executive-in-residence at McCombs, Barnett will mentor students and faculty in the field of medical administration. “The opportunity to use [McCombs] as an innovation engine to integrate the work being done [and] interface that among the colleges, especially the business school, is really important,” Barnett said. After working as vice president and chief operating officer at a Virginia hospital, Barnett said his work at Seton Healthcare Family required skills beyond what he expected when he started the job. Barnett said his work helping Seton Healthcare Family hospitals to improve the safety of baby delivery is his proudest accomplishment. In 2002, Seton Healthcare Family hospitals saw an average of 31 babies who suffered birth trauma per 10,000 live births, according to Barnett. After new protocol were put in place, that 31 dropped to one baby per 10,000. “We were able to develop a protocol by which the number of babies which suffered any kind of birth trauma event were reduced dramatically,” Barnett said. Greg Hartman, president for external affairs, academic medicine and research at the Seton Healthcare Family, said he started work at Seton because of Barnett. “He has been instrumental in building the excellent healthcare we have here today, from the heart transplant program, to the nationally recognized low birth trauma, to the building of the new medical school,” Hartman said. Barnett also helped develop new protocols to serve patients in Central Texas, according to a statement released in Aug. 2014. “Barnett also introduced new ways to care for a growing and diverse population, including the addition of insurance products and the first steps toward a more organized system of care,” the statement said. Barnett said Seton Healthcare Family helped save hospitals that were in financial trouble, allowing those hospitals to develop other health resources. Barnett said he hopes the Dell Medical School will provide medicine industry leaders that can work to resolve pressing issues. Because of Dell Medical School construction, the University removed hundreds of “C” parking spots in lots near the Frank Erwin Center and School of Social Work, causing frustration among some commuting students as they returned to campus for the spring semester. According to UTPD spokeswoman Cindy Posey, Lot 108, south of the Erwin Center, lost approximately 290 spots at the end of the fall semester. All of Lot 80, near the social work building, is being used to construct a chilling station for the Dell Medical School complex, Posey said. Austin Hill, mechanical engineering senior, said students who commute to campus often have difficulty finding a place to park. Hill said he used to park in Lot 80, but, because of the closure, he now tries to park mainly in Lot 70, just north of the closed-off area. Hill said he does not park in the lots east of I-35 because of how far they are from his classes. If he can’t find an open spot, Hill said he just pays to park on the streets around campus. Dennis Delaney, operations manager for Parking and Transportation Services, said there are a sufficient number of empty parking spaces east of I-35. Delaney said the parking services department has sold 2,264 “C” permits and 1,635 “C+” permits over the course of this academic year. “Basically, we sell as the demand is there, so, if people are asking for them, we’ll sell them,” Delaney said. “The PTS site makes it sound like parking across 35 is an easy option, when, in reality, the bus system is so unreliable that one has to plan a ton of time for taking the bus, which is not a viable alternative,” French said. The University is building a new parking garage near the site of the new medical school in order to make up for lost spaces, Posey said. Delaney said the new parking spaces at the medical school garage will be accessible to all students. “At the medical school, the only people who are probably going to want to park over there are the nursing school students and medical school students, so the demand that’s there from them is what’s going to drive how popular that garage is,” Delaney said. Clay Johnston spoke at the AT&T Conference Center Friday about building a new health care “ecosystem.” Dr. Johnston is the inaugural dean of the Dell Medical School and will begin his tenure March 1. Clay Johnston, dean of the Dell Medical School, called for a health care revolution in a speech Friday at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center. Johnston said he hoped to build a new health care “ecosystem” by shifting the industry’s focus to developing innovations in education and information processing. He said the health care industry should adopt the Lean Startup model, a plan that emphasizes preventative health care measures. Johnston said the health care system is outdated, with discrepancies between modern technology and the technology used in the health care field. “Health care accounts for 18 percent of the U.S. economy, and, yet, it’s powered by technology that’s really 50 years old,” Johnston said. The McCombs Healthcare Initiative sponsored the event. Edward Anderson, director of the Initiative and professor at the McCombs School of Business, said Johnston’s vision of coordinating health care with the community could lead to a technology boom in Austin similar to that of the 1960s. Ahmed Riaz, creative director at Frog Design Inc., said Johnston had a positive message that applied to a variety of Austin professionals, including those outside the health care industry. Johnston, who begins his tenure at the Dell Medical School in March 2014, encouraged future medical students to facilitate health care innovation. Correction: This story has been edited since its original publication. In his quote about a potential health-care boom in Austin, Johnston referred to a mandate, not a man. Further, he began his tenure in March of last year. The Dell Medical School established a faculty chair to honor Austin physician Dr. Robert Askew, who graduated from UT and completed his residency at UT Medical Branch-Galveston in 1959. The Shivers Cancer Foundation contributed $1 million to establish the Askew Chair in Oncology. The foundation commemorated the donation Friday, after Askew passed away in July. The gift represents one of the largest contributions associated with the foundation. According to Clay Johnston, dean of the Dell Medical School, the chair will help the school maintain qualitative standards in treating patients and training doctors. “The gift will help ensure that the Dell Medical School has a top-flight physician providing cancer care to Travis County residents and training the next generation of doctors,” Johnston said in a statement. Johnston also said the chair will be in charge of recruiting top faculty members to help maintain a high standard for the school. “The Askew Chair in Oncology will also be a model for how we recruit and retain the best faculty members and shape the Dell Medical School into a world-class institution,” Johnston said. This is the second chair to be established within the school — the first being the Chair for the Department of Medical Education, which Susan Cox currently holds.

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Early Wednesday morning, lawmakers on the state’s budget-writing panel, the Appropriations Committee, unanimously endorsed a roughly $30 million budget proposal. The funding measure closes a MaineCare shortfall in fiscal year 2015, while also funding $5 million for services for people with disabilities on the DHHS wait lists and $5 million in additional reimbursement for Maine’s struggling nursing homes. The funds would eliminate and reduce the wait lists, allowing hundreds of individuals with severe disabilities to get critical home based care services. It also provides $2 million for critical services required under the state’s court ordered mental health consent decree and increases funds for safety and security at Riverview and Dorothea Dix by $908,460. “We’re grateful that the Appropriations Committee understands the value and services Dorothea Dix offers, being one of only two hospitals that help with the challenges our mentally ill face. However, the facility has not recovered from the state’s last cuts and we need to further enhance this unique asset’s mission by reopening and admitting more patients. The need has been clearly documented, now it’s time for the state to take real positive action protecting the health and wellbeing of our citizens and their communities,” said Bangor City Councilor Joe Baldacci. In addition to funding key Health and Human Services initiatives, the measure adds funding to education programs, including $650,000 for the Bridge Year program, $300,000 in funding for Jobs for Maine’s Graduates, and $750,000 for Head Start. It also provides $750,000 for municipal homestead reimbursements. The bill is funded from key sources, including $20 million in savings from extending cycle payments in MaineCare; $3 million in savings found from greater scrutiny of payments to hospitals and other MaineCare providers; $3.5 million in transfers from unexpended funds from Dirgo Health, the Finance Authority of Maine, and the House Opportunity Maine (HOME) fund; $1.9 million in funds from tax audits and $1.3 million in position savings. While Governor Paul LePage has refused to propose a budget despite shortfalls at his Departments, the committee has worked collaboratively to resolve the budget gap. Last week, the committee’s $58 million budget became law without the Governor’s signature.

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Politicians love to get their names on things. So when a politician passes on, it's natural that the living politicians try to find something public they can rename to honor a departed colleague. In Chicago, this process can become quite creative. Take Kelly High School and Kelly Park. They’re across California Avenue from one another, just south of Archer Avenue. But each is named for a different Kelly. Thomas Kelly was born in 1843. He got into Democrat politics and was elected alderman in the 28th Ward. He later became a trustee of the Chicago Sanitary District. Kelly was serving on the Board of Education when he died in 1914. In 1928 a new junior high school opened at 4136 South California Avenue. Thomas Kelly had been on the school board and lived in the neighborhood, so the building was named for him. In 1933 it became a four-year high school, which it remains today. The school also owned a parcel of vacant land across the street, on the east side of California Avenue. In 1947 the Park District signed a lease for the property with the idea of building a park. A number of adjacent home owners were forced to sell by court order, and their houses leveled. In 1951, Kelly Park was dedicated. Meanwhile, Edward J. Kelly had just died. This Kelly had been Mayor of Chicago from 1933 to 1947, the longest tenure in the city’s history. Today the signs at the park read “Edward J. Kelly Park, established 1951.” However, it’s not clear when Ed Kelly’s name was actually put on the park. I had an older friend who grew up nearby. He said the vacant land on the east side of California was informally called “Kelly Park” as early as the 1940s. It was considered to be part of Kelly High School. Maybe the Ed Kelly dedication did take place in 1951. Maybe it took place in 1991, when the Board of Education transferred its portion of the property to the Park District. Maybe it happened some time in between. The end result is a sort of cut-rate commemoration, two politicians for the price of one. In any event, Ed Kelly now has his own bit of immortality. And as much as any Chicago politician, he deserves to be remembered. After all, he’s still the longest-serving mayor whose name is not Daley.

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The Engineering Society is the official representative for all engineering undergraduate students at the University of Waterloo and exists to support you through your time at Waterloo academically, socially, and professionally. EngSoc serves its members in three main ways which are listed below. The Engineering Society represents its students to the Faculty of Engineering, university administration, various university-level committees, other on campus student societies, and external organizations. The Society is committed to ensuring the all members are given the opportunity to give their input and that the student voice is represented. The Engineering Society provides many services to students to support them during their time here at Waterloo. Some of our services include POETS (our engineering student lounge), the C&D (coffee and donut shop), an online exam bank, student deals discount program, resume critiques, work report binding, technical skills workshops, a career fair, and an engineering novelties shop. Each term the Society runs over 50 different events for students that are organized by our many student directors. Some of our more popular events include semi-formals, coffee houses, ski trips, LAN parties and our famous Of-Term parties in POETS. The Society prides itself in the diversity of its members and events. It is our goal to provide something for everyone, and we are always welcoming of new event ideas. As Waterloo Engineering students alternate between work terms and school terms every four months, the Engineering Society is run alternately by two teams of students: Society “A” (A-Soc) and Society “B” (B-Soc). Each term the on-stream society switches between the two societies, allowing us to maintain a consistent set of executive, directors, and members. Depending on how each program’s streaming schedule is arranged, you may switch societies more than once during your time at Waterloo. Whichever society is on-term while you are in a school term is the society of which you are currently a member. To find out which Society is currently on term, look at the header located on the homepage of this site. The Engineering Society Executive are committed to executing and working towards the mission and vision of the Society as outlined below. The mission and vision statements were adopted by both Societies at the Joint Council Meeting of 2014. The University of Waterloo Engineering Society exists to promote a positive undergraduate experience among its members through representation of student opinion as well as support of academic, professional and social needs. The Society will strive to provide means for its members to develop and succeed as undergraduate students, and in their future endeavors. The University of Waterloo Engineering Society will work to better facilitate representation of its students on all relevant matters. The Society will strive to grow and improve its academic, professional, and social events and services to cater to the expanding diversity of its members. When the University of Waterloo, then called the Waterloo College Associate Faculties, opened to students in Spring of 1957, the first class on campus was composed of 74 young men who dreamed of being engineers. With a radical new co-operative education system and modified school year (at the time 4 terms of three months each), the University began to grow, and soon after, in 1958, the inaugural engineering classes formed the first formal student organization on campus, the Engineering Council. Before the University of Waterloo began making headlines for its academic prowess, the engineering students made national headlines in 1958 with a prank they pulled on the City of Waterloo by painting “BEER” on a city water tower. It was this student spirit and unity that would give the Engineering Council the ability to grow, and to continue the tradition of faculty pride. As time progressed, the Engineering Council became the Engineering Society, and in 1971 a Constitution was drafted and approved, creating the Society we know. While Waterloo grew out of the muddy farm fields into an international academic powerhouse, the Engineering Society grew out of the original engineering huts of the late 50’s into the largest, most active student society on campus and one of the most active in all of Canada. Built on legacy and tradition, the Engineering Society continues to be a role model for other student societies, and while the University forges into its sixth decade, EngSoc continues to unify the students in the Faculty of Engineering. The Engineering Society Executives are tasked with representing the Society, directing daily operations, and are responsible for the Society’s continued improvement and growth. Each executive role is unique and has its own important responsibilities. The Executive teams are elected every other on-stream term, thus each Executive remains in office for two co-op terms and two on-stream terms (a total of 16 months). The Executives are accountable to their respective constituencies, so please do not hesitate to contact them with any questions or concerns you have by clicking on their names below. The President is the face and voice of the Engineering Society, and it is ultimately their responsibility to ensure that the whole organization is properly represented and all operations are running smoothly. They represent engineering student interests at all times, including at various faculty and university meetings, where they do their best to ensure that actions taken by these groups serve their constituency. They are the official student link to the Dean’s Office and regularly meet with the Undergraduate Student Liaison Officer to present feedback on current issues affecting students. They also serve as the default student representative on tribunals held by the Faculty Committee for Student Appeals (FCSA). The President accompanies the VP Communications at certain larger conferences including CFES Congress, CFES Presidents’ Meeting (CFES PM), ESSCO Presidents’ Meeting (ESSCO PM), and ESSCO Annual General Meeting (ESSCO AGM). The on-term President serves as the spokesperson for the Tool, and is the sole person responsible for its wellbeing. They are also responsible for ensuring the Society’s documentation is up to date (Bylaws, Policy Manual, internal documents, and records). The president welcomes students to meet with them to discuss any concerns or suggestions they may have about the Engineering Society, and makes a strong effort to get to know their membership. The VP Academic is responsible for representing student interests in all matters that are academic in nature. This includes curriculum, academic policies, cooperative education, and professional development. They attend meetings on various committees and are also responsible for managing the Society’s academic services and directorships, which include the Exam Bank, Resume Critiques and Interview Skills Workshops, Course Critiques, and the Career Fair. They also act as a liaison between Academic Reps and the Engineering Society, and may choose to offer resources to Academic Reps, which frequently include workshops. Another responsibility of the VP Academic is to actively pursue resolutions to any general academic concerns that students have. The VP Communications serves as a representative of the Society to external organizations and to the community. They work with professional organizations such as Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) and the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE) to promote student involvement in the engineering profession. In addition, the VP Communications frequently sits on student councils at a provincial and federal level, which allows them to liaise with representatives from other schools and share best practices for the benefit of the Waterloo Engineering Society. 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The VP Student Life is prepared to provide any support required by such directors, which includes representing directorship concerns at executive meetings, answering resource and logistics questions, and resolving conflicts.The VP Student Life is responsible for creating the termly calendar of events and services. Another primary component of the VP Student Life portfolio is to promote Waterloo Engineering to the community at large through outreach and charity initiatives. The VP Student Life also manages and facilitates the Waterloo Engineering Competition (WEC) with the help of a commissioner and team of directors, and co-ordinates delegate participation in the Ontario Engineering Competition (OEC) and Canadian Engineering Competition (CEC) as necessary. The Waterloo Engineering Society employs commissioners to assist the executive with the day to day operations of the society, as well as exploring the growth of certain portfolios. Commissioners work closely with directors and Executive to ensure that all the Society services and events run successfully. Below are the current commissioners and their contact information. Applications open for positions at the end of each academic term. If you have any questions about the positions please e-mail president@engsoc.uwaterloo.ca. The Speaker is an officer position that is appointed by the President. The Speaker is repsonsable for the Engineering Society Council and its Meetings. This includes compiling the agenda, booking rooms, preparing AV, and chairing the meetings. This Commissioner is head of the Advertising Team. Their main responsibility is leading the team in all advertising of internal Engineering Society activities through mediums including social media, the website, mailing list, and posters. They also facilitate marketing services for other directors wishing to promote their events as well as the weekly EngSoc schedule! The First Year Commissioner is a joint effort between both societies to facilitate the transition process for incoming students. This commissioner welcomes first years by appearing as a familiar face at events, and acts as a reliable source of information and person at whom to direct questions or concerns. They are also responsible for overseeing events and services that are focused on first year students such as first year mentoring and the first year conference, and shall work with first year class reps and directors to promote first year involvement. The Mental Health Commissioner is in charge of facilitating with UW MATES (Mentor Assistance Through Education and Support), working with MATES volunteers, and growing the MATES portfolio within the Engineering Society. The Outreach Commissioner is in charge of increasing the amount of community outreach opportunities offered through the Waterloo Engineering Society. This individual works closely with relevant directors by providing support and direction whenever needed, with the intent of developing Society outreach programs and increasing the impact of charity efforts. The Outreach Commissioner is also encouraged to develop new ideas for outreach events and programs. The Socials and Events Commissioner oversees the majority of the Event Directors. They act as support to the VP Student Life in planning the calendar of events for the upcoming term and provide support to the majority of the Event Directors. The Student Services Commissioner oversees the majority of the service directors. This includes workshops, industry talks, exam bank and course critiques. They work closely with the VP Academic to plan the calendar and to continue expanding the amount of services offered by the Society. The Waterloo Engineering Competition (WEC) Commissioner is responsible for organizing and running the Waterloo Engineering Competition, which is held every other on-stream term. The WEC Commissioner is charged with overseeing every aspect of the competition, including the details of the competitions for each group, organizing logistics, judges, and signup for interested teams. The activities and services of the Engineering Society are coordinated by student volunteers called directors. Below is a list of the current directors for the A-Society and the B-Society. If you are interested in filling a vacant directorship or creating a new event or service, please contact the appropriate exec member. Applications for all directorships open at the end of each term. The Board of Directors manages all business and affairs of the Society. The Board is comprised of the two Presidents of the Society, four representatives from the A- Society membership, and four representatives from the B-Society membership. The Business Manager of the Society, as well as the two VPs Finance, also sits as an ex-officio non-voting resource member. The Board of Directors will select each term a chair to run the meetings. The term of office for each Director starts September 1st of the year they are elected, and lasts twelve months. The Directors, other than the Presidents, are elected at the Annual Joint General Meeting. Excluding the months of December, April and August, the Board of Directors shall hold a meeting at least once a month to handle higher-level Society and finance affairs. The Board of Directors is governed by the Board procedures in addition to the Engineering Society Governing documents. We, the Waterloo Engineering Society, acknowledge that we live and work on the traditional territory of ‎ the Attawandaron (Neutral), Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples. The University of Waterloo is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land promised to the Six Nations that includes ten kilometers on each side of the Grand River.

