Wireless Freedom with Stylish Vasa BLÅ Headphones!
Music is something that is part of my everyday routine. I don't think there has been a single day that I haven't listened to or sang along to music in my 32 years on this planet of ours.
It can help you through the hardest times and become the soundtrack to the best times that we experience. It takes us through love, friendships and no matter how many years pass, it can always take you back to that moment in time.
With technology advancing steadily, we consume most of our content through our devices and for that reasons alone, headphones that can help you take in multimedia but, can do so elegantly and in high-quality is needed.
Sudio Sweden was created after one of the founders spotted musician, Phil Collins, in New York City. They noticed that Mr. Collins was having difficulty with his headphones and they knew that they needed to find a solution since they also had problems with their headphones on occasion.
Even though they had a company, they didn't have a name yet and they decided that their company name should honor Mr. Collins in some way. Sudio Sweden was named after the song Sussudio.
The VASA BLÅ headphones are wireless and compatible with any device that is Bluetooth enabled. They can be used for talking on the phone or for listening to music or podcasts. Having a built-in microphone is not only convenient for phone calls, but also recording notes on the go. When you use these headphones, you'll enjoy being able to control the device with the remote control that is included.
The Sudio Sweden VASA BLÅ wireless headphones are available in the color combination of rose gold, pink, white, blue and black as well as other color combinations. I had the chance to try out the black rose and let me tell you, they are beautiful. Not only are they sleek and attention to detail has been taken, they work amazingly.
The headphones provide quality studio sound whether you're listening to music or just talking on the phone. They can be used for eight hours at a time and they only need to be charged for two hours before they can be used again.
As far as aesthetics go, the VASA BLÅ headphones do not disappoint. The cord is flat and thin and the unit itself is lightweight. When I wear them, they aren't obstructive, they're light and effective and it doesn't hurt that they match my phone either.
What I have been using them the most for are my regular walks or my time on the stationary bike. The wireless headphones make it easy to not be tethered to a phone which in turn helps to focus on your activity opposed to worrying about snagging the cord.
I have also used them in my office to listen to music and to take phone call meeting while I work on my computer. They are versatile to take you through down time, physical activity and work.
Each set of VASA BLÅ headphones comes with four extra sleeves for the ear buds, a leather carrying case with a metal clip, the battery and a charging cable as aforementioned. All of these extras are a nice feature and shows that Sudio Sweden knows what their customers want and need. They always put their customers first, which shows since they are offer free shipping and a fourteen-day return policy.
The Sudio Sweden VASA BLÅ are absolutely amazing and you shouldn't wait too long to get a pair. They are perfect for a gift for the holidays and make can make great stocking stuffers. Now everyone in your life can have an enhanced music listening experience! You can pick up a wireless pair for $140 or opt for their wired options that start from $65 and up! Plus, for a limited time only, they are offering FREE gift packaging!
For more information, visit Sudio Sweden. You can see all of their selections there. Get social and send them a quick shout out or question on Facebook and Instagram. Plus, you can see their latest updates too!
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These sound like a great gift idea. I know I am always looking for a pair of headphone I like!
They really do make an awesome gift.
My daughter is trying out some wireless headphones. She loves them. I need to try them for myself. These look like a great option.
They really make a world of a difference. You will fall in love with the freedom.
These look perfect and sleek for the gym! I need to get some because my old ones are starting to sound weird.
These would be great for the gym, they do not get in the way.
I like to use wireless head phones. I love the look of these. They would make a great gift for my Son for Christmas.
They are very sleek, that is for sure!
I would love to try wireless headphones. I will have to add these to my Christmas wish list.
These look very comfortable. I have been looking for a new pair of headphones.
They really are very comfortable!
This is something that my husband has been screaming for for a long time. He hates how the wires on his current ear buds interfere with him riding the lawnmower and mowing. He would love a set of these.
These would be perfect for him!
I love these headphones and so need a pair. Will definitely be putting these on my list!


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Former Mayor of Vancouver and Global Ambassador for the Global Covenant of Mayors
Gregor is a leader and entrepreneur in politics and business who's committed to building a healthy, biodiverse world with vibrant, green, inclusive cities. He is Global Ambassador of @Mayors4Climate, helping the 10,000+ cities in the Global Covenant of Mayors tackle climate and energy challenges. Gregor served three terms as Mayor of Vancouver from 2008-2018. During his tenure Vancouver's economy led the country and the city achieved record-setting years for building housing, childcare and job space, growing public transit ridership and investment, and achieving the lowest carbon emissions in North America.
Gregor chaired Canada's Big City Mayors Caucus, the Mayors Council on Regional Transportation, and was Host Mayor of the 2010 Olympics. Prior to his decade as Mayor, he was elected to the BC Parliament from 2005-8, and he was an organic farmer and entrepreneur, co-founding and leading Happy Planet Foods, Canada's leading fresh juice, smoothie and soup brand. Gregor is a father of four, an avid adventurer in the great outdoors, and loves arts, culture and team sports.

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Thank you for writing. The cellclick event is only applicable for the grid cells. It is not triggered when you click on the chart area. Currently, the component does not provide the similar API for the charts. Could you please provide more details about your use case? It would be much easier for us to find a suitable solution for you.
There is a possible alternative approach which lies in customizing the context menu.
For example, you can add a custom item to the context menu with the functionality you need. Inside the customizeContextMenu function, you will get the object which contains information about the chart segment which was right-clicked.
