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Upgrade the way you brush your teeth with the Goby x Will Bryant Artist Edition Brush Kit. In collaboration with artist Will Bryant, this kit comes with everything you need to start brushing. The Goby x Will Bryant Brush Kit includes an electric toothbrush, oscillating brush head, hygienic stand, and brush head cover. The artist edition brush kit also comes with a USB charging shell and adapter for portable charging. Featuring a unique design, the electric toothbrush has a long-lasting battery so you don't have to charge it all the time. In addition, the soft bristles on the brush head effectively clean your teeth and gumline. When not in use, simply keep your toothbrush on the stand, which has a removable base. To brush your teeth on the go, just pop on the brush head cover to keep it clean.


Whether you have acres of gardening land, a small greenhouse or a single, sunny windowsill in a tiny apartment, you have the means to grow plants. Regardless of the size of your garden space, the physical and psychological rewards of gardening are numerous. Weeding, watering and raking provide exercise, while the act of gardening is both relaxing and stress-relieving. To achieve gardening success, consider the growing environment. There are distinct differences between outdoor and indoor growing, so you must adapt your gardening style to provide the best care for your plants.
The climate greatly limits the plant species you can grow outdoors since plants must be in an environment suitable for their hardiness. Refer to the plant label or seed packet for information about the U.S. Department of Agriculture hardiness zones in which the plant can thrive. A tropical plant, for example, cannot thrive in USDA hardiness zone 3b throughout the year, but would do well in zone 10b.
Indoor growing opens the possibilities to a wider variety of plants because indoor spaces are climate controlled. The soil in an indoor pot doesn't freeze in winter, which is why it's common to find tropical plants indoors, including palm trees and bromeliads. With a simple adjustment of a thermostat and a humidifier, indoor growers can manipulate the environment to suit plants' needs.
Indoor plants usually cannot grow to the same mature size as outdoor-grown versions of the species because containers restrict the growth. Repotting to a larger container allows for more growth, but the size of the container you can use indoors is limited to the amount of space you have in your home. The living space in a studio apartment, for example, would be greatly impeded by a 10-foot tree in a 20-gallon container. Planting outdoors affords the gardener more space for planting, allowing plants to reach their full potential and reducing plant stress from overcrowding. Plants don't have to battle common container problems such as root root or becoming root bound in a restrictive pot. Even if your outdoor plants are in containers, outdoor growing allows you to spread out your plants without sacrificing living space.
All plants require light to grow, though the amount of light varies by plant species. Indoor growing spaces receive light through windows, but not all windows provide ample lighting. South-facing windows provide the most sunlight, but not all homes have south-facing windows or the number of windows is few. One option is to add indoor growing lights to the home, but this can be expensive and expends high amounts of energy. Indoor plants benefit greatly from being placed outdoors when nighttime temperatures are above 60 degrees Fahrenheit. When growing outdoors, there is more available light from the sun, but it's important to consider that some indoor plants require little light and must be placed in shaded ares. Outdoor growing also means plants are subjected to the shortening of days, which for many plants is the trigger to flower or produce seed. An indoor plant that requires full sun might not receive enough sun to bloom.
One of the biggest problems with indoor growing is water regulation. Outdoor plants receive periodic water from rainfall but owners must provide the water supply for indoor plants. In many cases, eager plant owners give indoor plants too much water, leaving the plants susceptible to root rot or fungus that can kill plants. When plants are grown outdoors, excess water is more easily drained away from the plants.
Conversely, when the water supply is limited, outdoor plants' roots continue to grow in search of water supply, while indoor plants' roots are bound by their containers. Many plants are sensitive to the chemicals added to tap water and would benefit from being watered with rainwater. Spider plants, for example, are sensitive to fluoride, a chemical commonly added to city water supplies to improve dental health. This leads to thinning leaves or browned ends of the foliage.


THE boring of the St. Gothard Tunnel is pronounced by one of the engineers to be the greatest work hitherto attempted by man; certainly its importance and magnitude can hardly be overrated. It deserves to be regarded with especial admiration as a work which was marked in every department and at every stage by triumphs of the highest skill in scientific engineering. The tunnel is intended to form part of the railway connecting the North Sea with the Mediterranean, and is situated on the most direct route between these regions, passing through the chain of the Alps at a central point. The railroad through this line was preceded by the road over the Brenner Pass of the Tyrol, for that was easier of execution, and by that through the Mont Cenis Tunnel, for the French Government had political reasons for constructing a road which should be under its own control. The Swiss soon saw, after the rival lines were constructed, that the traffic which belonged to them would be diverted to pass around them, and immediately began operations to open a road through their own most direct route. In this they enjoyed the coöperation of Germany and Italy. The operations at St. Gothard were begun under the advantage of the possession of the experience, knowledge, and skill that had been gained in constructing the tunnel of Mont Cenis.
Fig. 1.—Profile along the Length of the Tunnel.
and high that it is impracticable to attempt any direct tracing of the line over the mountain. The relative position of the two openings and the direction of the tunnel had then to be calculated indirectly, from triangulations. The directions and levels were thus ascertained. Observatories were then placed at the tunnel-mouths to serve as direction-points for the miners. At Goeschenen it was necessary, in order to get a long enough line of sight, to make borings of considerable length through two projecting rocks. The surveys, originally made by M. Gelpke, were verified by a second series of triangulations made in 1874 by another engineer, M. Koppe, on a different system. M. Gelpke had based his surveys on summits in the neighborhood, and had used triangles of only moderate size. M. Koppe made his triangles as large as possible, so that he might connect the two openings of the tunnel by a minimum number of intermediary stations. The two triangulations gave results agreeing within two seconds of direction with each other. M. Koppe also verified his survey practically by projecting a line from the opening at Airolo toward a mast which he set up at the highest attainable point along the axis of the tunnel. He could not go toward this point from Goeschenen, so he went backward in the direction of the continuation of the tunnel-axis, ascending the flanks of the mountain till he could observe his mast. Then, having directed his glass toward Goeschenen, he raised it vertically to the level of the mast, when he saw it almost in the center of his field of vision. The direction within the tunnel was verified by means of field-glasses fixed within the observatories, so far as they would answer, then by means of lamps hung on the line of the axis. The direction was, moreover, carefully verified from the observatories two or three times a year.
The borings were made almost entirely by machines, and it was the policy of M. Louis Favre, the contractor for the tunnel, to dispense with hand-boring as far as possible. The machines were driven by water-power transmitted into the tunnel by means of the air apparatus of Professor Colladon, of Geneva, which had already been used at Mont Cenis. Water was obtained in great abundance and of strong fall at Goeschenen from the river Reuss. The supply of water at Airolo was not so abundant. The river (the Ticino) has not a rapid descent, and a very long canal would be required to procure a sufficient fall from it. A torrent, the Tremola, was chiefly relied upon, but the supply from this fell short at times, and had to be supplemented by an auxiliary supply from the Ticino. The force of the stream was applied to turn four turbine wheels which made three hundred revolutions in a minute, and exerted a force of about two hundred horse-power. These wheels were made to turn an horizontal axis with cranks revolving eighty-five times a minute, which kept the compressors in operation. The air, subjected to a compression of from four to eight atmospheres, became very hot, and had to be cooled by special applications of water circulating in cold currents around the pumps and in the pistons and piston-rods, and by injections of fine spray. After being further cooled and freed from water in suspension by passing it through reservoirs, it was conducted into the tunnel by tubes which were of considerable size at the beginning, but were diminished to correspond with the diminishing expenditure of air as the work was advanced.
Fig. 2.—System of Excavation: 1, advance pillory; 2, side-workings; 3, 4, "Cunette de Strosse"; 5, "Strosse."
trench, called the "Strosse," was next removed. Thus, most of the digging was done downward. The work was interfered with at times by the infiltration of water, which, as it did not affect dynamite and soon stopped, was not considered serious; by rocks of exceptional hardness; and by a bed of loose material in the Goeschenen end, in which it was dangerous to work for fear the mass would fall and bury the workmen, and cut off their retreat. Communication was opened between the two galleries on the 29th of February, 1880. The chief miner on the southern (Airolo) side had pierced an horizontal hole about ten feet long, and had caused the attacks from the side of Goeschenen to be suspended on his penetrating to the northern gallery. Proceeding with a boring of moderate depth, he reduced the thickness of the remaining mass to about four feet. Preparations were made for the final attack by piercing four holes in the center of the boring, and eleven other holes at equal intervals around it and not very far distant from it. The explosion opened a passage of a little more than thirty inches in diameter, through which the engineers and some of the workmen were able to go over from one gallery to the other. When the communication was first opened, at eleven o'clock in the morning, the barometer stood .156 of an inch higher at Goeschenen than at the southern end of the tunnel. A current of air was immediately produced in the gallery, which blew at the opening at the rate of a metre and a half (nearly five feet) a second. A few hours later the relative pressure was reversed, and the barometer stood .039 of an inch lower at Goeschenen than at Airolo. The direction of the current of air was consequently changed; it blew from south to north, but at the rate of only about a foot in a second. The actual length of the tunnel was about twenty-five feet shorter than the calculated length. The difference in the level of the two galleries was not more than four inches, and their lateral deviation was not more than eight inches. According to a statement made by M. Colladon to the Academy of Sciences at Paris, the most efficacious means adopted to speed the work of excavation were the diking of the torrents and the application of water collected in aqueducts as a moving power to turbine-wheels requiring high falls, the adoption of air-compressors which worked with great rapidity, the cooling of the air in the compressors, at the moment of compression, by the injection of water in a fine spray, the use of dynamite, and the determination which was adopted from the beginning to carry on the excavations from the top of the tunnel. By the aid of these improved methods the advance through the hard rocks was made with double the speed that the engineers in charge had been able to attain in boring the Mont Cenis Tunnel. It is estimated that, notwithstanding its greater length, the tunnel of St. Gothard when completed will have cost from twenty-five to thirty per cent, less than that of Mont Cenis.
The provisions for conducting compressed air into the galleries, involving a system of pipes upward of sixteen thousand feet long in each gallery, afforded excellent opportunities for studying the flow of compressed air through metallic conduits. The loss of air in passing through the pipes was an important factor. The absolute pressure of the air, which was equivalent to six and a half atmospheres at the Goeschenen mouth, was diminished till it became, toward the end of the work, no greater than one atmosphere and an eighth at the front of the cutting. At Airolo it was necessary to enlarge the diameter of the perforators, and a much larger volume of air had to be spent to do the same work. The temperature at the front of the excavations rose to 91 during the last days of the operations, and greatly taxed the endurance of the workmen. Calculations have been made to the effect that, taking the work all through, each kilogramme of dynamite that was used corresponded with a cubic metre of rock that was removed. Among the gains to engineering which, it is claimed, have accrued from the enterprise, are the perfection of the machinery and tools for boring, and the training of a body of skilled workmen, who have become experts, able to determine, by merely inspecting a rock, how to deal most efficiently with it. The perforation of tunnels will in the future be a simpler, easier, and less costly operation than it has been heretofore. Since communication was established between the two galleries of the tunnel, a part of the mountain mass, 6,300 metres, or 20,475 feet from the southern entrance, has fallen in, killing and injuring several of the workmen.