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Banning Probation, and the Riverside Auto-theft Interdiction Detail (RAID) task force. The teams conducted 75 compliance checks during the operation, which resulted in the arrest of 11 subjects, listed below. Drugs, drug paraphernalia, numerous weapons to include a pistol and a sawed-off shotgun, a stolen vehicle, counterfeit ID cards and forged documents were recovered. In 2011, Governor Brown signed “The Public Safety Realignment Act” or Assembly Bill (AB) 109. It was Governor Brown’s solution for reducing the number of inmates in the state’s 33 prisons to 137.5 percent of design capacity by June 27, 2013, as ordered by the Three-Judge Court and affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court. Implementation of the 2011 Realignment Legislation began October 1, 2011. Under Realignment, newly-convicted “low-level” offenders without current or prior serious or violent offenses stay in county jail to serve their sentence, which increases the county jail population for each individual county. Those individuals released and were previously supervised by State Parole Agents are now being supervised by county probation officers. Riverside County public safety agencies formed multi-agency task forces, such as the Central PACT, to ensure that those individuals on Mandatory Supervision (also referred to as split sentence) and PRCS (Post Release Community Supervision) are in compliance. The Riverside County PACT was formed in February of 2012 and has since expanded to three regional teams; West, Central, and East. Currently, the Central PACT Task Force participating agencies are Hemet Police, Beaumont Police, Murrieta Police, Riverside County Probation Department, Riverside County Sheriff’s Department- Lake Elsinore Station, and Riverside County Sheriff’s Department- San Jacinto Police.

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It's been a rough week, but I've been keeping busy. Quarry Town, the first town I've constructed, is undergoing it's finalization. Not thrilled with the background music, but I still have a lot to purchase (like $400 worth), so I'll find it sooner or later. My biggest concern is just making it through, story-wise and side-quest-wise. Since the town is completed, I can reveal a couple key features: the Teleport system and the Skill Shop system. Every major town has a Teleport point that you need to do to unlock it. Unlike other games, it's not a matter of interacting with it to unlock it. That being said, I didn't want to make it too inconvenient either. Rest assured, you don't need to stray far to complete this. As for the Skill Shop, this is the ONLY way to get new skills. Each town is focused on a certain element, though some smaller towns may be an exception (haven't decided yet). As you might expect, Quarry Town is focused on mainly Earth-based skills. Quarry Town is more than just the Teleport and Skill Shop. I'm working on three other things that make Quarry Town unique. Each town will have something that will make you want to go back now and again, but Quarry Town is designed to be the most frequented one. How? Just wait and see. I'm sure you'll like it! In regards to Version 0.2, some bad news. and some good news. Bad news first: I still don't have a Mac OS X to troubleshoot the errors so that's on standstill. The curse of being broke. To add insult to injury, I learned that some games have a crash during the fight with Mave's Pet. Quick reminder, folks: Delete any and all previous versions of the game so that no data gets crossed. This leads into the good news. Opening a new game will open a "save" folder (thanks to a new update from RPG Maker MV!) which holds your configurations and save files allowing you to delete saves. I'm gonna keep experimenting with this so I can give a proper explanation on how to work this. I'm going to try to get the hotfix done and over with by the end of the day so it can be playable.

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Rachel radiates warmth and intelligence. Her father worked for an international relief organization, and she lived abroad until her early teens, attending international schools in Jerusalem and Jakarta. When she returned to the United States, Rachel was the eighth generation of her family to attend the Westtown School, a Quaker boarding academy in Pennsylvania. She was given both Westtown’s Kaesemayer Leadership Award and Theater Arts Award. During her senior year, she took her first job as head receptionist for the school office. Rachel graduated with high honors from Oberlin College, where she majored in Gender Studies and Theater. She was the recipient of the James S. McLaughlin Theater Award for playwriting. Rachel came to New York in 2012. Since then, she has worked as a charity ambassador at iBid Mobile, an App used for silent auctions. For iBid, Rachel attends fundraising events and walks around with a company iPad taking bids from guests. Concurrently, Rachel founded Pencil Productions, a theater company that promotes works by emerging playwrights. Here, she wrote and staged the play Stranger Odds at the Fresh Fruit Festival. As its producer, Rachel managed all publicity for the show, including the Facebook page and festival website updates. She also designed the programs and promotional postcards. Rachel recently completed a five-month internship at Early Stages, a theater company that fosters literacy in children through the arts. She coordinated trips to Broadway and Off-Broadway shows for public school students. Additionally, she edited videos for Early Stages’ YouTube channel, wrote copy for their website, and researched grant opportunities. Rachel also interned at Propstar!, a prop design house, and The York Theater Company, where she managed the patron database and assisted with gala planning. Rachel is an eminently capable assistant. She has a strong grasp of basic web design, WordPress and Social Media. Rachel knows the Microsoft Office Suite, Photoshop, Finale and is fluent in French. Additional skills include cooking, light home repair, event planning and research. Rachel is bright, collaborative and enthusiastic by nature, and has endless amounts of energy for promoting projects and supporting people.

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For a long time, scientists have claimed that as meteors shoot across the midnight sky, they make a hissing sound as they go. But, for just as long, on the flip side, skeptics claim that any sounds emitted from meteors would not be heard until several minutes after the light waves are observed. However, a new theory suggests a way in which our eyes and ears could perceive and listen to a meteor at almost the same time. But, the fundamental question is this: how do meteors produce low-frequency radio waves in the first place? To try and answer this question, Price and Michael Kelley, a physicist at Cornell University developed a model. They demonstrated how as a meteor travels through the Earth’s atmosphere it ionizes the air and splits it into the light, negatively charged electrons and heavy positively charged ions. The positive ions follow the meteor, whereas the negative electrons are deflected by the Earth’s magnetic field. This separation creates a large electric field that then drives an electrical current, launching radio waves in the process.

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These handmade carbon fiber cuff links from the UK really pop. The carbon fiber is about 3/4" (20mm) in diameter and 3mm thick (4 layers) to really make it stand out against your dress shirt. The back is made of stainless steel. The process to bond each individual layer involves curing them together under heat and pressure, which takes about 10 hours at 176 degrees. 0.8" in. x 0.8" in. x 0.9" in. Well-made, great looking, excellent accessory, the talk-of -the party! ....can't wait for the next addition to my ever-expanding fiber carbon collection!

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Instead of going on risky blind dates, you could just take advantage of the internet and go on online dates. Basically, dating online is much safer and highly convenience. With it, you could meet up with someone without literally meeting up with the individual in person. It means that you could go on dates whenever you please, with the utmost comfort, without traveling far and without spending money. If you’re interested in selecting over different individuals easily and then finding the right person accurately and fast then you should consider online dating. Even though you could go on dates with people easily online, though, you have to take some things into consideration. To be specific, you have to know how to promote yourself well, find a good site to be a member of, and take safety measures on the internet. 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Among ancient writers Aristotle offers the most profound analysis of the ancient Greek household and its relationship to the state. The household was not the family in the modern sense of the term, but a much more powerful entity with significant economic, political, social, and educational resources. The success of the polis in all its forms lay in the reliability of households to provide it with the kinds of citizens it needed to ensure its functioning. In turn, the state offered the members of its households a unique opportunity for humans to flourish. This 2006 book explains how Aristotle thought household and state interacted within the polis.

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“You get to decide” is the message of our culture. In a world of options, perspectives, opinions, how do we determine what is good for our faith and what is destructive? How do we listen, consider and discern well?

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Invitation postcard announces exhibit opening day for “Hollywood to Honolulu: The Los Angeles Steamship Company Voyages to Hawaii in the Roaring 20s”, January 20, 2004. This is the story of how a little-known steamship company founded in 1920 would dominate passenger service from Los Angeles to Hawaii. Its stylish ships and celebrity passengers made the voyage glamorous and helped establish the port of Los Angeles as a major passenger ship destination. Steamship historians Martin Cox and Gordon R. Ghareeb were the guest curators,, and they have combined their personal collection of LASSCO artifacts with their in-depth knowledge of the subject to create a vivid presentation. In 1920 the only available steamship travel to Hawaii from California was from San Francisco. LASSCO’s directors envisioned the Los Angeles to Hawaii route as an opportunity for new growth. In September of 1920 LASSCO general manager Samuel Naphtaly met with members of the United States Shipping Board to arrange for a charter of surplus World War I ships. The Shipping Board allocated the German liners AEOLUS and HURON later that year to LASSCO. Arriving at the Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Drydock Company in 1922, the ships were refurbished for tropical service, painted white, and renamed CITY OF LOS ANGELES and CITY OF HONOLULU. These sleek passenger ships would soon be joined by the CALAWAII and later a second CITY OF HONOLULU. [The first City of Honolulu sank on her maiden voyage] A new service to Hawaii was born, with Wilmington as the port of departure for Los Angeles. In 1927, the combined sailings of Los Angeles Steamship Company vessels would carry more passengers to Hawaii than the rival Matson Line. The exhibit included vintage recordings of Hawaiian Music, while celebrity photographs attested to the glamorous appeal of the L.A. Steamship Company. Original china, silverware, and personal items from LASSCO passengers were also on display. The exhibit was on view through Sunday August 29, 2004. For more information on the Los Angeles Steamship Company, click here.

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Representative Daniel Bonham is the youngest of six children born to John and Joyce Bonham. Daniel met his wife Lori in 1998 and they began their family the same year he graduated from Linfield College with a Bachelor's degree in Business. Upon graduating from Linfield, Daniel acquired employment from Evergreen International Aviation in McMinnville. Evergreen exposed Daniel to significant business opportunities that took him around the world and offered substantial experience in Washington DC engaging in the political process. While at Evergreen Daniel served as the Director of Sales and Marketing, where he was actively involved in contract negotiations, pricing/cost analysis, temporary operational assignments, human resource management and training, company sale/acquisition, joint venture opportunities, litigation and lobbying. In 2006, Daniel left Evergreen and joined RB Rubber as a Sales Manager, before purchasing Maupin's Stoves and Spas in 2007. Outside of work, Daniel has enjoyed coaching soccer, basketball and baseball over the years. Most recently serving as the 8th grade boys basketball coach at The Dalles Middle School. The Bonham family attends the Alliance Church in Hood River and has participated in Mission trips to Guatemala and Thailand. Daniel has also volunteered his time serving on The Dalles City Budget Committee and Urban Renewal Budget Committee. Daniel's breadth of experience in business and life enable him to effectively serve and advocate for the residents of District 59.

