Sign up and create your free consignor account. You can register to sell your items and also register to help out at the sale to make even more!
Gather your items together, clean them and create your price tags using our free online tagging system. We've got helpful videos too! Scroll down for all the details!
Bring your items during the date and time shown below. If you want to donate anything that doesn't sell, then you are done! If you would rather pick up your unsold items, see the times below for that, too.
...and your clutter turns into cash!
JBF Lakeland Consignors earn on average over $250 at each sale!
No more hassling with buy/trade groups or online selling!
Make more money than a garage sale or thrift store!
Get it all sold in one weekend!
Consignors who are able to help during the sale for at least 4 hours earn 70%!
So what are you waiting for? Download our Consignor Guide to get started and Register NOW to consign!
Sign in or create an account to view the availabe shifts and sign up today. Once you have signed up for the LAKELAND event, click the Team Member box in your profile and the available shifts will appear. Simply click Select for any shifts you would like. **The volunteer schedule will open February 15th.
Be a part of your Community and make YOUR JBF event great!
Join other smart & savvy helpers who help cover shifts in exchange for early shopping privileges and higher payouts on their sales. You don't have to be a consignor to volunteer!
****All power consignors (bringing 500 or more items) that are not donating all their items, are REQUIRED to work the Breakdown shift or pay a $50 breakdown fee, deducted from your consignor check. Please see below under Power Consignors for more details.
Bring one tagged item with you into the building and head to the consignor check in table. We will officially check you in and help you with any questions and instructions for inspection of items.
If selling a carseat or crib, bring your signed Car Seat Checklist and/or Crib Waiver.
If you are a 1st time consignor, or had too many items pulled during the last event, you will need to take your items through inspection before they are put out on the floor. You will receive an email if you had too many items pulled.
You may use any rolling clothing racks, utility carts or other available equipment to help bring your items into the sale and put them out on the sales floor. Please DO NOT LEAVE CARTS OR RACKS IN THE PARKING LOT. They will also roll away if unattendend, so please help prevent runaway carts! They are heavy and can cause serious damage.
Children are allowed at drop off, however we urge parents to explore other options first. Drop off is a very busy time and children cannot touch any merchandise. CHILDREN MUST BE SUPERVISED AT ALL TIMES.
Depending on how many items you are bringing, drop off can take 15 minutes to over 1 hour. Separating and sorting your clothing items by gender and size will greatly reduce the time necessary to hang your items.
Just Between Friends of Lakeland Consignors, if you do not have the time or energy to put your items out on the sales floor then EXPRESS DROP OFF is just for you!
Dates & Times: You can drop off your items on Wednesday, April 3rd anytime between 9:00am - 7:00pm. Please come inside to the Consignor Check In table to check in, and present your Express Drop Off ticket printed or on your phone.
See any JBF volunteer wearing a black apron and they will direct you to your unsold items. You will need to know your consignor number, so please write it down or put a reminder in your phone!
We will help you locate all your unsold items (they will be pre-sorted by consignor number) but we are not responsible for missed, lost, or forgotten items. Please also check the lost and found table as well as the stained/pulled items. If you are unable to pick up your unsold items please make arrangements with someone to pick them up for you. Items not picked up will be donated to our charity partner.
Please consider donating all or some of your unsold items to our charity partner, TLC Association - a local non profit foster parent associaton. All your donations are tax deductible and greatly appriciated by our local foster families!
Diaper bags, infant carriers, backpacks, and purses are great consignment items. Please inspect all items carefully to make sure items have not been recalled, stained, damaged or are missing pieces. We do not accept "knock-offs" or "fake" items.
Package: Please zip-tie items to an adult-size hanger or place items in the basket under the hanging bags.
Tag: Hole-punch JBF tag and attach it to item with ribbon, string or zip-ties. If item contains multiple pieces, be sure all pieces are included and list number of items on JBF tag description.
Bedding sizes accepted are bassinet through full/queen only and must be for children. Please be selective when selling bedding, blankets, receiving blankets, burp cloths, and towels. New and barely used items sell best. Check carefully for stains; shoppers get very disappointed if they find a stain in a bundled blanket once they get home.
Package: Put bedding/crib/bedroom sets together in original packaging or in giant clear plastic bags. Arrange bedding sets inside bag so that shoppers can see all of the items as well as the design/pattern. Secure the bag so that items do not get separated. Bundle blankets, cloths, and towels with ribbon or string, safety pins or in bags, like a package (be sure multiple pieces cannot be separated).
Tag: If bedding is in a plastic bag, attach tag securely with packaging tape to the inside of the bag and tape the bag shut. If bedding/blankets are bundled with string, attach tag directly to blanket with a safety pin and tuck it under the ribbon/string so that it does not easily get pulled off when shifting around during the sale.
Books, movies, board games, puzzles, video games, video game systems, scrapbook, arts & crafts sets are great items for resale. Please only bring kids', parenting, homeschooling, pregnancy and child rearing books. Games and puzzles must have all pieces. (No "adult" content please, children's movies only.) Check items to ensure they are in great condition.
We sell children's clothing Newborn through size 20 (limit 10 girl's junior size items, Abercrombie, Hollister, Roxy, American Eagle, Nike, Volcom, Burton preferred) as well as maternity sizes (limit 20 maternity clothing items per consignor). Our Spring Sale warm weather clothing only (no heavy coats, winter clothing, holiday items, etc). Be picky. Look at your clothing items as if you were going to purchase them. No stained or damaged items will be accepted. We do NOT accept women's clothing except for maternity. Please freshly clean your clothing items. Replace missing buttons, sew loose hems and seams, and clip loose threads. Please button all buttons, snap all snaps, zip all zippers before you arrive at drop off. This will ensure that there are no defects in the clothing. The newer the item looks (and the better it smells), the better it will sell. We do not accept items that smell of smoke or pets.
Package & Hang: Hangers - Please hang clothes so the hanger hook points to the left (like a question mark). Hang size 0-6 clothing on child-size hangers and sizes 7-20 and maternity clothing on adult-size hangers. Clothing that falls off the hanger onto the floor does not sell well.You can place a safety pin through the shoulder of the garment to better secure it to the hanger. Old Navy and many outlet stores are great places to get free hangers (they throw away hangers daily!) and WalMart & Target sell child-size plastic tube hangers at a great price. JBF Lakeland also sells children's wire hangers. Email heatherlineberger@jbfsale.com.
Clothing Sets - Sets tend to sell better (under size 6) so match things up if you can. Safety pin or use a tagging gun to attach clothing sets securely with bottom garment hung on the backside of the shirt, so both pieces can be viewed without separating them.
Pants/Shorts - Pant-clip hangers are great but if you use a standard hanger, simply use a safety pin to attach pants to the top part of the hanger so the garment will not slide. Onesies, socks, tights, hats and infant mittens can be placed in a clear zip-lock bag (you may group multiple items in one bag). Please be sure to label your tag well so that customers know if the items are short-sleeve onesies or long-sleeve onesies, etc.
Tag: Clothing on Hangers - Attach tag with a tagging gun or safety pin to the label of shirt or upper right front. Insert the gun in a label or inside seam NOT through part of the clothing (to avoid making a hole or tear in the clothing). Also, pull on the tag to make sure it is properly secured and will not come off easily. Please make sure consignor tags are pulled out of the clothing so they are easily visible to the customers. Non-Hanging Clothing - Please use tagging gun or safety pins to attach tags to onesies, socks, tights, infant mittens, and accessories. Be sure to also attach multiple pieces together. Then put these items into clear zip-lock bags.
Exersaucers, swings, high chairs, changing tables, cribs (Manufactured AFTER June 28, 2011; please bring Crib Waiver for all cribs), strollers, bath seats, baby walkers, car seats (must bring car seat waiver) & car seat accessories must be checked for safety recalls, must have all parts, and be in good condition. Children's furniture - beds (toddler, twin), desks, side tables, dressers, etc.
Package: If item has multiple pieces use packaging tape, zip-ties, or string to keep items attached together. If wooden furniture has loose parts, use clear plastic wrap to secure item. All furniture and equipment must be assembled. Batteries must be included, if applicable. Please bring a Car Seat Checklist for all car seats, booster seats, and car seat base or infant carrier.
Make sure that shoes are clean, clean, clean! We will be VERY selective with shoes.
Package: Fasten shoes together with zip ties. For infant shoes or small shoes without laces, you may put the shoes in a clear zip-lock bag. We prefer no shoe boxes. However, if shoes are in the box, please remove the lid, secure it to the bottom of the box, and secure the shoes to the box (closed boxes do not sell).
Price: Shoes must be in excellent condition and should start at $3.00 for infant/toddler; Add $1 each for larger size, name brand, or heavy/winter.
Ride-on toys, block sets, dolls, remote control cars, outdoor toys, learning toys, and more. All toys must be checked for safety recalls (link) before consigning. Clean all toys and baby equipment thoroughly. Please test to make sure that toys and equipment are working properly. Battery operated toys must include working batteries (these can be purchased inexpensively at local discount/dollar stores).
Valet & On Demand Consigning - Let us tag for you!
Valet: Are you a busy mom who would like to consign but just don't have the time? We have the answer for you! We will have a trusted Valet Tagger prep, price & tag your items. They will also take care of bringing your items to the sale. You then make 40% of your sales minus a $25 consignor fee, taken from your sales check. You can receive a $5 early bird discount by paying your consignor fee before 3/25 on Eventbrite.
Please keep in mind that Valet Tagging is reserved for high quality, brand-name items. No store brand clothing, please. Items must come from a smoke & pet free home. Email meganyoungjbf@gmail.com for more information today. Spots are limited!
On Demand: Do you need your items gone NOW? Need some extra cash, and can't wait until the next event? We will buy your items for garage sale prices with cash on the spot! So if you were thinking of the hassle of a garage sale or lugging it to a thrift shop - check us out first! We can even come to you to pickup.
**Please keep in mind that On Demand and Valet Tagging is reserved for high quality, brand-name items. No store brand clothing, please. Items must come from a smoke & pet free home. Email heatherlineberger@jbfsale.com for more information today. Spots are limited!
We inspect every item that comes into our event and remove any items that do not meet JBF's strict quality guidelines. If you are a brand new consignor, or have had more than 3 items removed from our previous sale for quality or recalls, you will be required to go through an inspection process during drop off before we can sell your items.
All items at JBF are required to be checked for recalls, be in clean working condition (with batteries) and have no missing parts. Clothing may not have any rips, stains, pulls, or be overly worn - when in doubt, toss it out. Shoes should be in excellent, like new condition.
Do you make a living consigning or reselling? Bringing more than 500 items to one event? If so, you are a JBF Power Consignor! We love our Power Consignors and helping them sell their items all in one place, in one weekend!
Due to the special considerations and accommodations that power sellers require, we REQUIRE all consignors bringing more than 500 items (determined by # tags in your account at drop off) and are not donating all unsold items, work the sorting/breakdown shift or pay a $50 sort and pickup fee (deducted from your consignor check). This shift does not count toward volunteer team member perks such as presale passes or a higher consignor payout. To receive these benefits, you must sign up for at least one additional shift. If you have any questions, please email heatherlineberger@jbfsale.com.
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Regular readers of this blog will know by now I have continually tried to discover who was the first to, in modern times, invent the various kinds of door closers and floor springs (predominately those that utilise some sort of spring, but not entirely).
Whilst off work due to my gear box failing on my van I have further scoured the internet and have found the article below from the English Mechanic and Mirror of Science and Arts, Volume 9 (June 18th 1869) pages 382 and 291.
The two companies (name - Smith/family lineage) that are mainly in the frame are Andrew Smith of 69 Princes Street, Leicester Square and Smith (John possible son of Joseph 1884 patent) of Smith and Turner 50 Bartholomew Close. Whether there is a family connection between these two is still unclear to me, if anyone reading this already knows the answer I would dearly like to hear from them.
SMITH'S patent door-spring, although the first ever introduced for working the door both ways, still continues to keep up its name; there are many places, we are informed, where these springs have been in use for over forty years—for instance, St. Paul's Cathedral.
The spring has, of course, been improved since the patent was first granted, and differs from all others in the following respects:—The same spring can be so regulated to work a door from l ft. 6in. square to one 9ft. high by 3ft. 6in. wide. The bearing parts are so well arranged that there is little or no friction, thereby preventing wear. It is strongest when the door is closed, and gradually loses strength as the door is opened. It will not stop open unless fastened, thereby preventing injury through being thrown out of gear. It can be made to describe three-fourths of a circle in opening without injury to the spring. The inside spring when in use is never more than a quarter wound up, which allows for a free - and - easy action, and renders it almost impossible to break.
We have so often received applications for information relating to door spring construction that we think the annexed diagrams will be examined with interest by many of our practical readers.
Our engravings show a sectional elevation of a spring with the shoe fitted to a door; the inside of a spring with levers exposed; the sectional plan for showing the inside of the spring worked for retaining the position of the levers; and the revolving pin and socket, as fitted to the door-top."
As always I look forward to any and all comments.


