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grounds Dad, all those trees and the rhododendrons are beautiful.” Dan was looking out of the window daring the world to smile at him. “Probably hide the kennels behind there” Jenny replied somewhat “Oh Dad come on now it's a lovely home, you even said so when you agreed to look at it.” “I said it looked nice, Mata Hari looked nice.” Jenny saw a lovely rolling lawn with a stand of trees and bushes and an idyllic Mansion style house at the end of the sweeping drive. A perfectly idyllic place to live. Dan saw Stalag Luft 17 “They put elastic bands round their bollocks and half starve them.” “Probably do the same to all the poor old sods locked up in there.” They were pulling up to the steps leading at the front entrance. “Dad your being ridiculous of course they don't do that now come on, look the managers waiting to greet us by the door isn't that nice.” As Jenny went round to open the car door for her dad he was already out and brushed her hand off his elbow as she tried to lend some form of support necessary only to her “Probably saw us on her telly when we tripped the perimeter alarm.” “Dad be quite.” Jenny shushed him whilst taking the proffered handshake from the beaming manager who couldn't fail to have heard but gave no sign of having done so. “Hello you must be Mrs Shaw I'm Ms Belden the manager welcome to The Lawns and this is I take it is Dan.” Dan was in before Jenny could open her mouth. “Well you can take it and put it back again it's Mr Argyle to you.” The Beam never even wavered, Dan thought maybe a bit too much Botox and she was stuck “Of course, Mr Argyle. Maybe you'll allow me to call you Dan when we know each other better, please come in let me give you the guided tour.” Ms Belden turned to show the way in so she missed Dans 'never happen love' and Jenny's backhand slap to his shoulder with another hissed 'Dad'. Just as they went through the door there was a deep throated 'woof'. Dan turned to Jenny and smiled. Jenny pretended not to notice and said as cheerily as “Oh you have a dog.” Ms Belden replied without breaking step on the way to the lounge. “Oh that's just Alfie my old German Shepherd. He's just a soft old thing everyone loves Alfie round here.” “Has he been done. Dan asked smiling at his daughter.” “What a strange Ms Belden caught Jenny's look at her dad and realised something was going on she was not privy to. “Yes he has though he's that old now I doubt it matters anymore.” “Not romancing any walking sticks then?” Ms Belden was about to reply but Jenny stopped her. “Oh this is a lovely lounge, isn't this a lovely lounge Dad just look at the view.” Dan looked at the view briefly and then looked around the room which depressed him even more if that where possible. An open lounge with high backed chairs around the walls most with an occupant in varying stages of senility. Just sitting there watching daytime TV with the sound down or asleep though some looked as though the sleep was more permanent. Queue here for the undertakers he thought. Is this really it. It's like a bloody warehouse for the terminal. Come to the Lawns and die, but not until we've had all your money off you. Jenny had suggested it but it was his house and pension that would pay for it. His protestation that he'd rather his money went to his grandson fell on deaf ears. She'd married that four eyed, suited prat with about as much personality as the bloody computer he sat at all day but he seemed to be on a good salary though for doing what Dan hadn't a clue. He wanted his grandson to do something with his life but currently he was a 13 year old clone of his dad. Glasses, school uniform, class swat. Another high salary earner in the making but no life in the kid at all. Dad your not looking isn't the view lovely. “Yeh you can see the sun glinting off the guard tower.” Dan's attention had gone straight past all the greenery to the electricity pylon barely Ms Belden, full of false, professional bonhomie, looked straight past Dan and spoke to “Oh I can see he's got a strong personality we're going to have some wonderful times when he comes to stay.” Dan looked at Jenny. “Am I here, I mean did I leave and a five year old's stood in my place.” Ms Belden obviously heard but carried straight on with the sales pitch, sounding just that bit too well rehearsed. They eventually finished the guided tour and sat in the office for an interminable length of time while Ms Belden went through all the how much, when and how often. Before Jenny managed to extricate the pair of them with sincere promises to think about it, couldn't make any decisions on the day, have to consult my husband. Ms Belden gave her one of those long embarrassing handshakes that leaves you counting your fingers while wiping the Dan had been watching the other hand convinced it would be reaching for Jenny's purse. They drove away in silence for a long while before Jenny broke the stand off with a Well what did you think. Already knowing the answer. “Posh wrapper with a load of senile old codgers inside sat round the walls hiding the damp “Dad do you have to be so negative all the time.” “Oh come on Jenny they were already dead from the neck up, the place stank of piss and strong disinfectant, there was practically a ground mist in the lounge, mindless crap on the tv which nobody was watching and some god awful radio station on just for the benefit of the staff.” Silence filled the car for some time “We could have a look at another one next week if you want.” Jenny sat up straighter “Do you really mean Yeh, I suppose.” “Oh wonderful I'll do another search on Google when I get home.” You do that he thought. Must be a lot of homes listed on there. Nice drive out, pub lunch, should be able to keep this going for a long while yet, I wonder if I should drop a couple of hints about maybe finding one on the coast.

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Friday, October 11 Dank And Stary Night Edition - Terrorist supporters have claimed responsibility for the DDOS and hack of the Internet Archive. (Gizmodo) Maybe it's true. Maybe they're lying. There are many powerful groups that would love to scrub the internet's memory forever. But they're publicly boasting of this on Twitter from a verified account, so they've made themselves easy targets for law enforcement. - The core archive is unaffected. (Twitter) The site is down temporarily while the staff scrub the front-end servers and upgrade security, but it will be back. - Tesla has announced its new Robotaxi, the gloriously art deco Robovan, and the new Tesla Robot. (Tesla) A good old-fashioned future. - AMD very graciously allowed Intel to be relevant for an entire week before stomping on them with a 192 core server CPU that is 20% cheaper than Intel's 128 core model. (Tom's Hardware) AMD's new lineup includes Zen 5 models with up to 128 cores, and Zen 5c models (functionally identical cores but lower clock speeds) up to 192 cores. That article has lots of benchmarks; WCCFTech has the price list. If you need high clock speeds rather than just the maximum possible number of cores, the 9575F offers 64 cores running at 5GHz. The 192 core 9965 "only" runs at 3.7GHz. In theory you could put one of each in the same server. (I think?) Not sure how much the Linux kernel would appreciate that though. - Intel meanwhile has announced its new Arrow Lake desktop CPUs - the 245K, 265K, and 285K. (Tom's Hardware) The 285K will be slightly slower than the existing 14900K for gaming, but use less power. Unfortunately it is expected to be up to 20% slower than AMD's best gaming chips like the 7800X3D, which uses much less power. Expected to be at retain on the 24th, so not much in the way of benchmarks until then, except for the one leaked result on CPUBenchmark. - Intel claims the new chips provide parity performance at half the power. (PC World) Which is very interesting because the claimed power consumption hasn't changed with respect to 13th or 14th generation parts, neither the base TDP nor the maximum turbo power. Which means that either Intel was lying before, or is lying now, or both. - Just to make sure they rain on all of Intel's parades AMD's 9800X3D is expected to have an all-core clock 400MHz faster than the existing 7800X3D. (VideoCardz) That would salvage the lackluster launch of the 9000 series. It's not at all a bad CPU, but it shines at heavy server-oriented workloads rather than typical productivity apps or gaming. With that clock speed boost the 9800X3D should easily be the fastest CPU available for games. - Maybe when the DOJ's antitrust team has finished beating up Google it could take a look at Adobe. Adobe no longer offers perpetual licenses for its low-end Elements products. (Notebook Check) You can "buy" the 2025 editions right now, but the software will drop dead three years after it is installed. - What's better than Ethernet? Ultra Ethernet. AMD has shown off its first Ultra Ethernet cards. (Tom's Hardware) These run at 400Gbps and offload a lot of the networking stack to a dedicated CPU on the card. - Serve the Home got hold of the new AMD Epyc CPUs and a 400Gb Ethernet card and put them to the test. (Serve the Home) I'm not sure how many homes need to be served with a 384 core server with 800Gbps of total network bandwidth, but here you go. - There's a vulnerability in 64 different Qualcomm chipsets. (WCCFTech) This only affects about two billion people, so you don't need to worry. And no, there are no details. - Three executives in charge of Amazon's Just Walk Out project - cashierless brick-and-mortar stores - just walked out. (Tech Crunch) It is a thing. - Amazon dreams of AI agents that do the shopping for you. (Wired) Burn in Hell, Amazon. - The latest Windows 11 update leaves 9GB of trash behind. (PC World) Trash that it is impossible to delete short of reinstalling Windows entirely. That's nearly 50 cents worth of storage at today's SSD prices. - The world must Act Now (TM) or We Are Doomed (TM). (Dawn) More doomed than the last eleven times we were doomed? - Redbox went bankrupt. But the Redboxen remain. (MSN) They weigh 900 pounds and there are 24,000 of them scattered across the country, typically wired directly into power so you can't even unplug them. Walgreens says that just sitting there the boxen are costing the company $184,000 a month. And they're typically anchored in concrete to prevent theft, so you can't just yank them out. - London is gone. (The Register) Blown into the North Sea. The BBC is predicting 13,508 mph winds, and overnight lows of 400C in Nottingham. Conditions are expected to return to reality this weekend. - Automattic is doing open source dirty. (Hey) This is the personal site of DHH, the creator of Ruby on Rails. I might have some philosophical differences with the design of Rails, but to my knowledge DHH never blackmailed or libeled anyone. - The Fifth Circuit has upheld a lower court's finding of contributory copyright infringement against ISP Grande, but tossed the calculation of damages. (TorrentFreak) The ISP was found liable because it did not act on infringement notices, but the calculation of the damages at $47 million was found to be incorrect and excessive. Where a CD was copied, the jury calculated the full damages on each song individually, which was deemed incorrect. The damage calculation heads back to the lower court while the fundamental matter of law likely goes to the Supreme Court, as the entire industry has an interest in how this turns out. - The Amelia Watson Limited Edition Hyte Y40 PC case is discounted to $199 through October 28. (Twitter) I already got mine, but that's okay. AMD was excoriated for releasing the Ryzen 9000 series, which provided parity performance at significantly less power. Be interesting to see who complains similarly about the new Intels and who's an Intel shill. Posted by: Rick C at Friday, October 11 2024 10:18 PM (pnaK4) Doubt. Every Redbox I've seen lately has been shut off. Posted by: Rick C at Friday, October 11 2024 10:30 PM (pnaK4) Posted by: Mauser at Saturday, October 12 2024 10:58 AM (nk1Z+) Posted by: Rick C at Saturday, October 12 2024 01:15 PM (pnaK4) (Though the Ryzen 370 laptop chips have the same thing, and are also not officially supported under Windows 10.) 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Cute, fuzzy stealth. That's what weasels are about. When we're not paying attention, sometimes even when we ARE, participial phrases convince us they're the best candidate for the job. They weasel their way in and tempt our trust. And on the surface, these participial weasels might look cute. But they lie and do not the truth. Now, I've known many perfectly genial and cooperative participial phrases, so I'm not going to generalize. Suffice it to say, you need to be wary. Use discernment. Don't fall for a fuzzy face and big, sweet eyes. Here's a conversation I had with one as I wrote recently: Me: This sentence is boring. Participle Perry: Show me. Look at my round, soulful eyes. I want to know. Me: Okay. Here. I write in my office as my kids play in the next room. PP: What? Oh, you were...yeah. That's pretty pathetic. Nobody will even care. What separates you from the other writing mothers out there? Not. A. Thing. And in this business, you've got to stand out somehow. Me: All right! Quit with the critique and help me then. PP: What if I jump in there and liven it up a bit. I'm cute enough. Let me give it a whirl. *blinks adorable eyes* Me: Aw. Okay. PP: *wiggles in* Here's your new sentence. Laughing maniacally, I write in my office as my kids play in the next room. Me: Wait. Maybe my kids should be the ones laughing. PP: Sure, I'll move over. Get closer to the Littles. How 'bout now? I write in my office, laughing maniacally, as my kids play in the next room. Me: I see what you did there. PP: Heh. Caught that, did ya? I'm right here, you know. I see who's maniacal. Me: You're WAY overstepping, dude. Keep moving. I write in my office as my kids, laughing maniacally, play in the next room. Or I can slide to the end. I'm cute anywhere. Me: No, you're good there. Shut up and hold still. Pay careful attention to ANYTHING that ends with -ing. Here are a few key rules. First, be sure that, since -ing is the progressive form of the verb, the action is meant to be continuous. If it's something that happened once, you don't need the -ing. Jerrifica whistled and scanned the edge of the forest. What? I was in the mood for an unusual name. Still, you've got to admit it paints a different picture than: Jerrifica, whistling, scanned the edge of the forest. Sentence A makes Terrifica Jerrifica sound like she's just arrived at a clandestine meeting and given the secret signal. Sentence B? Not so much. Maybe looking for her favorite bird? Second, don't use -ing if the two verbs in the sentence can't happen simultaneously. Alfonzebub, getting dressed as fast as possible, ran down the steps to the bus stop. Um, no. Dude needs to put clothes on before he leaves his apartment. And even if it's possible for him to get dressed as he runs, your readers don't want to see it. Third, don't overuse participial phrases. On the surface, they look like a nice way to change sentence structure and infuse variety. Hey, they're full of action. But remember, when you overuse anything, it gets tiresome. Instead of adding to your writing repertoire, you might instead provide yourself a new pet weasel. And no writer wants another weasel word. Or phrase. Or any kind of weasel at all. Thanks to Elysium 2010 and Steve Richmond for the images.

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Appin Compounding Pharmacy is a professional pharmacy and compounding specialist located South West of Sydney. We have been providing compounding services all over Australia for over 19 years, with demand growing annually. The team is lead by owners Kwilan Ng (OAM, B.Pharm) and Tina Thao Nguyen (B.Pharm, AACPA) who are available to assist 7 days a week. The Pharmacy is located at shop 2/75 Appin Rd, Appin. Only 15 minutes from Campbelltown CBD and 25 Minutes from Wollongong. Appin Compounding Pharmacy provides on regular basis personal health services such as webster packing, home delivery, home medication reviews, medchecks, NDSS diabetes, complex compounding, bio-identical hormone replacement, opioid management, and specific immunisation services. Appin Compounding Pharmacy is unique in that we are PCCA members and Quality care accredited. As PCCA members we work closely with a team of dedicated compounding pharmacists to provide a wide range of compounding services. We work closely with doctors and specialists to provide paediatric compounds for infants, hormone replacement and other compounding requirements. We are also popular for our veterinarian compounding services and supply all across Australia. As a quality care accredited pharmacy we are focused on maintaining a high level of ethical and professional standard across all aspects of our business.

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What could happen after UFC 264? Written by Sarvesh Pathak Conor gets a shot at the title UFC might offer Conor McGregor a title fight if he knocks out Dustin Glenn Poirier on July 10th. Conor is a PPV superstar and he’s proven that every time he fights. The trilogy fight could be the biggest PPV fight of the year. Beating Dustin who sits at No.1, the top of the lightweight division, will put him in a great spot in terms of ranking. A title fight against Oliveira might even be bigger than the trilogy fight in terms of PPV. Dustin vs Oliveira for the title There is no argument whatsoever of what’ll happen if Dustin Poirier gets the win over Conor McGregor. He is, for sure, next in line. He passed on the opportunity to fight for the title earlier to fight the Notorious instead. Conor McGregor calls it quits An amazing ride for the former double champion could very well come to an end if he gets beaten on the July 10th. Conor might have to fight and win at least twice against tough opponents to have another crack at the Lighweight title which might take another year. He already sits at No.5 in the rankings. It’ll make it harder for the UFC to decide what’s next for him. He’s already the richest athlete of 2021 according to Forbes and is a father to another child. He might pull the plug after this loss. The Nate Diaz Trilogy If Conor is still hungry to compete and try harder after the defeat, he might consider the option to fight Nate to decide another trilogy fight. This would really play out well if Leon Edwards beats Nate on June 14th. On the social media when asked about his welterweight ambitions, Conor McGregor said he would like to compete in that division, we don’t know how serious he is about that. He also had some back and forth with the current champion, Kamaru Usman. The Chandler-Poirer-Gaethje Triangle If Conor wins, Dustin Poirer could face Michael Chandler as both would be coming off a loss. Would be interesting to see what happens with Justin Gaethje as he is also in the mix. When asked about Justin against Chandler, Dana White said it can be a possibility. Justin last fought Khabib and suffered a loss in 2020. He might as well face Dustin Poirer again and Michael Chandler might face someone like Benial Dariush. It’s hard to tell which fight makes the most sense. One thing’s for sure, there’s a lot of exciting fights to come in the lightweight division.

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Twitter, Four Square and YouTube Social media, the growing phenomena that has captured the attention of the world - is your next greatest tool for driving traffic to your tradeshow booth. Let's look at how some businesses have successfully connected with their target audience and increased the number of prospects visiting their tradeshow booth: The Twitter Hashtag (#) method of organizing the up-to-the-minute conversation about your company and the convention allows you to communicate with your target audience. Here are just a few tips: Weeks before the event, create a unique hashtag title and every time you mention the upcoming convention and your company's participation - make sure to include the hashtag. (ex. #exhibitsusaPHX) - Tweet about your booth number and placement within the convention hall. - Leave hints about your show discounts and offer special incentives to your Twitter followers. - Create excitement by asking who will attend and asking for a retweet of your message. - Tweet about the special programs that will occur during the convention; will the Batmobile be there? Are the Monkees making a come back during the lunch hour? With each message, include your unique hashtag. - During the event, send out messages that include your booth number and offer hourly contests, incentives, discounts, etc. to drive traffic to your tradeshow booth. - Invite attendees to tweet their comments about the event and your company. - Take pictures of your tradeshow booth, large format graphics and attendees visiting your exhibit and include them in your messages . Four Square is a destination social networking site that allows visitors to "check in" when they arrive at a location. Businesses can create destination Four Square pages, which work great for your business location; however, you can also create a Four Square brand page. Create a brand page with information about your company, the location of the convention center, the date of the event and your tradeshow booth number. Invite participants to visit your booth by offering incentives for Four Square participants. "The first person to say the word 'peppermint' in our tradeshow booth receives a 25% discount of their purchase." If your tradeshow exhibit will be over several days, communicate a different product or service focus for each day so that participants will be encouraged to visit your tradeshow booth multiple times over the course of the event. Each time a participant signs in; they can leave a comment about your business and even include a picture! YouTube.Once participants are in your booth, capture their visit on your Flip cam or other video recording device. Existing customers that visit your booth may be willing to provide a brief (30 seconds to one minute) video testimony about your services and/or products. Always ask permission and have them sign a simple photo release form that allows you to use their testimonial. Honest, unscripted video testimonials are a great way to build brand awareness and credibility. These casually produced videos will also help promote your participation in a similar tradeshow event in the future. Upload the photo to your YouTube channel, Facebook page, Twitter feed or website. Social media is used by more people in the United States and around the world than any other form of communication. Why not tap into its power to promote your brand and your tradeshow participation? Have you used Twitter or another social site to increase tradeshow traffic. We'd love to hear your story. Leave your story on our Facebook page or email us at [email protected]. |

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A solar-powered ice machine using propane (R290) refrigerant – the result of a collaboration between Germany's GIZ, Indonesia's Directorate-General of New Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation, and leading industry technology partners – debuted this morning at the Refrigeration & HVAC Indonesia 2018 Expo. Solar R290 ice machine debuts at RHVAC Indonesia 2018 Indicating the growing number of innovative cooling solutions using natural refrigerants, the "first fully solar-powered, off-the-grid ice block machine using R290 refrigerant" debuted this morning on day two of the Refrigeration & HVAC Indonesia 2018 Expo, currently taking place in Jakarta, Indonesia from 26-28 September. The system was the result of a two-year collaboration between GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit) and the Directorate-General of New Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation (EBTKE) at the Indonesian Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (MEMR) to design and develop an environmentally friendly and energy-efficient solution for Indonesia's rural fishing industry, which is often disconnected from electrical grids, to help increase its fresh fish production. "Indonesia has 100,000 km of coastline and is aiming to double its fish production, meaning there will be an increase in demand for cold chain logistics," said Frank Stegmueller, an advisor for the Electrification through Renewable Energy (ELERN) programme, part of GIZ. “[The solar-powered R290 block ice] machine can be manufactured in Indonesia, which makes for a market-ready solution that we can launch today." The system eliminates the need for diesel power and runs completely on solar energy — able to produce 1.2 tons of block ice per day. The solar photovoltaic system generates 25 kWp, while the ice machine provides a cooling capacity of around 100 kWh/ton. The use of R290 refrigerant was identified as the best option to move away from the use of synthetic refrigerants and achieve optimal energy efficiency in the ice-making process. As of today, a functioning prototype has been built and successfully tested. Installation at the actual pilot project site is planned for the end of this year with performance monitoring and analysis to be conducted throughout 2019. In addition, the local manufacturing supply chain is already in operation, with companies such as Airef, a local manufacturer of refrigeration systems with significant experience in working with hydrocarbon-based systems. "This machine can be manufactured in Indonesia, which makes for a market-ready solution that we can launch today," said Stegmueller. "We are looking forward to this becoming an Indonesian success story, ready to disseminate and upscale." R290 knowledge transfer from Germany to Indonesia The solar-powered R290 block ice machine is able to be completely manufactured, installed and serviced by local Indonesian companies, the result of extensive collaboration between leading German and Indonesian technology manufacturers over the past two years. The R290 refrigerant is supplied by local Indonesian state-owned petrochemical company, Pertamina. Germany-based ILK Dresden served as the main provider of initial technical development and design of the system, with the main system components such as variable speed R290 compressors and condenser fans being supplied by German manufacturers such as Bitzer and Ziehl-Abegg. REC Solar, ATW Solar, BAE Reliable Energy and OMRON provided the system components for the project's solar panels and electrical systems. Support, coordination, and implementation were provided mainly by GIZ and EBTKE through the Energy Programme Indonesia/ASEAN, which is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the German Federal Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU). Sep 27, 2018, 16:10 Sep 27, 2018, 16:10

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You’re considering switching into real estate, but have your misgivings about plunging headlong into a full-time real estate career. Have you set your eyes on being a part-time real estate agent? Though there are countless part-time real estate agents out there, negotiating that transition is the tricky bit. Transitioning into real estate as a part-time agent enables you to assess if it’s a suitable career for you. Besides, it gives you financial stability as you build your client base, lets you take care of licensing and business costs, and links you to valuable networks at your place of work. In this piece, we will examine the pros and cons of transitioning into real estate as a part-time agent, steps to becoming a part-time agent, when to transition from being a part-time to a full-time real estate agent and tips to success as a part-time real estate agent. Pros of Part-Time Real Estate - Financial stability. Maintaining your full-time job enables you to pull through in uncertain times. The real estate industry is highly sensitive to the state of the economy, fluctuating whenever the economy experiences a recession. - Determining if a career in real estate is suitable for you. You have time to know if a career in real estate is for you. As a sales agent, you’ll need to be out there fixing appointments, showing potential clients properties for sale, cold calling, scheduling follow-up meetings, etc. Working part-time helps you test whether you possess the skill set and a matching personality for the industry. - You get to maintain networks at your workplace. Your colleagues and their associates may prove valuable contacts that can become clients and have the potential to generate excellent referrals. - You have to pursue an education in real estate before you get licensing. You’ll need to undertake a real estate pre-licensing course and pass a state licensing exam before practicing as a real estate professional. That means you’ll need income from your regular job to pay for your course, licensing, annual fees, and your monthly bills while you get through this stage. - Initially, your engagement in kick-starting a career in real estate will involve much training when you are getting started, but that may take 2-4 hours a day. You’ll need to keep working to maintain your cash flow and make good use of the time. - There are numerous opportunities to practice as a part-time agent. Search online for ”part-time real estate jobs near me,” and you’ll confirm that you can keep your full-time job while you get your feet wet in real estate. For instance, you can check out part-time real estate jobs with Keller Williams. - Ordinarily, real estate income increases with experience and a wider clientele base, which needs time. You can take your time growing your networks and, subsequently, your income in real estate while retaining your regular job. Abandoning your job all of a sudden without a corresponding rise in income may leave you in financial straits. - By being self-employed, You’ll pay for insurance and other benefits out of pocket. The advantage of maintaining your full-time job means you still have access to insurance and other benefits while you grow your real estate business portfolio. - The stability of a full-time job offers a solid stepping stone into the unchartered waters of real estate; You’ll need money to finance your pre-licensing course, professional membership fees, and the logistics to hold appointments with potential buyers or sellers. Other typical costs you’ll have to meet are printing business cards, entertaining clients, and continuing education. Cons of Part-Time Real Estate Agents - Growing your real estate business requires time to meet clients. In an environment of cut-throat competition in some markets, rescheduling client appointments may prove detrimental as you could lose to a competitor. A full-time job limits the amount of time for the real estate business. - Fluctuating income; It’s difficult to project a steady income in real estate as clinching a business happens after a while, especially for a beginner. Worse still, some transactions depend on variables that are entirely out of your control. Through these transactions, you’ll become a better agent by learning invaluable lessons, whether the prospects materialize into business or fail. - You must be highly motivated to continue as a real estate agent. Sometimes a deal can crumble at the last minute for reasons beyond your control despite your considerable financial and emotional investment in pitching for the business. - You have a narrow client base at the start of your real estate career, yet you have limited time to prospect as you work part-time. You must be economical with the possible time to plan, prospect, organize showings, and follow up leads and transactions. You can work around this by hiring an assistant or collaborating with other agents in your area to assist follow-up on scheduled client meetings. - Recession impacts the real estate industry significantly. Such external factors could impede growth and affect your morale as a part-time real estate agent. Steps in Becoming a Part-time Real Estate Agent - Assess the real estate market situation where you intend to practice. - Do a self-review; introspect to decide if you possess the qualities necessary to succeed in real estate sales. - Count the financial cost necessary to launch a career in real estate; consider study fees, licensure, and practice costs. - Define a workable schedule that ensures you remain productive at your workplace while creating room to accommodate your new part-time role. - Research on licensing requirements and your eligibility. - Choose the right brokerage “to hang your license”; major national brokerage brands like Keller Williams are more accepting of part time agents and offer training. - Take your real estate licensing exam. - Join your local MLS board; MLS or Multiple Listing Service, which is a centralized database that allows you to view listed properties in the area and post properties for sale. - Hit the road running and begin selling and aggressively marketing your service. When Do You Transition to Full-Time? You can transition to full-time when you have savings to take you for at least 3 to 6 months’ worth of savings to cushion you if you don’t close a sale and to cater to your real estate costs licensing, and membership dues. You need to adjust your schedule gradually to make your full-time job part-time so that you invest more in real estate. Tips to Succeed as a Part-time Sales Agent - Commit to succeeding; don’t be lukewarm because you’re a part-timer. Clients expect you to offer the best possible professional service. You’re not a part-time amateur but a full-time professional working part-time. - High-level time management; schedule your meetings when you are off-work on your primary job. - Leverage by employing the use of an assistant. An online social media manager or a visual assistant who can handle calls for you while you work. You can also work closely with other agents to help around with clients who may be available when you are working. - It’s recommended you get mentorship from an experienced agent. Mentorship is an easy way to learn industry best practices as a professional. - Set a time when you’ll have completed transitioning into a full-time real estate career. Goal-setting drives activity and deals a critical blow to passivity when you are continually marking timing in a profession with little forward-movement. - Train hard by taking full advantage of available learning opportunities offline or online to improve your soft skills and awareness of industry news and trends. - Stash some savings that can take care of you for 3 to 6 months when you begin a full-time real estate career. The real estate market is slow and you could take a few months before a real deal closes, and you receive payment. - Explore the various hustles that can be financially rewarding in the real estate industry and use them to augment your income. These include becoming a notary, making referral fees by referring cash-based deals to real estate investors, and offering freelancing services in the real estate niche. The stability of a full-time job offers a solid stepping stone into the unchartered waters of real estate. Maintaining your position helps you absorb the extra costs that come with course work, licensing, and business expenses in real estate. You should handle the transition well to not jeopardize your full-time job as you grow into real estate as a part-time agent. Robert EarlRobert has 20+ years of experience as a Real Estate Agent, Coach & Digital Marketer. Robert Earl is passionate about teaching and empowering others to pursue their dreams and create sustainable income. Whether through a career in real estate, affiliate marketing, niche blogging, or transforming campgrounds into thriving communities, his proven strategies and techniques have helped numerous individuals and businesses succeed. Based on his years of experience and knowledge in the online marketing industry, along with his hands-on management in the Real Estate & RV Park sector, he has crafted a unique and effective approach to personal and professional growth. In addition to his business pursuits, Robert is also a CrossFit Online Level 1 Trainer (CF-OL1) and enjoys fitness activities, including Rucking workouts while traveling the country. His multifaceted career showcases his dedication to growth, innovation, and the pursuit of excellence in various domains.