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I hear the phrase "it has only been ___ weeks" over and over again from the pundits this time of year. Yes, it is early, and yes, early September excellence is no promise of similar results in December. We get it. But, we also know that we can only collect and analyze evidence that exists. And in 2014, we have 4 weeks of material to dissect and sort through. The findings are quite interesting from a Dallas Cowboys standpoint. As we mentioned yesterday, the Cowboys have run the ball more than anyone (130), they have more yards than anyone (660), which in turn equates to the most yards per game by anyone (165 per). But, we did not mention that the Cowboys are 7th in 1st half runs, 2nd in 1st and 10 runs, and 3rd in overall run percentage with 51%. Yes, their run/pass balance is actually 51/49. There is no way that is sustainable, but who ever thought we would see this for even 4 weeks? Here is another one for you to ponder: The Cowboys are #1 in the NFL through the 1st month in 10-yard runs. They are also #1 in the NFL in 20-yard runs, but since there are so few of those, I like the volume of numbers that separate the league in the 10-yard category. Here is a chart that shows how bad the Cowboys have been at this category over the last 4 seasons. Basically, while the average NFL team has about 195 10 yard runs, the Cowboys have 152 from 2010-2013. That shortfall of 43 is substantial and demonstrative of a team that simply was so discouraged by its own running situation that they almost stopped trying altogether. Well, the investment in the offensive line is proving to be an amazing development that is making everything better. The Cowboys are already using Play Action at a rate that is off the charts for a Jason Garrett/Tony Romo offense, and that only works over the long haul if you have a proper run threat that is troubling the defensive brain trust. Well, look above at that blue line. I included 2014 (the green line in 2014 is the PROJECTED league average only), even though it is an obvious misrepresentation of the season because THEY HAVE ONLY PLAYED 4 GAMES! That is right, the blue line is almost already at the 2012 level, and is well beyond half way to 2011 and 2013. Can they keep up this pace? Who knows. But, even if they don't, they will destroy pretty much every year on this chart by simply playing league average the rest of the way in. The whole objective of the zone blocking scheme is to create a seam. However, the defense plays a role in selecting the seam. You move them (often laterally) and when one of them breaks their form, you use it against him and turn block him from the play. In this case, Ronald Leary does it to #94 - Cameron Jordan. Then, Tyron mows out 93-Galette with a small amount of assistance from Witten. That leaves the combo block with Frederick and Martin on the Nose tackle. If you notice, the combo block is not because Martin cannot handle the block on his own. Rather, it is done by Frederick to allow Martin a chance to step over and get leverage that he didn't have at the snap. If Martin tries to block 95-Deaderick without Frederick's help, the angles are wrong. So Travis pops him back towards Martin, then once Martin is in position, Frederick leaves to go clean up #50-Lofton at the 2nd level. You seriously cannot do it better than this. The first time Murray is actually touched is at the 7 yard line - 21 yards down the field. And as this area high school coach tweeted me, it is perfect. Offensive Participation: In this game, the perfect attendance of the 7 who are "always on the field" continued: Smith-Leary-Frederick-Martin-Free-Witten-Romo. They are each now 277 for 277 on the season. If that continues, the team success is bound to continue as well. Next up are Dez Bryant, DeMarco Murray, and Terrance Williams playing most of the rest of the snaps. So, that generally leaves 1 spot that is swapped between Cole Beasley, Gavin Escobar, and James Hanna from play to play. Lance Dunbar and Joseph Randle combine to play 10 snaps and try to give Murray a brief spell. Otherwise, this is an offense that has had great health and they certainly hope to keep it that way. All snap numbers courtesy of PFF and they include all snaps including plays that were not official because of penalties. I realize that sometimes on these blogs I don't spend enough time telling you what "good" is and I need to improve upon that. Today, let's spend a moment on the Average yards to go on 2nd Down. Last week, I said that the Cowboys had a nice low number on Average yards to go and someone was shocked to hear that averaging 6.1 on 3rd was actually very good. It is. So, allow me to say that on 2nd Down, the NFL generally averages about 7.9 yards to go. Now, keep in mind, it is because of all of the penalties and sacks and so forth that often make that number go up, but 7.9 or 8.0 is usually the number at the end of the season. So, the Cowboys again were at 7.0 this week, which means that they were way ahead of the chains and for the season have a 7.16 average yards to go on 2nd down which ranks them 5th in the NFL - and 2nd in the league for the best "2nd and 6 or less" percentage at 47%. Again, these are fantastic developments. This season, we're attempting to track both passing and drive progression. John Daigle has designed a fantastic chart. Each color, for instance, represents the possession number listed in the key. If you were to start from the bottom and work your way up, you would be tracking that possession from beginning to end. The dotted-lines are incompletions. Large gaps between throws are mostly YAC or carries. Whether "statement" and "momentum" drives actually exist is topic for another day. For now, follow along the light blue possession. Wow. Look at these numbers compared to the last 3 years! Again, it helps to have a massive lead (vs Tenn and vs NO), but there is clearly intent to how the Cowboys are lining up and trying to maul you physically. Below are the season totals for past seasons, but thru 4 games in 2013, the Cowboys were at 61% with 151 shotgun snaps out of 246 total. This year, they are at 123/251. So, easy math there, in 2014 they have had 5 more opportunities, but have been in shotgun 28 fewer times! Pinch me. They finally are running an offense I have been campaigning for since Terrell Owens was on the team! So much dedication to balance and variety that there is almost nothing to complain about. It puts me in an odd position. In review, look at the Week 1 totals, then take only the last three weeks into account: 13/16, 203 Yds, 2 TD, I Sack, 8 FD. Amazing. I wrote a long piece in August about the Cowboys and the Run/Play Action Passing combo, and it might be worthy of checking again if you get the chance. It is really something how things clicked in the final 6 games of last year and they have kept going. The epiphany of the New Orleans humiliation last November and the bye week would be an amazing story to hear Jason Garrett tell some day. With Rob Ryan, it is never how often he blitzes (you will notice his blitz rate isn't shockingly high), it is how many he sends when he does blitz. He loves the big blitz with 6 and 7! Dangerous and deadly all at the same time. And Romo burned him on his own stove. *These totals do not include the two instances New Orleans blitzed seven rushers. Thanks to John Daigle for his work on the charts and graphs. SUMMARY: Forgive me, but in the interest of time, I did not spend too much time on Tony Romo this week. In short, he was very, very good. He diagnosed blitzes, he made throws, he did not risk interceptions, and overall he was absolutely the type of player that looks like a QB1 capable of leading his team to a division win. Of course, there is so much more in that equation, but if your QB is at that level (and not nursing a back injury that is ending his career) then my fears of the last several months are quieting down. This was not the case after SF and Tenn, but these last 2 weeks have been "Top Shelf Romo". If he is going to do that, and if the zone blocking is going to do what we saw above, and the tactical decisions made by the man with the call sheet are going to remain on point, and if the health continues....the sky is absolutely the limit for this offense. I believe that they finally came to grips with the idea that they are not best suited for the Saints/Packers/Patriots template (and by the way, those teams are not as suited for it as they once were, either). Rather, the physical pounding style of Seattle or San Francisco which starts with a huge and powerful line, a running game that is unforgiving, and then when you adjust to deal with it, the aerial attack begins against a lesser-popualated secondary. It is physical, smash-mouth, toll-taking football and it wins in this league - in any era. It took us a while to get here and it won't always be sunny mornings and pretty flowers, but for now, you can absolutely see that the league is noticing some things on film that are going on down in Dallas. You are not relying on 1 guy to carry you. You are relying on 6 guys up front. And then, the next wave is a QB with lots of weapons. It protects your defense and it wears out your opponent. And if you study this offense over the course of many years, you know I am not always feeling this cheery about the Cowboys offense. But, I must confess, I haven't been this optimistic about the possibilities in a long time. The pieces are finally falling in place. Let's see how the league responds. It is difficult to measure what occurred last night in Arlington with any sort of clarity as it pertains to previous Cowboys' teams and similar victories to the 38-17 mauling of the New Orleans Saints. This 2014 side destroyed a favored contender in front of a national TV audience that expected anything but that result when the evening began. In fact, as the season has now turned 1 month old, you could certainly make the case that the Cowboys are, at 3-1, one of the surprising success stories of the young season (if, in fact, that means anything in the big picture). Most did not see this coming, and I will be the first to admit that I belong in that category of people who study this sort of thing closely and already might be willing to concede that I might like a "do over". The Cowboys victory was a rare thing in this era - a thunderous win over an opponent that was favored on the big stage of the national tv audience. Especially at home? A search for wins of over 2 Touchdowns in the post-Aikman era finds almost nothing to compare last night against, save for the 24-0 win over Philadelphia to end the 2009 season and to clinch the NFC East. But, even in that game, the Cowboys entered as the favorites. Regardless of whether or not this moves quickly to the top of the list of demonstrations of strength from the Garrett/Romo era, the point has to be that (before the Saints are discredited by those who wish to undermine the accomplishment), this win was about as attention-grabbing a win as the Cowboys have had in a long, long time - and for very good reasons. This is a team that does not destroy very many opponents that have a reputation for being legitimate contenders. This is a franchise that does not physically impose its will on its opponents. This is a fan base that almost doesn't know how to respond to something positive happening before its very eyes after all of these years. And from the open of last nights' proceedings until its drama-less conclusion, the Cowboys served notice to anyone who is willing to consider the possibility, that they plan on making this a much better season than the prognosticators considered possible. Whether they can actually pull that off is a discussion for another day, but today, we consider just how many ways the Cowboys crushed a team that is wandering back to New Orleans with all sorts of self-doubt about how good it really is. The biggest questions entering into this game were clearly about the ability to measure up to the New Orleans offense. Could the Cowboys defense slow them down a bit and more importantly, unlike in previous seasons, could the Cowboys offense actually demonstrate the ability to match up and produce on a night where they would have to do so? In other words, it is one thing to be statistically ranked in the conversation for having an elite offense. But, it is quite another to be productive on a stage where you must or you will lose - similar to the task in front of them in New Orleans, last November - something they failed at miserably. This offense, with its new coordinator Scott Linehan, absolutely has the attention of the league now. No matter how cynical anyone was about the Cowboys A) having the intention of running the ball and then B) having the ability to actually do that, we sit here on the Monday morning after Week 4 in the NFL and the Cowboys have run the ball more than any team, have more yards rushing than any team, and somehow average 165 yards per game on the ground. That makes them 1st, 1st, and 1st by NFL rank. Given that they ran the ball the 31st most of any team in the NFL in 2013 and averaged just 94 yards a game, hopefully everyone can forgive the cynicism, but many of us needed to actually see it to believe it. And again, the stats are nice, but what happens when the other team sits on your run and tries to make you prove it? Well, as you saw, 190 yards on the ground, and passes to defensive backs who had no safety support that ended up as touchdowns because the Cowboys receivers were taking candy from babies on back shoulder fades. It sounds so easy and yet the Jason Garrett designed offense has been talking about this for years and years and never come close to pulling it off. To hear Cris Collinsworth tell it last night, this was all a grand design to build a giant offensive line that took years of patience and understanding. In reality, it was massive salary cap mismanagement that had them gut their aging offensive line, but regardless, they now have a young and capable group that are running the zone stretch with such precision that Alex Gibbs is somewhere watching with tears in his eyes. Just look at the very first drive of the game - a 12-play, 80-yard masterpiece that we will study more on Tuesday. For now, know that there was a perfect blend of runs and passes, shotgun and under center, multiple personnel groupings, and a varied approach that saw positive yardage on 11 of the 12 plays and only saw 2 3rd Downs the entire way down the field. Those 2 seperate 3rd Downs were both converted on 3rd and 2 and 3rd and 3 passes to Jason Witten. Tony Romo looked athletic himself and with his new found running game doing what we hoped it would for years - take players out of the secondary - he dropped back with many options, all looking promising. They continued throughout the night with productive drives, scoring on 6 of their 10 drives and getting Touchdowns on 4 of their first 6 drives. It was amazingly effective with 8 3rd Down conversions and they got 7 all 3 times they were in the Red Zone. Meanwhile, about that defense. They were 32nd in the NFL last year and humiliated on national TV in New Orleans last season to the tune of 49 points, 625 yards, and 40 first downs. This time, they accomplished the 2 objectives that Rod Marinelli has stated for his defense. 1) get off the field on 3rd Downs as they allowed only 4 of 10 to a team that leads the NFL in 3rd Down conversions at 62% coming into the game. Teams don't get off the field against the Saints and the Cowboys did. And then, 2) take the ball away. The Cowboys had 3 takeaways on Sunday thanks to the playmaking trio of linebackers: Rolando McClain (forced fumble), Justin Durant (forced fumble and interception), and Bruce Carter (tipped pass for Durant's Interception). They needed players to step up and end drives by making plays, and the Cowboys linebackers are doing just that. And that should be impressive when you consider that linebacker is where the Saints and their offense were expected to attack most of all. It didn't happen last night, despite the yardage totals that were largely hollow. The Cowboys took the ball away 3 times and did not give the ball away all night. That +3 in the turnover margin is notable since in the last 25 years of Cowboys football, they are 33-4 when they are able to get to +3. Sometimes the narratives of the pre game shows and the talk all week are right on the money about how a game will go and then there are weeks like this one. So much talk about Jimmy Graham and Drew Brees and what the Cowboys would do against a "real opponent" after impressive wins against the Titans and Rams (for largely different reasons). Now, they destroy the Saints with Graham and Brees hardly factors at all and we then move on to reason why the Saints aren't very good after all. This type of logic fuels the league, but if you boil it down to our annual discussions at this time of year about which teams are actually good and which are only propped up by perception and myth, we arrive at the idea that no wins are impressive for teams you root against. Only a win against the Super Bowl champion at their stadium would impress some fans. Well, guess what? These Cowboys have a chance to go to Seattle in 2 weeks. As for my stance on the Cowboys, if that matters, I will tell you that I am not certain about whether there is sustainability here, as sometimes it only takes one injury to stop the train. But, they look like they have the pieces on offense to keep this going if health remains on their side, especially with Tony Romo looking like he is in a pretty good spot again with his arm and more importantly, his brain. The defense looks like it has very little flash, but an awful lot of intestinal fortitude and battle which can go a long way. It does appear that the depth is being tested and the injury news on Morris Claiborne is anticipated to be very bad (ACL tear) and would cap off a nightmare week for the young CB from LSU. Most expect that 16 games will reveal that this defense needs top personnel additions, but for now, they have certainly not let this team down through 4 games. And, with Anthony Spencer joining the side with DeMarcus Lawrence on his way, optimism is actually alive. The rhetoric today will be predictable. Many will mock the celebration as people getting way ahead of themselves, but I think it is reasonable to allow a team to be judged on what it has done. And, at 3-1, there is nobody saying this proves anything for the rest of 2014 - except that those of us who thought they might very well be 1-3 at this point might want to hold off on any declarations of imminent disaster. This team has put themselves in a very nice position as we head to October, and we know that with the exception of that trip to Seattle, they will spend the entire month at this very same home stadium. They will have an opportunity to deliver a message to Philadelphia that this division will be a battle all the way to the holidays and as San Francisco seemed to show yesterday, the Eagles may not enjoy a physical, grinding offense running right at them. In other words, it appears the plot might be thickening. But, let's pick 3 plays that are interesting but not played out by this point of the week and have some fun talking Xs and Os. Feel free to tweet me @SportsSturm when a game shows you a play that you would like broken down and I will attempt to include it in this post. This week, almost all of you agreed that we need to look at this first play, the Pick 6 for the Rams and Janoris Jenkins. We will also, below, study the huge 44 yard run that DeMarco Murray and the offense broke off, as well as the "winning TD" to Terrance Williams. Be advised that the long TD to Dez Bryant was already looked at on Tuesday, and the 4th and 1 stop by Hitchens and the Bruce Carter Pick 6 were handled on Wednesday. I really enjoy breaking plays down to see what we can learn. This is not good. And at the moment, it made you wonder if it was the beginning of the end. Not just Week 3, but maybe 2014, and if you squint, maybe the end of Tony Romo as we once knew him. As we look back, any reactions we had at the moment may have been hasty, but this is not the type of QB play that you can survive very often. Let's take a closer look. It is pretty basic Rams man to man coverage behind a 6-man pressure package on 3rd and long with a single high safety to address any major issues. That type of typical response to 3rd and long (a big blitz) is why you want to stay out of it as an offense. The Cowboys want 4 men in routes and that leaves only 6 in protection against 6 rushers. If your front can sort out the rush, then everything is fine, but once the Rams start twisting and disguising their rush, that is where QBs get tattooed waiting for their receivers to get past the sticks on 3rd and long. But, sometimes you cannot stay out of 3rd and long and you have to deal with it. To my delight, it appears in 2014, the Cowboys have finally decided to employ a tactic that has been used against them for the last several years. Say hello to the widespread introduction to rub routes! That is the new fun name for pick plays, but there is no better way to beat man-to-man coverages underneath than the criss-crossing routes that make it impossible to stay with your man through traffic. For whatever reason, the Cowboys were a few season behind on this, but perhaps Scott Linehan thought that was an issue (I am not sure I should credit every new advancement of this offense to Linehan, but I am simply noticing a lot of new ideas under his administration - and I like it). First, what did happen; if you are the Rams and it is time to discuss what the Cowboys like to do on 3rd and 8, the back shoulder fade to Dez Bryant has to be #1 on the list of things to look for (or #2 after the hook to Witten at the sticks). You will see that Janoris Jenkins is the only cover man not up on his man, but rather playing "off and soft" about 10 yards down field. Of course, he is sitting on the route, Romo turns his body to give another cue, and the second that Romo gets to the top of his drop, Jenkins plants his foot and drives on the pass. The back shoulder fade appears to be telegraphed and the ball location is not to the outside of Bryant, but rather slightly inside. This is all problematic. But, there is a bigger problem. on the inside route combination of Witten and Beasley, we see that Cole Beasley is all alone by himself in the middle of the field as Witten has occupied his man and Cole could walk to a 1st down. In fact, if Romo sees him, I estimate the gain is somewhere in the 30 yard range. Once all 3 Linebackers vacate the middle and rush, this has to be where Romo is looking. Of course, it is fair to point out that if all 3 are not coming on the blitz, then they are looking to drop right into the passing lane of crossers and that is where LB interceptions happen. So, the edge throw doesn't have that to consider. Protection-wise, you can see above that the front 6 have done well in squaring things away. I cannot stress enough how impressive DeMarco Murray is at finding and eliminating the blitzers. I really think he is nearly elite-level in this department, and it doesn't get discussed enough. Romo needs to do better on this route, but as he said in the press conference, credit Jenkins for risking the house to jump this route. Later in the game, he would try it again and it would cost him a Touchdown, but this is the life of a risk-taking corner. It better fit the scheme or a team will not stand for that very long. If you follow this series, I would remind you that last week play #2 was also a pitch left to Murray that looks a lot like this play. You should check that out and see how the plays are nearly identical with just one major alteration. The fake that holds the linebackers last week was FB Tyler Clutts on a FB dive in the middle. This time, it is a jet sweep to Dez Bryant crossing the formation to the offensive right. Above, I arrowed Dez and below I identified the Rams who are held by this fake jet sweep. In order to get the offensive linemen that step to out-leverage their men for a pitch left, you have to buy them a half count after the snap. And you do that with a fake. Clutts would not work every week because defenses look at that play and remind their players that Tyler Clutts never actually gets the ball. Don't fall for that! Well, Dez racing across the formation cannot be ignored. So, you can bet the Rams were paying that plenty of attention. The Cowboys look so sharp tactically this year. This time, Tyron Smith AND Ron Leary are pulling because the Rams are running their 4-3 with the 1 tech on the play-side. That means Leary and Smith only have the DE #97 on their side. Frederick has a much easier time walling off #90, with Martin joining him and eventually taking over on the combo block so Frederick can go look for more victims. If Witten can get to that DE with a down block (#97) and Harris then takes the man on Witten (#52), then the Rams are in trouble. Notice Harris above at the moment of the pitch. Also, notice how many Rams are still looking at Dez. Now, see big 77 and 65 getting out in front of DeMarco. Above, they both clean up DBs and Murray will slightly cut back and he is off to the races. So much so that Travis Frederick surveys the field in front of him and can't find anyone to destroy. Check the video below to see a few things: 1) what a great job Leary does. It looks easy, but when that play is happening and you are asking a big guy like Leary to get around the corner and clean up a dive-bombing safety, it is not easy. In fact, #25 just about ends this play at the turn and Leary does well to both get a piece and to not derail the Murray train. And 2) it is just fun to watch Frederick run in front of Murray and see that even though Frederick was a very slow runner on draft day with a 5.56 40, it appears he is surviving in the NFL. As I wrote in that draft write up 18 months back: On pulling plays, I actually like him in space (by center standards) and this is something the Badgers did plenty with their running game. He can handle himself well and is not the roadblock that you would expect with that 40 time. Again, a variation of a play that worked in Tennessee looks to be a real solid change-up of the simple zone stretch plays. The options are endless once you demonstrate you can run the ball. This is all very exciting. Again, I don't think you want to "man up" against the Cowboys this season. But, here, the Rams tried it and it was one of the easiest TDs you will see. Let's look at what they want Romo to see in pre snap. Notice in Frame #1 that the Rams are showing him the single-high safety. They do this because they want him to see Dez is in man at the top of the screen and then at the snap, the safety will head right for Dez and they will have a chance at another INT. Here, a few split seconds later, it almost looks like a different play. Romo is still yelling for the snap, but now they are in a Cover 2 setup. But, here is the cool part. The Cowboys are always expecting Cover 2 with man under. And Dez was never going to be the primary here. Also, notice that the Cowboys are doing what many teams do now with a "Beast" like Dez. They are employing the 3x1 conflict for the defense. If you want to double Bryant, then understand that you will be shorthanded on the other side with the 3 threats away from Dez. Detroit does this with Megatron all the time and we saw the 49ers do it with Vernon Davis in Week 1. If you want to key on their main weapon, then numbers say you can't have much on the other side. Now, above, look at the concept I really love. Once you see Cover 2, then you take Bryant and Witten right at the safeties to occupy them completely. Any opponent is keying on 82/88 on 3rd down or in the red zone. Let's use that against them. So, take 82 right at the safety on his side, leaving Williams and Beasley with their corners and that is where we run them at each other and see who loses their man. Above, it is clear. Beasley's out made Williams' man step around and there is your easy opening. Behold. A throw you could make. And there is nobody anywhere close to Williams. This is why they call the concepts, "man-beaters." I can't stress how this is going to trouble teams going forward. You must make Dez your focus, but not to the detriment of all of the other openings he creates. Again, this is why you wanted Linehan. Because he thought all of this through with Megatron. If these simple concepts were brought to Dallas and applied to Dez Bryant, what could be done with the entire offense? It seems that we are getting a better idea of what that means with each passing week. There are two ways to win football games as a defense in the NFL. You can either shut them down or you can make a few key plays. Now, surely, the preferred method is to humiliate your opponent into surrender by tossing them from sideline to sideline for 3 solid hours and laugh as you load the bus and travel to the next village to plunder. But, that is not necessarily an easy task - to assemble a defense that cannot be defeated. Seattle has done it, but usually, the league must take the other route to defensive victory. That route, where you hope you make just enough plays to get out of Dodge with a narrow victory despite damaging blows being landed on your face for much of the fight, was how the Cowboys defense left St Louis. "They played the Rams, dude." However, if you can make a play or two when it matters, and if your offense can answer the bell for a huge chunk of production, too - 340 yards + 119 in Rams' penalties - then you might have a chance to hop on the bus with your coveted win. You also need players to step up and be counted, and if there was ever a reason to be concerned about whether someone can pull their weight when called upon, it might be 4th-Rounder Anthony Hitchens who certainly has potential, but was largely untested before Sunday. I will never understand certain aspects of offensive masterminding when it comes to 3rd or 4th and a yard or less. If there is one thing that grinds my gears in these scenarios, it is an offense going backwards 7 or 8 yards before trying to get those precious 18 inches at the snap. Worse? Shotgun in 3rd and 1 or 4th and 1. Worse than that? Pulling guards which leave giant holes for LBs to come crashing through and to throw my RB for a loss. Here, the Rams decide to pull their RG with the Center blocking down on Melton. I get the idea, but what about Anthony Hitchens running right through that vacant spot in the middle of the line to blow up Zac Stacy? It also helps to have Jeremy Mincey and Terrell McClain not allowing for push on the left side of the Rams line. In fact, Mincey seems to toss 88-Kendricks right back into the path of Stacy. Then, the Pick 6. Surely, you know that 8 of the last 9 times the Cowboys have pulled off an interception and returned it for a Touchdown, they have won the game. The lone loss in this scenario that goes back to 2009 was Sean Lee's Pick 6 last year in San Diego. Get a free TD from the defense and they generally win. First, it came from Bruce Carter, a guy I have been critical of in the past, but I am also linking to any chance this defense has in 2014. Rod Marinelli must get Bruce Carter and Mo Claiborne back to what we thought they were to have any chance. The Claiborne developments of the current news cycle are most disturbing, but through 3 games, I think Bruce Carter is back in reasonable form. That doesn't mean he is perfect, by any stretch. But, on Sunday, I thought he played pretty well overall and showed some real intestinal fortitude in the 2nd half when he was absolutely banged up from a shot to the head, it appeared. But, he also made a fine play here and maybe earned the win. 4th Quarter. The Cowboys have finally pulled ahead and this is the very first play of the Rams next drive with 6:06 to play. Marinelli calls in a 6 man pressure with a Cover 1 behind it. Scandrick is showing press coverage to the top, but that is his blitz position and Wilcox has his man behind him. 6 man pressure, but neither Carter or Hitchens are coming from the middle. You can see Hitchens is on Stacy, with the FB staying in to get Scandrick. That means Carter can float and play more of a robber/QB spy role by standing his ground and trying to get a feel for where the play is going in the frame above. Now, Stacy is sneaking out and turns Hitchens around making the QB think this is going to be his read. The red arrow shows Scandrick speeding past the FB 46-Harkey. As you can see, amidst the pressure, Carter is almost Hidden from Davis, and he is just going to throw Stacy to daylight over the converging pass rush. And that is where Carter sniffs it out and makes the play. Fantastic job of lurking and then pouncing at the moment of truth. How many times does this ball hit a LB in the hands and fall to the ground? Those two plays and then Claiborne shuts the door with his pick later get a win in a game where the defense could not get to the QB and were allowing long shots down the field all day. Honestly, as impressed as I was with Austin Davis, there is no doubt that a better QB could have found 500 yards easily. Brandon Carr had his guy - Kenny Britt - get behind him a few times and Davis just missed on the throws. The defense must be better than they were on Sunday in many regards, but they got away with it, largely because of the 2 plays above. DEFENSIVE PARTICIPATION: - The biggest news is the return of Orlando Scandrick and the absences of Justin Durant and Rolando McClain for what we assume is merely a short spell. Davon Coleman was also out with an injury. The defensive rotation kept everyone at Nick Hayden's 51 snaps or below. Mincey 50, Crawford 46, and Melton 40. Terrell McClain had 39 and George Selvie 37. Beyond that, Keith Smith played 2 snaps when Carter had to leave the game, but the back 7 was pretty predictable with Scandrick taking some Claiborne work and Sterling Moore after his great game in Tennessee played just 3 snaps. Thanks, Pro Football Focus for the exact math. You cannot give up 6.2 yards a snap for 72 snaps and allow 8 3rd downs and a 4th down conversion and live to tell about it very much. Lots of troubling production allowed. Bruce Carter and Anthony Hitchens had busy days. They were attacked plenty and no doubt woke up on Monday quite sore. But, they also played and competed very hard and were productive at time. That is all you can ask sometimes. Though it's displayed in the Blitz Report near the bottom, the passing chart further indicates Dallas' current preference to remain in coverage rather than blitz. * - Edit: The Carter interception was actually a 6 man pressure. E-Bob. Each week we monitor how often the Cowboys will send pressure on passing plays. Week 1 showed an aggressive defense trying to get the ball back to attempt to generate a rally. The scheme and the personnel call for limited blitzing and playing coverage to protect the soft personnel. Marinelli has to be very selective how he employs the blitz and did a very fine job at times on Sunday. SUMMARY: Well, it is certainly difficult to summarize the defense in such fragmented fashion. They clearly cannot generate enough pressure up front with a pass rush, but they are trying to remain optimistic that a healthy Melton and the returns of Anthony Spencer and DeMarcus Lawrence will help. I will also point out that George Selvie is losing plenty of time to Tyrone Crawford, which might not be a bad thing, but Selvie was your best pass rusher and Crawford seems to get close but never quite gets there in time. Is there a way to get both out there? Maybe in nickel, but so far it doesn't happen too much. Meanwhile, the elephant in the room is the developing story of Claiborne who apparently walked out of the team facility with his belongings after being told on Tuesday that his role is being flipped with Scandrick. Many of us have projected this move for sometime, but his response was not expected. Cornerbacks, above almost all others, need to have a fighting mentality and a determination to shake off a bad experience and compete even harder. His walking out posture is most disturbing and you wonder if he can rally from where he currently is. You can have all of the tools in the world, but if you don't have the internal battle the tools won't help you. Scandrick has made a career because he is a relentless fighter who takes everything personally, and it drives him to win the next battle. Tapping out is quite disturbing and perhaps telling of a bigger issue that we don't know about. That said, as a defense, I think you treat it as if he is unavailable. He must be deactivated for Sunday and that sends a message in the room of accountability and playing for each other. I think this is a pretty big team-building moment that has arrived on the door step. But, give me Scandrick and Sterling Moore right now who both will fight until they can't fight any longer. That is all well and good, but now the Saints roll in to expose any weaknesses. The last time these two teams met was the low-point in 2013. when New Orleans rolled up 625 yards and likely could have had even more if they were interested in doing so before they called off the dogs. A Sunday night without a pass rush will be lethal. But, do you dare blitz Brees and expose men in coverage against a team that hopes you do just that?

