Your home is your biggest investment and most likely you have invested in renovations over the years to update your kitchen, bathrooms and main living areas. Yet, you find that your home is lacking cohesiveness or each room has a personality of its own, making for a very disjointed and confusing look to your home. Perhaps you have a beautiful contemporary kitchen, but the rest of the home screams old traditional and you now need to renovate the entire house to "match" the look of your new kitchen, even if you were planning to just update the kitchen. Another scenario may be that you recently purchased a brand new home and spent a small fortune in new furnishings, yet it still doesn't look quite right or feel like a "home".
Hiring an interior decorator should be your first step even before you tackle a major renovation or furnish a new home. Professional interior designers and decorators in Calgary will help you bring your brand new renovation, your personal tastes and the style of the rest of your home together. Let them help you plan ahead and lend a fresh eye to your home's possibilities.
The architecture of your home.
Have you been in a home where the inside does not match the outside? A little disconcerting, right? Unless you plan to tear down the your home and start from scratch, consider the facade of your home. Is it traditional or modern?
Calgary Interior Decorators will help you make the right choices for your home by creating a cohesive plan or road-map for the whole home with paint colours for walls and trim, lighting choices, along with interior and/or exterior selections, even if you only plan to do one room at a time. They will work with the renovation company of your choosing or have contacts for licensed contractors that they have worked with in the past.
With furnishings, an interior designer or decorator will help cull furniture that no longer works in your space but keep the pieces you love and design accordingly with these special pieces for a more pulled together look; or simply rearrange the furniture that you already own and make suggestions for further improvements.
There are usually two decision makers in the process, yourself and an significant other. You may be able to agree on some things and have definite likes and dislikes. An interior decorator can help you blend your personal styles together in a way that is seamless yet reflects your unique styles. An interior designer can shop different stores to bring that eclectic look together by devising a plan for furniture placement and selecting furniture, fabrics and accessories to help create the ambiance that you are striving to create. Learn how to choose living room furniture.
Do you love a certain look, but it exceeds your budget? A professional interior designer can help you decide where to splurge and where to be economical without sacrificing the look that you hope to achieve, by sourcing the best prices for products and combining it with more economical materials in creative ways for a high-end sophisticated look.
For more information, read "4 Reasons to an Interior Designer".


I am fairly new to Roleplaying and the group that I've been Gming keeps asking what types of food and drink are available in the Catina's and other eating establishment's. I've come up some idea's of my own, but I think that my group is starting to catch on that I keep re-using the same things in every port.
So my question is has anyone compiled a listing of this kind?
And if not, would others be interested in this kind of listing?
you can also make up just about any type of drink using the Alderranian ale name similarity.
as for food. use your imagination. and rememebr whats good for one species isn't good for another. odds are a lot of the more common foods have their SW equivilant.
If you want to take a look at a fairly large list, read the appropriate section in the "Guide to Cultures and Society" that I co-wrote like 4 years ago.
There are damages and such associated with the alcoholic varieties, but they're all in the D6 system. Regardless, it should give you some good choices to pick from -- and probably some other related background info you might like too.
I made a list of drinks and wines from SW by searching through the Complete Unofficial Enciclopaedia the word "drink" and "wine" (maybe I'll later search also for beer, cocktail and so on).
It's about 2 pages for drinks, one for wine, with the name and the related description found in the enciclopaedia.
I myself have never complied a list myself but the Unofficial Encyclopedia is a good place to look as Gipetruc noted.
Shrimp chop sui - Vegatable and Sea-flea in clear sauce.
If they ask for an actual name, any alien-sounding one will do I find.
Lum- a sweet slightly soapy tasting strong ale.
Various mixed drinks that have some special effect, like the tatooine sunburn that simulates the twin suns of that world, so you again could use your imagination for that, something like a drink called a hyperspace send off, that looks like the swirling blue light of hyperspace, things like that.
Drink: Lomin-ale. A common beverage consumed by Rogue squadron.
There's another food that was mentioned that I can't remember...I will try and post back later when I get a chance.
Also, a miscelanious fact. I think that the equivalent to McDonalds is some place called the Biscut Baron:? I'm not sure where I found that out. BTW: I'd love to help in compiling a list from all available sources. With a few more details I think we could pull it off with help.
Han Solo, on Yavin 4 with the help of the Millenium Falcon food processors prepares what is described as Corellian Food "fried endwa in an orange gravy and butter-boiled csolcir with vweilu-nut slivers" (pg 195 in the hardcover version I'm reading).
If you wanted a smoke, then you could always ask for some Wookiebackie.
Please include Food/Drink as your subject if you are going to email me.
Also, feel free to take anything from my Guide to Cultures in Society. Those all have effects listed in D6. I, sadly, don't have the time to go get them and paste them all myself. But some adventurous soul might! This is a fun project. Good work, Krazy.
I almost forgot--chocolate seems to be a favorite, at least amongst the Jedi. I recall Luke drinking hot coca/chocolate in one of the post-ROTJ novels & I've heard that's not the only time chocolate shows up. Without knowing this, I created a dessert that my npc Jedi Master is fond of--"chocolate-dipped-strawberry sorbet." I wasn't at my most imaginative, or I would have changed the fruit to something less earthly.
$$$$$- something more expensive than that.
I think you'll find it's because you used < and > instead of square brackets. You can edit your post up to 36 or 48 hours (or something)after you've posted it, so you might like to give that a try.
Thanks wedge , it worked. I was just looking at the society and culture guide and realized I was just looking at a tiny fraction of the listed foods. So I probably want finish this until late tonight.
$$$$$: Menu basically the same as $$$$, but prepared by a noted chef, served at a famous restaurant &/or one located in a fancy resort area. Also, the menu often includes very exotic/rare foods.
For example, in my RL city we have a landmark restaurant famous for steak, wines, & desserts. In what order I don't know--it's way out of our budget, & would be even if we stopped buying RPG stuff and won the state lottery:D. Famous people eat there. Regular folks who want to impress a date or add a really special touch to a birthday or something, may go just for dessert.
I finally give something back to the SW RPG community, after 6 months of living off the fat of your labors. ;) Hope somebody finds a use for this. Thanks go to evanhansen for allowing me to use his list of foods in the Guide to Cultures and Society . Here is a plaint text version, and a .doc version (Word, wordpad, etc.) I'm only about a third done, so there will be quite a bit more.
With your permission, kckamas, I would like to put up a post using a variat of your ledgend for drinks. I also would like to make some contribution (however small) back to these boards.
Sweet, having almost every Star Wars book with me is showing it's merits.
In Rebel Dawn, after Chewie gets married he and Han and relatives attend a huge feast. Much of what I'm about to list are primarily wookie foods, but I'm sure some show up elsewhere in the galaxy. All of the following foods are safe for human consumption, while other wookie foods can sometimes be very spicy, even enough so to damage a human gullet, and meats are often served raw.
"Xachibik broth, a thick meat, herb and spice combination"
"Vrortick "cocktail," a layered dish that combined various meats and layers of wroshyr leaves that had been soaked in potent grakkyn nectar for weeks"
Rodian knelp gnats, increased in size by growth hormones and a year-long life span. Humans find these delicious as well.
>>>nerf tenderloins<<< - these things are as numerous as hydrogen, and just as essential to the Star Wars universe, lol.
Whew, that took quite a bit of searching through my books. I'll post anything else I come accross, hope that helps. In case you want to further increase the variety of drinks, remember that there are many different brands, much the same way there are many different brands of beer or vodka in the real world. An NPC's favorite brand of Alderaanian Ale is a neat little characteristic.
Just as I finished posting my last message, I thought of another book in which a drink was mentioned. In Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina, the drink "spiced wine" was mentioned. This is a red-colored wine, served cold. Jawas are not often exposed to this drink, but when they are, they LOVE it.
Merenzane Gold - a sweet, subtle concotion costing well upward of a hundred credits for a bottle, depending on vintage. Highly acidic, drinkable by devaronians but probably not by less durbale species.
If I find anymore, I'll post them as well.
Ok here is the drink section, all are quite common.
A common, widely manufactured carbonated beverage, Fizzyglug has been a staple in sub-adult life for hundreds of years, and is one of the most common soft drinks in the galaxy. Fizzyglug is produced by many companies, and is called by many names, but all brands share a basic formula: colored,flavored, and carbonated water that is usually found in tall, prism-shaped cans. Fizzyglug is especially enjoyed by Humans, but research indicates that Fizzyglug consumed in excesive amounts over an extended period of time can cause tooth, stomach, and even minor brain problems, so it is no wonder that wise-cracks about Humans and Fizzyglug are popular with aliens.
Lum is a common bar drink, especially among those of the spacer profession, all across the outer and mid rims. Its true origin is not always know; many bars either have their own variants of, or even produce their own Lum based on a basic alcoholic beverage. Lum is usually found as yellow to orangish brown in color, and usually have a thin layer of head on the top. Lum generaly is a very odorful (is that a real word???), potent substance found in most rough and tumble bars away from the core, which generally considers Lum a crude petrolium bi-product. Lum also comes in "fancier" spiced version which costs only a few credits more.
Sand-wine is a delectible Tatooinian delecasy favored by wealthy and powerful (which means the Hutts on Tatooine), and by the lower classes. It is quite unlike any other version of wine in the galaxy, in the sense that it is not produced using or contains any fruit. It is made by a complex process of using machenary, sand, and desert "plums" (a type of root found in the sandy dune regions), and a skillful hand. The process can take months to just prodce a fresh wine, and it is aged usually for a mininmum of five years before sale and consumption. The end result is a slightly bitter, strong wine that is always makes a statement at any Tatooinian party.
Sorry if I took up too much space, but thats all I can type for now. Please disregard and typos, I'm horrible at typing on my Mac's tiny keyboard, and my fingers are getting cramps. You can expect Corellian Ale to come up soon in another post.
Boga Noga: two decanters are described as being able to descensitize an entire Storm Trooper Squad for an evening.
I'm starting to work on the project now. I've been a little busy with other projects lately. So far I have a rough 40 pages, and I'm going to try to work up a section on the pricing of goods from planet to planet. And hopefully some form of rules for intoxication (d20). If you have ideas that you think might help out please feel free send me a message.
I remember reading that one of Han's favourite foods was roast traladon ribs, I think that was in the AC Crispin novels.
How is the project going? If you need any help, let me know. I think this is such a cool idea and I can't wait to see it!