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A Guide to Swedish Christmas Decorations A new idea to try this holiday season is using Swedish Christmas decorations around the house. Incorporate the Scandinavian spirit into a traditional Swedish Christmas celebration with these Swedish Christmas decoration ideas. Here are a few traditional Swedish Christmas decorating ideas: - Around the House: One time-honored Swedish Christmas decoration is a boxwood and dried wheat wreath or garland. Head down to your local garden store to find your supplies. In your windows, put up white Swedish stars, called Julstjarna, for an authentic touch. You can also celebrate the Advent with a wreath or calendar to count down the days until December 25th. - On the Tree: The Swedish Christmas tree should be the centerpiece of all decorations. Most families in Sweden wait until the day before Christmas Eve to bring in the tree and decorate it, however, here are some ideas for Swedish Christmas ornaments that you can prepare ahead of time. Use ribbons, white lights, and hand-made trinkets to trim your tree. DIY options include heart baskets made out of brightly colored paper, cardboard angels, or tissue paper crackers. - On the Table: Candles were popular during the cold, dark Swedish winter. Tea lights are classic and can be safely placed on the table. Set your table with linens in the traditional colors of the holiday: gold, white, and blue. A buffet of sweets including marzipan fruit is a must have for dessert. Serve glogg, traditional mulled wine, at your Christmas dinner. Swedish Christmas traditions center around bringing family together during this special time of year. Enjoy some music and dancing and take time to learn about other Scandinavian holiday practices such as Santa Lucia Day on December 13th. You may develop some customs that your family will want to repeat year after year! Plan your own Swedish Christmas party with this beautiful, free Christmas invitation. Sign up and we'll send more inspiration straight to you. Sign up now

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Details protection professionals should create and impose company policies that comply with market requirements and stop cyber attacks. They also need to help staff members utilize computers, e-mail and various other technology in compliance with firm protection procedures. Every business depends on electronic systems to work and cyberattacks that endanger those features present a substantial hazard. Discover how cybersecurity can be taken care of to protect data, lower danger and respond promptly to breaches. Safety Recognition Training Safety awareness training is just one of one of the most efficient ways to stop cyber attacks and cultivate a solid cybersecurity culture. It shows workers to be positive about safeguarding sensitive information and mitigating risks with interactive sessions, such as phishing simulations and scenario-based discovering. The objective of safety and security understanding training is to assist stop human mistakes, which tend to be the leading source of cybersecurity incidents and violations. It shows them regarding finest methods for securing classified, managed unclassified information (CUI) and personally recognizable details. It likewise motivates them to adhere to physical safety plans, such as locking workdesk cabinets and preventing connecting unauthorized devices into workstations. Training should be continuous, not a single occasion, to keep staff members engaged and knowledgeable about transforming dangers and best methods. Educating methods vary from workshops and webinars to e-learning components and tests. Educating material needs to be tailored to each organization’s particular requirements and electronic safety risks, with easy-going language and instances that are relevant to the staff member audience. IT-Sicherheit Hamburg Identification and Accessibility Monitoring In the world of IT security, identity and access monitoring (IAM) is a structure that makes sure every individual has the precise privileges they need to do their work. It assists avoid hackers from going into company systems, yet it also makes certain that every employee obtains the very same level of accessibility for every application and data source they need. The IAM procedure begins by producing a digital identity for each individual who needs system access, whether they are a staff member, vendor or customer. These identities consist of distinct traits like login qualifications, ID numbers, task titles and other qualities. When someone attempts to login, the IAM system checks that their qualifications match the details saved in the digital identification and makes a decision if they are allowed to accessibility applications. IAM techniques decrease the threat of interior information violations by restricting accessibility to delicate information, and they help organizations fulfill conformity requirements in a landscape of rigorous privacy regulations. They additionally offer innovative tracking of anomalous habits that can show a possible hacking strike. Firewalls are a crucial part of network safety and security. They are typically located in between the Internet and your networks, aiding to secure from strikes from outside of your system and keeping hazardous information from spreading across numerous systems. A typical firewall software type is a packet filter. These firewalls assess each little bit of details sent on a network, checking for determining data such as IP addresses and ports to establish whether it’s safe to pass or otherwise. Sadly, this kind of filter is restricted in range and needs a large quantity of hand-operated revision to stay on top of new hazards. Modern firewalls have been created to surpass this limitation and offer even more granular recognition, enabling the execution of even more exact guidelines that line up with company needs. They can be either hardware or software based and are usually extra reliable than older kinds of firewall programs. They likewise enable unified protection that updates across all tools all at once. With remote work policies becoming significantly usual, and staff members making use of gadgets like laptop computers, mobile phones, tablet computers, Internet of Points sensing units, industrial control systems (ICS) or point-of-sale (PoS) devices to access company information, it’s important for IT security teams to shield these endpoints. This means applying software program and services to make certain a clear audit path, and defense versus malware or any other potential risks. Anti-malware is a staple of any endpoint safety solution, and this can be used to scan for the visibility of malicious files, which it can then quarantine, remove or delete from the tool. It can additionally be utilized to spot advanced hazards, such as fileless malware and polymorphic strikes. In addition, it’s vital to handle fortunate gain access to on all endpoints, as this is among the most usual ways that malware gains entrance into an organization network. This includes eliminating default management rights from a lot of customer accounts, and making it possible for just guest account access for those that need it.

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Another high placed Epic Games employee is parting ways with the giant to make games at another company. This time it’s producer Chris Wynn, who’s credits include Gears of War 3 & Gears of War Judgement, will be joining Bioware to work on Mass Effect 4. Epic Games, the company that brought us Gears of War and Unreal, just lost it’s top marketing guy. In many respects Kendall Boyd is likely the reason why Gears of War has remained a household name and why Infinity Blade got around so well. Epic’s loss is Microsoft’s gain because Boyd is joining Microsoft Studios as Director of Halo Global Marketing. Presumably, he will work his marketing … [ Read More... ] In a recent blog post, former Epic Games designer, Cliff Bleszinski, gave his thoughts and views on micro-transactions, DLC, and free to play business models. He makes several good points regarding consumers unrealistic expectations towards game pricing. He also explains the purpose of DLC and continuous income for a game once it’s released. Here are some notable quotes. On the cost of making a game and what the consumer … [ Read More... ] Yes, you read correctly pirates, Microsoft isn’t taking piracy of their games lightly. It’s a month before the official release of Gears of War Judgment, March 22, and the game already has piracy issues. A complete copy of Gears of War Judgment appeared overnight on torrent sites. Eurogamer was informed this by Microsoft… “We are aware of isolated cases in which Gears of War: Judgment content … [ Read More... ]

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Some of the links in this post are affiliate links, which means if you click on the link and purchase an item, I will receive an affiliate commission at no extra cost to you. Amal Clooney has a new gig, no its not as George’s wife…but as a professor. Clooney will be lecturing at NYC’s Columbia University this spring. The International and Human Rights lawyer will serve as a visitor to the faculty and as a senior fellow with the Law School’s Human Rights Institute according to statement released by the school. “It is an honor to be invited as a visiting professor at Columbia Law School alongside such a distinguished faculty and talented student pool,” said Clooney. “I look forward to getting to know the next generation of human rights advocates studying here.” Wow! She’s pretty awesome!

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This morning I got up early and headed down to New York City for the Annual Time to Play Holiday Showcase. I’ve been going to this event for years and it is a great one for making contacts and coming home with some of the newest fun toys to play with and review. Taking the train down gets me there after the big press conference and puts me at the event right as the show floor is opening. Not this year. Driving to the train station I learned that Acela service was cancelled between Boston and New York because of a power issue, but Regional service was running. So I paid it no mind. Then I got the the station and while waiting for the train. I head that there would be major service disruption. What this meant to me was that I would end up sitting on the tracks as the electric engine we used got switched to a diesel engine and then switched back to electric past the electric outage area. This took 3 hours. So, I missed all my scheduled appointments. I was livid. This was my one event each year to get to meet some great contacts for the toy reviews I bring to you on this site all year long. When I finally got to the event it was 1pm and the event was ending at 3pm. I flew all over the show floor apologizing to many, many people for me being late and missing the meetings. I had sent everyone a message letting them know that I was stuck on the train but not everyone can get those messages while on the show floor. Luckily people were all pretty great about it and were sympathetic. I was late to get gifting coupons from 90% of the exhibitors so I needn’t have bothered to bring down a suitcase. One of the people that I had scheduled to meet with saw my plight and she kept a very special item aside for me, a Razor Scooter. That is one of Eva’s birthday gifts and will be a later review also. I was pretty sour overall on the trip. I was supposed to catch up with some other dads after the event and that completely fell apart. Then I had to turn right around and head back and do the whole thing in reverse. The train was over an hour late getting tot eh station and by the time I got home I was 3 more hours later than expected. The photo above was one of the brightest parts of the day.

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While Bert was acting like a little angel, his parents were partying like it was 1999. We were celebrating the re-opening of HERE Arts Center. That place is a testament to two things-- - the resolve of a tiny but dedicated staff (I was once one of them) - the power of small donations When I think about what I leave behind in this world, HERE is one of the great things that I have helped to make happen. Though my name is not in the spotlight or well known--I'm one of the many cogs in the wheel. Remember folks, without the cogs, the wheel won't turn. This world does not give recognition to the nonprofit arts fund raisers, the marketers, and accountants--the people who often work without benefits and well under what they ought to be paid for the amount of overtime they put in, all in the service of art. (It's okay though I suppose, because this country doesn't value its artists either.) No achievement wall is made for all the times a development staff member managed to get out a personalized mailing to 300 donors and funders on ancient, testy office equipment, then that same staff member might spend two- to-four hours stuffing, sealing and putting postage on that mailing in a hot, sweaty basement dungeon with no air or circulation. Or the time a person spends filling out stacks and stacks of ridiculous paperwork to various city and state agencies to justify that yes, this organization is worthy of a small grant that won't even come close to making a dent in the amount of money needed to produce a season's worth of work. No glory is to be found as an arts administrator. Frankly, I'm getting past the age where I care about the glory. I'm proud to be one of the anonymous. Maybe some day I'll have a big purse so that other people can make a big deal about how I opened it and dolled out cash to support what I love or because my friend or other social networking type convinced me that I should. My name is not on any wall, but I hope that my child will one day say, my mother helped make art happen. She helped to make this place--HERE, be HERE forever.

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RBAC in Kubernetes is implemented using Policies that define the permissions, and Subjects, which are the entities to which these permissions are granted. Policies are defined through Roles and ClusterRoles, while Subjects can be Users, Groups, or ServiceAccounts, bound to the roles using RoleBindings or ClusterRoleBindings. In this article: Why Is RBAC Important for Kubernetes? Granular Access Control The power of RBAC lies in its granular control over Kubernetes resources. RBAC allows you to specify exactly what actions a user can perform, and on what resources. This makes it possible to tailor access rights to the specific needs of each user or group, preventing unnecessary access and reducing the risk of security breaches. For instance, you can allow a user to view the status of Pods in a specific namespace, but not to create or delete them. In addition to providing granular control, RBAC significantly improves the security of your Kubernetes system. By limiting access based on the principle of least privilege, RBAC minimizes the potential for unauthorized or harmful actions. This is especially important in a distributed system like Kubernetes, where a security breach in one part of the system can potentially impact the entire cluster. Kubernetes RBAC also enables robust access auditing. With RBAC, you can track exactly who has access to what resources, and what actions they can perform. This makes it easier to conduct security audits, troubleshoot issues, and ensure compliance with security policies and regulations. Finally, RBAC simplifies the management of access rights in Kubernetes. By grouping users into Roles and ClusterRoles, you can manage access rights in a more organized and scalable way. This is particularly useful in large or complex Kubernetes deployments, where managing individual user rights would be impractical or impossible. Related content: Read our guide to Kubernetes architecture Core Components of Kubernetes RBAC Here are the main components that make up the Kubernetes RBAC mechanism. Role and ClusterRole In Kubernetes RBAC, permissions are defined through two types of objects: Roles and ClusterRoles. A Role defines permissions within a specific namespace, while a ClusterRole defines permissions cluster-wide. Both types of roles allow you to specify a set of rules that define what actions can be performed on which resources. RoleBinding and ClusterRoleBinding To grant the permissions defined in a Role or ClusterRole to a user, group, or ServiceAccount, you use another set of objects: RoleBindings and ClusterRoleBindings. A RoleBinding grants the permissions defined in a Role to a user within a specific namespace. In contrast, a ClusterRoleBinding grants the permissions defined in a ClusterRole to a user across the entire cluster. ServiceAccounts are a special type of user in Kubernetes, designed to be used by processes running inside Pods. Like regular users, ServiceAccounts can be assigned Roles and ClusterRoles using RoleBindings and ClusterRoleBindings. This allows you to control the permissions of your applications in the same granular and secure way as your human users. Learn more in our detailed guide to Kubernetes services How to Use Kubernetes RBAC Kubernetes RBAC is typically enabled by default in most modern Kubernetes distributions. However, if you are using an older version or a custom Kubernetes setup, you may need to manually enable RBAC. This is done by starting the Kubernetes API server with the --authorization-mode=RBAC Creating a Role Creating a role in Kubernetes involves defining a Role object in a YAML file. The Role object includes the API group, the resources, and the verbs (actions) that are allowed. For example, the following role only allows ‘get’ and ‘list’ actions on pods in the core API group. - apiGroups: [""] verbs: ["get", "list"] Once you have defined the Role object, you can create the role in your Kubernetes cluster by running the following command (assuming the YAML file was saved as role.yaml): kubectl apply -f role.yaml Keep in mind that roles in Kubernetes are namespace-specific. This means that the permissions granted by a role apply only within a specific namespace. If you want to grant permissions across all namespaces, you will need to create a ClusterRole Creating a ClusterRole A ClusterRole is similar to a Role, except that it grants permissions across all namespaces in your Kubernetes cluster. This is useful for granting permissions to cluster-wide resources such as nodes and persistent volumes. Creating a ClusterRole involves defining a ClusterRole object in a YAML file. Like a Role object, a ClusterRole object includes the API group, the resources, and the verbs that are allowed. Here is an example of a ClusterRole: - apiGroups: [""] verbs: ["get", "list"] You can create the ClusterRole in your Kubernetes cluster by running the following command (assuming the YAML file was saved as clusterrole.yaml): kubectl apply -f clusterrole.yaml Creating a RoleBinding A RoleBinding is an object that binds a Role to a subject. The subject can be a user, a group, or a service account. The RoleBinding grants the permissions defined in the Role to the subject. To create a RoleBinding, you define a RoleBinding object in a YAML file. For example: - kind: User You can create the RoleBinding in your Kubernetes cluster by running this command (again, assuming the YAML file is saved as rolebinding.yaml kubectl apply -f rolebinding.yaml Once the RoleBinding is created, the subject will have the permissions granted by the Role in the namespace where the RoleBinding is created. Creating a ClusterRoleBinding A ClusterRoleBinding is similar to a RoleBinding, but it binds a ClusterRole to a subject. This grants cluster-wide permissions to the subject. You define a ClusterRoleBinding in a YAML file, similar to a RoleBinding. For example: - kind: User To create the ClusterRoleBinding run this comment (assuming the YAML file is saved in clusterrolebinding.yaml kubectl apply -f clusterrolebinding.yaml Common Challenges and Solutions in Kubernetes RBAC Complex Permission Mapping The first challenge that many administrators face with Kubernetes RBAC is the complexity of permissions. Kubernetes, by design, offers a granular level of access control, which can quickly become overwhelming. The way roles, role bindings, and cluster role bindings work together to control who can access what in a cluster is a complex matrix that requires careful management. To simplify this process, start by mapping out your application’s functionalities and the necessary permissions for each role. This will provide a clear overview of the permissions matrix for your application and help you manage the roles more effectively. RBAC misconfigurations are another common issue. These can occur when permissions are not properly set, leading to either excessive permissions or insufficient permissions. Both scenarios pose significant risks. Excessive permissions can lead to unauthorized access or actions, while insufficient permissions can hinder the functionality of your application. To avoid RBAC misconfigurations, ensure you thoroughly understand the principle of least privilege (more on this later) and apply it diligently. Regular auditing of your RBAC configurations and rigorous testing can also help identify and rectify misconfigurations. In addition, it is critical to test TBAC configurations in a test environment before deploying in production. Read our blog post: First-Ever Attack Leveraging Kubernetes RBAC to Backdoor Clusters Managing ServiceAccount Credentials ServiceAccounts in Kubernetes are meant to provide an identity for processes that run in a pod. However, managing these ServiceAccount credentials can become a challenge as your applications grow and scale. To manage ServiceAccount credentials effectively, consider automating the process where possible. Kubernetes provides several tools and APIs that can help automate the management of ServiceAccount credentials. These tools will not only save you time but also reduce the risk of human error. It is critical to regularly review and audit the use of ServiceAccounts. They should be refreshed periodically and must be deactivated as soon as they are no longer needed. Difficulty Troubleshooting Access Issues Lastly, troubleshooting access issues in Kubernetes RBAC can be a complex task due to the granularity of the permissions and roles. Often, you may find yourself sifting through numerous policies and bindings to identify the root cause of an access issue. To simplify troubleshooting, consider using logging and monitoring tools that provide a comprehensive view of your access control system. These tools can help identify patterns and pinpoint issues more quickly and accurately. Best Practices for Using Kubernetes RBAC 1. Principle of Least Privilege The principle of least privilege is a security concept that requires that a user be given the minimum levels of access necessary to complete his/her job functions. This principle is crucial in Kubernetes RBAC to prevent unauthorized access and actions. To implement this principle, start by defining the necessary permissions for each role in your application. Ensure that each role only has access to the resources it needs to function and nothing more. 2. Regularly Audit Permissions Auditing your Kubernetes RBAC configurations regularly is another best practice. This can help identify and fix misconfigurations, excessive permissions, and other potential security risks. You can automate the auditing process using Kubernetes’ Audit Logging feature. This feature allows you to log all API requests, making it easier to monitor and audit your RBAC configurations. 3. Use Namespaces Wisely Namespaces in Kubernetes are a way to divide cluster resources between multiple users. Using namespaces wisely can help manage your access control more effectively. Consider using namespaces to isolate different environments (e.g., development, staging, production) or different teams within your organization. This can help prevent accidental or unauthorized access across different parts of your application. 4. Limit Use of ClusterAdmin The ClusterAdmin role in Kubernetes has unrestricted access to the entire cluster. While this role can be useful for administrative tasks, it poses significant security risks if misused. As a best practice, limit the use of the ClusterAdmin role. Instead, create specific roles with the necessary permissions for each task or function in your application.

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Just about a month ago, The Spectacle ran a post called When Writers Don't Read. In it Parker Peevyhouse wrote about advice she's seen to writers that they should not read fiction if they write fiction. If you go back to the person who originally gave the advice, her reasoning was 1. Reading fiction takes from writing time; 2. Reading nonfiction of various sorts expands a writer's knowledge base (what she knows and can write about); 3. Reading fiction could mean that an author's work becomes derivative of another author's. Peevyhouse and her commenters didn't agree with this process. While I think the original advice has legitimacy, I would argue that 1. Reading anything will take time from something else. If your writing time is very tight-- say, you have a full-time job--the time you spend reading nonfiction to expand your knowledge base will also take from your writing time. Omitting fiction isn't going to help you much here.; 2. Reading fiction adds to your knowledge base in terms of studying how other writers deal with the elements of fiction--how they plot, create characters and setting, how theme is handled, etc. For writers, reading in their genre is a form of study.; 3. No writer wants to be so derivative that it shows. Nor do most of us want to plagiarize, intentionally or not. But there are probably a finite number of styles of writing and most of us are going to prefer to write in a limited number of them--styles that we learned from our reading at some point in our lives and adapted to ourselves. So to some extent this is going to happen unless we've never read anything in our entire lives. One of Peevyhouse's commenters mentioned children's writers who claim they don't read children's books. I think this is an example of problems developing from not reading in your genre, particularly when you're talking about writers who are new to the children's lit field. This is how you end up with people claiming they're writing for children because there are no kids' books like the ones they write. Given how many thousands of children's books are published each year each year, that's extremely unlikely. Ignorance of the field you work in doesn't inspire confidence in just about anybody. The same must be true for writers in other genres. If you think you're the first person to write a novel about a woman coming to terms with aging and her children growing up and leaving home--and say so--you definitely should have spent some of your fiction writing time reading fiction.

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Because I am an insufferable middle-age, middle class guy with plenty of ADHD traits, I figured it was about time to try out a different film format because I certainly have not come anywhere near close to perfecting 35mm. I went over to Jeremiah's Photo Corner in Santa Rosa a few weeks ago, hoping he might have an Olympus Pen-F half frame camera on the shelf for me to purchase, but I ended up walking out with a camera from the other end of the spectrum - a Zenza Bronica ETRS medium format camera. ETRS cameras were apparently quite popular with photojournalists and portrait photographers in their heyday of the 1970s-80s. They're quite robust, affordable, have an abundance of lenses available and take great shots. I have to wonder if any of my school portraits were snapped with one of these. Medium format cameras use 120 film and will create frames in various sizes. The ETRS exposes a frame 6cm wide x 4.5cm tall. Others may make 6x6, 6x7, 6x9, etc. While the 6 x 4.5 is the smallest of the medium formats, it's still considerably larger than the 35mm standard - 212% larger by my calculations, which yields larger negatives and better resolution. While I would really like to shoot square 6x6 negatives, an upside with the ETRS is that one can minimize the film and developing costs. Plus I am not chasing resolution - if that were the case I'd be using nothing but my modern Sony camera. Finally one fun thing that this camera allows for that can't be done with my 35mm cameras is swapping film backs. The kit I bought includes two, so I can switch between film stocks with relative ease - it takes maybe ten seconds. Anyway, enough about the camera here are the results from the first roll, shot using Kodak Gold 200. I did make some light tweaks to most of the images - bumped up some contrast, adjusted exposure, etc. Nothing heavy-handed though. Oh, and there are only 14 images as I accidentally fired the shutter when placing the camera in my vehicle. A mistake that probably cost me two bucks. Back lot of the local VW repair shop: Outside the nearby coffee shop. Anybody want a Fiero project (I do not): And some tractors from the area. Killed the roll off at July's Pre-Stage Gathering.

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The St. Joe Company (NYSE: JOE) (“St. Joe”) announces the opening of several restaurant, retail and office tenants at Watersound Town Center, St. Joe’s open-air lifestyle center at the entrance to the Watersound Origins® community in Inlet Beach, Florida. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240604187652/en/ © The St. Joe Company 2024. All Rights Reserved. “Watersound® ” is a registered service mark of The St. Joe Company. FedEx Office, friends 30A Burger Bar, Sweet Henrietta’s, Nigel’s Bananas and Watersound Executive Suites are now all open for business. These businesses join more than a dozen existing tenants in the growing lifestyle center, while construction continues on additional leasable space. “The tenant mix at Watersound Town Center continues to evolve to serve the growing number of residents and visitors to this area,” said Samantha Walton, Director of Commercial Sales and Leasing for St. Joe. “We plan to continue constructing more leasable space to meet the demand that we are seeing from local, regional and national tenants.” Watersound Town Center tenants that are anticipated to open soon include Starbucks, Electric Cart Watersound, F. Reese Harrison, DMD, Summer House Lifestyle and Halo Salon & Blowout Bar. A second phase of Watersound Executive Suites is under construction to meet demand as the first phase is 100% leased. Additionally, Quest Hospitality Concepts, LLC is bringing a high-end sports tavern concept to Watersound Town Center. Plans for the restaurant include elevated American pub fare and craft cocktails. It is anticipated to open in 2025 in the multi-tenant building adjacent to the Watersound Discovery Center. 2023 saw the opening of Village Market, Fleet Feet, Grand Nails Lounge, Marco’s Pizza, Bahama Buck’s, Watersound Closings & Escrow and the Watersound Discovery Center, which provides real estate sales and community information. These tenants joined Publix Super Market, Publix Liquors, Ascension Sacred Heart, Ambrosia Prime Seafood & Steaks, Capital City Bank, Dermatology Specialists of Florida and Aqua Medical Spa. Watersound Town Center currently features approximately 138,000 square feet of leasable space with an additional 16,000 square feet under construction as well as a covered event pavilion and green space that hosts cultural events throughout the year. Plans call for the center to include approximately 400,000 square feet of space. More information on Watersound Town Center can be found at www.watersoundtowncenter.com. Important Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains “forward-looking statements,” within the meaning of Section 21E of the Exchange Act, including statements regarding Watersound Town Center, including future retail, dining, office and medical concepts, future tenant opening and planned business openings. These forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by cautionary statements and risk factors set forth in St. Joe’s filings with the SEC, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023 and subsequent current report filings as well as (1) the ability of Watersound Town Center and St. Joe to complete the proposed construction projects as currently contemplated and on the expected timeline and (2) the interest of prospective tenants and customers. About the St. Joe Company The St. Joe Company is a real estate development, asset management and operating company with real estate assets and operations in Northwest Florida. The Company intends to use existing assets for residential, hospitality and commercial ventures. St. Joe has significant residential and commercial land-use entitlements. The Company actively seeks higher and better uses for its real estate assets through a range of development activities. More information about the Company can be found on its website at www.joe.com. ©2024 The St Joe Company. “St. Joe®”, “JOE®”, the “Taking Flight” Design®, “St. Joe (and Taking Flight Design,)®”, “Watersound Origins®” and “Watersound®” are registered service marks of The St. Joe Company or its affiliates.