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The retired, coal-powered Salem Harbor Power Station in Salem, Massachusetts, shown in 2012. Washington Post photo by Ricky Carioti. Opinions about climate change are suddenly all the rage again (literally) with Monday’s release of proposed new Environmental Protection Agency regulations aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants by 30 percent by 2030. The New York Times put this story at the top of its coverage on Monday, although the story was only seventh on NBC’s morning news coverage. So perhaps it’s not surprising that many Americans still do not know whether the story is real or important enough to pay attention to. Someday in a warmer and more troubled future, we may look back on media coverage of the great climate change debate that raged in America from the 1990s until it became a settled fact sometime before 2020 and understand that the message was clouded in its early years by the near universal use of the polar bear as a symbol of the earth’s changing climate. Although it is hard to have negative feelings about polar bears, their lives do not appear to most Americans as having any real connection with our lives, which is perhaps why it has taken so long for most of us to focus on this defining issue of our times. Nevertheless, according to the New York Times’ pollster, Allison Kopicki, a significant majority of Americans believe that global warming is real. Although the percentage of Americans who share that view has declined slightly since 2008, still 73 percent of Americans surveyed by different polling organizations using different questions have confirmed a relatively constant pattern of opinion. But as with so many other major issues, the polling also reveals is a huge partisan divide — 65 percent of Democrats call climate change “a major threat,” while only 25 percent of Republicans agree. According to Kopicki, this finding is closely correlated to another significant finding — namely that Democrats trust scientists more than Republicans do. But back to the story of the day. The new EPA guidelines will be issued under the authority granted the president under the Clean Air Act and does not require congressional approval. The new regulations give states wide latitude to pursue different strategies for reducing carbon dioxide from their electrical systems, including increases in solar and wind generation capacity, increases in energy efficiency or participation in “cap and trade” markets to use markets to buy and sell permits to pollute. Across the United States, hundreds of coal-fired electrical plants produce about 40 percent of our electricity, although that number is already declining rapidly as utilities switch to cheaper natural gas. Here in New England, two large coal fired plants — one in Massachusetts and the other in Connecticut — have been targeted by environmental groups for over a decade in campaigns to prevent them from continuing to burn coal. One, in Salem, Massachusetts, will convert to natural gas generation; the other in Bridgeport, Connecticut, is in critical financial condition after its earnings “fell off a cliff” in 2009. What the new EPA regulations will mean for Maine is a question that is unlikely to get answered until the November gubernatorial election. Maine is part of RGGI, or the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a “cap and trade” marketplace of nine northeastern states, which has successfully reduced carbon emissions since it was first organized in 2008. Although both the Great Recession and the conversion to natural gas generation have both helped reduce carbon emissions from the participating states, nevertheless the auctions have generated tens of millions of dollars per year in revenue to the participating states. Maine has used its share of the revenue largely to fund energy efficiency initiatives. If, as appears likely, the price of carbon dioxide permits sold at the RGGI auctions increases in the future, Maine will have to decide how to continue investing those dollars — whether through continued investments in energy efficiency programs or through investments in other renewable energy programs, or, alternatively, through extensions of natural gas pipelines; the outcome of the November election will surely be a deciding factor. More and more of us are beginning to understand that our energy choices are the most consequential environmental issue of our times and it is up to us to inform ourselves of what decisions our leaders are making — or proposing to make — on our behalf.

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ON NOVEMBER 7TH, 2003, Will Ferrell introduced cinemagoers to a Christmas movie with a difference. Directed by John Favreau, Elf offered up a spirited, if extremely juvenile, festive comedy that was memorable for delivering laughs aplenty for views young and old. Now, 15 years on from its US release, here are 15 things you never knew about this super-sweet festive treat. When David Berenbaum’s script first emerged in 1993, Carrey, who was a rising star and comedian at the time, was attached to star. By the time the project got up and running, 10 years later, Ferrell had replaced him. Back when Ferrell was a budding comedian in the LA-based improv group The Groundlings, he also worked as a Santa Claus for an outdoor shopping centre. Berenbaum’s script originally saw Buddy head off in search of his biological father after suffering taunts at the hands of his smaller elf school friends. John Favreau decided to omit these elements when he took on the project as he wanted them to be viewed as fundamentally kind. Ferrell’s brother Patrick, enjoys a small role as a mall security guest. Ferrell complained of health problems as a direct result of the sugar he ate throughout filming. He suffered headaches and struggled to sleep. 10. Some of the scenes were in a haunted location. The production set up shop in an abandoned mental hospital in Vancouver, where sets including the interior of Walter’s Central Park apartment and Gimbels’ toy department, were constructed. The cotton wool balls Buddy keeps eating when he visits the doctors weren’t actual cotton – they were candy floss balls that hadn’t been dyed pink yet. The scene in which Buddy meets and unmasks a mall Santa before a violent tussle ensues was a tricky one. The elaborate nature of the sets Christmas décor meant it had to be completed in one take. During filming in the Lincoln tunnel, a fully-costumed Will Ferrell causes traffic chaos and a few minor accidents when he walked through the location in character. One scene that ended up on the cutting room floor saw Buddy playing hockey with his elf friends. His significant size advantage soon sees things take a violent and amusing tone. Buddy’s infamous 12-second burp in the film might seem like the result of computer trickery but it was actually very real. Ferrell wasn’t the architect though; that honour went to voice actor Maurice LaMarche who voiced Brain in Pinky and the Brain. It wasn’t technically a burp though but more a growl. James Caan, who plays Buddy’s biological father, was hired because of his stern demeanour, which played off nicely against Ferrell. Even so, The Godfather actor struggled to stay composed during one scene, where Buddy reacts to getting a blood test. He can actually be seen turning away so the camera doesn’t pick up on the fact he’s laughing. Two blonde boys were cast as child versions of Buddy but struggled with the demands of the role and often burst into tears. Favreau opted to replace them with smiling triplet of girls who proved far more effective in the role. The sequence in which Buddy arrives at the Empire State building and proceeds to press all of the buttons in the lift is a lie. The real-life lift doesn’t have half as many buttons. Ferrell has been offered as much as $29 million to reprise the role of Buddy but has always rejected the notion. "I just think it would look slightly pathetic if I tried to squeeze back in the elf tights: Buddy the middle-aged elf."

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Step one: You will likely first need surgery to remove additional skin from around your melanoma lesion. Your surgeon may also remove lymph nodes to test them for melanoma cells. The tissues and lymph nodes will be tested to determine whether your disease has spread beyond the original lesion. Find a reputable surgical oncologist to perform your surgery. Depending on where your lesion is located, you may also want to have a cosmetic surgeon participate in your surgery. Step two: You will need follow-up care after your surgery. Find the best oncologist specializing in this disease you possibly can. Researchers are making great progress toward finding treatments and a possible cure for melanoma. Find a doctor who knows about and participates in clinical research. Step three: Assemble a support team. Find people who can go with you to doctors' and hospital appointments, help you do research, help field insurance and financial issues, and most of all provide you with moral support. The tumor has not spread and is still limited to the outer layer of the skin. The tumor is less than 1 millimeter thick and is or is not ulcerative; or is 1 to 2 millimeters thick and is not ulcerative. The tumor has spread to the dermis (deep part of the skin), but has not reached the lymph nodes. In Stage IIA, the melanoma is 1 to 2 millimeters thick with ulceration or 2 to 4 millimeters thick with no ulceration. In Stage IIB, the tumor is 2 to 4 millimeters thick with ulceration or more than 4 millimeters thick with no ulceration. In Stage IIC, the tumor is more than 4 millimeters thick and ulcerative. The tumor has spread to lymph nodes near the affected skin. In Stage IIIA, the tumor may have spread to as many as three lymph nodes, but the tumor in the lymph nodes can only be seen under a microscope. In Stage IIIB, the tumor has spread to as many as three lymph nodes or the tumor has not spread to the lymph nodes, but has produced satellite tumors. In Stage IIIC, the tumor has spread to four or more lymph nodes or has clinically evident positive lymph nodes. The tumor has spread to other organs, such as the lung, liver, brain or to lymph nodes far away from the original site. Be proactive. Do your own research. Find out about treatments and clinical trials. Participate in your own treatment. Ask your doctor questions, including what treatment options are available, and evaluate treatment options with your own needs in mind. If you sense that your doctor is not listening to you or wants to impose treatments on you, find another one. Focus on staying healthy. Researchers know that the immune system plays a significant role in melanoma. Keep your immune system strong by following a diet rich in whole grains, fruits, and vegetables. Your immune system is weakened by stress and a melanoma diagnosis is inevitably going to bring stress along with it. Find ways to deal with stress. Practice yoga or meditation. If necessary, seek help from a therapist who specializes in working with cancer patients. Stay positive. Continue to live your life. Include people in your support team who make you laugh. Always remember that you are more than your cancer.