For more details please refer to the documentation.
There is a small known issue with the information returned by Chart Object, however, it will be fixed on August the 25th.
Please let me know if the approach described above can work for you.


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Edwin Gould Services for Children and Families, a New York City-based program, is one of three programs chosen to participate in a two-year demonstration project aimed at helping victims of severe trafficking. In this article, a representative from the organization discusses the project's goals and wider efforts to combat trafficking in New York.
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SAMHSA is charged with implementing the Synar Amendment, which requires states to enact and enforce laws prohibiting the sale or distribution of tobacco to minors (PDF, 8 pages). Major findings from the Synar data compiled from states in 2013 include an upward trend in retailer violation rates, a decline in youth smokers who obtain their tobacco products in retail settings, and the achievement of the overall Synar goal by 50 states and the District of Columbia.
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"Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance 2013" presents statistics and trends for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in the United States through 2013. The report shows that STDs particularly affect young people, as well as gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM). The data reflect that cases and rates of chlamydia and gonorrhea infection are highest in Americans between the ages of 15 and 24. The report also shows that MSM now account for 75% of all syphilis infections, and that 52% of MSM who have primary and secondary syphilis are infected with HIV.
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The creative process has always been a driving force in me. My creative side began with plastic model kits as a young child and developed into a full blown addiction to painting and drawing in my teen years. Growing up in the Children's Aid Society meant moving from home to home constantly making it hard to develop relationships with people, that is when I discovered nature. No matter what foster home I moved to there was always woods, parks, birds, squirrels…. the natural world. Sketch book in hand I would disappear into the parks and forests to catch a glimpse of nature and wildlife recording what I saw. A true love affair was born, art dominated my life.
My obsession with art blossomed in high school were I found that my talent equaled attention from art teachers. Again moving constantly made it hard to develop connections with teachers, but there was always the connection with art. College opened up new worlds of trial and error for me. I was exposed to new ideas and techniques, some helpful, others not so much. Once again the attention I received and the praise from instructors only fueled my devotion and desire to perfect my craft.
In 1993 I graduated from Sheridan College with a diploma in Technical & Scientific Illustration and won the Artistic Excellence Award. After graduation, my career led me to free-lance illustration where I specialized in architectural rendering. Attention to detail became my commercial trademark, a trademark that would find its way into my nature art and define its direction.
In 1996, young and inexperienced in the art world I found my first art distributor, Shabban Serra Ltd and plunged into the fine art world full time. Shaban Serra offered a guiding light and helping hand in a world I knew nothing about. Over the years with the help of distributors, agents and publishers I have been able to live the art dream I always wanted, a dream not possible without everyone's help.
Since then my art career has been a wonderful ride of ups and downs, but always interesting and always ending up fruitful. I have had the opportunity to work with such organizations as WREATH, Children's Wish, Ducks Unlimited, Canadian Conservation Fund, Timber Wolf Alliance and the Royal Canadian Mint. One of the greatest thrills of my life was designing the 2016 Olympic 'Lucky Loonie' currency circulation coin for the games in Rio. To be part of the team that created an actual Canadian dollar coin for the country I owe so much to was a huge honour! Today I enjoy the roller coaster ride of professional artist and look forward to the new experiences I see and live, then capturing them in time with my paintings.


Apple's woes over what may be an issue with the design of the iPhone 4's antennas continue: But Steve Jobs is maintaining calm, and is emailing troubled customers on the matter.
And in the background to this personal PR spin? We learned early yesterday that Apple's hiring antenna engineers for "iPad/iPhone"-related development. The openings were posted June 23, just as the media flurry was beginning, and note that the applicants task will be to "define and implement antenna system architecture to optimize the radiation performance" of mobile devices. The timescale can only relate to the next-gen iPhone, which is surely already in early stage development. Is it a coincidence? A sign that Apple's spotted a flaw in its design process at too late a stage to change the iPhone 4? Who knows. We're all just waiting for some complainers to calm down, and for Apple to issue a patch or a fix that'll make the problem (if there is indeed a serious one)–go away.
world-changing iDevice as a mere trinket.
Update: As I hinted, this conversation has turned out to be untrue. Apple PR folk have spoken to several sources to say it's not a real discussion that occurred, and it even turns out that someone had been trying to sell the story for cash to a publication before it appeared on BGR. Two interesting thoughts occur though: Steve Jobs does have discussion like this sometimes … so will the power of his words get diluted by stunts like this? And we have to wonder if this attempt at earning money from an Apple affair wasn't sparked by Gizmodo's shenanigans.
Update 2: This is getting interesting–BoyGeniusReport is now defending its original source, saying it's seen the hard evidence of the email code that proves these emails are genuinely coming from Steve Jobs. Like all publications, including this one, editors have to make a judgement call when a hot story like this one lands in its lap, and BGR is sticking to its guns. But that's where this story goes awry: If these messages, or at least some of them, are really from Steve Jobs … then doesn't that make Apple's PR department a bunch of liars?


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President CBK defends January revolution against Rajapakse onslaught
Posted by harimpeiris on August 12, 2015
( Published in the Daily News newspaper on the 11th of August, 2015)
Lying to rest any public ambiguity since the general election campaign commenced, former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga came out with a public statement, that she would strive to ensure and safeguard the people's revolution and popular mandate for change of January 8th 2015. In doing so, the former president reiterated that the Rajapakse Administration was a corrupt and authoritarian regime, which a majority of the Sri Lankan people, through their ballots had rejected. The January election was a popular rejection of Rajapakse rule and the corruption, nepotism, poor governance and authoritarianism that formed its modus operandi, as well as a popular mandate for change.