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Dans le domaine de la zoologie, l'hibernaculum (du nom latin de la tente utilisée pour les « quartiers d'hiver » par les Romains) est le refuge, le gîte ou la partie d'un terrier qui sert à l'hibernation d'un animal isolé, comme l'ours dans sa tanière, ou d'un groupe social et familial, comme dans le cas de la marmotte.

Les hibernaculums peuvent prendre des formes très variées, qui reflètent la diversité des espèces qui hibernent – insectes, amphibiens, chauves-souris, serpents, lézards, etc.

Enjeux
Bien connaître ces habitats particuliers est important pour la biologie de la conservation et la sauvegarde de nombreuses espèces menacées. Par exemple, certaines communautés saproxylophages ont besoin de gros bois-morts, d'essences variées ; or, ce type d'habitat est de plus en plus rare dans les forêts entretenues et cultivées.

Hivernage des papillons
En allemand, le mot hibernarium désigne aussi l'étui de feuilles et de soie que certaines chenilles de papillons utilisent pour passer l'hiver .

Voir aussi

Articles connexes

 Hôtel à insectes
 Habitat
 Hibernation
 Hiver

Bibliographie

Références

Zoologie

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As millions of students prepare to begin their studies this fall, the recent events in Charlottesville - at the footsteps of Virginia's flagship university - hang heavy on hearts and minds. These events are a harrowing reminder of the pain and destruction that racism and hatred can unleash.
As schools and campuses welcome students, now more than ever, strong leadership and moral rectitude are needed. We know that our postsecondary education system succeeds when all students have the opportunity to learn in tolerant and inclusive environments.
Late last week, I penned an op-ed featured in the Washington Post's Grade Point higher education news blog that reflected on Education Secretary Betsy DeVos's response to the Charlottesville incidents. I called her attention to threats to policies that promote student success and urged her to show leadership by advancing efforts that promote equity and opportunity. Real action is needed.
Each day, the IHEP team undertakes the necessary work of unpacking the most difficult challenges facing our postsecondary education system, and identifying thoughtful policy solutions. We're urging policymakers to pull the levers that expand college access and turn the dials that promote success for all students, particularly those who have been underrepresented in postsecondary education.
Together with the IHEP team, I am proud to say...IHEP stands for all students. IHEP stands against hate.


A new scientific study by Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research from the University of Manchester and the Teesside University will be presented at the event. The study was commissioned by the Friends of the Earth Europe FoEE).
To determine if there are more space for gas in the European carbon budget, they have analyzed the compatibility of Europe's continued use of gas with the goals of the Paris Climate Change Agreement.
The results of the study will be presented by energy experts from FoEE who have also produced recommendations for decision-makers on gas and other fossil fuels in Europe.
The study was made before the publication of a new list (planned release on November 23, 2017) of at least 90 new gas infrastructure projects that the European Union is considering for public funding. Over the last three years, the EU has awarded more than a billion euros in public finance for gas projects. This list also includes gas projects in Croatia, including an LNG terminal planned on Krk. Therefore, one of the topics of the panel will also be the energy policy of Croatia.
The panel will be moderated by Marija Mileta from Zelena akcija. Registration is not required and the entry is free. Part of the presentations will be in English with the possibility of translation into Croatian.


Scavenger Hunt! Looking For I Is Spotted In The Wild!
Can you get a pic to share?
Unfortunately, it looks like that II is gone. When I drove by that shop this morning, it was no longer in the lot.
I've been lurking for awhile but decided to join the fun!
i painted it in the garage when I got it 8 yrs ago and it has sat since. My kid is turning 16 soon and were thinking Father son Project!
It needs some fixing to be working good and I'm guessing I'm going to start a thread.
Yeah buddy its a new post!
As far as in the wild goes, I'm counting 9 or 10 here (its just a picture off internet). How many can you see.
As far as your internet find, I think I see 18 or 19, but it's hard to tell on a few of them.
Wow 21!?! You got better eyes than me. It kills me to see all them stangs in the junk yard. Sigh.
I understand that, but that being said, I just don't see em in driveways or the side of the roads. In the last 10 yrs I've seen one Cobra 2 and one Ghia here in the Aloha State and the parts car I found on Craigs list 7 yrs ago. I did see a 70 Boss 302 on the highway last weekend and that was exciting.
My kids know I point out all the cool mustangs I see. Like then 03 Cobra I pointed at last night going to Cheerleading practice.
Theres got to be one somewhere!
I'm not busting your chops or anything, so don't take it that way if you are!
No worries, I'm happy just to be here.
For every one new poster theres 3 lurkers.
possibly give a helping hand if, in no other way, through our knowledge and advice.
This is exactly why I'm here. I need other peoples enthusiasm to help motivate and educate me.
Thanks LilCobra, I hope to get my C2 looking as good as yours.
Saw a 2014 Hertz-Penske GT today, one of 150 made I think. Just got to be happy for what you get to see out here.
Not sure if it's genuine; I didn't look at the buck tag. If it is, it's got the wrong striping. The VIN indicated it's a '78, but it's got the '76/early '77 striping. The scoop is facing the correct way for '78. Lacking a front spoiler as well.
Overall, it doesn't look to be in too bad of a condition. The body was pretty straight, there were some rust bubbles around the rear wheel openings, the interior plastics were faded...clearly not the original wheels either.
Anybody heard Flowmaster's new 3" exhaust with the Scavenger Pipe?