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Since its inception in 2011, the Permission To Start Dreaming Foundation has given about $300,000 to alternative therapy programs helping soldiers give themselves Permission to Start Dreaming of life beyond their service to country. Veterans Expeditions is a veteran led, chartered non-profit in the State of Colorado. They have an independent board and operates nation wide with a vision of having an outdoor community fully committed to one another and leveraging veteran leadership skills that reconnects service members to one another, the land they fought for, and outdoor employment opportunities. All American Assistance Dogs is a program that provides returning Military servicemen and women with canine companions to aid in their life outside of service. These special canines can sense when their companion is having night terrors and wake them from their sleep, remind their soldier companions when to take medications, provide a life line and purpose for their companions on a daily basis among other significant benefits. Operation Ward 57 is a non-profit organization that supports wounded, injured and ill service members, veterans, their caregivers and those that aid in their recovery by providing assistance and outreach in their recovery, comfort and morale, and through advocacy, education and promotion of their circumstances. Growing Veterans is situated in the beautiful PNW not far from Mt. Baker and the San Juan Islands, our two primary farms serve as the cornerstone for all things Growing Veterans. Using our farm as the platform, we equip our Vets with knowledge, skills and awareness to be highly effective peer support mentors, and set the standard for future engagement and communication among all of our Veterans. Growing Veterans’ mission is to empower Veterans to grow food, communities and each other! Crista Camps Operation Xtreme program offers supportive and fun retreat camp experiences for kids and youth from military families. Military families face stressors uncommon to civilian life and we want to serve those who have served our country. We recognize that in families where combat related post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury are factored in, strain on the family is often maximized. Crista Camps desire is to serve and support these families specifically and address the unique needs of these precious children whose parents sacrifice much with their military service to our Country. The USO aims to provide all the comforts of home to service members and their families. Through various programs and services, the USO Northwest has provided support to 500,000 service members and families in 2010. The USO supports all aspects of the soldier's life including morale events, troop care packages, family services - including counseling and community services. If you would like us to consider your organization for a grant or would like to learn more, please click here.

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Google has joined Apple in a growing chorus of tech giants coming out in support of the Clean Power Plan. The company filed a statement with the Environmental Protection Agency, which it has since shared with TechCrunch, supporting the Obama-era legislation. The legislation, which sought to curb power plant emissions by more than 30 percent by 2030, is expected to be repealed by the Trump administration. As with Apple’s earlier filing, Google cites both environmental and economic fallout, should the policy be repealed. The company also notes its own personal interest in supporting the policy, citing its work to shift toward renewable energy, along with the CPP’s potential to drive job growth. “The Clean Power Plan can continue to drive innovation and job growth,” Google adds, “while spurring the modernization of the American electricity system and reducing carbon dioxide emissions and helping to mitigate the threat of global climate change. Under embattled head Scott Pruitt, the EPA has suggested that the CPP was an illegal extension of the agency’s authority. Late last month, Trump signed an executive order mandating a review of the policy, a move most observers have interpreted as the first steps toward its eventual repeal.

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Mazda CX-5 offers luxurious interior, charming driving experience and sub $35,000 price tag, fully-loaded. The compact SUV segment is experiencing a level of popularity that no other type of vehicle has ever experienced. The family sedan is dead. Instead, everyone wants large hatchbacks with plastic cladding and two-inch lift kits masquerading as utility vehicles. If this statement comes across as cynical, that’s because it is. However, fortunately, manufacturers are quelling my cynicism by offering compact SUVs that are actually rather nice to live with and drive. The Mazda CX-5 is one of those SUVs. Mazda has made large strides in refinement and adding a distinctly modern and luxurious feeling to their product line-up, and CX-5 is no exception. The proportions overall are tidy, with several key exterior details tightening up the look. Check out the integration of the grille into the headlight elements, for example. Then there is the airy, well-executed interior, but, more on that in a moment. It’s modestly priced, too, with base models starting at just $24,350 and this fully-loaded Grand Touring all-wheel drive tester ringing in at a still very reasonable $34,685. Of course, you can hop into a Grand Touring AWD CX-5 for just $30,945, so this one has some extra goodies, but that GT trim already affords CX-5 a lavishly-appointed cabin, brimming with tech, so let’s jump right in and talk about it. For that $30,945 figure, the Mazda CX-5 Grand Touring AWD has a massive laundry list of features and equipment. The key items inside the CX-5 are the leather-bound interior, power seats which are heated, keyless entry with push button start, dual-zone climate control, and Mazda’s 7-inch center display, which has navigation, standard back-up camera and is paired to a 10-speaker Bose audio system. Additionally, as previously mentioned, it’s jam-packed with safety tech. This includes radar-guided cruise control, blind spot monitoring, rear cross-traffic alert, lane departure warning and lane-keep assist, as well as a collision mitigation smart braking system. It also has eight airbags, as well as ABS and traction and stability control. Got all that? Good, because we’re not done, just yet. This particular CX-5 has $3,740 worth of optional equipment. Some of it is fluff, dealer add-ons, like illuminated door sill trim plates for $400, and the rear bumper guard and cargo cover ($125, and $250, respectively), but some of it is well worth paying attention to. Like the color? Of course you do. That Soul Red Crystal Metallic paint job is an extra $595, and easily worth the expense. Last but not least is the “1GT” order code, which equips this CX-5 with the Premium Package. For an extra $1,395, this adds an upgraded head-up display unit with active driving condition an traffic updates, as well as heated rear seats, a heated steering wheel and a windshield wiper de-icer. This option is likely to be ticked on every single CX-5 on sale anywhere that even sees a few annual snow flurries. There is just one powertrain combination for the 2018 CX-5, and that is the brand’s 2.5-liter, naturally-aspirated SkyActiv inline-four. It produces 187 horsepower and 186 lb-ft of torque, and is paired to a 6-speed automatic transmission. Continue reading about the Mazda CX-5 on the next page.

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Today, the Sacramento Kings and Bogle Vineyards & Winery announced the release of their specially crafted “Proud Roots” 2016 vintage wine.Proud Roots will be exclusively available at various beverage stands and premium spaces throughout Golden 1 Center and the Bogle Family’s Tasting Room in Clarksburg starting on February 2. Made from grapes harvested in 2016, the inaugural year of Golden 1 Center, the Proud Roots blend celebrates the arena and Sacramento region’s prominent agricultural ties and Farm-to-Fork movement. Proud Roots is sustainably-certified by the California Rules for Sustainable Winegrowing for adhering to stringent eco-friendly growing and winemaking practices. The Certified Green seal, given only to wines which meet key sustainability requirements, is featured prominently on the back of the bottle to showcase these efforts. This wine offers guests and fans the opportunity to enjoy complex flavors of blueberries, blackberries, clove and cream soda – complete with a full-bodied finish. This special edition wine features Bogle’s brawny Clarksburg Petite Sirah blended with a touch of a plush Malbec variety. The 2016 Proud Roots red wine is a celebration of the partnership between the Kings and Bogle as both share a commitment to community, sustainability quality and excellence. The grapes of the wine, harvested from Bogle’s Sanchez Ranch, nestled against the Sacramento River, are consistent with the Kings sustainability and sourcing charter, sourcing 90 percent of food within 150 miles of the arena. Located in Clarksburg, California – just 15 miles from Golden 1 Center, Bogle Vineyards & Winery is a family-owned and operated winery that serves as a leader in green practices, producing high-quality wines. In 2018, Bogle was awarded the Green Medal Award: Leadership for the winery’s stewardship in the vineyard, using innovative farming practices and implementing sustainable business standards. Golden 1 Center sets a new standard for excellence as the world’s most technologically advanced and sustainable arena. Awarded Environmental Innovator of the Year by Green Sports Alliance and Sustainable Business of the Year for Energy Conservation by BERC, the Sacramento Kings have redefined the sustainable capabilities of sports teams with Golden 1 Center being the first arena awarded LEED platinum designation and the most innovative food program in sports.

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Herbal tea can be a great before-bed comfort, especially as the weather gets cooler. Composed of sweet and savory herbs and naturally caffeine-free, it’s hard to go wrong. Usually, my one complaint with herbal tea is that the flavor is mild or too delicate, but wow! Was I proven wrong on this blend! The lavender is so fresh, fragrant, and plentiful– it all but knocked me over when I first got a whiff of the dry leaf. This is a tea with simple but powerful ingredients, each one vibrant and visible in the blend. The health benefits of these herbs are all the positive usual suspects: lavender and chamomile for relaxation, rose hips for health-boosting vitamin c, and cool, stomach-calming peppermint. When brewed, the lavender definitely takes the spotlight, lighting up my whole room with its warm, floral scent, and filling my senses when I bring my mug up to my face. Beneath all the lavender fragrance, the chamomile and peppermint play well together, producing a mellow, grassy, lemon-mint brew. The rose hips are harder to pick out. Traditionally, rose hips tend to be strong and sour, more like orange or hibiscus, but in this blend they appear only as a little fruity note at the back of each sip. While I might not be in the mood for this tea every night, it definitely comforted me, reminding me of herbal teas I would drink when I was home sick or staying warm on a snowy day. Not to mention the lavender was out of this world: I have yet to find another lavender tea that can even come close to competing with this one. Making this tea your evening ritual through Fall and Winter can be a great way to help naturally boost your mood if you’re experiencing wet grey days. Lavender can calm emotional stress, peppermint can invigorate your mind and chamomile will help soothe. This tea is no longer on the site but others from Winterwoods Tea Company are here! Thanks for the review! This tea was part of our October Monthly Box and it was so popular after that we ran out of stock. There’s more coming this week though! Winterwoods was such a great find and a perfect company to feature in our boxes. I’m so glad you liked their tea. If you enjoy lavender teas, have you tried Lavender Silver Needle from Swan Sisters Tea? It was part of one of my Amoda boxes last year and it has the strongest lavender flavor of any other tea I’ve tried. Very crisp and clean with that lovely floral scent. Love your description of this tea, by the way! Thanks! I’ll have to give Swan Sisters Tea a try!

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You will need a username & password to get into the sandbox. The list of usernames/passwords was sent to your email. Fill out the Alma/Primo Enhancement Request form, which will send your enhancement request to Carrie Day. Carrie will then add your enhancement request to the NERS (ELUNA) system as well as the ExLibris Idea Exchange. Update on 12/4/2017: There is a new "Ex Libris Academy" that provides Alma Certified Administrator training and so getting your certificate may be different now from the directions I have below. Please let me know the updated process if you learn that it is different. In order to get a copy of your certificate to email to Carrie, you should have received an email from Benjamin.Druce@exlibrisgroup.com that contains a link that says "Click to print out your certificate". The subject of this email says "Ex Libris Alma Administrator Certification Program Graduates...". How do I become an Alma Certified Administrator? Users with this role will have received an Alma Administrator certificate. Once a user is certified (https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Training/Alma_Administration), email the certificate to cday@tntech.edu as well as which of these five roles are needed for the job. Starting on 9/12/2016 meeting recordings & agenda were posted to the Miscellaneous Basecamp page. Please contact Holly if you do not have access to Basecamp and she will get you what you need. Who was on the Implementation Team?

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Alternating current motors are everywhere. They power your clothes washer and dryer. You can find them in your dishwasher, garbage disposal and HVAC system. There are induction start-induction run motors, capacitor start-induction run motors, and capacitor start-capacitor run motors. Each of these AC motors is different, but they're all the same in one major way: They all consist of one or more "Run" windings and one or more "Start" windings. If your device is not working properly, you may want to perform some basic electric motor testing to diagnose the problem. Mechanically, an AC motor has only two major moving parts, a rotor and a centrifugally operated start switch that disconnects the start winding from the circuit once the motor reaches two-thirds its rated operating speed. Turn off the circuit breaker to the branch circuit that the motor is connected to. Remove the cover on the end of the motor covering the electrical connections, and pull one of the line wires out far enough to snap the jaws of the clamp-on ammeter around it. Turn on the circuit breaker. Compare the reading on the clamp-on ammeter with the full-load amperes (FLA) stamped on the motor's nomenclature plate. What you are looking for is a significantly higher current draw. A high current draw, anything above 110 percent of the motor's rated FLA, is a sure indication of a problem. A high current draw accompanied by very noisy operation is a good indication of motor bearing problems or a bent rotor shaft. Turn the circuit breaker off again. Check the motor start capacitor start. If the motor hums loudly but fails to start under load and the ammeter indicates a current draw of six to 10 times the motor's FLA rating, the problem could be a bad start capacitor, a start switch stuck in the open position or an open start winding. Discharge the capacitor by shorting its terminals together with an insulated screwdriver. Short the terminals together by placing the tip of the screwdriver against one terminal and pressing the metal shaft against the other terminal while holding the screwdriver by its plastic insulated handle. Remove one of the wires from the capacitor to test the resistance of the start induction run motor. Set your DMM to the Ohms Function and touch the probes to the terminals on the capacitor. If the meter readout indicates "0" resistance, the capacitor is shorted out and needs to be replaced. If the capacitor is good, the readout will read a very high or infinite resistance. Check the motor's run capacitor, if there's one present, in the same manner. Disconnect the ends of the start and run windings at the motor's terminal plate by pulling the push-on connectors from the male connectors. The diagram on the terminal cover plate will indicate which leads go to the start windings and which go to the run windings. Set your DMM to the Ohms Function and take a resistance reading across each winding. A "0" reading on either winding indicates a shorted-out winding and that the motor needs to be replaced. An "infinite" resistance reading across any winding indicates an open winding and that the motor needs to be replaced. The actual resistance of the start and run windings will vary depending on the make and model of the motor, but a good rule of thumb is that the resistance of the start winding will be roughly three times the resistance of the run winding, if the windings are good. Start windings have smaller gauge wire and more tuns than run windings so they have a higher resistance. Place the probes of your DMM on the start switch terminals. An infinite resistance reading indicates a start switch stuck in the open position and that it will need to be cleaned or replaced.