A defeated UPFA's incoherent comeback attempt
One almost pities the UPFA's spokesmen, such Dilan Perera and Susil Premajayanth, reduced to coming up with daily antics to cover up for the absence of substance at UPFA press conferences, be it vials of poison offered to rivals, to politicizing the murder investigation of former Thomian, Havies and Sri Lanka ruggerite, Wasim Thajudeen. The public policy aspect of the Wasim Thajudeen investigation should center on whether the evidence coming out with regard to his alleged murder is new, or if there was an official cover up, by state authorities to protect VVIP suspects as alleged by the Deputy Justice Minister Sujeewa Senasinghe.
The SLFP led UPFA has a fundamental problem, it is essentially trying to rerun the January 8th election, which it lost country wide, but believes that it won in the electorates that matter to its core constituency of the rural Sinhala Buddhist voter, most other constituencies, having deserted them. However, even this strategy has its policy drawbacks and incoherence. Firstly, Rajapakse loyalists led by Mahinda Rajapakse himself, tries the hardest of hard sells, telling a skeptical electorate, that they made the wrong choice in January and that they must chose now for more Rajapakse. One suspects there is a dearth of lunatics among the 6.2 million who voted for Maithripala Sirisena, who would suddenly now be hankering for more of Rajapakse. That six months of the Abhayarama Temple politics is a opinion and game changer in the country.
A Rajapakse inability to accept its errors and defeat
Mahinda Rajapakse and his political allies still cannot internalize the fact that they lost the presidential election and that they are out of office. He wants to campaign in helicopters and needs the adoring crowds in vindication of his rule and the biggest logistical challenge and expense to the UPFA campaign is bussing in the required crowds for meetings from all over the country. However, the more serious aspect of this denial of reality is that Rajapakse and the UPFA has learnt nothing from the people's verdict in January this year. There is no regret made about the white van culture, about impeaching the Chief Justice, about the Kangaroo court injustice meted out to the war winning Field Marshal Fonseka, about the unsolicited mega projects granted without tenders, about the world's costliest high ways per kilometer according to the Moratuwa University research, about nepotism, cronyism, family bandyism, unsolicited mega Chinese white elephants mostly in Hambanthota, land grabs and missing vehicles among a long and non exhaustive list of deplorable aspects of Rajapakse rule. The stock answer is a blanket denial, which must not seem credible even to its core constituency as more and more evidence surfaces regarding the regime's doings.
A divided SLFP
The reality within the Sri Lanka Freedom party is that it is deeply divided between those interested in a national government under President Maithripala Sirisena and those trying to persist with "more of Rajapakse rule". Consequently in the UPFA's grassroots campaign which is very weak in many areas, the Rajapakse cabal leading the general elections, is more interested in trying to marginalize the Sirisena loyalists than anything else. The UPFA grassroots campaign is weak because its leadership is used to commanding and abusing the state resources, including personnel for election work. The absence of using the Samurdhi workers and graduate assistance for election work, means that actual SLFP supporters have to volunteer. The minor UPFA parties of the MEP, NFF, Vasu and Gamanpila do not match the strident, divisive and hate mongering rhetoric with activists on the ground, nationally. SLFP ers, divided and discouraged are not flocking to volunteer. Accordingly the post January swing towards the UNP has become very marked in certain districts most notably in Kandy, Matara and Moneragala, which sees a significant swing towards the UNP led UNFGG. The campaign by a plethora of civil society organizations in favor of the UNF, with the participation of President Kumaratunga including Ven. Sobitha Thera would likely see an increase in the majorities for the January mandate in the Colombo and Gampaha districts.
President Kumaratunga has articulated in her own words the sentiments expressed by President Sirisena, in his address to the nation, right after the close of nominations. The Rajapakse was a corrupt administration which should not be allowed to return, the January people's verdict was a mandate for change which must be safeguarded and taken forward. The one hundred days and the post January minority government may not have achieved utopia, but it was a genuine change from what we had before. The January people's revolution and the mandate must be preserved, strengthened and taken forward.
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Allah's test proving to be too much for me.
I am in a state of major confusion about my religion Islam… I want to be a good muslim, but the test that Allah has willed for me is just too much for me.
Can a wish come true by fasting? Other than fasting, reciting what can make my wish come true?
I have now been informed of the seriousness of missing these. But that is so many years – can someone please tell me with hard proof what I need to do?
Is it permissible for a woman to skip fasting to get pregnant?
I would like to know how to deal with extremely angry and short temper husband during Ramadan.
I can't donate that much money nor can I fast an extra day as I can't tell this to my family.
Would you have any suggestions for this brother so that he may be able to maintain his daily fast?
If I were to fast I would have to be fully recovered which might take years. Does this count as sickness for Ramadan? How can I participate in the holy month?


It's a question I have seen a hundred times in online support groups. Maybe they're saying it out of sincerity, but it almost always comes across as sounding smug, as if they would NEVER allow themselves to regain the weight! Maybe I've wondered it myself, as a new post op.