On occasion, an error will be reported by BigCommerce when CatchFeeder tries to create the order in the BigCommerce system.
The product or the variant cannot be found in CatchFeeder, thus it cannot be sent to BigCommerce.
This could happen if you've deleted the product in Bigcommerce, make it unavailable or sometimes when it runs out of stock.
This error could also happen if the product used to have no options, it was purchased on Catch, but then you added options in Bigcommerce. See below for the same use case.
The current product in BigCommerce has options ("Colour" in the above example), but the product in CatchFeeder that was listed on Catch doesn't. Most likely you have recently added the options to BigCommerce.
In this case you will need to manually deal with the order, likely you'll need to contact the buyer and confirm what option they want, create the order in Bigcommerce and cancel the order in Catch.
The product is out of stock, i.e. inventory quantity is zero in BigCommerce. Either increase the inventory and resend the order or cancel the order in CatchFeeder and refund the customer via Catch.


We often think of taking a break from the daily grind in the form of a personal vacation, but how about helping your work team bond, learn, and retreat from the grind on a destination meeting?
It is said that team bonding is one of the most important investments any company can make. At the end of the day, a company is only as strong as its weakest link, and every link becomes stronger when it clicks with the other links. Even Forbes agrees to think outside the box and seek new horizons and experiences when it comes to team bonding. A destination meeting is an ideal way to foster deeper connections among your team and get everyone a little outside their comfort zones where growth will take place.
Sitting at the same desk, having the same routine, looking at the same surroundings can all get old and become less-than-stimulating. Non-stimulated team members? Not ideal. The fix here is simple – get your team out the expected and known and into the unexpected and unknown. Mixing things up and putting an event to look forward to on the calendar will work wonders for motivation.
One challenge the corporate world constantly faces is attracting and keeping talent. The top candidates in any given field can afford to be choosy when it comes to choosing a company. Take a leaf out of companies like Google, and hold on to your valued team members by giving them plenty of reasons to stay. A happy work environment, plenty of growth and challenges, and awesome destination meetings to look forward to.
It's safe to say that most companies that gather the resources to have a destination meeting choose somewhere nature-focused. Whether it's a mountain retreat or a gorgeous ocean vista, giving your team a chance to trade in a screen for a nature view is important. Studies have shown that too much screen time can reduce concentration, not to mention trees have been proven to reduce stress and lower anxiety. The point here is – take your destination meeting to a fresh air filled, aesthetically pleasing, destination.
In today's age, many team members telecommute, never, or rarely, meeting their counterparts in person. Hosting a destination meeting will allow everyone to be in the same physical location to get to know one another, which will result in enhanced communication moving forward.
In search of the perfect destination meeting location and venue? Bring your team to the Caribbean paradise of Santa Barbara Beach & Golf Resort, which is located on the island of Curacao in the Southern Caribbean. With 350 guestrooms, 38,000 square feet of flexible indoor/outdoor meeting space and a wide variety of group excursions and team-building activities, Santa Barbara is the ideal venue. Beauty is abundant at this beachfront, private, 2,000-acre resort. Request your proposal today!