Six Days in Fallujah, which aims to tell the story of the recent battle in Iraq, was too hot a political potato for one-time publishers Konami, who facing intense pressure dumped the game.
But that doesn't mean the project is dead.
Developers Atomic Games still see promise in the project, and are still shopping the game around to prospective publishers, boss Peter Tamte telling Newsweek ""We have a lot of people who are interested in the project...But I'll feel better when we sign something and the checks start coming."
The Newsweek piece is also worth reading to get the full rundown on Atomic's treatment of the more sensitive aspects of the game, including lessons learned and the finer details of the developer's collaboration with members of the US armed forces.


text:
Q: Why can't I get Python's urlopen() method to work on Windows? Why isn't this simple Python code working?
import urllib
file = urllib.urlopen('http://www.google.com')
print file.read()

This is the error that I get:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\workspace\GarchUpdate\src\Practice.py", line 26, in <module>
    file = urllib.urlopen('http://www.google.com')
  File "C:\Python26\lib\urllib.py", line 87, in urlopen
    return opener.open(url)
  File "C:\Python26\lib\urllib.py", line 206, in open
    return getattr(self, name)(url)
  File "C:\Python26\lib\urllib.py", line 345, in open_http
    h.endheaders()
  File "C:\Python26\lib\httplib.py", line 892, in endheaders
    self._send_output()
  File "C:\Python26\lib\httplib.py", line 764, in _send_output
    self.send(msg)
  File "C:\Python26\lib\httplib.py", line 723, in send
    self.connect()
  File "C:\Python26\lib\httplib.py", line 704, in connect
    self.timeout)
  File "C:\Python26\lib\socket.py", line 514, in create_connection
    raise error, msg
IOError: [Errno socket error] [Errno 10060] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond

I've tried it with several different pages but I can never get the urlopen method to execute correctly.

A: Your code is not the problem here.
Do you have any Proxy settings in your IE?
This says the python documentation for urllib.urlopen:

In a Windows environment, if no proxy environment variables are set,
proxy settings are obtained from the registry's Internet Settings
section.

A: Try using urllib2 if it is feasible to change some lines of code. Set the timeout argument in seconds
For example:
urllib2.urlopen(http://www.abc.com/api, timeout=20)

Here the connection persists for a longer duration. So if for example you are reading an XML file that is too large it avoids incomplete reading.
The above code will never work if the Net connection is slow or it breaks suddenly.

A: If you have wireshark, check what's being sent out and if there is anything coming back at all. It will help you debug the problem if you can see the GET request being sent.
Also i remember having similar problem like this once, what i did was flush my dns cache
(ipconfig /flushdns) and restarted.  It fixed my problem.  It doesn't hurt to try i guess.

A: for python 3:
import urllib.request

proxies=urllib.request.ProxyHandler({'http':None})

opener=urllib.request.build_opener(proxies)

urllib.request.install_opener(opener)

j=urllib.request.urlopen(url="https://google.com")

k=j.read()

print(k)

A: Your code is correct
import urllib
file = urllib.urlopen('http://www.google.com')
print file.read()

But most likely your internet has a problem or you have not set up the dns
properly.
you can use request library insted of urllib.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


Review your chosen trip or lessons and adjust the quantity if necessary.
Proceed to checkout to enter your personal details necessary for the activity and payment.
Prices appear in EUR because our payment processor is Stripe Europe. Everything is calculated accordingly using daily FX rates.


If you would like to know more about us, please speak with one of our Ambassadors on Sunday morning at the Welcome Table, located just outside the Sanctuary. You can also contact us at (714) 730-3444.
Spiritual baptism is offered for those that choose to become members of our community.
Unity of Tustin offers spiritual baptism several times each year. Spiritual baptism is a ceremony during both the 9 and 11 a.m. services where prospective members are blessed by our minister and receive a white rose as a symbol of the purity of their commitment to become a part of this spiritual community. Members may vote in the annual election of Board members and receive monthly chaplain calls.
Prior to spiritual baptism, an application for membership is included in the Sunday bulletin.


The Fringe Scarf is not just for winter! Each color is two-toned to create a layered look. Made from the softest fabric of 100% viscose from recycled materials, this is the perfect accessory to keep the chill away. Interested in a whole new look?


text:
Gibbs: Obama only voted against raising the debt ceiling in 2006 because he knew his vote wouldn't matter
AllahpunditPosted at 5:54 pm on January 5, 2011
The funniest line? Gibbsy insisting that The One voted no at the time to send the message that we need to "get serious about fiscal discipline." Barack Obama and fiscal discipline: Perfect together. Why, he's like the very first tea partier, isn't he?
Give Gibbs credit for honesty on this one, though. The One took plenty of votes during his brief layover in the Senate that were aimed squarely at polishing his record for a presidential run down the road. The one on the debt ceiling was aimed at centrists; the votes against Roberts and Alito were aimed at his base. And sometimes, when he couldn't decide whom to pander to, he just voted present as he's wont to do.
"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure," [Obama] said on March 16, 2006. "Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership . Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt limit."
The debt limit was raised by a vote of 52-48.
Asked about that quote – and vote — today, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said that it was important that "based on the outcome of that vote…the full faith and credit was not in doubt."
Then-Sen. Obama used the vote "to make a point about needing to get serious about fiscal discipline….His vote was not necessarily needed on that."
I take it this means that when the House narrowly votes to raise the debt ceiling in a few weeks' time, the media will let Republicans who vote no off the hook on grounds that their votes weren't needed either. If all Democrats vote yes, Boehner needs only 25 Republicans to vote with them to form a majority. He himself has hinted at making "adult" decisions about the debt ceiling in recent interviews, which I take as a sign that the GOP leadership will grudgingly go along with raising it. And if they're on board, surely enough backbenchers will fall in line to get to 25. That won't stop the great media freakout over meaningless tea party opposition when the floor vote comes, though, so it'll be fun to revisit this exchange with Gibbs when it happens.
Speaking of Gibbs, he made it official today: His days as press secretary are numbered. When asked by the Times why he's leaving, Obama responded that Gibbsy — who earns $172,500 a year — has been making do with "relatively modest pay" compared to what he could be earning as a private consultant. The horrifying reality: He's right.
Tags: Barack Obama Democrats John Boehner Republicans Tea Party White House
Hoo boy: If you like your plan you can keep your plan, says Joe Biden of new health-care proposal
Reckoning.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
Q: How to solve ode equation which is written in matrix form by ode45 MATLAB? I want to solve ode equation which is written in matrix form. A=[-0.0178 0 -10;0 -0.2352 10;1 -1 0]; and B=[0.3313 -8.9335;0 3.7245;0 0]. Variables are x=[x1;x2;x3];. Input are u=[v;f];. xdot=[x1dot;x2dot;x3dot];. Finally the ode becomes - xdot=Ax + Bu, initial conditions are x0=[0;0;0];. Inputs are  v=0.05 and f=0;
How to solve this equation through anonymus function by ode45. Another question is that if there is larger matrix say 100 order, then it is very difficult to write separate form then how can I solve if they are in particular form like xdot=Ax +Bu where xdot is n * 1, A is n * n, x is n * 1, B is n * m and u is m * 1.

A: The default solvers assume that the ode is time dependent (which they normally aren't). Also, I like to start off very general so I would create a function in a separate file (maybe mySystem.m) with five variables: t, x, u, A and B. It would look something like
function dx = mySystem(t, x, u, A, B)
dx = ... (Insert system equations)
end

then in the script where you define A, B, and u and where you ultimately want to use something like ode45 I would create an anonymous instance of this function which has the inputs that ode45 wants, ie t and x. It would look something like:
A = ...;
B = ...;
u = ...;
f = @(t, x) mySystem(t, x, u, A, B);

now, this f can easily be used ode45:
tspan = [t0, tf];
x0 = ...;
[t, y] = ode45(@f, tspan, x0);

If you now need to change B or A or u you just do it in your script, and you can reuse mySystem for other problems.
I do realize mySystem is a one-liner and could be an anonymous function too, but other ode's may not fit on one line and will need a separate file. This way the programming becomes more consistent. It is up to you.


text:
Q: How "ip route get" decides outgoing interface Wondering what decides the outgoing interface. Here is my setup
Eno1 - 192.168.3 0.2/24, Gateway - 192.168.30.1
Eno2 - 192.168.50.2/24,  Gateway - 192.168.50.1

My routing table looks like this -
[root ~]# ip route
default
    nexthop via 192.168.30.2 dev eno1 weight 1
    nexthop via 192.168.50.2 dev eno2 weight 1
192.168.30.0/24 dev eno1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.30.2 metric 100
192.168.50.0/24 dev eno2 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.50.2 metric 101

And
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
default         hostname        0.0.0.0         UG        0 0          0 eno1
192.168.30.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 eno1
192.168.50.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 eno2

After this config, when I try to ask linux kernel which interface it will use for a random destination...it plays a ping pong game between eno1 and eno2
[root@ ~]# ip route get 1.1.1.9
1.1.1.9 via 192.168.50.2 dev eno2 src 192.168.50.2
    cache
[root@ ~]# ip route get 1.1.1.10
1.1.1.10 via 192.168.30.2 dev eno1 src 192.168.30.2
    cache
[root@ ~]# ip route get 1.1.1.12
1.1.1.12 via 192.168.50.2 dev eno2 src 192.168.50.2
    cache
[root@-2 ~]# ip route get 1.1.1.13
1.1.1.13 via 192.168.30.2 dev eno1 src 192.168.30.2
    cache
[root@-2 ~]# ip route get 1.1.1.14
1.1.1.14 via 192.168.30.2 dev eno1 src 192.168.30.2

it feels like the outgoing interface is selected at random Can you please help understand what decide the outgoing interface?