But there I was getting ready to see an old friend who was nine months into her own journey post gastric bypass, and my "fat pants" wouldn't zip. Not without me laying on the bed anyway, something I hoped I would never again have to do! The very same pants that 2.5 years ago I was getting ready to throw out for being way too baggy. UGH.
So how DOES someone gain back weight post weight loss surgery?
This is probably the number one excuse every bariatric surgeon hears regarding regain.
Little did I know, when I was wearing my way-too-baggy-"fat pants" for what I thought was the last time, I was about to become pregnant. It was a huge thing for me, because the anticipation of having a third child was literally the reason I had gastric bypass surgery in the first place! I had two boys, and I wanted another shot at a girl!
I expected to gain no more than 20 pounds during my pregnancy, and assumed it would fall right off.
But towards the end of my first trimester, I experienced almost losing an immediate member of my family. And I became their care taker for the next several months. This was during the holiday season and for awhile, I was super strict with my eating plan still, and I still loved working out. But come Thanksgiving, I did have a few bites of Apple pie. And because I make cookies every year, it felt good to eat the sugar cookies from my childhood.
I was quickly becoming super depressed. And super, SUPER anxious. From the time my dad passed away when I was nine years old until now, I've always coped with food. Even after this most recent pregnancy, I found the weight just kept creeping up because breastfeeding made me ravenous, and I had to grab what I could between feedings, because my daughter was scarily underweight due to my breast milk changing post surgery. This stressed me out so much, I wasn't sleeping, eating properly, and just sat around breastfeeding all the time. These factors together equaled even more weight gain!
2. One Extra Bite at a Time.
Which leads me to the next reason people regain weight after surgery — that extra bite, or extra snacks.
Truly, one of the hardest things to wrap my mind around was having to waste extra food on my plate. Eating past satiety is easy to do. It's what we've done all out lives! Before you know it, you're able to hold more and more food.
Between meals, snacking is hard to resist when your pouch is feeling hungry from being empty; again, another lifelong habit that is hard to break.
So how does one regain the weight?
The same way you put it on in the first place: one extra bite at a time.
3. Your body will FIGHT and try to go back!
>Many of us got the surgery we did to cause certain biological functions to change.
Maybe it was malabsorption so certain things would slide on through. Maybe it was taking away the stomach sensors that create a hormone called grehlin that causes us to feel hungry. Maybe it was to cause dumping syndrome, so we would learn through negative reinforcement to never eat that tempting treat again!
The problem is, our bodies are so amazing at healing and rerouting to compensate for those deficits, that those things we tried to take away, the body finds a way to begin to bring it back!
4. You did not take advantage of your honeymoon period to create new lifelong habits.
One of the worst truths about weight loss surgery, that so few talk about, is that you are going to experience a "honeymoon phase" where you can eat whatever you want and still lose weight.
Remember, we caused the ability for malabsorption, so things don't stick like they used to.
However, your honeymoon period could end somewhere between 6 to 12 months post surgery, and/or when you lose around 100 pounds.
After that, it's all on you, kid, to keep it going and take yourself all the way to the end!
This is why taking advantage of the honeymoon phase is critical to establishing new lifelong habits, erasing decades of hormonal imbalance and a broken metabolism. If you don't take advantage to retrain your brain, your body will eventually fight to gain the weight back.
5. The Weight Loss stopped and I don't like diet and exercise.
The reason why diets have failed us over and over throughout our lives is often due to the fact that we live in a culture that values instant results.
We set out with good intentions, but when we get to the messy middle, when face with obstacles and excuses, it's easier to give up and assume we've failed! AGAIN!
In fact, the diet industry THRIVES on us re-joining them over and over, hoping just one last time it will work.
It's easier to be overweight if that's what you've always known. This is why we need to learn to think of our eating plan as an act of self-love, and exercise as a joyful stress-reliever, instead of as punishment.
We got surgery to ESCAPE diet culture, yes? So let's do this!!!
So, I had my baby. And the regain was really freaking me out. Especially because I couldn't figure out why it wouldn't stop!
I took several months off from this website to study obesity and hormones, and why it is so surprisingly common for bariatric patients to gain all of their weight back and more.
After a LOT of experimenting, I came up with my own meal plan. I was going to give it one last go, and I'm so thankful my husband was a willing participant, because two people having great results is so much better than just the one!
And I want even MORE to come join us and have great results, too!
Starting this week, I am mailing out to my email newsletter list my very own low-carb meal plan.
One thing that was very important to my husband was that it not feel like deprivation. Turns out, he thought it has been EASY! And for the past few weeks, we have had way more energy than we've known what to do with!
So if you want to join us, sign up for my newsletter because not only am I going to send you our menu plan right away, I will be back in your email with more instructions and free printables!


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Fortunately, the recent increase in automation and the latest technological advancements could help to decrease the number of claims submitted by manufacturing workers. Although critics say that automation is a major contributor to job loss, in many job functions, these new technologies are making manufacturing much safer. Machines are now able to complete historically dangerous tasks that can cause serious injuries to human workers.
Because of this, manufacturers now utilize equipment made specifically for their operation or machines that are fabricated around the world. While safer and more productive, many come with high price tags and long lead time between placement of an order, delivery to the factory and installation. Although the risk of injury is decreasing, this trend has introduced a new business exposure: heavy reliance on custom equipment and machinery.