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All The People Is Now Available In Paperback
Where Is Sylvia Fischer? A psychoanalyst and a detective are trapped in a mystery in the heart of New York City
Press Release - Dec 16, 2014
New York City, December 16, 2014	(Newswire.com) - After a first release on Amazon Kindle, All The People's printed edition is now available on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/All-People-Annalisa-Conti/dp/1505304903), and will soon be distributed by several other retailers.
New York has been a great inspiration for Annalisa Conti in her years spent in the city: despite a business strategy daily job, the city and its stunning beauty have kept nourishing her passion for reading and writing. Until she decided to express it all in her first novel: All The People.
What could explain the sudden disappearance of Sylvia Fischer? From a few drops of blood to a plane crash, a psychoanalyst and a detective will face what will be the most intricate mystery of their careers.
All patients have problems, and Doctor Alexander Williams knows it: that's why they come back every week, they sit on a sofa in his psychoanalysis practice and tell him their stories. But what is it about Sylvia Fischer that he has never been able to quite grasp? Maybe the way she never mentions her life before deciding to marry her husband: a boring, cheating, rich New York boy. Or the way she talks, with a deep voice and a British accent, even if she's from Texas. Or maybe Dr. Williams can feel the pale halo of depression that surrounds her.
One day, Sylvia Fischer tells Dr. Williams a new story: there's a man she's been in love with for many years, who now wants her to run away with him. And away she goes.
Sylvia Fischer doesn't simply leave, though, she disappears: no words are left for her husband, her two-year-old daughter, her parents. No one knows anything about that man from Sylvia's past, but Alexander Williams wants to believe that she has found her happiness. Until everything collapses. The most unexpected friendship with a NYPD detective will lead Dr. Williams in his search of the truth about Sylvia Fischer, and in fighting his own ghosts.
New York City is the host and the beating heart of this novel: the city will guide the reader through its streets, rivers and parks, as lives and mysteries unfold.
Tags: books, detective, mystery, New York
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An Adventure To The End Of The World
A woman loses everything and finds herself again in a journey through reality
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One Question: Where Is Sylvia Fischer?
A psychoanalyst and a detective are trapped in a mystery in the heart of New York City
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Del Sol Lions elect new officers
News Old - DO NOT USE - The Coast News Rancho Santa Fe
by Bianca Kaplanek May 5, 2011 July 21, 2015 0117
COAST CITIES — The Del Sol Lions Club board
of directors unanimously approved its second slate of officers at the April 26 meeting, during which two new members were also added to bring club membership to 73 in the first year. New officers and directors will be installed at the June 28 member meeting at La Colonia Community Center. Outgoing charter officers will also be recognized.
The 2011-2012 officers and directors are:
President: Bulent Erol
1st Vice President: Linette Page
2nd Vice President: Maria McEneany
3rd Vice President: Jason Smith
Secretary: Robin Kemp
Corresponding Secretary: Rena Monge
Treasurer: John Page
Tail Twister: Becky Bartling
Lion Tamer: David Cain
Immediate Past President: Dave Roberts
Director-at-large: Brian Sciutto
Tara Gordon will be serving the second year of her two-year term, and Dave Roberts will continue to serve as immediate past president for the next year.
All other terms begin July 1 and run through June 30, 2012, except the director-elect, whose term goes until June 30, 2013
The Del Sol Lions Club was chartered Feb. 15, 2010. It is part of Lions Clubs International, the world's largest service club organization with more than 1.35 million members in more than 45,000 clubs worldwide. Lions serve those less fortunate locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.
Within its first year Del Sol members completed a variety of projects. They included providing Thanksgiving dinner for Solana Beach residents in need, preparing items for the annual Holiday Basket Program at the Del Mar Fairgrounds, providing partial funding for an audible crosswalk signal on Lomas Santa Fe Drive just east of Vons and escorting members of the Blind Community Center to the Del Mar horse races.
In addition, they helped create the Lions Clubs International float for this year's Tournament of Roses in Pasadena.
The club also adopted the Solana Beach train station. A ceremony commemorating this first-of-its kind partnership will be held at 4 p.m. May 11 at the station.
Members are currently preparing for the club's first fundraiser, set for May 14 at Lomas Santa Fe Country Club. Money raised will help fund upcoming service projects.
The board meets from 6 to 7 p.m. on the first Tuesday of the month. Member meetings are held from 6 to 7 p.m. on the fourth Tuesday of every month. Annual dues is $85 per person or $150 per couple. Additional family members are $65 each.
Pending city approval, Del Sol Lions will begin meeting at the renovated Fletcher Cove Community Center in July.
For more information about the Del Sol Lions or its upcoming fundraiser, visit DelSolLions.org.
Bianca Kaplanek


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'Fools, stupid': Boeing staff refers to Indian DGCA officials, documents reveal
The latest batch of internal Boeing documents were provided to the US aviation regulator Federal Aviation Administration and US Congress last month and released on Thursday
By : IBT News Desk
Jan 11, 2020 20:07 IST
This spyware company is selling secret gadgets to US agencies
During the approval process for Boeing's 737 MAX planes in India in 2017, company executives used words such as "fools" and "stupid" for the Indian aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), according to internal documents released by the company.
A Boeing 737 MAX sits outside the hangar during a media tour of the Boeing 737 MAX at the Boeing plant in Renton, Washington December 8, 2015.Reuters
In one of the communications, an employee said the plane was "designed by clowns", the BBC reported on Friday. The plane maker described the communications as "completely unacceptable".
Boeing 737 Max was grounded in March 2019 post two crashes
In early 2019, regulators across the world banned 737 MAX planes after two fatal crashes killed 346 people. The DGCA had also ordered grounding of these planes in March last year. The 737 Max was grounded in March 2019 after the crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia.
The latest batch of internal Boeing documents were provided to the US aviation regulator Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the US Congress last month and released on Thursday.
In one of the conversations from 2017, a Boeing executive is recorded as saying: "The DCGA in India is apparently even stupider, if that's a word. I am drinking obviously." In another conversation, a Boeing executive says the following about the DGCA: "I just Jedi mind-tricked this (these) fools."
SpiceJet is the only Indian carrier with 737 MAX aircraft in its fleet, and it grounded 13 of these planes in March last year after the crashes.
'Boeing 737 Max designed by clowns'
In one of the communications, an employee said the plane was "designed by clowns", the BBC reported on Friday. The plane maker described the communications as "completely unacceptable". Boeing said it had released the hundreds of redacted messages as part of its commitment to transparency. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and US Congress were given unredacted versions of the communications last month.
"These communications do not reflect the company we are and need to be, and they are completely unacceptable," Boeing said. One unnamed employee wrote in an exchange of instant messages in April 2017: "This airplane is designed by clowns who in turn are supervised by monkeys."
India grounds 737 Max aircraft as Boeing crisis escalatesJoe Raedle/Getty Images
The documents, which have been published by a leading US media outlet, appear to show that Boeing rejected pilots being trained on simulators, which would have led to higher costs for the firm.
"I want to stress the importance of holding firm that there will not be any type of simulator training required to transition from NG to Max," Boeing's 737 chief technical pilot at the time, Mark Forkner, said in a March 2017 email.
"Boeing will not allow that to happen. We'll go face to face with any regulator who tries to make that a requirement." On Tuesday this week, Boeing reversed its position by recommending 737 Max simulator training for all pilots.
Another message dating from November 2015 appears to show that the company lobbied against the aviation regulator's calls for a certain aspect of simulator training. "We are going to push back very hard on this and will likely need support at the highest levels when it comes time for the final negotiation," the message said.
The documents also appear to show problems with the simulators being discussed. In February 2018, a Boeing worker asked a colleague: "Would you put your family on a Max simulator-trained aircraft? I wouldn't."
Will you fly on this Boeing 737 MAX aircraft if you are told that it will fly on its own?REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol
"No," came the reply. In other emails and instant messages, employees spoke of their frustration with the company's culture, complaining about the drive to find the cheapest suppliers and "impossible schedules".
"I don't know how to fix these things... it's systemic. It's culture. It's the fact we have a senior leadership team that understand very little about the business and yet are driving us to certain objectives," said an employee in an email dated June 2018. And in a May 2018 message, an unnamed Boeing employee said: "I still haven't been forgiven by God for the covering up I did last year."
Without citing what was covered up, the employee added: "Can't do it one more time, the pearly gates will be closed." US House transportation committee chairman Peter DeFazio - who has been investigating the 737 Max - said the communications "show a co-ordinated effort dating back to the earliest days of the 737 Max programme to conceal critical information from regulators and the public".
Senator Roger Wicker, who chairs the commerce committee leading the senate's probe into Boeing, said the documents "raise questions about the efficacy of FAA's oversight of the certification process". Boeing is redesigning the automated control system thought to have been the primary cause of the crashes. The company has temporarily stopped making the 737 Max. Last month, Boeing fired chief executive Dennis Muilenburg.