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After major investor Volvo decided to reduce its stake and cut funding for Polestar earlier this year, the EV company has been looking for $1.3 billion in new financing. It raised a $950 million three-year lifeline loan from a syndicate of banks led by BNP Paribas and told investors it plans to continue raising the rest of the funds this year. Volvo parent Geely Holdings, a Chinese company whose investment portfolio includes Levc, Lotus and Smart, became the company’s second-largest shareholder, while Volvo retained 18 percent and still owes $1 billion on an outstanding convertible note. Polestar has told investors that it plans to double its margins by the end of the year, and in its last earnings call investors were told that the company is “working intensively” to improve cash flow and still has plans to break even by the end of 2025. The company’s new facility in South Carolina will play a big role in whether it can achieve this: analysts expect it to help with production volume and that it would make its electric vehicles eligible for the US electric vehicle tax credit of up to $7,500 depending on the vehicle’s specs, hopefully appealing to its customer base. Questions have been raised about whether Polestar will decide to delay sales of the Polestar 4 in the US until it can move production to South Korea in 2025, thus avoiding the Chinese tariffs. “There has been increased competition and interest rates have risen significantly, which means many of these companies, like Polestar, are still struggling to scale,” said Andres Sheppard, senior equity analyst at financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald. Still, Polestar’s adjusted financial results for 2023, released Friday after a long delay, temper the outlook somewhat: net loss widened to $1.17 billion, operating losses rose more than 11 percent to $1.46 billion from $1.29 billion, and revenue fell 3 percent to $2.38 billion. These losses were not offset by a 6 percent increase in vehicle sales. Polestar missed its sales target of 60,000 vehicles (down from 80,000 previously in 2023), delivering 54,600 vehicles last year. The late arrival of these results was itself a warning sign: if they had been delayed until July, Polestar would have risked being delisted from the Nasdaq, a consequence of missing required financial deadlines. The delays have been linked to accounting inaccuracies. The company's stock price has been steadily declining over the past year, falling 8 percent at the market open on Tuesday, which Ingenlath called “not fair.” “We see that our current share price does not reflect the value of our company — not now and not in the future,” he told investors. This means the gap between where Polestar is now and where it wants to be is wider than expected. Projected revenue figures compiled by market analysis agency Pitchbook show that the company is aiming to do £3.51 billion ($4.43 billion) in revenue this year, and grow that by 145.5 percent to £8.62 billion ($10.9 billion) by 2026. It would be an ambitious feat for current global sales director Kristian Elvefors, the former managing director of Volvo in the UK who took over from Mike Whittington earlier this year. Elvefors has a plan to expand the company’s retail footprint into Asia, Europe and Latin America by 2025, and to allow customers to configure and order cars online. Worryingly, however, is news that car rental company Hertz has shelved plans to buy tens of thousands of Polestar cars this year. The company has pulled out of a 2022 deal worth an estimated $3 billion that promised to sell a quarter of the Polestar fleet by 2024.

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Banks, Credit Unions Testing AI Models for Underwriting in Credit Cycle "The changing economic environment is opening a window of opportunity for banks and credit unions to put their artificial intelligence models for loan underwriting through a credit cycle. The digital banking evolution in the past decade has significantly enriched data around consumer profiles and behaviors. It has incubated a group of financial technology vendors to develop AI underwriting models for banks and credit unions. Since most of them were established in a benign environment, early adopters are now looking to validate their AI models in the current dynamics with the downside risks leading to credit deterioration being high."

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From new office buildings, to water falls at the stack, hotels to a two-acre green space, Hood Park is coming to the community this summer – beginning on Saturday morning, June 23 – to share some ideas for their revised campus and to listen to the community’s thoughts. The summer-long exercise will happen through a series of informal planning open houses that will start this Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon at Hood in the Cambridge College Commons. Some of the new ideas for the campus include a two-acre greenspace front Rutherford Avenue, a hotel on campus, a creative stormwater system that will filter rain with an outdoor waterfall and charcoal purifier next to the Hood stack, and – as has been the most high-profile piece – additional height on the buildings. Currently, the Hood Campus is approved for a suburban-style office park with surface lots and parking garages, but owners have recently found that office tenants want something different than their current plan – which was ok’d in 2000. In fact, they want taller buildings with more green space and parking underneath. By re-locating the parking under the buildings, making the buildings higher and eliminating the garages front Rutherford Avenue, Hood believes it can create a great space for the tenants and the community. “This won’t mean any additional density or any more traffic than what we already have approved,” said Mark Rosenshein of Trademark Partners. “It’s a question of additional height and stacking it differently to allow more open space. Would people support that? Right now, we can do a boring office park, but we think there’s a better solution. This is the beginning of a process. We filed our Letter of Intent already with the City, but we’re not doing any further City reviews until the fall.” He said they would likely begin the City process in September or October. On Saturday, they will have four work stations for residents to review. They will include Open Space, mitigation for the current proposals – including a maker space/educational space for the youth of Charlestown, preferences for the retail aspect and the street layout (including new layouts for Baldwin, Mishawum, D and Spice Streets). “All of these things we’re looking at as part of the revised Master Plan,” he said. “We’re really hoping to get Charlestown to participate on Saturday and get as much feedback as possible so when we prepare a revised Master Plan we can get as much community input within that plan as possible.” One of the new highlights includes the Hood Green, a two-acre parcel that will be privately owned, open to the community and maintained by Hood “in perpetuity.” Rosenshein said that open space could be anything the community wants, from field space to a Southie-style ‘Lawn on D’ programmed space. He said Hood is interested in studying how that space will fit in with other nearby open space like Ryan Field and the upcoming Parcel A open space on Sullivan Square. “Lawn on D is a good example of open space with active programming,” he said. “Maybe the community says they would like something like that. There are things we can do at Hood Park that can’t be done (as easily) in a public park like having Food Trucks or a beer garden. We’d like to know what kind of open space people see there and what the possibilities are.” Another interesting piece is the proposed, large educational space within the campus for young people. Already, they have had some preliminary conversations with the Charlestown Mothers Association (CMA) about that piece of mitigation – which would be in exchange for a larger building on the new Stack Street. There will also be heavy input requested from the community regarding what kind of retail they desire for the 100,000 sq. ft. that is proposed. Rosenshein said there are probably plenty of nail salons in the Town, and they’d like to find out what other retail offerings would be preferable to residents that would shop at Hood. Finally, the proposed hotel is something that they would like to talk about. At this point, there is no firm plan for it, but Rosenshein said there is heavy demand for hotel rooms in Charlestown and in all of the areas north of downtown. “Whether near-term or long-term, we think a hotel is a good additional use,” he said. “Right now, the Marriott or Constitution are it…It will be nice to have an additional hotel.” The meeting will include breakfast and coffee, and there will be childcare as well with activities for the kids so parents can take their time reviewing the plans.

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On Monday, July 3, 2023, the Banco Central de Chile (Chile’s Central Bank) released the May 2023 monthly index of economic activity, known as Imacec. According to preliminary information, May witnessed a 2.0% drop compared to the same month in the previous year. The seasonally adjusted series fell by 0.5% compared to the previous month and 2.2% over the span of twelve months. It is worth noting that May 2023 had the same number of working days as May 2022. The decline in the Imacec index for the year was primarily attributed to a decrease in mining activity, followed by a decline in trade. When analyzing the seasonally adjusted figures, it becomes evident that the performance of the mining industry played a significant role in the overall fall of the Imacec index. Examining the non-mining Imacec, there was a 1.1% drop over twelve months, but no change was observed from the previous month. To gain a more comprehensive understanding of the Imacec’s performance, let’s delve into an analysis of the different economic activities: Goods Production: The production of goods experienced a significant decline of 2.7%, primarily driven by a 7.5% drop in the mining sector. Additionally, the manufacturing industry also experienced a decrease of 0.8%. However, the category of other goods saw a slight increase of 1.0%. In terms of seasonally adjusted figures, the production of goods contracted by 1.6% compared to the previous month. This contraction was mainly influenced by a 3.5% decline in mining activity. Meanwhile, the manufacturing industry fell by 0.9%, and the other goods category witnessed a modest increase of 0.3%. Trade: Commercial activity in Chile observed a notable 4.2% drop in annual terms. All components of trade contributed to this decline, with retail experiencing the most significant impact. Lower sales in supermarkets, department stores, and establishments specializing in clothing and foodstuffs were the primary drivers of the retail sector’s decline. However, when examining the seasonally adjusted figures, a 0.3% rise was observed compared to the previous month. This increase can be attributed to motor-vehicle sales and retail activity, although it was partially offset by a decline in wholesale trade. Services: The services sector did not show any significant variation as entrepreneurial and personal services rose by the same magnitude as transportation services fell. The de-seasonalized figures demonstrated a marginal 0.1% increase from the previous month. From a perspective of economic freedom, these economic indicators provide insights into the interplay between market forces, government policies, and external factors. This perspective emphasizes the importance of individual freedom, free markets, and limited government intervention in promoting economic prosperity. The decline in mining activity highlights the risks associated with relying heavily on a single industry for economic growth. A diversified economy, with multiple industries thriving and competing, can be more resilient and less vulnerable to shocks. An environment that encourages entrepreneurship, innovation, and the development of competitive industries is crucial for sustainable economic growth. The drop in trade, particularly in the retail sector, suggests a decrease in consumer demand. To address this issue, policymakers should focus on creating an enabling environment that encourages business growth, reduces regulatory burdens, and ensures that property rights are protected. The analysis of services reveals a mixed picture, with some subsectors experiencing growth while others face decline. Embracing market-oriented approaches that minimize government interference can lead to efficient resource allocation and better services for consumers. In conclusion, the Imacec figures for May 2023 provide valuable insights into Chile’s economic performance from a perspective that emphasizes economic freedom. The decline in mining and trade underscores the need for economic diversification and the promotion of entrepreneurship and competition across various industries. By fostering an environment that prioritizes individual freedom, free markets, and limited government intervention, Chile can strive towards sustainable economic growth and prosperity for its citizens.

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Neo Victoria Developments (Pty) Ltd, released a statement to EWN via their attorney, Hanno Brummer & Associates to ‘clear up misunderstandings and incorrect information’. The law firm stated that its client is the developer of the building project and not the building contractor. They clarified that the contractor was appointed by their client to oversee the construction of the five-storey building. The statement further said the developers had no employees on the site and the construction workers have either been employed by contractors or sub-contractors. It further said the developer, Neo Victor Developments, is assisting police in their investigation and has offered its assistance since day one. Previously, Director of Liatel Developments, Theuns Kruger, the contracted builder of the structure told Reuters it was trying to assist those on site of the five-storey residential building. “The investigations to follow obviously will reveal what has transpired and what has happened, but at this point in time it's just saving as many people as we possibly can,” Kruger told the publication. IOL has reached out to Kruger for comment, however, there has not been any response yet. George Municipality said on September 3, 2020, a pre-application form for the proposed development was submitted to the George Municipality’s Town Planning Department by Jan Vrolijk Town Planner, acting on behalf of the owners of land. The building plan application was approved on July 6, 2023, and issued to the applicant. “The outcome for approval follows two prior outcomes not to approve the building plan based on details required regarding services and outstanding contributions. The plans were only approved once the Building Control Officer (BCO) was satisfied that the requirements were met,” George Municipality spokesperson, Chantel Edwards said. The development was estimated at over R39 million. “The value of the development was estimated at R39,544,000 at the time of approval. The development consisted of a basement parking area, ground-floor parking, and four floors of residential apartments above the parking. There are 42 apartments proposed and approved on the building plans. The area of the site is 1,228 square meters, and the total area of the development is 4,943 square meters with a coverage of 877.4 square meters (71.45%),” Edwards said. At the time, construction at the site progressed and included the concrete roof with various other disciplines busy with service installations. “The municipality has no record of previous safety violations by the developer within the George municipal area,” Edwards said. She further also explained compliance during construction. “The developer with his professional team is not obliged to submit any compliance report to the municipality. The normal practise is that the owner and developer, together with their professional team will have weekly/bi-weekly, or monthly meetings and inspections where progress reports are submitted to the owner/client. “This practice is done with no input from the municipality and the current applicable legislation does not demand that this information is submitted to the municipality,” Edwards said. By Friday afternoon, the death toll has risen to 12. Rescue operations continue on-site to retrieve the 41 workers still unaccounted for.

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documentary by Erik Anjou is a charming and entertaining history of delicatessens in the U.S., their association with the Jewish culture, and the current state of affairs for delis. Prominent in the presentation is third generation deli owner, David “Ziggy” Gruber, who went to Houston, Texas, in 1999 with his friends to open Kenny and Ziggy’s New York Delicatessen on Post Oak Road. grew up in New York City, maintaining a continuing close relationship with his grandparents who had emigrated from Hungary and Romania and opened one of the first delis there. From a young age, Ziggy was attracted to the business, and he and his grandfather grew very close working alongside one another. When he graduated from high school, his intention was to attend the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, but in the interim, his mother took him to England to meet with relatives he had never seen. When he passed a Cordon Bleu college there, he was instantly entranced, and managed to talk his way into becoming a student. He did well, and when he was finishing up, he was prepared to accept a position at a Michelin star restaurant. This was dear to his father’s heart because he was hoping that his son would become a chef of fine cuisine. However, upon Ziggy’s return to New York and his attending the Deli Man’s Association dinner where the average age was 80, he realized he needed to preserve that part of his heritage, and so has worked in delis ever since. His restaurant in Houston is very successful, earning high ratings across the years. A recent chicken soup cook-off at a Jewish temple in Houston, where many well-known restaurants were in competition, gave him first prize. documentary makes very clear how demanding and frustrating deli work can be. There are incredibly long hours including weekends and holidays, the customers are “finicky”, and it’s difficult to recruit and maintain responsible help. It also points up very clearly how the delicatessen is in drastic decline across the U.S. for various reasons. Ziggy is wistful about this, but his father is philosophical—“Nothing lasts forever; everything changes.” delis, for example, Caplansky’s in Toronto, are incorporating changes to “Jew it up” and preserve their cultural heritage. They include storytelling in open mic sessions, a Passover Seder dinner, and a competition among home-cooking enthusiasts. At other establishments, waiters get into the act by entertaining the customers with conversation, song, and jokes. Ziggy is praised for his way with customers, which is very warm and Deli Man is informative, entertaining, and certainly prompts the viewer to rush right out and order a pastrami sandwich on Rye. Celebrity interviews are liberally sprinkled throughout the film, and a detailed account of Ziggy’s personal life comes across very nicely, ending up with a wedding in Hungary at the site of his grandfather’s bar mitzvah. Cinematography (David Sperling) and musical (Lorin Sklamberg) accompaniments round out the very nice production. Plan on a trip to a deli soon after viewing. Grade: B By Donna R. Copeland

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In an interview with KHOU 11, a 24-year-old woman who was a victim of the shooting that killed Takeoff spoke out for the first time. Sydney Leday was a second victim injured during the tragic Houston evening that killed Takeoff. Leday explained that she had recently celebrated her birthday and had a night out with her friends to commemorate both the occasion and Halloween. She explained that she grew up in Los Angeles and wasn’t taken aback by the presence of Quavo and Takeoff. They went to the bowling alley around 12 a.m., according to Leday. She described the situation as “relatively normal” until around 2 a.m., when the event was about to end. “That’s when I realized something wasn’t right after the fact,” she explained. “Because I thought these people who were arguing were just playing, like I said, the energy that was in the room before everybody around the table was playing a dice game. I just assumed it was harmless banter.” However, she suspected something was wrong because of Quavo’s attitude at the time. “So I knew something was wrong when I noticed [Quavo] was upset and about to leave,” she explained. “The party wasn’t going to continue.” She explained that when the shots rang out, she tried to flee but couldn’t get very far. Leday explained that she fell and experienced a stinging sensation in the back of her head, but she was able to get down an escalator and into a car. Her friend then drove her to Memorial Hermann Hospital, which was 12 minutes away. We’ll keep you updated as things progress in the case. The full interview is available below. Download The Radiant App To Start Watching! Web: Watch Now Samsung TV™: Download Amazon Fire TV™: Download Android TV™: Download

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After swapping out this dining room light fixture for this one I love, our room got a lot dimmer. We needed extra lighting in a corner, so we bought a shelf floor lamp at Target. It was looking a little Asian, though, which is not part of the plan. So to distract myself from that, and since we’re going pattern crazy in this room, I decided to give it a little sumthin’ sumthin.’ There are more than enough swirly lines in there already, so I made geometric shapes withthis 3M 1/8″ vinyl tape. It’s repositionable and removable for when I get tired of it. I’m really pleased with how good it looks. You wouldn’t even know it’s tape until you put your nose right up there to inspect it.

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Er is iets magisch aan dromen. Ze nemen je mee naar oude en nieuwe plekken, laten je avonturen beleven en gooien je gevoelens regelmatig overhoop. Sommige mensen beweren zelfs, dat je via je dromen in contact staat met andere werelden… Het kan dan ook niet anders dan dat dromen een belangrijke rol spelen in Het magische verhaal van de Verteller. Daarom komt de titel van hoofdstuk 12 ook uit het fenomenale Beatlesnummer Tomorrow Never Knows: But listen to the colour of your dreams Slaap lekker, Lucy In het twaalfde hoofdstuk is het verhaal al een eind op weg, dus het is niet zo vreemd dat Lucy met steeds meer onverklaarbare zaken te maken krijgt. Dat heb je nu eenmaal als je de Verteller bent. Maar niet alleen Lucy ontdekt vreemde dingen – ook Eli valt het één en ander op. Zoals dat Lucy wel heel levendig droomt. De kleuren van haar droom wervelden om haar hoofd heen. Eli bleef naar haar staan kijken. Het was een haast betoverend schouwspel. [..] Voorzichtig raakte hij haar aan. De kleuren veranderden van patroon, maar ze werd niet wakker. Hij legde zijn handen op haar hoofd en sloot zijn ogen. Eli wist niet of het zou werken. Hij had het nog nooit eerder geprobeerd. Hij vroeg zich af waarover ze droomde en langzaam begonnen de kleuren achter zijn gesloten oogleden te verschijnen. (Ik heb een kleine spoiler uit dit fragment verwijderd. Leek me wel zo leuk voor wie Het magische verhaal van de Verteller nog gaat lezen.) The Beatles zijn van begin af aan altijd al vernieuwend geweest, maar in 1966 barst hun muzikale exploratiedrang pas echt bijna uit zijn voegen. Het kan ze niet gek genoeg zijn. Onmogelijk bestaat niet. Dus als John Lennon met het verzoek komt om hem ‘te laten klinken als de Dalai Lama die vanaf een bergtop zingt’, dan moeten producer George Martin en geluidstechnicus Geoff Emerick er maar voor zorgen dat dit geregeld wordt. Het verzoek is eigenlijk nog niet eens zo heel vreemd als je weet dat John zich bij het schrijven van Tomorrow Never Knows liet inspireren door de hertaling van Het Tibetaans Dodenboek door Timothy Leary. Hierin las hij de zin ‘Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream’, die hij voor een deel meteen gebruikte als openingszin van het nummer. The Beatles noemden Tomorrow Never Knows in eerste instantie The Void en bij de opnames van het nummer veranderde de titel in Mark I. Het was Ringo Starr die uiteindelijk (onbedoeld) met de definitieve naam op de proppen kwam. Hij had er namelijk een handje van om met vreemde uitdrukkingen te komen (A Hard Day’s Night is er ook één van), wat door de andere drie Beatles Ringoisms werden genoemd. En zeg nou zelf: Tomorrow Never Knows is de perfecte naam voor een nummer als dit. O, en dat vreemde verzoek aan George Martin en Geoff Emerick? Die trokken een heleboel innovatieve trucjes uit de kast zo werd Tomorrow Never Knows dat vage, transcendente Beatlesnummer dat mij zo inspireerde bij het schrijven van Het magische verhaal van de Verteller. Dit zijn de verhalen van de andere hoofdstuktitels uit Het magische verhaal van de Verteller:

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From Home Furnishing Business Ruby-Gordon Supports Local Charities Through Month of Giving Ruby-Gordon, a family-owned retailer founded in Rochester, N.Y., in 1936, has partnered with three local charities during the month of December; Lollypop Farm, Flower City Habitat for Humanity, and Golisano Children’s Hospital. "Supporting our local community has always been a big part of our mission here at Ruby-Gordon," said Aaron Ruby, president. "And this year I'm really excited we are taking that mission to the next level by supporting these three great organizations." All month long a portion of every purchase made at all Ruby-Gordon locations will be donated to the organization of the customer's choice. The company anticipates that this will be a very successful fundraiser and is expecting a lot of support from the community during this month long event. "Flower City Habitat for Humanity and our Habitat ReStore's are proud of the five-year partnership we have built through the generous support of Ruby-Gordon," said Dan Petronio. "We are further gratified to be sharing in this Holiday initiative as we continue together to build homeownership, communities and hope within Monroe County." Meghan Barnhardt, associate director of community affairs for Golisano Children's Hospital said, "We are looking forward to partnering with Ruby-Gordon on this fundraiser and are so appreciative of their support and desire to give back to the Golisano Children's Hospital this holiday season."

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Council slain in 7 attempts. Not too shabby if I do say so myself. Especialy considering we had less clerics than other uber guilds had their first kills, and knights with one piece of elemental, or none. Yes folks, the council was no match for our almost-fit-in-a-raid force and our reet tactics. How reet, you ask? Names blackened out to protect the guilty, because we are a touchie-feelie guild: And you thought it only happened in your guild. I'm just so happy that the Rathe has the melee loot of the 4 gods. Those melee bastards don't need a fair shot at loot. Ornate breastplates have a nice click anyway.

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Do you often reach the end of your day and feel like, regardless of how busy you’ve been, you still don’t feel productive? It’s all too easy to begin our day in our emails and allow all the interruptions of ‘urgent messages’ to run our entire day. These digital distractions can seriously affect our productivity. The constant notifications and easy access to social media and other websites can lead to procrastination, reduced focus, and decreased efficiency. It’s important to set boundaries and limit distractions in order to be more productive. Asana, the project management tool, often talks about productivity on their website and in one article they share how digital distractions can be the arch-nemesis of deep work (focussed, uninterrupted work). According to them, distraction—especially of the digital variety—is more common than ever in today’s fast-paced work environment. At a time when 80% of knowledge workers report working with their inbox open and nearly three in four employees feel pressure to multitask every day, avoiding digital distractions can seem nearly impossible. However, minimising distractions is still doable with a few simple strategies: Turn off notifications. Sounds, banners, and notifications flashing across your screen have a negative impact on focus and can quickly jolt you out of deep work. When you’re trying to focus, use Do Not Disturb mode or snooze notifications for your phone and any communication apps you use. Or to really disconnect, close your email and messaging apps completely. Remember that you can always check notifications during your next focus break. Make depth your default. Instead of living in a distracted state and wrangling your brain into focus mode to complete tasks, schedule focus breaks—times when you allow yourself to take a break and give in completely to distractions. You can use this strategy during your workday or in your personal life. For example, you could schedule a focus break after work when you’re allowed to browse the internet and scroll through social media—then turn your undivided attention to cooking dinner, watching a movie, or talking with loved ones. Choose your tools wisely. According to Asana’s research, the average knowledge worker switches between 10 apps 25 times per day to do their work—and employees who switch between apps are also more likely to struggle with effectively prioritising their work. But just because a tool exists doesn’t mean you have to use it. Lighten your tech stack as much as possible! And, let’s not forget that one of the reasons all these interruptions exist is because of FOMO. We need to decide if we will let the fear of missing out run our day and leach our productivity, or if we will be ready to reduce digital distractions. Digital distractions drain our creativity, our energy and our focus and the key to being more productive lies in managing them more wisely.

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This is not a supported means of building Tomcat; this information is provided without warranty :-). The only supported means of building Tomcat is with the "ant build" However, some developers like to work on Java code with a Java IDE, and the following steps have been used by some developers. Note that you must complete all the above steps to fetch dependent libraries and build some JAR files the first time. After you have completed the above steps, you can set up an Note that this will not let you build everything under Eclipse; the build process requires use of Ant for the many stages that aren't simple Java compilations. However, it will allow you to view and edit the Java code, get warnings, reformat code, perform refactorings, run Tomcat under the IDE, and so on. Use Windows->Preferences and then Java->Build Path->Classpath Variables to add two new Classpath variables: TOMCAT_LIBS_BASE | the base path where the binary dependencies have been downloaded | ANT_HOME | the base path of Ant 1.6.2 or later | There are two files in the root directory, eclipse.classpath . Create their copies with new names, Use File->Import and chose "Existing Projects into Workspace". From there import the root directory where you have checked out tomcat. Eclipse .project and .classpath files provided in the root directory of tomcat repository should allow Eclipse to find all source trees and jars, and hopefully compile without problems. Note that these files assume you are using Eclipse with a 5.0 or later JDK. To run Tomcat without a special IDE plug-in, you can simply use Run->Run... enter "org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina" as the main class, "start" as program arguments, and "-Dcatalina.home=..." (with the name of your build directory) as VM arguments.

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In the WNBA, Mentorship Is Everything The transition from being a star collegiate athlete to a rookie player on a professional team can be rocky, regardless of your sport or gender. But in the small and hyper-competitive WNBA (which consists of just 12 teams with 12 players each), that transition can be especially challenging. Teams often have capacity to sign only one or two rookies per season, if any, leaving those new players swimming in a sea of veterans and without direct peers to confide in. Plus, there are the many cuts, trades, waives, and signings that come with being such a small league. On top of that, there's the grueling schedule and the potential pressure that comes with all the new eyes on the W. But if you've watched enough games, you've likely noticed that while the on-the-court play is highly physical, something different — and special — is happening on the sidelines and in the huddles. "Our league is a sisterhood," says Ariel Atkins, a guard for the Washington Mystics since 2018. "It's a small league and it creates this system where we really want everyone to succeed." The hugs, high-fives, and pep talks between veterans and rookies that we witness as fans are just the tip of the iceberg that is the tradition of mentorship in the W — a tradition that doesn't just help rookies thrive in their professional lives, but bolsters the league as it grows. Why Mentorship Is So Essential in the WNBA You've probably heard about how important mentorship is for women in fields dominated by men (lack of mentorship opportunities is one reason why women have been found to leave such fields, for instance, and though mentorship is linked to many success metrics, fewer women than men report having mentors). And while there's no denying that the women of the WNBA have been dominating for many years, by the numbers, the league still lags behind the NBA. (See: the huge salary gap, the number of NBA teams that more than doubles the number of WNBA teams, and the fact that WNBA teams weren't even allowed to fly charter until recently.) Until that changes (we're getting there), one role of mentorship is to help players fill in the gaps of the under-resourced league, and to navigate the unique challenges of being a woman in sport. Atkins points out that having so many Black and LGBTQ+ players in the league also makes those mentorship relationships all the more essential, especially as those players often find themselves in positions of advocacy and activism off the court. "At the end of the day, as much as it is about mentorship, it's about supporting the person to the left and to the right of you," says Atkins. And while coaches can act as mentors, too, Atkins says that teammate mentors serve the essential purpose of being a resource and confidant who isn't also evaluating you. "Your mentor is somebody who is also in the trenches with you," she says. "They're running with you, they're taking hits with you. They're feeling the same emotions you're feeling with wins and losses because at the end of the day, you're on the court together with the same jersey. It just hits different because you can look to your left or your right and see this person battling with you." These rookie-veteran relationships are also key to on-court chemistry, says Atkins, giving rookies the sense of comfort and confidence that allows them to play their best and building the trust between players that leads to basketball magic. "My biggest thing with our rookies and younger players is for them to know that we trust them," she says. "Because I've seen them put the work in." Brionna Jones, a forward for the Connecticut Sun since 2017, agrees. "When you have good vets on a team who can help the rookies along, the faster the teams can build that chemistry and build that connection on the court," she says. "That's what makes teams more successful." What Mentorship in the WNBA Looks Like When former Villanova star Maddy Siegrist joined the Dallas Wings last year, veteran teammate Natasha Howard helped teach her the "stay ready" mentality that Siegrist says is crucial to thriving in the W. "Things can change in a second, so that mentality is huge," she says. "You could go from not getting in a game to starting in the next game, which I think is pretty unique to this league." Howard also cooked Siegrist dinner when she first joined the team. "That meant so much to me," says Siegrist. "You're going from college where you're a young adult and now you're a real grown-up. I leaned on my vets a lot for that." What any given player needs from a mentor — on or off the court — is highly individual. For instance, Monique Curry taught Atkins a trick to help with her serial fouling, and Tierra Ruffin-Pratt helped her understand that her journey through the league wouldn't be the same as anyone else's. Siegrist's mentors, including Howard and Kalani Brown, taught her to take care of her body — "something I definitely didn't do as much as I should have in college" — and that more isn't always more. For Jones, mentors Alyssa Thomas, Jasmine Thomas, and Shekinna Stricklen encouraged her not to lose her identity as a player as she tried to fit in to the system her coaches had designed. "They were always the first ones to cheer me on," she says. Mentorship in the W isn't just limited to teammates. "Something cool about our league is that it's uber-competitive and insanely physical," Atkins says. "But at the end of the day, you see people dapping each other up after games. If you have a question about something, about business, medical, anything like that, everybody is super helpful. Young players need to have that comfortability to actually go to people and ask questions." A Growing, Changing League By 2026, the W is expected to have expanded to 14 teams, with the goal of adding two more teams in the next several years. Those veterans will be key in anchoring their teams and teammates in a time of change, especially as the league will have room for more roster spots and therefore more rookies. "It's definitely going to help as we transition, having those people in place to help all the new players coming in get where they need to be," Jones says. As for what the growing number of eyes on the league means for the players themselves and what they need out of their mentors? "I don't think it changes anything," says Atkins. "I just think we need to continue to be who we are." Lauren Wingenroth is a freelance journalist covering all things sports, fitness, and the performing arts. In addition to PS, her stories can be found in The New York Times, GQ, Outside magazine, Women's Running, Well+Good, Dance Magazine, and more.