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If only he could find a lady who was tall enough to meet his eyes, intelligent enough not to bore him and had that certain something that meant he could imagine spending the rest of his life with her. As Sir Julian Loring returns to his father’s home, he never dreams that ‘that lady’ could be Rosa Fancourt, his half-sister Chloe’s governess. They first met ten years ago but Rosa is no longer a gawky girl fresh from a Bath Academy. Today, she intrigues him. Just as they begin to draw closer, she disappears—in very dubious circumstances. Julian cannot bring himself to believe the worst, but if Rosa is innocent, the real truth is even more shocking and not without repercussions for his own family, especially for Chloe. Driven by her concern for Chloe, Rosa accepts an invitation to spend some weeks at Castle Swanmere, home of Julian’s maternal grandfather. The widowed Meg Overton has also been invited and she is determined not to let such an eligible match as Julian slip through her fingers again. When a ghost from Rosa’s past rises to haunt her, and Meg discredits Rosa publicly, Julian must decide where his loyalties lie. Sir Julian Loring flicked the thong of his whip encouragingly over the shoulders of his matched greys. It was a clear run from here to Loring Place. With five curricles in play, the fourteen mile drive from Newmarket had inevitably turned into an impromptu race. In deference to his home advantage, he had been handicapped by being the last to leave, with the other four whips drawing lots to determine their order of departure, but local knowledge had stood to him and by Risby he had successfully given all his rivals the go-by. Now he just had to maintain his lead. He checked his pair slightly at the sight of a laden cart lumbering ahead. Behind him, Josiah sounded the yard of tin. The driver of the cart glanced back and ponderously moved to one side. That should do it! As Julian flew past, he raised his whip in acknowledgement, nodding down to the carter who touched his hat in return. Julian grunted a reply. Once they left the turnpike, there would be no room for another to pass. He was still in the lead when he slowed his pair for the turn towards the Place. In recent years he had spent increasingly less time at his family home and hadn’t been here since he had come for a week’s shooting in December. His father neither sought nor welcomed any interest on his heir’s part in the administration of his estate and seemed as pleased to see his son go as he was to see him come. Despite this, Julian had obeyed the summons to a house party to celebrate his sire’s sixtieth birthday and complied with his step-mother’s instructions to bring some bachelors to dance with his half-sister Chloe and the other young ladies. Through his dead mother he was also heir to the ancient Barony of Swanmere and, on reaching the age of eighty, Lord Swanmere had handed over responsibility for the estates to his grandson with whom he enjoyed an amicable relationship. If it were not for his grandmother and Chloe, combined with an innate stubbornness that refused to be driven away from half his birthright, Julian would have long since stopped coming to Loring Place, instead dividing his time between Swanmere Castle in Huntingdonshire and Swanmere House in London. This visit would be an improvement on the previous ones, he reflected as he drew up in front of the house. Instead of dull days and tedious evenings of stilted conversation over whist played for chicken stakes, there would be congenial company and plenty to do. For a start, he must put together a cricket team and see that they got some practice in before Thursday. Julian took off his hat and thrust his hand through his hair before stepping down from the curricle. He stretched lazily to relieve the tightness in his arms and shoulders caused by holding a mettlesome team to a spanking trot and arched his spine, enjoying the sensation of loosening muscles and joints. “You should have been disqualified for having an unfair advantage,” Jack Whittaker, who had taken the fourth place in the race, called as he descended from his curricle. “Whittaker was too busy flirting with every female we passed,” Ambrose Haldon explained, turning to take a tankard from the tray offered by a manservant. “That’s what I call a proper welcome—get the dust out of a man’s throat. And here’s another,” he added as a trio of young ladies came around the corner of the house in a flutter of white muslin and blue ribbons and sashes. They walked linked arm in arm, escorted by a young gentleman, and stopped at the sight of the assembled whips. “Shepherdesses with attendant lapdog,” Jack murmured. “Miss Fancourt, my sister’s governess,” Julian replied curtly. “And here is my sister,” he added as Chloe, having greeted her father and curtseyed to his friend, came into her brother’s arms, her cheek tilted for his kiss. It felt subtly wrong to name his sister and her cousins before their older chaperon who had again retreated into the background. Ambrose’s interest had been piqued, he could see and when the group turned to go into the house, his friend had already engaged the governess in conversation. He must keep an eye on that situation, Julian resolved. She had been little more than a schoolgirl herself when she came to his father’s house and over the years she had become—not a friend of course, but he could not look upon her as a servant. More some sort of undefined family member, certainly someone for whom he felt responsibility. When he thought about it, her life had been as sheltered as Chloe’s. He wouldn’t like to see her head turned by Haldon’s attentions.

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Red light cameras no longer issue citations in Fresno, California. As of yesterday, the trio of red light cameras operating in Fresno, California since 2002 are no longer issuing tickets. The city council declined to extend its contract with Nestor Traffic Systems, which operates the cameras, because the company failed to deliver the promised level of revenue. Before securing the lucrative Fresno contract, Nestor had forecast that the city would keep $1.1 in annual profit from the program. On average, however, the system generated just $528,000 in revenue with the city keeping a net profit of $20,000 after the vendor and the state each took their cut of the hefty $340 citation. A series of technical problems plagued the program from the beginning, further limiting revenue. City Council Member Cynthia Sterling told the Fresno Bee that the program, "just didn't work." The council refused to accept a flat-rate contract option that could have resulted in the city paying to operate this public safety program.

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Did you know that the House of Representatives has paid out $15,000,000 to victims of sexual harassment in recent years? I am going to share some things with you in this article that are deeply disturbing, but it is for a purpose. The status quo is not acceptable in Washington, and once people truly understand how deep the corruaption runs I believe that they will get motivated to finally drain the swamp once and for all. So yes, I am going to share some things in this article that are truly disgusting, but the goal is to show you that it is time to take our government back from the corrupt career politicians that are completely and utterly out of control. We have no choice but to clean up our government because the rest of the world is laughing at us. This kind of behavior is not acceptable for anyone in a civilized society – and that goes double for someone that is supposed to be one of the leaders of our nation. We are supposed to serve as an example to the rest of the world, and instead, we have become a bad joke. Those that have been engaging in this sort of shameful behavior have got to go because we simply are not going to put up with it anymore.

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I woke up to the best intentions that day; get ready in five minutes and head straight to the Fushimi Inari Shrine before the hordes of tourist this beautiful, sunny day would inevitably bring. I hadn’t been in Japan for long – just three days, actually – but I had already understood something: although the Japanese are incredibly respectful of personal space, attractions and landmarks get insanely crowded in the height of sakura season. I wouldn’t get pushed around, but nonetheless, there wouldn’t be a whole lot of space to catch a breath of fresh air. Obviously, my plan was a total failure. I blame jetlag. Despite my best efforts, the sun had had ample time to make its way to the highest possible spot in the sky before I even managed to leave my room. I used up an unsettling amount of energy to drag my tired body through Kyoto’s massive central station, desperately searching for the train that would take me to the suburbs where the shrine is located (I would realise a few days later that there were clear indications for that train throughout the station, which I had been completely oblivious to). As expected, the train was seriously packed. Surrounded by Japanese people, I almost felt like a mere commuter on my way to work; except my 5’8″ frame and blond hair had me stick out like a sore thumb in this crowd of tiny people. Still in my jetlagged state of mind, I wasn’t sure where I was supposed to get off – which became quite clear when about 99% of the carriage prepared to exit at the same stop. Immediately upon exiting the station I was greeted with the first of many – thousands, presumably – vermilion torri gates I would see that day. It was the beginning of a love story. It really would be wiser to get there early in the morning and beat the masses. The site is immense and you won’t feel cramped, but you will have to be very patient in order to get good photos if you go in the daytime. I can also imagine that it would be a much serener visit without the crowds. Getting there is very easy. Go to Kyoto Station and follow the signs (they really are obvious, I still don’t understand how I have missed them) and get off at Inari Station, the second station from Kyoto Station along the JR Nara Line. Journey takes roughly 5 minutes and costs 140 yen one way. The shrine is very big and there is much more to it than “just” torii gates. There are adorable little shrines and temples everywhere, as well as beautiful viewing points. It is possible to walk all the way to the top but most visitors will stop halfway at the Yotsutsuji intersection where they can enjoy a great panorama of Kyoto. The trail then splits into a circular route to the summit without much variation and lower gate density. The busiest part of the shrine is at the two parallel rows of gates called Senbon Torii. Crowds are much more diluted afterwards. Plan at least three hours to visit the shrine. There are so many photo opportunities, you really don’t want to feel rushed.

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SS Andres Gimenez (No. 55), 1B Peter Alonso (No. 58), OF Jarred Kelenic (No. 62), and RHP Justin Dunn (No. 89) all moved up on MLB.com's new Top 100 prospects list. Gimenez was No. 60, Alonso No. 65. Kelenic No. 69, and Dunn No. 100 on the midseason list. In the middle of the season, Baseball America's new farm system rankings had the Mets as the No. 19 overall system in baseball, up from No. 27 before the season. During the season, the Mets' farm system got a boost from a breakout season from Alonso (Triple-A Las Vegas), a rebound season from Dunn (Double-A Binghamton), rapid advancement by Gimenez (Double-A), a return from injury by LHP Anthony Kay, and a strong campaign from LHP David Peterson. In the lower levels of the minors, the team got strong production from 18-year-old SS/3B Mark Vientos and 17-year-old INF Ronny Mauricio. The Mets also bolstered their system by selecting Kelenic No. 6 in June's Draft, and trading for RHP Franklyn Kilome (Double-A), RHP Bobby Wahl, and 3B Will Toffey. The 19-year-old Gimenez excelled for High-A St. Lucie, hitting 282/.348/.432 with four triples, four homers, 20 doubles, and 28 stolen bases in 85 games before being promoted to Double-A Binghamton, where he was the second-youngest player in the league. Once there, he hit .277/.344/.358 with nine doubles, one triple, and 10 steals in 37 games. "The way Gimenez moves his body, the rhythm, the timing and the feel for the barrel, didn't come overnight," Josh Norris wrote during the season for Baseball America. "It was forged over a decade and a half, since he was a very young boy in Venezuela. If he looks like a veteran on the field, that's because it's the truth." Alonso, 23, crushed Double-A pitching to the tune of a .314/.440/.573 line with 15 homers in 67 games before being promoted to Triple-A, where he hit .260/.355/.585 with 21 homers in 65 games. "Alonso combines elite exit velocities with strong plate discipline to produce huge righthanded power," Matt Eddy wrote for Baseball America on July 21, while ranking Alonso the Mets' second-best prospect (behind Gimenez). "The 2016 second-rounder has done nothing but mash since turning pro and has hit his way to Triple-A in short order. Alonso profiles as a middle-of-the-order masher and below-average defensive first baseman who will supply substantial value with his bat." Kelenic, 19, hit .286/.371/.468 with six homers, six triples, 10 doubles, and 15 steals in 56 games split between the rookie level Gulf Coast League and Kingsport. "He's universally considered one of the best pure hitters in the (Draft) class, with good feel for the strike zone and a mechanically-sound swing that he repeats well," John Sickels wrote for Minor League Ball shortly before Kelenic was drafted. "His hitting skills are quite polished, especially for a cold-weather bat." Dunn, 22, had a 4.22 ERA and 1.36 WHIP with 105 strikeouts in 89.2 innings (15 starts) after his promotion to Double-A Binghamton. Before being promoted, Dunn -- the Mets' first round pick in 2016 who is having a huge comeback season -- had a 2.36 ERA and 1.27 WHIP in nine starts for High-A St. Lucie. "Dunn shows feel for three pitches and throws from an effortless delivery, making his 93-94 mph fastball and hard-breaking slider play up," Josh Norris wrote in his latest writeup at Baseball America. "Improved fastball command and manipulation as well as enhanced feel for his changeup have made him tougher on lefthanders and more effective overall."

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HTC's Vive VR headset is officially becoming a consummate ecosystem with today's announcement of the HTC Vive Tracker and HTC Vive Deluxe Audio Strap, and is becoming more affordable upfront with new financing options. Both accessories have found themselves teased or leaked online in some form or another over the past few months, and will soon find themselves available to developers and consumers through HTC. The Deluxe Audio Strap is set to become available for pre-order in May and begin delivery in June, with a price tag of $99. The HTC Vive Tracker will sport the same price tag, and will be available to developers beginning on March 27. A promised wireless dongle for the headset will be dropping later in the year. As for Vive Financing, it will be available immediately to US and Chinese consumers on 3, 6, and 24 month terms. The HTC Vive Deluxe Audio Strap is a bit more than just another pair of VR-friendly headphones; it's a specially built strap for the HTC Vive with the headphones built right in. This means that the headphones share the Vive's connection to the action, rather than relying on a separate 3.5 millimeter jack, USB connection, or Wi-Fi or Bluetooth connection, making for much smoother audio. HTC did not mention much about the quality of the headphones themselves in the press release, but did note that the new strap features a quick size adjustment dial for comfort, and will be packed in with all future purchases of the Vive Business Edition kit. Consumers will have to buy it separately, unless HTC outs a deluxe bundle in the near future. The HTC Vive Tracker is aimed at developers, rather than consumers, and allows an extremely easy way to motion-capture a given object; simply stick the small tracker onto the object in question. This beats current solutions like specifically tracking the object with the Vive's cameras or building a tracker by miles, and since the tracker is reusable, can help with development across a number of objects to be captured. HTC has had an application program going for the first run of trackers for a while now, and of the 2,600 odd applications received for the first 1,000 units, about 60% of the applicants have had non-gaming purposes in mind, showing the versatility of VR as a medium, and the potential of HTC's new Vive Tracker.

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South Korea's booming, with a gross domestic product (GDP) that grew from $901.9 billion in 2009 to over $1.53 trillion in 2017, and that growth appears to be ongoing. The country's gross domestic product represents 2.47 percent of the world's economy. The GDP represents a measure of national income and output for South Korea. South Korea's economy ranks 11th in the world by nominal gross domestic product (GDP) and 12th by purchasing power parity (PPP). But perhaps most importantly for investors, the economy is viewed as both a stable high-income developed country and a member of the Next Eleven countries, signaling strong growth potential over the coming years. Despite almost no natural resources and overpopulation, the country has consistently boasted one of the world's fastest growing economies and is now the seventh largest exporter and tenth largest importer in the world. The majority of these exports are to the automotive industry, including Hyundai Kia Automotive Group, as well as consumer electronics. South Korea has a very attractive economy for international investors, given its rare combination of stability and rapid growth rates. But, there are also many risks that investors should consider before committing capital to the region, including geopolitical risks with its neighbor to the north and export-related risks that could hit during the downturn. Rapidly Growing. South Korea's economy is expected to grow at a rate of 3.9 percent to 4.2 percent per year between 2011 and 2030, along with most Next Eleven countries. Stable Economy. South Korea's economy is a member of the G20 as an OEDC nation, with per capita income of more than $30,000, meaning it's very stable. Geopolitical Risk. South Korea is situated in one of the most militarized regions in the world, with a very unstable neighbor in North Korea. Reliance on Exports. South Korea's economy relies heavily on exports, which can be detrimental when the global economy is contracting. The easiest way to invest in South Korea is with exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that provide instant diversification in a single security traded on a U.S. stock exchange. The iShares MSCI South Korea Index Fund (EWY) is the most popular South Korean ETF with a $2.85 billion net asset value and 106 holdings, as of October 2012. While the fund's expense ratio is only 0.59 percent, investors should be wary of its 21.9 percent exposure to Samsung Electronics and somewhat overweight exposure to the Information sector at 32.44 percent. American Depository Receipts (ADRs) represent another way to invest in South Korean companies without venturing outside of the United States. These ADRs enable investors to purchase foreign companies on a U.S. stock exchange, but may not be as liquid as many other U.S. stocks, and should, therefore, be traded with some caution. South Korea's economy has attracted investor interest given that it's both rapidly growing and highly developed as a member of the G20. The easiest way to invest in South Korea is using either ETFs or ADRs, which offer diversified exposure that can be purchased on a U.S. stock exchange. While South Korea has many solid benefits, investors should be aware of the geopolitical and other risks that it faces.

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Review: Edgy jazz crosses over to classical, or is it the other way around? The cultural and musical divide between jazz and classical music has always been overrated. Freedom of improvisation versus the deliberation of notation, commercial considerations, acquisition of technique, even the whole notion of connoisseurship and classicism have always been two sides of a shared coin. This is true within the traditional wings of the genres, given that for far more than a century, classical composers have drawn considerable inspiration from jazz, and jazz musicians have typically been classically trained. But it is even more true along the progressive edges, which is where the Los Angeles Philharmonic hung out Tuesday night in a Green Umbrella program at Walt Disney Concert Hall curated by Herbie Hancock, the creative chair for jazz. The very fact that the L.A. Phil has maintained a longtime creative chair for jazz should tell you something. Enthusiastically and idiomatically led by the orchestra’s assistant conductor, Paolo Bortolameolli, the L.A Phil New Music Group premiered six works it commissioned from jazz musicians on the cutting edge of a vibrant scene that negates any talk about jazz being a dying enterprise. Yet for all that, bridging the gap proved a little uncertain. It was not that the musicians spoke languages that were inappropriate musically and intellectually for a new music program. The hall was just about full with an eager and sophisticated audience. Jazz is, and has been at least since Gershwin’s day, at home at the L.A. Phil. But in a way that was a little hard to put one’s finger on, something felt a little off. Perhaps it was the fact that neither Hancock, who was said to be occupied recording in the studio, nor three of the six composers were present. Although all the composers happen to be stellar players, only two write works that included themselves. Mostly, though, it was a nervous conservativism that characterized much of the music. Little if anything here would have been startling half a century ago. The two composers who did write for themselves were saxophonist Hitomi Oba and pianist Billy Childs. Both are highly visible and remarkably versatile L.A. musicians with a penchant for crossing all over the musical place. It soon brightened up, but in this case the ominousness didn’t disperse as quickly as it was supposed to. After a couple of minutes, a theremin-like wail took it to unexpected places. Someone had set off a fire alarm in the parking lot, and the performance had to be stopped until the alarm could be disarmed and the piece begun again. As fate would have it, the interruption added a sense of resolve to Child’s commanding solos. Too bad he can’t write the alarm into the score. Two jazz musicians — both MacArthur fellows — who are prominently rewriting the jazz playbook did not rewrite the jazz playbook here. Vijay Iyer’s “Crisis Modes” for a mixed chamber ensemble has roots in Asian and Western music and includes an orchestration in the middle of a piano improvisation. The ideas are engaging, but the effort to make everything congeal lessened their individuality. More interesting would have been an actual Iyer improvisation in the middle. Tyshawn Sorey’s “For Fred Lerdahl,” a tribute to one of his Columbia University professors, is a finely wrought short work for piano, viola and percussion that quietly shimmers like early Morton Feldman. A brilliant drummer and a composer known for extravagance, Sorey seemed to be watching his step, his old teacher still looking over his shoulder. The ecstatic saxophonist Kamasi Washington didn’t exactly watch his step in “Struggle From Within,” not with his big tunes from booming brass and winds or his rich string accompaniments. Hindemith sometimes came to mind. But Washington also ultimately came across as cowed by the occasion, ending oddly with a Dvorák-like sweet tune first for flute, with two cellos offering simple accompaniment growing into a concluding climax. He could, should and probably will take this much further with his own ensemble. The outlier was Hermeto Pascoal. The 81-year-old Brazilian jazz legend turned to his group’s pianist, Jovino Santos Neto, to orchestrate a piece that Pascoal’s band had originally played three decades ago. With Neto as soloist and with a brightly textured chamber ensemble, “Suite Universal” became a suite universe, its Brazilian tunes zapped by oddball accompaniments and the pianist’s distinctive improvisations coming from left field or maybe Mars. If not exactly new, the Pascoal-Neto suite did manage to cross a particularly vast divide.