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Open letter to the European Commission on sustainable carbon cycles
The anticipated Sustainable Carbon Cycles Communication has significant merits but risks seriously undermining its own declared purpose of climate ambition.
Letter to not offset climate inaction with forests
This letter was sent to President of the European Commission von der Leyen, Executive Vice-President Timmermans, Commissioner Simson, Commissioner Sinkevičus , Minister Matos Fernandes, MEP Guteland and other Members of the European Parliament, and Members of Coreper II. Forest restoration must not offset climate inaction in the agriculture, energy, housing, industrial and transport sectors. Yesterday…
Open letter to EU governments on the EU 2030 target
To: Heads of governments Council President Commission President Ministers of Environment Ambassadors from Member States to the EU We write to you on behalf of Bellona Europa, Carbon Market Watch and Fern – organisations specialising in negative emissions. We would like to urge you to uphold the integrity of the EU's 2030 climate target, in…
Open Letter to UNFCCC Heads of Delegations on Ending the CDM
Dear UNFCCC Head of Delegation, The Paris Agreement adopted in 2015 marked a groundbreaking evolution in the global ambition to fight climate change. It also makes clear that a radical shift is required to move beyond the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). We, representing 99 organizations from around the world, are therefore calling upon you to…
Open letter to ICAO council representatives & national delegates on ending the Clean Development Mechanism
Dear ICAO Council representatives and national delegates, The Paris Agreement adopted in 2015 marked a groundbreaking evolution in the global ambition to fight climate change. It also makes clear that a radical shift is required to move beyond the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). We, representing 61 organizations from around the world, are therefore calling upon…
Letter to UNFCCC negotiators ahead of BKK intersession
Dear colleague, With the second session of SBSTA 48 opening in Bangkok on Tuesday, Carbon Market Watch would like to share with you the new briefing we have developed entitled "Reconciling CORSIA and the Sustainable Development Mechanism". This document proposes an innovative and environmentally robust way to integrate the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for…
Letter to EU Commissioners on human rights and climate finance
To Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis To President Jean-Claude Juncker; Vice-President Jyrki Katainen; Director-General Olivier Guersent and Head of Unit Martin Spolc. Dear Vice-President Dombrovskis, We warmly thank you for your response to our letter of 22 March 2018, titled "On a Human Rights Mandate for the Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance" 1, and welcome the…
Carbon Market Watch recommendations for the Bonn Climate Change Conference (SB48)
Dear Respected Colleague, Ahead of the Bonn Climate Change Conference, Carbon Market Watch is pleased to share our recommendations as well as an overview of our upcoming event and recent publications (below). A new direction for the Sustainable Development Mechanism A zero-sum offsetting system is incompatible with the Paris spirit, there is hence no future…
Letter: EU must support tackling vested interests at UN climate talks
For the world to reach the necessary ambition to achieve our climate commitments under the Paris Agreement, which would keep average global temperature rises well below 2°C and even 1.5°C, the EU, led by the European Commission, must start supporting efforts to tackle vested interests within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). We,…
Open Letter to President Juncker: Towards an EU budget that is in service of achieving Europe's climate objectives
Dear President Juncker, The co-signatories of this letter represent a broad group of business associations, civil society, think tanks and other organisations who are working together to bring strong support to the EU's commitment to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement objectives. We are writing to urge you to ensure…


A classic inverse head and shoulders pattern projects the Gold price to 1250 to 1300. Strong technical support, strong central banker emerging interest, strong public sentiment, strong Chinese demand. Good luck to the two major institutions that are rumored to be short this currency.


Give me a reason to celebrate Gary and I will give you a menu that will satisfy even the most critical palates. That occasion came Saturday with his birthday, and in addition to Thai butternut squash soup, creamy polenta with fresh pesto and a huge chopped salad with homemade blue cheese dressing and lots of bacon, I made a tray of these little beauties for appetizers.
Bacon candy is always a hit, and really quite easy to prepare. The figs are a bit more labor intensive, but worth is as the sweetness, salty and savory elements come together in a perfect little bite. You can also use dates, but for have them pre-pitted just for timing. You can also wrap the fig in bacon instead of prosciutto, but then the bacon will have to cook all the way through, so adjust your timing accordingly. Since prosciutto is cured and cooked when you buy it all it needs to do is crisp a touch and the bites will be ready. Serve with cocktails or a smoky Syrah.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Using a small spoon scoop a bit of blue cheese onto each piece of fig. Carefully wrap each fig in 1 slice of the cut prosciutto, creating a little purse almost. Place on a baking sheet. When all are wrapped and on the sheet sprinkle with a bit of crushed black pepper and bake for 10 minutes, until the cheese is melted and prosciutto is crisp. Place on a serving tray and drizzle lightly with honey.
Lay the bacon slices on a foil lined baking sheet. Mix the sugar and spice together then generously coat each slice of bacon, pressing the mixture into each piece and distributing evenly. Place in the oven and bake for 15-18 minutes or until very crispy and toasted, rotating the baking sheet once during cooking. Remove from the oven and using a pair of tongs carefully remove each slice and lay on a baking rack (on top of another baking sheet in case the pieces drip a bit) and let cool completely. They will crisp a bit more as they cool.
Yummmmm!! Can I get a Thursday night on your calendar to hire you for a "holiday wine pairing and easy appetizers" type class? So sorry to miss Gary's birthday!! I return to town Wedn evening!
Haley, I've made this before…its wonderful. When I was in Hamburg, they served it in skewers but instead of figs the used cantaloupe. Again it was wonderful!
Love stuffed dates. Great recipe.


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Q: Gnuplot Function How can I plot a function with x being a value from my datafile? Something like that:
set encoding utf8
set term postscript eps enhanced color font "Helvetica, 20"
set output 'kernel.eps'

# Mean  & Standard Deviation
load "mean_sd.dat"

# Bandwidth
h = 1.6*sd*n**(-0.2)

# Kernel Function
K(x) = exp(-x*x/2.0)/(sqrt(2.0*pi))

# PLOT --> THIS DOES NOT WORK
# EACH VALUE IN $2 MUST BE USED FOR A SINGLE K(X)
plot for [i=1:n] 'probability.dat' using 0:(K((x - $2)/h))

My data file 'probability.dat':
366.000000   3.153012
366.000000   4.211409
366.000000   3.845248
366.000000   4.131654
366.000000   3.956508

Thank you in advance.

A: I am not sure that I understood your question correctly, but if you want to plot the kernel function for all values from the second column, then one could proceed for example as follows:
set encoding utf8
set term postscript eps enhanced color font "Helvetica, 20"
set output 'kernel.eps'

# Mean  & Standard Deviation
sd=1
n=1

# Bandwidth
h = 1.6*sd*n**(-0.2)

# Kernel Function
K(x) = exp(-x*x/2.0)/(sqrt(2.0*pi))

# PLOT --> THIS DOES NOT WORK
# EACH VALUE IN $2 MUST BE USED FOR A SINGLE K(X)

fname = 'probability.txt'
N = system(sprintf("wc -l %s | gawk '{print $1}'", fname))

cmd(i) = system(sprintf("gawk 'NR==%d{print $2;exit}' %s", i, fname))

set key left top reverse

set xr [-10:10]
plot for [i=1:N] K((x - cmd(i))/h) title sprintf("%.3f", real(cmd(i))) lw 2

Here, the "strategy" is to:

*

*find the total number or records in the input file with (alternatively, one could use the stats command)
N = system(sprintf("wc -l %s | gawk '{print $1}'", fname))

*define a function which extracts the ith value from the input file
cmd(i) = sprintf("gawk 'NR==%d{print $2;exit}' %s", i, fname)