A: This is called Equal-Cost Multipath (ECMP).
Linux is designed to distribute flows of packets using multiple paths. It will not happen for individual packets. The network stack calculates the hash over a subset of packet header fields. The calculated hash will be used for the next hop selection.
Note that balancing will not be perfect and there may be significant problems in the deployment in practice, as it is route-based, and routes are cached. This means often-used IPs will always use the same route.


text:
Q: Django testing for templates loaded via template tags I am writing a suite of tests for an app.
In a number of places I use Django's handy "assertTemplateUsed". This works for all templates except, as far as I see for templates loaded via template tags (as inclusion_tag objects).
Is there an alternative way I assert template is used, when it is loaded via a template tag? I can of course check for strings in the template, but check for use of the template would be a better solution.

A: Try catching the template_rendered signal, which is available during testing.
From the docs:
django.test.signals.template_rendered

Sent when the test system renders a template. This signal is not emitted during normal operation of a Django server – it is only available during testing.

Arguments sent with this signal:

sender
    The Template object which was rendered.
template
    Same as sender
context
    The Context with which the template was rendered.


text:
Webpage helps Louisiana residents get info about how to recycle Christmas trees
Updated: 10:02 AM CST Dec 28, 2018
WEBVTT LOUISIANA'S COASTLINE IS RAPIDLY ERODING. WE LOSE ABOUT A FOOTBALL FIELD AN HOUR. SULA: THIS HOLIDAY SEASON, YOU CAN HELP. THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS IS ASKING FOR YOUR CHRISTMAS TREES AT THE END OF THE HOLIDAY SEASON. ALL TREES WILL BE USED TO BRING BACK THE MARSH IN BAYOU SAVAGE. BETWEEN JANUARY 10 AND 12TH RICHARD'S DISPOSAL AND METRO SERVICES WILL PICK UP YOUR TREE ALONG WITH CURBSIDE GARBAGE. MAKE SURE YOUR TREE'S DECOR IS COMPLETELY REMOVED. FLOCKED TREES AND FAKE TREES ARE NOT AL
The Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana has a new one-stop website for information about Christmas tree recycling in five coastal parishes.The trees are used in breakwaters to slow erosion.The webpage explains where to drop off trees or how to ensure they're picked up in Orleans, Jefferson, Tangipahoa and Terrebonne parishes. Organizers expect to receive information about St. John the Baptist Parish.Officials estimate millions of trees have been recycled over 30 years. The program accepts only live trees without lights, ornaments, tinsel, flocking or paint.Executive Director Kim Reyher said the coalition helped start the first program and gets tons of calls about it even though it's no longer directly involved. She said the webpage is a way to support the parishes.Click here to view the webpage.Keep up with local news, weather and current events with the WDSU app here. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news right in your inbox. Click here to sign up!
The Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana has a new one-stop website for information about Christmas tree recycling in five coastal parishes.
The trees are used in breakwaters to slow erosion.
The webpage explains where to drop off trees or how to ensure they're picked up in Orleans, Jefferson, Tangipahoa and Terrebonne parishes. Organizers expect to receive information about St. John the Baptist Parish.
Officials estimate millions of trees have been recycled over 30 years. The program accepts only live trees without lights, ornaments, tinsel, flocking or paint.
Executive Director Kim Reyher said the coalition helped start the first program and gets tons of calls about it even though it's no longer directly involved. She said the webpage is a way to support the parishes.
Click here to view the webpage.


Etech's Kaylene Eckels, Chief Operations Officer, has been named one of the finalists at 2019 The Stevie Awards for Woman of the Year.
NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS, UNITED STATES, February 6, 2019 /EINPresswire.com/ — Nacogdoches, TX – February 06, 2019 – Etech's Kaylene Eckels, Chief Operations Officer, has been named one of the finalists at 2019 The Stevie Awards for Woman of the Year.
She is the founding member of EWEN – Etech Women's Empowerment Network, where she has been helping women in business, as well as Etech's own, achieve and reach their true potential. She believes in creating a network and equal opportunities for female team members across all organizations, regardless of the industry. This network has resulted in knowledge sharing, leadership development, and greater career mobility.
"Kaylene's expertise has contributed to Etech's continuous success of raising the bar to deliver the customer commitments. From the beginning, I know her for setting BIG goals for herself and her team, and it is under her leadership and strategic focus that has resulted in ONE Etech to grow together. Whether it is her contribution at work, community events, or EWEN, she defines Etech's Vision of "making a remarkable difference for our people, our customers and within our community" to perfection," said Etech's Matt Rocco, President, and CEO.
The Stevie Awards for Women in Business honor women executives, entrepreneurs, employees, and the companies they run– worldwide. The Stevie Awards have been hailed as the world's premier business awards. More than 2,700 nominations from organizations were submitted this year for consideration in more than 90 categories. Gold, Silver and Bronze Stevie Award placements from among the Finalists will be revealed during a gala banquet on Friday, February 22 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Sponsors of the 13th annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service include Sales Partnerships, Inc. and ValueSelling Associates, Inc.
Etech Global Services is a leading provider of customer engagement solutions for many of the world's most trusted brands. They trust Etech with their most precious assets – their customers. Why? Because Etech's commitment to continuous improvement, next-generation technology, and empowering people results in a solution that drives customer experience and reduces effort. Voice, quality monitoring, chat, social media, and email, Etech is here to communicate with your customers when and how they choose.
Etech believes in making a remarkable difference for you and your customers. Etech's industry-leading technology services, like Etech Insights division, provide you with analytics and insights into your customer interactions. Etech's services enable you to enhance customer experience, increase sales results, meet all corporate governance requirements, and obtain a competitive edge over your competition allowing you to increase market share.


Anthony Jones, the founder and Executive Chef for 8FIFTEEN and his wife Gabby moved to the Bay Area from Brooklyn a couple years ago to get a fresh start. 8FIFTEEN" is a reference to the day that Anthony and Gabby met. Gabby and Anthony met on August 15, 2003, during the two-day blackout that struck New York and much of the Eastern seaboard. It was a magical day when everyone took a break and hung out with friends. Without electricity, many restaurants were forced to grill up food on barbecues and give it away to the public. It was a day of camaraderie and love built around food, friends and beer.
Anthony had been working as an Attorney in New York but with the move to the west coast he decided to take a leap and follow his passion in food. While he and Gabby were making the journey to the West Coast they came up with Sandwich manifesto, which details the making of the perfect sandwich. From this manifesto, the beginning of a career and a dream was born - 8FIFTEEN.
8FIFTEEN started as strictly sandwiches. The business gained recognition by selling at various farmers markets and fairs within the Bay Area. The first market that 8FIFTEEN took part in was the Kensington Farmer's Market where they learned how to prep ingredients ahead of time and were able to test their products. Since Kensington, 8FIFTEEN has been a part of multiple Farmers Markets and fairs including: Alameda Point Antiques Fair, Treasure Island Flea Market, and the Patchwork Show in Oakland. With great demand for their product to be available on a more regular basis, 8FIFTEEN has partnered with Rapha Cafe where they sell their sandwiches pre-packaged.
Knowing that 8FIFTEEN has experience packaging their products and has the ability to make amazing things happen with seasonal ingredients, we asked them if they could try their hand in preparing salads for Frog Hollow Farm Café. They eagerly accepted the challenge and came up with some amazing products. For the past several months Anthony and his team have been working hard to develop salads to be served exclusively at Frog Hollow Farm's retail location in the San Francisco Ferry Building. The salads are inspired by classic recipes but have a modern twist. They are artfully composed highlighting Frog Hollow Farm ingredients with bright and robust flavors. We can't wait for you to try them!
There will be three salads to hit the shelves next Wednesday (7/23). First we have the Spiced Egg salad that will be served as an entrée. The 8FIFTEEN version is not your average egg salad. It is made with Frog Hollow Farm extra virgin olive oil, little gem lettuce, parmesan croutons, cilantro, lime, and topped with Frog Hollow Farm tomatoes. This is a nourishing vegetarian option filled with protein and plenty of vitamins and minerals. Next we have two side salads that can either be eaten as a snack or enjoyed alongside Frog Hollow Farm's delicious empanadas for a satisfying lunch. The lentil beet salad has pickled onions, parsley and Frog Hollow Farm dried apricots and is drizzled orange vinaigrette. Another side salad option is the grilled corn salad with legendary Frog Hollow Farm peaches, poblano peppers from our up and coming vegetable garden at the farm and some feta cheese. Anthony will be offering tastings of the new salads at the Café on Friday, July 25th from 11am-1pm. So do come by and meet the chef!


April 3, 2006: Since the 911 attacks, AWACS type radar aircraft have emerged as a key asset for security at public events. During this year's Winter Olympics in Torino and the Superbowl in Detroit, AWACS ( airborne early warning and control aircraft) were securing the skies. These so called high visibility events (HVEs), which also include political events like the gathering of government heads at the 60th anniversary of the Normandy landings or the visit of Pope Benedict to Cologne/Germany in 2005, put increased demands on global airborne early warning aircraft fleets. For example 25 to 30 percent of the French AWACS fleet's current assignments have a HVE content. The next major event in this regard is the upcoming soccer World Cup in Germany in June and July 2006, for which Germany has already requested airborne early warning coverage through the NATO fleet of E-3 aircraft.


Tasso Zapanti's new album, "Reflections Upon", combines acoustic and electronic instruments, which recreate the majestic sound of a full orchestra and beyond. It is a compilation of both intellectually and emotionally rich instrumental compositions, and a journey filled with mystical adventures, as well as serene moments of peace and tranquility. Tasso's music is "lovely, gentle and lilting", says award-winning composer George Tsontakis.
All pieces on "Reflections Upon" are composed and performed by Tasso. Additional guest artists include guitarist Spiros Exaras (Mario Frangoulis, Mariah Carey), saxophonist Alex Foster (Mingus Big Band, Saturday Night Live Band), soprano Lorelei McBroom (Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart), and, percussionist Steve Thornton (Miles Davis, Michael Jackson).
Tasso has also scored music for film, TV, and dance. His film soundtrack work includes the films "Proud" (Ossie Davis and Stephen Rea), and "Hangin' With the Homeboys" (John Leguizamo).
Tasso received an ASCAP/GERSHWIN award in composition, presented by composer Morton Gould. He was an artist-in-residence at the ExperimentalTelevisionCenter in Oswego, NY. He was also included in Hollywood Reporter's"Who's Who", in film and television composers.
He is currently putting the finishing touches on his next album titled "Elysium" to be followed by an album called "Cinematic Plateau" which will be a compilation of music from several films he has composed music for. Another project in the works is writing music for a documentary produced by "Right To Be Free/Africa". An organization dedicated to bringing world awareness about the rescue, rehabilitation and reintegration of trafficked children forced to work in the hazardous fishing trade in Ghana.
"Reflections Upon" is available on: iTunes, Amazon, CD Baby, Spotify, Rhapsody.