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Dancing Around the Decade — A "Swing Time" Retrospective
Only connect…
— E.M. Forster (1879-1970)
In the "only connect" spirit of my approach to these weekly columns, this being the first day of an election year when the stakes are historically high, I'm launching my retrospective sampling of the 2010s with a September 21, 2011, piece on Ginger Rogers ("Pick Yourself Up for a White House Screening") headed with a quote from then-President Obama's Inaugural Address: "Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America."
Given the liberties already taken (did I mention that the same column has Ginger Rogers quoting Dickens?), the stage is set for a 21st-century update of the familiar Depression era scenario wherein someone in distress walks into a movie theater looking for a respite from reality and walks out an hour and a half later ready to face the challenges and fight the good fight:
"In 1936, the year Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were dancing across the screens of the nation in Swing Time, the unemployment rate was 16.9 percent. In 2011, when the country is once again struggling economically, the rate's 9.1, and if anyone is in need of a respite, it's our beleaguered president. So let's imagine that after exhausting himself trying to get us out of the hole we're in, the commander in chief sets about lifting his own morale with a White House showing of Swing Time. At first, he's yawning, having been awake half the night trying to devise a way to dance his jobs bill around a 'loyal opposition' as ruthless as the crippled banker Mr. Potter in It's a Wonderful Life. He's still yawning even as Fred Astaire does pratfalls pretending to be a hapless neophyte dancer goofing a lesson from the pretty dancing teacher played by Ginger. But as soon as she starts singing, the prez comes to attention. She's telling him to pick himself up, dust himself off, and start all over again. It's his Inauguration Day pep talk, same words, same idea. How cool is that! All this time he'd thought the line had come to him out of nowhere, and here's plucky Ginger delivering the same message back when FDR was dealing with the same issues."
Breaking Blue with Bruce
A year later with election day 2012 looming, it's swing time with Springsteen in a column headed with a quote from Chris Christie, whose chances for a presidential run in 2016 were arguably doomed by the buddy-buddy image of our former governor with his arm around our former president during their tour of the Hurricane-Sandy-devastated Jersey shore. The quote in question was from Jeffrey Goldberg's article in the July 2012 Atlantic that describes containing Christie at a Springsteen event as "an exercise in volcano management for his communications director." After dancing around 'in front of many thousands of people' and shouting the words to 'Badlands' along with Springsteen ('Poor man wanna be rich/Rich man wanna be king'), Christie is fed a 'trick question' from Goldberg. Asked if Mitt Romney 'could relate to this,' Christie "screams over the noise of the crowd': 'No one is beyond the reach of Bruce!' "
Inspired by the mixed media convergence of Season 3 of Breaking Bad and Springsteen's album Wrecking Ball, both coming my way thanks, as usual, to the Princeton Public Library, I began the October 24 column by noting that Bruce's decision to endorse Obama had made me curious to hear what the Boss had to say in his latest LP:
"It turns out that the people in Bruce's songs, 'trudging through the dark in a world gone wrong,' have some recession-driven issues in common with Breaking Bad's Walt White, the cash-strapped, cancer-stricken high school science teacher who moonlights at a car wash and finds a way to provide for his family and cover over-the-top medical expenses by cooking to-die-for crystal blue methamphetamine."
The Biden Connection
I should point out that what sent me back to Springsteen and Obama is Sunday's New York Times feature, "What the Rally Playlists Say About the Candidates." It's no surprise that the song on top of former vice president Joe Biden's rally playlist is "We Take Care Of Our Own," the lead track on Wrecking Ball. When Bruce sings "where's the promise from sea to shining sea," and answers, loud and clear, "wherever this flag is flown," the music is driving, pounding, soaring as it redeems words long since drained of their original force. The stirring poetry of "sea to shining sea" is fresh again when Springsteen sings it.
I was thinking back to the Democratic Convention, Charlotte, N.C., September 6, 2012, and the closing crescendo of Obama's acceptance speech, with the convention faithful roaring. "We don't turn back!" as the preacher's telling the congregation. "We leave no one behind! We pull each other up!" Seemingly on the verge of actually singing Springsteen's line, Obama says "God Bless" to the nation, the balloons soar, and the music explodes from the DNC amps, Springsteen coming on like thunder, 'We Take Care Of Our Own!'
According to the Huffington Post, Springsteen's anthem got a huge post-convention bounce online, jumping 400-plus percent with 2000 downloads. If Springsteen had not yet officially endorsed Obama, he'd at least provided him with a rousing fight song.
2016 Reality Check
Flash forward (if that's possible in a backward look) to the closing paragraph of a post-election column on Springsteen's memoir Born to Run where "my guess is that what finally brought him to the election eve rally in Philadelphia was the devastating hit delivered by FBI director Comey. Although he performed surrounded by a crowd giddy with the prospect of victory, he played and sang his three songs as if he knew better. Unplugged, the anthemic excitement is missing from 'Thunder Road,' same with the usually wildly infectious 'Dancing in the Dark,' where his laid-back vocal brings out negatives like 'I ain't nothing but tired,' not to mention 'crying over a broken heart' and 'little world falling apart.' The third song, 'A Long Way Home,' which he introduced as 'a prayer for the post-election,' sounded more like prophecy than prayer, if you take 'home' to mean the White House.
Shuffle Fate's deck and it's January 20, 2017, the "American carnage" inaugural. Obama's "begin again the work of remaking America" has been drowned out by "Make America Great Again," thus the opening of the January 25, 2017, column:
"The morning after the Inauguration we're out of milk so I drive over to the shopping center. Maybe because I've had no breakfast, everyone I see looks grim and hung-over. It's a William Blake crowd, 'marks of weakness, marks of woe' on every face. Or maybe it's just me remembering how it seemed on January 21, 2009, everyone smiling, high on hope, strangers shyly nodding hello. Eight years ago! Was the contrast really so stark? Surely life's more subtle than that.
"When I get behind the wheel of my green 2000 CRV, the key won't turn, steering wheel's locked, so I give it a turn or two, no use. Then I look up and see almost directly across from me in the parking lot the green 2000 CRV that actually belongs to me.
"No, life's not subtle. I've begun January 21, 2017 by getting into the wrong car."
Prose and Passion
Today is the birthday of J.D. Salinger, who died at 91 on January 27, 2010. I headed the first of numerous columns written in the course of a decade of waiting and hoping to see what Salinger had produced in years between 1965 and 2010 with an epigraph taken from his daughter Margaret 's memoir, Dream Catcher: "My father has, indeed, spent his life busy writing his heart out."
January 1 is also the birthday of E.M. Forster. This column's epigraph is from chapter 22 of his novel Howard's End:
"Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer."
Swing Time is available on DVD at the Princeton Public Library, and more likely than not at the Princeton Record Exchange.

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The dog puked on your new shoes. The car had a flat tire on a major highway. The in-laws showed up unannounced and the house is mess. Ahhh! Stress rushes into your brain and body.
You missed a deadline at work. You are late on your mortgage payment. You had another huge argument with spouse. Ohhh! More stress.
You feel annoyed, angry, and overwhelmed. You grab a package of cookies. "I'll just nibble a few," you mumble. Before you know it, the contents of the entire package are in your belly.
Stress eating, comfort eating, emotional eating; words that describe overeating. Short-term you feel better, but long-term you feel worse. Stress-induced cravings create a habitual pattern of using food to self-soothe, temporarily escape emotions, and avoid problems. Frustration, guilt, and remorse visit.
The adrenal glands release a hormone called cortisol which increases appetite. You give in and gobble gooey goodies: cookies, cake, candy bars. Or you gorge on fried salty foods. You overindulge until you feel uncomfortable or stuffed.
The more unmanaged stress in your daily life, the more apt you are to turn to food for emotional relief and comfort.
"The definition of stress for most people tends to focus on the negative feelings and emotions it produces. Almost every definition of stress also discusses certain resultant physical, physiological or biochemical responses that are experienced or observed. A very comprehensive definition of stress that includes these and more is the biopsychosocial model, which, as it name suggests, has three components. This definition of stress distinguishes between an external element, another that is internal, as well as a third that represents the interaction between these two factors," according to The American Institute of Stress. www.stress.org/.
In August 2017, the American Psychological Association (APA) conducted its annual Stress in America survey. Most common sources of stress included: future of our nation, money, work, political climate, and violence/crime. Stress issues in the nation included: heath care, the economy, trust in government, crime and hate crimes, terrorist attacks in the US, high taxes, unemployment and low wages, environmental issues, and thinking about problems in our nation. www.apa.org/news/press/releases/stress/2017/state-nation.pdf.
How do American's cope with stress? According to the APA survey physical activity, listening to music, spending time with friends/family, yoga/meditation, and prayer were among the top techniques of stress management.
Learn 5 Things You Should Know About Stress from the National Institute of Mental Health. www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/stress/index.shtml.
The practice of mindful eating focuses on being aware of your thoughts, emotions, and senses while eating food. Slow down your chewing. Savor the flavor. Appreciate and enjoy food.
Intentionally become aware of your reasons for wanting to eat. Are you hungry, bored, anxious, overwhelmed? Are you eating out of habit? Are you wanting to comfort eat because of stress? Identify your feelings.
Only eat when you're hungry and stop when your stomach is full. Identify sources of stress and patterns of overeating. Tune into emotions before snacks and meals. Use stress management tools.


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Earn Ten Times as Much
Here's an exercise for you; imagine that it's possible for you to earn ten times your current annual wage. If you're earning $25,000, imagine for a moment that it's possible for you to earn $250,000, a 1000% increase.
Don't Sell Yourself Short...
The first reaction of most people to that exercise is to smile briefly and then to begin thinking about why it isn't possible.
One man said to me, "If you knew how many years it's taken for me to get to what I'm earning today you wouldn't be suggesting that I could earn ten times as much."
Never A Good Excuse...
Mark Twain once wrote that there are a thousand excuses for every failure but never a good reason. The tragedy of the average American is that whereas his or her main preoccupation seems to be money, or the lack thereof, the average person has the inherent potential to earn far more than he or she is doing currently.
Is the manager earning $250,000 per year ten times as smart as the manager earning $25,000? 10 times as experienced? Does he or she work 10 times harder? Of course not.
None of these are physically or mentally possible, but there are people in every business earning many times more than others with the same average age, experience and intelligence.
The Results Are In...
In fact, a few years ago in New York, a thousand men and women were selected at random and tested for I.Q. Between the one having the highest I.Q. in this sample and the one with the lowest, there was a difference of only 2 1/2 times.
But between the person earning the most, who by the way, was not the one with the highest I.Q. and the one earning the least, who was not the one with the lowest I.Q., there was a difference of 100X in income.
Action Exercises:
Here are two things you can do to start increasing your earnings.
First, identify the highest earning, most successful people in your field and find out what it is that they are doing differently from others who aren't doing as well. Copy them every day.
Second, set a goal to double your earnings over the next two or three years and then figure out how to accomplish that goal.
Brian Tracy is one of the world's leading authorities on personal and business success. Visit the Brian Tracy web site and take advantage of his many powerful resources available there.


