A box of 24 foam 'pods' to use to enhance your embossed images. Easy to use, just dab the foam pad on an ink pad, blot excess ink on scrap paper if necessary then apply ink applicator pad to an embossed surface in a light, circular motion to transfer the colour. A different ink colour can be used on either end of each pod so you can have 48 colours for each box. This is a great tool to add extra dimension to your embossed designs.
Mainstage Productions | Willow Theatre at Sugar Sand Park of Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District
$30 per person; $20 group rate (4 or more tickets purchased in one transaction); $25 subscription rate (click HERE to learn about subscriptions!)
A warm, light-hearted romantic comedy musical based on Neil Simon’s award-winning film. Follow the unlikely romance between Paula, a bitter single mother who has been jilted one too many times, and Eliot, the opinionated actor who shows up unexpectedly on her doorstep with a lease to sublet her apartment. Music by Marvin Hamlische (A Chorus Line) and David Zippel (Disney’s Hercules); book by Neil Simon Music Theatre International.
Adrian Bono is a political journalist and founder of The Bubble, a digital media company with offices in Buenos Aires and Mexico City covering news and culture in English about Latin America. He also contributes regularly on Infobae about international politics. He is a former deputy editor of the Buenos Aires Herald and contributor to Ambito Financiero and The Argentina Independent. His opinion has been featured on CNN, Al Jazeera, BBC and Telemundo as well as other networks and publications in Latin America and Europe. He is a member of the Argentine Council for International Relations’ Key Opinion Leaders (CARI-KOL) and the Forum of Argentine Journalism (FOPEA). He graduated from the University of Palermo with a Bachelor’s in social sciences and humanities and received a certificate in journalism from TEA. He was born in Spain.
Woods Staton is the Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of the Board and controlling shareholder of Arcos Dorados (NYSE: ARCO), the world's largest McDonald's franchisee. Arcos Dorados employs more than 95,000 people across 20 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, operating more than 2000 restaurants, with revenues of more than US$4 billion. Born in Medellín, Colombia, Mr Staton's business life has always been involved with consumer goods in Latin America. His grandfather founded Panamco, which became one of Coca-Cola's largest bottlers in the world with operations in seven Latin American countries. After many years in the family business Woods branched out starting his own entrepreneurial career as McDonald's joint venture partner opening the first McDonalds restaurant in Argentina.
Later he became President of the South America Division of McDonald's Corporation. In 2007, McDonald's Corporation sold its operations in Latin America to a consortium of investors that Woods put together and the company was named Arcos Dorados. In April of 2011 the Private Equity investors sold their positions in a successful IPO on the NYSE. Mr. Staton is Chairman of the Board of Ronald McDonald House Charities Latin America, dedicated to supporting families of children fighting pediatric cancer. He is co-founder of Endeavor Argentina, promoting entrepreneurship as well as a founding partner of Ashoka Argentina, a global organization committed to investing in innovative solutions through social entrepreneurship in order to help solve tough problems.
Mr. Staton holds an MBA from the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland and a Bachelor's degree in economics from Emory University in Atlanta. He is on the Global Board of Advisors of the Council of Foreign Relations in Washington D.C., as well as on the Chairman's International Advisory Council of the Americas Society/Council of the Americas, and serves on the International Advisory Board of Itaú Unibanco Holding S.A. He currently serves as the Chair for the Latin American Program's Advisory Board at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
NatWest and RBS have commissioned a Financial Benchmarking Report which compares the financial performance of small and medium enterprise (SME) law firms operating outside of the UK top 100.
It shows despite challenges faced in that sector, the North remains the country’s second largest area for legal activity.
Recent problems in the legal world have been well documented in the media. Over the past months, the working environment for solicitors and barristers has been turned on its head.
With the impact and threats of Price Competitive Tendering (PCT) and their impact on legal aid, the Jackson Reform legislation drastically affecting personal injury fee income and changes in the PI insurance market are collectively having a huge impact on the business model on which many law firms operate. Add to this, more regulation and a general lack of support from lenders, there is little surprise many businesses are struggling. Running a business in the new legal landscape will never be quite the same.