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Infants iOS 2.7 Who should read this? This release note applies to all PainChek users who are currently using PainChek for iPhone or iPad app The PainChek Infants iOS App release version 2.7 is in limited release via Test Flight on Wednesday 20th September 2023. Bug Fixes and Performance Improvement - Fixed an issue where sort order of "Recent Assessments" was not the newest. - Fixed an issue where Assessment data was being sent to the backend in 12 hour format instead of 24 hour format, causing an error. - Fixed the issue where changing permissions on iOS was not taking effect. - Fixed the issue where Transition to SSO with QSI was createing a duplicate QSI profile. New Features and Enhancements - Support Adaptive video mode Updated the about dialogue to display UDI label and value field. Backend and Maintenance Updates What do I have to do? If your device is set to receive updates automatically, there is no need to do anything. PainChek should be updated automatically. You can check the version of the application from the PainChek dashboard by selecting the "Support" option and then selecting "About PainChek": Otherwise, access the Apple App store, search for PainChek and select "Update" if available. Where can I get more information? Email us at [email protected] or call on 1800 098 809 during business hours. For general information about PainChek, visit us at www.painchek.com

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John Prine is in the running to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2019. For eligibility, an act must have issued its first commercial release at least 25 years before the year of nomination. Prine’s self-titled debut arrived in 1971. He is a first-time nominee with Stevie Nicks, Todd Rundgren, Def Leppard, Devo and Roxy Music. Others being considered are Janet Jackson, Kraftwerk, LL Cool J, MC5, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, The Cure, Rufus & Chaka Khan and the Zombies. Fan-voting continues online via the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s website. Registrants may vote for five artists once daily through Dec. 9. The finalists will be revealed in December, and the class of 2019 will be inducted in a formal ceremony in New York March 29. Prine’s “Summer’s End” is the latest release from The Tree of Forgiveness. It is the music video directorial debut for Oscar-nominated, Heroine and Recovery Boys documentarians, Elaine McMillion Sheldon and Kerrin Sheldon. And it is dedicated to Max Barry, the late son of former Nashville mayor Megan Barry, who is one of Prine’s closest friends. He just wrapped two sold-out nights at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, and he will ring in New Year’s Eve with a sold-out concert at the Grand Ole Opry House.

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The Same Subject Continued (Concerning the General Power of Taxation) From the New York Packet. Tuesday January 8, 1788. To the People of the State of New York: WE HAVE seen that the result of the observations, to which the foregoing number has been principally devoted, is, that from the natural operation of the different interests and views of the various classes of the community, whether the representation of the people be more or less numerous, it will consist almost entirely of proprietors of land, of merchants, and of members of the learned professions, who will truly represent all those different interests and views. If it should be objected that we have seen other descriptions of men in the local legislatures, I answer that it is admitted there are exceptions to the rule, but not in sufficient number to influence the general complexion or character of the government. There are strong minds in every walk of life that will rise superior to the disadvantages of situation, and will command the tribute due to their merit, not only from the classes to which they particularly belong, but from the society in general. The door ought to be equally open to all; and I trust, for the credit of human nature, that we shall see examples of such vigorous plants flourishing in the soil of federal as well as of State legislation; but occasional instances of this sort will not render the reasoning founded upon the general course of things, less conclusive. The subject might be placed in several other lights that would all lead to the same result; and in particular it might be asked, What greater affinity or relation of interest can be conceived between the carpenter and blacksmith, and the linen manufacturer or stocking weaver, than between the merchant and either of them? It is notorious that there are often as great rivalships between different branches of the mechanic or manufacturing arts as there are between any of the departments of labor and industry; so that, unless the representative body were to be far more numerous than would be consistent with any idea of regularity or wisdom in its deliberations, it is impossible that what seems to be the spirit of the objection we have been considering should ever be realized in practice. But I forbear to dwell any longer on a matter which has hitherto worn too loose a garb to admit even of an accurate inspection of its real shape or tendency. There is another objection of a somewhat more precise nature that claims our attention. It has been asserted that a power of internal taxation in the national legislature could never be exercised with advantage, as well from the want of a sufficient knowledge of local circumstances, as from an interference between the revenue laws of the Union and of the particular States. The supposition of a want of proper knowledge seems to be entirely destitute of foundation. If any question is depending in a State legislature respecting one of the counties, which demands a knowledge of local details, how is it acquired? No doubt from the information of the members of the county. Cannot the like knowledge be obtained in the national legislature from the representatives of each State? And is it not to be presumed that the men who will generally be sent there will be possessed of the necessary degree of intelligence to be able to communicate that information? Is the knowledge of local circumstances, as applied to taxation, a minute topographical acquaintance with all the mountains, rivers, streams, highways, and bypaths in each State; or is it a general acquaintance with its situation and resources, with the state of its agriculture, commerce, manufactures, with the nature of its products and consumptions, with the different degrees and kinds of its wealth, property, and industry? Nations in general, even under governments of the more popular kind, usually commit the administration of their finances to single men or to boards composed of a few individuals, who digest and prepare, in the first instance, the plans of taxation, which are afterwards passed into laws by the authority of the sovereign or legislature. Inquisitive and enlightened statesmen are deemed everywhere best qualified to make a judicious selection of the objects proper for revenue; which is a clear indication, as far as the sense of mankind can have weight in the question, of the species of knowledge of local circumstances requisite to the purposes of taxation. The taxes intended to be comprised under the general denomination of internal taxes may be subdivided into those of the DIRECT and those of the INDIRECT kind. Though the objection be made to both, yet the reasoning upon it seems to be confined to the former branch. And indeed, as to the latter, by which must be understood duties and excises on articles of consumption, one is at a loss to conceive what can be the nature of the difficulties apprehended. The knowledge relating to them must evidently be of a kind that will either be suggested by the nature of the article itself, or can easily be procured from any well-informed man, especially of the mercantile class. The circumstances that may distinguish its situation in one State from its situation in another must be few, simple, and easy to be comprehended. The principal thing to be attended to, would be to avoid those articles which had been previously appropriated to the use of a particular State; and there could be no difficulty in ascertaining the revenue system of each. This could always be known from the respective codes of laws, as well as from the information of the members from the several States. The objection, when applied to real property or to houses and lands, appears to have, at first sight, more foundation, but even in this view it will not bear a close examination. Land taxes are co monly laid in one of two modes, either by ACTUAL valuations, permanent or periodical, or by OCCASIONAL assessments, at the discretion, or according to the best judgment, of certain officers whose duty it is to make them. In either case, the EXECUTION of the business, which alone requires the knowledge of local details, must be devolved upon discreet persons in the character of commissioners or assessors, elected by the people or appointed by the government for the purpose. All that the law can do must be to name the persons or to prescribe the manner of their election or appointment, to fix their numbers and qualifications and to draw the general outlines of their powers and duties. And what is there in all this that cannot as well be performed by the national legislature as by a State legislature? The attention of either can only reach to general principles; local details, as already observed, must be referred to those who are to execute the plan. But there is a simple point of view in which this matter may be placed that must be altogether satisfactory. The national legislature can make use of the SYSTEM OF EACH STATE WITHIN THAT STATE. The method of laying and collecting this species of taxes in each State can, in all its parts, be adopted and employed by the federal government. Let it be recollected that the proportion of these taxes is not to be left to the discretion of the national legislature, but is to be determined by the numbers of each State, as described in the second section of the first article. An actual census or enumeration of the people must furnish the rule, a circumstance which effectually shuts the door to partiality or oppression. The abuse of this power of taxation seems to have been provided against with guarded circumspection. In addition to the precaution just mentioned, there is a provision that “all duties, imposts, and excises shall be UNIFORM throughout the United States.” It has been very properly observed by different speakers and writers on the side of the Constitution, that if the exercise of the power of internal taxation by the Union should be discovered on experiment to be really inconvenient, the federal government may then forbear the use of it, and have recourse to requisitions in its stead. By way of answer to this, it has been triumphantly asked, Why not in the first instance omit that ambiguous power, and rely upon the latter resource? Two solid answers may be given. The first is, that the exercise of that power, if convenient, will be preferable, because it will be more effectual; and it is impossible to prove in theory, or otherwise than by the experiment, that it cannot be advantageously exercised. The contrary, indeed, appears most probable. The second answer is, that the existence of such a power in the Constitution will have a strong influence in giving efficacy to requisitions. When the States know that the Union can apply itself without their agency, it will be a powerful motive for exertion on their part. As to the interference of the revenue laws of the Union, and of its members, we have already seen that there can be no clashing or repugnancy of authority. The laws cannot, therefore, in a legal sense, interfere with each other; and it is far from impossible to avoid an interference even in the policy of their different systems. An effectual expedient for this purpose will be, mutually, to abstain from those objects which either side may have first had recourse to. As neither can CONTROL the other, each will have an obvious and sensible interest in this reciprocal forbearance. And where there is an IMMEDIATE common interest, we may safely count upon its operation. When the particular debts of the States are done away, and their expenses come to be limited within their natural compass, the possibility almost of interference will vanish. A small land tax will answer the purpose of the States, and will be their most simple and most fit resource. Many spectres have been raised out of this power of internal taxation, to excite the apprehensions of the people: double sets of revenue officers, a duplication of their burdens by double taxations, and the frightful forms of odious and oppressive poll-taxes, have been played off with all the ingenious dexterity of political legerdemain. As to the first point, there are two cases in which there can be no room for double sets of officers: one, where the right of imposing the tax is exclusively vested in the Union, which applies to the duties on imports; the other, where the object has not fallen under any State regulation or provision, which may be applicable to a variety of objects. In other cases, the probability is that the United States will either wholly abstain from the objects preoccupied for local purposes, or will make use of the State officers and State regulations for collecting the additional imposition. This will best answer the views of revenue, because it will save expense in the collection, and will best avoid any occasion of disgust to the State governments and to the people. At all events, here is a practicable expedient for avoiding such an inconvenience; and nothing more can be required than to show that evils predicted to not necessarily result from the plan. As to any argument derived from a supposed system of influence, it is a sufficient answer to say that it ought not to be presumed; but the supposition is susceptible of a more precise answer. If such a spirit should infest the councils of the Union, the most certain road to the accomplishment of its aim would be to employ the State officers as much as possible, and to attach them to the Union by an accumulation of their emoluments. This would serve to turn the tide of State influence into the channels of the national government, instead of making federal influence flow in an opposite and adverse current. But all suppositions of this kind are invidious, and ought to be banished from the consideration of the great question before the people. They can answer no other end than to cast a mist over the truth. As to the suggestion of double taxation, the answer is plain. The wants of the Union are to be supplied in one way or another; if to be done by the authority of the federal government, it will not be to be done by that of the State government. The quantity of taxes to be paid by the community must be the same in either case; with this advantage, if the provision is to be made by the Union that the capital resource of commercial imposts, which is the most convenient branch of revenue, can be prudently improved to a much greater extent under federal than under State regulation, and of course will render it less necessary to recur to more inconvenient methods; and with this further advantage, that as far as there may be any real difficulty in the exercise of the power of internal taxation, it will impose a disposition to greater care in the choice and arrangement of the means; and must naturally tend to make it a fixed point of policy in the national administration to go as far as may be practicable in making the luxury of the rich tributary to the public treasury, in order to diminish the necessity of those impositions which might create dissatisfaction in the poorer and most numerous classes of the society. Happy it is when the interest which the government has in the preservation of its own power, coincides with a proper distribution of the public burdens, and tends to guard the least wealthy part of the community from oppression! As to poll taxes, I, without scruple, confess my disapprobation of them; and though they have prevailed from an early period in those States which have uniformly been the most tenacious of their rights, I should lament to see them introduced into practice under the national government. But does it follow because there is a power to lay them that they will actually be laid? Every State in the Union has power to impose taxes of this kind; and yet in several of them they are unknown in practice. Are the State governments to be stigmatized as tyrannies, because they possess this power? If they are not, with what propriety can the like power justify such a charge against the national government, or even be urged as an obstacle to its adoption? As little friendly as I am to the species of imposition, I still feel a thorough conviction that the power of having recourse to it ought to exist in the federal government. There are certain emergencies of nations, in which expedients, that in the ordinary state of things ought to be forborne, become essential to the public weal. And the government, from the possibility of such emergencies, ought ever to have the option of making use of them. The real scarcity of objects in this country, which may be considered as productive sources of revenue, is a reason peculiar to itself, for not abridging the discretion of the national councils in this respect. There may exist certain critical and tempestuous conjunctures of the State, in which a poll tax may become an inestimable resource. And as I know nothing to exempt this portion of the globe from the common calamities that have befallen other parts of it, I acknowledge my aversion to every project that is calculated to disarm the government of a single weapon, which in any possible contingency might be usefully employed for the general defense and security. I have now gone through the examination of such of the powers proposed to be vested in the United States, which may be considered as having an immediate relation to the energy of the government; and have endeavored to answer the principal objections which have been made to them. I have passed over in silence those minor authorities, which are either too inconsiderable to have been thought worthy of the hostilities of the opponents of the Constitution, or of too manifest propriety to admit of controversy. The mass of judiciary power, however, might have claimed an investigation under this head, had it not been for the consideration that its organization and its extent may be more advantageously considered in connection. This has determined me to refer it to the branch of our inquiries upon which we shall next enter.

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[aprssig] FEMA- Flood gauges (feedback) ross at topwire.co.nz Thu Sep 15 17:25:08 EDT 2016 > What happens when gunk grows on the wire? Granted gunk will interfere > with the float switch, but I would think it would be more likely to fail > on. I would think failing on would be preferable to failing off. Gunk on the insulated ribbon conductor will either have a higher dielectric constant than air (if dry) or be electrically conductive (if wet) and both cases will tend to "fail on" (indicate a higher water level than is actually present) as the capacitance between the conductors will be increased by the gunk. A pair of insulated rods spaced apart from each other (no plastic webbing between them unlike with 300 ohm ribbon) or a single insulated rod located co-axially inside a metallic (or otherwise electrically conductive) tube would probably be less prone to mis-operation due to fouling, but would probably cost more to manufacture. More information about the aprssig

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- Earl of Norfolk. Hereditary Steward of the Household; Privy Councillor; Keeper of Hertford Castle 1191; Judge in the King's Court 1195, 1196, 1199, 1202; Chief Judge in the King's Court 1197; Warden of Romford Forest 1200. Magna Carta surety. Edward Maunde Thompson, in the Dictionary of National Biography (1886): BIGOD, ROGER (d. 1221), second Earl of Norfolk, was son of Hugh, first earl [q. v.] On the death of his father in 1176, he and his stepmother, Gundreda, appealed to the king on a dispute touching the inheritance, the countess pressing the claims of her own son. Henry thereupon seized the treasures of Earl Hugh into his own hands, and it seems that during the remainder of this reign Roger had small power, even if his succession was allowed. His position, however, was not entirely overlooked. He appears as a witness to Henry's award between the kings of Navarre and Castile on 16 March 1177, and in 1186 he did his feudal service as steward in the court held at Guildford. On Richard's succession to the throne, 3 Sept. 1189, Bigod was taken into favour. By charter of 27 Nov. the new king confirmed him in all his honours, in the earldom of Norfolk, and in the stewardship of the royal household, as freely as Roger, his grandfather, and Hugh, his father, had held it. He was next appointed one of the ambassadors to Philip of France to arrange for the crusade, and during Richard's absence from England on that expedition he supported the king's authority against the designs of Prince John. On the pacification of the quarrel between the prince and the chancellor, William Longchamp, bishop of Ely, on 28 July 1191, Bigod was put into possession of the castle of Hereford, one of the strongholds surrendered by John, and was one of the chancellor's sureties in the agreement. In April 1193 he was summoned with certain other barons and prelates to attend the chancellor into Germany, where negotiations were being carried on to effect Richard's release from captivity; and in 1194, after the surrender of Nottingham to the king, he was present in that city at the great council held on 30 March. At Richard's re-coronation, 17 April, he assisted in bearing the canopy. In July or August of the same year he appears as one of the commissioners sent to York to settle a quarrel between the archbishop and the canons. After Richard's return home, Bigod's name is found on the records as a justiciar, fines being levied before him in the fifth year of that king's reign, and from the seventh onwards. He also appears as a justice itinerant in Norfolk. After Richard's death, Bigod succeeded in gaining John's favour, and in the first years of his reign continued to act as a judge. In October 1200 he was one of the envoys sent to summon William of Scotland to do homage at Lincoln, and was a witness at the ceremony on 22 Nov. following; but at a later period he appears to have fallen into disgrace, and was imprisoned in 1213. In the course of the same year, however, he was released and apparently restored to favour, as he accompanied the king to Poitou in February 1214, and about the same time compounded by a fine of 2,000 marks for the service of 120 knights and all arrears off scutages. Next year he joined the confederate barons in the movement which resulted in the grant of Magna Charta on 15 June 1215, and was one of the twenty-five executors, or trustees, of its provisions. He was consequently included in the sentence of excommunication which Innocent III soon afterwards declared against the king's opponents, and his lands were cruelly harried by John's troops in their incursions into the eastern counties. After the accession of Henry III, Bigod returned to his allegiance, and his hereditary right to the stewardship of the royal household was finally recognised at the council of Oxford on 1 May 1221. But before the following August he died. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Hugh, as third earl, who, however, survived him only four years.

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W dzisiejszych czasach coraz więcej osób decyduje się na wiercenie studni na swojej działce, zwłaszcza na terenach o dużym spadku. Istnieje kilka rodzajów studni, które sprawdzają się właśnie w takich warunkach, dzięki czemu można skutecznie pozyskiwać wodę zarówno do celów gospodarczych, jak i bytowych. Wiercenie studni na terenach o dużym spadku wymaga jednak odpowiedniej wiedzy oraz doświadczenia, dlatego warto zastanowić się nad wyborem odpowiedniej metody i rodzaju studni. Jaką studnię wybrać? Studnie głębinowe to jedna z metod pozyskiwania wody na działkach położonych na terenach o dużym spadku. Charakteryzują się tym, że ich głębokość dochodzi nawet do kilkuset metrów, co pozwala na uzyskanie dostępu do głębszych warstw ziemi i zasobów wodnych. Wiercenie studni głębinowej odbywa się za pomocą specjalistycznych urządzeń i maszyn, a sama praca wymaga sporego doświadczenia oraz wiedzy o lokalnej strukturze terenu. Warto zatem postawić na współpracę z doświadczoną firmą, która zajmuje się tego rodzaju pracami. Innym rozwiązaniem, które może być stosowane na terenach o dużym spadku, są studnie kopane. Choć są one znacznie mniej wydajne od studni głębinowych, to jednak ich budowa jest tańsza i mniej skomplikowana. Studnie kopane są tworzone poprzez ręczne lub mechaniczne wykopywanie otworu o średnicy nawet do kilku metrów i głębokości sięgającej nawet 15 metrów. W przypadku studni kopanej na terenach o dużym spadku warto zwrócić uwagę na stabilność gruntu. Ponieważ studnia taka ma stosunkowo niedużą głębokość, istnieje ryzyko, że osuwisko czy ruchy ziemi mogą ją zniszczyć. Dlatego warto zlecić jej budowę specjalistom, którzy są w stanie ocenić ryzyko oraz zaplanować odpowiednie zabezpieczenia. Zarówno studnie głębinowe, jak i kopane mają swoje zalety i wady, dlatego wybór odpowiedniego rozwiązania zależy od indywidualnych potrzeb i warunków terenowych.

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Written and by: Lee Cronin Starring: Lily Sullivan, Alyssa Sutherland, and Nell Fisher Reviewed by: Brett Gallman (@brettgallman) "Destroy it! It's called the Book of the Dead for a reason!" For 30 years, The Evil Dead was synonymous with—if not immutably tied to—the talents of Bruce Campbell and Sam Raimi, a duo whose hucker sensibilities thrived on escalation and subversion. Not content to simply mount a series bound to formula and expectations, they consistently zigged where you might expect them to zag, interjecting slapstick humor and screwball antics into their grand guignol gross-out. Beneath it all rumbled a devious playfulness: The Evil Dead may have been hailed as “the ultimate experience in grueling terror,” and Raimi may have turned Campbell into a human pinball, but there was never anything really mean about it. You couldn’t help but delight in these two provocateurs gleefully tearing through their own sandbox, nor could you ever imagine anyone else having a turn. This wasn’t a franchise so much as it was two lifelong friends goofing off to their own whims—everyone else was just along for the ride. And while they did reunite to give their story some semblance of closure with Ash vs. Evil Dead (its abrupt cancellation notwithstanding), it’s clear they’ve had a larger vision for the series to grow beyond them, with Fede Alvarez’s 2013 effort representing the first stab at it, an admittedly bold reimagining that I remain somewhat mixed on, simply because it misses the franchise’s signature playfulness. Now, a decade later, director Lee Cronin has taken up the reins with Evil Dead Rise, a movie that not only understands the assignment a little bit better but also moves the series beyond its cabin-in-the-woods milieu. Simply put, this one has just about everything you expect from an Evil Dead movie: demented demons, gratuitous gore, and characters getting beat to hell and back. Cronin dutifully plays the hits but indulges plenty of grace notes, giving us the best of both worlds: a sequel that’s both familiar and fresh, proving that The Evil Dead is a spacious sandbox with plenty of room to explore. Cronin begins in familiar backwoods territory, with a quartet of lakeside vacationers whose idyllic weekend retreat is about to be fucked up by a demonic presence. Heads roll and scalps split in what amounts to a wicked Evil Dead short film that cleverly upends conventions and heralds the film’s bold move to an urban setting. Following the killer title reveal, we’re taken back one day earlier to a ramshackle Los Angeles apartment complex, where Ellie (Alyssa Sutherland) lives with her three children. A surprise visit from her estranged sister Beth (Lily Sullivan) calls for an impromptu pizza dinner, so she sends the kids out to fetch a pie from a local joint called Henrietta’s (natch). On their way back up, however, an earthquake erupts, splitting the floor in the parking garage open and revealing a hidden passage. Middle child Danny (Morgan Davies) can’t help but go exploring, and he turns up evidence of cult activity that once unfolded in the building, with a particularly ominous looking flesh-bound book and come vinyl records proving to be too cool to leave behind. His curiosity once again gets the best of him when he pries open the book and plays the records, inadvertently summoning a demon horde that begins terrorizing their entire floor. When that familiar Raimi cam wooshes in, signaling the arrival of the titular evil, you can’t help but get swept up in the mania that’s about to unfold. Something about that particular, ingenious camera movement feels like a primal rush of adrenaline, a demonic bull about to run amok in a carefully constructed China shop. Like Raimi and Alvarez before him, Cronin meticulously arranges his pieces on the board, establishing a loving family that’s fraying at the seams: Ellie’s husband recently left her, and Beth’s job as a guitar technician keeps her on the road (and out of the loop), so this demonic intrusion comes at the worst possible time. When it claims Ellie as its first victim, it feels like a cruel twist of the knife since Beth has come seeking guidance after discovering her own unexpected pregnancy. Cronin lingers on this beat, capturing in agonizing detail Ellie’s possession, which appears to be an inexplicable illness to her horrified kids before she suddenly dies, leaving Beth to perform somber, impromptu funeral rites with one of the neighbors. But just when she tearfully laments how she’ll never be able to speak to her sister again, Elle jerks awake, giving Sutherland a chance to follow in some fairly sizable footsteps given the franchise’s history of memorable Deadite performances from women. She does so with aplomb. Thanks to the marketing, you’re no doubt already familiar with the moment she emerges from a grungy bathtub and reassures her kids that “mommy’s with the maggots now; however, just know that’s just the tip of the iceberg for this delightfully unhinged, star-making performance. Sutherland immediately cements her place as an Evil Dead icon here, modulating her voice, contorting her body, and twisting her face into a wry, menacing demonic presence. The series has always been at its best when it’s playfully twisted, and Sutherland harnesses that demented spirit on her own, coaxing both laughter and puke with her unhinged exploits. For his part, Cronin matches Sutherland’s energy by delving into a proven bag of tricks that includes inventive camera angles, clever editing, and a willingness to go explore the depths of his own wild imagination. If it sounds like he’s just doing a Sam Raimi impersonation, you’re not exactly wrong—in fact, he even borrows gags (like a flying eyeball) from previous films here and there, putting it closer in spirit to the original films than Alvarez’s. Where the 2013 film took an extreme, blunt force trauma approach that dialed up mean-spirited gore outbursts, Rise has a little bit of a lighter touch. Don’t get me wrong: I don’t think you can ever make an Evil Dead movie that isn’t genuinely fucked up on some level, but Raimi’s funhouse spookablast sensibilities are what make them so special. Likewise, this one seems to get, well, a rise, out of pushing its own boundaries as its director and effects crew dream up new ways to mangle his cast with household items like scissors, a cheese grater, and even a child’s makeshift staff. In this respect, Evil Dead Rise truly does feel like a newcomer rifling through a sandbox; more importantly, Cronin definitively marks his own territory within it as he straddles the line between homage and innovation, leaning on familiar refrains (a host of Deadites reprise the “dead by dawn” sequence) but introducing his own wrinkles. One of the more memorable bits here finds the possessed Ellie locked out in the hallway, desperately trying to force her way back into the apartment (a play on the usual “deadite emerging from the cellar” routine), much to the bewilderment of the unsuspecting neighbors. Cronin captures the sequence through the door’s peephole, leaving some of the carnage to the audience’s imagination until revealing the gory payoff later on. Slowly but surely, Cronin molds Evil Dead Rise into an exciting new riff on the theme, one that summons new, creepy-crawly Deadite variations to feed to a woodchipper. We end with the familiar sight of a blood-soaked protagonist brandishing a chainsaw, but we take a crooked path that involves filthy apartments, claustrophobic air ducts, and the most crimson-splashed elevator this side of the Overlook Hotel. True to huckster form, Cronin has been eager to hype the thousands of gallons of blood he spilled on-set, and, rest assured, all of it shows up on screen. Like its 2013 predecessor (which used even more on account of sporting a climax where it literally rains blood), Evil Dead Rise should serve as a gory jolt to multiplex audiences who aren’t used to seeing directors paint the walls red with such reckless abandon. Cronin has plenty more to be proud of, most notably his work with the stellar cast, which arguably sports the strongest cast of characters in the series so far. Of course, everyone will forever be in the iconic shadow of Bruce Campbell’s Ash, and there have been some other standout performances (Ellen Sandweiss’s Cheryl, Jane Levy’s Mia, the recurring stars of Ash vs. Evil Dead), but this series has often felt like a one-man show. Rise takes a different approach that leans on a terrific ensemble of characters with just enough depth of characterization to make its horrors resonate on a more emotional level. Where the 2013 film tackled substance abuse and addiction in order to distinguish its cast from the blissful spring breakers in the original film, this one features a running thread of familial drama and maternal angst to give its horrors an even more unsettling dimension. Cronin is more invested in the interpersonal dynamics than any of his predecessors, so it’s genuinely disturbing to see this doting (but visibility stressed out) mother turn on her children. Don’t worry: Evil Dead Rise isn’t one of those highfalutin meditations on trauma or motherhood or whatever, but its ultimate premise—a woman reckoning with an unexpected pregnancy protecting her sister’s kids—gives it an emotional sincerity that mostly feels like a first for an Evil Dead movie, and it’s Cronin’s strongest contribution. He gets quite an assist from his cast. In roundly praising Sutherland, I don’t want to overlook Sullivan’s excellent turn as Beth, a badass aunt who strolls into the kids’ lives with cool tales from her life on the road. She’s eagerly assumed that role for her nieces and nephews, but she’s visibly overwhelmed at the prospect of becoming an actual mother, much less a surrogate one that has to defend her nieces and nephew from her demonic sister. Her journey towards this role provides Evil Dead Rise more of a deliberate character arc than previous films, which is not meant to diminish those efforts—it’s just that this one has a different sense of purpose because Beth has to protect these kids. And you really want her to succeed because they’re such a wonderful trio, brought to life with young actors who share an easygoing, natural chemistry. They might have their typical sibling squabbles, but their current situation has forged them into a resilient brood, instilled by their mother with an “us against the world” mentality that pays off when their apartment is under siege by demonic forces. The older kids’ personality quirks—Bridget (Gabrielle Echols) is a social justice activist, while Danny is an aspiring DJ—are nice little flourishes that add a touch more humanity to the mayhem (let’s be real—how much do we ever learn about most of the supporting characters in previous movies?). Youngest sibling Kassie (Nell Fisher) is precious but not precocious, an important distinction to make with this kind of material: you wouldn’t think The Evil Dead would be germane to a story where a little girl fashions a weapon to ward off the spirits haunting her home, but Rise happily proves me wrong. Pitting a woman and her 9-year-old niece against Deadites might be Cronin’s boldest choice because it’s hard to imagine something more diametrically opposed to Campbell’s signature Lotharian bravado—which is not to say Beth doesn’t get her chance to spit some badass lines herself. Of course, this being an Evil Dead movie means anyone’s up on the chopping block, and Cronin delicately hits all of the right notes in this respect, allowing the audience to become invested just enough in his characters before he starts knocking them off. Maintaining this balance is as crucial as anything when it comes to The Evil Dead, and Cronin pretty much nails it: yes, nearly a dozen people meet a grisly demise, but it still manages to feel more playful than it does genuinely disturbing, putting it right in that Raimi goldilocks zone. Whatever issues I have from it stem more from the pacing down the stretch, where it settles into a predictable rhythm and struggles to go completely full throttle and capture the manic, chaotic energy of its predecessors. It’s still plenty gnarly but needs a slightly more pronounced sense of out-of-control escalation, something the 2013 film had no trouble with. Further comparisons between it and Rise are inevitable, but this one as a whole is more consistently my speed—it just feels like what I want from an Evil Dead movie. Where Alvarez’s vision was more singularly his own, Cronin feels more like a fantastic pinch-hitter who turns in an entry that feels more of a piece with the original films, right down to its various nods (it even continues the franchise’s interplay with A Nightmare on Elm Street with an exchange of dialogue that feels like it could have been written for me). If Alvarez’s movie was an alienating, doom metal rendition of The Evil Dead, then Rise is like a jangly, eager-to-please garage band paying a loving tribute to their idols. Luckily, it’s a damn good one, and as much as I wouldn’t mind Cronin coming back for seconds, I’m even more intrigued to see him hand off the baton himself. With Raimi and Campbell’s story seemingly wrapped up (you know Bruce is never going to miss an opportunity to troll us about doing more, though), I hope The Evil Dead becomes an anthology going forward, with each new creative team putting their own spin on the series with standalone entries. One of the franchise’s most striking features is the “anything goes” mentality that took us from The Evil Dead to Army of Darkness, and I have to think there’s no shortage of time periods and settings for people to crack open a Necronomicon and unleash hell. comments powered by Disqus Ratings:

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Introducing Brynn Bibee of the Stigler FFA Chapter, Your 2022 Southeast Area Star in Agribusiness Thu, 21 Apr 2022 06:57:30 CDT During the month of April, the Radio Oklahoma Ag Network and Oklahoma Farm Report is spotlighting the 17 Area Stars of Oklahoma FFA that are among the highest achievers in the organization. The stars come from the five areas in four categories- Star in Ag Placement, Star in Agriscience, Star in Agribusiness and Star in Agricultural Production. This week, we spotlight the five area stars in Agribusiness in 2022. One Star Finalist featured in the coming days from each of the categories, will be named the State Star Award Winner during the 96th Oklahoma State FFA Convention coming up May 3 and 4th in Tulsa, Okla. This week, our coverage of the 2022 Oklahoma FFA Star Award Finalists concludes with Agribusiness competitor Brynn Bibee of the Stigler FFA chapter representing the Southeast Area. Bibee's project involved her graphic design and photography business, Brynn's Barnyard. "I got to start my own business when I was 16 called Brynn's Barnyard, and then I got to start doing internships and working on my own to get to where I am today," Bibee said. Bibee said found her passion for photography on a family vacation when she was 8-years-old. She later began to mix photography with her love for the livestock industry and eventually add graphic design to the mix, she said. "On an average workday when I have customers to go see or a photoshoot to do, the day before is when all the preparation starts," Bibee said. At a young age, Bibee said, it is important to show up and show clients that you are professional with or without a degree. Bibee is grateful for the help and support of her ag teacher and his wife, as well as her entire family, she said. "I plan to attend Oklahoma State University next year to major in agribusiness and communications to one day start my own graphic design and photography company," Bibee said. Click here for all the information available about the 2022 State FFA Convention as found on the Oklahoma FFA website. Our coverage of the 2022 Oklahoma FFA Convention is sponsored by Hilliary Communications, serving more than 19,000 customers with telephone service in 22 counties throughout Oklahoma & Texas. The company also offers IP television service and internet speeds up to 1 Gig. Hilliary Communications continuously researches the marketplace for innovations and strives to improve underdeveloped areas, offering services that exceed customer expectations. Click here to learn more about Hilliary Communications. Our stories from the 2022 Oklahoma FFA Convention will be located on our website within our Blue Green Gazette pages- and stories from this year and last can be seen by clicking here. WebReadyTM Powered by WireReady® NSI Top Agricultural News