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BOSTON — Prime Communications has asked the Department of Justice to investigate charges it brought against AT&T Broadband last fall. In November, the Wakefield, Mass., advertising and media shop launched a $20 million lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Boston against AT&T Broadband, the country’s largest cable television company, alleging unfair business practices and monopolization.The complaint asserted AT&T rejected paid advertising that Prime had attempted to place on stations carried by AT&T, the dominant cable service in eastern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire. Prime alleged that because it refused to sell to AT&T its PrimeIQ Web-based lead management tool, which competes with a similar product of AT&T’s called Vehix, AT&T terminated their 15-year relationship (Adweek, Dec. 10, 2001). The lawsuit charged that along with banning it from purchasing ads on the cable system, AT&T was eliminating competition in the marketplace by having its own advertising division handle Prime’s clients. AT&T denied in December it had violated federal anti-trust laws or engaged in unfair business practices. Prime is now asking to meet with Department investigators and hopes to facilitate meetings with other media professionals and economic experts to address the threat of monopolization against competition throughout the industry. An AT&T representative said the company’s position has not changed regarding the accusation, declining further comment pending trial, which is slated for later in the spring, according to president of Prime Communications.

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We installed the top 10 apps from Download.com, and you’ll never believe what happened! Well… I guess maybe you might have a good guess. Awful things. Awful things are what happens. Join us for the fun! Update: Since the original publication of this article in 2015, Download.com has finally started to clean up its act. You can read more about their new, more friendly practices here. We’ve been railing against freeware download recommendations for years, and recently we taught you how to test any software safely using a virtual machine. So we thought, why not have some fun and see what really happens if you download software like a regular clueless user might? For the purpose of this experiment, we’re going to just click through all regular installation screens with the default options using a fresh virtual machine. And we’re going to install ten applications from the most popular downloads list. And we’re going to assume the persona of a regular non-geek user. I mean, with all those protections in place from the trusty people over there at CNET, why would anybody worry? I mean, CNET News is a trusted source, right? Right. Danger! Do NOT Try This at Home! Seriously, we don’t recommend doing this at home on your primary PC, unless you want to make your computer a smoking pile of useless. If you do want to try it, make sure to use a virtual machine. Time to begin. But where to begin? The first thing we did was head straight to the Windows downloads page and take a look at their Most Popular Downloads. The list seems puzzling, almost like it’s not really the real list. Why would almost everybody download… YAC? Have you used YAC? It’s… a bunch of YAK. This list is suspect and never seems to change. That’s suspect. Oh well, onward. This list is very helpful to know what not to install. The plan is to download and install the top 10 apps, but as you can see in the list, the top two apps are both antivirus, and since we aren’t crazy people, we’re not going to install more than one active antivirus at a time. And despite a lapse in judgement by Avast in the past, we still prefer Avast over AVG (the Avast people were up-front and honest in response to our article and their product is just better in our testing). So we’re going to install that one and skip AVG. Surely that will be free from any bundled crapware, right? Bundled software is just like In-App Purchases on mobile: Here to stay. Well… it’s not crapware. Dropbox is awesome. But yeah, the bundling starts here. Free software vendors make so much more money by bundling other software than they do by selling subscriptions that it’s pretty much the only business plan that anybody can consider using. At least Avast is bundling something good, so we can’t really argue with it. Now that we have Avast running, it’s time to head down the list and install KMPlayer… wait, what’s that “Installer Enabled” all about? Oh well, it’s in light gray text so I guess it’s not important. It’s the mark of the beast. They sure do have a lot of terms and conditions pages in this installer. It’s a good thing that people have been trained to always read the terms and conditions, because otherwise you might agree to something insane like allowing yourself to become a HumancentiPad, or even worse, like installing Spigot’s browser hijacking extensions. 9 out of 10 dentists agree, this page is confusing. Hmm, the next terms and conditions page says something about a PC Cleaner. Well maybe that can help clean up the nonsense that we just accidentally installed in the last step, right? Two wrongs might make a right after all. That’s weird, we finished all those other screens and now we have another installer. It’s almost like that first installer was completely useless and somebody should be punished. I guess we should just click to Agree and install this one, because that Skip button looks like it’s disabled anyway. There’s no way you could click on it, right? And it’s not like clicking a single button is going to infect us with the awful Trovi browser-hijacking adware. I wonder how this browser hijacker will get along with the other one. Once we clicked through, we ended up with an error page for some reason as it all hung up. We’re not sure what WajamPage.exe is, but after a quick Google, it becomes clear that it’s yet another browser hijacker and we’re lucky it didn’t install. That’s right, we’ve installed one non-antivirus app from CNET Downloads so far, and we’ve been presented with three browser hijackers and one fake registry cleaner. They are nothing if not efficient. After clicking through the installer and finishing, PRO PC CLEANER from the previous step installed itself… started running a scan… and then TALKED OUT LOUD TO US. It literally yells to you through your speakers and tells you that your PC is completely full of errors and needs to be repaired. And it does this all the time, randomly. I guess nobody told them that this was a brand-new installation of Windows. BEHOLD, YOUR COMPUTER SPEAKETH: GIVE US MONEY! Next up was YAC. The installer was simple, and seconds later… we had some little window on the screen that was tracking something, and a new source of NON-STOP useless notifications. Every little thing that every app does appears to be monitored… and allowed. YAC is soooo helpful. /sarcasm. These YAC notifications disappear in seconds, almost like they are meant to be useless. Next on the list was the trusty CCleaner, which is a perfectly decent application that we’ve recommended before. Installed, done, great. After that we tried to install the next item, which is the YTD downloader app, but Avast completely blocked the download of the application. That turned out to be a pretty good thing as we’ll see later, but we wish Avast would have blocked all that other browser hijacking nonsense too. Oh well, can’t win them all. At least Avast is doing something. Next we tried to install Free YouTube Downloader, only to find out that one was being blocked by Avast as well. Now why would these apps be on the most popular recommendation list along with another app that is blocking these apps? If these are viruses and spyware, why are they being distributed? Something seems wrong here. And don’t the Download.com terms and conditions state that malware is not allowed? Hmmm, maybe they didn’t actually read them and just clicked Accept. It’s what we would do. Avast did a better job than some other antivirus products. 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Search Protect and YAC and Spigot continued to fight it out for a while at this point… literally every few seconds one or the other would change the home page and then YAC would try to set it back. It’s like battle of the crapware up in here. Taking all bets! At this point we had so many open windows on our desktop, it was time to reboot. That fixes everything. After rebooting, Avast blocked Conduit as a threat. That’s pretty awesome, but we’re wondering why this didn’t happen before it actually got installed onto the computer, or at least during. Or you know, before we rebooted. At least they did block it. Can’t argue with that. Sadly, even though Trovi / Conduit was blocked as a virus… the homepage for IE still ended up being set to it. Luckily it’s easy to change the IE homepage, right? Just for shiggles, we decided to go back and install that YTD downloader app that Avast blocked. 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Freeware software vendors make almost all of their money by bundling complete nonsense and scareware that tricks users into paying to clean up their PC, despite the fact that you could prevent the need to clean up your PC by just not installing the crappy freeware to begin with. And no matter how technical you might be, most of the installers are so confusing that there’s no way a non-geek could figure out how to avoid the awful. So if you recommend a piece of software to somebody, you are basically asking them to infect their computer. And it doesn’t matter which antivirus you have installed — we’ve actually done this experiment a number of times with different antivirus vendors, and most of them completely ignored all of the bundled crapware. Avast did a pretty good job this time compared to some of the other vendors, but it didn’t block all of it for sure. 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All original furniture and wood accessories created in art studio Alex Ceibart are designed and built with inspiration and attention even to the smallest detail. Before the final product is finished, whether it is a designer lamp, vintage furniture, wooden jewelry boxor other art accessory for your home, it goes through two main stages – the stage of the idea and the design itself. The idea of making designer furniture and wood accessoriesfirst comes to the mind of the artist and is inspired by his imagination, perception and sense of aesthetics. The idea is the vision of the finished work which besides visual delight must combine quality and functionality. Once we have the main idea about the desired product, we are ready to make the next step – the creation of a project according to which the final products will be made. After a detailed consideration the artist draws up a model of the product he is going to create. Often, this model undergoes various stages of processing. The aim is to choose the best way for the technological performance of the final product. Finally, the artist is ready to choose the right materials needed for the project. The materials used in the production of the designer art furniture and accessories of Alex Ceibart are carefully selected and must have the necessary qualities, whether it comes to wood, leather, stone, glass, textiles or metal. All our hand-made furniture is made of wooden joints in order to preserve the authenticity. This does not prevent some wood products to be combined with other materials so as to form a complete aesthetic and functional final product. When using wood as a material for the production of wood furniture it is important to pay special attention to the type of wood, the humidity and the overall quality of the timber. Wood serves both for making custom furniture and accessories, as well as for the wooden inserts used for restoration. The process of working with wood goes through many stages until the final look is achieved with finish of different coatings and textures. When combining several materials in one product we very carefully choose each component in order to focus on the basic idea and shape of the desired work. Materials such as leather, fabric (burlap, denim, linen...) and different types of mats made of natural materials also need special attention when it comes to texture, color and quality. When working with leather we also take into account the date of production to ensure that it is not old and cracked. Last but not least, the leather must be well dried to avoid the risk of contraction later. Other materials such as stone, glass and metal require a different selection. We must take into account where these materials will be used in the final product, what shape and color they should be, how should be processed and, of course, the most important is the function of the product. All this must be consistent with varieties of these materials and their flexibility for processing. All materials needed for the execution of our unique art designer furniture are selected and processed without any compromise! The quality of our work is the foundation of the idea of art studio Alex Ceibart!

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ContemporaryinSpires provides the opportunity to be practically trained in church music, working with the leading figures in Australian church music. Based at Moore College it will be headed by CityAlight, and featuring the likes of Rob Smith, Philip Percival, Trevor Hodge, Greg Cooper, Noel Tredinnick, members from Hillsong, and many more. Throughout the conference there will be a Prayer & Praise night led by CityAlight, as well as the opportunity to sit in on the rehearsal of Prom Praise on Saturday 13 July at Sydney Town Hall. Whole bands that attend the conference will have the opportunity to perform and workshop songs with CityAlight and the other course directors.

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Guyana got to be a land of confusion. People does seh one thing and got people following dem. Then dem does change dem mind and de people does get confused. Charranrass is de man who start de confusion. He stand up in parliament and when dem was debating de budget, he put a cussing pon Jagdeo. De whole opposition was vex wid him. Dem boys seh two weeks barely pass and de man tun round and hug up Jagdeo. People get confused. Dem want to know if was de same man who was cussing de opposition. Dat was only de start of de confusion. Jagdeo holler dat Soulja Bai got to resign. De words barely come out he mouth when everybody, including people who seh dat dem don’t follow politics, seh deh agree. In fact, dem was de ones who holler de loudest dat Soulja Bai must resign. Dem start to talk bout caretaker government and Jagdeo do de same. Jagdeo follow all who talk bout caretaker government. Bright and early Wednesday, he and Soulja Bai had a meeting. He carry de same caretaker government talk to Soulja Bai. By de time de meeting done, he agree dat dem ain’t got nutten like a caretaker government. Before he keep he mouth shut, he tell people how dem don’t have no such thing as caretaker government. People confuse. Dem want know wha happen to de resignation. Jagdeo agree dat Soulja Bai and ee government don’t have to resign. De situation in parliament causing anodda confusion. People talking but dual citizenship. Dat mean dat if you is a citizen fuh two countries, you can’t sit as an MP. Fuh years people ignore dis and who got two passport and who ain’t got, never care. Dem sit and dem vote. Now Charranrass sit and vote and de people carrying him to court. Now everybody who got dual citizenship confused. One minute dem was voting good, good. Now people telling dem they can go to jail if dem only vote in parliament. Dat is real confusion. Is like a child accustom to nurse ee mudda and then one day de mudda slap him to stop. Talk half and wait, because more confusion coming.

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Teach users the fundamentals of GIS with open source QuantumGIS product Quantum GIS, through hands-on exercises, how to create, edit, manage, and analyze mapping data. This is GIS software training course. Describe the QuantumGIS user interface.

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ORACLENERD: Inline vs. Out-of-line Constraints? So he came over and we talked about inline vs. out-of-line constraints. I asked him the advantage of out-of-line. He asked me the advantage of inline. I'm sure his answer was better than mine as he is much more articulate. For me, it's mostly a style thing, except for FOREIGN KEY constraints which, if defined inline, will inherit the data type of the parent column. That makes life easier if you ever need to change the data type of a parent key (not a recommended best practice mind you). I just think it looks prettier (factual based evidence). It's all in one file and I like to see how many constraints I can put on a single table. I'm shooting for at least one per column to save myself time down the road of coding exceptions. Let the database do it's job! So, what are the advantages for either method? I couldn’t find much via google or asktom, but I probably just didn't search on the right terms. I find it hard to believe that this topic hasn't come up before. The difference between inline and out-of-line constraints is just a matter of syntax and/or timing. * Inline constraints are created by the create table statement. * Out-of-line contraints suppose the table to preexist. - I tend to stick to the Oracle Designer habit of out of line definitions IN SEPARATE FILES for indexes and for referential constraints (PK, UK, FK). This makes it easier to reuse these files when simply rebuilding indexes/constraints. Remember, you can drop and recreate an index or PK/UK/FK; but you'd better not drop and recreate the table itself unless you really mean it! One of the advantages of outline, particulary with foreign keys is that you can have separate files to build tables, constraints and indexes, etc. Then if you need to build an environment and import a bunch of data you can speed things up by just creating the tables first and then when all the data is in, adding the constraints, indexes and keys. Having said, I haven't worked in an environment where we've done things that way for nearly 10 years, and I normally prefer inline declarations these days. The difference between the Inline and Outline constraint is quite simple. The Inline constraints which are column level constraints can only be defined at the time of table creation. The Outline/Out of Line Constraints can be defined at the time of creation of table as well as after table creation so that constraints can be placed by altering the structure of table. The table level constraints serve the same purpose as column level constraints and there is no significance in terms of handling and managing constraints either Inline or Outline. Following is the examples for inline and outlined constraints. I still do the inline constraints (when I actually build tables, which is rare these days). Nigel alluded to one of the advantages that Dom mentioned above...the ability to just create the tables, load the data and then add the constraints and indexes (where PKs specifically). This is especially handy when you want to quickly and easily rebuilt a system (say, for continuous integration, testing, testing, etc). Doing inline constraints means that the tables must be built in a specific order, data loaded in same specific order, and so on. It can be done (I've done it), but I'm sure there's a point where it just becomes cumbersome especially dealing with multiple teams and the like. Also in my opinion, when debugging the style of syntax may become important. Having each elementary action VISIBLE and NOT ENTANGLED with others may help us follow the logic's steps and detect what went wrong. Also it makes one think clearer in the back of their minds, encouraging an attitude of seeking to bring up hidden details and not bury them in clutter. When adding a new column with a check constraint to an existing big table, then using an inline constraint outperforms using out-of-line one.