However, the results shown in the NatWest / RBS benchmarking report are better than we would expect. They reveal northern firms achieved an 11% profit increase from the previous year.
Peter Gray, head of professionals NatWest Yorkshire & North Derbyshire at Natwest, added: “Last year was another challenging one for the legal sector, however, optimism seems at an all-time high with some great performances recorded across the country”.
Junior Senator from Indiana (1999-2011) and before that the 46th Governor of Indiana, Bayh is both a layer and a Fox News commentator.
As Governor he cut taxes by a record $1.6bn and creating a huge budget surplus. As a Senator he sat on five different committees and was one of the earliest supporters of the 2003 Iraq War.
A fiscal conservative within the Democrats he has been touted as a candidate for the Presidency in 2008 (only a coin toss away from being Veep in 08), 2012 and 2016.
An ill wind for McGuinty; New scientific study links wind turbines to health hazards | Wind Energy News
One of the worst things the Dalton McGuinty government did in its disastrous dash into green energy was to ride roughshod over the health complaints of rural Ontarians regarding industrial wind turbines.
That is, people who weren’t really suffering any ill health effects from wind turbines other than “Not In My Back Yard Syndrome” – NIMBYism for short.
The Liberal government cited studies – many from the wind industry itself – claiming no adverse health effects from wind turbines, and a report by Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Arlene King, concluding there were no “direct links” between wind turbines and ill health.
But wind farm opponents are now armed with a new weapon – a controlled, peer-reviewed, scientific study published in the current issue of the periodical Noise and Health which for the first time links industrial wind turbine noise and vibration to serious health problems.
The study – “Effects of industrial wind turbine noise on sleep and health” – assessed two wind farm communities in Maine and was first reported by my Sun Media colleague Jonathan Sher of the London Free Press.
Its authors, Michael Nissenbaum of the Northern Maine Medical Centre, Jeffery Aramini of Intelligent Health Solutions in Guelph, Ont. and Christopher Hanning of the University Hospitals of Leicester in the UK, made the following findings:
“We conclude that the noise emissions of IWTs (industrial wind turbines) disturbed the sleep and caused daytime sleepiness and impaired mental health in residents living within 1.4 km of the two IWT installations studied. Industrial wind turbine noise is a further source of environmental noise, with the potential to harm human health. Current regulations seem to be insufficient to adequately protect the human population living close to IWTs. Our research suggests that adverse effects are observed at distances even beyond 1 km. Further research is needed to determine at what distances risks become negligible, as well as to better estimate the portion of the population suffering from adverse effects at a given distance.” Meanwhile, the McGuinty government has been assuring us that its minimum 550-metre setback for industrial wind turbines reduces noise levels to the equivalent of “a quiet library.”
Then again, we also know, thanks to reporting by the CBC during last year’s Ontario election, that the McGuinty government received hundreds of health complaints from people across the province living near wind turbines and suppressed them.
Government documents released under Freedom of Information showed environment ministry staff issued internal warnings the province needed stricter rural noise limits on turbines, that it had no reliable way to monitor or enforce them and that computer models for determining setbacks were flawed.
Despite that, McGuinty forged ahead with his industrial wind development plan through his Green Energy Act, which stripped local municipalities – and thus local residents – of any say in the location of industrial wind farms.
In many ways, the social disaster caused by McGuinty’s reckless and uninformed blunder into green energy rivals the financial disaster he inflicted on all Ontarians in pursuit of it, as revealed by Ontario Auditor General Jim McCarter’s findings last year.
McCarter found McGuinty added billions to the cost of electricity generation – to be paid for by Ontario consumers – by failing to do proper business planning, ignoring the advice of the government’s own experts on how to reduce costs and committing Ontario to paying hundreds of millions of dollars for green energy it doesn’t need and may never use.
The problem with the McGuinty Liberals, of course, is that they are now so committed to green energy they’re incapable of admitting error, much less reversing course, something unlikely to change with a new leader.
But the next Ontario government, assuming it’s not another Liberal one, should put a moratorium on wind turbine construction and do an independent study of the health issues related to them. At the very least.