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Czasowe zawieszenie działalności Klubu Samopomocy | W związku z poleceniem Wojewody Podkarpackiego związanym z zapobieganiem rozprzestrzenianiu się koronawirusa przedłuża się czasowe zawieszenie działalności Dziennego Ośrodka Wsparcia – Klubu Samopomocy „Integra” dla osób z zaburzeniami psychicznymi do dnia 10 kwietnia 2020 r. Pomoc psychologiczna dla uczestników Klubu Samopomocy: wtorek godz.: 11.00 – 13.00 Psycholog Wilhelmina Fudała tel.: 504 582 327 Wizyta duszpasterska | 22 stycznia 2020 r. w Klubie przy ul. Potockiego 1 gościliśmy z wizytą duszpasterską Księdza Proboszcza z Parafii Matki Bożej Nieustającej Pomocy i Św. Floriana w Załężu. Wizyta tradycyjnie rozpoczęła się od wspólnej modlitwy, błogosławieństwa i poświęcenia uczestników. Następnie wspólnie śpiewaliśmy znane wszystkim kolędy. Ksiądz Proboszcz obdarował nas obrazkami oraz sentencjami do rozważania na najbliższy rok. Przypominał nam jak ważna jest eucharystia i nasze w niej uczestnictwo. Na ręce Księdza Proboszcza składamy serdeczne Bóg zapłać. Spotkanie opłatkowe | Choć do świąt było jeszcze sporo czasu przygotowania ozdób choinkowych rozpoczęliśmy już w miesiącu listopadzie. W tym roku skupiliśmy się na wykonaniu bombek choinkowych metodą kimekomi. Jest to bardzo pracochłonna metoda. Zaś efekt końcowy mówi sam za siebie, po prostu – warto!!! Oprócz bombek wykonaliśmy inne dekoracje bożonarodzeniowe, którymi pięknie przyozdobiliśmy sale Klubu, gdzie na co dzień odbywają się zajęcia. Ważnym elementem świadczącym o naszej integracji i współpracy było wykorzystanie przygotowanych elementów dekoracji do wspólnego ubierania choinek. Uwieńczeniem tych przygotowań był dla nas bardzo ważny dzień – spotkanie opłatkowe. W piątek 20.12.2019 r było to przy ul. Potockiego 1 zaś 23.12.2019 r – przy ul. Kraszewskiego 1. Przygotowania w pracowni kulinarnej rozpoczęliśmy od poniedziałku. Samo spotkanie rozpoczęło się od części oficjalnej władz Stowarzyszenia oraz wspólnego łamania się opłatkiem z ciepłymi życzeniami płynącymi z głębi serca. Następnie przyszedł czas na degustację przygotowanych przez nas potraw i słodkości. Był barszcz z uszkami, barszcz biały z grzybami, gołąbki, kompot z suszu oraz przepyszne ciasta. Uatrakcyjnieniem spotkania było wspólne śpiewanie kolęd i pastorałek, które uczestnicy wraz z terapeutą przygotowali podczas zajęć muzycznych. Jak na takie spotkania przystało nie mogło zabraknąć wspólnych rozmów. Był to bardzo miły dzień, który zapamiętamy na długo. Spotkanie z św. Mikołajem | 3 grudnia 2019 r. 2 tysiące dzieci i osób niepełnosprawnych uczestniczyło w spotkaniu ze św. Mikołajem na Hali Podpromie. Organizatorem mikołajek była Caritas Diecezji Rzeszowskiej przy współpracy Miejskiego Ośrodka Pomocy Społecznej i Rzeszowskiego Towarzystwa Pomocy im. św. Brata Alberta. Do Regionalnego Centrum Sportowo-Widowiskowego Podpromie w Rzeszowie przyjechali podopieczni ośrodków Caritas oraz innych stowarzyszeń i fundacji działających na rzecz osób z niepełnosprawnościami. Wśród zaproszonych gości swoją obecnością zaszczycili: bp Jan Wątroba, biskup rzeszowski, Zygmunt Rybarski, reprezentant Prezydenta Rzeszowa, Jerzy Cypryś, zastępca przewodniczącego Sejmiku Województwa Podkarpackiego, Irena Marszałek, wicedyrektor MOPS w Rzeszowie, Aleksander Zacios, prezes Rzeszowskiego Towarzystwa Pomocy im. św. Brata Alberta, Andrzej Szymanek, dyrektor II LO w Rzeszowie oraz mł. insp. Piotr Kluz z Komendy Wojewódzkiej Policji. Jak powiedział w słowach powitania ks. Piotr Potyrała wicedyrektor Caritas Diecezji Rzeszowskiej: „Każdy będzie obdarowany, każdy otrzyma coś, co przyniesie radość. Będą nie tylko słodycze, ale również przybory szkolne, środki higieniczne i wiele innych prezentów”. „Chcemy naśladować św. Mikołaja, biskupa, który pomagał osobom potrzebującym” – dodał duchowny. Centralnym punktem spotkania były odwiedziny św. Mikołaja, którego zebrani uczestnicy powitali oklaskali i uśmiechami. Zanim św. Mikołaj rozdał prezenty przypomniał zebranym, że pomagając innym ludziom pomagamy samemu Jezusowi. Mikołajowi towarzyszył zespół „Młody duch” oraz zespół wokalny ze Szkoły Podstawowej Zakonu Pijarów w Rzeszowie pod kierunkiem Dariusza Kosaka. Podczas mikołajek dzieciom i niepełnosprawnym pomagali uczniowie z Szkolnych Kół Caritas, którzy przygotowali szereg atrakcji, m.in. uczniowie z II LO w Rzeszowie zaprezentowali spektakl o wartości dzielenia się z innymi w reżyserii Joanny Kocór. Na zakończenie spotkania wszystkie dzieci otrzymały świecące odblaski jako prezent od Policji, a także lody od firmy Koral oraz obrazek ze zdjęciem bł. Karoliny Kózki. Zabawa andrzejkowa | Jak co roku, zgodnie z tradycją odbyła się u nas zabawa Andrzejkowa. Andrzejki nieodłącznie wiążą się z wróżbami, których i u nas nie mogło zabraknąć. Były tańce dowolne, tańce z kolorowymi chustami oraz w kolorowym brokatowym kapeluszu. Podopieczni brali czynny udział w zabawach. Tańczyli, śpiewali, klaskali, wspólnie się bawili. Pełno było śmiechu i radości. Niemałą atrakcją było przeprowadzenie konkursu „Milionerzy”. Tak jak w prawdziwej grze mogliśmy sprawdzić indywidualnie i zespołowo naszą wiedzę z różnych dziedzin życia. Najwięcej radości przyniosły wróżby andrzejkowe, które jeszcze długo były wspominane. XVII Festiwal Twórczości Artystycznej Uczestników WTZ „I JA POTRAFIĘ BYĆ AKTOREM” | W dniu 16 października 2019 r. wybraliśmy się na XVII Festiwal Twórczości Artystycznej Uczestników WTZ „I JA POTRAFIĘ BYĆ AKTOREM”. W przedstawieniach, prezentowanych w Wojewódzkim Domu Kultury przy ul. Okrzei w Rzeszowie brały udział osoby niepełnosprawne z 17 Warsztatów Terapii Zajęciowej z podkarpacia. Występy bardzo nam się podobały. Atmosfera podczas występów była sympatyczna. Dla nas dodatkową atrakcją było to, że komisji konkursowej przewodniczył Artur Barciś, znany aktor, którego na co dzień oglądamy m.in. w serialu „Ranczo”. Przedstawienia były różnorakie i bardzo ciekawe. Pełne humoru ale i takie, które dawały do myślenia. Czas na festiwalu minął przyjemnie i bardzo szybko. Byliśmy zachwyceni polotem i zaangażowaniem uczestników w każdym spektaklu. XXI Olimpiada dla osób Niepełnosprawnych | Piątego września tego roku po raz 21 w Rzeszowie odbyła się Olimpiada dla osób Niepełnosprawnych, w której braliśmy udział. Impreza rozpoczęła się uroczystą Mszą Św., której przewodniczył Biskup Rzeszowski Jan Wątroba. Po Mszy Św. uczestnicy udali się na stadion „Podhalańczyk” przy ul. Langiewicza, gdzie na początek wciągnięto flagę na maszt i odśpiewano Hymn Narodowy. Nasi podopieczni brali udział w kilku zawodach, m.in., w rzucie piłką lekarską na odległość, rzucaniu piłeczkami do mini kosza, rzutem ringo do kręgli oraz w biegu wózków, który odbył się na sam koniec Olimpiady. Wszyscy byli bardzo zadowoleni i podekscytowani braniem udziału w poszczególnych zawodach. Dodatkowo dla każdego uczestnika przygotowany był poczęstunek w formie słodkich napojów, drożdżówek, obwarzanków, ciasteczek, paluszków a na ciepło można było zjeść grochówkę. Na zakończenie Olimpiady udekorowano każdego z uczestników zawodów medalem, czapeczką bądź koszulką a także dyplomem dla całego Stowarzyszenia. Dzień dziecka | Choć nie jesteśmy małymi dziećmi, dla naszych rodziców pozostajemy nimi na zawsze. W tym roku pamiętaliśmy również o tym dniu. Przy ul. Kraszewskiego była zabawa z akompaniamentem gitary oraz z wykorzystaniem rekwizytów i sprzętu sportowego. Przy ul. Potockiego mieliśmy „świątecznego” grilla z własnoręcznie przygotowanymi sałatkami i ciastem. Dzień mamy i taty | Jak co roku pamiętaliśmy o święcie naszych najbliższych – mamach i tatach. Własnoręcznie przygotowaliśmy kartki z życzeniami, które w dniu ich święta wręczyliśmy w domach. Rodzice byli ogromnie zaskoczeni i nie kryli radości i wzruszenia, które im sprawiliśmy Spotkanie wielkanocne i IV rocznica utworzenia Dziennego Ośrodka Wsparcia – Klubu Samopomocy „Integra” dla osób z zaburzeniami psychicznymi | W dniu 17.04.2019 r spotkaliśmy się w Dziennym Ośrodku Wsparcia – Klubie Samopomocy „Integra” przy ulicy Potockiego 1 aby wspólnie podzielić się jajkiem przed zbliżającymi się świętami Wielkanocnymi oraz świętować czwartą rocznicę powstania Ośrodka. Swoją obecnością zaszczycił nas cały Zarząd Stowarzyszenia oraz panie terapeutki współpracujące z nami na co dzień. Przygotowania do tego dnia rozpoczęły się dużo wcześniej. Zaczęliśmy od stroików i innych elementów zdobiących nasze sale. Kolejną rzeczą były wizytówki, które porozkładaliśmy w dniu spotkania na stołach. Sprawami kulinarnymi zajęliśmy się już w poniedziałek. W pierwszej kolejności przygotowaliśmy tradycyjne babki i makowce. Jak na rocznicę przystało był też tort. Spotkanie rozpoczęło się od części oficjalnej zaproszonych gości, następnie uczestnicy w piękny sposób podziękowali za możliwość korzystania z rehabilitacji społecznej proponowanej przez Ośrodek. Każdy z uczestników przedstawił czym dla niego jest korzystanie z rehabilitacji, co dało mu uczestnictwo i jak zmiany zaszły w nim przez ostatnie cztery lata. Kolejnym punktem było podzielenie się jajkiem i wspólne życzenia z okazji zbliżających się Świąt Wielkanocnych. Po życzeniach przyszedł czas na degustację przygotowanych przez nas potraw. Był tradycyjny żurek wielkanocny, jajka w sosie tatarskim, wędliny. Oprócz wspomnianych dań smakowaliśmy wspomniane wcześniej słodkości. Jak na takie spotkania przystało nie zabrakło wspólnych rozmów w przemiłej atmosferze. W kolejnym dniu spotkaliśmy się z drugą grupą uczestników Dziennego Ośrodka Wsparcia – klubu Samopomocy „Integra” przy ul. Kraszewskiego 1. Tradycyjnie były z nami panie z Zarządu oraz rodzice. Spotkanie rozpoczęto od podzielenia się jajkiem, wzajemnego złożenia życzeń z okazji zbliżających się Świąt Wielkanocnych. Oczywiście podkreślono również o naszej tak ważnej dla nas IV rocznicy powstania Ośrodka. Następnie degustowaliśmy przygotowany przez nas żurek z jajkami i babkę oraz smakołyki, którymi podzielili się z nami rodzice uczestników. Były to sałatki, wędliny i ciasta wielkanocne. Jak zawsze przyświecała nam bardzo miła atmosfera, której towarzyszyły ożywione rozmowy i dyskusje. Na koniec każdy z uczestników otrzymał przygotowany podczas zajęć upominek wielkanocny. WIZYTA DUSZPASTERSKA | 21 stycznia na zaproszenie Księdza proboszcza Parafii Matki Bożej Nieustającej Pomocy i Św. Floriana w Załężu udaliśmy się w ramach wizyty duszpasterskiej do kościoła. Była nas bardzo liczna grupa: uczestnicy z Potockiego i Kraszewskiego, rodzice, terapeuci oraz członkowie Zarządu. Ksiądz proboszcz odprawił Mszę Świętą, w czasie której zwrócił się z przejmującym słowem w kierunku naszych podopiecznych. Wspólnie pośpiewaliśmy też kolędy. Na ręce Księdza proboszcza składamy serdeczne Bóg Zapłać. SPOTKANIE OPŁATKOWE | Grudzień to miesiąc pełen oczekiwań na radosne święta Bożego Narodzenia. Tradycyjnie był Mikołaj, którego wraz z innymi osobami niepełnosprawnymi powitaliśmy na hali Podpromie. Po mikołajkach przyszedł czas na przygotowywanie bombek i innych dekoracji, którymi przyozdobiliśmy nasz Ośrodek. Bardzo jesteśmy dumni z własnoręcznie przygotowanej choinki. Większość uczestników zaangażowała się w jej wykonanie. Sami skleiliśmy makietę, zrobiliśmy budynki i figurki do jej wnętrza. Wyszła śliczna!!! Pozostałe ozdoby, równie piękne wykorzystaliśmy do stroików w poszczególnych pomieszczeniach. Kolejnym ważnym elementem przygotowań przedświątecznych było ugotowanie potraw i upieczenie ciast na spotkanie opłatkowe. I tu również jesteśmy z siebie bardzo dumni. Wszystko było bardzo smaczne. Zaproszeni goście byli dumni z naszych umiejętności i bardzo nas chwalili. Jak co roku nasze już czwarte spotkanie opłatkowe r rozpoczęło się od życzeń, które w imieniu Zarządu złożyła pani prezes. Następnie przy akompaniamencie muzycznym jednego z naszych uczestników zaśpiewaliśmy tradycyjne polskie kolędy i rozpoczęło się wzajemne składanie życzeń. Wszyscy łamiąc się opłatkiem życzyli sobie wszystkiego co najlepsze a zwłaszcza dużo, dużo zdrowia. Po życzeniach przyszedł czas na degustację przygotowanych przez nas potraw wigilijnych. Był barszcz biały z grzybami i gołąbki. Na deser przy aromatycznej kawce delektowaliśmy się i przepysznymi ciastami. W dniu 6 grudnia br. blisko 2000 dzieci oraz niepełnosprawnych z terenu całej diecezji rzeszowskiej przybyło do hali sportowej Podpromie w Rzeszowie na spotkanie z św. Mikołajem. Spotkania ze Świętym Mikołajem z inicjatywy rzeszowskiego Caritas tradycyjnie odbywają się od 1992 roku. W gronie dzieci i niepełnosprawnych zasiedli m.in.: Biskup Rzeszowski Jan Wątroba, proboszcz rzeszowskiej fary ks. prałat Jan Szczupak, wiceprzewodniczący Sejmiku Województwa Podkarpackiego Jerzy Cypryś, pełnomocnik prezydenta Rzeszowa Henryk Wolicki, dyrektor II LO w Rzeszowie Andrzej Szymanek, prezes Rzeszowskiego Towarzystwa Pomocy im. św. Brata Alberta Aleksander Zacios. W klimat oczekiwania znany z wiersza Reginy Nachacz: Z księżycem uśmiechniętym – niejedna gwiazdka świeci – Dobry Mikołaj Święty – Jedzie do dobrych dzieci, widoczny na twarzach, zwłaszcza niepełnosprawnych wprowadził zespół Młody Duch z Górna. Przed spektaklem o św. Mikołaju (z elementami nawiązania do 100 lecia Niepodległej), który jak zwykle przedstawiła młodzież II LO w Rzeszowie nie zabrakło humoru i świątecznych piosenek. Biskup Jan odmówił modlitwę i pobłogosławił zgromadzonym. Kolejną tegoroczną nowością była obecność Policji z KW z Rzeszowa, która wraz z Sejmikiem województwa przygotowała i przekazała odblaskowe opaski na rękę w trosce o bezpieczeństwo. Uczestniczące w spotkaniu z św. Mikołajem dzieci z rodzin wielodzietnych, ubogich oraz osoby niepełnosprawne otrzymały paczki. W paczkach obdarowani znaleźli m.in. słodycze, szaliki, szampony czy szczoteczki do zębów. Dnia 29 listopada odbyły się w naszym Ośrodku Andrzejki. Wszyscy czekali na nie z wielką niecierpliwością. Na początku śpiewaliśmy piosenki, tzw. karaoke. Z czasem impreza się rozkręciła i były tańce do muzyki puszczanej przez nas. Jak to w Andrzejki nie zabrakło wróżb i zabaw z tym związanych. Wróżby pokazujące nam naszą najbliższą i dalszą przyszłość. Bierki rozrzucone na ziemi układały się w dany wzór i pokazywały nam co się zdarzy w najbliższym czasie, a dzięki sercu z imionami dowiedzieliśmy się kogo spotkamy. Wszyscy świetnie się bawili. Frekwencja dopisała!!! Mieliśmy też zaproszonych gości. Po tańcach był czas na poczęstunek, z którego wszyscy chętnie skorzystali. Jedliśmy karpatkę, którą sami upiekliśmy. Wszystkim bardzo smakowała. Było tak fajnie, że żal było się rozstać i wracać do domu. To spotkanie długo pozostanie nam w pamięci, bo nasze zabawy zawsze są udane. Dnia 6 września 2018 roku udaliśmy się na coroczną, już XX, Olimpiadę dla osób niepełnosprawnych. Wydawało się, że przez pochmurną pogodę zawody będą wręcz niemożliwe. Najwyraźniej jednak Dyrektor Caritas Diecezji Rzeszowskiej KS. Stanisław Słowik załatwił, wiadomo u Kogo, sprzyjającym rozrywkom aurę. Wszystko zaczęło się od uroczystej Mszy św. w Kościele Garnizowym pw. MB Królowej Polski. Mszy przewodniczył ks. biskup Jana Wątroba. Później udaliśmy my się hucznym pochodem wraz z orkiestrą na stadion Podhalańczyk. Mieliśmy okazję uczestniczyć w licznych konkurencjach takich jak: rzut podkową, rzut do celu czy też biegi. Na zakończenie Olimpiady wszystkim uczestnikom wręczono złote medale. To jest przygoda dla nas na długo nie do zapomnienia! PRZEDŚWIĄTECZNE SPOTKANIA WIELKANOCNE | Przy ul. Kraszewskiego 1 w okresie przedświątecznym zostały zorganizowane dwa bardzo ważne dla nas spotkania. Pierwszym była tak ważna dla nas i naszych podopiecznych wizyta osoby duchownej. Uczestnicy mieli możliwość skorzystania z sakramentu spowiedzi. Drugie to zorganizowane 29 marca przedświąteczne spotkanie wielkanocne. Jak co roku przebiegało w ciepłej i miłej atmosferze. Tradycyjnie rozpoczęło się od słów podziękowania za współpracę i życzeń przekazanych przez panie z Zarządu Stowarzyszenia. Następnie degustowaliśmy potrawy i ciasta przygotowanych przez uczestników i rodziców. TRZECIA ROCZNICA POWSTANIA DZIENNEGO OŚRODKA WSPARCIA – KLUBU SAMOPOMOCY „INTEGRA” | 20 marca w budynku przy ul. Potockiego 1 świętowaliśmy podwójna okazję: 3 rocznicę powstania Dziennego Ośrodka Wsparcia – Klubu Samopomocy „Integra” i przedświąteczne spotkanie wielkanocne. Spotkanie rozpoczęło się od słów podziękowania za współpracę kadrze i uczestnikom, przekazanych przez panią prezes Stowarzyszenia. Następnie uczestnicy w pięknych słowach wyrazili swoją wdzięczność za możliwość korzystania z rehabilitacji realizowanej w ramach działalności Ośrodka: Pragniemy gorąco podziękować Zarządowi, terapeutom i wszystkim, którzy sprawiają, że chodzimy tu z wielką przyjemnością. Dziękujemy za trud i zaangażowanie w nasz rozwój i pomoc wyjścia z kryzysu psychicznego, za wyrozumiałość i cierpliwość dla nas, dawanie kolejnych szans. Dziękujemy za wzajemną motywację i za to, że codziennie możemy się wspierać. Mamy przyjemność i motywację do udziału w rozmowach, zajęciach od kulinarnych, psychologicznych i artystycznych. Staramy się systematycznie w nich uczestniczyć i rzetelnie wykonywać przydzielone nam obowiązki. Początki były dla nas trudne, nie znaliśmy się dobrze, byliśmy nieśmiali. Z czasem zaakceptowaliśmy nasze wady, nawiązały się wspólne znajomości a nawet przyjaźnie. Wszyscy jesteśmy jak wielka rodzina a Ośrodek stał się dla nas „drugim domem”. Wspieramy się, pomagamy sobie nawzajem, akceptujemy i szanujemy takich jacy jesteśmy. Razem robimy różne ciekawe rzeczy, które wcześniej były dla nas bardzo trudne. To co dał nam Ośrodek, to przede wszystkim oderwanie się od codziennej rutyny. Staliśmy się bardziej samodzielni. Łatwiej podejmujemy decyzje, uczymy się rozwiązywać trudne sytuacje życiowe, współpracujemy w grupie, nauczyliśmy się wyrażać własne emocje, budować poczucie własnej wartości, odkrywać samych siebie, swoje „słabe i mocne strony”, odkrywać nowe zdolności i umiejętności. Uczymy się od siebie nawzajem żartowania i znoszenia konstruktywnej krytyki, negocjacji, asertywności. Rozwijamy naszą wyobraźnię, ale przede wszystkim bardziej zaakceptowaliśmy naszą chorobę, która była pierwszym powodem dla którego tu przyszliśmy. Te słowa wyrażają naszą wielką wdzięczność i chcemy się cieszyć ze wszystkimi tą radością. Jeszcze raz szczerze DZIĘKUJEMY. Po życzeniach nastąpił moment degustacji potraw wielkanocnych i ciasta przygotowanych pod okiem terapeuty przez naszych uczestników. Audycja w Polskim Radiu Rzeszów | W dniu 18.03.2018 r w Polskim Radiu Rzeszów zostanie wyemitowana audycja poświęcona działalności Dziennego Ośrodka Wsparcia – Klubu Samopomocy „Integra” dla osób z zaburzeniami psychicznymi. Pani redaktor Bernadetta Szczypta odwiedziła nas w naszej siedzibie przy ul. Potockiego 1. Była to już kolejna wizyta w naszym Klubie Samopomocy. Poprzednio widzieliśmy się podczas oficjalnego otwarcia, trzy lata temu. Nasi uczestnicy podczas wspólnej rozmowy opowiadali co zmieniło się u nas przez ten czas. Oprowadziliśmy też panią Bernadettę po pracowniach Klubu gdzie mogła podziwiać wykonane przez uczestników prace. Następnie podczas wypowiedzi indywidualnych dzieliliśmy się własnymi odczuciami dotyczącymi tych trzech lat. Nie zapomnieliśmy również o podziękowaniu władzom miasta, które pomogły nam w uzyskaniu środków na remonty i adaptację budynku. Szczególne słowa zostały skierowane w kierunku Pani Janiny Filipek – skarbnik Miasta Rzeszowa i Pana Jacka Gołubowicza – dyrektora Miejskiego Ośrodka Pomocy Społecznej. Wizyta duszpasterska | W dniu 31 stycznia na zaproszenie Księdza proboszcza Józefa Kandefera z Parafii Matki Bożej Nieustającej Pomocy w Załężu grupa podopiecznych Dziennego Ośrodka Wsparcia – Klubu Samopomocy „Integra” przy ul. Potockiego 1, członkowie Zarządu i Stowarzyszenia udali się na spotkanie w ramach wizyty duszpasterskiej. Ksiądz proboszcz odprawił Mszę Świętą, następnie zaprosił nas na spotkanie do domu parafialnego. Spotkanie przebiegało w bardzo miłej atmosferze. Śpiewaliśmy kolędy i rozmawialiśmy przy poczęstunku zorganizowanym przez księdza proboszcza. Na ręce Księdza proboszcza składamy serdeczne Bóg Zapłać. Spotkanie opłatkowe | Spotkania opłatkowe podzieliliśmy na dwa dni. Pierwsze odbyło się 14.12.2017 r w budynku przy ul. Potockiego 1. Drugie dzień później przy ul. Kraszewskiego 1. Spotkanie przy ul. Potockiego rozpoczęło się od części artystycznej składającej się z wierszy, fragmentów biblii i wybranych kolęd. Następnie zaproszeni goście z Zarządu Stowarzyszenia dziękowali kadrze i uczestnikom za wspólną pracę w bieżącym roku. Po części oficjalnej przyszedł czas na wspólne życzenia składane indywidualnie. Następnie usiedliśmy do pięknie udekorowanych stołów i spożywaliśmy przygotowane przez nas potrawy wigilijne. Wykorzystaliśmy nabyte umiejętności podczas zajęć kulinarnych. Był żur z grzybami, pierogi, krokiety i barszcz czerwony. Nie zabrakło również słodkości w postaci ciast: makowca, sernika i szarlotki. Po sutym posiłku zajęliśmy się wspólnym śpiewaniem kolęd i pastorałek przy akompaniamencie muzyki. Drugie spotkanie opłatkowe odbyło się 15 grudnia przy ul. Kraszewskiego 1. Wspólnie przygotowaliśmy salę na przywitanie gości. Zawiesiliśmy płatki śniegu, lampiony i ozdobiliśmy choinkę. W dzień spotkania został również przygotowany stół z daniami wigilijnymi i słodkimi smakołykami. Zanim usiedliśmy do Wigilijnego stołu wysłuchaliśmy fascynującego przemówienia Pani prezes Barbary Oleksińskiej. Wkrótce mogliśmy przełamać się opłatkiem i złożyć życzenia świąteczne. Później rodzice zostali obdarowani prezentami w postaci bombek samodzielnie przygotowanych przez ich dzieci. Zaprezentowaliśmy też wiersz, którego uczyliśmy się na pamięć przez ostatnie tygodnie. Na naszym stole wigilijnym nie mogło zabraknąć barszczu, ciast i znakomitych przekąsek takich jak paluszki czy paszteciki. Na zakończenie spotkania wszyscy wspólnie zaśpiewaliśmy kolędy. Obydwa dni wniosły w nasze serca magię zbliżających się Świąt Bożego Narodzenia i sprawiły, że czas oczekiwania na spędzenie ich w gronie rodzinnym stał się dla nas jeszcze bardziej mistyczny. Dnia 6 grudnia 2017 roku dzięki gospodarzom Mikołajków czyli dyrektorom Caritas, ks. Stanislawowi Słowikowi, ks. Władysławowi Jagustynowi i ks. Piotrowi Potyrła podopieczni z ul. Kraszewskiego 1 mieli możliwość uczestnictwa w corocznej imprezie, na której gościł sam Święty Mikołaj. Uroczystość została zorganizowana w hali sportowej na Podpromiu w Rzeszowie. Cała sala zapełniła się ogromną ilością uczestników, którzy przybyli z wiarą i ufnością w oczekiwaniu na dary od Świętego Mikołaja. Uczestnikami byli podopiepieczni Miejskiego Ośrodka Pomocy Społecznej w Rzeszowie oraz Warsztatów Terapii Zajęciowej z Różanki, Ropczyc, Brzostu, Biecza, Lipinek, Kolbuszowej i Gorlic, Szkoły im. UNICEF z Rzeszowa, Środowiskowych Domów Samopomocy z: Zaczernia, Tyczyna i Nowego Żmigrodu, Stowarzyszenia dla Rodzin Wielodzietnych, Stowarzyszenia Chorych na Celiakię i Cukrzycę oraz Niewidomych i Głuchoniemych. Zespół z Górna ,,Młody Duch” wprowadził nas w klimat świętowania. Uczniowie II LO w Rzeszowie wykazali się wspaniałym aktorstwem pokazując nam spektakl pt.: ,,Najlepsze prezenty ukryte w sercach”. Po występach zarówno aktorskich i tanecznych nadszedł czas rozdania paczek i lodów uczestnikom uroczystości. Z kolei podopiecznych z ul. Potockiego 1 odwiedził Św. Mikołaj osobiście. Jak na Mikołaja przystało miał on na sobie czapkę, brodę, czerwony kombinezon oraz wór słodkich prezentów. Uczestnicy włączyli się we wspólną zabawę z Mikołajem. Każdy miał możliwość wykonania fotografii z naszym uroczym gościem. Jak co roku została zorganizowana u nas (przy ul. Kraszewskiego 1) zabawa Andrzejkowa. Obchodzona jest ona w Polsce od kilku pokoleń, nie traci na popularności, choć trwa, nieco w cieniu nadchodzących Świąt Bożego Narodzenia. Ten dzień jest zarówno początkiem jak i końcem roku liturgicznego. Andrzejki są naszą ostatnią okazją do hucznych zabaw. Podczas naszej imprezy można było skorzystać z licznych gier i zabaw takich jak np.: wylewanie wosku na zimną wodę przez ucho od klucza dzięki, któremu mogliśmy się dowiedzieć z zastygłej masy co nas czeka w najbliższej przyszłości, losowanie osoby, którą spotkamy w najbliższym czasie. Oczywiście nie obyło się bez zabawy tanecznej i konkursów z nagrodami, w których można było wygrać wróżbę. Pod koniec zabawy każdy miał możliwość skorzystania z poczęstunku i odpoczynku. To była udana zabawa! Andrzejkowo bawiliśmy się również przy ul. Potockiego 1. Panie terapeutki przygotowały zestawy muzyczne, do których bawiliśmy się wykorzystując umiejętności taneczne zdobyte podczas zajęć. Nie obyło się bez zabaw andrzejkowych, w których bardzo chętnie braliśmy udział. Wszyscy korzystali też z przygotowanego przez nas samodzielnie poczęstunku i słodkości XV FESTIWAL TWÓRCZOŚCI ARTYSTYCZNEJ UCZESTNIKÓW WTZ ,,I JA POTRAFIE BYĆ ATOREM” | Dnia 26 września 2017 roku wybraliśmy się do Wojewódzkiego Domu Kultury na długo przygotowywane występy uczestników Warsztatów Terapii Zajęciowej . Organizatorem było Polskie Stowarzyszenie Młodzież Sprawna Inaczej w Rzeszowie. Wydarzenie dofinansowane zostało z budżetu Województwa Podkarpackiego – ROPS w Rzeszowie w ramach ,, Wojewódzkiego Programu na Rzecz Wyrównania Szans Osób Niepełnosprawnych i Przeciwdziałaniach Wykluczeniu Społecznemu na lata 2008 – 2020. Uczestnicy którzy brali udział w występach wykazali się dużą odwagą i ukazali nam swoje zdolności teatralne, wokalne i instrumentalne. Warsztaty Terapii Zajęciowej, które występowały to: WTZ Ropczyce, WTZ Dębica, WTZ Zgłobień, WTZ Białobrzegi, WTZ Tarnobrzeg, WTZ Rzeszów, WTZ Stara Wieś, WTZ Ustrzyki Dolne, WTZ Przemyśl, WTZ Gorzyce, WTZ Leżajsk, WTZ Korytniki, WTZ Brzostek, WTZ Stara Wieś, WTZ Sanok, WTZ Stalowa Wola Występy oceniało jury pod przewodnictwem aktora Artura Barcisa w składzie: Bogusława Bednarska, Jerzy Czeluśniak, Małgorzata Hołowińska i Anna Demczuk.Oczywiście festiwal nie odbył się bez poczęstunku dla uczestników w formie ciastek i napojów, a także obiadu. O godzinie 17:45 nastąpiło ogłoszenie wyników, wręczenie nagród i zakończenie festiwalu. Stowarzyszenie Rodzin ,,Otwarty Umysł” jak co roku wzięło udział w wydarzeniu jakim była XIX Olimpiada dla osób Niepełnosprawnych, która odbyła się na stadionie Podhalańskim w Rzeszowie. Olimpiada została wsparta m.in. przez samorząd Województwa Podkarpackiego w ramach działań realizowanych przez Regionalny Ośrodek Polityki Społecznej. Olimpiadę rozpoczęła msza święta, która sprawowana była przez bp. Jana Wątrobę. Po mszy wszyscy uczestnicy przeszli w uroczystym pochodzie na stadion, gdzie nastąpiła ceremonia otwarcia, składająca się z odegrania hymnu państwowego, wciągnięcia na maszt flagi Olimpijskiej i przemówień. Nasi podopieczni mieli możliwość udziału w konkurencjach sportowych: -rzut do kosza -rzut piłką lekarską -skok w dal z miejsca Zdecydowała się Iwona, która wraz z mamą wzięła udział w biegach dla osób jeżdżących na wózkach inwalidzkich. Dzięki Olimpiadzie wszyscy uczestnicy mogli skosztować grochówki która została przygotowana przez prawdziwe wojsko. To była wspaniała zabawa! Dzień dziecka | Dzień Dziecka tego święta nie mogliśmy pominąć. W naszym Ośrodku był to dzień pełen integracji, radości, zabawy i oczywiście łakoci. Nie był to zwyczajny dzień zajęć. Już od samego poranka bawiliśmy się na zorganizowanej przez naszych opiekunów zabawie tanecznej. Tańczyliśmy w rytm największych letnich przebojów. Wzięliśmy również udział w zawodach sportowych. Zmagaliśmy się w takich konkurencjach jak min. rzut piłką do kosza na śmieci, odbijanie balona, dmuchanie piórka, puszczanie baniek mydlanych czy taniec na gazecie. Największą popularnością cieszyła się konkurencja doniesienia pełnego kubka wody z miejsca startu do mety. Wśród nas byli i tacy, którzy po drodze wypijali zawartość kubka, ale przecież wszystko miało służyć zdrowiu i dobrej zabawie. Po trudach i sportowej rywalizacji udaliśmy się na zasłużoną nagrodę – na lody do naszej ulubionej Lodziarni w rynku. Lody u Myszki smakują nam bowiem najlepiej. Następnie w wyśmienitych nastrojach udaliśmy się odpocząć na ławeczki zlokalizowane przy al. Lubomirskich, skąd mogliśmy obejrzeć pokaz fontanny multimedialnej i delektować się piękną słoneczną pogodą. Dzień mamy i taty | W ostatnim czasie wiele naszej uwagi i energii poświęciliśmy przygotowaniu Dnia Mamy i Taty. Najpierw tworzyliśmy dla naszych rodziców oryginalne i osobiste prezenty. Zaczęliśmy od kartek z życzeniami, do przygotowania których wykorzystaliśmy min. scrapbooking i quiling. Skorzystaliśmy z gotowych życzeń, które naklejaliśmy na przygotowane kartki, niektórzy z nas samodzielnie napisali życzenia dla swoich rodziców. Dla mam przygotowaliśmy modne, kolorowe bransoletki, które włożyliśmy do torebek na prezenty wykonanych z kolorowego papieru. Każda torebka była imiennie zaadresowana. Na koniec pozostało nam już tylko przygotować zaproszenia na ten uroczysty dzień. W dniu 26 maja odbyła się przygotowana przez nas uroczystość. Rozpoczęliśmy ją wspólną recytacją wiersza „Maj” J. Ficowskiego, następnie odbyły się indywidualne występy – recytacje wiersza „Święto Taty” Doroty Gellner i wiersza „Kochana mamo”. Po części artystycznej przy słodkim poczęstunku i kawie spędziliśmy miłe chwile na rozmowach z naszymi rodzicami. Śniadanie wielkanocne | W dniu 12.04.2017 r. kadra wraz z uczestnikami Dziennego Ośrodka Wsparcia Klubu Samopomocy „Integra” zorganizowała śniadanie wielkanocne przy ul. Potockiego. Spotkanie rozpoczęło się od zapoznania z tradycjami i symbolami, o których poinformowali nas uczestnicy w przygotowanej pod okiem pani psycholog części artystycznej. Po niej nastąpiło symboliczne podzielenie się jajkiem i złożenie sobie życzeń. Następnie odbyła się degustacja samodzielnie przygotowanych przez uczestników potraw i słodkości wielkanocnych. Miłym chwilom towarzyszyły niekończące się dyskusje i rozmowy. W kolejnym dniu, tj. 13.04.2017 spotkanie wielkanocne odbyło się w budynku przy ul. Kraszewskiego. Uczestnikami była kadra podopieczni i ich rodzice. Tu również na początku podzielono się jajkiem oraz złożono życzenia wielkanocne. Następnie spędzono czas na rozmowach i degustacji żurku (przygotowanego przez kolegów z ul. Potockiego), sałatek i ciast. Dwa lata działalności Dziennego Ośrodka Wsparcia – Klubu Samopomocy „Integra” | 22.03.2017 r. obchodziliśmy drugą rocznicę działalności Dziennego Ośrodka Wsparcia – Klubu Samopomocy „Integra” dla osób z zaburzeniami psychicznymi. Uczestnicy przygotowali część artystyczną z wykorzystaniem sztuki „Pamiętniki Adama i Ewy”. Po części artystycznej kadra Ośrodka odebrała podziękowania od uczestników. Przy samodzielnie przygotowanym posiłku uczestnicy wspominali swój pobyt od powstania Ośrodka do dnia dzisiejszego. Dzień spędzono w radosnej i miłej atmosferze. Wyjście do kina | W dniu 03.02.2017 wspólnie z opiekunami wybraliśmy się do Kina „Zorza” na film animowany pt. „Balerina”. Główną bohaterką bajki jest jedenastoletnia rudowłosa dziewczynka z sierocińca o imieniu Felicja. Marzeniem dziewczynki jest zostać baleriną w operze. Felicja wraz z najlepszym przyjacielem z sierocińca Wiktorem- chłopcem marzącym o wielkich wynalazkach, uciekają do Paryża. Dzięki podstępowi i swojemu urokowi dziewczynce udaje się dostać do szkoły tańca przy Operze Paryskiej. Felicja trafia pod skrzydła dawnej gwiazdy baletu Madame Odetty. Madame przygarnia sierotę i uczy ją baletu od podstaw. Największymi rywalkami w drodze do realizacji marzenia dziewczynki okazują się być podstępna dziewczynka Kamilla i jej matka bogata Regina, u której mieszkają Madame Odetta i Felicja. W Operze Paryskiej trwają właśnie eliminacje do głównej roli w „Dziadku do Orzechów” Czajkowskiego, od wygrania eliminacji zależą dalsze losy Felicji. W realizacji marzenia dziewczynce pomogą niezawodny przyjaciel Wiktor oraz nauczycielka Madame Odetta. Film bardzo nam się podobał, wzbudził wiele emocji oraz był inspiracją do interesujących rozmów na temat baletu, marzeń i pokonywania przeszkód w ich realizacji. Wizyta duszpasterska | W dniu 16.01.2017 r. odwiedził nas w Dziennym Ośrodku Wsparcia – Klubie Samopomocy „Integra” przy ul. Potockiego ksiądz Józef Kandefer, proboszcz tutejszej parafii. Wizyta duszpasterska rozpoczęła się od modlitwy, błogosławieństwa księdza proboszcza i śpiewu kolędy. Wszyscy uczestnicy chętnie włączyli się w wspólną dyskusję. Spotkanie było bardzo sympatyczne. Już dziś czekamy na kolejną wizytę w przyszłym roku. Spotkanie opłatkowe | W dniu 21.12.2016r w budynku Dziennego Ośrodka Wsparcia – Klubu Samopomocy „Integra” przy ul. Potockiego odbyło się spotkanie opłatkowe, które sami zorganizowaliśmy. Przygotowywaliśmy się do niego starannie. Prace zaczęliśmy od dekoracji ośrodka. Przystroiliśmy choinkę w salonie. Obok, przy kominku, stanął Mikołaj. Jadalnia i pozostałe pomieszczenia również zostały świątecznie przyozdobione. Okres przed wigilią zajęły nam przygotowania potraw. W menu znalazły się min: barszcz biały z grzybami, pierogi i gołąbki oraz mnóstwo pysznych słodkości. Ucztę wigilijną rozpoczęliśmy od krótkiego programu artystycznego. Czytaliśmy wiersze, śpiewaliśmy kolędy, po czym połamaliśmy się opłatkiem życząc sobie wszelkiej pomyślności w nadchodzący roku. Przez cały czas w tle słychać było płynące z radia kolędy. Czas upłynął nam w miłej i rodzinnej atmosferze, wszyscy wyszliśmy do domów zadowoleni i w świątecznym nastroju. W dniu 22.12.2016 r. obyło się w siedzibie Stowarzyszenia Rodzin „Otwarty Umysł” spotkanie wigilijne. Podopieczni Dziennego Ośrodka Wsparcia- Klubu Samopomocy „Integra” grupy z ul. Kraszewskiego przyszli na nie wraz rodzicami. Stoły zostały pięknie przystrojone własnoręcznie wykonanymi przez podopiecznych stroikami i ozdobami świątecznymi. Uczestnicy recytowali świąteczne wiersze księdza Jana Twardowskiego oraz Emilii Waśniowskiej i przy akompaniamencie gitary śpiewali piękne polskie kolędy. Po części artystycznej dzieliliśmy się opłatkiem składając sobie nawzajem świąteczne i noworoczne życzenia. Następnie wzięliśmy udział w przygotowanej wieczerzy wigilijnej. Bardzo smakowały nam wigilijne potrawy zwłaszcza barszcz czerwony z uszkami. Tematy rozmów przy stole były iście świąteczne, rozmawialiśmy między innymi o regionalnych tradycjach świątecznych, planach na zbliżające się Święta, w tle słychać było kolędy. Podczas spotkania wigilijnego przeżyliśmy wiele wzruszających chwil i na długo pozostanie ono w naszej pamięci. Zabawa Andrzejkowa | Na tę zabawę czekaliśmy z wielką niecierpliwością. Wiązało się z nią wiele emocji. Mowa tu o zabawie Andrzejkowej przy ul. Potockiego, czyli o wspólnym, miłym i ciekawym spędzaniu czasu. Nie mogło się obejść bez tańca i smakowicie przygotowanego posiłku. Pierwszą potrawą był bigos, a następnie każdy mógł skosztować ciast i sałatek, które wspólnie przygotowywaliśmy. Podczas posiłku wywiązały się bardzo ciekawe rozmowy i dyskusje. Tym bardziej, że mieliśmy wcześniej zaproszonych gości. Dzielili się oni z nami swoimi doświadczeniami. Bawiliśmy się przy dobrej muzyce i we wspaniałej atmosferze. Wszyscy wróciliśmy do domu pełni wrażeń i bardzo zadowoleni, że tak sympatycznie można spędzić czas wśród osób, które tak dobrze znamy. W dniu 23 listopada bawiliśmy się wspólnie na Andrzejkach przy ul. Kraszewskiego 1. Zabawę poprowadziły Panie socjoterapeutki Madzia i Gosia. Podczas imprezy nie zabrakło takich wróżb jak: przekuwanie serca szpilką z imionami, malowanie farbami swojej przyszłości, wróżby pt. „Kim będę?”. Bardzo podobały nam się zabawy sprawnościowe z chustą animacyjną Klanza, w tym odbijanie balonami. Zabawa taneczna przysporzyła nam mnóstwo radości. Bawiliśmy się przy takich przebojach jak „Bałkanica” zespołu Piersi, czy „Jesteś szalona” w wykonaniu zespołu Boys. Hitem imprezy stał się dziecięcy przebój pt. „Jedzie pociąg z daleka”, przy którym nasze nogi same rwały się to tańca. Po energetycznej zabawie czekał na nas poczęstunek. Humory dopisały wszystkim SPOTKANIE WIELKANOCNE | W dniu 02.04.2015 r. zorganizowano spotkanie wielkanocne dla uczestników, rodziców i kadry Dziennego Ośrodka Wsparcia – Klubu Samopomocy „Integra”. Uczestnicy z lokalu przy ul. Potockiego 1 w ramach pracowni kulinarnej samodzielnie przygotowali posiłki i upiekli ciasto dla podopiecznych z lokalu przy ul. Kraszewskiego 1. Panie terapeutki udekorowały stoły i salę terapeutyczną w ozdoby wielkanocne. Spotkanie rozpoczęło się od tradycyjnego podzielenia jajkiem i życzeń. Następnie wśród przepełnionych ciepłem rozmów spożywano jajka w sosie tatarskim sałatki, ciasto marchewkowe, szarlotkę. Powstała atmosfera udzieliła się wszystkim, kiedy przyszedł czas zakończenia, wszyscy niechętnie rozchodzili się do domu.

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Positivity is a choice. Make it part of your morning routine with Positive Panda. Be happier, stay motivated and achieve your goals. ☀️One motivation a day 📱On your home screen with Widget 🔔Daily reminder notification ❤️Collect the ones you love 🤩Share positivity and inspire others 🚫Free with no ads What is Positive Panda and what does it do? Positive Panda is a simple app that provides you with a motivational thought or quote every day. The goal is to help you stay motivated, achieve your goals, and spread positivity to those around you. Where did the idea for the app come from? The idea is inspired by this quote from the Dalai Lama: “Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.” By taking a moment of reflection in the morning on something positive, you can set your mindset and have a positive impact on the rest of your day. How do I install Positive Panda on my iPhone or iPad? To install Positive Panda, simply go to the App Store app on your iPhone or iPad and search for "Positive Panda." Once you find the app, tap "Get" to download and install it on your device. Alternatively you can tap on the "Download on the App Store" button at the bottom of this page How do I use the Positive Panda Widget on my home screen? To add the Positive Panda Widget to your home screen, first make sure you have the app installed on your device. Then, long-press on your home screen to enter jiggle mode, tap the "+" button at the top-left corner of the screen, search for "Positive Panda" in the Widget gallery, select the size of the widget you want, and tap "Add Widget." How often will I receive motivational quotes from Positive Panda? You will receive one motivational quote every day. Can I customize the time of day I receive my daily motivational quote? Yes, you can customize the time of day you receive your daily motivational quote the first time you launch the app or in the app settings after that. How can I save my favorite motivational quotes? Press the heart button located under the text. The heart will turn red to signify that it has been saved. You can find a list of all the items you saved by pressing the profile button. How can I share a motivational quote with others? Press the share button (an arrow pointing up from a rectangle) located under the text to share it. Does Positive Panda require an internet connection to work? The main functionality of the app does not require an internet connection. You can view your daily motivation, receive the reminder notification, and use the widget while offline. However, some additional features such as sharing may require an internet connection Can I turn off the daily motivational quote notifications if I don't want to receive them? Yes, you can turn off the daily motivational quote notifications either in the app settings or in your iOS settings app. What devices and OS versions are supported by Positive Panda? Positive Panda requires an iPhone or iPad running iOS 16 or later. How can I report a bug or issue with the app? If you encounter any bugs or issues with the app, please contact us at [email protected]. How can I provide feedback or suggestions for Positive Panda? We always welcome feedback and suggestions from our users. If you have any ideas for improving the app or would like to share your thoughts with us, please don't hesitate to contact us at [email protected]. Can I suggest a motivational quote to be included in Positive Panda? Yes, we are always looking for new and inspiring quotes to add to the app. If you have a suggestion, please send it to [email protected]. We appreciate your input!

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On the second hand, a very common tag is functional-style concept. At every step, terms like closures, currying, folding, come to our ears and eyes. Surely as a programmer you want to read a good book about it. This book should be absorbing, have good style of writing and practical examples. And first of all, author should have a considerable knowledge about things he describes. Honestly, the only thing that bothered me in this book is the small emphasis of graphic representation in highlighting important terms. This review was originally written for the review zone at Toruń JUG.