Advanced Art students were given the opportunity to create "free choice" portfolio-quality artwork. They could choose their media, choose to focus on one piece or do a series, or work experimentally. Their results were amazing!
Painted, Appliqued and Stitched "Ice Cream Pillow"


text:
Q: IDT 92HD93 driver for Windows 10 I have a 2-year old Dell Latitude E6330 with an IDT 92HD93 sound card. Unfortunately there don't seem to be any Windows 10 drivers for that card (I've looked almost everywhere), and the Windows 8.1 drivers don't work properly (microphone doesn't record sometimes, or sound comes out of the wrong speakers, among other things).
This is what I found on IDT's website:

Notice: IDT's AC97, HD Audio and Consumer audio codecs are now being sold and supported by Tempo Semiconductor, Inc. For sales and support information, please visit Tempo Semiconductor at www.temposemi.com.

So basically it looks like my audio card is no longer supported (as I couldn't find anything on Tempo Semiconductor's website either).
Now, if it was just a regular single microphone, I wouldn't be so bothered by all that. Unfortunately the microphone that's in my laptop is actually a microphone array, which doesn't seem to be properly supported by the standard Microsoft drivers.
Is there still a way to unlock the full potential of my sound card? (namely the microphone array)
To reiterate: I tried the Windows 8.1 drivers I found on Dell's website, but they didn't work.

A: Your drivers can be downloaded from Dell support page. I cannot post URL here, try to search it.
You can get Your audio driver, when it will be released. You may ask Dell support for date. Now I cant find an audio driver for Windows 10. You may try to use Windows 8.1 driver. It may work.


In the United States, you need a written prescription to buy contact lenses. The prescription form will list measurements for each eye under columns labeled "OD" and "OS."
OD is an abbreviation for the Latin term "oculus dexter," or right eye. OS is short for "oculus sinister," or left eye.
When eye-care providers examine you, they see your right eye on their left and your left eye on their right. To ensure that they write the measurements in the correct spot on the prescription form, the column for your right eye, or OD, is on the left side of the form, and OS is on the right.
Under the OD and OS columns, your prescription will list six numerical measurements for each eye: PWR (corrective power), BC (curve of the back of your eye), DIA (diameter), CYL (cylinder), AXIS and ADD. Both CYL and AXIS are measurements to correct for astigmatism, while ADD identifies a second area of focus for bifocal contacts.
A positive number in the PWR section under OD and OS indicates farsightedness, while a negative one signals nearsightedness.
If the same measurement applies to both of your eyes, your provider may use the abbreviation OU. This is short for "oculus uterque," or each eye.


Last year, however, I discovered Goodwill bookstores. And I left with armfuls of books. Three of which, however, have made it onto my "books I tell everyone they should read" list. But I really can't go back in there again. At least until I've read the books I have. I have a lot of books to read… I'm trying to get rid of everything I don't need, and books are heavy, replaceable items so I'm hoping to shorten that stack considerably.
Now onto some books I didn't get at Goodwill.
Be careful, that person that gave you one sounds dodgy! There's a free audiobook of that Scovell Schin book from Libervox if I remember correctly.


text:
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 21:54:50 GMT
Server: NCSA/1.4.2
Content-type: text/html
Last-modified: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 20:04:04 GMT
Content-length: 4008

<title>Protocol Service Decomposition for Scalable Multiprocessors</title>

Protocol Service Decomposition for Scalable Multiprocessors

<!WA0><!WA0>

Overview

This project investigates the use of parallelism in high performance
internetworking.
In particular, our goal is to support low overhead
scalable communication between a multiprocessor and remote hosts
over Ethernet, FDDI, ATM, and HIPPI networks.  Our initial platform
will be to support the BSD socket interface on top of the TCP/IP
and UDP/IP protocol stacks.

The key observation behind our strategy is that an application's interface
to the network is distinct and separable from its interface to the
operating system.  We take advantage of this observation by decomposing
the protocol implementation into a protocol library and a privileged
server process.

We present a brief overview of this architecture here, and a detailed
description can be found in
<!WA1><!WA1> Protocol Service Decomposition for High Performance Networking
 by Maeda and Bershad, SOSP 1993.

A protocol library resides within each application process and
communicates directly with the network interface for the common case
operations of send and receive.
The library makes use of a privileged system server for all operations
that either have non-critical performance requirements or that
cannot be handled within the application while maintaining the
original operating system semantics. This server (the proxy server)
handles a variety of tasks such as connection establishment and teardown,
routing, ARP, fork and select.

This architecture is particularly well-suited to parallel environments
because each processor can maintain its own copy of the network
protocol stack and protocol endpoint data structures.  Since the
logically distinct endpoints are now structurally distinct, they
can run in parallel with scalable performance.

In addition to providing the basic socket interface, we plan to
investigate providing a collective I/O interface for parallel
applications.  We will explore different ways of mapping a collective
I/O interface onto the abstractions provided by the socket interface
combined with TCP and UDP.
We also plan to leverage off of the parallel file system interfaces being
designed as part of the <!WA2><!WA2>Scalable I/O Initiative, modifying them where
necessary to apply them to network communication.

Implementation

The initial implementation of this architecture on a uniprocessor
is described in
<!WA3><!WA3> Protocol Service Decomposition for High Performance Networking
.
We started by taking this implementation and porting it to the Intel
Paragon running the OSF/1 operating system.  Porting the library is
complete, and porting the proxy server is in progress.  The original
implementation was done as part of the Mach project, where the microkernel
provides the device management and the Unix server provides the traditional
operating system functionality.  The proxy server was implemented as a
set of modifications to the Unix server.  For better modularity and
stability, we are currently separating the proxy server functionality
from the OSF/1 server into a separate privileged process.

Participants

Faculty:

 <!WA4><!WA4>Brian Bershad

Students:

 <!WA5><!WA5>Alec Wolman

Related Work

This work is being done in the context of the
<!WA6><!WA6>Scalable I/O Initiative.

<address> Last updated Fri 19 Jan 1996 </address>
<address> wolman@cs.washington.edu </address>

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Devonya N. Havis, is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY. She has taught courses in Ethics, Contemporary Continental Philosophy, Critical Philosophy of Race, and Black Women's thought at Boston College, Harvard University, and Virginia Union University. Her writings include "Blackness Beyond Witness" in Philosophy and Social Criticism and "Discipline" in the Cambridge Foucault Lexicon. She has a longstanding concern with utilizing philosophy to enhance awareness and promote counter-oppressive practices. Her chapter, "'Seeing Black' through Michel Foucault's Eyes: 'Stand Your Ground' Laws as an Anchorage Point for State-Sponsored Racism," is included in, Pursuing Trayvon Martin: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial Dynamics.
I would like to thank Dr. Krishnamurthy for cultivating this Blog and giving me an opportunity to share a few ideas about my work and experience.
Growing up in Jackson, Mississippi, I was deeply influenced by Black ancestral discourses, activists who organized for SNCC, and intellectual traditions that prized education for its liberatory possibilities. I earned a B.A. in Religion from Williams College with concentrations (minors) in Asian Studies and Philosophy. After graduating, I pursued several professional tracks before graduate school: working as a staff reporter for a black-owned, Boston-based news weekly; writing copy for a fair housing advertising campaign; and serving as a press aid to a Boston City Councilor. My experiences led me to graduate school at Boston College where I earned a Ph.D. and pursued ways of utilizing philosophy to enhance awareness and promote counter-oppressive practices. Currently I am an Associate Philosophy Professor at Canisius College, a Jesuit institution with a strong social justice tradition.
Working as a teacher-scholar continues to facilitate my long-standing commitments to social justice. In particular, my focus has been not simply the ways Blacks have survived oppressive conditions but also how, in the crucible of these conditions, there is a survival aesthetic that fosters creation even in the midst of the desert. This aesthetic is not merely artistic but fosters ethico-political philosophical interventions that contest oppressive circumstances, provide strategies and tactics for resistance, and occasions for celebration.
As marginalized people are primarily characterized only by their oppression, what is left out are the unique rites, rituals, practices, and methods of critique that form different cultural repositories that give rise not only to survival but also innovative forms of resistance. Much of my philosophical work has been devoted to articulating the philosophical practices cultivated within Black ancestral discourses.
The questions at the forefront of my research and teaching have prompted me to explore what might constitute Black Women's Philosophies, how the French philosopher Michel Foucault can be used to illustrate state-sponsored racisms embedded in "Stand Your Ground Laws," and ways of using parhessia as an index for liberatory practice. My current book project's working title is Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy. I have also co-developed an academic seminar that immerses Canisius College students in the context of Buffalo's predominantly Black East Side communities.
As an illustration of my assertions, I offer the following tale about a ten-year-old little girl coming of age in the Deep South. "She arrives at school on the first day, primped, pinned, hair coifed, shoes polished, and in new, crisply ironed clothes. A fifth grader, she is attending a new school learning the different rites and rituals. Following morning announcements, the children stand next to their seats with their hands on their hearts to say the pledge. Only this is a classroom in Mississippi where students – all races of students – pledge first to the Mississippi state flag and then to the U.S. flag. It is not a segregated classroom – even though most of the children are black. The time is closer to the millennium than the 1960s. Yet, it is still a time when the State of Mississippi preserves its southern heritage with a flag that bears the "stars and bars," an image of the Confederate flag and all that it symbolizes featured prominently in the left corner of the Mississippi state flag. The meaning of the Confederacy and its flag are apparent to the little girl. She looks around the classroom to see if any of her classmates register shock or even outrage. Her classmates, standing poised to pledge in unison, stare at the flag for the brief seconds it takes for everyone to gather themselves for collective speech. There is no outrage, no reflection on the flag's meaning. Everyone but the little Black girl is bound to this ritual. She stands, hands at her sides, outraged by the Confederate flag, and confused by the teacher's inaction. Her gut tells her that open questioning will not be tolerated but she has decided that she cannot, will not consent – let alone pledge allegiance – to a flag that symbolizes unfairness and inequality. The little girl remains standing but she does not raise her right hand or her voice in salute to either flag. She understands that she is not unified with those who could make this pledge and she is willing to be different.
The little girl's narrative signifies a different register from which one might hear. She offers a counter-narrative forged within Black Vernacular discourses. Despite existing within structurally oppressive conditions, the little girl is not merely an oppressed subject. She is also an actor who invokes critique to perform an ethico-political philosophical intervention – a resistant disruption that becomes possible because of her engagement with Black Vernacular ancestral discourses.
In closing, it is worth noting that the little girl's narrative took place decades before the recent demands that South Carolina and now Mississippi alter their relationship to the Confederate flag. Listening to this alternative register also raises questions about the wealth of innovative Black Vernacular tools that could expand philosophical practices even in the academy.
 Excerpted from Devonya N. Havis, "'Now, How You Sound': Considering a Different Philosophical Praxis," Hypatia 29, no. 1 (February 1, 2014): 237–52, doi:10.1111/hypa.12069.
 "Grisham, Morgan Freeman, Call for Change to Mississippi Flag – CNN.com," CNN, accessed August 25, 2015, http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/17/us/grisham-freeman-mississippi-confederate-flag/index.html.