Amen! I have not seen the fullness of this message yet, but I keep on believeing! Thank You Lord!
Heavenly Father I know that You are there for me, instructing and guiding me for the next step to follow. Talk to me in a way I understand, release from my mind all the fears I have. I trust in Your designs, in Jesus name I pray. Amen.
As always an excellent message, God bless you Pastor.
Praise the Lord for HIS word, "it will not return void", as long as we pray and witness according to HIS will and purpose!!! Even though we may get discourged, when we see no fruit or sign, but need to trust the Lord and HIS mighty Holy Spirit!!! Thank you for this message!
Yes Lord. ..Help me get in tune with you.
Father, please give me a clear vision to understand the plan in my life. In Jesus, name I pray. Amen!


At the temple there is a statue in dedication to Kobo Daishi, one of the monks that brought Buddhism to Japan. It is said to grant women safe deliveries of children. On clear days you can see the width of the national park Mikawa Bay from Mt. Kobo.
7 minutes by Taxi from JR Mikawa Miya Station, 15 minutes by Taxi from the Gamagori station, Walking distance from Minami Yamaguchi Bus stop on Meitetsu Bus line.


In the previous lesson we considered how rapidly sin increased on the earth in the generations after Adam and Eve. Today we will consider God's response to this as recorded in Genesis 6:6. But before we attempt to discover what God might say to us through this verse, let's determine what it is not saying.
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God is love. God does love. But does God love everyone or just those who follow Him?
Join us in spending some time reading scripture and thinking through this tough question posed in the devotional below.
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1955 Pakistan
PAKISTAN AFTER 1947 INDEPENDENCE
Denis Fowler is a retired diplomat who served in Iceland, Nepal, and Pakistan amongst other places.
He has kindly trawled his old photos and slides and sent this (slightly fuzzy) shot of his Ford Prefect, on standard KA (Karachi) Pakistan plates, but identified as a diplomatic vehicle by the CD oval, which had silver letters on a dark green background and a white rim. He adds that he bought the Prefect from UK Ford dealer Lex via the tax-free Home Delivery Export Scheme in August 1955, and ran it for a couple of months before handing it back to Ford for shipment to Karachi.
He knew that upon becoming a republic in March 1956, Pakistan was planning to switch from driving on the left to the right, and so he ordered the new Ford in Left-Hand-Drive, but after he arrived in November 1955, the plan was scrapped for this extraordinary reason: camel-drawn carts were then used to take the imported goods from Karachi docks to all parts of Pakistan, by day and by night, with their drivers sleeping much of the time.
It became recognised that the animals could not be trusted to walk unattended on the 'wrong' side of the road to that to which they had been accustomed for generations. It would have caused accidents and chaos, and so the new republican government never proceeded with its plan – which had probably merely been a symbolic act of casting off their imperial yoke, and not of any actual practical value.
We hope to see further pictures from Dennis' delving in to his photos and slides!
His daughter spent periods in Zimbabwe, Malawi and Bolivia and his son drove back to Britain from Nigeria in a Landcruiser. They have been asked to inspect their albums for period plate shots!
1955 British Ford 100E Prefect in Karachi, 1956. KAA 4957
Readers are advised to ask for such pictures of any old pals who once served abroad. They are a unique record of extinct plate types, and will not generally be recognised as being of interest to their heirs, when they inherit parents' old photo albums and transparencies/slides. Sad to think how many great pictures are thrown out in house clearances…..
Below is an unusually-plated Morris Minor, also in Karachi, but shot by me (VB) in 1965, and which for years I had never properly identified.
Apparently the Urdu script reads 'Mashriq' 41 – any ideas, anyone?
ANSWER from Europlate member Kurt Leothold –
"The word correctly translated is: MAKRAN, a province from Baluchistan, Pakistan (Gwardar)."
Wikipedia notes: Makran Division (Persian: مکران ) was an administrative division of the Balochistan Province of Pakistan, until the reforms of 2000 abolished the third tier of government. Districts of Makran Division included Gwadar, Turbat, Mand and Panjgur.
Makran is the ancient name for Baluchistan and was an exclave of Oman until 1958, when Pakistan bought it from the Sultanate of Oman.
So – thanks to Kurt, a 47-year-old puzzle eventually explained! (The low number 41, the colours and the style of the plate would indicate that it was a Morris Minor of the Khan/Sultan's fleet – or possibly of some high-ranking State official.)
Finally, one of the very few Pakistan plates seen in Britain since 1947 Partition – a VW Camper from Quetta in Baluchistan, sporting a PAK oval provided by the Karachi Automobile Association. Seen in Kensington Church Street, London in 1964, by VB.
QA 6209, a Quetta plate in 1964 London.
More finally, I parked my Peugeot 404L next to a pair of diplomatic VWs in Rawalpindi in 1968. That same CD system is still in use in Pakistan, 44 years later!
I doubt if the airline offices are still intact, as such places have become targets for angry mobs fretting about cartoons and daft films. It was a peaceful and pleasant country then, with the Moslem population kind and hospitable……
BELOW: When EU38 visited the newly-built British High Commission in Islamabad to collect my mail from the Poste Restante service they used to offer travellers, I was amazed to come across a car from Sarawak – the first I had ever seen! And as used to be the convention, it showed the international oval SK, as supplied by the Kuching office of the AA.
How unusual to see a vehicle from Borneo in the 'stans!
Sarawak K 9033 outside the BHC, Islamabad, 1968. K=Kuching.
PR-9679 — Seen in Karachi in 1965, this Jeep with United Nations connections, belonged to the Pakistan Forestry Project and was registered in Peshawar in the regular series. Brumby archive 1965
ID 8146 — ID was the newly-created code for the 1960's-built new capital city of Islamabad (PeaceTown), when this photo was taken in the 1970s, on a Datsun 1200. There were still very few such fully-imported cars in neighbouring India, due to the shortage of foreign currency with which to buy such, yet Pakistan seems always to have imported from anywhere without difficulty, even though it must have been even shorter of money. Previously, British Ford 100E Anglias were built there from parts sent from Dagenham. and Morris Minors were assembled in India, alongside the eternal Morris Cowley a.k.a. the Hindustan Ambassador, Indian production of which 1955 design finalised in 2013!. The Suzuki pick-up is from Peshawar – PRH 3032. Soon such Japanese products displaced the British-built vehicles which had held sway from 1900. Brumby archive 1970s (Capt. Pointon-Taylor)
KAW 6444 – red-on-yellow Karachi Trade-plate on a new British Vauxhall Victor, there in 1965. Brumby archive.
KAE 9800 — It was unusual to see an Urdu-scripted plate in Pakistan in the 1960s. This oddity is seen in Lahore in 1965, on a Morris 1000, registered in Karachi. Brumby archive 1965
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Shamed surgeon struck off after operation blunder
Shamed surgeon struck off after operation oversight
A specialist has been struck off after a patient who he operated on without approval died. Abdominal cosmetic surgeon Gavin Denton, who was an expert specialist in Macclesfield Healthcare facility for 8 years, has been erased from the medical register following an examination into the death of a 64-year-old man he operated on at Scunthorpe General Health center. The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) hearing, which happened in Manchester, heard Mr Denton ran beyond his capability on a tumour in the patient's colon without being advised to do so by his manager and cannot require support when the treatment failed. Proof given at the hearing likewise specified that despite examining the client's tumour as unusable, Mr Denton continued operating without informing his supervisor …
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GMC reacts to fatal accident questions report
The findings of a casualty questions performed by Sheriff John Beckett have been published. Niall Dickson, President of the General Medical Council, stated: 'This is an important and far reaching report and it is essential that lessons are learnt from this dreadful misfortune. We will be studying the report in detail and any implications for the GMC and its duties. 'The obligation for notifying the DVLA about medical conditions sits first and foremost with the patient. But doctors have responsibilities too and we are clear that they do have a vital role in assisting to keep the public safe. 'As part of a wider review of patient confidentiality, we have taken actions to reinforce our guidance for doctors, highlighting and re-emphasising the situations where they alre …
Strong support for propositions to enhance client defense and public confidence in physicians
A major examination by the General Medical Council (GMC) has found strong support for propositions to deal with the small number of physicians who put patients at significant threat or cause them damage. More than two thousand people responded to the assessment, consisting of clients, doctors and experts from throughout the health service. The GMC had sought advice from on the assistance for physical fitness to practice panels of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) who choose what sanction physicians should deal with when they are a risk to patients or have put the reputation of the career at risk. The assistance is likewise made use of by GMC choice makers who choose whether to refer a medical professional under examination to an MPTS panel. There was frustrating support for striking doctors off the register following p.
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Trainee expert who blew whistle on understaffed intensive care ward backed by ONE THOUSAND physicians