Many business owners believe that as long as they have adequate limits at the time of a property loss, they will have coverage. But, what they fail to factor in is the loss of income they will inevitably face during the period of restoration that is needed to get their business back up and running after a breakdown. A Property or Equipment Breakdown Policy may cover the cost of repairing or replacing a building or machine, but what coverage is in place for loss of income? In the new world of automated manufacturing, the biggest question remains: how long will it take you to repair or replace your machinery before you lose out to a competitor or run out of operating funds?
Traditionally, relocating employees to a temporary facility and bringing on an additional shift was an easy solution for manufacturers after experiencing a loss. However, considering the development of automation, robotics and advanced manufacturing, getting a business back on track is now much more complex. Due to this changing landscape, understanding Business Interruption insurance coverage is critical for manufacturers in 2017.
For the fifth year in a row, business interruption was ranked as a top worry for businesses in 2017 with 37 percent of respondents rating it as their biggest risk, according to an Allianz report. In order to insure against this type of risk, Business Interruption coverage must be built into a business' Property Policy. Business Interruption coverage covers the loss of income (net income plus continuing operating expenses and payroll) that a business incurs due to necessary suspension or slowdown of operations. Additional Extra Expense Insurance is also available to help recoup any expenses above and beyond normal operating costs needed to continue operating after a loss.
Calculate gross earnings: This is equivalent to sales minus the cost of goods sold.
Calculate discontinued expenses: Certain costs will automatically cease if business operations are interrupted. This could include payroll expense, taxes, maintenance, utilities and more.
Calculate longest potential timeframe of an interruption: The income should always cover the worst case scenario.
Calculate extra expense: What would it cost to avoid interruption?
An insurance broker should work with carriers to provide a Business Interruption Worksheet to help determine the most realistic probable maximum loss to consider when deciding on appropriate limits.
For manufacturers who are determining their risk exposure, it is important to consider industry-specific factors, including the capacity of other manufacturing facilities and what automated work can be done manually as the interruption is being remedied. Business owners should also know what the timeline is for the restoration of tough to replace equipment or the lead time for shipment if the machinery is purchased internationally. And finally, manufacturers should always keep in mind key customer needs and how they can be addressed during the interruption in order to guarantee continued satisfaction.
For manufacturers – and for business owners across all sectors – there are many factors to consider when evaluating Business Interruption Insurance and extra expense coverage. Having these important conversations with your insurance broker upfront – prior to any potential loss – will help manufacturers be better prepared if the unexpected occurs.
Industrial distributors face a complex set of risks that if not properly managed can result in poor financial performance, or in extreme cases jeopardize the business itself. These risks are managed by a number of people and functions in a distributor's organization. Furthermore, purchasing departments are mindful of their supplier agreements, exposure to price shifts, and diversity of suppliers.


Mayor of a town? Have your town Join the Federal Government today!
Discussion in 'World 1 Town Recruitment' started by MadAlice, Sep 30, 2008.
I've just created a gang known as The Federal Government.
We will become a conglomeration of towns that join together under one banner.
All towns that join will have votes on how the gang is run.
I have created an external forum where mayors can have their town join, and members of the towns can communicate with each other.
The price of joining the Federal Government is a name change for the town to something 'Official sounding' as outlined on the forum in The Law folder.
I think this will be a good way for towns to work together, and for members to find allies in this wild west.
I look forward to seeing you at the Federal Government forum to join.
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to leave them here, or to contact me in-game at MadAlice.
I was just updating the music. It's supposed to not autoplay. I have fixed it just now.
Ill join any village in this gang if thats alright, im level 9. username:zanatons.
Oh, another family. We all ''love'' families in here.
i just create new town so if you can somehow provide me with member i will join as well.
Mate. Families are really not welcome here. You'll be in trouble with the big dogs. Don't say I did not warn you.
Answer me this; Other than for the purposes of cheating, why would you need to create a family of towns?
What benefit would you gain?
hm...... maybe i should considered my decision to join the federal then. since there is so many people warn me about it already.
Down with family making! Be strong! Be independent!
Towns are beginning to trickle into the federal government.
You can visit our gang website and place a request to join.
Please include your build style and job preferences to help you get placed.
these are all the people protesting against family towns, gangs, noob gatherings and other names you may hear it under.
Roger, back to you with the weather!
and one of them is me, and the other posted once then realized it was a bad idea.
it would have been easier to copy the list and paste. I can't actually read that.
Edit: ok you changed the size. It is kinda ok now, but I still think C+P would have been better.
hmm funny thing is certain people talk about wanting family towns and the RP experiance but fail to realize family towns are not historically correct in fact towns in the west were notorious for feuds and fights between them, folks from outside of the town were looked upon in disdain there was very little cooperation if any between towns, and even the law enforcement would rarely work with other towns if at all.
so your attempt at a realistic role playing game is utter failure.
Screen shots are better in my eyes, that way its hard evidence, and mad cant try to prove me wrong.
I'm not going to try and stop anyone from doing anything, at least as it stands now. If a bunch of towns want to try and work together, sounds good. It can't really give you a huge advantage so it's not really cheating.
I don't have any intention of joining "the federal government", but if my town mayor decides to, then its not really my decision. Either way, it should be up to the people to decide if they want to or not, not the elites. Popular Sovereignty for The West!
Insofar as the poster who decided it would be cool to post my e-mail address.
Yes, I have posted 15 times on the forum that I finished making a couple of hours ago.