text:
Q: Xamarin Android Picasso Java.Lang.RuntimeException: android_getaddrinfo failed: EAI_NODATA I am using Picasso to load a graphic from remote server. Below is the code:
return Picasso.With(context)
    .Load("https://exampledomain.com")
    .Placeholder(Resource.Drawable.icon_placeholder)
    .Error(Resource.Drawable.icon_error)
    .Get();

I intermittently would have crash with message:
Java.Lang.RuntimeException: android_getaddrinfo failed: EAI_NODATA (No address associated with hostname)
and also:
java.net.UnknownHostException: Unable to resolve host "exampledomain.com": No address associated with hostname
NOTE - since the crash happened few days ago, i have not been able to reproduce this crash on the app.
Anyone have same problem with a solution they could kindly share?


text:
Q: Is it correct to change "Would you mind if I..." to "Don't mind me..."? Suppose this is the original sentence:

Would you mind if I changed the channel?

What I learned from here, I assume that we have to use past verb after "I". Otherwise, we use a gerund after "mind" if pronouns are not used (am I correct?).
I've seen so many people use "Don't mind me + verb + ing", so related to my question, in an informal conversation can I rephrase that sentence above to:

Don't mind me changing the channel.

Am I doing that right? Is it correct to use a gerund instead of an infinitive to?

A: You are correct that a gerund is necessary after "Don't mind me...". You can't say "Don't mind me *to change the channel".
I should point out that the meaning of the two phrases is very different though!
You can't make a replacement of one phrase for the other because "Would you mind if I..." is asking for permission, whereas "Don't mind me..." is simply informing someone that you are doing something. The latter phrase is way more limited in how you could use it.
"Don't mind me changing the channel" is something an English speaker would say if the other person were studying and not watching TV, for instance, and you were warning them the sound on the TV may change abruptly, or if you were reaching over them to grab the remote control.
You aren't asking for permission, but simply informing them that you are doing it.
The link you gave implies something different to what you initially thought; saying "Would you mind..." and "Do you mind..." are very similar ways to ask for permission. "Don't mind me..." is not in this category.
Hope that helps!


text:
DWP turns to Government Gateway to support Universal Credit claims
Existing users of HMRC's digital identity system can use their credentials to apply for benefits, in a move designed to ease bottlenecks caused by Gov.uk Verify performance problems
Bryan Glick, Editor in chief
Published: 16 Apr 2020 11:41
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is offering benefit claimants an alternative way to prove their identity during the Universal Credit (UC) applications process, following huge delays caused by the Gov.uk Verify system.
Anyone with an existing Government Gateway account who has used the system in the past 12 months can now use that digital identity to register for UC, instead of creating an account using Verify.
The Government Gateway is an HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) system used for accessing personal tax accounts and submitting income tax self-assessment details. More than 11 million taxpayers used HMRC's systems to submit their tax details in the last financial year.
Some 1.4 million people have applied for UC as a result of the coronavirus crisis, a process that requires all claimants to register online and prove their identity using the Gov.uk Verify system.
However, Verify was unable to cope with the surge in claims, and as a result, people were placed in queues behind tens of thousands of other applicants, and made to wait hours – in some cases until the next day – to complete the process.
Even then, Verify is only able to determine the identity of 35% of UC claimants, which means about two-thirds of people then have to talk to a DWP call centre to complete their initial claim.
"People applying for Universal Credit will now be able to use their existing Government Gateway account to confirm their identity, helping to speed up their claim," said a DWP statement.
"The move is expected to help thousands of claimants applying for the benefit and will be available to those who have used the Government Gateway in the last 12 months to access their personal tax accounts, including to check their tax credits, send a personal tax return or check their state pension. Others applying for the benefit can continue to confirm their identity using Verify."
DWP is redeploying 10,000 staff, with a further 5,000 being recruited to help support the massive increase in claims.
Since 16 March, more than 400,000 people have set up a Verify account for the first time. The DWP was warned as long ago as 2015 that the performance of Verify would be problem for UC applications even at normal claimant levels, but the unplanned surge as a result of coronavirus is pushing the system well beyond its regular usage.
The Government Digital Service (GDS), which develops Verify, has been under pressure to clarify its future plans for the system, as funding was due to cease at the end of last month. Computer Weekly understands that further funding has been made available to support Verify in the coming months, although GDS has repeatedly declined to discuss details.
A possible cause of the Verify bottleneck that DWP has now acted to ease, was the withdrawal last month of three of the five independent identity providers (IDPs) that support the scheme. The two remaining IDPs – the Post Office and Digidentity – use the same back-end verification engine, which means all claimants are going through a single system, instead of the multiple systems previously in use.
The Verify project started in 2013 with the objective of replacing the Government Gateway, which had been used across government since 2000. However, HMRC decided to develop an updated version of Gateway for its tax users instead.
Read more about Gov.uk Verify
More questions raised about Gov.uk Verify as digital identity chief quits.
Cabinet Office gives more non-answers on the future of Gov.uk Verify.
Why Gov.uk Verify faces a critical few months – again.
Read more on IT for government and public sector
Universal Credit algorithm fails people in need, says Human Rights Watch
By: Lis Evenstad
Gov.uk Verify continues to pose 'notable risk' to Cabinet Office
Economic Affairs Committee calls for Universal Credit reform
Universal Credit still struggles with digital issues, says NAO
Treasury gives Gov.uk Verify 18-month reprieve due to... – ComputerWeekly.com
Universal Credit still struggles with digital issues,... – ComputerWeekly.com
Universal Credit algorithm fails people in need, says... – ComputerWeekly.com


using a unique waterfall approach.
Lowest cost law firm in the country.
Majority of fees collected if results are delivered.
It is a law firm, which can stop creditor and collection agency abuse by enforcing provisions of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA - federal law) and bankruptcy laws at a reasonable and fair cost.
All options to become debt free.
As we are a law firm all conversations are privileged and confidential from the initial telephone call to the end of our relationship and beyond.
Budgeting and bill pay fees Enrollment fee: None.
Monthly maintenance fee: $50 for the first 10 monthly recurring bills. $5 for each additional bill.
1. A consultancy fee of $50 will be charged each month for providing a monthly 30 minutes consultation with our savings consultant, 30 minutes consultation with budgeting consultant and 30 minutes consultation with the tax attorney. This fee will be adjusted with the success fee.
2. A success fee of 25% of the amount by which any of client's debts is reduced, will be charged.
Chapter 7: $1,500 for most cases (filing fees and credit counseling fees not included).
The fees listed below are statutory filing fees, payable to the bankruptcy court.
Chapter 7 Filing Fee: $299 (Discharge of most unsecured debts). Amendment Fee: $26 per amendment (If you have to make changes to certain documents after initial filing).
Chapter 13: $2,500 plus additional amount set by the court.
A lot of our clients sign up for debt management or debt settlement hoping to avoid bankruptcy but while they are in the debt management or debt settlement program their financial situation might become worse. In such a scenario we give them an easy path to bankruptcy. Hence, for both chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcies we give up to $500 credit for fees paid towards debt management or debt settlement. Here are some examples of fee credit.
Chapter 13 Filing Fee: $274 (Structured partial repayment plan for debtors who want to keep assets like homes).
Conversion Fee: $15(to change a Chapter 13 case into a Chapter 7 case).
Amendment Fee: $26 per amendment (if you have to make changes to certain documents after initial filing).