The output is then:

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This franchise territory has been owned by the same person for nearly 30 years. While its performance has been down over the last few years, it is no reflection on the territory, the franchise system, or the quality of the offerings. It is located in the Inland Empire which is just east of Los Angeles. The area is home to many distribution, manufacturing, construction and healthcare companies - all of whom are possible clients. There is enormous potential in this territory for the right owner to tap into.
As owner of this professional training franchise, you will have an opportunity to provide a performance-based training system that is second to none. You will receive extensive training, support, benefits and most importantly, a chance to profit from this internationally recognized brand.
The business is currently home-based but could easily be run from a small office as well.
The potential for growth is enormous given the territory. Past performance is not indicative of what a buyer could expect with a strong business plan and strategy.
Competition mostly consists of colleges and universities as well as consultants and training companies located in Los Angeles.
Will train for 28 weeks @ $0 cost.
California business licenses will be required.
There are several different courses and delivery styles available to clients. The main courses can be delivered to a public group or be held privately for a specific client. There are also modules that can be hosted online and custom courses can be built. Courses are ISO 9001 certified, qualify for college credit, and are certified through a well-known accrediting organization.
Owner can function as a CEO, trainer, salesperson, or all three. The owner will benefit from being certified to train the courses this franchise offers; however, the time frame to receive those certifications is flexible. The new owner should plan to build out the infrastructure with additional trainers and salespeople. The current owner and his wife will remain engaged with the business to help train and transition relationships for up to six months.


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The opening panel at AviaDev has brought together African aviation's brightest minds to determine a way forward. This year's event theme is "we soar as one" and we set out to discuss if consolidation and collaboration is the way forward and what can industry do to achieve the ultimate goal of a sustainable aviation sector in Africa.
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By Jason Turner sports writer
It will be a busy week for Utah State's track & field program as the Aggies will compete at the Mountain West Outdoor Championships, a four-day meet that begins Wednesday in Clovis, California.
The Aggies are ranked first in the conference in five events, plus two-time MW javelin champion Sindri Gudmundsson will compete for the first time this season. The junior, a two-time first-team All-American and the league and school record-holder in the event, has been nursing an injury.
Like Gudmundsson, two other Aggies will be looking to defend their titles in Brenn Flint in the shot put and Cierra Simmons-Mecham in the 3,000-meter steeplechase.
Flint, USU's record-holder in the shot put, currently ranks first in the conference in the event with a mark of 53 feet, 11.25 inches. The senior is also seeded sixth in the discus (169-11), an event she was the silver medalist in a year ago.
In addition to Flint, other Aggies who lead the Mountain West in an individual event are Luke Beattie in the 10,000 (29 minutes, 0.82 seconds), Kyle Brost in the triple jump (49-9.25) and Kyle Morris in the shot put (59-5). Additionally, USU teammates Leaguen Fray and Hunter Simonsen are tied for the top spot in the high jump as each of them has cleared the bar at 7-0.25 this spring.
Simonsen claimed the MW indoor title a few months ago in the high jump, as did Morris in the shot put. The Aggies swept the top three positions in the high jump at the 2019 Mountain West Indoor Championships, and that is a possibility this weekend as Chandler Obray is ranked third, along with an athlete from Air Force.
Four Aggies will enter the MW Championships as No. 2 seeds in throwers Josh Barclay, Jenny Bitner and Morris, and high jumper Jennifer Christensen. Barclay, the reigning conference indoor runner-up in the shot put, has thrown 58-3 during the outdoor season. Christensen ranks second in the high jump (5-9.25), as does Bitner in the javelin (148-7) and Morris in the javelin (224-5).
Gudmudsson will be the big favorite in the javelin if he is anywhere close to 100 percent healthy. The junior was the bronze medalist at the NCAA Championships last season.
The Lady Aggies have three athletes ranked in the top four in the javelin. Box Elder product Stephanie Crapse is the No. 3 seed (141-8), while Sarah Angwin in seeded fourth (139-4).
Simmons-Mecham is ranked fourth in the steeplechase, but could repeat as the champion if she can regain her form from a year ago. The native of Soda Springs, Idaho, was a first-team All-American in the event as a junior.
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One Aggie is ranked in the top six in a trio of events in sophomore Talie Bonds. Bonds holds down the No. 4 position in the high jump (5-8) and heptathlon (5,145 points) and is sixth in a loaded 100 hurdles field (13.51).
On the men's side, USU's Carl Jones Jr. is seeded third in the 100 (10.59), as is teammate Tyler Lloyd in the 400 hurdles (53.59). The Aggie men also have the third-fastest qualifying time in the 4x400 relay (3:16.99).
Other Aggies who are ranked in the top six in an individual event are Stokton Smith in the steeplechase (fourth, 8:58.45); Box Elder product Adam Hendrickson in the steeplechase (fifth, 8:59.40); Fray in the long jump (fifth, 24-3); Christian Sonnenberg in the discus (fourth, 176-11); Alyssa Snyder in the 10,000 (sixth, 33:50.95); Michala Zilkey in the hammer (sixth, 188-2); Jones Jr. in the 200 (three-way tie for sixth, 21.64); Lloyd in the 110 hurdles (sixth, 14.83).
Snyder broke the USU record in the 10,000 earlier this season, as did Brost in the triple jump.
A year ago at this meet, the Aggie men placed fourth out of eight teams with 131 points, while the USU women finished fifth out of 11 teams with 78 points.
The Air Force men have captured the past three outdoor titles, while the San Diego State women are going for the three-peat.
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Mouse tests confirm that sticky proteins associated with degenerative brain diseases such as Alzheimer's can be transferred. However, researchers say risks for humans are likely to be minimal. The study published in Nature showed that it is possible for the amyloid protein to transfer under particular conditions, and to cause damage in a recipient's brain.
The researchers stress that their findings do not suggest that disorders such as Alzheimer's disease are contagious, but it does raise concern that certain medical and surgical procedures pose a risk of transmitting such proteins between humans, which might lead to brain disease decades later.
The work follows up on a provocative study published by researchers from University College London in 2015. The scientists discovered extensive deposits of a protein called amyloid-beta during post-mortem studies of the brains of four people in the United Kingdom. They had been treated for short stature during childhood with growth-hormone preparations derived from the pituitary glands of thousands of donors after death.
The recipients had died in middle-age of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), caused by the presence in some of the growth-hormone preparations of an infectious, misfolded protein — or prion — that causes CJD. But pathologists hadn't expected to see the amyloid build up at such an early age. The researchers suggested that small amounts of amyloid-beta had also been transferred from the growth-hormone samples, and had caused, or 'seeded', the characteristic amyloid plaques.
Amyloid plaques in blood vessels in the brain are a hallmark cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA). In Alzheimer's disease, however, amyloid plaques are usually accompanied by another protein called tau — and the researchers worry that this might also be transmitted in the same way. But this was not the case in the brains of the four affected CJD patients, which instead had the hallmarks of CAA.


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Away from home and needing advice, you need this map
Folded, indexed, road and tourist map of Nicaragua and border regions of Honduras and Costa Rica, showing all major and many minor roads, cities and towns, at a scale of 1:750,000 (1 " to 12 miles). Map...
Nicaragua (full name, Republic of Nicaragua) covers an area of approximately 120,000 sq km with a terrain consisting of extensive Atlantic coastal plains rising to central interior mountains, and narrow Pacific coastal plain interrupted by volcanoes. Nicaragua borders Costa Rica and Honduras, and has 910 km of coastline. The country is divided into 15 departments (Boaco, Carazo, Chinandega, Chontales, Esteli, Granada, Jinotega, Leon, Madriz, Managua, Masaya, Matagalpa, Nueva Segovia, Rio San Juan and Rivas) and two autonomous regions (Atlantico Norte and Atlantico Sur). Managua is the capital, with a time difference of 6 hours behind that of GMT. The currency is the gold cordoba, and exports include coffee, meat, shellfish, sugar, tobacco, cattle and gold. The population of approximately 5,900,000 people comprises an ethnic makeup that is 69% mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white). The primary languages are Spanish, English and indigenous languages, and the predominant religion is Christianity.