Yes, in the course of 24 hours a few people have registered to the forum.


Weekly Ad: It lists the week's sale items and specials. You can search the weekly ads and add items to a shopping list within the app. I mostly search the Buy One Get One Free section of the weekly ads. The BoGo specials at Publix are cheaper than even Walmart.The location of the items on the shopping list within the store are made know via the app.
Digital Coupons: All the coupons available to customers are made available digitally and via the app. You can clip coupons within the app. The coupons I clip are then submitted at the payment terminal at each cash register by entering the phone number attached to my Publix account.
Online Ordering: I only order Deli meats via this feature. However, you can order from goods from the deli, platters, bakery, produce and seafood. I am boring and only order Boar's Head meats such as Honey Maple Turkey and Honey Maple Ham. Sometimes, I will splurge and get Boar's Head Cheese as well. I can order and reserve a pick up time and date for my deli orders. I pick up my online order at the pick up cooler for the deli meats where it is bagged and labeled. I pick it up and go.
I say set up a Publix account, Download the Publix App and Happy Grocery Shopping.


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The racing for 2021 kicked off with controversy in the opening weekend, and it's been exciting ever since. At the Bahrain Grand Prix, in the final laps of the first race of 2021, an illegal overtake meant that Max Verstappen had to give up his lead to Hamilton, who went on to take the first win of 2021.
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The latest Grand Prix was held in Hungary, with a surprise victory for Alpine's Esteban Econ. Hamilton finished second, giving himself enough points to add to his tally to overtake Verstappen in the driver standings.
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THE controversy engulfing the Republican Party over the leasing of US port facilities to a Dubai company is a reminder that reckless fear-mongering almost always has a boomerang effect.
For the past four years, the GOP has had America in a siege mentality about anything that can be labelled a threat to national security. The government has urged citizens to keep an eye on their neighbours and has demanded library borrowing records. Americans have grown accustomed to the ratcheting up of colour-coded "alerts" that have not preceded actual acts of terrorism but have heightened a sense of alarm. Meanwhile, the country is embroiled in a tempest over unauthorised domestic electronic surveillance supposedly necessitated by imminent threats.
Now, the revelation that the Bush administration has authorised Dubai Ports World (DPW), a United Arab Emirates government-owned firm, to take over management of facilities at key American ports has led not just critics, but the administration's own supporters, to turn on it. The takeover comes as part of the purchase by DPW of British-owned ports terminal operator P&O, which has long had a presence in Newark, Miami, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Baltimore and elsewhere.
Concerns centre on Dubai's professed sympathies for some radical causes, including an endorsement by the United Arab Emirates (of which Dubai is one) of the Taliban as the legitimate rulers of Afghanistan, the fact that two of the 9/11 hijackers were from the UAE and the past role of the UAE as a money-laundering hub for terrorists.
Still, few actually believe that DPW or the UAE sultans would use a business venture as a Trojan horse to attack Americans, who have been long-time allies. Besides, port security itself stays in American hands.
But the apparently pro forma approval process by the administration – without consulting Congress – has Americans of all political stripes up in arms. Tough statements by mayors and governors and a lawsuit filed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey have also piled on the pressure.
With their control of Congress threatened in this year's elections, House and Senate Republicans cannot afford to stand by the president on this. Moreover, plenty of those Republicans have bought into the president's state-of-fear oratory, and feel discomfited by the recent developments.
As a result, the administration has been backpedalling, while insisting the deal will still go through. Bush's chief political aide, Karl Rove, was dispatched to the administration-friendly Fox News to send the message that members of Congress would be "fully briefed" before anything is finalised. DPW has said it would not immediately exercise direct control over the ports.
The ports conflict goes to the very issue the administration sells to its political base: that it is better than the Democrats at protecting Americans. As with Hurricane Katrina, both Bush and the man ostensibly in charge (in this case the Treasury secretary, John Snow) claim they were out of the decision-making loop. Nevertheless, Bush and his family have long-standing and well-known personal and business ties with the monarchies of the Gulf . (According to the Associated Press, a UAE sheikh contributed at least $1 million towards the building of the George Bush Presidential Library.)
Meanwhile, both Snow and Bush's nominee for the job of US maritime administrator have prior business connections with DPW – an issue that has thus far garnered minimal attention, but is typical of the penchant of the Bush White House to install in regulatory agencies people from the very industries they are to oversee.
Lurking in the background are concerns about the vulnerability of the US economy. That Americans have increasingly ceded pieces of their country to foreigners feels like a tacit admission of weakness, even if it can be dressed up as a natural concomitant of globalisation.
For Republicans, maintaining their majority in the Senate and House is the paramount concern. If they have their way, the public will not blame the Republican Party; mid-level officials will take the blame, and some diplomatic solution will surface.
But Bush may find that his Teflon coating has finally worn off completely. And this could have ramifications all the way to 2008, when his successor is chosen.
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Circlet - Circlet (2019)
Style: Instrumental Progressive Metal
Release Date: 2 Mar 2019
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I've talked at points about instrumental metal albums being a particular interest of mine and this one man album from Indonesia is precisely why. It's a wild mixture of sounds which only include vocals midway through Come and See, a short opening track. Even there, they show up in both harsh male and clean female form, entirely for texture. I have no idea what is being sung or even what language it's in.