American feminists have their work cut out for them. There are clear and articulated principles of gender equality that are alleged to be present in this country and that our more progressive representatives like to tout as signs of our modernity as a leading nation. It is the drastic measures by which we fall short of these standards that feminists can point to as the issue in need of a solution.
In so many other regions of the world, feminists face an entirely different set of challenges. There is no standard or expectation of women as equal. There is no ladder for women to climb; rather, they now find themselves having to build the ladder. From education to sexual freedom and reproductive rights, millions of women face many challenges that must be acknowledged within the context of current gender relations and power dynamics where they stand if they are to make progress that sticks. This is true in all cases of gender inequality, including the U.S., where matters of women's rights are far from resolved, and where the belief that they have been hampers the next steps needed.
Dialogue on gender inequality and experience cannot be compartmentalized to one life phase- it has to continue to be relevant every time and place if any progress is to be made. Gender awareness is not a trend, but a reality in every aspect of life for persons of every kind.
Older PostMen Don't Always Win: A Review of "Good Girls Revolt"


text:
Next Lifestyle, Health, Sport & Leisure
Next Hobbies, Quizzes & Games
Next Hobbies
Next Role-Playing, War Games & Fantasy Sports
Role-Playing, War Games & Fantasy Sports 9780316497329-01-000 9780316497329-01-000 9780316497329
https://www.whsmith.co.uk/products/league-of-legends-realms-of-runeterra-official-companion/hardback/9780316497329-01-000.html
League of Legends: Realms of Runeterra (Official Companion)
By Riot Games (Author)
https://www.whsmith.co.uk/products/league-of-legends-realms-of-runeterra-official-companion/hardback/9780316497329-01-000.html £17.50 rrp £25.00 Save £7.50 (30%)
Embark on a journey through the realms of Runeterra in this first-ever collectable companion book, published to celebrate the game's tenth anniversary. Spanning the farthest reaches of this universe and venturing into uncharted territory, this encyclopedic compendium connects players to the rich storytelling that inspires all the action. Inside, you'll find: An expedition through eleven regions, chronicling conflicts, entrenched rivalries, and covert alliances Hundreds of illustrations, including never-before-seen maps and artwork Insights into the heroes, flora, fauna, architecture, politics and technologies from all corners of this world Original narratives that bring the cultures of Runeterra to life League of Legends is an online game played by millions of people around the world, offering endless engagement with an expanding roster of champions, frequent updates, and a thriving e-sports scene. This volume is an essential reference for fans everywhere.
Riot Games was founded in 2006 to develop, publish and support games made by players, for players. In 2009, Riot released its debut title, League of Legends, to worldwide acclaim. League has gone on to be the most-played PC game in the world and a key driver of the explosive growth of esports. Players are the foundation of Riot's community and it's for them that Riot continues to evolve the League experience both in and out of game.
Contributor: Riot Games
Imprint: Little, Brown & Company
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Biography: Riot Games was founded in 2006 to develop, publish and support games made by players, for players. In 2009, Riot released its debut title, League of Legends, to worldwide acclaim. League has gone on to be the most-played PC game in the world and a key driver of the explosive growth of esports. Players are the foundation of Riot's community and it's for them that Riot continues to evolve the League experience both in and out of game.
https://www.whsmith.co.uk/products/league-of-legends-realms-of-runeterra-official-companion/hardback/9780316497329.html £17.50 rrp £25.00 Save £7.50 (30%)


text:
Carbon Gases "Saved Us From A New Ice Age"
Filed under: AGW, Al Gore, antarctica, cap-and-trade, carbon dioxide, Carbon Tax, climate change, climate science, climategate, Co2, global cooling, Global Warming, global warming hoax, NSIDC, ocean, scandal, sea levels, solar activity, solar science, sun, sunspots | Tags: Dr James Lovelock
Donna Bowater
UK Daily Express
MAN-MADE carbon emissions are staving off a new ice age, says a leading environmental scientist.
Climate-change expert Dr James Lovelock says the greenhouse gases that have warmed the planet are likely to prevent a big freeze that could last millions of years.
In a talk at London's Science Museum Dr Lovelock said the balance of nature was in charge of the environment.
He said: "We're just fiddling around. It is worth thinking that what we are doing in creating all these carbon emissions, far from being something frightful, is stopping the onset of a new ice age.
"If we hadn't appeared on the earth, it would be due to go through another ice age and we can look at our part as holding that up.
"I hate all this business about feeling guilty about what we're doing.
"We're not guilty, we never intended to pump CO2 into the atmosphere, it's just something we did."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFbUVBYIPlI
NSIDC Reports That Antarctica is Cooling and Sea Ice is Increasing
Ocean Absorption Of CO2 Not Shrinking
U.S. "cap and trade" rebranded "pollution reduction"
Discredited Population Crank Ehrlich Admits: Everyone Is Scared ****less Over Climategate


One unlikely champion to take a stand on this issue was Peter Spencer. Although his past and business record did not bear close examination, earlier this year Spencer became a folk hero during his hunger strike on his property in southern NSW. Denied use of his land by the commonwealth commitments to the Kyoto Protocol enacted by the state government and denied the compensation that the Australian Constitution entitled him to because the NSW government, rather than Canberra, implemented the land use laws, he decided to take a stand. He certainly won't be the last.
Surely indigenous and non-indigenous people have a reasonable expectation that control over their land means they will determine future land use and management subject to a fair and reasonable regulatory framework.
This is critical if governments and interest groups are to be dissuaded from seeking to impose their will without fear of legal challenge or the need to consider statutory provisions for negotiation or compensation.
As Noel Pearson has pointed out, the Wild Rivers legislation introduced last year by the Queensland Labor government is symptomatic of the weakness of the system of property rights, and ever-bolder actions will certainly follow if such actions are left unchallenged.
Although the commonwealth Constitution provides for compensation on "just terms" where there is an acquisition of property, this is not binding on the states.
Amendment of the Constitution to make it binding on the states is practically impossible. What may be possible is to use existing provisions of the Constitution to make governments pay "just terms" compensation.
It may be possible in some circumstances to argue that the states have acted as an agent of the commonwealth in implementing environmental laws, , for example where states have acted to meet the Kyoto Protocol on behalf of the commonwealth, or in implementing a Council of Australian Governments agreement, or to protect the values of a World Heritage area.
Indigenous peoples in Australia have been fighting for the recognition of their property rights for the past 200 years. According to Pearson, "that is what the struggle for land rights was fundamentally about". Yet just as land rights are being gained, Pearson claims "state governments and extreme green groups are legislating to reduce the property rights of indigenous Australians".
This whole issue is fundamentally about land rights, he says, not the environment.
Some Cape York indigenous groups believe they have a compelling case against the Queensland government for taking away their native title right to "speak for country"; in other words to plan and make decisions for their lands.
They also believe there is a compelling case in relation to the removal of economic development rights by the Wild Rivers declarations. This is because there is a strong argument that the restriction of land use for conservation purposes is an acquisition.
The Wild Rivers Act, like Queensland's Vegetation Management Act, makes no allowance for provision of fair and just compensation. Indigenous and non-indigenous landholders are not compensated for the loss of property value and property rights that result from any declaration.
The lack of basic safeguards in the Wild Rivers legislation has arguably led to a breakdown of integrity and accountability mechanisms and has perpetrated a serious injustice against indigenous people. A clear example is the decision by the Queensland government to declare the Aurukun wetlands as a high preservation area without consulting indigenous landholders.
The state government intends to place up to 80 per cent of Cape York, including large tracts of indigenous land, under Wild Rivers declarations. Until relatively recently, conservation areas in Queensland such as national parks or nature refuges could only be declared following the acquisition of the land and just compensation to the landholder, or through the agreement of the landholder.
The Wild Rivers Act explanatory notes advise that the level of preservation sought for wild rivers is higher than for ecologically sustainable development but below that generally provided in a national park. ESD is a well-established principle that reasonably allows for development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.
But Wild Rivers declarations seek to achieve a level of protection closer to a national park, where economic development is virtually prohibited.
For indigenous people on Cape York and elsewhere on the continent, a key concern is the recognition and protection of their rights, followed by compensation for the denial of rights. For many indigenous people it seems ironic that, while they have recently seen the return of their traditional lands, control over these lands is being removed by government at the behest of white-dominated conservation and heritage groups.
Recently, federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott introduced a wild rivers private member's bill. The Senate has referred this bill for inquiry and report, with submissions closing at the end of this month. Hopefully this will provide an opportunity for the Senate to give full consideration to the effects of environmental laws on indigenous and non-indigenous landholders, as well as dealing with the integrity and accountability issues that arise where there are inadequate safeguards to landholders' rights.
The application of the Constitution to provide just compensation where the imposition of such environmental laws removes landholder rights would be an important step to achieving an equitable system. All Australians — indigenous and non-indigenous — deserve just compensation in situations where the imposition of environmental and heritage laws removes their rights as landholders.
The Wild Rivers legislation is definitely NOT an attack on Land Rights. All landholders have to obey the laws, including Vegetation Management Act (tree-clearing), wetlands, Wild Rivers (in designated pristine catchments), potentially acid sulphate soils, coastal erosion, World Heritage and on and on. The aim of all this legislation is to have good land management, and indigenous landowners should obviously have to obey the law, just like anyone else. It would be racist if one race had to obey the law and another race didn't.
Land Rights has always been supported by greens, because the indigenous communities have declared that they love their land. They treat it as "sacred". And they rightly point out that they have looked after it well enough for it to be called "pristine".
It is Noel Pearson and Tony Abbott who are in favour of mining, logging, irrigated farming on creek-banks, tourism infrastructure – all potentially having serious impacts on the river catchments. Pearson wants indigenous people to have jobs driving bulldozers strip-mining their "sacred land" for bauxite and whatever else will earn the mining companies a quick dollar. You can imagine how much the miners care about rehabilitating the land afterwards. Land Rights was never about the right to strip-mine the land.
If the development proposals will have no impact, or a manageable impact, then they will be allowed to proceed. If they will seriously harm the river catchment, then the development application will not be granted.
Since development applications are just that – applications, no compensation is due if an application is knocked back, so all this constitutional talk is just nonsense.
Make no mistake, this is nothing to do with Land Rights, and everything to do with mining.
I just saw your article "Land rights under threat gtom the green lobby" in Weekend Australian – thanks for that…. bit by bit the Spencer case and that of estimated 30,000 other farmers/landholders in NSW and Queensland is getting out. I am one of the people supporting Peter Spencer in his on-going campaign which will include an upcoming Full Bench hearing in the High Court. I thought you might be interested in our latest media release (sent out 24 March) in support of Peter Spencer and the "Tower of Hope" people power movement (see below). If you would like to get future media releases – please let me know and provide me with an e-mail address – and I will put you on our data base.
In today's Weekend Australian Peter Spencer is not only acknowledged as a National Folk hero for the stand he has taken on secure property rights, but what he has been saying for five years which was largely scoffed at by the academic elites and mainstream is now written about as fact.
I have an inkling of how satisfying this recognition finally, for what he has been saying, must be for Peter. I have been writing about it for three years and have been dismissed and ridiculed by farmers, greens, conservationists, business people, politicians and in particular the State Farming Organizations and the National Farmers Federation (NFF) as an "idiot" and a "red necked radical".
Hot on the heels of the "enlightened" coming out of the NFF this week on the issue, today to his full credit we have Professor Ross Fitzgerald (pictured below) a well-known and influential Australian writer, broadcaster, academic and political commentator, Professor of History and Politics, personal Chair, 1996- 2002, and Professor Emeritus, History and Politics, Griffith University, 2003 to the present coming out all guns blazing in his widely read column in the Weekend Australian.
"THE protection of property rights in Australia is an important issue that is uniting indigenous and non-indigenous landholders. . Both are concerned that in recent years the introduction of vegetation clearing laws, compulsory property acquisitions and, recently, the Wild Rivers legislation in Queensland threaten their livelihoods.
So they are seeking recognition and protection of their rights where they have been removed by environmental and heritage laws, and just compensation if these rights are removed.
One unlikely champion to take a stand on this issue was Peter Spencer ….. earlier this year Spencer became a folk hero during his hunger strike on his property in southern NSW.
Denied use of his land by the commonwealth commitments to the Kyoto Protocol enacted by the state government and denied the compensation that the Australian Constitution entitled him to because the NSW government, rather than Canberra, implemented the land use laws, he decided to take a stand.
Emeritus Professor Ross Fitzgerald's influential weekly column is widely read by academics, bureaucrats, those in the judiciary and Politicians.
ESD may indeed be a "well-established principle that reasonably allows for development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs".
In few cases – taking Australia's land mass as a whole – do we have baseline data, procedures in place or even an agreed theoretical basis necessary to monitor ecological sustainability with any real confidence.
Huge changes will clearly be required – worldwide – in human organisation and customs if we are to retain more than a small fraction of this planet's biodiversity longterm. Naturally, this will give rise to many conflicts with notions of 'property rights' developed in and for earlier times.
I suggest there are few absolutes in this debate.
Do landowners have an absolute compensatable 'right' to contribute, knowingly, to the liklihood that other species will become extinct? I think not.
I take it you are personally in favour of private property ownership? If so, the notion that land ownership confers responsibilities as well as rights is your friend. To reject that is to hand Leninists a strong card indeed, as 'responsibility-free' private land ownership is incompatible with a sustainable future for billions of people.
We need constructive discussion about how to bring about the necessary changes in our economy and land management so humanity's wellbeing – along with this planet's biological riches – are better protected longterm. Meanwhile, desirable parts of our cultural heritage that are compatible with a sustainable future should be cherished while we shed what's not compatible with sustainability as painlessly and fairly as possible.
That's a complex topic requiring subtle thought.
Rants about 'property rights' as though they're an absolute good are not helpful. They're already on offer from pundits such as Bolt and Devine, a variety of shock-jocks and numerous unreconstructed conservative politicians.
Why add to the dross, Ross?