This white woolen Tallit features blue stripes with silver thread, an embroidered Atarah with a patterned trim border, a kippah and matching Tallit bag.
There is a mitzvah, or commandment, in Judaism for men to wear to fringes on a four-cornered garment. In the modern age, it is uncommon for people to wear this type. So in order to fulfill this mitzvah, men wear a garment on themselves known as Tzitzit and attach fringes with the same name to the garment. In addition to this, men also wear a four-cornered garment called a Tallis during prayer services.
Depending on the community, the Tallit may be worn from the age of 7, Bar Mitzvah or after marriage. In some communities, the Tallit is also used in a wedding ceremony, being worn by the groom or used as the canopy used in the Chuppah service.
This Tallit is made from quality wool by leading Tallit makers in northern Israel, Galilee Silks. Included with the Tallit is a matching kippah and Tallit bag for a complete Tallit set. The white wool is decorated with sky blue stripes trimmed and interwoven with silver thread. The embroidered Atarah features a Hebrew blessing for donning a prayer shawl and is trimmed with a decorative steel patterned border, which also frames the corner reinforcements.
This stylish and beautiful Tallit set is a terrific gift for a Bar Mitzvah.


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Vatican Summoned to Report to UN Committee on Torture
April 14, 2014, New York – Late on Friday, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), representing the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), filed a report with the United Nations Committee Against Torture (CAT) documenting the severity of long-term harms suffered by survivors of sexual violence by Catholic clergy. The UN committee is reviewing the Vatican on its compliance with international prohibitions against torture and other cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment under the Convention Against Torture, which the Vatican ratified in 2002. This will be the second time in four months that top Catholic officials have been called before the UN to account for the Vatican's human rights record on addressing the ongoing worldwide crisis of sexual violence and cover-ups within the Catholic Church. Vatican representatives will appear before and be questioned by the Committee on May 5 and 6, 2014.
"Months ago, Vatican officials submitted a report to the Committee Against Torture that makes no mention whatsoever of the rape, sexual violence, and cover-ups within the church, which carry severe and long-lasting harm," said CCR Senior Staff Attorney Pam Spees. "But the Committee Against Torture and international human rights law are clear: rape and other forms of sexual violence are recognized as torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment, and the Vatican has fallen woefully short of its obligation to prevent and protect against these crimes."
The report details the gravity of long-term harms suffered by survivors of clergy sexual violence, including increased risks of suicide and attempted suicide; mental illness, including depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, and addictive disorders. The report also notes studies and reports showing that survivors suffer physical harms as a result of sexual violence, among them neurological damage and changes in brain function as a result of the traumatic events, as well as increased risk of cancer.
"On the church's continuing abuse crisis, many Catholic officials talk compassionately in public but act recklessly and callously in private," said Barbara Blaine, president of SNAP. "But the Vatican can't have it both ways—they can't sign international treaties and then break them with impunity, especially by continually endangering innocent children and vulnerable adults, by protecting those who commit and conceal heinous crimes, preserving their own reputations and clerical careers."
The filing is part of increased efforts by survivors to hold Catholic Church officials accountable and advocate in international human rights bodies for change to church practices that enable sexual violence. This attention has come in the wake of CCR's filing, in September 2011, a case with the International Criminal Court on behalf of SNAP against the Pope and other high-level Vatican officials for crimes against humanity.
The Vatican was summoned before the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in January 2014 to report on its compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which obligates it to protect children from sexual violence and safeguard their well-being and dignity. It was the first time the Holy See had been called to account for its actions, or lack thereof, on these issues before an international body. In February 2014, the Committee on the Rights of the Child expressed "grave concern that the Holy See has not acknowledged the extent of the crimes committed…has adopted policies and practices which have led to the continuation of the abuse by and impunity of the perpetrators," and that "[t]he Holy See has consistently placed the preservation of the reputation of the Church and the protection of the perpetrators above children's best interests."
SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, is the world's oldest and largest support group for clergy abuse victims. SNAP was founded in 1988 and has more than 12,000 members. Despite the word "priest" in our title, we have members who were molested by religious figures of all denominations, including nuns, rabbis, bishops, and Protestant ministers, as well as those who suffered institutional abuse or those hurt by scout leaders, coaches and teachers. Visit www.snapnetwork.org.


Suddenly, you are front and centre - one of the women sitting at a drum kit; one standing in front of a beautiful, vintage-looking microphone, with a guitar in her hands….and so Blacklab begins.... (I highly recommend you watch this video, featured on YouTube, called "Warm Death/Black Moon"; you might watch it twice or three times like I did, it's so enchanting).
"Warm Death" starts with simplistic drumming, the singer strumming chords reminiscent of a Black Sabbath tune (even down to the heavy cross round her neck). Haunting melodies mix with her prolific screams; an absolute compliment to one another - definitely one of the favourites on the album. It's a perfect combustion of heavy rhythms with ever-steady mid-range melodies. If there were ever a proper band to be called "doom metal", it is Blacklab.
"Black Moon" is a song that features heavy, distorted guitar- fast-paced and a kind of relived two-piece version of L7. The lyrics are again simple melodies yet this time imploring the singer, Yuko Morino's, deep growls at the poignant chorus of the song. It's a song with a catchy groove and Morino's vocals are shown in full force.
"His Name Is...." is a song you must implore yourself to hear; again, the doom metal element is ever-present; the tempo changes still invoke a groove that is unmistakable, this song being the most imperfectly perfect song of the album.
"Symptom of the Blacklab", is an instrumental, placed perfectly in the middle of the album. The witchy, daunting riffs are ear-pleasing and almost sedative. It's almost as if you have been transported back in time to the 1960's, when doom metal began its' journey with more sinister bands like Coven. At times, it may seem rudimentary but the talent and the groove are underlying and give it all the depth it needs.
"Big Muff" (could you ask for a better title??) ends the album, the longest song at 9 minutes 40 seconds. There are no lyrics - only Morino and her guitar - as if we are voyeurs looking in on her, experimenting with her guitar and a fuzz pedal. A fantastic trance-like song, you will want to keep listening to hear just what she can do with her axe.
If you are a profound metal listener, Blacklab's doom sound is almost a nice reprieve from the constant pounding and gutteral screams of Black or Death metal. This perfectly spooky sound will have you entranced; and let's hope to hear more from this dynamic duo of doom.


Siding Contractors Denver: Why is my Vinyl Siding Warping?
As siding contractors in Denver, we've heard this question far too often.
The simple answer is: your vinyl siding is warping because it was installed wrong. Too many inexperienced siding contractors unfortunately don't understand that vinyl siding has specific installation requirements that allow for expansion and contraction. Unfortunately, repair and replacement of these improperly installed panels is all on you, the homeowner.
If you suspect that you may have siding that has been wrongly installed, a quick and simple test can clear up the mystery for you. Because vinyl siding is meant to hang on its connective hardware and not be nailed into the building itself, there should be a little play in the way that it hangs. By grabbing a panel you should be able to move it slightly, about 1/4 to 1/2 inch, from side to side. If you can't, it was nailed to tightly and is vulnerable to buckling.
Once vinyl siding buckles, it can't be repaired. To fix the issue, the questionable or damaged panels have to be replaced as warped vinyl siding pieces will continue to hold that shape. With this in mind, your siding experts should recommend the additional purchase of extra siding when it is first installed. Having extra lengths on hand will make the replacement of damaged pieces an easy and affordable DIY fix.
To avoid the problem, deal only with siding contractors in Denver that understand the specific installation requirements of vinyl siding. Before hiring a contractor, find out what other projects they've completed in the area and try to inspect that project as closely as possible. Make sure that it is not a new project as you'll need to determine how well the siding has held up during the drastic changes in seasons that Colorado can bring. During installation, while the crew is onsite, check how they've installed the first few rows of vinyl to find out if they pass the above test.