More than 1,000 medical professionals have written to the General Medical Council backing a trainee consultant who faces losing his career for blowing the whistle. Dr Chris Day fears his strategies to qualify as an expert are over after he was left in charge of 15 seriously ill intensive care patients. He alerted hospitals supervisors it was dangerous for him to care for extensive care plus four other wards. Employers accepted his whistle-blowing issues that there were too few physicians on duty. But months later on – when he was transferring to a new hospital – the 31 year-old found that he had been removed from the national training plan for experts. The move was made by Health Education England – an arm of the Department of Health – which is accountable for junior doctor training. General Medical Council Docto …
GMC statement about Dr Steven Burn
Discussing the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Circuit box (MPTS) choice not to eliminate Dr Steven Burn, Niall Dickson, Chief Executive of the General Medical Council, said: 'We highly disagree with the decision reached by the panel in the case of Dr Steven Burn, the expert cardiologist. We had called for this doctor to be struck off the medical register and we will do what we can to have the choice altered. 'We believe it is vital that patients can have confidence in the medical professionals that take care of them, and behaviour of this kind can not be endured. To be reasonable I make sure the large bulk of physicians would concur. 'We have called the Expert Standards Authority (PSA), the authority responsible for supervising the UK's health care professional governing bodies, to a.
General Medical Council behaving like a modern inquisition
We are worried that Dr Waney Squier, maybe Britain's foremost researcher in the field of paediatric neuropathology, who has been a consultant at the John Radcliffe hospital for 32 years, was struck off the medical register by a General Medical Council panel on Monday, based on her testimony in so-called shaken child syndrome (SBS) cases (Report, theguardian.com, 21 March). She was accused of numerous things, consisting of revealing too little respect for the views of her peers. Every generation has its quasi-religious orthodoxies, and if there is one certainty in history it is that numerous beliefs that were firmly held yesterday will become the things of understanding ridicule tomorrow. Whether this will be the fate of SBS, time will tell. Nevertheless, the case of Dr Squier follows another troubling patt …
How expert are medical students?At completion of last year, we ran a
study to find out more about the professional values of the UK's medical students. Over 2,500 students participated to tell us what they thought. We asked if students believed it was OK to dodge train fares when cash was tight, if it was appropriate to return to a patient's house for a coffee, and if it was suitable to grumble about a lecture on Facebook. We also requested for views on raising concerns and client safety. Our brand-new report brings together the responses we got. It reveals that broadly, most students have an understanding of professionalism that matches what we would anticipate from future medical professionals. Likewise, we can be cautiously reassured by students' views on raising concerns about patient safety and acting within their proficiency. The report highli …
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An Offer Like This …
According to NPR, by 1990 the city of Verona, Italy, was receiving over 6000 letters to Juliet Capulet each year. This fact has been celebrated in a book and a movie, both titled "Letters to Juliet," so the outline of the story is well-known: Lovers who are in the middle of difficult plights or terrible loneliness write letters, detailed letters, about their storm-tossed affairs to Shakespeare's fictional heroine.
"Only you," many letters begin with, only you—the ghost of a character who never breathed a human breath—only Juliet Capulet can possibly understand and empathize.
Verona keeps a staff of volunteers who read and sometimes reply to the letters. ("Letters from Juliet" might be a more interesting title concept.) They call themselves "The Juliet Club," and it only became an official office around 1990, but people have been writing letters to poor, dead (never lived), Juliet for centuries. (Here is the address: Club di Giulietta, via Galilei 3-37133, Verona, ITALY.) Verona enjoys portraying itself as the hometown of Romeo and Juliet and even has a "Romeo and Juliet tour." (Valentine's Day is especially important.) Shakespeare certainly did more for Verona's economy than he did for Denmark's.
All those letters, written without an expectation of a response, written to be written, and all about the promises, perils, compromises, heartbreaks, and hard-earned lessons of love and loneliness? (That is a year's worth of Daily Prompts, right there.) Elvis Costello could not help himself when he encountered the idea. His first venture into music that resides somewhere between pop song and chamber music was inspired by the conceit of the ultimate "dead letter file."
He decided to collaborate with a young and already respected string ensemble, the Brodsky Quartet, in both the writing and performing of an epistolary song cycle, which they called "The Juliet Letters." It is a personal favorite of mine, but it takes more than one listen, as some songs sound almost too much like Elvis Costello (those songs written by the Brodskys, ironically), and others sound like half-finished chamber music. But most find a unique and satisfying spot for me. It is actually an album I return to.
One album after "Mighty Like a Rose," a recording that Costello now refers to as an "angry" piece of work—he wanted to drop his "Elvis Costello" pseudonym and release it under his real name, but his label would have none of that, so he appeared on the cover of "Mighty Like a Rose" and in videos wearing an impressive quantity of facial hair and he sang lyrics that attacked other rock icons ("Was it a millionaire who sang 'Imagine no possessions'?")—and deep in the grunge period (1993), Costello gave his label a not-quite solo record with a string quartet as his backing band and a theme that is hidden in its title, "The Juliet Letters."
The AllMusic reviewer notes, "it's remarkable that Warner didn't sue Elvis Costello for making deliberately noncommercial, non-representative records, the way Geffen did with Neil Young in the 1980s."
Further, the letters are not all love-lorn and heart-tuggy, as the album is written as if Costello and the Brodskys had emptied Juliet Capulet's mailbox, unopened for hundreds of years, and used everything for the songs, including her Pennysavers and sales fliers, along with the suicide notes, divorce deeds, and plaints of unacknowledged and undying love.
"This Offer is Unrepeatable" presents one of the pieces of junk mail, but one in which the writer has grown profoundly impatient with the absence of any reply. He can barely contain the fact that he is more desperate for someone to accept his swindle than any customer might be to buy what he is selling. Costello digs into the song like the great character actor he might have become.
This Offer is Unrepeatable—Elvis Costello, Brodsky Quartet
DON'T SEND ANY MONEY!
For fate has no price
Ignore at your peril this splendid advice
An invaluable link in an infinite chain
An offer like this will just not come again
You wish you had women to charm and bewitch
Power of life and death over the rich
Young girls will be swooning because you're exciting them
Not only fall at your feet but be biting them
Guaranteed, guaranteed to capture your breath
Or possibly scare you to death
Sign it and seal it and send it to friends
Don't mention my name
Don't make any long term plans
In thirty-six hours your fortunes will change
Your best friends won't know you and neither will strangers
Do not keep this letter, it must leave your hand
You have been selected from over five thousand
A twister and dupe will bamboozle or hoodwink you
I can't say more, it would only confuse you
The wine they will offer will go to your head
And you'll start to see double in fishes and bread
Guaranteed, guaranteed for a lifetime or more
Guaranteed, for this world and the next
Guaranteed, guaranteed for the world and its mother
Cherish this life as you won't get another one
UNLESS you should take up this fabulous offer
Don't leave it too late or you'll be bound to suffer
Woebetide anyone so woebegone
You won't know you're born or about to pass on
You'll never get tired
You'll never get bored
By the way, I just hope you're insured
If you're not satisfied
If you want more
We can always provide an improved overture
Guaranteed at a price that is almost unbeatable
This offer is unrepeatable
Your troubles will vanish
Your tears will dry
Your blessings will just multiply
Guaranteed, guaranteed to bring fortune and favour
In a riot of colours and flavours
Would I sell you a dud?
Just sign on the line
Could you possibly write it in blood?
For those with Spotify, here is the full album:
This first appeared in February 2015.
The WordPress Daily Prompt for May 2 asks us to reflect on the word, "Music."
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Kezie Apps (born 4 February 1991) is an Australian rugby league footballer who plays as a  for the St George Illawarra Dragons in the NRL Women's Premiership and the Wests Tigers in the NSWRL Women's Premiership.

She is an Australian international and New South Wales representative.

Background
Born in Bega, New South Wales, Apps played her junior rugby league for the Bega Roosters alongside current Cronulla Sutherland Sharks player Dale Finucane.

At age 12, she was forced to stop playing due to age restrictions that were in place. Her older brother Deon, played two games for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in 2011.

Playing career
In 2014, Apps returned to rugby league, joining the Helensburgh Tigers women's side. Later that year, she made her debut for New South Wales in the annual Women's Interstate Challenge against Queensland and Australia in their Four Nations curtain-raiser against New Zealand. At the end of the season, she was named the Illawarra Women's Player of the Year and the NSWRL Women's Player of the Year.

In 2015, she made her debut for the Women's All Star side in their annual fixture against the Indigenous All Stars.

On 28 September 2016, she won the women's Dally M Medal for Player of the Year at the Dally M awards.

In October 2017, she was named in Australia's 2017 Women's Rugby League World Cup squad. On 2 December, she started at second row in the Jillaroos 23-16 final win over the New Zealand.

In June 2018, Apps, along with Sam Bremner and Talesha Quinn, were named as the three marquee players for the St. George Illawarra Dragons women's team which will commence playing in the NRL Women's Premiership starting in September.