text:
Q: PowerShell retrieve and sort EmailAddresses I'm using the below code for retrieving and simultaneously adding a separator "," for each smtp-attribute in the EmailAddresses-property.
get-mailbox | select-object DisplayName,PrimarySMTPAddress, @{Name='EmailAddresses';Expression={[string]::join(", ", ($_.EmailAddresses))}}

But I would also like to sort the values of EmailAddressess so that uppercase always comes first by using powershell and with as little effort (short code) as possible.
If you're not familiar with Microsoft Exchange: each value inside EmailAddresses first starts with smtp: or SMTP: followed by the users various email addresses. uppercase SMTP means its the primary SMTP-address used when sending an email for example. Lowercase smtp means its just another email address.
I'd like to sort the output so that the SMTP:*-value comes first.
Bonus question, in the Expression-block; can multiple [string]:: overloads be used together, if so how?
I was attempting to achieve a sorted output by using [string]::OrderBy() and [string]::OrderByDescending() but I couldn't figure out how to use them together with [string]::split().
Thanks to user 4c74356b41, I now realize that my string doesn't contain OrderBy() or OrderByDescending() hence they cannot be used.
MSDN: OrderBy Method
MSDN: OrderbyDescending Method

A: You can just nest a pipeline sort inside of your expression.
@{Name='EmailAddresses';Expression={[string]::join(", ", ($_.EmailAddresses | Sort-Object))}}

99% sure this will work for you but didn't mock up a full test to be sure so let me know if it fails.


text:
Officially closed, but open to new ministry
By Linda BloomAug. 27, 2014 | NEW YORK (UMNS)
Kat Kawasaki (left) kisses her grandfather, the Rev. Bill Jenkins. The 66-year-old United Methodist pastor help guide a de-commissioned San Diego church into a new life as an urban ministry center.
Eight years ago, when it seemed inevitable that Christ United Methodist Church in San Diego would eventually close, the Rev. Bill Jenkins convinced his dwindling congregation to take a slightly different path.
In the process, the congregation offered a home to a dozen multi-ethnic congregations of various faiths and space to social programs serving their North Park neighborhood while saving a historic building.
The success of Christ Church Ministry Center led the Rev. Bill Jenkins to the realization that while many San Diego organizations offer assistance to the poor, information about those services was not readily available.
He used his technology experience to create a central online directory, The Fount of Blessings, using metaphors from the hymn, "Come Thou Fount," to detail the hundreds of resources available in San Diego from churches, charities and social agencies. A short video at MyFount.com explains how it works.
"The Fount has the potential to revolutionize the way organizations can more easily and effectively work together to direct those in need to almost any resource available in their area," Jenkins explained.
When it was constructed in the 1950s, what was then the First Evangelical United Brethren Church of San Diego housed the largest EUB congregation west of the Rocky Mountains. The Evangelical United Brethren and Methodist denominations merged to form the United Methodist Church in 1968.
As with many urban churches, times had changed at Christ church. "Here was a church that was used one hour on a Sunday morning," explained Jenkins, who became pastor there in 1999. "Some of those rooms had not been used in decades."
Today, the doors at the 25,000-square-foot Christ United Methodist Ministry Center open at 8 a.m. daily and don't close again until 9:30 or 10 p.m., touching some 1,000 lives a week, he estimated. "It was just amazing the people God brought to us," the 66-year-old pastor said.
The transformation came with the support of the United Methodist California-Pacific Annual (regional) Conference. "Like a lot of urban congregations, its core members were mostly commuting from other places," recalled the Rev. Myron Wingfield, who was the South District superintendent at the time and now is on staff at the United Methodist Board of Higher Education and Ministry in Nashville, Tennessee.
What made the project work were good collaborative choices, Wingfield added. Church members were willing to start meeting the needs of the community, with Jenkins providing the leadership.
"It's an uncommon collection of factors that really has led to a vital presence of ministry in that location," he added.
Trajectory toward social justice
Perhaps the most important factor is Jenkins himself, who stayed on the center's executive director. Like the church, he has been on a lifelong journey of transformation and faith.
As a teenager living in segregated Yazoo City, Mississippi, in the 1960s, Jenkins found his white friends were more interested in the 100th anniversary of the Civil War than the passage of the Civil Rights Act.
But he had a different perspective, he said, gained from the summers he spent helping his father with a dry cleaning route in the Delta, where 90 percent of the clients were black sharecroppers. As a Delta State University student, he broke the color barrier at an all-black high school when he took a student teaching position there.
The two experiences, Jenkins explained, "set my life in a whole different trajectory."
Advice for ministry center model
The Rev. Bill Jenkins offers some advice for those contemplating the ministry center model:
Don't Just Survive. Keeping the doors open is not an indication of vital ministry. Many dying urban churches find ways to prolong their existence while avoiding facing the reality of failure to connect with their changing neighborhood and culture.
It's God's church. We all form emotional attachments to our home church, but the building, traditions or rituals are never a substitute for genuine ministry.
Relinquish Control. Declining urban churches need to trust other groups to do what they do best without trying to control them.
Use the "Matthew 25 Model." Have as many ministries focused around hunger, thirst (including spiritual thirst), clothing, wellness, prison and befriending strangers as possible.
Get Down and Dirty. There is no sanitized way of doing urban ministry or any ministry, for that matter. Expect that often those in greatest need may appear the least lovable.
Think Abundance, not Scarcity. Jesus took a few loaves and fishes to feed five thousand (just counting the men). There is an abundance of help out there being provided by churches, charities and social agencies but it needs to be coordinated.
Trust God. Urban ministries will always struggle to survive, much like those we are called to help. Revenues will come and go. Charities and congregations will, too. Anxiety is the opposite of faith.
His life in the ministry began with ordination in the Southern Baptist Church at the age of 20. The ideological shift in the Southern Baptist Convention after 1978 was troubling to Jenkins and when he joined The United Methodist Church in 1988, "I knew that I was home," he recalled.
Wingfield credits the "tri-vocational" experience that Jenkins gained over the years — in education and technology as well as the ministry — "combined with a very passionate faith and guided by a generous willingness to truly be the church" with making the project sustainable.
"The diversity of the community brought together there is also a key piece," Wingfield said, adding that Jenkins' willingness to open the space to congregations of other denominations and develop a relationship with their leaders and key members was in "the Catholic spirit" espoused by John Wesley, the founder of Methodism.
Fostering diversity
A prime example is the Haitian gospel music group, "Louange a Dieu" – Creole for "Praises to God." Jenkins befriended the group in 2009 after he learned gangs in Haiti were persecuting them.
Jenkins made the chapel available to the group on Sunday evenings, but the help didn't stop there. "We converted space in the church so they could live, sleep, cook and shower in the huge building," he explained. Then he searched for "the best immigration attorney I could find."
After a massive earthquake struck Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010, the now-established Haitian Methodist congregation became "the hub" of relief efforts in San Diego, Jenkins said.
When Haitians refugees began to reach the U.S. border through Mexico, U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement officers turned to the congregation and Christ Church for help and translation services. With assistance from the United Methodist Committee on Relief and Catholic Charities of San Diego, former Sunday school rooms in the education building were transformed into temporary housing for more than 300 Haitian refugees.
The granting of temporary protected status to Haitians who were in the United States before the earthquake "was a game changer for them," Jenkins said about the Haitian congregation. "They were able to get jobs, such as orderlies and custodians at the hospital and nursing homes. Most enrolled in extension courses to pick up marketable skills."
Jenkins said he is humbled and proud to be called "father" by the Haitian group. "I consider the Haitians my children, especially the original Louange a Dieu group," he explained. "They are young adults, and we have been through so much together."
Death leads to resurrection
Realizing that the original Christ United Methodist Church was no longer sustainable in a traditional sense, the South District, which includes San Diego, and then Bishop Mary Ann Swenson were willing "to name that and embrace a certain type of death with hope of resurrection," Wingfield said.
The church was de-commissioned in 2011 — although Christ Chapel, a small United Methodist group, still worships there — and the ministry center emerged. As a retired elder, Jenkins could still serve the sacraments and provide denominational oversight.
Admittedly, for a period of time after the transition, Christ Ministry Center "kind of fell off the radar" for the conference, said the Rev. John Farley, Wingfield's successor as district superintendent. "Bill was there just keeping things going without any official capacity."
Farley said he admires the way Jenkins has claimed the history of change, renewal and rebirth in an older neighborhood that is ethnically diverse and becoming popular with young families.
"Bill's kind of an entrepreneurial spirit and a great evangelical spirit at the same time," he said.
What's most exciting to Farley is the connection that is growing among four of the faith groups meeting at the ministry center who together average 220 in worship. "The story we say is they fell in love with each other," he explained. "They began to feel like a unique family. Organically, this diversity began to sort of merge."
The groups have been studying Methodist theology and are considering a constituting conference to become a new United Methodist congregation. "They're finding a home in Wesleyan grace," Farley said.
*Bloom is a United Methodist News Service multimedia reporter based in New York. Follow her at http://twitter.com/umcscribe or contact her at (646) 369-3759 or [email protected].
Wesley's Chapel makes history relevant today
The Methodist congregation at Bermondsey offers practical assistance and the spirit of Jesus to a diverse community.
Bishops begin high-stakes deliberations
Council of Bishops president said the church is watching as bishops finalize recommendations aimed at fending off church splits over homosexuality.
Native American Course of Study empowers pastors
Program connects theology course work and Native traditions, helping graduates grow Native congregations.