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PXiSE will deploy its Active Control Technology to manage up to 50,000 distributed energy resources across Horizon Power’s 2.3 million square kilometre network, which it says will enable higher levels of renewable energy. We’ve heard a lot about the grid of the future; how distributed rooftop solar, batteries and home energy management systems will all coordinate, allowing for intelligent control of these resources and enabling higher levels of renewable energy, more efficient use of energy and more reliable power. But outside of a few pilot programs and niche applications, there haven’t been a lot of places where these solutions have been deployed at scale. Until now. Last week Horizon Power, the public utility supply remote and regional Western Australian towns, communities and industries contracted with California-based PXiSE Energy for the deployment of the company’s Active Control Technology (ACT) platform, a software solution which allows for both a highly granular view of grid operations as well as real-time control of rooftop solar, batteries and other distributed energy resources. This will be at an unheard-of scale for a distributed energy resource management solution (DERMs), with PXiSE’s ACT managing as many as 50,000 distributed energy resources spread across Horizon’s 2.3 million square kilometer service area. While ACT has been deployed in pilot projects and is run on a winery microgrid in Northern California, neither this software or any other distributed energy management system has yet been implemented on a grid that covers a third of a continent. Patrick Lee, who serves as president of PXiSE and VP at parent company Sempra Energy, notes that PXiSE’s ability to provide real-time control differentiates it from other DERMs. “DERMs technology that people talk about is mostly focused on forecasting and maybe scheduling how these devices should be dispatched,” Lee explained to pv magazine. As such, Lee notes that ACT allows for “juggling” of resources, so that supply and demand can be matched in real time. Lee says that these resources can also be used to supply ancillary services such as reactive power for voltage stabilization, and even frequency control. Of course, PXiSE will not have control over all behind-the-meter resources. Some owners of rooftop PV, batteries and other resources may elect not to allow ACT to view or control their systems, these the program will have to work around, including estimating output.

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BC Water & Waste Association and the Province of B.C. proclaim May 2nd to 8th Drinking Water Week in B.C. BC Water & Waste Association (BCWWA) and the Province of British Columbia have officially proclaimed the week of May 2 to 8, 2010 "Drinking Water Week." "Sometimes we take our tap water for granted, in some parts of B.C.," said Daisy Foster, CEO, BC Water & Waste Association (BCWWA). "Drinking water week provides a unique opportunity for both water professionals and the communities they serve to join together to recognize the vital role water plays in our daily lives. We are asking people to stop and think about what a valuable resource our water is and take steps to conserve it." A safe, reliable water supply is critical to the success of a community. It creates jobs, attracts industry and investment, and provides for the health and welfare of citizens in ways ranging from disease prevention to fire suppression. Water is a limited resource that must be protected and conserved. If our water system could talk to us, it might remind us that it: keeps us healthy, supports our economy and provides us with the high quality of life we enjoy here in B.C. During Drinking Water Week over 1,300 water and waste water professionals from all over the province, North America and Europe will discuss emerging industry trends at the annual BC Water & Waste Association conference in Whistler (May 1 to 5). - Canadians have not made the link between water and energy conservation. Generating energy requires a lot of water. Moving water to make it available for when and where we want it requires significant amounts of energy. For more information on BCWWA and Drinking Water Week including resources such as children's activities (colouring sheets, true and false, cross words) please visit www.bcwwa.org/dww.php.

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Cyber attacks are one of the greatest threats facing global businesses today. Hardly a day goes by that there is not a report of another company suffering at the hands of hackers breaching their networks and stealing sensitive customer or proprietary business data. According to the Identify Theft Resource Center (ITRC), there were 781 known data breaches in 2015. This is the second-highest number on record since tracking began in 2005. Although data breaches and cyber attacks are real risks for all type of public and private organizations, retailers are particularly vulnerable to these crimes. In this competitive industry, these crimes can have devastating effects on consumers and potentially damage the retailer’s brand and corporate reputation beyond repair. Furthermore, cyber-crimes do not target one class of retailers. Over the past several years, retailers from superstores to supermarkets have reported data breaches, where potentially millions upon millions of consumer debit and credit card information were exposed or comprised. In response to the threats presented by cyber-criminals, many retailers are physically separating the IT infrastructure for their networks based on their primary usage to limit exposure. A prime example is creating a separate network to run physical security applications from the network used for POS data. A security-only network is typically used to host the company’s security devices such as intrusion detection, video, access control devices and related devices along with building automation systems such as HVAC. The benefits of these networks are multi-faceted. Not only does the security-only network deliver a higher level of protection, but it also offers faster speeds, more bandwidth and easier access to the network for loss prevention teams while not impacting business-critical systems. Further benefits to a separate network include nearly unlimited access to applications such as remote monitoring of video or remote investigations, allowing investigators immediate access to video and supporting data. Many times, loss prevention teams are relegated to downloading video for investigative purposes in the overnight hours, when the primary network is not being used for POS data. Easy access to video can reduce travel time to specific locations and associated expenses, as well as the time it takes to conduct the investigations. When the security network is monitored by a certified third-party provider, added benefits include advanced alerts of potential system failure or attempted breach of the network. The monitoring company can also ensure that the network is adhering to the latest network security protocols and has updated anti-virus software at all times. Any type of retailer that is looking to provide a safer and more secure environment for its customers’ data while maintaining a higher level of security for its business critical operations is a candidate for a dedicated security-only network. When considering a third-party provider for security-only networks, traditional IT companies that design and implement standard networks may not be your best option. Selecting a company that has the proper certifications for designing networks as well as deep industry knowledge of security devices and how they need to work together will greatly enhance the overall end result. Certifications such as Cisco Cloud and Managed Services Partner Certification, Meraki Certified, Sonicwall Certified, and security product-specific certifications will ensure successful system integration. Cisco Cloud and Managed Services Partner certification recognizes companies who have attained the expertise in the planning, designing, implementing and supporting of cloud or managed services based on Cisco platforms. One of the first steps is to identify the circuit requirements for the security-only network. Understanding what types of applications are going to be running on the network and how much bandwidth and speed is necessary to support the applications is key. Security-only networks are often based on commodity broadband, so it is important to ensure that the carrier can deliver reliable service and speed at any given location. Once the network parameters of adequate circuit bandwidth are determined, additional considerations that must be designed into the system include remote (VPN) access and appropriate security measure and rules. At a minimum, there should be a strict password update rule both for duration of password life as well as re-use of passwords used in the past. Ideally, a consolidated security identification system should be established to ensure continuous monitoring of access with biometric or other proven security solutions as part of any access to the network. If any part of the network is wireless enabled, appropriate security for network access and ongoing traffic monitoring are essential. If they are not part of the system, monitoring to make sure that no additional devices with wireless capability are installed on the system. Firewall protection design is essential. With the advent of IPv6 and its inclusion in networks, there is a potential for security breach when tools designed for IPv4 are faced with IPv6 calls. Continuous monitoring for abnormal network traffic, behavior or attempted unauthorized access are discovered, rules for appropriate notification and/or lockout must be determined and enforced. The growing threat of data breaches, cyber crime, and the high cost associated with remediating the aftermath of an attack, both in terms of hard dollars and the damage to brand reputation and customer trust, can be devastating to a retailer. Cyber-crime rates are escalating at exponential levels and cyber criminals will continue to grow more sophisticated in their approach. Now is the time to ensure your business is protected.

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A medical health insurance plan happens to be a major supply of financial help in occasions of ailments, accidents or even diseases. Regardless from the high amount of cash you have to cover premiums it is a necessary thing to possess to get medical treatment whenever regrettable events hit. There are in fact two major kinds of care plan that people can decide to have: the maintenance business (HMO) and also the preferred supplier organization (PPO). Both do provide a health insurance for you personally but you need to pick which you’ll have for your self. Each of those types has pros and cons however it’s your decision to select which sort provides you with the greatest benefits with regards to medical healthcare. What is definitely an HMO? Health upkeep organization essentially gives inexpensive quotes because of its customers. The reason being HMOs successfully spread the price of medical treatment among its doctors. When you select HMOs you’ll have an extensive listing of associated physicians in addition to PCP of your preference. The HMO electronic system is actually convenient because of its customers simply because they only have to go within the website hyperlink and look for their primary doctor by typing the squat code of the location. Technology offers greatly aided how companies the ones do their own transaction so that HMOs open comfortable access for individuals to determine that doctor is actually valid for his or her health protection plan. The drawback of HMOs is how the health plan is just valid with regard to doctors as well as medical institutions which are on their own list. When they prefer an additional physician for his or her family after that get gave to pay for the physicians fee using their own cash. What is really a PPO? A PPO or even preferred supplier organization can also be akin towards the HMO wherein they’ve a summary of assigned doctors creating a health care team that enables you to receive discounts too. However, PPOs doesn’t strictly apply and then the doctors it’s associated along with. This means that you could have much more physicians to select from than HMOs. Nonetheless, the repayment for PPOs is actually expensive however the price continues to be worth this if this serves your own purpose nicely. What is the easiest method to choose your own insurance? If you wish to find the best insurance to begin with you have to decide just how much cover you’ll need, then use the internet and search for top deal.

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The Indiana Girls Wrestling IGNITES is a statewide team of all-star Hoosier girls sponsored by IGW. The IGNITES is a travel team that competes in regional and national folkstyle and freestyle events representing IGW and the state of Indiana. Additionally, IGNITES members have the opportunity not only to compete together, but also to train together throughout the year. If you are serious about the sport of wrestling, IGNITES is the team for you! Parents (and adult athletes), please fill out the annual IGNITES forms linked to the left. Keeping your information up-to-date allows IGW to register your wrestler for events that they might attend. Also, the waiver and consent form for participation in IGW/IGNITES activities is a general acknowledgment of the risks involved in the sport of wrestling. All form information is maintained as strictly private (staff, coaches and team/event medical personnel only). The IGNITES 2017-18 Team Gear Package is ordered periodically by IGW. The package cost is $260.00 if ordered individually, but is available at a reduced rate as part of an IGW team order. Our next order is currently active until 01 February 2018 (last ordered September 2017). The 2017-18 Team Gear Package includes: (1) Red and (1) Blue IGNITES USAW Competition Singlet; (1) 1/4 zip pullover (with last name); (1) IGNITES Fight Shorts; and (1) IGNITES Long-sleeved Compression Shirt (with last name). Interested in becoming a sponsor for the Indiana Girls Wrestling IGNITES team? Want to participate in your local community? Become a sponsor for the Indiana Girls Wrestling IGNITES team and support youth in your area.

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The draw for the fourth round of the U14's Scottish Youth FA Cup has been made at Hampden Park. The fourth round will see many interesting ties. Kelso FC have a lot of travelling on their hands as they make the 376 mile round trip to face Colony Colts in Inverurie. Champions Hutchison Vale will also make the trip northward to take on Sunnybank Elite and finalists Cove will host Dundee-based side Riverside CSC.

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Bridge Legal Group (BLG) is a full service law firm dedicated to providing high standard legal support to its clients from its offices located in Beirut, Dubai (in association with Ahmed Matar Al-Mheiri Advocates & Legal Consultants) and Abu Dhabi (in association with Mohamed Al-Taweel Al-Mheiri Advocates & Legal Consultants) and through a regional network of selected law firms. BLG team of lawyers has a proven track record in representing multinational, regional and local business groups, insurance and reinsurance companies, banks, financial institutions, enterprises and individual entrepreneurs. BLG is founded by Fadi B. Nader who has more than 30 years’ experience advising a wide range of clients in Lebanon, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates on local and cross-border, transactions as well as on complex litigation, arbitration and regulatory matters. Our in-depth knowledge of the local and regional legal environments coupled with our significant exposure to an international client base enable us to continuously bridge cultural and language gaps.

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Although Miss World 2013 Megan Young has been crowned as the first Filipina titleholder of the oldest international beauty pageant, she has yet to receive her prizes, Victoria Young, the beauty queen's mother disclosed on Tuesday. In fact, she doesn't even know exactly what prizes should be received by her daughter since Mrs. Young researched on the Internet for any information about the prizes but found none. However, she confirmed that Megan received the P1 million prize for winning the local title of Miss World Philippines. "But I have talked to people who have experience in Miss World pageantry. They said every time she has activities to attend to raise money, she will get an honorarium. Mrs. Young is also hopeful that with a Miss World crown on her daughter's head, this would translate into higher talent fee for endorsements. While Mrs. Young is extremely happy with the victory of Megan, she also complained that she hardly sees her daughter now because of too many Miss World activities she has to attend to. In fact, when Megan went to her mother's hometown, Olongapo City, to visit her grandmother, she could only spend 15 minutes with the old woman because of her very hectic schedule.

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Palm Springs is the most famous city in the Coachella Valley. Today, in early February, the forecast is in the mid-70s, which is about 25 Celsius, and visitors flock here to play golf and tennis in the pleasant winter weather. It’s warmer and drier than winters in Los Angeles, about 150 miles away, and early Hollywood stars made the trek out here in the days before the interstate and airport, not to work but to enjoy themselves by playing the same sports we do today, dancing in the evenings, and relaxing. John Frost needed this climate for his ill health. He often painted Mt. San Jacinto, which borders this valley near Palm Springs. He painted the one below in 1926. This same year, the La Quinta Hotel was established nearby (no connection with the chain of the same name). It attracted old-time Hollywood stars and is still open for business, 87 years later. I’ll write more about the La Quinta resort next Wednesday. Here’s a photo below. Enjoy your week. If you are busy, you might take a little time for yourself and curl up with a book. Make your own warmth with a blanket over your legs and a cup of tea. Next Wednesday we’ll go back to the desert and the 1920s and 30s. Thank you for including those beautiful paintings! I liked the “Enjoy LIfe” inscription over the arch also. There are a few gorgeous homes in Santa Barbara with discreet, meditative inscriptions over their doors; one in particular I recall is over the arch leading to the pool area. Such a nice touch. This one is lovely with the orange flowers. One might call that a little 21st Century touch! Thanks, Penny! The “Enjoy Life” arch is at the entrance and exit of the spa. You don’t see the inscription when you enter, as it’s on the other side of the arch. You see it only when you leave. They want you to take that spa philosophy with you. My husband and I have been visiting the LaQuinta Resort for almost 30 years. I’m eager to share more next week.

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A patient with high blood pressure presented to my office with a severe headache. She has a history of seasonal allergies. The patient is adherent to her medication regimen. In the office, her blood pressure was 210/120. Normally, her blood pressure on therapy is 125/78. What is happening and what should we do? It turns out the patient was outside with her family watching fireworks. Her allergies to pollen acted up, and she took pseudoephedrine to help control her symptoms. A side effect of this medication is hypertension. I see a referral population which can be very different from the general population that sees a primary care practitioner. That said, I have seen many high blood pressure patients on allergy medications that have had bad outcomes: stroke, heart attack, kidney problems, and malignant (life-threatening) hypertension. Both perennial and seasonal allergies can be annoying for a person. Its usually easy to tell an untreated patient with allergies because they give you the “allergic salute” (people with allergic rhinitis often rubs their noses using the index finger). Many over the counter therapies for allergic rhinitis can worsen a patient’s hypertension. For instance, phenylephrine, the active ingredient in Sudafed, can also increase a person’s blood pressure. In fact, most decongestants (drugs that shrink the swollen membranes in the nose) may cause hypertension. The best therapy for allergies in a patient with high blood pressure is an intra-nasal steroid. Avoidance of the allergens, if possible, also helps. A cost-effective, generic nasal steroid that is not absorbed by the body is called fluticasone propionate which is currently $60 dollars a month at drugstore.com. Other steroid inhalers are available, but these can get very pricey. There are other medication options for those on an extremely tight budget. The Walmart $4 list includes loratadine, which you can obtain via a prescription from your doctor. The medicine is generic and is the same thing as over the counter Claritin. This medicine is extremely effective and is a great second-line or add on therapy to the intranasal corticosteroid. For those of you with hypertension and allergies who wish to try an over the counter nasal inhaler option, cromolyn sodium is available. Cromolyn stabilizes inflammatory cells which are involved in the allergy process. This medicine works. It is cost effective (around 12 dollars per inhaler), but the big downside here is that a person has to use it 4 times daily. I have found that many people are non-adherent to more than twice a day medication regimens. And if you don’t take the medication it won’t work. Therefore, Cromolyn is my third line therapy. For those who do not like to take medication, nasal irrigation and saline sprays can be effective. Many of my patients find this form of therapy to be unappealing and give up on it quickly. For the patient described here in the clinical vignette, I referred her back to her primary care physician for an allergy therapy assessment. I asked the patient to stop taking the pseudoephedrine and continue her current blood pressure medication therapy. Her blood pressure quickly returned to normal and with the help of her PCP (primary care physician), her allergies got better!

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