On 6 October 2019, she captained the Dragons in their 6–30 Grand Final loss to the Brisbane Broncos.

Achievements and accolades

Individual
Dally M Medal: 2016
NSWRL State Player of the Year: 2014, 2016

Captained NSW to State of Origin win in 2022

St George Illawarra Dragons NRLW Captain 2021 - present

Team
2017 Women's Rugby League World Cup: Australia – Winners

References

External links
St George Illawarra Dragons profile

1991 births
Living people
Australian female rugby league players
Rugby league players from Bega, New South Wales
Australia women's national rugby league team players
Rugby league second-rows
St. George Illawarra Dragons (NRLW) players
Wests Tigers NSWRL Women's Premiership players


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The Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) is the world's oldest, largest member-driven society for a host of design practices, including: product design, industrial design, interaction design, human factors, ergonomics, design research, design management, universal design, and 2 other design-related fields. Since 2009, we have been partnering with Southern Illinois University Carbondale to turn concepts into reality through collaborative student projects. Each year, a student's site furnishing design is selected to be manufactured as a new Anova collection. Visit the IDSA website at www.idsa.org.
Each year, Anova volunteers as a packaging partner for St. Louis World Food Day. Together, we help the organization reach their goal of packaging over 200,000 nutritious meals in one day to be delivered to malnourished children living in a poverty-stricken area in Tanzania. Visit the St. Louis World Food Day website at www.stlwfd.org.


With over 28 years of financial services and investment experience, I am actively focused on providing comprehensive wealth management solutions to individuals and families, estates & trusts, and charitable and business organizations. As a Portfolio Manager with TD Wealth, I provide a high level of personalized service for my clients.
I work with a talented group of partners and have complete access to their expertise and the resources of our TD Wealth and TD Bank Group teams. My role is to create a fully integrated and comprehensive plan for my clients, by having the appropriate experts brought in when required, to apply their specialized knowledge to a particular situation. This can range from investment management, to estate planning, and to credit and insurance needs. This partnership is crucial to my client's evolving needs from the accumulation of wealth to the preservation and transitioning of their wealth through every stage of their life.
I am a graduate of Ryerson University with a Bachelor of Business Managements, and hold the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. I am a member of the CFA Institute, as well as a member and Past-President of the Ottawa CFA Society. I also hold an Ontario Life Insurance License, and have completed other industry courses such as the Certificate in Retirement Strategy. I am registered as a Portfolio Manager in the provinces of Ontario, Quebec and Manitoba.
Outside of work, I enjoy spending time with my wife and two children, enjoying tennis, cycling and skiing, and I volunteer as the President of the Board for a local not-for-profit charity.
With 26 years of financial services and investment experience, I act as a secondary contact for Mark Lalonde and Rebecca Tam, while assisting with the preparation of customer portfolio reviews, handling client cash transfers and remittance requests and administrative account duties.
Outside of work, I am a hockey mom and grandma. I love spending time with my son supporting his hockey and enjoying my daughter's young family. I actively participate in MS fundraising, in hope of finding a cure to support my best friend who suffers from the disease.


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Four Major Dem Candidates End Run for President
Juan Páez
Hold your ballots; Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Michael Bloomberg and Elizabeth Warren have suspended their presidential runs.
Buttigieg and Klobuchar announced they were leaving the race in close proximity to one another, in an apparent bid to coalesce behind Joe Biden, who won the South Carolina primary last Saturday, leading Sanders by 20 points.
Both campaign's suspending their operations came as a surprise, as both were expected to continue until at least Super Tuesday. Klobuchar in particular was expected to give Sanders a run for his money in her home state of Minnesota.
Buttigieg lost steam after winning Iowa and coming in second in New Hampshire. His poor standing with non-white voters led to 3rd and 4th place finishes respectively in Nevada and South Carolina.
Both Klobuchar and Buttigieg joined Biden in a campaign rally last monday, where they announced they were suspending their campaigns and endorsing Biden.
A wave of endorsements for Biden came afterwards, such as former Texas Congressman Beto O'Rourke and John Brennan, former head of the CIA.
The moderate wing of the party coalescing behind Biden combined with his name recognition and positive media coverage overall proved fruitful; Biden won 10 out of the 14 states up for grabs on Super Tuesday.
Biden was largely expected to win most southern states, but also bagged a surprise win in Massachusetts, where Warren split the progressive vote, stopping Sanders from winning Warren's home state.
Bloomberg's electoral experiment also failed after Super Tuesday. The former New York City mayor's campaign failed to resonate with voters, resulting in measly returns across the map, winning only the American Samoa primary for 6 delegates.
Bloomberg promptly endorsed Biden after dropping out.
Warren also supended her campaign on Thursday. She never placed higher than 3rd in any of the first 18 states.
It is not immediately clear if Warren will hold her endorsement (indefinitely or otherwise) or not.
Washington state votes on Mar. 10, along with Idaho, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri and North Dakota.
The latest poll (Feb. 26) coming out of Washington by Elway Research has Sanders at 21 percent, leading Bloomberg by 6 points. However, Bloomberg, Buttigieg, Klobuchar and Warren dropping out and the latest Super Tuesday results are bound to change things.
Juan Páez, News Editor
Juan Páez is a former News Editor for The Ebbtide. He covered politics, breaking news and administrative stories. Páez spends his days plotting overthrowing...


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Wearing contact lenses are a great alternative to always wearing eyeglasses. When fitted properly, they give you the comfort and freedom to see the world without obstruction.
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Taking care of your contact lenses is really a matter of common sense. Your habits play a big role in the proper maintenance of your lenses and protecting your eyes. If you have any questions or concerns about your eye health, contact your eye care professional.


Charles Chambers, is President and founder of Chambers Business Consulting. His expertise offers experiences in large publicly traded companies and small to mid-sized privately held businesses. He has served as a Controller as well as a Chief Financial Officer and has managed a diverse number of areas including human resources, safety, employee benefits, purchasing, labor negotiations, administration, legal, lender relationships, information technology, and strategic planning, as well as accounting/finance.
Mr. Chambers is actively involved in Financial Executives International, Ohio Society of CPA's, Institute of Management Accountants, Toledo Rotary Club, and other civic organizations. Mr. Chambers has an MBA from the University of Toledo, is a licensed CPA, and holds a Certificate in Management Accounting. A frequent guest speaker, Mr. Chambers is also a part-time instructor at the University of Toledo and University of Findlay.
As Vice President of Administrative Services and Chief Financial Officer for TTL Associates Inc. Mr. Chambers'responsibilities included financial accounting, human resources, services costing, management reporting, information systems, treasury, fleet management, and planning and administration. He initiated cost reductions of over $350,000 annual impact in the 1st year of operations. During his tenure he successfully negotiated new banking relationships and two contracts with the UAW.
As Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Midwest Stamping Inc., a privately held automotive supplier with sales of $134 million, Mr. Chambers' accomplishments included restoring the integrity of financial systems, implementing internal controls to reduce significant inventory variances and properly record revenue, increasing EBITDA over 50%, reduced inventory variances from 25% write-offs to .5% variances. In addition, he played a key role as member of team to evaluate acquisition alternatives.
While Mr. Chambers was with TI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GROUP, formerly Walbro Corporation, he was assigned to lead and manage the Controller and Information Systems functions including worldwide accounting, internal and external reporting, planning and financial analysis, and implementation of ERP system (QAD). In addition, he participated as a designated member of the senior management team to explore and complete plans to find a suitable buyer, prepared offering memorandum and key management presentations to potential acquirers.
As a member of the internal audit leadership team at Owens Corning with direct responsibility for process organization audits with emphasis on value-added contributions to improve controls in a SAP process environment, Mr. Chambers served as a leader, coach and mentor to the less experienced members of the audit staff. Results included recommendations for improvement in process controls with $2.5 million savings. In addition, Mr. Chambers held various management and leadership positions. Examples of accomplishments include designed, prepared and published internal consolidated financial information and analyses; managed reporting of financial results of the company to government agencies, shareholders, and the investment community; prepared the S1, 8K, 10K and 10Q reports and schedules to the Securities and Exchange Commission; served as process owner for development and implementation of single worldwide general ledger using SAP software with 50%+ reduction in required ledgers. Reduced staff levels from 23 to 15 (34%) with strategic plan developed for additional 4-person reduction (17%).