The average track, if such a term can be used, comprises a standard core of instruments. The rhythm guitar is a vicious creature, while the lead soars and explores. The bass is especially prominent and I don't mean the entire bottom end of the equaliser, like the neighbours' cars at two in the morning, but the actual bass guitar, which is very distinctive in the mix. It gets a delightful showcase in Retrograde. The drums, which I have to believe are programmed rather than played, aren't keeping the beat so much as adding their own lead contribution.
And then there are keyboards, which provide a host of textures. They're particularly versatile here. There's a piano at the end of Come and See and it floats behind The Reminder too. They provide a sort of atmospheric background swell on Alter Ego. And there's an overtly electronic sound at points, starting on the opener, that wouldn't be out of place in chiptune music, though it's mostly enfolded by other instruments here rather than running solo. The violin may well be a violin but other instruments heard here, like the 'bells' on Alter Ego and Retrograde, are presumably the product of keyboard work.
What surprised me most here is that Robert Rayvid, who created everything on this album, except for one explosive sound effect that he borrowed for Vanity of Vanities, is a guitarist first and foremost but, however much he dances his fingers over his fretboard, this never sounds like shred. What it does sound like is open to question. He calls it progressive metal and that's as close as any description I can come up with.
However, it's notably varied progressive metal. There's a point on Alter Ego where it gets so fast that it's almost progressive thrash. Yet, there are all those overt electronic sounds and a drum machine that betrays its programmed nature more on some tracks than others. There's that violin on a number of tracks and a softer piano. It very much explores the map in search of its own sound.
The standout track here has to be Retrograde because it features most of those elements within five and a half minutes and does it with style. I'm stunned at how much Rayvid manages to cram into here without it seeming, well, crammed. Alter Ego is another track that finds its groove and riffs around that really well over six and a half minutes, making it the longest piece of music here; while Rayvid crams a lot into his songs, he doesn't need them to run forever.
This appears to be the first Circlet album, but it's not the first project that Rayvid has put together. I'm seeing three from Dramatic Lunacy over the last two years that are all him too. Why he changed the name, I have no idea, because it looks like similar material though I haven't heard it yet. After this, clearly I should seek it out.
By Hal C. F. Astell at March 13, 2019
Labels: 2019, Indonesia, progressive metal
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« Benzene and worker cancers: 'An American tragedy'
A dozen dirty documents Twelve documents that stand out from the Center's new oil and chemical industry archive »
"Internal documents reveal industry 'pattern of behavior' on toxic chemicals" by David Heath
January 18, 2015 by Chemista
Internal documents reveal industry 'pattern of behavior' on toxic chemicals by David Heath for The Center for Public Integrity
Sixty-six years ago, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health wrote a report linking leukemia to benzene, a common solvent and an ingredient in gasoline. "It is generally considered," he wrote, "that the only absolutely safe concentration for benzene is zero."
The report is remarkable not only because of its age and candor, but also because it was prepared for and published by the oil industry's main lobby group, the American Petroleum Institute.
This document and others like it bedevil oil and chemical industry executives and their lawyers, who to this day maintain that benzene causes only rare types of cancer and only at high doses.
Decades after its release, a lawyer for Shell Oil Company flagged the 1948 report as being potentially damaging in lawsuits and gave out instructions to "avoid unnecessary disclosure of sensitive documents or information" and "disclose sensitive benzene documents only on court order."
Plaintiff's lawyers like Herschel Hobson, of Beaumont, Texas, wield such documents in worker exposure cases to demonstrate early industry knowledge of benzene's carcinogenic properties.
"It shows a pattern of behavior," Hobson said. "It shows how industry didn't want to share bad news with their employees. None of this information was made available to the average worker … Most of this stuff kind of gets lost in the weeds."
No more. Today, the Center for Public Integrity; Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and its Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health; and The Graduate Center at the City University of New York are making public some 20,000 pages of benzene documents — the inaugural collection in Exposed, a searchable online archive of previously secret oil and chemical industry memoranda, emails, letters, PowerPoints and meeting minutes that will grow over time.
The aim is to make such materials — most of which were produced during discovery in toxic tort litigation and have been locked away in file cabinets and hard drives — accessible to workers, journalists, academic researchers and others.
Some are decades old, composed on manual typewriters; others are contemporary. Combined with journalism from the Center — such as today's story on a $36 million benzene research program undertaken by the petrochemical industry — and articles and papers from Columbia and CUNY faculty and students, the archives will shed light on toxic substances that continue to threaten public health.
Exposed: Decades of denial on poisons
The benzene documents are just the start. In coming months, we'll be posting hundreds of thousands of pages of discovery material from lawsuits involving lead, asbestos, silica, hexavalent chromium and PCBs, among other dangerous substances. And we'll be on the lookout for other documents.
The inspiration for the project came when we realized that in CPI's reporting on environmental and workplace issues, we routinely obtained reams of court documents. Often, these documents hold secrets found nowhere else.
Last year we reached out to William Baggett Jr., a lawyer in Lake Charles, Louisiana, who had acquired more than 400,000 pages of documents from a decade-long case against manufacturers of vinyl chloride, a cancer-causing chemical used in plastics. Baggett agreed to give us all of them.
At the same time, public health historians Merlin Chowkwanyun, David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz were collecting court documents to create a public database and had approached Baggett. We decided to collaborate. Chowkwanyun is currently a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and will be an assistant professor of sociomedical sciences at Columbia next year. Rosner is Ronald Lauterstein Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and History at Columbia. Markowitz is a professor of history at the City University of New York. Both Rosner and Markowitz have served as expert witnesses in a number of major cases related to these documents and have written Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution and other books and articles based on them.