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Exploring the Unique Services Offered by Urgent Care Centers Urgent care centers have become an essential part of the healthcare landscape, offering a blend of services that cater to a wide range of medical needs. These facilities are designed to provide immediate care for non-life-threatening conditions, bridging the gap between primary care physicians and emergency rooms. Comprehensive Medical Services Urgent care centers are equipped to handle a variety of medical issues. They offer treatment for minor injuries such as sprains, fractures, cuts, and burns. Unlocking the Power of Muscle Testing in Medical Diagnosis Muscle testing, also known as applied kinesiology, is a non-invasive diagnostic technique used by some healthcare professionals to assess the body’s overall health. This method involves testing the strength or weakness of specific muscles to identify imbalances or issues within the body. While not universally accepted in the medical community, many practitioners and patients swear by its effectiveness in providing valuable insights into one’s health. Detecting Nutritional Deficiencies One key benefit of muscle testing is its ability to detect nutritional deficiencies in the body. When to Visit an Urgent Care: A Guide for Those Unexpected Health Issues Life is unpredictable, and sometimes, unexpected health issues can arise. While some may require a trip to the emergency room, others may not be severe enough to warrant such a visit. This is where urgent care comes in. Urgent care facilities are designed to provide medical attention for non-life-threatening illnesses or injuries that need immediate treatment. Knowing when to visit an urgent care center can save you time and money while still ensuring that you receive the necessary medical care. The Importance of Regular Health Checkups for Your Well-Being Taking care of your health is crucial to maintaining a good quality of life. One way to ensure that you are on track with your health goals is by getting regular checkups. Whether you are feeling healthy or have specific health concerns, routine health checkups can help detect potential issues early on and prevent serious health problems later. In this blog post, we will discuss the importance of scheduling regular health checkups and how they can benefit your overall well-being. Find Relief from Weight Loss Medication Side Effects with Side Effect Treatment Services If you have ever tried weight loss medication, you may have experienced side effects such as nausea, diarrhea, or trouble sleeping. While these effects may be tolerable for some people, they can be bothersome or even debilitating for others. If you are having difficulty managing these side effects, you may want to consider seeking side effect treatment services. In this blog post, you’ll learn what side effect treatment is, how it can help, and where to find it. Your Guide to General Surgical Services: Everything You Need to Know Surgical services are used for a variety of reasons and can be necessary for treating a wide range of medical conditions. General surgical services refer to procedures involving the abdomen and digestive tract and the removal of tumors and growths. While any surgical procedure can be intimidating, understanding the process and what to expect can ease your concerns. Pre-operative preparations Before undergoing general surgical services, it’s important to prepare yourself both physically and mentally. Unveiling the of a Weight Loss Treatment Clinic Weight loss can feel like an uphill battle for many. Understanding this struggle, a weight loss treatment clinic offers a range of services designed to guide individuals on their journey towards healthier living. These services aim to provide a personalized approach to weight management that goes beyond the typical diet and exercise regimens. Personalized Weight Loss Plans Every individual’s weight loss journey is unique, which is why personalized weight loss plans are at the core of the clinic’s services. 5 Reasons Why ASC Accreditation Is Crucial Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs) are growing in popularity as a more affordable and convenient alternative to traditional hospital procedures. However, patients need to be assured that the same level of safety and quality standards that exist in hospitals are present in ASCs. That’s where accreditation comes in. This blog will discuss the top five reasons why ASC accreditation is crucial. Patient Safety The safety of patients should be the primary concern of any healthcare facility, including ASCs. The Merits of Medical Marijuana Card Evaluation for Stress, Pain, and Anxiety The exploration of alternative treatments for managing symptoms of stress, pain, and anxiety has been undertaken by many individuals. One such alternative is medical marijuana, whose therapeutic benefits have been recognized in various studies. A medical marijuana card evaluation should be considered by those experiencing these symptoms. Understanding Medical Marijuana Medical marijuana refers to the use of a marijuana plant to help treat symptoms of illness and other conditions. It has been found that cannabinoids found in marijuana interact with specific receptors in the body to create health effects. Maximizing The Benefits Of Your Urgent Care Visit Urgent care clinics make a great alternative option to emergency rooms when you have a medical problem that is not life-threatening, such as a minor cut, injury, or illness. Offering more extended hours and walk-in availability, they provide immediate, efficient medical attention. As a patient, optimizing your experience in these settings can save you valuable time, money, and stress. This guide will provide practical advice to ensure you make the most of your urgent care visits. Questions You May Have Before Carpal Tunnel Surgery Carpal tunnel can cause wrist pain, stiffness, and tingling that runs up your arm and down into your hand. Non-invasive treatments like ice therapy, physical therapy, and massage may keep it under control for a while. But many patients with carpal tunnel syndrome eventually end up needing surgery. Here are some questions you may have if your doctor has recommended carpal tunnel surgery for you. Where Will the Incision Be? When And Why Drug And Alcohol Testing Is Necessary Drug and alcohol testing is an essential process used by various organizations to ensure public safety and prevent substance abuse. It can be helpful to understand the different types of drug & alcohol testing methods available and the reasons why testing is necessary. Urine Testing One of the most common forms of drug testing involves urine testing. This method is non-invasive and relatively easy to administer. Urine samples can be collected on-site or at a designated laboratory and tested for the presence of drugs and/or alcohol. Getting Your Health Assessed At A Medical Clinic Feeling good can lead to someone unknowingly neglecting their health and failing to get occasional health checkups. An occasional checkup can prevent health problems from silently becoming more severe due to someone not knowing that the problem exists. If it has been a long time since you last had a health checkup, a phone call to a medical clinic can put you on the right track. Keep in mind that your mental health is just as important as your physical health, and can actually affect your physical health if left untreated. Spine Deformity Surgery: Correcting Your Misconceptions Spine deformity surgery is a medical procedure that has helped countless people improve their quality of life by correcting issues with their spinal alignment. However, despite its efficacy and safety, many myths and misconceptions can lead to unnecessary fear and hesitation. Myth: Spine Deformity Surgery Always Results In Permanent Back Stiffness A pervasive myth about spine deformity surgery is that it always results in a permanently stiff and immobile back. While it is true that some stiffness and decreased range of motion is expected after surgery, this should fade as the patient recovers and completes their physical rehabilitation. Your Guide To Facial Botox Many people are unhappy with wrinkles or fine lines. There are many ways to prevent and treat wrinkles, but Botox is one of the most popular options. If you would like to know more, keep reading. How Does Botox Work? Botox interferes with nerve signals, which prevents some muscles from contracting. This makes it great at fighting certain wrinkles. When you move your face (raise your eyebrows, squint your eyes, smile, frown, etc. Physical Therapy | What You Need To Know If you’ve had a recent injury or illness, your doctor has likely recommended physical therapy as part of your rehabilitation. Physical therapy is one of the most popular healthcare services available today. But what is physical therapy? How does it work? And why is it so important for your health and well-being? Here’s why physical therapy is so beneficial for many patients. What is Physical Therapy? Physical therapy (PT) is a type of healthcare treatment focusing on rehabilitation and helping people recover from injury, improve mobility, reduce pain, or relearn certain skills. How To Make It Through A Colonoscopy Prep A colonoscopy is a procedure that tests for colon cancer. If your doctor has advised you to schedule a colonoscopy, you may feel nervous. You might have heard unpleasant things about the procedure and not know what to expect. You also have to go through a prep stage. However, if you prepare properly, the process may go smoother. Here are some tips to make it through a colonoscopy prep. Eat Less Fiber Before Your Colonoscopy Why You Need A Healthcare Advocate As the healthcare industry continues to evolve, patients are increasingly taking on more responsibility for their own care. While this is generally good, it can also be overwhelming and confusing. That’s where healthcare advocates come in. Healthcare advocates are professionals who help patients navigate the healthcare system, understand their options, and make informed decisions about their care. Here are a few ways a healthcare advocate can benefit you. Acts as Your Liaison Benefits Of DIEP Flap Breast Reconstruction DIEP stands for deep inferior epigastric perfortars. This is a type of breast reconstruction surgery that is done after dealing with cancer removal and treatment. While DIEP flap breast reconstruction is not the only option available to patients, many choose it because there are so many benefits that can come from it. To help you make your decision, you will want to spend a little time reading through the following key benefits of DIEP flap breast reconstruction: Struggling With Your Sleep Quality? Look Into CBD Products While everyone has the occasional night of poor sleep, chronic sleep deprivation can have deleterious side effects, such as affecting your cardiovascular system, immune system, and hormone levels. People with poor sleep habits may be prone to accidents and may suffer from cognitive impairment, such as having difficulties remembering or learning new things. If your sleep quality is suffering, it’s important to reach out to your doctor for more help. If your doctor gives you the go-ahead, you may want to investigate nighttime sleep aids, such as CBD products. Three Benefits Of Mental Health Transitional Living One must transition to their previous environment after being released from rehab or a mental facility. It becomes overwhelming to adjust to your previous lifestyle, especially if you had many responsibilities. As such, mental health transitional living offers the best solution. You get an opportunity to stay in a house full of people who understand your condition and are dedicated to helping you overcome it. Furthermore, they will help you transition to your previous lifestyle by allowing your friends and family to visit. When You May Need Physical Therapy Physical therapy is a form of treatment that can help relieve pain and improve mobility. It can be used to treat a wide range of issues. Find out more about when you may need to seek this type of treatment. When You’ve Been Injured After an injury, you should receive the proper medical care to ensure a full and healthy recovery. Depending on the extent of the injury, you may need to undergo physical therapy to regain full use of the affected area. The Benefits Of Reiki For Cancer Patients Reiki is a type of energy healing that was founded in Japan but is now found all over the globe. It can be used for a wide range of ailments, from depression to IBS. However, there is one group of people, in particular, who can benefit from reiki healing: cancer patients. As a cancer patient, you should not give up your doctor’s recommended treatment for reiki. However, you should consider adding reiki healing to your treatment plan. Customer Service Industry? CPR Certification May Help You Get Promoted To Manager If you are in the customer service industry and are looking for ways to bolster your chances of getting promoted to a managerial position, it’s a good idea to get a CPR certification from a reputable health association. Here are several benefits of having a CPR certification when you are trying to get promoted and how to get your certification. Benefits of Having a CPR Certification The most profound benefit of having a CPR certification is being able to save someone’s life should you ever be faced with someone going into cardiac arrest in your presence or nearby. Which Natural Hormones Affect Your Ability To Lose Weight? When you have the desire to lose weight, you may be advised to eat healthier and get more exercise. However, there are other factors that can also impact weight loss. The body produces many different hormones that can also determine how successful one is at losing weight. These are some of the natural hormones that affect your ability to lose weight. Insulin Insulin is a natural hormone that is produced by the pancreas. Three Top Health Issues That Affect Women and How to Manage Them While most people might argue that health is a generic topic, your biological makeup usually impacts how your body deals with various health issues. The information available about the different health needs for men and women increases each day. Currently, women know more about their unique health needs than before, and this information is instrumental in preventive health care. Here are the top health issues affecting women and how to manage them for a healthy and comfortable life. Three Weight Loss Programs To Try If you have been paying any attention to the diet world, you know that there are many weight loss programs available. In fact, you may find that there are more diet plans than one person can even try in their lifetime. Are you unsure which program is right for you? These are some of the weight loss diet programs you should consider. 1. Intermittent Fasting If you are going to try one diet, intermittent fasting may be one of the easiest because fasting does not require adding a lot of new foods to your diet. Helpful Tips For Saving Money At Your Local Medical Clinic Seeing a doctor when you’re sick or injured is important, and it’s important to see your doctor for various types of preventive care, too. However, it’s not a secret that healthcare can be expensive. You might have spent a lot of money at your local medical clinic in the past, but there are ways that you can save money but still get the care that you need. For example, following these tips should help. Tips To Transition Your Parent Into Assisted Memory Care An Alzheimer’s disease or dementia diagnosis is never easy and as the child or caregiver of an ailing senior, you want to ensure that your loved one receives the care they need. An assisted memory care facility is the ideal environment because it has the cognitive assistance, social interactions, and specialized care that your parent or loved one needs. If you are planning the move to a memory care facility with your parent, here are a few tips to help make the transition easier. Tips for Taking Care of Your Hearing Aid When it comes to taking care of your hearing aid, there are a few things that you should know. With the right maintenance and care, your device can work properly for years without having any issues. However, if you don’t keep up with the routine cleaning and checking as suggested by your doctor or audiologist, then you might notice some problems start to arise. Here are some tips for taking better care of your hearing aids so that they last longer. Tips For Anyone Beginning Angina Treatment Being diagnosed with angina can be scary and relieving, all at the same time. Many people diagnosed with angina previously thought they were having a heart attack, so hearing that it is only angina can be comforting. At the same time, this is a condition that needs to be managed and treated so that it does not progress to causing an actual heart attack. Your doctor will prescribe the angina medications that are best for you. Tips When Choosing Medial Transport Patients have unique needs requiring them to travel under specialized care and maximum comfort. Thus, it is advisable to hire the services of a medical transportation company. These companies have specialized vehicles and professional staff to transport patients to and from medical facilities. However, one has to consider the safety and convenience of the patient, among other factors. This post offers several tips for selecting a medical transportation company. Emergency Care PRP Injections Might Be The Solution For Your Lower Back Pain If you’ve been experiencing lower back pain and you can’t get relief with the usual treatments, or you just prefer a more natural type of treatment, talk to your doctor about PRP injections. These injections stimulate the growth of healthy tissue. They’re used for a number of medical and cosmetic procedures, including the treatment of lower back pain. Here’s how these injections work for back pain. The Injections Use Your Own Platelets For Healing Amazing Advice For Selecting A Family Doctor If you have a growing family, getting them to see a family doctor is important for their overall healthcare. They can receive services that ensure they’re healthy and keep them that way for a long time. If you need to find a new family doctor, use these tips for an easier process. Make Sure They Care for You as a Potential Patient In order for you and every other member of your family to enjoy seeing a family doctor on a consistent basis, you want them to care about what they do. How Do You Know When to Go to Urgent Care? There may come a time in your life when you can’t wait a few days to see your regular physician. Certain illnesses and injuries require immediate attention. That is why it is a blessing to have access to urgent care services. Urgent care allows you to obtain treatment for minor conditions without making an appointment. Here are a few signs you need to go to an urgent care center. You Have a Rash 3 FAQ About Endometriosis Every woman has a menstrual cycle. The primary reason for menstruation is to prepare the body for pregnancy. However, some women experience difficulty and pain with their monthly cycle. These women might have a condition called endometriosis. Women with this condition may have a hard time becoming pregnant. If you would like to know about this disorder, here are the answers to three frequently asked questions about endometriosis. 1. What Causes Endometriosis? Applying For A Medical Cannabis Card A medical cannabis card is a state-issued ID card that allows a patient to legally purchase, consume, and sometimes grow cannabis for medical purposes. Each state has slightly different rules about how to apply and who is allowed to, but some aspects of applying are the same in every state. This article will cover some of the comparable basics of applying for a medical marijuana card. Meet With Your Doctor Signs You Need To Make A Pediatrician Appointment For Your Adolescent Child The adolescent stage can be a challenging one, both for the child and for their parents. This is a time of change. The child’s body starts changing, and so does their disposition. As a parent, it is important to know the difference between what could be a normal age-related change in your child, and what could be a sign of illness or disease. Here are some common signs you need to schedule a pediatrician appointment for your adolescent child. Joint Pain In Cats: How Compounded Pet Medication Can Make A Difference Like humans, cats can end up with joint pain that negatively impacts their range of motion, making it far more challenging for them to get around. Pet owners who have cats should pay attention to the signs of joint pain in their feline friends to determine if something is going on. If so, bringing the animal to the veterinarian is important because the veterinarian may prescribe the animal with compounded pet medication designed specifically for that animal and its conditions. How Hemp And Hemp Seeds Help Those Who Do Not Like Eating Fish Fish and seafood are often a love-it-or-hate-it kind of meal. Those who do not enjoy fish do themselves a great disservice, though, because these foods are high in omega-3 fatty acids. As a result, they may need to consider high-quality Colorado-grown hemp as a way to improve the dosage of these items and to become a happier and healthier person. Read on to see how Colorado-grown hemp seeds might be an ideal snack for you. 4 Effective Tinnitus Treatment Options According to the Mayo Clinic, tinnitus affects up to 20 percent of people. Tinnitus is often referred to as ringing in the ears. Besides ringing, some people may experience other noises in their ears, including buzzing, clicking, humming, or hissing. Tinnitus is not a serious issue, but it can be annoying and may slightly reduce one’s quality of life. Patients may experience tinnitus because of age-related hearing loss, changes in the ear bone, earwax blockage, exposure to loud noises, and certain medications. Three Common Sports Injuries And Their Treatments If you’re an active person, you’re probably familiar with the fine line between muscle soreness and actual injury. Unfortunately, sports injuries are all too common. Some minor injuries will go away on their own with adequate rest, but others require medical treatment. A sports medicine doctor can provide the appropriate therapies to heal sports injuries. Here are three common athletic injuries and their treatments: 1. Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome Patellofemoral pain syndrome is also known as knee pain or runner’s knee. 3 Keys To A Healthier Pregnancy Whether you just found out you are pregnant or are planning to start a family, the sooner you focus on your health, the better chance you have of experiencing a safe and healthy pregnancy. There are three major considerations that influence you and your baby throughout pregnancy. Supplements Ideally, women of child-bearing age should always take at minimum a multivitamin. If you plan to become pregnant, you may want to switch to a prenatal vitamin. Ready To Lose Weight? 3 Mistakes To Avoid Whether you have a few pounds to lose before a special event or you need to reduce your weight in more dramatic numbers, starting a weight loss program is key. Of course, all weight loss programs are not created equal, but proper understanding can help. If you are ready to lose weight, here are a few mistakes you need to avoid. Not Consulting Your Doctor One of the worst mistakes you can make is not talking with your doctor before starting a weight loss program of any kind. 3 Ways To Reduce Back Pain Without Medication When you have ongoing back pain, finding a way to reduce the problem without using medication or at least avoiding an increase in the medication you use is best. There are several strategies to reduce back pain that do not involve medication. Weight Management In some instances, chronic back pain can be the result of or increased by excess weight, especially if you generally carry excess weight around the abdomen. This extra weight can pull your spine forward and increase stress on your back muscles. 3 Common Ankle Injuries: Which One Is Plaguing You? Does your ankle hurt? Most people are quick to say they have a sprained or strained ankle at the first sign of ankle pain, but in fact, not all ankle pain is due to a sprain. There are actually four common ankle injuries, and it’s important to figure out which one you’re really dealing with so you can seek the proper ankle injury treatment. Achilles Bursitis The Achilles tendon is that large tendon that runs down the back of your ankle, connecting your calf to your heel. Three Things to Know About Men's Hair Restoration Losing hair is something that many men deal with at some point in their lifetimes. In fact, over 50 million men in the US deal with some amount of hair loss. Hair loss is genetic and for some men can start in their twenties. It’s something that commonly happens with age. While many men embrace their hair loss, others seek to stop it in its tracks. There are plenty of men’s hair restoration treatments available that can help. 3 Life-Changing Reasons For Seeking Help From A Psychiatrist For Mental Problems Although you can’t see them, mental problems can be just as severe as medical issues. Anxiety, depression, and panic disorders are just some mental conditions that are on the rise today. If you’re looking for an effective treatment, consider seeing a psychiatrist. They can help in so many impactful ways. Provide Insight On the Disorder Not knowing why you feel a certain way mentally can be scary. To gain some insight and have the tools to better tackle a mental disorder, though, you can get assistance from an experienced psychiatrist. Signs That You May Have A Serious Knee Condition Many people never really realize how essential the knees are to the overall functioning of the body until a serious injury occurs. You need your knees to stand, walk, run, crouch, and put your body into a number of other positions. If you’ve been living with knee pain for some time you may have become so used to the dull ache that you don’t really consider the fact that you might have a serious condition on your hands. 4 Tips to Manage Your Asthma During the Winter When the air gets colder and the temperature drops, it is often difficult for those who suffer from asthma to keep their condition under control. The cold air causes the body to increase mucus production. At the same time, the dryness of the air irritates the airways. The combination results in breathing difficulty. Luckily, there are a few things that you can do this winter to reduce your risk of asthma attacks while also managing your asthma symptoms. Breast Density And Mammograms: What You Should Know Breast might look relatively the same on the surface, but under the surface, the makeup of breasts vary greatly from person to person. If you’ve had a mammogram in the past, one area of difference you may have discovered is density. However, you might not have the right idea about what density is, or no idea at all. Learn more about breast density and how it affects your mammograms. Breast Density Benefits From Laser Hair Removal Of Unwanted Facial Hair So many women wrestle with removing hair from their facial skin. The hair is embedded in your skin. You use tweezers to pull the hair strands out. It’s a battle to do so, since the hair wants to remain in place. Unwanted hair growing above your lips and on your chin as well as other parts of your face is distressing. You spend hours pulling out the annoying hair strands only for them to return next day as a pattern of freshly emerging hair stubs. 3 Reasons To Choose An Urgent Care Facility More Americans are becoming aware of the need to be able to access medical services whenever they need them. If an issue isn’t serious enough to warrant going to the emergency room, it usually means that you’ll have to wait until normal operating hours to see your doctors. However, this could mean having to endure hours of discomfort which is hardly ideal. Urgent care centers and walk-in clinics have come up as a solution to customers who for one reason or another are unable to get the treatment they want when they want it, and there are many reasons why you should already have one in mind. Opioid Addiction Treatments It is an unfortunate reality that opioid addiction is a major problem throughout the country. Individuals that are finding themselves faced with this addiction can face severe consequences as a result of this addiction. A prevalence of misinformation about opioid addiction can lead to individuals being unprepared to take back control. Myth: Individuals Mostly Become Addicted To Opioids Through Street Drugs Sadly, many individuals that find themselves addicted to opioids will have started this problem as a result of medications that were prescribed by their doctors. Immunizations: They Are Not Just For Kids Anymore No one likes going to the doctor to get a shot or immunization, but it is still the best way to keep kids and adults safe from some diseases and illnesses. There are a growing number of things that people are getting immunizations for, and while most of the time we think growing to the doctor for shots happens as a child, adults, especially those in higher risk groups, are getting their fair share of going to the doctor once a year for their immunizations too. 4 Ways To Alleviate Your Migraine Pain Without Prescription Medication A migraine is a severe headache that may be accompanied by nausea, vomiting, dizziness, and sensitivity to light or sound. Many migraine suffers report that even infrequent migraine headaches interfere with their quality of life. Prescription medications are available to treat and prevent migraines, but for some individuals, these medications are not an option due to the potential for side effects or addiction. Check out a few ways you can alleviate your migraine-related pain without prescription pills. How To Treat Obstructive Sleep Apnea A diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a medical concern. This disorder increases your risks for serious health problems, such as chronic acid reflux, high blood pressure, erectile dysfunction, diabetes and heart disease. OSA affects around 25 million adults in the United States, which increases the need for sleep apnea doctors. This sleep disorder causes you to stop breathing several times throughout the night. It can be from a few seconds to over a minute. 3 Practical Tips When Preparing For Your Abortion The decision to terminate a pregnancy is never an easy one, but once you have decided an abortion is what makes the most sense for your situation you need to know what to expect. Following these tips will ensure you are prepared and that the day of your appointment goes as smoothly as possible: Have a Plan for Resting Afterward After a surgical abortion, you may experience mild cramping and pain, and will likely feel tired and a bit woozy. Body Sculpting Can Help Manage Weight Gain Caused By The Thyroid As we age, most people end up gaining at least a little weight. Unfortunately, some people may end up gaining a large amount due to poor thyroid action. This condition can cause a person to fall into a cycle of severe weight gain that is hard to escape. However, body sculpting can help manage this problematic condition. Poor Thyroid Action Can Cause Weight Gain Hypothyroidism is a condition caused by a weak or poorly acting thyroid gland. How To Know If You Might Need Pelvic Organ Prolapse Surgery If you have recently heard about people getting the pelvic organ prolapse surgery because of problems with their bladder and you want to know if this is something that you should be looking into, you will want to keep reading. 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I Never Knew It Could Be This Bad! How To Soothe A Colicky Baby If your newborn is suffering from colic, you’re probably enduring plenty of sleepless nights, and restless days. While friends and family members may have warned you about colic, nothing can adequately prepare you for the ailment. In most cases, baby’s will outgrow colic in a matter of weeks. However, some baby’s suffer through colic for several months. That period of time can be stressful for you, and uncomfortable – or downright painful – for your baby. Understanding Capsular Contracture And Breast Augmentation If you are interested in breast augmentation, then you should speak with your plastic surgeon about the various risks associated with the operation. Risks that include bleeding, infection, respiratory distress, and side effects from anesthesia are all common with these types of surgical procedures. When it comes to implant surgery, you also need to worry about something called capsular contracture. 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Three Treatment Options For Tongue Cancer If you have been diagnosed with tongue cancer, you may be concerned about your next steps and possible cancer treatment options. Here are three possible treatment options for tongue cancer. Surgical excision It may be possible for your cancer to be surgically removed. Some dentists are able to do this, but it’s likely that you will need to be referred to an oral surgeon for this procedure. The surgeon will use a scalpel to carefully cut away the entirety of your tongue tumor as well as a thin layer of healthy tissue around the tumor. Cosmetic Dentistry For Athletes: Which Procedures Are Most Reliable For You? Cosmetic dental work is something that most people dream about having done. If you are an athlete involved in contact sports such as football, hockey, and soccer, some dental work may be better for you than others. 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Why Your Child May Require General Anesthesia 4 Services Provided By At Home Healthcare Agencies If you have a loved one who is no longer able to live independently, you have likely considered assisted living facilities or nursing homes. However, if your loved one is still mostly independent but could benefit from assistance with daily tasks, at home healthcare may be a better option. Here is an explanation of the services that at home healthcare agencies provide to help you make the best choice for your loved one. 5 Treatments For Sleep Apnea Sufferers Sleep apnea is a serious sleep disorder that causes you to stop breathing multiple times during the night. Every time you stop breathing, you wake up briefly, which destroys your quality of sleep and makes you feel exhausted the next day. Fortunately, there are many treatments available for this serious problem. Here are five treatments to discuss with your doctor. 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Chiropractic Treatment For Sciatica Many people make the mistake of believing that chiropractic is only used to treat back pain. While chiropractors are highly qualified in this area, there are many spinal conditions that cause pain in other parts of the body. One such condition is sciatica, that is characterized by a sudden onset of pain in the leg. Classifying Sciatica Sciatica itself isn’t a medical condition; rather, it is the term used to refer to the symptoms of an underlying condition. Tracking With Teens: Three Dangerous Drug Trends If you are above the age of 40, drug use when you were a teenager was…well, easy to understand. While serious drug addiction occurs in every generation, there was a time when it was at least a fairly small battleground. Drugs of abuse were limited to alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, and a few hallucinogens. Serious consequences and death occurred through the use of these drugs. However, today’s drug use battleground is so large, and the battles so deadly, that you may just need to put a seat belt on before reading what teens are using to get high today. 4 Tips For A Restful Night When You Start Sleeping With A CPAP Machine If you have recently been diagnosed with sleep apnea, your doctor may have decided to treat your condition with a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine. However, you may be having some difficulty adjusting to using it every night. If so, use the following four tips for a restful night when you start sleeping with the machine. Avoid Eating Anything Heavy Or Spicy Before Bed By itself, sleep apnea could contribute to your heartburn symptoms. Lupus And Your Eyes: Prognosis And Protection Lupus is an autoimmune disease that affects nerves, skin, muscles, and tissues. The body’s immune system targets healthy cells, which can lead to a number of complications. 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The font size cannot be changed in my Linux distribution, and there is little or no choice of font. I realize fonts can be drawn - but can they be drawn in fields, text-lists etc.? Fonts in Linux is a long story I am told. But, can Freetype, http://www.freetype.org be incorporated into Rebol in the same way the draw dialect was? posted by: TR 19-Mar-2015/18:43:14-7:00 Fonts work in my Linux distribution (Tahrpup 6.0), for fields and text, etc. same as they do in Windows. Just write say, field font-size 22 font-name "Ubuntu". But, first, be sure that the named font, "Ubuntu" in this case, is actually installed to the Linux Operating System using the Linux distribution's font manager. The problem of not being able to resize fonts might be caused by the default font named in REBOL'S VID for say FIELD, is "Helvetica". If the Helvetica font is not installed to the Linux Operating System, then there will be font issues in REBOL. The fixed-fonts from www.1001freefonts.com I installed to Tahrpup 6 worked with REBOL. Another font source might be http://www.unifont.org/fontguide The Linux font problems might arise because Rebol Technologies might be assuming that Helevtica is included in all operating systems - which it is not. Maybe including a fonts specified in the VID styles with the REBOL View release might avoid the confusion. Or at least a note in the readme file. There is a readme file with the release? Or a friendly get started on the right foot tutorial? posted by: Ralph 3-Jul-2015/23:27:45-7:00