The story of the Transfiguration comes up a couple of times during the liturgical year, which reminds us of its importance. In a world that sometimes seems to be spinning out of control, it's helpful to remember that our powerful God is at the helm.
Today's readings deal with two important elements of faith: Jesus' authority and power, and our witness to it. The first reading might sound familiar, even if you've never read the book of Daniel. That's because John, when he wrote the book of Revelation, borrowed heavily from Daniel (…and Isaiah…and Ezekiel…and Jeremiah…). The point of the reading is that Daniel had a vision; a first-hand experience of God's power and might. He conveys his vision to us of the Son of man who receives honor, glory and power from the "Ancient One", who we call The Father. It's sort of a heavenly Transfiguration experience for Daniel.
The second reading is from Peter's first letter, in which Peter shares his first-hand vision of Jesus' honor, power and glory in the Transfiguration on the mountain. Peter reminds us to listen to Jesus, and to remember in our dark times, that God's shining power is in our hearts.
The Gospel tells the story that Peter describes in his letter. The significance of being on the mountain, is the same as Daniel's vision that transported him to heaven—the mountain is high up, or close to God. Jesus is shown in dazzling white which represents his purity, victory over sin and death, and the "shekinah" which is a Hebrew word for "the shimmering presence of God." These physical aspects are meant to point to a spiritual reality, but also God's perfect authority in the physical world. Each of the readings speak of the witness, the testimony, of those who were present at these events.
Draw a picture of God with the "shimmering presence".
When Peter reflects on his experience of the Transfiguration, he tells us that, "You will do well to be attentive to it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts." How can paying attention to God's power in this story be a light for you in dark times?
This week, as you ponder the readings, consider how you have experienced God's honor, glory and power. What has been some concrete evidence, or what have been some personal experiences you've had with God that expressed God's power to you? How do you witness to this? Do you see your witness as important? Are you afraid to share? Jesus told the disciples to stand up straight and not be afraid. If you are hesitant to share your experience of God in your life, ask him to help you to not be afraid, but to speak from your heart.


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Hejda (feminine Hejdová) is a Czech surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Jan Hejda, Czech ice hockey player
Lukáš Hejda, Czech footballer
Romana Hejdová, Czech basketball player
Zbyněk Hejda, Czech poet
Zuzana Hejdová, Czech tennis player

Czech-language surnames


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Abbas III was a son of Shah Tahmasp II and Shahpuri Begum of the Safavid dynasty. After the deposition of his father by Nader Shah the infant Abbas was appointed nominal ruler of Iran on 7th September 1732.
Abbas III was deposed in March 1736, when Nader Khan had himself crowned as Nader Shah. This marked the official end of the Safavid dynasty. Abbas was sent to join his father in prison in Sabzevar, Khorasan.
Shah Abbas issued gold and silver coins during his reign. The mints are Tabriz, Iriwan, Tiflis, Rasht, Shiraz, Isfahan, Qazwin, Maragha, Nakhjawan, and Mashhad.
This gold Ashrafi was issued in the reign of Abbas III from Isfahan/Isbahan mint in 1145 AH. The obverse of a coin showed the Persian legend 'Sikka Bar Zar Bah Taufiq Ilahi Dar Jahan Zil Haq Abbas Salas Sani Sahib-e-Qiran Zarb Isfahan'. The reverse of a coin inscribed with Shia Kalima 'La Ilaha Illallahu Muhammadur Rasulullah Ali Wali Allah' and name of the Imams 'Ali Hasan Husain Ali Muhammad Jaafar Musa Ali Muhammad Ali Hasan Muhammad'.


Norman and his "cookie" of a wife, Mabel.
Wade walked through the seedy parking lot, the shadows lengthening with the setting sun. Glass scattered the ground from broken streetlights, and he smiled; he liked the dark. Figures moved next to one of the cars, and he heard a man yelling for help. Not an uncommon occurrence in this neighbourhood, but Wade stopped, curious.
He watched two men punch and hit a third, then shove him to the asphalt. They kicked their victim repeatedly as he covered his head and begged them to stop. When they tired of their sport, they stole his wallet, cell phone, and watch, then ran off, laughing.
Wade moved to the injured man, and stood looking down at him. Wade saw the quality suit he wore, the nice haircut, the leather shoes. He hated people who dressed like that.
You get lost or something? The likes of you down in this neighbourhood?
The man reached out a bruised and broken hand.
Wade tilted his head. No. I don't think I will.
He took a pair of leather gloves from his pocket, put them on, and strolled back to his parked car. He opened the trunk and took out a crowbar. Then he went back to the injured man.
This isn't your night, fellow. Wade swung the crowbar and broke the man's right kneecap. The smack and crunch of the metal hitting flesh and bone thrilled Wade.
The man screamed, and kept screaming as Wade continued to swing the metal bar. He smashed the bones in his legs first: the kneecaps, then the ankles and feet, the tibias and the femurs. Then Wade used the crowbar to pound on the man's chest, breaking ribs, and then moved on to the arms, shattering more bones.
He paused, listening to the man's moans and whimpers. "Please, no more, no more."
Wade smiled at the man. Don't you worry. The pain will stop soon.
Wade brought the metal down on the man's skull, once, twice, three times. Bone fragmented, and blood and brain matter splattered and oozed out onto the pavement. He gave the corpse a last kick before he sauntered back to his car with a little skip in his step and humming a tune.
Wade released the trunk lid, tossed the bloody crowbar inside, and picked up a rag. He wiped his face and clothes, scrubbing at the sweat, spatters, and stains before tossing the rag back where he found it. Then he shut the trunk and walked away, whistling.
He removed his gloves, stuffing them back into his pocket as he crossed the parking lot and continued down the street. His little diversion gratified him with a high, but not what he came out to do tonight.
He came to hunt. He picked out his quarry weeks ago, stalked him, learned his habits, his routine, and then decided on the time and location. Tonight he'd bag him. Tonight he'd get himself another trophy. He kept walking, thinking about all that awaited until he came to the house.
The residence was small—home to a man who worked at a factory and his family—with a dilapidated fence and the street on one side, and a neighbour who worked nights on the other. Unlikely anyone would see or hear. One of the reasons he chose the place.
Wade checked his watch and then put his gloves back on. He wasn't worried about getting in; the house had no alarms and not much in the way of locks. He drew the lock picks from his pocket, cracked open the back door with simplicity, and entered. He pulled a gun from his waistband and crept upstairs, straight to the main bedroom.
He eased the door open and skulked into the room. He stood at the end of the bed and watched the sleeping couple. He noticed the empty whiskey bottle resting on the floor and sneered.
I'll be doing the world a favour, getting rid of these drunks. Lord, I hate drunks.
He raised his gun and shot the man and his wife as they slept, leaving behind the slight smell of gunfire and blood as he moved to their son's room.
Wade placed his gloved palm against the frame. He needed to savour this moment, the instant before the capture. No matter how many times he snatched a kid, he always felt the satisfying rush, the thrill. His heart beat rapidly, adrenaline sliced through his body, and he came alive.
I hope the kid is hiding. I love it when they hide.
Wade turned the doorknob and pushed through the doorway, brandishing his gun. He found the boy, all of ten years old, awake and sitting up in bed. The kid screamed when he saw Wade.
Shut up! No screaming! Wade backhanded the boy across the mouth, making him bleed. The child's screams dissolved to whimpers. The kid curled into a ball and scrunched against his pillows.
Wade stared and sucked in his breath. The image of the trembling boy sent a shiver through his skin. Wade stared at the small, huddled mass of brown hair and blue eyes in superhero pajamas.
Oh God, look at him. He's already terrified. Oh, he's going to be a good one.
He knew he picked right. All those weeks of stalking, making sure the kid was submissive, not one to sass his elders. Just what he liked, obedient and fearful. Especially fearful. The terror in their young eyes got his juices flowing.
A soft moan from the boy broke his rapture. Wade grunted and waved his gun. Get dressed.
The kid scrambled off the bed. Where's my mom and dad?
Dead. Now, get dressed or you'll join them.
The kid trembled and cried quietly, his hands shaking as he pulled on jeans, a T-shirt and some sneakers. Wade grabbed his arm and pulled him out of the bedroom.
Where are we going? The boy's hushed voice quivered.
No questions. Just keep moving or I'll shoot you.
Wade forced the child downstairs, knocking his small body against the railing as they moved, smiling when the boy sobbed. The child stumbled and nearly fell as Wade dragged him out the back door. He could hear the faint sound of police sirens in the distance. Then Wade put the gun to the boy's head and compelled him to march up the street to the parking lot. He dragged the kid past the broken corpse of the man he killed.
I did that. Do what I say or you end up like him.
They kept moving until they reached Wade's car. He popped the trunk and stuffed the boy inside. Wade took a roll of duct tape and bound the child's hands and feet, and gagged his mouth. He noticed the boy's jeans were wet at the crotch.
Wade laughed. You peed yourself, kid. I like that. Means you're scared. I like my kid scared. He leaned in, his grinning face inches from the boy. We're going for a long ride now. You stay still, no movement, no kicking about, no noise.
He watched the kid nod.
Good. It'll go easier if you behave. Wade traced his finger over the boy's cheek, and then licked the salty tears from the tip. Cry all you want, but you're mine now. We're going to spend some quality time together.
He slammed the lid down.


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Doris Jannausch, zeitweise auch gelistet als Jannausch-Schmidt, (* 30. August 1925 in Teplitz-Schönau, Tschechoslowakei; † 10. Dezember 2017 in Ruppertshofen) war eine deutsche Schriftstellerin, Theater-Schauspielerin und Kabarettistin.