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Giving and Receiving Love
Life is always about love ... who, what, when, where, and how we love and seek to be loved.
It is the most important part of the human experience, carrying the highest emotional frequency.
Giving love should come naturally from the heart, the love energy between two souls flowing easily.
It all begins in childhood, when we create the emotional blueprint for who we will be as adults.
Some people never experience love while growing up. The pain that results can take a lifetime to heal, creating issues of low self-esteem and sometimes mental illness, depending on the level of emotional childhood abuse.
A child who grows up in a loving environment will be able to give and receive love throughout their lives.
Is there such a thing as 'too much love'? When love becomes overprotective and controlling making you feel smothered, we are talking about control issues not love.
Did you get enough love as a child? Did you allow for the emotional experiences your parents were going through? Were they unable to give love? Did your parents constantly reinforce their love by saying, "I love you?" , or did you know it instinctively, or by the way they showed you their love and nurturing?
As a parent, how much love are we supposed to give our children? If you ask your children if they had a happy childhood, filled with love, what would they answer?
Humans are programmed to seek love, understanding, compassion, acceptance, and respect. The journey to this end is the road home in which we learn that self-love is most important as it creates balance and takes us to the highest light.
People with issues about love will always feel hurt and in pain, often unworthy of receiving love. While others will embrace whatever love is given and give love freely, not just on the surface, but from within.
At the end of the day, you just have to feel worthy.


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Continued smoking of marijuana can lead to a number of serious health threats, including depression, cognitive impairment, cardiovascular disease, and certain cancers, the researchers said.
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If you are being supportive over longdistance, check in with your friend between treatments.
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For some specific areas of sexual function, the transdermal treatment was linked to an increase in average lubrication and decreased pain compared with placebo, the study notes.
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November, calling on the government to make all codeine products available by prescription only.
Since the crackdown on the distributors began, the pharmaceutical industry and law firms that represent them have hired at least 46 investigators, attorneys and supervisors from the DEA, including 32 directly from the division that regulates the drug industry.
8 Physical symptoms such as abnormal vaginal bleeding, vaginal discomfort, malodorous discharge, and dysuria may be observed in some patients.
In addition, the researchers had no data on diet, physical activity and smoking, which might have affected risk estimates.
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But more than 35 percent of patients treated with DBS developed adverse side effects.
El estudio apareci en lnea el 30 de abril en la revista Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
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Cutaneous Lesions: Most patients have multiple cutaneous lesions that are often bilaterally symmetrical and tend to initially involve the lower extremities; cases have been reported, however, in which only one or no skin lesions have been present.
Once you are enrolled in a Part D plan, you can switch drug plans during the Medicare Open Enrollment period.
Pending results of the phase I safety studies, the US National Institutes of Health plans to initiate a large Phase III study of VSVZEBOV and another investigational Ebola vaccine codeveloped by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and GlaxoSmithKline.
Current influenza vaccines contain inactivated killed virus and new vaccines containing attenuated live viruses are undergoing clinical trials.
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Hundertmark had deployed alongside a gastroenterologist and a dermatologist, who, it turns out, were less practiced in the problem at hand.
Then they must be able to evaluate the progress of the patient and make any necessary adjustments accordingly.
At the same time, family doctors, school nurses and community members all should know the symptoms and signs of cardiac arrest.
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For people who are at increased risk of having a heart attack or stroke, statins may be recommended even when cholesterol levels might not seem too high.
Against this social backdrop, reports that a gay man had been confirmed as the source of AIDS fueled a narrative that many were only too eager to embrace.
People are living in the house, but theres always some room thats being demolished and reconstructed.
Finally, they tested the devices potential as a drug delivery system, by loading it with the antimalarial lumefantrine.
One person may experience many effects, while someone else may only suffer from one or two side effects.
THURSDAY, Jan. 7, 2010 HealthDay News An enzyme that normally helps break down stored fats becomes highly active in some cancer cells and makes them more likely to spread, researchers have found.
Postoperative ketorolac tromethamine use in infants aged 618 months: the effect on morphine usage, safety assessment, and stereospecific pharmacokinetics.
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Look for that are readytoeat as opposed to those that need water added, since in a pinch you can eat them cold.
Herbal medications can mistakenly be perceived as safe because they are natural products.
Obstructive sleep apnea OSA, a common chronic disorder, is caused by a blockage of the upper airway during rapid eye movement REM sleep that results in snoring, oxygen desaturations, disrupted sleep, and significant morbidity and mortality.
In summary, controlling the risk factors for heart disease is just as important in women as in men.
Now, you might think that a simple fat mass couldnt cause much pain, but in this case, at least, you would be incorrect.
But most people who attempt suicide try to communicate their distress or suicide plans to someone, Zimmermann said in a Rutgers news release.
LUNES, 9 de octubre de 2017 HealthDay News El virus del Zika no fue una amenaza tan grande como se tema para los deportistas olmpicos en los Juegos de Verano de 2016 en Brasil.
Food and Drug Administration FDA has a rating system for drugs effects on a fetus, and doctors and pharmacists can quickly consult it to see how harmful a drug is known to be for unborn babies.
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By tweaking genes in the brains of mice, researchers say they reduced levels of a substance called beta amyloid thats closely tied to Alzheimers.
On the other hand, there are drugs that have an unintended anticholinergic effect.
The most common causes of heart failure are coronary artery disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes.
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Bladder testing can help diagnose prostate problems or other bladder dysfunctions as a cause of pelvic pain.
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Not much is known about how to prevent IBD in children who may be at high risk, but breastfeeding has been researched in a few studies.
It was there that I first heard the word joy associated with autism. That experience changed my way of thinking about my son.
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If approved, the treatment could be prescribed firstline to patients aged 16 years and over who have one of these mutations.
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FDAapproved medicine for the treatment of prostate cancer that has managed to overcome all these challenges.
Asked to provide additional information about their prescribing habits were 42 prescribers, with just six able to provide legitimate reasons for their outlying practices.
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Patients in the different treatment groups were matched based on demographic and clinical characteristics, including the presence of other diseases and their associated mortality risks.
For these reasons, the American Academy of Pediatrics discourages TV viewing before the age of 2 years, Christakis noted.
That said, you should never, ever skip an antibiotic for the sake of sunbathing, warned Rech.
This study implicates that chronic inflammation and coinfection with oral bacteria may be significant factors in the natural history of HPV infection.
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When right bundle branch block is detected, the chief concern should be to do an evaluation to look for an underlying cardiac or pulmonary condition.
There is even a type called an atonic seizure where a body part will suddenly go limp or the head will suddenly drop for several seconds.
El T. gondii tambin se encuentra en los animales, concretamente en los gatos domsticos.
The findings seem to raise more questions than they answer, but hopefully they provide a gateway for further discoveries, experts said.
Debido a que el medicamento era beneficioso para estos pacientes, los mdicos supusieron que ayudara a los pacientes que tienen anemia menos grave, relat Pfeffer.
This control group consisted of five controls for every patient refusing therapy.
Another of evidence, published last year in the journal Clinical Psychology Review, revealed that using marijuana may help people with alcohol or opioid dependencies to fight their addictions.
Of course, everyone will experience ups and downs on a regular basis in any work environment including the medical office.
Martin Garnett, drug delivery researcher at the University of Nottingham, says that it is interesting that both projects use relatively large particles.
Se tena previsto presentar los hallazgos el lunes en la reunin anual de la Academia Estadounidense de Alergia, Asma e Inmunologa en San Francisco.
But many of these debates are remarkably factfree.
Your doctor will place the end of the tuning fork on your mastoid process, which is behind the lower portion of your ear in order to test your bone conduction of sound.
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People who rest their elbows on hard surfaces may aggravate the condition and make the swelling more prominent.
There has been a recent spike in such deaths, and this is compatible with a short term change in the overall life expectancy, but it does not explain the whole picture.
1 These were good reasons to explore alternatives.
The research was presented April 10 at the 2018 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, in San Diego.
Stage 1 sleep is known as the transitional phase, where the patient is transitioning from wakefulness to sleep.
Caroline Duchaine, a professor at Universite Lavals Faculty of Science and Engineering in Quebec, Canada, said in a university news release.
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Four Things We Like About Older Cruise Ships
Cruise ships these days are a lot like iPhones: They're out of date in six months. What's more, plenty of fuss is made about the latest and greatest cruise ships to be introduced every year. Next year is no exception, with megaliners like Carnival Cruise Line's Carnival Vista and Royal Caribbean's Harmony of the Seas debuting along with a whole host of other vessels that are set to continually advance cruising as we know it. But all that glitters isn't new; in fact, cruise lines are investing in their existing fleets more than ever before – and sometimes older ships can offer up a number of advantages over their more well-publicized younger siblings.
Of course, few ships are truly "old" nowadays; for most cruise lines, we're talking about vessels constructed in the past two decades. This is a marked difference from even just a decade ago, when plenty of ships built during the 1960's could be found plying the oceans of the world.
So why should you consider sailing aboard an older cruise ship? Here's a few reasons why we like them:
1. Older Ships Typically Carry Fewer Passengers
In these modern times, it's so expensive to build a large cruise ship and remain cost-effective that cruise lines have to pack as many passengers into them as possible. Harmony of the Seas, for example, will carry 6,360 guests on weeklong sailings to the Caribbean. Contrast that with the pretty Radiance of the Seas, completed in 2001, that carries just 2,500.
You could argue that the 15-year old Radiance of the Seas offers a different cruising experience than the upcoming third Oasis-class cruise ship, and you'd be right. But different doesn't equal bad, and plenty of older ships still offer a lot to love.
Older cruise ships can also offer more open deck space than their newer contemporaries. This depends on the ship and the line, of course, but with competition heating up on the mainstream cruise front to build increasingly elaborate water parks, ropes courses, zip lines and the like, the one area that's losing out is the availability of open deck space for reading, sun tanning, or just staring out into the ocean.
2. Older Ships Are Often More Affordable
New ships are hot commodities, and cruise lines price them accordingly. An inside cabin on a brand-new cruise ship can cost as much as an oceanview stateroom on one that's just a few years old for a similar week-long itinerary.
That doesn't mean that all older ships offer more value-oriented itineraries than their newer counterparts, but they certainly can. It's all about supply and demand. Some older ships can offer downright bargain sailings while still offering a cruise experience that is truly spectacular.
3. Older Ships Often Sail Unique Itineraries
When new ships come out, they're often put on the most lucrative runs. For many cruise lines, that means winters in the eastern and western Caribbean, and summers in the Mediterranean. They're great runs, but not terribly inventive.
Older ships, on the other hand, are frequently placed on the more interesting itineraries. Because of their (typically) smaller size, they can sail to more off-the-beaten path ports of call that larger ships just can't dock at.
They also have more diversity in their deployments, from Northern Europe to the Baltics, itineraries in Australia and New Zealand, and Alaska. The latter tends to be territorial; there's a small collection of ships in the region that work – and work well – and no one is eager to tinker with the magic formula.
In Alaska, you've got tried-and-true ships like Holland America Line's Oosterdam and her Vista-class sisters. Princess always sends some of its best Grand Class ships to the region, and Royal Caribbean is upping the ante there in 2016 by sending the massive Explorer of the Seas there for the first time.
4. There's a Nostalgia Factor
Perhaps the best reasoning for cruising aboard a smaller, older ship is that there's a certain nostalgia factor to them. Though updated and modernized, they harken back to a different age of cruising.
There's Carnival Cruise Line's trendsetting Carnival Fantasy, which started the Joe Farcus-inspired neon décor phase of Carnival's history. Royal Caribbean's Majesty of the Seas, initially scheduled to join Spanish operator Pullmantur next spring, was given a reprise at the last moment due to high customer demand. The classy 1992-built ship will stay in the Royal Caribbean fleet for the foreseeable future, running three and four day voyages to the Bahamas.
Norwegian Cruise Line's 1999-built Norwegian Sky recalls a pivotal turning point in the history of the company, and exists as a near (but far from exact) sister-ship to bothNorwegian Sun and the 1996 Costa Victoria.
Norwegian Cruise Line's Norwegian Sky now sails short cruises to the Bahamas and Florida from Miami. Built in 1999, she helped pioneer the "new" NCL, and was instrumental in kicking off the line's first Honolulu-based itineraries in Hawaii. Photo courtesy of Norwegian Cruise Line.
There can be other reasons for sailing aboard older cruise ships, and sadly, they carry a sense of urgency. The simple fact is that older ships don't often remain in a cruise line's fleet for long once they hit a certain age. Holland America Line's 1994 Maasdam and 1996Veendam should be on any classic cruiser's must-sail list. With Statendam and Ryndambeing refitted as we type this to join the P&O Australia fleet, their younger fleetmates' days are definitely numbered.
The newest cruise ships may offer all the bells and whistles you can imagine, but older cruise ships still have a heck of a lot to offer – and depending on what you're looking for in a cruise, they just might be a better fit too.
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BOSTON � The first time the Red Sox faced Justin Verlander, the reigning American League Most Valuable Player yielded just two hits in eight shutout innings and looked just about unhittable in the process.
first place in the American League East to boot.
corner to clear the bases.
"That at-bat was as good an at-bat as I've seen in years,"
pitch he really wanted. It was a very, very good at-bat."
Yankees' Robinson Cano for most in the American League with 18.
which he yielded two solo home runs but little else.
third strike, the third of his four strikeouts.
the first time since April 27.
out Delmon Young, the final hitter he faced.