How does the Smart colour Plus Nio-active formulation work?
During normal colouration or bleaching process, our hair dries up, becomes fragile and breaks a lot easier. The Nio-active formulation added to our permanent range penetrates deep into the hair and hydrates it. So you get a very soft, smooth and moisturised hair with beautiful hair colour.
This unique Permanent Amethyst Purple formulation deeply penetrates the hair during the colouring process, providing strength and protection.
How long will the colour last?
What present hair colour is this best for:?
How do I refresh the colour?
Simply reapply the colour to dry unwashed hair, following the instruction in the pack.
How many packs do I need?
How long is the development time?
COLOUR CREAM INGREDIENTS: AQUA, CETYL ALCOHOL, CETEARYL ALCOHOL, PROPYLENE GLYCOL, CETEARETH-25, COCAMIDE MEA, AMMONIA, CETETH-2, POLYQUATERNIUM-6, DIMETHICONE, APRICOT KERNEL OIL POLYGLYCERYL-6 ESTERS, POLYGLYCERYL-10 DIPALMITATE, PUNICA GRANATUM SEED EXTRACT, DICETYL PHOSPHATE, HYDROLYZED YEAST EXTRACT, SORBITAN OLEATE, GUANOSINE, ADENOSINE PHOSPHATE, MALEIC ACID, OLEYL ALCOHOL, URACIL, PVP, ASCORBIC ACID, XANTHAN GUM, DIMETHICONE PEG-8 MEADOWFOAMATE, SODIUM SULFITE, SODIUM HYDROSULFITE, DISODIUM EDTA, ETHANOLAMINE, PARFUM, 1-HYDROXYETHYL 4,5-DIAMINO PYRAZOLE SULFATE, 2,6-DIHYDROXYETHYLAMINOTOLUENE, N,N-BIS(2-HYDROXYETHYL)-P-PHENYLENEDIAMINE SULFATE, 2,6-DIAMINOPYRIDINE. SMART HAIR COLOUR shades do not contain ingredients of animal origin.


As service providers and providers of content, we are liable for own contents. However, according to § 18 ECG (eCommerce Law/ eCommerce Gesetz) service providers are not obligated to permanently monitor submitted or stored information or to search for evidences that indicate illegal activities.
Contents and compilations published on these websites by the providers are subject to Austrian copyright laws. Reproduction, editing, distribution as well as the use of any kind outside the scope of the copyright law require a written permission of the author or originator. Downloads and copies of these websites are permitted for private use only. The commercial use of our contents without permission of the originator is prohibited.
Any e-mail message is only for the designated recipient and may contain legally privileged or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original or any copies. Any other use of this e-mail is prohibited. Unless the sender does not act willfully, the sender does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message. In order to be valid declarations of intent made by e-mail require an official written confirmation by ESPI fax or letter. Likewise we can only assume liability for information provided by e-mail in the case that this information is/was confirmed in an official letter duly signed by ESPI.


Learn perspective, composition, and color mixing with step-by-step guided small group activities in a relaxed setting. No experience is needed! Both children and adults are welcome.
The class is held at the Delta Gallery (2485 Sand Creek Road, Suite 128, Streets of Brentwood Shopping Center).
Click here for more information or to sign-up.


text:
(function($)
{
	$('[data-toggle*="gridalicious"]').each(function()
	{
		var $that = $(this);
		$(this).removeClass('hide2').gridalicious(
		{
			gutter: $that.attr('data-gridalicious-gutter') || 13,
			width: $that.attr('data-gridalicious-width') ? parseInt($that.attr('data-gridalicious-width')) : 200,
			animate: true,
			selector: '.widget'
		});
	});
})(jQuery);


2016 is here! Wish you all a happy and fulfilling year.
On the personal front, we're facing a new year, with a new set of challenges and opportunities, and a clean slate for the year ahead. Let us make use of this opportunity to resolve to improve and advance our careers, personal goals and growth in general, while looking after our families and friends.
Last year in this very space I had exhorted you that 'Instead of weaving dreams in the air, make a resolution that would have significance in and add a meaning to your life'. Take a minute to think whether you have done that or not. If you haven't, it is not too late. Take 2016 as a Godsend opportunity to test your commitment. Resolve this year to monitor how far you are holding on to your commitment.


Wedding Day Sound is owned and operated by Winnipeg musician, Andrew Wasson. It is a live music service subsidiary of his music studio, "Creative Guitar," (established in 1992).
With over 15 years experience in the music and entertainment industry, Andrew has the professional experience to create the best live music possible for your wedding ceremony, reception, or pre-wedding event.
Wedding Day Sound guarantees the right mix of musicians and sound equipment for all performances, big or small. Each of our band members are the finest in the business, and the most professional and friendly entertainers available in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
music you played before and after the ceremony.
On your wedding day, your ceremony music will enhance your special moments and help to create beautiful memories. Your families and wedding guests will compliment you on the beautifully performed music. Memories of your wedding day will be greatly enhanced because of a quality performance by professional musicians.


text:
Taxpayers pay for DeSantis' ugly culture wars | Editorial
By Miami Herald Editorial Board
Gov. Ron DeSantis' agenda continues to rack up lawsuits. (Orlando Sentinel)
When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — in the name of fighting leftists or "woke" (fill in the blank) — cracked down on social media companies' ability to remove users or on the academic freedom of college professors to discuss racism, plenty of laypeople wondered, "Is that even constitutional?"
It's clear now that DeSantis, an Ivy League educated lawyer, should have known better. And, most likely, he did. Florida has spent nearly $17 million defending laws and measures championed by the governor in court, the Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau reported this week. The DeSantis administration has, with some exceptions, so far been mostly on the losing side. But that appears to be of little concern for a governor who's found a way to remain at the top of the news cycle with the latest topic of outrage.
[ Editorial: DeSantis slanders Floridians as people of narrow minds, hard hearts and hateful intent. ]
DeSantis' culture wars aren't won in courtrooms, but on the select cable news shows he's always on, on social media and at the polls, especially as he gears up for a likely presidential run. Like Donald Trump, DeSantis has turned governing into showmanship with little regard of the consequences of passing laws that could be unconstitutional and bury the state in litigation.
Too bad the governor isn't footing the bill for his one-man show. Florida taxpayers are, via legal fees.
Of his 15 culture-war policies being challenged, only bans on vaccine passports and mask mandates have been cleared by a judge. Others cases are pending, such as his suspension of a Democratic prosecutor in the Tampa Bay area. In other cases, not only did the DeSantis team get an adverse ruling, but also a scolding. When a federal judge blocked Florida's Stop WOKE Act from being enforced in public universities, he quoted George Orwell, calling the measure "positively dystopian." The law prohibited K-12 teachers and college professors from engaging in classroom instruction that could be seen as making white and straight people and men feel guilt.
"'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen,' and the powers in charge of Florida's public university system have declared the State has unfettered authority to muzzle its professors in the name of 'freedom,' " Judge Mark Walker's ruling said.
DeSantis' muzzling of people who disagree with his color-blind view of America — where racism exists only in history books and systemic inequalities are a myth — is big government at its best. It's also a vain attempt at using the government to try to reverse societal changes — and a new understanding of racism, sexuality and gender identity — that occurred organically and quickly thanks to social media. But perhaps DeSantis isn't truly trying to change anything, just claiming credit for trying.
Conservatism can no longer be defined only by a belief in low taxes and the free market. It's been overtaken by grievances, whether it be against immigrants, LGBTQ people, social justice — you name it. Not even corporations have been spared, as Disney quickly learned when it opposed the parental rights law known as "Don't Say Gay." That runs directly against the Republican tradition of protecting corporate free speech, mostly in the form of multimillion-dollar campaign contributions.
Now that Trump looks weakened after the midterm elections, it's natural that the GOP will look for his successor. That's what makes the assumption that DeSantis is a less dangerous version of Trump sound naive.
DeSantis is more effective at using government in the name of grievance politics. He's found out that Florida voters seemingly don't care if he runs afoul of the nation's founding document, or that they are footing the bill. If that's the formula DeSantis believes will carry him to the White House, there's no less danger in that.
This editorial reflects the opinion of the Miami Herald editorial board.