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Sie besuchte drei Jahre die Theaterschule in Aussig an der Elbe. Nach der Vertreibung erhielt sie ein Engagement an der Landesbühne Dresden und spielte auch im Stadttheater Greifswald und in Glauchau. In Ost-Berlin absolvierte sie die Prüfung zur staatlich beglaubigten Schauspielerin. Nach Auftritten in Kabaretts als Conferencière, ehelichte sie ihren Kollegen Günter Schmidt, mit dem sie 1961 in den Westen übersiedelte. Doris Jannausch schrieb zahlreiche Kinderbücher sowie heitere Erwachsenen-Romane.
Aus der Meffi-Reihe wurde Meffi, der kleine, feuerrote Teufel (aus dem Jahr 1971) auch ins Spanische und Italienische übersetzt. Sie lebte in Ruppertshofen in Baden-Württemberg und verfasste zudem Feuilletons, Glossen und Geschichten für Zeitungen.
2017 starb sie im Ruppertshofener Teilort Birkenlohe.

Werke (Auswahl)

Auszeichnungen

Für ihr Kinderbuch Joschi wehrt sich erhielt sie im August 1989 die "Eule des Monats".

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Autor
Kabarettist (Deutschland)
Literatur (20. Jahrhundert)
Literatur (Deutsch)
Kinder- und Jugendliteratur
Roman, Epik
Tschechoslowake
Deutscher
Geboren 1925
Gestorben 2017
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The Lifeboat (Paperback)
By Charlotte Rogan
Back Bay Books, 9780316185912, 304pp.
Paperback, Large Print (8/22/2012)
"Grace is the 22-year-old narrator of this terrifying, tightly told tale of the sinking of an ocean liner crossing the Atlantic from England in 1914. Few escape onto the small overcrowded lifeboats, Grace being one. With little food and drink, paranoia and power struggles surface, and The Lifeboat becomes a study of human nature and who has a stronger will to survive under extreme conditions. As Rogan writes in the end, 'It was not the sea that was cruel, it was the people.' A brilliant and harrowing story of a struggle for survival as well as a profound look at the complexities of human nature at its core."
— Annie Philbrick, Bank Square Books, Mystic, CT
The sinking of an ocean liner leaves a newly married woman battling for survival in this powerful debut novel.
Grace Winter, 22, is both a newlywed and a widow. She is also on trial for her life.
In the summer of 1914, the elegant ocean liner carrying her and her husband Henry across the Atlantic suffers a mysterious explosion. Setting aside his own safety, Henry secures Grace a place in a lifeboat, which the survivors quickly realize is over capacity. For any to live, some must die.
As the castaways battle the elements, and each other, Grace recollects the unorthodox way she and Henry met, and the new life of privilege she thought she'd found. Will she pay any price to keep it?
The Lifeboat is a page-turning novel of hard choices and survival, narrated by a woman as unforgettable and complex as the events she describes.
Charlotte Rogan studied architecture at Princeton University and worked for a large construction firm before turning to fiction. She is the author of The Lifeboat, which was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and which has been translated into twenty-six languages. After many years in Dallas and a year in Johannesburg, she now lives in Westport, Connecticut.
Praise For The Lifeboat: A Novel…
"Impressive, harrowing first novel...[Grace] narrates the book with panache - and a good dose of unreliability...Rogan writes viscerally about the desperate condition of the castaway...But it's her portrait of Grace, who is by turns astute, conniving, comic and affecting, that drive the book...As Rogan proves with this indelible character, there's a profound truth and even beauty in Grace's degree of self-loyalty."—Sarah Towers, New York Times Book Review
"In her assured debut, Rogan has written a layered and provocative tale of survival and impossible decisions. But her biggest achievement is the disarmingly demure yet fiercely shrewd Grace, a narrator as fascinating and unreliable as they come."—Stephan Lee, Entertainment Weekly
"Rogan has written an eerie, powerful debut you'll want to race through, but try to resist the urge. A slower read reveals a psychological depth that'll leave you thinking."—Helen Rogan, People
"[Grace Winter is] a gratifyingly complex character who narrates this dazzling psychological drama."—Wall Street Journal
"A superb first book...a cunning narrator...A psychological horror story...Rogan paints a vivid picture first of grimly necessary heartlessness...The Lifeboat is a tremendously fast-paced read...in a tantalizing turn, Rogan leaves it up to the reader to decide who deserves to walk the proverbial plank, stirring a diabolically fun internal debate. Rogan is a novelist on her maiden voyage, but she steers The Lifeboat with a remarkably assured hand."—Mary Pols, Time
"Rogan manages to distill this drama about what's right and wrong when the answer means life or death into a gripping, confident first novel...Other novels have examined the conscience and guilt of a survivor among the dead, but few tales are as thoughtful and compelling as this."—Christina Ianzito, Washington Post
"Beautifully constructed first novel...Rogan crafts a harrowing, suspenseful tale of survival...Grace is a bold and compelling creation, a female protagonist whose humanity is revealed not through her vulnerability but by a cool pragmatism that could have made her repugnant in the hands of a less skilled, sympathetic writer...The Lifeboat raises these forever fascinating questions without moral posturing or sentimentality."—Jocelyn McClurg, USA Today
"A detailed and chokingly graphic novel...Rogan's vivid, aching detail is delivered through Grace's voice. But something else comes through as well, and this, rather than the story itself, is the novel's undermining and deeply unsettling core...The story [Grace] feeds us is mesmerizing, unquestionably believable for the most part, yet poisoned even in its most casual details. But we don't know just where the poison lodges...Rogan has done something more complex. The veil remains; only hints come through; enough to leave the reader - intrigued, yes, and also frustrated - in doubt somewhere short of certainty. And indeed the writer has performed a fictional equivalent to a phenomenon in sub-atomic physics: that observing a phenomenon can make it slip away and alter."—Richard Eder, Boston Globe
"The Lifeboat is both an enthralling story of survival at sea and a novel that is satisfyingly concerned with the characters of its own storytelling...[The Lifeboat] bristles throughout with moral and historical dilemmas that arise from events in the text, and will provide argumentative fodder for book clubs...One hell of a debut."—Jonathan Raban, New York Review of Books
"Riveting...the narrative stays focused mostly on [Grace's] experience in the boat, the tension deliciously building as the passengers grow hungrier, thirstier, and more desperate."—Karen Holt, O, the Oprah Magazine
"Charlotte Rogan uses a deceptively simply narrative of shipwreck and survival to explore our all-too-human capacity for self-deception."—J. M. Coetzee
"The Lifeboat traps the reader in a story that is exciting at the literal level and brutally moving at the existential: I read it in one go."—Emma Donoghue, author of Room
"What a splendid book. . . . I can't imagine any reader who looks at the opening pages wanting to put the book down. . . . It's so refreshing to read a book that is ambitious and yet not tricksy, where the author seems to be in command of her material and really on top of her game. It's beautifully controlled and totally believable."—Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall
"The Lifeboat is a spellbinding and beautifully written novel, one that will keep readers turning pages late into the night. This is storytelling at its best, and I was completely absorbed from beginning to end."—Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried, In the Lake of the Woods, July, July
"The Lifeboat is a richly rewarding novel, psychologically acute and morally complex. It can and should be read on many levels, but it is first and foremost a harrowing tale of survival. And what an irresistible tale it is; terrifying, intense, and, like the ocean in which the shipwrecked characters are cast adrift, profound."—Valerie Martin, author of Property and The Confessions of Edward Day
In disaster situations, is it right to save women and children first? What moral justifications exist for your answer?
Discuss the thought experiment referred to in Grace's trial, also known as "The Plank of Carneades." Is either the first or second swimmer to reach the plank justified in pushing the other swimmer away?
What do you think of the concept of necessity as a justification for behavior that would not be condoned in ordinary circumstances?
If you were to ask Grace what qualities she looks for in a friend, what would she say? What would the truth be?
Which characters, in your opinion, hold the moral high ground?
Seventeenth-century political philosophers Thomas Hobbes and John Locke postulated that humankind started off in a state of nature and gradually gave up certain freedoms in return for security, an exchange sometimes called the social contract. How does the lifeboat approximate a state of nature? Does survival in such a state require giving up personal freedom and autonomy?
Some modern writers assert that the advances in opportunities for women have been predicated on the requirement that women become more like men. Do you agree with this?
Are people more likely to revert to traditional male/female roles in crisis situations? What traditional male/female traits might help a person survive?
Author Warren Farrell, who writes about gender issues, has said: "Men's weakness is their façade of strength; women's strength is their façade of weakness." Does this hold true for the characters in The Lifeboat?
In his book In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, Nathaniel Philbrick argues that an "authoritarian" leadership style is useful in the early stages of a disaster, but a "social" style becomes more important over time. Does this dynamic fully explain the power struggle in Lifeboat 14 or were other forces at work?
Does power always involve the threat of coercion? Besides violence, what forms of power influence the characters in The Lifeboat?
The first thing a person says is often more honest than later explanations. Are there instances in the book where a character's early words are a clue to assessing the truth of a particular situation or incident?
Do you think Mr. Hardie stole or helped to steal anything from the sinking Empress Alexandra? Would this have been wrong, given that any valuables were destined to be lost forever?
Should Grace have been acquitted of Mr. Hardie's murder?
Comment on the use of storytelling in the novel. Does your answer shed any light on Grace's own story?