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Allan is semi-retired doing business mentoring for the Scottish Chamber of Commerce and a Trustee in third sector organisations. Previously he was owner/partner in a management consultancy following a corporate life with a global packaging company. He is married with three grown-up daughters.
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We had no way of transporting her to our farm arranged and given we were only 6 kms. away, I decided to walk her home. She was extremely de-hydrated and had clearly not eaten for days. She got watered-up and we were on our way. She was exteremly well behaved on the halter and rope and gave no problems whatsoever during our little journey.
Once at our farm and her new home, we commenced to explore different ways of bringing her back to health, together with friends and vets. nena was in worst shape than i had observed at first glance and we noticed that she had severe allergies as well as a punctured retina. We started treating her for her different ailments, and after just a few days of good food, water, different treatments and good handling she was on her way to happiness.
As she got stonger she demonstrated or explained to us what she liked and disliked as well as her tendencies. She was a real horse houdini! She could just twist through the electrical fencing to freedom almost at will, causing a great deal of havoc at our farm as other horses weer keen to join her in her galavanting.
Furthermore she was almost impossible to catch, you could not get anywhere near her when she had decidedly escaped. It took all sorts of patience, some i didnt know existed, to convince her that once caught she would not be severly punished. She was very frightened of the halter and ropes. I deduced that this was due to very rough handling, and once caught and man-handled, I again deduce that she was punished.
As time passed and she settled in her place at the farm, the escaping became more scarce and she slowly started gaining trust with humans.
A couple of years have now passed and I must say that her recovery is almost complete. What a beautiful little mare she has turned out to be. She is a delight with kids and now lives with her gelding pony friend Flequi.
In April 2007 we decided to look for a stallion to mount her, and finally found what we were looking for through a friend. He had a stallion pony who was heavily stressed from the vigours of continous mating. The Stallion "Estradivarious" was brought to our farm as a vacation from his mating routines. We were informed by the owner that the stallion was very vicious with mares leaving them heavily scarred after mounting. As we wanted a natural mating, we introduced them to each other and nena immediately went in heat and we let both ponies loose in a 50 foot (17 meter) roundpen. Mounting took place in a span of 7 days, after which both stallion and mare lost interest and became as calm as lambs.
The pregnancy lasted just under 12 months, and we now have a new member in our community. Murphy was born on the 3rd April 2008, a black foal with irregulr stars.
Bonding and imprinting was succesfully done by the mother, and the foal found his mom immediately and started suckling. After less than an hour he expelled Miconium and started testing his balance. A new life at our farm, full of energy and ready to face the world.
On the second day of his birth, we must say that he is extremely energetic and in good health,and nena is a super mare with her foal, she does not let him out of her side, following him everywhere while he investigates, trotting, galloping, smelling and tasting.
Murphy, What a character. So young and full of life, he has an ncredible personality or as Pat Parelli says Horsenality.
The foal is giving his mom a handful, running around in the paddock, full blast! nena just slowly follows him at a distance wherever he goes. he is starting to stand against his mom as well as biting her tail once in a while.
The other day we went for a short walk with Nena whilst Murphy followed us around. He presented himself to the dogs, racing up and down from mommy to about 30 meters and back again. Showing off his lifted Trot and how much of a stallion he his going to be.
I think I am going to take them for another walk…..