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The number working fulltime decreased total, but those who have been employed worked extra weeks yearly. Things You Can Do With Mexican Women They persist as a end result of we frequently fail to tell apart amongst women of different social backgrounds, and since we assume that progress is a continuum with the 19th century flowing forward into the mid-20th century and to modern-day Mexico. Unfortunately, the Black Legend of Latin American backwardness and inferiority is very a lot nicely and alive, and still offering the lenses by way of which we view Latin America–often, as I hope I’ve convinced you, leading us astray. The fertility of girls of Mexican origin assumed center stage in the debates surrounding this controversial proposition, which was a measure designed to deny undocumented immigrants access to schooling and well being care companies. Proponents of the « Save Our State » initiative persistently alluded to the excessive fertility of Mexican women as one of many major problems with latest immigration from Mexico . The very substance of the coverage prescriptions of Proposition 187 assumes that the allure of social benefits (i.e., well being care, training, welfare) is the driving motivation for Mexican women https://latinowomen.org/mexican-women to cross the border to bear their kids on U.S. soil. There is no clearer marker of this phenomenon—that is, the construct of Mexican women’s fertility as a social problem—than the passage of Proposition 187, proposed in 1994. The initiative, passed by California voters, was intended to take sturdy and deliberate measures to « Save Our State » from Mexican immigration. The marketing campaign denied prenatal care and different social providers to undocumented immigrants, particularly these of Mexican origin, and notably women and children. One third of the sample (31.9%) reported having no less than one continual situation. More than half of the pattern migrated to the NYCA from city communities in Mexico (54.2%), about one-third (31.6%) migrated from semi-urban areas, and fewer than one sixth (14.3%) did so from rural communities. Most ladies weren’t acculturated; 74% of them have been categorized as traditional. About half of the pattern (49.1%) was categorized as sedentary, and greater than two-thirds (67.4%) of respondents thought that fresh fruits and vegetables had been more expensive than different meals decisions in their communities . Age, age squared, education and having had kids had been included as socio-demographic indicators. Obtain The Scoop on Mexican Women Until you are Too Late Fed up with violence, Mexico’s feminist movement has turn out to be a key source of opposition to the president. This book presents a rare perception into feminist influence on many areas of social life, and shall be an important textual content for students and researchers in Gender Studies and Mexican or Latin American Studies. Women from each of the most important sending areas displayed enhancements in academic attainment. After she was deserted by men through the fighting, Neri raised her personal troops, numbering about 200 workers initially and increasing to 1,000 in simply two months. Her forces adopted her as a end result of she may shoot and experience in addition to any of them. She led her troops through Tabasco and Chiapas on looting raids, horrifying the governor of Guerrero so completely he fled in a shipping crate when he discovered of her strategy. Stories about her contradict one another, so it’s hard to know what to believe. Eventually she was executed, but who gave the order and when it happened stays unknown. She also discovered that the Catholic culture by which the mothers socialized the participants offered the parameters inside which they learn to be good girls in ways in which reduces a girl’s agency to rubble. This is most seen in their relationship to La Virgen de Guadalupe, which is not fastened but fluid and deeply engaged of their means of self-awareness in on a regular basis life. Their tales reveal that the ways race, class, gender, sexuality, and faith intersect have critical implications for our understanding of women’s subjectivity and their mental and bodily health. Therefore, Castañeda-Liles argues that treating these categories of research as mutually exclusive undermines the researcher’s capacity to grasp the fluidity and complexity of women’s lived experience.

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The Sutton Trust seeks to improve social mobility through education. To achieve this, the trust runs a variety of programmes that support talented and highly able students from low to middle-income families. Sutton Scholars is the Trust’s flagship programme that supports highly attaining low to middle-income students in early secondary school – widening the pipeline of talent that feeds initiatives aimed at later age ranges, including the Trust’s sixth form Summer School Programme. Sutton Scholars begins in key stage three (age 11-14) and offers a minimum of two years of attainment-raising and enrichment activity delivered through leading universities. Currently, Sutton Scholars pupils at University College London, Cambridge, Warwick and Nottingham are in the top 5-10 percent of the ability range. The programme fills a gap in provision since the demise of national programmes to support high achievers. The Trust’s vision is, in time, for all of its partner universities to run a Sutton Scholars Programme to feed into other Trust-sponsored initiatives, including Pathways and Summer Schools, as well as institution-specific access programmes. Sofronie has contributed to The Sutton Scholars Programme for two years and has been greatly encouraged by the successful impact this programme has had on young students. Visit Website: suttontrust.com

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Audio is an excellent tool for lead generation and relationship building. It also makes it easy to produce an info-product that can be used to generate revenue. Audio is a great tool for your marketing mix if you are a service provider, particularly if your service is intimate or personal. If your prospects need to feel safe with you before they consider becoming clients, audio could be a great option. Audio can add a human element to your business. As we all know, people don’t do business with businesses. They do business with people. Audio makes you a person and not a stranger. This is how you begin the relationship building process. You can convert almost all prospects into customers using audio. Audio is generally more engaging than a brochure or sales letter. This allows you to get more responses from your prospects. Your prospect will be more interested in your message if you tap into their senses. It’s difficult to convert prospects into customers if they don’t hear your message. Audio delivers your message more effectively. Research shows that while people can remember 20% of what they read, they will remember 70% of what is said to them. Your prospects must remember your message if you want them to take action on it. You can also differentiate yourself from your competitors by using audio. Even though audio is readily available for even small businesses, many companies still don’t take advantage of this unique marketing opportunity. You can really differentiate yourself from other companies in your industry by incorporating audio into your marketing mix. Your audio can be used to introduce yourself to prospects and explain the services and products you offer. Audio is a great tool to train your customers or provide technical information about your product or service. Audio is more personal than a written instruction guide and can be used with a written manual Tubidy. Educational psychologists claim that listening is the best way to learn. Consider this: According to the same educational psychologists learning increases exponentially when you repeat it. When you use audio to explain technical aspects, your prospects will be able to listen to it repeatedly, which aids in learning. You are, in essence, the expert because you taught them. Audio can be used to share client testimonials. A CD with client testimonials can be purchased, or audio testimonials can be added to your website. Audio product reviews are similar to testimonials. We’ve used audio testimonials for many years, but they are even more powerful than testimonials. Audio can be used to give tips or answer frequently asked questions. It’s also a great branding tool. It’s also portable so prospects can bring your marketing message along with them. They can either put your CD in their car stereo, or download the mp3 to their ipod. Distribution is easy. Audio can be used as a marketing tool to free up time and decrease the amount of work you do. Because you only need to create one presentation, audio allows you automate the sales process. It can be delivered repeatedly. The audio can be distributed to a lot of customers by making multiple copies or uploading an mp3 to your website. It’s an intimate, relationship-building presentation. Audio can also help you leverage your time by filtering out potential prospects. Your CD or mp3 is not only a way to present your marketing message but also your self. You get to know your prospect on a deeper level, and he can decide if you are the right fit for him. Your prospect already has a connection with you through your audio message. You don’t have to spend a lot of time trying to convince him. After listening to your audio, he has already decided. You have more time to work on prospects who are pre-qualified.

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Platform penjualan kembali mewah yang berbasis di London, Signal of the Instances, telah mengakuisisi aset dari perusahaan rintisan Cudoni, yang jatuh ke administrasi pada April 2023. Cudoni bangkrut, dengan alasan meningkatnya biaya hidup dan iklim ekonomi yang harus disalahkan. Dengan langkah strategis ini, Signal of the Instances – yang tumbuh 230% dalam tiga tahun terakhir – akan memimpin sebagai salah satu reseller barang mewah terbesar di Inggris. Akuisisi, yang akan dibiayai secara mandiri oleh pengecer, akan meningkatkan foundation knowledge Signal of the Instances sebesar 35%. Didirikan hampir 50 tahun yang lalu, pada tahun 1976, toko yang berbasis di Chelsea ini terkenal sebagai tujuan untuk membeli dan menjual barang-barang mewah. Pengecer memiliki pengiriman harian pada pukul 10 pagi di situs internet (wearesott.com) dengan complete 5.000 merchandise on-line dan 2.000 merchandise di dalam toko. Ini termasuk trend dari Chanel dan Prada hingga Gucci dan Ganni. Antonia Johnstone, Pemilik dan CEO Signal of the Instances berkomentar: “Di Signal of the Instances, kami bersemangat untuk menghadirkan kehidupan baru pada barang-barang bekas. Kami sangat percaya pada ekonomi sirkular dan untuk memperpanjang siklus hidup pakaian dan aksesori, jadi kami sangat senang bekerja untuk mengakuisisi aset Cudoni. “Kami berbagi nilai pre-loved yang sama, jadi kami juga senang menyambut pelanggan mereka di Signal of the Instances.” Berita ini muncul saat pasar barang mewah bekas sedang booming. Awal tahun ini, Saingan Signal of the Instances Sellier Knightsbridge mengakuisisi Worn, platform reseller superbrand. Klik di sini untuk membaca wawancara TheIndustry.trend dengan Hanushka Toni, Pendiri Sellier.

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About Cell Stretching System Our Cell Stretching Systems [ShellPa] and [ShellPa Pro] have been developed under clos e supervision by Prof. Keiji NARUSE, Department of Cardiovascular Physiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences.Prof. Naruse established a business venture, Strex Inc. and has been working through the research development for the cell culturing systems with mechanical stresses. The research achievement with over 20 years including the establishment of Strex Inc. has been taken over to Strex International, LLC that offers research development for laboratory equipment and medical devices based on the Mechanobiology, and the technologies are applied to our products. What is ShellPa Pro? “ShellPa Pro” is a mechanical cell stretch system developed to replicate the dynamic environment inside the human body and to apply mechanical stress on cells being cultured outside the body. Changes and responses of cultured cells, not obtainable in conventional static cell culture, can be observed. “ShellPa Pro” in addition to the basic functions of “ShellPa”, provides a greater variety of dynamic environments. 《1》 Variety of stretch pattern setting available ●Operating pattern - Sine wave, Square wave, Triangle wave, Saw-tooth wave, etc. ●Stretch velocity - Ultralow-velocity available up to 48 mm/h(with 20% stretch ratio) ●Stretch ratio - Possible up to Max. 20% (in 1% steps) ●Retention of stretching state - Retention of stretching state and non-stretching state for 24 hours ●Setting of continuous stretch frequency - Automatic standstill at the end of the set frequency 《2》 Condition setting by functional touch panel Easy condition setting using simple and functional touch panel of the controller. 《3》 Use of electronic motor with little heat generation. Using a motor with little heat generation to drive the stretch, it will not give a significant impact in the laboratory incubator. ■Stretch chamber specifications The chamber has been developed specifically for the ShellPa series. Cells are observable through a transparent bottom membrane with a microscope. The chamber’s high elasticity and restorative ability enable consistent experiments in ShellPa series.Material：PDMS (Polydimethylsiloxane)Area of base for culturing：4㎝2

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“I take photographs but I’m not a photographer. I see myself as a painter, yet I don’t use paint.” What do you say to those who suggest that your work is neither photography nor Painting? I used a camera to record the images; I later manipulated them by hand into their final form. I think they are more than photographs. I concede that I don’t actually use paint anymore and the artwork remains in the digital domain until it is turned into prints. So perhaps they are half right. Does it matter? People like labels. It defines what they are looking at. Yes, just because it is not easy to define does not diminish its value. Usually it means that there is a lot less similar work about. Why is that bad? Perhaps the less common is harder to accept. And if a body of work falls outside well known categories it becomes invisible. You are right. What we enjoy is dependent on our expectations. If there are no expectations how can they be surpassed? – Or let down? But I like where I am, not being easily classifiable is an interesting state or place to be in. I’m making images I want to see, not what the critics would like to see. Let them make those images. Is all your work photography based? Yes mostly. Some of the photos I take end up as the images you see. But I must emphasise, they are not photographs when I finish with them. I take photographs but I’m not a photographer. I see myself as a painter, yet I don’t use paint. Why don’t you use paint anymore? A lot of photographers don’t use conventional film anymore either. Right now digital painting is the best tool to explore what I’m doing. Don’t you simply just treat the photos with a graphic package? A bit simplistic perhaps but essentially accurate. However, that can be said about any kind of photography. You know, all you have to do is just point the camera and press the button. Click done! What is so hard about that? And someone else usually does the developing, etc. etc… But fundamentally everything is a process. Or ‘processing’ in case of photos. Each stage in a piece of work is going through a process. Even thinking about it is. It is all process X, Y or Z. A certain American painter used to dribble paint on to a canvas on the floor. At the time people were saying anyone can do that. Mostly true, but then they’d end up with their very own Jackson Pollock.

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There was a time when I was young, opinionated and stupid that I thought people who invested their time, energy, intellect, and taxpayers’ money studying ants, termites, fungi, and fossils were nuts. I’m now starting to understand that we can learn a lot from animals and organisms that have occupied our planet very successfully with practically no change in their basic nature for hundreds of millions of years. Here’s why. As he approached his 94th birthday Sir David Attenborough said, “We need to reconnect with nature, for our own health – as well as the Earth’s.” At the time I read that comment I was reading Tamsin Woolley-Barker’s book Teeming: How superorganisms work to build infinite wealth in a finite world. I strongly agree with Sir David and I strongly recommend Tamsin’s book. The essence of Tamsin’s book is that by carefully studying the principles that have enabled the success of the living world over millions of years we can develop a framework to solve our own ability to adapt to change simply because, as Darwin noted, “It’s not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” Tamsin has identified a dozen patterns that contribute to the way in which nature builds infinite wealth – and by that, I mean sustainable wealth creation – a word we’re now frequently hearing but which means many different things to different people. She call this avenue of inquiry, biomimicry. As you read through the 12 patterns, you’ll probably better understand how her work with nature is relevant to business (and society generally.) Her 12 wealth drivers, which are observed directly from the behaviour of nature’s superorganisms, are listed below but first a quick definition – a superorganism is a colony of genetically distinct individuals of the same species that live and work together performing different tasks and no one survives alone. By that definition, humans are superorganisms. Effectively they act as one creature e.g. ants but when you read the book you start to realize humans are not as smart as ants. If you look through the list of wealth drivers she talks about, you can’t help seeing the connection with today’s interconnected social and business landscape – I’ve illustrated this, non-exhaustively, in parentheses and the more I think about it the more it seems to make sense that we are evolving along this path. Superorganisms cultivate Collective Intelligence - By facilitating self-organized networks [The internet and specifically social media – interestingly, the most valuable companies, by market cap, are platform businesses that built on primarily self-organizing networks – e.g. the FAANG group of companies] - By aggregating scattered scraps into something greater [E.G. Jobs’ & Bezos’ concept of connecting the dots to create giant organizations but at a product level see this being a key philosophy of Patagonia – see point 12 for reference.] - By cultivating diversity and independence [Covey’s 7 Habits, specifically habits 1-3 and habit 6, diversity is the key to resilience.] - By communicating open, two-way, always-on conversations [Social media] - By triggering tipping-point decisions with simple rules and feedback loops [Trip Adviser, AirBnB, Amazon reviews etc] Superorganisms rely on Distributed Leadership - Align action around a compelling shared purpose – a better future [The power of WHY e.g. Simon Sinek] - Zip specialised modular teams together as needed [Management 3.0, flat organization structures, and emerging ideas about the need have organizations as a Team of Teams (General Stanley McCrystal) to deal with unpredictable complex events, see also Hamel & Zanini’s book Humanocracy in which they advocate tapping into the human talent pool by removing the overhead burden of bureaucracy. - Distribute leadership to integrate local information with a global vision [realization that diversity and proximity to customers is what drives evolutionary change – global consulting firms are built on this premise] Superorganisms nurture Swarm Creativity - Launch many parallel, low-investment experiments [Agile business model and product development movement that has become the innovation model of choice] - Tune social networks to spread innovation or suppress it [Countless innovation labs e.g. Kraggle.com but also the impact social media has had on the dissemination of real/fake news that leads to swarm behaviour that is socially dysfunctional]Share the work and the wealth, and protect collective value from parasites [University College London – Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose and UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals. See also my Blog post for November 2019] Superorganisms depend on Reciprocity and Sharing - Share the work and wealth and protect collective value from parasites. We’re seeing this in job sharing, the evolution of the GIG economy, and an increasing sensitivity to the failure of capitalism to deal with the issue of wealth sharing. Superorganisms compound Regenerative Value - Build with infinite stuff and regenerate it for compounding wealth [A corporate example of this idea is Patagonia. Visit its website www.patagonia.com and take a look at its Mission and Values – “We’re in business to save our home planet”. It is a great example of how corporate profitability, founder wealth accumulation, and social wealth creation can be aligned. Also read founder Yvon Chouinard’s book Let My People Go Surfing and take note of the 8 philosophies the company subscribes to.]

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PRESS RELEASE: (Pictures below) Samsung Rogue (Reviewed Here! ) <– Check out the review The Samsung Rogue is a sleek messaging phone with a full touch display that provides an optimized messaging experience with a horizontal slide-out, four-row QWERTY keyboard, threaded messaging and one-touch access to popular social networking widgets, including Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube and Photobucket. The Samsung Rogue also features innovative speech capabilities powered by Nuance that allow customers to launch and control a variety of applications and services with simple voice commands as well as dictate text messages. The Samsung Rogue will serve as the flagship phone for the company™s new data pricing option available to customers beginning today. The new data pricing gives Verizon Wireless customers more freedom to select how much data and the type of data they want to use. Samsung Rogue customers who want to check e-mail; surf the Web; and download applications, games or ringtones will be able to select either a 25 MB for $9.99 monthly access option or a 75 MB for $19.99 monthly access option to couple with their Nationwide plan. Customers who want to watch full-length TV shows plus news, sports, weather and live entertainment video clips can also add Verizon Wireless™ new V CAST Video on Demand plan that gives customers access to unlimited basic video clips, ESPN MVP and unlimited megabytes for their V CAST Video usage for $10.00 monthly. The new V CAST Video on Demand plan replaces the $15.00 V CAST VPak. These changes will not impact existing customers. Following are additional key features and specifications for the Samsung Rogue. · Available in bronze/black color · 3.1-inch ultra-brilliant touch screen o Widescreen WVGA AMOLED (Wide Video Graphics Array Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode) responsive touch screen results in one of the brightest and clearest displays on a mobile phone in the United States o Slide out horizontally to reveal a four-row QWERTY keypad · Full HTML Web browsing capabilities with one-touch access to social networking sites via shortcut widgets · Full messaging suite including SMS, MMS, Mobile IM, Mobile Email and Corporate Email · 3.0 megapixel camera with flash and video capture and on-device editing capabilities · Supports Verizon Wireless services including V CAST Music with Rhapsody, V CAST Video, and Visual Voice Mail · Media Center-capable “ downloadable games, ringtones, wallpapers, location-based services, such as VZ NavigatorSM and Chaperone®, and more · Pre-loaded games including NEED FOR SPEED,Undercover,Resident Evil: Degeneration,€ and Tetris® and Dice · microSD card slot with support for up to 16 GB (card purchased separately) · File Viewer can view Microsoft® Word, Microsoft® Excel®, Microsoft® PowerPoint® and Adobe® PDF documents stored on a memory card The Samsung Intensity is a feature-packed phone that offers customers a convenient way to stay connected to family, friends, and anyone else their thumbs can get a hold of through its full line of advanced messaging capabilities such as Mobile IM; text, picture and voice messaging with threaded messaging feature; Mobile Email; and the Mobile Web browser. Following are additional key features and specifications for the Samsung Intensity. · Available in a Charcoal Grey color in all sales channels and available in Flamingo Red online only at www.verizonwireless.com · 2.1-inch display with horizontal slide-out four-row QWERTY keypad with dedicated Messaging key and Favorites key for easily texting and calling friends and family · Mobile Web browser for Internet access · Music player · Full messaging capabilities including Mobile IM; Mobile Email; Chat; and text, picture, and voice messaging · 1.3 megapixel camera with Night Shot, Self Timer, Multishot and Shutter Sound selection · Compatible with PC client for V CAST Music with Rhapsody (over-the-air downloads are not supported on the Samsung Intensity) · Voice commands such as Voice Dial, Menu Readout, Digital Dial Readout, TXT Message Readout, Call Announcement, My Verizon, and Help · Media Center-capable — downloadable games, ringtones, wallpapers, location-based services, such as VZ NavigatorSM, and more · microSDâ„¢ card slot with support for up to 16 GB (card purchased separately) Price and availability: · The Samsung Rogue is available today for $99.99 after a $100.00 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement, and the Samsung Intensity in Charcoal Grey is available today for $29.99 after a $50.00 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement. The Samsung Intensity in Flamingo Red is available beginning today exclusively online at no charge with a new two-year customer agreement. Customers will receive the rebate as a debit card that can be used anywhere debit cards are accepted. · Customers can purchase the Samsung Rogue and Samsung Intensity in Charcoal Grey beginning today at Verizon Wireless Communications Stores or online at www.verizonwireless.com. For additional information on Verizon Wireless products and services, visit a Verizon Wireless Communications Store, call 1-800-2 JOIN IN or go to www.verizonwireless.com.

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Claas Florian Engelke and Richard B. Swegan have achieved something truly remarkable. They have embraced the utilitarian principles observable in the Lean system, married them with distinctive, informed observations, and have come out with one of the most succinct, well-articulated, and objectively informed books on postmodern corporate leadership in some time. While their book, The Practice of Ethical Leadership: Insight from Psychology and Business in Building an Ethical Bottom Line, may not be flowery and lithe in terms of heavy-handed communicatory style, this is more than made up for by their overall ability to make things straightforward, and extensive. Engelke and Swegan are wise enough to know they are preaching to the choir, but the choir has desperately needed a good song for some time now. Something that can be embraced by those on the fringes, still recovering from old-school, somewhat autocratic skepticism, and those eager to embrace a new kind of leadership philosophy without throwing the baby out with the bathwater. “There are many ways to look at or read a book. It can be information, a story, or multiple other options. We see this book as a dialogue. We lay out a framework for ethical leadership that is a reflection of our research, personal experience, and our opinions. We welcome and invite discussion, disagreement, and hearing your opinion. You can find our contact information and links to our website later in the book,” writes Engelke and Swegan. They also state, “We think true ethical leadership transcends compliance and ethics policies. True ethical leadership takes moral decision making and action beyond rule obedience. Put another way, probably you will have heard of the phrase, ‘I would follow him or her into battle.’ We suspect that that phrase is seldom used because a leader was great at getting people to follow the rules. More often, it is applied to those leaders who elevated the standard and expectations. Likewise, we have our own personal views on right and wrong that will probably be transparent to the reader. Certainly, we believe in some transcendent truths, not harming others, revering life, questioning and developing self, but we have attempted to refrain from being overly ‘preachy’ or pedantic. Rather, we have focused more on what we would call ‘process ethics.’ We don’t actually use that term much in the book, but it serves as an undercurrent of our perspective. We think each ethical leader needs to be reflective about matters of right and wrong, engage in discussion with others, and challenge basic assumptions.” The cynic would say, at a minimum, encompassing such standards is key because of the change in workplace dynamics. Movements like MeToo, Equal Pay, and Gender and Workplace Discrimination initiatives have essentially put to bed the idea of the ‘old dinosaur learning new ways.’ But as Engelke and Swegan demonstrate, another way of viewing it is simply being consistent. Consistency today in one’s personal conduct is pragmatic in a professional context. The days of leadership under a twentieth to twenty-first century William Bligh are over. Now, it’s time to embrace a humanistic perspective that encompasses all aspects of the workplace experience.

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Small Camera, Big Impact One of the most powerful features of the Kindle Fire is it's camera. Often underused or even unused, the camera of the Kindle Fire or iPads can do some pretty important things. Let's get to know how it works, what it can and can't do, and how we might use these cameras in the classroom as part of regular instruction. Why Share Pictures in the First Place? Not Great, But Good Enough Check out this quick walk through of the Kindle Fire Camera app: In the Cloud in an Instant On the Amazon main page, Click "Your Account" and under "Your Library" select "Cloud Drive." You may have to log in with your Amazon username and password. Once completed, you should see recent pictures from your devices. Click "See All." Here you can view, sort, edit, download and share all of the images from your devices. Assuming all of your devices are registered to your account and that they are all connected to the internet, all of the images collected on the Kindle Fires should come up to your Amazon cloud drive almost instantly. If they aren't, you may need to just refresh the webpage. This immediate collection of group images into one central location is super handy, and having this capability allows teachers and students to do some pretty cools things: Questions? Feel free to ask by leaving a comment below. To learn how to better utilize Amazon Cloud Drive, Click here then select the video titled "Syncing and the Cloud." Support Classroom Tech! Bookmark This Link: http://amzn.to/29x8QA2 By regularly using this link as your primary way to access Amazon, a portion of all of your purchases will be applied to technology in the classroom at no extra cost to you. This is a simple way to support our class over and over again without much time or effort. Thanks for your help! | Recent PostsCommon Sense Media Helping Parents & Teachers Navigate a Digital World A Mid-Year Checkup: Tech Goals I've Met, Missed or Abandoned Completely Shelf Reflection: What my classroom library says about the world and what I can do about it. Looking Ahead, Blogging Forward Teacher Approved Gifts for Kids The Best Apps for Your Kid's New Device Do Good with Great Deals Is Amazon Prime Worth It? Navigating the Election with Your Kids Making the Most of 1 Classroom iPad Apptoberfest: Google Photos Apptoberfest: The Bible for Kids by YouVersion Apptoberfest: IXL Math Apptoberfest: Teach You Monster to Read I Tried...I Failed...& You Can Too! Let Go and Let Them Oh the Place You'll Go: Using Green Screens in the Classroom The Kindle Fire HD 8 - The iPad's Days are Numbered Dirty Feet A Fresh Start: Changes for the Year Ahead Getting Great Stuff for Less - Part 2: Getting the Lowest Price Getting Great Stuff for Less - Part 1 : Finding the Best Stuff Stop Everything and Kahoot! Coding in 2nd Grade with No Prep and $0 Kindles in the Classroom: A Year In Review |

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