This is not the first database of its ilk. The University of California, San Francisco, maintains a massive collection of documents from tobacco-related lawsuits called the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, which exceeds 80 million pages.
How to search the documents
Our database allows you to search for a word, combination of words or an exact phrase in any of the documents. You can also:
Do a search that excludes a word by putting a '-' sign in front of the word.
Do a fuzzy search that includes variations of a word by putting a tilde '~' at the end of a word with the numbers of characters that don't have to match exactly. For example, 'planit~2' will match 'planet.'
Do a search that optionally contains a word by putting a '|' between the words.
Do a search with a phrase by putting double quotes around the phrase.
Each document will include the court case from which it came, including the case title, case number, court as well as date filed and date terminated. The original complaint for each lawsuit is also part of the database.
Soon, we will make available a robust set of text-mining tools that will allow researchers to construct chronologies of documents; generate lists of common words, phrases and names; and sort documents in a number of ways. Qualified researchers will also have access to an even larger set of documents that will eventually contain millions of pages.
Robert Proctor, a professor of the history of science at Stanford, has used the UCSF tobacco archive extensively to do research for several books. He called it "an unparalleled treasure" that gives researchers the ability "to look through the keyhole of the mansion of this hidden world and see [corporate officials'] private thoughts, their intent, their ruminations, their jokes, their plans, how they treat their workers, how they treat the public…"
Proctor said he sees value in a similar archive on toxic chemicals. "The internal records of the chemical industry are known only to a tiny group of lawyers and journalists," he said. "This is going to create a new kind of democracy of knowledge. It also will set the stage for whistleblowers to come forward with documents."
That's our hope. The search interface includes options to send us documents or contact us. The ultimate goal, to borrow Proctor's phrasing, will be to give users "a strong magnet to pull rhetorical needles out of archival haystacks."
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More specifically, one set of proposals suggests that legislators and regulators reduce the dysfunctional incentives associated with overreliance on NRSRO credit ratings. Although there is support for this proposal in theory, one objection forestalling reform has been that, notwithstanding the problems associated with credit rating agencies, there do not appear to be viable substitutes for credit ratings. Indeed, ongoing skepticism and criticism about CDS markets has reinforced the objection. In simple terms, the objection is that regulators and investors should not replace one broken system (credit ratings) with another broken system (CDSs).


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Revealed: The Details of China's Latest Hit-To-Kill Interceptor Test
The DN-3 is back in action.
By Ankit Panda for The Diplomat
Credit: daviet1999 via Tiexue.Net / SinoDefenseForum
The Chinese ballistic missile defense test that took place on February 5 involved a Dong Neng-3 (DN-3/KO09) hit-to-kill midcourse interceptor successfully striking a target DF-21 (CSS-5) medium-range ballistic missile, The Diplomat has learned from a U.S. government official with knowledge of China's weapons programs.
The interceptor in the test was launched from the Korla Missile Test Complex, in China's Xinjiang province. China has been conducting tests of the DN-3 interceptor since 2010. The system's target capabilities are analogous to U.S. Standard Missile-3 midcourse interceptors, but it has yet to be successfully tested against an intermediate-range or intercontinental-range-class target. (The DN-3 is also thought to be physically much larger than the U.S. SM-3 series of missiles.)
The test was publicly reported by Chinese state media, though few details were provided. On February 5, PLA Daily reported that "China carried out a land-based mid-course missile interception test within its territory."
The report added that the "test has achieved the desired objectives," while noting that it was "defensive in nature" and "not targeted against any country." The Chinese statement did not confirm that the test was intended to intercept a target missile.
This latest DN-3 interceptor test came shortly after India conducted the fifth known flight-test of its Agni-V missile, a near-intercontinental-range system, with a range within 5,000 to 8,000 kilometers, depending on its payload.
Exoatmospheric midcourse kinetic interceptors like China's DN-3 target an incoming ballistic target after its active flight phase has concluded and the missile is outside the earth's atmosphere, on its way toward descending at hypersonic speeds. This capability also makes the DN-3 a capable anti-satellite (ASAT) platform.
To successfully intercept targets in this phase, the interceptor must reach sufficient velocity and have sophisticated enough on-board sensors to successfully collide with the incoming target, using nothing but its kinetic energy to destroy the target.
China's latest successful DN-3 test also comes just days after the U.S. Missile Defense Agency saw a second Standard Missile-3 Block IIA midcourse interceptor failure, compounding on a failure from 2017 that the Agency attributed to human error. (The test targeted a more challenging intermediate-range ballistic missile target than the MRBM-class DF-21 target the Chinese DN-3 intercepted.)
The DN-3 is thought to be China's most capable midcourse hit-to-kill interceptor, but the country has other systems capable of exoatmospheric ballistic and anti-satellite interception, including the DN-2, the HQ-19, and the ASAT-oriented SC-19.
In 2017, the U.S. Department of Defense observed in its annual report on the Chinese military that the HQ-19 might "fill the midtier of China's BMD network."
"The HQ-19 is still undergoing PLAAF [People's Liberation Army Air Force]-organized testing; as of May 2016, China was focused mainly on testing the HQ-19's capability to intercept 3,000 km ranged ballistic missiles," the report noted.
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